Urban Culture in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century - 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 Urban Culture in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century write by Muhammad Umar. This book was released on 2001. Urban Culture in Northern India During the Eighteenth Century available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Description: This is perhaps the first work concerned exclusively with Muslim Society and Culture in eighteenth century India. The book was originally presented as doctoral thesis at the Aligarh Muslim University, but is now presented in a fully revised and personae of rise and decline of Indian towns in northern India, origin and development of Persian literature; food, dress, customs and domestic life in the last phase before colonialism and the beginnings of modernization.
Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century North India
Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century North India - 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 Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century North India write by Tabir Kalam. This book was released on 2013. Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century North India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Religious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century Northern India contends that the 'decline' in the political scenario of eighteenth century India did not imply an all-round decay and stagnation of society, especially in its religious and cultural realms. The emergence of regional forces, following the disintegration of the Mughal empire, greatly aided the promotion of regional centres which provided the grounds for a religious and cultural efflorescence. Shifting the focus away from the oft-examined political and economic aspects of the eighteenth century transition, the book studies a wide array of primary sources in Persian and in Urdu, to instead bring the study of intellectual and cultural trends to the centre-stage of historiography. It has brought into prominence the vibrant religious-intellectual outpouring, the Shia-Sunni polemics, educational innovations, growth and spread of Urdu and its entanglement with regional sensibilities and regional networks of patronage.
The Eighteenth Century in India
The Eighteenth Century in India - 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 Eighteenth Century in India write by Seema Alavi. This book was released on 2002. The Eighteenth Century in India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Book Will Make A Useful Companion For Historians Of Late Medieval And Modern India, Economists, Sociologists, And The Informed General Reader.
The Place of Many Moods
The Place of Many Moods - 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 Place of Many Moods write by Dipti Khera. This book was released on 2020-09-29. The Place of Many Moods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "India retains one of the richest painting traditions in the history of global visual culture, one that both parallels aspects of European traditions and also diverges from it. While European artists venerated the landscape and landscape paintings, it is rare in the Indian tradition to find depictions of landscapes for their sheer beauty and mood, without religious or courtly significance. There is one glorious exception: Painters from the city of Udaipur in Northwestern India specialized in depicting places, including the courtly worlds and cities of rajas, sacred landscapes of many gods, and bazaars bustling with merchants, pilgrims, and craftsmen. Their court paintings and painted invitation scrolls displayed rich geographic information, notions of territory, and the bhāva, or feel, emotion, and mood of a place. This is the first book to use artistic representations of place to trace the major aesthetic, intellectual, and political shifts in South Asia over the long eighteenth century. While James Tod, the first British colonial agent based in Udaipur, established the region's reputation as a principality in a state of political and cultural deterioration, author Dipti Khera uses these paintings to suggest a counter-narrative of a prosperous region with beautiful and bountiful cities, and plentiful rains and lakes. She explores the perspectives of courtly communities, merchants, pilgrims, monks, laypeople, and officers, and the British East India Company's officers, explorers, and artists. Throughout, she draws new conclusions about the region's intellectual and artistic practices, and its shifts in political authority, mobility, and urbanity"--
Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars
Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars - 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 Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars write by C.A. Bayly. This book was released on 2012-04-19. Rulers, Townsmen and Bazaars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This path-breaking work on the social and economic history of colonial India traces the evolution of north Indian towns and merchant communities from the decline of Mughal dominion to the consolidation of British empire following the 1857 'mutiny'. C.A. Bayly analyses the response of the inhabitants of the Ganges Valley to the upheavals in the eighteenth century that paved the way for the incoming British. He shows how the colonial enterprise was built on an existing resilient network of towns, rural bazaars, and merchant communities; and how in turn, colonial trade and administration were moulded by indigenous forms of commerce and politics. This edition comes with a new introduction.
