Journal•ISSN: 0257-6430
Studies in History
About: Studies in History is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Colonialism & BENGAL. It has an ISSN identifier of 0257-6430. Over the lifetime, 332 publication(s) have been published receiving 1941 citation(s).
Topics: Colonialism, BENGAL, Agrarian society, Hinduism, Empire
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TL;DR: A range of historical work has outlined the process by which British paramountcy and colonial order actually evolved by suppressing a dynamic of competitive state-building in eighteenth century India, and arresting the fluidity of social forms associated with it as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: As the East India Company extended its territorial dominion, the civilizational encounter was sometimes described as one between a society dynamized by trade, enterprise and English liberty and the melancholy stasis of the Hindus. The political despotism of Muslim rulers and the sacredotal despotism of the brahmanical order were blamed for this social involution.l Yet a range of historical work has outlined the process by which British paramountcy and colonial order actually evolved by suppressing a dynamic of competitive state-building in eighteenth century India, and arresting the fluidity of social forms associated with it.2 2
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TL;DR: The World of the Indian Ocean Merchants 15001800, New Delhi, 2001 as discussed by the authors, is a collection of essays written by Ashin Das Gupta, one of the founding fathers of Indian Ocean studies, who maintained that statistical data in official Company papers was not an all-purpose key to solving the historian's problems of understanding the sea and the people connected with it.
Abstract: Studies in History, 20, 2, n.s. (2004) SAGE PUBLICATIONS New Delhi/Thousand Oaks/London 1 Ashin Das Gupta, one of the founding fathers of Indian Ocean studies, maintained that statistical data in official Company papers was not an all-purpose key to solving the historians problems of understanding the sea and the people connected with it. See for example his collection of essays, The World of the Indian Ocean Merchants 15001800, New Delhi, 2001. An Enchanting Seascape: Through Epigraphic Lens
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TL;DR: This paper argued that the progress achieved by the West pointed to the possible directions for future, but how the past should figure in the new order was quite uncertain and underlined the possible loss of cultural heritage.
Abstract: view, critical of traditional cultural and social practices.’ Their agenda for change, however, was not based on westernization, but a selective rejection and reform of the present. The progress achieved by the West pointed to the possible directions for future, but how the past should figure in the new order was quite uncertain. The increasing influence of colonial culture heightened this uncertainty and underlined the possible loss of cultural heritage. As a result the intellectuals were caught in a paradox: to discard the old and create a new cultural milieu, on the one hand, and to preserve or retrieve the traditional cultural space so that past is not swept off the ground. The efforts to reconcile this paradox led to a critical inquiry into both the past as well as the present. The movement for the revitalization of
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TL;DR: In this paper, the decline of wildlife raises broader questions about the nature and impact of colonial rule in South Asia and the nature of the culture of empire. But this may refer to only a small part of the picture.
Abstract: South Asia has been a major arena for conflicts between people and predators but unlike with England and North America, their history has hardly been told. Historical studies have mainly focussed on the changing attitudes and practices of the imperial rulers.2 This is inevitable given the vast corpus of literature available on shikar. Useful as this may be in understanding the culture of empire, it refers to only a small part of the picture. The decline of wildlife raises broader questions about the nature and impact of colonial rule. Such a
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TL;DR: A critical exercise that simultaneously interrogated problems of power within indigenous custom and tradition (especially their gender norms, albeit within definite patriarchal limits), as well as within the colonial connection as discussed by the authors, the problems so interanimated and complicated one another that far from reaching a resolution, it was unable to set itself an agenda with any absolute certainty.
Abstract: critical exercise that simultaneously interrogated problems of power within indigenous custom and tradition (especially their gender norms, albeit within definite patriarchal limits), as well as within the colonial connection. The problems so interanimated and complicated one another that far from reaching a resolution, it was unable to set itself an agenda with any absolute certainty. Emergent nationalist consciousness, which straddled a complex range of forms and possibilities, posed more questions and doubts to its own convictions than resolutions. ’
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