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South Africa

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Author(s): Pratap Kumar, P.
The impact that the abolition of slave labor had in the New World has been documented well. At the height of it, slave labor was worth US $3.5 billion in the United States alone at the 1860 dollar value (von Drehle, 2011, 30). This figure makes the point about the importance of transfer of cheap labor from one colony to another for the production of agricultural and mineral products to satisfy the increasing consumption of the European populations around the world. It also places the emerging ne…
Date: 2020-05-18

Andhra Pradesh and Telangana

(8,217 words)

Author(s): Pratap Kumar, P.
The current states called Andhra Pradesh and Telangana originally formed part of what became known in history as the Deccan region, with Andhra being the region situated in the middle of the central, southern and the eastern parts of the Deccan. In writing about the history of India, a tripartite civilizational approach has been generally adopted by historians and scholars from other disciplines alike. That is, the Indus civilization, the vedic civilization of the North, and the Tamil civilizati…
Date: 2020-05-18

East Africa

(4,614 words)

Author(s): Pratap Kumar, P.
South Asian connection with East African coast goes a long way. One point that needs clarification at the outset is that immigration to East Africa has been generally from the South Asian subcontin…
Date: 2020-05-18

Yāmunācārya

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Author(s): Pratap Kumar, P.
The pivotal role played by Yāmunācārya in the development of medieval Śrīvaiṣṇavism is evident in the enormous work that he had accomplished in…
Date: 2020-05-18