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Author | : Kenneth W. Jones |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521249867 |
Socio-religious Reform Movements in British India will appeal to students and scholars in a wide variety of social scientific disciplines.
Author | : Amiya P. Sen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
"Social and religious reform in colonial India has often been written about without an effort to highlight the wide-ranging debates that affected it. The volume is thus the first work to focus on 'reform' as a disputed concept. It traces the critical contestations around the phenomenon of reform as it affected the largest community of British India - the Hindus. The essays identify major issues within the history of socio-religious reform that grew into passionate public debates."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1989 |
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ISBN | : 9780521055963 |
Author | : Institute of Historical Studies (Kolkata, India) |
Publisher | : Calcutta : Institute of Historical Studies |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : J. Barton Scott |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2016-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 022636867X |
Spiritual Despots by historian of religion J. Barton Scott zeroes in on the quaint term "priestcraft" to track anticlerical polemics in Britain and South Asia during the colonial period. Scott's aim is to show how anticlerical rhetoric spread through the colonies alongside ideas about modern secular subjectivity. Through close readings of texts in English, Hindi, and Gujarati, he shows in compelling detail how the critique of priestly conspiracy gave rise to a new ideal of the self-disciplining subject and a vision of modern Hinduism that was based on unmediated personal experience and self-regulation rather than priestly tutelary power. Spiritual Despots offers a new perspective on what some scholars have called "Protestant Hinduism," and, more broadly, contributes to the emerging field of "post-secular" studies by shedding light on the colonial genealogy of secular subjectivity.
Author | : Susan Bayly |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2001-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521798426 |
The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life and thought. Susan Bayly's cogent and sophisticated analysis explores the emergence of the ideas, experiences and practices which gave rise to the so-called 'caste society' from the pre-colonial period to the end of the twentieth century. Using an historical and anthropological approach, she frames her analysis within the context of India's dynamic economic and social order, interpreting caste not as an essence of Indian culture and civilization, but rather as a contingent and variable response to the changes that occurred in the subcontinent's political landscape through the colonial conquest. The idea of caste in relation to Western and Indian 'orientalist' thought is also explored.
Author | : Thomas R. Metcalf |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1997-02-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521589376 |
Thomas Metcalf's fascinating study examines the ways the British sought to legitimate their rule over India. He demonstrates that the principles the British devised incorporated contradictory visions of India, yet together they made the authority of the Raj lawful. Students of modern India and the British Empire will find this book relevant and accessible.
Author | : Sumit Sarkar |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social change |
ISBN | : 025335269X |
An impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history
Author | : Barbara D. Metcalf |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1400856108 |
In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Jamuna Nag |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : India |
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