Journal articles: 'India, biography'

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Zagoria, Donald S., and Pranay Gupte. "Mother India: A Political Biography of Indira Gandhi." Foreign Affairs 71, no. 4 (1992): 218. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/20045388.

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Jha, Shefali. "Book review: Rohit De, A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic and Gautam Bhatia, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts." Studies in Indian Politics 8, no. 1 (2020): 118–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2321023020918071.

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Rohit De, A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic. Delhi, India: Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2018. 312 pages. Kindle edition, ₹423. Gautam Bhatia, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts. Noida, Uttar Pradesh: HarperCollins Publishers. 2019. 544 pages. ₹699.

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Alagaraja, Meera, and Kristin Wilson. "The Confluence of Individual Autonomy and Collective Identity in India." Advances in Developing Human Resources 18, no. 1 (2015): 26–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1523422315615090.

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The Problem In India, more household resources are spent on the education of sons than daughters; access to health and education reflects gender inequalities regardless of caste; poor women in India suffer malnourishment, and under- and unemployment. While there exists a steady stream of research on gender disparities and poverty in India, few studies have focused on gender disparities in wealthier communities. Yet, economic development as a whole will be more equal, more sustainable, and more rapid when gender inequalities are addressed. The Solution We explore gender inequity qualitatively through a single biography of an Indian woman, one of the authors. Using the power of cultural differences between researchers; a U.S. American interviewed the Indian researcher, we make sense of a narrative of an Indian woman caught between her desire to pursue education and career and her family’s and community’s expectation that she marry and start her own family. The study offers insights that extend knowledge about the increasing tensions between individual choice and the collective ethic that are experienced in India as the country transitions into a free market economy. The Stakeholders By focusing on the biography of a woman caught between family and community expectations and her own aspirations for education and career, the article highlights the impact of globalization, and macro- and micro-level economic, and sociocultural, forces that produce unique challenges and tensions in a fast growing market-based economy. Public policy makers play an important role in assessing the impact of national human resource development (NHRD) policies and practices that emphasize equal opportunities for women and other marginalized communities in a country such as India.

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Manchanda, Mahima. "Sikh Women’s Biography." South Asia Research 37, no. 2 (2017): 166–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0262728017700203.

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This article examines the biography of Bibi Harnam Kaur, the young co-founder of the Sikh Kanya Mahavidyalaya, established in 1892 in Ferozepur, Punjab as one of the earliest schools for the education of Sikh girls. The opening of this school by her husband, Bhai Takht Singh, raises questions about the extent to which such initiatives reflected the desire of Sikh men and of the Singh Sabha at that time to ensure that their women should become educated to emerge as ideal wives and mothers. The clearly hagiographical biography presents Bibi Harnam Kaur as an extraordinary young woman destined for greatness, but also raises many tensions, contradictions and conflicts hidden below the surface concerning female education in India, which a feminist reading of this biography against the grain seeks to bring out.

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Bhattacharyya, Debjani. "Discovery of India(s): Resisting the National Biography." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 41, no. 3 (2018): 601–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2018.1485621.

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Das, Veena. "Modernity and Biography: Women's Lives in Contemporary India." Thesis Eleven 39, no. 1 (1994): 52–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/072551369403900106.

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Giorgiov, Adrian. "CHARLES FREER ANDREWS. A PARADIGM SHIFTER IN MISSION WORK IN INDIA." Perichoresis 11, no. 1 (2013): 125–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/perc-2013-0006.

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ABSTRACT Charles Freer Andrews is one of the outstanding personalities in the history of Christian missions in India. The description of his portrait and missionary activity is not an easy task, especially because of his involvement in the nationalistic movement in India. Andrews was a revolutionary primarily in the area of missions. He applied some missionary principles which are widely accepted today, but were hardly understood in his time. It is not the purpose of this study to give a biography of Charles Freer Andrews. There are a number of biographical works that deal with it. This study gives only a short account of his biography in terms of dates, places and events. It is the purpose of this study to reflect on Andrews’ work in India and for India as well as on how his contemporaries and later critics evaluated his philosophy, activity, and achievements.

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Stjernholm, Emil. "Visions of Post-independence India in Arne Sucksdorff’s Documentaries." BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies 8, no. 1 (2017): 81–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0974927617699648.

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This article studies two post-war documentary films set in India, Indian Village (1951) and The Wind and the River (1953), directed by the celebrated Swedish filmmaker Arne Sucksdorff. While many scholars have studied these films in relation to Sucksdorff’s biography and Swedish national cinema, less emphasis has been placed on these Indian documentaries in relation to other international documentary work that took place in India during the post-independence period. The excursion to India took place on commission from the Swedish Cooperative Union and Wholesale Society and therefore the films are studied in relation to Charles R. Acland and Haidee Wasson’s notion of “useful cinema.” In doing so, this article emphasizes the didactic ideas behind the production of sponsored film and the way in which ideas of the welfare state were projected onto post-independence India. Reading these documentaries against the grain, this article also addresses the question of how these films affected the authorial discourse surrounding Arne Sucksdorff and conversely what impact his films had among critics and filmmakers in India.

