Studies in Indian History and Culture
Author: Arthur Llewellyn Basham
Publisher: Calcutta : Sambodhi Publications
Published: 1964
Total Pages: 274
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Cultural Studies in India
Author: Rana Nayar
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1351570366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory, subaltern studies, Marxism and post-Marxism, nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature, linguistics, history, political science, media and theatre studies, and cultural anthropology, it explores themes such as caste, indigenous peoples, vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area, this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory, literature, history, cultural anthropology, sociology, and media and mass communication, as well as the general reader.
Courtly Culture and Political Life in Early Medieval India
Author: Daud Ali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-06-24
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780521816274
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Essays in Indian History
Author: Irfan Habib
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 1843310252
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
A History of State and Religion in India
Author: Ian Copland
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-02
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 1136459502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposition that communalism in India is wholly a product of colonial policy and modernisation, questions whether the Indian state has generally been a benign, or disruptive, influence on public religious life, and evaluates the claim that the region has spawned a culture of practical toleration. The book is structured around six key arenas of interaction between state and religion: cow worship and sacrifice, control of temples and shrines, religious festivals and processions, proselytising and conversion, communal riots, and religious teaching/doctrine and family law. It offers a challenging argument about the role of the state in religious life in a historical continuum, and identifies points of similarity and contrast between periods and regimes. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on South Asian History and Religion.
The Indian History of an American Institution
Author: Colin G. Calloway
Publisher: Dartmouth College Press
Published: 2010-05-11
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1584658444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of the complex relationship between a school and a people
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History
Author: Frederick E. Hoxie
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 665
ISBN-13: 0199858896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change.
Indian Country
Author: Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0889209200
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSince first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and newcomers protest issues of traditionalism, sovereignty, and self-determination. In these struggles over domination and resistance, over different ideologies and Indian identities, neither Natives nor other North Americans recognize the significance of being rooted together in history and culture, or how representations of “Indianness” set them in opposition to each other. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis uses a cultural studies approach to offer a unique perspective on Native political struggle and cultural conflict in both Canada and the United States. She reflects on treaty rights and traditionalism, media warriors, Indian princesses, powwow, museums, art, and nationhood. According to Valaskakis, Native and non-Native people construct both who they are and their relations with each other in narratives that circulate through art, anthropological method, cultural appropriation, and Native reappropriation. For Native peoples and Others, untangling the past—personal, political, and cultural—can help to make sense of current struggles over power and identity that define the Native experience today. Grounded in theory and threaded with Native voices and evocative descriptions of “Indian” experience (including the author’s), the essays interweave historical and political process, personal narrative, and cultural critique. This book is an important contribution to Native studies that will appeal to anyone interested in First Nations’ experience and popular culture.
Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet
Author: Hans T. Bakker
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-12-16
Total Pages: 720
ISBN-13: 9004412077
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 31 selected and revised articles in the volume Holy Ground: Where Art and Text Meet, written by Hans Bakker between 1986 and 2016, vary from theoretical subjects to historical essays on the classical culture of India. They combine two mainstreams: the Sanskrit textual tradition, including epigraphy, and the material culture as expressed in works of religious art and iconography. The study of text and art in close combination in the actual field where they meet provides a great potential for understanding. The history of holy places is therefore one of the leitmotivs that binds these studies together. One article, "The Ramtek Inscriptions II", was co-authored by Harunaga Isaacson, two articles, on "Moksadharma 187 and 239–241" and "The Quest for the Pasupata Weapon," by Peter C. Bisschop.
Tribal Studies in India
Author: Maguni Charan Behera
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2019-11-09
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9813290269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are suggestive of grand theories of tribal interaction over time and space within a frame of composite understanding of human civilization. With distinct cross-disciplinary analytical frames, the chapters maximize reader insights into the emerging trend of perspective shifts in tribal studies, thus mapping multi-dimensional growth of knowledge in the field and providing a road-map of empirical and theoretical understanding of tribal issues in contemporary academics. This book will be useful for researchers and scholars of anthropology, ethnohistory ethnoarchaeology and of allied subjects like sociology, social work, geography who are interested in tribal studies. Finally, the book can also prove useful to policy makers to better understand the historical context of tribal societies for whom new policies are being created and implemented.
