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Great Plains di Amerika Serikat telah memainkan peran yang berpengaruh dalam membentuk visi akademis dan populer tentang perang penduduk asli Amerika, sebagian besar karena kekerasan yang terdokumentasi dengan baik yang menjadi pusat perluasan pemukiman Euroamerika di sana. Namun, kekerasan memiliki akar yang dalam di Dataran, dan akar ini tidak pernah diteliti secara sistematis di seluruh wila…
This chapter will provide a brief survey of the uses of mercury preparations in rasāyana therapy, discussing their position within rejuvenation therapy in regard to other rasāyana formulations and exploring their link with Indian alchemical traditions.
This chapter will provide a brief survey of the uses of mercury preparations in rasāyana therapy, discussing their position within rejuvenation therapy in regard to other rasāyana formulations and exploring their link with Indian alchemical traditions.
Borderland Cities in New India explores contemporary urban life in two cities in India's Northeast borderland at a time of dramatic change. Social and economic transformation from India's embrace of neoliberalism and globalisation, often referred to as 'new' India, has become a popular subject for academic analysis in the last decade. This is epitomised by focus on so-called 'mega-cities', refl…
The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early 17th to the mid-19th century. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary, to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable …
The lectures presented in this volume were given during the summer of 1970 under the sponsorship of the CIC Summer Program on South Asia and the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies of the University of Michigan. It should be recognized that these essays appear in revised lecture form, and not as fully polished scholarly papers. They carry nevertheless the authority—and no little verv…
Jenny Huberman provides an ethnographic study of encounters between western tourists and the children who work as unlicensed peddlers and guides along the riverfront city of Banaras, India. She examines how and why these children elicit such powerful reactions from western tourists and locals in their community as well as how the children themselves experience their work and render it meaningfu…
Buku ini menceritakan kisah repositori manuskrip yang ditemukan di seluruh dunia Muslim pra-modern: khizanat al-kutub, atau perbendaharaan buku. Fokusnya adalah pada budaya manuskrip Arab yang tidak diungkapkan dari komunitas Muslim Syiah Asia Selatan yang kecil namun dinamis, yaitu Bohra. Buku ini melihat bagaimana buku-buku yang pernah menjadi bagian dari salah satu repositori buku kekaisaran…
Buku sumber terbuka ini menggabungkan metode ekonomi tradisional dengan teknik pembelajaran mesin yang lebih baru seperti pohon regresi dan hutan acak untuk menganalisis data dan memberikan analisis mendalam tentang ketidaksetaraan peluang dan kemiskinan di India. Dengan menggunakan data dari survei nasional dan sumber unik seperti gambar satelit malam hari dan data lokasi titik-titik menarik, …