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Studies in History
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ISSN (Print) 0257-6430 - ISSN (Online) 0973-080X
Published by Sage Publications

[1176 journals]

Nationalism, Revivalism and Pan-Islamism: Shifts in the Political and
Cultural Imaginings of Allama Iqbal’s Poetry
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  Authors: Ravi K. Mishra
  Pages: 199 - 238
  Abstract: Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 199-238, August 2023.
  This paper argues that contrary to some popular perceptions, the ideological shift in Iqbal dates not from 1930 (when he apparently moved towards the acceptance of the two-nation theory at the Allahabad Session of the Muslim League) but to his stay in Europe from 1905 to 1908 (after which he made a complete and abrupt shift from Indian nationalism to revivalism and Pan-Islamism). This shift is powerfully expressed in the political and cultural imaginings of both his Urdu and Persian poetry. His poetry becomes suffused with the ideas of revivalism and Pan-Islamism in counter-position to those of composite nationhood and territorial nationalism on which the Indian national movement was premised. The shift is embodied in poetic imagery and metaphor incompatible with the modern idea of nationalism, especially the dominant idea of Indian nationalism. Iqbal’s later thoughts concerning Islam’s relations with non-Muslims in India and elsewhere promote an adversarial historical and cultural narrative of Islam.Though triggered by a passionate rejection of the West and its modernity, the shift manifested not just in a critique of the West but also of all non-Islamic cultures and civilizations. Iqbal’s narrative of Islam is teleological and triumphalist. Far from being defensive about the charges of intolerance and aggression levelled against Islam by its critics, he proudly invokes imagery of the sword and the conquest in the history of Islam, while bemoaning the decline of its political power in the modern era. Iqbal’s quest is for a supposedly pure Islam of the past and its revival in the twentieth century in the form of a redefined, reconstituted and revitalized Umma which cuts across boundaries of nations, continents and ethnicities. Few poets in the history of the modern world have had such influence as Allama Iqbal, and fewer still have made such fundamental shifts.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-11-28T08:17:42Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231208821
  Issue No: Vol. 39, No. 2 (2023)
Men, Masculinism and Masculinities: Ancient Indian Antecedents
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  Authors: Shalini Shah
  Pages: 239 - 264
  Abstract: Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 239-264, August 2023.
  This article seeks to analyse how the concept of masculinity is embedded in the cultural discourse of Ancient India. It is also our contention that since in the ancient Indic context, the sex-gender system was a reality, we cannot discount the existence of a ‘masculinist’ structure which had a role to play in shaping the perception/functioning of a masculine persona. The article is an attempt to unravel the mystique of Indic manhood across a broad temporal frame by focusing on different themes such as varn˙a status, male body, fatherhood and sexuality and its framing within the discourse on masculinity. Since masculinity was constructed in opposition to both femininity and the defective/deficient male, these two aspects have also been focused upon.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-11-28T08:18:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231212239
  Issue No: Vol. 39, No. 2 (2023)
Book review: K. L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu
Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab
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  Authors: Sucheta Mahajan
  Pages: 280 - 283
  Abstract: Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 280-283, August 2023.
  K. L. Tuteja, Religion, Community and Nation: Hindu Consciousness and Nationalism in Colonial Punjab, Indian Institute of Advanced Study and Primus Books, 2021, pp. 372+xi, ₹1,250.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-11-28T08:17:45Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231211734
  Issue No: Vol. 39, No. 2 (2023)
Book review: Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and
the Fifteenth Century
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  Authors: Heeraman Tiwari
  Pages: 283 - 286
  Abstract: Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 283-286, August 2023.
