Read and Download Daniel Michon book Archaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TArchaeology and Religion in Early Northwest India. This book was released on 2015-08-12 with total page 288 pages. Book excerpt: 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 offers illustrative case studies in which the agency of ancient peoples, rather than the desires of antiquarians and archaeologists, is brought to the fore.

Read and Download Om Prakash Kejariwal book The Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past, 1784-1838 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TThe Asiatic Society of Bengal and the Discovery of India's Past, 1784-1838. This book was released on 1988 with total page 293 pages. Book excerpt: Until the Asiatic Society of Bengal was founded in 1783, the vast landscape of early Indian history, literature, philosophy, and culture remained lost to the western world. This book traces the history of the Society as an institution and describes the motivations and work of various scholars.

Read and Download Joydeep Sen book Astronomy in India, 1784–1876 in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TAstronomy in India, 1784–1876. This book was released on 2015-07-22 with total page 288 pages. Book excerpt: Covering the period from the foundation of the Asiatick Society in 1784 to the establishment of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science in 1876, Sen explores the relationship between Indian astronomers and the colonial British.

Read and Download Richard Salomon book Indian Epigraphy in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TIndian Epigraphy. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 400 pages. Book excerpt: This book provides a general survey of all the inscriptional material in the Sanskrit, Prakrit, and modern Indo-Aryan languages, including donative, dedicatory, panegyric, ritual, and literary texts carved on stone, metal, and other materials. This material comprises many thousands of documents dating from a range of more than two millennia, found in India and the neighboring nations of South Asia, as well as in many parts of Southeast, central, and East Asia. The inscriptions are written, for the most part, in the Brahmi and Kharosthi scripts and their many varieties and derivatives. Inscriptional materials are of particular importance for the study of the Indian world, constituting the most detailed and accurate historical and chronological data for nearly all aspects of traditional Indian culture in ancient and medieval times. Richard Salomon surveys the entire corpus of Indo-Aryan inscriptions in terms of their contents, languages, scripts, and historical and cultural significance. He presents this material in such a way as to make it useful not only to Indologists but also non-specialists, including persons working in other aspects of Indian or South Asian studies, as well as scholars of epigraphy and ancient history and culture in other regions of the world.

Read and Download David Arnold book Science, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TScience, Technology and Medicine in Colonial India. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 234 pages. Book excerpt: An historical reinterpretation of the role of science, technology and medicine in the making of colonial India.

Read and Download Christopher Alan Bayly book Empire and Information in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TEmpire and Information. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Book excerpt: In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly shows how networks of Indian spies were recruited by the British to secure military, political and social information about their subjects. He also examines the social and intellectual origins of these 'native informants', and considers how the colonial authorities interpreted and often misinterpreted the information they supplied. It was such misunderstandings which ultimately contributed to the failure of the British to anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author argues, however, that even before this, complex systems of debate and communication were challenging the political and intellectual dominance of the European rulers.

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Read and Download Debi Prasad Chattopadhyaya book History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: pt. 1. Science, technology, imperialism and war in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book THistory of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: pt. 1. Science, technology, imperialism and war. This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Book excerpt:

Read and Download Partha Chatterjee book Texts of Power in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TTexts of Power. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Book excerpt: Scholars from the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta explore t genealogy of India's contemporary intellectual modernity, concentrating on Bengal the first modern province. The topics include colonial and nationalist literature, art, politics, child rearing, historical memory, and th

Read and Download Janice Leoshko book Sacred Traces in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TSacred Traces. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 184 pages. Book excerpt: In his novel Kim, in which a Tibetan pilgrim seeks to visit important Buddhist sites in India, Rudyard Kipling reveals the nineteenth-century fascination with the discovery of the importance of Buddhism in India's past. Janice Leoshko, a scholar of South Asian Buddhist art uses Kipling's account and those of other western writers to offer new insight into the priorities underlying nineteenth-century studies of Buddhist art in India. In the absence of written records, the first explorations of Buddhist sites were often guided by accounts of Chinese pilgrims. They had journeyed to India more than a thousand years earlier in search of sacred traces of the Buddha, the places where he lived, obtained enlightenment, taught and finally passed into nirvana. The British explorers, however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko examines this history of nineteenth-century exploration in order to illuminate how early concerns shaped the way Buddhist art has been studied in the West and presented in its museums.

Read and Download Rupa Gupta book Forgotten Civilizations in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TForgotten Civilizations. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Book excerpt: A history of the rediscovery of India's history... Through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Western world had very little knowledge - or an extremely distorted view - of the glorious and fascinating history of the Indian subcontinent. In fact, with little of the region's 3000-year-old heritage formally preserved and documented, it was widely believed that the country's history had begun with the reign of the Mughals. When the British gained control over the subcontinent, the scholars, explorers and Indophiles among them discovered things and areas of great historical wonder but found few answers. Armed with great intellectual curiosity, they set out to uncover things no one had given a thought to earlier. From William Jones who identified Chandragupta Maurya as 'Sandrocottus' mentioned in Greek sources and set the first chronological point of reference for recorded Indian history to Charles Wilkins who designed the first typeface of the Bengali script; from Henry Colebrooke who shone light on the wonders of ancient Indian scientific knowledge to Alexander Cunningham, the father of Indian archaeology, who led the first excavation of the Harappa site in the Punjab - Forgotten Civilizations brings together the intriguing stories of fifteen intrepid Englishmen who dedicated their lives to rediscovering India's ancient heritage and redefining the significance of its pluralistic and sophisticated culture to the rest of the world.

Read and Download Denise Cush book Encyclopedia of Hinduism in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TEncyclopedia of Hinduism. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 1128 pages. Book excerpt: Covering all aspects of Hinduism, this encyclopedia includes more ethnographic and contemporary material in contrast to the exclusively textual and historical approach of earlier works.

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Read and Download Tobias Wolffhardt book Unearthing the Past to Forge the Future in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TUnearthing the Past to Forge the Future. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 356 pages. Book excerpt: For much of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the British East India Company consolidated its rule over India, evolving from a trading venture to a colonial administrative force. Yet its territorial gains far outpaced its understanding of the region and the people who lived there, and its desperate efforts to gain knowledge of the area led to the 1815 appointment of army officer Colin Mackenzie as the first Surveyor General of India. This volume carefully reconstructs the life and career of Mackenzie, showing how the massive survey of India that he undertook became one of the most spectacular and wide-ranging knowledge production initiatives in British colonial history.

Read and Download Eckhardt Fuchs book Across Cultural Borders in PDF, EPub, Mobi, Kindle online. Free book TAcross Cultural Borders. This book was released on 2002 with total page 359 pages. Book excerpt: This innovative work offers the first comprehensive transcultural history of historiography. The contributors transcend a Eurocentric approach not only in terms of the individual historiographies they assess, but also in the methodologies they use for comparative analysis. Moving beyond the traditional national focus of historiography, the book offers a genuinely comparative consideration of the commonalities and differences in writing history. Distinguishing among distinct cultural identities, the contributors consider the ways and means of intellectual transfers and assess the strength of local historiographical traditions as they are challenged from outside. The essays explore the question of the utility and the limits of conceptions of modernism that apply Western theories of development to non-Western cultures. Warning against the dominant tendency in recent historiographies of non-Western societies to define these predominantly in relation to Western thought, the authors show the extent to which indigenous traditions have been overlooked. The key question is how the triad of industrialization, modernization, and the historicization process, which was decisive in the development of modern academic historiography, also is valid beyond Europe. Illustrating just how deeply suffused history writing is with European models, the book offers a broad theoretical platform for exploring the value and necessity of a world historiography beyond Eurocentrism.

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