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Pre-Mussalman India: A History of the Motherland and Prior to the Sultanate of Delhi

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This slim volume gives an account of India’s history prior to ad 1206 the founding of the Sultanate of Delhi. The chapters are short and crisp and offer information on the Age of the Itihasas the Dravidians the post-Vedic ages Mahavira and Gautama Buddha foreign invasions into India visit of Chinese scholar Hiuen Tsang Rajput ascendancy Muslim conquests the Punjab occupation and the effect of Muslim invasions. One point to which the reader's attention is drawn is that the author dares to question whether the Aryans ever came to India as a conquering race from a foreign country. About the Author M.S. Nateson was a teacher at the Hindu Secondary School Trichinopoly.

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Urban Wage Earners in Seventeenth Century India: Artisans, Labourers, Service Providers and Entertainers

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This volume takes a pan-Indian view of different professional groups and service providers mainly based in towns. While Persian texts provide limited information on the subject European sources in the form of travelogues letters memoirs and official reports unfold an interesting panorama on the subject. Here focus has been on the seventeenth century as some prominent European share holders’ Companies established their warehouses-cum-residential complexes in India in this very century. Officials of these Companies sent to India or elsewhere maintained proper records of their transactions and interaction with the state officials common people servants inside the household and outside and through their reports attracted many European freebooters also to have a firsthand experience of the East. Here from we get numerous details on the social life working conditions wages and other aspects of life of people who earned their livelihood through manual labour as conditions in India appeared novel to them and they meticulously recorded everything with much interest. Their information is corroborated with the Indian sources. In both types of sources – Persian and European – artisans labourers and service providers have generally been projected as ‘poor’ ‘miserable’ and ‘wretched’; who faced exploitation at all levels. Still their contribution to the economy and society was imperative. Aspects of life of such people deserve a detailed discussion as this volume amply proves. About the Author Nishat Manzar has been teaching History of Medieval India Medieval Central Asia and Islam at Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi since the last twenty-five years. An alumnus of AMU and University of Delhi she has presented and published papers based on contemporary Persian and European accounts on various aspects of medieval history.

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The King's Three Bodies: Essays on kingship and Ritual

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This collection of essays deals with the rituals of kingship and royalty in India Africa and Europe from the social anthropological and ethnohistorical points of view. It discusses the dialectical entanglements of rituals conducted for and by kings (including ‘little kings’ and ‘jungle kings’) with the wider social political cultural historical religious and economic contexts in which they were embedded. Part I begins with a triangular comparison of kingship among the Shilluks of East Africa the Gajapatis of eastern India and kings in Renaissance France. The essay entitled the ‘King’s Three Bodies’ makes use of Ernst H. Kantorowicz’s classical study The King’s Two Bodies in medieval political theology and extends it not only in terms of the numbers of bodies that are found to be significant but also theoretically. Another significant essay in this part looks at the unexpected but significant theoretical impact of social anthropological studies of acephalous segmentary lineage societies in Africa on Indian historiography. The second part of this volume consists of three chapters dealing with the royal patronage of tribal and Hindu goddesses in Eastern India while the third part presents studies on sleeping (and dreaming) kings and on the power of dead kings a discussion of A.M. Hocart’s dictum that the first kings must have been dead kings. About the Author Burkhard Schnepel is Professor of Social Anthropology at the Martin Luther University in Halle Germany. His main theoretical and thematic interests are political rituals in India especially in Orissa and the history of the Indian Ocean world especially Mauritius. Among his more recent books are Connectivity in Motion: Small Islands in the Indian Ocean World (Palgrave 2018 co-edited with E.A. Alpers) and Travelling Pasts: The Politics of Cultural Heritage in the Indian Ocean World (Brill 2019 co-edited with Tansen Sen).

