Images of Maharashtra - A Regional Profile of India

First published in 1980, Images of Maharashtra presents the authors' academic interests in defining the multifaceted personality of Maharashtra. All papers were presented at the Annual Conferences of Maharashtra Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. They range over history, politics, agriculture, sociology, and religion.

List of contents

1. M.R. Jayakar and the Bombay Nationalist Press: The Struggle for Identity within a Nationalist Movement 2. Governmental Response to Migration: Preferences for Local Residents in Bombay 3. Some Urban Commercial Centres of the Western Deccan in the XVII Century 4. Traditional Deshi Agriculture in Maharashtra 5. On Class, Caste and Hegemony: Classes in Rural Maharashtra 6. Region and Regionalism in the Study of Indian Politics: The Case of Maharashtra 7. Subregional Religious Centres in the History of Maharashtra: The Sites Sacred to Ganesh 8. A Dispute between the Pancal Devajna Sonars and the Brahmanas of Pune regarding Social Rank and Ritual Privileges: A Case-Study of the British Administration of Jati Laws in Maharashtra, 1822-1825

About the author

N.K. Wagle is Professor Emeritus at the Department of History, University of Toronto, Canada.

Summary

First published in 1980, Images of Maharashtra presents the authors’ academic interests in defining the multifaceted personality of Maharashtra. All papers were presented at the Annual Conferences of Maharashtra Studies Group of the Association for Asian Studies. They range over history, politics, agriculture, sociology, and religion.

Product details

• Authors: N.k. (University of Toronto Wagle
• Assisted by: N.K. Wagle (Editor), Wagle N.K. (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2025
• EAN: 9781041004424
• ISBN: 978-1-0-4100442-4
• No. of pages: 162
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, India, Politics & government, Regional Studies, Politics and government, Regional / International studies, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies