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  • Castes of Mind

    Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Autobiography of an Archive

    A Scholar's Passage to India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    Series series Cultures of History
    The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Small Voice of History

    Collected Essays

    by Ranajit Guha ...
    Ranajit Guha is arguably the Indian historian whose writings have had a massive and formative impact on contemporary scholarship in several disciplines throughout the world: on postcolonial studies in literature, in anthropology, in history, in cultural studies, in art history.Guha first became known as the practitioner of a critical Marxism that ran parallel to the work of British and French ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation

    Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism

    by Tanika Sarkar ...
    This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Brahmin and Non-Brahmin

    Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present

    by M.S.S.Pandian ...
    In South India, the categories ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’ are frequently treated as self-evident, both within contemporary Tamil politics and in mainstream academic discourses. Departing from this political and academic ‘common sense’, the present book historicizes the complex processes by which these categories came into being and acquired political power over the past century. Using archival, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Sri Aurobindo

    A Contemporary Reader

    Edited by Sachidananda Mohanty ...
    This book compiles some of the finest writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) — the nationalist, visionary, poet-philosopher. It reflects the range, depth and outreach of the moral, intellectual and spiritual vision of this versatile and multifaceted genius. It aims at providing, at one place, access to the key concepts, tenets, and the spirit of the extraordinary range of texts authored by him ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • India and the British Empire

    Edited by Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Origin of Caste in India

    by JT ...
    This is a unique approach to one of the most vexed and multifaceted problems facing India, describing in a no-nonsense language and exhorting all the need to take urgent steps before it is too late. Unlike others, an attempt is being made to identify the reasons why caste has been readily accepted in Indian culture and continue to be so, regardless of the multitude of changes in the society over ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Gendered Citizenship

    Historical and Conceptual Explorations

    by Anupama Roy ...
    Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive and egalitarian structure. But, the promise of equal membership in the politcal community ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History

    by SUMIT SARKAR ...
    The political context in which the Historian of India finds himself today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalised forms of capitalism. Simultaneously, the historians intellectual context is now dominated by the marginalisation of Marxism and a shift to cultural studies and postmodern critiques. In this scenario, how may a thinking historian practice the ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Rebels, Wives, Saints

    Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times

    by Tanika Sarkar ...
    Tanika Sarkars writings on women, religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking. In this new book of connected essays, she gives a new direction to the same themes, this time by focusing on some of the key historical texts within which these identities were given shape. The colonial universe outlined in this book centres around woman as both defiled and deified ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Gandhi's Experiments with Truth

    Essential Writings by and about Mahatma Gandhi

    by Douglas Allen, Judith M. Brown, Richard A. Falk, Michael Nagler, Makarand Paranjape, Glenn Paige, Bhikhu Parekh, Anthony J. Parel, Lloyd I. Rudolph, Michael Sonnleitner, Ronald J. Terchek ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Philosophy and Religion
    This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books-An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive Programme: Its Meaning ... Read more

    $46.99 USD