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Islamic Banking and Finance Second edition

Islamic Banking and Finance Second edition

This book discusses the nature and theories which govern systems of Islamic finance including its most distinctive features and its relationship with conventional financial institutions. It explores the nature and role of money in modern economies and elaborates on the process of credit deposit creation trade cycles and instruments for the creation of value in financial markets through the perspectives of Islamic finance. The author explains its characteristics especially the rationale for the lack of interest-based financial activities. He examines the intrinsic ethical and humanistic frameworks that govern financial theories and practices and the models for the creation of value risk-sharing and socially responsible investing as well as the governance and regulation that these systems follow. The author also does a comparative assessment of conventional financial systems with Islamic finance with relevant examples assesses the performance of Islamic systems and examines existing and expanding markets for Islamic finance. Lucid and cogent this book is useful for scholars and researchers of Islamic finance Islamic studies economics banking and finance in general. | Islamic Banking and Finance Second edition

GBP 120.00
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English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known but there exists a vast body of texts from Afghanistan Sri Lanka and Burma and the Indian subcontinent that have rarely been compiled or examined. Written in anxiety and distress or recalled with poignancy and anger these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror explorer or ruler these texts give us the vulnerable injured and frightened Englishman and woman who seek in the most adverse of conditions to retain a measure of stoicism and identity. From Robert Knox’s 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka through J. Z. Holwell’s famous account of the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta through Florentia Sale’s Afghan memoir and Lady Inglis’s ‘Mutiny’ diary from Lucknow the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive. Lucid and intriguing this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asia colonial history literary and culture studies. | English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

GBP 39.99
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The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

Critical questions remain unanswered on the events of the cold-blooded and devastating terror attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008. Investigative and introspective this book offers a lucid and graphic account of the ill-fated day and traces the changing dynamics of terror in South Asia. Using new insights it explores South Asia’s regional dynamics of antagonism the ever-present challenge to the frontiers of India Pakistan and the terrorism question the strife in Afghanistan and the self-serving selective US ‘war on terror’. Including a new Afterword this second edition will greatly interest those in defence security and strategic studies politics and international relations peace and conflict studies media and journalism and South Asian studies as well as the general reader. | The Secret History of Mumbai Terror Attacks Fragile Frontiers

GBP 38.99
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Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

This volume is the first comprehensive exploration of Rabindranath Tagore’s works on education and pedagogy. It presents a valuable account of the creation of Santiniketan and Visva-Bharati Tagore’s vision of social regeneration and his rejection of the colonial scheme; while reflecting on significant events of his life and his ideas. The book evaluates Tagore’s unique contribution to education and discusses his views on fundamental issues such as aim method discipline and medium. It reinforces for readers today the relevance of his experiments and activities in the field of education. Drawing from various sources the book also offers bibliographic information on Tagore’s writing on education. This new edition with a new Introduction and Foreword will be of immense value to educationists teachers policymakers and those interested in modern Indian history and the philosophy of education. | Education for Fullness A Study of the Educational Thought and Experiment of Rabindranath Tagore

GBP 38.99
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Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

In recent decades India has been witness to the assertion of geographically culturally and historically constituted distinct and well-defined regions that display ethnic communal caste and other social–political cleavages. This book examines the changing configurations of state politics in India. Focussing on identity politics and development it explores the specificities of the regions within states — not merely as politico-administrative constructs but also as conceived in historical geographic economic sociological or cultural terms. Adopting a comparative approach the book looks at alternative theoretical approaches — the quest for homeland identity caste politics and public policy. This second edition includes a new Introduction that updates the research in the area while further developing the theoretical framework. One of the first major volumes on federalism in India including studies from across the nation this book will be indispensable for students and scholars of political science sociology history and South Asian studies. | Rethinking State Politics in India Regions within Regions

GBP 84.99
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Caste in Contemporary India

Caste in Contemporary India

Caste is a contested terrain in India’s society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability citizenship social mobility democratic politics corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab Uttar Pradesh Delhi and other parts of north India this volume presents the reasons for the persistence of caste in India from a new perspective. The book offers an original theoretical framework for comparative understandings of the entrenched social differences discrimination inequalities stratification and the modes and patterns of their reproduction. This second edition with a new Introduction delves into why caste continues to matter and how caste-based divisions often tend to overlap with the emergent disparities of the new economy. A delicate balance of lived experience and hard facts this persuasive work will serve as essential reading for students and teachers of sociology and social anthropology social exclusion and discrimination studies political science development studies and public policy. | Caste in Contemporary India

GBP 39.99
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India’s Strategic Culture The Making of National Security Policy

