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Category Archives: Accounting History
Self-Fashioning of a Hindu Political Sanyasi: Muscular Asceticism and Sectarian Freedom in Swami Satyadev Parivrajak’s Autobiography
Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 172-198, August 2023.
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.
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.
Ahimsa: Tagore & Gandhi,
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Book review: Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire
Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 269-271, August 2023.
Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214 pp. ISBN: 978-3-88462-411-1 (Hardback).
Michael Mann, A British Rome In India: Calcutta – Capital For An Empire, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, 2022, 214 pp. ISBN: 978-3-88462-411-1 (Hardback).
Book review: Sebastian Schwecke, Debt, Trust, and Reputation: Extra-legal Finance in Northern India
Studies in History, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 272-274, August 2023.
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.
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.
Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th Century Migrations from India’s Perspective
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Sound of Silence: Locating the Agency of Voice in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide
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Sarala Mahabharata in the colonial Odia public sphere
Dangerous to auspicious: vernacular transformations of a Telugu epic
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Representation and Resolution of the Women’s Question in Premchand’s Karambhumi and Godaan
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