Télécharger le livre :  The Silence That Speaks

This ground-breaking anthology brings together 38 short stories culled fromover a century of writing by Muslim women from colonial and postcolonialIndia. Selected from different Indian languages, it includes fascinating storiesby celebrated and emerging authors. It also...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-12-31

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Télécharger le livre :  The Millennial Woman in Bollywood

The subtitle says it all: how and why Bollywood found it worthwhile to explore the reality of the millennial women who are thriving in India - small part of the demographics but very influential. Advertising discovered women asThe Hindi film Heroine is a brand and brand...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Growth and Development Planning in India

The debate around growth has been an important feature of economic planning in India since Independence. This book deals with the wide range of issues related to the country's growth and development between 1951 and 2011, covering the 11 Five Year Plans formulated and...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Farm Income in India

The Green Revolution resulted in spectacular advancements in Indian agriculture. Having achieved food security for its citizens, the country has now become a net exporter of different agricultural commodities. But sadly, this does not reflect the real state of the...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Mutating Goddesses

Mutating Goddesses traces the shifting fortunes of four specific Hindu deities—Manasa, Candi, Sasthi and Laksmi—from the fifteenth century to the present time. It focuses on the goddess-invested tradition of Bengal's Hinduism to argue for a historical...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Informal Constitution

Enacted for historical reasons on 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India provided that the Supreme Court of India, situated in New Delhi, was to have one Chief Justice of India, and not more than seven judges. Today, the Court has 33 judges in addition to the Chief...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Curing Madness?

Curing Madness? focusses on the institutional and non-institutional histories of madness in colonial north India. It proves that 'madness' and its 'cure' are shifting categories which assumed new meanings and significance as knowledge travelled across cultural, medical,...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Ceasefire City

For a city in India's northeast that has been embroiled in the everyday militarization and violence of Asia's longest-running separatist conflict, Dimapur remains 'off the map'. With no 'glorious' past or arenas where events of consequence to mainstream India have taken...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Archaeology and the Public Purpose

This book interleaves the history of post-Independence archaeology in India with the life and times of Madhukar Narhar Deshpande (1920-2008), a leading Indian archaeologist who went on to become the director-general of the Archaeological Survey of India. Spanning nearly...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  The Making of Land and the Making of India

What is land and how is it made? In this path-breaking study of sites in western, eastern, and southern India, Nikita Sud argues that land is not simply the solid surface of the earth. It is best understood as a materially and conceptually dynamic realm, intimately tied...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-30

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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Pan-Asianism

Within Asia, the period from 1840s to 1960s had witnessed the rise and decline of Pax Britannica, the growth of multiple and often competing anti-colonial movements, and the entrenchment of the nation-state system. Beyond Pan-Asianism seeks to demonstrate the complex...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-11-01

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Télécharger le livre :  The Economic History of India, 1857–2010

From the end of the eighteenth century, two distinct global processes began to transform livelihoods and living conditions in the South Asia region. These were the rise of British colonial rule and globalization, that is, the integration of the region in the emerging...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Collected Plays (OIP)

The tale of a mythic king’s aggression against his offspring, and his desperation to escape the curse of old age laid upon him in the prime of life.The anxieties that torment a middle-class family as their daughter awaits the arrival of the ‘suitable boy’ from abroad...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Collected Plays (OIP)

The troubled reign of a fourteenth-century sultan of Delhi helps dramatize the crisis of secular nationhood in post-Independence India. A twelfth century folktale about ‘transposed heads’ offers a path-breaking model for a quintessentially ‘Indian’ theatre in...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Capturing Institutional Change

Institutions are norms that undergird organizations and are reflected in laws and practices. Over time, institutions take root and persist as they are path dependent and thus change resistant. Therefore, it is puzzling when institutions change. One such puzzle has been...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Interpreting Politics

In careers that spanned six decades, Padma Bhushan award winners Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph elaborated seminal insights about Indian politics. The Rudolphs’ rigorous and remarkably empathetic study of India coupled with their extensive reading of social science theory...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  Collected Plays (OIP)

A violent history of the anti-caste movement in twelfth-century Karnataka.A myth from the Mahabharata depicted as a narrative of passion, betrayal, and parricide. Th e inner world of a man whose public life was a continual war against British colonialism.A reflection on...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-09-10

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Télécharger le livre :  The Rohingya

The Rohingyas are one of the most persecuted ethnic minorities in the world. They used to live in the Arakan/Rakhine State of Burma/Myanmar for centuries, though it is a predominantly Buddhist country. Being victims of persecution as a result of ethnic cleansing and...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-08-15

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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of a Future

In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and runs the risk of reinforcing pervasive and often polarizing depictions of youth.In order to...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-08-14

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29,18

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Télécharger le livre :  India Tomorrow

The next generation of political leaders will determine India's future. We know their names, but not what lies behind what we hear or see of them in the event/news-focussed coverage in newspapers and television channels. For instance, what moves them? Who inspires them?...
Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2020-08-14

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