Télécharger le livre :  Torture Behind Bars

Although considered an ancient concept, torture is still practised globally, and with more meticulousness and sophistication than ever before. Custodial violence refers to a form of torture that is experienced physically, psychologically, or emotionally in the custody...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Constitution-Making under UN Auspices

In 1949, United Nations Constitutional Assistance (UNCA) was conceived to promote the Western liberal constitution. This was colonial trusteeship. However, in 1960, as a step towards decolonization, the United Nations General Assembly rejected internationalized...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Poetry of Belonging

Poetry of Belonging is an exploration of north-Indian Muslim identity through poetry at a time when the Indian nation state did not exist. Between 1850 and 1950, when precolonial forms of cultural traditions, such as the musha’irah, were undergoing massive...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Urdu Ghazal

The Urdu Ghazal presents the unique flowering of the ghazal as a by-product of India’s composite culture. It explores a variety of influences on the ghazal, including Sufism, Bhakti movement, and infusion of Rekhta and Persian languages and culture.The book elucidates...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Capitalisms

Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Mega Mammals in Ancient India

Since antiquity, big mammals have inspired fear as well as fantasy among humans. Not only do megafauna pervade the domains of religion, art, literature, and folklore, it is also now widely acknowledged that they can serve as important, if not always adequate, indices of...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Religion, Secularism, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Nepal

The socio-political landscape of Nepal has been rocked by dramatic and far-reaching changes in the past thirty years. Following a ten-year Maoist revolution and civil war, the country has transitioned from a monarchy to a republic.The former Hindu kingdom has declared...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-01-01

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Télécharger le livre :  Dealing with Diversity

In contemporary times, one of the common markers of a liberal society is the presence of a certain degree of diversity, indicated by coexistence of multiple ideas, beliefs, and cultural practices. But how does a complex and differentiated tradition of political thought...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-12-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Heaven's Gates and Hell's Flames

Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity is one of the largest religious movements in the world today. It is a recent form of Christianity that emphasizes direct personal experience of God through baptism with the Holy Spirit. While the literature on Pentecostalism is...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-12-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Reconsidering American Power

Postcolonial studies, postmodern studies, even posthuman studies emerge, and intellectuals demand that social sciences be remade to address fundamentals of the human condition, from human rights to global environmental crises. Since these fields owe so much to American...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-12-05

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Télécharger le livre :  India Public Finance and Policy Report

Health crises plague most economies irrespective of their average per capita income levels, and this is largely due to chronic and repeated illnesses. Contextualizing this paradigm in India, India Public Finance and Policy Report:Health Matters is an attempt to discuss...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-12-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Krishna's Playground

This is a book about a deeply beloved place—many call it the spiritual capital of India. Located at a dramatic bend in the River Yamuna, a hundred miles from the center of Delhi, Vrindavan is the spot where the god Krishna is believed to have spent his childhood and...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Arthur Crawford Scandal

Set against the political background of 19th century colonial India, The Arthur Crawford Scandal presents a critical analysis of bureaucratic and legal corruption in the country and suggests some long-term implications for the Indian justice system. The scandal was...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-11-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Class and Conflict

In 1984, Pranab Bardhan published his classic work The Political Economy of Development in India. It went on to become one of the most influential references on the political economy of development in the pre-reform period of independent India. Class and Conflict...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-11-09

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Télécharger le livre :  Words of Her Own

Words of Her Own situates the experiences and articulations of emergent women writers in nineteenth-century Bengal through an exploration of works authored by them. Based on a spectrum of genres—such as autobiographies, novels, and travelogues—this book examines the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  Dhaka's Changing Landscape

Between 1991 and 2010, Dhaka’s population more than doubled to 15 million. Simultaneously, the city’s contribution to the national economy almost trebled. Clearly, population growth was accompanied by an unmistakable trend of economic growth, and a significant decline...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-11-05

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Télécharger le livre :  An Economist's Miscellany

‘Philosophy has to be deductive, poetry romantic, plays and fiction humorous, and politics intriguing if they are to catch my attention,’ writes Kaushik Basu. All these interests are on display in An Economist’s Miscellany, which brings together an eclectic collection...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-10-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Employment in India

Over the last two decades, a fascinating growth story has unfolded in India. Yet, the improvement in material conditions for the country’s vast majority has not kept pace with that growth. This is mainly because India is still grappling with poor employment conditions...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-09-20

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12,07

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Télécharger le livre :  India in a Warming World

Riven with scientific uncertainty, contending interests, and competing interpretations, the problem of climate change poses an existential challenge. For India, such a challenge is compounded by the immediate concerns of eradicating poverty and accelerating development....
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-09-17

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Télécharger le livre :  Vikas ki Chakki Mein Piste Log

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the global economy. India's...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-09-15

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28,17

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