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“kritika priya”

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  • A City Called Agroha

    by Vaibhav Agrawal, Neha Mhatre, Kritika Priya ...
    Centuries ago, a visionary ruler imagined a society built on equality, enterprise, and compassion. His beliefs survived dynasties, becoming a living philosophy rather than a faded fable. Through a study of history, folklore, and moral theory reveals how the pursuit of social justice and economic harmony has persisted over centuries. More than a retelling of the past, it becomes a reflection on how ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Penguin History of Early India

    From the Origins to AD 1300

    by Romila Thapar ...
    This new book represents a complete rewriting of Romila Thapar's hugely successful HISTORY OF INDIA - VOLUME ONE, thirty-four years after it was first published. Incorporating the vast changes in knowledge developed during her lifetime, Thapar tells the extraordinary story of this great civilisation - a civilisation always based on diverse, often warring sources and that left the astounding ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Origin of Caste in India

    by JT ...
    This is a unique approach to one of the most vexed and multifaceted problems facing India, describing in a no-nonsense language and exhorting all the need to take urgent steps before it is too late. Unlike others, an attempt is being made to identify the reasons why caste has been readily accepted in Indian culture and continue to be so, regardless of the multitude of changes in the society over ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Castes of Mind

    Colonialism and the Making of Modern India

    by Nicholas Dirks ...
    When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • Poverty and the Quest for Life

    Spiritual and Material Striving in Rural India

    by Bhrigupati Singh ...
    The Indian subdistrict of Shahabad, located in the dwindling forests of the southeastern tip of Rajasthan, is an area of extreme poverty. Beset by droughts and food shortages in recent years, it is the home of the Sahariyas, former bonded laborers, officially classified as Rajasthan's only "primitive tribe." From afar, we might consider this the bleakest of the bleak, but in Poverty and the Quest ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Subaltern Studies 2.0

    Being against the Capitalocene

    by Milinda Banerjee, Jelle J.P. Wouters, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Marisol De La Cadena, Thom Van Dooren, Suraj Yengde ...
    On a second wave of anti-colonial revolutions.State and Capital reign over the Age of Sorrow. We face inequality, pandemics, ethnocide, climate crisis, and mass extinction. Our desire for security and power governs us as State. Our desire for possessions governs us as Capital. Our desires imprison and rule us beings as Unbeing. Yet, from Nagaland to New Zealand, Bhutan to Bolivia, a second wave of ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Caste : The Unexplored Territories

    by Roy T James ...
    Caste is a relic of dark ages. It did not evolve into a modernized version in the natural course of events as the people of India were not the real custodians of Indian society, having been under foreign rule for many years and those rulers finding great use in caste. Other countries had their share of such customs which are even more shocking, like lynching or burning at stake, various ... Read more

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  • Document Raj

    Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India

    by Bhavani Raman ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in Document Raj, uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival research in the files of the East India Company’s administrative offices in Madras, she tells the story of a ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Crucible of Conflict

    Tamil and Muslim Society on the East Coast of Sri Lanka

    by Dennis B. McGilvray ...
    Crucible of Conflict is an ethnographic and historical study of Hindu castes, matrilineal family structure, popular religious traditions, and ethnic conflict. It is also the first full-length ethnography of Sri Lanka’s east coast, an area that suffered heavily in the 2004 tsunami and that is of vital significance to the political future of the island nation. Since the bitter guerrilla war for an ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Return of Ainu

    Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan

    by Katarina Sjoberg ...
    Series series Studies in Anthropology and History
    First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomenon called Fourth World Populations. After having read a book entitled Aiona by the French linguist Pierre Naert, she decided to investigate further the Ainu people and their integration into the ... Read more

    $100.30 CAD

  • A Social Theory of Corruption

    Notes from the Indian Subcontinent

    by Sudhir Chella Rajan ...
    A social theory of grand corruption from antiquity to the twenty-first century.In contemporary policy discourse, the notion of corruption is highly constricted, understood just as the pursuit of private gain while fulfilling a public duty. Its paradigmatic manifestations are bribery and extortion, placing the onus on individuals, typically bureaucrats. Sudhir Chella Rajan argues that this ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Western Sociologists on Indian Society (Routledge Revivals)

    Marx, Spencer, Weber, Durkheim, Pareto

    by G. R. Madan ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Of the five major sociologists whose views on Indian society are assessed in this work, originally published in 1979, Marx and Weber made a special study of the subject and had something definite to say about the future of Indian society. Herbert Spencer was primarily concerned with the effects of colonial rule on India’s progress, while Durkheim and Pareto tended to observe Indian society from a ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD