Author : Sharma
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198068297
Covering a long span, from the Vedic period to twelfth century AD, this volume explores key aspects of early Indian history political ideas and institutions; economic patterns and developments; social orders and ractices; and the transition from ancient to medieval.
Author : Kaustubh Mani Sengupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1000425525
This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or intellectual rhythms—simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region. It examines the processes through which the idea of the ‘local’ gets constituted in different spatial entities such as the frontier province of the Jangal Mahal, the Sundarbans, the dry terrain of Birbhum-Bankura-Purulia and the urban spaces of Calcutta and other small towns. The volume further discusses the various administrative as well as amateur representations of these settings to chart out the ways through which certain spaces get associated with a particular image or history. The chapters in the volume explore a variety of themes—textual representations of the region, epistemic practices and educational policies, as well as administrative manoeuvres and governmental practices which helped the state in mapping its people. An important contribution in the study of Indian history, this interdisciplinary work will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of science and technology studies, history, sociology and social anthropology and South Asian studies.
Author : Ajay Gandhi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 34,25 MB
Release : 2020-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108486789
Using historical and ethnographic analyses, this book shows how Indian markets are embedded in society and politically contested.
Author : Rajiv Sikri
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,54 MB
Release : 2009-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788132100805
Challenge and Strategy: Rethinking India's Foreign Policy examines India's foreign policy options in order to ensure that the country retains its space for manoeuvre, to follow an independent foreign policy in the 21st century global scenario.
Author : Alf Hiltebeitel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 575 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0226340554
Throughout India and Southeast Asia, ancient classical epics—the Mahabharata and the Ramayana—continue to exert considerable cultural influence. Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics offers an unprecedented exploration into South Asia's regional epic traditions. Using his own fieldwork as a starting point, Alf Hiltebeitel analyzes how the oral tradition of the south Indian cult of the goddess Draupadi and five regional martial oral epics compare with one another and tie in with the Sanskrit epics. Drawing on literary theory and cultural studies, he reveals the shared subtexts of the Draupadi cult Mahabharata and the five oral epics, and shows how the traditional plots are twisted and classical characters reshaped to reflect local history and religion. In doing so, Hiltebeitel sheds new light on the intertwining oral traditions of medieval Rajput military culture, Dalits ("former Untouchables"), and Muslims. Breathtaking in scope, this work is indispensable for those seeking a deeper understanding of South Asia's Hindu and Muslim traditions. This work is the third volume in Hiltebeitel's study of the Draupadi cult. Other volumes include Mythologies: From Gingee to Kuruksetra (Volume One), On Hindu Ritual and the Goddess (Volume Two), and Rethinking the Mahabharata (Volume Four).
Author : Esther Bloch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1135182795
Critically assesses recent debates about the colonial construction of Hinduism. Written by experts in their field, the chapters present historical and empirical arguments as well as theoretical reflections on the topic, offering new insights into the nature of the construction of religion in India.
Author : Devesh Kapur
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 2018-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199091285
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically assess a diverse array of India’s core federal institutions, from the Supreme Court and Parliament to the Election Commission and the civil services. Relying on interdisciplinary approaches and decades of practitioner experience, this volume interrogates the capacity of India’s public sector to navigate the far-reaching transformations the country is experiencing. An insightful introduction to the functioning of Indian democracy, it offers a roadmap for carrying out fundamental reforms that will be necessary for India to build a reinvigorated state for the twenty-first century.
Author : Anita Ghai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317559843
Moving away from clinical, medical or therapeutic perspectives on disability, this book explores disability in India as a social, cultural and political phenomenon, arguing that this `difference' should be accepted as a part of social diversity. It further interrogates the multiple issues of identification of the disabled and the forms of oppressio
Author : Crispin Bates
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,50 MB
Release : 2005-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1843317524
This book explores various aspects and processes of the twentieth-century Indian state, from the central, Union government down to grassroot-level in the provinces and villages.
Author : L.H.M. Ling
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472902520
Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local communities, nation-states, and entire regions. By emphasizing local agency and regional interdependencies, this metaphor reconfigures current narratives about the China India border and opens a new perspective on the long history of the Silk Roads, the modern BCIM Initiative, and dam construction along the Nu River in China and the Teesta River in India. Together, the authors show that positive interaction among people on both sides of a border generates larger, cross-border communities, which can pressure for cooperation and development. India China offers the hope that people divided by arbitrary geo-political boundaries can circumvent race, gender, class, religion, and other social barriers, to form more inclusive institutions and forms of governance.
