Frontiers Of South Asian Culture

Author : Parichay Patra,Amitendu Bhattacharya
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000928617

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Frontiers of South Asian Culture by Parichay Patra,Amitendu Bhattacharya Pdf

This book is the first of its kind to significantly concentrate on trans-nation, transnationalism and its dialogue with various nationalisms in South Asia. Taking the absence of discussion on transnationalism in South Asia as a conspicuous lacuna as well as a point of intervention, this book pushes the boundaries of scholarship further by organizing a dialogue between the nation-state and many nationalisms and the emergent method of transnationalism. It opens itself up for many cross-border movements, formulating the trans-South Asian discursive exchange necessitated by contemporary, theoretical upheavals. It looks at such exchanges through the prisms of literature and cinema and traces the many modes of engagement that exist between some of the globally dominant literary and cinematic forms, trying to locate these engagements and negotiations across three geopolitical formations and locations of culture, namely region, nation and trans-nation.

Author : Tasleem Shakur,Karen D'Souza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Asians in literature
ISBN : 0954446305

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Picturing South Asian Culture in English by Tasleem Shakur,Karen D'Souza Pdf

Author : Ainslie T. Embree
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190990176

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Frontiers into Borders by Ainslie T. Embree Pdf

The contemporary status of the eight South Asian nations was determined by the creation of the British Indian empire and the process of decolonization. This book by the late Ainslie T. Embree is an insightful exploration of how the boundaries of these states were created between 1757 and 1857. During these one hundred years, political and military developments in the Indian subcontinent made a significant impact upon the definition of borders as they (almost) exist today. The narrative begins after Aurangzeb’s death, when vast areas of the Mughal Empire were taken over by regional powers, following which the East India Company swiftly expanded its territory, thus altering the boundaries of the region. Embree explores the meaning of ‘boundaries’ and ‘frontiers’; while the British stressed on ‘natural frontiers’, those shaped by natural landscapes, there was also the French sense of ‘natural borders’, which represented state borders reflecting social composition. Artfully written, with a careful examination of archival materials from England and India, this book reveals the colonial and local interests at work while modern states were carved into being.

Author : Lipokmar Dzüvichü,Manjeet Baruah
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429537486

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Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia by Lipokmar Dzüvichü,Manjeet Baruah Pdf

Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects have historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instance, how are objects connected to aspects of state making, social change, everyday life, diplomacy, political and ecological worlds, capital, forms of violence, resistances, circulations, and aesthetic expressions? This book seeks to interrogate and understand the dynamism of frontiers from the vantage point of objects such as salt, rubber, tea, guns, silk scarves, horses, and opium. It attempts to explore objects as sites of encounter, mediation, or dislocation between the social and the spatial. The book not only locates objects in the specificities of frontier spaces, but it also looks at how they are produced, circulated, and come to be intricately linked to a wide range of people, institutions, networks, and geographies. In the process, it explores how objects traverse and come to inhabit multiple historical, cultural, and geographical scales. This book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in areas of history, social and cultural anthropology, Asian studies, frontiers and borderland studies, cultural studies, political and economic studies, and museum studies.

Author : Lisa Lau,Ana Cristina Mendes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136707919

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Re-Orientalism and South Asian Identity Politics by Lisa Lau,Ana Cristina Mendes Pdf

Orientalism refers to the imitation of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West, and was devised in order to have authority over the Orient. The concept of Re-Orientalism maintains the divide between the Orient and the West. However, where Orientalism is based on how the West constructs the East, Re-Orientalism is grounded on how the cultural East comes to terms with an orientalised East. This book explores various new forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustain this renovated form of Orientalism in South Asian culture. The contributors identify and engage with recent debates about postcolonial South Asian identity politics, discussing a range of different texts and films such as The White Tiger, Bride & Prejudice and Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love. Providing new theoretical insights from the areas of literature, film studies and cultural and discourse analysis, this book is an stimulating read for students and scholars interested in South Asian culture, postcolonial studies and identity politics.

Author : Annemarie Hafner
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783112400081

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Essays on South Asian Society, Culture and Politics (I) by Annemarie Hafner Pdf

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Author : Richard M. Eaton,Munis D. Faruqui,David Gilmartin,Sunil Kumar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107034280

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Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and World History by Richard M. Eaton,Munis D. Faruqui,David Gilmartin,Sunil Kumar Pdf

This book has brought together some of the foremost scholars of South Asian and Global History, who were colleagues and associates of Professor John F. Richards to discuss themes that marked his work as a historian in an academic career of almost forty years. It encapsulates discussions under the rubric of 'frontiers' in multiple contexts. Frontier has often been conceived as a space of transformation marking new forms of economic organization, commodity trade, land settlement and state authority. The essays here underline the range of interests and approaches that marked Professor Richards' illustrious career - frontiers and state building; frontiers and environmental change; cultural frontiers; frontiers, trade and drugs; and frontiers and world history. The volume discusses issues from medieval to early modern South Asian history. It also reflects a concern for large-scale global processes and for the detailed specificities of each historical case as evident in Professor Richards' work.

Author : Bernt Glatzer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783112400098

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Essays on South Asian Society, Culture and Polities (II) by Bernt Glatzer Pdf

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Author : Babli Sinha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cultural fusion
ISBN : 8189643207

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South Asian Transnationalisms by Babli Sinha Pdf

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Author : Kaushik Roy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000084238

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Frontiers, Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies in South Asia by Kaushik Roy Pdf

This book uses cross-cultural analysis across Eurasia and Afro-Asia to trace the roots of contemporary border disputes and insurgencies in South Asia. It discusses the way frontiers of British India, and consequently the modern states of India and Pakistan, were drafted through negotiations backed up by organized violence, showing how this conce

Author : Kaushik Roy,Gavin Rand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351584524

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Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia by Kaushik Roy,Gavin Rand Pdf

This book offers diverse and original perspectives on South Asia’s imperial military history. Unlike prevailing studies, the chapters in the volume emphasize both the vital role of culture in framing imperial military practice and the multiple cultural effects of colonial military service and engagements. The volume spans from the early East India Company period through to the Second World War and India’s independence, exploring themes such as the military in the field and at leisure, as well as examining the effects of imperial deployments in South Asia and across the British Empire. Drawing extensively on new archival research, the book integrates previously disparate accounts of imperial military history and raises new questions about culture and operational practice in the colonial Indian Army. This work will be of interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asian history, war and strategic studies, military history, the British Empire, as well as politics and international relations.

Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : India
ISBN : 019099018X

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Frontiers Into Borders by Ainslie Thomas Embree Pdf

An insightful exploration of how the boundaries of the modern South Asian states were created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, based on a careful examination of original materials in archives in England and India. This was the final project of the great historian, Ainslie T. Embree, and is destined to be a seminal text in the history of South Asian nation building.

Author : Carol Appadurai Breckenridge
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452900315

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Consuming Modernity by Carol Appadurai Breckenridge Pdf

Author : Vinay Lal
Publisher : Manohar Publishers
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Reference
ISBN : 8173041342

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South Asian Cultural Studies by Vinay Lal Pdf

This Book Is A Bibliographic Guide To Some Of The Literature In South Asian Cultural Studies, And The Accompanying Essay, Besides Highlighting Some Of The More Prominent Aspects Of This Literature, Asks Whether The Contours Of South Asian Cultural Studies Must Necessarily Be Those Of Cultural Studies As It Is Known In The West.

Author : Jaime Moreno Tejada,Bradley Tatar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317006909

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Transnational Frontiers of Asia and Latin America since 1800 by Jaime Moreno Tejada,Bradley Tatar Pdf

Frontiers are "wild." The frontier is a zone of interaction between distinct polities, peoples, languages, ecosystems and economies, but how do these frontier spaces develop? If the frontier is shaped by the policing of borders by the modern-nation state, then what kind of zones, regions or cultural areas are created around borders? This book provides 16 different case studies of frontiers in Asia and Latin America by interdisciplinary scholars, charting the first steps toward a transnational and transcontinental history of social development in the borderlands of two continents. Transnationalism provides a shared focus for the contributions, drawing upon diverse theoretical perspectives to examine the place-making projects of nation states. Through the lenses of different scales and time frames, the contributors examine the social processes of frontier life, and how the frontiers have been created through the exertions of nation-states to control marginal or borderland peoples. The most significant cases of industrialization, resource extraction and colonization projects in Asia and Latin America are examined in this book reveal the incompleteness of frontiers as modernist spatial projects, but also their creativity - as sources of new social patterns, new human adaptations, and new cultural outlooks and ways of confronting power and privilege. The incompleteness of frontiers does not detract from their power to move ideas, peoples and practices across borders both territorial and conceptual. In bringing together Asian and Latin American cases of frontier-making, this book points toward a comparativist and cosmopolitan approach in the study of statecraft and modernity. For scholars of Latin America and/or Asia, it brings together historical themes and geographic foci, providing studies accessible to researchers in anthropology, geography, history, politics, cultural studies and other fields of the human sciences.