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“Slumdog” Phenomenon
A Critical Anthology
AvAjay Gehlawat
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 188 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and its reception. The volume provides a critical overview of the key issues and debates stemming from the film, and allows readers to reexamine them in light of the anthology’s multiple perspectives.
South Asia 2060
Envisioning Regional Futures
AvAdil Najam,Moeed Yusuf
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 478 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future. The collection explores current regional trends, possible future trajectories, and the key factors that will determine whether these trajectories are positive or negative for the region, as a region. Departing from a purely security-based analysis, the volume considers factors such as development and human well-being to reveal not what will happen but what could happen, as well as the impact present conditions could have on the rest of the world.
Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond
Structures, Agents, Practices
AvUwe Skoda,Kenneth Bo Nielsenm. fl.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond’ contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond. The volume combines a broad range of approaches to challenge narrow conceptualisations of social inclusion and exclusion in terms of singular factors such as caste, policy or the economy. This collaborative endeavour and cross-disciplinary approach, which brings together younger and more established scholars, facilitates a deeper understanding of complex social and political processes in contemporary India.
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Fortified Cities of Ancient India
A Comparative Study
AvDieter Schlingloff
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 153 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India. Based on in-depth textual and archeological research, Professor Dieter Schlingloff’s work presents for the first time the striking outcomes of intertwining data garnered from a wide range of sources. This volume scrutinizes much of the established knowledge on urban fortifications in South Asia, advancing new conceptions based on an authoritative, far-reaching study.
Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India
Interrogating Political Society
AvAjay Gudavarthy
Inbunden, Engelska, 2012
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society’ critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, which was formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in the postcolonial context. The volume’s case studies, drawn from across India and combined with a sharp focus on the concept of political society, provide those interested in Indian democracy and its changing patterns with an indispensable collection of works, brought together in their common pursuit of highlighting the limitations of different core concepts as formulated by Chatterjee. Centred around five themes – the relation between the civil and the political; the role of middlemen and their impact on the mobility of subaltern groups; elites and leadership; the fragmentation and intra-subaltern conflicts and their implications for subaltern agency; and the idea of moral claims and moral community – this volume re-frames issues of democracy and agency in India within a wider scope than has ever been published before, and gathers ideas from some of the foremost scholars in the field. The volume concludes with a rejoinder from Partha Chatterjee.
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Mahanubhavs
AvAntonio Rigopoulos
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The ascetic devotional sect known as the Mahanubhavs – ‘Those of the Great Experience’ – arose in thirteenth-century Maharashtra and initially experienced a fairly rapid expansion across the northern and eastern areas of the region. However, by the end of the fourteenth century the sect had moved underground, having withdrawn to remote areas and villages in order to achieve defensive isolation from the larger Hindu context. Although the prominent leaders of the early Mahanubhavs were Brahmans (often converts from the prevailing advaita vaisnavism), their followers were (and are) mostly non-Brahmans – those of the lower castes, and even untouchables. Thus the Mahanubhavs were met with prejudice and distrust outside of their own closed circles, and this isolation continued until the beginning of the twentieth century. This volume offers an overview of the origins and main religious and doctrinal characteristics of the Mahanubhavs movement, with a particular focus on the aspects that reveal their difference and nonconformity.
India and the World Bank
The Politics of Aid and Influence
AvJason A. Kirk
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
422 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
'The World Bank needs India more than India needs it.' So goes an emerging consensus on both sides of the relationship between the Bank and its largest borrower. This book analyzes the politics of aid and influence. The Bank, struggling to remain relevant amid India’s recent rapid growth and expanding access to private capital, has been caught up in a complex federal politics of reform and development. India’s central government - far from being in retreat - has been the main driver of dramatic changes in the Bank’s assistance strategy, leading toward a focus at the sub-national state level.
Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture
The History of Understanding and Understanding of History
AvLakshmi Bandlamudi
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
410 kr
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‘Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of History’ explores the interrelationships between individual and cultural historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using key concepts from Bakhtin’s theory of dialogics. This ambitious volume discusses the limits of fixed monologic discourses and the benefits of fluid dialogic discourses, and provides a cultural and psychological analysis of the epic Indian text the Mahabharata.
Studies in the Kasikavrtti. The Section on Pratyaharas
Critical Edition, Translation and Other Contributions
AvPascale Haag,Vincenzo Vergiani
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The volume is the first outcome of an international project aiming to create a complete critical edition of the ‘Kasikavrtti’ (7th c. CE) of Jayaditya and Vamana, the oldest surviving complete commentary on the ‘Astadhyayi of Panini’ (ca. 4th c. BCE). The first phase, culminating in this critical edition of the Kasika’s initial section (devoted to the ‘Pratyaharasutras’, the ‘rules for abbreviations’) was jointly coordinated by the editors together with Professor Saroja Bhate, a Paninian scholar of global renown. This edition is accompanied by a description of the manuscripts collated, an annotated English translation by the editors, and a series of editorial contributions dealing with the history of the Kasikavrtti’s editions and its current textual sources. Summaries of the methodology and results of the project’s first phase are also included. In the second part of the study, various authors discuss an array of theoretical, historical and methodological topics ranging from the historical importance of the Kasika and its relation with the seminal ‘Mahabhasya’ of Patanjali, to a comparison with the corresponding section in the ‘Candravrtti’, the evidence of Bhartrhari’s influence on the Kasika, and the copyists’ invocations and the incipit attested in the ‘Kasikavrtti’ manuscripts.
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Anthropologist and the Native
Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
AvH. L. Seneviratne
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 119 kr
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‘The Anthropologist and the Native’ is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere. The essays are arranged in six sections covering a range of topics that reflect Obeyesekere’s wide interests, making it a truly multidisciplinary volume. The areas covered include the Indian tradition and its representation, textual elucidation, renunciation, and the transformaion of Buddhism.
New India?
Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth Century
AvAnthony P. D'Costa
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
422 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This volume critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by acknowledging that India is changing remarkably and by indicating that in the overzealous enthusiasm about the new India, there is collective amnesia about the other, older India. The book argues that the increasing consolidation of capitalist markets of commodity production and consumption has unleashed not only economic growth and social change, but has also introduced new contradictions associated with market dynamics in the material and social as well as intellectual spheres.
Mahatma Misunderstood
The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India
AvSnehal Shingavi
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 287 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“The Mahatma Misunderstood” studies the relationship between the production of novels in late-colonial India and nationalist agitation promoted by the Indian National Congress. The volume examines the process by which novelists who were critically engaged with Gandhian nationalism, and who saw both the potentials and the pitfalls of Gandhian political strategies, came to be seen as the Mahatma’s standard-bearers rather than his loyal opposition.
Postliberalization Indian Novels in English
Politics of Global Reception and Awards
AvAysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2013
1 287 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” is a critical handbook that focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the global reception of these works. The volume provides a systematic approach to the study of Indian novelists that have not been (with certain exceptions) extensively examined.
Stages of Life
Indian Theatre Autobiographies
AvKathryn Hansen
Inbunden, Engelska, 2011
1 153 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The vanished world of India’s late-colonial theatre provides the backdrop for the autobiographies in this book. The life-stories of a quartet of early Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here translated into English for the first time. These men were schooled not in the classroom but in large theatrical companies run by Parsi entrepreneurs. Their memoirs, replete with anecdote and humor, are as significant to the understanding of the nationalist era as the lives of political leaders or social reformers.
Bollywood and Globalization
Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and Diaspora
AvRini Bhattacharya Mehta,Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
409 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Commercial cinema has always been one of the biggest indigenous industries in India, and remains so in the post-globalization era, when Indian economy has entered a new phase of global participation, liberalization and expansion. Issues of community, gender, society, social and economic justice, bourgeois-liberal individualism, secular nationhood and ethnic identity are nowhere more explored in the Indian cultural mainstream than in commercial cinema. As Indian economy and policy have gone through a sea-change after the end of the Cold War and the commencement of the Global Capital, the largest cultural industry has followed suit. This book is a significant addition to the study of post-Global Indian culture. The articles represent a variety of theoretical and pedagogical approaches, and the collection will be appreciated by beginners and scholars alike.
Introduction to Changing India
Culture, Politics and Development
AvSirpa Tenhunen,Minna Säävälä
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
259 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“An Introduction to Changing India” provides a comprehensive view of the rapid changes occurring in India, particularly in the fields of culture, politics, economics and technology, population, environmental issues and gender. Having carried out anthropological research on kinship, gender issues, politics, class and caste, population issues and the appropriation of information technology in India since the 1990s, the authors draw from their own fieldwork and extensive reading of research reports in order to provide a comprehensive picture of Indian life.
