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Realist Paradigm of International Relations Power Systems and Game Theories

Realist Paradigm of International Relations Power Systems and Game Theories

This book explores realist theories—also called power politics approaches formulations of systems theories and game theory in International Relations (IR). The first section of the book focuses on theories of Early Classical Realism—Thucydides Machiavelli and Hobbes and two Asian exponents—Kautilya and Han Fei Tzu. It covers the rise and fall of different schools of imperial geopolitics including those developed during the Cold-War and postmodern periods. It also discusses theories proposed by three stalwarts of Neoclassical Realism— Niebuhr Carr and Morgenthau; the Neorealism of Waltz; Strategic Realism of Schelling; and Offensive Realism of Mearsheimer. The book also examines theoretic formulations of Kaplan Modelski Rosecrance McClelland Holsti and Singer as well as game theory and its relevance and application in international relations. It explores diverse variants of theories of power in international relations through a critical readings of texts and IR literature. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of political science international relations history and law. | Realist Paradigm of International Relations Power Systems and Game Theories

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Vyankatesh Madgulkar A Villageful of Stories and a Forestful of Tales

Vyankatesh Madgulkar A Villageful of Stories and a Forestful of Tales

Vyankatesh Madgulkar (1927–2001) was one of the pioneers of modernist short fiction (nav katha) as well as ‘rural’ (grameen) fiction in Marathi in the post-World War II era. He wrote eight novels two hundred short stories several plays including some notable ‘folk plays’ (loknatya) screenplays and dialogues for more than eighty Marathi films. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of Vyankatesh Madgulkar’s work by analysing selections from his major creative fictions and nonfictions. This is augmented with important writings on him by his contemporaries as well as critical writings commentaries and reviews by present-day scholars. It situates Madgulkar in the context of Marathi literary tradition and Indian literature in general. Part of the Writer in Context series this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature Marathi literature English literature comparative literature postcolonial studies cultural studies global south studies and translation studies. | Vyankatesh Madgulkar A Villageful of Stories and a Forestful of Tales

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The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenges of the crisis along with the discourses that have developed on this issue via the local and international media and literature. The volume also suggests ways to build sustainable solutions for the Rohingya refugees. It discusses wide-ranging issues including a historical overview of the Rohingyas; the Rakhine State of Myanmar and the issue of religious toleration; the struggle for existence in Malaysia and Thailand; vulnerable Rohingya in Bangladesh; and stratified lives in Bangladeshi camps. It also sheds light on social insecurity among Rohingya adolescent girls; understanding gender-based violence in camps; the portrayal of the crisis in Chinese and Indian newspapers; and Bangladesh’s policy in addressing the Rohingya crisis and repatriation. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology social anthropology refugee studies peace and conflict studies international relations human rights political studies gender studies and South Asian studies. | The Displaced Rohingyas A Tale of a Vulnerable Community

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A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

This book offers intimate readings of a diverse range of global autobiographical literature with an emphasis on the (re)presentation of the physical body. The twelve texts discussed here include philosophical autobiography (Nietzsche) autobiographies of self-experimentation (Gandhi Mishima Warhol) literary autobiography (Hemingway Das) as well as other genres of autobiography including the graphic novel (Spiegelman Satrapi) as also documentations of tragedy and injustice and subsequent spiritual overcoming (Ambedkar Pawar Angelou Wiesel). In exploring different literary forms and orientations of the autobiographies the work remains constantly attuned to the physical body a focus generally absent from literary criticism and philosophy or study of leading historical personages with the exception of patches within phenomenological philosophy and feminism. The book delves into how the authors treated here deal with the flesh through their autobiographical writing and in what way they embody the essential relationship between flesh spirit and word. It analyses some seminal texts such as Ecce Homo The Story of My Experiments with Truth Waiting for a Visa I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings A Moveable Feast Night Baluta My Story Sun and Steel The Philosophy of Andy Warhol MAUS and Persepolis. Lucid bold and authoritative this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy literature gender studies political philosophy media and popular culture social exclusion and race and discrimination studies. | A Philosophy of Autobiography Body & Text

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Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938) considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural social and intellectual milieu she inhabited allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern secular form of entertainment in the city space. | Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

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Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

