Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100303
S. Pandya
This article deals with a hitherto overlooked aspect of Western medical education in nineteenth-century colonial India, namely the initiation of the early generations of Indian medical students into the principles and practice of 'rational' enquiry. The manner in which recipients of the instruction subsequently demonstrated their entry into the 'rational' world in the field of therapeutics and their responses to the germ theory of disease is explored with respect to four graduates of the Grant Medical College, Bombay. The approach they adopted when confronted with two major issues—treatment and causation-thrown up by leprosy provides the vehicle for the study. It is concluded that Western medicine-trained Indian physicians were not passive receptacles of the received 'rational' wisdom. They interpreted, utilised and exploited it in highly individualistic and revealing ways.
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100305
G. Prakash
What’s eating Sumit Sarkar? The present collection provides an answer. Like his previous volume of essays, Writing Social History ( 1999), Beyond Nationalist Frames suggests that Sarkar is very troubled by postmodernism, the ’Saidian turn’ in colonial and post-colonial studies, the various follies of Subaltern Studies (though he too was once a Subaltern recruit), and the rise of Hindutva. Of course, no one writes outside his or her worldly context, as Edward Said argued so insistently and compellingly, but so great is Sarkar’s worry with contemporary political and intellectual trends that it dominates his writings. Beyond Nationalist Frames contains essays that are united, according to the author, by a concern with ’the vicissitudes of our times, at once political and academic’ (p. 1). These include the advance of Hindutva, globalised capitalism, the post-Marxist and postmodernist moods, and the shift from social history to cultural studies. Together, these have imposed a colonial/anti-colonial binary, valorised concepts of indigenism and cultural authenticity, and led to facile critiques of Western discourses as mere instruments of alien hegemony. Writing against these surely indefensible ideas, Sarkar presents himself as an historian with an ’unfashionable
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100308
K. M. Shrimali
Ever since Professor R.S. Sharma’s path-breaking monograph Indian Feudalism, c. 300-1200 was published in 1965, there have been phenomenal discussions on state and society in the pre-modem centuries in India. This volume edited by Professor Champakalakshmi et al., can be seen as an important input in the debate on this major concern of historians of the last four decades. Ten papers included in this volume
自从R.S. Sharma教授开创性的专著《印度封建主义》(Indian Feudalism, c. 300-1200)在1965年出版以来，就出现了关于印度前现代几个世纪的国家和社会的惊人讨论。这本书由Champakalakshmi教授等人编辑，可以看作是在过去四十年历史学家对这一主要问题的辩论中的重要投入。本卷收录了十篇论文
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100309
Satadru Sen
would have preferred to place Raju’s contribution at the beginning, rather than at the end of the volume, as has indeed been done by the editors. Absence of any contribution of Andhra should be seen as a significant desideratum of the volume. It needs to be recalled that in 1989 Professor Champakalakshmi had organised a similar seminar under the auspices of the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. The theme then was ’The State in Pre-Colonial South India’ and major participants included all those who are marked with an asterisk in the aforesaid list of contributors to the Thrissur Seminar. The major concerns of the JNU Seminar were not very dissimilar and some of the presentations too were on common themes. For example, M.G.S. Narayanan’s paper dealt with ’The Cera Kingdom of Makotai-Factual and Conceptual Problems Related to State Formation in Kerala’ (but unlike the Thrissur presentation, this one was situated within Marc
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100310
Sasheej Hegde
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Pub Date : 2004-07-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100306
Rohan D’souza
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Pub Date : 2004-04-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100203
Sangeeta Dasgupta
This article analyses some of Sarat Chandra Roy's writings on the Oraons that were for mulated between 1915 and 1937 in order to point to the different shades of opinion that were reflected in his works as he sought to define, and redefine, his image of the Oraons and that of the 'tribe'. An anthropologist who had in the formative years internalised the precepts of British social anthropology and supported colonial intervention in Chhotanagpur, Roy became, towards the end of his career, one who deeply sympathised with the communities of Chhotanagpur as he advocated an 'Indian approach' to the study of anthropology. In a larger context, this article cautions one against an uncritical acceptance of anthropological representations, and suggests that an anthropologist and his writings need to be located within a historical context.
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Pub Date : 2004-04-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100202
Debdas Banerjee
An excessive export of capitalfrom Britain during 1870-1914 allegedly reduced the domestic rate of investment. Few studies have really tried to find out how much of the nominal sum in each case was taken up by British investors, and how much of that, in turn, actually found its way abroad. The profits that accrued from trade in colonial products are either ignored altogether or grossly underestimated in the usual accounts of 'benefits of imperialism'. Drawing on Indo-British official trade statistics as well as on private papers, this article re- examines Keynes'estimate of 'drain' from England into India based on the sales of Council Bills. The conclusions of this study are: (a) the profits on Indo-British commodity value chains were much higher than they were assumed to be; and (b) a very large part of the 'British'capital outflom to colonies was in fact recycled profits made on colonial trade.
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Pub Date : 2004-04-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100205
J. Deloche
This book is an attempt at compiling recent archaeological research on seafaring activity in the Indian Ocean. It comprises eight papers which fall into two broad categories: those which focus on archaeological discoveries based essentially on fieldwork (ethnoarchaeology, archaeobotany, nautical technology) and those which deal with specific problems in the interpretation of source material (literary accounts and archaeological discoveries). Most of the chapters dealing with archaeological material are concerned with the identification and interpretation of different items. First, we find the outcome of recent investigations conducted on fauna and flora in the subcontinent, a subject that has received little attention in archaeological studies and has been confined to limited sites. Substantial details are given on the utilisation of marine resources, specially the fishing industry in the settlements of the Indus Valley civilisation in W.R. Belcher’s paper, which shows that it accounted for a substantial share of food in the settlements of this region and, the non-mechanised procurement techniques of modern Pakistani fisherfolk being similar to those of the Harappan period, it is possible to reconstruct the ancient technology employed during that time by examining the patterns of fish remains visible in archaeological records. Then there is a research study by R.T.J. Cappers on articles of botanical origin
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Pub Date : 2004-04-01DOI: 10.1177/001946460404100208
Sanjay Sharma
times the complexity overwhelms even her efforts to create a straightforward narrative. Her discussion of temple myths and legends brings to bear on the topic some of the methodology and style of scholars of religion and religious anthropology, particularly Victor Turner. The theoretical introduction, on the other hand, relies in large part on the work of anthropologist-historians of the subaltern and post-colonial schools. Although these discussions are quite up-to-date and always interesting, the changes of approach and even language are sometimes disconcerting. In any case, the book brings a new and greatly improved standard to the studies of temple towns and temple administration.
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