Télécharger le livre :  J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
First in the series on Education and Society in South Asia, this volume focuses on the educational thought of a world-renowned teacher, thinker, and writer—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986). This edited volume examines Krishnamurti’s work and explores his contemporary...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Refugee Woman
The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in three significant texts of the Partition of Bengal—Ritwik Ghatak’s film Meghe Dhaka Tara; and two novels, Jyotirmoyee Devi’s...

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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Nuclear Policy
India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking....

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The Generation of Rage in Kashmir
2008, 2010, and 2016—three important points in recent history when mass rage emerged in Kashmir. But the reasons that pushed Kashmir to the brink on these three occasions were different from each other—from a perceived threat to identity, to rage over the killing of...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Partition of India
Was the Partition of India inevitable?Was it a ‘clash of civilizations’ between Hindus, Muslims, and Sikhs of the Indian subcontinent?Was the Partition a momentous event or a long-drawn-out messy process? Were the experiences of uprooting, violence, and rehabilitation...

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Télécharger le livre :  Stepping into the Elite
The experience of shifting from one social class to another—from a dominated group to a dominant group—raises the question of how the upwardly mobile person relates to his/her group of origin. Stepping into the Elite traces the particular ways in which upwardly mobile...

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Parution : 2018-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Speaking the Nation
Untangling the logical, lexical, and semantic patterns of the multiple official speeches of Indian prime ministers, Speaking the Nation gauges how the Indian state has been projected by different governments in different times, in the face of challenges from internal...

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Parution : 2018-07-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Healers or Predators?
For every story of optimism about the growth of medical tourism to India, there are multiple others about medical neglect. Scratch the surface and you find a thick layer of corruption in this life-sustaining sector. This hard-hitting volume shows a mirror to society...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Africanistan
In Africa, progress can be seen across the board. But the important question is whether this so-called progress is sustainable. The continent is a powder keg: the powder is demographics and unemployment the detonator. By 2050, the number of young people of working age...

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Télécharger le livre :  Indian Army and the First World War
Accustomed to conducting low-intensity warfare before 1914, the Indian Army learnt to engage in high-intensity conventional warfare during the course of World War I, thereby exhibiting a steep learning curve. Being the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia, the...

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Parution : 2018-06-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood
This in-depth ethnography looks at the everyday lives of Muslim students in a girls’ madrasa in India. Highlighting the ambiguities between the students’ espousal of madrasa norms and everyday practice, Borker illustrates how young Muslim girls tactically invoke the...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Dravidian Years
From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservations. In stark contrast is the exemplary case of Tamil Nadu, which has managed to effectively integrate economic and...

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Parution : 2018-06-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Delhi's Meatscapes
Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega-city. The...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-06-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Costs of Democracy
One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections...

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Parution : 2018-06-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Nepalis
Migration has been a basic fact of Nepali life for centuries. Over the last thirty years, migration from Nepal has increased diaspora communities across the world. In these diverse contexts, to what extent do Nepalis reproduce their culture and pass it on to subsequent...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance
Fantasy Fictions from the Bengal Renaissance presents two masterpieces of Bengali literature by Rabindranath Tagore’s nephews, Abanindranath Tagore and Gaganendranath Tagore. The Make-Believe Prince is the delightful story of a king, his two wives, a trickster monkey, a...

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Parution : 2018-06-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Unwanted Neighbours
In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, had never been to the ocean. Presumably anxious with the news about the Mughal military campaign in Gujarat, several...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  War or Peace
Today’s international climate is one of disorder. A League of Dictators (China, Russia, Iran) is threatening the superpower status of the United States of America, and the liberal international order it has underwritten. A piecemeal Third World War seems to have begun....

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-05-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Humans on the Run
In fleeing sometimes there is freedom, sometimes safety, sometimes sheer survival. Twenty-five individuals in flight, long disconnected from the certitudes of a settled, anchored existence. They map their journeys when moving to the next village, town, city, country, or...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  THE EMPIRE OF APOSTLES
The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were key participants in both regions. As they sought to reconcile three commitments—to local missionary spaces, to a universal...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2018-05-18
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