This book proposes a radical shift in the way the world thinks about itself by highlighting the significance of Cross-Cultural Conversations. Moving beyond conventional boundaries it examines the language in which histories are written; analyzes how scientific technology is changing the idea of identity; and highlights the need for a larger identity across nationality race religion gender ethnicity and class. It asks for a concerted effort to engage each other in open conversational forums on a range of contemporary global issues alter our attitudes toward self and the other and unlearn prejudices that perpetuate the practice of divisive identities. The book also explores critical themes such as political actions solidarity-in-diversity clash of social identities tensions between nationalism and globalism the quest for global peace and authentic meeting of world religions. Further it discusses the evolving connection between science and religion focusing on key philosophical ideas that have permeated the Indian cultural soil. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy religious studies science and technology studies and cultural studies. | Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

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A History of Colonial India 1757 to 1947

A History of Colonial India 1757 to 1947

This volume brings together interdisciplinary perspectives on British colonial rule in India. It draws on sociology history and political science to look at key events and social process between 1757 to 1947 to provide a comprehensive understanding of the colonial history. It begins with the introductory backdrop of the British East India Company when its ship docked at Surat in 1603 and ends with the partition and independence in 1947. A compelling read the book explores a range of key themes which include: – Early colonial polity economic transformation colonial educational policies and other initial developments; – The revolt of 1857 and its aftermath; – Colonial subjectivities and ethnographic interventions colonial capitalism and its insititutions – Constitutional developments in colonial India; – Early nationalist politics the rise of Indian National Congress the role of Gandhi in nationalist politics and the Quit India movement; – Social movements and gender politics under the colonial rule; – Partition of India and independence. Accessibly written and exhaustive this volume will be essential reading for students teachers scholars and researchers of political science history sociology and literature. | A History of Colonial India 1757 to 1947

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Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

This volume is the first comprehensive exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s works on education and pedagogy. It presents a valuable account of the creation of Santiniketan and Visva-Bharati Tagore’s vision of social regeneration and his rejection of the colonial scheme; while reflecting on significant events of his life and his ideas. The book evaluates Tagore’s unique contribution to education and discusses his views on fundamental issues such as aim method discipline and medium. It reinforces for readers today the relevance of his experiments and activities in the field of education. Drawing from various sources the book also offers bibliographic information on Tagore’s writing on education. This new edition with a new Introduction and Foreword will be of immense value to educationists teachers policymakers and those interested in modern Indian history and the philosophy of education. | Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

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Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

Resource extraction and conflicts over natural resources are a global phenomenon including in India. Indigenous tribes like the Ho community in Jharkhand are affected by these dynamics as their cultural practices and livelihoods are intertwined with the local ecology. This book explores the process of state formation through developmental intervention in the resource-rich areas of Jharkhand in eastern India which are inhabited by the indigenous Ho community. The conflict in Jharkhand is intertwined with State development projects and capitalist interventions. This book examines the history of these projects and the issues of territorialization dispossession accumulation and marginalization which communities have been fighting against for many decades. It examines the process of development policies and projects shaping and restructuring the resource-rich ecology in the region and addresses the interrelated issues of development-induced dispossession resistance ecological transformation governance illegalities and state-building. It focuses on the questions: what do development projects bring to the Ho community; what induces them to resist and negotiate? How do State decentralization schemes and local governance in resource conflict areas strengthen State capacities? The book highlights the consequences on the livelihoods and cultural practices of the local people because of ecological transformation and everyday resistance. Comprehensive and important this book will be of interest to students and researchers of anthropology sociology political ecology social work development studies ecology developmental sociology indigenous studies law and economic anthropology. | Political Ecology of Everyday Resistance and State Building A Case of the Ho of Jharkhand

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The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

This handbook takes us through the making of The Wandering Earth one of the highest-grossing non-English films of all time. It is a rare in-depth behind-the-scenes study of the making of a masterpiece taking the reader through the entire production process of a landmark Chinese science fiction film. The book brings to life how The Wandering Earth was created from words to images by a young and innovative professional team assembled by director Frant Gwo. It discusses specialized details of the filmmaking process and the collaborative work of the crew and the cast involved to present an intuitive feeling of the film’s production. A step-by-step guide on the making of a radical large-scale film this handbook critically examines its various stages such as its development and production stages – the planning preparing recruiting setting up departments and processes; writing the screenplay; creating a visual style and the production design; and the principal photography; its challenging post-production stages – the editing visual effects production color mixing; dubbing sound editing; publicity etc. Further the chapters in volume also explore how Chinese science fiction films disrupt the Western narrative context and provide the larger discourse on Chinese science fiction. Richly illustrated with exclusive first-hand visuals from the making of the film this handbook part of the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series will be an essential read for professionals scholars researchers and students of film and media production film studies popular culture cultural studies Chinese studies world literature and science fiction. It will also be of interest to the general reader interested in filmmaking. | The Making of The Wandering Earth A Film Production Handbook

