In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their i……続きを見る
著者:Danna Agmon
出版社: Cornell University Press
発売日: 2017年08月14日
Danna Agmon's gripping microhistory is a vivid guide to the "Nayiniyappa Affair" in the French colony of Pondicherry, India. The surprising and shifting fates of Nayiniyappa and his family form the ……続きを見る
This book compares and contrasts publicly espoused security concepts in the Nordic region, and explores the notion of societal security.
Outside observers often assume that Nordic countries take sim……続きを見る
The second book on history where the reader is the judge and decides the historical narrative. You can can see all the evidence and make your own call.
This book is a sweeping historical analysis of……続きを見る
著者:Elaine M. Fisher
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2017年02月24日
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
In Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M.……続きを見る
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context,……続きを見る
著者:Patrick Eisenlohr
出版社: University of California Press
発売日: 2018年06月08日
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
Sounding Islam provides a pro……続きを見る
A Noble Queen is a novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor that illustrates one of the most important epochs in the history of the Dekhan. The book features the life of the noble Queen Chand Beebee w……続きを見る
In this book Pandavas are cheated by Kauravas in a game of dice and take all their wealth and banish them to forest for 14 years.
I have recorded my study of Mahabharata second chapter Sabhaparva in……続きを見る
Tan Dan about fights in the feudal age, and the liberation of the feudal serfs in the 1950s. Narrations from his native village. Detha cattlebreeders had clashes with feudal lords, who did not want ……続きを見る
Siddhartha is an allegorical novel by Hermann Hesse which deals with the spiritual journey of an Indian boy called Siddhartha during the time of the Buddha. The book was written in German, in a simp……続きを見る
著者:Delio De Mendonca
出版社: Arts & Science Academic Publishing
発売日: 2002年06月30日
Conversions in Goa during the sixteenth century is one of the most sensitive and much disputed issues in Goan history. This cook presents a point of view on, ana an insight into, the affair of conve……続きを見る
From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.
A towering figure in the field of economics, ……続きを見る
Mahabharata with 100,000 verses, and many prose passages, adding up to a phenomenal total of 1.8 million words is the biggest known Epic. Originally, based on a real story that took place 5000 years……続きを見る
著者:Andrew B. Liu
出版社: Yale University Press
発売日: 2020年04月01日
A history of capitalism in nineteenth†‘ and twentieth†‘century China and India exploring the competition between their tea industries
Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and……続きを見る
Shinzo Abe, who was tragically assassinated on 8 July 2022, is widely regarded as the most influential Prime Minister of post-war Japan. Not only was he Japan's longest-serving Prime Minister, but h……続きを見る
The Sunday Times Top 10 bestseller on India's experience of British colonialism, by the internationally-acclaimed author and diplomat Shashi Tharoor
'Tharoor's impassioned polemic slices straight to……続きを見る
How did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism? In Religion and Emp……続きを見る
著者:Meera Juncu
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年07月30日
India in the Italian Renaissance provides a systematic, chronological survey of early Italian representations of India and Indians from the late medieval period to the end of the 16th century, and t……続きを見る
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's cou……続きを見る
著者:Wendy Doniger
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2016年05月31日
In this magisterial volume of essays*,* Wendy Doniger enhances our understanding of the ancient and complex religion to which she has devoted herself for half a century. This series of interconnecte……続きを見る
Rudyard Kipling's "The Eyes of Asia" takes the reader on a remarkable journey of discovery into the heart and soul of four soldiers of the Indian Army who fought for King and the British Empire in t……続きを見る
Personal, provocative and powerfully persuasive - an essential guide to what white feminism is, why it matters, and how we can put an end to it
**'Thoughtful and provocative... It is a must-read' Ro……続きを見る
著者:Baby Professor
出版社: Speedy Publishing LLC
発売日: 2017年03月15日
Gandhi lived a very interesting life. He was not poor yet he lived like one. In this world, almost everyone would like to do the exact opposite. Why did Gandhi live such a life? Know the answer by r……続きを見る
For more than half a century, T.N. Madan has been a towering influence on the sociological and anthropological studies of family and kinship, cultural dimensions of development, religion, secularism……続きを見る
著者:Durba Ghosh
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2017年07月31日
In Gentlemanly Terrorists, Durba Ghosh uncovers the critical place of revolutionary terrorism in the colonial and postcolonial history of modern India. She reveals how so-called 'Bhadralok dacoits' ……続きを見る
When Portuguese explorers first rounded the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in the subcontinent in the late fifteenth century, Europeans had little direct knowledge of India. The maritime passage open……続きを見る
著者:R. McLain
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月24日
In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demon……続きを見る