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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Pt. I | Ideologies | 1 |
| 1 | Religious vs. regional determinism: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire | 5 |
| 2 | Classical Hindu scriptures | 35 |
| 3 | Suttee or sati: victim or victor? | 45 |
| 4 | Some observations on the evolution of Modern Standard Punjabi | 64 |
| 5 | The hidden hand: English lexis, syntax and idiom as determinants of modern Hindi usage | 74 |
| 6 | A hero or a traitor? The Gurkha soldier in Nepali literature | 91 |
| 7 | Milton and Madhusudan | 104 |
| 8 | Indian architecture and the English vision | 120 |
| Pt. II | Institutions | 145 |
| 9 | Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage | 148 |
| 10 | Islamic law and the colonial encounter in British India | 165 |
| 11 | Notes on 'peasant insurgency' in colonial Mysore: event and process | 186 |
| 12 | Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar | 201 |
| 13 | Smallpox and colonial medicine in nineteenth-century India | 224 |
| 14 | The Indian National Congress: a hundred-year perspective | 245 |
| 15 | Charan Singh (1902-87): an assessment | 265 |
| Index | 308 |
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James Murphy
reviewed Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader on September 19, 2017
Institutions and Ideologies
One cannot find a more fascinating subject than spying for the British Raj in that exotic regions of Central Asia, the Pamir and above all, Tibet in nineteenth century. It is hard to write its account that is not interesting. So interesting the book is.
However, rather than a continuous, unbroken narrative of adventures of ordinary men that "Pundits" were, the book is unimaginatively broken up in sections,, roughly one each for the spy or surveyor. One fails to get a bigger picture and sense of causality. The inter-related nature of of the expeditions gets buried in a disjoint record of individual exploits.
Otherwise, a very informative and rather complete story.
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