India’s Strategic Culture The Making of National Security Policy

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of the evolution of India’s strategic culture in the era of globalization. It examines dominant themes that have governed India’s foreign and security policy and events which have shaped India’s role in global politics. The author Examines the traditional and new approaches to diplomacy and the state’s response to internal and external conflicts; Delineates policy pillars which are required to protect the state’s strategic interests and forge new relationships in the current geopolitical climate; Compares the domestic and international security policies followed during the tenures of Narsimha Rao Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh; and Analyzes how the Narendra Modi era has brought on changes in India’s security strategy and the use of soft power and diplomacy. With extensive additions drawing on recent developments this edition of the book will be a key text for scholars teachers and students of defence and strategic studies international relations history political science and South Asian studies. | India’s Strategic Culture The Making of National Security Policy

GBP 39.99
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Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast

Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast

This volume captures the success of India’s Look East Policy (LEP) in promoting economic engagement with neighbouring countries in Asia and simultaneously its limitations in propelling growth in the bordering North Eastern Region — India’s bridge head to South East Asia. It analyses the instrumental role of LEP in bringing a tectonic shift in India’s foreign trade by redirecting the focus from the West to the East thus leading to a fundamental change in the nature of India’s economic interdependence. Besides discussing foreign trade it expounds as to how LEP made India play an important role in the emerging Asian security architecture and liberated Indian foreign policy from being centred on South Asia. The essays also enumerate the reasons for LEP’s failure in the North Eastern Region and chart out actionable programmes for course correction that might be factored into its latest edition — the Act East Policy. This book will interest scholars and researchers of international relations international trade and economics politics and particularly those concerned with Northeast India. | Look East to Act East Policy Implications for India's Northeast

GBP 44.99
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Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement. His evocative fictional world throws into relief the lives of the downtrodden in in contemporary India. This volume brings his fiction to a new readership by presenting English translations of a selection of his most powerful stories. This book is part of the Voices from the Margins series which seeks to enhance the visibility of literary texts and traditions from various Indian languages and also to bring Dalit literature to the center stage. Pramanik focuses extensively on lives and lifestyles of the people in the Sundarbans the largest mangrove forest in the world and an ecologically fragile zone. Drawn from personal experience many of these stories paint in vivid colors the deprivations that define life in this part of the world. His fiction highlights the workings of caste. . The translations in this anthology are buttressed by an interview with the writer which includes his reflections on his life society and his writings opening up new possibilities of understanding his work in its larger social context. The book also creates an academic framework within which Pramanik’s fiction can be read and critically analyzed. This critical edition will be of interest to students and researchers of comparative literature South Asian literature and culture modern Indian literature Dalit studies culture history and sociology. | Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

GBP 130.00
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Dalits Past Present and Future

Dalits Past Present and Future

This book is a comprehensive introduction to Dalits in India from their origin to the present day. Despite a plethora of provisions for affirmative action in the Indian Constitution Dalits still suffer exclusion on various counts. The book traces the multifarious changes that befell them through history germination of Dalit consciousness during the colonial period and its f lowering under the legendary leadership of Babasaheb Ambedkar. It provides critical insights to their degeneration during the post-Ambedkar period taking stock of all significant developments therein such as the rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party Dalit capitalism NGOization of the Dalit discourse and the various implicit or explicit emancipation schemas thrown up by them. It also discusses ideology implicit strategy and tactics of the Dalit movement touches upon one of the most contentious issues of increasing divergence between the Dalit and Marxist movements and delineates the role of the state both colonial and post-colonial in shaping Dalit politics in particular ways. This new edition includes a new chapter providing the causal analysis of the rise of Hindutva under Narendra Modi its fascist march obliterating the idea of India sketched out by the Constitution and forecasts its future as the Hindu Rashtra – the Brahmanic-fascist state – which has been the goal of its progenitors. A tour de force this book brings to the fore many key contemporary concerns and will be of great interest to activists students scholars and teachers of politics political economy sociology anthropology history and social exclusion studies. | Dalits Past Present and Future

GBP 46.99
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Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

Anil Gharai is arguably one of the most significant authors of Bangla Dalit literature. His works deal with the stark everyday realities of people on the margins and the complex interplay of domination and subjugation in these spaces. This volume of English translations of some of his most celebrated works seeks to introduce his writings to a new readership in India and abroad. In his works Gharai explored caste-based and gender-based oppression in the rural areas of coastal Bengal. His protagonists are from remote spaces from the Dalit community or the indigenous communities—men and women who work and live in extremely exploitative circumstances and whose lives are depicted by Gharai with great care and detail. His novels short stories and poems translated in this volume give voice to the unrepresented and offer a critique of the oppressive caste and class hierarchies and traditions in eastern India. He also focuses on the replication of patriarchal mores within Dalit society and culture. This volume includes critical essays on Anil Gharai and his long interview to reflect on his position in the alternative literary canon of Bangla Dalit literature. Part of the Voices from the Margins series this critical edition seeks to visibilise the less visible literary texts and traditions. It will be of interest to those scholars engaged in contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures comparative literature modern Indian literature minority studies Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be useful to students and researchers of social sciences and humanities. | Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

