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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of Indian Ocean history as well as the wider connections both within and beyond the British Empire. These developments have given rise to an exciting meeting point that brings modern Indian and German histories together. The essays in this special section are focused on connections forged in Germany...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Pant and the history of Indian engagement with Rhodesia has not, until now, been explored. This article argues that the central role of India in the colonial world ensured that London reined in the white settler Rhodesian government from enacting discriminatory legislation against its minority Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 521–537.
Published: 01 August 2011
... that the British as a feature of the inherently corrupt Indian po-
in fact tapped into, is minimized. The word litical landscape that the colonial regime had to
existed, but it was not “famous”; its history was overcome or contend with in its struggles...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (3): 511–522.
Published: 01 December 2012
... in nineteenth-century India and in Germany. Myths concerning the Aryans gave historical value to ancient Indian history, contributing to the ideological concerns of India during the colonial and nationalist periods. They also served the political and ideological interests of Europe: The history of India could...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 233–240.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., a technology introduced in colonial times to carry cotton long distances from the field. Malkha spinning centers are substantially smaller in size than conventional mills, closer to the small scales of Indian cotton farming and hand weaving. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 handloom...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 68–81.
Published: 01 May 2019
... consider the circulation of literary tastes across the colonial divide and recognize the production of forgetfulness and ignorance that accompanied modern narratives of languages and literary histories, both colonial and Indian, and that made a host of texts “homeless” (Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 361–368.
Published: 01 August 2016
... in a colonial polity and
say about them (9). The transaction between the therefore was a disavowal of the abilities of Indians
cloistered and the public life of history shapes not to write histories. The dream of a democratic for-
only the nature of historical writing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 556–564.
Published: 01 December 2014
... or so, particularly the shift toward maritime conceptions of space (Mediterranean, Indian Ocean), which though by no means new have breathed new life into the study of the premodern and colonial/modern history of the Middle East. The rise of global and connected history has similar implications...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 11706991.
Published: 22 January 2025
... of California Press, 2010. Narnauli, Jivanram. Laif af Kanhaiyalal Alakhdhari. In Tajriba-i dauran, 158 238. Ludhiana: Gyan Press, 1873. Nicholson, Andrew. Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History. New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. Olivelle, Patrick. The Early...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 335–337.
Published: 01 August 2016
...Anupama Rao This short essay introduces readers to Dipesh Chakrabarty's The Calling of History and the major concerns of the book: the institutionalization of history in a colonial society, Indian history's preoccupations with its Mughal past, and the central figures involved in propagating ideas...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2023) 43 (1): 43–60.
Published: 01 May 2023
... and cultural emancipation that was used not only to challenge colonial rule but also to further numerous anti-caste movements against existing Brahmanical institutions and practices. While the history of anti-caste and Dalit engagements with Buddhism has largely been studied through a discussion of the Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 118–134.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., a city located on the eastern edge of the western Indian Ocean. As Jatin Dua and others have pointed out, 16 military and economic operations in this zone have long been both contentious and critical to the performances of colonialism and global capitalism over the last three centuries. 17...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (2): 226–234.
Published: 01 August 2017
...Siba Grovogui As both a response and a complement to Partha Chatterjee's observations on modern Indian history, this essay speaks to the heterogeneity of cosmopolitanism and its trajectories. It focuses specifically on political and cultural experiments in West and North Africa that over time...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 402–422.
Published: 01 December 2018
... colonial Indian history Indian nationalism Indian liberalism marriage social reform References Amrith Sunil S. “ Food and Welfare in India, c. 1900–1950 ”. Comparative Studies in Society and History 50 , no. 4 ( 2008 ): 1010 – 35 . Baden- Powell Henry . Land Systems...
View articletitled, Little Republics or Petty Republics?: The Panchayat, Imperial Sovereignty, and Discourses of Self- Government in British India, ca. 1870 – 1917
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 291–305.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., moviegoing had
Babli
cinema in colonial Indian history, interview- not yet become a regular pastime. Outside...
View articletitled, “Lowering Our Prestige”: American Cinema, Mass Consumerism, and Racial Anxiety in <span class="search-highlight">Colonial</span> India
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1985) 5 (1): 46–47.
Published: 01 May 1985
... an 'alternative mythography of history' (p. xv)
unconventionality in work and lifestyle seems more an by which he presumably means that myths may have the
exploration and reflection of their own personalities than status of history in Indian society or that India has no need
protests against colonial...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1999) 19 (2): 1–2.
Published: 01 August 1999
...Edward A. Alpers © 1999: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1999 Trade, Politics, and Identity in the Colonial Indian Ocean
Introduction
Edward A. Alpers
The papers brought together for this issue of the Thus, from the end...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 349–354.
Published: 01 August 2015
..., and the Languages of Globalism, 1850–1894.” In Globalization in World History , edited by Hopkins A. G. , 141 – 66 . London : Pimlico , 2002 . Indian Emigrant: A Monthly Record of Indians in British Colonies and Foreign Countries and an Advocate of Equal Rights of British Citizenship within...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1994) 14 (1): 114–121.
Published: 01 May 1994
... the reader to revise
complexities and heterogeneities alive. In addition, dominant/colonial periodizations of Indian history.
the work theorizes women’s histories and writings. Periods of history are defined both politically
Contexts are created, interconnections revealed be- and culturally...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 19–21.
Published: 01 August 2004
... of the impact of colonialism on culture and and were based on now-discredited notions about the
power has been the dominant arena of inquiry in the character and history of precolonial Indian economy and
past two decades in South Asian studies. A large body of society.3 But then, as recent work shows all too...
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