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India's Environmental History—A Reader
Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Environmental history in India has generated a rich literature on forests, wildlife, humananimal conflict, tribal rights and commercial degradation, displacement and development, pastoralism and desertification, famine and disease, sedentarism and mobility, wildness and civility, and the ecology versus...
The Discovery of Ancient India
Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is written as much for the general reader interested in India's antiquity and its pioneering archaeologists, as for students of the history of archaeology, colonialism, and constructions of the past. It breaks colonial archaeology down into its specific constituents and examines the ideas,...
Gandhi
In His Time and Ours
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book examines Gandhi as the creator of a radical style of politics. It argues that whereas politicians garner support by demonising those they oppose, Gandhi resisted such a politics. He asserted that there are always grounds for a fruitful dialogue between opponents. How did Gandhi create this...
Caste in Modern India
A Reader (Two Volume Set)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Caste is the key category in contemporary Indian social thinking. Discussed and analysed by historians, sociologists, and political scientists, it has produced scholarly explorations and polemical controversies in equal measure. The historical literature on caste from colonial times to the present is...
by Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Everyone has a past: the question is what one does with it. If earlier scholars are to be believed, South Indian society before colonial rule showed an indifference to its past - or approached the past through myth, legend and phantasmagoria. This book sets out not merely to disprove this idea, but...
The Call of The Motherland
: Writings and Speeches 19231929
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
“We have been born in this world to fulfill a purpose to preach a message”, reads the opening sentence of Subhas Chandra Bose’s 1923 essay The Dreams of Youth (Taruner Swapna). “One hundred and fifty years ago,” he wrote in The Call of the Motherland (Desher Dak) in December 1925, “it...
Renunciation and Realization
Correspondence 19261932
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Subhas Chandra Bose came to regard tyaga and amrita (renunciation and realization) as “two faces of the same medal” during his long stay in Mandalay Jail. “To attain hundred per cent and to sacrifice hundred per cent”, he proclaimed, had become a passion with him.This volume opens with Bose’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Historians of India have lately been looking at the place of history in the country, both as an academic discipline and as a mode of public representation of the past. This book explores the status of regional and vernacular histories in relation to academic histories by professional historians.Was there...
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays
The Dalit Movement in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Described by Ashis Nandy as the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from Indias vast non-English speaking world, D.R. Nagaraj (19541998) was a profound political commentator and cultural critic.Nagarajs importance lies in consolidating and advancing some of the ideas of Indias leading Dalit...
by Muzaffar Alam
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This book shows the ways in which political Islam, from its establishment in medieval north India, adapted itself to a variety of Indian contexts and became deeply Indianized. This process, by which pre-existent Arabo-Persian traditions were moulded to new Indian contexts, involved changes in the...
A Bird's Eye View
The Collected Essays and Shorter Writings of Salim Ali
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sálim Ali, without question India’s greatest ornithologist, was a prolific writer. Apart from his many books (the best known being The Book of Indian Birds), he wrote a large number of scientific papers, essays, and popular articles for a variety of journals, and magazines. He also broadcast radio...
The Indispensable Vivekananda
An Anthology for Our Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
A hundred years after Swami Vivekanandas oratory, essays, and philosophical writings offered substantial modfications and refinements to modern Hinduism, he remains a key figure in any proper understanding of the religion of Indias largest majority. The present anthology, which showcases those aspects...
The Trajectories of the Indian State
Politics and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among Indias most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Ironically, this has remained something of a state secret because Kavirajs writings are scattered and not easy to...
The Enchantment of Democracy and India
Politics and Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Sudipta Kaviraj has long been recognized as among India’s most thoughtful and wide-ranging political thinkers and analysts, one of the subtlest and most learned writers on Indian politics. Paradoxically, this has remained something of a state secret, because Kaviraj’s writings have remained scattered...