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Social Scientist

Social ScientistLARGER IMAGESSummary Charting change from the cutting edge of knowledge, pushing the frontiers of reserach to an ever-widening horizon, the Social Scientist has built a reputation of...

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Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences

Studies in Humanities and Social SciencesLARGER IMAGESSummary A Journal of the Inter-University Centre for Humanities and Social SciencesStudies in Humanities and Social Sciences is published twice a...

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Breaking the Spell of Dharma and other essays

A Case for Indian EnlightenmentSummary In four celebrated and controversial essays Meera Nanda connects religious fundamentalism with fascism and talks about the responsibility of intellectuals. She...

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Orienting India

European knowledge formation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuriesSummaryThe three essays in this book explore the ways in which Europeans – British colonialists and German philosophers and...

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The Other Indians

Essays on Pastoralists and Prehistoric Tribal PeopleSummary The essays in this volume are an attempt to tease out from the scant archaeological (and to some extent historical) sources available, some...

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History as a Site of Struggle

Essays on History, Culture and PoliticsSummary This valuable collection of essays by KN Panikkar chronicles contemporary South Asia as it has unfolded in the last three decades. His being a historian...

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Medicine, Healthcare and the Raj

The Unacknowledged LegacySummaryThe book is a significant intervention in the debates and existing scholarship on colonialism and medicine. Equally critical of the postmodern perspectives and of those...

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Dalits and Adivasis in India's Business Economy

Three Essays and an AtlasSummary India’s founding fathers and neo-liberalisers alike expected economic development to dissolve ‘archaic’ forms of exchange, but the modern Indian economy remains...

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Of Gardens and Graves

Essays on Kashmir | Poems in TranslationSummary Of Gardens and Graves examines the textures of everyday life in Kashmir after 1990, the years of pervasive militarization of the valley. It combines...

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On Their Watch

Mass violence and State apathy in India, Examining the recordSummaryIn 2005, India passed a law giving individuals the right to information on the State’s acts and decisions. Using this law, the...

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Shadow Space

Suicides and the Predicament of Rural IndiaSummaryWhy has rural, agrarian India turned into killing fields?Why are agriculturists resorting to suicide?What is the social and political significance of...

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The Everyday Life of Hindu Nationalism

An Ethnographic ReportSummaryThis is an ethnographic account of the rise of Hindu nationalism in the north Indian state of Rajasthan during the period 1990-94. It looks at the transformation of...

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Fascism

Essays on Europe and IndiaSummaryThe victory of fascism in Europe between the wars was an incalculable human catastrophe. This collection of essays contains the first-ever English translation of...

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BROWN over BLACK

SummaryRecent attention to the urgency of economic and political cooperation between the Indian government and African states – often termed south-south globalization – suggests that the time has come...

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Politics of Citizenship, Identity and the State in South Asia

Summary Heidelberg series in South Asian and Comparative Studies, Vol.V Price: Rs. 795 Publisher:Samskriti Publications Author: ISBN 13: Tags:

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Indian Transmigrants

Malaysian and Comparative EssaysSummaryGiven the range, intensity and magnitude of contemporary transnational migrations, it seems entirely appropriate to designate this ‘world on the move’ as...

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Muslim Leadership and Women's Education

Uttar Pradesh, 1886–1947Summary This is a broad study of the efforts at modern education for Muslim women, especially with reference to the Aligarh Movement and the initiatives inspired by it in other...

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Breaking the Spell of Dharma and other essays

A Case for Indian EnlightenmentSummary In four celebrated and controversial essays Meera Nanda connects religious fundamentalism with fascism and talks about the responsibility of intellectuals. She...

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Orienting India

European knowledge formation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuriesSummaryThe three essays in this book explore the ways in which Europeans – British colonialists and German philosophers and...

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The Other Indians

Essays on Pastoralists and Prehistoric Tribal PeopleSummary The essays in this volume are an attempt to tease out from the scant archaeological (and to some extent historical) sources available, some...

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