Download or read book The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India pt I Introductory essay on caste Articles on the religions and sects of the people of the Central Provinces Glossary of minor castes and other articles synonyms subcastes titles and names of exogamous septs or clans Subject index written by Robert Vane Russell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book pt I Introductory essay on caste Articles on the religions and sects of the people of the Central Provinces Glossary of minor castes and other articles synonyms subcastes titles and names of exogamous septs or clans Subject index written by Robert Vane Russell and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Escaping the World written by Manisha Sethi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive fieldwork among the sadhvis in Delhi and Jaipur. The volume foregrounds the primacy of ‘choice’ and ‘agency’— upheld by the nuns themselves, who associate asceticism with autonomy, freedom, joy, spiritual well-being, self-worth and peace, and grihastha (household) with loss of independence, fettered existence, degradation, burdensome familial obligations and social responsibilities. It also examines whether it may be apt to term Jain nuns as practitioners of an ‘indigenous mode of feminism’. The book challenges the existing sociological theories of renunciation and tests the feminist concepts of agency and autonomy by investigating the culturally coded roles ascribed to women in Jainism, which are variegated, and examines how a fractured discourse and reality is resolved in the subjectivities and identities of female ascetics. The very legitimacy of the institution of female asceticism, and the way in which the society (samaj) upholds and sustains it, renders female asceticism into a socially approved alternative institution — albeit one that allows Jain nuns to create spaces of relative and autonomy and even prestige for themselves.
Download or read book The Politics of the Poor in Contemporary India written by Indrajit Roy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on diverse sorts of data and fieldwork in India, this book analyses how the poor participate in a democracy.
Download or read book Kabir and His Followers written by Frank Ernest Keay and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Essays and Lectures on the Industrial Development of India and Other Indian Subjects 1880 1906 written by Pramatha Nath Bose and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kabir and the Kabir Panth written by G. H. Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Lord as Guru written by Daniel Gold and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worship of a living person as a manifestation of the divine is here examined as it is practiced among the sants of North India. This well-researched book provides the first coherent understanding of the movement as a whole, tracing its sources in both Indic and Islamic milieus and contrasting its perceptions of guru and lineage with those found in orthodox versions of Hindu and Buddhist tantra and Indian Sufism. At the same time, Gold examines the dynamic between holy man and tradition, and guru and disciple, to provide a vivid portrayal of devotees' attitudes toward the independent, and at times highly idiosyncratic, holy men.
Download or read book The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Complete written by Robert Vane Russell and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 2219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Up to a few centuries ago the Central Provinces remained outside the sphere of Hindu and Muhammadan conquest. To the people of northern India it was known as Gondwāna, an unexplored country of inaccessible mountains and impenetrable forests, inhabited by the savage tribes of Gonds from whom it took its name. Hindu kingdoms were, it is true, established over a large part of its territory in the first centuries of our era, but these were not accompanied by the settlement and opening out of the country, and were subsequently subverted by the Dravidian Gonds, who perhaps invaded the country in large numbers from the south between the ninth and twelfth centuries. Hindu immigration and colonisation from the surrounding provinces occurred at a later period, largely under the encouragement and auspices of Gond kings. The consequence is that the existing population is very diverse, and is made up of elements belonging to many parts of India. The people of the northern Districts came from Bundelkhand and the Gangetic plain, and here are found the principal castes of the United Provinces and the Punjab. The western end of the Nerbudda valley and Betūl were colonised from Mālwa and Central India. Berār and the Nāgpur plain fell to the Marāthas, and one of the most important Marātha States, the Bhonsla kingdom, had its capital at Nāgpur. Cultivators from western India came and settled on the land, and the existing population are of the same castes as the Marātha country or Bombay. But prior to the Marātha conquest Berār and the Nimar District of the Central Provinces had been included in the Mughal empire, and traces of Mughal rule remain in a substantial Muhammadan element in the population. To the south the Chānda District runs down to the Godāvari river, and the southern tracts of Chānda and Bastar State are largely occupied by Telugu immigrants from Madras. To the east of the Nāgpur plain the large landlocked area of Chhattīsgarh in the upper basin of the Mahānadi was colonised at an early period by Hindus from the east of the United Provinces and Oudh, probably coming through Jubbulpore. A dynasty of the Haihaivansi Rājpūt clan established itself at Ratanpur, and owing to the inaccessible nature of the country, protected as it is on all sides by a natural rampart of hill and forest, was able to pursue a tranquil existence untroubled by the wars and political vicissitudes of northern India. The population of Chhattīsgarh thus constitutes to some extent a distinct social organism, which retained until quite recently many remnants of primitive custom. The middle basin of the Mahānadi to the east of Chhattīsgarh, comprising the Sambalpur District and adjoining States, was peopled by Uriyas from Orissa, and though this area has now been restored to its parent province, notices of its principal castes have been included in these volumes. Finally, the population contains a large element of the primitive or non-Aryan tribes, rich in variety, who have retired before the pressure of Hindu cultivators to its extensive hills and forests. The people of the Central Provinces may therefore not unjustly be considered as a microcosm of a great part of India, and conclusions drawn from a consideration of their caste rules and status may claim with considerable probability of success to be applicable to those of the Hindus generally. For the same reason the standard ethnological works of other Provinces necessarily rank as the best authorities on the castes of the Central Provinces, and this fact may explain and excuse the copious resort which has been made to them in these volumes.
Download or read book S Chand S Elemetary History For Class 4 written by Dr. M.P. Rozario and published by S. Chand Publishing. This book was released on with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: S. Chand's Elementary History is a series of three books for classes 3 to 5. The books are completely based on the latest syllabus prescribed by the Inter-State Board for Anglo-Indian Education, New Delhi for ICSE Schools.
Download or read book Dalits and Peasants written by Ashish Ghosh and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed papers presented at 6th and 7th annual colloguia with special reference to India.
