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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195663945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Ideas And Society: India Between The Sixteenth And Eighteenth Centuries
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195663945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195663945
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Ideas and Society in India from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Ideas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like the Bhakti and Sufi saints, and the Sikhs, to the Eighteenth Century crisis of the Mughal Empire, the formulations presented by Sufi saints to improve the conditions, and the advent of the 'firangis'. More specifically the book deals with the reaction of Indian thought to the culture and presence of the West. This book will be of interest to medievalists and those interested in studying Indian history in relation to European history.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Ideas and Society in India discusses society and culture in India from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century as seen by medieval and early modern thinkers. These issues range from the nature of the state, relations between religious communities, doctrinal and ethical attitudes of reformists like the Bhakti and Sufi saints, and the Sikhs, to the Eighteenth Century crisis of the Mughal Empire, the formulations presented by Sufi saints to improve the conditions, and the advent of the 'firangis'. More specifically the book deals with the reaction of Indian thought to the culture and presence of the West. This book will be of interest to medievalists and those interested in studying Indian history in relation to European history.
Ideas and Society
Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Highlights The Nature Of Cultural And Religious Practices In Medieval India, The Development Of The State, Beginings Of Colonial Rule And The Indiginous Response To It. Also Looks At Patterns In Communal Relations And Sufi And Bhakti Traditions.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Highlights The Nature Of Cultural And Religious Practices In Medieval India, The Development Of The State, Beginings Of Colonial Rule And The Indiginous Response To It. Also Looks At Patterns In Communal Relations And Sufi And Bhakti Traditions.
Ideology and Empire in Eighteenth-Century India
Author: Robert Travers
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139464167
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Robert Travers' analysis of British conquests in late eighteenth-century India shows how new ideas were formulated about the construction of empire. After the British East India Company conquered the vast province of Bengal, Britons confronted the apparent anomaly of a European trading company acting as an Indian ruler. Responding to a prolonged crisis of imperial legitimacy, British officials in Bengal tried to build their authority on the basis of an 'ancient constitution', supposedly discovered among the remnants of the declining Mughal Empire. In the search for an indigenous constitution, British political concepts were redeployed and redefined on the Indian frontier of empire, while stereotypes about 'oriental despotism' were challenged by the encounter with sophisticated Indian state forms. This highly original book uncovers a forgotten style of imperial state-building based on constitutional restoration, and in the process opens up new points of connection between British, imperial and South Asian history.
India, Modernity and the Great Divergence
Author: Kaveh Yazdani
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India’s socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and early 19th centuries and Mysore during the second half of the 18th century.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004330798
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 701
Book Description
This book examines the reasons behind the Great Divergence. Kaveh Yazdani analyzes India’s socio-economic, techno-scientific, military, political and institutional developments. The focus is on Gujarat between the 17th and early 19th centuries and Mysore during the second half of the 18th century.
Indian Foreign Policy and Cultural Values
Author: Kadira Pethiyagoda
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030546969
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
As India rises to great power status in the emerging multipolar world order, what influence will its rich and ancient culture have on the country’s foreign policy? This book reveals that cultural values have greater explanatory power than previously thought and describes the nature of their influence. Excavating thousands of years of history, the monograph identifies enduring values that are relevant to contemporary foreign policy. It examines three critical areas of Indian foreign policy – nuclear policy, humanitarian intervention and relations with the Middle East. Major decisions were shaped by cultural values – sometimes at the expense of strategic interests. India’s choice to test nuclear weapons was not purely because of China or Pakistan: hierarchy also played a role. From a hierarchical worldview shaping Delhi’s approach to international law on arms control to pluralism facilitating simultaneous friendships with America and Iran, values thread their way throughout India’s foreign relations. Non-violence underpins Delhi’s soft power in both the West and the Middle East, while having spurred India’s opposition to Western intervention in Iraq. Analyzing state behavior and interviewing diplomats, the book charts culture’s evolving influence from Rajiv Gandhi to Narendra Modi.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030546969
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
As India rises to great power status in the emerging multipolar world order, what influence will its rich and ancient culture have on the country’s foreign policy? This book reveals that cultural values have greater explanatory power than previously thought and describes the nature of their influence. Excavating thousands of years of history, the monograph identifies enduring values that are relevant to contemporary foreign policy. It examines three critical areas of Indian foreign policy – nuclear policy, humanitarian intervention and relations with the Middle East. Major decisions were shaped by cultural values – sometimes at the expense of strategic interests. India’s choice to test nuclear weapons was not purely because of China or Pakistan: hierarchy also played a role. From a hierarchical worldview shaping Delhi’s approach to international law on arms control to pluralism facilitating simultaneous friendships with America and Iran, values thread their way throughout India’s foreign relations. Non-violence underpins Delhi’s soft power in both the West and the Middle East, while having spurred India’s opposition to Western intervention in Iraq. Analyzing state behavior and interviewing diplomats, the book charts culture’s evolving influence from Rajiv Gandhi to Narendra Modi.
Comparative Secularisms in a Global Age
Author: L. Cady
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The history and politics of secularism and the public role of religion in France, India, Turkey, and the United States. It interprets the varieties of secularism as a series of evolving and contested processes of defining and remaking religion, rather than a static solution to the challenges posed by religious and political difference.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230106706
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
The history and politics of secularism and the public role of religion in France, India, Turkey, and the United States. It interprets the varieties of secularism as a series of evolving and contested processes of defining and remaking religion, rather than a static solution to the challenges posed by religious and political difference.
Social Science at the Crossroads
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385126
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Social Science at the Crossroads brings questions of the future of the university, of democracy, of social science and religion to the front and offers analyses that point toward an overview of urgent problems in the current debate in social science.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004385126
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Social Science at the Crossroads brings questions of the future of the university, of democracy, of social science and religion to the front and offers analyses that point toward an overview of urgent problems in the current debate in social science.
Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III
Author: Donald F. Lach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467672
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226467672
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
First systematic, inclusive study of the impact of the high civilizations of Asia on the development of modern Western civilization.