Bureaucratic Archaeology. State, Science, and Past in Postcolonial India, Hardback - ***

This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of Archaeological Survey of India to the manufacture of ar...

Tells the story that lies behind the planning and architecture of Punjab's capital, Chandigarh. This title traces the cultural preconceptions and i...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Akshya SaxenaIllustration(s): 15 b/w illus.Number of pages: 232Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 32...

Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privile...

Publisher: Association for Asian StudiesAuthor(s): Sumit GuhaNumber of pages: 156Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 15Cover type: Paperb...

The imbalance of Pakistan's civil-military relations has caused misperceptions about the changing role of intelligence in politics. The country mai...

Magdalen history has long been marginalised. Even as women's activism and contributions are included in new histories of the revolutionary era, the...

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has increased in recent years and has played an important part in the ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 3 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Collection: Critical Perspectives in South Asian HistoryPublicat...

Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): T. Richard BlurtonIllustration(s): 479 Illustrations, colorNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimen...

With contributions from an international range of established and emerging scholars drawing upon real world examples, this title is the first to us...

Reducere. The nineteenth century saw the emergence both of history as an independent scientific discipline and of national history as a means to legitimize t...

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Reducere. In The Postcolonial State in Africa, Crawford Young offers an informed and authoritative comparative overview of fifty years of African independenc...

Orientalism and Religion offers a timely discussion of the implications of contemporary post-colonial theory for the study of religion. It draws on...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Michele Valerie (Dean and Professor, Simmons University) CloonanIllustration(s): 70 b 140 Illustrations, unspeci...

Merging the histories of capitalism with political and cultural analysis, Gibbings demonstrates how the struggle between indigenous people and sett...

A philosophical framework for understanding peripheral creativity in science.Publisher: University of Pittsburgh PressAuthor(s): Deepanwita Dasgupt...

A timely examination of the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement. In Hidden Histories of Pakistan, Sarah Waheed offers...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury AcademicAuthor(s): Peter (University of Kent, UK) GoodNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 22Cov...

An account of the partition of India detailing the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, and migration and resettlement. Accom...

A collection of essays examining literary discussions of the role of science, focusing on the interactions between processes of knowledge formation...

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This book examines the dynamics of infrastructure development in Northeast India especially Manipur from a socio-anthropological perspective. It lo...

Radical universalism vs postcolonial theory

Reducere. Outside of scientific journals, archaeologists are depicted as searching for lost cities and mystical artifacts in news reports, television, video ...

Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaPubli...

Publisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and whiteNumber of pages: 270Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 159 x 235 x ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Eduardo DuranAuthor: Bonnie DuranThis book presents a theoretical discussion of problems and issues encountered in the Nati...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcIllustration(s): 58 bw illusNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 158 x 236 x 24Cover type: Har...

This innovative book introduces a vivid new reading of French art and society at a crucial period of history.Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor...

Augustus and the Destruction of History explores how Romans of the late Republic and early imperial period reconfigured their understanding of hist...