Articles discussing India
Inequality and Identity: Indian Constituent Assembly and Religious Difference, 1946-50
S. Yashodamani · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2017
“This paper argues here that this focus on the "problem of religion" or "communalism", as a way of understanding the crisis of Indian secularism, has been a red herring of sorts, for it takes the gaze away from the substantive arguments that minorities were making in the CA about how their equal citizenship would be guaranteed.”
Financial Administration of Lord William Bentinck
Ishwar Sahai · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1935
“The condition of Indian finance during the long period of the East India Company’s rule was, with હ few exceptions, one of chronic deficit.””
Social History: Method, Perspectives, and Challenges in Indian Contexts
Rahul Jambhulkar · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2020
“For him, Thompson’s model is based in the Western context and in order to study social history in India, one needs to have a culturally specific sociology.”
St. Mary’s Church: A Contextual Study of Madras’ Oldest British Structure
Roshini Roy · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2022
“St. Mary’s Church, in Fort St. George, Madras (present Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India, is the first Anglican Church built in Asia and the oldest existing British structure in Madras.”
Jainism Through The Ages
Satya Ranjan Banerjee · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1995
When did Demetrius invade India?
Amarendra Nath Lahiri · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1957
“Demetrius who wanted ૬૦ 8૯ a second Alexander 103 the East®, planned to invade India and to become घाट master of the lost empire”
Redefining Forests and Forestry for Sustainable Development
Pramila Khadanga · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2018
Ecological Traditions and Indigenous Knowledge of Citrus Plants in India
A. Abirami · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2022
“Citrus fruits were first cultivated in China and India, but by the year 1000 they were being grown in the Mediterranean area, in whose sunny climate they flourish.”
Commerce and Industry in the Pre-Mughal Period
Jogindra Nath Chowdhuri · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1948
“Such was the condition of the age which we are going to survey, and when inspite of these serious’ handicaps merchants were found cons- tantly plying in different ports of India with rich cargoes, it is due to the allurement of a good profit which was then much higher than this age of keen competition and which was sufficient co cover the risks and losses entatled- en-route.”
Political Manipulation and Consequences of Summit Conference Postponement
Prabhudas Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“If the recognition 15 accorded to 1492 Bull, the future generations’ moveable and immoveable properties, living and dead objects of India would clearly, though indirectly become wealth of the Whites of the Christian faith.”
India That Is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, and Constitution
J. Sai Deepak · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2021
“Secularism was artificially imposed on India, although the law in England assumed that Christianity was the only true religion and the King or Queen was the 'Defender of the Faith'.”
India That Is Bharat: Coloniality, Civilisation, and Constitution
J. Sai Deepak · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2021
“This volume ends in 1919, when the British gave India a Constitution – the Government of India Act of 1919, 84 years after Macaulay introduced his education policy”
The Western Order of Jainism
Nathubhai Shah · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1996
“The Western Order of Jainism may attract many non-Indian people to Jainism.”
Hague Court Judgment: Legalizing Portuguese Sovereignty and British Supremacy in India
Prabhudas Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“The majority of the judges on the bench were also Europeans. Mr. Chagla was appointed on the bench so that Indians might hesitate entertaining any doubts about the Court's verdict.”
Social Engineering in Buddha's Dhamma: Equality and Women in Pali Literature
Arvind Rituraj · Dharmadoot, 2020
The Śramaṇa Response to the Human Predicament
Vincent Sekhar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1998
Steel-Frame Strategy: Establishing Foreign Rule in India
Prabhudas Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“Who has established “our own rule' in India? We leave it 10 the readers to decide.”
Ancient Indian Coinage Terminology in Sanskrit Literature
V. Yamuna Devi · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2019
“C oins served three main purposes in ancient India – 1. For purchase of commodities 2. To offer as Dakṣinā or honorarium to priests and teachers 3. To pay taxes.”
A Demographic Analysis on Jains in India
Mahendra Kumar Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1986
“As a result of this uneven pace of population growth of Jains, the percentage share of Jains of these states in the total population of Jains in India increased from approximately 21 to 29 in Maharashtra and from 11 to about 14 in Madhya Pradesh.”
Reviews
Sushil Kumar De · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952
“The volume under teview describes in full the mode of procedure that had been adopted by the Europear: Power to consolidate itself in India during the carly years of its rule, 1783—1818.”
Astronomical Evidence on the Age of the Rgveda
Jarl Charpentier
Review: Select Inscriptions Bearing on Indian History and Civilization, Volume I (600 B.C.–600 A.D.)
