{"product_id":"mapping-histories-essays-presented-to-ravinder-kumar-9781843310501","title":"Mapping Histories: Essays Presented to Ravinder","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese lively and challenging essays offer readings on how we understand India's history and, conversely, how we can use this comprehension of the past to interpret India's complex present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface; Ravinder Kumar; Kalidasa in the Nineteenth Century in Europe and in India; Is Buddhism the Answer to Brahminical Patriarchy?; The Story of Draupadi's Disrobing: Meaning for Our Times; Tracing Akbar: Hagiographies, Popular Narrative Tradition and the Subject of Conversion; The Homogeneity of Fundamentalism: Christianity, British Colonialism and India in the Nineteenth Century; Colonial Construction of a 'Criminal Tribe': The Itinerant Trading Communities in Madras Presidency; Houses by the Sea: State Experimentation on the Southwest Coast of India 1760-1800; Competitive Advantage through Contestation: The Indian Shop-floor at the turn of the Century; Less-than-Total Unities: Patel and the National Movement; Foreshadowing 'Quit India': The Congress in Uttar Pradesh 1939-1941; Some Reflections on the Partition of India 1947; Fifty Years On: Decolonization in Asia and Africa; Sovereign Subject: Ray's Apu; Education and Society in Post-Independence India: Looking towards the Future; The Body in the Mirror: Women and Representation in Contemporary India; Beyond State and Market: THe Indian Environmental Debate; Vocabularies of Resistance, Vocabularies of Rights; The Efficacy and Ethics of the International Political Terrorist Act or Event; Contributors; Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anthem Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042936324439,"sku":"9781843310501","price":63.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781843310501.jpg?v=1750956304","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mapping-histories-essays-presented-to-ravinder-kumar-9781843310501","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}