Author: Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
A plain and affectionate address to young persons previous to their receiving the Lord's Supper ... Translated into Bengalee by K. M. Banerjea, etc
Author: Daniel WILSON (Bishop of Calcutta.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue. Series II, Phase I, 1816-1870
Author: Avero Publications LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780907977407
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
The Wrestler's Body
Author: Joseph S. AlterPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520912175
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes an ethnography of the wrestler's physique that elucidates the somatic structure of the wrestler's identity and ideology. Young men in North India may choose to join an akhara, or gymnasium, where they subject themselves to a complex program of physical and moral fitness. Alter's first-hand description of each detail of the wrestler's regimen offers a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Wrestlers feel that moral reform of Indian national character is essential and advocate their way of life as an ideology of national health. Everyone is called on to become a wrestler and build collective strength through self-discipline.
Modern Religious and Secular Movements in India
Author: Aleyamma ZachariahPublisher:
ISBN: 9788174750198
Category : Buddhism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Late Colonial Sublime
Author: G. S. SahotaPublisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 0810136503
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Taking cues from Walter Benjamin’s fragmentary writings on literary-historical method, Late Colonial Sublime reconstellates the dialectic of Enlightenment across a wide imperial geography, with special focus on the fashioning of neo-epics in Hindi and Urdu literary cultures in British India. Working through the limits of both Marxism and postcolonial critique, this book forges an innovative approach to the question of late romanticism and grounds categories such as the sublime within the dynamic of commodification. While G. S. Sahota takes canonical European critics such as Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer to the outskirts of empire, he reads Indian writers such as Muhammad Iqbal and Jayashankar Prasad in light of the expansion of instrumental rationality and the neotraditional critiques of the West it spurred at the onset of decolonization. By bringing together distinct literary canons—both metropolitan and colonial, hegemonic and subaltern, Western and Eastern, all of which took shape upon the common realities of imperial capitalism—Late Colonial Sublime takes an original dialectical approach. It experiments with fragments, parallaxes, and constellational form to explore the aporias of modernity as well as the possible futures they may signal in our midst. A bold intervention into contemporary debates that synthesizes a wealth of sources, this book will interest readers and scholars in world literature, critical theory, postcolonial criticism, and South Asian studies.
The Anthropology of Parliaments
Author: Emma CrewePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000182312
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world. Crewe’s insights deepen our understanding of the complexity of political institutions. She reveals how elected politicians navigate relationships by forging alliances and thwarting opponents; how parliamentary buildings are constructed as sites of work, debate and the nation in miniature; and how politicians and officials engage with hierarchies, continuity and change. This book also proposes how to study parliaments through an anthropological lens while in conversation with other disciplines. The dive into ethnographies from across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Pacific Region demolishes hackneyed geo-political categories and culminates in a new comparative theory about the contradictions in everyday political work. This important book will be of interest to anyone studying parliaments but especially those in the disciplines of anthropology and sociology; politics, legal and development studies; and international relations.
A History of India
Author: Burton SteinPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405195096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present Expands coverage of India's internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role in the region Features a new introduction, updated glossary and further reading sections, and numerous figures, photographs and fully revised maps Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.
History of Christianity in India
Author: Arthur D. JeyakumarPublisher:
ISBN: 9788172146832
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 72
Book Description
The Complete Mahabharata: pt. 1. Sabha parva and Vana parva
Author: Ramesh MenonPublisher: Rupa Publications
ISBN: 8129119013
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 813
Book Description
Azariah of Dornakal
Author: Carol GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglicans
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
On the life of Vedanayagam Samuel Azariah, 1874-1945, the first Indian bishop.