Rethinking Bihar And Bengal

Author : Birendra Nath Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000465020

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Rethinking Bihar and Bengal by Birendra Nath Prasad Pdf

This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Birendra Nath Prasad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000465099

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Rethinking Bihar and Bengal by Birendra Nath Prasad Pdf

This book is a collection of some of the published papers of the author, published mostly abroad, and unravels some significant yet hitherto neglected aspects of history, culture and religion of Bihar and Bengal: two areas that were connected through an intricate network of rivers. Themes looked into are: early historic urbanisation in the Mithilā plains of North Bihar; the social history of Brahmanical religious institutions (temples and Mathas) in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the social history of Buddhist monasticism in early medieval Bihar and Bengal; the integration of a local goddess into the institutional fabric of Mahayana Buddhism; the survival of Buddhism in the thirteenth and fourteenth century AD; pilgrimage from Central India and Deccan to a Hindu pil grimage centre of Bihar in the medieval period; and the debate on the Islamisation of medieval eastern Bengal. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Birendra Nath Prasad
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000416732

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Archaeology of Religion in South Asia by Birendra Nath Prasad Pdf

In the religious landscape of early medieval (c. AD 600-1200) Bihar and Bengal, poly-religiosity was generally the norm than an exception, which entailed the evolution of complex patterns of inter-religious equations. Buddhism, Brahmanism and Jainism not only coexisted but also competed for social patronage, forcing them to enter into complex interactions with social institutions and processes. Through an analysis of the published archaeological data, this work explores some aspects of the social history of Buddhist, Brahmanical and Jaina temples and shrines, and Buddhist stūpas and monasteries in early medieval Bihar and Bengal. This archaeological history of religions questions many ‘established’ textual reconstructions, and enriches our understanding of the complex issue of the decline of Buddhism in this area. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Minoru Mio,Abhijit Dasgupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351983228

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Rethinking Social Exclusion in India by Minoru Mio,Abhijit Dasgupta Pdf

In recent years exclusionary policies of the Indian state have raised questions concerning social harmony and economic progress. During the last few decades the emergence of identity politics has given new lease of life to exclusionary practices in the country. Castes, communities and ethnic groups have re-emerged in almost every sphere of social life. This book analyses different aspects of social exclusion in contemporary India. Divided into three sections – 1. New Forms of Inclusion and Exclusion in Contemporary India; 2. Religious Identities and Dalits; 3. Ethnicity and Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the North-eastern Frontier – the book shows that a shift has taken place in the discourse on inclusion and exclusion. Chapters by experts in their fields explore issues of inclusion and exclusion that merit special attention such as dalit identity, ethnicity, territoriality and minorities. Authors raise questions about developmental programmes of the state aimed at making India more inclusive and discuss development projects initiated to alleviate socio-economic conditions of the urban poor in the cities. As far as North-east region is concerned, the authors argue that there is a tendency to highlight the homogenizing nature of the Indian culture by stressing one history, one language, one social ethos. Diversity is hardly accepted as a social reality, which has adversely affected the inclusive nature of the state. Against this development the final part of the book looks at questions regarding ethnic minorities in the northeast. Offering new insights into the debate surrounding social exclusion in contemporary India, this book will be of interest to academics studying anthropology, sociology, politics and South Asian Studies.

Author : Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015081828025

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Rethinking 1857 by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya Pdf

Contributed articles presented at a conference moderated by Indian Council of Historical Research held in December 2006.

Author : Kaustubh Mani Sengupta,Tista Das
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-25
Category : Bengal (India)
ISBN : 1032055332

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Rethinking the Local in Indian History by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta,Tista Das Pdf

This volume looks at the concept of the 'local' in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents simultaneously inform and interact with particular local idioms to produce variegated histories of a region.

Author : Ashutosh Kumar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315391441

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Rethinking State Politics in India by Ashutosh Kumar Pdf

In recent decades, India has been witness to the assertion of geographically, culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined regions that display ethnic, communal, caste and other social–political cleavages. This book examines the changing configurations of state politics in India. Focussing on identity politics and development, it explores the specificities of the regions within states — not merely as politico-administrative constructs but also as conceived in historical, geographic, economic, sociological or cultural terms. Adopting a comparative approach, the book looks at alternative theoretical approaches — the quest for homeland, identity, caste politics and public policy. This second edition includes a new Introduction that updates the research in the area, while further developing the theoretical framework. One of the first major volumes on federalism in India, including studies from across the nation, this book will be indispensable for students and scholars of political science, sociology, history and South Asian studies.

