The Concept Of Bharatvarsha And Other Essays
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Author | : B. D. Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2018-08-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438471750 |
This exploration of key terms related to social and political order, found in early Indian texts, challenges the idea of a unified ancient India and a unified national identity at that time. This collection explores what may be called the idea of India in ancient times. Its undeclared objective is to identify key concepts which show early Indian civilization as distinct and differently oriented from other formations. The essays focus on ancient Indian texts within a variety of genres. They identify certain key termssuch as janapada, desa, var?a, dharma, bh?vain their empirical contexts to suggest that neither the ideas embedded in these terms nor the idea of Bharatavarsha as a whole are given entities, but that they evolved historically. Professor Chattopadhyaya examines these texts to unveil historical processes. Without denying comparative history, he stresses that the internal dynamics of a society are best decoded via its own texts. His approach bears very effectively on understanding ongoing interactions between Indias Great Tradition and Little Traditions. As a whole, this book is critical of the notion of overarching Indian unity in the ancient period. It punctures the retrospective thrust of hegemonic nationalism as an ideology that has obscured the diverse textures of Indian civilization. Renowned for his scholarship on the ancient Indian past, Professor Chattopadhyayas latest collection only consolidates his high international reputation.
Author | : K. N. Panikkar |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Hinduism and politics |
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Focuses On The Alliance Between The Neo-Liberal Economic Policies And Hindu Fundamentalism, Its Implications And The Destruction Of Educational System. Also Discuss The Hindu Right Wing Cultural Project And Outlines The Agenda For Struggle Against This Homegrown Fascism.
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Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2021 |
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ISBN | : 9788182903951 |
Author | : Rita Banerjee |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 253 |
Release | : 2020-02-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 100004632X |
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 book analyzes European, especially English, efforts to exoticize or investigate the social practices of the Other. It also presents the culturally conditioned Indian subject's perspective on Europe and the imperial society. The book engages with narratives of suppressed movements of tribals and dalits, of erosion of the culture and history of ancient communities, and recovers the local narratives of marginalized groups in Andaman and Malabar, which get superseded by the larger narrative of nation-building. Often relying on oral history instead of printed material and sociological fieldwork, the alternate histories are presented through unconventional, literary or semi-literary genres like travel narratives, fiction, films, and songs, thus presenting an alternative interpretation to the central narrative of the progress of mainstream India. Representing cultural history and the view from below, the book shifts its focus from the conventional historiography associated with political history and will be of interest to academics working in the field of cultural studies, the historiography of India, South Asian Studies and an interdisciplinary audience in history, sociology, literature, media, and English studies.
Author | : Stefan Kramer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Mass media |
ISBN | : 3643961294 |
Author | : Raj Kumar |
Publisher | : Discovery Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9788171416820 |
Contents: Introduction, The Geographical Background, How Nehru Discovered Ancient India-I, How Nehru Discovered Ancient India-II, The Economic History of Ancient India, Trade and Commerce in Ancient India, Town- Planning and House-Building in Ancient According to Silpasastras, Art and Architecture, Ancient House-Planning, Naming A Child or A Person, Mantra, Yantra and Tantra.
Author | : Damodar P. Singhal |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : India |
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Author | : Swarupa Gupta |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004349766 |
In Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927, Swarupa Gupta outlines a fresh paradigm moving beyond stereotypical representations of eastern India as a site of ethnic fragmentation. The book traces unities by exploring intersections between (1) cultural constellations; (2) place-making and (3) ethnicity. Centralising place-making, it tells the story of how people made places, mediating caste / religious / linguistic contestations. It offers new meanings of ‘region’ in Eastern Indian and global contexts by showing how an interregional arena comprising Bengal, Assam and Orissa was forged. Using historical tracts, novels, poetry and travelogues, the book argues that commonalities in Eastern India were linked to imaginings of Indian nationhood. The analysis contains interpretive strategies for mediating federalist separatisms and fragmentation in contemporary India.
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Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2019 |
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Author | : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
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These essays explore the processes of change in Indian society over the period from about the seventh to the thirteenth century. Departing radically from the current historiography on the period, the author posits change as represented by processes of progressive transformation, not by the breakdown of an earlier social order. Within this framework, he discusses such diverse themes as irrigation, urbanization, the formation of a dominant ruling caste, and the structure of polity in general.