Télécharger le livre :  Managing Water in River Basins
This book provides an in-depth analysis of existing methods of water management and highlights the gaps in the use of water in various river basins. Underlying the futility of 'quick fix' solutions, it puts forward various alternative strategies for water management....

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Télécharger le livre :  Agrarian Crisis in India
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the macro- and micro-level issues associated with agrarian distress. It analyses structural, institutional, and policy changes, highlighting the failure of public support system in agriculture. The crisis manifests itself...

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Télécharger le livre :  Images and Contexts
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several...

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Télécharger le livre :  Forging a Region
Gujarat lies at the confluence of communities, commerce, and cultures. As the modern Indian state ofGujarat marks its fiftieth year in 2010, this book charts its coalescence into a distinct political and linguistic unit roughly five hundred years ago. From the twelfth...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2010-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  India in the Shadows of Empire
This book explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence. It pursues this narrative along two major trajectories. On the one hand, it focuses on the role of...

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Parution : 2009-11-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Of Poverty and Plastic
Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by...

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Parution : 2009-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring the West
Inverting the conventional imagery of Europeans' travel narratives about South Asia, this omnibus brings together three fascinating accounts of Indian interaction with the West. It raises interesting questions about cross-cultural encounters. Is the West objectively...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2009-10-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Schooling the National Imagination
What is the nature of textbooks produced by a postcolonial society and how do they shape the national citizen? How do they define social roles in society, and influence the way people look at themselves and others? In what way do textbooks reflect the framing visions...

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Télécharger le livre :  India: An Archaeological History
This book charts the flow of India's grass-roots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian archaeology in...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2009-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Human Rights in a Posthuman World
This major work, a sequel to the acclaimed The Future of Human Rights, brings together reflections on human rights theory in the contemporary human condition delineated by the discourses concerning 'development', 'terror', and the emergent 'posthuman'. While...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2009-04-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Myth of the Shrinking State
This study investigates the nature of the impact of globalization on the Indian state. It takes as its point of departure the thesis, set out in the introductory essay, that globalization has resulted in the erosion of the economic and welfare roles of the state....

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Télécharger le livre :  The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940
This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. Mapping the success of formalized Hindi in creating a regional public sphere in north India in the early twentieth century, the book explores the way many...

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Télécharger le livre :  Twilight of the Tigers
The fall of Kilinochchi, LTTE's bastion for over a decade, in January 2009 is a landmark in the military campaign by the Sri Lankan government against the rebel group. This turning point in one of the world's most brutal intra-state conflicts needs to be analysed in the...

Editeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  Enduring Colonialism
This volume explores three significant issues—absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme—relevant to thought systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author discusses the present lack of original philosophical discourse in the context...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2009-02-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Violence, Martyrdom and Partition
This book presents the oral testimony of Subhashini (1914–2003), the woman head of a well-known Arya Samaj institution devoted to women's education in rural north India. Subhashini's narrative unfolds a story, within a sea of stories, which has remained silent in the...

Editeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cultures of History in Early Modern India
This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2009-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Inside India
First published in 1937, this book presents the author's personal account of India. The author, a Turkish writer and novelist, visited the region in 1935 and gained insights into the history and sociology of the country. Based on her experiences, Halidé Edib documents...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2008-11-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Robert Knight
Robert Knight, the principal founder and the first editor of Times of India, Mumbai and Statesman, Kolkata has hardly ever been mentioned in accounts of British India and omitted from biographical dictionaries. Using remote letters, crumbling newspapers, and obscure...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2008-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Hindu Law
This book presents a study on a postmodernist analysis of classical Hindu law, which has become neglected due to the modernist assumptions about the increasing irrelevance of ‘religious’ legal systems. The book is split into three parts. The first part focuses on the...

Editeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  Culture and Psyche
In these essays renowned psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar uses diverse sources, including case studies, Indian myths and legends, and fiction, to analyse various facets of Indian identity. He explores the Indian psyche through a cultural and psychoanalytical investigation of...

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