Locating Pleasure In Indian History

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354352881

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Locating Pleasure in Indian History by Anonim Pdf

Locating Pleasure in Indian History is one of the first works on the subject of the 'discourse of pleasure' in Indian history and culture. A rigorous, source-based work, it examines the cultural practices and the underlying philosophic matrix of pleasures, big or small. It recovers the production and consumption of beauty, desire and gratification in the world of pleasure, pleasurable pursuits and pleasant experiences of viewing, performing, thinking, debating, cooking, eating, listening, writing, creating and procreating. The contributions retrieve the discourse of pleasure in visual and literary cultures-in elite and popular spheres, including the public and private domains of the bazaar, the temple, the household, the court and the garden. Further, it is examined in the urbane art of Mathura, Ravana's palace in the art of 7th CE western Deccan, the suratkhana of Rajput royalty or domestic pleasures of women in the labyrinths of the Puranas. With over 40 photographs, it historicises ideological and experiential conundrums thrown up by the idea of pursuing alimentary, carnal and even pious desires in visual and literary cultures. The reflexivity inherent in the work of artists, poets, dramatists and even shastrins is brought out through moments of pleasure and counter-pleasure as revealed through anecdotes, narratives, artefacts and objects of aesthetic gratification.

Author : Seema Bawa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : India
ISBN : 9390513723

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Locating Pleasure in Indian History by Seema Bawa Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789394701342

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Delights and Disquiets of Leisure in Premodern India by Anonim Pdf

Leisure is a corollary to pleasure. Essays in this historical exploration trace how leisure and recreation were often imagined and celebrated during premodern times, from the ancient to the precolonial period. This book takes into account the differential access to leisure and pleasure based on class and gender where masculinity is projected through manly sports and femininity though beauty and indulgence in the projection of recreation, entertainment and luxury. The counter-discourse representing labour for those who cater for this leisure is invisibilized as is their transactional nature. The volume dwells on the attitudes, prescribed and proscribed, and brings to the fore the differences across religious ideologies such as Brahmanism, Buddhism, Jaina and Muslim in various periods. Further it looks at leisure in the various classes and cultural spaces such as the elite, women, the king in the bed chamber, the court with dancing girls, public areas such as orchards and gardens and performance spaces.

Author : Dhar, Parul Pandya
Publisher : SAGE Publishing India
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789354795572

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Connected Histories of India and Southeast Asia by Dhar, Parul Pandya Pdf

Connected Histories of India and Southeast Asia unravels the fascinating history of cultural interactions, of outstanding and universal significance, between India and Southeast Asia, with special emphasis on artistic expressions. India's connections with Southeast Asian countries, namely, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam are seen not only in trade and commerce but also in cultural and religious exchanges. Such histories are well-documented in their monuments, icons, narratives, inscribed artefacts, texts, and ritual paraphernalia. The first part of the book offers an overview of the nature of cultural and artistic interactions and the trade routes that facilitated an exchange of ideas, objects, people, and knowledge systems since ancient times. The second part addresses issues relating to architectural forms, motifs, and mobility across long distances and time periods. The final segment includes essays that discuss narratives and iconographies arising from cross-cultural artistic exchanges. With contributions by eminent scholars and over 170 colour photographs, maps, and illustrations, this book is an invaluable resource for understanding connected histories, which play a key role in revitalizing cultural connectivity and people-to-people contacts between India and Southeast Asia.

Author : Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,Mathew Kuefler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 806 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108901291

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The Cambridge World History of Sexualities: Volume 2, Systems of Thought and Belief by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks,Mathew Kuefler Pdf

Volume II focuses on systems of thought and belief in the history of world sexualities, ranging from early humans to contemporary approaches. Comprising eighteen chapters, this volume opens with a chapter on the evolutionary legacy and then delves into the sexualities of ancient Egypt, the Near East, Greece, and Rome, continuing with pre-modern South Asia, China, and Japan, Africa, the Americas, and Oceania. Chapters include an examination of sexuality in the religious traditions of Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and also look at more recent approaches, including scientific sex, sexuality in socialism and Marxism, and the intersections between sexuality, feminism, and post-colonialism.

Author : Farina Mir
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9780520262690

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The Social Space of Language by Farina Mir Pdf

poetics of belonging in the region. --Book Jacket.

