Author: Sir Henry Miers ElliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India
Author: Sir Henry Miers ElliotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India
Author: H. M. ElliotPublisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120619050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Peasants and Monks in British India
Author: William R. PinchPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520200616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society—insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance. Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy—particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different—Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status—the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British.
In Quest of Indian Folktales
Author: Sadhana NaithaniPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253112028
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
"[A] rare piece of scholarly detective work." -- Margaret Mills, Ohio State University In Quest of Indian Folktales publishes for the first time a collection of northern Indian folktales from the late 19th century. Reputedly the work of William Crooke, a well-known folklorist and British colonial official, the tales were actually collected, selected, and translated by a certain Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube. In 1996, Sadhana Naithani discovered this unpublished collection in the archive of the Folklore Society, London. Since then, she has uncovered the identity of the mysterious Chaube and the details of his collaboration with the famous folklorist. In an extensive four-chapter introduction, Naithani describes Chaube's relationship to Crooke and the essential role he played in Crooke's work, as both a native informant and a trained scholar. By unearthing the fragmented story of Chaube's life, Naithani gives voice to a new identity of an Indian folklore scholar in colonial India. The publication of these tales and the discovery of Chaube's role in their collection reveal the complexity of the colonial intellectual world and problematize our own views of folklore in a postcolonial world.
The Folk-lore Journal
Author: Folklore Society (Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Gods on Earth
Author: Peter van der VeerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000324575
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book is the result of the long interest in Hindu pilgrimage which was encouraged during his study of Sanskrit and Hinduism It provided a detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. This is Volume 59 of the London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology.
Trubner's Oriental & Linguistic Publications. A Catalogue of Books, Periodicals, and Serials, on the History, Languages, Religions, Antiquities, Literature, and Geography of the East, and Kindred Subjects
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385405122
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 101
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Al-Hind the Making of the Indo-Islamic World
Author: André WinkPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004102361
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This is the second of a projected series of five volumes dealing with the expansion of Islam in "al-Hind," or South and Southeast Asia. It analyses the conquest of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries, the migration of Muslim groups into the subcontinent, and maritime developments in the same period.
Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries
Author: André WinkPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9780391041745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
During the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries.
Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries
Author: André WinkPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004483012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
During the early medieval Islamic expansion in the seventh to eleventh centuries, al-Hind (India and its Indianized hinterland) was characterized by two organizational modes: the long-distance trade and mobile wealth of the peripheral frontier states, and the settled agriculture of the heartland. These two different types of social, economic, and political organization were successfully fused during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, and India became the hub of world trade. During this period, the Middle East declined in importance, Central Asia was unified under the Mongols, and Islam expanded far into the Indian subcontinent. Instead of being devastated by the Mongols, who were prevented from penetrating beyond the western periphery of al-Hind by the absence of sufficient good pasture land, the agricultural plains of North India were brought under Turko-Islamic rule in a gradual manner in a conquest effected by professional armies and not accompanied by any large-scale nomadic invasions. The result of the conquest was, in short, the revitalization of the economy of settled agriculture through the dynamic impetus of forced monetization and the expansion of political dominion. Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries. Please note that The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 10236 1, still available).