Brahmins And Bungalows
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Brahmins And Bungalows
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Author : Kavita Watsa
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
Release Date : 2004
Brahmins And Bungalows written by Kavita Watsa and has been published by Penguin Putnam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
`I opened my eyes with a start the repeated metallic sound of a stonecutter's axe was drifting up from the village, just as it must have done thirteen centuries before. The air around me grew heavy with my imaginings, for in my head I heard the ringing of a hundred axes, and knew it was time to leave.' Kavita Watsa has been seeking new horizons ever since a mischievous great-uncle put her in a horse cart and took her to a Mysore arrack shop at an impressionable age. In this sparkling mosaic of South Indian travels, she treads roads ancient and modern, opens antique travelogues to see what others saw, and reminds us of the myriad peoples and forces that have shaped life south of the Vindhyas. With an almost Victorian sensibility for bends in the road and turns of phrase, Watsa presents a rich blend of landscapes and architecture from monsoon-lashed Goa to an island that inspired Tagore, from desolate Hampi to burgeoning Bangalore, from charming Pondicherry to sun-baked Tranquebar and beyond. Crowned by exquisitely rendered memories of the cool woods of Kodaikanal, Brahmins and Bungalows is a witty, elegant, loving portrait of a deeply cosmopolitan land.
Being Brahmin Being Modern
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Author : Ramesh Bairy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
Being Brahmin Being Modern written by Ramesh Bairy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Social Science categories.
There is clearly an academic and political obsession with the ‘idea’ of the Brahmin. There is also, simultaneously, a near-complete absence of engagement with the Brahmin as an embodied person or community. This book addresses this intriguing paradox by making available a sociological description of the Brahmins in today’s Karnataka. It pursues three distinct, yet enmeshed, registers of inquiry – the persona of the ‘Brahmin’ embodied in the agency of the individual Brahmin; the organised complexes of action such as the caste association and the public culture of print; and finally, taking off from a longer (yet, modern and contemporary) history of non-Brahminical othering of the Brahmin. It argues that we tend to understand the contemporaneity of caste almost exclusively within the twin registers of legitimation–contestation and dominance–resistance. While these facets continue to be salient, there is also a need to push out into hitherto neglected dimensions of caste. The book focuses attention on the many lives of modern caste — its secularisation, the subject positions that it offers, the equivocations by which persons and communities become ‘subjects’ of caste, their differential investments in the caste-self.
The Book Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
The Book Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Books categories.
The Bungalow In Twentieth Century India
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Author : Madhavi Desai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Bungalow In Twentieth Century India written by Madhavi Desai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Architecture categories.
The primary era of this study - the twentieth century - symbolizes the peak of the colonial rule and its total decline, as well as the rise of the new nation state of India. The processes that have been labeled 'westernization' and 'modernization' radically changed middle-class Indian life during the century. This book describes and explains the various technological, political and social developments that shaped one building type - the bungalow - contemporaneous to the development of modern Indian history during the period of British rule and its subsequent aftermath. Drawing on their own physical and photographic documentation, and building on previous work by Anthony King and the Desais, the authors show the evolution of the bungalow's architecture from a one storey building with a verandah to the assortment of house-forms and their regional variants that are derived from the bungalow. Moreover, the study correlates changes in society with architectural consequences in the plans and aesthetics of the bungalow. It also examines more generally what it meant to be modern in Indian society as the twentieth century evolved.
The Towers Of Silence Case Report Of Proceedings In The Trial Of M Ekj D R Bj And Others For Rioting
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1873
The Towers Of Silence Case Report Of Proceedings In The Trial Of M Ekj D R Bj And Others For Rioting written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1873 with categories.
The Missionary Herald
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1857
The Missionary Herald written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1857 with Missions categories.
The Mah Bh Rata
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Author : Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1973
The Mah Bh Rata written by Johannes Adrianus Bernardus Buitenen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Epic poetry, Sanskrit categories.
Sanskrit classical epic translated into English.
Calcutta
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Author : Soumyendra Nath Mukherjee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Calcutta written by Soumyendra Nath Mukherjee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Calcutta (India) categories.
Social morphology of Calcutta in the nineteenth century. Some essays published previously.
New Society
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
New Society written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Great Britain categories.
A Lady S Escape From Gwalior Illustrated Edition
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Author : Ruth Coopland
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2014-06-13
A Lady S Escape From Gwalior Illustrated Edition written by Ruth Coopland and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-13 with History categories.
[Illustrated with over one hundred maps, photos and portraits, of the battles of the Indian Mutiny] By 1857, British power in India had been largely undisputed for almost fifty years, however, the armies of the East India Company were largely recruited from the native people of India. But in 1858 the Sepoy soldiers turned against their erstwhile British employers. The events that led up to the Revolt were many and varied, including British highhandedness, ignorance of local customs and religious values, and incendiary propaganda. It is generally argued that the spark that lit the flame was the rumour that the newly issued rifle cartridges would be greased either with tallow, derived from beef and thereby offensive to Hindus, or lard, derived from pork and thereby offensive to Muslims. The enraged soldiers mutinied across a number of Indian States, taking Delhi, besieging Lucknow, and revolting in Oudh. In the middle of these tumultuous events was Ruth Coopland, wife of Rev. Coopland who had been sent to the important city of Agra some in Gwalior. Her world shattered as the news of the uprising of the Sepoys spread. Her own household servants became sullen, aggressive and possibly murderous; she recounts how the atmosphere began to heat up as rumours of slaughters abounded. Finally the clouds broke; the rebellion finally reached Gwalior and anyone British was a target for cold-blooded murder, her husband was killed in the initial stages of the fighting and as rioting carried on she made good here escape in the company of other women. Her travails only increased as she attempted to escape to the fort at Agra which she describes in all of its perilous details along with the grim struggle to stay alive in the fort. Having survived all of the brutalities of India she returned to England where she was determined that her story, as an exemplar of the larger suffering, should be made know to the public.