Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211069168
Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury
Suvobrata Sarkar, Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020, xi+294 pp., (Hardcover).
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211069161
Y. S. Alone
Nayanjot Lahiri, Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M. N. Deshpande, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2021, ₹1,595, (Hardcover).
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211069163
S. Majumdar
R. Mahalakshmi, ed., Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India, Bloomsbury,New Delhi, 2020, xlvi + 352 pp., ₹1,599, (Hardcover).
R. Mahalakshmi编，《艺术与历史:古代和中世纪早期印度的文本、语境和视觉表现》，Bloomsbury出版社，新德里，2020年，xlvi + 352页，1599卢比(精装版)。
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211001764
Sheena Panja
The study of history as a genre became important not only as an academic concern but to recover the lost pride and dignity of the indigenous people in a colonized land. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Bengal, the study of the past assumed prime importance in the context of nationalism to counter the disdain of colonial historians and revive national pride. History as a ‘scientific’ discipline functioned as a tool in this regard, where the vernacular emerged as the principal medium of communication. Individuals from diverse backgrounds debated whether a more rigorous understanding of the past through Western ‘scientific’ methods could supplant the information from traditional texts and legends. Material culture or ‘hard’ evidence considered more suitable for a ‘modern’ objective historical account gained precedence over the traditional texts, dismissed as imaginary and mythical. A heated debate emerged between two groups, the archaeologists who believed in the objectivity of material evidence and the traditionalists who subscribed to the view that classical literature was not irrelevant to understanding the past. However, this division remained nebulous, and both groups remained in a liminal interstitial space engaging and contesting with their notions of ‘tradition’ and ‘science’. It was from this contested space that emerged an ambivalent archaeological method which formed an important characteristic of Indian archaeology in the post-Independence era.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211001961
Vasileios Syros
State failure has been an enduring topic in the history of political thought. This article will revisit modern debates on the characteristics of state failure and the factors conducive to successful leadership by focusing on political ideas that evolved in fourteenth-century India. I will discuss two works with the same title, i.e., Tārīkh-i Fīrūz Shāhī (The History of Fīrūz Shāh) of the distinguished historians of the Delhi Sultanate period Żiyā’ al-Dīn Baranī (ca. 1285–1357) and Shams Sirāj ‘Afīf (d. 1399) about Sultans Muḥammad b. Tughluq and (his successor) Fīrūz Shāh as instantiations of state failure and good governance, respectively. The deployment of the concept of state failure has often been construed as an effort to impose a political straitjacket; the examination of authors like Baranī and ‘Afīf demonstrates the value of reflecting on lessons from history and exploring how societies in the past evolved their own patterns of thinking about effective or failed leadership.
国家失败是政治思想史上一个经久不衰的话题。本文将通过关注14世纪印度演变的政治思想，重新审视现代关于国家失败特征和有助于成功领导的因素的辩论。我将讨论具有相同标题的两部作品，即Tārīkh-i Fīrūz Shāhī (Fīrūz Shāh的历史)，分别是德里苏丹国时期的杰出历史学家Żiyā ' al- d n baran '(约1285-1357年)和Shams Sirāj ' af f(约1399年)关于苏丹的Muḥammad b. Tughluq和(他的继任者)Fīrūz Shāh作为国家失败和良好治理的实例。“国家失败”这一概念的提出常常被解读为一种强加政治约束的努力;对巴兰和阿夫塔夫等作者的研究表明，反思历史教训，探索过去社会如何演变出自己对有效或失败领导的思维模式，是很有价值的。
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{"title":"Book review: Eunan O’Halpin, Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death","authors":"Jyoti Atwal","doi":"10.1177/02576430211009046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02576430211009046","url":null,"abstract":"Eunan O’Halpin, Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death. Merrion Press, Kildare, 2020, 256 pp., Ä17, ISBN: 9781785373497.","PeriodicalId":44179,"journal":{"name":"Studies in History","volume":"8 1","pages":"127 - 129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2021-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75456691","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 : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211009045
B. Bhattacharya
Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2018, 454 pp., ₹2099. ISBN: 9781107441590 (Paperback).
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/0257643021998965
J. Knutson
This essay explores the dialectic of form, content and social life in the new poetry of the medieval Sanskrit anthologies. Did the seeming anarchy of content evinced in unfamiliar tables of contents produce genuine newness of aesthetic effect or affect, new possibilities for social value judgement—a critical and self-critical perspective—in response to changing sociopolitical conditions and the rise of the vernacular? Or else did this poetry simply do what it always did best: to be everything for everyone at the royal court, everywhere and nowhere? This article argues that the anthology may have spawned a contradictory dynamic: crafting a new sociological immediacy for the form, and yet reconciling the courtly ka-vya tradition to a future in which it no longer figured so centrally. Finally, in a methodological annex, the aforementioned case study spawns higher-order reflections on the mutual determination of art and social life in early medieval South Asia, and the materialist analysis of premodern cultural form. Thinking through premodern sociocultural change from the point of view of capitalist modernity fundamentally challenges the historical imagination, revealing self-reflexivity as both its first and last resort.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211007627
Danna Agmon
Jyoti Mohan, Claiming India: French Scholars and the Preoccupation with India in the Nineteenth Century, SAGE Publications, New Delhi, 2017, 432 pp., $59.99. ISBN: 9789352804658.
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Pub Date : 2021-02-01DOI: 10.1177/02576430211007626
R. Dutta
Whitney Cox, Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain, Cambridge University Press, New Delhi (South Asian Edition), 2017, 309 + i–xv pp., ₹470.
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