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Brahmbhatt, Sanjaykumar K. "Biographical Literature in Modern Sanskrit Language." HARIDRA 2, no. 06 (2021): 29–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.54903/haridra.v2i06.7733.

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Biographical literature in modem Sanskrit language Biographies of great people have been the source of modem Sanskrit literary creation. Many biographies are available in the form of epic, prose and champu kavyas in Sanskrit literature. There are two master pieces of biographies on the iron man of India, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel written in modem Sanskrit language. These two master pieces are 'Lohpurusavadanam"by Dr. Shivprasad Bharadwaj and "Vallabhcharitam" by Dr. Satyapal Sharma. The first one is complete biography in the form of historical epic and the second one is a biography in the form of prose work. Key words: biography, creation, literature, modem Sanskrit, master pieces, epic and prose work.

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Moggridge, D. E., and Anand Chandavarkar. "Keynes in India: A Study in Economics and Biography." Economic History Review 44, no. 1 (1991): 207. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2597526.

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Staples, James. "Nuancing ‘leprosy stigma’ through ethnographic biography in South India." Leprosy Review 82, no. 2 (2011): 109–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.47276/lr.82.2.109.

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Skidelsky, Robert, and A. Chandavarkar. "Keynes and India: A Study in Economics and Biography." Economic Journal 100, no. 403 (1990): 1330. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2233981.

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Shacham, Ilanit Loewy. "Book Review: Velcheru Narayana Rao, Text and Tradition in South India and David Shulman, Tamil: A Biography." Indian Economic & Social History Review 55, no. 3 (2018): 458–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0019464618782744.

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Rahul Kumar Mohanta. "Revisiting Deshapran Birendranath Sasmal." Creative Launcher 4, no. 1 (2019): 74–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2019.4.1.12.

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The historical literature dealing with memoirs, biographies, auto-biographies, diaries etc. is fairly rich and it has no doubt opened new dimensions in discovering areas of research. In India the tradition of historical biography is bears a meaning because it can be traced from ancient time down to our age. It is a fact that when a nation seeks its identity, it has to go back deep in to past. The biographies seem to be valuable in a way that they tempt us for enquiry to answer questions or queries about past human actions as evidences particularly in terms of our social formation and nation making. The frame work of history is one of thought and the biography is one of narration, which revolves round the life story of an individual from birth to death, subject to interpretation. India is very rich for a galaxy of biographies of many personalities and studies on them have brought to light several points to look at Indian history from different perspectives. In respect of national history but also in terms of regional one the study of biographies are no less important to find out the missing links of our modern historical research irrespective of time, place and person.

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Kumarasingham, Harshan. "India, a Portrait: An Intimate Biography of 1.2 Billion People." Asian Affairs 43, no. 1 (2012): 134–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03068374.2012.642548.

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Codell, Julie F. "Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History (review)." Biography 29, no. 2 (2006): 375–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bio.2006.0032.

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Wright, Alexander. "Duke of Wellington: Duke Frederick of York's expedition to Holland 1794-1795 and the military campaign in India in 1799-1805, the initial stage of his career." nauka.me, no. 2 (2022): 57. http://dx.doi.org/10.18254/s241328880021994-7.

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The article discusses the initial stage of the biography of Field Marshal Wellington. In historical literature, much attention is paid to the Pyrenees campaign, in which Wellington commanded British troops. The article examines the personality of the duke and his military path in Holland and India.

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Guha–Thakurta, Tapati. "“For the Greater Glory of Indian Art”: The Life of an Endangered Art Treasure in Modern India." International Journal of Cultural Property 11, no. 1 (2002): 1–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0940739102771555.

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The essay narrates the biography of a single art object—acclaimed in recent history as a “masterpiece” of ancient Indian sculpture—to invoke the larger spectrum of practices and discourses that came to constitute the field of art history in modern India. It explores the shifting locations and aesthetic trajectories that marked the transformation of this artifact from a curious archaeological “antiquity” into a national “art-treasure” and icon of Indian femininity, and later even into “a travelling emissary of ancient Indian art and culture.” On the one hand, the spectrum of travels of this object provides an ideal instance for mapping over the twentieth century the changing colonial, national and international stature of Indian art. On the other hand, its career also pointedly reveals the clash of contending claims and the politics of “return” and “restitution” that have attended the nationalization and artistic consecration of many such objects.

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Peers, Douglas M. "‘Those Noble Exemplars of the True Military Tradition’; Constructions of the Indian Army in the Mid-Victorian Press." Modern Asian Studies 31, no. 1 (1997): 109–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00016954.

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This paper is directed first at identifying where and by whom military influences or topics manifested themselves in the periodical pressŉs coverage of India in the period up to the Indian Rebellion. How such manifestations changed over time, as well as the convergence of Anglo-Indian and British newspapers and magazines on Indian topics, will form an important component of this study. Stemming from these initial enquiries, I will further suggest that the model often employed to comprehend such representations —namely ‘orientalism’ —is, as it is often configured, too simplistic and reductionist to account for all the forces at work in the production of images of India. Instead, the mid-Victorian image of India was produced by a very fractured discourse. Racial stereotypes and affirmations of British superiority were certainly to the forefront, but these were frequently inflected by quite separate agendaŉs, such as the military's pursuit of political and professional status and influence, publishers’ search for profits, and the quest for suitable middle-class role models. Moreover, it was a discourse constrained by the dominant contemporary literary conventions and tropes, notably the historical romance in fiction and didacticism in history and biography. Yet there is one strand that runs through these various agendas and literary strategies and that is the one provided by the Indian army. India was by the third decade of the nineteenth-century as much a military as it was a commercial site. In 1850, the then reigning governor-general, Lord Dalhousie, was reminded by John Lawrence of this fact when the latter insisted that ‘public opinion is essentially military in India. Military views, feelings and interests are therefore paramount’.

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Fhlathuin, Maire ni. ""That solitary Englishman": W.H. Sleeman and the Biography of British India." Victorian Review 27, no. 1 (2001): 69–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vcr.2001.0003.

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Head, Raymond. "Holst and India (I) ‘Maya’ to ‘Sita’." Tempo, no. 158 (September 1986): 2–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040298200022506.

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Everyone Knows that several of Gustav Holst's early works are concerned with subject-matter derived from Indian mythology. The most significant, though by no means the only, examples are the operas Sita and Savitri, the cantata The Cloud Messenger, and the various settings of Hymns from the Rig Veda. His knowledge and use of that subject-matter, however, has received little critical appraisal. Conventional formulations such as that in John Vinton's Dictionary of 20th Century Music (‘his studies of Sanskrit … introduced him to Eastern thought’), themselves derived from Imogen Holst's biography of her father, have been allowed to stand unscrutinized. There has, in particular, been little or no discussion of the relationship between Holst's sources, compositional style, and creative achievement in these works – which constitute, after all, his first really personal contribution to European music. Yet these are vitally important considerations if the music of Holst's ‘Indian’ period is to be rescued from the picturesque. Just as important as the literary and philosophical aspects is the cultural context; a discussion of that will help to explain why Holst should have been looking towards India in the first place.

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Abraham, Jose. "Telling Lives in India." American Journal of Islam and Society 23, no. 4 (2006): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.35632/ajis.v23i4.1589.

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Telling Lives in India: Biography, Autobiography, and Life History is editedby David Arnold (professor of South Asian history) and Stuart Blackburn(research associate), both of the School of Oriental and African Studies(SOAS), London. The intellectual contributions of the editors and nine otherdistinguished scholars, all of whom belong to a range of academic disciplines,make this collection of eleven essays a remarkable and highly readablework on life histories – biographies, autobiographies, and oral accounts– from India. This volume grew out of the “Life Histories” project establishedat SOAS and out of various workshops held between 1998 and 2000at SOAS, the London School of Economics, Oxford University, CambridgeUniversity, and the British Library.In their well-thought-out and written “Introduction,” the editors explainwhy this volume was published. According to them, for a very long time thelife history approach has been gaining wide acceptance among scholarsbelonging to various disciplines, such as women’s studies and black studies,due to a “growing distrust of ‘meta-narratives’” and a firm desire to “movetowards a more nuanced, multi-stranded understanding of society and agreater recognition of the heterogeneity of human lives and lived ...

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Li, Xican. "Faxian’s Biography and His Contributions to Asian Buddhist Culture: Latest Textual Analysis." Asian Culture and History 8, no. 1 (2015): 38. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/ach.v8n1p38.

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To provide more updated and accurate information on Faxian, an eminent monk of ancient China’s Jin Dynasty (266–421 CE), the present study conducts a literature survey to analyze his native region. It is found that Faxian was actually born in modern Linfen City in Shanxi Province, not Xiangyuan County as previously described. In his childhood, he became a novice monk and was compassionate toward the poor. To search out and collect Buddhist scriptures, Faxian undertook a westward pilgrimage to India from 399 to 412 CE. During this hard and dangerous pilgrimage, Faxian burst into tears three times. Finally, he succeeded in bringing a trove of Buddhist scriptures back to China from India. For the rest of his life, along with Buddhabhadra, he was engaged in translating Buddhist scriptures into Chinese. These translated scriptures were highly beneficial for Chinese Buddhism, especially the precepts (sila-vinaya) and Mahāyāna works. Faxian himself is demonstrated to have been a Mahāyāna Buddhist follower. His pilgrimage experience was recorded in his work “Record of Buddhist Kingdoms”, which provides important information about ancient Asian kingdoms. Faxian’s story promoted Asian tourism relevant to Buddhist culture. As a pioneer in the 4th century, Faxian started a new era of westbound pilgrimage to ancient India, including the similar pilgrimages of Xuanzang and Yijing in the 7th century. Even today, Faxian continues to strengthen friendship among Asian countries.

