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Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Introduction. 1. Rituals and identity. I. The religious life of the Jews of Cochin 2. The royalty of the autumn sacred cycle. 3. Spring rites an ascetic passover. 4. A Shabbat interlude. 5. Life cycle rituals every bridegroom is Joseph Rabban. 6. Jewish Apartheid and a Jewish Gandhi. 7. Some speculations about caste Jewish survival and Hindu tolerance. 8. Why did they leave India. 9. Rebirth in Israel. Bibliography. Index. Kashrut Caste and Kabbalah is a study of the religious life of the ancient Jewish community at Cochin in South India. The authors argue that the Cochin Jews acculturated into a hospitable Indian society by adapting Hindu motifs symbols and practices into their religious life. At the same time by remaining knowledgeable about and faithful to Jewish law they avoided assimilation or the loss of a distinct identity. It was the tolerant nature of Hindu culture that lay behind their acculturation and the hierarchical structure of Hindu society that made assimilation impossible. Therefore Jews found an ideal home in traditional India one that afforded them status for maintaining their distinct religious and cultural identity. This research is located at the intersection of Jewish studies and South Asian studies and explores theoretical issues from the fields of religious studies cultural anthropology history literature and psychology. The authors use their data as a basis for advancing understanding of the dynamics of identity generation and presents a fresh approach to the study of majority minority group relations in India. This book is based on a year of participant observation field work in Cochin as well as detailed studies of relevant historical materials and primary documents and extensive interviews with members of the community. 181 pp.

This volume explores a new field of Indian diasporic studies the relations between international and transnational political actors The volume is organized into two thematic sections The first is from the point of view of the Indian state its involvement with the Indian Diaspora overseas or with various diasporas overseas or with various diasporas on its territory The second focus is on the Diaspora actor through the study of few Indian communities The contributors explore the processes of building transnational political actors in the Indian Diaspora 245 pp.

While India has been united for considerable periods of its history the Western worlds have never been united - not since the fall of Rome in the fifth century In spite of appallingly bloody wars the political subdivisions of Europe are seemingly permanent Frontiers have changed only marginally over the past 700 years In India on the hand the states of the present Union are largely artificial It is not that European princes did not overseas All attempts to unify Europe itself under one emperor after the Roman model failed The Holy Roman was an empire only in the name The Emperor in spite of his bombastic titles was scarcely even king of Germany These are some of the questions and paradoxes that the author has tried to answer and explain in this stimulating and thought provoking volume 248 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Punjab's partition background. 2. Pointers to disaster Punjab in early 1947. 3. Partition and the 3 June Plan. 4. The boundary commission Punjabis reject the award. 5. Taken unawares Punjab pays the price. 6. Early dimensions of the disaster. 7. Peace returns to Punjab a story of corruption and greed. 8. Punjab in the aftermath of Gandhi's assassination. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. The study is a novel attempt that chronicles Punjab's partition while dealing with partition itself. The narrative weaves disparate local and national events taking the reader back to 1947 in dimensions large in numbers and scope. Almost a day to day report of the Punjab through 1947 it restores the human dimension to a story that was essentially one of acute human misery. Based mainly on 15 regional and national newspapers it closely examines the Punjab and its partition through letters opinion columns editorials classifieds and photographs equal emphasis is also laid on hitherto unused and unpublished sources these include personal diaries letters memoirs and notes recorded by observant contemporaries including civil police and military field officers culled from centres in India and the United Kingdom. Tanwar breaks free of tutored statements of so called facts to provide new dimensions to crucial issues and events challenging perceptions that have been held for long seeking the little histories the local intensities the local voices side stepping in the process the trend of downsizing downplaying the tragedy of Punjab's partition a trend which has prevailed as part of a misplaced obligation to demonstrate oneness in writings on India's struggle for freedom. This book is exceedingly relevant to our present times more so in view of the thawing process of relations between India and Pakistan. It is essential reading for those with interest in Punjab both east and west and colonial Indian history. 622 pp.

The present volume is an eclectic collection of articles written over a period of almost twenty years dealing with a religious institution that is unique to Indian culture The period of history surveyed in the volume covers over two millennia of cultural growth and development and broadly spans the Vedic post-Vedic and the Gupta post-Gupta periods This volume will be of paramount interest to scholars of ancient and medieval Indian history kingship and religion in south Asia 258 pp.

