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This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present.
The book offers a comprehensive account of Indian history. It also links contemporary issues-including poverty, religious nationalism, and the role of women--to India's rich and varied history and explores the tensions throughout Indian history ...
Subaltern Studies VIII consists of essays in honour of Ranajit Guha, the founding father of Subaltern Studies, by five members of the original editorial group. The essays take up themes from Guha’s own work, linking subaltern experience and mentality with colonial knowledge / power and the cultural and political processes of Indian elites. The volume opens with Partha Chatterjee’s examination of history writing in Bengal, how the concept of a ‘national’ ...
This is a book about land, as well as about India-as that region of almost continental proportions came to be known to European travelers in the first half of the nineteenth century. But it is also a book about the land, about the ways in which India's material environment became increasingly subject to scientific scrutiny, much of it by itinerant naturalists and-centrally to this study-by botanists. Science and travel in colonial India is seen here as part of an ...
The aim of the book is to examine life histories, in their diverse forms, in order to open up new ways of thinking and writing about india, and to bring material from this region to the level of international research an life histories. Has 3 parts-confronting modernity-translating tradition-spoken lives. Of interest of historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists and students of culture and literary theory.