Vasudha Dalmia (116 results)

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Soft cover. Condition: New. In her Introduction to this bookwhich showcases her work as a scholar of social, literary, and religious historyVasudha Dalmia outlines the central ideas which thread her writings: first, to understand in greater historical depth the relationship between language, religion, and society in India, as well as the ever-changing role of its religious and social institutions; second, to recognize that the Hindu tradition, which colonials and nationalists tend to see as monolithic, is in fact a multiplicity of distinct and semi-autonomous strands. Professor Dalmia's work reveals a steady focus on Indian religious traditions, sects, and histories which, over several hundred years, came to collectively comprise what in the nineteenth century became known as Hinduism. In her first essay, Max Müller's study of the Veda is positioned within a larger history of German philosophical interest in eastern thought. Müller appears less an exceptional German scholar and eccentric Oxford phenomenon once his derivation and links with earlier European Indology are made clear. Subsequent essays look at the building blocks of colonial knowledge-formation, law-making, and pedagogy in colonial India, and the role in these of Banaras; at some of the major components of the Vaishnava Bhakti tradition; at pre-modern vernacular narratives that fed into constructing the modern Hindi novel and the Hindu 'nari'; and at the history of modern Hindi literature. Anyone interested in the plurality of Hinduism, women's issues, and Indian cultural history will find this book immensely interesting. …

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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. In Where these essays are coming from , the introduction to this volume, Vasudha Dalmia retraces her intellectual formation and weaves the trajectory of her personal research interests with the political and cultural history of the last three decades. Intellectual autobiographies are all too rare, yet always riveting to read. Chance encounters that lead to unforeseen life paths (for her, landing in Germany as a 22-year-old), mixed family histories that surface later in life as questions demanding to be answered and reconciled (the stern Kashi of her widowed aunts, her mixed Marwari-Kayastha parentage with its different cultural and religious orientations), transcontinental professional moves that require adapting to new academic environments, and last but not least, political pressures that bring urgency and a deeper echo to one s research interests, something all of us studying the history of modern Hindi nationalism in the age of Hindutva have felt. The retrospective look of an intellectual autobiography discerns patterns and explores the unconscious motivations behind steps which must have felt sudden and bewildering at the time. Little of her upbringing in 1960s Delhi, as a student of English at Miranda House who had earlier been tutored at home in Sanskrit at her father s behest and in largely premodern Hindi literature under the guidance of her mother (herself a budding Hindi poet in the 1930s), prepared her for life in Germany in the early 1970s. That layered, multilingual education, together with her later university training in German literature and classical Indology in Germany, opened doors into very different worlds, but these remained discrete worlds. Later in life, however, Dalmia brought them together and reassembled them in the distinct but overlapping trends of her scholarship: the making of Indology as a discipline, the continuities and changes in what Partha Chatterjee calls our modernity between the earlier sampradayas and modern Hinduism, between older Hindi poetic tastes and the new Hindi print culture embodied in the fantasmagoric figure of Bharatendu Harishchandra , and between old and new understandings of, and spaces for, women; and the different strands that came together in the making of modern Indian theatre, Kashi and Banaras, India and Germany. Reading these rich essays again and together in this collection, what is striking is the consistent application of a method, an exemplary and rigorous method that has made Dalmia such an admired scholar and teacher in India, . …

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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. This book provides a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era. The North s historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Presidency towns founded by the British. Focusing on six major cities Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in them to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity. She looks at the radical social transformations associated with post-1857 urban restructuring, and at the political flux resulting from social reform, Gandhian nationalism, communalism, Partition, and the Cold War. These, she argues, shaped the realm of the intimate as much as the public sphere. Love and friendship, notions of privacy, attitudes to women s work, and relationships within households are among the book s major themes. (jacket).…

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Soft cover. Condition: New. This book provides a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era. The North's historical cities, rooted in an indo-persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the presidency towns founded by the British. Focusing on six major cities Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in them to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity. She looks at the radical social transformations associated with post-1857 urban restructuring, and at the political flux resulting from social reform, Gandhian nationalism, communalism, Partition, and the Cold War. These, she argues, shaped the realm of the intimate as much as the public sphere. Love and friendship, notions of privacy, attitudes to women's work, and relationships within households are among the book's major themes.…

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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with DJ. Pictorial paper over boards with matching pictorial DJ, both clean with mild wear to edges, rubbing at crown and foot of spine. Binding is nice and tight. Pages are clean, crisp, and bright with light smudging/toning on outer edges. Title page dated 1997. Copyright page dated 1996. 490 pages. A very nice copy. We ship everyday from a real neighborhood bookstore. This description is written by an actual person, who is holding the book in front of them to make sure it?s properly described. Please contact us with questions or if you would like to see photographs.…