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Indian diaspora : socio-cultural and religious worlds /
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The chapters presented in this volume represent a wide variety of Indian diasporic experiences. From indenture labour to the present day immigrations, Indian diasporic narrative is one that offers opportunities to evaluate afresh notions of ethnicity, race, caste, gender and religious diversity. From victim discourse to narratives of optimism and complexities of identity issues, the Indian diaspora has exhibited characteristics that enable us as scholars to construct theoretical views on the diaspora and migration. The cases included in this volume will illumine such theoretical ideas. The readers will certainly be able to appreciate the diversity and the depth of these narratives and gain insight into the social and cultural and religious world of the diaspora.
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1 online resource (xiii, 361 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004288065 :
1573-4293 ; :
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Early maritime cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean : papers from a conference held...
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This work represents a multi-disciplinary effort to examine East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. Multiple lines of evidence drawn from linguistics, archaeology, history, art history, and ethnography come together in novel ways to highlight different aspects of the region's past and offer innovative avenues for future research.
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Previously issued in print:.
Conference proceedings. :
1 online resource (viii, 228 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). :
Specialized. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781784917135 (ebook) :
Early Indian Architecture : Cities and City Gates etc. /
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Indian architecture is diverse and rich in its nature. This volume by Coomaraswamy centres around Buddhist architecture in ancient India. Buddhist architecture was one of the remarkable features, which gave rise to the sacred architecture in India, as it developed during the Mauryan Empire, and subsequently went to other parts of East, Central, and South East Asia. This volume discusses the importance of city and city gates from the perspective of Buddhist architecture. The work is divided into two parts: Part I deals with cities and city gates, etc. while Part II is on the Bodhi-gharas, i.e. representations of the Bodhi tree with or without a temple structure. The book looks at the Pali literature, which includes tales from Jatakas depicted in stupas located at Bharhut, Sanchi, and Amravati. These three sites are known for their ancient Indian stupa architecture around the world, which gave rise to the traditional Buddhist stupa architecture. The author also cites references from medieval architecture, such as forts, situated in Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, and other parts to describe city architecture in ancient India.
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1 online resource (36 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004752375
Post-Emancipation Indenture and Migration : Identities, Racialization and Transnationalism /
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The chapters in this volume contribute to the current scholarship on historical and contemporary migrations by providing new interdisciplinary approaches to historical and contemporary global migratory issues, while simultaneously analyzing ethnicization, identity formation, racialization, citizenship, nationalism, and Tansnationalism. Themes such as border crossing, forced migration, displacement, and statelessness are problematized, and in the process, challenge existing dominant metanarratives. One distinctive feature is how marginalized and silenced voices shift from the margin to the centre of migration narratives, reinforced by the fact that most contributors write from an insider's perspective.
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1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753938
Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? : The Making of Indian Religion /
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Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem? traces the history of western encounters with other cultures on two occasions - the 'pagans' of Greece and Rome and the 'heathens' in India. The West has produced many descriptions of other cultures. A close examination of these descriptions reveals that they tell us more about western culture than about the cultures the West has attempted to describe. This overarching theme is developed by examining one element in western culture, viz. religion. This book argues that religion is not a cultural universal and the belief that all cultures have religion is an assumption on the part of all scholars of religion. The reason for this is that western culture has been shaped by religion so that members of this culture are conceptually compelled to describe other cultures from within the framework of religion. From Biblical scholarship to the Enlightenment, from the Reformation to the Romantics, from believers to atheists, the cognitive scheme is the same - one that has been set in place by the experiential framework of Christianity. Is it any wonder that members of such a culture saw religion wherever they went? By means of methodical arguments and lucid explanations this book demonstrates that religion is not a cultural universal and explains why it is believed to be so. Scholars in the field of religious and cultural studies will find this work illuminating, original, and deeply compelling.
