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Author : W. W. Hunter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385215528
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)
Download or read book A Statistical Account of Bengal written by W. W. Hunter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Birendra Nath Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000416755
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Archaeology of Religion in South Asia written by Birendra Nath Prasad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the religious landscape of early medieval (c. AD 600-1200) Bihar and Bengal, poly-religiosity was generally the norm than an exception, which entailed the evolution of complex patterns of inter-religious equations. Buddhism, Brahmanism and Jainism not only coexisted but also competed for social patronage, forcing them to enter into complex interactions with social institutions and processes. Through an analysis of the published archaeological data, this work explores some aspects of the social history of Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jaina temples and shrines, and Buddhist stūpas and monasteries in early medieval Bihar and Bengal. This archaeological history of religions questions many ‘established’ textual reconstructions, and enriches our understanding of the complex issue of the decline of Buddhism in this area. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Author : Anne Murphy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136707298
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Time, History and the Religious Imaginary in South Asia written by Anne Murphy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious imaginary is a way of conceiving and structuring the world within the conceptual and imaginative traditions of the religious. Using religious imaginary as a reference, this book analyses temporal ideologies and expressions of historicity in South Asia in the early modern, pre-colonial and early colonial period. Chapters explore the multiple understandings of time and the past that informed the historical imagination in various kinds of literary representations, including historiographical and literary texts, hagiography, and religious canonical literature. The book addresses the contributing forces and comparative implications of the formation of religious and communitarian sensibilities as expressed through the imagination of the past, and suggests how these relate to each other within and across traditions in South Asia. By bringing diverse materials together, this book presents new commonalities and distinctions that inform a larger understanding of how religion and other cultural formations impinge on the concept of temporality, and the representation of it as history.
Author : William Wilson Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Statistical Account of Bengal written by William Wilson Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Varuni Bhatia
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190686251
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Unforgetting Chaitanya written by Varuni Bhatia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role do pre-modern religious traditions play in the formation of modern secular identities? In Unforgetting Chaitanya, Varuni Bhatia examines late-nineteenth-century transformations of Bengali Vaishnavism-a vibrant and multifaceted religious tradition that traces its origins to the fifteenth century Krishna devotee Chaitanya (1486-1533). Drawing on an extensive body of hitherto unexamined archival material, Bhatia finds that both religious modernizers and secular voices among the Bengali middle-class invoked Chaitanya, portraying him simultaneously as a local hero, a Hindu reformer, and as God almighty. She argues that these claims should be understood in relation to the recovery of a "pure" Bengali culture and history in a period of nascent, but rising, anti-colonialism in the region. Who is a true Vaishnava? In the late nineteenth century, this question assumed urgency as debates around questions of authenticity appeared prominently in the Bengali public sphere. These debates went on for years, even decades, causing unbridgeable rifts in personal friendships and tarnishing reputations of established scholars. Underlying these debates was the question of authoritative Bengali Vaishnavism and its role in the long-term constitution of Bengali culture and society. At stake, argues Bhatia, was the very nature and composition of an indigenously-derived modernity inscribed through the politics of authenticity, which allowed an influential section of Hindu, upper-caste Bengalis to excavate their own explicitly Hindu pasts in order to find a people's history, a religious reformer, a casteless Hindu sect, the richest examples of Bengali literature, and a sophisticated expression of monotheistic religion.
