Mare nostrum aug 2025 (10 Ergebnisse)

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The history of untouchability remains a subject yet to be fully explored, scrutinized and reconstructed, and not without tremendous effort. In unraveling the elements of this complex socio-historical fabric, several questions and circumstances are salient. To begin with, what is the origin of the social discrimination that continues to be perpetrated upon certain social groups What has been the relationship between social discrimination and the concept of pollution or sin These problems have special relevance to the emergence of socially discriminated groups in ancient India like Candla. What, then, is the difference between social discrimination in ancient India and untouchability in medieval India The formative process of untouchability is still clouded in this regard with the darkness or obscurity history. The focal point of this process might be assumed to be the post-Gupta period, but only a more minute investigation will lead to its confirmation. Then again, what is the reality of social discrimination against the depressed castes in medieval India Its historical change and areal diversity poses a perplexing issue. And finally, what were the problems inherent in the transformation of untouchability under British colonial rule and the subsequent development of the liberation movements of the depressed castes which constitute the modern phase of the problem of untouchabilityThis volume represents the endeavours of Japanese scholars to address these vital concerns.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the last few months of holding office in India, Erskine Perry, judge in India, employed some of his leisure hours in collecting a few cases of general interest that had come to him in the Supreme Court of Bombay. This book is an outcome of it. He felt that the insight into human life afforded by transactions in a court of justice gives an opportunity to study the national character, especially to the English administrators in India who were so severed from the bulk of the Indian people by colour, race, language, religion and material interest. The motives, reasonings, and action of the Indians displayed in broad daylight, he felt, would be an inestimable advantage in the administration of justice.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1579, Akbar, the Great Mughal, as the Indian emperor of the Turkish-Mongolian dynasty of Muslim origin was known in the West, invited some Jesuit theologians, bearing the sacred texts of Christianity, to his court. This was perhaps an unprecedented episode in history, as it was rather unusual for the ruler of an Islamic state to wish to host missionaries clearly motivated by specific evangelical intentions. Indeed, Muslims firmly believe that Islam is the natural religion of man, and, as such, their consequent disinterest in other faiths is a continuous thread running through many countries of Islamic influence. Despite inevitable difficulties, the Church has never given up on its work of promoting Christianity; a right, however, that could hardly be recognised by a sultan. The precise purpose of this volume is to identify the reasons that led a Muslim emperor, such as Akbar, to request the presence of Jesuits at his own court. In the wake of blinding and misleading optimism in the West, there was talk of the Great Mughal's imminent conversion to Christianity. In reality, the reasons behind his invitation were anything but this, though they were still somewhat surprising.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book explores the lives of individuals who were enslaved, bought, sold, and forcibly transported across continents from the Tamil coast. It argues that the region was deeply entangled in the global slave trade through European commercial networks. Tracing the journeys of Tamil slaves to destinations such as Melaka, Manila, Macao, Mexico City, Colima, Cape Town, Mauritius, Réunion, St. Helena, and beyond including Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, and North America the study explores their social interactions, labor experiences, and forced migrations. By drawing on underutilized yet richly detailed archival sources, this volume offers new insights into transnational and global history, focusing on merchant networks, global markets, and intercontinental shipping.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This is the eighth volume of the series The Legacy of Slavery and Indentured Labour. It covers the post slavery period of the long nineteenth century and its continuities into much of the first half of the twentieth century. From a geopolitical perspective, the essays collectively encompass the Francophone territories in the Indian Ocean, as well as the Anglophone, Francophone, and Dutch Caribbean and Latin America. Within almost each essay, a myriad of multidimensional issues is foregrounded. To the credit of the authors, these matters are well supported by the historical and historiographical backgrounds that set the situational context for the reader.The themes raised juxtapose a wide array of data on First Nations, European colonization, African New World enslavement and resistance (including marronage), and debates surrounding the abolition of slavery. They also address emancipation in practice, post-slavery in-migrations, indentured labour, and the intersections of African, Indian, and Jewish diasporas, issues of continuities and adjustments, and challenges of present-day living, including the integration of social groups and the consolidation of the nation-state. Readers are treated to multidisciplinary and comparative analyses. Collectively, the essays encompass the disciplines of history, sociology, anthropology, philology, and literary criticism.