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1 online resource (308 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004751590
Suvarnadvipa : Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East. Volume 2: Cultural History /
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South East Asian history is one of the most unique histories, as it was marked by the influences of Indic, Chinese, and local cultures. Suvarnadvipa is a two-volume series, which covers the political and cultural history of South East Asian history. This volume deals with the cultural history of South East Asia during ancient times. The author discusses literature, religion, art, and society in greater detail, which was prevalent during ancient times. Works of literature composed in Java, Bali, and the Malay Peninsula are covered in this volume, as it was written in Sanskrit, Old Javanese, and others. It also covers the history of Buddhism (mainly the Mahayana sect) and Hinduism, along with their religious texts, before the coming of Islam. The chapters on the history of art and architecture are covered comprehensively. It talks about the religious and non-religious structures, the influence of Hindu and Buddhist arts, sculpture art, and different art forms practiced in Bali, Sumatra, Borneo, Philippines, and Tapanauli region. This book is essential for scholars and researchers interested in the pre-Islamic history of South East Asia.
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1 online resource (464 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753532
Suvarnadvipa : Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East. Volume 1: Political History /
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South East Asian history is one of the most unique histories, as it was marked by the influences of Indic, Chinese, and local cultures. Suvarnadvipa is a two-volume series, which covers the political and cultural history of South East Asian history. This volume deals with the political history of South Asia during ancient times. It covers the pre-Hindu civilizations in Malaysia and the political conquest of Hindu kingdoms in the prime regions, such as in the Malay Peninsula, Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Bali, along with the establishment of Hindu civilizations in the Suvarnadvipa region till the seventh century ad. This volume covers the history of Sailendra kingdom comprehensively. The author discusses the political history of Sailendras till the end of the tenth century ad where he also discusses its origins, development, conflict with the Chola rulers and its subsequent decline with the capture and the establishment of Chola influence and the establishment of the Melayu dynasty. This book is essential for scholars and researchers interested in the pre-Islamic history of South East Asia.
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1 online resource (492 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004753549
Eighteenth-Century Indian Muraqqaʿs : Audiences - Artists - Patrons and Collectors /
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Fourteen essays and one appendix discuss numerous eighteenth-century Indo-Persianate albums ( muraqqaʿs ) consisting of folios with paintings, calligraphic pieces, and elaborate decorative margins. These albums - now in Berlin, Baroda, London, Paris, and Manchester - were assembled for or collected by the Mughal nawabs of Awadh (Uttar Pradesh), local elites in Bengal and Bihar, as well as Europeans. The book not only presents hitherto rarely investigated material, but also provides general information and many new discoveries based on first-hand codicological study and historical research. It will significantly expand our knowledge of the production, collecting practices, and audiences of muraqqaʿs in eighteenth-century India.
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1 online resource (390 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004715837
Classic ships of Islam : from Mesopotamia to the Indian Ocean /
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This book charts the development of Islamic ships and boats in the Western Indian Ocean from the seventh to the early sixteenth century with reference to earlier periods. It utilizes mainly Classical and Medieval Arabic sources with iconographical evidence and archaeological finds. Maritime activities in the region resulted in a cross fertilization, not only of goods but also of ideas and culture which gave an underlying cohesion to the Arabian, Persian and Indian maritime peoples. This study has led to a re-evaluation of that maritime culture, showing that it was predominantly Persian and Indian, with Chinese influence, throughout the Islamic period until the coming of the Portuguese, as reflected in nautical terminology and technology.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references (p. [427]-456) and index. :
9789047423829 :
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ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī: The Indian Books : A new edition of the Arabic text and first-time English translation /
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ʿAlī ibn Sahl aṭ-Ṭabarī's Indian Books, completed in Samarra in 850 CE, offer a unique, interpretative summary of Ayurvedic medicine, as he understood it on the basis of now lost Arabic translations from Sanskrit.
ʿAlī ibn Sahl Rabban aṭ-Ṭabarī's Indian Books , completed in the year 850 CE as an appendix to his medico-philosophical chef-d'œuvre "Paradise of Wisdom", belong to the most remarkable texts in Arabic scientific literature. The Indian Books offer a unique, interpretative summary of the main tenets of Ayurvedic medicine, as understood by Arabic-speaking scholars on the basis of now lost translations from Sanskrit. The present book centres around a critical edition and annotated translation of this crucial text, framed by a detailed introduction and extensive glossaries of terms. Ṭabarī's learned exposé of Ayurveda also throws a more nuanced light on the allegedly uncontested supremacy of Greek humoralism in 9th-century Arabic medicine.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004523302
9789004523296
Transnational religious organization and practice : a contextual analysis of Kerala Pentecostal churches in Kuwait /
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In Transnational Religious Organization and Practice Stanley John provides the first in-depth analysis of a migrant Christian community in the Arabian Gulf. The book explores how Kerala (South India) Pentecostal churches in Kuwait organize and practice their Christian faith, given the status of their congregants as temporary economic migrants and noting that the transient status heightens their transnational orientation toward their homeland in India. The research follows a twofold agenda: first, examining the unique sociopolitical and migrational context within which the KPCs function, and second, analyzing the transnational character and structural patterns that have emerged in this context. The ethnographic research identifies and analyzes the emerging structures and practices of the KPCs through three lenses: networks, agents, and mission. This study concludes with a proposal for an interdisciplinary theoretical framework to be employed in the study of transnational religious communities.
