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Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sentiment and Self) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of everyday...

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Télécharger le livre :  Sentiment and Self
Richard Blechynden was a surveyor, architect, and builder in early colonial Bengal. This volume and its companion (Sex and Sensibility) use 80 volumes of his diaries and other archival material along with anecdotes, extracts, and stories to recreate histories of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Politics of Inclusion
Post-Mandal, the demand for reservations by various groups has become a consistent feature of Indian politics. Yet, the focus remains on caste, with little attention paid to the under-representation of religious minorities in India. The book takes up the case of...

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Télécharger le livre :  Empire, Media, and the Autonomous Woman
Drawing lessons from the intersection of literature, photography, cinema, television, dance-drama, and choreography, this book presents a unique analysis of Indian activist thought spread over two centuries. In this wide-spanning work, Esha Niyogi De argues that the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Talking Back
British histories in the nineteenth century were by and large monologues. From the turn of the century Indians began to 'talk back', questioning colonial assumptions and narratives of India's past. What was the point of this endeavour? What was said when the Indians...

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Télécharger le livre :  Corruption and Human Rights in India
The malaise of corruption has become deeply embedded in the political and social fabric of the Indian society.The increased frequency and scale of corruption have had deleterious effects on a wide range of issues. Corruption, therefore, must be viewed not just as an...

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Télécharger le livre :  The US–India Nuclear Pact
The signing of the US–India civilian nuclear agreement in 2008 is a milestone in the geopolitics of the twenty-first century—one that has virtually rewritten the rules of the global nuclear order. It has also transformed the relationship between the world's oldest and...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Grammar of Caste
Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Explanation and Understanding in the Human Sciences
Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of explanation is adequate for the social sciences? In this lucid book,...

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Parution : 2011-08-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Growth, Sustainability, and India's Economic Reforms
This book includes insightful lectures by eminent economist T.N. Srinivasan on the origins, rationale, and outcomes of India's economic reforms. The book will be invaluable for students and teachers of macroeconomics, Indian economy, development economics, and finance.

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Parution : 2011-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Bipolar Identity
The first comprehensive inquiry into the origin and growth of regional language cinema in India, this book traces the development of Kannada cinema from the 1940s to the new millennium. Focusing on the role regional language cinema plays, the book examines the conflict...

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Parution : 2011-06-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics for our Times
Mahatma Gandhi holds an eminent position in the history of ethics and its application to contemporary concerns. This book brings together in one harmonious whole three systems of thoughts on ethics Indian, Western and Gandhian. It shows how Gandhi, drawing from the...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Bhagavadgita in the Nationalist Discourse
The Bhagavadgita has lent itself to several readings to defend or contest various views on life, morality, and metaphysics. This book explores the the role of the Bhagavadgita in the formation of nationalist discourse. It examines the ways in which the Gita became the...

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Télécharger le livre :  History and Politics In Post-Colonial India
The writing of history in India has been fraught with controversies. From the storm over textbooks in the 1970s, and the furore over the Babri Masjid in the 1990s, to the flaring up of religious sentiments over 'beef-eating' and the Ram Sethu, this book provides a...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of the Dalit Public in North India
This book is a detailed commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation, and mobilization among the Dalits in northern India. Based on extensive fieldwork at the village level in eastern Uttar Pradesh, it deals with Dalit social and political history...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2011-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Judges of the Supreme Court of India
Despite the critical role played by the Supreme Court of India, the lives of the judges have never been studied before. This seminal book presents biographical essays for each of the first ninety-three judges who served on the Court from 1950 through mid-1989. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  Patrons of the Poor
Why has there not been more progress with reducing poverty in India? Patrons of the Poor offers a rich and contemporary account of politics and policymaking in India, as it seeks to provide an answer to this vital question. Despite unprecedented economic growth, the...

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Parution : 2011-03-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Debating Difference
How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal democracies, demonstrating that argument and debate is crucial for reconciling the demands...

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Télécharger le livre :  Family Law
Family law in India has a complex legal structure where different religious communities are guided by their own personal laws, each of which historically evolved under various social, religious, political, and legal influences. In two comprehensive and lucid volumes,...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2011-02-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Forests and Ecological History of Assam, 1826–2000
This book presents a comprehensive account of the transformation of Assam's forests and ecology from early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It locates present-day ecological conflicts in the colonial era when contest over forest, land, and...

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