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Assessment of Feelings Towards Advanced Care Planning in the Latino Community Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Holden Caplan, Jasmine Santos, Mariya Bershad, Kathleen Spritzer, John Liantonio
BackgroundPrevious studies have noted that participation in advanced care planning (ACP) and end-of-life (EOL) discussions remain low among Latino communities. Various studies have found that inter...
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Rate of Conversion to Matrix-Induced Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation After a Biopsy: A Multisurgeon Study Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Nicholas Pasic, Hannah L. Bradsell, Andres Barandiaran, Avi S. Robinson, Brian J. Cole, Armando F. Vidal, Rachel M. Frank
Background:Autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) and matrix-induced autologous chondrocyte implantation (MACI) are performed to treat focal chondral defects (FCDs); both are 2-step procedures i...
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Synchronous Undetected HPV+ Cancer in a HPV− Tongue Cancer Patient Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Soroush Ershadifar, Sarah Ustrell, Morgan Angus Darrow, Andrew Birkeland
We report a case of a 63-year-old male who presented with synchronous pT1N1 p16-positive squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the left tonsil and pT4N0 p16-negative SCC of the left tongue.
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The American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Organ Injury Scale for Spleen Does Not Equally Predict Interventions in Penetrating and Blunt Trauma Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Hossam Abdel-Aziz, Clark Murray, Drew Roberts, Gwenviere Capron, Frederic Starr, Faran Bokhari, William Brigode
BackgroundThe American Association for the Surgery of Trauma (AAST) Organ Injury Scale (OIS) for the spleen (and other organs) was created in 1989. It has been validated to predict mortality, need ...
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More on the Use of Goggles and Snorkel in Learning-to-Swim: New Results for Children Without Fear of Water Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Fatmir Misimi, Tajna Kajtna, Igor Štirn, Dajana Zoretić, Samir Misimi, Jernej Kapus
In recent research, we found that the use of goggles and snorkel benefited non-swimmers with fear of water in a learn-to-swim program. Our purpose in this study was to examine the effects of using ...
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Implications of COVID-19 Infection on Arteriovenous Fistula Thrombosis Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Camila Franco-Mesa, Elliot T. Walters, Nikhil R. Shah, Alen Palackic, Steven E. Wolf, Michael B. Silva
Objective: This study aims to identify and analyze implications of COVID‐19 positivity on AVF occlusion, subsequent treatment patterns, and ESRD patient outcomes. Our aim is to provide a quantitati...
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The Tertiary Survey as a Quality Improvement Initiative in Pediatric Trauma Care Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Emily Ulloa, Jessica Archie, Sruthi Slevakumar, Marc Levy, Adel Elkbuli, Donald Plumley
BackgroundPatients are at risk of missed or delayed injuries in the setting of multisystem trauma, which may be identified with a tertiary trauma survey (TTS). There is limited literature to suppor...
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Book review: Senthil Babu D., Mathematics and Society: Numbers and Measures in Early Modern South India Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-05-01 Projit Bihari 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
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Self-Fashioning of a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Muscular Asceticism and Sectarian Freedom in Swami Satyadev Parivrajak’s Autobiography Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Charu Gupta
This essay focuses on the autobiographical writings of Swami Satyadev ‘Parivrajak’ (1879–1961), a prolific Hindi writer, and a charismatic modern-day worldly political ascetic in the early twentiet...
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Book review: Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Sukanta Chaudhuri
Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214 pp. ISBN: 978-3-88462-411-1 (Hardback).
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Book review: Sebastian Schwecke, Debt, Trust, and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India Studies in History Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Tirthankar Roy
Sebastian Schwecke, Debt, Trust, and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xiv + 372 pp., ₹995.00. ISBN: 978-1316517260.
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Book review: Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-11-30 John Mathew
Pratik Chakrabarti, Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2020, xii + 263 pp., US$57. ISBN: 9781421438740.
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Book review: Sangeeta Dasgupta, Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Indrani Chatterjee
Sangeeta Dasgupta, Reordering Adivasi Worlds: Representation, Resistance, Memory, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2022, ₹1695, ISBN 0-19-012791-0
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Book review: Kanad Sinha, From Dasrajna to Kuruksetra: Making of a Historical Tradition Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Shalini Shah
Kanad Sinha, From Dasrajna to Kuruksetra: Making of a Historical Tradition, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2021, pp. 548, ₹1795. ISBN: 9780190130695
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Book review: Radhika Singha, The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921 Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-11-30 Srinath Raghavan
Radhika Singha, The Coolie’s Great War: Indian Labour in a Global Conflict, 1914–1921, Harper Collins, New Delhi, 2020, 396pp., ₹699
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Transforming the Female Body: Gender Dialectics in Early Buddhism Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-10-23 Megha Yadav
Scholars have long debated the woman question in Buddhism, in terms of the social spaces and gendered attitudes revealed by texts and traditions. In the opinion of some, Buddhism in its essence doe...
