Society and ideology
Subtitle: essays in South Asian history presented to Professor K.A. Ballhatchet
By: edited by Peter Robb, in collaboration with K.N. Chaudhuri and Avril Powell.
Contributors: Ballhatchet, Kenneth.; Robb, Peter; Chaudhuri, K. N.; Powell, Avril A.
Series: SOAS studies on South Asia
Publisher: Oxford University Press; School of Oriental and African Studies
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: Ballhatchet, Kenneth.; Ethnicity -- South Asia.; South Asia -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Major publications of K.A. Ballhachet at the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1948-88" (p. viii-x).
Table of contents: title: Texts, communities and the history of change in modern South Asia / Peter Robb; title: From the barbarian and the civilized to the dialectics of colours / K.N. Chaudhuri; title: Approaches to pre-modern Indo-Muslim historical writing / Peter Hardy; title: Artful apostasy? A Mughal mansabdar among the Jesuits  / Avril Powell; title: Colonial perceptions of ethnicity and culture in early nineteenth-century Sri Lanka / John D. Rogers; title: The rhetoric of caste status in modern Sri Lanka / A.P. Kannangara; title: The impact of British rule on religious community  / Peter Robb; title: The Western-educated elites and popular religion / Geoffrey Oddie; title: "Who are your leaders?" Plague, the Raj and the communities in Bombay, 1896-1901 / Ian Catanach; title: The politics of childbirth / Dagmar Engels; title: Historical approaches to communalism / Rosalind O'Hanlon.