Institutions and ideologies : a SOAS South Asia reader / edited by David Arnold and Peter Robb.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Richmond, Surrey [England] : Curzon Press, 1993.
Description
viii, 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

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    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Religious vs. regional determinism: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire / Graham Chapman
    • Classical Hindu scriptures / Tuvia Gelblum
    • Suttee or sati: victim or victor? / Julia Leslie
    • Some observations on the evolution of Modern Standard Punjabi / Christopher Shackle
    • The hidden hand: English lexis, syntax and idiom as determinants of modern Hindi usage / Rupert Snell
    • A hero or a traitor? The Gurkha soldier in Nepali literature / Michael Hutt
    • Milton and Madhusudan / William Radice
    • Indian architecture and the English vision / Giles Tillotson
    • Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage / Werner Menski
    • Islamic law and the colonial encounter in British India / Michael Anderson
    • Notes on 'peasant insurgency' in colonial Mysore: event and process / Burton Stein
    • Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar / Peter Robb
    • Smallpox and colonial medicine in nineteenth-century India / David Arnold
    • The Indian National Congress: a hundred-year perspective / David Taylor
    • Charan Singh (1902-87): an assessment / Terence J. Byres.
    ISBN
    • 0700702849 ((pbk.))
    • 9780700702848 ((pbk.))
    • 0700702830 ((hardback))
    • 9780700702831 ((hardback))
    LCCN
    94165552
    OCLC
    30459770
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