Pub Date : 2024-03-30DOI: 10.1177/23484489241233667
Kesavan Veluthat
This essay tries to look at the way in which Kālidāsa approaches towns in his three kāvyas: Meghadūta, Kumārasaṁbhava and Raghuvaṁśa. Most of the descriptions are stereotypical, using stock phrases and formulaic expressions, some of them straight from texts like the Arthaśāstra. However, there is one city that is described somewhat realistically—Ayodhya, which was deserted following Rāma’s departure. Both these—the stereotypes of prosperous towns and the realism of a decayed town—fit into the pattern of ‘urban decay’ presented by historians on the basis of archaeological evidence, a landmark in Indian historiography.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-30DOI: 10.1177/23484489241233666
Shalini Shah
This article seeks to analyse the evolution of social hierarchies in ancient India. While the primary focus of the article is on gender hierarchy, it also attempts an examination of the intersection of class and caste as well. This article seeks to trace the linkages between women and śūdra in the ancient textual sources. It has also been argued that since hierarchy is never organic but a deliberate act of creation, in this deliberation, alternative possibilities are either marginalised or effaced.
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{"title":"Book review: Deepak Kumar, Science and Society in Modern India","authors":"Arnab Rai Choudhuri","doi":"10.1177/23484489241233653","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23484489241233653","url":null,"abstract":"Deepak Kumar, Science and Society in Modern India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2023, 220 pp. (Pb.).","PeriodicalId":53792,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Peoples History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140075331","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 : 2024-03-08DOI: 10.1177/23484489241233654
Irfan Habib
Divya Cherian, Merchants of Virtue: Hindus, Muslims, and Untouchables in Eighteenth-century South Asia (USA: University of California Press), 2023, 284 pp., (Pb.).
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{"title":"Book review: Herman Tieken, The Asoka Inscriptions: Analysing a Corpus","authors":"Kesavan Veluthat","doi":"10.1177/23484489241233510","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/23484489241233510","url":null,"abstract":"Herman Tieken, The Asoka Inscriptions: Analysing a Corpus (Delhi: Primus Books), 2023, xvi + 488 pp., ₹1,595 (Hb).","PeriodicalId":53792,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Peoples History","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140056900","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 : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1177/23484489241233655
Kumkum Roy
Aloka Parasher Sen, Gender, Religion and Local History: The Early Deccan (Delhi: Primus Books), 2023, xxv + 390 pp., ₹1,750 (Hb).
Aloka Parasher Sen, Gender, Religion and Local History：早期德干》（德里：Primus Books），2023 年，xxv + 390 页，1750 英镑。
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Pub Date : 2024-03-06DOI: 10.1177/23484489241233652
Deepak Kumar
Tajen Dabi, Medicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh (Delhi: Primus Books), 2023, xvii + 219 pp., ₹1150.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1177/23484489231199035
Subrata Roy
Bengal had a long tradition of emergence, growth and decline of towns from the earliest times to the present century. During the rule of the independent Sultans of Bengal, a list of capital towns appeared in the urban history of early medieval Bengal. The trend of urbanisation also continued in Bengal under Mughal rule. But the European companies’ trade with Bengal also contributed. How the factory of the English at Malda during the seventeenth century contributed to the growth of a manufacturing and trade centre is a key issue in this study.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1177/23484489231198563
Syed Ali Nadeem Rezavi
Hospitals and the practice of medicine have been known in India since long. This paper focuses on hospitals (bīmāristān, dārush shifā’ and shifā’-khāna) that were established during the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries in the Indian subcontinent. This is a theme that needs to be studied, for our primary sources do reveal some information about these institutions. The help of a miniature from Bāburnāma, illustrated during the reign of Akbar, is taken to demonstrate how imperial shifā’-khānas were organised.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1177/23484489231199026
Charu Gupta
This article delves into the connections between disease, contagion, caste, gender and religion in colonial North India. It looks at the ‘Untouchable’ not just as a figure or a category but as a concept that is utilised by dominant sections to deal with disease, contact zones and social distancing in society. The article focuses on select perceptions in popular Hindi print culture of the early twentieth century, which normalised exclusionary terms to reaffirm the nation’s well-being. Through representations of four figures—the Dalit (with a specific focus on Dalit women), the servant, the sex worker and the Muslim male—all considered ‘Untouchable’ in different senses, the article highlights how these figures embody the ‘Other’ through idioms of stigma and hygiene.
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