  Pankaj Jha, A Political History of Literature: Vidyapati and the Fifteenth Century, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2019, pp. xxxviii+272.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-11-27T03:24:34Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231211732
  Issue No: Vol. 39, No. 2 (2023)
Book review: Prachi Deshpande, Scripts of Power: Writing, Language
Practices and Cultural History in Western India
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  Authors: Bhavani Raman
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  Prachi Deshpande, Scripts of Power: Writing, Language Practices and Cultural History in Western India, Permanent Black, Ranikhet, 2023, ₹995.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-11-21T05:05:02Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231211728
Epigraphic Practice and the Making of State Society in Eastern Madhya
Pradesh (Circa Fifth–Sixth Centuries ce)
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  Authors: Dev Kumar Jhanjh
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  The essay explores the process of state formation under the Parivråjakas and the Uccakalpðyas in eastern Madhya Pradesh (MP) during circa fifth–sixth centuries ce. A total of 14 epigraphic records inform us about the development of the institutional structures under these two local powers. We delve into the process of transformation of the a»avika-råjya into full-fledged monarchical powers. Besides the internal factors, an attempt has been made to understand the external Gupta and Våkå»aka influence, in relation to the spread of Sanskrit culture, state society and pattern of patronage in eastern MP. Like the well-known Malwa corridor on the western side of MP, the present essay finds the making of another corridor that formed under these two local powers to the eastern side of MP. It, therefore, suggests the existence of another route that connected north India and the Deccan via central India, which catalysed the state formation in the region.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-09-21T10:30:28Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193749
Representations of the Body and Gender in Varāhamihira’s
Jyotiṣaśāstra
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  Authors: Virendra Singh Bithoo
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  Based primarily on the analysis of Varāhamihira’s writings on Jyotiṣaśāstra, particularly of his Bṛhajjātaka and Bṛhatsaṁhitā, the paper tries to explore how the human body was brought within the realm of auspicious and inauspicious and created certain gender markers and distinctions, which presented socially contingent views of ideal types in early India. It also examines, with the help of arguments and episodes from the Sanskrit epics and Purāṇas, the narrative that came to be woven about gender differences within the context of the evolution of what historians have termed ‘Brahmanical patriarchy’.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-09-16T03:49:22Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193933
Book review: Samir Kumar Das and Bishnupriya Basak (Eds.), The Making of
Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public
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  Authors: Sarvani Gooptu
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  Samir Kumar Das and Bishnupriya Basak (Eds.), The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public Springer, Singapore, 2021, pp. 240. ISBN 978-981-16-0262-7.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-08-23T07:01:50Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193777
Book review: K. M. Shrimali, The Religious Enterprise: Studies in Early
Indian Religions
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  Authors: Suchandra Ghosh
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  K. M. Shrimali, The Religious Enterprise: Studies in Early Indian Religions (2 Vols.; Delhi: Aakar, 2022), pp. XVI +684, ₹3,500, (Hard binding). ISBN-978-93-5002-769.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-08-23T07:01:30Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231193775
Book review: Senthil Babu D., Mathematics and Society: Numbers and
Measures in Early Modern South India
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  Authors: Projit Bihari Mukharji
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  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
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-05-01T09:00:01Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231165146
Self-Fashioning of a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Muscular Asceticism and
Sectarian Freedom in Swami Satyadev Parivrajak’s Autobiography
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  Authors: Charu Gupta
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  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 twentieth-century north India. It discusses three central pillars of his ineradicably political autobiography: first, the performance of an exemplary celibate Hindu masculinity; second, the conceptualization of a segmented and exclusionary freedom, unencumbered by the presence of Muslims; and third, his deep antagonism towards Gandhi, and defence of his assassination. Taken together, his autobiography is a critical contribution to the intellectual history and genealogy of sectarian Hindi–Hindu literature, while also showcasing cultivated precursors of a modern, monolithic and militant Hindu nation.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-03-29T05:07:07Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231162267
Book review: Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta –
Capital For An Empire
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  Authors: Sukanta Chaudhuri
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214 pp. ISBN: 978-3-88462-411-1 (Hardback).
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-03-17T06:44:41Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231162273
Book review: Sebastian Schwecke, Debt, Trust, and Reputation: Extra-legal
Finance in Northern India
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  Authors: Tirthankar Roy
  Abstract: Studies in History, Ahead of Print.
  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.
  Citation: Studies in History
  PubDate: 2023-03-17T06:44:12Z
  DOI: 10.1177/02576430231162268