Pub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643018804316
Uma Chakravarti
Nayanjot Lahiri and Upinder Singh (eds), Buddhism in Asia: Revival and Reinvention, University of Manchester Press, Manchester, 2015, ix + 208 pp., ₹1,395.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643018813593
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
This article explains the way mineworkers negotiated workplace hazards and articulated their ideas of safety. Mineworkers increasingly attained mining sense and made use of it, thereby surviving terrible working conditions and seeking to mend the accident-control mechanism. The formation and function of their mining sense were part of the industrialization process. It involved mineworkers’ particular ways of adaptation—quixotic and prudent—to the demand made by work relations. The miners’ unions strove to push the safety regime beyond voluntary codes of discipline and practical and technological solutions. They invested in legislative disciplining and sought informed safety-supervisory controls. They got involved in ‘civic engagement’ with agreeable investigators and legislators within the colonial context and afterwards. Confronted with the limits of such measures, the rank-and-file moved on, from the latter half of the 1950s to direct action in the very mining faces, thereby insisting on the right to withdrawal from danger. The historiographies which argued that Indian workers knowingly acquiesced to perilous mining to maintain livelihoods inadequately lend us the safety ideas shared and action at protection prevention undertaken by mineworkers. This article shows that Indian mineworkers reinforced the safety campaign through their strategic manoeuvring in legislative and workplace struggles as did their counterparts in Britain and some other societies.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643018804312
P. Marshall
Jonathan Eacott, Selling Empire: India in the Making of Britain and America 1600–1830, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press, Williamsburg, VA, 2016, 472 pp., $45.
Jonathan Eacott，《出售帝国:印度在英国和美国1600-1830年的形成》，Omohundro早期美国历史文化研究所和北卡罗来纳大学出版社，威廉斯堡，弗吉尼亚州，2016年，472页，45美元。
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Pub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643018813591
Zoë W. High
Manu S. Pillai, Rebel Sultans, Juggernaut, New Delhi, 2018, 336 pp., ₹599.
Manu S. Pillai, Rebel Sultans, Juggernaut，新德里，2018,336页，599卢比。
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{"title":"Book review: Kaveh Yazdani, India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.)","authors":"D. Rothermund","doi":"10.1177/0257643018804313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0257643018804313","url":null,"abstract":"Kaveh Yazdani, India, Modernity and the Great Divergence: Mysore and Gujarat (17th to 19th C.), Brill, Leiden, 2017, 669 pp., US$246.","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"124 1","pages":"141 - 143"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75933066","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: Kazim Abdullaev, Buddhist Iconography of Northern Bactria","authors":"Y. S. Alone","doi":"10.1177/0257643018816400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0257643018816400","url":null,"abstract":"Kazim Abdullaev, Buddhist Iconography of Northern Bactria, Manohar, New Delhi, 2015, 274 pp., ₹1,295.","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"38 1","pages":"128 - 131"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77800052","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 : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643018804314
K. Roy
James C. Scott, Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT and London, 2017, xiv + 300 pp., $26.00.
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Pub Date : 2019-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643018816397
Vijayakumar M. Boratti
Literary writings such as poetry, drama or novel in colonial India manifest themselves into, react or subscribe to the larger discourse of colonialism or nationalism; rarely do they hold uniformity in their articulations. As colonial experiences and larger nationalist consciousness varied from region to region, cultural articulations—chiefly dramas—not only assumed different forms but also illustrated different thematic concerns. Yet, studies on colonial drama, thus far, have paid attention to either colonialism/orientalism or nationalism. There is a greater focus on British India in such studies. However, the case of princely states demands a momentary sidestep from the dichotomy of colonialism versus nationalism to understand the colonial dramas. The slow and gradual entry of nationalism in the princely states did not have to combat the British chiefly and directly. Much before its full blossom in the princely states, it had to grapple with a range of issues such as monarchy, democratic institutions, constitutionalism, bureaucracy and other pressing issues locally. In the present article, the Kannada dramas of Devanahalli Venkataramanaiah Gundappa (DVG) in the early decades of the twentieth century are examined to throw light on the ways in which they act as political allegories which imagine and debate democracy and its repercussions in the social and political spheres of the Mysore princely state.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-16DOI: 10.1177/0257643018810040
B. P. Sahu
In what is today known as Odisha and in its adjoining areas, the closing centuries of the first millennium ce and beyond were marked by the shift from usual kingdoms to larger and more complex state systems, spread over several subregions/regions (maṇḍalas). The socio-economic and cultural processes—ranging from agrarian growth and the rise of markets, merchants and towns to the shaping of a region-specific caste system and vernacular language and literature—which sustained these political developments and the new requirements such as the elaboration in the structure of administration and legitimation constitute the subject matter of this article. The transregional states under discussion are somewhat comparable with imperial formations insofar as they were conquest states and perpetuated unevenness and differences between spaces, peoples and cultures across the constituent spatial segments. However, in terms of their territorial dimensions and resources, they fell short of the empires and therefore may be seen to be located between the usual kingdoms and celebrated empires.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-14DOI: 10.1177/0257643018804317
A. Mukhopadhyay
This essay explores the inseparability of sexual violence and dominant-caste privileges embedded in structures of local power, which are finally nested within the legal institutions of the State. This essay examines the court transcripts of the trial of a village lynchpin, Gobinda Nandi, on the charge of rape. The individual to bring in the charges was a 20-year-old woman by the name of Genubala. The essay lays out the internal dynamics of the low-caste Bagdi community, as its members confront the rapist who controlled most of the village sources of livelihood. The essay turns on the refusal of the aggrieved Genubala and her husband Pashupati’s refusal to abide by Bagdi community’s unhappy decision to opt for a compromise with Gobinda Nandi. The political economy of the village power structure marks the aggrieved couple’s deliberate choice to approach legal institutions and the judicial process of the state as the crucial moment of departure from the communitarian redistributive justice and its specific life-world. But what does this choice imply for the two highly vulnerable individuals who are reluctant to be part of the Bagdi community, and who are seeking to activate the Indian State’s judicial system in their favour?
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