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1. | | Title: The travels of Dean Mahomet: an eighteenth-Century journey through India Author: Mahomet, Sake Deen 1759-1851 Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Travel | Autobiographies and BiographiesPublisher's Description: This unusual study combines two books in one: the 1794 autobiographical travel narrative of an Indian, Dean Mahomet, recalling his years as camp-follower, servant, and subaltern officer in the East India Company's army (1769 to 1784); and Michael H. Fisher's portrayal of Mahomet's sojourn as an insi . . . [more]Matches in book (241):...An Eighteenth-Century Journey Through India......The European East India Companies......The World of Eighteenth-Century India... Similar Items | 2. | | Title: Peasants and monks in British India Author: Pinch, William R 1960- Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Postcolonial Studies | HinduismPublisher's Description: In this compelling social history, William R. Pinch tackles one of the most important but most neglected fields of the colonial history of India: the relation between monasticism and caste. The highly original inquiry yields rich insights into the central structure and dynamics of Hindu society - in . . . [more]Matches in book (420):...Peasants and Monks in British India......Britain, India, and......British India... Similar Items | 3. | | Title: Bazaar India: markets, society, and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar Author: Yang, Anand A Published: University of California Press, 1999 Subjects: Asian Studies | South Asia | Asian History | Economics and BusinessPublisher's Description: The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his investigation . . . [more]Matches in book (366):...Bazaar India......Government of India (Goi)......Government of India (Goi)... Similar Items | 4. | | Title: Dialogue and history: constructing South India, 1795-1895 Author: Irschick, Eugene F Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. . . . [more]Matches in book (247):...Constructing South India, 1795–1895......Did the British Pauperize India?......India Office Library and Records, London... Similar Items | 5. | | Title: Indian traffic: identities in question in colonial and postcolonial India Author: Roy, Parama Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Postcolonial Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism | South Asia | Gender StudiesPublisher's Description: The continual, unpredictable, and often violent "traffic" between identities in colonial and postcolonial India is the focus of Parama Roy's stimulating and original book. Mimicry has been commonly recognized as an important colonial model of bourgeois/elite subject formation, and Roy examines its p . . . [more]Matches in book (481):...Identities in Question in Colonial and Postcolonial India......Discovering India, Imagining Thuggee......Figuring Mother India... Similar Items | 6. | | Title: No aging in India: Alzheimer's, the bad family, and other modern things Author: Cohen, Lawrence 1961- Published: University of California Press, 1998 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Aging | South AsiaPublisher's Description: From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, No Aging in India captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detaile . . . [more]Matches in book (410):...No Aging in India......Oedipus In India......The "Aging In India" Series... Similar Items | 7. | | Title: Grounds for play: the Nauṭaṅkī theatre of North India Author: Hansen, Kathryn Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: Literature | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play , Kathryn Hansen draws on fie . . . [more]Matches in book (388):...The Nautanki Theatre of North India......collected during my fieldwork in India. 25. Peter Manuel, Popular Music of the......Harish-chandra in all the provinces of India was largely due to Parsi effort in... Similar Items | 8. | | Title: Divine passions: the social construction of emotion in India Author: Lynch, Owen M 1931- Published: University of California Press, 1990 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | HistoryPublisher's Description: Naked holy men denying sexuality and feeling; elderly people basking in the warmth and security provided by devoted and attentive family members; fastidious priests concerned solely with rules of purity and minutiae of ritual practice; puritanical moralists concealing women and sexuality behind purd . . . [more]Matches in book (206):...The Social Construction of Emotion in India......One The Social Construction of Emotion in India......One The Social Construction of Emotion in India... Similar Items | 9. | | Title: Passions of the tongue: language devotion in Tamil India, 1891-1970 Author: Ramaswamy, Sumathi Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Asian Studies | History | South Asia | Language and Linguistics | Asian History | Asian LiteraturePublisher's Description: Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? Passions of the Tongue analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most . . . [more]Matches in book (265):...Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970......Dravidianism and India......new bourgeois codes of morality that were put in place in colonial South India.... Similar Items | 10. | | Title: Public faces, private voices: community and individuality in South India Author: Mines, Mattison 1941- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and achievement in these cultures. As an anthropologist i . . . [more]Matches in book (153):...Community and Individuality in South India......Chapter One Introduction Individuality in South India......Chapter One Introduction Individuality in South India... Similar Items | 11. | | Title: Rhetoric and ritual in colonial India: the shaping of a public culture in Surat City, 1852-1928 Author: Haynes, Douglas E Published: University of California Press, 1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | South Asia | Cultural AnthropologyPublisher's Description: This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and thus fashioned a "public' culture that exclude . . . [more]Matches in book (366):...Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India......India Office Library, London......Urban Development; and C. A. Bayly, "Town-Building in North India, 1790-1830."... Similar Items | 12. | | Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press, 1992 Subjects: Anthropology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more]Matches in book (156):...Identity and Ideology in North India......it is unique. Of all the akharas in India it is the only one with a powerful......celebrated in various ways throughout India (cf. Banerjea 1956 ; Crooke 1926 :... Similar Items | 13. | | Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | South Asia | Cinema and Performance Arts | HinduismPublisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more]Matches in book (105):...Rama Stories and Shadow Puppets in South India......University, of Chicago Press. Census of India 1901. Vol. 20, Cochin , pt. 1,......A. 1988. Karnataka Puppetry . Udipi (India): Regional Resources Centre for Folk... Similar Items | 14. | | Title: White saris and sweet mangoes: aging, gender, and body in North India Author: Lamb, Sarah 1960- Published: University of California Press, 2000 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia | Aging | Cultural Anthropology | Women's StudiesPublisher's Description: This rich ethnography explores beliefs and practices surrounding aging in a rural Bengali village. Sarah Lamb focuses on how villagers' visions of aging are tied to the making and unmaking of gendered selves and social relations over a lifetime. Lamb uses a focus on age as a means not only to open u . . . [more]Matches in book (148):...Aging, Gender, and Body in North India......and T. M. Dak , eds. 1987. Aging in India: Challenge for the society. Delhi:......family care of the aged in village India: A case study. Journal of the Indian... Similar Items | 15. | | Title: Tribes of India: the struggle for survival Author: Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von 1909- Published: University of California Press, 1982 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian StudiesMatches in book (158):...Tribes of India......12— The Tribal Problem in All-India Perspective......Edgar. Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2. Madras, 1909. Pp. 453-54.... Similar Items | 16. | | Title: Caste and capitalism in colonial India: the Nattukottai Chettiars Author: Rudner, David West Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | South Asia | Asian HistoryPublisher's Description: David Rudner's richly detailed ethnographic and historical analysis of a South Indian merchant-banking caste provides the first comprehensive analysis of the interdependence among Indian business practice, social organization, and religion. Exploring noncapitalist economic formations and the impact . . . [more]Matches in book (347):...Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India......Seventeenth-Century South India......Being a Nakarattar in Colonial India... Similar Items | 17. | | Title: Listen to the heron's words: reimagining gender and kinship in North India Author: Raheja, Gloria Goodwin 1950- Published: University of California Press, 1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology | Women's Studies | South AsiaPublisher's Description: In many South Asian oral traditions, herons are viewed as duplicitous and conniving. These traditions tend also to view women as fragmented identities, dangerously split between virtue and virtuosity, between loyalties to their own families and those of their husbands. In women's songs, however, sym . . . [more]Matches in book (178):...Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India......Preface Listening to Women in Rural North India......Culture and the Politics of Gender Representation in India... Similar Items | 18. | | Title: The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj Author: Kennedy, Dane Keith Published: University of California Press, 1996 Subjects: History | Asian History | European History | South AsiaPublisher's Description: Perched among peaks that loom over heat-shimmering plains, hill stations remain among the most curious monuments to the British colonial presence in India. In this engaging and meticulously researched study, Dane Kennedy explores the development and history of the hill stations of the raj. He shows . . . [more]Matches in book (724):...India......India Office Library and Records, London......1 The Hill Stations of British India... Similar Items | 19. | | Title: A flowering tree: and other oral tales from India A.K. Ramanujan ; edited with a preface by Stuart Blackburn and Alan Dundes Author: Ramanujan, A. K 1929- Published: University of California Press, 1997 Subjects: Literature | Fiction | Language and Linguistics | Asian Literature | Folklore and Mythology | South AsiaPublisher's Description: This book of oral tales from the south Indian region of Kannada represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by A. K. Ramanujan, one of the most revered scholars and writers of his time. The result of over three decades' labor, this long-awaited collection makes available for the first time . . . [more]Matches in book (53):...A Flowering Tree And Other Oral Tales from India......Silence Wager. Told widely both in India (fifteen versions recorded so far) and......It has been collected in many regions of India (twenty-seven known variants).... Similar Items | 20. | | Title: The rise of Islam and the Bengal frontier, 1204-1760 Author: Eaton, Richard Maxwell Published: University of California Press, 1993 Subjects: History | Asian History | Middle Eastern History | South Asia | IslamPublisher's Description: In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today is home to the world's second-largest Muslim ethnic population. How and why did such a large Muslim population emerge there? And how does such a religious conversion take place? Richard . . . [more]Matches in book (352):...Four Conventional Theories of Islamization in India......imsāl Saiyid mīshavam. Census of India, 1931 , 5, pt. 1, “Bengal and Sikkim” (......Hindu Places of Pilgrimage in India (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of... Similar Items |
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