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Ideas and Society in India from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 240
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ideas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like the Bhakti and Sufi saints, and the Sikhs, to the Eighteenth Century crisis of the Mughal Empire, the formulations presented by Sufi saints to improve the conditions, and the advent of the 'firangis'. More specifically the book deals with the reaction of Indian thought to the culture and presence of the West. This book will be of interest to medievalists and those interested in studying Indian history in relation to European history.
Ideas and Society
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highlights The Nature Of Cultural And Religious Practices In Medieval India, The Development Of The State, Beginings Of Colonial Rule And The Indiginous Response To It. Also Looks At Patterns In Communal Relations And Sufi And Bhakti Traditions.
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
Author: Robert Travers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-04-19
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 1139464167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Caste, Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age
Author: Susan Bayly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001-02-22
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780521798426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India
Author: Vijaya Ramaswamy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1351558250
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations.A fascinating history of migrations of people from below, the volume adopts a trans-disciplinary approach and uses inscriptions, official records, and literary texts along with community narratives and folk tradition. This will be of great interest to scholars and students of migration and diaspora studies, medieval and modern South Asian history, social anthropology and subaltern studies.
Religion and World Civilizations [3 volumes]
Author: Andrew Holt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2023-06-30
Total Pages: 1069
ISBN-13: 1440874247
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An indispensable resource for readers investigating how religion has influenced societies and cultures, this three-volume encyclopedia assesses and synthesizes the many ways in which religious faith has shaped societies from the ancient world to today. Each volume of the set focuses on a different era of world history, ranging through the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds. Every volume is filled with essays that focus on religious themes from different geographical regions. For example, volume one includes essays considering religion in ancient Rome, while volume three features essays focused on religion in modern Africa. This accessible layout makes it easy for readers to learn more about the ways that religion and society have intersected over the centuries, as well as specific religious trends, events, and milestones in a particular era and place in world history. Taken as a a whole, this ambitious and wide-ranging work gathers more than 500 essays from more than 150 scholars who share their expertise and knowledge about religious faiths, tenets, people, places, and events that have influenced the development of civilization over the course of recorded human history.
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence
Author: Kaveh Yazdani
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2017-01-05
Total Pages: 701
ISBN-13: 9004330798
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India’s socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and early 19th centuries and Mysore during the second half of the 18th century.
Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values
Author: Kadira Pethiyagoda
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2020-10-05
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 3030546969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As India rises to great power status in the emerging multipolar world order, what influence will its rich and ancient culture have on the country’s foreign policy? This book reveals that cultural values have greater explanatory power than previously thought and describes the nature of their influence. Excavating thousands of years of history, the monograph identifies enduring values that are relevant to contemporary foreign policy. It examines three critical areas of Indian foreign policy – nuclear policy, humanitarian intervention and relations with the Middle East. Major decisions were shaped by cultural values – sometimes at the expense of strategic interests. India’s choice to test nuclear weapons was not purely because of China or Pakistan: hierarchy also played a role. From a hierarchical worldview shaping Delhi’s approach to international law on arms control to pluralism facilitating simultaneous friendships with America and Iran, values thread their way throughout India’s foreign relations. Non-violence underpins Delhi’s soft power in both the West and the Middle East, while having spurred India’s opposition to Western intervention in Iraq. Analyzing state behavior and interviewing diplomats, the book charts culture’s evolving influence from Rajiv Gandhi to Narendra Modi.
Social Science at the Crossroads
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-05-20
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9004385126
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Social Science at the Crossroads brings questions of the future of the university, of democracy, of social science and religion to the front and offers analyses that point toward an overview of urgent problems in the current debate in social science.
