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The book comprises thematic chapters on humanitarian intervention, protection of populations of concern including refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and international diplomacy, which are enriched with six case studies from Asia and Africa. Combining conceptual debate with empirical evidence, the contributors describe the contexts in which interventions occur and the practical ways in which protection mechanisms have been implemented. This volumeoffers alternatives that can be adopted to improve and build upon current practices of civilian protection.

The volume explores discursive plurality and the monopolization of interpretation as the poles from which inclusion in and exclusion from the national community are negotiated. By interfacing political sciences interest in the power of institutions and cultural studies focus on the power of discourse, the author is able to investigate into the ways in which citizenship manifests itself - and is contested - outside the institutional realm, thus revealing conceptualrelativity, ruptures, and creative re-interpretations of citizenship.

Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. In Secret Writings, he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences ranging across countries and cultures. His is a story of the prejudice and neglect that are part of everyday gay life, and how he channelled his despairinto creating poetry. He quotes Rumi, Ghalib, and Mir, and writes with searing honesty about his long and short love affairs.

Exploring the intensification of the war on womens bodiesthrough sati, dowry demands and dowry deaths, and rapethis book draws from anthropology, myths, literature and film, history, sociology of class and change, and feminist theory to bring to light how progressive representations of men may depend on the curtailing of options for women.

This book is a socio-political history of the city of Delhi from 1803, when it was conquered by the British to 1931 when New Delhi was formally inaugurated.

This edited volume provides an anthropological approach to examining the way criminal cases are dealt with by courts in South Asia. The case-study approach that is used here allows us to examine a set of state and non-state institutions and the practices of people associated with them.

This book serves as the corridor to one's 'self'. Begun as a humble attempt to trace the performance history of Bengal it has passed through various planes of interrogation, and interpretation, until the notion of nation gained a new life in the performative space. This book has tried to trace the winding path of the emergent emotion of nationhood as it developed as a nuanced image of 'self', thereby locating the beginning of that emotion of national'self'.

Critical introduction to India's democratic politics; this text offers a quick guide to key issues pertaining Indian democracy. This book introduces to the lay reader deeply contested riddles about India's democracy in a non-technical language. For anyone wanting to make assessment of Indian democracy, this tract should be the first valuable entry point.

Party systems have important political, social and economic consequences in a polity. This book analyses the characteristics, evolution and determinants of party system in India. It argues that party system in India continues to be shaped by a complex interaction of sociological, institutional and contextual factors. The book reinforces the argument that a competitive party system remains key to the functioning of Indian democracy, and the parties remain the mostimportant link between the state and its citizens.

Focusing on India's Deccan Plateau in the turbulent sixteenth century, this book examines the political histories and material culture of fortified strongholds that were repeatedly contested by the region's rival primary centers. It explores the many ways that political power, monumental architecture, and collective memory interacted with one another. It also radically rethinks the usefulness of Hindu-Muslim relations as the master key for interpreting this period ofSouth Asian history.

The 1962 war between India and China was not about a disputed border. It was the result of China's desire to become the leader of the 'Third World' - and, at a time when China was barely recovering from the disastrous Great Leap Forward and its architect, Mao Zedong, was discredited, to unite different factions within the Chinese leadership against an outside enemy: India. China won the war, became the main voice of revolutionary movements in the Third World-and MaoZedong was back in power.

Rich in anthropological detail and incisive analyses, The Fall of Gods makes original contributions to the understanding of connection between gendered family relations and class mobility, and foregrounds the complex linkages between political history, memory, and the private domain of kinship relations, in the making of Indias middle classes.

This is a comprehensive reference book on paediatric neuroanaesthesia. It covers the basic sciences as well as special case scenarios. It is well-supported by multimedia video tutorials and has global authorship.

This title is an account of the arguments of Indian philosophers, and literary critics about the origins and nature of language, the theories of meaning and the related problem of universals, and the connection between the ordinary meaning and the profundity of sense in a literary composition.

The book is about how Aadhaar makes the poor free. Aadhaar succeeds in creating a platform for financial inclusion of the poor. Using this platform, the government is in a position to pay its subsidies directly to the poor in cash. The poor use this money to become consumers for the market, and the market, by offering them a choice of products, services, experiences and lifestyles, enables the poor to define who they want to be. This is how India's poor become freeand enterprising individuals.

Exploring the works of Flora Annie Steel, Rumer Godden, Krupabai Sattianadhan, Toru Dutt, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Nayantara Sahgal, Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Arundhati Roy, and Anita Nair, this book opens a window to the creative world of women novelists in India.

Since the economic liberalization of the early 1990s, India has been, on several occasions and at different forums, feted as a great power. This subject has been discussed in numerous books, but mostly in terms of rapid economic growth and immense potential in the emerging market. There is also a vast collection of literature on India''s ''soft power'' culture, tourism, frugal engineering, and knowledge economy. However, there has been no serious exploration of thealternative path India can take to achieving great power status''a combination of hard power, geostrategics, and realpolitik.In this book, Bharat Karnad delves exclusively into these hard power aspects of India''s rise and the problems associated with them. He offers an incisive analysis of the deficits in the country''s military capabilities and in the ''software'' related to hard power absence of political vision and will, insensitivity to strategic geography, and unimaginative foreign and military policies and arrives at powerful arguments on why these shortfalls have prevented the country from achieving the greatpower status.

