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Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023112919X
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Revelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal written by Rachel Fell McDermott and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annually during the months of autumn, Bengal hosts three interlinked festivals to honor its most important goddesses: Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri. While each of these deities possesses a distinct iconography, myth, and character, they are all martial. Durga, Kali, and Jagaddhatri often demand blood sacrifice as part of their worship and offer material and spiritual benefits to their votaries. Richly represented in straw, clay, paint, and decoration, they are similarly displayed in elaborately festooned temples, thronged by thousands of admirers. The first book to recount the history of these festivals and their revelry, rivalry, and nostalgic power, this volume marks an unprecedented achievement in the mapping of a major public event. Rachel Fell McDermott describes the festivals' origins and growth under British rule. She identifies their iconographic conventions and carnivalesque qualities and their relationship to the fierce, Tantric sides of ritual practice. McDermott confronts controversies over the tradition of blood sacrifice and the status-seekers who compete for symbolic capital. Expanding her narrative, she takes readers beyond Bengal's borders to trace the transformation of the goddesses and their festivals across the world. McDermott's work underscores the role of holidays in cultural memory, specifically the Bengali evocation of an ideal, culturally rich past. Under the thrall of the goddess, the social, political, economic, and religious identity of Bengalis takes shape.

Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century

Author : N. Katz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230603629
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Indo-Judaic Studies in the Twenty-First Century written by N. Katz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection analyzes the affinities and interactions between Indic and Judaic civilizations from ancient to contemporary times. The contributors propose a new, global understanding of commerce and culture, to reconfigure how we understand the way great cultures interact, and present a new constellation of diplomacy, literature, and geopolitics.

The Imam and the Indian

Author : Amitav Ghosh
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788175300477
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Imam and the Indian written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, For The First Time Is As Complete A Collection As Can Be Made Of The Prose Which Reveals That Relatively Unknown Amitav Ghosh: The Novelist As Thinker, The Man Of Ideas As A Writer Of Luminous, Illuminating Non-Fiction.

Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography

Author : Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230244416
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography by : Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara

Download or read book Salman Rushdie and Indian Historiography written by Nicole Weickgenannt Thiara and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paying particular attention to the representation of women and to gendered notions of the nation, this book examines for the first time the marked parallels between Rushdie's critique of the Nehruvian legacy and the most significant recent trends in Indian historiography, especially the feminist and subalternist movements.

Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood

Author : Bankim Chandra Chatterji
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195178572
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Ānandamaṭh, Or, The Sacred Brotherhood written by Bankim Chandra Chatterji and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2005 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the A.K. Ramanujan Prize for Annotated Translation This is a translation of a historically important Bengali novel. Published in 1882, Chatterji's Anandamath helped create the atmosphere and the symbolism for the nationalist movement leading to Indian independence in 1947. It contains the famous hymn Vande Mataram ("I revere the Mother"), which has become India's official National Song. Set in Bengal at the time of the famine of 1770, the novel reflects tensions and oppositions within Indian culture between Hindus and Muslims, ruler and ruled, indigenous people and foreign overlords, jungle and town, Aryan and non-Aryan, celibacy and sexuality. It is both a political and a religious work. By recreating the past of Bengal, Chatterji hoped to create a new present that involved a new interpretation of the past. Julius Lipner not only provides the first complete and satisfactory English translation of this important work, but supplies an extensive Introduction contextualizing the novel and its cultural and political history. Also included are notes offering the Bengali or Sanskrit terms for certain words, as well as explanatory notes for the specialized lay reader or scholar.

The Invention of Private Life

Author : Sudipta Kaviraj
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539541
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Private Life written by Sudipta Kaviraj and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Sudipta Kaviraj shows that Indian writers did more than adopt new literary trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They deployed these innovations to interrogate fundamental philosophical questions of modernity. Issues central to modern European social theory grew into significant themes within Indian literary reflection, such as the influence of modernity on the nature of the self, the nature of historicity, the problem of evil, the character of power under the conditions of modern history, and the experience of power as felt by an individual subject of the modern state. How does modern politics affect the personality of a sensitive individual? Is love possible between intensely self-conscious people, and how do individuals cope with the transience of affections or the fragility of social ties? Kaviraj argues that these inquiries inform the heart of modern Indian literary tradition and that writers, such as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sibnath Sastri, performed immeasurably important work helping readers to think through the predicament of modern times.

The Indispensable Vivekananda

Author : Swami Vivekananda
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788178241302
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Indispensable Vivekananda written by Swami Vivekananda and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Author : Sunayani Bhattacharya
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501398474
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal written by Sunayani Bhattacharya and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2023-07-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by looking at the readers of some of the first Bengali novelists, including Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and Mir Mosharraf Hossain. Moving from the world of novels, periodicals, letters, and reviews to that of colonial educational policies, this book provides a rich literary history of the reading lives of some of the earliest novel readers in colonial India. Sunayani Bhattacharya studies the ways in which Bengalis thought about reading; how they approached the thorny question of influence; and uncovers that they relied on classical Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic literary and aesthetic models, whose attendant traditions formed not a distant past, but coexisted, albeit contentiously, with the everyday present. Challenging dominant postcolonial scholarship, The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal engages with the lived experience of colonial modernity as it traces the import of the Bengali reader's choices on her quotidian life, and grants access to 19th-century Bengal as a space in which the past is to be found enmeshed with the present.

