Télécharger le livre :  The Trishanku Nation
Taking a cue from the story of Trishanku—the mythological king who aspired to reach heaven while still alive—Deepak Kumar builds a compelling narrative on the state of contemporary India. Much like Trishanku, who only succeeded in being stuck in limbo between heaven and...

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Télécharger le livre :  Making the Poor Free?
While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, 'UID will help hundreds of people in India, whose pride...

Editeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  Uniform Civil Code for India
Article 44 of The Constitution of India, provides that 'The State shall endeavour to secure for the citizens a Uniform Civil Code throughout the territory of India.' Even after more than six decades, this anticipated code has not been developed or implemented. This book...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2015-06-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism
The question of identity and especially its formation among youth, has received significant academic attention as our worlds become intricately and unpredictably connected through satellite televisions, mobile telephones, Internet and social networking platforms....

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2015-05-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Legislating for Equity
Land ownership in India has always been a risky proposition. The hitherto unfettered power of acquisition and the refusal of the Parliament to recognize the right to own property as a fundamental one, had emboldened the state to stake claim on any land it saw fit....

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Télécharger le livre :  An Independent, Colonial Judiciary
In 2012, the Bombay High Court celebrated the 150th year of its existence. As one of three high courts first set up in colonial India in 1862, it functioned as a court of original and appellate jurisdiction during the British Raj for over 80 years, occupying the topmost...

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Télécharger le livre :  Green Signals
The debate on whether to privilege economic growth over ecological security is passé. Environmental considerations must be at the heart of economic growth, especially for a country of 1.25 billion people destined to add another 400 million by the middle of the century....

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2015-03-05
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Télécharger le livre :  War and Society in Afghanistan
This monograph analyses the rhythms of war and the geopolitical significance of Afghanistan with a focus on the interrelated concepts of weak/rentier state, great power rivalry, and counter-insurgency. It analyses why the Mughals, the British, the Soviets, and the...

Editeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  India Analysed
Based on interviews of Sudhir Kakar by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, India Analysed is a journey into Kakar’s mind—his fertile and unpredictable ways of thinking, and the essential humanism which all his writings signify—recounting the life and ideas of Kakar...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2015-01-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Indian Parliament
The Parliament is the visible face of democracy in India. It is the epicentre of political life, public institutions of great verve, and a regime of Rights. In a first-of-its-kind study, this book delves into the lived experience of the Indian Parliament by focusing on...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-12-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Seduced by the Familiar
Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the 'popular' in Indian cinema, M.K....

Editeur : OUP India
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Télécharger le livre :  International Relations Theory and South Asia (OIP)
Bringing together scholarship from several South Asian countries, this volume understands conflict resolution and cooperation building in the region. The essays cover three inter-related issues-security; political economy-domestic politics; and the construction of...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy and Education
What, if any, are the core values and ideas of education? Is moral education an independent variety of education or is it something that is intrinsic to most forms of education? Analysing education through the critical lens of philosophy, this volume explores the...

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Télécharger le livre :  International Relations Theory and South Asia (OIP)
Drawing upon international relations theory, this volume conceptualizes possible solutions to the various conflicts in South Asia. It analyses the bilateral conflicts between India and Pakistan and other multilateral problems specific to this region. Bringing together...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-11-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Travels of Bollywood Cinema
From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This volume brings together perspectives on...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-11-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Shifting Ground
Environmental history of India has developed as an important field of inquiry in the last twenty-five years. While providing major insights, the existing scholarship has primarily focused on drawing sharp lines of distinction - those between geographical spaces (forest,...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-11-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Article 370
On 26 January 1950, the Constitution of India came into force with a unique provision—Article 370. The special status accorded to the state of Jammu and Kashmir in the article meant that its people lived under a different set of laws while being part of the Indian...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-11-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Kashmir's Contested Pasts
A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-07-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Religion and Rabindranath Tagore
This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings in Bengali. With a substantive introduction by Amiya P. Sen identifying various stages in the evolution of Tagore's religious thoughts, beginning from about the...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-06-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Defining Moments in Bengal
This work explores some of the constitutive elements in the life and mind of Bengal in the twentieth century. The author addresses some frequently unasked questions about the history of modern Bengal. In what way was twentieth-century Bengal different from 'Renaissance'...

Editeur : OUP India
Parution : 2014-05-27
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