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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxvii, 276 pages )

Ausgabe: 1st edition

ISBN: 93-325-0119-X

Inhalt: Indian Political Thought: Themes and Thinkers covers all major Indian political thinkers from the ancient, through medieval to the modern times. Thus, this book provides an overview of the evolution of the Indian political thought through different historical periods, giving an insight into the sociological and political conditions of the times that shaped the Indian political thinking. It does not only talk about the lives and times of the thinkers, but also explores the important themes that formed the basis of their political ideologies. The chapters discuss the contributions of the thinkers and at the same time examine some important themes including the theory of state, civil rights, ideal polity, governance, nationalism, democracy, social issues like gender and caste, swaraj, satyagraha, liberalism, constitutionalism, Marxism, socialism and Gandhism. With a comprehensive coverage of both the thinkers and the themes of the Indian political thought, this book caters to needs of the undergraduate as well as the post graduate courses of all Indian universities. It is valuable also for UGC-NET and civil service examinations.

Anmerkung: Contributed articles. , Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Kautilya: Theory of State -- Introduction -- The Kautilya Text -- The Social Structure -- The Economy -- The Saptang Theory of State -- Departments of Government -- A Centralized State? -- The Theory of Rajamandala (The Circle of States) -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 2: Manu: Social Laws -- Rajdharma -- Principles of Government -- Manu and Varnashrama and Statecraft -- Legal Tenets of Manu -- Notes and References -- Chapter 3: Zia Barani: Good Sultan and Ideal Polity -- Theory of Kingship -- Ideal Sultan -- Nobility -- Ideal Polity -- Laws -- Army -- Bureaucracy -- Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 4: Abul Fazl: Governance and Administration -- Introduction -- Methodology -- Governance and Sovereignty -- Divine Theory of Padshahat (Badshahat) and the Concept of Royalty -- Sovereignty in Badshahat -- Toleration and Sulh-I-Kul-Doctrines of Peace -- Division of Society -- Akbar as an Ideal King -- Justice -- Abul Fazl's Views on Administration -- Land Revenue and Army Structure -- Religious Views -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 5: Rammohan Roy: Civil Rights -- Colonial Encounter and Rammohan -- The Rationalist Foundations of Reform -- Constitutionalism: Rights and Justice -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 6: Jotirao Phule: Social Justice -- Life and Times -- Anatomy of Slavery -- The State of Enslavement -- Trajectory of Liberation -- Critiquing Colonialism -- Education for Liberation -- Gender Justice -- Theology of Equality -- Contribution: An Assessment -- Notes and References -- Chapter 7: Vivekanand: Cultural Nationalism -- The Man and His Work -- Life and Times -- Vivekanand and Problems in Contemporary India -- Vivekanand and the Revitalization of Indian Life -- Notes and References. , Chapter 8: Aurobindo: Nationalism and Democracy -- Introduction -- Political Activities of Aurobindo -- Idea of Passive Resistance -- Cultural Nationalism -- Sanatan Dharma as the World Religion -- Depiction of the Nation as a Divine Entity -- Views on Caste System -- Views on Education -- Economic Reconstruction and the Idea of Boycott -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 9: Ramabai: Gender and Caste -- Life and Times -- Feminist Discourse -- Critique of Patriarchy -- Gender Justice and Civil Rights -- Liberation Praxis -- Internationalism/Nationalism -- An Assessment of a Liberal Feminist -- Notes and References -- Chapter 10: Gandhi: Swaraj and Satyagraha -- Swaraj -- Satyagraha -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 11: Jinnah: Liberal Constitutionalism and Islam -- Nationalism and Constitutionalism -- Religion, State and Secularism -- Islam and State -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 12: Savarkar: Hindutva and Critique of Caste System -- Revolutionary Savarkar -- Hindutva and the Ideology of Hindu Rashtra -- Hindu, Hindutva and Hinduism -- Critique of Hinduism -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 13: Nehru: Ideas of Development -- Economy and Technology -- Culture -- Politics -- Foreign Policy -- Notes and References -- Chapter 14: M.N. Roy: Twentieth-Century Renaissance -- Early Radicalism -- The National and Colonial Question -- Indian History -- Interpreting Marxism -- Radical Humanism -- Notes and References -- Chapter 15: Periyar: Radical Liberalism -- Situating Periyar -- Periyar's Theorization -- Abolition of Caste -- Women's Liberation -- Rural-Urban Divide -- Rationalism -- Revolution and Communism -- The World of the Future -- Humanism -- Periyar's Legacy: A Critique -- Note and References -- Chapter 16: Ambedkar: Constitutionalism and State Structure. , Background: Political Mobilization -- Constituent Assembly Entrée -- Work in Various Preparatory Committees -- Piloting the Draft Constitution -- On Safeguards for Scheduled Castes -- On Linguistic States -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 17: Ambedkar: Democracy and Economic Theory -- The Context -- Understanding Ambedkar -- Ambedkar's Notion of Socio-Cultural Rights -- Ambedkar's Notion of Political Rights -- Ambedkar's Notion of Economic Rights -- Industrialization as an Alternative for Indian Economy -- The Khoti System -- Mahar Vatan -- The Bombay Moneylenders Bill -- Labour Movement -- Economics of the Caste System -- Ambedkar's Critique of Marxism -- State Socialism -- Nationalization of Agricultural Land -- Conclusion -- Notes and References -- Chapter 18: Lohia: Democracy -- The Concept of Freedom -- Limitations on Freedom -- Resistance Against the State -- The Concept of Equality -- Equality: Abstract and Concrete -- Equality: Inward and Outward, Material and Spiritual -- Equality: Legal, Political and Economic -- Methods of Equality -- Measures for the Achievement of Equality -- The Concept of Four-Pillar State -- Democracy and Socialism -- Federal Structure -- The Four-Pillar State: The Village, the District, the Province and the Centre -- Notes and References -- Chapter 19: Jayaprakash Narayan: Marxism, Democratic Socialism and Gandhism -- Marxism and Democratic Socialism -- Gandhism -- Notes and References -- About the Editors and Contributors -- The Editors -- The Contributors -- Index. , English