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Harms, Arne. "The Political Biography of an Earthquake: Aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India." South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 42, no. 6 (2019): 1210–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856401.2019.1683676.

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Smith, James. "The political biography of an earthquake – aftermath and Amnesia in Gujarat, India." Medicine, Conflict and Survival 34, no. 1 (2017): 46–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13623699.2017.1420411.

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Печенкина, Юлия Владимировна. "DR. STHAPATI V. GANAPATI - THEORIST OF ANCIENT INDIAN ARCHITECTURE." Академический вестник УралНИИпроект РААСН, no. 1(48) (March 30, 2021): 92–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.25628/uniip.2021.48.1.016.

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Статья посвящена исследованию биографии известного во всем мире архитектора, скульптора и автора множества книг и научной литературы, подробно описывающих принципы древней индийской архитектуры, В. Ганапати Стхапати. Он сделал множество открытий в традиционном искусстве и архитектуре Индии, ставил цель распространить по всему миру древнее индийское знание о проектировании и строительстве различных гражданских и жилых зданий, приносящих человечеству счастье и благополучие на всех уровнях. The article is devoted to the research of the biography of the world-famous architect, sculptor and author of many books and scientific literature describing in detail the principles of ancient Indian architecture Dr. V. Ganapati Sthapati. He was making many discoveries in the traditional art and architecture of India. His goal was to spread the ancient Indian knowledge about the design and construction of various civil and residential buildings that bring happiness and well-being to humanity at all levels.

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Kashin, Valeriy P. "Mamata Banerjee – the Leader of Bengal." Asia and Africa Today, no. 8 (2023): 32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31857/s032150750027142-8.

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The article is written in the genre of a political portrait and dedicated to Mamata Banerjee, West Bengal chief minister and one of the key figures in modern India politics. The formation of Mamata as a person and a political leader, her leadership style, her priorities, the results of her activities and problems related are in the spotlight of the author’s attention. A student activist, a party functionary, a deputy of Lok Sabha, the founder and president of All India Trinamool Congress, a minister of Central Government and then the chief minister of West Bengal are the milestones of her outstanding political biography. Being an irreconcilable opponent of Narendra Modi and as well as of the conservative Bharatiya Janata Party, Mamata Banerji makes efforts to build an alliance between the opposition parties and hopes to lead it to the victory during the parliament election in April-May 2024. However, her initiative faces the resistance of the leaders of certain national and regional political organisations, which see Mamata as their competitor. Mamata Banerjee is still optimistic and continues her tough negotiations with Indian politicians.

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Cai, Jiafeng, and Yuan Tao. "A study on the biography of master’s life – A. von Staël-Holstein." OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii" 2023, no. 1-1 (2023): 96–107. http://dx.doi.org/10.31166/voprosyistorii202301statyi17.

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Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Stael von Holstein is a famous orientalist, buddhist, linguist and social activist. He has served as Professor of Sanskrit at Peking University, Professor of Chinese Literature at Harbin University and Institute of China-India Research (Beijing) successively, and his academic achievements are profound and profound. This article is hoped that this research will increase the audience for this famous scholar.

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Lhost, Elizabeth. "To Flower and Fructify: Rational Religion and the Seeds of Islam in Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) Late-career Religious Non-fiction." Journal of Islamic Studies 31, no. 1 (2019): 31–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jis/etz032.

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Abstract Known primarily for his popular and moralizing novels, Nazir Ahmad’s (1830–1912) accomplishments as a scholar of Islam are often omitted from his biography. Yet in addition to working for the British Government of India, participating in Muslim social, political, and educational initiatives on the subcontinent, and demonstrating his linguistic and legal acumen by translating the law codes of British India into vernacular Urdu, Nazir Ahmad also translated religious texts and penned his own original compositions on themes of religion, society, and ethics. Reviewing the ideas presented in his comprehensive three-volume al-Ḥuqūq va-l-farāʾiż (1905–6) and his shorter catechism Ijtihād (1906), this article outlines Nazir Ahmad’s theory of worldly religion and introduces his concept of Islamic humanism in response to ulema-centric approaches to Islamic revival and reform in British India.

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Baier, Karl. "Swami Vivekananda.Reform Hinduism, Nationalism and Scientistic Yoga." Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 5, no. 1 (2019): 230–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.30965/23642807-00501012.

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Abstract This article deals with Narendranath Datta (1863–1902) more known under his monastic name Swami Vivekananda. Vivekananda was a representative of the Bengal renaissance, a movement that is famous for its contribution to the modernization of India. Vivekananda became one of the architects of neo-Hinduism and a pioneer of modern yoga. His ideas also contributed to the rising Hindu nationalism. The article outlines his biography and religious socialization. A closer look will be given to his concept of religion and the way he relates it with India`s national identity. A second major part of the article examines Vivekananda’s understanding of religious experience that is crucial for his yoga philosophy and his philosophy of religion in general.

