The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947
ISBN: 9780140196153 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the country as an isolated Shangri-la unaffected by broader international developments. Shakya gives a balanced, blow-by-blow account of Tibet's ongoing struggle to maintain its independence and safeguard its cultural identity while being sandwiched between the heavyweights of Asian geopolitics: Britain, India, China, and the United States. With thorough documentation, Shakya details the Chinese depredations of Tibet, and reveals the failures of the...
Based entirely on unpublished primary sources, Tsering Shakya's groundbreaking history of modern Tibet shatters the popular conception of the c...
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The Penguin Gandhi Reader
ISBN: 9780140236866 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "With this rich and interesting ensemble of essays, we finally have a handy sourcebook of Gandhi's writings."The Journal of Asian Studies."
"With this rich and interesting ensemble of essays, we finally have a handy sourcebook of Gandhi's writings."The Journal of Asian Studies."
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Maharanis: A Family Saga of Four Queens
ISBN: 9780143037040 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Lucy Moore traces the cultural and political changes that transformed their world. This is the fantastic nonfiction version of The Jewel in the Crown.
Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah, was to be tantalizingly close to the power and glamour of the Raj, but locked away in purdah. Even the educated, progressive Maharani of Baroda, Chimnabai born into the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny began her marriage this... Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Luc...
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Selected Subaltern Studies
ISBN: 9780195052893 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory essay by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak--the translator of Derrida's Of Grammatology into English--and a foreword by eminent critic Edward W. Said. Addressed to students and scholars throughout the humanities, these essays address what Antonio Gramsci--the founder of the Italian communist party--called the subaltern classes, reexamining well-known historical and political events, such as Gandhi's role in India, from a Marxist perspective....
This provocative volume presents the most wide-ranging essays from the first five volumes of Subaltern Studies, along with an introductory es...
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234,41 zł |
Querying the Medieval: Texts and the History of Practices in South Asia
ISBN: 9780195124309 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rulers--"Orientalists"--and has also argued that a history of "early medieval" India very different from both the colonial and nationalist accounts could be written. This volume is designed as an important first step towards that goal. The authors look closely at three genres of texts that have been crucial to the representations of precolonial India. All three essays challenge not only colonialist scholarship but the attempts by religious...
Indologist Ronald Inden has in the past raised questions about the images of a "traditional" or "medieval" India deployed by colonial scholars and rul...
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Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra
ISBN: 9780195136616 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing that medieval India was actually a time of dynamic change and fluid social identities. Using records of religious endowments from Andhra Pradesh, author Cynthia Talbot reconstructs a regional society of the precolonial past as it existed in practice.
The society of traditional India is frequently characterized as static and dominated by caste. This study challenges older interpretations, arguing th...
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648,01 zł |
Shivaji: Hindu King in Islamic India
ISBN: 9780195141269 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself crowned in an orthodox Hindu ceremony. The legends of his life have become an epic story that everyone in western India knows, and an important part of the Hindu nationalists' ideology. To read Shivaji's legend today is to find expression of deeply held convictions about what Hinduism means and how it is opposed to Islam. James Laine traces the origin and development if the Shivaji legend from the earliest sources to the contemporary...
Shivaji is a well-known hero in western India. He defied Mughal power in the seventeenth century, established an independent kingdom, and had himself ...
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424,60 zł |
Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India
ISBN: 9780195151985 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophic effect on South Asia, leaving hundreds of thousands of people dead in its wake and creating a legacy of chaos, hatred, and war that has lasted over half a century.
Ranging from the fall of Singapore in 1942 to the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi in 1948, Shameful Flight provides a vivid behind-the-scenes look at Britain's decision to divest itself from the crown jewel of its empire. Stanley Wolpert, a leading authority on Indian... Britain's precipitous and ill-planned disengagement from India in 1947--condemned as a "shameful flight" by Winston Churchill--had a truly catastrophi...
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272,49 zł |
Between the Empires: Society in India 300 Bce to 400 Ce
ISBN: 9780195305326 / Angielski / Twarda / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collected and edited the best papers to emerge from the conference. Part I of the book looks at what can be construed from archeological evidence. Part II concerns itself with the textual evidence for the period. Taken together, these essays offer an unprecedented look at Indian culture and society in this distant epoch.
This volume is the result of an international conference organized by the South Asia Institute at the University of Texas. Patrick Olivelle has collec...
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541,05 zł |
India's Partition: Process, Strategy and Mobilization
ISBN: 9780195635041 / Angielski / Miękka / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hasan has collected essays, extracts, memoirs, and a short story to create an evocative outline of the events preceding and surrounding India's partition.
Hasan has collected essays, extracts, memoirs, and a short story to create an evocative outline of the events preceding and surrounding India's partit...