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Weitere Ausg.: ISBN 81-317-5851-6

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 9789004486218 , 9789042013810

Serie: Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 43

Inhalt: Translating Kali's Feast is an interdisciplinary study of the Goddess Kali bringing together ethnography and literature within the theoretical framework of translation studies. The idea for the book grew out of the experience and fieldwork of the authors, who lived with Indo-Caribbean devotees of the Hindu Goddess in Guyana. Using a variety of discursive forms including oral history and testimony, field notes, songs, stories, poems, literary essays, photographic illustrations, and personal and theoretical reflections, it explores the cultural, aesthetic and spiritual aspects of the Goddess in a diasporic and cross-cultural context. With reference to critical and cultural theorists including Walter Benjamin and Julia Kristeva, the possibilities offered by Kali (and other manifestations of the Goddess) as the site of translation are discussed in the works of such writers as Wilson Harris, V.S. Naipaul and R.K. Narayan. The book articulates perspectives on the experience of living through displacement and change while probing the processes of translation involved in literature and ethnography and postulating links between 'rite' and 'write,' Hindu 'leela' and creole 'play.'.

Anmerkung: Acknowledgements -- List of Colour Plates (In the Footsteps of the Goddess.) -- I Remembering and Forgetting -- 1 Kaly's Story -- 2 Madrasi Religion in Guyana -- II Ritual Desire in Postcolonial Fiction -- 3 Crossing Dark Waters: Thinking Through the Gap -- 4 The Devouring Mother in Wilson Harris and V.S. Naipaul -- 5 Naipaul's Indian Darkness, Narayan's Stone Gayatri -- 6 Gardens, Groves and Other Places and Spaces in Narayan's Novels -- 7 Is Shakti Shanti? -- 8 Goddesses, Ghosts and Translatability in Jonestown -- III The Feast and Festivities of Mother Kali -- 9 Prologue to the Feast -- 10 The Awakening of Mother -- 11 The Sacred Garden -- 12 Night Interlude -- 13 Feast and Festivity -- 14 Tribute -- 15 Return to Secular Life -- 16 Vision -- 17 Guyana Kali Puja Lexicon -- IV Translating Culture -- 18 Translation, Ethnography and Literature -- 19 Translating Kali's Feast -- Bibliography.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Translating Kali's Feast : The Goddess in Indo-Caribbean Ritual and Fiction. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2000 ISBN 9789042013810

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ISBN: 9789004644427

Serie: Asian Studies - Book Archive pre-2000

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material / , English

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Ancient Indian Warfare with Special Reference to the Vedic Period : With a foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 1965. ISBN 9789004020221

