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Book Rajput Polity  Warriors  Peasants  and Merchants  1700 1800

Download or read book Rajput Polity Warriors Peasants and Merchants 1700 1800 written by Madhu Tandon Sethia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to KotĐa, Princely State in Rajasthan, India.

Book Merchants of Virtue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Divya Cherian
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2022-12-27
  • ISBN : 0520390059
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Merchants of Virtue written by Divya Cherian and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power -- Purity -- Hierarchy -- Discipline -- Non-harm -- Austerity -- Chastity.

Book Merchants  Traders  Entrepreneurs

Download or read book Merchants Traders Entrepreneurs written by C. Markovits and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-10-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with three main aspects of the history of Indian business: The relationship between business and politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular merchant networks extended the range of their operations to the entire subcontinent and the wider world.

Book Nomadic Narratives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tanuja Kothiyal
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-14
  • ISBN : 1316673898
  • Pages : 321 pages

Download or read book Nomadic Narratives written by Tanuja Kothiyal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of its inhabitants - warriors, pastoralists, traders, ascetics and bards, often in overlapping capacities. It challenges the frames of Mughal-Rajput relationships generally employed to explore the histories of the Thar, arguing that Rajputana remains an inadequate category to explore polities located in this frontier region, where along with Rajputs, a range of groups, such as Charans, Bhils, Meenas, Soomras and Pathans controlled circulation, and with whom the Rajput states had to constantly negotiate. Sifting through a wide range of Rajasthani written and oral narratives, travelogues of British administrators, and vernacular as well as English records, the book explores long-term relationships between mobility, martiality, memory and identity in the desert expanses of the Thar.

Book Grass in their Mouths  The Upper Doab of India under the Company s Magna Charta  1793 1830

Download or read book Grass in their Mouths The Upper Doab of India under the Company s Magna Charta 1793 1830 written by Dirk H.A. Kolff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of the book consists of superbly-detailed studies of how, on a frontier of colonial India, village leaders, Indian policemen and revenue officials, bankers and judges confronted, survived , or profited from the system imposed upon them in 1793.

Book Shiptown

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ann Grodzins Gold
  • Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
  • Release : 2017-06-27
  • ISBN : 0812249259
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book Shiptown written by Ann Grodzins Gold and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Grodzins Gold weaves together an integrated series of ethnographic sketches depicting the distinctive nature of non-urban, non-rural places; the impact locality has on belonging; the negotiations of difference required in a pluralistic society; and the ways a changing environment permeates experiences of self and place.

Book Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan  Eighteenth Nineteenth Centuries

Download or read book Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan Eighteenth Nineteenth Centuries written by Jibraeil and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume deals with the inter-relations between agricultural production, agrarian trade, markets, towns and population of urban Rajasthan in the eighteenth-nineteenth centuries. This study also displays that how the higher receipts from sair-jihat (non-agrarian taxes) in various areas of Rajasthan, worked in the evolution of agrarian markets into qasbas. On the same line the volume shows the fall in industrial activity in the nineteenth century which broadly corresponds with the theory of de-industrialization and de-urbanization. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Book Religious Pluralism  State and Society in Asia

Download or read book Religious Pluralism State and Society in Asia written by Chiara Formichi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a critical approach to the concept of ‘religious pluralism’, this book examines the dynamics of religious co-existence in Asia as they are directly addressed by governments, or indirectly managed by groups and individuals. It looks at the quality of relations that emerge in encounters among people of different religious traditions or among people who hold different visions within the same tradition. Chapters focus in particular on the places of everyday religious diversity in Asian societies in order to explore how religious groups have confronted new situations of religious diversity. The book goes on to explore the conditions under which active religious pluralism emerges (or not) from material contexts of diversity.

Book Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism

Download or read book Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism written by Anne Rademacher and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If twenty-first-century urbanization is understood as a problem, its regional epicenter is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope, and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place and context. The challenge, as this volume illustrates, can be met by the analytic of ecologies of urbanism. Eschewing a rigid, single ecology, the contributors identify multiple forms of nature—in biophysical, cultural, and political terms—that have discernable impact on power relations and human social action. The case studies in this book—including leopards in Mumbai, a network of tubewells in northern India, an island that grows through reclamation in Hong Kong, and a railway continuum linking Khon Kaen and Bangkok—all attest to the versatility of ecologies of urbanism. Guided by urban processes rather than geopolitical boundaries, Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism offers a picture of urban Asia that is composed of varied ecologies of urbanism. “This intellectually adventurous work displays a deep cultural-ethical sensibility in its close attention to geographically variegated forms of place making. A first-rate contribution to urban scholarship on Asia and beyond.” —Vinay K. Gidwani, Department of Geography, Environment and Society and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota “This volume derives from a several-year collaborative effort to bring scholars from different disciplines together to reflect on the constructed, shifting, and contested meanings of the forward-slash separating Urban/Natures. The essays in this volume are bold, rigorous, original, and sometimes even witty. Without losing track of the intellectual genealogies that enable their collective effort, the authors in Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism give us new tools for imagining urban Asia’s possible futures.” —William Glover, Department of History, University of Michigan

Book The Eighteenth Century

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin L. Cope
  • Publisher : AMS Press
  • Release : 2007-09
  • ISBN : 9780404622312
  • Pages : 712 pages

Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by Kevin L. Cope and published by AMS Press. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Indian Periodical Literature

Download or read book Guide to Indian Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Assertive Religious Identities

Download or read book Assertive Religious Identities written by Satish Saberwal and published by Manohar Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rising Tide Of Chauvinism In South Asia, Especially Of The Religious Nationalist Sort, Presents The Social Sciences With An Exceptionally Acute Challenge. The Concern Is Over Processes By Major Institution-Some Hindu, Some Muslim--Whose Consequences Have Been Socially Separative. The Volume Intends To Provoke Ideas, And Stimulate Initiatives That Would Help For Making Responsible Choices For The Future. The Contributors Include Satish Saberwal, G. Arunima, Raziuddin Aquil, Michael Brenner, Mushirul Hasan, Jan-Peter Hartung, Syed Zainuddin, Anindita Chakrabarti, Pradip Kumar Datta And Praly Kanungo.

Book Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland

Download or read book Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland written by Arik Moran and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.

Book The Travels of Dean Mahomet

Download or read book The Travels of Dean Mahomet written by Dean Mahomet and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insider/outsider in India, Ireland, and England. Emigrating to Britain and living there for over half a century, Mahomet started what was probably the first Indian restaurant in England and then enjoyed a distinguished career as a practitioner of "oriental" medicine, i.e., therapeutic massage and herbal steam bath, in London and the seaside resort of Brighton. This is a fascinating account of life in late eighteenth-century India—the first book written in English by an Indian—framed by a mini-biography of a remarkably versatile entrepreneur. Travels presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Connoisseurs of unusual travel narratives, historians of England, Ireland, and British India, as well as literary scholars of autobiography and colonial discourse will find much in this book. But it also offers an engaging biography of a resourceful, multidimensional individual.

Book Islam  Authoritarianism  and Underdevelopment

Download or read book Islam Authoritarianism and Underdevelopment written by Ahmet T. Kuru and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Book The Rajputana Gazetteer

Download or read book The Rajputana Gazetteer written by Rajputana (Agency) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of India

    Book Details:
  • Author : Burton Stein
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2010-04-12
  • ISBN : 1405195096
  • Pages : 487 pages

Download or read book A History of India written by Burton Stein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present Expands coverage of India's internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role in the region Features a new introduction, updated glossary and further reading sections, and numerous figures, photographs and fully revised maps Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.