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Remembering a Date in the History of the Indian Subcontinent Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-10-02 Pallavi Chakravarty
In light of the seventy-fifth year of India’s independence from colonial rule and the Indian government’s announcement that 14 August will be commemorated as ‘Partition Horrors Remembrance Day’, th...
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Muslim Minority Against Islamic Nation: The Shias of British India and the Demand for Pakistan, 1940–45 Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-09-20 Rajit K. Mazumder
This article analyses the relationship between British colonialism and Islamic sectarianism, and its consequent impact on the Shias, the largest Muslim minority in British India. In the critical de...
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Book review: Naman P. Ahuja, ed., Phanigiri: Interpreting an Ancient Buddhist Site in Telangana Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Anamika Roy
Naman P. Ahuja, ed., Phanigiri: Interpreting an Ancient Buddhist Site in Telangana, Marg Publications and Department of Heritage Telangana, Telangana, 2021, ₹1800.00/$25.00.
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Book review: Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-05-27 Sajal Nag
Jangkhomang Guite, Against State, Against History: Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India, Oxford University Press, Delhi, 2019, 302 pp., ₹1095.
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Book review: Ranabir Chakravarti, The Pull Towards the Coast and Other Essays: The Indian Ocean History and the Subcontinent Before 1500 CE Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-05-27 V. Selvakumar
Ranabir Chakravarti, The Pull Towards the Coast and Other Essays: The Indian Ocean History and the Subcontinent Before 1500 CE, Primus Books, New Delhi, 2020, xiv + 326 pp., ₹1395, ISBN: 978-81-947...
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Archaeology of Marginalization in Indian History Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-05-16 V. Selvakumar
It is possible to identify developments from the prehistoric period onward in India that led to the formation of agro-pastoral communities, state society, and a reduction in, as well as transformat...
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Akbar and His Search for Spiritual Truth Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Irfan Habib
Akbar is celebrated for his policy of religious toleration, studies of which have also necessarily involved an examination of his own religious views. These led to the proposition, once dominant in...
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Archaeologists’ Micro-cultures: A Methodological Critique of Early Indian Archaeology Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-04-24 Rajan Gurukkal
This article is a critical appraisal of archaeologists’ classification and typology of artefacts, which lead them to the construction of micro-cultures in early Indian archaeology. The central argu...
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Civilization: Historicizing a Concept in the Indian Context Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-04-24 R. Mahalakshmi
The special issue on ‘Indian Civilization: Issues and Perspectives’ seeks to interrogate a concept that has often been loosely used by historians. Generally understood in terms of continuity from v...
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Dharma, Dialogue and Dissent: Is an Inclusive Civilization Possible? Listening to Vidura Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-04-22 Kumkum Roy
Dharma is one of the significant multivalent civilizational concepts that emerged in early India. I explore one strand of the meanings of this term as exemplified by the figure of Vidura in the Mah...
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Book review: Nayanjot Lahiri, Archaeology and the Public Purpose: Writings on and by M. N. Deshpande Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-02-28 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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Book review: R. Mahalakshmi, ed., Art and History: Texts, Contexts and Visual Representations in Ancient and Early Medieval India Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Susmita Basu 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).
