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Society and ideology essays in South Asian history presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet / edited by Peter Robb, in collaboration with K.N. Chaudhuri and Avril Powell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SOAS studies on South AsiaPublication details: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993.Description: x, 266 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0195632141
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • KMD 954 SOC
LOC classification:
  • DS336 .S63 1993
Online resources:
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.
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Reference Books Reference Books ICES Kandy Ready Reference Section Dr. K.M. de Silva’s Collections KMD 954 SOC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available K008541

Includes bibliographical references.

"Major publications of K.A. Ballhachet at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1948-88" (p. viii-x).

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.

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