The Hindustan Review. [Monthly.] Ed. : Dr. Sachchidananda Sinha. Vol. LXXXII. N° 512, January 1948
Author : Sachchidananda Sinha
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Release : 1948
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Author : Sachchidananda Sinha
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Release : 1948
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Author : Milton B. Singer
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 13,52 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 9780202369334
Recent theoretical and methodological innovations in the anthropological analysis of South Asian societies have introduced distinctive modifications in the study of Indian social structure and social change. This book, reporting on twenty empirical studies of Indian society conducted by outstanding scholars, reflects these trends not only with reference to Indian society itself, but also in terms of the relevance of such trends to an understanding of social change more generally. The contributors demonstrate the adaptive changes experienced by the studied groups in particular villages, towns, cities, and regions. The authors view the basic social units of joint family, caste, and village not as structural isolates, but as intimately connected with one another and with other social units through social and cultural networks of various kinds that incorporate the social units into the complex structure of Indian civilization. Within this broadened conception of social structure, these studies trace the changing relations of politics, economics, law, and language to the caste system. Showing that the caste system is dynamic, with upward and downward mobility characterizing it from pre-British times to the present, the studies suggest that the modernizing forces which entered the system since independence--parliamentary democracy, universal suffrage, land reforms, modern education, urbanization, and industrial technology--provided new opportunities and paths to upward mobility, but did not radically alter the system. The chapters in this book show that the study of Indian society reveals novel forms of social structure change. They introduce methods and theories that may well encourage social scientists to extend the study of change in Indian society to the study of change in other areas. Milton Singer (1912-1994) was Paul Klapper Professor of Social Sciences and professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was a fellow of the Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was also chosen as a distinguished lecturer by the American Anthropological Association and was the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award of the Association for Asian Studies. Bernard S. Cohn (1918-2003) was Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He was widely known for his work on India during the British colonial period and wrote many books on the subject of India including India: The Social Anthropology of a Civilization (1971), An Anthropologist among the Historians and Other Essays (1987), and Colonialism and its Forms of Knowledge (1996).
Author : Makhan Lal Roy Choudhury
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Dīn-i Ilāhī
ISBN : 9788121507776
Description: Akbar was proclaimed emperor in February 1556. At that time the Mughal authority in India was in a state of tottering flux. At the time of his death in 1605, he had established a strong empire. This was due not only to his abilities as a military leader but also due to his enlightened religious policy. Born of a Shia mother and Sunni father under the roof of a Rajput ruler, he inherited a spirit of toleration and harmony. When he grew up to manhood, he learnt that the Sultans of Delhi had failed because they did not secure the devotion of their Hindu subjects. The fact that they even failed to win the loyalty of their Muslim subjects by persecuting the Hindus was an eye-opener. He felt it more prudent to conciliate his Hindu subjects and befriend them. To carry out this idea in practice, he was eager to have an authentic knowledge of all faiths. In 1575, he built the Ibadat Khana at Fatehpur Sikri. There on every Thursday evening an assembly was convened to discuss religious questions. The first result of these discussions was the Mahzar (1579), a declaration signed by the leading Muslim theologians in the form of a Batwa which empowered Akbar to issue edicts against the Quran in public interest. This was followed by the promulgation of Din-i-Illahi in 1581-82. Din-i-Illahi is not a religion. It can be termed as Sufi-system of Akbar. It advocated ten important virtues. Toleration was their basis. It was far ahead of its time. The value of this book lies in the way the author has gone fully into the background of Din-i-Illahi and described its impact on the course of Mughal history in most fascinating manner-so fascinating in fact that everyone from the casual reader to the erudite scholar will find it instructive.
Author : BAGISHWAR PRASAD SINHA
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 20,51 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
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ISBN : 8123025122
The book opens to the life and works of Sachchidananda Sinha one of the outstanding figures in the public life of India. A member of that noble band of Indians who, since the nineties of the last century, had been prominently associated with the public life of North India, and of Bihar in particular, Sinha was truly one of the architects of modern Bihar.
Author : Charles Herman Heimsath
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1400877792
Mr. Heimsath presents here an intellectual history of the social reform movement among Hindus in India in the century between Ram Mohun Roy and Gandhi. Treating separately each major province in which reform movements flourished, he shows the many ways in which social reform was effected. Originally published in 1964. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Pradip Narayan Ghosh
Publisher : Allied Publishers
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Atoms
ISBN : 9788177641578
Author : Virendra Prakash Singh
Publisher : Commonwealth
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
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Contributed articles, excerpts, etc., chiefly in the Indian context.
Author : Bihar Research Society
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Page : 672 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Folklore
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Author : Association of Urban Universities
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Page : 644 pages
File Size : 19,5 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Education
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 2014
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