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GLYNN, IRIAL. "‘An Untouchable in the Presence of Brahmins’ Lord Wavell's Disastrous Relationship with Whitehall During His Time as Viceroy to India, 1943–7." Modern Asian Studies 41, no. 3 (2007): 639–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x06002460.

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The release of Peter Clarke's biography of Sir Stafford Cripps in 2002, with much of its focus on the protagonist's time in India, meant that a thorough reappraisal of Lord Wavell's time as Viceroy to India was clearly needed. By giving an impartial account of Wavell's relationship with Whitehall during his time as Viceroy this article will also focus on such significant events as the 1945 Simla Conference, the 1946 Cabinet Mission and Wavell's dismissal in late 1946/early 1947. It is hoped that by the end of this article readers will be able to judge Wavell's overall performance as Viceroy and decide for themselves whether he deserved to be replaced by Mountbatten or not.

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Campany, Robert Ford. "Speaking of Monks: Religious Biography in India and China. Phyllis Granoff , Koichi Shinohara." History of Religions 35, no. 4 (1996): 341–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/463437.

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Lyn Miller. "An American in Gandhi's India: The Biography of Satyanand Stokes (review)." Quaker History 99, no. 1 (2010): 50–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/qkh.0.0031.

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Prasad, Goli Penchala, Vinod Kumar Lavaniya, and Mukesh Bhagwanrao Chincholikar. "Biography of Pandit Divi Gopalacharlu: A revolutionary reformer of Ayurveda in preindependent India." Journal of Research in Ayurvedic Sciences 8, Suppl 1 (2024): S48—S55. http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/jras.jras_349_23.

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Abstract Pandit Divi Gopalacharlu was a legendary Ayurvedic physician who provided valuable service to Ayurveda and made a remarkable contribution to the upliftment of Ayurveda. His primary education and Sanskrit studies were held in Machalipatnam, and he completed his studies at Mahant school in Tirupati and was conferred with the title “Acharya.” He completed his Ayurveda education at Maharajah’s Ayurveda Oriental School in Mysore. The British Government recruited him as a special plague officer in 1895. He succeeded in curing and controlling the disease. His services were applauded across India for his exceptional contribution and successful management of an emergency epidemiological condition through Ayurveda. Later, he worked as Chief Physician at a free dispensary hospital of Kanyaka Parameswari Devasthanam and Charities. He established the Ashramam of Ayurveda. He started teaching Ayurveda in Telugu and tried to create awareness among people about Ayurveda. He started Ayurvedashrama Granthamala and published nearly 20 Ayurvedic texts. He wrote translations and commentaries in Telugu for the classical Ayurvedic texts. He also started a journal, Dhanvantari, to publish various research outcomes of Ayurveda. He deciphered many inscriptions that had medical importance. He was honored with many awards and worked as the president of many committees. Through Kanyaka Parameswari Devasthanam and Charities, he started a free hospital and Ayurveda college. He established Madras Ayurveda Laboratory and started manufacturing and supplying Ayurvedic medicines all over India. He prepared hundreds of medicines and set standards for the preparations. This article covers his contributions and scholarliness in detail.

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Framke, Maria. "Shopping Ideologies for Independent India? Taraknath Das’s engagement with Italian Fascism and German National Socialism." Itinerario 40, no. 1 (2016): 55–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s016511531600005x.

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While looking at the world’s politics and ideologies for a vision of the future nation state, India’s anti-British freedom activists and intellectuals remained deeply ambivalent about drawing lessons from Europe’s experience of Fascism and National Socialism. Indian nationalists cautiously admired elements of National Socialist and Fascist ideology and expressed their distress with imperialist expansionism, racism, and anti-Semitism that accompanied the two regimes. This article draws on the exemplary “global biography” of one such Indian internationalist thinker, Taraknath Das, to investigate interwar Indian preoccupation with Fascism and National Socialism in articulating the discursive ground of Indian nationalism.

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Giri, B. P. "Colonial Displacement and Subjectivity in V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas." Literary Studies 28, no. 01 (2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/litstud.v28i01.39549.

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Judging by the critical acclaim it has received over the years, V. S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas (1961) has become essential reading in the canons of postwar British and Anglophone postcolonial fiction. Based closely on the life of Naipaul’s father, it can be read as a novel of Indian indenture diaspora par excellence (Mishra, 1-23), as it chronicles the biography of Mohun Biswas and his life-long struggle to free himself from the shadow of the Tulsis, a powerful landowning family into which he marries, as reflected in his attempts to build a house for himself and secure a stable livelihood and source of income. The early part of the novel sketches a picture of the Indian indentured diasporic life in Trinidad, characterized by utter desolation, poverty, and marginality. In a chapter titled “Pastoral” that is anything but bucolic in its tenor, the reader is provided with an occasional glimpse into Biswas’s maternal grandfather’s uprooting from India:

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Link, Ann-Christine, Yuanzao Zhu, and Raphael Karutz. "Quantification of Resilience Considering Different Migration Biographies: A Case Study of Pune, India." Land 10, no. 11 (2021): 1134. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land10111134.

