Download or read book Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency Gujarat population Pt 1 Hindus Pt 2 Musalmans and Parsis written by Bombay (Presidency) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Census of India 1961 India written by India. Office of the Registrar and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency written by Bombay (Presidency). Gazetteers and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Socio Cultural Life of Merchants in Mughal Gujarat written by Monika Sharma and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socio - Cultural Life of Merchants in Mughal Gujarat by Monika Sharma focuses on the identification of the varied communities involved in commercial activities and maritime trade - Banias, Bohras. Parsis, Khojas, Memons, Ghanchis, Chalebis, Armenians and European during 16th-17th centuries. The project embraces life-style, traditions, festivals, institutions and the professional aspects of merchants life. The study explores the region of Gujarat its geographical layout, urban set-up, trade centres, cities, manufacturing centres, ports and trade routes. The living standards, viz. housing, system of education, entertainment, the status women, food habits, dresses, ornaments and other aspects of their daily life etc. are investigated in order to make a comparative study of the different cultures. The study intends to know about the religion, social activities, festivals, rituals, marriages, customs and mores followed. The present work entails the investigation of custom, rituals and mores related to society and religion of the various merchant communities. One can also discern the existing social evils like sati, polygamy and enforced widowhood. The focal point of the study is merchants-Mughal nexus too, which is vital to understand the benefits accrued by the merchant communities. In what manner the proximity with imperial court benefitted them and resulted in their social elevation. One of the objectives of this study would be contextualize the idea of money for different merchants, which is discussed in chapter six. How the various communities invested their money to acquire political and social advantages. The stable system of brokers, sarraf and sahukars, mahajan, and nagarsheth which sustained the community are also focussed.

Download or read book Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency written by Bombay (Presidency) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book General Catalogue of All Publications of the Government of India and Local Governments and Administrations written by India and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses written by Michael Slouber and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the divine as female is rare—even controversial—in most religions. Hinduism, by contrast, preserves a rich and continuous tradition of goddess worship. A Garland of Forgotten Goddesses conveys the diversity of this tradition by bringing together a fresh array of captivating and largely overlooked Hindu goddess tales from different regions. As the first such anthology of goddess narratives in translation, this collection highlights a range of sources from ancient myths to modern lore. The goddesses featured here battle demons, perform miracles, and grant rare Tantric visions to their devotees. Each translation is paired with a short essay that explains the goddess’s historical and social context, elucidating the ways religion adapts to changing times.

Download or read book Rise of Anthropology in India written by Lalita Prasad Vidyarthi and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1978 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue of the Books in the Library of the Indian Museum written by Indian Museum. Library and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forging a Region written by Samira Sheikh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gujarat lies at the confluence of communities, commerce, and cultures. As the modern Indian state of Gujarat marks its fiftieth year in 2010, this book charts its coalescence into a distinct political and linguistic unit roughly five hundred years ago. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, Gujarat's cosmopolitan coastline and productive hinterland were held together in a contested unity which nurtured the political integration of the region's pastoralists, peasants, soldiers and artisans, and the evolution of the Gujarati language. Forging a Region explores the creation of Gujarat's unified identity, culminating under a lineage of sultans who united eastern Gujarat and Saurashtra by military action and economic pragmatism in the fifteenth century. Delineating the evolution of the Gujarati political order alongside networks of trade and religion, Samira Sheikh examines how Gujarat's renowned entrepreneurial ethos and dominant discourses on pacifism, vegetarianism, and austerity coexisted, then as now, with a martial pastoralist order. She argues that the religious diversity of medieval Gujarat facilitated economic and political cooperation leading to its cosmopolitan ethos. Sifting through Persian, medieval Gujarati, and Sanskrit sources, Sheikh addresses the long-term history of communities and politics in Gujarat to provide an understanding of the past and present of the region.

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Download or read book Census of India 1961 written by India. Office of the Registrar General and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1024 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book India written by India Census Division and published by . This book was released on 1961* with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Maharashtra State Gazetteers Botany pt 1 Medicinal plans pt 2 Timbers pt 3 Miscellaneous plants pt 4 written by Maharashtra (India) and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Aga Khan Case written by Teena Purohit and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overwhelmingly Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam and leads to a view of this religion as exclusively Middle Eastern and monolithic. Teena Purohit presses for a reorientation that would conceptualize Islam instead as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts throughout history. The story she tells of an Ismaili community in colonial India illustrates how much more complex Muslim identity is, and always has been, than the media would have us believe. The Aga Khan Case focuses on a nineteenth-century court case in Bombay that influenced how religious identity was defined in India and subsequently the British Empire. The case arose when a group of Indians known as the Khojas refused to pay tithes to the Aga Khan, a Persian nobleman and hereditary spiritual leader of the Ismailis. The Khojas abided by both Hindu and Muslim customs and did not identify with a single religion prior to the court’s ruling in 1866, when the judge declared them to be converts to Ismaili Islam beholden to the Aga Khan. In her analysis of the ginans, the religious texts of the Khojas that formed the basis of the judge’s decision, Purohit reveals that the religious practices they describe are not derivations of a Middle Eastern Islam but manifestations of a local vernacular one. Purohit suggests that only when we understand Islam as inseparable from the specific cultural milieus in which it flourishes do we fully grasp the meaning of this global religion.