South Asian History and Culture – serie
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42 produkter
Women Speak Nation
Gender, Culture, and Politics
Av Panchali Ray
Inbunden, 2019
2894 kr
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Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try …
Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India
Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment
Häftad, 2019
713 kr
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This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which …
Women Speak Nation
Gender, Culture, and Politics
Av Panchali Ray
Häftad, 2021
797 kr
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Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try …
Poet’s Song
‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia
Inbunden, 2023
2894 kr
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This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. The book shows how the genre, thought to be a nearly extinct form, is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how, …
Escaping the World
Women Renouncers among Jains
Inbunden, 2011
2525 kr
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The book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive …
`How Best Do We Survive?’
A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims
Inbunden, 2010
2600 kr
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This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in …
India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007
Inbunden, 2011
2208 kr
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This book analyses India’s relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India’s foreign policy from the Partition and its fallout, its nascent years under Nehru, and …
Land, Water, Language and Politics in Andhra
Regional Evolution in India Since 1850
Inbunden, 2012
2600 kr
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This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day. After independence, the debate over land reform and policies on irrigation has shaped the fortunes of various governments, while the debate over the make-up …
Scoring Off the Field
Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80
Inbunden, 2011
1530 kr
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This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region/locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It explains how football became a viable popular …
Indian Sisters
A History of Nursing and the State, 1907–2007
Inbunden, 2013
2525 kr
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Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both …
State of Subversion
Radical Politics in Punjab in the 20th Century
Av Virinder S. Kalra, Shalini Sharma
Häftad, 2017
580 kr
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This volume looks at the interface between ideology, religion and culture in Punjab in the 20th century, spanning from colonial to post-colonial times. Through a rereading of the history of Punjab and of Punjabi migrant networks the world over, it interrogates the term ‘radicalism’ and its …
Rituparno Ghosh
Cinema, gender and art
Av Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
827 kr
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An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. …
Women Speak Nation
Gender, Culture, and Politics
Av Panchali Ray
E-bok, 2019
916 kr
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Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try …
Women Speak Nation
Gender, Culture, and Politics
Av Panchali Ray
E-bok, 2019
916 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Women Speak Nation underlines the centrality of gender within the ideological construction of nationalism. The volume locates itself in a rich scholarship of feminist critique of the relationship between political, economic, cultural, and social formations and normative gendered relations to try …
Poet’s Song
‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia
Häftad, 2025
749 kr
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This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. The book shows how the genre, thought to be a nearly extinct form, is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how, …
'How Best Do We Survive?'
A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims
E-bok, 2012
999 kr
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This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in …
'How Best Do We Survive?'
A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims
E-bok, 2012
967 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in …
Culture and Power in South Asian Islam
Defying the Perpetual Exception
Av Neilesh Bose
Häftad, 2017
505 kr
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This book explores the myriad diversities of South Asian Islam from a historical perspective attuned to the lived practices of Muslims in various portions of South Asia, outside of Urdu, Persian, or Arabic language perspectives. These perspectives are, in some cases taken both from literal regions …
Mapping South Asian Masculinities
Men and Political Crises
Häftad, 2017
798 kr
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This book offers the first substantial critical examination of men and masculinities in relation to political crises in South Asian literatures and cultures. It employs political crisis as a frame to analyze how South Asian men and masculinities have been shaped by critical historical events, …
India's Foreign Relations, 1947-2007
Häftad, 2015
761 kr
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This book analyses India’s relations with its neighbours (China, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) and other world powers (USA, UK, and Russia) over a span of 60 years. It traces the roots of independent India’s foreign policy from the Partition and its fallout, its nascent years under Nehru, and …
Land, Water, Language and Politics in Andhra
Regional Evolution in India Since 1850
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day. After independence, the debate over land reform and policies on irrigation has shaped the fortunes of various governments, while the debate over the make-up …
Scoring Off the Field
Football Culture in Bengal, 1911–80
Häftad, 2016
563 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book examines how football, as a mass spectator sport, came to represent a novel, unique cultural identity of Bengali people in terms of nation, community, region/locality and club, contributing to the continuity of everyday socio-cultural life. It explains how football became a viable popular …
Escaping the World
Women Renouncers among Jains
Häftad, 2016
827 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The book attends to a historical question — how to account for the high numbers of renouncers (sadhvis) mentioned in medieval and ancient texts — which has been acknowledged and raised, but left unaddressed within Jain studies. It does so through ethnographic data gathered through extensive …
`How Best Do We Survive?’
A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims
Häftad, 2016
851 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book traces the social and political history of the Muslims of south India from the later nineteenth century to Independence in 1947, and the contours that followed. It describes a community in search of political survival amidst an ever-changing climate, and the fluctuating fortunes it had in …
Indian Sisters
A History of Nursing and the State, 1907–2007
Häftad, 2015
827 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both …
Idolatry and the Colonial Idea of India
Visions of Horror, Allegories of Enlightenment
Inbunden, 2017
2600 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores literary and scholarly representations of India from the 18th to the early 20th centuries in South Asia and the West with idolatry as a point of entry. It charts the intellectual horizon within which the colonial idea of India was framed, tracing sources and genealogies which …
Culture and Power in South Asian Islam
Defying the Perpetual Exception
Av Neilesh Bose
Inbunden, 2015
1530 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explores the myriad diversities of South Asian Islam from a historical perspective attuned to the lived practices of Muslims in various portions of South Asia, outside of Urdu, Persian, or Arabic language perspectives. These perspectives are, in some cases taken both from literal regions …
Mapping South Asian Masculinities
Men and Political Crises
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book offers the first substantial critical examination of men and masculinities in relation to political crises in South Asian literatures and cultures. It employs political crisis as a frame to analyze how South Asian men and masculinities have been shaped by critical historical events, …
Rituparno Ghosh
Cinema, gender and art
Av Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
2525 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. …
Rituparno Ghosh
Cinema, gender and art
Av Sangeeta Datta, Kaustav Bakshi m. fl.
E-bok, 2015
970 kr
Lägg i varukorg
An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray’s legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. His films, though rooted firmly in middle-class values, desires and aspirations, are highly critical of hetero-patriarchal power structures. …
