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Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history,

Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history,


ISBN: 9789360807528, 9360807524

In this book, historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahimsa, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajneyas Hindi short stories.

Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science,

Aryan idols: Indo-European mythology as ideology and science,

Arvidsson, Stefan

ISBN: 9789368538592, 936853859X

This book critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two centuries and demonstrates how the concepts of Indo-European and Aryan have been shaped by and utilized for various ideological purposes.

Tayed back, stayed on: short stories by Bengali Muslim writers,

Tayed back, stayed on: short stories by Bengali Muslim writers,


ISBN: 9789354428708, 9354428703

This book is the first ever anthology of short fiction by Bengali Muslim writers in English translation. The nineteen stories in this collection explore the aspirations and anxieties of Muslim lives in rural and urban Bengal, enmeshed in religious sensibilities, class, sexuality, and the tussle between tradition and modernity. Through voices across generations, this book delves into the inner c...

Strange familiarities: tracing epistolary cultures in the subcontinent (1857-1915)

Strange familiarities: tracing epistolary cultures in the subcontinent (1857-1915)

Bhattacharya, Nandini

ISBN: 9789368834304, 936883430X

This book traces epistolary traditions produced within the ethno-linguistic cultures of nineteenth-century Bengal and the North-West Provinces in colonial India. The book provides a close reading of texts and English translations of epistolary literature, selected due to their novelty and radical responses to the postal revolution of the time.

Becoming Bangalore: stories that shaped a hometown

Becoming Bangalore: stories that shaped a hometown

Pai, Roopa

ISBN: 9789357316217, 9357316213

In this collection of evocative essays, she trawls the citys history to tease out bits of the Bangalore jigsaw--a scientists quest for excellence, a maharanis foresight, an entrepreneurs vision, a chief ministers ambition, a writers pride in his language, and more--in an effort to trace the genesis of the liberal soul of the metropolis and its ability to offer inclusive, creative, laid-back spa...

Exploring cultural landscape of India: text and context

Exploring cultural landscape of India: text and context

Kaur, Kamalpreet et al

ISBN: 9789368533634, 9368533636

M.G.S. Smruti: History, art, culture and people (commemoration volume to Prof. M.G.S. Narayanan),

M.G.S. Smruti: History, art, culture and people (commemoration volume to Prof. M.G.S. Narayanan),


ISBN: 9789348309334, 9348309331

This book is a commemorative volume dedicated to the memory of Prof. M. G.S. Narayanan, one of Indias most distinguished historians. The volume is published on the occasion of his first death anniversary on 26 April 2026, as a tribute to his remarkable, contributions to the study of Indian history, historiography, and culture. This volume will serve as a valuable source of information and an im...

Versailles meets the Taj Mahal: Francois Bernier, Marguerite de la Sabliere, and enlightening conservations in seventeenth-century France

Versailles meets the Taj Mahal: Francois Bernier, Marguerite de la Sabliere, and enlightening conservations in seventeenth-century France

Beasley, Faith E.

ISBN: 9789395474030, 9395474033

This book identifies and explores the traces that exposure to India left on the cultural artifacts and mindset of Frances Great Century and the early Enlightenment. Focusing on the salon of Marguerite de la Sabliere and its encounter with the traveler and philosopher Francois Bernier, this book resurrects the conversations about India inspired by Berniers travels and inscribed in his influentia...

The Indian University: a critical history

The Indian University: a critical history

Bhattacharya, Debaditya

ISBN: 9789354426360, 9354426360

This volume explores the historical makings of the Indian university as it stands today, by sifting through archives, colonial/postcolonial policies, textual-literary records and political-economic developments. What results is a critical history--navigating the force of myth and promise, revolutions and reforms, communities and markets. From the glorification of ancient greatness to the riskin...

Museums: a historical collection of different aspects of state, society and culture

Museums: a historical collection of different aspects of state, society and culture

Rawat, Ranjana

ISBN: 9789386081414, 9386081415

The present book is a collection of different articles. Through this book the author intend to give an appropriate coverage to the study of Museums and Musseology introduced in UG and PG level by UGC as compulsory course work...

Towards divided India: from Tilak to Mahatma Gandhi

Towards divided India: from Tilak to Mahatma Gandhi

More, J.B.P.

ISBN: 9788196682705, 8196682700

In this book, the author explores the role of the Congress leaders from Bal Gangadhar Tilak to Mahatma Gandhi in the struggle for freedom from British colonial rule. The author has established in this work the ways by which the Congress leaders the Muslims. It also explores how Jinnah had shot himself on his foot when it was least necessary by demanding Pakistan, so ill-suited to the interests ...