Mano Mohan Ghosh · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1942
“Due to the scarcity of old historical works, students of ancient and medieval Indian history have to depend a great deal on the epigraphic and numismatic records.”
1493 Bull's Legacy: Goa, Colonialism, and Global Compromises
Prabhudas Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“When India has been given freedom based more or less on the Bull of 1493, and when she has been enjoying the fruits of such freedom; when India is making heroic efforts, far beyond her capacity, in blindly following the modern system of life, which has its origin in the Bull of 1493”
In Memorium: Dr. W. Norman Brown
Paresh Chandra Dasgupta · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1976
“His subsequent studies and travels there nurtured in the scholar and teacher a deep-rooted appreciation of India’s cultural achievement and a sympathy for its national aspirations which formed the treasured legacy he passed on through his lectures and writing to his students, and they to theirs, into a third generation.”
Laukika or Folk Religion as an Iconographic Link Between the Indus Culture and Jainism
Robert Decaroli · Jinamanjari, 1996
Parliament And India
J. L. Garvin · The Jaina Gazette, 1930
“OWEVER deeply and differently any of us may feel on other things, the fateful question of India is paramount; and there ought to be no possi- bility of a General Election until the Round Table Conference comes to its conclusion or adjournment.”
Radhakrishnan and Christianity
Bharti D. Savan · Sambodhi, 1989
“from this we can gather, not that the Apostle went to India in the first century-though it is not improbable-but that there were close relations between India and the Christians of Persia and Mesopotamia before the third century”
Social Thought of Yājñavalkya (I)
Ramesh S. Betai, Jayaben R. Betai · Sambodhi, 1982
On some recent Interpretations of the Mahābhārata: Theories of Kingship
Dharmapala's Sammaditthi and New Buddhism
Benoy Kumar Sarkar · The Maha Bodhi, 2020
“Dharmapala was born in Ceylon, travelled in the two Hemispheres and worked in India. He was a world-man, and it so happens that his life has a message which is not meant exclusively for the Ceylonese or the Indian but for every man and women of flesh and blood.”
Ecological History: Environmental Interactions and Human Societies
Nanditha C. Krishna · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 1999
The Universal Message of Jainism
Kalidas Nag · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2001
“Whatever may be the doctrinal differences between Jainism and other denominations of Hinduism, we are all grateful to the Jaina masters for their services to the cause of Indian culture and spirituality as well as towards the alleviation of human suffering through centuries.”
Anagarika Dharmapala: Buddhist Reformer and Patriot
Anagarika Sri Dharmapala · The Maha Bodhi, 2020
“It was as a young man of twenty-six that Anagarika Dharmapala first came to India, and from that time he dedicated himself to the tremendous task of reviving Gautama Buddha’s message of spiritual liberation in the land of its origin.”
Dharmapala's Sammaditthi and New Buddhism
Benoy Kumar Sarkar · The Maha Bodhi, 2020
“Dharmapala gave concrete evidence of his right observation or proper understanding of the realities of the world when he discovered the truths, first, the Ceylon is today a part of Greater India, and secondly, that India, Ceylon and Burma are integrally associated with the rest of Buddhist Asia.”
Anagarika Dharmapala: Lion of Lanka and Buddhist Revivalist
Anagarika Sri Dharmapala · The Maha Bodhi, 2020
“It is a matter of sober historical fact that he and Swami Vivakananda, representing the two principal currents of Indian religious thought, Buddhism and Vedanta carried all before them at a congregation of leaders of the greatest religions of the world.”
Jaina Ethics and Economic Prosperity (S. L. Mandawat)
S. L. Mandawat · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1968
The Ceremonial of Power: Shah Jahan's Court and Mughal Empire
Popular Buddhism
Jaina Dharma: A Little Known Faith For Deeper Understanding and Enriching Life
Vincent Sekhar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2003
“The root of non-violence and renunciation in India could be traced to the Jaina and other Sramana religious traditions of India.”
The Original Traits of Jainism
Hermann Jacobi · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1967
Gleanings
Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1970
“It is possible to adduce authentic evidence from Indian and European annals of religion to prove that the Arhat Dharma was once the predominating religion of mankind in different parts of the world.”
Obituary Notice: Henry Beveridge
Surendra Nath Sen · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1930
“India owes a heavy debt of yratitude to Scotland. Some of her most brilliant Historians hail from the stern and wild Caledonia, The two Cunninghams, Malcolm, Erskine, Elphinstone an? Grant Duff were all Scotchmen ; and Henry Heveridge was iano way enworthy of this intellectua: brotherhood.”
Conquer Thyself: A Parable
T. L. Vaswani · The Jaina Gazette, 1928
Book Reviews
Jack C. Laughlin, Tinamarie Jones, Binod Kumar Tiwary, T. V. G. Sastri, Jyoti Prasad Jain · Jinamanjari, 1999
Review of 'Jaina Sects and Schools'
J. C. Sikdar · Sambodhi, 1976
Foreign Farming Systems in India: A Critique
Prabhudas Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“This new system of farming is not at all suitable to Indian peasants. Even then they have been allured to adopt this method of farming because of various attractions such as government aid, hopes of future prosperity, provision of modern implements, and 50 on.”
Astronomical Evidence on the Age of the Rgveda
Jain Dharma's Santhara Practice: Legal and Ethical Contestation
Mikaela Chase · Jain Avenue, 2021
The Monetary System of the Mughal Times
Gottlieb L. Schanzlin · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1933
“The modetn pite pieces of India, the lineal descendant of the quorter હતે of Akbar's time, weigh 78 grains, making a {otal of 312 grains for કા imaginary ov theovetical modern #am.”
Vedānta and the Vedāntist
Umesh Chandra Bhattacharya · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1929
A Note on Jaina Iconography
Satya Ranjan Banerjee · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2005
Jainism
Virchand Raghaviji Gandhi · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1990
Threads of Affection
Upadhyaya Amar Muni · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1985
The Jaina Doctrine of Karman
Portugal's Historical Claims and Goa's Delayed Freedom
Hita-mita, 2000
“The booklet on Portugal issued by India’s Foreign Ministry does not appear 10 give completely correct information about the points involved.”
Naadisuttam and Auuogaddarairii
V. M. Kulkarni · Sambodhi, 1974
Review: Histoire du Bouddhisme Indien des Origines à l'ère Saka
A Westerner Finds Jainism as Her Faith
Michael Mcateer · Jinamanjari, 2003
Clive and the Company's Fire-Arms
Nandlal Chatterji · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1952
“While examining the original records relating to Clive’s second Governorship of Fort William, the writer of this paper came across some very interesting and hitherto unnoticed references ૬૦ the extremely poor quality of both small arms and cannon which wer= usually supplied to the Company’s troops 10 India during those days.”
The Problems of Ethics and Karma Doctrine as treated in the Bhagvati Sutra
Krishna Kumar Dixit · Sambodhi, 1973
Jainism and Sāṃkhya
Nagin J Shah · Sambodhi, 1972
“The Saikhya and the Jaina, along with the Yoga and the Bauddha, philosophies seem to represent the different branches of the main thought current of Non Aryans of India that was prevalent before the advent of the Vedle Aryanst”
Buddhism Vs. Manusmrti
Ramesh S. Betai, Jayaben R. Betai · Sambodhi, 1984
A Rational Analysis of Karma Doctrine
Subhash Chandra Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2009
Lord Mahavira – The Great Conqueror
Duli Chandra Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1994
Western Diplomats' Double Strategies and Conspiracies
Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“The West has the same double strategy in view in granting freedom to African countries which they did, when India was made independent.”
Karma Phala: Consequences of Actions Explained
Subhash C. Jain · Jain Avenue, 2020
Jainism's Environmental Principles: Guiding Sustainable Coexistence in Modern Times
Jagat Kinkhabwala · Jain Avenue, 2021
My Homage to Lord Mahavira
Some reflections about anekantavada
Maria Luisa Tornotti · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 2001
“The doctrine of anekantavada is an important and original contribution of Jainism not only to India, but also to human culture in general.”
Four Bhavanas: Jain Wisdom for Modern Workplace Spirituality
Hemali Sanghavi · Jain Avenue, 2022
Economics and Social Equity in Tirthankar Mahaveer's Teachings
Bipin Doshi · Jain Avenue, 2020
Nagarjuna's List of Kusaladharmas
Amulya Tattva Vicara: An Early Poem by Srimad Rajachandra
Vinod Kapashi · Jinamanjari, 2001
“The cardinal Jaina principle of non-violence (ahimsa) was made popular by Mahitma Gandhi using this as his weapon of non-coperation to free India from the shackles of foreign rulers.”
Nehru's UN Address: Global Peace and White Empire
Prabhudas Bechardas Parekh · Hita-mita, 2000
“Nehru's character has been built up in Indian conditions and as such he would think of well being of one and all; such a faith in him may probably be the major cause of importance being attached to his address.”