This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century.
This book highlights emerging trends and new themes in South Asian history. It covers issues broadly related to religion, materiality and nature from differing perspectives and methods to offer a kaleidoscopic view of Indian history until the late eighteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Nupur Dasgupta is a Professor of History and has been teaching in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, India, since 1991. Her area of interest is Ancient Indian History and Archaeology and History of Science, Technology & Medicine (Ancient - Modern). She was the recipient of the Charles Wallace Fellowship at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. She holds a PhD. in History from the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Political Culture and Economy in eighteenth-century Bengal: Networks of Exchange, Consumption and Communication and is the co-editor of An Earthly Paradise: Trade, Politics and Culture in Early Modern Bengal.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part I: Sacred Spaces and Cultural Landscapes 1. The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: Re-examining Early Coastal Temples in Gujarat 2. Mathura: Exploring a Complex Associative Cultural Landscape (From 2nd Century BCE to 2nd Century CE) 3. Perfumes in 16th-18th Century India: A 'Religious-Cultural' Artefact and the Formation of a Scent-Landscape 4. Patronage as Political Proxy: 18th-Century State-Building and Religious Patronage in Ajmer and Pushkar Part II: Religious Traditions and Texts 5. Anthologies of Difference: Situating the Anthologies of S dhanam l and Cary pada in the Sacred Space of Tantric Buddhism 6. The Transformative Presence of Sufis in Medieval Indian Environment: Anecdotes of Miraculous Conversion and Islamicisation in Chishti Literature from the Delhi Sultanate 7. Conversion and Translation: Life and Work of Dom Antonio do Rosario Part III: The Material and the Sacred in Bengal 8. Settlements of Kasimbazar and Murshidabad, CE 1650-1800 CE 9. Physical Environment, Customary Practices, and the English East India Company Regime: A Narrative of Salt Smuggling in Late 18th-Century Lower Deltaic Bengal 10. Rise of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Evolution of Bengali Platter in 16th to 18th Centuries 11. Early Medieval Material Culture of Coastal Bengal with special reference to the site of Kankandighi
Introduction Part I: Sacred Spaces and Cultural Landscapes 1. The Archaeology of Sacred Spaces: Re-examining Early Coastal Temples in Gujarat 2. Mathura: Exploring a Complex Associative Cultural Landscape (From 2nd Century BCE to 2nd Century CE) 3. Perfumes in 16th-18th Century India: A 'Religious-Cultural' Artefact and the Formation of a Scent-Landscape 4. Patronage as Political Proxy: 18th-Century State-Building and Religious Patronage in Ajmer and Pushkar Part II: Religious Traditions and Texts 5. Anthologies of Difference: Situating the Anthologies of S dhanam l and Cary pada in the Sacred Space of Tantric Buddhism 6. The Transformative Presence of Sufis in Medieval Indian Environment: Anecdotes of Miraculous Conversion and Islamicisation in Chishti Literature from the Delhi Sultanate 7. Conversion and Translation: Life and Work of Dom Antonio do Rosario Part III: The Material and the Sacred in Bengal 8. Settlements of Kasimbazar and Murshidabad, CE 1650-1800 CE 9. Physical Environment, Customary Practices, and the English East India Company Regime: A Narrative of Salt Smuggling in Late 18th-Century Lower Deltaic Bengal 10. Rise of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Evolution of Bengali Platter in 16th to 18th Centuries 11. Early Medieval Material Culture of Coastal Bengal with special reference to the site of Kankandighi
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