Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927 write by Swarupa Gupta. This book was released on 2017-11-01. Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Cultural Constellations, Place-Making and Ethnicity in Eastern India, c. 1850-1927, Swarupa Gupta outlines a fresh paradigm moving beyond stereotypical representations of eastern India as a site of ethnic fragmentation. The book traces unities by exploring intersections between (1) cultural constellations; (2) place-making and (3) ethnicity. Centralising place-making, it tells the story of how people made places, mediating caste / religious / linguistic contestations. It offers new meanings of ‘region’ in Eastern Indian and global contexts by showing how an interregional arena comprising Bengal, Assam and Orissa was forged. Using historical tracts, novels, poetry and travelogues, the book argues that commonalities in Eastern India were linked to imaginings of Indian nationhood. The analysis contains interpretive strategies for mediating federalist separatisms and fragmentation in contemporary India.
Debating Tribal Identity
Debating Tribal Identity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Debating Tribal Identity write by Vulli Dhanaraju. This book was released on 2015. Debating Tribal Identity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Jewel of Annual Astrology
The Jewel of Annual Astrology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Jewel of Annual Astrology write by Martin Gansten. This book was released on 2020-08-03. The Jewel of Annual Astrology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Jewel of Annual Astrology is an encyclopaedic treatise on Tājika or Sanskritized Perso-Arabic astrology, dealing particularly with the casting and interpretation of anniversary horoscopes. Authored in 1649 CE by Balabhadra Daivajña, court astrologer to Shāh Shujāʿ – governor of Bengal and second son of the Mughal emperor Shāh Jahān – it casts light on the historical development of the Tājika school by extensive quotations from earlier works spanning five centuries. With this first-ever scholarly edition and translation of a Tājika text, Martin Gansten makes a significant contribution not only to the study of an important but little known knowledge tradition, but also to the intellectual historiography of Asia and the transmission of horoscopic astrology in the medieval and early modern periods.
The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiṣṇava Milieus
The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiṣṇava Milieus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiṣṇava Milieus write by Ankur Barua. This book was released on 2021-01-18. The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiṣṇava Milieus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In The Brahmo Samaj and its Vaiṣṇava Milieus: Intersections of Knowledge and Love in Nineteenth Century Bengal, Ankur Barua offers an intellectual history of the motif of religious universalism in the writings of some intellectuals associated with the Brahmo Samaj.
The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar
The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar write by Indira Goswami. This book was released on 2014-03-11. The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Indira Goswami’s last work of fiction, The Bronze Sword of Thengphakhri Tehsildar is the heroic tale of a Bodo freedom fighter who was, arguably, the first woman revenue collector, a tehsildar, in British India. Set in late 19th-century Assam, the novel generated a great deal of interest when it was published. Thengphakhri is a fascinating character that the author recreated from folklore and songs and stories that she’d heard in her childhood. The image of the protagonist, galloping across the plains of Bijni kingdom in lower Assam to collect taxes for the British, is a compelling one and one that inspires awe and admiration. At a time when educated Indians, social reformers and the British government were trying to fight misogynist practices such as sati, child marriage and the purdah system, here was a woman working with the British officers, shoulder to shoulder, as a tax collector who rode a horse, wore a hat and had knee-length black hair. Indira Goswami has woven a complex tale wherein the foundations of the colonial rulers were shaken by insurgents seeking freedom across Assam just before the rise of the Indian National Congress. Published by Zubaan.
