Rethinking The Local In Indian History
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Rethinking The Local In Indian History
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Author : Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2021-08-12
Rethinking The Local In Indian History written by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-12 with History categories.
This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or intellectual rhythms—simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the ‘local’ gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume explore a variety of themes—textual representations of the region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies.
Rethinking Markets In Modern India
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Author : Ajay Gandhi
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-10
Rethinking Markets In Modern India written by Ajay Gandhi and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10 with Business & Economics categories.
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Rethinking Religion In India
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Author : Esther Bloch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-12-24
Rethinking Religion In India written by Esther Bloch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-24 with History categories.
This book critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Increasingly scholars have come to realise that the dominant understanding of Indian culture and its traditions is unsatisfactory. According to the classical paradigm, Hindu traditions are conceptualized as features of a religion with distinct beliefs, doctrines, sacred laws and holy texts. Today, however, many academics consider this conception to be a colonial ‘construction’. This book focuses on the different versions, arguments and counter-arguments of the thesis that the Hindu religion is a construct of colonialism. Bringing together the different positions in the debate, it provides necessary historical data, arguments and conceptual tools to examine the argument. Organized in two parts, the first half of the book provides new analyses of historical and empirical data; the second presents some of the theoretical questions that have emerged from the debate on the construction of Hinduism. Where some of the contributors argue that Hinduism was created as a result of a western Christian notion of religion and the imperatives of British colonialism, others show that this religion already existed in pre-colonial India; and as an alternative to these standpoints, other writers argue that Hinduism only exists in the European experience and does not correspond to any empirical reality in India. This volume offers new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India and will be of interest to scholars of the History of Religion, Asian Religion, Postcolonial and South Asian Studies.
Mysore Modern
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Author : Janaki Nair
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Behalf of Minnesota Univ Pres
Release Date : 2011
Mysore Modern written by Janaki Nair and has been published by University of Chicago Behalf of Minnesota Univ Pres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with History categories.
Rethinking modernity in colonial and postcolonial Indian history
Rethinking Indian Political Institutions
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Author : Crispin Bates
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2005
Rethinking Indian Political Institutions written by Crispin Bates and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
New Aspects On Indian History
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Author : Ashim Kumar Sarkar
language : en
Publisher: Debapriya Basak
Release Date : 2006
New Aspects On Indian History written by Ashim Kumar Sarkar and has been published by Debapriya Basak this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Caste categories.
Biography of Prafulla Chandra Ray, 1861-1944, chemist from Bengal, India.
Rethinking Home
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Author : Joseph A. Amato
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2002-04
Rethinking Home written by Joseph A. Amato 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 2002-04 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"Rethinking Home is pioneering scholarship at its best. Amato makes his case for a new local history combining academic sophistication with a deft human touch, that can provide a new perspective on the way in which humans have interacted with their natural and created environments over the past 150 years. Amato’s eloquent plea for scholars to rethink the intricate relationships between home, place, nation, and world is one that cannot be ignored."—Richard O. Davies, University Foundation Professor, University of Nevada "Local history is the stepchild of our profession. Joseph Amato has emancipated Cinderella. Innovative and engaging, his passion for particulars brings life to people and places whose interest we have underrated far too long; and provides a good read beside."—Eugen Weber Department of History, UCLA "In the best Thoreauvian sense, Joseph Amato masterfully synthesizes and eloquently presents two decades of practicing and thinking deeply about local history. How pleasantly odd, how wonderful that a book on local history should be so rousing, so encouraging, so redemptive! Rethinking Home is a veritable call to arms for those of us who care deeply about the special, the distinctive character of our own home places, our own locales."—Bradley P. Dean, Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods
Rethinking Bihar And Bengal
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Author : Birendra Nath Prasad
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-10-13
Rethinking Bihar And Bengal written by Birendra Nath Prasad and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-13 with Social Science categories.
This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Rethinking India S Oral And Classical Epics
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Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2009-02-15
Rethinking India S Oral And Classical Epics written by Alf Hiltebeitel 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 2009-02-15 with Religion categories.
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Draupadi cult Mahabharata and the five oral epics, and shows how the traditional plots are twisted and classical characters reshaped to reflect local history and religion. In doing so, Hiltebeitel sheds new light on the intertwining oral traditions of medieval Rajput military culture, Dalits ("former Untouchables"), and Muslims. Breathtaking in scope, this work is indispensable for those seeking a deeper understanding of South Asia's Hindu and Muslim traditions. This work is the third volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking the Mahabharata (Volume Four).
Between Jinnah And Toba Tek Singh
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Author : Venkat Dhulipala
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Between Jinnah And Toba Tek Singh written by Venkat Dhulipala and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with India categories.