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Author: Sharma
Publisher: Oxford India Paperbacks
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780198068297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovering a long span, from the Vedic period to twelfth century AD, this volume explores key aspects of early Indian history political ideas and institutions; economic patterns and developments; social orders and ractices; and the transition from ancient to medieval.
Author: Donald Lee Fixico
Publisher: UNM Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9780826318190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing innovative methodologies and theories to rethink American Indian history, this book challenges previous scholarship about Native Americans and their communities.
Author: Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2021-08-12
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1000425525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or intellectual rhythms—simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the ‘local’ gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume explore a variety of themes—textual representations of the region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies.
Author: Radhika Seshan
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9789380607054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPapers presented at a meeting held at University of Pune.
Author: Alexandra Harmon
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0295800461
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTreaties with Native American groups in the Pacific Northwest have had profound and long-lasting implications for land ownership, resource access, and political rights in both the United States and Canada. In The Power of Promises, a distinguished group of scholars, representing many disciplines, discuss the treaties' legacies. In North America, where treaties have been employed hundreds of times to define relations between indigenous and colonial societies, many such pacts have continuing legal force, and many have been the focus of recent, high-stakes legal contests. The Power of Promises shows that Indian treaties have implications for important aspects of human history and contemporary existence, including struggles for political and cultural power, law's effect on people's self-conceptions, the functions of stories about the past, and the process of defining national and ethnic identities.
Author: Ajay Gandhi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1108486789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Author: Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-02-15
Total Pages: 575
ISBN-13: 0226340554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Draupadi cult Mahabharata and the five oral epics, and shows how the traditional plots are twisted and classical characters reshaped to reflect local history and religion. In doing so, Hiltebeitel sheds new light on the intertwining oral traditions of medieval Rajput military culture, Dalits ("former Untouchables"), and Muslims. Breathtaking in scope, this work is indispensable for those seeking a deeper understanding of South Asia's Hindu and Muslim traditions. This work is the third volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking the Mahabharata (Volume Four).
Author: Upinder Singh
Publisher: OUP India
Published: 2012-06-07
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0198086067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book changes the way we look at the history of early medieval India (c. 600-1300 CE). Deftly tackling issues of periodization and continuities, it highlights the complex and multilinear nature of historical processes. From feudalism and state formation and economic and social structures in villages and cities to explorations in religion, art, and intellectual history of the period, this book sheds light on the economic, political and cultural history of the pre-Sultanate and non-Sultanate early medieval India.
Author: Esther Bloch
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-12-24
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1135182795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCritically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.
Author: Crispin Bates
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1843310791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
