Showing papers in "Studies in History in 1989"
TL;DR: This article presented a revisionist formulation of India's eighteenth century, something upon which I and my Centre colleagues share some of the credit, but if I am wrong, they are possibly implicated in some of its errors.
Abstract: 1988. This paper seeks to express gratitude for having had the pleasure of being part of the Centre, its faculty and its students. My thanks are in the highest form I know, a historical argument, for which, if I have it right, my Centre colleagues. share some of the credit, but if I am wrong, they are possibly implicated in some of its errors. My seminar presentation with the above title proposed a revisionist formulation of India’s eighteenth century, something upon which I and
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the most widespread strands of Tamil literary anthologies is presented, including epigraphical, a host of labels in Tamil Brahmi characters, numismatic, a few hoards of pre-Roman and Roman coins, and classical accounts by Graeco-Roman geographers and navigators.
Abstract: categories: (a) archaeological, or relics of Iron Age burials and habitats; (b) epigraphical, a host of labels in Tamil Brahmi characters; (c) numismatic, a few hoards of pre-Roman and Roman coins; (d) classical accounts by Graeco-Roman geographers and navigators; and (e) ancient Tamil literary anthologies. Iron Age relics cover a larger area, probably the whole of the peninsular India, and a longer period, probably the whole of the first millennium BC. In the region under review, they represent the most widespread strands of
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TL;DR: A recent study of the nature of non-western socio-economic systems has broadened our comparative understanding of the universal characteristics of the pre-industrial corporate state/lineage relationship.
Abstract: to a careful re-examination of these political and economic structures in the ,light of complex South Asian historical realities. Very frequently, our attention is directed more toward institutions of kinship than at more familiar political structures. Likewise, a deepening study of the nature of other non-Western socio-economic systems has broadened our comparative understanding of the universal characteristics of the pre-industrial corporate state/lineage relationship. While it is abundantly clear that South Asia is no
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TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of industrial development has a considerable cultural aspect because the level of technical progress, industrial organization and social relations and attitudes towards industry belong to very important, though not solely determining, criteria of civilizational development.
Abstract: Medieval India, like any other feudal society, had its economy based on agriculture and a great majority of the population connected with land. It is quite understandable therefore that numerous studies of the socio-economic history of India are to a considerable extent devoted to agriculture and the whole sphere of agrarian relations. At the same time scholars never lose their interest in another important branch of pre-colonial Indian economyits urban industry, which has had a many-sided influence on the whole spectrum of socio-economic relations. Apart from this, the problem of industrial development has a considerable cultural aspect because the level of technical progress, industrial organization and social relations and attitudes towards industry belong to very important, though not solely determining, criteria of civilizational development. Urban industries of medieval India have attracted the attention of Indian
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TL;DR: Inamgaon was an extremely difficult site to stratify as discussed by the authors, and only the most meticulous trench methods were capable of discovering the edges of floors or the internal division of house space by dwarf mud walls and screens, the re-use of silos as fire-pits, or to what extent a house floor was used as fire pit.
Abstract: College Department of Archaeology, a department which owes its structure and tradition of scholarship largely to his guiding hand. With its lack of substantial architecture Inamgaon was an extremely difficult site to stratify. Clay floors curling up at the edges, post-holes, pits and burials provided almost the sole ’structural’ remains of several generations of occupation. Yet we have a comprehensive stratigraphy based, not on the character of the artefacts, but on the principles of soil deposition. Only the most meticulous trench methods were capable of discovering the edges of floors or the internal division of house space by dwarf mud walls and screens, the re-use of silos as fire-pits, or to what extent a house floor
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TL;DR: Lee Siegel as mentioned in this paper explores the human and the divine, the, religious and the secular in the context of human love, making explicit what is implicit in the Gitagovinda, to discern the component of the sacred in an evidently profane description of human Love.
Abstract: one shouid look at man for an understanding of this human phenomenon. Love is one of the universal expressions of human behaviour which Lee Siegel explores in an attempt to relate the human and the divine, the ,religious and the secular. Siegel moves back and forth between the particular and the universal to make explicit what is implicit in the Gitagovinda, to discern the component of the sacred in an evidently profane description of human love.