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Becoming Assamese Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

Becoming Assamese Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural phenomenon not confined to linguistic parameters alone. It studies crucial markers of the self � history customs food dress new religious beliefs � an | Becoming Assamese Colonialism and New Subjectivities in Northeast India

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Globalization and Planetary Ethics New Terrains of Consciousness

Globalization and Planetary Ethics New Terrains of Consciousness

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet and the new terrains of consciousness that need to be negotiated towards a possibility for transformation. It examines the possibilities of alternate sustainable modes of being and existing in a world which requires a unified ethical biopolitical worldview. The book explores themes like philosophical posthumanism and planetary concerns; disruption of cultural and intellectual inequality; bodily movement through nomadic subjectivity; dystopic spatialities of game(re)play; globalization and speculative imaginaries of the body; and theory of multiplicity. It also discusses the impact of COVID-19 on human beings the role of the neoliberal media the question of rights of robots and cyborgs in sci-fi movies and representation of refugees in literature. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of English literature political philosophy cultural studies literary cultures post-colonial studies critical theory and social anthropology. | Globalization and Planetary Ethics New Terrains of Consciousness

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The Sino-Indian War of 1962 New perspectives

The Sino-Indian War of 1962 New perspectives

The Sino-Indian border war of 1962 forms a major landmark in South Asian Asian and Cold War history. Among others it resulted in an unresolved conflict permanently hindering rapprochement between China and India the establishment of the Sino-Pakistani axis the deepening of the Sino-Soviet split and had a lasting impact on Indian domestic affairs. This volume draws on new documentary evidence to re-evaluate perceptions motivations and decision-making processes of both antagonists but also of third powers immediately affected by the conflict. It also investigates the effect on India’s internal politics its Constitution the Communist Party of India and the fate of Indians of Chinese origin. Finally it analyses how the conflict is viewed in India today and its ramifications for India–China relationship. A major intervention in the Asian historical landscape this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of modern history especially of modern South Asia and China international relations defence and strategic studies international politics and government. It will also be useful for think-tanks and government agencies. | The Sino-Indian War of 1962 New perspectives

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China's May Fourth Movement New Narratives and Perspectives

China's May Fourth Movement New Narratives and Perspectives

This book looks at China’s May Fourth Movement and how it has been contextualised in modern Chinese history. Tracing the roots of the movement and of modern Chinese literary and intellectual traditions the book analyses how the movement transformed ideas culture and social practices in the country. The volume presents a critical in-depth study of the May Fourth Movement from interdisciplinary perspectives. With essays written by scholars and experts from India China and the West it discusses concepts and themes such as nationalism; the citizen and revolutionary morality in the late Qing dynasty as well as Lu Xun’s struggle with the aporetic temporalities of capitalist modernity; the May Fourth spirit and the Communist Party of China; the birth of the ‘New Woman’; and the literature cinema and art produced during the movement. It also examines how the waves created by the movement in Chinese culture and society continue to influence and shape events and thoughts in contemporary times. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of Chinese Studies Chinese history Asian Studies Asian history political history and cultural history. | China's May Fourth Movement New Narratives and Perspectives

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New Media and Public Diplomacy Political Communication in India the United States and China

New Media and Public Diplomacy Political Communication in India the United States and China

This book examines the role of new media and digital technologies in public diplomacy and political communication. Exploring political communication in India as well as in the US and China it highlights the fundamental changes that new technology has brought about in public diplomacy. While facilitating direct engagement with constituents and tapping into territories and audiences which were harder to reach before the new media’s power to influence perceptions has revolutionised public diplomacy and engagement like never before. While managing national brands utilizing digital tools has emerged imperative for contemporary nation states they are equally engaged in online disinformation and influence campaigns. This book analyzes these activities and also emphasizes the critical role of social media in defining and shaping political attitudes while empowering the ordinary public and the leadership alike. The author through examples from India the US and China also examines the challenges of using digital tools in diplomacy and its effects on democracies across the world. Lucid and engaging this book will be an essential read for students and scholars of communication studies political studies diplomacy and foreign policy defence and strategic analysis media and culture studies and international relations. | New Media and Public Diplomacy Political Communication in India the United States and China

