The Anglo-Indians in Hyderabad: sociolinguistic, historical and anthropological perspectives

Joseph, Smita

ISBN: 9789390232574, 9390232570

This book provides new dimensions in the field of socio-onomastics. It gives a fascinating account of how the Anglo-Indians of Hyderabad mainting their ethnic identity through the use of proper names and slang.

The Chin-Lushai border: community, state, market (emerging perspectives)

Ray, Asok Kumar

ISBN: 9788194143772, 8194143772

Keeping the community, state and market at the centre of the larger space discourse on borderland, this book conceptualises different perspectives of space in the borderland in the colonial, post-colonial and the emerging market economy regimes that engaged the community, state, and the market in a triangular contest over space.

The eternal dastur craft: a history of mannerism, social groups and formation for Amber-Jaipur state, early eighteenth to late nineteenth century

Choudhary , Manisha

ISBN: 9789390022496, 9390022495

This book is a study of the Rajlok, Khojas of the state and the political and religious dignitaries and protocol applied to them in the court of the Jaipur State from early eighteenth to late nineteen century.

Health, medicine and migration: the formation of indentured labour, c.1834-1920

Madhwi

ISBN: 9789390232680, 9390232686

It examines the ways in which medical knowledge, practice, and policies circulated between colonial India, the source of indentured labourers, and the colonies to which they were transported as coolies.

The Portuguese and the socio-cultural changes in Kerala, 1498-1663

John, James

ISBN: 9789350980033, 9350980037

This book delves deep into the multifarious interaction between the two communities and the consequent socio-cultural changes that Kerala witnesses during 1498-1663, the period when Portuguese influence was at its acme.

Problems of refugee in South Asia: A study of Afghan and Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India

Shahzad, Mohd.

ISBN: 9789378313684, 937831368X

Religion in South Asia: religious conversion and revival movements in South Asia in medieval and modern times,

ISBN: 9780700701032, 0700701036

Social protest in India: British protestant missionaries and social reforms 1850-1900

G.A., Oddie

ISBN: 9789388540896, 9388540891

This study of British missionary activity in the later nineteenth century India focuses attention on the missionaries' concern with social issues and involvement in agitation for social reform.

Why should we be called `coolies'? The end of Indian indentured labour

Radica, Mahase

ISBN: 9789390035533, 9390035538

This book is a comparative study of the abolition of the Indian indentureship system which lasted from 1838 until 1920.

Facets of public health in early twentieth-century Bombay

Ramanna, Mridula

ISBN: 9789390232871, 9390232872

This book focuses on some aspects of public health in the first three decades of the twentieth-century in Bombay Presidency.

Land control and social structure in Indian history

The Calcutta kerani and the London clerk in the nineteenth century: life, labour, latitude

Chakrabarti, Sumit

ISBN: 9780367775728, 0367775727

This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk, or the kerani, in the cultural and social space of nineteenth-century colonial India.

Caste in Kerala,

ISBN: 9789390430024, 939043002X

The essays in this volume deal with caste reform movements in Kerala of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, which form the most significant development in the history of caste in modern times.

Idioms of improvement: Vidyasagar and cultural encounter in Bengal

Hatcher, Brian A.

ISBN: 9789390430062, 9390430062

Vidyasagar is renowned as both a Sanskrit Pandit and a modern thinker. The book focuses on the convergence of Sanskritic and European cultural norms within Vidyasagar's distinctive Bengali worldview.

Representing people's history: Adivasi uprisings in North Odisha (19th century)

Priyadarshi, Ashok

ISBN: 9789380758824, 9380758820

This monograph is a small research report containing nine chapters which attempt to study key issues of six important tribal resistance movements of northern Odisha, densely tribal concentrated region of India during the British rule specifically in the nineteenth century C.E.

Tasting difference: food, race, and cultural encounters in early modern literature

Shahani, Gitanjali G.

ISBN: 9788194783053, 8194783054

This book examines early modern discourses of racial, cultural, and religious difference that emerged in the wake of contact with foreign peoples and foreign foods from across the globe.

Wild races of South-Eastern India

Lewin, T.H.

ISBN: 9789390729203, 9390729203

Fleeting agencies: a social history of Indian coolie women in British Malaya

Datta, Arunima

ISBN: 9781108837385, 1108837387

Indian travel writing in the age of empire, 1830-1940

Nayar, Pramod K.

ISBN: 9789389000924, 9389000920

The book studies a variety of travel narratives by Indian kings, evangelists, statesmen, scholars, merchants, leisure travellers and reformers. The book demonstrates how the Indian traveller defied the prescriptive category of the 'imperial subject' and fashions himself through this multilayered engagement with England, Europe and the world in different identities.

The blended roots: story of Sindhis

Jethwani, Aruna

ISBN: 9789382337508, 9382337504

The book provides a chronological history and heritage of Sindhis and their culture.