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Nomads, Migrants and Cotton in the Eastern Mediterranean
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 242

Nomads, Migrants and Cotton in the Eastern Mediterranean

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2010-09-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Drawing on a variety of both narrative and archival sources, this study deals with the region of Adana and its new port-city Mersin as part of the transformation of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century. The book analyzes the socio-economic side of the region’s emergence through cotton production and trade with its nomadic and migrant populaces.

Congress and Indian Nationalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

Congress and Indian Nationalism

Seventeen distinguished historians and political scientists discuss the phenomenon of Indian Nationalism, one hundred years after the founding of the Congress party. They offer important new interpretations of Nationalism's evolution during more than six decades of crucial change and rapid growth. As India's foremost political institution, the National Congress with its changing fortunes mirrored Indian aspirations, ideals, dreams, and failures during the country's struggle for nationhood. Many difficulties face by the pre-independence Indian National Congress are critically examined for the first time in this volume. Major times of crisis and transition are considered, as well as the tensio...

Marx and Engels on Bonapartism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 443

Marx and Engels on Bonapartism

"This volume is the first to compile the journalistic works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels dealing with what they termed Bonapartism. The topics examined include the emergence of a new unionist capitalist politics in Britain, post-1848 Chartism, the East India Company, European nationalisms, and the Taiping Rebellion in China"--

Inside UVA.
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 196

Inside UVA.

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1998
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Nature of Endangerment in India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 401

The Nature of Endangerment in India

This book is a study of the concepts of endangerment and extinction. Examining interlinking discourses of biological and cultural diversity loss in western and central India, it problematizes the long history of human endangerment and extinction discourse.

The Eternal Food
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 294

The Eternal Food

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992-08-25
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

An interdisciplinary study of the cultural meaning and uses of food in India and Sri Lanka, drawing on the abundant commentary by saints, ritualists, poets, and the divine, in both religious and literary contexts. The eight papers, some from a January 1985 conference, Food Systems and Communications Structures, in Mysore, India, focus on the long-term, wide spread significance of food, rather than on caste differences, changing diets, or a comparison between Hindu and Buddhist approaches. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Paper edition (unseen), $17.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Kali in Bengali Lives
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Kali in Bengali Lives

In Kali in Bengali Lives, Suchitra Samanta examines Bengalis’ personal narratives of Kali devotion in the Bhakti tradition. These personal experiences, including miraculous encounters, reflect on broader understandings of divine power. Where the revelatory experience has long been validated in Indian epistemology, the devotees’ own interpretive framework provides continuity within a paradigm of devotion and of the miraculous experience as intuitive insight (anubhuti) into a larger truth. Through these unique insights, the miraculous experience is felt in its emotional power, remembered, and reflected upon. The narratives speak to how the meaning of a religious figure, Kali, becomes personally significant and ultimately transformative of the devotee’s self.

Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind’s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage, but also the social attitudes to death and dying which these rituals evidence. The essays establish that different periods do seem to be characterized by different images of death and attitudes to it, but the authors wisely avoid trying to impose strict chronological pattern. A pioneering work in the historical study of attitudes to death, this reissue should reignite discussion on the significance of death in human history. Christiane Sourvinou-I...

Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Sahajanand on Agricultural Labour and the Rural Poor

This Paperback Edition Of The 1994 Publication Is An Edited Translation Of Swami Sahajanand Saraswati`S Political Tract Khet Mazdoor/With The Original Text And An Introduction, Notes And Glossary By Walter Hauser.