Ideas And Society: India Between The Sixteenth And Eighteenth Centuries
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdeas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like the Bhakti and Sufi saints, and the Sikhs, to the Eighteenth Century crisis of the Mughal Empire, the formulations presented by Sufi saints to improve the conditions, and the advent of the 'firangis'. More specifically the book deals with the reaction of Indian thought to the culture and presence of the West. This book will be of interest to medievalists and those interested in studying Indian history in relation to European history.
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights The Nature Of Cultural And Religious Practices In Medieval India, The Development Of The State, Beginings Of Colonial Rule And The Indiginous Response To It. Also Looks At Patterns In Communal Relations And Sufi And Bhakti Traditions.
Author: Robert Travers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1139464167
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Author: Evgenii͡a I͡Urʹevna Vanina
Publisher: Primus Books
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 9380607199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Indian Mindscapes: Space, Time, Society, Man centres on how Indians in pre-colonial times perceived their world. It compares the specific features of their 'mental programmes' with that of their counterparts in other pre-modern societies. While analysing the importance of space in the medieval world view, the book discusses how medieval Indians comprehended their territories and the landscape as 'their own' vis-a-vis the 'alien' space; the development of territorial-cultural and territorial-political identities, and knowledge about other lands and peoples. In a discussion of medieval temporality, the book also studies the ways of perceiving and reckoning time, attitudes to the historical past and the manifold ways of recording it. A special chapter on 'Society' deals with socio-ethical values and behavioural stereotypes of major estate and caste groups like the feudal landlords, priests and officials, merchants and craftsmen, peasants and the lower castes in villages. The book also has a chapter on the medieval Indian perception of Man, his appearance and peculiarities as they pertained to the a≥ behaviour, social status, and the steady development of individuality. Medieval Indian Mindscapes will be of interest to medievalists as well as general readers, keen to know more about the dynamics of pre-modern history and culture.
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: Taylor & Francis US
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 712
ISBN-13: 9780415093095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifth volume of the this series examines historical events and cultural, social and political structures which were introduced between the 16th and 18th centuries.
Author: Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1351558250
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations.A fascinating history of migrations ofpeople from below the volume adopts a trans-disciplinary approach and uses inscriptions, official records, and literary texts along with community narratives and folk tradition. This will be of great interest to scholars and students of migration and diaspora studies, medieval and modern South Asian history, social anthropology and subaltern studies.
Author: Kaveh Yazdani
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-05
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 9004330798
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia, Modernity and the Great Divergence is an original and pioneering book about India’s transition towards modernity and the rise of the West. The work examines global entanglements alongside the internal dynamics of 17th to 19th century Mysore and Gujarat in comparison to other regions of Afro-Eurasia. It is an interdisciplinary survey that enriches our historical understanding of South Asia, ranging across the fascinating and intertwined worlds of modernizing rulers, wealthy merchants, curious scholars, utopian poets, industrious peasants and skilled artisans. Bringing together socio-economic and political structures, warfare, techno-scientific innovations, knowledge production and transfer of ideas, this book forces us to rethink the reasons behind the emergence of the modern world.
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 218
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew Holt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 1069
ISBN-13: 1440874247
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn indispensable resource for readers investigating how religion has influenced societies and cultures, this three-volume encyclopedia assesses and synthesizes the many ways in which religious faith has shaped societies from the ancient world to today. Each volume of the set focuses on a different era of world history, ranging through the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Every volume is filled with essays that focus on religious themes from different geographical regions. For example, volume one includes essays considering religion in ancient Rome, while volume three features essays focused on religion in modern Africa. This accessible layout makes it easy for readers to learn more about the ways that religion and society have intersected over the centuries, as well as specific religious trends, events, and milestones in a particular era and place in world history. Taken as a a whole, this ambitious and wide-ranging work gathers more than 500 essays from more than 150 scholars who share their expertise and knowledge about religious faiths, tenets, people, places, and events that have influenced the development of civilization over the course of recorded human history.