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Migrations in Medieval and Early Colonial India

Beschreibung

This book looks at movement of communities which form the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and pre-colonial Indian subcontinent. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective and focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations.

Autor

Vijaya Ramaswamy is Professor of Ancient Indian History and Chairperson, Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. She teaches Indian economic history, religion and society, and is also interested in Tamil folklore and women's studies. She is the author of Textiles and Weavers in Medieval South India (1985); Divinity and Deviance: Women in Virasaivism (1996); Walking Naked: Women, Society, Spirituality in South India (1997); The Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (2007); Textiles and Weavers in South India (2007); The A to Z of the Tamils (2010); and The Song of the Loom (2013). Her edited books include Re-searching Indian Women (2003) and Devotion and Dissent in Indian History (2014). She has also co-edited (with Yogesh Sharma) Biography as History: Indian Perspectives (2009).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge India
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781138121928
• ISBN-10: 1138121924
• Artikelnr.: 43774625