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ISBN 13 : 9788182903951
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Narrativizing Bharatvarsa & Other Essays written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jayeeta Sharma
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822350491
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Empire's Garden written by Jayeeta Sharma and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.
Author : Arthur Maurice Hocart
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Caste, a Comparative Study written by Arthur Maurice Hocart and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : R.N. Nandi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351588214
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book An Outline of the Aryan Civilization written by R.N. Nandi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a first of its kind, this book attempts a comprehensive account of the old Vedic society with particular focus on the physical conditions of life during the Bronze Age in north western South Asia. Based primarily on textual evidence, the narrative relates wherever necessary to the known archaeological information from the area. With territorial kingdoms, walled urban places, specialized production of craft goods, large scale trade by land and sea, a broad spectrum service sector and a high end surplus producing peasant economy supporting all of these situates the Aryan discourse on an entirely different platform. The book shows that the Aryans of the Rigveda with diverse forms of speech, physical features and funerary behaviour were far from the monolithic concept of a single people and a single culture. Hopefully, the book will help readers to escape the broad misinformation long circulating in history texts for schools, general readers and specialists. Extensive citations are also intended to enable interested readers to access the text on their own and ascertain for themselves what is true and what is false.
Author : Sita Ram Goel
Publisher : South Asia Books
ISBN 13 : 9788185990231
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Story of Islamic Imperialism in India written by Sita Ram Goel and published by South Asia Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Makarand R. Paranjape
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 940074661X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)
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.
Author : François Gautier
Publisher : Garuda Prakashan Private, Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781942426271
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book An Entirely New History of India written by François Gautier and published by Garuda Prakashan Private, Limited. This book was released on 2020 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Entirely New History of INDIA; Indian History needs to be re-examined and freed from colonial biases and error. Driven by Christian belief in a 6000-year old planet, British scholars, and their Indian hires, post-dated Indian history to fit into erroneous Western conceptions. For their own agendas the manufactures theories such as that of an "Aryan Invasion" and dismissed vast evidences, such as the existence of the river Sarasvati, as "mythical", even though it was mentioned more than fifty times in the Vedas. The colonial gaze also erroneously represented events such as the invasion of India by Alexander the Great in the year 326 BCE and fabricated myths such as the conversion of emperor Ashoka to Buddhism, purportedly due to "remorse" after the terrible battle of Kalinga, when Ashoka already a Buddhist at the time of the battle. Thus this book rewrites Indian History based on new evidence including new scientific, linguistic and genetic discoveries. It seeks to dismantle the cliches, to clarify the controversies, and to retrace, as accurately as possible, the most significant periods of Indian history-history much older than previously thought
Author : William Harrison Moreland
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of India written by William Harrison Moreland and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teena Purohit
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674071581
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Aga Khan Case written by Teena Purohit and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court’s ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge’s decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.
Author : Partha Chatterjee
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Our Modernity written by Partha Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rita Kothari
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317642155
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Translating India written by Rita Kothari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural universe of urban, English-speaking middle class in India shows signs of growing inclusiveness as far as English is concerned. This phenomenon manifests itself in increasing forms of bilingualism (combination of English and one Indian language) in everyday forms of speech - advertisement jingles, bilingual movies, signboards, and of course conversations. It is also evident in the startling prominence of Indian Writing in English and somewhat less visibly, but steadily rising, activity of English translation from Indian languages. Since the eighties this has led to a frenetic activity around English translation in India's academic and literary circles. Kothari makes this very current phenomenon her chief concern in Translating India. The study covers aspects such as the production, reception and marketability of English translation. Through an unusually multi-disciplinary approach, this study situates English translation in India amidst local and global debates on translation, representation and authenticity. The case of Gujarati - a case study of a relatively marginalized language - is a unique addition that demonstrates the micro-issues involved in translation and the politics of language. Rita Kothari teaches English at St. Xavier's College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat), where she runs a translation research centre on behalf of Katha. She has published widely on literary sociology, postcolonialism and translation issues. Kothari is one of the leading translators from Gujarat. Her first book (a collaboration with Suguna Ramanathan) was on English translation of Gujarati poetry (Modern Gujarati Poetry: A Selection, Sahitya Akademi, New Delhi, 1998). Her English translation of the path-breaking Gujarati Dalit novel Angaliyat is in press (The Stepchild, Oxford University Press). She is currently working on an English translation of Gujarati short stories by women of Gujarat, a study of the nineteenth-century narratives of Gujarat, and is also engaged in a project on the Sindhi identity in India.
