Institutions and Ideologies: A SOAS South Asia Reader

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Preface
Introduction
Ideologies	p. 1
Religious vs. regional determinism: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh as inheritors of empire	p. 5
Classical Hindu scriptures	p. 35
Suttee or sati: victim or victor?	p. 45
Some observations on the evolution of Modern Standard Punjabi	p. 64
The hidden hand: English lexis, syntax and idiom as determinants of modern Hindi usage	p. 74
A hero or a traitor? The Gurkha soldier in Nepali literature	p. 91
Milton and Madhusudan	p. 104
Indian architecture and the English vision	p. 120
Institutions	p. 145
Legal pluralism in the Hindu marriage	p. 148
Islamic law and the colonial encounter in British India	p. 165
Notes on 'peasant insurgency' in colonial Mysore: event and process	p. 186
Ideas in agrarian history: some observations on the British and nineteenth-century Bihar	p. 201
Smallpox and colonial medicine in nineteenth-century India	p. 224
The Indian National Congress: a hundred-year perspective	p. 245
Charan Singh (1902-87): an assessment	p. 265
Index	p. 308
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