Immense intellectual and cultural stirrings characterized nineteenth century Bengal The impact of modern Western culture and conscious of defeat by a foreign power gave birth to a new awakening Thoughtful Bengalis were impressed in particular by modern science and technology The attainment of modern scientific knowledge in colonial Bengal was not purely a question of diffusion Western science and technology viewed as cultural import were actively redefined by the recipient culture A different society culture tradition and existing indigenous knowledge systems provided the background in which the gradual spread of the new knowledge occurred followed by its adaption through various reformulations One of the major sources of dissemination of techno-scientific knowledge to the native society was the contemporary Bengali journals This book is an account of the Bengali bhadraloks response to the modern technical knowledge as reflected in the pages of these journals 244 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. x, 271pp. Original cloth, slightly worn. Dust jacket. (Japanese Studies on South Asia, No. 2).

This volume offers varied but comprehensive studies relating to Medieval Indian history and culture from the twelfth to the eighteenth century Based on extensive use of contemporary sources the essays cover political social economic cultural and environmental issues both at the macroscopic and microscopic levels It contains fifteen essays contributed by scholars associated with the centre of Advanced study department of history Aligarh Muslim university as well as those who belong to other institutions in the country 308 pp.

Contents 1 Colonial rule The Changing Rural Landscape 2 Evolution of Agratisn Thinking 3 Debating the Peasant 4 The Ploughmens Poet 5 Changing Images of the Rural World and the Political Programme 6 ConclusionSince the 1830s Bengal witnessed a vast outpouring of creative writing Their authors came from diverse social background This book brings forward hitherto unexplored aspects of literati perception of peasants and agriculture in colonial Bengal 318 pp.