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 9789004410985

Serie: Critical Issues in the Future of Learning and Teaching; volume17

Inhalt: Writing comprises a significant proportion of academic staff members' roles. While academics have been acculturated to the notion of 'publish or perish,' they often struggle to find the time to accomplish writing papers and tend to work alone. The result can be a sense of significant stress and isolation around the writing process. Writing partnerships, groups, and retreats help mitigate these challenges and provide significant positive writing experiences for their members. Critical Collaborative Communities describes diverse examples of partnerships from writing regularly with one or two colleagues to larger groups that meet for a single day, regular writing meetings, or a retreat over several days. While these approaches bring mutual support for members, each is not without its respective challenges. Each chapter outlines an approach to writing partnerships and interrogates its strengths and limitations as well as proposes recommendations for others hoping to implement the practice. Authors in this volume describe how they have built significant trusting relationships that have helped avoid isolation and have led to their self-authorship as academic writers.

Anmerkung: Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Foreword /

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Critical collaborative communities: academic writing partnerships, groups, and retreats, Leiden Boston: Brill | Sense, 2019

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 9789004190252

Serie: TANAP monographs on the history of Asian-European interaction, v. 13

Inhalt: This study of the early modern fortress town of Cochin in India, based on the rarely used VOC archival deposits in the Tamilnadu State Archives in Chennai (Madras), provides an intimate portrait of a Dutch urban community of East India Company servants and their dependents living within the larger social environment of the Malabar coast. It shows how between 1750 and 1830 the population of this Dutch settlement had adapted itself to the fundamental political and economic changes that occurred as a result of local state formation processes, the demise of the Dutch East India Company, and the change of regime that occurred when English administration was imposed on Fort Cochin in 1795.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material / , Introduction / , Chapter One. Getting To Know Places And Peoples: Cochin Circa 1750 / , Chapter Two. The Metamorphosis Of The Malabar Command (1750-1784) / , Chapter Three. The Social World Of Fort Cochin / , Chapter Four. Days Of Reckoning (1784-1795) / , Chapter Five. Life After The VOC / , Chapter Six. Adapting To British Cochin (1798-1830) / , Conclusion / , Notes / , Appendix 1. Memorandum Of Gardens And Lands Belonging To The VOC On The Coast Of Malabar, Dated 1781 / , Appendix 2. List Of People Living In Fort Cochin Towards The End Of 1792 / , Appendix 3. List Of People In The Orphanage On The Heerenstraat In 1792, Whose Estates Were Being Managed By The Orphan Board / , Appendix 4. Number Of Households Per Street (1792) / , Appendix 5. List Of Residents Of Cochin On 5 April 1814 / , Appendix 6. A Few Grave-Stones Of Dutch Persons Connected With Fort Cochin That Could Be Traced In Malabar Up To Mid-Nineteenth Century / , Appendix 7. VOC And EIC Commanders, Governors, And Governors-General / , Appendix 8. Family-Tree Of Families Of Cochin / , Bibliography / , Index /

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Fort Cochin in Kerala, 1750-1830: The Social Condition of a Dutch Community in an Indian Milieu Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2010, ISBN 9789004168169

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (458 pages) : , illustrations.

ISBN: 9789004640689

Serie: International Law - Book Archive pre-2000

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material / , English

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: The Role and Record of the International Court of Justice. Leiden ; Boston : Brill | Nijhoff, 1989. ISBN 9780792302919

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 9781848883628

Serie: Inter-Disciplinary Press Literature & Cultural Studies Special E-Book Collection, 2009-2016, ISBN: 9789004400955

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material / , Médée's Revenge: Magic and Rhetoric in the French Médée Tragedies of the 16th and 17th Centuries / , Metaphysical Revenge: An Illustrative Case, Holocaust Literature / , Revenge as Platform for Performance: Thomas Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy / , Zombies: Revenge and the Perfect Sacrifice of Innocence / , The Revenging Woman in Mainstream Hindi Cinema / , Hell Comes Home: Nietzsche, Tertullian, and Islamic Suicide Bombing / , Understanding Revenge Based on Memories of the 'Red Barrel' Incident, Phatthalung Province, Thailand / , Of Prodigals and Forgiveness: The Cosmic Law of Cause and Effect / , Vengeance and Witchcraft: Ghana and South Africa Compared / , Idea of Revenge: Society, Politics and Literature in India / , Modes of Revenge among the Becheve People of Northern Cross River Nigeria: Case Study of Thunder and Epilepsy / , The Social Utility of Resentment / , Banished from the Stands: Collective Punishment in Brazilian Sports Law /

