Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader by David Arnold (Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA)
Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
Institutions and Ideologies
Summary
A collection of 15 articles providing up-to-date introductory information on South Asia. This book focuses primarily on religious, social and political perspectives and the need for a multi-disciplinary approach. This advanced text offers past, present and future views.
Institutions and Ideologies Summary
About David Arnold (Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA)
David Arnold, Peter Robb
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I. Ideologies 1 Religious vs. regional determinism: India. Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire 2 Classical Hindu scriptures 3 Suttee or sati: victim or victor? 4 Some observations on the evolution of Modem Standard Punjabi 5 The hidden hand: English lexis, syntax and idiom as determinants of modem Hindi usage 6 A hero or a traitor? The Gurkha soldier in Nepali literature 7 Milton and Madhusudan 8 Indian architecture and the English vision Part II. Institutions 9 Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage 10 Islamic law and the colonial encounter in British India 11 Notes on 'peasant insurgency' in colonial Mysore: event and process 12 Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar 13 Smallpox and colonial medicine in nineteenth-century India 14 The Indian National Congress: a hundred-year perspective 15 Charan Singh (1902-87): an assessment
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NPB9780700702848
9780700702848
0700702849
Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader by David Arnold (Baylor University, Waco, Texas, USA)
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
1995-01-17
320
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