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Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship

Identifying and regulating religion in India: law, history and the place of worship

Srikantan, Geetanjali

ISBN: 9781108840538, 1108840531

This book investigates the identification and regulation of religion through an intellectual history of law's creation of religion from the colonial to the post-colonial.

Leprosy in colonial south India: medicine and confinement

Leprosy in colonial south India: medicine and confinement

Buckingham, Jane

ISBN: 9781349960149, 1349960144

Leprosy is a bacterial infection caused by Mycobacterium leprae, an organism closely related to the tuberculosis bacterium.

Socio-cultural contours of North-east India,

Socio-cultural contours of North-east India,


ISBN: 9789394569072, 9394569073

The present treatise Socio-cultural Contours of North-east India presents a collection of sixteen painstakingly researched articles contributed by eminent social scientists on contemporary socio-cultural aspects of varied ethnic groups of North-east India and serves as primary source materials.

Education in colonial India: historical insights

Education in colonial India: historical insights


ISBN: 9788173049873, 8173049874

The collection of essays in this volume tries to address some of the issues and developments in the making of an inclusive knowledge society in colonial India, and the transmission of knowledge through agents and institutions of education in modern India from a historical perspective.

Folk culture, folk religion and oral traditions as a component in Maharashtrian culture

Folk culture, folk religion and oral traditions as a component in Maharashtrian culture


ISBN: 9788173040870, 8173040877

Selected Contents: (i)Sivaji as epic hero (ii)Types of river goddesses, in Maharashtra (iii)The folklore of pride three components of comtemporary dalit belief (iv)Gopalpur-Kala: some aspects of the history of the sacred places south of Pandharpur (v)Folk culture,folk religion, and oral tradition in Maharashtrian culture (vi)On relations amongst bhuts, gods, and men: aspects of folk religion an...

From obscurity to light: women in early medieval Orissa (seventh to twelfth centuries AD)

From obscurity to light: women in early medieval Orissa (seventh to twelfth centuries AD)

Rangachari , Devika

ISBN: 9788194352167, 8194352169

This book attempts to reintegrate women into the socio-political milieu of early medieval Orissa. Its sources are inscriptions, mostly Sanskrit, that date from the seventh century AD to the end of the reign of the Imperial Ganga ruler, Avantavarman Codagangadeva (AD 1078-1147).

Invisible empire: the natural history of viruses

Invisible empire: the natural history of viruses

Lal, Pranay

ISBN: 9780670095766, 0670095761

This book brings together science, history and great storytellings to paint a fascinating picture of viruses as a major actor, not just in human civilisation but also in the human body. With rare photographs, paintings, illustrations and anecdotes, it is a magnificent and extremely relevant book for our times, when we are attempting to understand viruses and examining their roles in the lives o...

Tribes, forest and social formation in Indian history

Tribes, forest and social formation in Indian history


ISBN: 9788173045516, 8173045518

The present volume, mainly combines revised versions of the papers presented at a panel organized by the Indian History Congress in 2001.

Women in early Indian societies

Women in early Indian societies


ISBN: 9788173043826, 8173043825

An anthology of excerpts from the works of authors who have shaped out understanding of gender relations in early India. Also included are papers which provide fresh insights or explore alternative paradigms and possibilities.

The middle class in colonial Malabar: a social history

The middle class in colonial Malabar: a social history

Sreejith, K

ISBN: 9789390729593, 9390729599

The middle class in colonial Malabar left a copious amount of writings in magazines, autobiographies, diaries etc. This book analyses them to study the social history of that period..

The comprehensive history of the Nepalis in North East India, 3 vols.

The comprehensive history of the Nepalis in North East India, 3 vols.

Muktan, K.K.

ISBN: 9789354390067, 9354390064

Vol.1: Migration and settlement (period 1826-1920) (ISBN 9789354390074); Vol.2: Nationalism and polity (period 1921-1947) (ISBN 9789354390081); Vol.3: Integration and development (period 1948-2020) (ISBN 9789354390920).

Fighting free to become unfree again: the social history of bondage and neo-bondage labour in India

Fighting free to become unfree again: the social history of bondage and neo-bondage labour in India

Breman, Jan

ISBN: 9788195639267, 8195639267

Labour bondage is a major feature of the peasant economies that have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded pre-colonial past until the post-colonial present.

Rajput culture: amalgamation of tradition and modernity

Rajput culture: amalgamation of tradition and modernity

Poonam

ISBN: 9789391952563, 9391952569

This book focuses on the influence of Britishers on ruling class Rajputs and common Rajput society. It highlights the effects of the treaty of 1818 with Jaipur, social culture of Rajputs and attempts to eradicate evil practices. Above all, it explains how education brought reform in the Rajput Society but fragmented them into two groups. The Rajputs were divided on the question of whether they ...

Religions, Mumbai style: events-media-spaces,

Religions, Mumbai style: events-media-spaces,


ISBN: 9780192889379, 0192889370

Mumbai is generally recognized as an environment of extraordinary religious diversity. The city is known at one and the same time for habitual cosmopolitanism and a series of violent religion-related conflicts and clashes. While there is much academic scholarship on various aspects of urban history and realities, this volume is the first international academic publications focusing on religion(...

Medicine and the Raj: British Medical Policy in India, 1835-1911

Medicine and the Raj: British Medical Policy in India, 1835-1911

Kumar, Anil

ISBN: 9789350028094, 9350028093

The coming of the British in India marked the entry of 'modern' science and technology into the country and the beginning of the subjugation of traditional scientific systems. The British, in fact, used science and technology as a tool for maintaining and expanding the Empire...

History of urban form of India: from beginning till 1900's

History of urban form of India: from beginning till 1900's

Shankar, Pratyush

ISBN: 9780199468096, 0199468095

This book presents a comprehensive account of the historical spatial development of Indian cities since time immemorial. With case studies from the time cities originated in the Indian subcontinent (3000 BC in Indus valley) and hand-drawn illustrations of these cities till the ones in recent times, the author discusses the last two hundred years of urban development in India with emphasis on th...

Sovereign anxiety: public order and the politics of control  in India, 1915-1955

Sovereign anxiety: public order and the politics of control in India, 1915-1955

Wani, Javed Iqbal

ISBN: 9781009337939, 1009337939

This book studies issues of public order in later colonial and early postcolonial India. The colonial regime often deployed extraordinary legislation to curtail the liberties of individuals and groups by citing potential harm to public order.

Gendered publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samitis in colonial Assam

Gendered publics: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samitis in colonial Assam

Medhi, Hemjyoti

ISBN: 9780199482900, 019948290X

This book is the first comprehensive effort to recover the forgotten histories of the highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti (AMS, 1926 cont.), and the life and times of its founding Secretary Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72), who was a celebrated writer, mobilizer and publisher despite being an unwed mother and from a 'lower' caste.

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