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Emotions and Actions of Revenge Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014, ISBN 9789004371392

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ISBN: 9789460918940

Serie: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; 84

Inhalt: Multiculturalism and multicultural education are at a paradoxical moment. There is work that continues as if the multicultural hegemony was still intact and on the other hand work articulated as if multiculturalism was decidedly passe. The essays in this collection will be of considerable interest to academics, policy makers and students of both multiculturalism and multicultural education principally because they touch on both perspectives but concentrate for the most part on the thorny problematic of the workings of multicultural education in its present precarious moment. Given the renewed, urgent attacks in various western countries, the cottage industry of "death of multiculturalism" texts and the rise of the interculturalism, transnationalism, diaspora alternatives, is multiculturalism dying? Are the ends of multiculturalism- the management or celebration of diversity; representation and recognition for all in society; creation of just and equitable communities at the global, national and local school classroom levels- better theorized and realized through the ascendant alternatives? Representing the precarious moment in Canada, Ireland, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom, the essays in this collection address these questions and both depict and trouble hegemonic multicultural education and contrast it with its supposed successor regimes.

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Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Precarious International Multicultural Education: Hegemony, Dissent and Rising Alternatives, Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2012

Sprache: Englisch

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ISBN: 9789087904074

Serie: Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education ; 24

Inhalt: Indian Diaspora/Social Gerontology/Nursing/Multiculturalism/Education In historic and ethnographic accounts of Indians living in diaspora, the elderly seem to receive much less attention than the new generation and its progress, prosperity and success. Using critical pedagogy approach, this book attempts to close that gap by focusing on the voices of the Punjabi, Bengali, Sindhi, and Gujarati diasporic Indians elderly, living in five countries. Learning to listen to the voices of these seniors may enable professors, teachers, students, policy makers, and parents to work towards building democratic societies.

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Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Indian Diaspora: Voices of the Diasporic Elders in Five Countries, Leiden Boston : Brill | Sense, 2008

Sprache: Englisch

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Umfang: 1 online resource (xxv, 302 pages) : , illustrations (some color)

ISBN: 9789004242371

Serie: Numen book series, studies in the history of religions ; volume 141

Inhalt: Re-imagining South Asian Religions is a collection of essays offering new ways of understanding aspects of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, Sikh, Jain, Theosophical, and Indian Christian experiences. Moving away from canonical texts, established authorities, and received historiography, the essays in this volume draw from a range of methodological perspectives including philosophy, history, hermeneutics, migration and diaspora studies, ethnography, performance studies, lived religion approaches, and aesthetics. Reflecting a balance of theory and substantive content, the papers in this volume call into question key critical terms, challenge established frames of reference, and offer innovative and alternative interpretations of South Asian ways of knowing and being.

Anmerkung: Preliminary Material -- , Traditional Sanskrit and Modern Scholarship: A Personal Journey / , A Modest Retrospective / , Re-imagining Sikhi ('Sikhness' ) in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Paradigm Shift in Sikh Studies / , The Politics of Perspectivalism: Anekāntavāda as a Counter-anthropologising Strategy / , Rewriting the Hindu Traditions from Global Perspectives / , Pedagogy in the Janam-sakhis: 'Teaching Texts' Moving Past Old Categories / , Re-imagining Religious History through Women's Song Performance at the Kāmākhyā Temple Site / , Tibetan Buddhist Monastic Performance: Ritual Practice and Cultural Preservation in the Tibetan Diaspora / , 'Performance' and 'Lived Religion' Approaches as New Ways of 'Re-imagining' Sikh Studies / , Re-imagining Theosophy through Canadian Art: Indian Theosophical Influences on the Painting and Writing of Lawren Harris / , Re-imagining Hindu Beginnings in Canada / , The Indianness of Christianity: The Task of Re-imagination / , M. K. Gandhi and the Sikhs: Violence, Religious Identity, and Competing Modernities / , Index.

Weitere Ausg.: Print version: Re-imagining South Asian Religions: Essays in Honour of Professors Harold G. Coward and Ronald W. Neufeldt Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2013, ISBN 9789004242364

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