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The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject. Special attention is devoted to highlighting the complex relation between subjectivity as it is presented in the three critiques and the way in which it is construed in other writings in particular the Anthropology. While for Kant our cognitive apparatus and the structure of our will are common to all humans the anthropological subject reveals degrees of variation depending on a myriad of external circumstances that pose a challenge to the unity of Kant’s account and await theoretical solutions. The chapters collected in the volume delve into how the different shapes of human nature are not unrelated. They explore how and why different ‘Kantian subjects’ are closely connected at their core if not entirely unified. The notions of personality humanity and citizenship will serve as leading threads for the reconstruction of this possible underlying unity. An engaging read that promises to deepen our understanding of human nature the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy politics psychology social anthropology ethics and epistemology. | The Kantian Subject New Interpretative Essays

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The Calling of Global Responsibility New Initiatives in Justice Dialogues and Planetary Realizations

The Calling of Global Responsibility New Initiatives in Justice Dialogues and Planetary Realizations

This book rethinks and transforms the current discourse on globalization and global justice. It expands the idea of globalization from an economic or corporate context to mean humanization and planetary realizations — moving beyond the boundaries of nation-states and other human-made demarcations. The author challenges the notion of human primacy and makes a fervent call to reconfigure the paradigm of anthropocentrism. Through a careful study of movements for justice and inter-faith dialogue from across the world the book makes a unique contribution to the emerging study of global responsibility. It also helps us overcome our current civilizational crises and cultivate a new civilization of planetary care and co-responsibility. As part of the Ethics Human Rights and Global Political Thought series the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law and society especially social movements political theory and philosophy. | The Calling of Global Responsibility New Initiatives in Justice Dialogues and Planetary Realizations

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Forbidden Sex Forbidden Texts New India's Gay Poets

Forbidden Sex Forbidden Texts New India's Gay Poets

The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities that is there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay some have gayness thrust upon them and some do indeed achieve to great gayness. Representation of homosexuality/homoeroticism as it is understood today is thus a western import. The act and public/social discourses on same-sex love are still illegal; it is according to many against the Indian ‘tradition’; and a sense of ‘history’ is seriously problematic when we dig out for a past tradition of homoerotic love and desire. Hoshang Merchant through an examination of texts films poetry attempts to analyse and crack the codes of sexual (mis)conduct in contemporary India giving short histories of the fate of several gay writers and explaining the difficulties of ‘coming out’. | Forbidden Sex Forbidden Texts New India's Gay Poets

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Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

Kotta Satchidananda Murty (1924–2011) was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast. In recognition of his contribution in the field of Philosophy he was awarded the highly coveted BC Roy Award in Philosophy and Padma Vibhushan by the Government of India. This volume is a collection of his unpublished writings. It presents Murty’s unpublished keynote addresses papers presented in seminars and lectures which show his reflections and arguments in contrast to contemporary philosophers with regard to recent developments in philosophy. The writings reveal Murty’s rejection of established theories by well-known eastern and western philosophers as well as his arguments in their support and present a new interpretation of their contention in the contemporary idiom. Murty critically evaluates the contemporary arguments of Malcolm James Ross Alvin Plantinga Charles Hawthorne Jean-Paul Sartre Anthony Flew EH Madden and PH Hare. An important contribution the book assesses K. Satchidananda Murty’s contribution to philosophy during sixty-one years of his engagement with active writing and teaching. It will be of great interest to scholars teachers and students of Indian philosophy Hindu philosophy Vedāntic philosophy Advaita Vedānta comparative philosophy religious studies and South Asian studies. | Towards a New Philosophy The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty

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Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

This book proposes a radical shift in the way the world thinks about itself by highlighting the significance of Cross-Cultural Conversations. Moving beyond conventional boundaries it examines the language in which histories are written; analyzes how scientific technology is changing the idea of identity; and highlights the need for a larger identity across nationality race religion gender ethnicity and class. It asks for a concerted effort to engage each other in open conversational forums on a range of contemporary global issues alter our attitudes toward self and the other and unlearn prejudices that perpetuate the practice of divisive identities. The book also explores critical themes such as political actions solidarity-in-diversity clash of social identities tensions between nationalism and globalism the quest for global peace and authentic meeting of world religions. Further it discusses the evolving connection between science and religion focusing on key philosophical ideas that have permeated the Indian cultural soil. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy religious studies science and technology studies and cultural studies. | Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

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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

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Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