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Book review: Suvobrata Sarkar, Let there be Light: Engineering, Entrepreneurship and Electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880–1945 Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-02-28 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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Epigraphic Gleanings on Brāhmaṇism in Chamba Studies in History Pub Date : 2022-02-08 Anjali Verma
The Chamba region in the western Himalayas has attracted the attention of researchers after the decipherment of hundreds of inscriptions spanning the period between the early eighth to eighteenth centuries. This article studies the epigraphs to analyse the arrival of the brāhman. a community into Chamba from various parts of the country at different time spans. The study focuses on how this arrival
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Colonization through Municipalization: The Politics of Sanitation and Municipal Governance in the ‘Mofussils’ of Colonial Bengal, c. 1870–1940s Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-12-21 Sudipto Basu
How does the state govern a territory which has rapidly grown to become one of the most densely populated regions of the province? How does the state account for the governance of a place which has only recently transitioned from a rural or a semi-rural tract to a town? Most importantly, how does the state govern a region where the main source of power resides with the proprietors of private enterprises
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The Customs of Conquest: Legal Primitivism and British Paramountcy in Northeast India Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-10-31 Sanghamitra Misra
The discourse around indigeneity, customary rights of possession and claims to political autonomy in Northeast India conventionally traces the postcolonial protectionist legislation for ‘tribes’ to various acts passed under the late colonial state, the most significant precursor being seen as the Government of India Act, 1935. This article will argue that one can in fact trace the ‘original moment’
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Epigraphic Gleanings on Brāhmaṇism in Chamba, c. Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries CE Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Anjali Verma
Chamba region in western Himalayas has attracted the attention of researchers after decipherment of hundreds of inscriptions spanning the period between early eighth to eighteenth century. The present article is a fresh attempt to study the epigraphs to probe into the arrival of the brāhmaṇa community from different parts of the country at different time spans into Chamba. How this arrival in periodical
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Colonization Through Municipalization: The Politics of Sanitation and Municipal Governance in the ‘Mofussils’ of Colonial Bengal, c. 1870–1940s Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Sudipto Basu
How does a state govern a territory which has seen a sudden spurt in population and become the most densely populated regions of the province? How does the state account for the governance of a place which very recently has seen the transition from a rural or a semi-rural tract to a town? And most importantly, how does the state govern a place where the main source of power resides with the proprietors
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Book review: Whitney Cox, Politics, Kingship, and Poetry in Medieval South India: Moonset on Sunrise Mountain Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Ranjeeta 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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Book review: Jyoti Mohan, Claiming India: French Scholars and the Preoccupation with India in the Nineteenth Century Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-06-02 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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Book review: Romila Thapar, Ramin Jahanbegloo and Neeladri Bhattacharya, Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Meera Visvanathan
Romila Thapar, Ramin Jahanbegloo and Neeladri Bhattacharya, Talking History: Romila Thapar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo with the Participation of Neeladri Bhattacharya, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2017, 340 pp., ₹795.
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Book review: Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Baidik 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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Book review: Eunan O’Halpin, Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-06-02 Jyoti Atwal
Eunan O’Halpin, Kevin Barry: An Irish Rebel in Life and Death. Merrion Press, Kildare, 2020, 256 pp., Ä17, ISBN: 9781785373497.
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Punarvivaham vs. Pativratyam: Pulugurta Lakshmi Narasamamba and the Widow Remarriage Question in Colonial Andhra Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-05-07 Shaik Mahaboob Basha
The question of widow remarriage, which occupied an important place in the social reform movement, was hotly debated in colonial Andhra. Women joined the debate in the early twentieth century. There was a conservative section of women, which bitterly opposed the widow remarriage movement and attacked the social reformers, both women and men. Pulugruta Lakshmi Narasamamba led this group of women. Lakshmi
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The Poetics of Detachment in Medieval Ka-vya: Anthologies and the Path of Literary Sanskrit in the Second Millennium Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-05-04 Jesse Ross 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
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State Failure and Successful Leadership in Medieval India Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-04-23 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
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The Dilemma of ‘Science’: ‘Tradition’ and Archaeology in Early Twentieth-century Bengal Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-04-19 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’
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The Will of the Gods: Patterns of Dream Interpretation in Early Tamil Literature Studies in History Pub Date : 2021-04-08 S. Gunasekaran
Societies interpreted their dreams in various ways. While dream interpretation has always been an essential part of medical and philosophical discourse, it was only recently that historians began to show certain interest in writing what is called the cultural history of dream interpretation. In fact, dreams, rituals, myths, social memories and consciously constructed histories all share certain similarities
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Nationalism: One or Many: Book Review: Vikas Pathak, Contesting Nationalisms: Hinduism, Secularism and Untouchability in Colonial Punjab, 1880–1930 Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Salil Misra
Vikas Pathak, Contesting Nationalisms: Hinduism, Secularism and Untouchability in Colonial Punjab, 1880–1930, Primus Books, Delhi, 2018, xvi + 266 pp., ₹1,495.
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Book review: Aditya Sarkar, Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Chitra Joshi
Aditya Sarkar, Trouble at the Mill: Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay, Oxford University Press, 2018, 359 pp., ₹1,195.
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Book review: Vasudha Dalmia, Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Francesca Orsini
Vasudha Dalmia, Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2017, 428 pp., ₹995.
