Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies
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9780199452750
Publication date:
08/05/2015
Hardback
344 pages
216x140mm
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ISBN:
9780199452750
Publication date:
08/05/2015
Hardback
344 pages
Gita Dharmpal Frick, Monika Kirolskar Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer, Jahnavi Phalkey
Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies is the first reference volume to introduce the terminology used for cultural studies and the social sciences relating to India. Authored by a number of internationally recognized experts, it consists of over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to their respective fields of specialization, highlighting crucial issues and debates in a lucid and concise manner. Each entry posits a concise definition of the key concept, accompanied by a critical analysis of its trajectory and a succinct discussion of its significance in the academic arena as well as in the public sphere.
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Gita Dharmpal Frick, Monika Kirolskar Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer, Jahnavi Phalkey
Description
Modern Indian studies have become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as Ahimsa, Caste, Darshan, and Race—have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts out the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this work consists of over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to their respective fields of specialization, highlighting crucial issues and debates in a lucid and concise manner. Each concept is accompanied by a critical analysis of its trajectory and a succinct discussion of its significance in the academic arena as well as in the public sphere. Enhancing the shared framework of understanding about the Indian subcontinent, Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies will provide the reader with insights into vital debates about the region, underscoring the compelling issues of colonialism and postcolonialism.
Gita Dharmpal Frick, Monika Kirolskar Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer, Jahnavi Phalkey
Table of contents
Note on Editors
Gita Dharmpal Frick, Monika Kirolskar Steinbach, Rachel Dwyer, Jahnavi Phalkey
Description
Modern Indian studies have become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial issues. As a result of socio-political transformations, certain concepts—such as Ahimsa, Caste, Darshan, and Race—have taken on different meanings. Bringing together ideas, issues, and debates salient to modern Indian studies, this volume charts out the social, cultural, political, and economic processes at work in the subcontinent. Authored by internationally recognized experts, this work consists of over one hundred individual entries on concepts central to their respective fields of specialization, highlighting crucial issues and debates in a lucid and concise manner. Each concept is accompanied by a critical analysis of its trajectory and a succinct discussion of its significance in the academic arena as well as in the public sphere. Enhancing the shared framework of understanding about the Indian subcontinent, Key Concepts in Modern Indian Studies will provide the reader with insights into vital debates about the region, underscoring the compelling issues of colonialism and postcolonialism.
Table of contents
Note on Editors
Technology and Rural Change in Eastern India, 1830–1980
Smritikumar Sarkar
Forging Capitalism in Nehru’s India
Nasir Tyabji
Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism
Peter Heehs
Religion, Caste, and Nation in South India
V. Ravi Vaithees
Udayon Misra
Ângela Barreto Xavier, Ines G. Županov
Indians in Singapore, 1819–1945
Rajesh Rai
G. Balachandran
Clive Dewey
People's Mission to The Ottoman Empire
Burak Akçapar