World economics and the industrial environment has recently created a fertile ground for the creation of new enterprises and start-ups. This book skilfully identifies the challenges of building a new business venture from an idea to a marketable product. It highlights • Robust methods for keeping up with innovation; • Designing new ways to grow improve and market your product; and • Managing the changes in the business environment market dynamics and other uncertainties. The volume is rich with examples and case studies of many small and large businesses. It further reflects on the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem the challenges and opportunities in India entrepreneurship and women e-commerce the new generation of entrepreneurs and exit strategies for entrepreneurs. An essential guide for entrepreneurs and professionals working in business management and marketing communications as well as scholars of business administration and financial sciences this book by an industry expert offers many new and practiced approaches examples and lessons for innovative thinking and breaking new ground in business. | Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

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Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

By focusing on the socio-political ideas of the nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) the book is an analytical dissection of his ideational vision which is still a relatively under-studied area of nationalist thoughts. During the perod 1893-1910 Ghosh radically altered the texture of Indian nationalism by dwelling on how nationalism flourished in different parts of India particularly Japan Italy and Ireland. conceptually different from the prevalent form of nationalist voice it was he who clearly charted out a new course for anti-British campaign that fully unfolded with the appearance of Gandhi (1869-1948) on the Indian political scene. So Aurobindo's politico-ideological vision ushered in a new era in the nationalist battle for India's political emancipation. Not only is the book therefore an intervention in the nationalist thought but also devised new conceptual parameters for comprehending the radicalization of politico-ideological voices while simultaneously mobilizing those who were ready to make supreme sacrifices for the cause. | Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

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Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

Lives in Motion celebrates dance in Thailand focusing on the diversity of Thailand’s dance cultures and their place in today’s world. Giving voice to eminent artists and scholars on the complex roles that Thailand is pursuing for artful movement at home and abroad the book provides key perspectives on Thai dance traditions and practitioners. It explores the many forms and meanings in contemporary dance changing local traditions in the country the evolution of Thai dance on the global stage and hybrid features of the Thai dance world. The book examines how hybridity has been integral to dance cultures in Thailand and discusses how they have actively adapted and negotiated their knowledge in relation to modernity and globalization. Developing new models standards and sites for dance movement and theater dance in Thai has been advancing in innovative ways whether it is to include fresh forms of skilled bodily movement or to expand in new arenas like tourism and online platforms. Similarly old systems of training which included artists’ homes palaces and temples have been adapted into the new world of modern education media home schooling and new community rituals. A pioneering contribution on Thai performing arts this volume examines contemporary Thai dance cultures in the local national regional and global contexts. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of dance and performance studies cultural studies Southeast Asia studies and art. | Lives in Motion Celebrating Dance in Thailand

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The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion the Hul 1855–1856 drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It offers a critique of postcolonial approaches that overlook specifically tribal perspectives and see the Hul as a class-based peasant rebellion. The author analyses the Hul and its participants—the Santals and their opponents both the colonial administration and the Bengalis. He also looks at the attempts of the Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu to reform the Santal religion. Offering a new respectful reading of the Hul’s religious legitimation the book argues that changes in Santal religion and ethics were responses to the colonial regime’s new and aggressive economic order. The Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu demanded the introduction of just laws based on the universal principle of equality. This historical approach leads to a call for the inclusion of the voice of tribal and Adivasi minorities when formulating politics for their development in the 21st century. The book is relevant for researchers and students of social history social reform tribal and indigenous studies postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

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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

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Challenging Colonial Administrative Behavior in Bangladesh

Challenging Colonial Administrative Behavior in Bangladesh

This book studies public policy and administration in Bangladesh. It studies how despite recording high-levels of corruption persistently some governments in least developed countries (LDCs) like Bangladesh have achieved impressive online transformation level through digital electronic or e-Government implementation. The book investigates the historical and political context and examines the different policies and strategies adopted by successive governments of Bangladesh for facilitating digital service delivery transformation of traditional paper-based circuitous public service delivery processes. It reviews public administration reforms introduced over several decades and other initiatives launched with the specific objective of improving service delivery management. The volume also contextualizes the new e-Government development initiatives in light of the various approaches such as traditional public administration new public management digital era governance new public governance and design thinking. Drawing on a host of published and unpublished materials interviews with senior public officials academics representatives of international donor agencies think tanks and non-governmental organizations and a survey of more than 400 plus bureaucrats the book analyzes the progress of digital government in Bangladesh from a soft behavioral perspective. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of public policy and public administration politics innovation and South Asian studies. It will be an essential reading for bureaucrats and government officials as well as think tanks and NGOs. | Challenging Colonial Administrative Behavior in Bangladesh

