Pub Date : 2023-09-21DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193749
Dev Kumar Jhanjh
The essay explores the process of state formation under the Parivråjakas and the Uccakalpðyas in eastern Madhya Pradesh (MP) during circa fifth–sixth centuries ce. A total of 14 epigraphic records inform us about the development of the institutional structures under these two local powers. We delve into the process of transformation of the a»avika-råjya into full-fledged monarchical powers. Besides the internal factors, an attempt has been made to understand the external Gupta and Våkå»aka influence, in relation to the spread of Sanskrit culture, state society and pattern of patronage in eastern MP. Like the well-known Malwa corridor on the western side of MP, the present essay finds the making of another corridor that formed under these two local powers to the eastern side of MP. It, therefore, suggests the existence of another route that connected north India and the Deccan via central India, which catalysed the state formation in the region.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-15DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193933
Virendra Singh Bithoo
Based primarily on the analysis of Varāhamihira’s writings on Jyotiṣaśāstra, particularly of his Bṛhajjātaka and Bṛhatsaṁhitā, the paper tries to explore how the human body was brought within the realm of auspicious and inauspicious and created certain gender markers and distinctions, which presented socially contingent views of ideal types in early India. It also examines, with the help of arguments and episodes from the Sanskrit epics and Purāṇas, the narrative that came to be woven about gender differences within the context of the evolution of what historians have termed ‘Brahmanical patriarchy’.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193775
Suchandra Ghosh
K. M. Shrimali, The Religious Enterprise: Studies in Early Indian Religions (2 Vols.; Delhi: Aakar, 2022), pp. XVI +684, ₹3,500, (Hard binding). ISBN-978-93-5002-769.
K. M. Shrimali，宗教事业:早期印度宗教研究(2卷);德里:Aakar, 2022)，第XVI +684页，3500卢比(硬装帧)。isbn - 978 - 93 - 5002 - 769。
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Pub Date : 2023-08-23DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193777
Sarvani Gooptu
Samir Kumar Das and Bishnupriya Basak (Eds.), The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public Springer, Singapore, 2021, pp. 240. ISBN 978-981-16-0262-7.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430231208821
Ravi K. Mishra
This paper argues that contrary to some popular perceptions, the ideological shift in Iqbal dates not from 1930 (when he apparently moved towards the acceptance of the two-nation theory at the Allahabad Session of the Muslim League) but to his stay in Europe from 1905 to 1908 (after which he made a complete and abrupt shift from Indian nationalism to revivalism and Pan-Islamism). This shift is powerfully expressed in the political and cultural imaginings of both his Urdu and Persian poetry. His poetry becomes suffused with the ideas of revivalism and Pan-Islamism in counter-position to those of composite nationhood and territorial nationalism on which the Indian national movement was premised. The shift is embodied in poetic imagery and metaphor incompatible with the modern idea of nationalism, especially the dominant idea of Indian nationalism. Iqbal’s later thoughts concerning Islam’s relations with non-Muslims in India and elsewhere promote an adversarial historical and cultural narrative of Islam. Though triggered by a passionate rejection of the West and its modernity, the shift manifested not just in a critique of the West but also of all non-Islamic cultures and civilizations. Iqbal’s narrative of Islam is teleological and triumphalist. Far from being defensive about the charges of intolerance and aggression levelled against Islam by its critics, he proudly invokes imagery of the sword and the conquest in the history of Islam, while bemoaning the decline of its political power in the modern era. Iqbal’s quest is for a supposedly pure Islam of the past and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of a redefined, reconstituted and revitalized Umma which cuts across boundaries of nations, continents and ethnicities. Few poets in the history of the modern world have had such influence as Allama Iqbal, and fewer still have made such fundamental shifts.
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{"title":"Book review: Prachi Deshpande, Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices and Cultural History in Western India","authors":"Bhavani Raman","doi":"10.1177/02576430231211728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02576430231211728","url":null,"abstract":"Prachi Deshpande, Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices and Cultural History in Western India, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2023, ₹995.","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"22 1","pages":"286 - 288"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352910","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}
{"title":"Book review: Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century","authors":"Heeraman Tiwari","doi":"10.1177/02576430231211732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02576430231211732","url":null,"abstract":"Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019, pp. xxxviii+272.","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"16 1","pages":"283 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352183","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 : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430231212239
Shalini Shah
This article seeks to analyse how the concept of masculinity is embedded in the cultural discourse of Ancient India. It is also our contention that since in the ancient Indic context, the sex-gender system was a reality, we cannot discount the existence of a ‘masculinist’ structure which had a role to play in shaping the perception/functioning of a masculine persona. The article is an attempt to unravel the mystique of Indic manhood across a broad temporal frame by focusing on different themes such as varn˙a status, male body, fatherhood and sexuality and its framing within the discourse on masculinity. Since masculinity was constructed in opposition to both femininity and the defective/deficient male, these two aspects have also been focused upon.
{"title":"Men, Masculinism and Masculinities: Ancient Indian Antecedents","authors":"Shalini Shah","doi":"10.1177/02576430231212239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02576430231212239","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks to analyse how the concept of masculinity is embedded in the cultural discourse of Ancient India. It is also our contention that since in the ancient Indic context, the sex-gender system was a reality, we cannot discount the existence of a ‘masculinist’ structure which had a role to play in shaping the perception/functioning of a masculine persona. The article is an attempt to unravel the mystique of Indic manhood across a broad temporal frame by focusing on different themes such as varn˙a status, male body, fatherhood and sexuality and its framing within the discourse on masculinity. Since masculinity was constructed in opposition to both femininity and the defective/deficient male, these two aspects have also been focused upon.","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"14 1","pages":"239 - 264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139352529","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 : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430231211734
Sucheta Mahajan
K. L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab, Indian Institute of Advanced Study and Primus Books, 2021, pp. 372+xi, ₹1,250.
K.L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation：印度教意识与殖民时期旁遮普的民族主义》，印度高级研究所和 Primus Books 出版社，2021 年，第 372+xi 页，1250 英镑。
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Pub Date : 2023-05-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430231165146
P. Mukharji
Senthil Babu D., Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2022, 384 pp., ₹1,765 ISBN: 9788194831600
{"title":"Book review: Senthil Babu D., Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India","authors":"P. Mukharji","doi":"10.1177/02576430231165146","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02576430231165146","url":null,"abstract":"Senthil Babu D., Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2022, 384 pp., ₹1,765 ISBN: 9788194831600","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2023-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82566641","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}
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