Cultural Symbiosis in Kerala
Author : M. G. S. Narayanan
Publisher : Trivandrum : Kerala Historical Society
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Inscriptions
ISBN :
The Jews of China
Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1998-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780765636317
Book Description
An impressive interdisciplinary effort by Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, and Western Sinologists and Judaic Studies specialists, these books scrutinize patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation, and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately A.D.1100 to 1949. While Jewish individuals and communities in China have been described in microhistorical, antiquarian, or nostalgic fashion, they have never been contrasted as a whole and in a scholarly way with other Jewish Diaspora communities.
Maritime India
Author : Pius Malekandathil
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9380607016
Book Description
This volume discusses the various socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the vast coastal fringes of India and out of the circuits of the Indian Ocean, ultimately giving it the distinctive consciousness and identity of Maritime India. The book comments on a wide range of issues, including the nature of maritime trade of the Sassanids with India; the impact of maritime trade on the political processes of Goa; the impact of Portuguese commercial expansion on the traditional Muslim merchants of Kerala and the role of private traders in the structure and the functioning of Estado da India.
Rethinking Development
Author :
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 14,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Income distribution
ISBN : 9788170227649
Book Description
Papers presented at the International Conference on Kerala's Development Experience organized in New Delhi from 8 to 11 December 1996.
Hindu Nationalism in South India
Author : Nissim Mannathukkaren
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,14 MB
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040094570
Book Description
Hindu Nationalism in South India engages with a range of factors that shapes the trajectory of Hindu nationalism in Kerala, the southern state of India. Until recently, Kerala was considered a socio-political exception which had no room for Hindu nationalism. This book questions such Panglossian prognosis and shows the need to map the ideological and political growth of Hindu nationalism which has been downplayed in the academic discourse as temporary aberrations. The introduction to the book places Kerala in the context of South India. Arguing that Hindutva is a real force which needs to be contended within theoretical and empirical terms, the chapters in this book examine Hindu nationalism in Kerala in relation to themes such as history, caste, culture, post-truth, ideology, gender, politics, and the Indian national space. Considering the rise of Hindu nationalism in the recent years, this pioneering book will be of interest to a students and academics studying Politics, in particular Nationalism, Asian Politics and Religion and Politics and South Asian Studies.
Who Are the Jews of India?
Author : Nathan Katz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2000-11-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520920729
Book Description
Of all the Diaspora communities, the Jews of India are among the least known and most interesting. This readable study, full of vivid details of everyday life, looks in depth at the religious life of the Jewish community in Cochin, the Bene Israel from the remote Konkan coast near Bombay, and the Baghdadi Jews, who migrated to Indian port cities and flourished under the British Raj. Who Are the Jews of India? is the first integrated, comprehensive work available on all three of India's Jewish communities. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Nathan Katz brings together methods and insights from religious studies, ritual studies, anthropology, history, linguistics, and folklore, as he discusses the strategies each community developed to maintain its Jewish identity. Based on extensive fieldwork throughout India, as well as close reading of historical documents, this study provides a striking new understanding of the Jewish Diaspora and of Hindu civilization as a whole.
Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India
Author : Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351558250
Book Description
This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations.A fascinating history of migrations ofpeople from below the volume adopts a trans-disciplinary approach and uses inscriptions, official records, and literary texts along with community narratives and folk tradition. This will be of great interest to scholars and students of migration and diaspora studies, medieval and modern South Asian history, social anthropology and subaltern studies.
Social and Cultural History of Kerala
Author : A. Sreedhara Menon
Publisher : New Delhi : Sterling
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 35,27 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Kerala
ISBN :
Book Description
Mappila Muslim Culture
Author : Roland E. Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 2015-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1438456026
Book Description
This book provides a comprehensive account of the distinct culture of the Mappila Muslims, a large community from the southern Indian state of Kerala. Although they were the first Muslim community in South Asia, the Mappilas are little-known in the West. Roland E. Miller explores the Mappilas' fourteen-century-long history of social adaptation and their current status as a successful example of Muslim interaction with modernity. Once feared, now admired, Kerala's Mappilas have produced an intellectual renaissance and renewed their ancient status as a model of social harmony. Miller provides an account of Mappila history and looks at the formation of Mappila culture, which has developed through the interaction of Islamic and Malayali influences. Descriptions of current day life cycles, religion, ritual, work life, education, and leadership are included.
The Jews of China: v. 1: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Author : Jonathan Goldstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 38,14 MB
Release : 2015-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131745605X
Book Description
This interdisciplinary study examines patterns of migration, acculturation, assimilation and economic activity of successive waves of Jewish arrivals in China from approximately AD 1100 to 1949.