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Commemorating Baghel Singh’s ‘Conquest’ of Delhi: The Fateh Diwas Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Kanika Singh
This article examines the changing importance, in Sikh history, of Baghel Singh, a Sikh military commander in eighteenth-century Punjab, and the significance of the most recent events commemorating him in Delhi—the Fateh Diwas. The Fateh Diwas was a spectacular event organized for the first time in 2014 at the Red Fort in Delhi, by the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD; Badal)-led Delhi Sikh Gurdwara Management
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Gandhi’s Spiritual Politics: Austerity, Fasting and Secularism Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Amar Farooqui
This article attempts to explore the connection between Gandhi’s spiritual quest, of which abstinence was a major component, and his politics. Gandhi was a deeply religious person. His politics, however, was secular in that it had little to do with the politics of religious identity. He would have found the notion of engaging in the politics of religious identity revolting, something that is borne
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The Improbability of a Temple: Hindu Mobilization and Urban Space in the Delhi Shiv Mandir Agitation of 1938 Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-10-17 Deepasri Baul
The 1920s and 1930s were decades of intense religious polarization and violence in many parts of British India. These decades were also especially empowering ones for Hindu nationalist organizations in Delhi. So, it rankled Hindu leaders that Delhi’s built environment had a dearth of Hindu sacred structures to attest to their power, on account of the city’s past status as a Mughal capital. Instead
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The Question of Dalit Conversion in the 1930s Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-10-17 Rohit Wanchoo
In June 1936, the Hindu Mahasabha leader B. S. Moonje and the Dalit leader and trenchant critic of Hinduism Dr B. R. Ambedkar jointly proposed mass conversions of the ‘untouchables’ to Sikhism. According to Ambedkar, if the untouchables converted to Sikhism, they would leave the Hindu religion but not Hindu culture. The untouchable converts to Sikhism would escape caste oppression without getting ‘denationalized’
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Tales of Restoration: A Study of the Evacuee Property Laws Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Shikhar Goel
One of the ways scholars and lawyers have understood the institution of property is by thinking of it in terms of legal relationships that people share with each other with respect to a thing. The primary question that animates this article is as follows: If property is to be understood as relationships, what sort of relationships did the evacuee property legislations, a post-Partition legal instrument
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Violence and Defiance of Authority in Mughal India: A Study of the Shoe Sellers’ Riot of Shahjahanabad Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-10-08 Najaf Haider
In March 1729 ad, the city of Shahjahanabad (Mughal Delhi) was brought to a standstill following a conflict between shoe sellers and state officials. The conflict led to a violent showdown during the Friday congregational prayer in the central mosque of the city (Jami Masjid). The shoe sellers’ riot exposed fissures based on religion, class and politics and posed a challenge to the authority of the
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Book review: Varuni Bhatia, Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Sukanya Sarbadhikary
Varuni Bhatia, Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion in Colonial Bengal, Oxford University Press, New York, 2017, xiii +291 pp., $105 (Hardback).
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Book review: Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Rachel Berger
Rohan Deb Roy, Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017, xv + 332 pp., 32.99 USD (paperback).
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Book review: B. D. Chattopadhyaya, The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Hermann Kulke
B. D. Chattopadhyaya, The Concept of Bharatavarsha and Other Essays, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2017, x + 238 pp., ₹795.
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Book review: Aparjith Ramnath, The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State 1900–47 Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Nitin Sinha
Aparjith Ramnath, The Birth of an Indian Profession: Engineers, Industry, and the State 1900–47, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017, 288 pp., ₹895 (Hardback).
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Book review: Arupjyoti Saikia, A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900 Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Rana P. Behal
Arupjyoti Saikia, A Century of Protests: Peasant Politics in Assam Since 1900, Routledge, New Delhi, 2014, 480 pp., ₹1495 (Hardback).
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Book review: Sarvani Gooptu, The Actress in the Public Theatres of Calcutta Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 Tanika Sarkar
Sarvani Gooptu, The Actress in the Public Theatres of Calcutta, Primus Books, New Delhi, 2015, xxviii + 160 pp., ₹895 (hardcover).
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Book review: Neeladri Bhattacharya, The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World Studies in History Pub Date : 2020-05-05 James C. Scott
Neeladri Bhattacharya, The Great Agrarian Conquest: The Colonial Reshaping of a Rural World, Permanent Black in Association with Ashoka University, Ranikhet, 2018, xv + 522 pp., ₹1195 (hardback).