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  • Sri Lanka in the Modern Age

    A History

    par Nira Wickramasinghe ...
    Sri Lanka in the Modern Age recounts the modern history of the island in an accessible yet unconventional manner. Where other histories have tended to focus on the state's failure to accommodate the needs and demands of minority communities, Wickramasinghe places their claims alongside the political, social and economic demands of other communities, parties, associations and groups, tracing their ... En savoir plus

    $21.59 CAD

  • Cinnamon

    A History of Taste and Empire

    par Nira Wickramasinghe ...
    The sweeping cultural history of a spice so coveted it launched empires across oceans, reshaped global trade, and bound generations of Sri Lankans to colonial rule.For millennia, cinnamon has been treasured for its healing powers and warm unmistakable aroma. But behind its familiar scent lies a tumultuous past steeped in conquest and rebellion.In Cinnamon, acclaimed historian Nira Wickramasinghe ... En savoir plus

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  • Slave in a Palanquin

    Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka

    par Nira Wickramasinghe, Professor of Modern South Asian Studies ...
    For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Slave in a Palanquin

    Colonial Servitude and Resistance in Sri Lanka

    par Nira Wickramasinghe, Professor of Modern South Asian Studies ...
    For hundreds of years, the island of Sri Lanka was a crucial stopover for people and goods in the Indian Ocean. For the Dutch East India Company, it was also a crossroads in the Indian Ocean slave trade. Slavery was present in multiple forms in Sri Lanka—then Ceylon—when the British conquered the island in the late eighteenth century and began to gradually abolish slavery. Yet the continued ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • Dressing The Colonised Body: Politics, Clothing and Identity in Sri Lanka

    par NIRA WICKRAMASINGHE ...
    Dressing the Colonised Body explores popular, political and symbolic meanings assigned to dress in a variety of colonial contexts in Sri Lanka; thus it focuses on the politics of nationalism and identity under late colonialism.Proceeding from the understanding that self-representation is at its peak at the moment of political independence, the author examines the lineages that exist between that ... En savoir plus

    $5.50 CAD

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    par Sunil Khilnani ...
    THE IDEA OF INDIA was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost ... En savoir plus

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  • Modern India

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Craig Jeffrey ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture ... En savoir plus

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  • Vishnu's Crowded Temple

    India Since the Great Rebellion

    par Maria Misra ...
    There can be few more discussed countries in the world today than India. From being a seemingly closed off, economically stagnant part of Asia, with intractable problems of poverty and population, India has in a short space of time reached an astonishing level of growth, taking with China the lion's share of the benefits from post-Cold War globalization. In VISHNU'S CROWDED TEMPLE, Maria Misra has ... En savoir plus

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  • Gandhi

    In His Time and Ours

    par David Hardiman ...
    This book examines Gandhi as the creator of a radical style of politics. It argues that whereas politicians garner support by demonising those they oppose, Gandhi resisted such a politics. He asserted that there are always grounds for a fruitful dialogue between opponents. How did Gandhi create this new form of politics? Hardiman shows its basis within Gandhis larger vision of an alternative ... En savoir plus

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  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    par Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... En savoir plus

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  • Nehru's India

    A History in Seven Myths

    par Taylor C. Sherman ...
    An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in IndiaNehru’s India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first prime minister, in shaping the nation. She argues that the notion of ... En savoir plus

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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    par GHANSHYAM SHAH ...
    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... En savoir plus

    $32.98 CAD