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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 258

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization. Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.

Beyond Caste
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Beyond Caste

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-09-12
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  • Publisher: BRILL

'Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.

The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1941
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 266

The Agrarian Economy of the Bombay Deccan, 1818-1941

Studies of Indian economic development have in large part concentrated on the role of British imperial intervention in the region. This book, while attaching due importance to the effects of British rule, focuses on other economic factors, such as agricultural techniques and the land-man ratio, to analyze the agrarian history of the Bombay Deccan.

Slavery and South Asian History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Slavery and South Asian History

"[W]ill be welcomed by students of comparative slavery.... [It] makes us reconsider the significance of slavery in the subcontinent." -- Edward A. Alpers, UCLA Despite its pervasive presence in the South Asian past, slavery is largely overlooked in the region's historiography, in part because the forms of bondage in question did not always fit models based on plantation slavery in the Atlantic world. This important volume will contribute to a rethinking of slavery in world history, and even the category of slavery itself. Most slaves in South Asia were not agricultural laborers, but military or domestic workers, and the latter were overwhelmingly women and children. Individuals might become ...

Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 389

Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern Asia

Fills a gap in scholarship on Indian culture and power between 1500 and 1800, arguing that we can't know how colonialism changed South Asia unless we know what there was to be changed.

Global Intellectual History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 353

Global Intellectual History

Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global intellectual history," featuring essays by leading scholars on various approaches that are taking shape across the discipline. The contributors to Global Intellectual History explore the different ways in which one can think about the production, dissemination, and circulation of "global" ideas and ask whether global intellectual history can indeed produce legitimate narratives. They discuss how intellectuals and ideas fit within current conceptions of global frames and processes of globalization and proto-globalization, and they distinguish between ideas of the global and those of the transnational, identifying what each contributes to intellectual history. A crucial guide, this collection sets conceptual coordinates for readers eager to map an emerging area of study.

Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Changing Concepts of Rights and Justice in South Asia

  • Categories: Law

Indian civil rights movement

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 259

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world's largest tidal delta.

Rising Life Expectancy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Rising Life Expectancy

This book traces the global history of rising life expectancy in the last 200 years.

Women and Social Reform in Modern India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 562

Women and Social Reform in Modern India

An impressive collection of writings on women's issues in Indian history