This is an endeavour by the author to complete the Sikh migration map by covering countries about which little is known and hence is a pioneering effort in Diaspora studies It has been a heartwarming experience for him to meet some of these Sikh Khalsas at times all alone in a big city keeping their faith against heavy odds Then there are Singhs who have lost touch with their ancestral heritage and do not know why they are Singhs 361 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Contents: Foreword. Acknowledgments. Notes on translation and transcription. Introduction: images and ideologies of Dutch-South Asian Contact. 1. Report of Van Rheede's Mission to Tiruchirappalli, 2 July 1668. 2. Instructions for Bassingh's Mission to Tiruchirappalli, 4 September 1677. 3. Bassingh's description of the Nayakas of Madurai, 13 November 1677. 4. Extracts from Bassingh's Journal and letters from Tiruchirappalli, 25-9 November 1677. 5. Letter of Muttu Alakadri Nayaka to Van Goens the Younger, 13 December 1677. 6. Insttructions for Welter's Mission to Tiruchirappalli, 14 May 1689. 7. Report of Welter's Mission to Tiruchirappalli, 9 September 16989. 8. Letter of Ranga Krishna Muttu Virappa Nayaka to Van Vliet, 19 August 1689. Court journeys represent the most spectaculars sub-genre in western travel literature and the history of cross-cultural interaction. Preceded by an incisive introduction on images and ideologies of Dutch-South Asian contact, these are the hitherto unpublished accounts and related documents of three encounters between representatives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC after its Dutch initials), one of the great Northern European chartered companies of the age of mercantilism, and the state of Madurai, one of the 'great southern Nayakas' and successor-states of the Vijayanagara empire, in Southeast India in the second half of the seventeenth century. A shared interest in trade and at times converging political objectives formed the unstable foundations for a complex courtship fraught with tensions between two ill-suited partners, a mixture of conflict and coexistence typical of the age of contained conflict.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents 1. Introduction envisaging regions/Kingshuk Chatterjee. 2. Russia as Eurasia an attempt at self identification/Oleg A. Donskikh. 3. The palette of Siberian images gains and losses for Russia and Siberia/V.A. Lamin and E.G. Vodichev. 4. Trans regional nation nationalism and identity a case study of Armenians/Susmita Bhattacharya. 5. The strategic significance of the Former Soviet South as a region in the Post Cold War era/Sreemati Ganguli. 6. Conceptualizing Central Asian Regional Studies in Japan Approaches Perspectives and Issues/Timur Dadabaev. 7. The new regional approach towards South and Central Asia an assessment/Arpita Basu Roy. 8. From Eretz Yisra'el to Medinat Yisra'el/Priya Singh. 9. Twenty Years after Can SAARC Deliver/Shantanu Chakrabarti. 10. Religious connections between Bengal and Contiguous Ethnicities forging an inter regional arena/Swarupa Gupta. 11. Revisiting the ethnic enclave paradox in North East India's economy/Rakhee Bhattacharya. I. Essays 12. Do educational institutes always generate positive externalities/Deborshi Brahmachari. 13. National identity in a frontier area the case of Eastern Kazakhstan/Yulia Guzhvenko. II. Review articles 14. In search of good governance a comparative perspective/Amiya K. Chaudhuri. 15. Rural societies and economies of Post communist states/Najam Abbas. 16. Between Heaven and Hell Romancing Siberia or portraying gloom/Suchandana Chatterjee. III. Research notes 17. Diaspora studies in India/Binoda K. Mishra. 18. Refugees in Malda district the past and present scenario/Monika Mandal. Book reviews. In Asia Annual 2007 contributors have engaged with the notion of regions in Asia from the standpoint of various disciplines of social sciences. In their choice of regions under discussion the contributors have tackled Asiatic Russia Central Asia West Asia and South Asia which interestingly comprise the very regions that have attracted the greatest attention in the realm of Area studies since the Cold War. The articles in this volume have approached the question of regions from the standpoint of history international relations and economics which bring out the interdisciplinary character of the imagination of any region. All the contributors have emphasized the amorphous character of the category of the region itself. They have argued that the process of conceptualization of an area or a region is strongly rooted in the historical conjuncture when the concept develops. A logical conclusion which could follow from such an understanding of the category of region is that there is little or nothing in the features of a region (barring its geography) that is immutable. This calls for an interrogation of the very discipline of Area Studies itself. The volume also includes other essays research notes review articles and reviews of books. 280 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: As New. New. Contents Foreword. I. Politics and governance A. Centre state relations 1. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in Arunachal Pradesh buttressing the claims/S.D. Muni. 2. Karnataka State Assembly Elections implications for the UPA Government/E. Sridharan. B. Political parties and processes 3. Benazir Bhutto (1953 2007) assassinated Pakistan in turmoil/Ishtiaq Ahmed. 4. One year in office an assessment of Bangladesh's Caretaker Government/M. Shahidul Islam. 5. The Pakistan elections a political analysis/Ishtiaq Ahmed. 6. Yousaf Raza Gilani Pakistan's new Prime Minister/Ishtiaq Ahmed. 7. Post election Pakistan is there hope or despair for the people/Iftikhar A. Lodhi. 8. Bhutan marching towards democracy/S.D. Muni. 9. The Pakistan Federal Cabinet more of the same or something new/Ishtiaq Ahmed. 10. Nepal Constituent Assembly Elections the dawn of a new era/Nishchal Nath Pandey. 11. The unravelling of coalition politics in Pakistan/Rajshree Jetly. 12. The walkout in India No longer Left in the lurch/Bibek Debroy. 13. Musharraf's resignation a cause for celebration and concern for Pakistan/Rajshree Jetly. 14. Elections in Pakistan new president same old story/Rajshree Jetly. 15. Return to the two Begums a Hobson's Choice for Bangladesh/M. Shahidul Islam. 16. Maldives towards open polity/S.D. Muni. 17. State Assembly Election results in India dispelling the many commonly held notions of Indian elections/Tridivesh Singh Maini. 18. An overview of the November December 2008 provincial elections in India/Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. C. Terrorism and security 19. Recent bomb blasts in South Asia Are the terrorists on a killing spree again/Ishtiaq Ahmed. 20. Attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul time to sober up/Iftikhar A. Lodhi. 21. The Pakistan inter services intelligence a profile/Ishtiaq Ahmed. 22. India's Tamil politics and the Sri Lankan ethnic conflict/S.D. Muni. 23. The Mumbai Mayhem the global war on terror comes to India/S.D. Muni. II. Economic development A. Economic reforms 24. Nepal political uncertainties and economic challenges/Malminderjit Singh. 25. The first budget by the new coalition government in Pakistan economic situation and policy directions/Iftikhar A. Lodhi. 26. Pakistan's economic crisis and the IMF Bailout package/Iftikhar A. Lodhi. 27. Will the UPA Victory in the Trust Vote Result in faster economic reforms/Amitendu Palit. 28. Some approaches to pricing controls for patented drugs in India/S. Narayan. B. Fiscal policies and financial markets 29. The sub prime crisis likely consequences for the Indian economy/S. Narayan. 30. The appreciating rupee and India's exports should policy makers worry/K.V. Ramaswamy. 31. Analysing India's credit policy keeping an eye on inflation and the elections/S. Narayan. 32. India's Economic Survey 2007 2008 impressive growth and a promising future/K.V. Ramaswamy. 33. The Indian budget 2008 2009 an assessment/S. Narayan. 34. South Asia's inflation challenges/M. Shahidul Islam. 35. India's annual policy statement for FY 2008 2009 Achieving a Neither Tight Nor Liberal Monetary Policy/Amitendu Palit. 36. Of Afflation and agriculture time to fix the structural problems/M. Shahidul Islam. 37. Modifications of the External Commercial Borrowings Policy Implications for overseas investments/S. Narayan. 38. The Third Oil Shock the path forward for Bangladesh/M. Shahidul Islam. 39. India's employment exchanges should they be revamped or scrapped altogether/Bibek Debroy. 40. For illiberal finance building dams constructing conduits/Romar Correa. 41. National Treasury Management Agency Proposals implications for India's financial policies/S. Narayan. 42. The fall of the Indian rupee and The Unholy Trinity/M. Shahidul Islam. C. Infrastructure development 43. Urban transport in India the Nano effect/Shreekant Gupta. 44. Urban transport in India Beyond Nano/Shreekant Gupta. 45. India towards a knowledge superpower a view from outside/Gopinath Pillai. 46. Higher education in India ducking the answers/Bibek.

