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Partition and the South Asian Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 325

Partition and the South Asian Diaspora

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-03-21
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Negotiating nations 2. Claiming Pakistan 3. Resisting Hindutva 4. Redoing South Asia 5. Conclusion Bibliography Index

The Buddha: a Storied Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

The Buddha: a Storied Life

Retellings of the Buddha's life story have animated and sustained Buddhist thought and practice through some 2,500 years of history. To this day, Buddhist holidays and rituals are pinned to the arc of his biography, celebrating his birth, awakening, teaching, and final nirvana. His story is the model that exemplary Buddhists follow. Often, there is a moment of insight akin to the Buddha's experience with the Four Sights, followed by a great departure from home, and a period of searching that it is hoped will lead to final awakening. The Buddha's story is not just the Buddha's story; it is the story of Buddhism. In this book, twelve leading scholars of South Asian texts and traditions articul...

Reading Śiva
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 669

Reading Śiva

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-20
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  • Publisher: BRILL

An extensive, illustrated bibliography for the Hindu god Śiva in the arts of South and Southeast Asia, offering detailed indices and easy access to resource repositories.

The Panjab Chiefs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 708

The Panjab Chiefs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1865
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Partition's Legacies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 359

Partition's Legacies

Partition's Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji's finest and most influential essays. "Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations," she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book. Chatterji's first book, Bengal Divided, shifted the focus from Muslim fanaticism as the driving force of Partition towards "secular" nationalism and Hindu aggression. Her Spoils of Partition rejected the idea of Partition as a breaking apart, showing it to be a process in the remaking of society and state. Her third book, Bengal Diaspora, cowritten with Claire Alexander and Annu Jalais, challenge...

Conspiracies and Atrocities in Afghanistan
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 829

Conspiracies and Atrocities in Afghanistan

Afghanistan is the victim of conspiracies. History tells us about happenings and events of the past. Life would be empty in the absence of history. Therefore, the authorintrinsically motivated to understand his roots, his motherland, and the cause for the backwardness and suffering of Afghanistandecided to take this adventurous journey and complete this three-hundred-year history in thirty years and share them with all those interested about Afghanistan issues. In the course of thirty years, the author had gone through very rough, bumpy, and sometimes painful routes, making him cry, especially feeling in his heart the pain and fear of not reaching the destiny. In spite of all his difficultie...

ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 897

ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-11-19
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.

Resistance at the Edge of Empires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 797

Resistance at the Edge of Empires

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-12-28
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  • Publisher: Oxbow Books

From 1985 to 2001, the collaborative research initiative known as the Bannu Archaeological Project conducted archaeological explorations and excavations in the Bannu region, in what was then the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) of Pakistan, now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. This Project involves scholars from the Pakistan Heritage Society, the British Museum, the Institute of Archaeology (UCL), Bryn Mawr College and the University of Cambridge. This is the third in a series of volumes that present the final reports of the exploration and excavations carried out by the Bannu Archaeological Project. This volume presents the first synthesis of the archaeology of the historic periods in the Bannu region, spanning the period when the first large scale empires expanded to the borders of South Asia up until the arrival of Islam in the subcontinent at the end of the first and beginning of the second millennium BC. The Bannu region provides specific insight into early imperialism in South Asia, as throughout this protracted period, it was able to maintain a distinctive regional identity in the face of recurring phases of imperial expansion and integration.

Reclaiming Sacred Spaces
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Reclaiming Sacred Spaces

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-12-16
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

Nobody imagined that a democratic struggle by ordinary Muslim women would hit patriarchy at its core and yield a great step forward towards gender justice. The ‘Haji Ali Case’ not only challenged the patriarchy within the Muslim community but it also created space for an alternative voice which was desperately trying to speak the language of equality, justice, and democracy. This struggle created space for an open debate on women’s rights and religion. A Muslim woman is a world citizen today. She has all the right to lead the change not just for herself or her community but for all humankind. This book captures the struggle to reclaim sacred spaces from patriarchal forces and hopes to inspire other similar movements led by women.

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

The View from Malakand: Harold Deane’s ‘Note on Udyana and Gandhara’

This volume presents a seminal and pioneering account of the antiquities of Swat and Peshawar (Pakistan) by Harold Deane, discovered in the fort at Malakand, Swat; it presents and transcribes the manuscript and provides extended notes identifying and describing the places that Deane discusses in his article.