Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
Shaping Business Leaders
What B-Schools Don't Do
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Shaping Business Leaders: What B–Schools Don't Do examines the widespread impression that young professionals graduating from India's business schools are constantly job hopping, focus more on their own gains and lack entrepreneurship skills. Bhandarker reiterates that India's top B-schools have...
Women, Security, South Asia
A Clearing in the Thicket
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2005
This book explores women's perspectives on matters of security and related policy, focusing on women in South Asia who are battling society, insecurity and violence in some form. The book makes three important contributions. First, it examines existing theories of security. Secondly, it goes beyond...
Peace is Everybody's Business
A Strategy for Conflict Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Peace is Everybody's Business is about conflict prevention, hope and peace for the oppressed and alienated, and the imaginative use of soft-power to win back estranged communities into the social and political mainstream.
Past strategies in managing alienated societies have been derived from...
The Ocean in a Drop
Inside-Out Youth Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
The Ocean in a Drop explores how young people have contributed significantly to society in the past, and suggests ways in which they can take centre stage again. Traditionally, society has legitimized four spaces for young people: the family, friends, education/careers, and leisure. The book introduces...
Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition
Theories and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Displacement, Revolution, and the New Urban Condition provides a window into the global urban contradiction through the lens of a Third World city. It is not a book on urban India, or a book on Ahmedabad city, or even a book on the Sabarmati River Front Development (SRFD) project, but it is a book...
Audience-Citizens
The Media, Public Knowledge, and Interpretive Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Audience–Citizens: The Media, Public Knowledge and Interpretive Practice explores the relationship between media and democracy from the perspective of the audience and proposes a unique conceptual framework for the analysis of audiences, consumption patterns and citizenship. Drawing on original...
Reframing Bollywood
Theories of Popular Hindi Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
This book combines multiple theoretical approaches to provide a fresh perspective on Bollywood-just as a Bollywood film that transgresses multiple genres-and challenges the homogenizing tendencies in much of the ongoing scholarship in the area. It covers five areas of controversial theorization: the...
by Phillip Talbot
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
In 1938 the New York-based Institute of Current World Affairs awarded 23-year-old Phillips Talbot a fellowship with a mandate: visit South Asia and learn about the intricacies of life in India. Till 1950, Talbot graphically recounted the buildup to Indian and Pakistani independence, and the early...
Global Jihad and America
The Hundred-Year War Beyond Iraq and Afghanistan
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Global Jihad and America questions the assumption if Islamist terrorism, or “Global Jihad,” poses the biggest threat to modern civilization in the East and West. It explores if Islamic and Western civilizations, being “incompatible” to each other, are destined to be at loggerheads. Consequently,...
The Internationalist Moment
South Asia, Worlds, and World Views 1917–39
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
The years between the First and Second World Wars comprise a critical moment in the history of the world. In the aftermath of the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution, individuals and countries sought new solutions and blueprints for a world of greater stability, equality, and interdependency....
Women Writing Violence
The Novel and Radical Feminist Imaginaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Women Writing Violence engages with select contemporary novels in which women characters resist violence and redefine notions of community by imagining bonds with the exiled and the disempowered.
The author interweaves the literary landscapes of African-American writer Toni Morrison with the...
Riots and After in Mumbai
Chronicles of Truth and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2012
Riots and After in Mumbai provides a synoptic record of events in Mumbai, focusing essentially on the history of riots in the city. Using this framework, it attempts to understand the sociopolitical and cultural realities of present-day Mumbai through a collection of narratives of the people affected...
Whistling in the Dark
Twenty-One Queer Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2009
Whistling in the Dark: Twenty-one Queer Interviews focuses on issues like sexuality, sexual identity, marriage, gay marriage, heteronormativity, gay utopia, gay activism, gay bashing, police atrocities and the laws vis-à-vis these. The interviewees represent a cross section of society ranging from...
Emerging Literatures from Northeast India
The Dynamics of Culture, Society and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Emerging Literatures from Northeast India is an amalgam of critical perceptions on writings emanating from the region on issues of identity construct, on hidden colonial burdens that refuse to leave and on the key role that oral traditions continue to play and will do so for some time in any study...