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Urbanization proceeds globally and is often driven by migration. Simultaneously, cities face severe exposure to environmental hazards such as floods and heatwaves posing threats to millions of urban households. Consequently, fostering urban households’ resilience is imperative, yet often impeded by the lack of its accurate assessment. We developed a structural equation model to quantify households’ resilience, considering their assets, housing, and health properties. Based on a household survey (n = 1872), we calculate the resilience of households in Pune, India with and without migration biography and compare different sub-groups. We further analyze how households are exposed to and affected by floods and heatwaves. Our results show that not migration as such but the type of migration, particularly, the residence zone at the migration destination (formal urban or slum) and migration origin (urban or rural) provide insights into households’ resilience and affectedness by extreme weather events. While on average, migrants in our study have higher resilience than non-migrants, the sub-group of rural migrants living in slums score significantly lower than the respective non-migrant cohort. Further characteristics of the migration biography such as migration distance, time since arrival at the destination, and the reasons for migration contribute to households’ resilience. Consequently, the opposing generalized notions in literature of migrants either as the least resilient group or as high performers, need to be overcome as our study shows that within one city, migrants are found both at the top and the bottom of the resilience range. Thus, we recommend that policymakers include migrants’ biographies when assessing their resilience and when designing resilience improvement interventions to help the least resilient migrant groups more effectively.

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Ashford, David. "John Company: The Act of Incorporation." CounterText 6, no. 1 (2020): 165–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/count.2020.0186.

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‘John Company: The Act of Incorporation’ is the first episode in a series of twelve open-form pieces on the history of the British East India Company, and relates legal innovations behind the inception of the Company to the development of forms of Artificial Intelligence in Elizabethan England. The poem references primary material contained in the seventeenth-century anthology Purchas his Pilgrimes and in the East India Company's archives now housed in the British Library, and draws on research conducted by Kevin LaGrandeur in his book Androids and Intelligent Networks in Early Modern Literature and Culture (Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, 2013), and by Vladimir I. Braginsky in his essay ‘Towards the Biography of Hamzah Fansuri: When Did Hamzah Live? Data From His Poems and Early European Accounts’, Archival 57 (Paris, 1999), 135–75.

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Szurlej, Tatiana. "From Heroic Durga to the Next Victim of an Oppressive Patriarchal Indian Culture: Too Many Variants of Phoolan Devi’s Biography." Cracow Indological Studies 20, no. 2 (2018): 257–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.12797/cis.20.2018.02.12.

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Phoolan Devi (10.08.1963–25.07.2001), the famous Bandit Queen still appears in stories about famous Indian women. However, while in India, mainly among poor villagers, she is usually described as a heroic defender of the poorest, in the West Phoolan is seen primarily as another victim of Indian patriarchal culture. Moreover, although most of books about Phoolan are based on interviews with her, every version of her biography differs from one another, which raises the question whether these differences are the consequence of a conscious manipulation of a person who tries to justify certain dark aspects of her life, since the famous dacoit owes her fame to her bloody act of revenge on Thakurs in the Behmai village, which was the biggest crime committed by bandits in India until then. The most popular story about Phoolan’s life is the film Bandit Queen made in 1994 by Shekhar Kapur, based on the book India’s Bandit Queen. The True Story of Phoolan Devi by Mala Sen, who is also the author of the screenplay. The autobiography of Phoolan Devi, who tried to stop the release of the Bandit Queen, claiming that it shows a false story, was written in response to those two works. By constructing her image in the autobiography, Phoolan Devi tries to appear as a very strong woman who could achieve a lot, in spite of adverse conditions. Yet it is hard to resist the impression that the autobiography of Phoolan Devi, despite of its very realistic elements, is to some extent a false testimony. The question remains whether it was the publisher, who decided to construct the story this way to satisfy the tastes of the Western readers and respond to their needs, just like the movie of Shekhar Kapur, or maybe Phoolan, deliberately or unknowingly, presented herself as a victim in search of sympathy after the massacre in Behmai.

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Stevens, Leonie, and Lynette Russell. "The Dutch East India Company (VOC) Tasman Map and Australia: Competing Interests, Myth Making, and an Australian Icon." Thematic Issue: The Social Lives of Maps, Volume 1 92-93 (August 10, 2022): 72–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1091245ar.

