Essays in Indian History

Essays in Indian History
Title Essays in Indian History PDF eBook
Author Irfan Habib
Publisher Anthem Press
Pages 441
Release 2002
Genre Historical materialism
ISBN 1843310252

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This volume offers a collection of several of Professor Habib's essays, providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history.

Imagining India

Imagining India
Title Imagining India PDF eBook
Author Ainslie Thomas Embree
Publisher Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
Pages 238
Release 1989
Genre History
ISBN

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In this illuminating collection of esays, Ainslie Embree examines the complex interplay of indigenous Indian culture with Islamic and western civilizations. He argues that civilization is not a fixed residue handed down from the past, but rather an enduring structure with adaptive mechanisms that permit it to be both a historically determined and continuously creative force.

Essays in Modern Indian History

Essays in Modern Indian History
Title Essays in Modern Indian History PDF eBook
Author Nehru Memorial Museum and Library
Publisher Delhi : Oxford University Press
Pages 272
Release 1980
Genre History
ISBN

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Originally written for seminars and lectures held under the auspices of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library.

Essays in Indian History

Essays in Indian History
Title Essays in Indian History PDF eBook
Author Irfan Habib
Publisher
Pages 381
Release 1997
Genre Historical materialism
ISBN 9788185229065

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This volume brings together, for the first time, several of Professor Habib's essays, representing three decades of scholarship and providing an insightful interpretation of the main currents in Indian history from the standpoint of Marxist historiography.

Indian Country

Indian Country
Title Indian Country PDF eBook
Author Gail Guthrie Valaskakis
Publisher Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Pages 304
Release 2006-01-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0889209200

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Since first contact, Natives and newcomers have been involved in an increasingly complex struggle over power and identity. Modern “Indian wars” are fought over land and treaty rights, artistic appropriation, and academic analysis, while Native communities struggle among themselves over membership, money, and cultural meaning. In cultural and political arenas across North America, Natives enact and newcomers protest issues of traditionalism, sovereignty, and self-determination. In these struggles over domination and resistance, over different ideologies and Indian identities, neither Natives nor other North Americans recognize the significance of being rooted together in history and culture, or how representations of “Indianness” set them in opposition to each other. In Indian Country: Essays on Contemporary Native Culture, Gail Guthrie Valaskakis uses a cultural studies approach to offer a unique perspective on Native political struggle and cultural conflict in both Canada and the United States. She reflects on treaty rights and traditionalism, media warriors, Indian princesses, powwow, museums, art, and nationhood. According to Valaskakis, Native and non-Native people construct both who they are and their relations with each other in narratives that circulate through art, anthropological method, cultural appropriation, and Native reappropriation. For Native peoples and Others, untangling the past—personal, political, and cultural—can help to make sense of current struggles over power and identity that define the Native experience today. Grounded in theory and threaded with Native voices and evocative descriptions of “Indian” experience (including the author’s), the essays interweave historical and political process, personal narrative, and cultural critique. This book is an important contribution to Native studies that will appeal to anyone interested in First Nations’ experience and popular culture.

Essays of a Lifetime

Essays of a Lifetime
Title Essays of a Lifetime PDF eBook
Author Sumit Sarkar
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 666
Release 2018-12-27
Genre History
ISBN 1438474334

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For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: "Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument." Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885–1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar's finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest.

Essays on Islam and Indian History

Essays on Islam and Indian History
Title Essays on Islam and Indian History PDF eBook
Author Richard Maxwell Eaton
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 275
Release 2002
Genre History
ISBN 9780195662658

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Spanning some twenty-five years of research and writing, the essays in this volume fall into two categories: historiography and Indo-Islamic civilization. The former deals with how historians structure and answer the questions they choose to ask of the past, the latter covers case studies of particular historical communities in India.