The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and...
The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and glo...
Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to nascent nationalist movements. Debates over practices such as widow immolation, widow remarriage, and child marriage, as well as those governing marriage and property within different religious communities, continued to exert profound influence on Indian society and politics throughout the 20th century. In this collection, eminent historians Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar bring together some of the most important scholarly articles and primary...
Social reforms aimed at changing the social, political, or economic status of women in India were important both to British colonial rule and to na...
Network industries are characterised by existence of positive consumption externalities, referred to as network externalities. This book deals with the economic aspects of some technological issues in industries that exhibit network externalities. The work particularly focuses on markets for systems. A collection of two or more components that work only when used together forms a system. Systems exhibit network externality, which arises due to the complementarities between the components. Firms doing business in the markets for systems behave strategically while deciding on compatibility...
Network industries are characterised by existence of positive consumption externalities, referred to as network externalities. This book deals...
'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low
'...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be...
