The Concept Of Bharatavarsha And Other Essays

Author : B. D. Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438471754

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The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays by B. D. Chattopadhyaya Pdf

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 terms—such as janapada, desa, var?a, dharma, bh?va—in 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 India’s “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 Chattopadhyaya’s latest collection only consolidates his high international reputation.

Author : Hermann Kulke,Bhairabi Prasad Sahu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000485141

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The Routledge Handbook of the State in Premodern India by Hermann Kulke,Bhairabi Prasad Sahu Pdf

This handbook presents a multilayered and multidimensional history of state formation in premodern India. It explores dense and rich local and subregional historiography from the mid-first millennium BC to the eighteenth century in South Asia. Shifting the focus away from economic and political factors, this handbook revises the conventional understanding of states and empires and locates them in their quotidian conduct and activity on socio-cultural and concomitant factors. Comprehensive in scope, this handbook addresses a range of themes connected with the idea of state formation in the subcontinent. It includes discussions and debates on ritual practices and the Brahmanical order in early India; the Delhi Sultanate and role of Sultans among the Hindu kings; the cosmopolitan ‘Islamicate’ cultural influences on Puranic Hinduism; cultural background of the Mughal state. The handbook examines new questions and ideologies of state formation, such as: · facets of violence and resistance; · the significance of the autonomous spaces and forests; · regional elites, including ‘Little kings’; tribal background of some famous cults; · trade and maritime commerce; · royal patronage, courtly manners, lineage formation; · imperial architecture, monuments, and temple, among others. Featuring case studies from different part of the India subcontinent, and with contributions by renowned historians, this authoritative handbook will be an indispensable reading for teachers, scholars, and students of early India, medieval India, premodern India, South Asian history, Asian history, historiography, economic history, historical sociology, and South Asia studies.

Author : Sudeshna Guha
Publisher : Hachette India
Page : 617 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9789350099032

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A History of India through 75 Objects by Sudeshna Guha Pdf

With a curation of objects from the prehistoric ages through twenty-first century India, Sudeshna Guha provides a panoramic view of the rich histories of the subcontinent. The incisive essays in this collection detail not just the objects but the histories of their reception: examining how changing times and attitudes cast their shadow on the ways in which the past is interpreted and narrated. In doing so, A History of India through 75 Objects inspires us to interrogate our own notions of a knowable past and fixed national history. Teeming with thought-provoking insights and surprising anecdotes, the essays instill a sense of wonder about the continuous processes by which histories are constructed.

Author : Nilanjana Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000193299

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Spatial Imaginings in the Age of Colonial Cartographic Reason by Nilanjana Mukherjee Pdf

This volume explores how India as a geographical space was constructed by the British colonial regime in visual and material terms. It demonstrates the instrumentalisation of cultural artefacts such as landscape paintings, travel literature and cartography, as spatial practices overtly carrying scientific truth claims, to materially produce artificial spaces that reinforced power relations. It sheds light on the primary dominance of cartographic reason in the age of European Enlightenment which framed aesthetic and scientific modes of representation and imagination. The author cross-examines this imperial gaze as a visual perspective which bore the material inscriptions of a will to assert, possess and control. The distinguishing theme in this study is the production of India as a new geography sourced from Britain's own interaction with its rural outskirts and domination in its fringes. This book: Addresses the concept of "production of space" to study the formulation of a colonial geography which resulted in the birth of a new place, later a nation; Investigates a generative period in the formation of British India c. 1750–1850 as a colonial territory vis-à-vis its representation and reiteration in British maps, landscape paintings and travel writings; Brings Great Britain and British India together on one plane not only in terms of the physical geo-spaces but also in the excavation of critical domains by alluding to critics from both spaces; Seeks to understand the pictorial grammar that legitimised the expansive British imperial cartographic gaze as the dominant narrative which marginalised all other existing local ideas of space and inhabitation. Rethinking colonial constructions of modern India, this volume will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of modern history, cultural geography, colonial studies, English literature, cultural studies, art, visual studies and area studies.

Author : Gregory Maertz
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1998-02-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0791435601

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Cultural Interactions in the Romantic Age by Gregory Maertz Pdf

Charts the interactive contours of European culture of the late eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries, extending the chronological limits of Romanticism by identifying fresh links among works, authors, contexts, and institutions across national and linguistic borders.

