Studies In Indian History
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Author | : Chandra Mallampalli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2011-11-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139505076 |
How did British rule in India transform persons from lower social classes? Could Indians from such classes rise in the world by marrying Europeans and embracing their religion and customs? This book explores such questions by examining the intriguing story of an interracial family who lived in southern India in the mid-nineteenth century. The family, which consisted of two untouchable brothers, both of whom married Eurasian women, became wealthy as distillers in the local community. A family dispute resulted in a landmark court case, Abraham v. Abraham. Chandra Mallampalli uses this case to examine the lives of those involved, and shows that far from being products of a 'civilizing mission' who embraced the ways of Englishmen, the Abrahams were ultimately - when faced with the strictures of the colonial legal system - obliged to contend with hierarchy and racial difference.
Author | : Irfan Habib |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Historical materialism |
ISBN | : 1843310252 |
This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.
Author | : Arthur Llewellyn Basham |
Publisher | : Calcutta : Sambodhi Publications |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Gerrit Jan Meulenbeld |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publ. |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9788120817685 |
This volume of studies presents the papers given at the second workshop of the European Ayurdic society, a group which was formed in Groningen in 1983. The volume is thus a sequel to Proceedings of the international workshop on priorities in the study of Indian medicine. The workshop was held over a period of three days in September 1985 in the congenial surroundings of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine ii London, and it provided a splendid opportunity for scholars in the field of Indian medical history to meet in one place and to share the latest research in their respective areas.
Author | : Eleanor Newbigin |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2013-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107434750 |
Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond.
Author | : Robert Travers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 16 |
Release | : 2007-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139464167 |
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Author | : Ishita Banerjee-Dube |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2014-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316165175 |
This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.
Author | : Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi |
Publisher | : Popular Prakashan |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 2023-11-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9788171540389 |
This book is the culmination of patient research and mature reflection of a profoundly original mind and has earned universal recognition and honour over the last few decades.
Author | : Saint Xavier's College (BOMBAY). Heras Institute of Indian History and Culture |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 1927 |
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Author | : Rachel Sturman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107010373 |
This book analyses religious law in colonial India, exploring how it encouraged gender equality and a rethinking of the relationship between state and society.