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

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

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

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 ...

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