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Forgotten Friends
Indrani Chatterjee
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Description for Forgotten Friends
Hardcover. Num Pages: 432 pages, 5 B/W. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; HBTB; HRAX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 220 x 149 x 36. Weight in Grams: 676.
This book traces the changing and long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region, that has distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and lay-monk relationship, in different orders and gender and household relations. It examines the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufi teachers and their disciples, students, and adherents in the northeast India. In the course of the nineteenth century, war, changes in revenue regimes, and the growth of the plantation economies fragmented this landscape and dissolved the relationships. The economic and military processes also reshaped the moral-political economy in which wives of monastic males, female ... Read more
This book traces the changing and long-term history of the vast Brahmaputra valley region, that has distinct languages, faiths, monastic traditions, and lay-monk relationship, in different orders and gender and household relations. It examines the political and economic order of Buddhist, Vaisnava, Saiva, Tantric, and Sufi teachers and their disciples, students, and adherents in the northeast India. In the course of the nineteenth century, war, changes in revenue regimes, and the growth of the plantation economies fragmented this landscape and dissolved the relationships. The economic and military processes also reshaped the moral-political economy in which wives of monastic males, female ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
OUP India India
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New Delhi, India
ISBN
9780198089223
SKU
V9780198089223
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About Indrani Chatterjee
Indrani Chatterjee is Associate Professor of History, Department of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She earlier taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi.
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