Urban Histories of Rajasthan

Urban Histories of Rajasthan

Author: Elizabeth M. Thelen

Publisher: Gingko Library

Published: 2022-06-20

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1909942677

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An exploration of religious conflicts in premodern urban India. Diverse peoples intermingled in the streets and markets of premodern Indian cities. This book considers how these diverse residents lived together and negotiated their differences. Which differences mattered, when and to whom? How did state actions and policies affect urban society and the lives of various communities? How and why did conflict occur in urban spaces? Through these questions, this book explores the histories of urban communities in the three cities of Ajmer, Nagaur, and Pushkar in Rajasthan, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus of this study is on everyday life, contextualizing religious practices and conflicts by considering patterns of patronage and broader conflict patterns within society. The book examines various archival documents, from family and institutional records to state registers, and uses these documents to demonstrate the complex and sometimes contradictory ways religion intersected with politics, economics, and society. The author shows how many patronage patterns and processes persisted in altered forms, and how the robustness of these structures contributed to the resilience of urban spaces and society in precolonial Rajasthan.


Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries)

Author: Jibraeil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-02-28

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 042994313X

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The volume deals with the inter-relations between agricultural production, agrarian trade, markets, towns and population of urban Rajasthan in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. This study also displays that how the higher receipts from sair-jihat (non-agrarian taxes) in various areas of Rajasthan, worked in the evolution of agrarian markets into qasbas. On the same line the volume shows the fall in industrial activity in the nineteenth century which broadly corresponds with the theory of de-industrialization and de-urbanization. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.


Urban History of India

Urban History of India

Author: Deepali Barua

Publisher: Mittal Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9788170995388

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Urbanization of Dibrugarh, a town in Assam.


Merchants of Virtue

Merchants of Virtue

Author: Divya Cherian

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2022-12-27

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0520390059

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Power -- Purity -- Hierarchy -- Discipline -- Non-harm -- Austerity -- Chastity.


History of Urban Form of India

History of Urban Form of India

Author: Pratyush Shankar

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9391050344

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India is undergoing massive urbanization. The future form of Indian cities in terms of urban planning and design is most urgent. A study of the key historical moments from the point of view of urban development is thus important. With case studies from the time cities originated in the Indian subcontinent and hand-drawn illustrations of these cities till the ones in recent times, the author discusses the last two hundred years of urban development in India with emphasis on the overall structure of the city, its nature of public places, institutions, and housing.


Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia

Religion, Landscape and Material Culture in Pre-modern South Asia

Author: Tilottama Mukherjee

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-02-10

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1000847292

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This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century. The essays in the volume focus on understanding questions of premodern religion, material culture processes and their spatial and environmental contexts through a study of networks of commodities and cultural and religious landscapes. From the early history of coastal regions such as Gujarat and Bengal to material networks of political culture, from temples and their connection with maritime trade to the importance of landscape in influencing temple-building, from regions considered peripheral to mainstream historiography to the development of religious sects, this collection of articles maps the diverse networks and connections across regions and time. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history, archaeology, museum and heritage studies, religion, especially Hinduism, Sufism and Buddhism, and South Asian studies.


Second International Handbook of Urban Education

Second International Handbook of Urban Education

Author: William T. Pink

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-01-06

Total Pages: 1363

ISBN-13: 3319403176

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This second handbook offers all new content in which readers will find a thoughtful and measured interrogation of significant contemporary thinking and practice in urban education. Each chapter reflects contemporary cutting-edge issues in urban education as defined by their local context. One important theme that runs throughout this handbook is how urban is defined, and under what conditions the marginalized are served by the schools they attend. Schooling continues to hold a special place both as a means to achieve social mobility and as a mechanism for supporting the economy of nations. This second handbook focuses on factors such as social stratification, segmentation, segregation, racialization, urbanization, class formation and maintenance, and patriarchy. The central concern is to explore how equity plays out for those traditionally marginalized in urban schools in different locations around the globe. Researchers will find an analysis framework that will make the current practice and outcomes of urban education, and their alternatives, more transparent, and in turn this will lead to solutions that can help improve the life-options for students historically underserved by urban schools.


Urban Utopias

Urban Utopias

Author: Tereza Kuldova

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-03-09

Total Pages: 293

ISBN-13: 3319476238

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This book brings anthropologists and critical theorists together in order to investigate utopian visions of the future in the neoliberal cities of India and Sri Lanka. Arguing for the priority of materiality in any analysis of contemporary ideology, the authors explore urban construction projects, special economic zones, fashion ramps, films, archaeological excavations, and various queer spaces. In the process, they reveal how diverse co-existing utopian visions are entangled with local politics and global capital, and show how these utopian visions are at once driven by visions of excess and by increasing expulsions. It’s a dystopia already in the making – one marred by land grabs and forced evictions, rising inequality, and the loss of urbanity and civility.