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Convergence: Rethinking Indias Past explores the multiplicity of sources that can be used for studying Indian history. Texts, literature, inscriptions, and other sources have long been but the fountainheads of history. The contributors to this volume, however, begin with the premise that such sources, in the true spirit of historical research, need to be re-interrogated. Without ignoring questions of the validity of a source, they also emphasize the hybridity and ...
With increased transnationalism and globalisation, diaspora studies has emerged as a vibrant area of research in humanities and social sciences. Bringing together some key essays in the field, this collection offers a comprehensive overview of Indian Diaspora in Canada. The papers mainly hinge on the issue of the politics of identity. The assertion of identity, and the context of that assertion, is something that is apparently of concern to social scientists. The ...
This book is an attempt to understand, through a gender lens, the ways in which society has been shaped, and the reasons for that shaping. Women in Indian society, as everywhere, constitute half of its members, but still figure very little in its historiography. The papers collected here focus on different times and different facets of women's history, but are linked by the common thread of trying to make visible, that which was invisible.
What defines Medieval India? Can it be defined? Is the medieval a time period, a state of mind, an attitude, or a point of reference, or all of these? If it is all of these, then Medieval India certainly is an area with potential research possibilities into various aspects of medieval Indian history. Many aspects of medieval Indian history are still almost entirely unresearched, and there is much that has been re-interpreted. An attempt has, therefore, been made ...