Contemporary Indian Studies – serie
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Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya
Inbunden, 2015
735 kr
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Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced by a later Buddhist …
Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India
A Divided Leviathan
Av Aseema Sinha
Häftad, 2005
313 kr
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India is widely regarded as the most celebrated case of a "failed" developmental state, seemingly the exception that belies the prediction of a triumphant Asian century. Its central political and economic institutions have been variously characterized as both "soft" and "strong"—at once weak, …
Wandering with Sadhus
Ascetics in the Hindu Himalayas
Häftad, 2007
245 kr
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In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers—sadhus or ascetics—in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social commitments, and their break with …
Wives, Widows, and Concubines
The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India
Häftad, 2008
245 kr
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The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed historical study of Tamil …
India's Immortal Comic Books
Gods, Kings, and Other Heroes
Häftad, 2009
375 kr
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Combining entertainment and education, India's most beloved comic book series, Amar Chitra Katha, or "Immortal Picture Stories," is also an important cultural institution that has helped define, for several generations of readers, what it means to be Hindu and Indian. Karline McLain worked in the …
Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India
The Making of a Mother Tongue
Häftad, 2009
310 kr
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What makes someone willing to die, not for a nation, but for a language? In the mid-20th century, southern India saw a wave of dramatic suicides in the name of language. Lisa Mitchell traces the colonial-era changes in knowledge and practice linked to the Telugu language that lay behind some of …
Reconsidering Untouchability
Chamars and Dalit History in North India
Häftad, 2011
301 kr
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Often identified as leatherworkers or characterized as a criminal caste, Chamars of North India have long been stigmatized as untouchables. In this pathbreaking study, Ramnarayan S. Rawat shows that in fact the majority of Chamars have always been agriculturalists, and their association with the …
Temple to Love
Architecture and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Bengal
Av Pika Ghosh
Inbunden, 2005
385 kr
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"[A]n excellent analytical study of a sensationally beautiful type of temple. . . . This work is not just art historical but embraces . . . religious studies, anthropology, history, and literature." —Catherine B. Asher"[A]dvances our knowledge of . . . Bengali temple building practices, the complex …
Art of the Court of Bijapur
Inbunden, 2006
589 kr
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"[A]n impressive and original work of synthetic scholarship that one hopes will be emulated by others." —Phillip B. Wagoner, Wesleyan University"[A]n excellent and important work . . . [with] a wonderful sophistication of method." —Padma Kaimal, Colgate UniversityThe patrons and artists of Bijapur, …
