Author: Sir Henry Miers Elliot
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India
Author: H. M. Elliot
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120619050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Publisher: Asian Educational Services
ISBN: 9788120619050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Memoirs on the History, Folk-lore, and Distribution of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India
Author: Sir Henry Miers Elliot
Publisher:
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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Publisher:
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Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Peasants and Monks in British India
Author: William R. Pinch
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520200616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society—insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance. Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy—particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different—Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status—the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520200616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society—insights that are not only of scholarly but also of great political significance. Perhaps no two images are more associated with rural India than the peasant who labors in an oppressive, inflexible social structure and the ascetic monk who denounces worldly concerns. Pinch argues that, contrary to these stereotypes, North India's monks and peasants have not been passive observers of history; they have often been engaged with questions of identity, status, and hierarchy—particularly during the British period. Pinch's work is especially concerned with the ways each group manipulated the rhetoric of religious devotion and caste to further its own agenda for social reform. Although their aims may have been quite different—Ramanandi monastics worked for social equity, while peasants agitated for higher social status—the strategies employed by these two communities shaped the popular political culture of Gangetic north India during and after the struggle for independence from the British.
Publications of the Folk-lore Society
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Notes on Afghánistán and Part of Balúchistán
Author: Henry George Raverty
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 1642
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Catalogue
Author: W. Heffer & Sons
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
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Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
General Catalogue of the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 916
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Languages : en
Pages : 916
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General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich
Author: Detroit Public Library
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 910
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Category : Catalogs, Dictionary
Languages : en
Pages : 910
Book Description
The Golden Bough
Author: James George Frazer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
Trübner's Record
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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