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Democracy and Unity in India
Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1960
Inbunden, 2019
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This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood. The All India Scheduled Castes Federation and the All India Women’s Conference are …
Cultural Histories of India
Subaltern Spaces, Peripheral Genres, and Alternate Historiography
Inbunden, 2020
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This book explores the social and cultural histories of India, focusing on cultural encounters and representations of subaltern communities from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century. Examining cultural encounters between Europeans and Indians during the precolonial and colonial periods, the …
Indian Liberalism between Nation and Empire
The Political Life of Gopal Krishna Gokhale
Inbunden, 2022
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This book analyses the political thought and practice of Gopal Krishna Gokhale (1866–1915), preeminent liberal leader of the Indian National Congress who was able to give a ‘global voice’ to the Indian cause.Using liberalism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism and citizenship as the four main thematic …
Gender, Nationalism, and Genocide in Bangladesh
Naristhan/Ladyland
Av Azra Rashid
Häftad, 2020
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The 1971 genocide in Bangladesh took place as a result of the region’s long history of colonization, the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent into largely Muslim Pakistan and Hindu India, and the continuation of ethnic and religious politics in Pakistan, specifically the political suppression …
Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India
Her Myriad Gaze on the ‘Other’
Häftad, 2020
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In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information …
Foreign Policy of Colonial India
1900–1947
Av Sneh Mahajan
Häftad, 2020
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The foreign policy of a colonial country is very different from that of a sovereign country. Two features of the foreign policy of colonial India were: one, that it was framed in the interest of Britain; and two, that till the very end, the British showed an unflinching determination to maintain …
Environment and Pollution in Colonial India
Sewerage Technologies along the Sacred Ganges
Häftad, 2020
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India is facing a river pollution crisis today. The origins of this crisis are commonly traced back to post-Independence economic development and urbanisation. This book, in contrast, shows that some important early roots of India’s river pollution problem, and in particular the pollution of the …
Democracy and Unity in India
Understanding the All India Phenomenon, 1940-1960
Häftad, 2021
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This book analyzes the ways in which organizations and individuals in India grappled with and contested definitions of democracy and unity in the decades directly preceding and following independent Indian statehood. The All India Scheduled Castes Federation and the All India Women’s Conference are …
Evolution, Race and Public Spheres in India
Vernacular Concepts and Sciences (1860-1930)
Av Luzia Savary
Häftad, 2021
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This book provides an in-depth exploration of South Asian readaptations of race in vernacular languages. The focus is on a diverse set of printed texts, periodicals and books in Hindi and Urdu, two of the major print languages of British North India, written between 1860 and 1930. Imperial …
Bureaucracy, Belonging, and the City in North India
1870-1930
Inbunden, 2020
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This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial north India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India’s most traditional cities, the book examines the workings …
Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States
1850-1950
Av Waltraud Ernst, Biswamoy Pati m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
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Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks …
Class Conflict and Modernization in India
The Raj and the Calcutta Waterfront (1860-1910)
Häftad, 2019
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In the days of the British Raj Calcutta was a great port city. Thousands of men, women, and children worked there, loading and unloading valuable cargoes that sustained the regional economy, and contributed significantly to world trade. In the second half of the nineteenth century, in response to a …
Kashmir Conflict
From Empire to the Cold War, 1945-66
Av Rakesh Ankit
Häftad, 2019
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This book presents a study of the international dimensions of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan from before its outbreak in October 1947 until the Tashkent Summit in January 1966. By focusing on Kashmir’s under-researched transnational dimensions, it represents a different approach to …
Imperialism and Sikh Migration
The Komagata Maru Incident
Av Anjali Roy
Häftad, 2019
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In the Punjab, a culture of migration and mobility had already emerged in the nineteenth century. Imperial policies produced a category of hypermobile Sikhs, who left their villages in Punjab to seek their fortunes in South East Asia, Australia, America and Canada. The practices of the British …
Politics and Left Unity in India
The United Front in Late Colonial India
Häftad, 2019
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The historical assessments of Left unity in 1930s India misrepresent activities designed to achieve unity. The common treatment of the relationship between Indian socialists and communists emphasizes disunity and the inability to find common ground. Scholarly discussions about unity in fact …
