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47 produkter
Mind, Soul and Consciousness
Religion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (With a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)
Av Soumen Mukherjee, Christopher Harding
Inbunden, 2019
2512 kr
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This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.It focuses on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy – and their links with religion, science, philosophy, and modern notions of the …
Popular Cinema in Bengal
Genre, Stars, Public Cultures
Av Madhuja Mukherjee, Kaustav Bakshi
Inbunden, 2020
1517 kr
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Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic …
Children and Knowledge
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives from India
Av Zazie Bowen, Jessica Hinchy
Inbunden, 2019
2504 kr
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Children and Knowledge sheds light on what it is to be a child in India in the contemporary moment and in history. While acknowledging the ways Indian children are situated within structures of power, this volume foregrounds innovative methodologies for conducting research into childhood and …
South Asian Folklore in Transition
Crafting New Horizons
Av Frank J. Korom, Leah K. Lowthorp
Häftad, 2020
793 kr
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The Indian Subcontinent has been at the centre of folklore inquiry since the 19th century, yet, while much attention was paid to India by early scholars, folkloristic interest in the region waned over time until it virtually disappeared from the research agendas of scholars working in the …
Mind, Soul and Consciousness
Religion, Science and the Psy-Disciplines in Modern South Asia (With a Foreword by J.N. Mohanty)
Av Soumen Mukherjee, Christopher Harding
Häftad, 2020
689 kr
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This comprehensive volume explores histories and modern reworkings of the ideas of mind, soul and consciousness in South Asia.It focuses on the burgeoning ‘psy-disciplines’ – psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy – and their links with religion, science, philosophy, and modern notions of the …
Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia
Critical Perspectives
Av Assa Doron, Alex Broom
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides …
Gujarat Beyond Gandhi
Identity, Society and Conflict
Inbunden, 2011
2504 kr
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The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this …
South Asian Transnationalisms
Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Av Babli Sinha
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United …
Minority Nationalisms in South Asia
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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South Asia is the theatre of myriad experimentations with nationalisms of various kinds - religious, linguistic, religio-linguistic, composite, plural and exclusivist. In all the region’s major states, officially promulgated nationalism at various times has been fiercely contested by minority …
Religious Cultures in Early Modern India
New Perspectives
Av Rosalind O'Hanlon, David Washbrook
Inbunden, 2011
2578 kr
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Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious …
Television at Large in South Asia
Av Aswin Punathambekar, Shanti Kumar
Inbunden, 2014
2504 kr
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This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "at large" in South Asia. Bringing together prominent scholars who have shaped television studies in South Asia, as well as …
Gender and Masculinities
Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka
Av Assa Doron, Alex Broom
Inbunden, 2014
3055 kr
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Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make up ‘masculinities’ remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often …
South Asian Transnationalisms
Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Av Babli Sinha
Häftad, 2014
859 kr
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South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United …
Gujarat Beyond Gandhi
Identity, Society and Conflict
Häftad, 2012
820 kr
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The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this …
Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia
Critical Perspectives
Av Assa Doron, Alex Broom
Häftad, 2013
820 kr
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Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides …
Children and Knowledge
Contemporary and Historical Perspectives from India
Av Zazie Bowen, Jessica Hinchy
Häftad, 2021
691 kr
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Children and Knowledge sheds light on what it is to be a child in India in the contemporary moment and in history. While acknowledging the ways Indian children are situated within structures of power, this volume foregrounds innovative methodologies for conducting research into childhood and …
Communities and Courts
Religion and Law in Modern India
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as well as a validation of their practices. Equally, courts have become the most potent site of the play …
Communities and Courts