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Kinship and Family among Muslims in Bengal

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This book is an edited version of Tadahiko Hara’s work on family and kinship among Muslims of Bengal. Hara did an intensive fieldwork in a village in Chittagong district of Bangladesh. Editors Masahiko Togawa and Abhijit Dasgupta have presented his original work with some essays by other scholars reflecting on Hara’s contribution to kinship studies in South Asia. About the Author Masahiko Togawa is Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA) Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (TUFS) Japan. He has published several books and papers on religion and society in West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is the author of An Abode of the Goddess: Kingship Caste and Sacrificial Organization in a Bengal Village (2006); and co-editor of Minorities and the State: Changing Social and Political Landscape of Bengal (2011) and Gram Bangla: Itihas Samaj o Arthaniti (Village Bengal: History Society and Economics 2007 in Bengali). Abhijit Dasgupta is Professor (Retd.) of Sociology at the Delhi School of Economics University of Delhi. He has published several books including Displacement and Exile: The State-Refugee Relations in India (2016) and is co-editor of the following books: Minorities and the State: Changing Social and Political Landscape of Bengal (2011); Bengal: Communities Development and States (2020 rpt.); State Society and Displaced People in South Asia (2004); and Jati Varna o Bangali Samaj (1998).

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The Upper Cloth Revolt in South Travancore: Theological Interpretation of a Subaltern Movement

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In nineteenth century Travancore (Kerala) the lower caste women were not allowed to cover their upper body in public. This book is a study of the Nadars who protested and their movement which came to be known as the Upper Cloth Revolt lasted from 1822 to 1859. It stands as a model movement for the subaltern communities in India. The exceptional stories of resistance and defiance against the dominant ruling class and castes assertion of rights and liberative ventures opens up new horizons of hope for the communities who are still in the journey of their struggle and tells the subalterns to speak out against subjugation or they will remain powerless. In this revolt religious faith worked as a source of liberation rather than a source of bondage. Recollecting and interpreting the subaltern history open new pathways of liberation and provide energy to claim new space in societal life. About the Author Viju Wilson is Assistant Professor of Christian Theology at the Union Biblical Seminary Pune. He is the author of Ecclesiology of Prophetic Participation and Theology of Solidarity and has published several articles in research journals.

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Mandelslo's Travels in Western India ( 1638-1639 )

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John Albert de Mandelslo (1616-44) was a German adventurer. He began his career as an attaché in the court of the Duke of Holstein in Germany. In 1635 the Duke sent ambassadors to the courts of Russia and Persia. Mandelslo travelled with this mission for nearly three years and then in 1638 left them and sailed from Ispahan to India landing at Surat in April of that year. Here he journeyed through the cities of Gujarat and thence to the Mughal court at Agra and Lahore. From there he returned to Surat and sailed for England in January 1639. This is a rare recording his experiences in India in the reign of Shah Jahan and a valuable source of information on the political and social conditions of the country at that time. Some accounts of places he gives are second hand but he always makes a mention of this fact. About the Author M.S. Commissariat was in Indian Educational Service; Professor of History and Political Economy Gujarat College Ahmadabad; Fellow of the University of Bombay.

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Life and Letters of Samuel Fisk Green M.D. of Green Hill: An American Medical Missionary in Ceylon during 1847-1873

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Samuel Fisk Green (1822-84) was an American medical missionary. He served with the American Ceylon Mission in Jaffna Ceylon during 1847-73 when it was a British colony. He spent twenty-six years providing medical care to the missionaries. He also founded the first medical school in Ceylon. As no medical books were available in Tamil he translated 4000 pages of English medical books into Tamil. He trained sixty native doctors with instructions in Tamil. His tombstone at Massachussets where he died in 1884 says ‘Medical evangelist to the Tamils’. This book first published in 1891 is a compilation of the letters of Samuel Fisk Green by Ebenezer Cutler and is culturally a very important work.

