History Of India – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 9

Robert W Vernon
Portraits of the Kolar Goldfield, India

The Kolar Goldfield (KGF), India was once one of the biggest gold producers in the world, with mines that rivalled those of South Africa. The majority of the mines were managed by the London based firm of…

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Heidi Rika Maria Pauwels
The Voice of the Indian Mona Lisa

"Through literary and art-historical analysis, Pauwels brings to life the vibrant cultural production center of Kishangarh in the eighteenth century. Reconstructing how Bani-thani came to be acclaime…

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Rosalind O'Hanlon
Lineages of Brahman Power

Traces the role that western India's influential Brahman communities played in shaping India's modern caste system. Western India's Brahman communities have played a key role in the shaping of India's mod…

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Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
Scent, Colour and Glitter in the Ancient World

A comparative history of aromatics, cosmetics and adornment and how they shaped civilisation across the Ancient Near East, Central, East and South Asia, from the Neolithic to Late Antiquity.

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Kyle Jackson
The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj

High in the eastern Himalayan foothills, people had a unique vantage point on the British Empire. The Mizo Discovery of the British Raj presents a history of Mizoram in Northeast India told from historica…

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Robert Travers
Empires of Complaints

Robert Travers explores the Mughal and Persianate context for colonial state-formation in eighteenth century Bengal. By examining the interactions between colonial authorities and Indian petitioners, he s…

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Sam Dalrymple
Shattered Lands

As recently as 1928, a vast swath of Asia stretching from the Red Sea to the borders of Thailand was bound together under a single imperial banner, an entity known officially as the "Indian Empire&qu…

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Janetward Schofield, Janet Ward Schofield
Discovering Bhutan

"People from foreign countries shall not be welcomed" is carved into a black stone containing Bhutan's founding document, which may help to explain why this reclusive Himalayan kingdom, sometime…

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Aniruddha Dutta
Globalizing Through the Vernacular

Globalizing through the Vernacular analyzes the relation between dominant frameworks of LGBTQ+ identity in India and non-elite, non-metropolitan communities such as kothis and hijras, a spectrum of femini…

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Elaine M Fisher
The Meeting of Rivers

The Meeting of Rivers reconstructs the prehistory of India's newest religion, Virasaivism (or Lingayatism) from its own voices, drawing on unstudied and unpublished archival sources in several south India…

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Andrea Major,
Reimagining Empire in India

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s an…

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Kyle T Mays
When We Are Kin

A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imaginationCurrent advocates of reparations for slavery and land back oft…

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Kyle T Mays
When We Are Kin

A bold vision for a Black and Indigenous future rooted in real solidarity, a future that exists beyond the confines of the liberal imaginationCurrent advocates of reparations for slavery and land back oft…

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Avni Chag
The Relic in the Glass Cabinet

The Shikshapatri (1826) is a scripture presented as a letter to devotees from Swaminarayan (1781-1830), the founder and principal deity of the eponymous Swaminarayan tradition. Designated by millions as a…

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Uzma Aslam Khan
The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali

Winner of the 2023 Massachusetts Book Award , The Miraculous True History of Nomi Ali weaves fictional narrative with real historical events, set against the backdrop of the Andaman Islands reeling from t…

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Amir Khusraw Dihlavi,
Exquisite Things and Strange Wonders

A defense of poetry from a towering figure of the medieval Persianate world.Written in 1294 as the introduction to a book of poetry, the Dībācha-yi dīvān-i ghurrat al-kamāl became a lauded work in its own…

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Jennifer Champoux
C. C. A. Christensen

Carl Christian Anton (C. C. A.) Christensen left paintings that provide unique glimpses into the beliefs and life experiences of nineteenth-century members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Sain…

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The Cambridge Economic History of Modern South Asia 2 Volume Set Paperback

South Asia's economies, as well as the scholarship on their economic histories, have been transformed in recent decades. This landmark new reference history will guide economists and historians through th…

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