Jumbos and Jumping Devils

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nisha P R
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of

Jumbos and Jumping Devils is an original and pioneering exploration of not only the social history of the subcontinent but also of performance and popular culture. The domain of analysis is entirely novel and opens up a bolder approach of laying a new field of historical enquiry of South Asia. Trawling through an extraordinary set of sources such as colonial and post-colonial records, newspaper reports, unpublished autobiographies, private papers, photographs, and oral interviews, the author brings out a fascinating account of the transnational landscape of physical cultures, human and animal performers, and the circus industry. This book should be of interest to a wide range of readers from history, sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies to analysts of history of performance and sports in the subcontinent.

The Social History of Alcohol as Portrayed in the Comics up to the End of the Prohibition Era

1986 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Lambert ◽  
Stephen Israelstam
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
The United States ◽  
Considerable Effect ◽  
Comic Strips ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media

The mass media tend to shape the values and opinions of their audience as well as reflect the culture in which they exist. The comics have long been an integral part of the media, appealing to a wide range of age and social class. As such, they could have considerable effect on attitudes and behaviours regarding alcohol consumption. In this paper, we examine the comic strips appearing in the daily newspapers before, during and up to the end of the Prohibition era in the United States, to see how alcohol was portrayed during this period when its manufacture and sale were prohibited.

Narrative Pasts

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Gulati Balachandran
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
The Social ◽  
Commercial World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Narrow State ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Literary Materials

Narrative Pasts explores the narrative power of texts—genealogical, historical, and biographical—in creating communities. It retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social, and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the book reveals the importance of learned Muslim men in imparting a distinct regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The prominence of Gujarat’s maritime location has often oriented the study of Gujarat towards the commercial world of the western Indian Ocean world. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book departs from the narrow state-centred visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat’s sultanate and Mughal past with the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.

scholarly journals Social conflicts in Ukraine XIX century in historiography and sources

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 203
Author(s):  
Tetiana Lytvynova
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Sharp Change ◽  
Social Conflicts ◽  
Selective Approach ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of the article was to identify the historiographic tradition of highlighting social conflicts in Ukrainian society of the nineteenth century. Using the methods of historiographic analysis and synthesis made it possible to ascertain that in modern Ukrainian historica science the modern period is still considered mainly from the perspective of the concept of Ukrainian national revival, while the specifics of social processes continue to be reproduced at the level of historiography of the ХIX–ХХ centuries. The main result was the consideration of several persistent historiographic myths that explain the relationship between noble landlords and serfs exclusively in the categories of class struggle. The desire to perceive and reconstruct peasant-noble relations only from such an angle of view precluded the factor of chance in these conflicts, their criminal component. Scientific novelty is determined by the fact that on the basis of archival sources an attempt has been made to show the vulnerability of such a perception of landowner-peasant interaction, the variety of causes and motives of social conflicts. It is argued that popular protests were not directly related to the deterioration of the situation of peasants, but were the result, first of all, of a sharp change in their legal and social status. It is noted that in the historiography of the New History of Ukraine the problem of intraclass conflicts was not even posed. This applies to all social groups, which in Ukrainian historiography are shown as extremely consolidated communities. Attention is drawn to the fact that historians often demonstrate a selective approach to sources, leaving behind the scenes episodes of friendly, solidary relations between landowners and peasants, frequent cases of a breakdown of mutual consent, refusal of peasants to be released, and examples of mutual assistance. The conclusion and practical significance of the study is that modern approaches in historical science require abandoning the extremes in interpreting the social history of Ukraine. It is necessary to pay attention to the reconstruction of the social situation, taking into account the specifics of the relationship between all participants in the agrarian process in the prereform Ukrainian village, to take into account a wide range of social relationships, the essence of conflicts and the circumstances of their occurrence. Type of article: analytical.

