Author: Bina Agarwal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.
A Field of One's Own
Author: Bina Agarwal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521429269
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
An analysis of gender and property throughout South Asia which argues that the most important economic factor affecting women is the gender gap in command over property.
South Asian Governmentalities
Author: Stephen Legg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108428517
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This volume studies the reception of the works of the acclaimed post-colonial philosopher Michel Foucault by South Asian scholars.
The Muslims of British India
Author: Hardy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521084888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British India's Muslims with a deeper perspective. He shows how the interplay of memories of past Muslim supremacy, Islamic religious aspirations and modern Muslim social and economic anxieties with the political needs of the alien ruling power gradually fostered a separate Muslim politics. Dr Hardy argues (contrary to the usual view) that Muslims were able to take political initiatives because, in the region of modern Uttar Pradesh, British rule before 1857 and even the events of the Mutiny and Rebellion of 1857-8 had not been economically disastrous for most of them. He stresses the force of religion in the growth of Muslim political separatism, showing how the 'modernists' kept the conversation among Muslims within Islamic postulates and underlining the role of the traditional scholars in heightening popular religious feeling. Regarding any sense of Muslim political unity and nationhood as an outcome of the period of British rule, Dr Hardy shows the limitations and frailty of that unity and nationhood by 1947.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521084888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Dr Hardy has attempted a general history of British India's Muslims with a deeper perspective. He shows how the interplay of memories of past Muslim supremacy, Islamic religious aspirations and modern Muslim social and economic anxieties with the political needs of the alien ruling power gradually fostered a separate Muslim politics. Dr Hardy argues (contrary to the usual view) that Muslims were able to take political initiatives because, in the region of modern Uttar Pradesh, British rule before 1857 and even the events of the Mutiny and Rebellion of 1857-8 had not been economically disastrous for most of them. He stresses the force of religion in the growth of Muslim political separatism, showing how the 'modernists' kept the conversation among Muslims within Islamic postulates and underlining the role of the traditional scholars in heightening popular religious feeling. Regarding any sense of Muslim political unity and nationhood as an outcome of the period of British rule, Dr Hardy shows the limitations and frailty of that unity and nationhood by 1947.
The State and Poverty in India
Author: Atul Kohli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521378765
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In The State and Poverty in India the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are the most effective in implementing reform.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521378765
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
In The State and Poverty in India the author argues cogently that well-organised, left-of-centre parties in government are the most effective in implementing reform.
Language in South Asia
Author: Braj B. Kachru
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521781418
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international scholars within the field of language and linguistics. It is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521781418
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 633
Book Description
An overview of the language in South Asia within a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context, comprising authoritative contributions from international scholars within the field of language and linguistics. It is an accessible interdisciplinary book for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, multilingualism, language planning and South Asian studies.
An Environmental History of India
Author: Michael H. Fisher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107111625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
This longue durée survey of the Indian subcontinent's environmental history reveals the complex interactions among its people and the natural world.
Shahjahanabad
Author: Stephen P. Blake
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
A study of a pre-modern Indian city (Old Delhi) as a sovereign city.
Bonded Histories
Author: Gyan Prakash
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526586
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.
Gandhi's Rise to Power
Author: Judith M. Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521083539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's Indian career, from 1915 to 1922. The period began with Gandhi's return from South Africa as a stranger to Indian politics, witnessed his dramatic assertion of leadership in the Indian National Congress of 1920 and ended with his imprisonment by the British after the collapse of his all-India civil disobedience movement against the raj. Focusing on Gandhi, this book nevertheless investigates the changing nature of Indian politics. It aims to study precisely what Gandhi did, on whom he relied for support, how he interacted with other nationalist leaders and how he saw his own role in Indian public life. Unlike the usual interpretation of Gandhi's rise to power as based on a charismatic appeal to the Indian masses, this study argues that his influence depended on a capacity to generate a network of lesser leaders, or subcontractors, who would organise their constituencies for him, whether these were caste, communal or economic groups or whole areas.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521083539
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's Indian career, from 1915 to 1922. The period began with Gandhi's return from South Africa as a stranger to Indian politics, witnessed his dramatic assertion of leadership in the Indian National Congress of 1920 and ended with his imprisonment by the British after the collapse of his all-India civil disobedience movement against the raj. Focusing on Gandhi, this book nevertheless investigates the changing nature of Indian politics. It aims to study precisely what Gandhi did, on whom he relied for support, how he interacted with other nationalist leaders and how he saw his own role in Indian public life. Unlike the usual interpretation of Gandhi's rise to power as based on a charismatic appeal to the Indian masses, this study argues that his influence depended on a capacity to generate a network of lesser leaders, or subcontractors, who would organise their constituencies for him, whether these were caste, communal or economic groups or whole areas.
Land and Law in Mughal India
Author: Nandini Chatterjee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In this innovative, micro-historical approach to law, empire and society in India from the Mughal to the colonial period, Nandini Chatterjee explores the dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British. This title is also available as Open Access.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108486037
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
In this innovative, micro-historical approach to law, empire and society in India from the Mughal to the colonial period, Nandini Chatterjee explores the dramatic, multi-generational story of a family of Indian landlords negotiating the laws of three empires: Mughal, Maratha and British. This title is also available as Open Access.