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This book is an epistolary account of the lives of three remarkable individuals. They were Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican missionary, Charles Freer Andrews. The study explores two closely related themes, their friendship and their principles for attaining Indian freedom. The freedom they worked for was not merely political though in an unequal world that necessarily had to be an ultimate goal.

This anthology brings together Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's works on the theme of Democracy. The editors of this volume have assembled Ambedkar's original writings including his memorandums, speeches, lectures, and talks from 1919-1956 to understand his contribution to Indian political thought and history.

This short introduction offers a comprehensive overview of popular Hindi cinema, commonly called the 'Bollywood'. This is a focused study that will help the reader understand Hindi cinema's historical role and its aesthetics or grammar. The author gives an account of the production and distribution practices in India, briefly touching upon the economics of film production, and traces the changes in Hindi cinema after it became a global brand.

This book studies modern literary discourses of sexuality in the Tamil context from the early to the last decades of the twentieth century. Examining the representation of masculine desire in the works of authors like K.P. Rajagopalan, T. Janakiraman, Karichan Kunju, M.V. Venkatram, Dandapani Jeyakantan, and Tanjai Prakash, this work takes into account a spectrum of sensual intimacies that are irreducible to the sexual. The twofold aim is to trace the shiftingnotions of the sexual and to unsettle normative structures of understanding the body, gender, and sexuality.

India has the largest number of child labourers in the world, and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed at addressing the abuse of childrens rights. This book explores childrens rights as a site of power and reveals how the rights discourse has been used by international actors, national elites, and local NGOs in the child labour debate in India.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the 'medical', in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh.

These volumes represent the collective analysis and in-depth explorations of scholars and researchers in the key areas of sociological and social anthropological research in India during the past decade.

This volume presents a profile of the processes and change in Indian villages over the last fifty years while addressing a wide number of interests - economic, political, cultural, social and gender.

The Pillars of Islam is the first authoritative English translation of the Da'a'im al-Islam, considered by the Musta 'li-Tayyibi Bohras as the greatest authority on Islam 'ili law. The first volume deals with faith, devotion, ritual purity, prayer, funerals, alms tax, pilgrimage, fasting, and jihaad.

In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the Congress party swept the polls in 1984. It reached its zenith with Rajiv Gandhi at the helm. However, due to shifts in Indian polity, economy, and society, this period marked the end of the Congress epoch. It was only a couple of decades later that the Congress was able to emerge as a dominant party again.

Contemporary Sociology is comprehensive, interdisciplinary, comparative, and current. Using his rich experience as teacher and writer of textbooks, M. Francis Abraham presents a modern text that goes beyond conventional themes and geographic boundaries to include theoretical perspectives and research methods, key concepts and theories in several branches of the discipline, relevant issues in education, economy, population, stratification, minorities, deviance,urbanization, and environment.

This book explores contemporary patterns of economic discrimination faced by Dalits and religious minorities like Muslims in urban labour market as well as other markets in rural areas. It examines reasons contributing to inequality, consequences of exclusion, and suggests possible remedies.

This imaginative approach to the work of the Urdu poet Ghalib (1797-1869) presents highly original renderings, made by seven well-known American poets, of Ghalib's ghazals.

This volume covers the curious world of reptiles and amphibians, both common and rare, found in the Indian faunal limits. It contains field observations, photographs and descriptions of 175 species, including 53 snakes, 45 lizards of various groups, 31 tortoises and turtles, and 45 amphibians.

This book elaborates on the ideals of Asia brought about by the meeting of Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin in Calcutta in 1902.

Making an important distinction between charity and philanthropy, Giving with a Thousand Hands argues that while charity is alive and well in India, the country is short on philanthropy defined as altruistic giving on a large enough scale to bring about transformative social change. The author in this book offers a vision for the future of Indian philanthropy, maintaining that it has a vital role to play in the country and needs to be encouraged through various measures.

This book examines the traditions, rituals, experiences, and legacy of the Sabri branch of the Chishti order. Challenging the notion of Sufism as an ossified relic of the past, it presents evidence of growing interaction, accommodation, and intermingling within Sufi orders. It also highlights the active involvement of the Chishti-Sabris in the much discussed reformist upsurge in north India and explains how they addressed questions posedby colonial rule while still adhering to their mystical heritage.

This book is an attempt to rethink the meaning of work in order to contribute towards a better understanding of women's work and its devaluation. The book specifically focuses on the role of the state towards the same and uses the example of the concept of the honorary women workers in India's ICDS to elaborate on the same.

This book documents the history of cotton, its patterns of cultivation, the expanding use of hybrid varieties, and their consequences on the increasing distress of cotton growing farmers and weavers in India. It is a study aimed at documenting the history and politics of cotton in India and works towards making the story of the fabric relevant for the present and future generations.

This book deals with testimonial literature and fiction emerging from the War of Liberation of 1971 in Bangladesh and Pakistan through the lenses of gender and genre. To recover a history of the war closer to the experiences of people, the author takes her cue from studies of war, the holocaust as well as the partition of 1947 as stories of witnesses, victims, perpetrators, and their progeny are examined through close reading.

In this ethnographic account of Dalit politics in Tamil Nadu, the author discusses how caste considerations inform and underpin politics in the state. With its micro-empirical focus on the journey of Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (Liberation Panthers Party) in Tamil Nadu, the book also explores diverse dimensions of mobilization and ways in which contentious politics alters political regimes.

Colonel James Tod was one of the earliest colonial ethnographers to document the histories and mythologies of Rajasthan. He authored the influential Annals of the History of Rajasthan in two volumes.

This work deals with the years immediately preceding the Partition of India and takes up issues of land, language, immigration, and identity in Assam, where they continue to occupy public space. The effects of the Partition continue to hang as a spectre over the entire region. In Assam's case, its recent history seems to have subsumed its 'glorious past', with geography playing a crucial role in determining its present position vis-¿is the Indian state. Theauthor outlines the present contentious issues in the state, which seem to defy any solution and which are increasingly adding to the growing human tragedy of the region in the light of developments which occurred in the pre- and post-Partition years. In order to understand this and explain why thechallenge posed by Assam held serious consequences for the Indian state, this work examines the developments that occurred in the years preceding the Partition and Independence-developments which have etched their effect on the society, politics, and economy of Assam and also the entire north-eastern region in an indelible manner.

This omnibus brings together three significant works on Gender equality which comprehensively analyse key issues including women's rights, social justice, and empowerment. Together, the Books span Legal change in India over two centuries when women's rights were negotiated, rewritten and coded. In doing so they provide a comprehensive and significant understanding of why progressive laws, once passed, continue to be implemented in such a limited manner. Theyhighlight the fact that legislations in the past fifty years have not brought gender equality in any real sense.