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Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and looks at phenomenological questions concerning respiratory methodology ontological experience of respiration respiratory spirituality and respiratory embodiment. Drawing on the ideas of Maurice Merleau-Ponty Gaston Bachelard Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl Luce Irigaray and David Kleinberg-Levin the book argues for the ontological primacy of breathing and develops a new principle of philosophy that the author calls “Silence of Breath Abyss/Yawn of Air”. It asserts that breathing is not a thing- or person-oriented relation but perpetual communication with the immense elemental atmosphere of open and free air. This new phenomenological method of breathing offers readers a chance to begin to wonder rethink re-experience and reimagine all questions of life in an innovative and creative way as aerial and respiratory questions of life. Part of the Routledge Critical Perspectives on Breath and Breathing series the book breaks new ground in phenomenology and phenomenological ontology by offering a decisive and insightful treatment of breath. It will be indispensable for students and researchers of philosophy phenomenology and ontology. It will also be of special interest to Merleau-Ponty scholars as it investigates uncharted dimensions of Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy. | Phenomenological Ontology of Breathing The Respiratory Primacy of Being

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Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions A Comparative Study between India and the USA

Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions A Comparative Study between India and the USA

This book presents a comparative analysis of cross-border mergers and acquisitions (CBMA) in terms of competitive framework and procedures between India and the United States of America. It discusses themes like statutes regulations rulings legislations and analysis of CBMA; competition law antitrust and demerger; new legal initiatives by India like New Economic Policy (NEP) Goods and Services Tax (GST) demonetisation and amendments in the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA); and the impact of COVID on CBMA to showcase the challenges and opportunities of specific CBMA experience in India in a global framework. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of law corporate law company law international company law corporate governance international relations public policy international trade law economics and for practitioners policymakers and consultants working on the subject. | Cross Border Mergers and Acquisitions A Comparative Study between India and the USA

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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

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Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

This volume explores the emergence evolution and definition of the middle class in India. As a class created as the interpreters between the colonial rulers and the millions whom they governed in the pre-Independence era the Indian middle class has existed in congruence with the state occupying vital positions in state administration. Since Independence this middle class underwent major sociological change as they live independent of the state which affected their social economic and political position reaping benefits of liberalisation and globalisation through education and employment. An otherwise internally differentiated and heterogeneous group the new Indian middle class often unifies itself to shape socio-political discourse that affects politics and policymaking from domestic to international affairs. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India – the software professionals emblematic of the 'new India’. It discusses this emerging class as a political category and their engagements with the state democracy political parties issues of gender basic necessities and social justice. Further it discusses their social action and ‘middle class activism’ for issues such as environment cleanliness and corruption particularly highlighting its presence in the private sector and electronic media. A fresh perspective on India’s political milieu this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology modern Indian history political science economics and South Asia studies. | Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

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Performance and the Culture of Nationalism Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South Central and Southeast Asia

Performance and the Culture of Nationalism Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South Central and Southeast Asia

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia. It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times. Drawing on various theatrical performance texts it looks at the ways in which performative narratives have reflected the national narrative and analyses the role performance has played in engendering nationhood. The volume discusses themes such as political martyrdom as performative nationalism the revitalisation of nationalism through new media the sanitisation of physical gestures in dance the performance of nationhood through violence in Tajiki films as well as K-Pop and the new northeastern identity in India. A unique contribution to the study of nationalism this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history theatre and performance studies cultural studies postcolonial studies modern India Asian studies political studies social anthropology and sociology. | Performance and the Culture of Nationalism Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South Central and Southeast Asia

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Gandhi in Contemporary Times

Gandhi in Contemporary Times

This volume brings together essays that discuss and contextualise Gandhi’s ideas on pluralism religious identity non-violence satyagraha and modernity. It interrogates the epistemic foundations of Gandhian thinking and weltanschauung identifies diverse strands within his arguments and gives it new meaning in contemporary society. This book focuses on Gandhi’s engagements with religious political and social conflicts; his reflections on faith and modernity; and his argumentative dialogues with Mohammad Ali Jinnah and B. R. Ambedkar. It provides critical insights into Gandhi’s philosophy and suggests ways of engaging with his ethical and moral ideas in contemporary intellectual and political discourse. Comparing and contrasting Gandhian thought and strategies with contemporary issues and conceptions of religious freedom conflict resolution and liberalism the volume reformulates and reconstitutes his intellectual and political legacy. This book points to new and possible future directions of research on Gandhian concepts and will be useful for scholars in the fields of political science Gandhian studies sociology and philosophy. | Gandhi in Contemporary Times

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