"This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others continue to remain socially and economically marginalized. The author situates these…
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"This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial North India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India's most traditional cities, the book …
"This book is a re-evaluation of modern urbanism and architecture and a history of urbanism, architecture, and local identity in colonial North India at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on Banaras and Jaunpur, two of northern India's most traditional cities, the book …
This analysis of communalism, along with nationalism and colonialism, offers an understanding of the construction of Indian society and politics in recent times by offering new theoretical cues to grasp their nature and dynamics.
This analysis of communalism, along with nationalism and colonialism, offers an understanding of the construction of Indian society and politics in recent times by offering new theoretical cues to grasp their nature and dynamics.
The claim that India uniquely lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question: how to recognize the historical sense of societies whose past is recorded in ways very different from European conventions. Romila Thapar, distinguished scholar of ancient India, …
Biographical note:Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Main description:The claim, often made, that India--uniquely among civilizations--lacks historical writing distracts us from a more pertinent question, according to Romil…
Biographical note: Romila Thapar is Emeritus Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were considered the Hindu heartla…
Missionary Christianity and Local Religion provides portrayals and analyses of the ideas, motivations, and activities of the diverse individuals who formed and nurtured a flourishing North Indian Christian movement that was both evangelical and rooted in local religious and soci…
The first Christian communities were established among the population of Hindi- and Urdu-speaking North India during the middle of the nineteenth century. The evangelical North American Presbyterian and Methodist missionaries who arrived in what were considered the Hindu heartla…