Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition
by Claude Markovits (Editor); Jacques Pouchepadass (Editor); Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Editor)
From the rear cover
The idea of an "eternal India," based on stable and unchanging villages, has been in disarray for at least two decades. However, having demolished this myth, historians have been rather less able to construct an alternative vision. This volume sets out to do just that, using the idea of "circulation" in relation to South Asia in the colonial period. It comprises a set of complementary essays which deal with merchant circulation, pilgrimages, cartography, policing, labor mobility, and the movement of itinerant groups from colonial administrators to wandering bards, demonstrating that the South Asia of this period was made and remade by changing patterns and the logic of circulation.
Once this perspective is integrated into the analysis of society, new and disturbing questions emerge on issues such as culture, identity and ethnogenesis, which are normally treated in the context of fixed and stable societies. The essays in this volume - written by some of the leading authorities in South Asian history - break new ground in suggesting the outlines of a different framework for historical analysis.
This volume will interest not only South Asianists, but also those interested in historical method as well as wider comparative perspectives on early modern and contemporary history.
Details
- Title Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950
- Author Claude Markovits (Editor); Jacques Pouchepadass (Editor); Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 380
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Anthem Press
- Date 2006-10-01
- ISBN 9781843312314 / 184331231X
- Weight 1.56 lbs (0.71 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.88 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 2.24 cm)
-
Themes
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: Indian
- Dewey Decimal Code 954.03
More Copies for Sale
Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 (Anthem South Asian Studies)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781843312314 / 184331231x
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Simi Valley, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$104.84$3.99 shipping to USA
Show Details
Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950
by Markovits, Claude (Editor)/ Pouchepadass, Jacques (Editor)/ Subrahmanyam, Sanjay (Editor)
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781843312314 / 184331231X
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Seller
-
Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$162.20$12.82 shipping to USA
Show Details
Society and Circulation: Mobile People and Itinerant Cultures in South Asia, 1750-1950 (Anthem South Asian Studies)
by Markovits, Claude [Editor]; Pouchepadass, Jacques [Editor]; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay [Editor];
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781843312314 / 184331231X
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
San Diego, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$191.46$5.45 shipping to USA