This book explores the overlapping role of religion, popular belief, caste system and the state in the lives of people of the Western Himalayan. It traverses through the Western Himalayan landscape across the colonial times ( occasionally even earlier…
This is an exploratory work making forays into aspects of caste, religion and the history of Christian mission in India. These three elements were historically enmeshed in the discourse of the leading exponents of Indian reform and nationalism as the…
The Book presents for the first time a comprehensive study of the role of Mahatma Gandhi's ideas in the social and political mobilization of the Adivasis of the princely states of southern Rajputana during 1921 and 1948. It covers their tran…
The present study seeks to outline the evolution of Bengal Muslims' intellectual and cultural growth during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Based on primary Bengali sources, it focuses reaction of the writers engaged in widespread d…
The book aims at discussing different systems of numeration prevalent in early Orissa. That the typologies of the numerical symbols are part of an evolutionary process has been well defined and illustrated. The polemic about the earliest epigraphic ev…
"It is the notion of singularity, as distinct from the universal-particular dyadic relation, that constitutes the telos of the hermeneutic practice of postmetaphysics. More precisely ... singularity is the key theme in the discourse of ontologic…
This work is a fascinating and innovative study which provides a detailed analysis of milk kinship; historically a medium for establishing complex social and political networks. Based on the use of primary source material, the study notes that Islami…
This book mainly focuses on the life and contribution of Acarya Varamihira, one of the most outstanding mathematicians of the ‘Golden Age of Mathematics’ in India (from 5th to 12th Century AD), to the discipline. Since Varamihira, following the a…
The work attempts to understand complex nuances of the Portuguese presence in sixteenth and the first half of the seventeenth centuries in one of the age-old circuits of trade of the Indian Ocean world that existed between Coromandel Coast and island …
For the major part of its time under colonial rule, Burma was administered as a province of the British Indian empire. It was during this period that Burma began to develop along modern lines. However, the development of both countries assumed their o…
Divine Affairs is an invaluable contribution to pilgrimage studies in South Asia. Uniting meticulous historical documentation and ethnographic sensitivity, Ishita Banerjee Dube's scholarship significantly improves our understandings if the …
It is in the country’s northeastern region, with its complex mosaic of ethnic nationalities at different stages of socio-economic and political growth, that the Indian nation-state is today facing some of its gravest challenges. Time and again, the …
This is an attempt to analyse the non-mainstream perspectives as alternatives by critically interpreting the folktales of the four tribal communities who live in the northern part of West Bengal. While focusing on the alternatives in the folktales o…
The north-eastern region of India was terra incognita till very recently and even now much misconception about its history and its place in India prevails in India and abroad. It needs to be emphasised that Assam , the foremost of the state…
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