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  • Princely India Re-imagined

    A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present

    by Aya Ikegame ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel ... Read more

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  • The Guru in South Asia

    New Interdisciplinary Perspectives

    Edited by Jacob Copeman, Aya Ikegame ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    This book provides a set of fresh and compelling interdisciplinary approaches to the enduring phenomenon of the guru in South Asia. Moving across different gurus and kinds of gurus, and between past and present, the chapters call attention to the extraordinary scope and richness of the social lives and roles of South Asian gurus. Prevailing scholarship has rightly considered the guru to be a ... Read more

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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

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  • CASTE is NOT HINDU

    A HISTORICAL NARRATIVE,Caste is a Construct of the Colonial Invaders

    by Guruji Sundara Raj Anantha, Aykshya Simrhen Raj, Pardip Kumar Kukreja ...
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  • Society and History of Gujarat since 1800

    A Select Bibliography of the English and European Language Sources

    by Edward Simpson ...
    This book consolidates scholarship on Gujarat in English and other European languages, notably, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. It draws together well-known sources, as well as rare and under-exploited research material. Detailed bibliographical references are provided for books, chapters, periodical literature, dissertations, project reports, other materials published since 1800; ... Read more

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  • Empire's Garden

    Assam and the Making of India

    by Jayeeta Sharma ...
    Series series Radical perspectives
    In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In ... Read more

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  • Science and National Consciousness in Bengal 1870 1930

    by J Lourdusamy ...
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  • The Frontier Complex

    Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846–1962

    by Kyle J. Gardner ...
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  • Darjeeling

    In Search of People’s History of the Hills

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  • B. R. Ambedkar

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    A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination.Ambedkar was born into a Dalit caste (the so-called ‘untouchables’), but his academic brilliance saw him study at Columbia University ... Read more

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  • Animal Sacrifice, Religion and Law in South Asia

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