The Rays before Satyajit: Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India [1 ed.] 9780199089642, 0199089647

Religion and Modernity in India 9780199467785

Modernity, which emphasizes the relegation of religion firmly to an individual's private life, is a challenging ide

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Photography, Modernity and the Governed in Late-colonial Indonesia 9789048523382

How contested notions of modernity, civilization and being governed were envisioned through the aid of photography.

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Colonial modernity in Korea 9780674005945, 9780674142558, 9781684173334

The twelve chapters in this volume seek to overcome the nationalist paradigm of Japanese repression and exploitation ver

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The British Historical Context and Petitioning in Colonial India 8187879505

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Law and the Economy in Colonial India 9780226387642, 9780226387789, 2015047755

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment ove

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Law and the Economy in Colonial India 9780226387789

Since the economic reforms of the 1990s, India’s economy has grown rapidly. To sustain growth and foreign investment ove

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Divine Affairs (Religion, Pilgrimage and the State in Colonial and Post-Colonial India)

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Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal 0822344629, 9780822344629

An innovative cultural history of the evolution of modern marriage practices in Bengal, Marriage and Modernity challenge

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Confronting the Body: The Politics of Physicality in Colonial and Post-Colonial India 1843310333, 9781843310334

The editors bring together some of the best new scholarship on physicality in modern India in a single volume and provid

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Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt 9781399520751, 9781399520775, 9781399520782

Explores the formative years of Egyptian cinema (1919–52) to contest the contradiction between Islam and innovation Disc

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