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25 produkter
Creative Pasts
Historical Memory and Identity in Western India, 1700-1960
Inbunden, 2007
715 kr
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The "Maratha period" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. In this book, Prachi Deshpande considers the importance of this period for a variety …
Against History, Against State
Counterperspectives from the Margins
Inbunden, 2004
2293 kr
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Reassessing conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective, Against History, Against State examines how conceptions of history and memory clash. For nearly a millennium, the Meos of northwest India-one of the largest Muslim populations in South Asia-endured a succession of …
Against History, Against State
Counterperspectives from the Margins
Häftad, 2004
635 kr
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Reassessing conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective, Against History, Against State examines how conceptions of history and memory clash. For nearly a millennium, the Meos of northwest India-one of the largest Muslim populations in South Asia-endured a succession of …
Monuments, Objects, Histories
Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
Inbunden, 2004
1741 kr
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Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and by the mid-20th century as works of art …
Nakba
Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Av Ahmad H. Sa'di, Lila Abu-Lughod
Inbunden, 2007
2380 kr
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For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past. By focusing on memories …
Nakba
Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Av Ahmad H. Sa'di, Lila Abu-Lughod
Häftad, 2007
333 kr
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For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past. By focusing on memories …
Ethical Soundscape
Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Inbunden, 2006
1209 kr
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Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form--the cassette sermon--has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become …
Ethical Soundscape
Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
Häftad, 2009
308 kr
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Charles Hirschkind's unique study explores how a popular Islamic media form--the cassette sermon--has profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become …
Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia
Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
Av Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Inbunden, 2007
1245 kr
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Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the …
Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia
Refugees, Boundaries, Histories
Av Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Häftad, 2010
308 kr
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Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the …
Lines of the Nation
Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Av Laura Bear
Inbunden, 2007
1296 kr
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Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear …
Mobile Modernity
Germans, Jews, Trains
Inbunden, 2007
1077 kr
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Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews. …
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic
Democratic Practice in South India
Av Bernard Bate
Inbunden, 2009
1307 kr
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This is a book about the newness of old things. It concerns an oratorical revolution, a transformation of oratorical style linked to larger transformations in society at large. It explores the aesthetics of Tamil oratory and its vital relationship to one of the key institutions of modern society: …
Lineages of Political Society
Studies in Postcolonial Democracy
Häftad, 2011
617 kr
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Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the …
Pariah Problem
Caste, Religion, and the Social in Modern India
Inbunden, 2014
651 kr
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Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and …
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Inbunden, 2015
2609 kr
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The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than …
Autobiography of an Archive
A Scholar's Passage to India
Häftad, 2015
361 kr
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The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than …
Monuments, Objects, Histories
Institutions of Art in Colonial and Post-Colonial India
E-bok, 2004
1432 kr
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Art history as it is largely practiced in Asia as well as in the West is a western invention. In India, works of art-sculptures, monuments, paintings-were first viewed under colonial rule as archaeological antiquities, later as architectural relics, and by the mid-20th century as works of art …
Nakba
Palestine, 1948, and the Claims of Memory
Av Ahmad H. Sa'di, Lila Abu-Lughod
E-bok, 2007
503 kr
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For outside observers, current events in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank are seldom related to the collective memory of ordinary Palestinians. But for Palestinians themselves, the iniquities of the present are experienced as a continuous replay of the injustice of the past. By focusing on memories …
Ethical Soundscape
Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics
E-bok, 2006
464 kr
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Charles Hirschkind''s unique study explores how a popular Islamic media formthe cassette sermonhas profoundly transformed the political geography of the Middle East over the last three decades. An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon has become …
Lines of the Nation
Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
Av Laura Bear
E-bok, 2007
1091 kr
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Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear …
Mobile Modernity
Germans, Jews, Trains
E-bok, 2007
861 kr
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Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, Todd Presner looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany''s …
Tamil Oratory and the Dravidian Aesthetic
Democratic Practice in South India
Av Bernard Bate
E-bok, 2009
1060 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is a book about the newness of old things. It concerns an oratorical revolution, a transformation of oratorical style linked to larger transformations in society at large. It explores the aesthetics of Tamil oratory and its vital relationship to one of the key institutions of modern society: …
Lineages of Political Society
Studies in Postcolonial Democracy
E-bok, 2011
464 kr
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Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist, is known for his wide disciplinary range, incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities with remarkable dexterity. His versatility made his early work, Politics of the Governed, a widespread hit, …
Lineages of Political Society
Studies in Postcolonial Democracy
Inbunden, 2011
898 kr
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Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the …
