Télécharger le livre :  Gandhi after 9/11

9/11 marked the beginning of a century that is defined by widespread violence. Every other day seems to be a furthering of the already catastrophic present towards a more disastrous tomorrow. With climate change looming over us, frequent economic instability, religious...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-20

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Télécharger le livre :  What Happened to Governance in Kashmir?

What Happened to Governance in Kashmir? examines the policies, strategies, and tactics followed by the Indian state and the ‘client’ governments in Srinagar to manage the conflicted state of Jammu and Kashmir during 1948–89 . It shows how the policies deployed to...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-15

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Télécharger le livre :  India's Spatial Imaginations of South Asia

Since India attained independence, its foreign policy discourse has imagined its South Asian neighbourhood through the politics of realism. This imagination explicates state interest in South Asia by establishing it as a space of sovereign territoriality. Even today,...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-14

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Télécharger le livre :  Merchants and Colonialism

Amiya Kumar Bagchi’s Merchants and Colonialism is a landmark work in economic history and sociology. The author shows us how colonial rule put traders and manufacturers under immense pressure, forcing them to look for survival strategies in a changed economic...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Surrogacy

Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in the nation’s public discourse. This short introduction explores how surrogacy is practiced and understood in India and...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Muslim(s) after Liberalization

Close to the turn of the century and almost 45 years after Independence, India opened its doors to free-market liberalization. Although meant as the promise to a better economic tomorrow, three decades later, many feel betrayed by the economic changes ushered in by this...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Some Aspects of Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century

Dipesh Chakrabarty and Ranajit Das Gupta’s Some Aspects of the Labour History of Bengal in the Nineteenth Century presents a sharply posed conversation between them in October 1981 on working-class consciousness in Bengal. The arguments posited here show that rather...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Trends of Change in Bhakti Movement in Bengal

Hitesranjan Sanyal’s Trends of Change in the Bhakti Movement in Bengal, despite remaining unfinished due to his untimely demise, is a seminal work on the devotional Bhakti movement. In this work the author spells out the multipronged and differential impact that...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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10,05

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Télécharger le livre :  Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching attempts to track the ‘literary’ in the production of ethics and politics. Ethics here is not an inventory of moral principles to be followed in action. Instead, the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  India and the Interregnum

India’s interim government, in office from 2 September 1946 till August 1947, was a unique coalition of the Indian National Congress, All-India Muslim League, and non-Congress and non-League political figures—all presiding over a British/British-trained state apparatus...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-12-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Power and Diplomacy

The notion that a monolithic idea of ‘nonalignment’ shaped India’s foreign policy since its inception is a popular view. In Power and Diplomacy, Zorawar Daulet Singh challenges conventional wisdom by unveiling another layer of India’s strategic culture. In a richly...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-11-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Recasting Public Administration in India

Ever since a democratic system of government was adopted and a strategy of planned economic development was launched in India, the planners were quite conscious of the need for an administrative system different from the colonial one to implement the planned objective...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-11-26

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Télécharger le livre :  A Political History of Literature

Multilinguality gained a new impetus in North India with the influx of West Asian Muslim communities around the thirteenth century. Over a period of time, it entered everyday life as well as creative and scholarly pursuits. The fifteenth century, in particular, saw...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-11-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Against State, against History

Life on the margins of the state is not a dark, static, and silent world. It is, in fact, a radiant world, involving multiple processes of reenactment of life, lifeways, and individual–community relations. This book is a radical reevaluation of the dominant...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-11-20

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Télécharger le livre :  Tribals and Dalits in Orissa

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic survival strategies of these groups are often overlooked in research. The fact that excluded groups have managed to survive...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-10-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Shooting a Tiger

The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-10-18

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Télécharger le livre :  Archiving the British Raj

The archives are generally sites where historians conduct research into our past. Seldom are they objects of research. Sabyasachi Bhattacharya traces the path that led to the creation of a central archive in India, from the setting up of the Imperial Record Department,...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-10-18

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Télécharger le livre :  A Poetics of Modernity

The urban theatre which emerged under Anglo-European and local influences in colonial metropolises such as Calcutta and Bombay around the mid-nineteenth century marked the beginning of the ‘modern period’ in Indian theatre, distinct from classical, postclassical, and...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-10-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Articles of Faith

Examining the constitutional and legal foundations of the place of religion in India, Articles of Faith studies the relationship between religion and state. It closely analyses the decisions of the Supreme Court from the 1950s on Articles 25–30 of the Indian...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-10-16

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Télécharger le livre :  Art Attacks

Since the end of the 1980s in India, self-styled representatives of a variety of ascriptive groups—religious, caste, regional, and linguistic—have been routinely damaging artworks, disrupting their exhibition, and threatening and assaulting artists and their supporters....
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-10-16

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