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The book Contemporary Sociological Theory is a significant collection of modern theories in sociology, viz., Phenomenology, Ethnomethodology, Neo-functionalism, Neo-Marxism, Post-Structuralism, and Post-Modernism. These theories include the contributions of intellectuals Talcott Parsons, Robert King Merton, Edmund Husserl, Alfred Schutz, Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, Harold Garfinkel, Erving Goffman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jürgen Habermas, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Anthony Giddens.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On 16 October 1951, Pakistan's first Prime Minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was assassinated at a public gathering in Rawalpindi. The gunman, Said Akbar - the author's father - was branded the lone assassin. But was he This book unravels the deeper story behind the assassination, tracing its roots to the Kashmir War of 1947-48, the Rawalpindi Conspiracy, and the power struggles within Pakistan's military and political circles. From the CID officer Askar Ali Shah's pivotal role in exposing the plot to the flawed findings of the Scotland Yard's investigation, the book examines the overlooked evidence and the long-buried files that still may hold the truth. With a meticulous and unbiased approach, the book pieces together the facts, challenges the official narrative, and seeks to answer the questions that have haunted Pakistan for decades.This is the author's attempt to bring the truth to light - for Pakistan, for history, and for his family.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The India-Pakistan Air War of 1965 is the first in a series of books detailing wartime operations of the Indian Air Force (IAF). It provides a history of the air component of a war triggered by Pakistan's invasion of Kashmir in 1965. As tank and artillery battles raged on the ground, a fierce battle was waged in the skies: pilots made daring daylight and night-time raids and air combat took place at low altitudes in high performance aircraft. The war ended inconclusively, but the IAF learned lessons which made possible the highly successful campaign to liberate East Pakistan in 1971.Mohan and Chopra provide a brief historical background, enabling an appreciation of the challenges that faced the IAF in its formative years. They then examine the events that triggered the war-the Pakistani intrusion into Kashmir (Operation Gibraltar) and the Pakistani attack on Jammu (Operation Grand Slam)-and move on to a blow by blow account of the escalation and evolution of the air war on the western front. They provide too, a detailed description of events in the Eastern Sector, i.e. on the border between India and East Pakistan, something that no previous history has attempted.Based on interviews with IAF war veterans, squadron diaries and never before published photographs including gun camera photos, this book tells for the first time, stories of air battles and raids that have acquired legendary status in the IAF but have not been published for a larger audience. With the publication of this volume, the story of the 1965 war can finally be told and a more complete understanding of air warfare in the twentieth century is possible.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Epic and Argument in Sanskrit Literary History celebrates the distinguished career of the American Indologist Robert P. Goldman. The essays on Sanskrit literary history, which range from the dnastuti in the Rgveda (Romila Thapar) to the transformation of literary theory in ninth-century Kashmir (Sheldon Pollock) to the practice of philology in seventeenth-century Varanasi (Christopher Minkowski), reflect the wide range of interests of Professor Goldman himself, and the wide influence he has exerted on the field. Eight of the essays (by such leading scholars as Greg Bailey, John Brockington, James Fitzgerald, Luis González-Reimann. Phyllis Granoff, Alf Hiltebeitel, Adheesh Sathaye, and Sally Sutherland Goldman), concentrate on the epics and Purnas, and as an ensemble make for essential reading on the genre of Sanskrit literature to which Goldman, as editor-in-chief of the Rmyana Translation Project, has devoted the greater part of his career. The scholarly essays are bookended by the survey of Professor Goldman's scholarly contributions (Deven Patel) and alively personal reminiscence (Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson).…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The dawn of freedom over India in August 1947, after a long and bitter struggle against British imperialism, was one of the seminal developments of the twentieth century. Small wonder, then that this struggle has aroused substantial scholarly interest over the past decades. Yet, despite the enormous body of literature upon the manner in which India won freedom, at the same time as the subcontinent was partitioned into two sovereign states, various facets of this historical phenomenon still remain unexplored. To stimulate new scholarly research on the struggle for freedom in India, the Nehru Memorial Museum & Library organized a symposium at which social scientists and humanists could collectively take a look at the past, not only for antiquarian reasons, but also to illumine the present.Most of the 17 essays incorporated in this volume were presented by distinguished scholars at the symposium held in 1984.The well known historian Prof. Ravinder Kumar, the then Director of NMM&L has contributed an Introduction to the volume. The volume is being made available again in response to the demand from scholars.…