In this illuminating collection of essays, Ainslee Embree examines the impact of foreign perceptions of India on both the foreigners and the people of India. Studying the complex interplay of indigenous Indian culture with Islamic and western civilizations, he argues that civilization is not a fixed residue handed down from the past, but rather an enduring structure with adaptive mechanisms that permit it to be both a historically determined and continuously creative force. An incisive study by one of North America's leading historians, Imagining India will be of interest to historians of modern India, political scientists, and anyone with an interest in contemporary Indian life.

Imagining India: Essays on Indian History

History

Juergensmeyer, Mark

Embree, Ainslie, T

Americas

Oxford University Press

In the struggle to reconcile religious identity with nation building, Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 recreates one of the most intractable and important issues of the modern world. Part of the “Reacting to the Past” series, this text consists of a game in which students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in a particular moment of intellectual and social ferment. The game is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain’s largest colony.

Defining A Nation: India On The Eve Of Independence, 1791

Carnes, Mark C.

Pearson College Div

Part of the Reacting to the Past series, Defining a Nation plunges students into India’s struggle for sovereignty and identity.Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain’s largest colony. Will the British transfer power to the Indian National Congress, which claims to speak for all Indians? Or will a separate Muslim state―Pakistan―be carved out of India to be ruled by Muslims, as the Muslim League proposes? And what will happen to the vulnerable minorities―such as the Sikhs and untouchables―or the hundreds of princely states? As British authority wanes, tensions among Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs smolder and increasingly flare into violent riots that threaten to ignite all India. Towering above it all is the frail but formidable figure of Gandhi, whom some revere as an apostle of nonviolence and others regard as a conniving Hindu politician. Students struggle to reconcile religious identity with nation building―perhaps the most intractable and important issue of the modern world. Texts include the literature of Hindu revival (Chatterjee, Tagore, and Tilak); the Koran and the literature of Islamic nationalism (Iqbal); and the writings of Ambedkar, Nehru, Jinnah, and Gandhi. Reacting to the Past is a series of historical role-playing games that explore important ideas by re-creating the contexts that shaped them. Students are assigned roles, informed by classic texts, set in particular moments of intellectual and social ferment. An award-winning active-learning pedagogy, Reacting to the Past improves speaking, writing, and leadership skills, promotes engagement with classic texts and history, and builds learning communities. Reacting can be used across the curriculum, from the first-year general education class to “capstone” experiences. A Reacting game can also function as the discussion component of lecture classes, or it can be enlisted for intersession courses, honors programs, and other specialized curricular purposes.

Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Reacting to the Past)

Asia

W.W.Norton&Company

This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar provides a new look at two issues which have polarized India over the last decades: religion and nationalism. Embree shows how the relatively modern Western notions of religion and nationalism have been thrust on the Third World and examines how Hindu civilization has resisted such cultural incursions. He argues that the tension generated by competing visions of the just society has been the determining factor in the social and political life of India during this century, showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism has led inexorably and unfortunately to conflict. Further, the author asserts that in India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth century, religions have legitimized violence as people struggle for what they regard as their just claims upon the future. As examples of the tension around religion and nationalism, he examines in detail two recent, explosive cases—one involving Muslim-Hindu communal encounters, the other, the separatist movement of Sikhs. Utopias In Conflict gracefully and elegantly illuminates current issues in South Asian politics and contributes considerably to the broader discussion of fundamentalism and religious violence in the Third World. Thought-provoking and searching, this work should interest anyone concerned about fundamentalism, the problems of national integration, and politics and religion in the Third World.

Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)

University of California Press

This compact, incisive study by a senior scholar explores two sources of violent conflict in India: religion and nationalism. Showing how the political aspects of religion and the ideological character of nationalism have led inexorably to struggle, Ainslie T. Embree argues that the tension between competing visions of the just society has determined the social and political life of India. In India, as elsewhere in the world at the end of the twentieth century, religions legitimized violence as people struggled for what they regarded as their legitimate claims upon the future. As examples of the tension between religious and nationalist visions of the good society, Embree examines two explosive cases—one involving Muslim-Hindu communal encounters, the other, the separatist movement of the Sikhs. Thought-provoking and searching, Utopias in Conflict should interest anyone concerned about fundamentalism, the problems of national integration, and politics and religion in the Third World. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.

Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) (Volume 3)

Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (Volume 3) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)

Encyclopedia of Asian History

Charles Scribners Sons/Reference

Defining a Nation is set at Simla, in the foothills of the Himalayas, where the British viceroy has invited leaders of various religious and political constituencies to work out the future of Britain's largest colony. Will the British transfer power to the Indian National Congress, which claims to speak for all Indians? Or will a separate Muslim state—Pakistan—be carved out of India to be ruled by Muslims, as the Muslim League proposes? And what will happen to the vulnerable minorities—such as the Sikhs and untouchables—or the hundreds of princely states? As British authority wanes, tensions among Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs smolder and increasingly flare into violent riots that threaten to ignite all India. Towering above it all is the frail but formidable figure of Gandhi, whom some revere as an apostle of nonviolence and others regard as a conniving Hindu politician. Students struggle to reconcile religious identity with nation building—perhaps the most intractable and important issue of the modern world. Texts include the literature of Hindu revival (Chatterjee, Tagore, and Tilak); the Koran and the literature of Islamic nationalism (Iqbal); and the writings of Ambedkar, Nehru, Jinnah, and Gandhi.

Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Reacting to the Past™)

The University of North Carolina Press

Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)

A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history.

Gluck, Carol

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

A guide aimed at introducing students to the history of Asia in conjunction with Western and world history.

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Imagining India: Essays on Indian History

Defining A Nation: India On The Eve Of Independence, 1791

Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Reacting to the Past)

Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)

Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society) (Volume 3)

Utopias in Conflict: Religion and Nationalism in Modern India (Volume 3) (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society)

Encyclopedia of Asian History

Defining a Nation: India on the Eve of Independence, 1945 (Reacting to the Past™)

Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)

Asia in Western and World History: A Guide for Teaching: A Guide for Teaching (Columbia Project on Asia in the Core Curriculum)