Indian Council of Historical Research
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Dangerous Marginality focuses on villages festivals invoking the Matangi, an outcaste clan goddess in Andhra Pradesh. It explores the ambiguous category of outcaste priest and priestess whose intriguing presence appears in fleeting images in colonial archives and missological accounts. These striking personae challenge the assumptions predominant in the discourses of caste.
As we delve deeper into this domain it becomes apparent that the constraints in engaging ...
The dictionary is a significant landmark in the history of epigraphical studies in India. It first emphasises the importance of medieval Indian inscriptions and especially South Indian inscriptions as an invaluable treasure that, however, requires proper understanding especially where the terms used in inscriptions are concerned as they have sometimes different meanings. It explains all the important technical vocabulary in South Indian inscriptions which ...
A project to compile a national register of martyrs was initiated by the National Implementation Committee for organizing celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the uprising of 1857 and 60 years of India’s independence. The ICHR accepted the project and necessary funds at the request of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India. It was decided that the project will produce a series of volumes entitled Dictionary of Martyrs: India’s Freedom ...
The dynamics of the maritime world has held the fascination of researchers and scholars of history for long. Viewing the waterscapes as conduits of much economic and cultural sharing between peoples and lands, the focus of Networks in the First Global Age: 1400-1800 is on the oceans and seas—the Indian, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea—and economic, military and cultural transmissions within and across them.The book shows ...
