This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.…mehr
This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.
Ishita Banerjee-Dube is Professor of History at the Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico City, and a member of the National System of Researchers (SNI), Mexico, where she holds the highest rank. Her authored books include Divine Affairs (2001), Religion, Law, and Power (2007) and, in Spanish, Fronteras del Hinduismo (2007). Among her eight edited volumes are Unbecoming Modern (2005), Caste in History (2008) and Ancient to Modern (2009).
Inhaltsangabe
Photographs, maps, posters and figures About the author Acknowledgements Prologue 1. The colourful world of the eighteenth century 2. Emergence of the Company Raj 3. An inaugural century 4. Creating anew 5. Imagining India 6. Challenge and rupture 7. The Mahatma phenomenon 8. Difficulties and initiatives 9. Many pathways of a nation 10. The tumultuous forties 11. 1947 and after Bibliography Index.
Photographs, maps, posters and figures About the author Acknowledgements Prologue 1. The colourful world of the eighteenth century 2. Emergence of the Company Raj 3. An inaugural century 4. Creating anew 5. Imagining India 6. Challenge and rupture 7. The Mahatma phenomenon 8. Difficulties and initiatives 9. Many pathways of a nation 10. The tumultuous forties 11. 1947 and after Bibliography Index.
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
USt-IdNr: DE450055826