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The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
ISBN: 9780374530808 / Angielski / Miękka / 381 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " A] lavishly enjoyable book." --Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Britons at any one time managed an empire of 300 million people spread over the vast area that now includes India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Burma. How was this possible, and what were these people like? The British administration in India took pride in its efficiency and broad-mindedness, its devotion to duty and its sense of imperial grandeur, but it has become fashionable to deprecate it for its arrogance and ignorance. In The Ruling... " A] lavishly enjoyable book." --Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal Between 1837 and 1901, fewer than one thousand Brit... |
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Sati - Widow Burning in India
ISBN: 9780385423175 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bombay journalist Narasimhan here offers an unnerving, carefully documented study of the Indian ritual whereby widows bring glory on themselves and their families by self-immolation on the pyres of their dead husbands.
According to the author, the Hindi scriptures, which evolved from the second millennium B.C. to the second millennium A.D., sometimes suggest or sanction sati but this endorsement is equivocal. She further illustrates how, throughout Indian history, sati rituals must be seen as part of a wider canvas of social attitudes that denigrate women; a widow s life is particularly... Bombay journalist Narasimhan here offers an unnerving, carefully documented study of the Indian ritual whereby widows bring glory on themselves and th...
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Al-Hind, Volume 1 Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries
ISBN: 9780391041738 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, Andre Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that the Arabs called al-Hind--India and large parts of its Indianized hinterland. In the seventh to eleventh centuries, the expansion of Islam had a largely commercial impact on al-Hind. In the peripheral states of the Indian subcontinent, fluid resources, intensive raiding and trading activity, as well as social and political fluidity and openness produced a dynamic impetus that was absent in the densely settled agricultural...
In this volume, Andre Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that...
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700,02 |
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James Mill's History of British India
ISBN: 9780415153829 / Angielski / Twarda / 4054 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this monumental work James Mill exhibited the character, history, religion, arts, literature and the laws of the people of India, together with the physical influences arising out of the climate of the country. He narrated the story of the acquisition by England of its Indian Empire for the first time and brought to bear a vast body of political theory on the delineation of the Hindu civilization, severely criticizing the conduct of those involved in the successive stages of India's conquest and administration. The work itself and Mill's official subsequent connection with India had a...
In this monumental work James Mill exhibited the character, history, religion, arts, literature and the laws of the people of India, together with the...
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The East India Company: 1600 - the mid-nineteenth century
ISBN: 9780415155175 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The East India Company played a major part in the growth of Britain's empire. Its functions went beyond those of a trading concern and merged military force, government and colonization with economic expansion. This six-volume work covers the history of the Company from its origins in 1599-1600 to its abolition in the wake of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. This comprehensive collection contains reprinted first-hand sources, scholarly surveys, and thematically arranged collections of recent journal articles, offering scholarly coverage of the Company's history, and presenting recent...
The East India Company played a major part in the growth of Britain's empire. Its functions went beyond those of a trading concern and merged military...
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Tourists at the Taj: Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site
ISBN: 9780415167123 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is a symbolic centre of Islamic power. For many of the thousands of tourists that visit it each year it is simply a monument of love.
The author shows how tourism can be seen as a performance and the tourist site as a stage on which tourists are directed and rehearsed but also able to improvise their own cultural rituals. Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the...
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Tourists at the Taj : Performance and Meaning at a Symbolic Site
ISBN: 9780415167130 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text presents a sociological analysis of the cultural phenomenon, the Taj Mahal. The author describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site; those which remain rooted in Western post-colonialism, viewing the monument as a symbol of love, of India and of splendid exuberance and those which challenge this ethnocentricity, for whom the Taj is the symbolic centre of Islamic power or a site of Moghul appropriation. It goes on to describe many of the tourist practices around the Taj as well as considering the notion of tourism in a wider context. It concludes with the idea of...
This text presents a sociological analysis of the cultural phenomenon, the Taj Mahal. The author describes the conflicting narratives which surround t...
