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India’s Middle Class
Sanjay Joshi
The category “middle class” can refer to quite different social entities. In the United States, it is often used as a synonym for “ordinary folk.” In the United Kingdom it references an ...
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Literary History of Bengal, 8th-19th century AD
Thibaut d'Hubert
The literary history of Bengal is characterized by a multilingual ecology that nurtured the development of Middle Bengali literature. It is around the turn of the second millennium, during ...
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Modern Bangladesh
Iftekhar Iqbal
Bangladesh is a relatively young state with an agile political heart. Its emergence in 1971 as an independent state accompanied the familiar elements of modern polities, as reflected in ...
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Modern Nepal
Marie Lecomte-Tilouine
Within the study of the modern period of Nepali history, history is considered here both as a narrative with its internal logic, notably the periodization of history produced by Nepali ...
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Origins of British India
Tirthankar Roy
The origin of British India can be traced to warfare in 18th-century Europe and India, trade-related conflicts and disputes, and the East India Company’s business model. The state that ...
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Parsi Traders in Western India, 1600–1900
Lakshmi Subramanian
The Parsi community enjoyed a special status in western India as enterprising traders, who were quick to appreciate the advantages of the British connection especially in driving a huge ...
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