British Power in the Punjab, 1839-1858
Author: N. M. Khilnani
Publisher: Bombay : Asia Publishing House
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: N. M. Khilnani
Publisher: Bombay : Asia Publishing House
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 320
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: N. M. Khilnani
Publisher: Bombay : Asia Publishing House
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: J. S. Grewal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-02-21
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1316025330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In a revised edition of his original book, J. S. Grewal brings the history of the Sikhs from its beginnings in the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism, right up to the present day. Against the background of the history of the Punjab, the volume surveys the changing pattern of human settlements in the region until the fifteenth century and the emergence of the Punjabi language as the basis of regional articulation. Subsequent chapters explore the life and beliefs of Guru Nanak, the development of his ideas by his successors and the growth of his following. The book offers a comprehensive statement on one of the largest and most important communities in India today.
Author: Yin Cao
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-10-10
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9004344071
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In From Policemen to Revolutionaries, Yin Cao elaborates the rise and fall of the Sikh community in Shanghai by the turn of the twentieth century.
Author: Gianeshwar Khurana
Publisher: New Delhi : Allied Publishers
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 180
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Mark Condos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-03
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1108418317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.
Author: N. Arielli
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2012-11-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1137296631
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Warfare in the modern era has often been described in terms of national armies fighting national wars. This volume challenges the view by examining transnational aspects of military mobilization from the eighteenth century to the present. Truly global in scope, it offers an alternative way of reading the military history of the last 250 years.
Author: Harjot Oberoi
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1994-12-15
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 9780226615929
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this major reinterpretation of religion and society in India, Oberoi challenges earlier accounts of Sikhism, Hinduism, and Islam as historically given categories encompassing well-demarcated units of religious identity. Through an examination of Sikh historical materials, he shows that early Sikhism recognized multiple identities based in local, regional, religious, and secular loyalties. As a result, religious identities were highly blurred and competing definitions of Sikhism were possible. In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, however, the Singh Sabha, a powerful new Sikh movement, began to view the multiplicity in Sikh identity with suspicion and hostility. Aided by cultural forces unleashed by the British Raj, the Singh Sabha sought to recast Sikh tradition and purge it of diversity, bringing about the highly codified culture of modern Sikhism. A study of the process by which a pluralistic religious world view is replaced by a monolithic one, this book questions basic assumptions about the efficacy of fundamentalist claims and the construction of all social and religious identities.
Author: Linda Walbridge
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-10-12
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1136131868
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In May 1998, John Joseph, the first native Pakistani Catholic bishop, shot himself in front of the courthouse where a Christian had been sentenced to death for blasphemy. This book tells the story of the Christians in Pakistan, with Bishop Joseph as its centrepiece. It is an account of outcastes who sought hope through Christianity, but who now find themselves victims of a struggle to define Islam in Pakistan. The majority of Pakistani Christians are descendants of untouchables converted to Christianity in the late 19th century. In Pakistan a minority religion is linked with low status, perpetuating the Indian Hindu caste system even though the Muslim majority has disassociated itself from all things Hindu and Indian. The book also deals with enculturation in the Pakistani church, the rise of native clergy, conflicts between the local church and Rome, the rise of 'fundamentalist' Islam and the position of women in society and church.