The cinematic imagination: Indian popular films as social history

Virdi, Jyotika

ISBN: 9788178241869, 8178241862

The author scrutinizes approximately thirty films since 1950 and demonastrates how concepts of the nation form the center of this cinema's moral universe.

City adrift: a short biography of Bombay

Fernandes, Naresh

ISBN: 9789382277200, 938227720X

In this arresting new biography, the author writes with a mixture of passion and great elegance about his beloved Bombay-giving us a very deep understanding and appreciation of one of the world's most iconic cities.

Vernacular medicine in colonial India: family, market and homeopathy

Das, Shinjini

ISBN: 9781108430692, 1108430694

Conceptualised in opposition to 'orthodox' medicine, homoeopathy, a western medical project originating in eighteenth-century Germany, was reconstituted as vernacular medicine in British Bengal.

Music in colonial Punjab: courtesans, bards, and connoisseurs 1800-1947

Kapuria, Radha

ISBN: 9780192867346, 0192867342

This book offers the first social history of music in undivided Punjab (1800-1947), beginning at the Lahore court of Maharaja Ranjit Singh and concluding at the Patiala royal darbar. It unearths new evidence for the centrality of female performers and classical music in a region primarily viewed as a folk music centre, featuring a range of musicians and dancers -from 'mirasis' (bards) and 'kala...

Colonial clerks: a social history of deprivation and domination

Chakrabarti, Dalia

ISBN: 9788170742876, 8170742870

This book reconstructs experience of deprivation and domination on the part of clerks in East-India Company employment and later in colonial civil service.

Coming out of partition: refugee women of Bengal, foreword by Tanika Sarkar

Chakravartty, Gargi

ISBN: 9788188575459, 8188575453

A comparative study of the Muslim women of the two Bengals in the post-partition period.

Community warriors: state, peasants and caste armies in Bihar

Kumar, Ashwani

ISBN: 9781843317098, 1843317095

Community Warriors features a lucid narrative style which facilitates a seamless passage through the sociocultural history of post-independence Bihar and unravles the disturbing aspects of the march of democracy in the enigmatic 'heart of India'.

Congress, Gandhi and Ambedkar: assessment and observations of untouchability

Chavan, Sheshrao

ISBN: 9788172735722, 8172735723

Cooking cultures: convergent histories of food and feeling

Banerjee-Dube, Ishita (ed.)

ISBN: 9781107140363, 1107140366

Narratives of the excluded: caste issues in colonial India

Basu, Raj Sekhar et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170743057, 8170743052

This book explores different aspects of the histories of the Dalit communities in colonial India. The essays bring together a variety of issues that have helped in framing Dalit identity and consciousness today, the roots of which go back to the colonial period.

Crossing thresholds: feminist essays in social history India

Kosambi, Meera

ISBN: 9788178241821, 817824182X

The notion of the threshold, indicating the restricted periphery of the `women's place' in family and society, was firmly embedded in the psyche of nineteenth-century women in Western India. Yet some remarkable and articulate women (who are the focus of this book) `transgressed' patriarchal boundaries-crossing thresholds, literally and metaphorically-to make their mark in the public sphere. The...

Cultural history of Maharashtra and Goa

Mahajan, Malati

ISBN: 9788185067230, 8185067236

Culture communities and change

Joshi, Varsha (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170337478, 817033747X

A collection of interdisciplinary papers dealing with the culture, history and traditions of Rajasthan.

Dalit studies

Rawat, Ramnarayan et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788178245119, 8178245116

In recovering the long history of Dalit struggles againt caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, this book outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions.

Dalit studies, ed. by Ramnarayan S. Rawat and K. Satyanarayana

ISBN: 9788178244860, 8178244861

In recovering the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination, this book outlines a new agenda for the study of India, enabling a significant reconsideration of many of the Indian academy's core assumptions.

Dalit's inheritance in Hindu religion

Singh, Mahendra

ISBN: 9788178355177, 8178355175

This book is about the great contribution made by the so-called low castes, presently called Dalits, to the Hindu religion in spiritual, social and political fields in all period of Indian history.

Dancing with the river: people and life on the Chars of South Asia

Dutt-Lahiri, Kuntala et al.

ISBN: 9780300188301, 0300188307

In this ground-breaking book, the authors explore the world of chars - the part land, part water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal. The result is a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water and a new way of thinking about land, people, and ways of life.

Dardistan in 1866, 1886 and 1893

Leitner, G W

ISBN: 9788183392167, 8183392164

The book provides an in-depth investigation in to the history, religions, customs, legends, fables and songs of Dardistan including Gilgit, Chilas, Gabrial, Yasin, Chitral, Hunza, Nagar and other parts of Hindu Kush. ;;

The days of beloved

Lynton, Harriet Ronken et al

ISBN: 9788125046578, 8125046577

Weaving together memories, stories and anecdotes, historical facts and archival source material, this book paints a loving picture of life at various levels in this Hyderabad city, and of Mahbub Ali Pasha himself, who like a fairy-tale prince, mixed with the common people, sharing their joys and sorrows.

Decolonisation, development and disease: a study of Mararia in Sri Lanka

Silva, Kalinga Tudor

ISBN: 9788125054290, 8125054294

This book looks at the relationship between Malaria and its social, political and environmental milieu in Sri Lanka over an 80-years period from 1930 to 2010.