Religion and Law in Modern India
Häftad, 2024
691 kr
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The entanglement of law and religion is reiterated on a daily basis in India. Communities and groups turn to the courts to seek positive recognition of their religious identities or sentiments, as well as a validation of their practices. Equally, courts have become the most potent site of the play …
Narrating Africa in South Asia
Inbunden, 2023
2578 kr
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The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several …
Narrating Africa in South Asia
Häftad, 2024
665 kr
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The coastal belts and hinterlands of East Africa and South Asia have historically shared a number of cultural traits, commodities and cosmologies circulated on the wings of the monsoon winds. The forced and voluntary migrations of Asians and Africans across the Indian Ocean littoral over several …
Dancing Body
Labour, Livelihood and Leisure
Av Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Aishika Chakraborty
Inbunden, 2024
2578 kr
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This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India. The Dancing Body is a body that exists, survives, inhabits and performs in multiple space and time, by moving, laboring, migrating and straddling across geographic, cultural and …
Dancing Body
Labour, Livelihood and Leisure
Av Urmimala Sarkar Munsi, Aishika Chakraborty
Häftad, 2025
725 kr
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This book, with its focus on the dancing body, is the first of its kind within the larger context of dance in India. The Dancing Body is a body that exists, survives, inhabits and performs in multiple space and time, by moving, laboring, migrating and straddling across geographic, cultural and …
Popular Cinema in Bengal
Genre, Stars, Public Cultures
Av Madhuja Mukherjee, Kaustav Bakshi
Häftad, 2024
631 kr
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Popular Cinema in Bengal marks a decisive turn in studies of Bengali language cinema by shifting the focus from auteur and text-based studies to exhaustive readings of the film industry. The book covers a wide range of themes and issues, including: generic tropes (like comedy and action); iconic …
Television at Large in South Asia
Av Aswin Punathambekar, Shanti Kumar
Häftad, 2024
646 kr
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This book explores the empirical and theoretical significance of understanding television as a dynamic technology, a creative industry, and a vibrant cultural form that is "at large" in South Asia. Bringing together prominent scholars who have shaped television studies in South Asia, as well as …
Between History and Literature
Essays for Dipesh Chakrabarty
Av Siddharth Satpathy, Girish D. Pawar
Inbunden, 2025
2578 kr
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This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular. These essays, dedicated to Chakrabarty, in different ways extend …
Between History and Literature
Essays for Dipesh Chakrabarty
Av Siddharth Satpathy, Girish D. Pawar
Häftad, 2026
725 kr
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This book explores the value of bhasa literature through the lens of Dipesh Chakrabarty's scholarship, offering a nuanced perspective on his passionate engagement with literature at large and with Bengali literature, in particular. These essays, dedicated to Chakrabarty, in different ways extend …
Youth Futures and Precarious Urbanism
Education, Skills, and Employment in India
Av Manisha Priyam, Mona G. Mehta m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2504 kr
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This book brings together critical discussions on the challenges of urban transformation and the limited opportunities available to marginalized youth in contemporary India. Against the backdrop of neo-liberal policies, globalization, and assertive privatization, the book explores how youth from …
Wondrous Screens in India
Cinema Halls, Place, Public, and Cinephilia
Av Madhuja Mukherjee, Kaushik Bhaumik
Inbunden, 2026
2578 kr
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This book brings together fifteen chapters involving extraordinary primary material, evidences, and experiences of the rapidly shrinking single-screen spaces and transforming viewing cultures in the big cities and towns across India. It emphasizes on the material history of cinema – a history of …
Western Popular Music and Indian Modernity
Av Biswarup Sen
Inbunden, 2026
2578 kr
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From the beginning of the colonial period, western musical forms and practices have travelled to the subcontinent, interacted with domestic sound cultures, and played a significant role in the making of Indian modernity. As the contributions in the volume show, it would be popular western styles …
South Asian Transnationalisms
Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century
Av Babli Sinha
E-bok, 2014
1016 kr
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South Asian Transnationalisms explores encounters in twentieth century South Asia beyond the conventional categories of center and periphery, colonizer and colonized. Considering the cultural and political exchanges between artists and intellectuals of South Asia with counterparts in the United …
