Cohesion and Conflict in Modern India
Author | : Giri Raj Gupta |
Publisher | : Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Giri Raj Gupta |
Publisher | : Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John N. Mayor |
Publisher | : Nova Publishers |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781590332993 |
India, long known for its huge population, religious conflicts and its status as not-quite best friend ally of the United States has moved from the backwaters of world attention to centre stage. Afghanistan and Pakistan with whom India is in almost conflict, are neighbours. India has developed a nuclear capability which also has a way of grabbing attention. This book discusses current issues and historical background and provides a thorough index important to a better understanding of this diverse country.
Author | : A.M. Shah |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136197710 |
This book has a collection of ten articles written during 1982–2007 and an exhaustive introduction on the structural features of Indian society, that is, the enduring social groups, institutions and processes, such as caste, tribe, sect, rural-urban relations, etc. The book views Indian society in contemporary as well as historical perspective, based on a wealth of field research as well as archival material. The book focuses on the significance of village studies in transforming the understanding of Indian society and also shows how urban centres have been useful in shaping society. Taking a critical look at the prevailing thinking on various structures and institutions, the author uses insights derived from his comprehensive studies of kinship, marriage, religion, and grassroots politics in advancing their studies. He points out the strengths and weaknesses of these structures and institutions and the direction in which they are changing with respect to modern time. As against the overwhelming emphasis on the hierarchical dimension of caste, this book focuses on its horizontal dimension, that is, every caste’s population spread over villages and towns in an area, its internal organization and differentiation based on networks of kinship, marriage, patron-client relationship, and role of endogamy versus hypergamy in maintaining its boundaries. The tribes are also seen in the same perspective, emphasizing the tribe-caste homology. Finally, the book provides information on important issues like policy of reservations, the reliability of censuses and surveys of castes and tribes, removal of untouchability, growth of organized religion and secularization.
Author | : Surjit Mansingh |
Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
Total Pages | : 879 |
Release | : 2006-05-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0810865025 |
The Republic of India is the second most populous, the seventh largest by geographical area, and has the fourth largest economy in terms of purchasing power parity in the world. While it has always been an important country, it has often been neglected. Of late, however, there has been much talk of the 'new' India, one with greater economic dynamism, a more active foreign policy, and the emergence of a huge middle class. With over a hundred new cross-referenced dictionary entries-the majority of which pertain to the last decade-and updating others, the second edition of the Historical Dictionary of India illustrates the rapidly evolving situation without neglecting the country's ancient past. The chronology has been brought up to date, the introduction expanded, and the bibliography includes numerous new titles.
Author | : Kanchan Chandra |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2012-10-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0199893179 |
Taking the possibility of change in ethnic identity into account, this book shows and dismantles the theoretical logics linking ethnic diversity to negative outcomes and processes such as democratic destabilisation, clientelism, riots and state collapse. Even more importantly, it changes the questions we can ask about the relationship between ethnicity, politics and economics.
Author | : Reuven Kahane |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0429716869 |
This book focuses on general theoretical considerations important for the analysis of political legitimation and integration in diverse societies. It suggests a model of society in which conflicts are accentuated for integrative purposes.
Author | : David Ludden |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 1996-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780812215854 |
Animated by a sense of urgency that was heightened by the massive violence following the destruction of the Babri mosque in Ayodhya on December 6, 1992, Contesting the Nation explores Hindu majoritarian politics over the last century and its dramatic reformulation during the decline of the Congress Party in the 1980s.
Author | : Peter M. Gardner |
Publisher | : Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Paliyan (Indic people) |
ISBN | : 9780773478190 |
Author | : Heinz-Gerhard Haupt |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0857456032 |
Since the 1970s West German historiography has been one of the main arenas of international comparative history. It has produced important empirical studies particularly in social history as well as methodological and theoretical reflections on comparative history. During the last twenty years however, this approach has felt pressure from two sources: cultural historical approaches, which stress microhistory and the construction of cultural transfer on the one hand, global history and transnational approaches with emphasis on connected history on the other. This volume introduces the reader to some of the major methodological debates and to recent empirical research of German historians, who do comparative and transnational work.