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  • India's Postcolonial Hinterlands

    by Samir Kumar Das ...
    This volume offers an insightful and compelling exploration of the complex dynamics that define governance, identity and power in India’s Northeast. It challenges conventional post-colonial narratives by asserting that the departure of colonial rulers did not precipitate a clean break but instead initiated intricate continuities that continue to shape the region’s societal structures. It puts ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Migrations, Identities and Democratic Practices in India

    by Samir Kumar Das ...
    This book explores contesting identities, international politics, migration and democratic practices in the context of globalizing India. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, it looks at one of the oldest migratory routes across a volatile region in eastern India which is fraught with violent claims of separate statehood.The book offers an account of how the ‘North Bengal’ region has acted ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

  • Governing India's Northeast

    Essays on Insurgency, Development and the Culture of Peace

    by Samir Kumar Das ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. While governance is the thread that runs through the volume, the latter at one level addresses the challenges of governing in global times a region historically marked by acute violence, interethnic ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Development-Induced Displacement in India and China

    A Comparative Look at the Burdens of Growth

    by Rikil Chyrmang, Florence Padovani, S. Irudaya Rajan, Kam Wing Chan, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky, Xing Ying, Samir Kumar Das, Joël Cabalion, Vijay Korra, Yingfang Chen0, Hongyuan Song2, Guangming Liu3 ...
    The world seems to have recently discovered India and China as major players in Asia, and political and economic connections between the two countries are rapidly growing. Beyond the fashionable phenomenon, the two countries have much in common and many shared experiences. Both are developing countries with dynamic economies focused on lifting their people out of poverty. There are also ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • The Making of Goddess Durga in Bengal: Art, Heritage and the Public

    Edited by Samir Kumar Das, Bishnupriya Basak ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book examines the making of the Goddess Durga both as an art and as part of the intangible heritage of Bengal. As the ‘original site of production’ of unbaked clay idols of the Hindu Goddess Durga and other Gods and Goddesses, Kumartuli remains at the centre of such art and heritage. The art and heritage of Kumartuli have been facing challenges in a rapidly globalizing world that demands ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

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    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    by Partha Chatterjee ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

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  • Sikhism

    An Introduction

    by Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    Series series I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion
    Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive identity. This sense of difference, forged during Sikhism's fierce struggles with the Mughal Empire, is still symbolised by the 'Five Ks' ('panj kakar', in Punjabi), those articles of faith to which all baptised Sikhs subscribe: uncut hair bound in a turban ... Read more

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  • Citizenship and Its Discontents

    An Indian History

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    Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern ... Read more

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  • The Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal

    by Kalpana Jha ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and linguistic diversity of the country. It has particularly rendered stateless the Madhesi community which inhabits the plains bordering India ... Read more

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  • Alice in Bhuleshwar: Navigating a Mumbai Neighbourhood

    by Kaiwan Mehta ...
    Kaiwan Mehta takes the reader for a walk through the streets and past the buildings of the ‘native town’ of colonial Bombay, reading their histories and excavating their memories, while continuing to negotiate their present context. This historic neighbourhood of Mumbai, fondly referred to as Bhuleshwar, has remained a residential and religious hub as before, while thriving as the city’s essential ... Read more

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  • I Am Divine. So Are You

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    by Devdutt Pattanaik, Jerry Johnson ...
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  • Reinventing India

    Liberalization, Hindu Nationalism and Popular Democracy

    by Stuart Corbridge, John Harriss ...
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