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The Politics of Autonomy
Indian Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
This volume tells us that a critical inquiry into the idea of autonomy suggests that the politics of the future will be the politics of autonomies: an engagement that combines notions like self-government, women`s autonomy, devolution of power, the rights of minorities, greater popular access to resources,...
When Rebels Become Stakeholders
Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2009
When Rebels Become Stakeholders: Democracy, Agency and Social Change in India explores the agency of ordinary men and women in the making of democratic social change in India. The study is specific to India, but the issues that it examines are of wider significance. The authors join the debate on...
India and the Politics of Developing Countries
Essays in Memory of Myron Weiner
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2004
`The essays in this volume will be welcomed by many political scientists as well as more lay observers of the Indian political situation. It is a welcome addition to our understanding of the evolution of political forces in independent India and deserves serious reading' - Australian Journal of Political...
Local Democracy in South Asia
Microprocesses of Democratization in Nepal and its Neighbours
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
This volume, the first in a new series on governance, conflict, and civic action in South Asia, focuses on the larger countries of South Asia—Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and especially Nepal. The 15 essays in this volume analyze democracy both as a process and as a value. The essays...
Openings for Peace
UNSCR 1325, Women and Security in India
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
A close look at the relevance, utility and potential of the UNSC Resolution 1325 for achieving inclusive and sustainable peace in India.
This is one of the first crucial discussions on what can be adapted and implemented in the United Nations Security Council’s Resolution 1325 on women, peace,...
Nepal - Nation-State in the Wilderness
Managing State, Democracy and Geopolitics
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Nepal-Nation-state in the Wilderness takes a critical look at three important aspects of modern Nepal: viability of the Nepali State, prospects and challenges of its liberal democracy, and strategies for managing the emerging geopolitical trends.
The author analyses the transformation of Maoists...
Spatialising Politics
Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Spatialising Politics: Culture and Geography in Postcolonial Sri Lanka brings together a collection of essays that take as their theme the spatial politics of Sri Lanka. It highlights the importance of space in the ongoing ethnic conflict fuelling Sri Lanka's continuing civil war and invokes a number...
by Jasodhara Bagchi
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2017
Explores the many insights of Indian and western feminists analyses of motherhood both as ideology and as practice.
Interrogating Motherhood, the fourth title in the Theorizing Feminism Series, reveals that an understanding of motherhood is vitally important to understanding Indian society....
Sayyid Ahmad Barailvi
His Movement and Legacy from the Pukhtun Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Sayyid Ahmad Barailvi (1786–1831), the man who first propagated and led jihad during the 19th century in the then North-West Frontier, perceived and initially led it as a purely reformist movement in northern India. Reform and jihad were intended to purify and protect the Indian Muslims from innovations...
by Professor T K Oommen
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Indian society is often described as one with ‘unity in diversity’ and as a composite culture. Since independence, India has also been termed ‘democratic’ and ‘secular’. However, the discernible cracks that have appeared in recent years in these conceptualisations have led to contentious...
Conflict Resolution in Multicultural Societies
The Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2014
**Is it not interesting that at a time when the idea of a global “clash of civilizations” is reverberating so mightily and so ominously, how India puts up with the challenge of forging national unity amidst its intricate diversity? What is the key to her comparative success as an integrated state? **
The...
Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman
The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood
This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subjectivity in Tagore’s life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the book makes gender formations and discourses...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Women in Peace Politics explores the role of women as agents and visionaries of peace in South Asia. Peace is redefined to include in its fold the attempt by women to be a part of the peace making process, reworking the structural inequalities faced by them and their struggle against all forms of...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
A first of its kind, this timely volume provides a series of case studies from South Asia that detail the quest for justice, the links that can be drawn from different countries in the region and the points of contact and divergences in the enunciation and practice of law. A second theme that runs...