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Re-Imagining Bengal

Author : Irtekhar Ahmed
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789383419647
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Re-Imagining Bengal written by Irtekhar Ahmed and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fertile land and abundant wealth of Bengal attracted many conquerors who left their mark on its timeline; some only plundered while others became rulers. Their footprints, similar to the alluvial soil of the Ganges delta, silted up layer upon layer. The harsh climate faded many footprints with time, while a few remained intact. Traces of these layers can be found everywhere in Bengal. With age, some layers got merged, others transformed into something hybrid, while others got lost in time. This complex state led to many interpretations; over time myths converted to facts, misconceptions paved way for more misconceptions. Bengal's story, like many others' around the world, offers scope for invention and reimagining. In this book four Bengal studies scholars challenge the myths and misconceptions about Bengal's past and offer a fresh perspective of the contested facts analyzing its architecture, built environment and cultural heritage. By no means comprehensive, this small attempt still brings new ideas and questions to front which no doubt will spark further investigation.

Re-Imagining Northeast Writings and Narratives: Language, Culture, and Border Identity

Author : Dr.Kharingpam Ahum Chahong
Publisher : SLC India Publisher
ISBN 13 : 8196295677
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Re-Imagining Northeast Writings and Narratives: Language, Culture, and Border Identity written by Dr.Kharingpam Ahum Chahong and published by SLC India Publisher. This book was released on with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Re-Imagining Northeast Writings and Narratives: Language, Culture, and Border Identity" presents a collaborative effort to critically examine the concept of Northeast India, focusing on its linguistic, geographical, cultural, and social dimensions. Through a compilation of articles and essays, the volume delves into various aspects such as language, literature, culture, challenges, and the complexities of identity within the region. Each contribution offers detailed insights and findings, enhancing our understanding of Northeast India's diverse cultural landscape and the experiences of its people. By addressing themes of spatiality, movement, and responses to representations of the Northeast, the volume aims to deepen scholarly engagement with the region and stimulate discourse on its unique linguistic, cultural, and border dynamics. It serves as a valuable resource for researchers, scholars, and anyone interested in gaining a nuanced understanding of Northeast India and its intricate interplay of language, culture, and identity.

Re-imagining Border Studies in South Asia

Author : Dhananjay Tripathi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000333345
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Re-imagining Border Studies in South Asia by : Dhananjay Tripathi

Download or read book Re-imagining Border Studies in South Asia written by Dhananjay Tripathi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-12-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a radical rethinking of Border Studies. Framing the discipline beyond conventional topics of spatiality and territoriality, it presents a distinctly South Asian perspective – a post-colonial and post-partition region where most borders were drawn with political motives, ignoring the socio-cultural realities of the region and economic necessities of the people. The authors argue that while securing borders is an essential function of the state, in this interconnected world, crossing borders and border cooperation is also necessary. The book examines contemporaneous and topical themes like disputes of identity and nationhood, the impact of social media on Border Studies, trans-border cooperation, water-sharing between countries, and resolution of border problems in the age of liberalisation and globalisation. It also suggests ways of enhancing cross-border economic cooperation and connectivity, and reviews security issues from a new perspective. Well supplemented with case studies, the book will serve as an indispensable text for scholars and researchers of Border Studies, military and strategic studies, international relations, geopolitics, and South Asian studies. It will also be of great interest to think tanks and government agencies, especially those dealing with foreign relations.

The Bengal Diaspora

Author : Claire Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317335937
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Bengal Diaspora written by Claire Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the Bengal delta itself. A similar number were internally displaced, while others moved to the Middle East, North America and Europe. Using a creative interdisciplinary approach combining historical, sociological and anthropological approaches to migration and diaspora this book explores the experiences of Bengali Muslim migrants through this period of upheaval and transformation. It draws on over 200 interviews conducted in Britain, India, and Bangladesh, tracing migration and settlement within, and from, the Bengal delta region in the period after 1947. Focussing on migration and diaspora ‘from below’, it teases out fascinating ‘hidden’ migrant stories, including those of women, refugees, and displaced people. It reveals surprising similarities, and important differences, in the experience of Muslim migrants in widely different contexts and places, whether in the towns and hamlets of Bengal delta, or in the cities of Britain. Counter-posing accounts of the structures that frame migration with the textures of how migrants shape their own movement, it examines what it means to make new homes in a context of diaspora. The book is also unique in its focus on the experiences of those who stayed behind, and in its analysis of ruptures in the migration process. Importantly, the book seeks to challenge crude attitudes to ‘Muslim’ migrants, which assume their cultural and religious homogeneity, and to humanize contemporary discourses around global migration. This ground-breaking new research offers an essential contribution to the field of South Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Society and Culture Studies.

