Writing The West 1750 1947

Author : C. Vijayasree
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8126019441

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Writing the West, 1750-1947 by C. Vijayasree Pdf

This Volume Explores How The ýWestý Has Been Written Into Indian Literary Texts And Other Cultural Productions. The Twelve Essays Included Here, Written By Literary Critics, Cultural Historians And Film Theorists, Examine Patterns In IndiaýS Perception And Creative Representation Of The West, Each Focusing On A Specific Linguistic Context: Asamiya, Bangla, Hindi, Oriya, Telugu And Urdu Besides Indian Writing In English. Though Dealing With Different Regions And Languages, Most Of These Papers Demonstrate The Limits Contemporary Postcolonial Theorizations And Urge The Need For A Reconceptualization Of The Theories Of Colonial Encounter In Order To Account For The Ways In Which India Imagined And Imaged The West And Its Civilization.

Author : D. S. Rao
Publisher : Sahitya Akademi
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8126020601

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Five Decades by D. S. Rao Pdf

On the completion of fiftieth year of Sahitya Akademi.

Author : Hemjyoti Medhi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789354973123

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Gendered Publics by Hemjyoti Medhi Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women’s association, the Assam Mahila Samiti which led one of the most remarkable women’s movements in colonial India. Central to the Assam Mahila Samiti story is its founding Secretary, the firebrand feminist Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer, a polemical columnist, and a successful publicist of two vernacular magazines in the 1940s. The book traverses these individual and collective journeys from the 1920s to the 1950s, exploring their negotiations with the complex terrain of the multi-ethnic Brahmaputra valley during the highly politicised period of the anti-colonial movement. It argues that theoretical understanding of the term public sphere may be enriched through an engagement with rare archival materials of these middle class women’s associations’ hand written minutes of meetings in a local language in early twentieth-century colonial India and posits that gender may not function merely as constitutive of the public, but how women’s collectives may shape, transform and orchestrate a veritable gendered public, resistant to both native patriarchy and sometimes to colonial authority.

Author : Terry Collits
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781134253234

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Postcolonial Conrad by Terry Collits Pdf

Winner of the 2006 NSW Prize for Literary Scholarship. The work of Joseph Conrad has been read so disparately that it is tempting to talk of many different Conrads. One lasting impression however, is that his colonial novels, which record encounters between Europe and Europe’s ‘Other’, are highly significant for the field of post-colonial studies. Drawing on many years of research and a rich body of criticism, Postcolonial Conrad not only presents fresh readings of his novels of imperialism, but also maps and analyzes the interpretative tradition they have generated. Terry Collits first examines the reception of the author’s work in terms of the history of ideas, literary criticism, traditions of ‘Englishness’, Marxism and post-colonialism, before re-reading Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo and Victory in greater depth. Collits’ incisive and wide-ranging volume provides a much needed reconsideration of more than a century of criticism, discussing the many different perspectives born of constantly shifting contexts. Most importantly though, the book encourages and equips us for twenty-first criticism, where we must ask anew how we might read and understand these crucial and fascinating novels.

Author : Nitin Varma
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110461282

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Coolies of Capitalism by Nitin Varma Pdf

“Coolie” is a generic category for the “unskilled” manual labour. The offering of services for hire had various pre-colonial lineages. In the nineteenth century there was an attempt to recast the term in discursive constructions and material practices for “mobilized-immobilized” labour. Coolie labour was often proclaimed as a deliberate compromise straddling the regimes of the past (slave labour) and the future (free labour). It was portrayed as a stage in a promised transition. The tea plantations of Assam, like many other tropical plantations in South Asia, were inaugurated and formalized during this period. They were initially worked by the locals. In the late 1850s, the locals were replaced by labourers imported from outside the province who were unquestioningly designated “coolies” in the historical literature. Qualifying this framework of transition (local to coolie labour) and introduction (of coolie labour), this study makes a case for the “production” of coolie labour in the history of the colonial-capitalist plantations in Assam. The intention of the research is not to suggest an unfettered agency of colonial-capitalism in defining and “producing” coolies, with an emphasis on the attendant contingencies, negotiations, contestations and crises. The study intervenes in the narratives of an abrupt appearance of the archetypical coolie of the tea gardens (i.e., imported and indentured) and situates this archetype’s emergence, sustenance and shifts in the context of material and discursive processes.

Author : Claude Markovits
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139431279

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The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750–1947 by Claude Markovits Pdf

Claude Markovits tells the story of two groups of Hindu merchants from the towns of Shikarpur and Hyderabad in the province of Sind. Basing his account on previously neglected archival sources, the author charts the development of these communities, from the pre-colonial period through colonial conquest and up to independence, describing how they came to control trading networks throughout the world. While the book focuses on the trade of goods, money and information from Sind to the widely dispersed locations of Kobe, Panama, Bukhara and Cairo, it also throws light on the nature of trading diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book, written by one of the most distinguished economic historians in the field. It will appeal to scholars of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and to students of religion.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Commonwealth literature (English)
ISBN : UCBK:C094114227

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The Journal of Commonwealth Literature by Anonim Pdf

One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.

