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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"colonial South Asia"”.
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MODERN RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS OF COLONIAL SOUTH ASIA: THE ORIGINS OF REVIVAL AND REFORM
During the British colonial period of South Asia, religious movements such as Buddhist modernism and Hindu nationalism became powerful agents of resistance and change. These developments, shaped by the contrasting influences of Western cultural domination and the pervasiveness of preexisting social …
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Naogaon and the world: Intoxication, commoditisation, and imperialism in South Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1840-1940
… production and trade of cannabis goods in its South Asian territories. The agrarian production of cannabis was scattered across the subcontinent and subject to local market dynamics. With the expansion of British imperialism in South Asia, cannabis transformed from a disparately cultivated …
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Coins and colonialism between South Asia and Britain: tracing numismatic networks of collecting from field to museum
… thesis presents a history of coin collecting in colonial India by British and Indian collectors and scholars in the late nineteenth to the early to mid-twentieth centuries. Taking an object biography approach, I recount the journey of coins from the ground up to their acquisition to UK museums, …
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Race, Gender, and Beauty in Late Colonial India c.1900-1950.
… and modernity for emerging middle-class women in colonial India during a time of global transformation. Most contemporary scholarship to date focuses on the impacts of twenty-first-century skin-lightening markets and advertising without adequately historicising colourism. Taking an …