Pluralities of Past : Upper Gangetic Valley Through the Millennium
Contents: Hindi/Hindwi in Medieval Times Irfan Habib. 1. The Making of Colonial India: An Intervention to Read the Transfer o Information/Knowledge in a Colonial Society/Sushil Srivastava. 2. India and Italy-Italian Response to India\'s Uprising of 1857/Gita Srivastava. Section I: Ancient India: 3. The Saka Factor in Ancient India/Abhay Kumar Singh. 4. A Comparative Analysis of Terracotta Figurines from Chaindaukha (OCP) with other Sites/Salim Ansari. 5. Sakas and their Contribution to Language and Literature/Shyam Bihari Lal. 6. Mahpajapti Gottaumi: An Observation/Renu Shukla. 7. Buddhist Ecology: Foundation and Values/Anand Singh. 8. USNISA-Siras Kata (A Mahapurusa Laksana) in the Early Buddha Images of India/Sanchita Ghosh. 9. O.C.P. Culture Sites in District Aligarh/Jitendra Singh Naulakha. 10. Further Observations on the Rarity of Busts and of Realistic Portraiture on Early Indian Indigenous Coins/Prashant Srivastava. 11. The Concept of Moksha in Purushartha Scheme and its Contrast with Jain Philosphy of Moksha/Umesh Singh. 12. Psycho-Social Dimension of Indian Slavery: (Intertia, Inequililbrium & Graded Inequality/M. Talib Siddiqui. Section II: Medieval India : 13. The Quran, Nature and Man in Medieval India/P.K. Ghosh. 14. Patronage and Clientage in Medieval India: The Jain Narrative of Vividha-Tirtha-Kalpa/Shalin Jain. 15. Queen Bibi Raji: A Renowned Builder of Medieval Jaunpur/Kamal Akhtar. 16. The Bundela Administration During Bir Singh Deo/Amir Ahmad. 17. Crime Control Under the Mughals/Rupali Yadav. 18. Role of Sisodias During the Khurram\'s Rebellion/Qamre Alam 207 19. Use of Herbs and Medicinal Plants in Curing Diseases During Mughal Era/Amita Singh. 20. Land Revenue System in Bundelkhand (With Special Reference to Datia State)/Naresh Swarnka. 21. Contesting Claims for Tawliyat Custodianship Taj Mahal and the Current Phase of Litigation/Md. Matiur Rehman Khan. 22. Dyarchy, Duality of Authority and Perceptions About the Court of Awadh: A Study of Some Selected Texts/Sabina Kazmi. 23. Cultural Ethos, Practices and Beliefs of the \'Marginalized\' in Late Medieval Delhi and its Environs: A Study of Haft Tamasha of Mirza Muhammad Husain/Qateel Nida Arshi. 24. Upheaval in the Social Life of Delhi During and After 1857: With Special Reference to Dilli ki Jankani text of Khwaja Hasan Nizami/Shaheen Islamuddin. 25. Christian-Muslim Encounters in Northern India: The Issue of Tahrif during the Agra Debate of 1854/Farha Khan. Section III: Modern India: 26. J. Nehru\'s Peasantism: Myth and Reality/S.K. Mittal. 27. Shaykh Ali Hazin: An Iranian Scholar of the 18th Century/S.N.R. Rizvi. 28. Cultural Contribution of An Ijarahdar of the Eighteenth Century: Chihalsutun of Ghazipur/Vandana Saraswati. 29. Benares Under Chait Singh: A New Dimension in English View (1770)/Shreyan Pathak and Shalinil Pathak. 30. Sozkhwani-A Melodic Recitation (Prelude to Muharram Mourning); [under Nawabs of Awadh]/Preeti Awasthi. 31. Role of British Resident in the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir/Tariq Ahmad Shiekh. 32. British Agrarian Policy and the State of Pesantry in U.P. (1880-1920)/Prashant Mishra. 33. Development of Carpet Industry in 19th and 20th Century: A Study of Mirzapur Region/Shah Nawaz Ansari. 34. Dalit Liberation Movement in Uttar Pradesh: 1930-1947/Pradeep Kumar. 35. Contribution of Sheikh Mohd. Abdullah for the Development of Modern Education Among the Indian Muslims Women in 20th Century: A Critical Study/Naiyer Azam. Section IV: Summaries: 36. Goddess Tara in Bhuddhism/Piyush Bhargava. 37. The Influences of Royal Harem on the Politics of the Delhi Sultanatte (1206-1388 A.D.)/Farhat Jahan. 38. Wajid Ali Shah: More Sinned Against the Sinning/Aroop Chakravarti. 39. The Idea of Religious Debate: A Culmination of British Diplomacy/Shahid Pervez. 40. Gandhian Influence on \'Indra Singh\' During Freedom Struggle in the Kumaun Region of Uttarakhand/Neeraj Ruwali.
This volume offers historical research insights into the history of the Upper Gangetic Valley over the millennia. It examines the rule of the Sakas and their contribution to language and literature, the psycho-social dimension of Indian slavery, values of Buddhist ecology, and the concept of moksha in purushartha scheme. It examines the rulers, their systems of land revenue, political administration and crime control in northern India of the medieval times. It discusses interesting encounters like Christian and Muslim encounters in northern India. The writings in Hindi and English take up aspects of the British agrarian policy and the state peasantry in UP, and the Dalit liberation movements for a detailed study.
