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Author : Iftiḵẖār Aḥmad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Thugs, Dacoits and the Modern World-system in Nineteenth Century India written by Iftiḵẖār Aḥmad and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iftikhar Ahmad
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Thugs, Dacoits, and the Modern World-system in Nineteenth Century India written by Iftikhar Ahmad and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816631513
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System written by Giovanni Arrighi and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a period of dramatic transformation and upheaval, as we wonder what the future holds, this book reminds us that the world has undergone enormous changes before and that an understanding of those changes may tell us something about our own turbulent time. The authors look to two earlier periods that resemble the present in key respects -- the transition from Dutch to British world hegemony in the eighteenth century and the transition from British to U.S. world hegemony in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. In each case, a system wide expansion culminated in crisis and systemic chaos; eventually, a new hegemonic power reorganized the system to solve the problems and contradictions that underlay the chaos. The authors find recurrent characteristics in these transitions, such as the resurgence of finance capital and the intensification of interstate rivalries and social conflict. They also recognize, however, how the present transition differs from the previous patterns. Among the anomalies are the proliferation of transnational organizations and communities, increased social conflict in driving systemic change, a geographical split between military and financial powers, and a shift in the processes of capital accumulation away from the West. Chaos and Governance in the Modern Worm System addresses controversies affecting a range of fields -- political, economic, social, and cultural -- concerned with global change. Though written from a world-systems perspective, it emphasizes the instability and adaptability of world capitalism and the role played by hegemonic states in periodically reorganizing the system.
Author : K. Wagner
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230590209
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Thuggee written by K. Wagner and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based largely on new material, this book examines thuggee as a type of banditry, emerging in a specific socio-economic and geographic context. The British usually described the thugs as fanatic assassins and Kali-worshippers, yet Wagner argues that the history of thuggee need no longer be limited to the study of its representation.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9394701974
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (947 download)
Download or read book Thugs and Dacoits written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volumes focus on select aspects of the British imperial archives: the accounts of discovery and exploration fauna and flora, geography, climate the people of the subcontinent, English domesticity and social life in the subcontinent, the wars and skirmishes including the Mutiny of 1857-58 and the civilisational mission. This volume documents how the practice of thuggee was viewed by the British before: as if it symbolized everything that was wrong with the social order in India. The texts collected here are accounts of how the British 'discovered' the subcontinent. The narrative of discovery, with the freshness of the 'new', was couched very often in the rhetoric of wonder. But this sense of wonder, even astonishment in some cases at the variety, magnitude and sheer difference of the land and its people, was tempered over time with a narrative of exploration.
Author : Margreet van Till
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9971695022
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (716 download)
Download or read book Banditry in West Java written by Margreet van Till and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Banditry was rife around Batavia (modern Jakarta) during the late colonial period, with at least one major robbery committed every day. Banditry in West Java identifies the bandits and describes their working methods and their motives, which often went beyond simple self-enrichment. It also explores the world of the robbers' victims, city-dwellers for whom the robbers were the antithesis of civilization, convenient objects onto which respectable citizens projected their own preoccupations with sex, violence, and magic. The colonial police force in the Dutch East Indies was reformed in the early 1920s, and banditry was subsequently brought under control. However, the bandit tradition lived on in Javanese popular imagination and folk culture, not least in tales of Si Pitung, a Robin Hood figure who flourished in nineteenth-century Batavia. The author argues that banditry in Batavia was closely linked with the modernization process, particularly the ready availability of firearms and the rise of a money economy. However, her findings do little to support suggestions that banditry should be seen as part of the revolutionary struggle for independence in Indonesia. Banditry in West Java is a translation of 'Batavia bij Nacht: Bloei en ondergang van het Indonesisch roverswezen in Batavia en de Ommelanden, 1869-1942. (Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Aksant, 2006).
Author : Kim A. Wagner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Stranglers and Bandits written by Kim A. Wagner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thuggee, the controversial cult of ritual highway murderers "discovered" by the British in early nineteenth-century India, is one of the most sensational and contentious practices in South Asian history. This anthology brings together primary sources from the period of British involvement with thuggee many of which have long languished in the archives. It provides an insight into the production of colonial knowledge and explores how far the authentic voices of the accused thugs could be discerned in the detailed interviews and interrogations conducted by the British. The volume also includes a wide range of popular accounts and academic assessments from 1824 to 2006 shedding light on the shifting interpretations of this custom over the past two centuries.
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Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts of dissertations available on microfilm or as xerographic reproductions.
Author : John Curra
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 154430921X
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (443 download)
Download or read book The Relativity of Deviance written by John Curra and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Relativity of Deviance is a primer on the constructivist perspective on deviance—the idea that deviance cannot be explained in terms of absolutes, nor can it be understood apart from its social setting. The book is frequently used alongside all of the major core deviance textbooks on the market. It answers such questions as: What is deviant? What is deviant behavior? How should the deviant be treated? Why is the same act sometimes praised and sometimes condemned? Readers will see that what qualifies as deviance varies from place to place, time to time, and situation to situation. The book explores some of the most frequent contexts for deviant behavior in ways that challenge definitive or objective judgments. The Fifth Edition has been updated to include the most current developments in American society, including deviance at the highest levels of national politics and corporate life, sex abuse scandals, the opioid crisis, and the growing decriminalization of marijuana.
Author : Eric H. Boehm
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historical Abstracts written by Eric H. Boehm and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim A. Wagner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789380607764
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Thuggee written by Kim A. Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo P. Chall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 998 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Sociological Abstracts written by Leo P. Chall and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josiah McConnell Heyman
Publisher : Berg Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book States and Illegal Practices written by Josiah McConnell Heyman and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1999-03 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers from the conference "States and Illegal Networks", June 1997, Tarrytown, New York.
Author : Meheli Sen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349786
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Figurations in Indian Film written by Meheli Sen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together a series of essays that interrogate the notion of figuration in Indian cinemas. The essays collectively argue that the figures which exhibit maximum tenacity in Indian cinema often emerge in the interface of recognizable binaries: self/other, Indian/foreign, good/bad, virtue/vice, myth/reality and urban/rural.
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Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book Guide to Graduate Departments of Sociology written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Dash
Publisher : Granta
ISBN 13 : 1847084737
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Thug written by Mike Dash and published by Granta. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never in recorded history has there been a group of murderers as deadly as the Thugs. For nearly two centuries, groups of these lethal criminals haunted the roads of India, slaughtering travellers whom they met along the way with such efficiency that over the years tens of thousands of men, women and children simply vanished without trace. Mike Dash, one of our best popular historians, has devoted years to combing archives in both India and Britain to discover how the Thugs lived and worked. Painstakingly researched and grippingly written, Thug tells, for the first time the full story of the Thugs' rise and fall from the cult's beginnings in the late seventeenth century to its eventual demise at the hands of British East India Company officer William Sleeman in 1840.
Author : Eric Lewis Beverley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107091195
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Hyderabad, British India, and the World written by Eric Lewis Beverley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.
