Rethinking Western India : The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion

Langue : anglais

Edité par Orient BlackSwan, 2014

8125055827 / 9788125055822

  • Éd. originale
  • Livre relié
  • Neuf
Afficher toutes les informations

Vendeur : Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd, New Delhi, IndeVedams eBooks (P) Ltd

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 4 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 30 janvier 2009

Afficher les articles de ce vendeur
Livre relié

Etat: Neuf

EUR 23,06

EUR 17,50 expédition 
Expédition depuis Inde vers Etats-Unis
Modes de paiement acceptés par le vendeur
  • Facture
  • Traite bancaire
  • Virement bancaire

Quantité disponible : 1 disponible(s)

Ajouter au panier
Retours gratuits sous 30 jours
Vous souhaitez payer avec votre carte de crédit ?
  • Visa
  • Mastercard
  • American Express
  • Apple Pay
  • Google Pay
Commander sur AbeBooks.com

Item description from seller

Contents: Introduction: The Semantics and Mechanics of Region-Maharashtra and its Contexts/Dusan Deak and Daniel Jasper. I. The Semantics of the Social: The Worlds of Texts and Meanings. 1. The World of Two Dhangar Ovis/Anne Feldhaus. 2. Bidar in the Marathi World: Saints, Kings and Powers across the Centuries/Dusan Deak. 3. A Socio-Textual Ecology of the Rgvedasagrantha/Cezary Galewicz. 4. Gender and the Freedom Struggle in Maharashtra: Contextualising Prema Kantak s Novel Agniyaan (1942)/Meera Kosambi. II. The Mechanics of the Social: Agents and Agencies across the Spaces and Places. 5. Bhagwangadavarun Mala Mumbai Disate Aahe: How Caste Survives amidst Democratic Politics/Rajeshwari Deshpande. 6. Of Relics and Living Traditions: Creating Heritage in Maharashtra/Daniel Jasper. 7. A City of Yesterday in the World of Tomorrow: Urban Solapur and Declining Industry-Its Impact on Women/Piyul Mukherjee and Rajneesh Krishna. 8. The Changing Environment of Political Protest: Construction and Contestation of Political Space in Mumbai/Aruna Pendse. 9. Trade Network in Indapur Pargana under the Marathas/Michihiro Ogawa. 10. The Kolis of Mumbai: The Vanishing People/Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat. III. Beyond Maharashtra: Locating and Rewriting the Pasts. 11. Ambiguity in University Autonomy: The University of Bombay in its City in the Late Nineteenth Century/Jim Masselos. 12. Mal Khara Tol Poora: Aspiration and Reality in the Monetary Environments of Eighteenth-Century Maharashtra/Shailendra Bhandare. 13. Politics of Maharashtra and Its Environments/Suhas Palshikar. While investigating the cultural, social and political dynamics in Maharashtra, Rethinking Western India looks into the relations and processes that make up what are usually thought to be regional problems. The essays show how the regional must be understood in contexts that supersede the region and geographical determinism. The opening essays not only contextualise Maharashtrian texts as coherent wholes, but also the meanings contained within these texts, thereby addressing the semantics of the social . A focus on the mechanics of the social -the interface of actions that articulate societal relationships at different levels, and of different characters-is attempted by the next set of essays. The concluding essays emphasise how local dynamics are as much a part of forces ostensibly beyond Maharashtra , as they are products of dynamics within Maharashtra. There is, therefore, a deep analysis of the social and cultural referents upon which collective identities are built.…

N° de réf. du vendeur 113465

Titre
Rethinking Western India : The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion
Auteur
edited by Dusan Deak and Daniel Jasper
Éditeur
Orient BlackSwan
Année de publication
2014
État de l'article
New
Jaquette
New
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
8125055827
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9788125055822
Édition
1st Edition

Vedams eBooks (P) Ltd

New Delhi, Inde

Vendeur avec une évaluation de 4 étoiles

Vendeur AbeBooks depuis 30 janvier 2009

Frais d'expédition de Inde vers Etats-Unis

Article20 à 24 jours ouvrés4 à 7 jours ouvrés
Premier articleEUR 17,50EUR 32,00
Les délais de livraison sont fixés par les vendeurs et varient en fonction du transporteur et du lieu. Les commandes transitant par les douanes peuvent être retardées et les acheteurs sont responsables de tous les droits ou frais associés. Les vendeurs peuvent vous contacter au sujet de frais supplémentaires afin de couvrir toute augmentation des coûts d'expédition de vos articles.

Modes de paiement

Vous pouvez payer par carte de crédit sur AbeBooks.com.
  • Facture
  • Traite bancaire
  • Virement bancaire

Description de la boutique

A one stop shop for books from India. We can supply any title published in India by any publisher. We have an extensive annotated catalogue of books on the web. We have been supplying books from India to University Libraries, Art Museums, Botanical Gardens world wide for the past thirty years.

Spécialité

E, Yoga, Jainism, Terrorism, Literature, Linguistics, Numismatics, Environment, Encyclopedias, Textiles, Economics, Ichthyology, Natural History, Dance, Sociology, Botanical sciences, Architecture, null, Geological Sciences, Tantra, Cinema, Sikhism, null, Islam, Historical Travel, null, Ecology, Economics, null, Paintings, Herpetology, Wildlife, Music, Politics, History, Law, null, Art History, Bo

Profil professionnel du vendeur

Vedams eBooks Pvt Ltd

Vardhaman Charve Plaza IV, Bldg # 10, 2nd Floor, K.P. Block Commerical Complex, Pitampura
New Delhi, Inde 110 034