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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 19–21.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Sheldon Pollock - Forms of Knowledge in Early Modern South Asia: Introduction SHELDON POLLOCK The study of the impact of colonialism on culture and and were based on now-discredited...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 452–453.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Dina Le Gall Contested Conversions to Islam: Narratives of Religious Change in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire Krstić Tijana . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xvi + 264 pp., $60.00 (cloth) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Politics of Women’s Rights...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 338–339.
Published: 01 August 2009
...Peter E. Pope The Unending Frontier: An Environmental History of the Early Modern World John F. Richards Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003 696 pp., $75.00 (cloth), $26.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2009 Being Modern in the Middle East...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (3): 556–572.
Published: 01 December 2009
... of the Second Empire in the nineteenth century. Duke University Press 2009 The Second Empire: The Transformation of the Ottoman Polity in the Early Modern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 449–462.
Published: 01 December 2010
... of Early Modern Iran Rudi Matthee . . . la Perse est tombée d’un état plus florissant dans un plus grand abîme de malheurs  —  V o l t a i r e , Essai sur les moeurs nasmuch as they are composites of the infinite variety of human action, all societies are studies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 146–162.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Nükhet Varlık Abstract The management of the dead underwent major transformations in early modern Istanbul, owing to rapid population growth and its consequences in the city's urban layout. Starting around the turn of the sixteenth century, the majority of the urban dead began to be buried outside...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 334–340.
Published: 01 August 2022
... to its preceptor, Guru Gorakhnath. While the Gorakhbani , the utterances of Gorakh, is often included in early modern Dadupanthi and Niranjani anthologies, alongside compositions by figures such as Kabir, Sundardas, and Dadu Dayal, the Hindavi Nath works have hardly received the attention they merit...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 289–292.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Manan Ahmed Asif Abstract In situating the questions of how languages shape the ideas of history, history writing, and self-identification of community, the importance of colonialism is key. Allison Busch's scholarship framed an important intervention in our collective approach to the early-modern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2009) 29 (2): 259–268.
Published: 01 August 2009
... of religious and political betrayal, therefore prompting different, and often opposing, narratives of conversion. A number of tropes predominant in early modern English narratives dealing with conversion to Islam are of interest in this regard: the immoral deviant “renegade” motivated by excessive lust...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2012) 32 (2): 294–309.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... Unless otherwise noted, all translations are my own. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 We Are Family: The Child and Modern Nationhood in Early Turkish Republican Cartoons (1923 – 28...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2008) 28 (2): 326–341.
Published: 01 August 2008
...Kyle T. Evered © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Symbolizing a Modern Anatolia: Ankara as Capital in Turkey’s Early Republican Landscape Kyle...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (1): 64–85.
Published: 01 May 2017
...-3821309 © 2017 by Duke University Press Benjamin Siegel Modernizing Peasants and Master Farmers in Early Independent India 65 Jawaharlal Nehru s fascination with agri- dence, India s central government identified exem- culturalists and their mentalities underwrote plary progressive farmers through...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2006) 26 (3): 402–415.
Published: 01 December 2006
...Kevin M. Doak Duke University Press 2006 Romancing the East, Rejecting the West: Japanese Intellectuals’ Responses to Modernity in the Early Twentieth Century Kevin M. Doak...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (2): 368–373.
Published: 01 August 2016
... concepts of tragedy and modernity in the comparative context of recent works on East Asian early modernity. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 modernity postcolonialism Marxism early modernity I would like to thank Saul Thomas and the editors of Comparative Studies of South Asia...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 473–490.
Published: 01 December 2010
... by Charles, Earl Stanhope in 1800. Unlike the cumbrous wooden presses of early modern Europe and its settler populations overseas, the durable, mass-produced, transportable, and easy-to-operate presses of the early 1800s were able to reach regions where printing was unknown and penetrate deeper into reading...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (1): 135–146.
Published: 01 May 2014
... interventionist policy in Salonika. By writing the rural dynamics into the historical narrative, Kokdas’s article thus provides a new understanding of the link between the town-country relationship and the sociopolitical transformation of provincial society in the early modern Ottoman world. © 2014 by Duke...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 May 2019
...Richard David Williams Abstract In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 418–434.
Published: 01 December 2016
... for the production of literary modernity. Arguing for a verbal as well as textual discourse of modernity shared between early twentieth-century Iranian and Indian intellectuals, Jabbari examines how these intellectuals made use of premodern materials for their modernizing projects, and how nationalism shaped...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (2): 261–266.
Published: 01 August 2021
... assumptions, especially in the Ottoman Empire and colonial India, which as Ahmed recognizes were the two most influential juridical models for the Afghan legislative project between 1885 and 1929. This occurred because of complex historical processes as geographically and temporally disparate as early modern...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 398–417.
Published: 01 December 2016
... University Press , 2007 . Babayan Kathryn . Mystics, Monarchs, and Messiahs: Cultural Landscapes of Early Modern Iran . Cambridge, MA : Harvard Center for Middle East Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press , 2002 . Bayat Mangol . Mysticism and Dissent: Socioreligious...