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Sovereignty and Social Reform in India
British Colonialism and the Campaign against Sati, 1830-1860
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2010
The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as between 1830 and 1860, British East India Company officials engaged in a debate with the Indian rulers...
Text to Tradition
The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Written in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita (The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This volume introduces readers to the poem's author, his reading communities, the modes through which the poem...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. East Asia has become a major hub for global trade. At the center of this East Asian factory are three nations-China, Japan, and South Korea-which have benefited the most economically. Yet,...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
This book, which includes an introduction and 12 presentations from a conference of the U.S. Army War College, the Triangle Institute for Security Studies, and Duke University's Program in Asian Security Studies, comprises some of the major findings of participants and attendees. Sections of the book...
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre
Thumri Lyrics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2007
Indian classical music has long been fascinating to Western audiences, most prominently since the Beatles' sessions with Ravi Shankar in the 1960s. This fascination with the musical genre still prevails in the twenty-first century.
Hindi Poetry in a Musical Genre examines Thumri Lyrics, a...
The Postsecular Imagination
Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate...
Regionalism in Southeast Asia
To foster the political will
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Regionalism in Southeast Asia provides the reader with an historical analysis of Southeast Asia from the distinct perspective of regionalism. Southeast Asian history is usually written from a national point of view, which underplays the links between neighbouring states and nations and the effects...
by Lok Raj Baral
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2000
This book is the collection of articles presented at various forums and published in journals. One article is included in an edited volume South Asia and Eastern Neighbours published from New Delhi. I must say that many of the articles included in the present book are unpublished and new. Many friends...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Environmental history has evolved into a well-established historical subfield which has broadened the horizons of historical research, beyond human affairs, to include the study of human interactions with natural and man-made environments. This broadened scope has attracted scholars from many different...
Contours of Relationship: India and the Middle East
India and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
India’s relationship with the Middle East is a very good example of ties between people that are genuinely of historical. The peoples of the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East have down the ages been interacting with each other – travelling to each other’s lands, engaging in trade and commerce,...
India in South Asia
Domestic Identity Politics and Foreign Policy from Nehru to the BJP
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
South Asia is one of the most volatile regions of the world, and India’s complex democratic political system impinges on its relations with its South Asian neighbours. Focusing on this relationship, this book explores the extent to which domestic politics affect a country’s foreign policy.
The...
Framing the Mahabharata
Against the Evolution of Early South Asian Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
It all probably was a tale.
However, serious research does identify some events, from about a thousand years before the Common Era, that qualify as the bases of the epic’s plot. Apparently, collective memory evolved significantly through the centuries before their stories, legends, and allegories...
Aftermath of War
Americans and the Remaking of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
With the fighting in World War II over in mid-August 1945, more than one-half million American troops moved to occupy Japan. Much of the country was ruined, buried under the rubble and debris of saturation bombing and the atomic blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s rulers were stunned by...