A bitter debate erupted in 1834 between Orientalists and Anglicists over what kind of public education the British should promote in their growing Indian empire. This collection of the main document……続きを見る
First published in 1930.
'The book is full of splendour and strange scenes' Nation
The Relations of Fernão Guerreiro, from which the three narratives in this volume have been taken, constitute a com……続きを見る
著者:Mohandas Gandhi
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2015年11月10日
Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhi's fundamental work. Not only is it key to understanding his life and thoughts, but also the politics of South Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. Celebrati……続きを見る
Before the Korean War, the primary mission of Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer’s Far East Air Forces was air defense of the Japanese homeland. Most of the aircraft constituting Stratemeyer’s inventory……続きを見る
著者:S. Rajamannar
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2016年05月24日
Discusses the production and circulation of animal narratives in colonial India in order to investigate the constructs of animals played into a variety of forms of othering that took place in Englan……続きを見る
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Geschichte - Asien, Note: 1,5, Pädagogische Hochschule Ludwigsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Folgenden wird die Indochinesische Kommunistische Pa……続きを見る
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive……続きを見る
For decades, India has been a conservative democracy governed by the upper caste notables coming from the urban bourgeoisie, the landowning aristocracy and the intelligentsia. The democratisation of……続きを見る
著者:Sanjay Upadhya
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年02月27日
The importance of the Himalayan state of Nepal has been obscured by the international campaign to free Tibet and the vicissitudes of the Sino-Indian rivalry. This book presents the history of Nepal’……続きを見る
Examining the world of popular healing in South Asia, this book looks at the way that it is marginalised by the state and medical establishment while at the same time being very important in the eve……続きを見る
This book examines the role western-education and social standing played in the development of Indian nationalism in the early twentieth century. It highlights the influences that education abroad h……続きを見る
著者:Adrian Carton
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年08月06日
Focusing on Portuguese, British and French colonial spaces, this book traces changing concepts of mixed-race identity in early colonial India. Starting in the sixteenth century, it discusses how the……続きを見る
著者:Julie Gifford
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2011年03月16日
Providing an overall interpretation of the Buddhist monument Borobudur in Indonesia, this book looks at Mahayana Buddhist religious ideas and practices that could have informed Borobudur, including ……続きを見る
著者:Cara Cilano
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2014年06月03日
In 1971, a war which took place in Pakistan that resulted in the establishment of two separate countries; East Pakistan became Bangladesh, leaving the remaining four western provinces to comprise a ……続きを見る
Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of moder……続きを見る
Focusing on concepts that have been central to investigation of the history and politics of marginalized and disenfranchised populations, this book asks how discourses of ‘subalternity’ and ‘differe……続きを見る
著者:Andrea Major
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2010年11月05日
The British prohibition of sati (the funeral practice of widow immolation) in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story, however, as b……続きを見る
著者:B. R. Nanda
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年07月03日
This is a biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the story of the creation of Pakistan. At a time of much interest and concern about Pakistan in the international community, this volume provides a his……続きを見る
Journalist Michael Meyer has spent his adult life in China, first in a small village as a Peace Corps volunteer, the last decade in Beijing--where he has witnessed the extraordinary transformation t……続きを見る
The Pacific Basin: An Introduction is a new textbook which provides an interdisciplinary and comparative overview of the emerging Pacific world. Interest in the Pacific Basin has increased markedly ……続きを見る
This book examines the ruptured characteristics of colonialism in nineteenth-century India. It connects the British East India Company’s efforts at the bourgeoisation of India with the Revolt of 185……続きを見る
A charming travelogue set in the British Raj, A Winter in India presents a fascinating journey across people, customs, languages, cities, monuments, and landscapes. Spens’ thrilling and amusing anec……続きを見る
著者:Daniel Michon
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2015年08月12日
This book explores the ways in which past cultures have been used to shape colonial and postcolonial cultural identities. It provides a theoretical framework to understand these processes, and offer……続きを見る
India’s economic growth has brought opportunities for many but to what extent has it benefitted its ethnically-shaped underclass: the Dalits? Have Dalits fared better in a neoliberal India or have s……続きを見る
No nation is free from the charge that it has a less-than-complete view of the past. History is not simply about recording past eventsーit is often contested, negotiated, and reshaped over time. Deb……続きを見る
著者:Iona Man-Cheong
出版社: Stanford University Press
発売日: 2017年05月16日
The Class of 1761 reveals the workings of China's imperial examination system from the unique perspective of a single graduating class. The author follows the students' struggles in negotiating the ……続きを見る
Spanish text, with English translation, of Prado's Relación of the voyage begun in company with Quirós and Torres in 1607, together with a report of the Spanish Council of State concerning Quirós, 1……続きを見る
Translated from the Greek, and Edited, with Notes and Introduction. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1897.
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Almost everything that is known of the life and personality of Ibn Battuta is derived from his own narrative of his travels. So wrote H. A. R. Gibb in his Foreword in 1957 at the start of this Haklu……続きを見る