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Historical Sociology in India

Historical Sociology in India

This book is a comprehensive study of historical sociology and its development especially in the Indian context. It looks at the works of Indian sociologists and analyses their approaches in terms of book-view (normative) and field-view (descriptive) history. The volume: • critically appraises reports of empirical surveys conducted during early colonial rule — including those by H. T. Colebrooke Francis Buchanan William Adam; • engages with the works of sociologists such as M. N. Srinivas Ramkrishna Mukherjee Louis Dumont Nicholas Dirks Bernard Cohn Yogendra Singh D. N. Dhanagare A. M Shah T. K. Oommen among others; and • shows how historical perspective has been adopted in understanding aspects of Indian society — villages castes traditions socio-cultural change education peasants and their movements etc. Presenting an alternative idea of social reality this book will deeply interest students and scholars of sociology social theory and social history. | Historical Sociology in India

GBP 44.99
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Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed tracing sources and genealogies which inform even contemporary descriptions of the subcontinent. Using idolatry as a concept-metaphor the book traverses an ambitious path through the works of William Jones James Mill Friedrich Max Müller John Ruskin Alice Perrin E. M. Forster Rammohan Roy and Bankimchandra Chatterjee. It reveals how religion and paganism history and literature Oriental thought and Western metaphysics and social reform and education were unfolded and debated by them. The author underlines how idolatry irrationality and social disorder came to be linked by discourses informed by Enlightenment missionary rhetoric and colonial reason. This book will appeal to scholars and researchers in history anthropology literature culture studies philosophy religion sociology and South Asian studies as well as anyone interested in colonial studies and histories of the Enlightenment. | Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India Visions of Horror Allegories of Enlightenment

GBP 39.99
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Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

This book is a Festschrift dedicated to Promodini Varma a meticulous scholar teacher and administrator of extraordinary rigour grit and perception. It presents reflections on researching and teaching English literatures and languages in India. It concerns itself broadly with literary modernism and English language teaching and classroom pedagogy some of the core concerns of the literary fraternity today. The volume examines how the literary and cultural manifestations of modernity have pervasively informed not just much of our disciplinary framework but many of the key issues—decolonisation globalisation development—our society grapples with. With essays on William Butler Yeats Arthur Conan Doyle E. M. Forster D. H. Lawrence and Rudyard Kipling the volume presents fresh insights on familiar canonical ground. It discusses ELT and classroom pedagogy and provides grounded appraisals of teaching and translating for multilingual classroom audiences given the demands of employability and the hierarchical dynamics of educational institutions. An interview on feminist pedagogy and theatre and an essay on urban nostalgia and redevelopment act as pertinent outliers reflecting the ongoing transition to more multi-sited and interdisciplinary research and praxis. An engaging read on some of the most pressing concerns in the field this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature and literary criticism English language studies and education. | Literature Language and the Classroom Essays for Promodini Varma

GBP 38.99
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