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Mapping histories : essays presented to Ravinder Kumar / edited by Neera Chandhoke.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthem South Asian studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--History.
- India.
- History.
- India--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Festschriften.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 443 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem, 2002.
- Summary:
- A fitting tribute to renowned historian Ravinder Kumar, the founder of the Centre for Contemporary Studies at the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, in which fellows of the Centre present a collection of historical and contemporary studies, ranging from education to partition and the role of women in contemporary India.
- Contents:
- Ravinder Kumar / Neera Chandhoke 1
- Kalidasa in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and in India / Romila Thapar 5
- Is Buddhism the Answer to Brahminical Partiarchy? / Uma Chakravarti 24
- The Story of Draupadi's Disrobing: Meanings for Our Times / Rajeswari Sundar Rajan 39
- Tracing Akbar: Hagiographies, Popular Narrative Tradition and the Subject of Conversion / Kumkum Sangari 61
- The Homogeneity of Fundamentalism: Christianity, British Colonialism and India in the Nineteenth Century / Susan Visvanathan 104
- Colonial Construction of a 'Criminal Tribe': The Itinerant Trading Communities in Madras Presidency / Meena Radhakrishna 128
- Houses by the Sea: State Experimentation on the Southwest Coast of India 1760
- 1800 / Dilip M. Menon 161
- Competitive Advantage through Contestation: The Indian Shop-floor at the turn of the Century / Nasir Tyabji 187
- Less-than-Total Unities: Patel and the National Movement / Rani Dhavan Shankardass 203
- Foreshadowing 'Quit India': The Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1939
- 1941 / Gyanesh Kudaisya 225
- Some Reflections on the Partition of India 1947 / A.S. Bhasin 255
- Fifty Years On: Decolonization in Asia and Africa / D.A. Low 280
- Sovereign Subject: Ray's Apu / Geeta Kapur 291
- Education and Society in Post-Independence India: Looking towards the Future / Krishna Kumar 320
- The Body in the Mirror: Women and Representation in Contemporary India / Meenakshi Thapan 337
- Beyond State and Market: The Indian Environment Debate / Mahesh Rangarajan 365
- Vocabularies of Resistance, Vocabularies of Rights / Neera Chandhoke 388
- The Efficacy and Ethics of the International Political Terrorist Act or Event / Achin Vanaik 412.
- Notes:
- "This edition first published by Wimbledon Publishing Company 2002"--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1843310503
- 1843310368
- OCLC:
- 49551739
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