Karmabhumi

Karmabhumi PDF Author: Premchand
Publisher: Oxford India Collection (Paper
ISBN: 9780195696660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Premchand (1880-1936) was one of India's greatest writers in Hindi and Urdu. Lalit Srivastava is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

Karmabhumi

Karmabhumi PDF Author: Premchand
Publisher: Oxford India Collection (Paper
ISBN: 9780195696660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Premchand (1880-1936) was one of India's greatest writers in Hindi and Urdu. Lalit Srivastava is Professor Emeritus, Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Canada.

A Sacred Thread

A Sacred Thread PDF Author: Raymond Brady Williams
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231107792
Category : Hindu sects
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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What are UFOs? And what did happen in Hanger 57? This book looks into the stories behind the sightings, including several closed military files that may have some very strange evidence within them.

The History of a Himalayan Princely State

The History of a Himalayan Princely State PDF Author: Atul Saklani
Publisher: Delhi : Durga Publications
ISBN:
Category : Tehri Garhwal (India : State)
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Ahmedabad

Ahmedabad PDF Author: Achyut Yagnik
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 8184754736
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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Founded in 1411 by Sultan Ahmed Shah on the banks of the river Sabarmati, Ahmedabad is today India's seventh largest city and also one of the subcontinent's few medieval cities which continues to be prosperous and important. Soon after it was established, the royal city of Ahmedabad became the commercial and cultural capital of Gujarat. When the Mughal Empire annexed Gujarat in 1572, Ahmedabad lost its political pre-eminence, but continued to flourish as a great trading centre connecting the silk route with the spice route. Briefly under the Marathas in the eighteenth century, Ahmedabad experienced a dimming of its fortunes, but with the beginning of British control from the early nineteenth century the city reasserted its mercantile ethos, even as it began questioning age-old social hierarchies. The opening of the first textile mill in 1861 was a turning point and by the end of the century Ahmedabad was known as the Manchester of the East. When Gandhi returned to India from South Africa in 1915, looking for a place where he could establish 'an institution for the whole of India', it was Ahmedabad he chose. With the setting up of his Sabarmati Ashram, the great manufacturing centre also became a centre for new awakening. It became the political hub of India, radiating the message of freedom struggle based on truth and non-violence. After Independence, it emerged as one of the fastest-growing cities of India and in the 1960s Ahmedabadis pioneered institutions of higher education and research in new fields such as space sciences, management, design and architecture. Yet, through the centuries, Ahmedabad's prosperity has been punctuated by natural disasters and social discord, from famines and earthquakes to caste and religious violence. Ahmedabadis have tried to respond to these, trying to meld economic progress with a new culture of social harmony. Coinciding with the 600th anniversary of the founding of Ahmedabad, this broad brush history highlights socio-economic patterns that emphasize Indo-Islamic and Indo-European synthesis and continuity, bringing the focus back to the pluralistic heritage of this medieval city. Evocative profiles of Ahmedabadi merchants, industrialists, poets and saints along with descriptions and illustrations of the city's art and architecture bring alive the city and its citizens.

Essays on Indian Renaissance

Essays on Indian Renaissance PDF Author: Raj Kumar
Publisher: Discovery Publishing House
ISBN: 9788171416899
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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Contents: Introduction, Hindu Renaissance in Middle Ages, India s Religious Renaissance, Influence of Renaissance and Reformation, The Renaissance in British India and its Effect, Swami Dayanand Saraswati and Indian Renaissance, The Bengal Renaissance and Rabindranath Tagore, The Roots of Indian Nationalism, Delhi in the Nineteenth Century, The English Positives and India, Social and Cultural Reconstruction, British Paramountcy and Indian Renaissance, Renaissance of Tamil Culture, Premchand: And Indian Resurgence.

The Literary Endeavour

The Literary Endeavour PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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Caste, Knowledge, and Power

Caste, Knowledge, and Power PDF Author: Sunandan K. N.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009281917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Caste, Knowledge, and Power investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation and in the continuing of these oppressive practices. The author situates the domination and subordination in the domain of knowledge production in India not just in the emergence of colonial modernity but in the formation of colonial–Brahminical modernity. It engages less with the marginalization of the oppressed castes in the modern institutions of knowledge production which has already been discussed widely in the scholarship. Rather, the author focuses on how the modern colonial–Brahminical concept of knowledge invalidated many other forms of knowing practices and how historically caste domination transformed from the claims of superiority in acharam (ritual hierarchy) to the claims of superiority in possession of knowledge.

Premchand in World Languages

Premchand in World Languages PDF Author: M. Asaduddin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317205723
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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This volume explores the reception of Premchand’s works and his influence in the perception of India among Western cultures, especially Russian, German, French, Spanish and English. The essays in the collection also take a critical look at multiple translations of the same work (and examine how each new translation expands the work’s textuality and annexes new readership for the author) as well as representations of celluloid adaptations of Premchand’s works. An important intervention in the field of translation studies, this book will interest scholars and researchers of comparative literature, cultural studies and film studies.

Colonial Clerks

Colonial Clerks PDF Author: Dalia Chakrabarti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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On the clerks in East India Company tenure; a study.

Fiction as History

Fiction as History PDF Author: Vasudha Dalmia
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 1438476051
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Explains the Hindi novel’s role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India. Vasudha Dalmia offers a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century, from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era. The North’s historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Presidency towns founded by the British. Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in six of these cities—Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow—to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of the emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity. She argues that the radical social transformations associated with post-1857 urban restructuring, and the political flux resulting from social reform, Gandhian nationalism, communalism, Partition, and the Cold War shaped the realm of the intimate as much as the public sphere. Love and friendship, notions of privacy, attitudes to women’s work, and relationships within households are among the book’s major themes.