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406,13 |
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Religion and Nationalism in India : The Case of the Punjab
ISBN: 9780415201087 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examining the growth of a nationalist sentiment among the Sikh community in the Punjab, this study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian state in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the raiding of the Golden Templeat Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book reveals the role in this movement of a section of young, semi-literate Sikh peasantry who were disaffected by the Green Revolution and...
Examining the growth of a nationalist sentiment among the Sikh community in the Punjab, this study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh milita...
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873,24 |
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Studies: Indian and Islamic
ISBN: 9780415244640 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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527,98 |
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The Financial Systems of India
ISBN: 9780415244909 / Angielski / Twarda / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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2640,18 |
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The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age : From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837 to the Commencement of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780415244947 / Angielski / Twarda / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Indian Empire : Its People, History and Products
ISBN: 9780415244954 / Angielski / Twarda / 784 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Alberuni's India : An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India: Volume I
ISBN: 9780415244978 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Alberuni's India : An Account of the Religion, Philosophy, Literature, Geography, Chronology, Astronomy, Customs, Laws and Astrology of India: Volume II
ISBN: 9780415244985 / Angielski / Twarda / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Miscellaneous Essays Relating to Indian Subjects : Volume II
ISBN: 9780415245067 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Politics of Self-Expression: The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan
ISBN: 9780415312141 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Middleclass political culture in interwar North India was haunted by fascistic resonance. Activists from various political camps believed in forms of Social-Darwinism, worshipped violence and war and focused their political action on public spectacles and paramilitary organization. This book argues that these features were part of a larger political culture - the politics of self-expression - that had lost sight of society as the normal space in which politics was to be conducted. Instead, there was an emphasis on the inner worlds of individuals who increasingly came to understand politics as...
Middleclass political culture in interwar North India was haunted by fascistic resonance. Activists from various political camps believed in forms of ...
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Representing Calcutta: Modernity, Nationalism and the Colonial Uncanny
ISBN: 9780415343596 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta. The book responds to two inter-related concerns about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as the worst case scenario of a Third World city -- the proverbial 'city of dreadful nights.' Second is the changing nature of the city s public spaces -- the demise of certain forms of urban sociality that has been mourned in recent literature as the passing of Bengali modernity. By examining architecture, city plans, paintings, literature, and... Representing Calcutta is a spatial history of the colonial city, and addresses the question of modernity that haunts our perception of Cal... |
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The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur - Cheitharon Kumpapa : Original Text, Translation and Notes Vol. 1. 33-1763 CE
ISBN: 9780415344302 / Angielski / Twarda / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume contains a copy of the original text of the Cheitharol Kumpapa, the Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur which is authorised by the Palace, and the English translation from the original composed in archaic Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatory notes and a glossary complement this interesting source of information. Scholars working on East and South Asia will find this volume enlightening and the text will be useful for those readers engaged in social anthropology, religious history, archaeology, human geography and linguistics.
This volume contains a copy of the original text of the Cheitharol Kumpapa, the Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur which is authorised by the Pal...
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Partition and Post-Colonial South Asia: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415359542 / Angielski / Twarda / 1233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was a turning point for the area, irrevocably altering the fortunes of the people of South Asia. This new three-volume reader brings together an array of materials drawing upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data which critically examine the effects of that momentous division. Organized thematically, the contents cover a range of topics including: borders and boundaries; refugeehood and displacement; majorities and minorities; citizenship; diaspora; and the construction of post-colonial national identities. The set...The partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was a turning point for the area, irrevocably altering the fortunes of the people of South Asia. T... |
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Science and the Indian Tradition: When Einstein Met Tagore
ISBN: 9780415402095 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India experienced an intellectual renaissance, which owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. Gosling examines the effects of the introduction of Western science into India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and secular Western scientific doctrine. He charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the... This new text is a detailed study of an important process in modern Indian history. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, India e... |
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