Institutions and Ideologies
A SOAS South Asia Reader
1st Edition
Published on 1. February 2013
320 pages
978-1-136-10242-4 (ISBN)
Description
Informative, timely and accessible introduction to the study of South Asia by leading scholars in the field.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
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Reflowable
ISBN-13
978-1-136-10242-4 (9781136102424)
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Persons
David Arnold, Peter Robb
Content
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