Book review: Sheila Zurbrigg, Epidemic Malaria and Hunger in Colonial Punjab: Weakened by Want—The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 322-324
Author(s):  
Imrana Qadeer
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

Sheila Zurbrigg, Epidemic Malaria and Hunger in Colonial Punjab: Weakened by Want—The Social History of Health and Medicine in South Asia, Taylor and Francis Books, Routledge, Abingdon, NY, 2019, 470 pp, ₹1,337, ISBN 9780367247300

Imagining Selves and Inventing Festival Sriwijaya

1999 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy P. Daniels
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
New Order ◽  
Cultural Discontinuity ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Factions ◽  
History Of

Clifford Geertz, in his discussion of the social history of an East Central Javanese town, described how rural migrants attempted to make sense of modern elections and political factions by applying old systems of meanings. As people adjusted to the evolving social conditions of new urban contexts, new knowledge supposedly emerged to order social relations. Yet he observed that in the 1950s this rarely was the case; usually a sense of vagueness and incoherence persisted. Similarly, Geertz's analysis of a Javanese funeral concluded that the ritual “failed” and consequently tensions persisted and intensified as a result of societal and cultural discontinuity; the social and the cultural were moving in opposite directions. Old cultural notions did not tend to give way to new notions more adept at effecting social solidarity. The contest over whose voice, whose sense of self and image of post-colonial Indonesia would prevail eventually culminated in the bloodbath of 1965–66, which marked the abrupt end of the Old Order and the birth of the Suhartoled New Order regime.

Zwischen Verfolgung und Eingliederung

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Weineck
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Social History ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The State ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Agents ◽  
Dominant Narratives

The history of the Kızılbaş-Alevis in the Ottoman Empire is often remembered and written as a history of persecution and oppression. This study opens up a perspective on the Ottoman state and the Kızılbaş-Alevis beyond such dominant narratives. It approaches the period between the 16th and the 18th century and investigates how the formerly persecuted Kızılbaş interacted with local and imperial Ottoman state agents. After the persecution of the Kızılbaş by the state both sides entered a relationship which aimed at conveniently accommodating the heterogeneous Kızılbaş-Alevi communities to the (local) Ottoman apparatus of power. Relying on a wide range of Ottoman sources, the author reveals formerly unstudied contexts in which the Kızılbaş-Alevis arranged themselves with and within the Ottoman state. As such, this work challenges widespread notions of persecution or essentialist ideas of Heresy and critically rethinks the social history of the Kızılbaş-Alevis in the Ottoman Empire.

scholarly journals Islam and the Army in Colonial India

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-125
Author(s):  
Sajjad H. Rizvi
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Social History ◽  
Alternative Form ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
The Social ◽  
Colonial Empire ◽  
History Of ◽  
Insight Into

After what seems like a strange absence of academic interest, the study ofMuslims in South Asia is catching up – and not all of that interest is motivatedby the contemporary concerns of counter-terrorism and Af-Pak strategy.Part of this intellectual revival has been focused on the Deccan, andone of the best and brightest young historians working in the area is NileGreen, who now teaches at UCLA.The author posits three primary contributions to wider historiographicaldebates. First, it engages the social history of how empire impingedupon communities and practices and often co-opted and promoted them,thereby allowing us greater insight into its workings to suggest that partnershipswere essential to perpetuating power, especially in India, wherethe number of actual British soldiers and administrators on the ground wasnever sufficient for an absolutist colonial empire. As such, it allows us topeek into an alternative form of subaltern interaction and agency. This issignificant, given the neglect to a large extent of the study of religion onthe part of subalternists. Second, the book demonstrates how cultural practicesand the invention of norms were central to fostering military cultureand performance of the British Indian Army, which involves the selectivepromotion of certain forms of religiosity. It provides further evidence for ...

scholarly journals Literary Personality evident in Kalaignar M.Karunanidhi’s Text bibliography

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-69
Author(s):  
Sridevi P
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
The State ◽  
Tamil Literature ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literary Devices ◽  
Language Literature

Kalaignar M. Karunanidhi stands high of all literary stalwarts of his age through his contribution to the language, literature and the state as a writer and a leader. He had been meticulously writing for decades together producing wide range of works that include political statements, pamphlets, editorial columns, poems, plays, stories, and translations of classics, screenplay and dialogues for films, Television serials and so on. His area of expertise includes ancient Tamil literature on which he has written kuraloviyam, sangaTamizh, Tholkapiyapoonga and ThirukuralThelivurai. He registers his vision for Tamil language and people in his works. He records his pride in rich Tamil tradition and at the same time he employs satire to comment about the grey areas. This paper studies the works of Dr. Kalaignar and presents the social history of the Tamils depicted in it through various literary devices.

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