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This volume explores different aspects of religion in the context of identity formation and articulation of power. It deals with critical issues like literature, religious practitioners, internal differentiation in the various religious traditions (with emphasis on rebel traditions), caste, class customs, interpretations.

This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and regional-local formations.

This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture, politics, and history in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th centuries. Focusing especially on Assam, Odisha, Bengal, and their margins, the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and regional-local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and history, senses of events and persons, and productions of the past and the p...

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.

This volume studies food, cooking and cuisine in different societies and cultures over different periods of time. It highlights the intimate connections of food, identity, gender, power, personhood and national culture, as well as the intricate combination of ingredients, ideas, ideologies and imagination that go into the representation of food and cuisine.

This book covers a very important phase of Indian history, covering developments from the eighteenth century to independent India. While it does not forego chronology, it does away with the conventional demarcation of political processes and socio-cultural histories in order to portray the multifaceted nature of social worlds.

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...

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