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CONTENTS:-
Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Golden Age of Macro-Historical Sociology
3. Sumeria, Early Egypt and Writing
4. The Empire of Alexander the Great
5. The Development of Doctrinal Christianity
6. Muhammad and Islam
7. The Reformation of the Latin Church
8. The Development of Material Knowledge
9. The Development of Modern Political and Social Ideas
10. The Political and Social Reconstruction of the World
11. History of France and Dynastic History |
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| There is much to learn on the margins of history. Most evidence on the agrarian past continues to be unused today, not because it is inaccessible but because it has -eemed uninteresting and unimportant for the history of modernity; and we can use this neglect to measure the blinkers of modern_ minds. I f we want to understand modernity as a moment, of human history, agrarian history is a good place to look, and South Asia is a good place to work, because here modem machineries of knowing have mangled less of the original data. In Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, scholars have constructed rural history as the legacy and memory of modernity and they have built national identity on a solid agrarian footing. In South Asia, domineering epistemofogics of nationality have not paved over so much of the landscape or cemented together the past of nations and of peasants so comprehensively. Villages fit much more firmly and neatly into national histories in France, England, US, China, and Japan than, they do iii Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh. The lasting force of regional diversity in South Asia derives from the fact that historically, agrarian territories have marched to different drummers, and even in different directions. Scholars have repeatedly argued that agrarian South Asia evades the discipline of progress. All the histories of all the empires and nations in South Asia could never capture the history of all its peoples. |
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