This book presents a detailed historical analysis of the agrarian conditions in pre-colonial India. It examines areas like land revenue, administration, and agrarian economy and social structure in the Mughal period. The new edition includes a new prologue.

This book argues that the queer female subject is an (un)familiar, hidden in plain sight. How does one theorize subjects who are not 'gay' or 'lesbian' in the conventional sense of occupying stable, visible identities? (Un)Familiar Femininities, through its exciting readings of various Indian texts, looks at how the figure of the lesbian as (un)familiar, simultaneously strange and mundane, allows the imagining of scripts for femininity that do not all march towards unquestioning acceptance of heterosexuality as normative, natural, final.

This edited volume focuses on a central plank of feminist politics, i.e. the struggle for equality. It contains important debates and raises questions that are critical to feminist struggles across the world. In ten chapters, the volume covers a wide range of issues from around the world: feminist engagement with law; feminism's engagement with sexuality and queer politics; the idea of freedom and equality in the neoliberal frame; postcolonial feminism, etc.

The Canadian Oxford Guide to Writing is a complete handbook and rhetoric, useful to beginning, intermediate, and advanced students of composition. The book starts with an overview of the writing process, before moving on to explore essays, paragraphs, and sentences. It discusses types of writing organized by rhetorical mode. The book also includes a short section on the mechanics of writing and concludes with the handbook section, covering the basics of grammar. This text is the fully updated, second Canadian edition. In the new edition, more than one third of the examples are now by Canadian writers writing across the disciplines. Extensive revisions have streamlined the information and have brought the text up-to-date with recent changes in library sciences, word-processing software, and the Internet.

'Race' and Ethnicity in Canada: A Critical Introduction provides students with a comprehensive look at the major approaches and explanations to the key concepts in this field of study. Through their exploration of the central issues that affect Canadians today - immigration, multiculturalism, assimilation, racism, and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal relations - the authors argue that race is not a biologically real category, but rather, a socially constructed label used to describe and explain certain kinds of human difference. The text questions whether there are patterns of race and ethnic relations that are truly unique to Canada, and puts Canada into a wider global context. Fully updated and revised, 'Race' and Ethnicity in Canada, second edition, offers students an in-depth and well-rounded introduction to the fascinating study of race and ethnic relations in Canada.

This study of contemporary political culture examines belief systems among youth elites in five countries that share not only roughly comparable economies, social structures, and cultural environments, but also the same political tradition: Canada, the United States, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. Based on a survey of over 3,000 senior undergraduates conducted between 1980 and 1987, it focuses on attitudes towards government, feminism, minority rights, and equality in an effort to determine whether there are significant differences in the political cultures of the five Anglo-American democracies. The youth elites studied here are part of a generation that now wields substantial economic power and that has succeeded in fundamentally altering and expanding the political agendas of all the advanced industrial democracies. Nevitte and Gibbins argue that the attitudinal structures of these youth elites have far-reaching consequences.

W.J. Eccles, the leading Anglo-Canadian social historian of New France, has here collected twelve important essays written over twenty-five years-a period in which he greatly enlarged the significance of his subject by relating New France to the rest of North America, to European imperialism, and to the indigenous peoples. Preceded by an interesting memoir of his career as a scholar, 'Forty Years Back', these essays discuss Francis Parkman's view of New France, which dominated history studies until Eccles began to publish in the 1950s; the roles of the church, the military, and the fur trade; social welfare; and the western frontier. There is also a reappraisal of the Battle of Quebec. Each essay has an introductory note describing the circumstances of writing and giving pertinent background information.

Canada's leading architecture and design critic, Adele Freedman has been writing for The Globe and Mail for almost a decade. This collection of her very best articles begins with a revised and expanded version of Freedman's profile of Peter Dickinson, the modernist architect whose work (including the Benvenuto Place Apartments in Toronto and the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce building in Montreal) had a profound influence on the Canadian architecture scene before his premature death in 1961. This essay, which won a National Newspaper Award for featured writing, is followed by a section entitled 'People': brief portraits of notable personalities in the field of architecture and design both in Canada and internationally. The third section, 'Sites and Issues', offers articles on specific projects and places ranging from the National Gallery in Ottawa and the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, to the Eaton Centre and co-op housing.

Quebec in this century has undergone changes that have had a profound impact in Quebec and on Canada as a whole. Initially, the political response to Quebec's urbanization and industrialization was delayed, thanks to the persistence in power of Maurice Duplessis's Union nationale. The Quebec state expanded rapidly to assume functions held by the Church and to carve out a new role for Francophones in the Quebec economy. Traditional French-Canadian nationalism was replaced by a secular, Quebec-based nationalism. Out of these processes emerged a challenge to the Canadian political order: the Quebec independence movement.In the newly written concluding chapter to this definite study of Quebec politics and society, Kenneth McRoberts examines recent events and attitudes. The failed Meech Lake Accord, the rejection of the Charlottetown Accord by Quebec and by the rest of Canada, the emergence of the Bloc québécois in the House of Commons, the strong yet vacillating support for sovereignty in Quebec, the constitutional exhaustion of the Canadian body politic, the polarization of Canada's two solitudes, and North American economic integration all point to an uncertain future for Quebec - and for Canada.