Proceedings

Author : Indian History Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings written by Indian History Congress and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore

Author : Tapati Dasgupta
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
ISBN 13 : 9788170173021
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Social Thought of Rabindranath Tagore written by Tapati Dasgupta and published by Abhinav Publications. This book was released on 1993 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -----------

Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority

Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940074661X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Making India: Colonialism, National Culture, and the Afterlife of Indian English Authority written by Makarand R. Paranjape and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-09-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compared to how it looked 150 years ago at the eve of the colonial conquest, today’s India is almost completely unrecognizable. A sovereign nation, with a teeming, industrious population, it is an economic powerhouse and the world’s largest democracy. It can boast of robust legal institutions and a dizzying plurality of cultures, in addition to a lively and unrestricted print and electronic media. The question is how did it get to where it is now? Covering the period from 1800 to 1950, this study of about a dozen makers of modern India is a valuable addition to India’s cultural and intellectual history. More specifically, it shows how through the very act of writing, often in English, these thought leaders reconfigured Indian society. The very act of writing itself became endowed with almost a charismatic authority, which continued to influence generations that came after the exit of the authors from the national stage. By examining the lives and works of key players in the making of contemporary India, this study assesses their relationships with British colonialism and Indian traditions. Moreover, it analyzes how their use of the English language helped shape Indian modernity, thus giving rise to a uniquely Indian version of liberalism. The period was the fiery crucible from which an almost impossibly diverse and pluralistic new nation emerged through debate, dialogue, conflict, confrontation, and reconciliation. The author shows how the struggle for India was not only with British colonialism and imperialism, but also with itself and its past. He traces the religious and social reforms that laid the groundwork for the modern sub-continental state, proposed and advocated in English by the native voices that influenced the formation India’s society. Merging culture, politics, language, and literature, this is a path breaking volume that adds much to our understanding of a nation that looks set to achieve much in the coming century.

All Is Well

Author : Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197579191
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book All Is Well written by Saptarishi Bandopadhyay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the shadow of leviathans seen and unseen -- Corner pieces -- Marseille 1720 : administrative catharsis as disaster management -- Portugal 1755 : empire of accident -- Bengal 1770 : famine, corruption, and the climate of legal despotism -- Risk thinking and the enduring structure of vicissitudes -- The past-imperfect future.

Hinduism in the Modern World

Author : Brian A. Hatcher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135046301
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Hinduism in the Modern World written by Brian A. Hatcher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinduism in the Modern World presents a new and unprecedented attempt to survey the nature, range, and significance of modern and contemporary Hinduism in South Asia and the global diaspora. Organized to reflect the direction of recent scholarly research, this volume breaks with earlier texts on this subject by seeking to overcome a misleading dichotomy between an elite, intellectualist "modern" Hinduism and the rest of what has so often been misleadingly termed "traditional" or "popular" Hinduism. Without neglecting the significance of modern reformist visions of Hinduism, this book reconceptualizes the meaning of "modern Hinduism" both by expanding its content and by situating its expression within a larger framework of history, ethnography, and contemporary critical theory. This volume equips undergraduate readers with the tools necessary to appreciate the richness and diversity of Hinduism as it has developed during the past two centuries.

Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Reader

Author : Śibājī Bandyopādhyāẏa
Publisher : Worldview Publications
ISBN 13 : 8192065189
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Reader written by Śibājī Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by Worldview Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Cultural History of Famine

Author : Ayesha Mukherjee
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315316501
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Famine written by Ayesha Mukherjee and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The term "food security" does not immediately signal research done in humanities disciplines. It refers to a complex, contested issue, whose currency and significance are hardly debatable given present concerns about environmental change, resource management, and sustainability. The subject is thus largely studied within science and social science disciplines in current or very recent historical contexts. This book brings together perspectives on food security and related environmental concerns from experts in the disciplines of literary studies, history, science, and social sciences. It allows readers to compare past and contemporary attitudes towards the issues in India and Britain – the economic, social, and environmental histories of these two nations have been closely connected ever since British travellers began to visit India in the latter half of the sixteenth century. The chapters in this book discuss themes such as climate, harvest failure, trade, technological improvements, transport networks, charity measures, and popular protest, which affected food security in both countries from the seventeenth century onwards. The authors cover a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches, and their chapters allow readers to understand and compare different methodologies as well as different contexts of time and place relevant to the topic. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of economic and social history, environmental history, literary studies, and South Asian studies.

The Classics and Colonial India

Author : Phiroze Vasunia
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0199203237
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Classics and Colonial India written by Phiroze Vasunia and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity.

Studies in Hinduism

Author : Amiya P. Sen
Publisher : MDPI
ISBN 13 : 3036507000
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book Studies in Hinduism written by Amiya P. Sen and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles by established scholars in the fields of History, Philosophy, Literature and Religious Studies. These are original essays which address the issues and concerns that now dominate the study of religion in its multiple dimensions with a fresh approach. They critique settled opinions and raise new and engaging questions concerning cultural hermeneutics and the academic study of religion. Embellished with a substantive and topical introduction by the editor, this collection of articles will be of abiding interest to scholars and interested lay persons alike.