Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History

Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History

Author: Jamal Malik

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9789004118027

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The reciprocal relationship between colonialists and the colonised people of India, during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860, provides fascinating study material. This edited volume explores cultural colonialism by focussing on the ambivalent processes of reciprocal perceptions.


Making a Muslim

Making a Muslim

Author: S. Akbar Zaidi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1108490530

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Post 1857, colonial India witnessed the emergence of numerous new forms of Muslim identities, some emerging as new Islamic 'sects' (maslaks), and others based on educational priorities. This book critically examines, how a feeling of utter humiliation - zillat - acted as an agentive force allowing Muslims to remake their many identities.


Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World

Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World

Author: Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-07-11

Total Pages: 459

ISBN-13: 9004512535

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Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World scrutinizes and analyzes Islam in context. It posits Muslims not as independent and autonomous, but as relational and interactive agents of change and continuity who interplay with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society as well as with resources from other traditions. Representing multiple disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume discuss a broad range of issues, such as secularization, colonialism, globalization, radicalism, human rights, migration, hermeneutics, mysticism, religious normativity and pluralism, while paying special attention to three geographical settings of South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America.


Remaking History

Remaking History

Author: Afsar Mohammad

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-09-30

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 100933963X

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With evidence from a wide variety of sources, this book explores the development of modernity in Hyderabad after 1947.


India and Iran in the Long Durée

India and Iran in the Long Durée

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-02-08

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 9004460632

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This book is the result of a conference held at the University of California, Irvine, covering the contacts between Iran and India from antiquity to the modern period.


Hyderabad, British India, and the World

Hyderabad, British India, and the World

Author: Eric Lewis Beverley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-06-01

Total Pages: 363

ISBN-13: 1316300293

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This examination of the formally autonomous state of Hyderabad in a global comparative framework challenges the idea of the dominant British Raj as the sole sovereign power in the late colonial period. Beverley argues that Hyderabad's position as a subordinate yet sovereign 'minor state' was not just a legal formality, but that in exercising the right to internal self-government and acting as a conduit for the regeneration of transnational Muslim intellectual and political networks, Hyderabad was indicative of the fragmentation of sovereignty between multiple political entities amidst empires. By exploring connections with the Muslim world beyond South Asia, law and policy administration along frontiers with the colonial state, and urban planning in expanding Hyderabad City, Beverley presents Hyderabad as a locus for experimentation in global and regional forms of political modernity. This book recasts the political geography of late imperialism and historicises Muslim political modernity in South Asia and beyond.


Princely India and the British

Princely India and the British

Author: Caroline Keen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-09-05

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0857721909

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In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and regulations.Young heirs to the throne were exposed to a western education to encourage their enthusiasm for changes in the princely environment.At the same time bureaucracies constructed on the British Indian model were introduced to promote'good government'.In many cases,royal practice and authority were sacrificed in the urgency to install efficient and accountable methods of administration.Adult rulers were frequently sidelined in the intricacies of state politics and the traditional princely power base was steadily eroded. Using the framework of a princely life-cycle,this book evaluates British policy towards the princes during the period 1858-1909. Within this framework Caroline Keen examines disputed successions to Indian thrones,the reaction of young rulers to a western education, princely marriages and the empowerment of royal women,the administration of states,and efforts to alter court hierarchy and ritual to conform to strict British bureaucratic guidelines.A recurring theme is the frequently incompatible relationship between British officials posted to the states and their superiors within the Government of India. Rarely examined archival material is used to provide a detailed analysis of policy-making which deals with British procedure at all levels of officialdom. For scholars and researchers of South Asian and British imperial history this book casts new light upon a highly significant phase of imperial development and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the operation of indirect rule under the Raj.


Comparative and Transnational History

Comparative and Transnational History

Author: Heinz-Gerhard Haupt

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2010-03-01

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 1845458036

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Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however, this approach has felt pressure from two sources: cultural historical approaches, which stress microhistory and the construction of cultural transfer on the one hand, global history and transnational approaches with emphasis on connected history on the other. This volume introduces the reader to some of the major methodological debates and to recent empirical research of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.


Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830–1910

Secularism, Islam and Education in India, 1830–1910

Author: Robert Ivermee

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 131731705X

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During the nineteenth century British officials in India decided that the education system should be exclusively secular. Drawing on sources from public and private archives, Ivermee presents a study of British/Muslim negotiations over the secularization of colonial Indian education and on the changing nature of secularism across space and time.


The Anarchy

The Anarchy

Author: William Dalrymple

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 577

ISBN-13: 1526634015

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THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019 A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' – Gerard DeGroot, The Times In August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces. Run by English merchants who collected taxes using a ruthless private army, this new regime saw the East India Company transform itself from an international trading corporation into something much more unusual: an aggressive colonial power in the guise of a multinational business. William Dalrymple tells the remarkable story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfolding a timely cautionary tale of the first global corporate power.