Politics of Time seeks to understand what it meant for a colonial modern subject to write and make history. It investigates how time, as a concept and as an experience, is deployed by history to produce political possibilities for the future. At one level, it analyses the making…
Politics of Time seeks to understand what it meant for a colonial modern subject to write and make history. It investigates how time, as a concept and as an experience, is deployed by history to produce political possibilities for the future. At one level, it analyses the making…
This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.
This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.
This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.
This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire and the rise of the B…
This book examines the politics and culture of landholding in eastern India. Professor McLane explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindars, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire and the rise of the B…
"Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaiṣṇava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experienceis bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Viṣṇu. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavas,…
Caitanya Vaiṣṇava community -- Institutionalizing Prema-bhakti -- Changing social structures -- Integrating socio-cultural diversity -- Demographics : gender, caste, region -- Ambiguous Jati Vaiṣṇavas -- Hybrid Vaiṣṇava Sahajiyas -- Vaiṣṇavas in sultanate and Mughal Bengal -- Th…
"Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaiṣṇava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experienceis bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Viṣṇu. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavas,…
"Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaiṣṇava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experienceis bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Viṣṇu. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavas,…
"Within the broad Hindu religious tradition, there have been for millennia many subtraditions generically called Vaiṣṇava, who insist that the most appropriate mode of religious faith and experienceis bhakti, or devotion, to the supreme personal deity, Viṣṇu. Caitanya Vaiṣṇavas,…