GBP 130.00
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The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic as it happened. This volume examines the first responses to the COVID-19 pandemic the contexts of earlier epidemics and the epidemiological basics of infectious diseases. Further it discusses patterns in the spread of the disease; the management and containment of infections at the personal national and global level; effects on trade and commerce; the social and psychological impact on people; the disruption and postponement of international events; the role of various international organizations like the WHO in the search for solutions; and the race for a vaccine or a cure. Based on new data and latest developments the second edition of this volume explores the global spread of COVID-19 since 2019 and examines the emergence of the evolving coronavirus variants (Alpha Beta Gamma Delta and Omicron). Further it extensively discusses what we have since discovered on the disease along with recent progress on treatments and vaccines. Authored by a medical professional and an economist working on the frontlines this book gives a nuanced verified and fact-checked analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic and its global response. A one-stop resource on the COVID-19 outbreak it is indispensable for every reader and a holistic work for scholars and researchers of medical sociology public health political economy public policy and governance sociology of health and medicine and paramedical and medical practitioners. It will also be a great resource for policymakers government departments and civil society organizations working in the area. | The COVID-19 Pandemic The Deadly Coronavirus Outbreak

GBP 34.99
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Nelson Mandela Peace Through Reconciliation

Nelson Mandela Peace Through Reconciliation

This book reflects on the life and politics of Nelson Mandela (1918–2013) and his efforts to broker peace and reconciliation in a deeply divided country. Through examples from apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa it explores conflict and methods for realising peace social justice and democracy. The book looks at the festering of animosity and racial bitterness between the white Afrikaner community and the black community during years of racial violence injustices and authoritarianism in South Africa. In the most violent phase of the country’s history Mandela offered to both communities peaceful means to ensure equality justice and inclusivity. The author highlights the extraordinary challenges which Mandela faced in mobilising consent and persuading both the black and the Afrikaner community to acquiesce to a peaceful transfer of power. The volume further details the socio-political contexts and negotiations which resulted in the swift transfer of power Mandela’s insistence on crafting inclusive systems of nationhood his multi-cultural cabinet and the institutionalisation of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to address challenges facing the two communities in the post-conflict period. An accessible introduction to one of the greatest leaders in contemporary history this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of peace and conflict studies social exclusion and discrimination critical race theory human rights politics decolonisation and post-colonial studies sociology and history. | Nelson Mandela Peace Through Reconciliation

GBP 36.99
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Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

Shooting Terror highlights the disturbing immediacy of acts of terror and how cinema responds to them. It follows the changing representations of terrorism in Hindi cinema by fielding in-depth textual analyses of films such as Roja Maachis Black Friday Tere Bin Laden Uri: The Surgical Strike among others. It traces how terror and the terrorist have come to be viewed in the Indian cultural space and lays the grounds for a multivalent perspectival reading of cinema and terrorism. Moving from the threat of terror condensed in the Mogambo-esque villain in Mr. India to the showcasing of terror and the terrorist in their lived-in realities in Haider and Shahid the book explores the fraught connections between terror and the themes of devastation and trauma; between terror and the urban cityscape. It also seeks to highlight the place of humour and satire in films on terrorism and the presence of the reactionary far right in these films. One of the first books to present a composite picture of terrorism in contemporary Hindi cinema this volume will be of interest to researchers and academics of cultural studies media and film studies and the study of sociopsychological violence in media and culture. | Shooting Terror Terrorism in Hindi Films

GBP 38.99
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Dalit Feminist Theory A Reader

Dalit Feminist Theory A Reader

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm namely that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices. Drawing on a variety of disciplines the chapters in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian feminism versus Dalit feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between Black feminism and Dalit feminism; the intersectionality debate; and the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual historical empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today. Accessible essential and ingenious in its approach this book is for students teachers and specialist scholars as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies women’s studies sociology of caste political science and political theory philosophy and feminism Ambedkar studies and for anyone working in the areas of caste class or gender-based discrimination exclusion and inequality. | Dalit Feminist Theory A Reader

GBP 39.99
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