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Facsimilie of: London: The Royal Asiatic Society, 1961.
Muslims in India are responding to the challenge of religious pluralism in a variety of ways. This book explores the attempts being made by scholar-activists and Muslim organizations to develop new understandings of Islam to relate to people of other faiths and to the modern nation.
Includes chapters on the History of Rum, The Sultan of Rum, Religious Warriors in the early Ottoman State and From the Defeat at Ankara to the Conquest of Constantinople that were originally delivered in French (in one case German) at seminars or conferences in non-Nazi Europe in the mid to late 1930s.
Examines the emergence of a Muslim women's movement in India. This book puts forward the importance for early Muslim female activists to balance continuity and innovation. It analyzes the role of the 'daughters of reform,' the first generation of Muslim women who contributed to the reformist discourse, particularly at the regional level.
This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'.
First Published in 1984. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Discarding categories like Islamic, Indian, or Chinese medicine as the myths invented by modern historiography in the aftermath of the colonial and post colonial periods, this book proposes to bridge the gap between Western and 'non-Western' medicines.
Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book presents a study of the ways in which governments in India used collective coercion and state violence against the population, and a cultural history of how acts of state violence were interpreted by the population.
The study of technical treatises in Indian art has attracted interest. This work puts forward a critical re-examination of the key Indian concepts of painting described in the Sanskrit treatises, called "citrasutras". It provides a conceptual framework for understanding the interlinkages between textual sources and the practice of Indian painting.
Henry Thomas Colebrooke was an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. He embodies the significant passage from the speculative yearnings attendant on eighteenth century colonial expansion. This biography traces, explains, and evaluates Colebrooke's importance.
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