Eugene F Irschick
Biographic Data
| ID | 554846 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eugene F Irschick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eugene F |
| FAMILY NAME | Irschick |
| SIGNATURE | IRSCHICK E F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Berkeley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Peasant Survival Strategies and Rehersals for Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century South India
In Behind Mud Walls , Charlotte and William Wiser wrote that village walls of mud in north India are seen as protection against outsiders. Our walls which conceal all that we treasure [said the villagers of Karimpur] ... Our forefathers hid themselves from a covetous world behind mud walls ... For the old purpose, our fathers built their walls strong enough to shut out the enemy, and made them of earth so that they might be inconspicuous. For the…
Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, 1600-1800
Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in Early Eighteenth Century South India
Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore 1858-1936
The East in the West
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940
1. Problems and perspectives 2. The setting: Bombay city and its hinterland 3. The structure and development of the labour market 4. Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers 5. Girangaon: the social organization of the working class neighbourhoods 6. The development of the cotton textile industry: a historical context 7. The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton textile industry 8. Rationalizing work, s…
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India, Malabar, 1900-1948
Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895
Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. For centuries, agricultural life in South India was seminomadic. But when the British took dominion, they sought to stabilize the region by inventing…
Order and Disorder in Colonial South India
Recently, we have come to see that the perceptions which we had of the decay and destruction of India in the eighteenth century were more than anything else a product of British writing which sought consciously or unconsciously to magnify and color the changes which took place in the eighteenth century to enhance the magnitude of their own 'achievements' from then onwards. 'achievements' from then onwards. Secondly, we have come to see the intera…
Changing Political Leadership in an Indian Provinces: The Central Provinces and Berar, 1919-1939
Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress
The Government of India and Reform. Policies Towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916-1921
The Hindu Tripod and Other Essays
The Decline of Nayar Dominance. Society and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908
Civil disobedience in Tamil Nadu, 1930–32
(1976). Civil disobedience in Tamil Nadu, 1930–32. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 34-50
Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852-1891
Book Review| February 01 1975 Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852–1891 Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852–1891. By R. Sutharalingam. Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies, Vol. 27. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1974. xix, 396 pp. Tables, Charts, Maps, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $7.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper). Eugene F. Irschick Eugene F. Irschick University of California, Berkeley Se…
Interpretations of Indian Political Development
Recently, a group of scholars, all either students of Anil Seal or persons very much affected by his thinking, have produced a volume entitled Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics, 1870–1940,1 which is reprinted from Volume VII (1973) of Modern Asian Studies. Included in it are an introductory essay by eal himself entitled “Imperialism and Nationalism in India,” two essays on U.P. by C. A. Bayly and F. C. Robinson entitled “Pa…
Politics and Social Conflict in South India
The Nadars of Tamilnad
Book Review| February 01 1970 The Nadars of Tamilnad The Nadars of Tamilnad. By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. xiv, 314 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $8.75. Eugene F. Irschick Eugene F. Irschick University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 485–486. https://doi.org/10.2307/2942690 Views Icon Views Arti…
Politics and Social Conflict in South India: The Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Separatism, 1916-1929
Ethnology and Ethnohistory: Land and Casle in South India: Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency During the Nineteenth Century. Dharma Kumar
A Pearl to India. A Life of Roberto de Nobili
Order and Disorder in Colonial South India
Recently, we have come to see that the perceptions which we had of the decay and destruction of India in the eighteenth century were more than anything else a product of British writing which sought consciously or unconsciously to magnify and color the changes which took place in the eighteenth century to enhance the magnitude of their own 'achievements' from then onwards. 'achievements' from then onwards. Secondly, we have come to see the intera…
Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in Early Eighteenth Century South India
Interpretations of Indian Political Development