House, stage and temple: ritual spaces for Tevaram in Kerala

House, stage and temple: ritual spaces for Tevaram in Kerala

Mucciarelli, Elena

ISBN: 9789366279428, 9366279422

This book examines the social history of ritual and space in premodern Kerala. It engages with what Roland Barthes called the subtlety of life and focuses on a form of domestic ritual--tevaram--and its translation into the space of theatre. Tevaram is articulated through different types of places; the intimate space of the house, in dialectic tension with the space of the temple and the public ...

City of lyrics: ordinary poets and Islamicate popular culture in early modern Delhi

City of lyrics: ordinary poets and Islamicate popular culture in early modern Delhi

Tabor, Nathan L.M.

ISBN: 9789395474535, 939547453X

For centuries, Urdu-speaking poets and their audiences have gathered for mushairahs, literary competitions for spoken-word verse. Today the mushairah is a global phenomenon, as audiences in the millions convene in person and online for hours of poetic performance. Tracing these modern gatherings back to their origins, the author introduces readers to the popular emergence of the mushairah in ei...

Decolonial keywords: South Asian thoughts and attitudes,

Decolonial keywords: South Asian thoughts and attitudes,


ISBN: 9788197938306, 819793830X

This volume presents a set of keywords and concepts embedded in the languages of South Asia and its vast cultural landscape. It reiterates specific attitudes, ways of seeing and methods of doing, which are embedded in the historical and contemporary experiences in the region. The volume explore the contexts of their production and how their meanings might have changed in different historical mo...

Envisioning the Indian city: spaces of encounter in Goa, Calcutta, Pondicherry, and Chandigarh,

Envisioning the Indian city: spaces of encounter in Goa, Calcutta, Pondicherry, and Chandigarh,


ISBN: 9788196785260, 8196785267

This book offers a set of new, ground-breaking studies of Indian cities as sites of physical, cultural and historical encounter. It places three colonial cities--Goa, Calcutta/Kolkata and Pondicherry/Puducherry--side by side with the postcolonial city of Chandigarh, created by the independent Indian state, to examine the specificities of cross-cultural exchanges, physical settings, urban flows,...

Gurgaon: between memory and modernity: perspectives on change, remembrance, and meaning in modern India

Gurgaon: between memory and modernity: perspectives on change, remembrance, and meaning in modern India

Arya, Vikas

ISBN: 9788173057427, 8173057427

Every city has two stories, one that it tells the world, and another that it whispers to itself. The Gurgaon we read about in glossy brochures and real estate ads tells the story of progress: a skyline of glass, a grid of expressways and a catalogue of brands. But the Gurgaon that lives in these pages whispers another story--one of loss, memory, and belonging.

250 years of Jane Austen: Indian responses,

250 years of Jane Austen: Indian responses,


ISBN: 9789369730650, 9369730656

For over two and a half centuries, Jane Austens works have captivated readers and scholars alike. This volume commemorates Austens life and legacy through a thoughtfully curated set of essays exploring Indian responses to her works. Ranging from personal reflections on her lesser-known poetry to critical analyses of her craft and themes, the essays also trace her enduring relevance in cinema, e...

The Buddhist caves at Aurangabad: transformations in art and religion

The Buddhist caves at Aurangabad: transformations in art and religion

Brancaccio, Pia

ISBN: 9788169779869, 8169779863

This is a study that focuses on the art and architecture of a group of Buddhist rock-cut monuments excavated on the western edge of the Deccan Plateau in India. It analyses the various cultural, historical and religious phenomena that shaped the caves at Aurangabad through the first seven centuries of the Common Era and it comments on the Buddhist traditions of the western Deccan as a whole. Th...

A short history of Indian drama in English: from the colonial to the contemporary

A short history of Indian drama in English: from the colonial to the contemporary

Chaudhuri, Asha Kuthari

ISBN: 9789354428234, 9354428231

This book offers the first comprehensive historical account of how English-language theatre emerged, evolved, and thrives in contemporary India. From its origins in the colonial encounter to todays experimental and multilingual productions, the book captures two centuries of dramatic evolution.

Sacred steps: rituals and festivals binding India and Southeast Asia across time,

Sacred steps: rituals and festivals binding India and Southeast Asia across time,

Bose, Anita

ISBN: 9789374824245, 9374824248

Chief Editor: Sachchidanand Joshi. This book is a journey through centuries of spiritual tradition, tracing how rituals and festivals rooted in India have shaped and connected cultures across Southeast Asia--including Indonesia, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma. Through Hinduism, Buddhism, and other traditions, these vibrant celebrations echo ancient devotion and continue to foster community.

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