{"product_id":"sources-of-indian-traditions-modern-india-pakistan-and-bangladesh-9780231138314","title":"Sources of Indian Traditions: Modern India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than fifty years, students and teachers have made the two-volume resource \u003ci\u003eSources of Indian Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e their top pick for an accessible yet thorough introduction to Indian and South Asian civilizations. Volume 2 contains an essential selection of primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious history of India from the decline of Mughal rule in the eighteenth century to today. It details the advent of the East India Company, British colonization, the struggle for liberation, the partition of 1947, and the creation of Pakistan, Bangladesh, and contemporary India. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis third edition now begins earlier than the first and second, featuring a new chapter on eighteenth-century intellectual and religious trends that set the stage for India's modern development. The editors have added material on Gandhi and his reception both nationally and abroad and include different perspectives on and approaches to Partition and its aftermath. They expand their portrait of post-1947 India and Pakistan and add perspectives on Bangladesh. The collection continues to be divided thematically, with a section devoted to the drafting of the Indian constitution, the rise of nationalism, the influence of Western thought, the conflict in Kashmir, nuclear proliferation, minority religions, secularism, and the role of the Indian political left. A phenomenal text, \u003ci\u003eSources of Indian Traditions\u003c\/i\u003e is more indispensable than ever for courses in philosophy, religion, literature, and intellectual and cultural history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachel Fell McDermott is professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College. She is a specialist in Bengali goddess worship whose books include R\u003ci\u003eevelry, Rivalry, and Longing for the Goddesses of Bengal: The Fortunes of Hindu Festivals\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSinging to the Goddess: Poems to Kali and Uma from Bengal\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eMother of My Heart, Daughter of My Dreams: Kali and Uma in the Devotional Poetry of Bengal\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLeonard A. Gordon is professor of history emeritus of the City University of New York and the author of \u003ci\u003eBrothers Against the Raj: A Biography of Indian Nationalists Subhas \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSarat Chandra Bose and Bengal: The Nationalist Movement, 1876-1940\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the director of the Taraknath Das Foundation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAinslie T. Embree is professor of history emeritus of Columbia University. Since his retirement, he has taught at Brown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eSources of Indian Tradition: From the Beginning to 1800, Volume 1, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrances W. Pritchett is professor emerita of modern Indic languages in the department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University. Among her books are \u003ci\u003eNets of Awareness: Urdu Poetry and Its Critics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Romance Tradition in Urdu: Adventures from the Dastan of Amir Hamzah\u003c\/i\u003e. She is pursuing major online projects that include \u003ci\u003eA Desertful of Roses\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Garden of Kashmir\u003c\/i\u003e, commentaries on the Urdu ghazal poetry of Ghalib and Mir. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDennis Dalton is professor emeritus of political science at Barnard College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eMahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eIndian Idea of Freedom: Political Thought of Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi, and Rabindranath Tagore\u003c\/i\u003e and the editor of \u003ci\u003eMahatma Gandhi: Selected Political Writings\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50460063858962,"sku":"9780231138314","price":60.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_48902503-2a34-4ecc-8866-b86199288fff.jpg?v=1730024921","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sources-of-indian-traditions-modern-india-pakistan-and-bangladesh-9780231138314","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}