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Reading Contemporary India

Reading Contemporary India

MK Raghavendra

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Editorial:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2025
Materia
Historia de Asia
ISBN:
9781032897370

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This is the first ever effort to bring such a wide range of socio-cultural issues and establish interdisciplinary links between them by studying India’s past, ancient and modern. The issues include caste and hierarchy, religious and political conflict linked sharply to diverse others like literary practice and intellectual life.

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