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    Hardbound. Condition: As New. New. Contents Introduction. I. Ancient India 1. Some aspects of land relations in Central India/K.M. Shrimali. 2. Perspectives from the regions and the construction of early India/Bhairabi Prasad Sahu. II. Medieval India 3. Love and deviance in Mughal India The Kissa of Heer and Ranjha/Indu Banga. 4. Love and gender in medieval times as reflected in the literary Punjabi tradition/J.S. Grewal. 5. State and the composite culture in Sultanate Bengal (c. AD 1200 1600)/Aniruddha Ray. 6. Skilled labour migration in pre colonial India from 16 to 18 centuries/Shireen Moosvi. III. Modern India 7. A brief encounter The Mughals and the Renaissance Man/Sabyasachi Bhattacharya. 8. Seventy Times Seven the sin of Christian Manhood in a Colonial situation/Sudhir Chandra. 9. Questions of public health and foreign Philanthropy Rockefeller Foundation in India 1915 1945/Deepak Kumar. 10. Forests people and the sate in India pre history of modern resource management regime/Satpal Sangwan. 11. Abolish Indenture and the Indian nationalist discourse in the early twentieth century/Radica Mahase. IV. Contemporary India 12. Naga ethnicity historical roots and contemporary ramifications/Suranjan Das. 13. Understanding change in the lives of Dalits of Punjab after 1947/Harish K. Puri. V. Europe and Asia 14. The frontiers of European modernity/Barun De. 15. Colonialism modernization and the Asian identity/Irfan Habib. VI. Historiography 16. The Keralotpatti as history a note on pre colonial traditions of historical writing in India/Kesavan Veluthat. 17. Interpreting Sikh history a study of Gokul Chand Narang's The Transformation of Sikhism/K.L. Tuteja. 18. History textbooks narratives of religious nationalism/K.N. Panikkar. VII. Note 19. A note on the spread of Islam in India/Amrik Singh. Selected publications of Professor V.N. Datta. List of contributors. This volume is in honour of distinguished historian Professor V.N. Datta. The essays contributed by some of the most eminent historians which cut across boundaries of time and space highlight the diversified and multidimensional nature of historical studies encompassing some of the most fascinating themes in history from ancient to contemporary times. The book covers broad themes like land relations regional identity gender relations composite culture internal migration colonial notions of power environment science nationalist and politics of Dalit identity. In addition two essays conceptualizing and illuminating modernity in Europe and Asian identity form part of this volume. The collection makes an important contribution to the field of social political and cultural history. 468 pp.