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The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages A Typological Overview

The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages A Typological Overview

This book presents a typological overview of the case system of Eastern Indo-Aryan (EIA) languages. It utilizes a cognitive framework to analyse and compare the case markers of seven EIA languages: Angika Asamiya Bhojpuri Bangla Magahi Maithili and Odia. The book introduces semantic maps which have hitherto not been used for Indian languages to plot the scope of different case markers and facilitate cross-linguistic comparison of these languages. It also offers a detailed questionnaire specially designed for fieldwork and data collection which will be extremely useful to researchers involved in the study of case. A unique look into the linguistic traditions of South Asia the book will be indispensable to academicians researchers and students of language studies linguistics literature cognitive science psychology language technologies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for linguists typologists grammarians and those interested in the study of Indian languages. | The Case System of Eastern Indo-Aryan Languages A Typological Overview

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Globalization and Planetary Ethics New Terrains of Consciousness

Globalization and Planetary Ethics New Terrains of Consciousness

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the possibilities of alternate sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified ethical biopolitical worldview. The book explores themes like philosophical posthumanism and planetary concerns; disruption of cultural and intellectual inequality; bodily movement through nomadic subjectivity; dystopic spatialities of game(re)play; globalization and speculative imaginaries of the body; and theory of multiplicity. It also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on human beings the role of the neoliberal media the question of rights of robots and cyborgs in sci-fi movies and representation of refugees in literature. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature political philosophy cultural studies literary cultures post-colonial studies critical theory and social anthropology. | Globalization and Planetary Ethics New Terrains of Consciousness

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The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

The Making of the Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman is intended to be a biographical and critical insight into the work of the potter painter and photographer Devi Prasad. Apart from the making of his personal history and his times it leads us to why the act of making (art) itself takes on such a fundamental philosophical significance in his life. This the author explains derives directly from his absorption of Gandhi’s philosophy that looked at the act of making or doing as an ethical ideal and further back to the impact of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the ideology of ‘Swadeshi’ and on the milieu of Santiniketan. This book examines his art along with his role in political activism which although garnered on Indian soil made him crisscross national borders and assume an important role in the international arena of war resistance. Devi Prasad graduated from Tagore’s Santiniketan in 1944 when he joined the Hindustani Talimi Sangh (which promulgated Nayee Taleem) at Gandhi’s ashram Sevagram as Art ‘Teacher’. His political consciousness saw him participate actively in the Quit India Movement in 1942 in Vinoba Bhave’s Bhoodan and later from 1962 onward as Secretary General (later Chairman) of the War Resisters’ International the oldest world pacifist organisation based in London. From there he was able to extend his Gandhian values internationally. All of this while continuing with his life as a prolific artist. Rather than view them as separate worlds or professions Devi harmonises them within an ethical and conscionable whole. He has written widely on the inextricable link between peace and creativity on child /basic education Gandhi and Tagore on politics and art in English Hindi and Bangla. In 2007 he was awarded the Lalit Kala Akademi Ratna and in 2008 the Desikottama by Visva Bharati University Santiniketan. | The Making of a Modern Indian Artist-Craftsman Devi Prasad

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Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

Kotta Satchidananda Murty (1924–2011) was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast. In recognition of his contribution in the field of Philosophy he was awarded the highly coveted BC Roy Award in Philosophy and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India. This volume is a collection of his unpublished writings. It presents Murty’s unpublished keynote addresses papers presented in seminars and lectures which show his reflections and arguments in contrast to contemporary philosophers with regard to recent developments in philosophy. The writings reveal Murty’s rejection of established theories by well-known eastern and western philosophers as well as his arguments in their support and present a new interpretation of their contention in the contemporary idiom. Murty critically evaluates the contemporary arguments of Malcolm James Ross Alvin Plantinga Charles Hawthorne Jean-Paul Sartre Anthony Flew EH Madden and PH Hare. An important contribution the book assesses K. Satchidananda Murty’s contribution to philosophy during sixty-one years of his engagement with active writing and teaching. It will be of great interest to scholars teachers and students of Indian philosophy Hindu philosophy Vedāntic philosophy Advaita Vedānta comparative philosophy religious studies and South Asian studies. | Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

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Sex Work in Nepal The Making and Unmaking of a Category