Author : K N Sivaraja Pillai
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (85 download)
Download or read book Agastya in the Tamil Land written by K N Sivaraja Pillai and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2024-01-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Agastya in the Tamil Land by K. N. Sivaraja Pillai first published in 1930. No tradition is so widespread throughout the length and breadth of the Tamil country as that concerning sage Agastya and his numerous exploits. Of all the mythic, semi-historic and historic personages of the Aryan annals, who have figured in South Indian History, Agastya has occupied the foremost place and secured the largest homage of the cultured and the masses alike. He meets us from the very start of Aryan History, being a composer of certain hymns of the earliest of the Vēdas, the Rg Vēda. Still he seems to have been not included amongst the seven holy sages, the Prajāpatis, or the progenitors of the human race.
Author : Swagato Ganguly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351584677
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India written by Swagato Ganguly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which inform even contemporary descriptions of the subcontinent. Using idolatry as a concept-metaphor, the book traverses an ambitious path through the works of William Jones, James Mill, Friedrich Max Müller, John Ruskin, Alice Perrin, E. M. Forster, Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It reveals how religion and paganism, history and literature, Oriental thought and Western metaphysics, and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them. The author underlines how idolatry, irrationality and social disorder came to be linked by discourses informed by Enlightenment, missionary rhetoric and colonial reason. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers in history, anthropology, literature, culture studies, philosophy, religion, sociology and South Asian studies as well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment.
Author : Romila Thapar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788189524500
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (245 download)
Download or read book Syndicated Hinduism written by Romila Thapar and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hindu missionary organizations, such as those attached to the Ramakrishna Mission, the Arya Samaj, the RSS and the Vishva Hindu Parishad, taking their cue from Christian missionaries are active among the adivasis , mainly Scheduled Castes and tribes. They are converting these latter groups to Hinduism as defined by the upper caste movements of the last two centuries But the significance of dharma was that it demarcated sharply between the upper castes the dvija or twice-born for whom it was the core of the religion and the rest of society whose conforming to dharma was left somewhat in abeyance, as long as it did not transgress the dharma of the upper castes."
Author : Syed Ejaz Hussain
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ISBN 13 : 9789390232864
Total Pages : 786 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (328 download)
Download or read book Alternative Arguments written by Syed Ejaz Hussain and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alternative Arguments is a tribute to Professor Surendra Gopal, a truly extraordinary historian, well-known for his undisputed and sterling scholarship. This collection of essays by his former colleagues, students and friends from India and abroad, comprises 37 scholarly contributions that have been broadly grouped into six sections: the Idea of India; Bihar: Ancient, Medieval and Modern; Indian Economy, Trade and Commerce; Nationalism and Freedom Struggle; Original Sources; and History through Art and Media.
Author : Kingshuk Nag
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9351940152
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book The NaMo Story: A Political Life written by Kingshuk Nag and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the truly enigmatic personalities on the contemporary Indian political canvas, Narendra Damodardas Modi is difficult to ignore. From his humble beginnings as a RSS pracharak to his rise in the Hindutva ranks, and from being Bharatiya Janata Party’s master planner to one of the its most popular and controversial state chief ministers, Modi’s mantra of change and development is gradually finding many takers. Though he evokes vastly different reactions among the citizens for his alleged role during the Godhra aftermath, what is absolutely clear is that he indeed is racing towards the centre stage, making the 2014 General Elections look more like a Presidential system – where, you either vote for him or against him. And that, as they say, is the Modi effect. Kingshuk Nag paints the most vivid portrait of the extraordinary politician who is poised to take on a new role in the coming years.
Author : Shimran Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788184205770
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Alexander the Great and Porus written by Shimran Khan and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
