Orient Blackswan: 280 books
by Harriet R Lynton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A reconstruction of the life and times of Salar Jung, the Regent of Mahbub Ali Pasha and the Dewan of Hyderabad for thirty years. Based on the Salar Jungs correspondence, the book explores the richly layered and developing relations between the British and the Hyderabadi cultures, the misunderstandings,...
Language, Ideology and Power
Language Learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book-length study of the history of language teaching and learning among South Asian Muslims. It traces the history of language-teaching among the Muslims of north India and present-day Pakistan, and then relates language-learning (the demand) and teaching (the supply) to ideology (or...
by Niharranjan Ray
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
This is a seminal work on the history of the Bengalis from the earliest times to the beginning of the Muslim rule in India. As much a work of literature as of history, this book is not a story of kings and the extension of their power but of the total human experiences of everyday life. Thus, through...
by William Muraskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2018
There are many infectious diseases which kill millions of children every year the world over, but polio is not one of them. So why did the World Health Assembly in 1988 choose the eradication of polio as a global goal? This is the key question that William Muraskin asks and it inexorably leads to...
Fractured States
Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious...
Violence and the Burden of Memory
Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Post-Independence Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence, particularly from the late 1970s to 2009. These protracted conflicts have been immensely destructive, resulting in many thousands of deaths and disappearances, both of armed personnel (whether of the Sri Lankan...
Gendered Citizenship
Historical and Conceptual Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive...
Science Alive 5
Practical Experiments for Grade 5
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the child acquires a scientific temperament — there must...
Journeys and Dwellings
Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This collection of essays makes a significant and innovative contribution to the emerging field of Indian Ocean Studies. New perspectives come into view that highlight movement and exchange across borders, travelling actors, cultures and faiths as well as processes of cultural re-localisation, mixture...
Desire and Defiance
A Study of Bengali Women in Love, 1850-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Power is the key element of patriarchy; and the other significant element is love. Traditional control over women’s sexuality was rearticulated in the mid-nineteenth century through the ideology of a non-consensual, non-dissoluble conjugality, based on the wife’s unconditional fidelity and loyalty...
by Shanta Rameshwar Rao
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
A gripping story of the Harijan community of a typical temple-town in Southern India. It reveals the anguish of a family which hopes that the new laws will bring a new life for them. Shanta Rameshwar Raos taut and simple style, her sympathy and integrity enables her to tell a gripping, heartrending and totally credible tale in just a few pages
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani Industry, 19802000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market explores the paradox at the heart of the ayurvedic and unani medicine manufacturing industry—to present itself as modern and traditional, common and professional at the same time. On the one hand, the natural, wholesome and authentic nature of these medicines...
by R S Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological...
by Felix Padel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Sacrificing People is a provocative anthropological study of the structures of power and authority which the British rule imposed on a tribal people of Central India, the Konds. The Konds practised human sacrifice and in the pretext of rooting out this ‘barbaric’ ritual, the British waged wars of...