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9789384082338: Looking Within, Looking Without: Exploring Households in the Subcontinent Through Time
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ISBN 10 : 9384082333 ISBN 13 : 9789384082338
Editeur : Primus Books, 2015

Synopsis

Looking Within Looking Without includes discussions based on archaeology, visual representations, the Sanskrit epics, medical literature, early Tamil texts, compositions drawn from a variety of religious traditions, official documents including court records, and inscriptions. Chronologically, the volume ranges from the early historic to the early modern period. Spatially, the regions explored include the Gangetic Valley, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Maharashtra, Bengal and Rajasthan. The contributors envisage the household as a site of production, consumption and distribution, and as one where cultural meanings are constituted, communicated and contested. Running through the essays is a focus on the everyday, on the ways in which gender, class, caste and community identities evolve through and revolve around the household. What emerges is a richly textured, complex set of arguments, which inevitably step beyond the household, drawing attention to connections with the wider world. As a tribute to the memory of Nandita Prasad Sahai, a careful, committed and passionate historian and teacher, the volume creates space for dialogue, debate and difference as the contributors bring their distinctive perspectives and questions on an institution that is often naturalized and taken for granted.

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À propos de l'auteur

KUMKUM ROY teaches ancient history at the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Her publications include The Emergence of Monarchy in North India (1994), A Historical Dictionary of Ancient India (2010), and The Power of Gender and the Gender of Power (2010).

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Éditeur
Primus Books
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9384082333
ISBN 13 
9789384082338
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
419
Éditeur
Roy Professor Of Ancient Indian History Kumkum
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Personne responsable
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