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Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived practiced and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi Urdu Punjabi Bengali Odia Gujarati Marathi Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and languages from Northeast India which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through sociohistorical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays research works and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English Indian literatures and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies literary historians linguists and scholars of cultural studies across the globe. | Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

GBP 130.00
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The Routledge Companion to Primary Education in India From Compulsion to Fundamental Right

English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

An Introduction to the Social Geography of India Concepts Problems and Prospects

An Introduction to the Social Geography of India Concepts Problems and Prospects

This book discusses the significance of social geography a multidimensional sub-discipline of georgraphy encompassing social health social security and social ethos. It presents the socio-spatial dynamics of the population in India through an understanding of the various issues related to migration urbanisation unemployment poverty and public health. With a thorough analysis of various social indicators relating to health education income and employment the volume presents a detailed picture of the social geography of India. It discusses in detail The origin nature and scope of social geography its relations with other social sciences and applications The nature and importance of social well-being along with welfare geography and the role of welfare state in ensuring social well-being The population of India and its attributes The status and spatial patterns of various social indicators relating to health education and income and employment The composite indices which aggregate several social indicators such as the Human Development Index Multidimensional Poverty Index and Sustainable Developmental Goals Index in the context of India. This comprehensive book will be useful for students researchers and teachers of social geography human geography population geography demography and sociology. The book can also be used by students preparing for exams like civil services UPSC PSC and other competitive exams. | An Introduction to the Social Geography of India Concepts Problems and Prospects

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The Routledge Companion to Sinhala Fiction from Post-War Sri Lanka Resistance and Reconfiguration

The Language Loss of the Indigenous

Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

The Making of Modern Kashmir Sheikh Abdullah and the Politics of the State

The Languages of Religion Exploring the Politics of the Sacred

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

Decolonising Heritage in South Asia The Global the National and the Transnational

Decolonising Heritage in South Asia The Global the National and the Transnational

This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept. It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretations of “monuments” as “texts” are affected at the local level of experience even as institutions such as UNESCO work to globalise and fix constructs of stable and universal heritage. Shifting away from a largely Eurocentric concept associated with architecture and monumental archaeology this book reassesses how local and regional heritage needs to be balanced with the global and transnational. It argues that material objects and monuments are not static embodiments of culture but are rather a medium through which identity power and society are produced and reproduced. This is especially relevant in South and Southeast Asian contexts where debates over heritage often have local regional and national political implications and consequences. Reevaluating how traditional valuation of monuments and cultural landscapes could help aid sustainability and long-term preservation of the heritage this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian history heritage studies archaeology cultural studies tourism studies and political history as well. | Decolonising Heritage in South Asia The Global the National and the Transnational

GBP 38.99
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Understanding the China Threat

English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy many decades after independence. The book is an account of the varied experiences of teaching English in universities in different parts of the country. It highlights the changes in curriculum and teaching practices and how the discipline lent itself to a study of culture historical contexts the fashioning of identities or reform over the years. The volume presents the dramatic changes in the composition of the English classroom in terms of gender class caste and indigenous communities in recent decades as well as the shifts in teaching strategies and curriculum which the new diversity necessitated. The essays in the collection also examine the distinctiveness of English practice in India through classroom accounts which explore themes like post-coloniality feminism and human rights through the study of texts by Shakespeare Beckett Doris Lessing and poetry from the Northeast. This book will be of interest to academics researchers students and practitioners of English Studies education colonial studies cultural studies and South Asian studies as well as those concerned with the history of higher education and the establishment of disciplines and institutions. | English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

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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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Locating BRICS in the Global Order Perspectives from the Global South

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It traces the various medial responses (memoirs fiction poetry film art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in post-juntas 1980s Latin America to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous Australia various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across the Global South and provided a significant template for contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin America Africa Asia and Australia this book illuminates the modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of human rights popular culture and art literature media politics and history. | The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

