The Goddess and the Nation

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822391538
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis The Goddess and the Nation by : Sumathi Ramaswamy

Download or read book The Goddess and the Nation written by Sumathi Ramaswamy and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country’s diverse communities. Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India’s appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it. In The Goddess and the Nation, she teaches us about pictorial ways of learning the form of the nation, of how to live with it—and ultimately to die for it.

A History of Modern India

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316165175
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (161 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Modern India by : Ishita Banerjee-Dube

Download or read book A History of Modern India written by Ishita Banerjee-Dube and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.

Issues in Modern Indian History

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Publisher : Popular Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 9788171546589
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (465 download)

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Book Synopsis Issues in Modern Indian History by : Sumit Sarkar

Download or read book Issues in Modern Indian History written by Sumit Sarkar and published by Popular Prakashan. This book was released on 2000 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813

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Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781932705546
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (55 download)

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Book Synopsis Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813 by : Jaswant Lal Mehta

Download or read book Advanced Study in the History of Modern India 1707-1813 written by Jaswant Lal Mehta and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytical and critical account of the political history of early modern India from 1707 to 1813. The narrative shatters the contention of contemporary European writers that it was 'the dark age' of Indian history, characterised by 'political anarchy and misgovernment', until the British brought it under their sway. The main thesis of the author is that the period was marked by two distinct phases; the first phase, which lasted from 1707 to 1760, saw the rapid disintegration of the Mughal power and its replacement by the Maratha hegemony. Meanwhile, the English traders turned colonialists, after consolidating their hold along the Indian seacoasts and conquest of 'Carnatic' and Bengal, challenged the Maratha hegemony. The second phase of developments was thus marked by the struggle for supremacy between these two powers. The author makes use of contemporary English and Marathi sources and the intensive researches of modern historians to portray a compact picture of their findings in the form of a text book for the benefit of the degree students. Historical facts are reinterpreted through illuminating expositions, refreshing characterisation of historic personalities, and objective assessment of events and movements. Together with maps, a select bibliography, glossary and an elaborate index, the volume makes a rich contribution to the advancement of modern historical literature.

Mapping an Empire

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226184862
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Book Synopsis Mapping an Empire by : Matthew H. Edney

Download or read book Mapping an Empire written by Matthew H. Edney and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-02-15 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating history of the British surveys of India, Matthew H. Edney relates how imperial Britain used modern survey techniques to not only create and define the spatial image of its Empire, but also to legitimate its colonialist activities. "There is much to be praised in this book. It is an excellent history of how India came to be painted red in the nineteenth century. But more importantly, Mapping an Empire sets a new standard for books that examine a fundamental problem in the history of European imperialism."—D. Graham Burnett, Times Literary Supplement "Mapping an Empire is undoubtedly a major contribution to the rapidly growing literature on science and empire, and a work which deserves to stimulate a great deal of fresh thinking and informed research."—David Arnold, Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History "This case study offers broadly applicable insights into the relationship between ideology, technology and politics. . . . Carefully read, this is a tale of irony about wishful thinking and the limits of knowledge."—Publishers Weekly

From Plassey to Partition

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Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125025962
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (259 download)

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Book Synopsis From Plassey to Partition by : Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa

Download or read book From Plassey to Partition written by Śekhara Bandyopādhyāẏa and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Plassey to Partition is an eminently readable account of the emergence of India as a nation. It covers about two hundred years of political and socio-economic turbulence. Of particular interest to the contemporary reader will be sections such as Early Nationalism: Discontent and Dissension , Many Voices of a Nation and Freedom with Partition . On the one hand, it converses with students of Indian history and on the other, it engages general and curious readers. Few books on this crucial period of history have captured the rhythms of India s polyphonic nationalism as From Plassey to Partition.

Neti, Neti: Not This, Not This

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Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8194566177
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (945 download)

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Book Synopsis Neti, Neti: Not This, Not This by : Anjum Hasan

Download or read book Neti, Neti: Not This, Not This written by Anjum Hasan and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2009-12-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anjum Hasan is the author of two novels, The Cosmopolitans and Lunatic in my Head (shortlisted for the Crossword Book Award), a collection of short stories, Difficult Pleasures (shortlisted for the Hindu Literary Prize and the Crossword Book Award), and a book of poetry, Street on the Hill. She lives in Bangalore.

History Modern India

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Publisher : New Age International
ISBN 13 : 9788122417746
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis History Modern India by : S. N. Sen

Download or read book History Modern India written by S. N. Sen and published by New Age International. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Has Been Thoroughly Revised By Incorporating Fresh Materials In The Light Of Recent Researches On The Subject. Apart From Meeting The Requirements Of The Students For Plus Two Level Or Higher Secondary, The Book Will Be Helpful To The Candidates Appearing In Competitive Examination Of Both Central And State Civil Services, Including Indian Administrative And Allied Services.Historical Research During The Last Four Decades Has Led To New Insights Into The Study Of Modern Indian History. The Book Incorporates The Major Developments In Historical Research Since Independence. Besides Dealing With The Political Convulsions In India, The Book Furnishes The Socio-Economic Problems With Impoverishment Of The Country, The Cultural And Religious Revival In India, A Brief Survey Of Constitutional Developments, The Genesis And Growth Of Indian Nationalism And An Outline Of Freedom Struggle From Its Inception To The Attainment Of Independence.

