Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics that has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and elsewhere in the world. How did this new form of politics come about? David Hardiman shows that it was based on a larger vision of an alternative society, one that emphasized mutual respect, resistance to exploitation, nonviolence, and ecological harmony. Politics was just one of the many directions in which Gandhi sought to activate this peculiarly personal vision, and its practice involved experiments in relation to his opponents. From representatives...
Gandhi was the creator of a radical style of politics that has proved effective in fighting insidious social divisions within India and elsewhere in t...
"Histories for the Subordinated" brings together the key writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Hardimans practice as a historian - his enormously rich empiricism, archival work, and fieldwork, as well as his clarity - has been an inspiration to many, even as it has implicitly questioned some of the fashionably arcane modes of history-writing.
Ranging across politics, environmental issues, Gandhi, moneylending, disease, and subaltern history, the book will interest all serious readers of Indian history as well as scholars in the areas...
"Histories for the Subordinated" brings together the key writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. ...
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of subaltern therapeutics that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.
Focusing on those who exist and practice in the shadow of statist medicine, the book discusses the many ways in which they try to heal a range of...
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment whi...
Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the Bhils, in the period 1880 to 1964. The study is informed by a deep knowledge of the people amongst whom the missionaries worked, the author having lived for extensive periods in the tribal tracts of western India. He argues that the Bhils were never the passive objects of missionary attention and that they created for themselves their own form of 'Christian modernity.' The book provides a major intervention in the history of colonial medicine, as...
Missionaries and their medicine is a lucid and enthralling study of the encounter between Christian missionaries and an Indian tribal community, the B...
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the everyday lives of the poor. It describes and analyses a world of subaltern therapeutics that both interacts with and resists state-sanctioned and elite forms of medical practice. The relationship is seen as both a historical as well as ongoing one.
Focusing on those who exist and practice in the shadow of statist medicine, the book discusses the many ways in which they try to heal a range of...
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment whi...