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The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India’s electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 parliamentary elections to explore three crucial facts of India’s political life: the legitimacy of political competition as the only basis of power; elections as the only legitimate basis of political competition; and political parties as the only legitimate agency to conduct political competition. The book argues that the vitality and resilience of India’s electoral democracy remain high owing to large mass participation in elections that are competitive and relatively free and fair. The volume includes key theoretical empirical and comparative perspectives on parties and elections from experts and covers all major political parties of India along with the performance of many representative regional parties. It discusses themes such as elections and party competition in India; ideology interest religion and gender as they affect social mobilisation and political transaction; economic and politial change and multiparty democracy; the dynamics of the Muslim vote; fluctuating electoral fortunes; and electoral campaigns and role of social media. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science political sociology election studies Indian politics South Asian politics and South Asian studies. It will also interest those in politics public policy and governance civil society organisations media and journalism and the general reader. | The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

GBP 35.99
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The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic as it happened. This volume examines the first responses to the COVID-19 pandemic the contexts of earlier epidemics and the epidemiological basics of infectious diseases. Further it discusses patterns in the spread of the disease; the management and containment of infections at the personal national and global level; effects on trade and commerce; the social and psychological impact on people; the disruption and postponement of international events; the role of various international organizations like the WHO in the search for solutions; and the race for a vaccine or a cure. Based on new data and latest developments the second edition of this volume explores the global spread of COVID-19 since 2019 and examines the emergence of the evolving coronavirus variants (Alpha Beta Gamma Delta and Omicron). Further it extensively discusses what we have since discovered on the disease along with recent progress on treatments and vaccines. Authored by a medical professional and an economist working on the frontlines this book gives a nuanced verified and fact-checked analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global response. A one-stop resource on the COVID-19 outbreak it is indispensable for every reader and a holistic work for scholars and researchers of medical sociology public health political economy public policy and governance sociology of health and medicine and paramedical and medical practitioners. It will also be a great resource for policymakers government departments and civil society organizations working in the area. | The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

GBP 34.99
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Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

This book examines the British colonial expansion in the so-called unadministered hill tracts of the Indo-Burma frontier and the change of colonial policy from non-intervention to intervention. The book begins with the end of the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824–26) which resulted in the British annexation of the North-Eastern Frontier of Bengal and the extension of its sway over the Arakan and Manipur frontiers and closes with the separation of Burma from India in 1937. The volume documents the resistance of the indigenous hill peoples to colonial penetration; administrative policies such as disarmament; subjugation of the local chiefs under a colonial legal framework and its impact; standardisation of ‘Chin’ as an ethnic category for the fragmented tribes and sub-tribes; and the creation and consolidation of the Chin Hills District as a political entity to provide an extensive account of British relations with the indigenous Chin/Zo community from 1824 to 1935. By situating these within the larger context of British imperial policy the book makes a critical analysis of the British approach towards the Indo-Burma frontier. With its coverage of key archival sources and literature this book will interest scholars and researchers in modern Indian history military history colonial history British history South Asian history and Southeast Asian history. | Indo-Burma Frontier and the Making of the Chin Hills Empire and Resistance

GBP 36.99
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Contemporary States and the Pandemic

Contemporary States and the Pandemic

This volume elaborately studies the challenges posed and impact made by the Covid 19 pandemic. Through detailed case studies it presents ethical political economic medical logistical and social impediments faced by contemporary states in the EU. The book focuses on the short and long-term consequences of the economic shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and covers issues concerning the world economy the EU economy as well as the Visegrad economies. The essays in this volume: Probes into the response of states to the economic phenomena resulting from the pandemic and analyses the institutional framework of the resulting crisis lapses in social communication social protests and the decline in democratic standards in countries such as the Czech Republic Poland Slovakia and Hungary Discusses issues related to state security under conditions of the pandemic the effectiveness of state and self-government administration the transition of states from an external controllability to an internal controllability model of power as well as challenges related to security in the digital space Presents policy actions at three basic levels i. e. at the global regional and sub-regional and investigate strategies of the UN WHO the EU and the Visegrad Group as they play the most important role in the fight against COVID-19 This insightful and timely volume will be of great interest to scholars researchers and anyone inquisitive about political theory public policy public health and social care international relations governance security studies and public administration. | Contemporary States and the Pandemic

GBP 120.00
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