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  • Forest of Tigers

    People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans

    par Annu Jalais ...
    Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work. The key question that the author explores is: what do tigers mean for the islanders of the Sundarbans? The diverse origins and current occupations of the local population produce different answers to this ... En savoir plus

    $79.99 CAD

  • The Bengal Diaspora

    Rethinking Muslim migration

    par Claire Alexander, Joya Chatterji, Annu Jalais ...
    Collections series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    India’s partition in 1947 and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971 saw the displacement and resettling of millions of Muslims and Hindus, resulting in profound transformations across the region. A third of the region’s population sought shelter across new borders, almost all of them resettling in the Bengal delta itself. A similar number were internally displaced, while others moved to the Middle ... En savoir plus

    $94.99 CAD

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  • India's Environmental History—A Reader

    Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation

    par Mahesh Rangarajan, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Environmental history in India has generated a rich literature on forests, wildlife, humananimal conflict, tribal rights and commercial degradation, displacement and development, pastoralism and desertification, famine and disease, sedentarism and mobility, wildness and civility, and the ecology versus equity debate.This reader brings together some of the best and most interesting writing on India ... En savoir plus

    $41.21 CAD

  • Crossing the Bay of Bengal

    par Sunil S. Amrith ...
    For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and as a battleground for European empires, while being shaped by monsoons and human migration. Integrating environmental history and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil S. Amrith offers insights to the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead. ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Postcolonial Perspective

    100% Pure Adrenaline

    par B.K. Sharma ...
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    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • People of the Maldive Islands

    par Clarence Maloney ...
    This book is an engagingly told cultural historical narrative of the island nation of the Maldive Islands from the earliest references in Indian and European classics. It also narrates the story of the settlement by people from South India and Sri Lanka, and their later conversion to Islam. The second half of the book is an anthropological perspective of life as it was in the mid-1970s, with ... En savoir plus

    $29.99 CAD

  • Islands In Flux

    The Andaman and Nicobar Story

    par Pankaj Sekhsaria ...
    Pankaj Sekhsaria is the most consistent chronicler of contemporary issues in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and one of the best known. His writings on the environment, wildlife conservation, development and indigenous communities have provided insights and perspective on the life of the islands for over two decades. Islands in Flux is a compilation of Sekhsaria's writings on key issues in the ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    par Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Changing World of Bali

    Religion, Society and Tourism

    par Leo Howe ...
    Collections series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    The glossy guide book image of Bali is of a timeless paradise whose people are devoutly religious and artistically gifted. However, a hundred years of colonialism, war and Indonesian independence, and tourism have produced both modernizing changes and created an image of Bali as ‘traditional’.Incorporating up-to-date ethnographic field work the book investigates the myriad of ways in which the ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

  • New Buddhist Movements in Thailand

    Towards an Understanding of Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke

    par Rory Mackenzie ...
    Collections series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    Vastly different in belief and practice, two new Buddhist religious movements in Thailand, namely the Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke emerged in Thailand in the 1970s at a time of political uncertainty, social change and increasing dissatisfaction with the Thai Sangha and its leadership.Examining these movements, which represent two distinctive trends within contemporary Buddhism in Thailand, ... En savoir plus

    $90.99 CAD

  • The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today

    Ethnography, Ethnology, and Change in a Complex Region

    par Robert L. Winzeler ...
    The Peoples of Southeast Asia Today offers an anthropological treatment of the ethnography and ethnology of Southeast Asia, covering both the mainland and the insular regions. Based on the proposition that Southeast Asia is a true culture area, the book offers background information on geography, languages, prehistory and history, with a particular emphasis on the role of colonialism and the ... En savoir plus

    $71.99 CAD

  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

    The Making of Calcutta

    par Debjani Bhattacharyya ...
    Collections series Studies in Environment and History
    What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD