Two Portraits Of Modern India
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Two Portraits Of Modern India
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Author : Gita Wolf-Sampath
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
Two Portraits Of Modern India written by Gita Wolf-Sampath and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
India Becoming
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Author : Akash Kapur
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-03-15
India Becoming written by Akash Kapur and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-15 with History categories.
A New Republic Editors' and Writers' Pick 2012 A New Yorker Contributors' Pick 2012 A portrait of incredible change and economic development, of social and national transformation told through individual lives The son of an Indian father and an American mother, Akash Kapur spent his formative years in India and his early adulthood in the United States. In 2003, he returned to his birth country for good, eager to be part of its exciting growth and modernization. What he found was a nation even more transformed than he had imagined, where the changes were fundamentally altering Indian society, for better and sometimes for worse. To further understand these changes, he sought out the Indians experiencing them firsthand. The result is a rich tapestry of lives being altered by economic development, and a fascinating insider's look at many of the most important forces shaping our world today. Much has been written about the rise of Asia and a rebalancing of the global economy, but rarely does one encounter these big stories with the level of nuance and detail that Kapur gives us in India Becoming. Among the characters we meet are a broker of cows who must adapt his trade to a modernizing economy; a female call center employee whose relatives worry about her values in the city; a feudal landowner who must accept that he will not pass his way of life down to his children; and a career woman who wishes she could "outsource" having a baby. Through these stories and many others, Kapur provides a fuller understanding of the complexity and often contradictory nature of modern India. India Becoming is particularly noteworthy for its emphasis on rural India-a region often neglected in writing about the country, though 70 percent of the population still lives there. In scenes reminiscent of R. K. Narayan's classic works on the Indian countryside, Kapur builds intimate portraits of farmers, fishermen, and entire villages whose ancient ways of life are crumbling, giving way to an uncertain future that is at once frightening and full of promise. Kapur himself grew up in rural India; his descriptions of change and modernization are infused with a profound-at times deeply poignant- firsthand understanding of the loss that must accompany all development and progress. India Becoming is essential reading for anyone interested in our changing world and the newly emerging global order. It is a riveting narrative that puts the personal into a broad, relevant and revelational context.
Art For A Modern India 1947 1980
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Author : Rebecca M. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-17
Art For A Modern India 1947 1980 written by Rebecca M. Brown and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-17 with Art categories.
Following India’s independence in 1947, Indian artists creating modern works of art sought to maintain a local idiom, an “Indianness” representative of their newly independent nation, while connecting to modernism, an aesthetic then understood as both universal and presumptively Western. These artists depicted India’s precolonial past while embracing aspects of modernism’s pursuit of the new, and they challenged the West’s dismissal of non-Western places and cultures as sources of primitivist imagery but not of modernist artworks. In Art for a Modern India, Rebecca M. Brown explores the emergence of a self-conscious Indian modernism—in painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, film, and photography—in the years between independence and 1980, by which time the Indian art scene had changed significantly and postcolonial discourse had begun to complicate mid-century ideas of nationalism. Through close analyses of specific objects of art and design, Brown describes how Indian artists engaged with questions of authenticity, iconicity, narrative, urbanization, and science and technology. She explains how the filmmaker Satyajit Ray presented the rural Indian village as a socially complex space rather than as the idealized site of “authentic India” in his acclaimed Apu Trilogy, how the painter Bhupen Khakhar reworked Indian folk idioms and borrowed iconic images from calendar prints in his paintings of urban dwellers, and how Indian architects developed a revivalist style of bold architectural gestures anchored in India’s past as they planned the Ashok Hotel and the Vigyan Bhavan Conference Center, both in New Delhi. Discussing these and other works of art and design, Brown chronicles the mid-twentieth-century trajectory of India’s modern visual culture.
The Indian Ocean In The Making Of Early Modern India
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Author : Pius Malekandathil
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-09-13
The Indian Ocean In The Making Of Early Modern India written by Pius Malekandathil and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-13 with Social Science categories.
This volume looks into the ways Indian Ocean routes shaped the culture and contours of early modern India. IT shows how these and other historical processes saw India rebuilt and reshaped during late medieval times after a long age of relative ‘stagnation’, ‘isolation’ and ‘backwardness’. The various papers deal with such themes including interconnectedness between Africa and India, trade and urbanity in Golconda, the changing meanings of urbanization in Bengal, commercial and cultural contact between Aceh and India, changing techniques of warfare, representation of early modern rulers of India in contemporary European paintings, the impact of the Indian Ocean on the foreign policies of the Mughals, the meanings of piracy, labour process in the textile sector, Indo-Ottoman trade, Maratha-French relations, Bible translations and religious polemics, weapon making and the uses of elephants. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of early modern Indian history in general and those working on aspects of connected histories in particular.
Modern India
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Author : John McLeod
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2019-11-15
Modern India written by John McLeod and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-15 with Social Science categories.
This one-volume thematic encyclopedia examines life in contemporary India, with topical sections focusing on geography, history, government and politics, economy, social classes and ethnicity, religion, food, etiquette, literature and drama, and more. Modern Indian, an addition to the Understanding Modern Nations series, is an in-depth and interdisciplinary encyclopedia. While many books on life in India exist today, this volume is unique as a concise, accessible overview of multiple aspects of Indian society and history. It will be a useful background or supplemental text for anyone interested in modern Indian life and culture. Individual chapters address all aspects of life in 21st-century India, from geography and history to economy and religion to etiquette and sports. Each chapter begins with an overview, followed by entries on, for example, major political parties or literary works. Each overview and entry is self-contained and accompanied by an up-to-date Further Reading list.
Raja Rammohun Roy The Father Of Modern India
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Author : Ramprakash Singh Pavaiya
language : en
Publisher: True Sign Publishing House
Release Date : 2023-04-23
Raja Rammohun Roy The Father Of Modern India written by Ramprakash Singh Pavaiya and has been published by True Sign Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Through this book, those aspects of Raja Rammohun Roy's life have been looked at which can be set as an ideal for all of us. His life has been dedicated to the upliftment of our society and has given us a legacy by creating a empowered modern society. His complete introduction can never be given in a book about such a great man, yet an attempt has been made by the author and he has written as much as possible. That means even if we can understand Rammohun, that too will be enough for us. I, Ramprakash Singh Pavaiya have presented some part of the life of an idealistic great man through a book. I hope it will help you to understand Rammohun better. Ramprakash Singh Pavaiya (SITM) is also associated with the Saksham Innovative Teaching Method Programme, a place where the institution is dedicated to the success and prosperity of the students.
The American Antiquarian And Oriental Journal
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Author : Stephen Denison Peet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
The American Antiquarian And Oriental Journal written by Stephen Denison Peet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with America categories.
Castes Of Mind
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Author : Nicholas B. Dirks
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2011-10-09
Castes Of Mind written by Nicholas B. Dirks and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-09 with Social Science categories.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by the British. But under British domination caste did become a single term capable of naming and above all subsuming India's diverse forms of social identity and organization. Dirks traces the career of caste from the medieval kingdoms of southern India to the textual traces of early colonial archives; from the commentaries of an eighteenth-century Jesuit to the enumerative obsessions of the late-nineteenth-century census; from the ethnographic writings of colonial administrators to those of twentieth-century Indian scholars seeking to rescue ethnography from its colonial legacy. The book also surveys the rise of caste politics in the twentieth century, focusing in particular on the emergence of caste-based movements that have threatened nationalist consensus. Castes of Mind is an ambitious book, written by an accomplished scholar with a rare mastery of centuries of Indian history and anthropology. It uses the idea of caste as the basis for a magisterial history of modern India. And in making a powerful case that the colonial past continues to haunt the Indian present, it makes an important contribution to current postcolonial theory and scholarship on contemporary Indian politics.
Report Of The Board Of Regents
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Author : Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Report Of The Board Of Regents written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with Discoveries in science categories.
Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.
Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution
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Author : Smithsonian Institution
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1886
Annual Report Of The Board Of Regents Of The Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1886 with categories.