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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 593–594.
Published: 01 May 1999
... PRAKASH SHARMA 1930-1998 Om Prakash Sharma died Wednesday, 23 September 1998, at University Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Om was born in India on February 7, 1930, the son of Ram Lai and Durga Devi Sharma. He spent his youth in the Punjab and endured the terrible days of 1947 when that province...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (3): 633–658.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Prakash Kumar Abstract India's agrarian history has for the most part been cast within colonial and nationalist frameworks or in analyses of modernity and development in the South Asian historiography on both sides of the independence divide. This leaves plenty of space to discuss both the vast...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (2): 436–437.
Published: 01 May 1992
...Gyan Prakash 436 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES major preoccupation of the author in these chapters is the Dalit leadership, whom she clearly considers ineffective and holds responsible for the failure of the movement to bring about significant changes in the allocation of power and resources...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1990) 49 (4): 984–985.
Published: 01 November 1990
...Gyan Prakash The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793–1920 . By Anand A. Yang . University of California Press , 1990 . xii, 271 pp. $37.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 984 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 917–920.
Published: 01 November 1989
...Gyan Prakash Congress and Indian Nationalism: The Pre-Independence Phase . Edited by Richard Sisson and Stanley Wolpert . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1988 . xii, 420 pp. $48.00. Indian National Congress and Indian Society, 1885–1985: Ideology...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 492–493.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Gyan Prakash The Oppressive Present: Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India . By Sudhir Chandra . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xi, 192 pp. $19.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 492 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (1): 223–225.
Published: 01 February 1997
...Gyan Prakash Texts of Power: Emerging Disciplines in Colonial Bengal . Edited by Partha Chatterjee . Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Perspectives in Social Sciences Series. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1995 . xii, 220 pp. $57.95 (cloth); $22.95 (paper...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1999) 58 (2): 361–388.
Published: 01 May 1999
... and masculine work in Prakash Tandon's memory book Punjabi Century illustrate dominant literary representations of economic production in Punjab, a province of the British Raj from the mid-nineteenth century until it was partitioned between independent India and Pakistan in 1947 (see fig. 1). Many Punjabi women...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1977) 36 (4): 774–775.
Published: 01 August 1977
...Prakash N. Desai 774 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES of the association's membership until, in recent years, its strength had ebbed away. Nevertheless, Kshatriya factions were left entrenched in the main political parties, linking each one with fragments of the association's original constituencies...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 781–782.
Published: 01 August 2000
...Kim Plofker Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1999 . xiv, 304 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 781...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 502–503.
Published: 01 May 1996
...Walter Hauser Growth, Stagnation or Decline? Agricultural Productivity in British India . Edited by Sumit Guha . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . ix, 288 pp. Rs. 290 (cloth). The World of the Rural Labourer in Colonial India . Edited by Gyan Prakash . Delhi : Oxford...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1992) 51 (1): 197–198.
Published: 01 February 1992
...Ronald J. Herring Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India . By Gyan Prakash . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . 1990 . xvi, 250 pp. $44.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 197 Bonded...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1971) 30 (2): 488–489.
Published: 01 February 1971
...Edward J. Vander Velde, Jr. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 New Towns in India . By Ved Prakash . Durham : Duke University Program in Comparative Studies on Southern Asia , 1969 . Monograph No. 8, x, 149 pp. Tables, Figures, Appendices, Bibliography...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2020) 79 (4): 1034–1040.
Published: 01 November 2020
... Khosla . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 2020 . 219 pp. ISBN: 9780674980877 . Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2019 . 456 pp. ISBN: 9780691186726 . The Paradox...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 667–668.
Published: 01 August 1964
... "assessments of Professor Tinker's preconceptions" are wrong, Mr. Dalton accuses me of having failed to see "the full significance of Professor Tinker's deep commitment . . . to the political thought of Jaya Prakash Narayan, a commitment which deserves serious consideration." A careful reading of Professor...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (4): 1178–1180.
Published: 01 November 2012
...William Elison Mumbai Fables: A History of an Enchanted City . By Gyan Prakash . Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press , 2010 . xi , 396 pp. $29.95 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Through the twentieth century, Bombay...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 607–610.
Published: 01 May 1994
... Readings: Themes in Indian History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. xi, 263 pp. $16.95. The World of the Rural Labourer in Colonial India. Edited by G Y A N PRAKASH. Oxford in India Readings: Themes in Indian History. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1992. ix, 310 pp. $19.95. These two volumes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (2): 330–332.
Published: 01 February 1964
... to India . By Om Prakash . New York : Frederick A. Praeger , 1962 . 272 . Appendices. $6.50. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 330 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES informed, and insightful analysis of the influence of Hindu culture and its retarding impact on the economic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (2): 503–505.
Published: 01 May 1996
... us some useful pre-Blyn productivity trends as well. The volume edited by Prakash, which was originally published by Oxford in hardback in 1992, also carries a nicely descriptive title. Rural laborers in this context refers to a full range of landless agricultural laborers either on daily wage...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2000) 59 (3): 779–781.
Published: 01 August 2000
... of Modern India. By G Y A N PRAKASH. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999- xiv, 304 pp. $49.50 (cloth); $17.95 (paper). In Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India, Gyan Prakash seeks (as he explains on p. 7) to investigate "science's history as a sign of Indian modernity...