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Wars and War-Tactics in Ancient India: With Special Reference to the Vedas, Epics, Puranas and Niti Works

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Beginning with the Harappan age Indian history is crowded with wars fought on its land. These wars led to the birth and decline of many a kingdoms and empires. As armies and weapons were basic instruments of war various tactics related to their use also came to be perfected over the centuries. This work is prefaced by a general survey of the wars fought in ancient India whose accounts are available to serve as a backdrop to the study. The rise and fall of the kingdoms covered in this study provide substantial evidence of wars fought galore in ancient India. With time new strategies of war such as circle theory six means four measures etc. came to be developed. Advanced modes of combat were devised and new methods related to the use of various weapons were perfected. But far more important were the strategical and tactical concepts perfected by the Indians over the centuries. The Mahabharata and works like the Arthasastra the Kamandakiy Nitisara and the Sukraniti contain graphic descriptions of war tactics as these evolved over the centuries. It is hoped that this study will inspire researchers to delve deeper into this little explored field of study. About the Author U.P. Thapliyal an alumnus of Allahabad and Delhi Universities was Director History Division Ministry of Defence till 1996. He has authored compiled and edited more than thirty books on the military history of India including Warfare in Ancient India Military Flags of India – from the Earliest Times etc. His research papers have been published in reputed history journals. He has also been a Senior Academic Fellow with ICHR.

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The Revenue Manual of Rajasthan (Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries)

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The Revenue Manual of Rajasthan reveals the significance of this archival source material particularly arhsatta a distinctive revenue record of Rajasthan in general and Amber afterward designated as Jaipur in particular. On the whole the arhsatta document covers such diverse and vital subjects as agriculture environment banking and accounting systems forms of peasant protests crime and punishment estimation of population pasture lands animals rural-urban taxation aspects of social history and useful evidence on urban history. Jibraeil has edited the Arhsatta Mujmil Qasba Sanganer keeping in view the growing interest of researchers in the archival as well as literary sources of Rajasthan's history. The documents employ indigenous terms and personalized words which make their meaning difficult to grasp as well as to decipher. They demand close attention and practice. Keeping this in mind the editing of the document with annotations will certainly help researchers. The work also includes a comprehensive glossary of terms used in arhsatta a chart on the values in the form of appendices and meanings of Persian and Rajasthani words as footnotes. Explanatory note on currencies used and their notations in the document further enhance the value of this work. In addition the transcription of the arhsatta record is an invaluable tool which will help the researcher to read and understand the document more easily. About the Author Jibraeil is Assistant Professor at the Centre of Advanced Study Department of History Aligarh Muslim University. He was formerly Assistant Professor in Kirori Mal College and Shivaji College University of Delhi and a teaching faculty in the Department of History and Culture Jamia Millia Islamia New Delhi. He specializes in Urban History and Hydraulic Management System of Rajasthan. Jibraeil is author of Economy and Demographic Profile of Urban Rajasthan (Eighteenth-Nineteenth Centuries); Water Management System in the Desert Region of Rajasthan and Jal Jeevan Aur Samaj besides having published many research papers in national and international journals.

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The Route to European Hegemony: India's Intra-Asian Trade in the Early Modern Period( Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)

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The advent of the Europeans was crucial in transforming the contours of Maritime Asia. The commercial situation in the Indian Ocean was impacted in many ways over the longue duree from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. To offset the adverse balance of trade and to maximize profits the Europeans imposed their own coercive and monopolistic systems along the existing trade routes. Systematic exploitation of economic opportunities in Asia by Europeans began with the coming of the Portuguese followed by other European maritime powers. It culminated with Britannia ruling the Asian waters with warships and a strong merchant marine. A study of the operational and ideological motivations that propelled the European powers’ activities in the Indian Ocean can help to construct a coherent interpretation of the foundations of empire that were being laid at first insidiously and later aggressively. The mechanism and implications of Europe's sustained engagement in Intra-Asian trade need to be analysed as an essential context to the establishment of colonial empires. India concentric to Indian Ocean trade became the ‘Jewel in the Crown’ its rich resources a major source of the power and pelf of the British Empire. About the Author Ruby Maloni is former Head and Professor of the Department of History Mumbai University. She is an alumnus of both Calcutta and Mumbai Universities. She taught Medieval Indian history at Mumbai University for more than thirty years. Her research focuses on the Indian Ocean and maritime trade with special emphasis on the history of Gujarat. Her published works include European Merchant Capital and the Indian Economy and Surat: Port of the Mughal Empire.

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