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Taiwan Today
AvAnita Sharma,Sreemati Chakrabarti
Inbunden, Engelska, 2010
924 kr
Skickas inom 3-6 vardagar
The 1980s economic boom in East Asia drew the world’s attention towards Taiwan. India-Taiwan economic relations have been growing and the setting up of economic and cultural centres has promoted people-to-people contacts. Cultural and educational ties between the two nations are also increasing. This book is inspired by a conference titled ‘Taiwan Today’ organized by the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi. The Department of East Asian Studies is one of the few academic centres where all the entities in the East Asian region are studied and researched. This book will be very useful for those interested or engaged in research on East Asia.
Aboard the Democracy Train
A Journey through Pakistan's Last Decade of Democracy
AvNafisa Hoodbhoy
Häftad, Engelska, 2011
267 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘Aboard the Democracy Train’ is about politics and journalism in Pakistan. It is a gripping front-line account of the country’s decade of turbulent democracy (1988-1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter working during the Zia era at ‘Dawn’, Pakistan’s leading English language newspaper. In this volume, the author reveals her unique experiences and coverage of ethnic violence, women’s rights and media freedoms. The narrative provides an insight into the politics of the Pak-Afghan region in the post 9-11 era, and exposes how the absence of rule of law claimed the life of its only woman prime minister.
South Asia 2060
Envisioning Regional Futures
AvAdil Najam,Moeed Yusuf
Häftad, Engelska, 2013
584 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue among 47 experts from a diverse range of expertise and backgrounds, ranging from policymakers to academia to civil society activists and visionaries, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future. The collection explores current regional trends, possible future trajectories, and the key factors that will determine whether these trajectories are positive or negative for the region, as a region. Departing from a purely security-based analysis, the volume considers factors such as development and human well-being to reveal not what will happen but what could happen, as well as the impact present conditions could have on the rest of the world.
Del 1 - Anthem South Asian Studies
Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’
The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India
AvRakesh H. Solomon
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 287 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
In addition to providing the first English translation of the anticolonial Marathi classic ‘Kichaka-Vadha’, this volume is the only edition of the play, in any language, to provide an extensive historical-critical analysis which draws on a comprehensive range of archival documents. It is also the first study to locate this landmark text within such an expansive theatre-historical and political landscape. ‘Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of “Kichaka Vadha”’ illuminates the complex policies and mechanisms of theatrical censorship in the British Raj, and offers many rare production photographs.
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Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India
AvKenneth Bo Nielsen,Anne Waldrop
Inbunden, Engelska, 2014
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.
Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India
Interrogating Political Society
AvAjay Gudavarthy
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
409 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political Society’ critically unpacks the concept of ‘political society’, which was formulated as a response to the idea of civil society in the postcolonial context. The volume’s case studies, drawn from across India and combined with a sharp focus on the concept of political society, provide those interested in Indian democracy and its changing patterns with an indispensable collection of works, brought together in their common pursuit of highlighting the limitations of different core concepts as formulated by Chatterjee. Centred around five themes – the relation between the civil and the political; the role of middlemen and their impact on the mobility of subaltern groups; elites and leadership; the fragmentation and intra-subaltern conflicts and their implications for subaltern agency; and the idea of moral claims and moral community – this volume re-frames issues of democracy and agency in India within a wider scope than has ever been published before, and gathers ideas from some of the foremost scholars in the field. The volume concludes with a rejoinder from Partha Chatterjee.
Statemaking and Territory in South Asia
Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)
AvBernardo A. Michael
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
422 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“Statemaking and Territory in South Asia: Lessons from the Anglo–Gorkha War (1814–1816)” seeks to understand how European colonization transformed the organization of territory in South Asia through an examination of the territorial disputes that underlay the Anglo–Gorkha War of 1814–1816 and subsequent efforts of the colonial state to reorder its territories. The volume argues that these disputes arose out of older tribute, taxation and property relationships that left their territories perpetually intermixed and with ill-defined boundaries. It also seeks to describe the long-drawn-out process of territorial reordering undertaken by the British in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that set the stage for the creation of a clearly defined geographical template for the modern state in South Asia.
“Slumdog” Phenomenon
A Critical Anthology
AvAjay Gehlawat
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
434 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“The ‘Slumdog’ Phenomenon” addresses multiple issues related to “Slumdog Millionaire” and, in the process, provides new ways of looking at this controversial film. Each of the book’s four sections considers a particular aspect of the film: its relation to the nation, to the slum, to Bollywood and its reception. The volume provides a critical overview of the key issues and debates stemming from the film, and allows readers to reexamine them in light of the anthology’s multiple perspectives.
Postliberalization Indian Novels in English
Politics of Global Reception and Awards
AvAysha Iqbal Viswamohan
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
471 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” is a critical handbook that focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the global reception of these works. The volume provides a systematic approach to the study of Indian novelists that have not been (with certain exceptions) extensively examined.
Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond
Structures, Agents, Practices
AvUwe Skoda,Kenneth Bo Nielsenm. fl.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
409 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
‘Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond’ contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond. The volume combines a broad range of approaches to challenge narrow conceptualisations of social inclusion and exclusion in terms of singular factors such as caste, policy or the economy. This collaborative endeavour and cross-disciplinary approach, which brings together younger and more established scholars, facilitates a deeper understanding of complex social and political processes in contemporary India.
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Fortified Cities of Ancient India
A Comparative Study
AvDieter Schlingloff
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
422 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Authored by one of the leading scholars of German Indology, “Fortified Cities in Ancient India” offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India. Based on in-depth textual and archeological research, Professor Dieter Schlingloff’s work presents for the first time the striking outcomes of intertwining data garnered from a wide range of sources. This volume scrutinizes much of the established knowledge on urban fortifications in South Asia, advancing new conceptions based on an authoritative, far-reaching study.
Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry
The Development of an Indian Mental Hospital in British India, c. 1925–1940
AvWaltraud Ernst
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
422 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
This book focuses on the Ranchi Indian Mental Hospital, the largest public psychiatric facility in colonial India during the 1920s and 1930s. It breaks new ground by offering unique material for a critical engagement with the phenomenon of the ‘indigenisation’ or ‘Indianisation’ of the colonial medical services and the significance of international professional networks. The work also provides a detailed assessment of the role of gender and race in this field, and of Western and culturally specific medical treatments and diagnoses. The volume offers an unprecedented look at both the local and global factors that had a strong bearing on hospital management and psychiatric treatment at this institution.
Two Decades of Market Reform in India
Some Dissenting Views
AvSudipta Bhattacharyya
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
422 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
Have neoliberal policies truly yielded beneficial effects for India? ‘Two Decades of Market Reform in India’ presents a collection of essays that challenge the conventional wisdom of Indian market reforms, examining the effects of neoliberal policies enacted by the Indian government and exploding the myths that surround them. In particular, the volume questions the perceived benefits of India’s reform policies in the areas of growth, agriculture, industry and poverty alleviation, and examines how the government’s focus on preventing a fiscal deficit caused a large-scale decline in development expenditures, which in turn has had a negative impact on the well-being of the poor. With its rich and insightful analysis, ‘Two Decades of Market Reform in India’ bravely shines a light on the true implications of India’s neoliberal governmental policies, and provides a revealing indication of how policy reform since 1991 has, at times, detrimentally affected the general populace of India.
Income-Poverty And Beyond
Human Development in India
AvRaja J. Chelliah,R. Sudarshan
Inbunden, Engelska, 2002
1 119 kr
Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar
'Income Poverty and Beyond' emphasizes the need to go beyond the conventional definition of poverty and look at the various human aspects of the problem. Special care has been taken to make the information and analysis accessible to the general reader.

Anthem South Asian Studies – serie

“Slumdog” Phenomenon

South Asia 2060

Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

Fortified Cities of Ancient India

Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India

Mahanubhavs

India and the World Bank

Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture

Studies in the Kasikavrtti. The Section on Pratyaharas

Anthropologist and the Native

New India?

Mahatma Misunderstood

Postliberalization Indian Novels in English

Stages of Life

Bollywood and Globalization

Introduction to Changing India

Taiwan Today

Aboard the Democracy Train

South Asia 2060

Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’

Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India

Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India

Statemaking and Territory in South Asia

“Slumdog” Phenomenon

Postliberalization Indian Novels in English

Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond

Fortified Cities of Ancient India

Colonialism and Transnational Psychiatry

Two Decades of Market Reform in India

Income-Poverty And Beyond