Ishita Banerjee-Dube

This book constructs an anthropological history of a subaltern religious formation, Mahima Dharma of Orissa, a large province in eastern India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical community over a hundred and forty year period, ‘Religion, Law and Power’ explores the interplay of distinct expressions of time and history, innovative reformulations of caste and Hinduism and distinct engagements with state and nation. This serves to unravel the wider entanglements of religion, history, law, modernity and power.

Tales of Time in Eastern India, 1860-2000

Religion, Law and Power

This Book Is An Invaluabel Contribution To Pilgrimage Studies In South Asia. Uniting Meticulous Historical Documentation And Ethnographic Sensitivity, Ishita Banerjee Dubes Scholarship Significantly Improves Understandings Of The Complex Ways Religion And Politics Intertwine In A Sacred Centre. It Provides A Detailed, Subtle, And Compelling Portrait Of Jagannath--The Lord Of The Universe In Puri---Not Only As An Object Of Political Manipulations But As The All-Powerful Subject Of Worship.

Religion, Pilgrimage, and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Divine Affairs

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.

A History of Modern India

Examines the interplay of distinct yet overlapping facets of history, Hinduism, the state and the nation in Eastern India.

Saurabh Dube

Un becoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities explores the vital impact of the colonial pasts of India, Mexico, China, and even the United States on the processes through which these countries have become modern. The collection is unique as it brings together a range of disciplines and perspectives. The topics discussed include the Zapatista movement in southern Mexico, the image of the South in recent African-American literature, the theories of Andre Gunder Frank about the early modernization of Asian countries, and the contradictions of the colonial state in India.

Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Modernities

Unbecoming Modern

Part of the prestigious Themes in History series, this reader brings together seminal writings on caste and its connection with colonialism and politics as well as its practice and presence in everyday life.

Caste in History

In this volume well-known scholars from India and Latin America – Enrique Dussel, Madhu Dubey, Walter D. Mignolo, and Sudipta Sen, to name a few – discuss the concepts of modernity and colonialism and describe how the two relate to each other. This second edition to the volume comes with a new introduction which extends and critically supplements the discussion in the earlier introduction to the volume. It explores the vital impact of the colonial pasts of India, Mexico, China, and even the Unites States, on the processes through which these countries have become modern. The collection is unique, as it brings together a range of disciplines and perspectives. The topics discussed include the Zapatista movement in Southern Mexico, the image of the South in recent African-American literature, the theories of Andre Gunder Frank about the early modernization of Asian countries, and the contradictions of the colonial state in India.

"Tracks the interplay of creativity, competition, desire, and nostalgia in the discrete ways people relate to food and cuisine in different societies"--

Ishita Banerjee-Dube

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