Re-imagining Heritage Interpretation

Author : Russell Staiff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131706867X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Re-imagining Heritage Interpretation written by Russell Staiff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges traditional approaches to heritage interpretation and offers an alternative theoretical architecture to the current research and practice. Russell Staiff suggests that the dialogue between visitors and heritage places has been too focused on learning outcomes, and so heritage interpretation has become dominated by psychology and educational theory, and over-reliant on outdated thinking. Using his background as an art historian and experience teaching heritage and tourism courses, Russell Staiff weaves personal observation with theory in an engaging and lively way. He recognizes that the 'digital revolution' has changed forever the way that people interact with their environment and that a new approach is needed.

Re-imagining South Asian Religions

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004242376
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Re-imagining South Asian Religions written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-12-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences. Moving away from canonical texts, established authorities, and received historiography, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological perspectives including philosophy, history, hermeneutics, migration and diaspora studies, ethnography, performance studies, lived religion approaches, and aesthetics. Reflecting a balance of theory and substantive content, the papers in this volume call into question key critical terms, challenge established frames of reference, and offer innovative and alternative interpretations of South Asian ways of knowing and being.

Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature

Author : Robbie McLaughlan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748672311
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Re-imagining the 'Dark Continent' in fin de siecle Literature written by Robbie McLaughlan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps the fin de siecle mission to open up the 'Dark Continent'

Notions of Nationhood in Bengal

Author : Swarupa Gupta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004176144
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Notions of Nationhood in Bengal written by Swarupa Gupta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reopens the debate on colonial nationalisms, going beyond derivative , borrowed , political and modernist paradigms. It introduces the conceptual category of samaj to demonstrate how indigenous socio-cultural origins in Bengal interacted with late-colonial discourses to produce the notion of a nation. Samaj (a historical society and an idea-in-practice) was a site for reconfiguring antecedents and negotiating fragmentation. Drawing on indigenous sources, this study shows how caste, class, ethnicity, region and community were refracted to conceptualise wider unities. The mapping of cultural continuities through change facilitates a more nuanced investigation of the ontology of nationhood, seeing it as related to, but more than political nationalism. It outlines a fresh paradigm for recalibrating postcolonial identities, offering interpretive strategies to mediate fragmentation.

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Author : Sumit Chakrabarti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009339826
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal written by Sumit Chakrabarti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locates Akshay Kumar Datta as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning in nineteenth-century Bengal.

Princely India Re-imagined

Author : Aya Ikegame
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415554497
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Princely India Re-imagined written by Aya Ikegame and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India's Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel interpretation and thorough investigation of the relationship of king and subject in South Asia. The book argues that the denial of political and economic power to the king, especially after 1831 when direct British control was imposed over the state administration in Mysore, was paralleled by a counter-balancing multiplication of kingly ritual, rites, and social duties. The book looks at how, at the very time when kingly authority was lacking income and powers of patronage, its local sources of power and social roots were being reinforced and rebuilt in a variety of ways. Using a combination of historical and anthropological methodologies, and based upon substantial archival and field research, the book argues that the idea of kingship lived on in South India and continues to play a vital and important role in contemporary South Indian social and political life. The Open Access version of this book, available at http: //www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Contiguity, Connectivity and Access

