"This book presents an alternate history of colonial India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. It traces the transitions and transformations during this period through art, literature, music, theatre, satire, textile, regime changes, personal histories, and migration. The essays…
This new and abridged edition of "Scenarios of Power" is a concise version of Richard Wortman's award-winning study of Russian monarchy from the seventeenth century until 1917. The author breaks new ground by showing how imperial ceremony and imagery were not simply displays of …
Alaap, introduction -- Postcolonial musicological present -- Sacred:classical:clessicul -- Crafting kirtan -- Saying qaul, being qawaal, singing qawwali -- Drumming devotion -- Finale.
How did Africans become 'blacks' in the Americas? Becoming Free, Becoming Black tells the story of enslaved and free people of color who used the law to claim freedom and citizenship for themselves and their loved ones. Their communities challenged slaveholders' efforts to make …
