This work studies urbanization in the Third World, emphasizing industrialization through the use of case studies. It examines the historical demography of India's urbanization; problems of infrastructure management; and the recruitment, migration, and reproduction of the labor force.

India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Business & Money

Crook, Nigel

Economics

School of Oriental and African Studies

A new printing of a volume which has influenced many scholars, and has often been adopted as a text for teaching, this book of essays delves deeply into specific cases, and questions the meanings of familiar terms and categories. The view of India which they contain is in many senses radical, but also reinforced by recent research. The central issue is how rural India related to the wider world under foreign rule. This raises matters of lively and continuing debate--such as colonial impact and possible continuities from pre-colonial times, the meanings of property, markets and "modernization," the extent of rural autonomy, and the degree of conceptual and practical equivalence between the local and the universal. Land and power are the major subjects of the book, but it also pursues issues of disease (the plague), politics and religion (Muslims in the Punjab), and literature (Tarashankar Banerjee).

Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British Rule (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

History

Asia

Dalit Movements and the Meanings of Labour in India (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

This book traces various interesting aspects of the story of Indian labor from the eighteenth century to the present day, assessing the degrees of continuity with past practice, and whether the modern assumptions about work--its separation from other aspects of daily life, its commoditization, its class implications--have often been reflected in Indian experience. The essays propose a number of general points on how ideological and religious ferment accompanies economic change, and also treat particulars that resonate against entrenched social conditions and attitudes. As a whole the book forms a comparative story of the concepts of labor and of social hierarchy.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

This volume, commemorating nearly forty years during which Professor K.A. Ballhatchet taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, offers varied but coherent studies relevant to questions of ethnicity in South Asia. It goes beyond the recognition that identities are constructed, toward an understanding of the context and conditions in which particular kinds of community are possible. A secondary theme is the means and importance of the interpretation of texts. A third is the impact of the intrusions of colonial rule upon South Asia's practices and self-perceptions. The subjects are considered from pre-Mughal times to the recent past, and in both India and Sri Lanka.

Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History Presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

This study argues that the Bengali novelist Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay produced some of the most searching critical reflections on modernity in colonial India. It rejects assumptions that Bankim was a conservative, claiming that his art must be seen in a different, historical context.

The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Discourse in India (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Kaviraj, Sudipta

Politics & Government

The author argues that `Purdah' in early twentieth century Bengal meant far more than secluding women behind veils and walls; it entailed an all-encompassing ideology and code of conduct based on female modesty. Women's political activities, their class-specific existence as daughters, wives, mothers and widows as well as their education and employment are examined in this framework.

Beyond Purdah?: Women in Bengal 1890-1939 (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Engels, Dagmar

The Concept of Race in South Asia (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have concepts of race figured very prominently in South Asian studies. This volume constitutes one of the first attempts to raise the question comparatively and over a long time-span with regard to South Asia.

This work is a collection of papers which describe and anlyze the nature and significance of caste in contemporary India. They are based on ethnographic research carried out both in rural and urban areas, in north and south India, and among both Hindus and Muslims. This book shows how caste today is increasingly about cutural separation rather than hierarchical rank, how it can become an idiom for class inequality, and why it can take on different forms between Muslims and Hindus. The work also discusses how the meaning and significance of case are becoming increasingly ambiguous for the Indians today.

Caste Today (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

This book traces various interesting aspects of the story of Indian labor from the eighteenth century to the present day, assessing the degrees of continuity with past practice, and whether the modern assumptions about work--its separation from other aspects of daily life, its commoditization, its class implications--have often been reflected in Indian experience. The essays propose a number of general points on how ideological and religious ferment accompanies economic change, and also treat particulars that resonate against entrenched social conditions and attitudes. As a whole the book forms a comparative story of the concepts of labor and of social hierarchy.

This is the first critical presentation in English of Hali's epic poem, The Musaddas on "The Ebb and Flow of Islam"--a landmark in the development of Urdu poetry as of modern Indian literature.

Hali's Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam (Soas South Asian Texts)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

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India's Industrial Cities: Essays in Economy and Demography (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Rural India: Land, Power and Society under British Rule (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Dalit Movements and the Meanings of Labour in India (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Society and Ideology: Essays in South Asian History Presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

The Unhappy Consciousness: Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the Formation of Discourse in India (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Beyond Purdah?: Women in Bengal 1890-1939 (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

The Concept of Race in South Asia (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Caste Today (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Dalit Movements and the Meanings of Labour in India (SOAS Studies on South Asia)

Hali's Musaddas: The Flow and Ebb of Islam (Soas South Asian Texts)