| Description |
x, 266 pages ; 22 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
SOAS studies on South Asia |
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SOAS studies on South Asia.
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| Contents |
Texts, communities and the history of change in modern South Asia / Peter Robb -- From the barbarian and the civilized to the dialectics of colours / K.N. Chaudhuri -- Approaches to pre-modern Indo-Muslim historical writing / Peter Hardy -- Artful apostasy? A Mughal mansabdar among the Jesuits / Avril Powell -- Colonial perceptions of ethnicity and culture in early nineteenth-century Sri Lanka / John D. Rogers -- The rhetoric of caste status in modern Sri Lanka / A.P. Kannangara -- The impact of British rule on religious community / Peter Robb -- The Western-educated elites and popular religion / Geoffrey Oddie -- "Who are your leaders?" Plague, the Raj and the communities in Bombay, 1896-1901 / Ian Catanach -- The politics of childbirth / Dagmar Engels -- Historical approaches to communalism / Rosalind O'Hanlon |
| Summary |
This volume, commemorating nearly forty years during which Professor K.A. Ballhatchet taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, offers varied but coherent studies relevant to questions of ethnicity in South Asia. It goes beyond the recognition that identities are constructed, towards an understanding of the context and conditions in which particular kinds of community are possible. A secondary theme is the means and importance of the interpretation of texts. A third is the impact of the intrusions of colonial rule upon South Asia's practices and self-perceptions. The subjects are considered from pre-Mughal times to the recent past, and in both India and Sri Lanka. The contributors are K.N. Chaudhuri on the idea of the barbarian; Peter Hardy on Indo-Muslim historical writing; Avril Powell on conversions from Islam to Christianity; John Rogers on European perceptions of, and A.P. Kannangara on caste rhetoric in, Sri Lanka; Peter Robb on the early impact of British rule on Muslims; Geoffrey Oddie on hook-swinging; Ian Catanach on plague and Bombay communities; Dagmar Engels on childbirth and Bengali women; and Rosalind O'Hanlon on approaches to communalism in Western India. Peter Robb provides a critical introduction |
| Analysis |
South Asia History |
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Ballhatchet, Kenneth |
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Ethnicity South Asia |
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History (Asia) |
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South Asia History |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Ballhatchet, Kenneth.
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Ethnicity -- South Asia.
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| SUBJECT |
South Asia -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117023
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| Author |
Ballhatchet, Kenneth.
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Robb, Peter (Peter G.)
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| LC no. |
93226973 |
| ISBN |
0195632141 |
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