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1 online resource (xiv, 237 pages) |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia |
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Routledge contemporary South Asia series.
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| Contents |
Chapter Introduction / Smita Tewari Jassal -- part I History and memory -- chapter 1 India and Turkey -- Interplay of shadows and trajectories in the longue durée / Eyüp Özveren -- chapter 2 Sufis and Salafis in Ottoman and Mughal cities -- Reflections on love and violence in Islamic thought and politics / Shail Mayaram -- chapter 3 Echoes in the shrine -- Remembering and forgetting in two contexts / Smita Tewari Jassal -- part II Nationhood and leadership -- chapter 4 Republican Turkey and Tamil self-respecters -- Kemal Pasha in southern India / V. Geetha -- chapter 5 Halide Edib and Gandhi -- Literary modernity in India and Turkey / Emrah Efe Khayyat -- part III Secularism -- chapter 6 Temple and dam, fez and hat -- The secular roots of religious politics in India and Turkey 1 / Srirupa Roy -- chapter 7 Nehru against Nehruvians -- On religion and secularism / Rajeev Bhargava -- chapter 8 Redefining the minority -- Alevis in Turkey 1 / Mustafa?en -- part IV Development debates -- chapter 9 Locating agency in global connections -- The case of India and Turkey as 'rising powers' / Derya Göçer Akder -- chapter 10 Diaspora engagement in the United States -- The case of India and Turkey / ?ebnem Kö?er Akçapar -- chapter 11 Perspectives on development incentives -- 18th-century philosophers, India and Turkey / Halil Turan -- chapter 12 Waterproof development? -- Impact of advocacy networks on anti-dam movements in India and Turkey 1 / Zeynep Kadirbeyo?lu -- part V Claiming the city -- chapter 13 Notes on informal vending in Istanbul and Calcutta / Durba Chattaraj -- chapter 14 The endangered pleasures of Indian cities -- Notes from the good life in Istanbul / Kushanava Choudhury -- chapter 15 A political analysis of middle-class-based social movements -- India and Turkey compared / Ceren Ergenç |
| Summary |
"India and Turkey, Asia Minor and the Subcontinent of Hindustan and the Ottomans and Mughals have had shared histories of contact, engagement, and dialogue over the centuries. Much of northern India was under the control of rulers from Central Asia since at least the thirteenth century. Startling glimpses of the presence of Turkic-speaking peoples from Central Asia are still visible, for example, in north Indian material cultures - languages, cuisine, religion, architecture, and medicine.? This book places the Indian subcontinent side by side with the Turkic speaking world, both past and present, in order to understand one geographical context in relation to the other. The juxtaposition of the two countries throws up some startling commonalities as well as considerable differences, and it is both the variations as well as similarities that allow for comparability. By exploring historical connections and providing a comparative perspective in terms of spirituality and religion, social movements, political economy and foreign policy, it initiates productive cross-cultural conversations, allowing concerns from one location to illuminate the other. The book is split into five parts: History and Memory, Nationhood and Leadership, Secularism, Debating Development, and claiming the City. The first comparison of the Subcontinent and present-day Turkey, the book emphasizes the importance of cross-regional comparative analysis in order to overcome some of the pitfalls of area-focused analysis. Filling a gap in the existing literature, it will be of interest to scholars from various disciplines, including politics, religion, history, urbanization and development in the Middle East and Asia."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Globalization -- India
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Culture and globalization -- India
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Globalization -- Turkey
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Culture and globalization -- Turkey
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Civilization
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Culture and globalization
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Globalization
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Civilization -- 1947-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064876
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Turkey -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85138786
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| Subject |
India
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Turkey
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jassal, Smita Tewari, editor
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Turan, Halil, editor
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| ISBN |
9781134976942 |
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1134976941 |
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9781315537757 |
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1315537753 |
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