Author : Andrew Denning,Heidi J.S. Tworek
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000919486

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The Interwar World by Andrew Denning,Heidi J.S. Tworek Pdf

The Interwar World collects an international group of over 50 contributors to discuss, analyze, and interpret this crucial period in twentieth-century history. A comprehensive understanding of the interwar era has been limited by Euro-American approaches and strict adherence to the temporal limits of the world wars. The volume’s contributors challenge the era’s accepted temporal and geographic framings by privileging global processes and interactions. Each contribution takes a global, thematic approach, integrating world regions into a shared narrative. Three central questions frame the chapters. First, when was the interwar? Viewed globally, the years 1918 and 1939 are arbitrary limits, and the volume explicitly engages with the artificiality of the temporal framework while closely examining the specific dynamics of the 1920s and 1930s. Second, where was the interwar? Contributors use global history methodologies and training in varied world regions to decenter Euro-American frameworks, engaging directly with the usefulness of the interwar as both an era and an analytical category. Third, how global was the interwar? Authors trace accelerating connections in areas such as public health and mass culture counterbalanced by processes of economic protectionism, exclusive nationalism, and limits to migration. By approaching the era thematically, the volume disaggregates and interrogates the meaning of the ‘global’ in this era. As a comprehensive guide, this volume offers overviews of key themes of the interwar period for undergraduates, while offering up-to-date historiographical insights for postgraduates and scholars interested in this pivotal period in global history.

Author : Satadru Sen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135183073

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Savagery and Colonialism in the Indian Ocean by Satadru Sen Pdf

This book examines the social, political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands, British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the Andaman Islands – beginning tentatively in 1789 and renewed on a larger scale in 1858 – represent an extensive, complex experiment in the management of populations through colonial discourses of race, criminality, civilization, and savagery. Focussing on the ubiquitous characterization of the Andaman islanders as ‘savages’, this study explores the particular relationship between savagery and the practice of colonialism. Satadru Sen examines savagery and the savage as dynamic components of colonialism in South Asia: not intellectual abstractions with clear and fixed meanings, but politically ‘alive’ and fiercely contested products of the colony. Illuminating and historicizing the processes by which the discourse of savagery goes through multiple and fundamental shifts between the late eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, he shows the links and breaks between these shifts and changing ideas of race, adulthood and masculinity in the Andamans, British India, Britain and in the wider empire. He also highlights the implications of these changes for the ‘savages’ themselves. At the broadest level, this book re-examines the relationship between the modern and the primitive in a colonial world.

Author : Henry Howe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Mississippi River Valley
ISBN : PRNC:32101038138085

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Historical Collections of the Great West by Henry Howe Pdf

Author : Upinder Singh
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 8131716775

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A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India by Upinder Singh Pdf

A History of Ancient and Early Medieval India is the most comprehensive textbook yet for undergraduate and postgraduate students. It introduces students to original sources such as ancient texts, artefacts, inscriptions and coins, illustrating how historians construct history on their basis. Its clear and balanced explanation of concepts and historical debates enables students to independently evaluate evidence, arguments and theories. This remarkable textbook allows the reader to visualize and understand the rich and varied remains of India s ancient past, transforming the process of discovering that past into an exciting experience.

Author : Lynn MacKay
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781837650552

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Women and the British Army, 1815-1880 by Lynn MacKay Pdf

This book explores the world of women who married, or dealt with British soldiers below the rank of officer during the nineteenth century, including fiancées, wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters, as well as the prostitutes they consorted with. It examines women's experiences over the time cycle of a soldier's service. It considers women's finances, how they struggled to make ends meet and how they appealed to the government for support, including in widowhood and after a soldier's service had been completed. It discusses how soldiers' women were viewed in the press, in literature and in society more widely, highlighting in particular issues concerning morality and independence, and outlines how the Crimean War and its aftermath brought about extensive army reforms and also a sharp revision of the reputation of soldiers' wives. The book includes an exploration of soldiers' relations with prostitutes and how prostitutes were regulated, and a consideration of the impact on soldiers' wives of physical arrangements such as barracks, and overall provides much insight into the nature of plebeian life in the nineteenth century. The women portrayed often emerge as exceptionally resolute, independent and canny.

Author : Vikram Visana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009276733

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Uncivil Liberalism by Vikram Visana Pdf

Uncivil Liberalism studies how ideas of liberty from the colonized South claimed universality in the North. Recovering the political theory of Dadabhai Naoroji, India's pre-eminent liberal, this book offers an original global history of this process by focussing on Naoroji's pre-occupation with social interdependence and civil peace in an age of growing cultural diversity and economic inequality. It shows how Naoroji used political economy to critique British liberalism's incapacity for civil peace by linking periods of communal rioting in colonial Bombay with the Parsi minority's economic decline. He responded by innovating his own liberalism, characterized by labour rights, economic republicanism and social interdependence maintained by freely contracting workers. Significantly, the author draws attention to how Naoroji seeded 'Western' thinkers with his ideas as well as influencing numerous ideologies in colonial and post-colonial India. In doing so, the book offers a compelling argument which reframes Indian 'nationalists' as global thinkers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1925
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105118540298

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The Indian Historical Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39015065460548

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America, History and Life by Anonim Pdf

Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes information abstracted from over 2,000 journals published worldwide.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Clermont County (Ohio)
ISBN : YALE:39002054234126

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History of Clermont County, Ohio by Anonim Pdf