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1 online resource (228 pages) :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004361010 :
1876-2247 ; :
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Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing : The Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean /
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Storytelling, Seafaring, and Travel Writing advances research on Islamic travel writing, with a particular concentration on the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean. Ranging from the late antiquity to the present, this collection explores how storytelling, travelogues, and seafaring narratives have contributed to cultural discourses and intellectual traditions. By examining Arab seafaring and travel from new angles and through cross-cultural and interdisciplinary lenses, these essays challenge conventional interpretation. Essential for scholars and researchers in Islamic studies, philosophy, literary analysis, and cultural history, it illustrates how real and imagined narratives have profoundly influenced cross-cultural exchanges and the construction of moral and cultural paradigms over time.
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1 online resource (140 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004736863
Champā : History and Culture of an Indian Colonial Kingdom in the Far East 2nd-16th Century A.D. /
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Champā is a former name of the independent Cham polities that extended across the coast of present-day central and southern Vietnam from approximately second century AD till 1832. This book covers the history of Champā region by covering the developments in the political and religious histories. This book contains the description of the foundation of Champā kingdom, and contains details of various Hindu kingdoms and the histories of Gangaraja, Panduranga and Bhrigu dynasties. It also contains the details of invasion of Champā region by the Annams, Cambodians, and Mongols, followed by the state system adopted in Champā region. The latter half of the book deals with the religious history of Champā, where it covers Buddhism, Shaivism, Vaishnavaism, and other minor Hindu sects, and also discusses the archaeological structures associated with the religious sites.
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1 online resource (604 pages) : illustrations. :
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9789004753563
Histories of the Middle East studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch /
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For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, taught several cohorts of students at Princeton University. This volume is therefore dedicated to his intellectual legacy from a uniquely revealing angle: the current work of his former students. The papers in this volume range chronologically from the period preceding the rise of Islam in Arabia to the Mamluk era, geographically from the Western Mediterranean to the Western Indian Ocean and thematically from the political negotiations of Christian and Islamic Mediterranean sovereigns to the historiography of Western Indian Ocean port cities.
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1 online resource. :
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9789004214736 :
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Indian Ocean Migrants and State Formation in Hadhramaut : Reforming the Homeland /
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The author discusses the modern history of Hadhramaut in a novel way. Linked to the Indian Ocean through a long history of migration, she traces the ways in which members of the diaspora and travellers interacted with the homeland through their remittances, political initiatives and the introduction of new ideas and institutions. The book is based on a wide range of hitherto unused Hadhrami and British sources as well as on fieldwork in Yemen and Indonesia. Exemplary life-histories of merchants and scholars illustrate the wide range of concerns for the establishment of stable polities in a tribal society. This is linked to the careful analysis of the impact of imperial rule both in the lands of the diaspora and in Hadhramaut in chapters focussing on state- and institution-formation. Developments in Hadhramaut are regarded as a prism for the development of modernity in the wider Muslim and Indian Ocean worlds which was adapted to local conditions and needs.
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1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047401766
9789004128507
Transforming Empire: The Ottomans from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean : Essays in Honor of Linda Darling /
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This book places the Ottoman Empire within the global context and provides insight into the multifaceted transimperial and transnational connections that characterized it in different periods. It focuses on the connections, interactions, exchang
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1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789004704374
Mekka in the latter part of the 19th century : daily life, customs and learning, the Moslims of the East-Indian-archipelago /
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From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in one the most important places in islamic culture. With a new foreword by Jan Just Witkam
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Photomechanical reprint of the 1931 edition, being a translation of volume 2 of the author's Mekka. :
1 online resource. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9789047411284 :
1872-5481 ; :
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