India and World War I
A Centennial Assessment
Häftad, 2019
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World War I directly and indirectly caused events and social and political trends which defined the history of the world for the rest of the century, including the Russian Revolution and the rise of communism to the Great Crash of 1929 which lead to the Great Depression and the rise of Hitler and …
Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India
From Bombay to Maharashtra, c. 1930 - 1960
Häftad, 2019
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On 1 May 1960, Bombay Province was bifurcated into the two new provinces of Gujarat and Maharashtra, amidst scenes of great public fanfare and acclaim. This decision marked the culmination of a lengthy campaign for the creation of Samyukta (‘united’) Maharashtra in western India, which had first …
Radical Politics in Colonial Punjab
Governance and Sedition
Inbunden, 2009
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The actions of the radical left in Punjab in pre-Independence India during the 1920s and 30s have often been viewed as foreign and quintessentially un-Indian due to their widely vilified opposition to the Quit India campaign. This book examines some of these deterministic misapprehensions and …
Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
Av Biswamoy Pati, Mark Harrison
Inbunden, 2008
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This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on …
Decolonization in South Asia
Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52
Inbunden, 2009
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This book explores the meanings and complexities of India’s experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. It focuses on the first five years – from independence on 15th August 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 – in the politics of West Bengal, the new Indian …
Historiography and Writing Postcolonial India
Inbunden, 2009
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A critical examination of post-colonial Indian history-writing. In the years preceding formal Independence from British colonial rule, Indians found themselves responding to the panorama of sin and suffering that constituted the modern present in a variety of imaginative ways. This book is a …
Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India
Inbunden, 2010
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Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to …
Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India
Av Biswamoy Pati, Mark Harrison
Häftad, 2011
517 kr
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This book analyzes the diverse facets of the social history of health and medicine in colonial India. It explores a unique set of themes that capture the diversities of India, such as public health, medical institutions, mental illness and the politics and economics of colonialism. Based on …
Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities
The England-returned
Häftad, 2011
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This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad had on a significant proportion of the Indian population. A large number of Indian students - …
Cinema, Transnationalism, and Colonial India
Entertaining the Raj
Av Babli Sinha
Inbunden, 2013
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Through the lens of cinema, this book explores the ways in which the United States, Britain and India impacted each other politically, culturally and ideologically. It argues that American films of the 1920s posited alternative notions of whiteness and the West to that of Britain, which stood for …
Decolonization in South Asia
Meanings of Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal, 1947–52
Häftad, 2012
771 kr
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This book explores the meanings and complexities of India’s experience of transition from colonial to the post-colonial period. It focuses on the first five years – from independence on 15th August 1947 to the first general election in January 1952 – in the politics of West Bengal, the new Indian …
Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities
The England-returned
Inbunden, 2009
2585 kr
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This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad had on a significant proportion of the Indian population. A large number of Indian students - …
Great Rebellion of 1857 in India
Exploring Transgressions, Contests and Diversities
Inbunden, 2010
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The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India was much more than a ‘sepoy mutiny’. It was a major event in South Asian and British colonial history that significantly challenged imperialism in India.This fascinating collection explores hitherto ignored diversities of the Great Rebellion such as gender and …
Gender and Radical Politics in India
Magic Moments of Naxalbari (1967-1975)
Inbunden, 2010
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The Naxalbari movement marks a significant moment in the postcolonial history of India. Beginning as an armed peasant uprising in 1967 under the leadership of radical communists, the movement was inspired by the Marxist-Leninist theory of revolution and involved a significant section of the …
History of State and Religion in India
Av Ian Copland, Ian Mabbett m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
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Offering the first long-duration analysis of the relationship between the state and religion in South Asia, this book looks at the nature and origins of Indian secularism. It interrogates the proposition that communalism in India is wholly a product of colonial policy and modernisation, questions …
