Télécharger le livre :  History and Theory of Knowledge Production
Who decides what should be recognized as knowledge? What forces engender knowledge? How do certain forms of it acquire precedence over the rest, and why? Exploring these fundamental questions, this book provides an introductory outline of the vast history of knowledge...

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Télécharger le livre :  Camels in the Sky
Journeying from the green, rain-soaked Kerala into the amphitheatre of the Sun, our traveller-journalist finds that there is no better metaphor than the desert to instil the lessons of life and death, love and hatred, thirst and water. From a single shower of rain which...

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Télécharger le livre :  Performing Representation
Seven decades after India’s independence women members occupy 1 in 10 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. In analysing women’s limited presence in the Indian Parliament, Performing Representation breaks new ground in scholarship on gender...

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Parution : 2018-10-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Talking Sociology
A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Demons and Demigods
The harshest punishment is reserved for the harshest crimes. Murderers, rapists, terrorists—perpetrators of grisly acts—these are the people on death row.The Supreme Court of India has repeatedly held that the death penalty can be awarded only in the rarest of rare...

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Parution : 2018-10-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Collected Papers in Theoretical Economics (Volume V): Economic Policy and Its Theoretical Bases
Effective policymaking is based on economics which is a blend of empiricism as well as theory. It needs to be grounded not only in data, statistics, and the regularities observed therein, but also analytics, deductive reasoning, and logic, which are the constituents of...

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Parution : 2018-10-04
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Télécharger le livre :  The Aadhaar Effect
Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency—Aadhaar has bitterly polarized India since its launch in 2010. No other project has captured the imagination of the people—or inspired such awe and anxiety—in recent memory....

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Parution : 2018-10-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Struggle of My Life
Sahajanand Saraswati (1889–1950) was a man of many parts. Monk, scholar, freedom fighter, and leader of the peasant movement, he made an impact in all these spheres. His autobiography, Mera Jeevan Sangharsh (‘The Struggle of My Life’), gives an account of his life and...

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Parution : 2018-09-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Deities and Devotees
How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple?How do we understand cinema’s compelling power to mesmerize people? Unlike Hindi cinema, mythological and devotional films remained...

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Parution : 2018-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  At Nature's Edge
In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean coast, the Negev desert and the former military bases of Vietnam, or the Namib desert and the east African...

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Parution : 2018-09-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Crises of Civilization
The world created by the legacies of empire and colonialism now confronts some deep crises of civility, precipitated by globalization and climate change. In this volume, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines these distinct—but interrelated—issues side by side. Varied ideas of...

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Parution : 2018-09-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Hindi Publishing in Colonial Lucknow
Investigating the emergence of Hindi publishing in colonial Lucknow, long a stronghold of Urdu and Persian literary culture, Shobna Nijhawan offers a detailed study of literary activities emerging out of the publishing house Ga?ga Pustak Mala in the first half of the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Bridging East and West
Dating from 1919 to 1940, these letters and telegrams are being published for the first time in English in their entirety. They manage to capture the essence of Tagore and Rolland’s friendship in their struggle with the conflict between nationalism and human conscience....

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Télécharger le livre :  Islam in the West
The bombings in New York and Washington in 2001 and subsequent terrorist attacks in different countries of the West have led to fast changing socio-cultural and political contexts where Islam has been depicted as a global threat.The meaning of being a Muslim has...

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Parution : 2018-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Mapping Power
Electricity is critical to enabling India’s economic growth and providing a better future for its citizens. In spite of several decades of reform, the Indian electricity sector is unable to provide high-quality and affordable electricity for all, and grapples with the...

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Parution : 2018-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Badalte Gaon, Badalta Dehat
Everyday life in contemporary rural India is characterized by an increased sense of mobility, inequality, and uncertainty. Ordinary villagers often find themselves caught between the promises and failures of democracy and development. This ethnographic study of the...

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Parution : 2018-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Modern Hindi
In the early twentieth century, British imperialism in India was at its peak and anti-colonial sentiments were on the rise. The nationalist desire for cultural self-identification was gaining ground and an important articulation of this was the demand for a national...

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Parution : 2018-08-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The University as a Site of Resistance
By raising a conceptual debate on ‘New Social Movements’, Pathania examines contemporary student resistance and analyses protest methods, strategies, networks, and the role of various caste, sub-caste groups, and civil society organizations in the struggle for social...

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Parution : 2018-08-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Teen Talaq
Triple talaq, or talaq-e-bidat, is one of the most debated issues not only in India but also in other countries having a sizeable Muslim population. Muslim men have regularly misused this provision to divorce their wives instantly by simply uttering 'talaq' thrice. The...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Empire of Disgust
All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty...

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