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Sati
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 314

Sati

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

The Book Attempts To Explain The Origin And Growth Of Sati. It Also Seeks To Understand The Essential Nature Of The Rite And The Motivating Factors Behind It. Wihtout Dustjacket I Good Condition.

Colonialism as Civilizing Mission
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Colonialism as Civilizing Mission

A fresh and stimulating examination of the ideology, programmes, expressions and consequences of the British 'civilizing mission' in South Asia.

Waiting for the People
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 313

Waiting for the People

“An engaging, innovative, and wide-ranging account of the way in which anticolonial thought in India creatively reconceptualized the idea of popular sovereignty. It sheds new light on the theoretical relationship between democratic legitimation and development.” —Pratap Bhanu Mehta An original reconstruction of how the debates over peoplehood defined Indian anticolonial thought, and a bold new framework for theorizing the global career of democracy. Indians, their former British rulers asserted, were unfit to rule themselves. Behind this assertion lay a foundational claim about the absence of peoplehood in India. The purported “backwardness” of Indians as a people led to a democrat...

The Disinherited
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The Disinherited

An illuminating history of religious and political controversy in nineteenth-century Bengal, where Protestant missionary activity spurred a Christian conversion "panic" that indelibly shaped the trajectory of Hindu and Muslim politics. In 1813, the British Crown adopted a policy officially permitting Protestant missionaries to evangelize among the empire's Indian subjects. The ramifications proved enormous and long-lasting. While the number of conversions was small--Christian converts never represented more than 1.5 percent of India's population during the nineteenth century--Bengal's majority faith communities responded in ways that sharply politicized religious identity, leading to the per...

Bengal in Global Concept History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 295

Bengal in Global Concept History

In this study, Sartori closely examines the history of political and intellectual life in 19th- and 20th-century Bengal to show how the concept of 'culture' can take on a life of its own in different contexts, weaving the narrative of Bengal's embrace of culturalism into a worldwide history of the concept.

AKASHVANI
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

AKASHVANI

"Akashvani" (English) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO, it was formerly known as The Indian Listener. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them, take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service, Bombay, started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in English, which was published beginning ...

Select List of Recent Publications
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 332

Select List of Recent Publications

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 164

Asian Biblical Hermeneutics and Postcolonialism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999-02-01
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  • Publisher: A&C Black

The volume contributes a postcolonial perspective to such topics as textual production, commentarial writings and translations in colonial times, and then moves on to inspect Eurocentric notions embedded in current western biblical interpretation especially in projects such as "Jesus Research." It also contains an overview of and introduction to one of the most challenging and controversial theories of our time, postcolonialism--a theory that gives mediation and representation to Third World people. Though long established in cultural studies, postcolonial theory has not previously been seriously applied to Asian biblical interpretation.

Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Land and Local Kingship in Eighteenth-Century Bengal

This book examines the politics and culture of eastern India's landed chiefs.

The Hindu Quest for the Perfection of Man
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 450

The Hindu Quest for the Perfection of Man

"A lucid, thorough and fresh exploration of the material. This is an exceedingly helpful study and may be the best single textbook on the subject. Previously, there was little of note in between inadequate introductions to Hindu thought and the more specialized primary or secondary materials. Organ is a competent philosopher and presents the 'Hindu quest' in a scholarly and readable form...it is a key book for undergraduate libraries and would be an invaluable asset in a course which dealt seriously and at any length with the Hindu tradition. Excellent bibliography." --Choice "This is not just another book on Hinduism, but a source of systematic information..." --Bibliography of Philosophy "This scholarly and perceptive account makes Hindu beliefs and practices intelligible by showing how the contradictions which have puzzled Westerners are rooted in Human Diversity." --The Review of Metaphysics