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Autobiography Of An Archive - A Scholar''S Passage To India

by Nicholas B. Dirks

52,99€ + 10% CARD

 A scholarâ€™s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.
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Pariah Problem - Caste, Religion, And The Social In Modern India

by Rupa Viswanath

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 Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India''s most subordinated castes, face overwhelming poverty and discrimination, and provoke public anxiety. Drawing on a wealth of previously untapped sources, this book follows the conception and evolution of the "Pariah Problem" in public consciousness in the 1890s. It shows how high-caste landlords, state officials, and well-intentioned missionaries conceived of Dalit oppression, and effectively foreclosed the emergence of substantive solutions to the "Problem"—with consequences that continue to be felt today. Rupa Viswanath begins with a description of the everyday lives of Dalit laborers in the 1890s and highlights the systematic efforts made by the state and Indian elites to protect Indian slavery from public scrutiny. Protestant missionaries were the first non-Dalits to draw attention to their plight. The missionaries'' vision of the Pariahs'' suffering as being a result of Hindu religious prejudice, however, obscured the fact that the entire agrarian political-economic system depended on unfree Pariah labor. Both the Indian public and colonial officials came to share a view compatible with missionary explanations, which meant all subsequent welfare efforts directed at Dalits focused on religious and social transformation rather than on structural reform. Methodologically, theoretically, and empirically, this book breaks new ground to demonstrate how events in the early decades of state-sponsored welfare directed at Dalits laid the groundwork for the present day, where the postcolonial state and well-meaning social and religious reformers continue to downplay Dalits'' landlessness, violent suppression, and political subordination.
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Creative Pasts - Historical Memory And Identity In Western India, 1700-1960

by Prachi Deshpande

105,99€ + 10% CARD

 The "Maratha period" of the 17th and 18th centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. This book highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the connections between historical and literary narratives.
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Mobile Modernity - Germans, Jews, Trains

by Todd S Presner

86,11€ + 10% CARD

 Though the history of the German railway system is often associated with the transportation of Jews to labor and death camps, this work looks instead to the completion of the first German railway lines and their role in remapping the cultural geography and intellectual history of Germany's Jews.
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Lines Of The Nation - Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, And The Intimate Historical Self

by Laura Bear

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 Provides the history of the Indian railways. from the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, this book explores the public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. It traces their influence on the formation of Indian nationalism.
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Long Partition And The Making Of Modern South Asia - Refugees, Boundaries, Histories

by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

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 Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition''s genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. Yet this historical specificity of decolonization on the very making of a nationalized cartography of modern South Asia has largely gone unexamined. In this remarkable study based on more than two years of ethnographic and archival research, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar argues that the combined interventions of the two postcolonial states were enormously important in shaping these massive displacements. She examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of this historic chaos. Zamindar crosses political and conceptual boundaries to bring together oral histories with north Indian Muslim families divided between the two cities of Delhi and Karachi with extensive archival research in previously unexamined Urdu newspapers and government records of India and Pakistan. She juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property. As a result, she reveals the surprising history of the making of the western Indo-Pak border, one of the most highly surveillanced in the world, which came to be instituted in response to this refugee crisis, in order to construct national difference where it was the most blurred. In particular, Zamindar examines the "Muslim question" at the heart of Partition. From the margins and silences of national histories, she draws out the resistance, bewilderment, and marginalization of north Indian Muslims as they came to be pushed out and divided by both emergent nation-states. It is here that Zamindar asks us to stretch our understanding of "Partition violence" to include this long, and in some sense ongoing, bureaucratic violence of postcolonial nationhood, and to place Partition at the heart of a twentieth century of border-making and nation-state formation.
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Lineages Of Political Society - Studies In Postcolonial Democracy

by Partha Chatterjee

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 Building on his theory of 'political society', first developed in 'Politics in the Governed', and reinforcing its salience to contemporary political debate, Partha Chatterjee broadly critiques the past 300 years of Western political theory.
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Tamil Oratory And The Dravidian Aesthetic - Democratic Practice In South India

by Bernard Bate

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 Bernard Bate explores the centamil phenomenon, arguing that the genre's spectacular literacy, along with additional Dravidian political practices, engineered the modernisation of Indian society.
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Ethical Soundscape - Cassette Sermons And Islamic Counterpublics

