Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221083712
Pallavi Das
This article examines the social history of cholera in Jagannath Puri throughout the nineteenth century, focusing on the various factors that affected the colonial health and sanitary interventions in the region. It rethinks Puri’s ‘sacred’ space as a nexus of converging mobilities rather than a static centre, problematising the relationship between cholera and pilgrimage. It marks a departure from the dominant trend in historiography that stresses the significance of the Jagannath temple in complicating the processes of colonial cholera management in Puri, by focusing on the ‘external’ challenges and motivations that shaped the history of cholera in the region. The article argues that understanding Puri’s history requires de-centring the city as it was the linchpin of a dynamic circulatory regime that constituted not only pilgrims but also disease and ideas. It provides a backdrop for building on larger ideas that connect the ‘micro’ to the ‘macro’ narrative of cholera by recognising the region in terms of its ‘trans-local’ connections rather than local factors alone.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221083720
Omprakash Mahato, Nirban Ray
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221077717
Sangeeta Kumari
India was colonised by the British and was under the British rule for almost 200 years. During the British rule the shape of India changed and almost all aspects of life was affected. In this historical context that the paper is trying to locate the educational changes brought about not only by the British government but also by the philanthropists, missionaries in Delhi. The policies were changed to suit the needs of the colonial state and how the different sections of the society responded to those changes and apart from government run educational institutions many other institutions were set up. The controversy around the issue of medium of education that is whether it should be in indigenous language or in English language that knowledge should be disseminated to native population came up and the Macaulay Minutes, 1835 decided in favour of English as the medium of instruction. The whole process of the colonial policy change led to decimation of the existing extensive indigenous knowledge system of India.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221077565
Nida
{"title":"Philippe Cullet, Sujith Koonan and Lovleen Bhullar, ed., The Right to Sanitation in India: Critical Perspectives","authors":"Nida","doi":"10.1177/22308075221077565","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/22308075221077565","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41287,"journal":{"name":"History and Sociology of South Asia","volume":"15 1","pages":"53 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47328273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221077593
M. Binny
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221077718
Sakshi Sahni
The article presents various elements of the medieval cities of Lahore and Amritsar which are at an approximate distance of 51 km. These two-share various similar characteristics and patterns and were part of one state, Punjab. Although, the borders have been divided in India–Pakistan partition of 1947, still the urban fabric of both cities remains the same, and they share common features and elements. The common pattern and themes will be discussed by the author. This article briefly analyses the elements of both cities and attempts to bring out the similarity between the two.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221077716
D. Narzary
The historiographical tradition of Assam called Buranji reached the Northeast of India with the coming of Ahoms in the first quarter of thirteenth century. The history of pre-colonial Assam is largely constructed on the basis of buranji and most modern historians mainly from the region have engaged with the buranji literature reproduced and interpreted by native scholars after the coming of the British. While the main focus of modern historians have been on the relevance and importance of buranji in the historical study of Assam, no significant study is visible in tracing the historical journey of this tradition itself. This article, thus, is an attempt to locate the buranji tradition in a trans-regional context by linking it with the historiographical practices of East and Southeast Asia, particularly by looking at the Chinese historical tradition to propose that certain similarities found in them are highly suggestive of a more active historical interaction between the Tai (Shan) and the Chinese, bearings of which can be seen in the buranji tradition.
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Pub Date : 2021-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075221077603
Menka Rai
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075211059904
Samana Zafar, Khanday Pervaiz Ahmad
In today’s Indian cinema, there is a deluge of films based on historical background. One of the central themes of many of these movies is the description and the representation of the ‘other’. Padmavat is the quintessential example and sums up all the ideas served in movies of this genre which were released before and after it. Padmini, Ratan Sen, Alauddin Khalji as depicted in the movie are the tropes through which the idea about a particular period of Indian history is creatively visualised and presented. It also forms the perception of the past at the popular level and helps in the development of common consciousness and majoritarian common sense. In the light of this kind of cinema, this article tries to survey medieval India based on the reading of the historical sources to understand the nature of various kinds of binary and otherness through the multifarious representations of the other.
在今天的印度电影中，有大量基于历史背景的电影。这些电影的中心主题之一就是对“他者”的描述和表现。《Padmavat》是一个典型的例子，它总结了这类电影之前和之后发行的所有想法。Padmini, Ratan Sen, Alauddin Khalji在电影中被描绘出来，通过这些比喻，关于印度历史特定时期的想法被创造性地可视化和呈现出来。它还形成了大众对过去的看法，并有助于共同意识和多数主义常识的发展。在这种电影的背景下，本文试图通过对历史资料的阅读来考察中世纪的印度，通过对他者的各种表现来理解各种二元性和他者性的本质。
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Pub Date : 2020-01-01DOI: 10.1177/22308075211049835
J. Wani
This article reconstructs the unfolding of events in India in March–April 1919 that led to the Jallianwala Bagh massacre. It evaluates the circumstances and the administrative and military response from a legal history perspective. It argues that the Jallianwala Bagh massacre was not a unique event but culminated colonial rage against a broader anti-colonial mobilisation.
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