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Author: ʻAbdulḥalīm Sharar Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1026
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This omnibus combines three classic works on the history and culture of that splendid city during British rule: Lucknow: The Last Phase of Oriential Culture, A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British, and the City of Lucknow, and The Making of Colonial Lucknow: 1856-1877.
Author: ʻAbdulḥalīm Sharar Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1026
Book Description
This omnibus combines three classic works on the history and culture of that splendid city during British rule: Lucknow: The Last Phase of Oriential Culture, A Fatal Friendship: The Nawabs, the British, and the City of Lucknow, and The Making of Colonial Lucknow: 1856-1877.
Author: David Page Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1412
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"Finally, and as a first-hand account based on personal observation and the reports of a government fact-finding organization, Stern Reckoning documents in great detail the riots, massacres, casualties, and political occurrences that led to the Partition. The narrative carries an immediacy, a documentary predilection, and biases that are both interesting and unavailable in later works on the same period."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Max Katz Publisher: Wesleyan University Press ISBN: 081957760X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 224
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In the middle of the nineteenth century a new family of hereditary musicians emerged in the royal court of Lucknow and subsequently rose to the heights of renown throughout North India. Today this musical lineage, or ghar n, lives on in the music and memories of only a small handful of descendants and players of the family instrument, the sarod. Drawing on six years of ethnographic and archival research, and fifteen years of musical apprenticeship, Max Katz explores the oral history and written record of the Lucknow ghar n ,tracing its displacement, loss of prestige, and erasure from the collective memory. In doing so he illuminates a hidden history of ideological and social struggle in North Indian music culture, intervenes in ongoing debates over the anti-Muslim agenda of Hindustani music's reform movement, and reanimates a lost vision in which Muslim scholar-artists defined the music of the nation. An interdisciplinary, postmodern counter-history, Lineage of Loss offers a new and unsettling narrative of Hindustani music's encounter with modernity.
Author: Nirad C. Chaudhuri Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 966
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This Omnibus edition brings together four classic works on Hinduism by renowned scholars, providing the liturgical, historical, anthropological, and individualist's interpretation of the religion. With an introduction by T.N. Madan, this volume will make an excellent and very comprehensive collector's item on the subject of Hinduism.
Author: Ruth Vanita Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 1501334441 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 230
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Indian cinema is the only body of world cinema that depicts courtesans as important characters. In early films courtesan characters transmitted Indian classical dance, music and aesthetics to large audiences. They represent the nation's past, tracing their heritage to the fourth-century Kamasutra and to nineteenth-century courtly cultures, but they are also the first group of modern women in Hindi films. They are working professionals living on their own or in matrilineal families. Like male protagonists, they travel widely and develop networks of friends and chosen kin. They have relations with men outside marriage and become single mothers. Courtesan films are heroine-oriented and almost every major female actor has played this role. Challenging received wisdom, Vanita demonstrates that a larger number of courtesans in Bombay cinema are Hindu and indeterminate than are Muslim, and that films depict their culture as hybrid Hindu-Muslim, not Islamicate. Courtesans speak in the ambiguous voice of the modern nation, inviting spectators to seize pleasure here and now but also to search for the meaning of life. Vanita's groundbreaking study of courtesans and courtesan imagery in 235 films brings fresh evidence to show that the courtesan figure shapes the modern Indian erotic, political and religious imagination.
Author: Joel Lee Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108967078 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 356
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The idea that India is a Hindu majority nation rests on the assumption that the vast swath of its population stigmatized as 'untouchable' is, and always has been, in some meaningful sense, Hindu. But is that how such communities understood themselves in the past, or how they understand themselves now? When and under what conditions did this assumption take shape, and what truths does it conceal? In this book, Joel Lee challenges presuppositions at the foundation of the study of caste and religion in South Asia. Drawing on detailed archival and ethnographic research, Lee tracks the career of a Dalit religion and the effort by twentieth-century nationalists to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic. A chronicle of religious life in north India and an examination of the ethics and semiotics of secrecy, Deceptive Majority throws light on the manoeuvres by which majoritarian projects are both advanced and undermined.
Author: Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai Publisher: Yoda Press ISBN: 9788190363426 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 358
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The eighteenth century was a time of profound upheaval when economic and political control of southern India passed from native kings to the East India Company. Hand-in-hand with the resultant conflicts and skirmishes, a process of cultural sharing was gaining ground which went on to manifest itself in the form of a flourishing imperial cultural in the nineteenth century.
Author: Percival Spear Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 1050
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This Collection Of Four Classic Books On Delhi Captures Its Essence And History Through The Ages. A Must Buy For Historians, Sociologists And Lay Reader Alike.
Author: Michael Saler Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317604814 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 784
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This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection of essays conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history, the Fin de Siècle. Featuring contributions from over forty international scholars, this book takes a thematic approach to a period of huge upheaval across all walks of life, and is truly innovative in examining the Fin de Siècle from a global perspective. The volume includes pathbreaking essays on how the period was experienced not only in Europe and North America, but also in China, Japan, the Middle East, Latin America, Africa, India, and elsewhere across the globe. Thematic topics covered include new concepts of time and space, globalization, the city, and new political movements including nationalism, the "New Liberalism", and socialism and communism. The volume also looks at the development of mass media over this period and emerging trends in culture, such as advertising and consumption, film and publishing, as well as the technological and scientific changes that shaped the world at the turn of the nineteenth century, such as the invention of the telephone, new transport systems, eugenics and physics. The Fin-de-Siècle World also considers issues such as selfhood through chapters looking at gender, sexuality, adolescence, race and class, and considers the importance of different religions, both old and new, at the turn of the century. Finally the volume examines significant and emerging trends in art, music and literature alongside movements such as realism and aestheticism. This volume conveys a vivid picture of how politics, religion, popular and artistic culture, social practices and scientific endeavours fitted together in an exciting world of change. It will be invaluable reading for all students and scholars of the Fin-de-Siècle period.
Author: James Heitzman Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134289626 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 354
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The macro-region of South Asia – including Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka – today supports one of the world’s greatest concentrations of cities, but as James Heitzman argues in the first comprehensive treatment of urban South Asia, this has been the case for at least 5,000 years. With a strong emphasis on the production of space and periodic excursions into literature, art and architecture, religion and public culture, this interdisciplinary study is a valuable text for students and scholars interested in comparative history, urban studies, and the social sciences.
Author: ʻAbdulḥalīm Sharar
Author: ʻAbdulḥalīm Sharar
Author: David Page
Author: Max Katz
Author: Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Author: Ruth Vanita
Author: Joel Lee
Author: Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai
Author: Percival Spear
Author: Michael Saler
Author: James Heitzman