Author : Suranjan Das
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000833704
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Contiguity, Connectivity and Access written by Suranjan Das and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-28 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines themes like contemporary factors shaping the emergence of the Bay of Bengal region as a critical strategic theatre in Indian foreign policy; the inter-connectedness of the Indian and Pacific Oceans; the importance of oceans to security and commerce and India’s role within the broader region; the twenty-first century maritime Silk Road and Indian alternatives and the possibilities of reconnecting disconnected spaces through re-imagining a Bay of Bengal Community. In this connection the volume takes particular note of the emerging regional cooperative order for the promotion of peace and development in the Bay of Bengal region (BIMSTEC). The volume brings together historians, political analysts and political economists to emphasize the interconnectedness of the oceanic space through a detailed analysis of the Bay of Bengal as a space of strategic and economic significance, particularly for India, but also as a space for re-imagining a new regional community. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan).

How to be the Goddess of Your Home

Author : Judith E. Walsh
Publisher : Yoda Press
ISBN 13 : 9788190227230
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book How to be the Goddess of Your Home written by Judith E. Walsh and published by Yoda Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth century, as dominance of British power in India led to the imposition of an alien culture on indigenous life-ways, the entire world of local domestic life and its most intimate relationships became contested ground. This anthology offers translated selections from nine Bengali domestic manuals written by both men and women in the course of these debates and contestations. In simple and often colloquial language these how to do it books act as guides to conducting relations within a family context, child rearing, and household management. Often presented in the form of an intimate dialogue between husband and wife in the dead of the night, the translations provide an unusual insight into the home of the Bengali bhadralok in colonial times. As one hurtles from one representation of middle-class reformism to another, it becomes clear that this anthology is an invaluable addition to the rather thin collection of translated primary sources of this period. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of gender studies, history, sociology, lay readers interested in the culture of the colonial period, as well as all informed women readers.

Citizen Refugee

Author : Uditi Sen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108425615
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Citizen Refugee written by Uditi Sen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how refugees were used as agents of nation-building in India, leading to gendered and caste-ridden policies of rehabilitation.

Northeast India

Author : Yasmin Saikia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108225780
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Northeast India written by Yasmin Saikia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and Southeast Asia.

Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal

Author : Imma Ramos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351840002
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Pilgrimage and Politics in Colonial Bengal written by Imma Ramos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late nineteenth century onwards the concept of Mother India assumed political significance in colonial Bengal. Reacting against British rule, Bengali writers and artists gendered the nation in literature and visual culture in order to inspire patriotism amongst the indigenous population. This book will examine the process by which the Hindu goddess Sati rose to sudden prominence as a personification of the subcontinent and an icon of heroic self-sacrifice. According to a myth of cosmic dismemberment, Sati’s body parts were scattered across South Asia and enshrined as Shakti Pithas, or Seats of Power. These sacred sites were re-imagined as the fragmented body of the motherland in crisis that could provide the basis for an emergent territorial consciousness. The most potent sites were located in eastern India, Kalighat and Tarapith in Bengal, and Kamakhya in Assam. By examining Bengali and colonial responses to these temples and the ritual traditions associated with them, including Tantra and image worship, this book will provide the first comprehensive study of this ancient network of pilgrimage sites in an art historical and political context.

Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman

Author : Carola Lorea
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004324712
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Folklore, Religion and the Songs of a Bengali Madman written by Carola Lorea and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Lorea explores the relationship between Bengali folklore, heterodox religious movements and politics of cultural representation through the contextual study of the eccentric guru Bhaba Pagla (1902-1984), his ecstatic songs and their performers.

The Long History of Partition in Bengal

Author : Rituparna Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003851894
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Long History of Partition in Bengal written by Rituparna Roy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the aftermath of the 1947 Partition of India. It considers the long aftermath and afterlives of Partition afresh, from a wide and inclusive range of perspectives and studies the specificities of the history of violence and migration and their memories in the Bengal region. The chapters in the volume range from the administrative consequences of partition to public policies on refugee settlement, life stories of refugees in camps and colonies, and literary and celluloid representations of Partition. It also probes questions of memory, identity, and the memorialization of events. Eclectic in its theoretical orientation and methodology, this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of partition history, colonialism, refugee studies, Indian history, South Asian history, migration studies, and modern history in general.