by Charles Hirschkind

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 An essential aspect of what is now called the Islamic Revival, the cassette sermon can be heard in most Middle Eastern cities, punctuating the daily routines of many men and women. Charles Hirschkind shows how these tapes provide the means by which Islamic ethical traditions recalibrate to a modern political and technological order--to its noise and forms of pleasure and boredom, but also to its political incitements and call for citizen participation. Focusing on Cairo's popular neighborhoods, Hirschkind highlights the pivotal role sermon tapes now play in an expanding arena of Islamic argumentation and debate--what he calls an "Islamic counterpublic"--that connects Islamic traditions of ethical discipline to practices of deliberation about the common good, the duties of Muslims as national citizens, and the challenges faced by Muslim communities across the globe. Contrary to the belief that these cassettes are a tool of militant indoctrination, Hirschkind argues that sermon tapes are an instrument of ethical self-improvement and a vehicle for honing the affects of pious living.
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Nakba - Palestine, 1948, And The Claims Of Memory

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Monuments, Objects, Histories - Institutions Of Art In Colonial And Post-Colonial India

by Tapati Guha-Thakurta

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 Presents a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. This book features essays that look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects.
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Creative Pasts - Historical Memory And Identity In Western India, 1700-1960

by Prachi Deshpande

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 The "Maratha period" of the 17th and 18th centuries, when an independent Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is a defining era in the history of the region of Maharashtra in western India. This book highlights shifts in history writing in early modern and modern India and the connections between historical and literary narratives.
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Nakba - Palestine, 1948, And The Claims Of Memory

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Autobiography Of An Archive - A Scholar'S Passage To India

by Nicholas B. Dirks

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 A scholarâ€™s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.
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Autobiography Of An Archive - A Scholar'S Passage To India

by Nicholas B. Dirks

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 A scholarâ€™s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.
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The Pariah Problem - Caste, Religion, And The Social In Modern India

by Rupa (University Of Goettingen) Viswanath

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Nakba - Palestine, 1948, And The Claims Of Memory

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 Includes contribution by: Lila Abu Lughod; Diana Keown Allan; Haim Bresheeth; Rochelle Davis; Samera Esmeir; Isabelle Humphries; Lena Jayyusi; Laleh Khalili; Omar Al-Qattan; Ahmad H Sa'di; Rosemary Sayigh; and, Susan Slyomovics.
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The Long Partition And The Making Of Modern South Asia - Refugees, Boundaries, Histories

by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

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 Examines the long, contentious, and ambivalent process of drawing political boundaries and making distinct nation-states in the midst of a historic chaos. This book juxtaposes the experiences of ordinary people against the bureaucratic interventions of both postcolonial states to manage and control refugees and administer refugee property.
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Against History, Against State - Counterperspectives From The Margins

by Shail Mayaram

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 A reassessment of conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective and a unique look at how conceptions of history and community clash. This incisive study explores the Meo community through their oral literature, revealing sophisticated modes of collective memory and self-government while telling a story that radically diverges from most accepted Indian histories.
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Against History, Against State - Counterperspectives From The Margins

by Shail Mayaram

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 A reassessment of conventional South Asian historiography from a subaltern perspective and a unique look at how conceptions of history and community clash. This incisive study explores the Meo community through their oral literature, revealing sophisticated modes of collective memory and self-government while telling a story that radically diverges from most accepted Indian histories.
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Monuments, Objects, Histories - Institutions Of Art In Colonial And Post-Colonial India

by Tapati Guha-Thakurta

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 Presents a critical survey of the practices of archaeology, art history, and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century India. This book features essays that look at the processes of the production of lost pasts in modern India: pasts that come to be imagined around a growing corpus of monuments, archaeological relics, and art objects.
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Lineages Of Political Society - Studies In Postcolonial Democracy

by Partha Chatterjee

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 Building on his theory of 'political society', first developed in 'Politics in the Governed', and reinforcing its salience to contemporary political debate, Partha Chatterjee broadly critiques the past 300 years of Western political theory.
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Lineages Of Political Society - Studies In Postcolonial Democracy

by Partha Chatterjee

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 Building on his theory of 'political society', first developed in 'Politics in the Governed', and reinforcing its salience to contemporary political debate, Partha Chatterjee broadly critiques the past 300 years of Western political theory.
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The Long Partition And The Making Of Modern South Asia - Refugees, Boundaries, Histories

by Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar

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