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  • - Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India
    av Rosalind O'Hanlon
    730,-

    The nineteenth century saw the beginning of a violent and controversial movement of protest amongst western India's low and untouchable castes, aimed at the effects of their lowly position within the Hindu caste hierarchy. This study concentrates on the first leader of this movement, Mahatma Jotirao Phule.

  • av Claude Markovits
    560,-

    The 1930s was a critical decade in Indian politics. It saw the Congress Party begin its rise to political dominance, while Indian 'big business' strengthened its position in the economy. This book seeks to analyse the response of India's most important indigenous businessmen to the growth of political nationalism. Dr Markovits' study falls into three parts: an analysis of the structure of the business class, revealing its basic heterogeneity and lack of political unity; an examination of the impact of the Depression of the 1930s on the fortunes of Indian businessmen and on government economic policy; and a survey of the uneasy and changing relationship between businessmen and Congress at a time of political turmoil and realignment. Drawing heavily on the private papers of prominent businessmen as well as on a wealth of official sources, this is the first systematic study, on an all-India scale, of the political attitude of big business during the final and most crucial phase of the nationalist struggle. Given increasing prominence of businessmen in Indian politics after 1920 an understanding of their behaviour is fundamental to our view of the overall pattern of Indian nationalist politics. All those interested in the rise of anti-colonial movements and in patterns of capitalist development in Third World countries should also find matter for thought in this sensitive and unusual study.

  • - Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India
    av Gyan Prakash
    655,-

    Combining a sophisticated theoretical analysis with evidence from archival records, village documents and oral testimonies, Bonded Histories presents an original and compelling view of the changing relationship between landlords and labourers in southern Bihar. It will be of interest to historians, social anthropologists and contemporary social theorists.

  • - Muslims and Christians in South Indian Society, 1700-1900
    av Cambridge) Bayly & Susan (Christ's College
    834,-

    South India is often portrayed as a land of Hindu orthodoxy, yet in fact three great 'world religions' have inter-acted in the region over many centuries. Saints, Goddesses and Kings investigates the social and religious world of those South Indians who came to identify themselves as Christians and Muslims.

  • - Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan
    av Ayesha (Columbia University Jalal
    465,-

    Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League, this book assesses the role of religious communalism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.

  • - The Pirs of Sind, 1843-1947
    av University of London) Ansari & Sarah F. D. (Royal Holloway
    536 - 1 222,-

    In this book, Dr Sarah Ansari examines the system of political control constructed by the British in Sind between 1843 and 1947. In particular, she looks at the part of the local Muslim religious elite, the pirs or hereditary sufi saints, whose participation in the system ensured its success.

  • - Studies in Agrarian Society and Peasant Rebellion in Colonial India
    av Eric Stokes
    465,-

    These twelve essays explore the nature of south Asian agrarian society and examine the extent to which it changed during the period of British rule. The central focus of the book is directed to peasant agitation and violence and four of the studies look at the agrarian explosion that formed the background to the 1857 Mutiny. The essays give a coherent historical treatment of the Indian peasant world, and the paperback edition of this successful book will be of interest to the student of peasant studies and to the sociologist as well as to development economists and agronomists generally.

  • - West Bengal since 1977
    av Ross Mallick
    465,-

    West Bengal has the longest-ruling democratically elected Communist government in world history. In this book, Dr Ross Mallick convincingly argues that it has been a failure in terms of redistributive development reform.

  • av John R. McLane
    560,-

    This book explores the dual and sometimes conflicting roles of the zamindari, the landed chiefs, in eighteenth-century western Bengal during the decline of the Mughal empire and the rise of the British hegemony. It discusses zamindari rent extraction, techniques of coercion, and the meaning of gift-giving and gift-receiving.

  • - The Origins and Development of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh
    av Bruce Desmond Graham
    465,-

    This book presents a comprehensive and perceptive study of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh through the first two decades of its history from 1951. The Bharatiya Jana Sangh was the most robust of the first generation of Hindu nationalist parties in modern Indian politics and Bruce Graham examines why the party failed to establish itself as the party of the numerically dominant Hindu community.

  • av Sanjay Subrahmanyam
    759,-

    This book is based on extensive and previously unused Portuguese and Dutch archival sources. Its secondary theme is to explore the relationship between the documentation used and the context within which it was generated, thus illuminating how Europeans and Asians reacted to one another.

  • - A Lineage and the State in Maharashtra
    av Laurence W. Preston
    465,-

    This innovative study of the power of lineage in India across two centuries examines some of the traditional social structures which transcended so successfully the political upheavals of British rule.

  • - Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom
    av Nicholas B. Dirks
    610,-

    A pioneering piece of ethnohistory, The Hollow Crown uses a variety of interdisciplinary means to reconstruct the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries.

  • - Policy and Administration for Hindu Temples in South India
    av Franklin A. Presler
    465,-

    Religion under Bureaucracy is an innovative study of religion and politics in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu which focuses on the relationship between the state and the central religious institution of the area, the Hindu temple.

  • - Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919-1947
    av Sugata Bose
    465,-

    As well as being an outstanding contribution to Indian economic and social history, this book draws important conclusions about peasant politics in general and about the effects of international economic fluctuations on primary producing countries.

  • - A Sociological and Historical Study
    av Gananath Obeyesekere
    465,-

    This anthropological work of unusual historical depth describes the pattern of land tenure and resulting social structure in the Ceylonese village of Madagama. Dr Obeyesekere analyses the contemporary system in detail, and traces the evolution of every land holding and the correlated kinship pattern from the inception of the estate in 1790.

  • av Mick Moore
    465,-

    Dr Moore's enterprising book focuses on an apparent paradox: the failure of Sri Lanka's highly politicized smallholder electorate to place on the national political agenda issues relating to the public distribution of material resources.

  • - 1960-1970
    av Rashid Amjad
    465,-

    This book examines the behaviour of private industrial investment in Pakistan in the 1960s, in the first half of which it rose at an unprecedented rate, followed by sharp decline, and then stagnation for the rest of the period. The approach adopted is institutional and empirical.

  • - Agriculture and Agrarian Society in the Bombay Presidency 1850-1935
    av Neil Charlesworth
    580,-

    This book examines the impact of British rule on the Indian peasantry, and the changes it brought. It finds that significant long-term economic and social change did occur but that the highly 'differential' pattern to commercialisation prevented any structural transformation in the peasant economy and society.

  • - A South Indian Case
    av Arjun Appadurai
    465,-

    Although temples have been important in South Indian society and history, there have been few attempts to study them within an integrated anthropological framework. Professor Appadurai develops such a framework in this ethnohistorical case study, in which he interprets the politics of worship in the Sri Partasarati Svami Temple, a famous ancient Sri Vaisnava shrine in India.

  • - A Quantitative Study
    av M. Mufakharul Islam
    465,-

    This is a study of agricultural development in undivided Bengal during the period 1920-1946.

  • av S. Ambirajan
    465,-

    This book examines the effect of Classical political economy - the economic and monetary writings of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Malthus, the Mills and others - on the policy-making of the British government in India in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

  • av Deepak Nayyar
    491,-

    This book examines India's export performance and export policies in the 1960s. The author analyses the causal factors underlying the trends in exports and evaluates the government policies which affected them. This authoritative work will be of interest to all those concerned with Indian economic problems, international trade and development economics.

  • - Their Life and their World
    av Mark Holmstrom
    465,-

    This book studies workers in four factories in Bangalore - an industrial city of more than one and a half million people in South India - and seeks to answer questions about the situation and thinking of workers in modern capital intensive factories.

  • av Christopher John Baker
    506,-

    The interwar years witnessed great changes in the political life of India, with the establishment of new governmental institutions, the emergence of political movements based on class, caste and ideology, and the rapid expansion of the nationalist campaign.

  • - A Study of District Councils in the State of Maharashtra
    av Mary C. Carras
    465,-

    This study constitutes an analysis of factionalism between rival groups in the dominant Congress Party in Maharashtra. The principal question examined is whether a politician's decision to oppose or 'rebel against' party authority is determined or can be predicted by certain characteristics of the individual concerned and his environment.

  • - Indian Politics 1915-1922
    av Judith M. Brown
    536,-

    Dr Brown presents a political study of the first clearly defined period in Mahatma Gandhi's Indian career, from 1915 to 1922.

  • av Amiya Kumar Bagchi
    608,-

    This book deals with the history of private investment in India and its determinants during the period 1900-1939. It develops a simple theoretical framework in its first part and tries to isolate the influence on private investment in India of factor supplies, as against demand conditions. In the second part, all the major manufacturing industries of the period are studied in detail.

  • - A Study of Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan
    av Abdul Majed Khan
    543,-

    Saiyid Muhammad Reza Khan held the office of Naib Nazim and Naib Diwan of Bengal from 1765 to 1772. This study includes the early life of the Khan, but concentrates particularly upon the years from 1756, when the Khan first held public office, to 1775.

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