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Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895

Eugene F. Irschick - History - 1994 - 284 pages
Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South ...
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The Jaina Path of Purification

Padmanabh S. Jaini - India - 1998 - 400 pages
The religious tradition of the Jainas, unique in many respects, presents a fascinating array of doctrinal and social structures that stem from the anti-vedic movements of ...
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Les sources du droit dans le système traditionnel de l'Inde

Robert Lingat, University of California, Berkeley. Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies - Religion - 1973 - 332 pages
This book discusses pertinent and contentious issues such as the relationship of religious communities and state, minority rights, secularism and reservations in the context of ...
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Vilyatpur, 1848-1968: Social and Economic Change in a North Indian Village

Tom G. Kessinger, University of California, Berkeley. Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies - Business & Economics - 1974 - 250 pages
Monographic case study of a punjabi village, to illustrate rural area social change and long term trends in the agricultural economy of North India - covers rural migration ...
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Trade Unions and Politics in Ceylon

Robert N. Kearney - Political Science - 1971 - 220 pages
Study of the relationship between trade unions and political partys in Sri Lanka - covers trends in labour relations, collective bargaining, union leadership and membership ...
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