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  • National Multilingualism in the Horn of Africa and South Asia

    Modifié par Javed Majeed, Sara Marzagora ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    This book compares how multilingualism is governed, managed, and imagined in nation-states in the Horn of Africa and South Asia. With state-of-the-art contributions by leading scholars, this is the first volume to bring together political, historical, and literary perspectives on national multilingualism in the two regions, documenting both the views of state actors and those of writers, ... En savoir plus

    $166.99 CAD

  • India and South Africa

    Modifié par Javed Majeed, Isabel Hofmeyr ...
    South Africa and India constitute two key nodes in the global south and have inspired new modes of non-Western transnational history. Themes include anti-imperial movements; Gandhian ideas; comparisons of race and caste; Afro-Asian ideals; Indian Ocean public spheres.This volume extends these debates into the cultural and linguistic terrain. The book combines the methods of Indian Ocean studies ... En savoir plus

    $71.44 CAD

  • Muhammad Iqbal

    Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism

    par Javed Majeed ...
    Collections series Pathfinders
    Bringing together Islamic studies, a postcolonial literary perspective, and a focus on the interaction between aesthetics and politics, this book analyses Iqbal’s Islamism through his poetry. It argues that his notion of an Islamist selfhood was expressed in his verse through the interplay between poetic tradition and creative innovation. It also considers how Iqbal expressed an Islamist ... En savoir plus

    $83.81 CAD

  • Nation and Region in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

    par Javed Majeed ...
    George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India is one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. This book is the first detailed examination of the Survey. It shows how the Survey collaborated with Indian activists to consolidate the regional languages in India. By focusing on India as a linguistic region, it was at odds with the colonial state’s conceptualisation of the ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Colonialism and Knowledge in Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India

    par Javed Majeed ...
    This book is the first detailed examination of George Abraham Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, one of the most complete sources on South Asian languages. It shows that the Survey was characterised by a composite and collaborative mode of producing knowledge, which undermines any clear distinctions between European orientalists and colonised Indians in British India. Its authority lay more in ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Utilitarianism and Empire

    par David Theo Goldberg, H S. Jones, Javed Majeed, J Joseph Miller, Martha C. Nussbaum, Jennifer Pitts, Frederick Rosen, David Weinstein ...
    The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill, James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this legacy and its ... En savoir plus

    $61.99 CAD

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    Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Democracy, 1900 to 1955

    par Leela Gandhi ...
    Europeans and Americans tend to hold the opinion that democracy is a uniquely Western inheritance, but in The Common Cause, Leela Gandhi recovers stories of an alternate version, describing a transnational history of democracy in the first half of the twentieth century through the lens of ethics in the broad sense of disciplined self-fashioning. Gandhi identifies a shared culture of perfectionism ... En savoir plus

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  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    par Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD

  • Anthropology of the Self

    The Individual in Cultural Perspective

    par Brian Morris ...
    Collections series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Western society is individualised; we feel at ease talking about individuals and we study individual behaviour through psychology and psychoanalysis. Yet anthropology teaches us that an individual approach is only one of many ways of looking at ourselves.In this wide-ranging text Morris explores the origins, doctrines and conceptions of the self in Western, Asian and African societies passing ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Soldiers of Empire

    Indian and British Armies in World War II

    par Tarak Barkawi ...
    How are soldiers made? Why do they fight? Re-imagining the study of armed forces and society, Barkawi examines the imperial and multinational armies that fought in Asia in the Second World War, especially the British Indian army in the Burma campaign. Going beyond conventional narratives, Barkawi studies soldiers in transnational context, from recruitment and training to combat and memory. Drawing ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Gender and Violence in British India

    The Road to Amritsar, 1914-1919

    par R. McLain ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    In British India, the years during and following World War I saw imperial unity deteriorate into a bitter dispute over "native" effeminacy and India's postwar fitness for self-rule. This study demonstrates that increasingly ferocious dispute culminated in the actual physical violence of the Amritsar Massacre of 1919. ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Subject Lessons

    The Western Education of Colonial India

    par Sanjay Seth, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Collections series Politics, History, and Culture
    Subject Lessons offers a fascinating account of how western knowledge “traveled” to India, changed that which it encountered, and was itself transformed in the process. Beginning in 1835, India’s British rulers funded schools and universities to disseminate modern, western knowledge in the expectation that it would gradually replace indigenous ways of knowing. From the start, western education was ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD