SANJAY SRIVASTAVA - Böcker

National Character and the Doon School. An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.

An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.

An interdisciplinary and engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence and unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens. Using the case study of the Doon School, a famous boarding school for boys, and one of the leading educational institutions in India, the author argues that to be post-colonial in India is to be modern, rational, secular and urban. In placing post-colonialism in this concrete social context, and analysing how it is constructed, the author renders a complex and often rather abstract subject accessible.

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Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context.This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, ‘footpath pornography’, magazines such as Sexology Mirror (in Hindi), women’s magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality.

Imagining the city as a series of interconnected spaces, the book explores how several such connections - between the home and the street, family and public spaces, religious and non-religious contexts, for example - relate to the topic of masculinity. How do men - elite, subaltern, consumers, 'heads' of the family, members of 'Hindu fundamentalist' organisations, readers of pulp fiction and 'footpath pornography', those who admire the 'strong' political leader - move between these spaces, define them and are defined by them? Urbanisation in India is a vibrant site of an extraordinary cultural, social and economic churn, a context of both the consolidation of masculine identities as well as anxieties regarding their place in the city. The book suggests that sustained and in-depth engagements with specific historical and social contexts avoids tendencies to imagine cities as nodes of comparison that frequently generates universal models of urbanism.

(Hi)Stories of Desire situates questions of sexuality in the larger domain where they are conditioned by and, in turn, also condition historically and culturally produced landscapes of being, doing and desiring. The book draws upon multi-disciplinary frameworks of analysis - including history, anthropology, literary studies, queer studies and psychoanalysis - to provide a pan-Indian account of the making of sexual cultures. Based on original research, the chapters foreground sexuality as a significant site for the making of regional, national and personal modernities. The volume addresses the modern paradox where sexuality is assigned a central significance in human life and yet its study tends to remain unconnected from the political, religious, social and economic contexts that produce human subjectivity. It will be of interest to a wide range of readership, opening up the topic to complex yet accessible ways of understanding the culture of sexualities and the sexuality of culture.

Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context.This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India. It provides an analysis of the sexual and domestic politics of the period by focusing on the vast corpus of publications and journals on sexology from the 1920s to the 1940s, and links Indian activities with those in other parts of the world. The author analyzes material that has thus far been outside the purview of scholarly studies, namely, ‘footpath pornography’, magazines such as Sexology Mirror (in Hindi), women’s magazines dealing explicitly with sex and sexuality.

Enhancing Nutrient Use Efficiency: Concepts, Methods, and Management Interventions for Crops and Cropping Systems is a comprehensive volume that offers an extensive exploration of topics related to enhancing the nutrient use efficiency of a wide range of crops and cropping systems. Nutrient use efficiency refers to the measure of how effectively plants utilize available mineral nutrients to produce economic yield. Although soil quality plays a crucial role in this process, management practices can also have a significant impact. This book delves into various multifaceted approaches to improve nutrient use efficiency.The book is designed to provide valuable insights to scientists, farmers, students, and policymakers about holistic approaches to nutrient use efficiency in major crops and cropping systems. Improving nutrient use efficiency is essential for reducing agricultural production costs, given the increasing expenses of agricultural inputs, and for minimizing environmental contamination. Soil physical management is a primary strategy for enhancing nutrient use efficiency, and hand-held devices are commonly used by farmers for nitrogen management in rice in several regions. Long-term fertilizer experiments and Soil Test Crop Response Correlation provide invaluable information about nutrient dynamics in the soil, which can be used to develop practices that lead to higher use efficiency.In addition to explaining the concepts and methods of nutrient use efficiency, the book also covers management practices for various cropping systems, including dry land crops, cereal-based systems, rainfed pulses, soybean-based systems, sugarcane-based systems, cotton-based systems, tobacco and oilseed-based systems, rapeseed-mustard-based systems, and spice-based systems. This comprehensive resource serves as a valuable guide for enhancing nutrient use efficiency in a wide range of crops and cropping systems.