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Islam in Indonesia : the contest for society, ideas and values / von Kersten, Carool

Inhaltsangabe: “… Introduction: an intellectual history of contemporary Indonesian Islam -- Secularism, pluralism and liberalism in Indonesian Muslim contexts -- Islam in Indonesia today: discourses and interlocutors -- The weight of the predecessors: adaption, critique and transformation -- Debating secularism: Islam, statehood and democracy -- The letter or the spirit of Islamic law?  …”

Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 / von Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

Inhaltsangabe: “… Introduction : revisiting empires and connecting histories -- Rethinking the establishment of the Estado da Índia, 1498-1509 -- Italians, Corsicans, and Portuguese in the Indian Ocean -- Unhappy subjects of empire, 1515-1530 -- Connecting the Iberian empires, 1500-1640 -- Mughals, Ottomans, and Habsburgs : some comparisons -- Iberian roots of the British empire -- World historians in the sixteenth century -- Empires and wonders -- Early modern empires and intellectual networks -- Asia between and beyond empires. …”

When crime pays : money and muscle in Indian politics / von Vaishnav, Milan

Inhaltsangabe: “… Lawmakers and lawbreakers : the puzzle of Indian democracy -- The rise of the rents Raj : India's corruption ecosystem -- Criminal enterprise : why criminals joined politics -- The costs of democracy : how money fuels muscle in elections -- Doing good by doing bad : the demand for criminality -- The salience of social divisions : how context shapes criminality -- Crime without punishment : from deep roots to proximate causes -- An entrenched marketplace : rethinking democratic accountability. …”

Humanity's law / von Teitel, Ruti G.

Inhaltsangabe: “… The faces of humanity : origins and jurisprudence -- The ambit of humanity law : an emerging transnational legal order -- Peacemaking, punishment, and the justice of war : the humanity law framework and the turn to international criminal justice -- Protecting humanity : the practice of humanity law -- Humanity law and the discourse of global justice : the turn to human security -- Humanity law and the future of international law : debating sovereignty and cosmopolitanism -- A humanity law of peoples : normative directions and dynamics. …”

In the shade of the Golden Palace : Ālāol and Middle Bengali Poetics in Arakan / von d'Hubert, Thibaut

Inhaltsangabe: “… Acknowledgements Map of Arakan and eastern South Asia in the seventeenth century Introduction: Poetics in the margins Chapter 1: The formation of Bengali literature in Arakan (ca. 1430-1638) Chapter 2: Literary urbanity in Mrauk UChapter 3: New beginnings: Alaol's early career in Mrauk U Chapter 4 Alaol's poetry and Mrauk U's political turmoil Chapter 5: Alaol's poetics: when locality rhymes with originalityChapter 6: Indo-Afghan historical imaginaries and the romance genre Chapter 7: Lyric poetry and desi aesthetics in eastern South Asia Conclusion: Middle Bengali poetics and the multilingual literary history of Bengal Bibliography Appendix 1: Summaries of Alaol's Padmavati and the story of the goldsmith's wifea.  …”

India today economy, politics and society

Inhaltsangabe: “… Economy -- 2. When and why did India take off? -- 3. How have the poor fared (and others too)?  …”

Class, ideology and political parties in India von Jana, Arun eds

India working essays on society and economy von Harriss-White, Barbara

Private sector involvement and international financial crises an analytical perspective von Chui, Michael

Greenhouses and shelter structures for tropical regions von Zabeltitz, Christian von

Economic survey of India, 1947-48 to 2008-09 sector-wise yearly review of developments in the Indian economy von Prasad, Chandra Shekhar

The concept of hero in Indian culture von Bruckner, Heidrun

Sindh past glory, present nostalgia von Pal, Pratapaditya, ed

রবীন্দ্রনাথের চিঠিপত্র : নির্দেশিকা / von সতী চট্টোপাধ্যায়, Chattopadhyay, Sati

Essays on middle Bengali literature /

Modern history of the Arab countries / von Lutsky, V.

Jan Compagnie in war and peace, 1602-1799 : a short history of the Dutch East-India Company / von Boxer, C. R. (Charles Ralph), 1904-2000

British economy of the nineteenth century: essays/

A secular age / von Taylor, Charles, 1931-

Inhaltsangabe: “… The work of reform -- The bulwarks of belief -- The rise of the disciplinary society -- The great disembedding -- Modern social imaginaries -- The spectre of idealism -- The turning point -- Providential deism -- The impersonal order -- The nova effect -- The malaises of modernity -- The dark abyss of time -- The expanding universe of unbelief -- Nineteenth-century trajectories -- Narratives of secularization -- The age of mobilization -- The age of authenticity -- Religion today -- Conditions of belief -- The immanent frame -- Cross pressures -- Dilemmas 1 -- Dilemmas 2 -- Unquiet frontiers of modernity -- Conversions. …”
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The riddle of Malaysian capitalism rent-seekers or real capitalists? von Searle, Peter