Author : Baden Henry Baden-Powell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Land Systems of British India: book 1. General. book 2. Bengal written by Baden Henry Baden-Powell and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. J. Fuller
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100099192X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Anthropologist and Imperialist written by C. J. Fuller and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Herbert Hope Risley (1851 - 1911) - 'H. H. Risley', as he always signed himself - was a member of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) from 1873 to 1910 who served in Bengal and became a senior administrator and policymaker in the colonial government, as well as the pre-eminent anthropologist in British India. He was also an imperialist, who was convinced of the rightness of 'civilising' British rule and its benefits for both India and Britain, and one of this book's objectives is to render his simultaneous commitment to anthropology and imperialism intelligible to present-day readers. More specifically, Anthropologist and Imperialist: H. H. Risley and British India, 1873–1911 documents the two sides of Risley’s career, which is used as a case-study to investigate, first, the production and circulation of colonial knowledge, specifically anthropological knowledge, and secondly, its often loose and inconsistent connection with administration and policymaking, and with the government and state overall. Risley, like other officials engaged in anthropology in India, as well as the government itself, insisted that ethnography and anthropology had both ‘administrative’ and ‘scientific’ value; unlike previous works on Indian colonial anthropology, this book carefully examines its ‘scientific’ contributions in relation to contemporary metropolitan anthropology. It does not attempt to reinvent ‘greatman’ political or intellectual history, but does demonstrate the importance of studying the powerful officials who ruled British India, as well as the minor provincial politicians and subaltern subjects – or the abstract forces, such as colonialism and resistance – that have dominated recent historical scholarship. This book shows, too, that a detailed inquiry into Risley’s career, and his ideas and actions, can open new perspectives on a variety of continuing debates, including those over the colonial construction of caste and race in ‘traditional’ India, orientalism and forms of colonial knowledge, Victorian anthropology’s close relationship with the British empire, and the modern discipline’s uneasy links with its colonial past. Print edition not for sale in South Asia (India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Bhutan)
Author : Birendra Nath Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000465020
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Bihar and Bengal written by Birendra Nath Prasad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Author : Geological Survey of India
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book A Manual of the Geology of India: Economic geology, by V. Ball. 1881 written by Geological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey of India
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 724 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Manual of the Geology of India written by Geological Survey of India and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Wilson Hunter
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385533961
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book A Statistical Account of Bengal written by William Wilson Hunter and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Sushil Chaudhury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351997548
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Companies, Commerce and Merchants written by Sushil Chaudhury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology vastly expands our understanding of the much-misconstructed history of early modern Bengal and seeks to redress the misconception that economic decline in Bengal set in even before the British conquest of the region. Based on original sources from European and Indian archives and libraries, the essays underline that Bengal had a prosperous economy in the mid-eighteenth century and was suffering from neither economic nor political crisis.
Author : Ralph W. Nicholas
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788180280061
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Fruits of Worship written by Ralph W. Nicholas and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Center Of Attention Is The Religious Life Of Ordinary People In Rural Bengal, Bengali Attachment To Goddesses, The Religious Treatment Of The Calamities And The Analysis Of Myths, Both Historically And Structurally. A Uniquely Complete Picture Of The World Implicit In The Culture Of The Villages Of The Bengal Delta.
Author : Paul Sillitoe
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800732325
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Anthroposcene of Weather and Climate written by Paul Sillitoe and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While it is widely acknowledged that climate change is among the greatest global challenges of our times, it has local implications too. This volume forefronts these local issues, giving anthropology a voice in this great debate, which is otherwise dominated by natural scientists and policy makers. It shows what an ethnographic focus can offer in furthering our understanding of the lived realities of climate debates. Contributors from communities around the world discuss local knowledge of, and responses to, environmental changes that need to feature in scientifically framed policies regarding mitigation and adaptation measures if they are to be effective.
Author : Bernhard Weßels
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401768366
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia, 1603–1721 written by Bernhard Weßels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Tibet.
Author : Cornelius Wessels
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Early Jesuit Travellers in Central Asia written by Cornelius Wessels and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to Tibet.
Author : Bidyut Mohanty
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000506835
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Haunting Tragedy written by Bidyut Mohanty and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a detailed analysis of the food scarcity and epidemics among the womenfolk and other vulnerable sections of society in colonial Orissa. Its major significance lies in the fact that the food crisis, mass exodus and adverse sex ratio continue to raise questions in the contemporary world. Studies of such experiences help in re-designing strategies to meet the challenges arising from natural disasters, wars, pandemics, besides poverty and uncertain production outcomes. The study of Orissa Famine of 1866 explodes the myth upheld by the colonial administrators that women died at a lower rate than men in famines, because they could easily adapt to food scarcity and were supposedly less prone to infectious diseases. Evidence based on historical, sociological and biological factors showed that increasing male migration, much of it, leading to high mortality, explains the change in sex ratio during the colonial period. This work also shows that many of today’s consumption preferences, linguistic usages and cultural habits of people, carry traces of cataclysmic experiences. This book also highlights the fact that most famines are the result of policy failures and, are often rooted in structural inequalities with serious consequences for women, lower castes and the poor alike. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