Author : Ainslie T. Embree,Carol Gluck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317476481

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Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching by Ainslie T. Embree,Carol Gluck Pdf

A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history.

Author : Nile Green
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253011480

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Writing Travel in Central Asian History by Nile Green Pdf

For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the region brought home to China and Japan, India and Persia, Russia and Great Britain, provide valuable evidence that helps map earlier periods of globalization and cultural interaction.

Author : Sahitya Akademi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015066247563

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Annual Report by Sahitya Akademi Pdf

Author : Jan de Maeyer
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9058674975

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Religion, Children's Literature, and Modernity in Western Europe, 1750-2000 by Jan de Maeyer Pdf

In this book some 25 scholars focus on the relationship between religion, children's literature and modernity in Western Europe since the Enlightenment (c. 1750). They examine various aspects of the phenomenon of children's literature, such as types of texts, age of readers, position of authors, design and illustration. The role of religion in giving meaning both in a substantive sense as well as through the institutionalised churches is studied from an interdenominational point of view (Judaism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism and Anglicanism). Finally, the contribution of pedagogy and child psychology in the interaction between modernity, religion and children's literature is also discussed.Various articles give a broad overview of the tensions between aesthetics and ethics and the demand for cultural autonomy in the development of children's literature. Children's bibles and missionary stories played an important part in the growing diversification of children's literature, as did the publication of illustrated reviews for children. Remarkable differences are highlighted in the involvement of religious societies and institutions, episcopally approved publishing houses and supervisory bodies in the publication, distribution and supervision of children's literature. This volume adopts a comparative approach in exploring the underlying religious, ideological and cultural dimensions of children's literature in modern society.)

Author : Ainslie Thomas Embree,Carol Gluck
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 1048 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 1563242656

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Asia in Western and World History by Ainslie Thomas Embree,Carol Gluck Pdf

This comprehensive volume provides teachers and students with broad and stimulating perspectives on Asian history and its place in world and Western history. Essays by over forty leading scholars suggest many new ways of incorporating Asian history, from ancient to modern times, into core curriculum history courses. Now featuring "Suggested Resources for Maps to Be Used in Conjunction with Asia in Western and World History".

Author : Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West
Publisher : Picador
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-08-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0805057102

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Mirrorwork by Salman Rushdie,Elizabeth West Pdf

This unique anthology, Mirrorwork, presents thirty-two selections by Indian authors writing in English over the past half-century. Selected by Salman Rushdie and Elizabeth West, these novel excerpts, stories, and memoirs illuminate wonderful writing by authors often overlooked in the West. Chronologically arranged to reveal the development of Indian literature in English, this volume includes works by Jawaharlal Nehru, Nayantara Sahgal, Saadat Hasan Manto, G.V. Desani, Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Kamala Markandaya, Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, Ved Mehta, Anita Desai, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Satyajit Ray, Salman Rushdie, Padma Perera, Upamanyu Chatterjee, Rohinton Mistry, Bapsi Sidhwa, I. Allan Sealy, Shashi Tharoor, Sara Suleri, Firdaus Kanga, Anjana Appachana, Amit Chaudhuri, Amitav Ghosh, Githa Hariharan, Gita Mehta, Vikram Seth, Vikram Chandra, Ardashir Vakil, Mukul Kesavan, Arundhati Roy, and Kiran Desai.

Author : Kelly Boyd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136787645

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Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing by Kelly Boyd Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing contains over 800 entries ranging from Lord Acton and Anna Comnena to Howard Zinn and from Herodotus to Simon Schama. Over 300 contributors from around the world have composed critical assessments of historians from the beginning of historical writing to the present day, including individuals from related disciplines like Jürgen Habermas and Clifford Geertz, whose theoretical contributions have informed historical debate. Additionally, the Encyclopedia includes some 200 essays treating the development of national, regional and topical historiographies, from the Ancient Near East to the history of sexuality. In addition to the Western tradition, it includes substantial assessments of African, Asian, and Latin American historians and debates on gender and subaltern studies.

Author : Mark Brayshay
Publisher : University of Exeter Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 085989424X

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Topographical Writers in South-West England by Mark Brayshay Pdf

A collection of essays concerned with topographical writers who published work on the west country between c. 1600 and 1900. It provides an assessment of some famous writers such as Leland, a guide to the sources for the west Country and an analysis of the development of the genre.