Col. Ills and col. Maps (illustrator). Contents Introduction 1 The Beginnings Of An Intercultural Encounter 2 Christian-Muslim Encounter 3 The Bengali Artists 4 The Non Christian Artists 5 The Christian Artists 6 South Indian Artists 7 Popular Christian Art 8 Indian Church Architecture Bibliography Glossary IndexThis book is a pioneering wok showcasting Christian themes in Indian art from the beginnings of Christianity in India till today The authors have supplemented this with one chapter on architecture particularly that of church buildings and one on popular art including stamps Around 1100 rare coloured illustrations make this publication a unique reference book 428 pp.

Though many of the pre-existing processes of marginalization are getting weakened with the expansion of The democratic and liberal forces several new dimensions of marginalization are in the making and old ones are also getting reinforced in the wake of globalization This collection of essays with reputed scholars from India United States of America United Kingdom and the Czech Republic critically examines the changing form and dimensions of marginalization in a globalized world the emerging nature of intertwining of caste race and gender inequality with marginalization the nature and forms of marginalization of the tribes dalits religious minorities peasants and children Also the middle class new service users in contemporary society and the process of articulation of protest of the marginalized at the grassroots 412 pp.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Contents: Preface. I. India: 1001. Bharat Ratna. 1002. Param Vir Chakra. 1003. Ashoka Chakra. 1004. Padma Vibhushan. 1005. Padma Bhushan. 1006. Sarvottam yuddh Seva Medal. 1007. Param Vishisht Seva Medal. 1008. Maha Vir Chakra. 1009. Kirti Chakra. 1010. Padma Shri. II. Provincial medals. III. Non-Indian Awards: 3001. United Nations: Korea Service Medal. 3002. International commission for supervision and control in Indo-China: service medal. 3003. United Nations emergency force. 3004. United Nations observation group in Lebanon. 3005. Operations des Nations Unies au Congo. IV. Awards of the provisional government of Azad Hind: 4001. Shaheed-i-Bharat. 4002. Apocryphal Order. 4003. Sher-i-Hind. 4004. Sardar-i-Jang. 4005. Vir-i-Hind. Ribbon Chart. Appendices: i. Governors-general, Presidents, and Prime Ministers. ii. Financial rewards. iii. Thoughts on the honours system in independent India. iv. Thematic table of Indian Medals. Bibliography. Index. With India's independence in 1947 and emergence as fully self-governing republic in 1950, new awards were created to reward Indian citizens for bravery and national service. While these new national awards grew out of the historical heritage of the period of British Rule, they also represented the unique values of the new republic. This book presents a systematic overview of the official military, police, and civilian awards of the Republic of India from 1947 through to the present day. In addition to presenting a detailed catalogue of official awards, this work also surveys the development of policy on such awards, considers their changing legal status, and provides a critique of the policies that governed their creation and bestowal. While focusing on official National Awards, the book also provides information on Indian provincial awards, on Foreign Awards given to Indian's and on awards of the pre-1947 provisional government of free India. While much space is necessarily devoted to Military Awards, attention is also given to Civilian Awards, to the awards of the police and fire services and to the other official awards of the Indian Republic. This is the first book to focus on this important topic and should be of special interest to those in the Defence and other uniformed services, to national policy makers, to students and collectors of decoration and medals, and to those with an interest in the social and political history of India. Members of the general public with an interest in how such national honours are awarded or with a curiosity over the meaning of all those bits of coloured silk that are worn on uniforms, will find this a useful and handy work of reference." (jacket).