Islamic Law in the Indian Ocean World: Texts, Ideas and Practices By Mahmood Kooria (editor), Sanne Ravensbergen (editor)
2021 | 208 Pages | ISBN: 1032015519 | PDF | 8 MB
This book explores the ways in which Muslim communities across the Indian Ocean world produced and shaped Islamic law and its texts, ideas and practices in their local, regional, imperial, national and transregional contexts.With a focus on the production and transmission of Islamic law in the Indian Ocean, the chapters in this book draw from and add to recent discourses on the legal histories and anthropologies of the Indian Ocean rim as well as to the conversations on global Islamic circulations. By doing so, this book argues for the importance of Islamic legal thoughts and practices of the so-called "peripheries" to the core and kernel of Islamic traditions and the urgency of addressing their long-existing role in the making of the historical and human experience of the religion. Islamic law was and is not merely brought to, but also produced in the Indian Ocean world through constant and critical engagements. The book takes a long-term and transregional perspective for a better understanding of the ways in which the oceanic Muslims have historically developed their religious, juridical and intellectual traditions and continue to shape their lives within the frameworks of their religion.Transregional and transdisciplinary in its approach, this book will be of interest to scholars of Islamic Studies, Indian Ocean Studies, Legal History and Legal Anthropology, Area Studies of South and Southeast Asia and East Africa.

David Andrew Nichols, "Engines of Diplomacy: Indian Trading Factories and the Negotiation of American Empire"
English | ISBN: 1469626896 | 2016 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
As a fledgling republic, the United States implemented a series of trading outposts to engage indigenous peoples and to expand American interests west of the Appalachian Mountains. Under the authority of the executive branch, this Indian factory system was designed to strengthen economic ties between Indian nations and the United States, while eliminating competition from unscrupulous fur traders. In this detailed history of the Indian factory system, David Andrew Nichols demonstrates how Native Americans and U.S. government authorities sought to exert their power in the trading posts by using them as sites for commerce, political maneuvering, and diplomatic action.

Connecting the Indian Ocean World: Across Sea and Land edited by Radhika Seshan, Ryuto Shimada
English | February 24, 2023 | ISBN: 1032248327, 1032439297 | True PDF | 142 pages | 5.7 MB
The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World, explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.

Women in Indian Religions By Arvind Sharma (editor)
2002 | 270 Pages | ISBN: 0195646347 | PDF | 11 MB
Nine distinguished women scholars critically examine the position of women in various religions throughout India: Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Christianity, Islam, Zoroastrianism, Bahai, and tribal religions.

Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves: America and the Indian Ocean in the Age of Abolition and Empire by Gunja SenGupta, Awam Amkpa
English | February 21st, 2023 | ISBN: 0520389131 | 378 pages | True EPUB | 6.43 MB
In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves mines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, "free labor" experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns.

Sudhir Kakar, "Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality"
English | 1991 | ISBN: 0140122664, 0226422801 | EPUB | pages: 176 | 0.3 mb
Plumbing the hearts of women and men in India and exploring the relations they engage in, Sudhir Kakar gives us the first full-length study of Indian sexuality. His groundbreaking work explores India's sexual fantasies and ideals, the "unlit stage of desire where so much of our inner theater takes place."

Kakar Sudhir, "Indian Identity"
English | 2007 | ISBN: 0143101862 | EPUB | pages: 436 | 1.2 mb
As A Commentator On The Worlds Of Love And Hate , India S Foremost Psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar Has Isolated The Ambivalence, Peculiarly Indian, To Matters As Various And Connected As Sex, Spirituality And Communal Passions.

The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America (Audiobook)
English | May 15, 2018 | ASIN: B07BSWY2K9 | MP3@64 kbps | 9h 56m | 265.27 MB
Author: Thomas King
Narrator: Lorne Cardinal
The Inconvenient Indian is at once a "history" and the complete subversion of a history - in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be "Indian" in North America. Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving the curiously circular tale of the relationship between non-Natives and Natives in the centuries since the two first encountered each other. In the process, King refashions old stories about historical events and figures, takes a sideways look at film and pop culture, relates his own complex experiences with activism, and articulates a deep and revolutionary understanding of the cumulative effects of ever-shifting laws and treaties on Native peoples and lands.

Mahabharata (Indian Art) By Giampaolo Tomassetti, Krishna Dharma
2016 | 130 Pages | ISBN: 9385285149 | PDF | 5 MB
The epic Mahabharata, eulogized and worshiped by devotees worldwide, takes center stage in the artist's current creative repertoire. Tomassetti's paintings, mostly in large size and bold colors, engage with the phenomenal Sanskrit epic of ancient India. As the title suggests it is a mahan (great) narration about bharatbaraga (descendants of Bharat/India), inscribed millennia ago by rishi Vyasadeva, around 400 BCE. Revered as a significant civilizational marker, the Mahabharata is the longest epic poem ever written. In its original, full form, it contains about 1.8 million words in over 100,000 shlokas (couplets) or 200,000 plus individual verse lines and long prose passages. Over the centuries, it has been revised and interpolated in attempts to unravel its historical or compositional layers and continues to be engagingly mysterious.It traverses the struggle for sovereignty between two groups of cousins: the Kauravas and the Pandavas. The intrigues, struggles, and morals underlined in the spiritual narrative are replayed in amazing dramatic imagery in this body of work by artist Giampaolo Tomassetti, also known as JnananjanaDasa.

Pallavi Aiyar, "New Old World: An Indian Journalist Discovers the Changing Face of Europe"
English | ISBN: 125007231X | 2015 | 320 pages | EPUB | 355 KB
After several years documenting the rise of China, award-winning Indian journalist Pallavi Aiyar moved to Brussels, the headquarters of the European Union, to discover a Europe plagued by a financial crisis, and unsure of its place in a world where new Asian challengers are eroding its old and comfortable certainties. With a lively mix of memoir, reportage and analysis, Aiyar takes the reader on a romp across the continent, meeting workaholic Indian diamond merchants in Antwerp, upstart Chinese wine barons in Bordeaux, Sikh farmhands in the Italian countryside, and Indian engineers running offshore energy turbines in Belgium.