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Beyond Caste

Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

By: Sumit Guha

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Beyond Caste

Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

By: Sumit Guha

Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.

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9004254854

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Essays of a Lifetime

Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Essays of a Lifetime

Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns

By: Sumit Sarkar

A distillation of the historians finest writings on modern Indian historical themes. For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 19031908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument. Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 18851947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkars finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest. here we see Sarkar grappling with his intellectual heritage, negotiating his own location within the new Marxist nationalist history of the period. Working within its frame, he pushes at the boundaries, disturbing neat classificatory schemes, resisting false historical comparisons, problematizing categories, and questioning linear narratives. The desire to explore contrary experiences and contradictory pictures is part of his process of questioning. Neeladri Bhattacharya

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SUNY Press

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1438474318

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9781438474311

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

Examines the works of Akshay Kumar Datta (1820–1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009383930

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Deadly Impasse

By: Sumit Ganguly

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Deadly Impasse

By: Sumit Ganguly

Evaluating state relations from 1999 to 2009, Deadly Impasse seeks to explore what ails the Indo-Pakistani relationship and perpetuates the enduring rivalry.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521763614

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Dilemma of Development among the Onge of Andaman

By: Dipali Danda,Sumit Mukherjee

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Dilemma of Development among the Onge of Andaman

By: Dipali Danda,Sumit Mukherjee

The Onge of Little Andaman, one of the surviving important Negrito communities in the world, have a very small static population since last four decades. There have been several critical issues pertaining to adopting the induced changes in their habitat and economy. The volume presents detailed documentation and in-depth analysis of the situation and concerns related to their survival. The volume is the outcome of a prolonged field investigation and research presented in the form of analytical and development ethnography with ecological, socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives of a dwindling community listed under Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group of India. The Onge have been rather vulnerable toward any option for radical change, they deserve close, careful attention to ward off any untoward impact of change-initiatives. The authors, a team composed of an Anthropologist and a Human Ecologist, have tried to throw light on the degree of agreements between the induced change programmes and the peoples’ age-old survival strategy. The depth of the authors’ intimate interaction with the people, their ecology, cultural niche, psychology, economy, and in a way the livelihood as such, presents a flavour hitherto unknown. The volume is remarkably enriched with good number of rare photographs along with important maps, charts and illustrations. This work is an invaluable record for reviewing and revising process and outcome of the long continued welfare programme before further such application on the remaining groups in the archipelago. The local and global level researchers, teachers and planners, interested in foraging tribal population and issues related to their welfare, development, etc., will certainly find this volume extremely useful. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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Routledge

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100048601X

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9781000486018

Modern India 1885–1947

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Modern India 1885–1947

By: Sumit Sarkar

...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low

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Springer

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1349197122

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9781349197125

Lost Glory

India's Capitalism Story

By: Sumit K Majumdar

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Lost Glory

India's Capitalism Story

By: Sumit K Majumdar

Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story deconstructs India's industrialization story, challenging contemporary ideas about her economy. Based on careful and detailed empirical analyses of India's industrialization, for a period of almost seven decades, the book provides deeply-nuanced depictions of the history of political economy, that have affected India's industrialization over the course of a century. These dimensions of India's economic history have never before been collated and presented. The presentation takes readers on a definitive evidence-based survey of India's industrial landscape. It includes a detailed historical description of the intellectual origins of India's modern industrialization, anchored in a privileged view of economic policy making. Grounded in deep historical and political analyses, that account for the variations, continuities, and changes in institutional contingencies, the facts derived on India's long-term economic performance are used to put the record straight. The findings of the book will transform debate, and set the agenda for thoughtfully assessing what course the Indian economy needs to follow.

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Oxford University Press

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019255929X

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Beyond Nationalist Frames

Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Beyond Nationalist Frames

Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

By: Sumit Sarkar

The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.

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Indiana University Press

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0253342031

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9780253342034

India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution

Democratizing Entrepreneurship

By: Sumit Kumar Majumdar

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India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution

Democratizing Entrepreneurship

By: Sumit Kumar Majumdar

Catalogues and explains India's late, late industrial revolution through a combination of rigorous analysis and entertaining anecdotes.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015006

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9781107015005

India, Pakistan, and the Bomb

Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia

By: Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur

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Debating Nuclear Stability in South Asia

By: Sumit Ganguly,S. Paul Kapur

In May 1998, India and Pakistan put to rest years of speculation about whether they possessed nuclear technology and openly tested their weapons. Some believed nuclearization would stabilize South Asia; others prophesized disaster. Authors of two of the most comprehensive books on South Asia's new nuclear era, Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapur, offer competing theories on the transformation of the region and what these patterns mean for the world's next proliferators." "With these two major interpretations, Ganguly and Kapur tackle all sides of an urgent issue that has profound regional and global consequences. Sure to spark discussion and debate, India, Pakistan, and the Bomb thoroughly maps the potential impact of nuclear proliferation."--Cubierta.

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Columbia University Press

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0231143753

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9780231143752

India Since 1980

By: Sumit Ganguly,Rahul Mukherji

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India Since 1980

By: Sumit Ganguly,Rahul Mukherji

This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi era. Although the country remains one of the few democracies in the developing world, many of the policies instigated by these earlier regimes have been swept away to make room for dramatic alterations in the political, economic and social landscape. Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji, two leading political scientists of South Asia, chart these developments with particular reference to social and political mobilization, the rise of the BJP and its challenge to Nehruvian secularism and the changes to foreign policy that, in combination with its meteoric economic development, have ensured India a significant place on the world stage.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139498665

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9781139498661

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

By: Sumit Guha

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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

By: Sumit Guha

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization. Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.

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University of Washington Press

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0295746238

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9780295746234

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

By: Sumit Guha

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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

By: Sumit Guha

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0295746238

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Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991

By: Sumit Guha

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Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991

By: Sumit Guha

Drawing on a rich collection of sources, Sumit Guha demonstrates how the ideology of indigenous cultures, developed in recent years out of the notion of a pure and untouched ethnicity, is in fact rooted in nineteenth-century racial and colonial anthropology. Challenging this view, he traces the processes by which the apparently immutable identities of South Asian populations took shape, and how these populations interacted with civilizations beyond their immediate vicinity. His penetrating critique will make a significant contribution to the history of South Asia and to the literature on ethnicity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521028701

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Beyond Caste

Beyond Caste

Essays of a Lifetime

Essays of a Lifetime

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Deadly Impasse

Deadly Impasse

Dilemma of Development among the Onge of Andaman

Dilemma of Development among the Onge of Andaman

Modern India 1885–1947

Modern India 1885–1947

Lost Glory

Lost Glory

Beyond Nationalist Frames

Beyond Nationalist Frames

India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution

India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution

India, Pakistan, and the Bomb

India, Pakistan, and the Bomb

India Since 1980

India Since 1980

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991

Environment and Ethnicity in India, 1200-1991

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