Télécharger le livre :  Seeking Middle Ground

Land is a subject of great conflict and debate in India. Over the last decade, it has influenced electoral verdicts and political fortunes and remains one of the most persistent challenges facing the nation. This book argues that the focus on politics and land...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-07-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Digital India

Transforming India into a digital state has been an objective of successive governments in India. However, the digital, by its very nature, is a capricious, multi-dimensional entity. Its operationalization across multiple sectors in India has highlighted the fact that...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-07-11

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Télécharger le livre :  India and Civilizational Futures

This second volume based on the deliberations of the Backwaters Collective puts into serious question the most familiar categories that have informed humanistic inquiry and social science research until now. The contributors probe how the intellectual and cultural...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-07-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Climate of Conquest

What can war tell us about empire? In Climate of Conquest, Pratyay Nath seeks to answer this question by focusing on the Mughals. He goes beyond the traditional way of studying war in terms of battles and technologies. Instead, he unravels the deep connections that the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Mind and Society

One of the country’s most eminent sociologists, J.P.S. Uberoi inaugurated a unique approach in the study of Indian sociology and social anthropology. He makes a case for a form of independent Indian sociology in relation to the principal philosophies and sociological...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Landscapes and the Law

Landscapes and the Law is situated at the crossroads of environmental, colonial, and legal history. It examines the role of law in consolidating early colonial rule from the perspective of people’s access to nature in forests and hill tracts. This major...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Cultural Labour

Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Dark Fear, Eerie Cities

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless competition and a desire to succeed against all odds proliferate into cinema? Dark Fear, Eerie Cities analyses a wide array of...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-18

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22,13

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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Nationhood

This book serves as the corridor to one’s ‘self’. It began as a humble attempt to interrogate the performance history of Swadeshi Bengal. The burgeoning public space and audibility of voices hitherto unheard presented a two-way problem, for the colonisers, as well as...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Two Masterpieces of  Ku?iya??am

Ku?iya??am, India’s only living traditional Sanskrit theatre, has been continually performed in Kerala for at least a thousand years. The actors and drummers create an entire world in the empty space of the stage by using spectacular costumes and make-up and by an...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Swimming Upstream

A social and political activist and a free-thinker, Laxmanshastri Joshi, though a relatively lesser known figure in Indian history, played a significant role in the freedom struggle. Joshi was an ardent supporter of the satyagraha movement. He counselled Gandhi to...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Indira Bai

Indira Bai, born in an orthodox Saraswat Brahmin family in the small town of Kamalapura, is married and widowed as a child. The bright, curious girl resists forces of social conservatism—the mindless chores and cruel rituals of widowhood. To reform her, the head of the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-06-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Crossing to Talikota

The year is 1565. Devastation reigns over the once-renowned Vijayanagara Empire. Its powerful army has buckled under the assault of four minor Sultanates. Within a few hours of the Battle of Talikota, the political contours of southern India have been radically altered,...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-28

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13,07

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Télécharger le livre :  The Politics of Marriage in India

The history of marriage is viewed as social history related to customs and laws, but it is also a reflection of an inner life—one that comprises tales of joy, suffering, and the mundane—most of it hidden from the historian’s eye. Analysing the institution of marriage in...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-27

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Télécharger le livre :  Colours of Loneliness and Other Stories

This is a collection of fourteen short stories by Paramita Satpathy. These stories are full of characters that conceal their true persona under a veneer of a false confidence who are then are driven to seek a state of euphoria, releasing these dormant passions in...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Administering Colonialism and War

Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Service (ICS) were no exception. This book focuses on the role of ICS in World War II and engages in a wider debate about colonialism’s impact...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping the Elite

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically poor in the world today, it is home to a sizeable number of thriving rich and flourishing middle classes. They are reshaping...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-15

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Télécharger le livre :  The Wild Heart of India

Wild—untamed, hostile, remote. Yet, wild can be gentle, welcoming, and inspiring, too. This is the wild that preoccupies biologist Shankar Raman as he writes about trees and bamboos, hornbills and elephants, leopards and myriad other species. Species found not just out...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-06

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22,13

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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Federalism

To understand how politics, the economy, and public policy function in the world’s largest democracy, an appreciation of federalism is essential. Bringing to surface the complex dimensions that affect relations between India’s central government and states, this short...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-05-04

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13,07

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Télécharger le livre :  Politics of Precarity

Politics of Precarity presents an analysis of contemporary labour politics that emerges with informalization and privatization of crucial social sectors, and in this case one of the few feminized occupations—the nursing sector. Contrary to common understanding, nursing...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2019-04-27

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35,23

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