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The Rise of Bombay
The history of the port city of Bombay as told in 1902 by a British civil servant who lived there.
By-Ways of Bombay
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Mughal Rule in India
The Book Attempts To Offer Within The Convenient Compass Of Single Cover, A Comprehensive Record Of The Main Facts And Subsidiary Details Of Mughal Sover¬Eignty Which Are To Be Found Both In Original Sources And In The Numerous And Occasionally Costly Works Of Modern Writers.As Regards The Political And Administra¬Tive Features Of The Period, The Account Is Primarily Based Upon Well-Known Origi¬Nal Sources - The Memoirs Of Babur, The Memoirs Of Jahangir, The Immortal Work Of Abul-I-Fazl, And So Forth. It Shows Incidentally That Religious Intolerance, Which Is Usually Supposed To Have Had Its Origin In The Bigotry Of Aurangzeb, Was Not Wholly Unknown In The Reigns Of Jahangir And Shah Jahan. The Later Chapters Make Use Of The Records Of Early European Merchants And Travellers In Respect Of The General Circumstances Of The Mughal Empire.The Book Will Be Found Of Great Use For The Students Of The Medieval History Who Do Not Have The Time To Read The Original Works. It Will Also Be Great Interest To The Layman Interested In History Of Mughal Empire.
The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage
The Colonial Public and the Parsi Stage is the first comprehensive study of the Parsi theatre, colonial South and Southeast Asia’s most influential cultural phenomenon and the precursor of the Indian cinema industry. By providing extensive, unpublished information on its first actors, audiences, production methods, and plays, this book traces how the theatre—which was one of the first in the Indian subcontinent to adopt European stagecraft—transformed into a pan-Asian entertainment industry in the second half of the nineteenth century. Nicholson sheds light on the motivations that led to the development of the popular, commercial theatre movement in Asia through three areas of investigation: the vernacular public sphere, the emergence of competing visions of nationhood, and the narratological function that women served within a continually shifting socio-political order. The book will be of interest to scholars across several disciplines, including cultural history, gender studies, Victorian studies, the sociology of religion, colonialism, and theatre.
A Taste for Purity
In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the social ills brought on by industrialization and urbanization, this movement idealized South Asia as a model. In colonial India, where diets were far more varied than Western admirers realized, new motives for avoiding meat also took hold. Hindu nationalists claimed that vegetarianism would cleanse the body for anticolonial resistance, and an increasingly militant cow protection movement mobilized against meat eaters, particularly Muslims. Unearthing the connections among these developments and ma...
A New Introduction to Islam
The second edition of this student-friendly textbook explores the origins, major features and lasting influence of the Islamic tradition. Traces the development of Muslim beliefs and practices against the background of social and cultural contexts extending from North Africa to South and Southeast Asia Fully revised for the second edition, with completely new opening and closing chapters considering key issues facing Islam in the 21st century Focuses greater attention on everyday practices, the role of women in Muslim societies, and offers additional material on Islam in America Includes detailed chronologies, tables summarizing key information, useful maps and diagrams, and many more illustrations
