Sources Of Indian Tradition Modern India And Pakistan

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A. Gordon,Ainslie T. Embree,Frances W. Pritchett,Dennis Dalton
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 1025 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231510929

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Sources of Indian Traditions by Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A. Gordon,Ainslie T. Embree,Frances W. Pritchett,Dennis Dalton Pdf

For more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource Sources of Indian Traditions their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. This third edition now begins earlier than the first and second, featuring a new chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India's modern development. The editors have added material on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad and include different perspectives on and approaches to Partition and its aftermath. They expand their portrait of post-1947 India and Pakistan and add perspectives on Bangladesh. The collection continues to be divided thematically, with a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution, the rise of nationalism, the influence of Western thought, the conflict in Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, minority religions, secularism, and the role of the Indian political left. A phenomenal text, Sources of Indian Traditions is more indispensable than ever for courses in philosophy, religion, literature, and intellectual and cultural history.

Author : Stephen N. Hay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : India
ISBN : 0140154612

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Stephen N. Hay Pdf

Since 1958 Sources Of Indian Tradition Has Been One Of The Most Important And Widely Used Texts On Civilization In South Asia (Now The Nation-States Of Indian, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, And Nepal). It Has Helped Generations Of Students And Lay Readers Understand How Leading Thinkers There Have Looked At Life, The Traditions Of Their Ancestors, And The World They Lived In. This Second Edition Has Been Extensively Revised, With Much New Material Added. Introductory Essays Explain The Particular Setting In Which These Thinkers Have Expressed Their Ideas About Religious, Social, Political, And Economic Questions. Brief Summaries Precede Each Passage From Their Writings Or Sayings. The Traditions Represented Include Brahmanism, Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam And Sikhism. The Book Includes A Chronology Of Indian History From 3000 Bc To Ad 1858.

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A Gordon,Ainslie T Embree,Frances W Pritchett,Dennis Dalton
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1024 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789351188957

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Rachel Fell McDermott,Leonard A Gordon,Ainslie T Embree,Frances W Pritchett,Dennis Dalton Pdf

Sources of Indian Tradition is an indispensable and essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. Divided thematically, it begins with a chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India’s modern development. Nineteenth-century debates over social reform, featuring the leaders of reform and revival movements, follow. Chapters on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad, and different perspectives on and approaches to partition, precede a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution, the rise of nationalism, the influence of Western thought, the conflict in Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, minority religions, secularism, and the role of the Indian political left. The last two sections portray Pakistan and its struggle for national identity, and Bangladesh and the controversies over the fruits of freedom.

Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree,Stephen N. Hay,William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0231064144

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Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan by Ainslie Thomas Embree,Stephen N. Hay,William Theodore De Bary Pdf

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Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : India
ISBN : 0231066503

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Sources of Indian Tradition: Modern India and Pakistan by Ainslie Thomas Embree Pdf

Author : David L. Gosling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134143337

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Science and the Indian Tradition by David L. Gosling Pdf

This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. The beliefs of key Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, P.C. Roy and S.N. Bose are explored and the book goes on to reflect upon how individual scientists could still accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. Science and the Indian Tradition gives an in-depth assessment of results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and those interested in the interaction between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.

Author : Ananya Vajpeyi
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674071834

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Righteous Republic by Ananya Vajpeyi Pdf

What India’s founders derived from Western political traditions as they struggled to free their country from colonial rule is widely understood. Less well-known is how India’s own rich knowledge traditions of two and a half thousand years influenced these men as they set about constructing a nation in the wake of the Raj. In Righteous Republic, Ananya Vajpeyi furnishes this missing account, a ground-breaking assessment of modern Indian political thought. Taking five of the most important founding figures—Mohandas Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Abanindranath Tagore, Jawaharlal Nehru, and B. R. Ambedkar—Vajpeyi looks at how each of them turned to classical texts in order to fashion an original sense of Indian selfhood. The diverse sources in which these leaders and thinkers immersed themselves included Buddhist literature, the Bhagavad Gita, Sanskrit poetry, the edicts of Emperor Ashoka, and the artistic and architectural achievements of the Mughal Empire. India’s founders went to these sources not to recuperate old philosophical frameworks but to invent new ones. In Righteous Republic, a portrait emerges of a group of innovative, synthetic, and cosmopolitan thinkers who succeeded in braiding together two Indian knowledge traditions, the one political and concerned with social questions, the other religious and oriented toward transcendence. Within their vast intellectual, aesthetic, and moral inheritance, the founders searched for different aspects of the self that would allow India to come into its own as a modern nation-state. The new republic they envisaged would embody both India’s struggle for sovereignty and its quest for the self.