Author : Neilesh Bose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350124691

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South Asian Migrations in Global History by Neilesh Bose Pdf

This collection explores how South Asian migrations in modern history have shaped key aspects of globalization since the 1830s. Including original research from colonial India, Fiji, Mexico, South Africa, North America and the Middle East, the essays explore indentured labour and its legacies, law as a site of regulation and historical biography. Including recent scholarship on the legacy of issues such as consent, sovereignty and skilled/unskilled labour distinctions from the history of indentured labour migrations, this volume brings together a range of historical changes that can only be understood by studying South Asian migrants within a globalized world system. Centering south Asian migrations as a site of analysis in global history, the contributors offer a lens into the ongoing regulation of labourers after the abolition of slavery that intersect with histories in the Global North and Global South. The use of historical biography showcases experiences from below, and showcases a world history outside empire and nation.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:2019335708

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Rethinking the History of a Scheduled Caste by Anonim Pdf

Author : Vinayak Chaturvedi
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844676378

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Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi Pdf

Inspired by Antonio Gramsci’s writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists by adopting the paradigm of ‘history from below’. Later on, the project shifted from its social history origins by drawing upon an eclectic group of thinkers that included Edward Said, Roland Barthes, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida. This book provides a comprehensive balance sheet of the project and its developments, including Ranajit Guha’s original subaltern studies manifesto, Partha Chatterjee, Dipesh Chakrabarty and Gayatri Spivak.

Author : Claire Alexander,Joya Chatterji,Annu Jalais
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317335924

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The Bengal Diaspora by Claire Alexander,Joya Chatterji,Annu Jalais Pdf

India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the Bengal delta itself. A similar number were internally displaced, while others moved to the Middle East, North America and Europe. Using a creative interdisciplinary approach combining historical, sociological and anthropological approaches to migration and diaspora this book explores the experiences of Bengali Muslim migrants through this period of upheaval and transformation. It draws on over 200 interviews conducted in Britain, India, and Bangladesh, tracing migration and settlement within, and from, the Bengal delta region in the period after 1947. Focussing on migration and diaspora ‘from below’, it teases out fascinating ‘hidden’ migrant stories, including those of women, refugees, and displaced people. It reveals surprising similarities, and important differences, in the experience of Muslim migrants in widely different contexts and places, whether in the towns and hamlets of Bengal delta, or in the cities of Britain. Counter-posing accounts of the structures that frame migration with the textures of how migrants shape their own movement, it examines what it means to make new homes in a context of diaspora. The book is also unique in its focus on the experiences of those who stayed behind, and in its analysis of ruptures in the migration process. Importantly, the book seeks to challenge crude attitudes to ‘Muslim’ migrants, which assume their cultural and religious homogeneity, and to humanize contemporary discourses around global migration. This ground-breaking new research offers an essential contribution to the field of South Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies, and Society and Culture Studies.

Author : India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : India
ISBN : UCAL:B4631859

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Parliamentary Debates by India. Parliament. Rajya Sabha Pdf

Author : Manali Desai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2006-11-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134133321

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State Formation and Radical Democracy in India by Manali Desai Pdf

Chapter 1 Old legacies, new protests: Welfare and left rule in democratic India -- chapter 2 The social bases of rule and rebellion: Colonial Kerala and Bengal, 1792-1930 -- chapter 3 State formation and social movements: Colonial Kerala and Bengal compared, 1865-1930 -- chapter 4 Political practices and left ascendancy in Kerala, 1920-47 -- chapter 5 Structure, practices and weak left hegemony in Bengal, 1925-47 -- chapter 6 Insurgent and electoral logics in policy regimes: Kerala and Bengal compared, 1947 to the present.

Author : Asha Mishra,Chittaranjan Kumar Paty
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Jharkhand (India)
ISBN : 8180696863

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Tribal Movements in Jharkhand, 1857-2007 by Asha Mishra,Chittaranjan Kumar Paty Pdf

Contributed articles presented at the National Conference organized by Department of History, Mahila College, Chaibasa on 7-8 March, 2008 sponsored by UGC Eastern Regional Office, Kolkata.

Author : Stuart Corbridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521834791

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Seeing the State by Stuart Corbridge Pdf

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