Narratives of the Shared Past : Gangetic Valley Through the Millenium
Contents: Preface. I. Ancient India: 1. Material progress and Brahmanical revival during the post Mauryan period: a study into paradoxes and contradictions of economic growth and social-polity/Mahesh Vikram Singh. 2. Ahuramazda as a coin device in Kushana numismatic tradition/Umesh Singh. 3. Environmental values in Buddhist ethics: exploring dynamics and possibilities/Anand Singh. 4. Jainism in Bundelkhand as reflected in early medieval epigraphs/Surabhi Srivastava. 5. Urban industries in Northern India-an analytical study (10th-12th century AD)/Asalam Sher. 6. Lesser known Buddhist centers of Kanpur and greater Kanpur map of Kanpur/Sanchita Sharma. II. Medieval India: 1. Social condition of India as reflected in Niccolao Manucci’s storia fo Mogor/Suleman Ammar Rizvi. 2. Science of astronomy and astrology in Delhi Sultanante/Fazila Shahnawaz. 3. The turk officers of iltutmish and their origins: evidence of the Tabaqat-i-Nasiri/S. Jabir Raza. 4. Mahdawi movement in India with special reference to Shaikh Alai/Saba Samreen Ansari. 5. The community life in Mughal Gujarat: an entity of syncretism/Sadaf Fatma. 6. Personal affairs and life style of Shaikh Farid Bukhari/Samreen Iram and Ghausia Parveen. 7. Insurgence of Jujhar Singh: causes and consequences/Seema Khan. 8. Mosques: speaking history of Shahjahanpur/M. Ifzal ur-Rahman Khan. 9. Pedagogy and learning in late eighteenth century: a study of some writings of Shah Wali Allah/Sana Aziz. III. Modern India: 1. Challenges before history writing today/Salil Misra. 2. Community, identity and clashes in pre-colonial Awadh: the movement of Maulavi Syed Amir Ali for Hanumangarhi Mosque (AD 1855)/Heena Yunus Ansari. 3. Role of significant urdu and Persian newspapers during the revolt of 1857/Tuhina Islam. 4. Impact of British colonialism on Indian education/Radhey Shyam Verma. 5. Delhi proposals, 1927: a study of communal politics/Qazi Mohd. Jamshed. IV. Summaries: 1. Fluctations in the status of women in ancient India: some observations/Jitesh Kumar Singh. 2. Jahandar Namah : an attempt to revive Jahandar Shah’s reign/Salma Bano. 3. Allan Octavian Hume: an officer with difference and his Etawah connect/Brajeshwer Dutt Shukla. 4. Commerical relations between Kashmir and British India during 1856-1947/Showkat Ahmad Naik. 5. One man, one country and one event perception of Bharathi on European history/S. Chandnibi. 6. Archaeological survey of Kodia Dist. Fatehpur, U.P./Dinesh Kumar Chauhan. 7. Music and dance as depicted in the sources of Sultanate period/Bushra Abbasi. 8. Jaunpur Mint town/Samrin Rao. 9. Inscriptions of the Saiyad rulers of Delhi from Badaun : an analytical asessment/Mohammad Nafeesh.10. Jahangir’s relation with Sikh Gurus/Shama Parveen. 11. Depiction of civil society in Awadh Punch newspaper/Farzana Zeeshan. 12. The life and customs of Tharus of Kheri district (U.P.)/Nutan Singh. 13. The British, the oppressed peasantry and the onset of tenancy reform laws in U.P. (1920-1937)/Prashant Mishra. 14. Status of Muslim women in Northern India Nineteenth century/Shamim Bano. 15. Peasants, press and mass mobilisation: Gandhi’s Mission in Champaran/Mehnaz Ara. 16. The impact of colonial rule on Banaras (1772-1813 A.D.)/Awadhesh Kumar. 17. Muslim Satyagrahis of Bihar in the individual Civil disobedience movement (1941)/Jawahar Lal Verma. (27 iteams Articles in Hindi)
The present volume has resulted out of the deliberations during the 25th session of the U.P. History Congress, organized at Department of Humanities and social sciences, faculty of Engineering and Technology, V.B.S. Purvanchal University, Jaunpur on 15-16th November 2014. Through this volume it has been tried to provide an avenue to a large number of scholars who are working on multifarious aspects of the history and society of the region. (jacket)