Author : D D Kosambi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000653472

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The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in HIstorical Outline by D D Kosambi Pdf

First published in 1965, The Culture and Civilisation of Ancient India in Historical Outline is a strikingly original work, the first real cultural history of India. The main features of the Indian character are traced back into remote antiquity as the natural outgrowth of historical process. Did the change from food gathering and the pastoral life to agriculture make new religions necessary? Why did the Indian cities vanish with hardly a trace and leave no memory? Who were the Aryans – if any? Why should Buddhism, Jainism, and so many other sects of the same type come into being at one time and in the same region? How could Buddhism spread over so large a part of Asia while dying out completely in the land of its origin? What caused the rise and collapse of the Magadhan empire; was the Gupta empire fundamentally different from its great predecessor, or just one more ‘oriental despotism’? These are some of the many questions handled with great insight, yet in the simplest terms, in this stimulating work. This book will be of interest to students of history, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, South Asian studies and ethnic studies.

Author : William Theodore De Bary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : India
ISBN : OCLC:760350263

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Sources of Indian Tradition by William Theodore De Bary Pdf

Author : Ramachandra Guha
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780674725966

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Makers of Modern India by Ramachandra Guha Pdf

Modern India is the world's largest democracy, a sprawling, polyglot nation containing one-sixth of all humankind. The existence of such a complex and distinctive democratic regime qualifies as one of the world's bona fide political miracles. Furthermore, India's leading political thinkers have often served as its most influential political actorsÑthink of Gandhi, whose collected works run to more than ninety volumes, or Ambedkar, or Nehru, who recorded their most eloquent theoretical reflections at the same time as they strove to set the delicate machinery of Indian democracy on a coherent and just path. Out of the speeches and writings of these thinker-activists, Ramachandra Guha has built the first major anthology of Indian social and political thought. Makers of Modern India collects the work of nineteen of India's foremost generators of political sentiment, from those whose names command instant global recognition to pioneering subaltern and feminist thinkers whose works have until now remained obscure and inaccessible. Ranging across manifold languages and cultures, and addressing every crucial theme of modern Indian historyÑrace, religion, language, caste, gender, colonialism, nationalism, economic development, violence, and nonviolenceÑMakers of Modern India provides an invaluable roadmap to Indian political debate. An extensive introduction, biographical sketches of each figure, and guides to further reading make this work a rich resource for anyone interested in India and the ways its leading political minds have grappled with the problems that have increasingly come to define the modern world.

Author : Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : India
ISBN : 0199736324

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India by Thomas R. Trautmann Pdf

India: Brief History of a Civilization provides a brief overview of a very long period, allowing students to acquire a mental map of the entire history of Indian civilization in a short book. Most comprehensive histories devote a few chapters to the early history of India and an increasing number of pages to the more recent period, giving an impression that early history is mere background and that Indian civilization finds its fulfillment in the nation-state. Thomas R. Trautmann believes that the deep past lives on and is a valuable resource for understanding the present day and for creating a viable future. The result is a book that is short enough to read in a few sittings, but comprehensive in coverage--5,000 years of India in brief.

Author : Rachel Dwyer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781479848690

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Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies by Rachel Dwyer Pdf

Modern Indian studies have recently become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as ahimsa, caste, darshan, and race—have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the Indian subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this volume comprises over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to their respective fields of specialization, highlighting crucial issues and debates in a lucid and concise manner. Each concept is accompanied by a critical analysis of its trajectory and a succinct discussion of its significance in the academic arena as well as in the public sphere. Enhancing the shared framework of understanding about the Indian subcontinent, Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies will provide the reader with insights into vital debates about the region, underscoring the compelling issues emanating from colonialism and postcolonialism.

Author : Vasudha Dalmia,Rashmi Sadana
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139825467

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture by Vasudha Dalmia,Rashmi Sadana Pdf

India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail social divisions, customs, communications and daily life. In a series of engaging, erudite and occasionally moving essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes modern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging are the cultures that persist in the regions of India. This volume will help the reader understand the continuities and fissures within Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore is the extraordinary richness and diversity of modern Indian culture.

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415307872

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Modern South Asia by Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal Pdf

A wide-ranging survey of the Indian sub-continent, Modern South Asia gives an enthralling account of South Asian history. After sketching the pre-modern history of the subcontinent, the book concentrates on the last three centuries from c.1700 to the present. Jointly written by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, Modern South Asia offers a rare depth of understanding of the social, economic and political realities of this region. This comprehensive study includes detailed discussions of: the structure and ideology of the British raj; the meaning of subaltern resistance; the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste class, community and gender; and the state and economy, society and politics of post-colonial South Asia The new edition includes a rewritten, accessible introduction and a chapter by chapter revision to take into account recent research. The second edition will also bring the book completely up to date with a chapter on the period from 1991 to 2002 and adiscussion of the last millennium in sub-continental history.

Author : Rachel Fell McDermott,Vidya Dehejia,Ainslee Embree,Indira Peterson,Frances Pritchett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0231138288

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Sources of Indian Tradition by Rachel Fell McDermott,Vidya Dehejia,Ainslee Embree,Indira Peterson,Frances Pritchett Pdf