Representing The Other Sanskrit Sources And The Muslims Eighth To Fourteen Century
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Representing The Other
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Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Representing The Other written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Ethnic attitudes categories.
Examines the wide range of epigraphic and historical texts to know the different immigrants to India society in different contexts.
Representing The Other Sanskrit Sources And The Muslims Eighth To Fourteen Century
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Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
language : en
Publisher: Primus Books
Release Date : 2018-01-10
Representing The Other Sanskrit Sources And The Muslims Eighth To Fourteen Century written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and has been published by Primus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-10 with History categories.
The deeply entrenched image of the interaction between Hindus and Muslims in India's past--as indeed in the present-- has generally been that of two aggressively antagonistic religious communities, with the superior political power wielded by one community defining its dominance over the other. This original colonial notion has often been contested by positing the thesis of syncretism at the religious level; by citing evidence of patronage across religious establishments, and of participation of both communities in the country's administration. Neither approach, however, took up the critical task of examining the viability of the premise of homogeneity in the composition of the two communities, or how contemporary perceptions may be used as a touchstone for 'othering' in heterogeneous societies of the past. Chattopadhyaya's Representing the Other?, originally published almost two decades ago, makes an attempt to construct perceptions of new ethnic groups in India in an important phase of its history, from the eighth to the fourteenth century. The evidence though insufficient, reveals not homogenous religious communities, but ethnic groups of diverse origins, located in different socio-political contexts as traders, raiders and plunderers, as well as rulers and administrators. The contexts define the characterization of these different categories by either invoking terminologies from the past for others or by coining ethnic terms. Based mainly on contemporary Sanskrit epigraphic and textual sources, this book is expected to be a major corrective to the way students are generally taught to read the history of our country of this period and of what followed.
Representing The Other
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Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Representing The Other written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Ethnic attitudes categories.
Into The Twilight Of Sanskrit Court Poetry
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Author : Jesse Knutson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-03-14
Into The Twilight Of Sanskrit Court Poetry written by Jesse Knutson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
At the turn of the twelfth-century into the thirteenth, at the court of King Laksmanasena of Bengal, Sanskrit poetry showed profound and sudden changes: a new social scope made its definitive entrance into high literature.Ê Courtly and pastoral, rural and urban, cosmopolitan and vernacular confronted each other in a commingling of high and low styles. A literary salon in what is now Bangladesh, at the eastern extreme of the nexus of regional courtly cultures that defined the age, seems to have implicitly reformulated its entire literary system in the context of the imminent breakdown of the old courtly world, as Turkish power expanded and redefined the landscape.Ê Through close readings of a little-known corpus of texts from eastern India, this ambitious book demonstrates how a local and rural sensibility came to infuse the cosmopolitan language of Sanskrit, creating a regional literary idiom that would define the emergence of the Bengali language and its literary traditions.
A Political History Of Literature
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Author : Pankaj Jha
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-11-20
A Political History Of Literature written by Pankaj Jha and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-20 with History categories.
Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period of time, it entered everyday life as well as creative and scholarly pursuits. The fifteenth century, in particular, saw unprecedented vitality for literary practice, and the poet-scholar Vidyapati from Mithila was one of the many luminaries of the time. This volume encompasses an intimate linguistic, literary, and historical study of three of Vidyapati’s major works: a Sanskrit treatise on writing (Likhanāvalī); a celebratory biography in Apabhraṃśa (Kīrttilatā); and a collection of mythohistorical tales in Sanskrit (Puruṣaparīkṣā ). Through this examination, the author reveals a world that is marked by a range of ideas, expertise, literary tropes, ethical regimes, and historical consciousness, drawn eclectically from sources that belong to ‘diverse’ politico-cultural traditions. Using Vidyapati’s narratives, A Political History of Literature illustrates that many ideals extolled in fifteenth century literary cultures were associated with an imperial state—a state that was a century away from coming into being—and testifies that ideas incubate and get actualized in realpolitik only in the long duration.
Islam In South Asia
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Author : Jamal Malik
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008
Islam In South Asia written by Jamal Malik and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Islamic South Asia has become a focal point in academia. Where did Muslims come from? How did they fare in interacting with Hindu cultures? How did they negotiate identity as ruling and ruled minorities and majorities? Part I covers early Muslim expansion and the formative phase in context of initial cultural encounter (app. 700-1300). Part II views the establishment of Muslim empire, cultures oscillating between Islamic and Islamicate, centralised and regionalised power (app. 1300-1700). Part III is composed in the backdrop of regional centralisation, territoriality and colonial rule, displaying processes of integration and differentiation of Muslim cultures in colonial setting (app. 1700-1930). Tensions between Muslim pluralism and singularity evolving in public sphere make up the fourth cluster (app. 1930-2002).
Hindutva
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Author : Jyotirmaya Sharma
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Release Date : 2011
Hindutva written by Jyotirmaya Sharma and has been published by Penguin Books India this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Hinduism and politics categories.
Islam In South Asia
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Author : Jamal Malik
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-04-06
Islam In South Asia written by Jamal Malik and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-06 with Religion categories.
Jamal Malik provides new insights into the social and intellectual history of the complex forms of cultural articulation among Muslims in South Asia from the seventh to twenty-first century, elaborating on various trends and tendencies in a highly plural setting.
Jews Muslims And Mass Media
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Author : Yulia Egorova
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-07-04
Jews Muslims And Mass Media written by Yulia Egorova and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-04 with History categories.
This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive a 'bad press'. This book will try to reveal why. The media have clearly played a pro-active role in the Middle East conflict, the coverage of which is obscured by the contrasting images of Jew and Muslim in western thought.
Making Sense Of The Secular
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Author : Ranjan Ghosh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-04
Making Sense Of The Secular written by Ranjan Ghosh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-04 with Religion categories.
This book offers a wide range of critical perspectives on how secularism unfolds and has been made sense of across Europe and Asia. The book evaluates secularism as it exists today – its formations and discontents within contemporary discourses of power, terror, religion and cosmopolitanism – and the focus on these two continents gives critical attention to recent political and cultural developments where secularism and multiculturalism have impinged in deeply problematical ways, raising bristling ideological debates within the functioning of modern state bureaucracies. Examining issues as controversial as the state of Islam in Europe and China’s encounters with religion, secularism, and modernization provides incisive and broader perspectives on how we negotiate secularism within the contemporary threats of terrorism and other forms of fundamentalism and state-politics. However, amidst the discussions of various versions of secularism in different countries and cultural contexts, this book also raises several other issues relevant to the antitheocratic and theocratic alike, such as: Is secularism is merely a nonreligious establishment? Is secularism a kind of cultural war? How is it related to "terror"? The book at once makes sense of secularism across cultural, religious, and national borders and puts several relevant issues on the anvil for further investigations and understanding.