Political Ideas in Modern India

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761934202
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (342 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Ideas in Modern India by : Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture

Download or read book Political Ideas in Modern India written by Project of History of Indian Science, Philosophy, and Culture and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-03-31 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way.In Political Ideas in Modern India, an outstanding group of social and political theorists offers a creative reinterpretation of the ideas and principles that have shaped modern Indian society and state. The ideas interpreted or analysed include rights, freedoms, equality, social justice, constitutional rule, swaraj, swadeshi, satyagraha, class war, socialism, Hindutva, Hind Swaraj, syncretic culture, composite nationalism, and international peace and justice.

Picturing the Nation

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Picturing the Nation by : Richard H. Davis

Download or read book Picturing the Nation written by Richard H. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picturing the Nation presents a visual history of modern India and explores visual representations of India from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth centuries. The essays in this volume have illustrations, which have all been reproduced in full colour on art paper. The illustrated pages have also been placed within the chapters that refer to them. The images include chromolithographs, posters, cards and photographs of architecture and cultural displays. The book has a comprehensive introduction by Richard Davis and it attempts to answer the question how is it that so many persons have been persuaded to die willingly for something as recently imagined as the nation? Market: University and college departments of history, sociology, social anthropology, the visual arts, art history. The book is also accessible to a wider audience interested in the visual media and in the history of modern India. This is the second book out in the Indian market in this area and the earlier one is Beyond Appearances? edited by Sumathi Ramaswamy (Sage 2003), which is a single colour book.

Trends in Modern Indian Art

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Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9788185880211
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (82 download)

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Book Synopsis Trends in Modern Indian Art by : Sunil Kumar Bhattacharya

Download or read book Trends in Modern Indian Art written by Sunil Kumar Bhattacharya and published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 1994 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trends in Modern Indian Art is a study of Indian Art from the end of 19th century to 1990. Indian Art started with academic realism of Raja Ravi Varma at the close of the 19th century. Abanindranath Tagore who was trained by Samuel Palmer and Japanese artist. Okakura, established the wash process of water colour painting known as the Bengal School in the beginning of the 20th century. His disciples like Nandalal Bosa and Ventappa further elaborated the style of the Bengal School later known as the Oriental Style.

History of Modern India

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ISBN 13 : 9789390122554
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (225 download)

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Book Synopsis History of Modern India by : Bipan Chandra

Download or read book History of Modern India written by Bipan Chandra and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern India 1885–1947

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349197122
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern India 1885–1947 by : Sumit Sarkar

Download or read book Modern India 1885–1947 written by Sumit Sarkar and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-01-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low

The Cosmopolitans

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 935214144X
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (521 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cosmopolitans by : Anjum Hasan

Download or read book The Cosmopolitans written by Anjum Hasan and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Qayenaat is a drifting, solitary, sensitive figure at the edge of the Bangalore art scene. When world-famous artist Baban Reddy, once a young man who hung on her every word, returns to the city to show his latest artwork, all her old longings rise to the surface. Tired of being forever anxious and uncertain, she decides to be reckless, at least once. But an impulsive act of sabotage leads to some horrific consequences, setting Qayenaat off on the most unexpected journey of her life. Laced with wry humour and brimming with emotional insight, The Cosmopolitans is a poignant, powerful tale as well as a stimulating exploration of the idea of art and its place in our lives.

Righteous Republic

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071832
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Righteous Republic by : Ananya Vajpeyi

Download or read book Righteous Republic written by Ananya Vajpeyi and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.

Modern Indian Culture

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Modern Indian Culture by : Dhūrjaṭiprasāda Mukhopādhyāẏa

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A New Look at Modern Indian History (From 1707 to The Modern Times), 32e

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Publisher : S. Chand Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9352534344
Total Pages : 616 pages
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Book Synopsis A New Look at Modern Indian History (From 1707 to The Modern Times), 32e by : Grover B.L. & Mehta Alka

Download or read book A New Look at Modern Indian History (From 1707 to The Modern Times), 32e written by Grover B.L. & Mehta Alka and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on 2018 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is one of the bestselling books on Modern Indian History covering the time line from 1707 to the modern times. The book covers the entire gamut in a very unique style- it mentions not only factual data about various topics but also provides information about different interpretations put forth by Western and Indian historians, with an integrated analysis. This makes the book equally useful for undergraduate students of History and aspirants appearing for various competitive examinations