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Colonial Indology

Author : Dilip K. Chakrabarti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Indology written by Dilip K. Chakrabarti and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description: This book explores some underlying theoretical premises of the Western study of ancient India. These premises developed in response to the colonial need to manipulate the Indians' perception of their past. The need was felt most strongly from the middle of the nineteenth century onwards, and an elaborate racist framework, in which the interrelationship between race, language and culture was a key element, slowly emerged as an explanation of the ancient Indian historical universe. The measure of its success is obvious from the fact that the Indian nationalist historians left this framework unchallenged, preferring to dispute it only in some comparatively minor matters of detail. This book argues that this framework is still in place, and implicitly accepted not merely by Western Indologists but also by their Indian counterparts. The image of the ancient Indian past remains the same. The persistence of the old image is reflective of India's relationship as a part of the Third World with the West and Western historical scholarship. This book has a further argument. Mere dismantling of the current racist structure of our perception of ancient India and all that implies will not lead by itself to an Indian perception of the ancient Indian past. Besides, any alternative sense of this past should be something in which all Indians, irrespective of their individual affiliations, can feel having a share. Among other things, the book underlines the total inadequacy of ancient Indian texts to offer fine resolution historical images in chronological and geographical order, and argues that this goal is unlikely to be achieved by combining our historical texts with some social science theories. This can be achieved only through detailed grassroots investigations of the ancient history of the land and its interrelations with human beings. The academic context of the book lies in an increasingly expanding area of archaeological studies of the sociopolitics of the past. This is the first major exercise in this direction in the context of India.

Indian Affairs in Colonial New York

Author : Allen W. Trelease
Publisher : IRA J. Friedman Division Kennikat Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Indian Affairs in Colonial New York written by Allen W. Trelease and published by IRA J. Friedman Division Kennikat Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge

Author : Bernard S. Cohn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844320
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge written by Bernard S. Cohn and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations in India, including revenue and legal systems, led to fundamental structural changes in Indian social relations. This collection of his writings in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. The essays form a multifaceted exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control. Cohn argues that the British Orientalists' study of Indian languages was important to the colonial project of control and command. He also asserts that an arena of colonial power that seemed most benign and most susceptible to indigenous influences--mostly law--in fact became responsible for the institutional reactivation of peculiarly British notions about how to regulate a colonial society made up of "others." He shows how the very Orientalist imagination that led to brilliant antiquarian collections, archaeological finds, and photographic forays were in fact forms of constructing an India that could be better packaged, inferiorized, and ruled. A final essay on cloth suggests how clothes have been part of the history of both colonialism and anticolonialism.

The Making of Western Indology

Author : Rosane Rocher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317579178
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Western Indology written by Rosane Rocher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For thirty years in India at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an administrator and scholar with the East India Company. The Making of Western Indology explains and evaluates Colebrooke’s role as the founder of modern Indology. The book discusses how Colebrooke embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth-century colonial expansion, to the professional, transnational ethos of nineteenth-century intellectual life and scholarly enquiry. It covers his career with the East India Company, from a young writer to member of the supreme council and theorist of the Bengal government. Highlighting how his unprecedented familiarity with a broad range of literature established him as the leading scholar of Sanskrit and president of the Asiatic Society in Calcutta, it shows how Colebrooke went on to found the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and set standards for western Indology. Written by renowned academics in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this biography is a useful contribution to the reassessment of Oriental studies that is currently taking place.

History and Politics In Post-Colonial India

Author : Michael Gottlob
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199088497
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book History and Politics In Post-Colonial India written by Michael Gottlob and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of history in India has been fraught with controversies. From the storm over textbooks in the 1970s, and the furore over the Babri Masjid in the 1990s, to the flaring up of religious sentiments over 'beef-eating' and the Ram Sethu, this book provides a synoptic view of teaching and writing of history in post-colonial India. Michael Gottlob explores historical research and teaching as important components contributing to the development of a national identity and ideas of citizenship in post-colonial India. He shows how the urge to decolonize and recover the self has given rise to several approaches that attempt to 'reclaim' Indian history from its colonial past. The book discusses diverse areas like methodological research and public use of history; cultural identity and diversity; nationalism and communalism; and social movements and deconstructs their far-reaching implications in contemporary India. It also examines the role of women, Dalits, and Adivasis to understand their position in the multicultural reality of India.

The Shape of Ancient Thought

Author : Thomas McEvilley
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581159331
Total Pages : 1015 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book The Shape of Ancient Thought written by Thomas McEvilley and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 1015 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning thirty years of intensive research, this book proves what many scholars could not explain: that today’s Western world must be considered the product of both Greek and Indian thought—Western and Eastern philosophies. Thomas McEvilley explores how trade, imperialism, and migration currents allowed cultural philosophies to intermingle freely throughout India, Egypt, Greece, and the ancient Near East. This groundbreaking reference will stir relentless debate among philosophers, art historians, and students.