Sex Work in Nepal The Making and Unmaking of a Category

This book explores ‘sex work’ in Nepal as a social and analytical category. Narrating stories of those subsumed under such definition it examines changes as well as continuities characterising socio-cultural norms and perceptions through an analysis of sexual consumption. It also highlights the ways in which the development sector media and local community discourses frame ‘sex work’ as a distinct category. How does the work of development aid projects affect the understanding of the sex worker category? How are visual and media images employed to mark spaces of perdition in the Nepalese urban setting and what forms of imagination do they trigger? How are intimate practices and relations transformed by imported notions of love and how do standards of propriety related to such interactions shift? This book attempts to answer some of these questions. An in-depth and intimate ethnography the book deconstructs the sex worker category against the backdrop of global influences within local urban surroundings and points to the contradictions therein. Furthermore through thorough descriptions of the experiences agency decision-making processes and lives of those labelled as sex workers the book challenges concepts such as deviance and victimhood. It proposes a counternarrative by rethinking ideas of gender objectification marginality symbolic violence and discrimination. This book will greatly interest researchers and scholars in women and gender studies sociology and social anthropology South Asian studies and social sciences as well as NGOs and those involved in the development sector. | Sex Work in Nepal The Making and Unmaking of a Category

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Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

This book—an English translation of a key Tamiḻ book of literary and cultural criticism—looks at the construction of Tamiḻ scholarship through the colonial approach to Tamiḻ literature as evidenced in the first translations into English. The Tamiḻ original Atikāramum tamiḻp pulamaiyum: Tamiḻiliruntu mutal āṅkila moḻipeyarppukaḷ by N Govindarajan is a critique of the early attempts at the translations of Tamiḻ literary texts by East India Company officials specifically by N E Kindersley. Kindersley who was working as the Collector of South Arcot district in the late eighteenth century was the first colonial officer to translate the Tamiḻ classic Tirukkuṟaḷ and the story of King Naḷa into English and to bring to the reading public in English the vibrant oral narrative tradition in Tamiḻ. F W Ellis in the nineteenth century brought in another dimension through his translation of the same classic. The book thus focuses on the attempts to translate the Tamiḻ literary works by the Company’s officials who emerged as the pioneering English Dravidianists and the impact of translations on the Tamiḻ reading community. Theoretically grounded the book makes use of contemporary perspectives to examine colonial interventions and the operation of power relations in the literary and socio-cultural spheres. It combines both critical readings of past translations and intensive research work on Tamiḻ scholarship to locate the practice of literary works in South Asia and its colonial history which then enables a conversation between Indian literary cultures. In this book the author has not only explored all key scholarly sources as well as the commentaries that were used by the colonial officials chiefly Kindersley but also gives us an insightful critique of the Tamiḻ works. The highlight of the discussion of Dravidian Orientalism in this book is the intralinguistic opposition of the “mainstream” Tamiḻ literature in “correct/poetical” Tamiḻ and the folk literature in “vacana” Tamiḻ. This framework allows the translators to critically engage with the work. Annotated and with an Introduction and a Glossary this translated work is a valuable addition to our reading of colonial South India. The book will be of interest to researchers of Tamiḻ Studies Orientalism and Indology translation studies oral literature linguistics South Asian Studies Dravidian Studies and colonial history. | Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

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The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history colonial art colonial studies British history economic history business history South Asian history post-colonial studies and cultural studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. 0 International license. | The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

GBP 120.00
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Present Values Essays on Economics and Aspects of Indian Society

Present Values Essays on Economics and Aspects of Indian Society

This volume is about economists economics and issues of concern to Indian society. Some essays are expository and some satirical. Together they offer a commentary on the state of the discipline of economics today and on aspects of contemporary India’s society and polity. The volume affords insights into among other things - the pervasive influence of economists such as Kenneth Arrow and Anthony Atkinson and thinkers such as Tom Paine Jonathan Swift and Dadabhai Naoroji; - the place of markets and game theory (and even crime fiction!) in present-day economics; - the affectations and convoluted mathematisation of a good deal of ‘mainstream’ economics; and - India’s recent political climate and the conduct of various arms of the legislature the executive and the judiciary in the country. Engaging and lucidly written this volume should be of interest to scholars of economics political science development studies South Asian studies and above all the general reader. | Present Values Essays on Economics and Aspects of Indian Society

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Bardic Destinies A Comparative Study of European Poetic and Indian Kavya-Itihasa Tradition

Bardic Destinies A Comparative Study of European Poetic and Indian Kavya-Itihasa Tradition

