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  • National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia

    Edited by Javed Majeed, Sara Marzagora ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book compares how multilingualism is governed, managed, and imagined in nation-states in the Horn of Africa and South Asia. With state-of-the-art contributions by leading scholars, this is the first volume to bring together political, historical, and literary perspectives on national multilingualism in the two regions, documenting both the views of state actors and those of writers, ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

  • India and South Africa

    Edited by Javed Majeed, Isabel Hofmeyr ...
    South Africa and India constitute two key nodes in the global south and have inspired new modes of non-Western transnational history. Themes include anti-imperial movements; Gandhian ideas; comparisons of race and caste; Afro-Asian ideals; Indian Ocean public spheres.This volume extends these debates into the cultural and linguistic terrain. The book combines the methods of Indian Ocean studies ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Muhammad Iqbal

    Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism

    by Javed Majeed ...
    Series series Pathfinders
    Bringing together Islamic studies, a postcolonial literary perspective, and a focus on the interaction between aesthetics and politics, this book analyses Iqbal’s Islamism through his poetry. It argues that his notion of an Islamist selfhood was expressed in his verse through the interplay between poetic tradition and creative innovation. It also considers how Iqbal expressed an Islamist ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

    by Javed Majeed ...
    George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state’s conceptualisation of the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

    by Javed Majeed ...
    This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Utilitarianism and Empire

    by David Theo Goldberg, H S. Jones, Javed Majeed, J Joseph Miller, Martha C. Nussbaum, Jennifer Pitts, Frederick Rosen, David Weinstein ...
    The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

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    Indian and British Armies in World War II

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  • Gender and Violence in British India

    The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

    by R. McLain ...
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    The Western Education of Colonial India

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