Visions of Greater India

Author : Yorim Spoelder
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100940315X
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Visions of Greater India written by Yorim Spoelder and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Greater India' was a transimperial, Indocentric research paradigm that informed the colonial recovery of the ancient past in Central and Southeast Asia. Ancient India was postulated as the fount of an expansive classicism – an actor in world history on a par with ancient Greece and Rome. Under the Greater India movement, the scholarly quest for 'India in Asia' became tied to anti-colonial, pedagogical, nationalist and Asianist agendas. Yet although it provided a potent anti-colonial imaginary, the movement also bolstered visions of Indian exceptionalism and energized Hindu nationalist ideas of India as a civilizing, colonizing power. Speaking directly to debates that define and divide India today, this is essential reading for those interested in the legacies of Orientalist scholarship and interwar visions of Indian internationalism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

A History of India

Author : Hermann Kulke
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415154820
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book A History of India written by Hermann Kulke and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a grand sweep of Indian history, this work covers antiquity to the later half of the 20th century. The authors examine the major political, social and cultural forces which have shaped the history of the Indian subcontinent. This third edition of the text has been updated to include current research as well as a revised preface, index and dateline.

The Indo-Aryan Controversy

Author : Edwin Francis Bryant
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780700714636
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book The Indo-Aryan Controversy written by Edwin Francis Bryant and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The articles in this survey of the Indo-Aryan controversy address questions such as: are the Indo-Aryans insiders or outsiders?

Medieval Indian Mindscapes

Author : Evgenii͡a I͡Urʹevna Vanina
Publisher : Primus Books
ISBN 13 : 9380607199
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Indian Mindscapes written by Evgenii͡a I͡Urʹevna Vanina and published by Primus Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Indian Mindscapes: Space, Time, Society, Man centres on how Indians in pre-colonial times perceived their world. It compares the specific features of their 'mental programmes' with that of their counterparts in other pre-modern societies. While analysing the importance of space in the medieval world view, the book discusses how medieval Indians comprehended their territories and the landscape as 'their own' vis-a-vis the 'alien' space; the development of territorial-cultural and territorial-political identities, and knowledge about other lands and peoples. In a discussion of medieval temporality, the book also studies the ways of perceiving and reckoning time, attitudes to the historical past and the manifold ways of recording it. A special chapter on 'Society' deals with socio-ethical values and behavioural stereotypes of major estate and caste groups like the feudal landlords, priests and officials, merchants and craftsmen, peasants and the lower castes in villages. The book also has a chapter on the medieval Indian perception of Man, his appearance and peculiarities as they pertained to the a≥ behaviour, social status, and the steady development of individuality. Medieval Indian Mindscapes will be of interest to medievalists as well as general readers, keen to know more about the dynamics of pre-modern history and culture.

The European and the Indian : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America

Author : Jr. James Axtell William R. Kenen, Professor of Humanities College of William and Mary
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199728917
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book The European and the Indian : Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America written by Jr. James Axtell William R. Kenen, Professor of Humanities College of William and Mary and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1981-08-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885

Author : Douglas M. Peers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317882865
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book India under Colonial Rule: 1700-1885 written by Douglas M. Peers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1700 and 1885 the British became the paramount power on the Indian subcontinent, their authority extending from Sri Lankain the south to the Himalayasin the north. It was a massive empire, inspiring both pride and anxiety amongst the British, and forcing change upon and disrupting the lives of its Indian subjects. Yet it is not simply a history of conquest and subjugation, or dominance and defeat: interaction and interdependency powerfully shaped the histories of all involved. The end result was a hybrid empire. India may have become by 1885 the jewel in the British crown, but by that same year a series of changes had occurred within Indian society that would set the foundations for the modern states of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. This book provides a concise introduction to these dramatic changes.

Attitudes of Colonial Powers Toward the American Indian

Author : Howard Henry Peckham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Attitudes of Colonial Powers Toward the American Indian written by Howard Henry Peckham and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Studying Early India

Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843311321
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Studying Early India written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.

India’s Vibgyor Man

Author : Abhishek Manu Singhvi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199094071
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book India’s Vibgyor Man written by Abhishek Manu Singhvi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr L.M. Singhvi (1931–2007) was an eminent Indian jurist, a distinguished parliamentarian, a celebrated statesman, an able administrator, a brilliant scholar, a prolific writer, and a diplomat par excellence. He was India’s second longest-serving high commissioner to the United Kingdom, from 1991 to 1997, and was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1998. Dr Singhvi was deeply wedded to human service, and wrote on a variety of issues which are relevant in contemporary sociopolitical discourse. This work, alluding to the multifaceted personality of Dr L.M. Singhvi, highlights his scholarly contribution in varied fields of human activities such as law, diplomacy, democracy, and literature. It brings together his unpublished papers and lectures which address topics ranging from human rights, foreign policy issues, Kashmir, centre–state relations, public administration, legal issues, to education, healthcare, civil services, and Indology. The comprehensive introduction knits together the themes discussed in the volume, and emphasizes their relevance in today’s times.

Counterflows to Colonialism

Author : Michael Herbert Fisher
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788178241548
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Counterflows to Colonialism written by Michael Herbert Fisher and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2006 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Constructing Indian Christianities

Author : Chad M. Bauman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317560272
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Constructing Indian Christianities written by Chad M. Bauman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers insights into the current ‘public-square’ debates on Indian Christianity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as rigorous analyses, it discusses the myriad histories of Christianity in India, its everyday practice and contestations and the process of its indigenisation. It addresses complex and pertinent themes such as Dalit Indian Christianity, diasporic nationalism and conversion. The work will interest scholars and researchers of religious studies, Dalit and subaltern studies, modern Indian history, and politics.