Author: Madras (India : Presidency). Record Office
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 206

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Author: Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520244559
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Author: Sabyasachi Bhattacharya
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199095582
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department, the precursor of the National Archives of India, and the Indian Historical Records Commission, to the framing of archival policies and the change in those policies over the years. In the last two decades of colonial rule in India, there were anticipations of freedom in many areas of the public sphere. These were felt in the domain of archiving as well, chiefly in the form of reversal of earlier policies. From this perspective, Bhattacharya explores the relation between knowledge and power and discusses how the World Wars and the decline of Britain, among other factors, effected a transition from a Eurocentric and disparaging approach to India towards a more liberal and less ethnocentric one.

Author: Vera Lazzaretti
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000622193
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 191

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Much of the scholarship dealing with religious offence in South Asia focuses on the unintended effects of blasphemy laws, showing, for instance, that laws presumably intended to promote religious tolerance end up informing, if not encouraging, disputes around religious sensitivities. But while debates about the effects of law are crucial, this collection widens the scope of the enquiry by suggesting that a more nuanced understanding of religious offence can be gained by looking past full-blown legal proceedings and the spectacular violence performed in the streets during religious offence controversies. Drawing on the extensive empirical field research of six scholars of religion and politics, this book directs attention to frictions around religious sensitivities that are handled and often mitigated locally—either entirely outside the courts or through bottom-up initiatives that unfold in combination with, or as a reaction to, top-down measures. While documenting a range of containment modalities in diverse geographical and socio-religious settings in India and scrutinising their functioning and outcomes, the book is a first attempt to bridge research on religious offence with critical understandings of peace and scholarship on the micro-mechanisms of coexistence. Beyond Courtrooms and Street Violence is a significant new contribution to the study of religion, politics and communities in India, and will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of Anthropology, History, Politics, Cultural Studies, and Sociology. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies.

Author: University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Author: Madras (India : State). Government Press
Publisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies. Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: Theodore Besterman
Publisher: Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Author: Tsukasa Mizushima
Publisher:
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Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages : 482

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