These three essays, by Vasudha Dalmia, explore the ways in which Europeans British colonialists and German philosophers and scholars  appropriated Indian history, religious scholarship, and ritual practice to assert their own relationship to India and Indians, and even more so, their relationship to their own past and sense of present duty, right, and mission. In these European attempts to orient India to their own designs, justifications, and senses of moral worth, or enlightened thinking , Dalmia reveals the complex negotiations between Indian and British forms of knowledge and practice. In her study of the German thinkers, we see how cultural knowledge is not static but becomes a transaction between philosophers whose ideas of India form the basis of their own cultural values. In her evaluation of the British colonial project in India we see how the transactions between the British and high-caste Indians create new forms of power and realign social structures in the process. Contents: 1. Friedrich Max Mueller: Appropriation of the Vedic Past 2. Sanskrit Scholars and Pandits of the Old School: The Benares Sanskrit College and the Constitution of Authority in the Late Nineteenth Century 3. Sati in the Mirror of Post-Enlightenment Discourse: Parliamentary Papers on Widow Immolation, 1821-30

Orienting India: European Knowledge Formation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Vasudha Dalmia

History

Three Essays Collective

The articles in this book have their roots in recent events.  Thier theme is the carnage in Gujarat in 2002 and the physical and intellectual savagery of the Sangh Parivar.  They look at how the Sangh Parivar systematically distorts history, works against the Constitution of the Republic of India and throws into the waste bin all those ideas of civilization that have arisen after mediaeval times and on which all modern societies are based.  The author has drawn on published reports to show how the leaders of the Sangh Parivar routinely use hedging, deception and outright lies to pursue their vicious ends.

Path of the Parivar: Articles on Gujarat and Hindutva

Dube, Mukul

In three celebrated lectures, extensively re-worked since they were delivered first, Prof. Aijaz Ahmad discusses the progress of neo-imperialism and the increasing influence of fascism in the third world societies and critically evaluates their resources – cultural, social and ideological.

On Communalism and Globalization: Offensives of the Far Right

Politics & Social Sciences

Ahmad, Aijaz

Politics & Government

Three Essays Collective The Emergence Of The Hindustani Tradition: Music, Dance And Drama In North India, 13Th To 19Th Centuries

The Emergence of the Hindustani Tradition: Music, Dance and Drama in North India, 13th to 19th Centuries

Arts & Photography

Madhu Trivedi

Music

Essays on major political issues, religious differences, in India

Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva

Nanda, Meera

Social Sciences

These essays focus on the various forms of collective violence that have occurred in India during the past six decades, which include riots, pogroms, and genocide. It is argued that these various forms of violence must be understood not as spontaneous outbreaks of passion, but as productions by organized groups. Moreover, it is also evident that government and its agents do not always act to control violence, but often engage in or permit gratuitous acts of violence against particular groups under the cover of the imperative of restoring order, peace, and tranquility. This has certainly been the case in numerous incidents of collective violence in India where curfew restrictions have been used for just such purposes. In this context, secularism constitutes a countervailing practice, and a set of values that are essential to maintain balance in a plural society where the organization of intergroup violence is endemic, persistent, and deadly.

Forms of Collective Violence: Riots, Pogroms, and Genocide in Modern India

Brass, Paul R.

It was primarily opium that linked Bombay to the international capitalist economy and the western Indian hinterland in the nineteenth century. The essays in this book explore the linkages between the opium enterprise of western India and the creation of early Victorian Bombay. They dwell on some of the prominent features of urban development which reflect the relationship of collaboration and conflict between the capitalist class of the city and British colonial rule. They show opium as the crucial factor in the emergence of Bombay as a metropolis.

Opium City: The Making of Early Victorian Bombay

Business & Money

Farooqui, Amar

Economics

This is the much awaited, revised and enlarged, edition of a book acclaimed for its innovative approach as well as evocative prose. The essays in this volume are about old monuments and villages in New Delhi. The author investigates both, the medieval history of these sites and changes that have occured in these areas in more recent times. Relying upon Persian documentation and field-work, the author narrates the histories of these sites over the last millennium. It is a history of how, ever so gradually, the present has erased and rewritten the past of New Delhi. Contents: Preface to the Second Edition and Introduction 1. Qutb and Modern Memory 2 A Medieval Reservoir and Modern Urban Planning: Local Society and the Hauz-i Rani 3. Making Sacred History, or Everyone his/her own Historian: The Pasts of the Village of Saidlajab 4. Naming 5. Reflections on the Past and Present of Two Sufi Dargahs in Delhi.

The Present in Delhi’s Pasts: Five Essays

KUMAR, SUNIL

Asia

This book is an erudite and elegiac exploration of Hindu nationalism in India today. It offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations as an authoritarian movement manifest throughout culture, polity, and economy, religion and law, class and caste, on gender, body, land, and memory. Tracing the continuities between Hindutva and Hindu cultural dominance, this book maps the architectures of civic and despotic governmentalities contouring Hindu nationalism in public, domestic, and everyday life. In chronicling concerted action against Christians and Muslims, Adivasis and Dalits, through spectacles, events, public executions, the riots in Kandhamal of December 2007 and August-September 2008, the planned, methodical politics of terror unfolds in its multiple registers. At the intersections of Anthropology, Postcolonial, Subaltern, and South Asia Studies, Angana P. Chatterji asks critical questions of nation making, cultural nationalism, and subaltern disenfranchisement. As a Foucauldian history of the present, this text asserts the role of ethical knowledge production as counter-memory.

Violent Gods: Hindu Nationalism in India's Present; Narratives from Orissa

Angana P. Chatterji

Muslims in Indian Economy

Omar Khalidi

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