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The floor of the entrance to the Mitchell Library vestibule, which is part of the State Library of New South Wales, displays a stunning mosaic 1939-1941 reproduction of a seventeenth century map recording Abel Tasman’s two journeys of 1642 and 1644. It charts the west, north and southern coasts of the Australian continent, but is incomplete, thus representing the historical moment between an imagined Terra Australis Incognita, and the final survey of the east coast which presaged British colonisation. The original Tasman map, also held by the Mitchell library and currently undergoing restoration, has a strange and chequered biography. This paper explores the myths associated with what is known colloquially as the Bonaparte Tasman map, in honour of its last owner Prince Roland Bonaparte, a nephew of Napoleon. We examine its contested origins and role as an agent of Dutch East India Company imperial ambitions, relegation to forgotten cast-off when that empire collapsed, Bonaparte’s desire to gift it to the nascent Australian Commonwealth as a symbol of new nationhood, and the international subterfuge involved in its acquisition by not by the nation, but the State Library of NSW. Analysis of what was known of the map in the decades prior to its arrival in Australia challenges the conventional narratives, and we propose the biography of the Tasman map (and its embodiment in the Mitchell Library vestibule mosaic) is a study in imperialism, colonialism, federation, and power.

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Tøllefsen, Inga. "Art of Living." International Journal for the Study of New Religions 2, no. 2 (2011): 255–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/ijsnr.v2i2.255.

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This article investigates the Art of Living movement both globally and locally, focusing especially on the movement in Norway, and in its founding country India. Art of Living is localized as a New Religious Movement (NRM) within the larger framework of Hinduism and contemporary new religiosity. I trace the movement’s key practices and the courses and initiatives they offer, as well as presenting a short biography of the movement’s founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar. A selection of the most important legitimization strategies utilized by the Art of Living are discussed, along with an analysis of Ravi Shankar as a religious entrepreneur.

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Sequeira, Rovel. "Don't Ask, Won't Tell? Sexual Science and the Case Biography of Sodomy in Colonial India." Modernism/modernity 29, no. 1 (2021): 145–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mod.2021.0075.

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Kings, Graham. "Book Review: Henry Martyn (1781–1812), Scholar and Missionary to India and Persia: A Biography." International Bulletin of Missionary Research 24, no. 4 (2000): 176–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/239693930002400410.

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Kabir, Ashraful. "Biography of a snake charmer in Saidpur, Bangladesh." MOJ Biology and Medicine 3, no. 4 (2018): 151–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/mojbm.2018.03.00090.

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Though Saidpur Upazila under Nilphamari district is very small but here pigeonry, goat rearing, herbal treatments, circus team, monkey charmer, horse race and snake charmers are available. Snake charmers are not living well in this modern era. Their kids are not safe at home for snake rearing. In Savar, Dhaka there is a snake market where some tribal people buy it as food. People who are engaged with snake catching and snake-based superstitions go to that market. They support medical science and are waiting to get a good job. Who take snakes as food they say its meat is very hot. Depending on body size its price varies from 1000 to 2000 taka of a poisonous snake. People of the circus team, zoo committee and intersex people collects snakes from the snake charmer. Tradition of snake charming in Bangladesh is very ancient. Once upon a time most of the villagers liked it. Some peoples were considered as bede or tribal people who caught snakes from the jungle. Though Bangladesh is a small country but its 80 species of snakes are remarkable. Within these only cobras, kraits and sea snakes are poisonous and most of the cobras are bicellate type. Common vine snakes, tree snake and rat snakes are very common and nonpoisonous snakes of Bangladesh. After catching a snake, the charmer cuts the poison sac or rubs both fangs of the snakes. As poison of the snakes are digestive juice so that those snakes can suffer digestive ailments and ultimately die. The temperature of Rangpur division of Bangladesh is 350-370F which is suitable for snakes’ survival. There were 30.77% poisonous and 69.23% non poisonous snakes’ in Bangladesh in three families.1 In Bangladesh out of 82 species 28 are venomous and 12 are sea snakes.2 Estimates indicate ˃5 million bites annually by venomous snakes worldwide where ˃12500 deaths.3,4 Some research work have completed on snakes taxonomy, status, distribution and epidemiology of snake bite.5‒7 India has the highest number of snake bites in the world with 35000-50000 annually according to World Health Organization.8,9 In Bangladesh this is 4.3per 100000 an annual incidence and case fatality is 20%.10

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Abibullaeva, Elmira E. "Ismail Gasprinsky in India (transliteration and analysis of the sketch “Maarif Yolunda” (“On the Way to Education”)." Crimean Historical Review, no. 1 (2020): 168–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/kio.2020.1.168-179.

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Biography of a well-known Crimean Tatar educator and publisher Ismail Gasprinsky (1851–1914) was studied by many researchers, but some aspects of his life and activity needs a more detailed study. Analysis of his biographical sketch – “Maarif Yolunda” (“On the Way to Education”), which was published on the pages of “Terdzhiman” newspaper in 1912, opens up the new details in his attempts of implementation his humanistic ideas and activities in life. The article also analyses specific facts of his visit to India, which had the mission of enlightenment of people and polishing his new methods of teaching. The investigation opens up the new aspects of materials, gives additional information about the history of earlier unknown separate museum subjects.

