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  • Princely India Re-imagined

    A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present

    de Aya Ikegame ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel ... Leer más

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  • The Guru in South Asia

    New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edición de Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a ... Leer más

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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... Leer más

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  • CASTE is NOT HINDU

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    CASTE is NOT HINDU should have been written, published and included as a part of the history syllabus in schools, a hundred years ago or at least in the year 1947, when India gained independence.The caste narrative is a wound, that is not healing and kept this way by people and institutions that are mainly out of India. Their purpose is to divide India and destroy Sanatana Dharma once and for all ... Leer más

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  • Society and History of Gujarat since 1800

    A Select Bibliography of the English and European Language Sources

    This book consolidates scholarship on Gujarat in English and other European languages, notably, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. It draws together well-known sources, as well as rare and under-exploited research material. Detailed bibliographical references are provided for books, chapters, periodical literature, dissertations, project reports, other materials published since 1800; ... Leer más

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  • Empire's Garden

    Assam and the Making of India

    Series series Radical perspectives
    In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In ... Leer más

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  • Science and National Consciousness in Bengal 1870 1930

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    This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. ... Leer más

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  • The Frontier Complex

    Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962

    Kyle J. Gardner reveals the transformation of the historical Himalayan entrepôt of Ladakh into a modern, disputed borderland through an examination of rare British, Indian, Ladakhi, and Kashmiri archival sources. In so doing, he provides both a history of the rise of geopolitics and the first comprehensive history of Ladakh's encounter with the British Empire. He examines how colonial border ... Leer más

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  • Darjeeling

    In Search of People’s History of the Hills

    History has always dealt with people, yet often gazing at the people from the perspectives of the non-people – colonizers, intruders, outsiders and the privileged elite insiders – who seem to have internalized the ‘mainstream’ perspective framed by the outsiders. In this context a group of scholars working on Darjeeling felt that there was a need for an inclusive people’s history of the Darjeeling ... Leer más

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  • B. R. Ambedkar

    The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed

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    A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination.Ambedkar was born into a Dalit caste (the so-called ‘untouchables’), but his academic brilliance saw him study at Columbia University ... Leer más

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  • Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia

    Edición de Daniela Berti, Anthony Good ...
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    This book presents original research on the controversies surrounding animal sacrifice in South Asia through the lens of court cases. It focuses on the parties involved in these cases: on their discourses, motivations, and contrasting points of view. Through an examination of judicial files, court decisions and newspaper articles, and interviews with protagonists, the book explores how the ... Leer más

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