Recently, a group of scholars, all either students of Anil Seal or persons very much affected by his thinking, have produced a volume entitled Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics, 1870–1940,1 which is reprinted from Volume VII (1973) of Modern Asian Studies. Included in it are an introductory essay by eal himself entitled “Imperialism and Nationalism in India,” two essays on U.P. by C. A. Bayly and F. C. Robinson entitled “Pa…
A Pearl to India. A Life of Roberto de Nobili
Ethnology and Ethnohistory: Land and Casle in South India: Agricultural Labour in the Madras Presidency During the Nineteenth Century. Dharma Kumar
Politics and Social Conflict in South India: The Non-Brahman Movement and Tamil Separatism, 1916-1929
The Nadars of Tamilnad
Book Review| February 01 1970 The Nadars of Tamilnad The Nadars of Tamilnad. By Robert L. Hardgrave Jr., Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. xiv, 314 pp. Appendixes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $8.75. Eugene F. Irschick Eugene F. Irschick University of California, Berkeley Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 29 (2): 485–486. https://doi.org/10.2307/2942690 Views Icon Views Arti…
Politics and Social Conflict in South India
Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852-1891
Book Review| February 01 1975 Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852–1891 Politics and Nationalist Awakening in South India, 1852–1891. By R. Sutharalingam. Monographs of the Association for Asian Studies, Vol. 27. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 1974. xix, 396 pp. Tables, Charts, Maps, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $7.95 (cloth), $3.95 (paper). Eugene F. Irschick Eugene F. Irschick University of California, Berkeley Se…
Interpretations of Indian Political Development
Recently, a group of scholars, all either students of Anil Seal or persons very much affected by his thinking, have produced a volume entitled Locality, Province and Nation: Essays on Indian Politics, 1870–1940,1 which is reprinted from Volume VII (1973) of Modern Asian Studies. Included in it are an introductory essay by eal himself entitled “Imperialism and Nationalism in India,” two essays on U.P. by C. A. Bayly and F. C. Robinson entitled “Pa…
Civil disobedience in Tamil Nadu, 1930–32
(1976). Civil disobedience in Tamil Nadu, 1930–32. South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies: Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 34-50
The Hindu Tripod and Other Essays
The Decline of Nayar Dominance. Society and Politics in Travancore, 1847-1908
The Government of India and Reform. Policies Towards Politics and the Constitution, 1916-1921
Indian Nationalism and the Early Congress
Changing Political Leadership in an Indian Provinces: The Central Provinces and Berar, 1919-1939
Order and Disorder in Colonial South India
Recently, we have come to see that the perceptions which we had of the decay and destruction of India in the eighteenth century were more than anything else a product of British writing which sought consciously or unconsciously to magnify and color the changes which took place in the eighteenth century to enhance the magnitude of their own 'achievements' from then onwards. 'achievements' from then onwards. Secondly, we have come to see the intera…
Dialogue and History: Constructing South India, 1795-1895
Eugene Irschick deftly questions the conventional wisdom that knowledge about a colonial culture is unilaterally defined by its rulers. Focusing on nineteenth-century South India, he demonstrates that a society's view of its history results from a "dialogic process" involving all its constituencies. For centuries, agricultural life in South India was seminomadic. But when the British took dominion, they sought to stabilize the region by inventing…
Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
Caste, Nationalism and Communism in South India, Malabar, 1900-1948
The Origins of Industrial Capitalism in India: Business Strategies and the Working Classes in Bombay, 1900-1940
1. Problems and perspectives 2. The setting: Bombay city and its hinterland 3. The structure and development of the labour market 4. Migration and the rural connections of Bombay's workers 5. Girangaon: the social organization of the working class neighbourhoods 6. The development of the cotton textile industry: a historical context 7. The workplace: labour and the organization of production in the cotton textile industry 8. Rationalizing work, s…
The East in the West
Missionaries and a Hindu State: Travancore 1858-1936
Conversations in Tarangambadi: Caring for the Self in Early Eighteenth Century South India
Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, 1600-1800
Peasant Survival Strategies and Rehersals for Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century South India
In Behind Mud Walls , Charlotte and William Wiser wrote that village walls of mud in north India are seen as protection against outsiders. Our walls which conceal all that we treasure [said the villagers of Karimpur] ... Our forefathers hid themselves from a covetous world behind mud walls ... For the old purpose, our fathers built their walls strong enough to shut out the enemy, and made them of earth so that they might be inconspicuous. For the…
Political science (14 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (10 works) · Indian History and Philosophy (9 works) · Social and Economic Development in India (8 works) · Politics and Conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Middle East (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works)