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9781843310365

Mapping Histories

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  • ISBN13:

    9781843310365

  • ISBN10:

    1843310368

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-08-01
  • Publisher: Anthem Pr

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These lively and challenging essays offer readings on how we understand India's history and, conversely, how we can use this comprehension of the past to interpret India's complex present.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Ravinder Kumar
1(4)
Neera Chandhoke
Kalidasa in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and in India
5(19)
Romila Thapar
Is Buddhism the Answer to Brahminical Partiarchy?
24(15)
Uma Chakravarti
The Story of Draupadi's Disrobing: Meanings for Our Times
39(22)
Rajeswari Sundar Rajan
Tracing Akbar: Hagiographies, Popular Narrative Tradition and the Subject of Conversion
61(43)
Kumkum Sangari
The Homogeneity of Fundamentalism: Christianity, British Colonialism and India in the Nineteenth Century
104(24)
Susan Visvanathan
Colonial Construction of a `Criminal Tribe': The Itinerant Trading Communities in Madras Presidency
128(33)
Meena Radhakrishna
Houses by the Sea: State Experimentation on the Southwest Coast of India 1760-1800
161(26)
Dilip M. Menon
Competitive Advantage through Contestation: The Indian Shop-floor at the turn of the Century
187(16)
Nasir Tyabji
Less-than-Total Unities: Patel and the National Movement
203(22)
Rani Dhavan Shankardass
Foreshadowing `Quit India': The Congress in Uttar Pradesh, 1939-1941
225(30)
Gyanesh Kudaisya
Some Reflections on the Partition of India 1947
255(25)
A.S. Bhasin
Fifty Years On: Decolonization in Asia and Africa
280(11)
D.A. Low
Sovereign Subject: Ray's Apu
291(29)
Geeta Kapur
Education and Society in Post-Independence India: Looking towards the Future
320(17)
Krishna Kumar
The Body in the Mirror: Women and, Representation in Contemporary India
337(28)
Meenakshi Thapan
Beyond State and Market: The Indian Environment Debate
365(23)
Mahesh Rangarajan
Vocabularies of Resistance, Vocabularies of Rights
388(24)
Neera Chandhoke
The Efficacy and Ethics of the International Political Terrorist Act or Event
412(21)
Achin Vanaik
Contributors 433(2)
Index 435

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