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Banaras: Urban Forms and Cultural Histories
The book presents a rich and surprising account of the recent history of the north Indian city of Banaras. Supplementing traditional accounts, which have focused upon the city’s religious imaginary, this volume brings together essays written by acknowledged experts in north Indian culture and...
Published February 12th 2012 by Routledge India
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Trans-Colonial Modernities in South Asia
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Presenting cutting-edge scholarship dedicated to exploring the emergence and articulation of modernity in colonial South Asia, this book builds upon and extends recent insights into the constitutive and multiple projects of colonial modernity. Eschewing the fashionable binaries of resistance and...
Published February 7th 2012 by Routledge