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Author by : Alan Gledhill
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2013
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ISBN : OCLC:1120811422

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Author by : Surjit Mansingh
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1996
Publisher by :

ISBN : UOM:49015002854827

A ready reference on the history and current events of India, including items on key persons, places and events in India's past and present, and philosophy, culture, religions and government....

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Author by : Grant Richard Parker
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2008
Publisher by : U of M Center for South Asian Studies

ISBN : UOM:39015064251351

Drawn from a variety of academic disciplines and perspectives, this volume approaches ancient India both historically and geographically. The primary temporal focus lies in India's "Early Historic" period, from the mid-first millennium BCE through the mid-first millennium CE. The geographic focus is shifted landward rather than seaward and is centered on South Asia rather than the Mediterranean. Contributors examine power and material culture; Mediterranean image making, which looks at Greek and Roman understandings of India; and language and otherness, which explores Indian knowledge and understandings of outsiders. The volume as a whole directs us to the complex webs and networks that throughout Indian history have linked South Asians to each other and to the world beyond the subcontinent. A very wide world indeed. Contributors are Shinu A. Abraham, Madhav Deshpande, Grant Parker, Alka Patel, Himanshu P. Ray, James Romm, Martha Ann Selby, and Thomas R. Trautmann. Grant Parker is Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University. Carla M. Sinopoli is Professor of Anthropology and Curator and Director, Museum of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan....

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Author by : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2010-04-09
Publisher by : Duke University Press

ISBN : 9780822391531

Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, “Mother India,” the Indian nation imagined as mother/goddess, embodiment of national territory, and unifying symbol for the country’s diverse communities. Soon after Mother India’s emergence in the late nineteenth century, artists, both famous and amateur, began to picture her in various media, incorporating the map of India into her visual persona. The images they produced enabled patriotic men and women in a heterogeneous population to collectively visualize India, affectively identify with it, and even become willing to surrender their lives for it. Filled with illustrations, including 100 in color, The Goddess and the Nation draws on visual studies, gender studies, and the history of cartography to offer a rigorous analysis of Mother India’s appearance in painting, print, poster art, and pictures from the late nineteenth century to the present. By exploring the mutual entanglement of the scientifically mapped image of India and a (Hindu) mother/goddess, Sumathi Ramaswamy reveals Mother India as a figure who relies on the British colonial mapped image of her dominion to distinguish her from the other goddesses of India, and to guarantee her novel status as embodiment, sign, and symbol of national territory. Providing an exemplary critique of ideologies of gender and the science of cartography, Ramaswamy demonstrates that images do not merely reflect history; they actively make it. In The Goddess and the Nation, she teaches us about pictorial ways of learning the form of the nation, of how to live with it—and ultimately to die for it....

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Author by : India. Home Dept
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1919
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ISBN : UCAL:B2990962

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Author by : Tirthankar Roy
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2012-06-18
Publisher by : Cambridge University Press

ISBN : 9781107009103

This enthralling book offers a new approach to Indian economic history, placing trade and mercantile activity in the region within a global framework....

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Author by : Edward Washburn Hopkins
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1895
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ISBN : NYPL:33433082117528

Series title in part also at head of t.-p. Bibliography: p. [573]-595....

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Author by : Sunil Khilnani
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1999-06-04
Publisher by : Macmillan

ISBN : 0374525919

"In his new introduction, Khilnani addresses these issues in the new perspectives afforded by events of the recent year in India and in the world."--BOOK JACKET....

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Author by : Abraham Valentine Williams Jackson
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 1907
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ISBN : NYPL:33433061827212

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Author by : Surinder S. Jodhka
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Publisher by : Oxford University Press

ISBN : 9780199098194

Post India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s, the village ceased to be central to ongoing sociological concerns. As a result, the period saw a marginalization of rural life and agrarian economy in the national imagination. However, in the 21st century as India transforms, so does its rural life. This book revisits the realities of contemporary rural India, exploring the trajectories of change across regions such as those in rural economies, the relationship of villages to the outside world, and the dynamics of caste inequalities. The volume puts together 14 papers based on empirical studies carried out by sociologists, social anthropologists, and economists over the past 15 years to begin a holistic conversation on contemporary rural India which continues to be an important site of social, political, and economic activities. India’s Villages in the 21st Century stresses diversity as a fundamental structure of Indian economy and society and illustrates the point by focusing on the economies, patterns of settlements, and organization of social and political life in India’s villages....