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 Free Download Manu V. Devadevan, "A Prehistory of Hinduism" English | ISBN: 3110517361 | 2016 | 234 pages | EPUB | 2 MB This book traces a prehistory of Hinduism by exploring religious processes in the Deccan region of South Asia from the eleventh to the nineteenth century. In the light of this prehistory, it proposes an alternative framework for understanding the making of Hinduism in the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries.  Free Download A Place in Common: Rethinking the History of Early Detroit by Karen L. Marrero and Andrew K Sturtevant English | 2025 | ISBN: 1611865174 | 254 Pages | True ePUB | 1.55 MB  Free Download A Place for Utopia: Urban Designs from South Asia (Global South Asia) by Smriti Srinivas English | October 16, 2015 | ISBN: 0295994983, 0295997389 | True PDF | 221 pages | 6.5 MB Exploring several utopian imaginaries and practices, A Place for Utopia ties different times together from the early 20th century to the present, the biographical and the anthropological, the cultural and the conjunctional, South Asia, Europe, and North America. It charts the valency of "utopia" for understanding designs for alternative, occluded, vernacular, or emergent urbanisms in the last hundred years. Central to the designs for utopia in this book are the themes of gardens, children, spiritual topographies, death, and hope.
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