Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 36,95 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231064149
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Author : Rachel Fell McDermott
Publisher :
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 30,89 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231138307
Contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today.
Author : George Dutton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 31,63 MB
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0231511108
Sources of Vietnamese Tradition provides an essential guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history and a comprehensive overview of the society and state of Vietnam. Strategic selections illuminate key figures, issues, and events while building a thematic portrait of the country's developing territory, politics, culture, and relations with neighbors. The volume showcases Vietnam's remarkable independence in the face of Chinese and other external pressures and respects the complexity of the Vietnamese experience both past and present. The anthology begins with selections that cover more than a millennium of Chinese dominance over Vietnam (111 B.C.E.–939 C.E.) and follows with texts that illuminate four centuries of independence ensured by the Ly, Tran, and Ho dynasties (1009–1407). The earlier cultivation of Buddhism and Southeast Asian political practices by the monarchy gave way to two centuries of Confucian influence and bureaucratic governance (1407–1600), based on Chinese models, and three centuries of political competition between the north and the south, resolving in the latter's favor (1600–1885). Concluding with the colonial era and the modern age, the volume recounts the ravages of war and the creation of a united, independent Vietnam in 1975. Each chapter features readings that reveal the views, customs, outside influences on, and religious and philosophical beliefs of a rapidly changing people and culture. Descriptions of land, society, economy, and governance underscore the role of the past in the formation of contemporary Vietnam and its relationships with neighboring countries and the West.
Author : Ananya Vajpeyi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674071832
What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.
Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674052463
Includes a short biographical introduction to each person, followed by excerpts from their writings.
Author : David L. Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 40,77 MB
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1134143338
This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. The beliefs of key Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy and S.N. Bose are explored and the book goes on to reflect upon how individual scientists could still accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. Science and the Indian Tradition gives an in-depth assessment of results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and those interested in the interaction between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.
Author : Peter H. Lee
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Korea
ISBN : 9780231105668
Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1000653471
First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.
Author : Stephen N. Hay
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 40,72 MB
Release : 1991
Category : India
ISBN : 9780140154627
Since 1958 Sources Of Indian Tradition Has Been One Of The Most Important And Widely Used Texts On Civilization In South Asia (Now The Nation-States Of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, And Nepal). It Has Helped Generations Of Students And Lay Readers Understand How Leading Thinkers There Have Looked At Life, The Traditions Of Their Ancestors, And The World They Lived In. This Second Edition Has Been Extensively Revised, With Much New Material Added. Introductory Essays Explain The Particular Setting In Which These Thinkers Have Expressed Their Ideas About Religious, Social, Political, And Economic Questions. Brief Summaries Precede Each Passage From Their Writings Or Sayings. Chapters Address Such Topics As The Opening Of India To The West; Hindu And Muslim Social And Religious Reform Movements; The Emergence Of Both Moderate And Extremist Nationalisms; The Thought Of Mahatma Gandhi; Public Policies For Independent India; And Pakistan S Formation As An Islamic State. The Book Includes A Chronology Of The Subcontinent S History From 1498 To 1984.
Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2006-09-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139458876
In a second edition of their successful Concise History of Modern India, Barbara Metcalf and Thomas Metcalf explore India's modern history afresh and update the events of the last decade. These include the takeover of Congress from the seemingly entrenched Hindu nationalist party in 2004, India's huge advances in technology and the country's new role as a major player in world affairs. From the days of the Mughals, through the British Empire, and into Independence, the country has been transformed by its institutional structures. It is these institutions which have helped bring about the social, cultural and economic changes that have taken place over the last half century and paved the way for the modern success story. Despite these advances, poverty, social inequality and religious division still fester. In response to these dilemmas, the book grapples with questions of caste and religious identity, and the nature of the Indian nation.