This volume critically explores the cultural significance and fate of the “literary” in the European and the Indian traditions as it traces the history of the reception of works that have had a deep hold on the lives and sensibilities of people across time and cultures. The book grapples with three major concepts in the humanities—the literary the philosophical/theological and the historical. It looks at Homer’s reception by Plato; Virgil’s reception by Christianity; the many responses that The Mahabharata has received over centuries and across cultures in India; and the reception of Kumaravyasa’s Kumaravyasabharata among other works and analyses the understanding of truth time and history that influence the reading of these works in different times and cultural contexts. Part of the Critical Humanities across Cultures series this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of philosophy literature history comparative literature cultural studies and post-colonial studies. | Bardic Destinies A Comparative Study of European Poetic and Indian Kavya-Itihasa Tradition

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Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust literate classical tradition separated from the assorted vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous medicine and various compulsions which led to the codification and standardisation of Ayurveda in modern India. Critically engaging with authoritative scholarship the book extrapolates from some of these theories raising significant questions on the study of alternative knowledge practices. By using case studies of the southern Indian state of Kerala – which is known globally for its Ayurveda – it provides an in-depth analysis of local practices and histories. Drawing from interviews of practitioners archival documents vernacular texts and rare magazines on Ayurveda and indigenous medicine it presents a nuanced understanding of the relationships between diverse practices. It highlights the interactions as well as the tensions within them and the methods adopted to preserve the uniqueness of practices even while sharing elements of healing herbs and medicine. It also discusses how regulations and standards set by the state have estranged assorted healing practices created uncertainties and led to the formation of categories like Ayurveda and nattuvaidyam (indigenous medicine/ayurvedas). Lucid and topical the book will be useful for researchers and people interested in social medicine history of medicine Ayurveda cultural studies history indigenous studies and social anthropology. | Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

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Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School Lady Brabourne College Eden College Calcutta and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them. An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history religion education Partition studies minority studies imperialism colonialism and South Asian history. | Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

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Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia India's Position and Policy

Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia India's Position and Policy

This book focuses on the geopolitics of Central Asia which has emerged as the new fertile ground for oil and energy resources. It analyses the scramble for energy and control over the region by many nations and their diplomatic manoeuvrings to ensure energy sufficiency and economic growth. The book provides a quantitative analysis of the Central Asian energy potential and offers an understanding of the unique position that each country occupies in the geopolitics of oil and energy in the region. It looks at aggressive foreign policies by countries like the US China the European Union Japan Israel Iran and Pakistan focusing primarily on India’s position and strategies in the region within the new great game. The book further examines the dynamics between Central Asia and India and India’s policies for geopolitical engagement and diversification of energy sources. This volume will be of interest to researchers and students of political studies international relations economics sociology and Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers and professionals working in the field of energy security and geo-economics. | Geopolitics of Energy in Central Asia India's Position and Policy

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Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology ontological experience of respiration respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment. Drawing on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gaston Bachelard Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Luce Irigaray and David Kleinberg-Levin the book argues for the ontological primacy of breathing and develops a new principle of philosophy that the author calls “Silence of Breath Abyss/Yawn of Air”. It asserts that breathing is not a thing- or person-oriented relation but perpetual communication with the immense elemental atmosphere of open and free air. This new phenomenological method of breathing offers readers a chance to begin to wonder rethink re-experience and reimagine all questions of life in an innovative and creative way as aerial and respiratory questions of life. Part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series the book breaks new ground in phenomenology and phenomenological ontology by offering a decisive and insightful treatment of breath. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of philosophy phenomenology and ontology. It will also be of special interest to Merleau-Ponty scholars as it investigates uncharted dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. | Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

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Passages of Fortune? Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab

Passages of Fortune? Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab

This book examines international out-migration from North India focusing on the state of Punjab. It is the first-ever empirical exploration of the causes processes patterns and consequences of international out-migration based on a robust sample of 10 000 households drawn from both rural and urban areas. The volume explores a range of issues such as current migration return migration remittances reverse remittances diaspora philanthropy migration consultancy services international marriages campaigns for safe migration abroad and plans for emigration in future. It also addresses questions surrounding the use of paid labour by households to replace the work done by the emigrants and studies villages as the migration setting. Additionally the book organically links to a well-spread-out and vibrant Punjabi diaspora as well as providing viable baseline data on a range of indicators. A key text on migration studies this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of development studies economics demography sociology social anthropology and diaspora studies. | Passages of Fortune? Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab

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