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Time as a Metaphor of History: Early India
ISBN: 9780195637984 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This essay examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological context, the latter is found in familiar historical forms. The author argues for the existence of historical consciousness in early India on the evidence of early texts.
This essay examines the link between time and history through the use of cyclic and linear concepts of time. While the former occurs in a cosmological...
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39,52 zł |
Trans-Himalayan Caravans: Merchant Princes and Peasant Traders in Ladakh
ISBN: 9780195658170 / Angielski / Miękka / 423 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of Ladakh largely depended. Although the trans-Himalayan traffic in subsistence commodities in other parts of the Himalaya has been researched, that in Ladakh has until now remained almost entirely undocumented. The book is based mainly on oral evidence; this is related to documentary sources ranging from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This intriguing account of Ladakhi trade is spiced with enough personal details of the traders at all levels, to demonstrate that trade' is...
This book documents the extraordinarily complex pattern of trade upon which the pre-Independence economy of Ladakh largely depended. Although the tran...
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96,61 zł |
Return from Exile: Alternative Sciences, Illegitimacy of Nationalism, the Savage Freud
ISBN: 9780195667936 / Angielski / Miękka / 584 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together three significant works of Ashis Nandy - Alternative Sciences, The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, and The Savage Freud. It is essential reading for social and political scientists, and all those interested in the complexities of Indian politics and culture.
This volume brings together three significant works of Ashis Nandy - Alternative Sciences, The Illegitimacy of Nationalism, and The Savage Freud. It i...
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A History of the Sikhs: Volume 1: 1469-1838
ISBN: 9780195673081 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the return of the community to the mainstream of national life. Written in Khushwant Singh's trademark style to be accessible to a general, non-scholarly audience, the book is based on scholarly archival research.
First published in 1963, this remains the most comprehensive and authoritative book on the Sikhs. The new edition updated to the present recounts the ...
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Communal Identity in India: Its Construction and Articulation in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780195673418 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity politics in modern India. Through the selected articles, each of which discusses different aspects of the central debate, the volume stresses the need to stay away from an 'essentialist' definition of identity, a view particularly significant in India today; and it concludes that communal identity, though imagined and constructed, is nevertheless not unreal.
This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity politics in modern India. Through...
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The City in Action: Bombay Struggles for Power in the 19th and 20th Century
ISBN: 9780195679298 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These fourteen essays revisit Mumbai and the many facets of its political life over the last 100 years. They reveal the urban political and socio-cultural development of the city and together constitute an extremely readable and accessible biopgraphy of the city.
These fourteen essays revisit Mumbai and the many facets of its political life over the last 100 years. They reveal the urban political and socio-cult...
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110,83 zł |
Qutb Minar and Its Monuments
ISBN: 9780195679663 / Angielski / Twarda / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inscribed as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1993, the Qutb groups of monuments contain over 70 heritage buildings, like Jamali Kamali mosque, Balban's tomb, Rajon ki Bain, Muhammad Quli Khan's tomb, and many others. This book offers vivid description and illustration of this priceless collection of monuments.
Inscribed as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1993, the Qutb groups of monuments contain over 70 heritage buildings, like Jamali Kamali mosque, Balban's to...
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72,80 zł |
Liberalism, Modernity, and the Nation: Empire, Identity, and India
ISBN: 9780195681598 / Angielski / Twarda / 241 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In these essays written over a decade, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, identifies links between liberal rhetoric and modern technology and governance and connects them to the building of identities, including the nation. The volume investigates the role played by the British Empire in the creation of modern India.
In these essays written over a decade, Peter Robb, an important historian of the Empire, identifies links between liberal rhetoric and modern technolo...
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120,33 zł |
India's Islamic Traditions: 711-1750
ISBN: 9780195683349 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, part of the 'Themes in Indian History' series, contains 17 essays on various aspects of Islamic traditions in South Asia, spanning the course of 800 years, plus an Introduction by the editor, a well-known expert in this field. The essays cover a wide range of topics and provides a comprehensive summary of the rich diversity and cultural syncretism which are the hallmarks of the Islamic traditions in India. It will become a standard text on the subject of Indian Islam.
This volume, part of the 'Themes in Indian History' series, contains 17 essays on various aspects of Islamic traditions in South Asia, spanning the co...
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68,05 zł |
Pakistan: The Formative Phase, 1857-1948
ISBN: 9780195771145 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not just a historical narrative, The Formative Phase evaluates the strength and weakness of the Muslim separatist movement that eventually culminated in the creation of Pakistan. In addition to the basic theme of the Muslim nationalist movement, Khalid Sayeed has also focused on the working and development of the British vice-regal system, and argues that the vice-regal system that Pakistan inherited from the British sustained Pakistan through the on-going political and cultural tensions that it has faced ever since its establishment.
Not just a historical narrative, The Formative Phase evaluates the strength and weakness of the Muslim separatist movement that eventually culminated ...
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95,39 zł |