David Arnold, Peter Robb

Institutions and Ideologies

A Soas South Asia Reader

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In conveniently bringing together leading articles on South Asia, at an affordable price, the Reader is aimed at students beginning to move beyond basic texts and narratives, or who seek to view South Asia in a comparative light. It shows how scholars of the region are opening upon fresh perspectives, and asking new questions of its past, present and future.

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First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 219mm x 153mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780700702831
• ISBN-10: 0700702830
• Artikelnr.: 21318204

Autorenporträt

David Arnold, Peter Robb

Inhaltsangabe

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