Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
Combating AIDS
Communication Strategies in Action
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
·****· Awarded the Annual Award for Distinguished Scholarly Book in Applied Communication, by the National Communication Association, USA**·****·**
`This gripping narrative not only documents the history of humankind's interaction with a clever virus, it brings to the forefront...
India and Its Visual Cultures
Community, Class and Gender in a Symbolic Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017
India and Its Visual Cultures is a comprehensive mapping and analysis of contemporary cultural artefacts and visual cultures through different approaches—iconographic, social, political, religious and so on. This book covers various media and their histories by studying visual representational systems,...
by Debashish Banerji
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
The Alternate Nation of Abanindranath Tagore provides a revisionary critique of the art of Abanindranath Tagore, the founder of a 'national' school of Indian painting, popularly known as the Bengal School of Art. It categorically argues that the art of Abanindranath, which developed as part of what...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Interdisciplinary Alter-natives in Comparative Literature examines the directions taken by Comparative Literature in recent years and maps the shifts in paradigms that are in process. Alternative discourses of Comparative Literature are explored in the volume with reference to the ongoing debates...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2005
This collection of 17 original essays provides insights into the various ways in which the interrelated issues of culture, identity and Indianness are expressed in contemporary times. The contributions range from detailed and scholarly essays to critical reviews of literature and reflections on experience....
Urban Women in Contemporary India
A Reader
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2007
Since the early 1990s, feminists in India have been rallying against integrating the Indian economy into the world market, perceiving it as a phenomenon which will lead to increased feminisation of poverty and the commodification of women. This anthology explores the impact of globalisation on Indian...
Sexual Sites, Seminal Attitudes
Sexualities, Masculinities and Culture in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2004
Discussions on sexuality in the South Asian context have tended to focus largely on men`s preoccupations through notions such as `semen-anxiety`. Another restrictive framework is the excessive importance ascribed to religion in everyday life. The result has been a rather narrow debate on sexuality....
The Identity Politics of Peacebuilding
Civil Society in War-Torn Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2008
This book looks at civil society and peace movements in the context of the identity-based armed conflict in Sri Lanka. Focussing on the identity politics inherent in peace work, it demonstrates why civil society groups engaged in peace activities often fail to enhance the sense of security among civilians...
Population Concerns in India
Shifting Trends, Policies, and Programs
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2017
A major concern for any country’s polity and development, the issue of population has always been particularly problematic in India given the diversity of religions and other social stratifications. Population Concerns in India: Shifting Trends, Policies, and Programs analyzes how the country has...
Dawn of the Solar Age
An End to Global Warming and to Fear
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
Our planet is growing hotter, which is mainly due to the burning of fossil fuels. Yet, most of us remain chained to the belief that there is no alternative source of energy sufficiently plentiful and cheap.
**Dawn of the Solar Age **provides a blueprint for shifting the energy base of human...
Muslim Backward Classes
A Sociological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2013
This book presents the sociological perspectives on Muslim OBCs as a category determined by the Indian State. Although Muslims constitute an important part of the population and are the second largest religious community in the world, as well as in India, social scientists rarely undertake this community...
Religion, Power and Violence
Expression of Politics in Contemporary Times
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
The rise of communalism in recent years as the major claimant to power in Indian politics has posed a serious challenge to the survival of democracy and is even threatening the fabric of the Constitution. Coupled with the fact that political discourse in the international arena has been increasingly...
Women Heroes and Dalit Assertion in North India
Culture, Identity and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
This volume explores cultural repression in India and ways in which it is overcome. It studies the burgeoning Dalit politics in North India and shows how Dalit women heroes (viranganas) of the 1857 Rebellion have emerged as symbols of Dalit assertion in Uttar Pradesh and are being used by the Bahujan...
A History of the Jana Natya Manch
Plays for the People
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2012
A History of the Jana Natya Manch chronicles the birth and growth of the Jana Natya Manch (Janam), a Delhi-based radical theater group which has been active since 1973.
Beginning in the early 1970s, when a group of young students in Delhi sought to continue the legacy of the Indian Peoples'...