Télécharger le livre :  The Diary of Gull Mohammad

This diary of a young Muslim Kashmiri boy is not one of those usual diaries that young boys write,. It carries none of the supposed ‘fun’ details that teenagers are supposedly indulging in. After all, this Kashmiri boy, Gull Mohammad is living in no ordinary...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-10-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Gendered Publics

This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women’s association, the Assam Mahila Samiti which led one of the most remarkable women’s movements in colonial India. Central to the Assam Mahila Samiti story is its founding...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-10-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Islam and Democracy in the 21st Century

This book starts with the prevailing idea of a conflicting relationship between Islam and the Western concept of democracy, both in theory and in practice. With this backdrop, the author addresses the crucial question—Is Islam compatible with democracy? The book offers...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Speaking Window

It has been more than seventy-six years since the Partition of the Indian Subcontinent, but for those who lived through the phase, the memories remain as fresh as ever. Based on interviews of the 'Partition Generation' living across borders (India and Pakistan), this...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  History of Urban Form of India

India is undergoing massive urbanization. The future form of Indian cities in terms of urban planning and design is most urgent. A study of the key historical moments from the point of view of urban development is thus important. With case studies from the time cities...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-09-15

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Télécharger le livre :  A Life in Urdu

This book brings together writing by Ralph Russell, the eminent 20th century scholar of Urdu, which illuminates his life-long engagement with Urdu speakers and their literature. It showcases his lifelong commitment to Urdu as a language, a history, and culture. Written...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-05-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Belles-Lettres

Hijab Imtiaz Ali Taj’s 'Adab-E-Zareen', an innovative mystical poetic work, replete with symbology, philosophy, and metaphor, is translated from the Urdu for the first time in book form by celebrated English language poet Sascha A. Akhtar. Written in 1936 by this...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2023-04-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Karbala

At a time when communal antagonism was at its peak (1920s), Premchand was perceptive enough to fathom the cause for religious intolerance being rooted in mutual ignorance of communities about each other’s faith. To alleviate this, he decided to write a play about...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-10-12

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Télécharger le livre :  The School at Ajmeri Gate

This is a story of a school in the walled city of Old Delhi - the Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary School. The school has its origins in Madrasa Ghaziuddin established in 1692. Using archival data and personal accounts this book offers a fascinating insight into an...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-08-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Fathers in the Motherland

This monograph breaks new ground by weaving stories of fathers and children into the history of gender, family and nation in colonial India. Focusing on the reformist Bengali Hindu and Brahmo communities, the author contends that fatherhood assumed new meaning and...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-08-03

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Télécharger le livre :  Minority Pasts

Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is pejoratively labelled as the centre of "Muslim votebank" politics in contemporary Uttar...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-06-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Media Giants

Indian Media Giants is an analytical chronicle of sixIndian mega media conglomerates' individual odyssey from their beginnings in the pre-independence era to their transformation into powerful business empires in the digitised modern India. The book traces media...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-04-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Reworking Culture

Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India provides intimate insights into the lives of Garo hill farmers, and the challenges they face in day-to-day life. Focusing on the ongoing reinterpretation of traditions, or customs, the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Futures of Artificial Intelligence

Twenty-first century life is increasingly governed by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies such as machine learning, big data analysis, facial recognition, and robotics. For decades, an ideology of apocalyptic progress and cosmic transformation has accompanied the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2022-01-12

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Télécharger le livre :  From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra

Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and how the concept of historical traditions can be useful in studying the various ways of...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2021-11-24

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics, Distance, and Accountability

Rammohun Roy (c.1772-1833) is counted amongst the most influential intellectuals of Modern India. But even after a century of debate and enquiry, scholars are still not quite sure whether he was a consistent and articulate political thinker, or a man of intellectual...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2021-10-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan

The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan explores what it has meant for the two countries to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition. Sovereignty is conventionally understood as a means to achieve the goals that states set for...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2021-10-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Violent Modernities

It is believed that law and violence generally share an antithetical relationship in liberal democracies. Lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked and deployed as a means to resist and undo that. Violent Modernities attempts to establish that...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2021-06-25

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Télécharger le livre :  Meat, Mercy, Morality

This book disentangles complex discourses around humanitarianism to understand the nature of British colonialism in India. It contends that the colonial project of animal protection in late nineteenth-century Bengal mirrored an irony. Emerging notions of public health...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2021-04-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Language, Limits, and Beyond

Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been written on his fascination with Tagore's poetry and symbolic plays. In Language, Limits, and Beyond, Priyambada Sarkar explores Tagore...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2021-04-13

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