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HANNA, NELLY. "A Cairo Court Register." International Journal of Middle East Studies 39, no. 1 (2007): 3–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743807222500.

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People mentioned in court records tend to be anonymous, but Ja'far Pasha is known from several different sources: his biography in al-Muhibbi's Khulasat al-athar shows him to be a man of learning and a successful military leader Dutch East India Company records mention him as Ottoman pasha in Yemen from 1607 to 1616 and Egyptian historical sources place him in 1617 or 1618 as governor of Egypt, where he died of the plague which bears his name (fasl Ja'far). The above court case sheds light on Ja'far Pasha's economic dealings, indicating that he was doing business in Egypt years before being appointed governor.

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Sarma, Dhurjjati. "Marginality in Literary Discourses: Conversations with the Dead in Rabisankar Bal’s Dozakhnama." Space and Culture, India 8, no. 1 (2020): 59–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v8i1.861.

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Rabisankar Bal’s Bengali novel Dozakhnama: Conversations in Hell (translated into English and published in 2012) is an imaginative biography of Mirza Ghalib (1797-1869), and Saadat Hasan Manto (1912-1955) recreated through their conversations from their respective graves. The narrative is enmeshed with the respective historical periods inhabited by the two writers, the first war of Indian independence in 1857 and the Partition in 1947 respectively. It is as if Ghalib bares his heart out to Manto from his grave, while the latter in turn realises that his life too has witnessed a similar kind of socio-cultural and literary marginalisation that destiny determined for both of them. The ‘narrator’ pieces together the traces left behind by the dead themselves and thereby constructs a compelling narrative that resonates in the larger literary and cultural life of India, along with the associated marginalisation of history, politics, and linguistic identities of their times. This study undertakes a comparative examination of the ‘lives’ of both Manto and Ghalib as recreated in the novel through the textual traces left behind by the persons themselves.

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Gutmann, Raphaël. "BEHENJI : A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF MAYAWATI, Ajoy Bose, New Delhi, Penguin Books India, 2008, 277 pages." Politique étrangère Eté, no. 2 (2009): XV. http://dx.doi.org/10.3917/pe.092.0426o.

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Gibson, Mary Ellis. "HENRY MARTYN AND ENGLAND’S CHRISTIAN EMPIRE: REREADING JANE EYRE THROUGH MISSIONARY BIOGRAPHY." Victorian Literature and Culture 27, no. 2 (1999): 419–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s106015039927204x.

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IN 1814 THE YOUNG Thomas Babington Macaulay tried his hand at the couplet to memorialize one of his Evangelical family’s heroes. Henry Martyn, chaplain to the British East India Company, had died in 1812 on his way home from duties in the east. With an adolescent’s enthusiasm for battle Macaulay engaged the tropes of spiritual quest and violent conquest that accompanied the evangelical spirit. To Martyn’s efforts he attributed, “Eternal trophies! Not with carnage red, / Not stained with tears by hapless captives shed, / But trophies of the Cross!” (281). Military violence gives way to conquest in a higher sphere, the world of the mission field. Nearly a half century later George Eliot evoked Martyn’s spiritual heroism at the outset of her career as a fiction writer. In Scenes of Clerical Life, Janet Dempster finds the inspiration to reform her life by reading the Memoir of Henry Martyn. Martyn’s example nerves her to engage in self-sacrifice and is the catalyst for her return to the scene of domestic violence; in an act of self-conquest Janet assumes the role of model wife and forgiving Christian.

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Choudaraju, Dr Neelima. "Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies the Birth of an Authentic Indian Diasporic Icon." SMART MOVES JOURNAL IJELLH 7, no. 11 (2019): 12. http://dx.doi.org/10.24113/ijellh.v7i11.10138.

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The South Asian diaspora has been in motion for centuries, far before large parts of the region came under the rule of the British East India Company, and later the Crown itself. Within nations themselves, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, physical features, and religion, among many other things, work to shape unique experience. Any notion of South Asian, or even Indian, “authenticity” is fraught from the start. Authenticity is contextually specific in practice, and yet theorized in broad terms. Identity is overwhelmingly intersectional, and so any notion of essentialism, while an interesting thought experiment, is largely useless and untrue to human experience. Familiarized authenticity sells; radical and nuanced authenticity is a risk. It is essential then to consider the modes of canonization, and how and why certain authors are given the powerful title of “authentically South Asian.” As such Lahiri’s success is dependent on her work and her image remaining universal enough that innumerable versions of authenticity may be placed upon her. This paper explores why she functions as a fruitful case study for the construction of Indian diasporic authenticity by looking at her biography, and prolific career. It also provides an alternate analysis of agency she and her agent have in this situation by considering the para text of her novel Interpreter of Maladies.

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