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Conversion and Social Equality in India – The London Missionary Society in South Travancore in the 19th Century
ISBN: 9788185054780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Conversion in India should not be narrowed down to an individual moment of divine grace or a Gandhian change of heart. It is closely linked with the social aspirations of groups that suffer from discrimination and oppression. Since religion is supposed to cover all aspects of life, the author argues that for untouchable caste communities a change of religion may serve as an idiom of social mobility, in some respects closely resembling the more general?process?of?Sanskritization.
From the beginning of the nineteenth century the Christian missionaries' preachings attracted a large... Conversion in India should not be narrowed down to an individual moment of divine grace or a Gandhian change of heart. It is closely linked with the s...
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Linking Destinies: Trade, Towns and Kin in Asian History
ISBN: 9789067183208 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, we argue that there are good reasons to envisage them as various dimensions of the same networks. Nevertheless, it is fairly rare to find trade, cities and kinship relations as intimately linked as we have portrayed them in this volume, because they are usually classified within different sub-disciplines of history, whose practitioners are all too often not inclined to talk to people outside their own field. The Australian born historian Heather...
Trade flows, cities and kinship relations can all be seen as elements of complex networks. In this collection of essays, all of which deal with Asia, ...
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233,16 |