Author : Filippo Marsili
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438472034

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Heaven Is Empty by Filippo Marsili Pdf

Offers a new perspective on the relationship between religion and the creation of the first Chinese empires. Heaven Is Empty offers a new comparative perspective on the role of the sacred in the formation of China’s early empires (221 BCE–9 CE) and shows how the unification of the Central States was possible without a unitary and universalistic conception of religion. The cohesive function of the ancient Mediterranean cult of the divinized ruler was crucial for the legitimization of Rome’s empire across geographical and social boundaries. Eventually reelaborated in Christian terms, it came to embody the timelessness and universality of Western conceptions of legitimate authority, while representing an analytical template for studying other ancient empires. Filippo Marsili challenges such approaches in his examination of the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han (141–87 BCE). Wu purposely drew from regional traditions and tried to gain the support of local communities through his patronage of local cults. He was interested in rituals that envisioned the monarch as a military leader, who directly controlled the land and its resources, as a means for legitimizing radical administrative and economic centralization. In reconstructing this imperial model, Marsili reinterprets fragmentary official accounts in light of material evidence and noncanonical and recently excavated texts. In bringing to life the courts, battlefields, markets, shrines, and pleasure quarters of early imperial China, Heaven Is Empty provides a postmodern and postcolonial reassessment of “religion” before the arrival of Buddhism and challenges the application of Greco-Roman and Abrahamic systemic, identitary, and exclusionary notions of the “sacred” to the analysis of pre-Christian and non-Western realities. Filippo Marsili is Associate Professor of History at Saint Louis University.

Author : Étienne de la Vaissière
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047406990

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Sogdian Traders by Étienne de la Vaissière Pdf

The Sogdian were the main traders of Central Asia from the fifth to the eighth century. Their diaspora is attested in India, China, Iran, the Turkish Steppe, but also Byzantium. This is the first attempt to describe their trade.

Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015034006919

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The Making of Early Medieval India by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya Pdf

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.

Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Primus Books
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9386552043

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Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya Pdf

Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India seeks to undertake two kinds of explorations, one methodological and the other thematic. Methodologically, it examines texts of inscriptions--historians' main source for references to ancient villages--from diverse angles to try and understand the morphologies of villages in relation to different terrains across the country. One important aspect of this exploration concerns understanding, to the extent possible, the relationship of village location/s and sources of water, both for fields and habitats. Thematic explorations, apart from looking for possible physical appearances of ancient villages, extend to the search for the re-examination of the concept of village community, the search for hierarchies among village residents and settlements, and the changing nature of relationship between apex political authorities and villages. The conclusion, deriving from these explorations, makes an argument for the need to depart from the image of India's villages as unchanging, inert, insulated and self-sufficient spatial units to viewing them as varied social spaces in interaction with other spaces, which also went through phases of historical change.

Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843311324

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Studying Early India by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya Pdf

A focal study of the methodological changes that confront historians of pre-colonial India.

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 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 : J Sai Deepak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789354350047

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India, that is Bharat by J Sai Deepak Pdf

India, That Is Bharat, the first book of a comprehensive trilogy, explores the influence of European 'colonial consciousness' (or 'coloniality'), in particular its religious and racial roots, on Bharat as the successor state to the Indic civilisation and the origins of the Indian Constitution. It lays the foundation for its sequels by covering the period between the Age of Discovery, marked by Christopher Columbus' expedition in 1492, and the reshaping of Bharat through a British-made constitution-the Government of India Act of 1919. This includes international developments leading to the founding of the League of Nations by Western powers that tangibly impacted this journey. Further, this work also traces the origins of seemingly universal constructs such as 'toleration', 'secularism' and 'humanism' to Christian political theology. Their subsequent role in subverting the indigenous Indic consciousness through a secularised and universalised Reformation, that is, constitutionalism, is examined. It also puts forth the concept of Middle Eastern coloniality, which preceded its European variant and allies with it in the context of Bharat to advance their shared antipathy towards the Indic worldview. In order to liberate Bharat's distinctive indigeneity, 'decoloniality' is presented as a civilisational imperative in the spheres of nature, religion, culture, history, education, language and, crucially, in the realm of constitutionalism.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8182903955

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Narrativizing Bharatvarsa & Other Essays by Anonim Pdf

Author : K. N. Panikkar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Hinduism and politics
ISBN : UOM:39015052331496

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An Agenda for Cultural Action and Other Essays by K. N. Panikkar Pdf

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.

Author : Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi,Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0195677307

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Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings by Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi,Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya Pdf

This Important Book Edited By B.D. Chattopadhyaya Puts Together, For The First Time, The Many Essays, Notes And Reviews Which D.D. Kosambi, An Acknowledged Pioneers Who Introduced New Perspectives And Methods In Indological Studies, Wrote And Published Over A Period Of Almost Thirty Year.