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Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

This volume is an overview of and commentary on aspects of contemporary India and its socio-economic policies. It focuses on India’s economy and society in recent years and in the process it addresses structural issues of development such as those of population poverty inequality health and social exclusion. It reviews the adequacy and appropriateness of governmental response to these problems in terms of public policy narrowly conceived and philosophical orientation more broadly conceived. The concern is not only with economic achievement and human development but also with the framework of civic rights personal liberty and institutional autonomy within which the exercise of governance is perceived to be carried out. The essays in this volume were originally written with the general-reader-as-involved-citizen very much in mind as the intended target. However it should also be of interest to scholars of economics political science development studies and South Asian studies. | Futilitarianism Essays on India’s Economic Policy and Performance

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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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Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

This book critically examines the role and politics of humour and the performance of power in South Asia. What does humour do and how does it manifest when lived political circumstances experience ruptures or instability? Can humour that emerges in such circumstances be viewed as a specific narrative on the nature of democracy in the region? Drawing upon essays from India Sri Lanka and Bangladesh this volume discusses many crucial historical and contemporary themes including dance-drama performances in northern India; caste and stand-up comedy in India; cartoon narratives of citizens’ anxieties; civic participation through social media memes in Sri Lanka; media politics and humorous public in Bangladesh; the politics of performance in India; and the influence of humour and satire as political commentaries. The volume explores the impact of humour in South Asian folklore ritual performances media and journalism and online technologies. This topical and interdisciplinary book will be essential for scholars and researchers of cultural studies political science sociology and social anthropology media and communication studies theatre and performance studies and South Asian studies. | Humour and the Performance of Power in South Asia Anxiety Laughter and Politics in Unstable Times

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The Chinese Shadow on India’s Eastward Engagement The Energy Security Dimension

The Chinese Shadow on India’s Eastward Engagement The Energy Security Dimension

India one of the largest importers of oil in the world has been diversifying its energy resource options and moving towards greater energy security. This book analyses India’s potential for building energy ties in the Asia–Pacific considering the global and regional power politics. Facing China’s growing influence in Asia India’s eastward engagement with its extended neighbours has been entrenched in its Act East Policy and institutional commitments towards Southeast Asia. This volume focuses on diverse facets of energy security beyond the traditional understanding of demand and supply and price and stability. It examines India’s energy sector its dependence on hydrocarbons and the push towards renewable and alternate energy resources. It further looks at the strategic importance of the Indian Ocean and South China Sea regions in geopolitical negotiations from an energy perspective and how China’s influence in the region will affect India’s moves towards greater energy cooperation with the countries of East Asia. With contributions by leading experts the volume seeks to fill a major void in this theme and cater to the needs of a variety of audiences including academics policymakers and experts in international relations geopolitics and geoeconomics and professionals in the field of energy studies. | The Chinese Shadow on India’s Eastward Engagement The Energy Security Dimension

GBP 38.99
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English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy many decades after independence. The book is an account of the varied experiences of teaching English in universities in different parts of the country. It highlights the changes in curriculum and teaching practices and how the discipline lent itself to a study of culture historical contexts the fashioning of identities or reform over the years. The volume presents the dramatic changes in the composition of the English classroom in terms of gender class caste and indigenous communities in recent decades as well as the shifts in teaching strategies and curriculum which the new diversity necessitated. The essays in the collection also examine the distinctiveness of English practice in India through classroom accounts which explore themes like post-coloniality feminism and human rights through the study of texts by Shakespeare Beckett Doris Lessing and poetry from the Northeast. This book will be of interest to academics researchers students and practitioners of English Studies education colonial studies cultural studies and South Asian studies as well as those concerned with the history of higher education and the establishment of disciplines and institutions. | English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

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Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature film music television shows and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures and how they enable us to rethink the ‘trauma of familiarity’ post-traumatic heterotopias religious extremism and the idea of the ‘neighbour’ in post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. The volume also probes the intersections of religion popular media televised simulacrum and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11. It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of ‘martyrs’ the languages of grief religionisation of terrorism islamophobia religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror. An essential read the book reclaims and reinterprets the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It will be of great interest to researchers of literature and cultural studies media studies politics film studies and South Asian studies. | Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

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Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition India in the global debate

Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition India in the global debate

This book evaluates the relevance of classical debates on agrarian transition and extends the horizon of contemporary debates in the Indian context linking national trends with regional experiences. It identifies new dynamics in agrarian political economy and presents a comprehensive account of diverse aspects of capitalist transition both at theoretical and empirical levels. The essays discuss several neglected domains in agricultural economics such as discursive dimensions of agrarian relations and limitations of stereotypical binaries between capital and non-capital rural and urban sectors agriculture and industry and accumulation and subsistence. With contributions from major scholars in the field this volume will be useful to scholars and researchers of agriculture economics political economy sociology rural development and development studies. | Critical Perspectives on Agrarian Transition India in the global debate

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The Thiri Rama Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

The Thiri Rama Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

The Thiri Rama – or the Great Rama – was written for court performance and is the only known illustrated version of the Ramayana story in Myanmar. Based on palm-leaf manuscripts and scenes carved on over 300 sandstone plaques at a mid-nineteenth-century Buddhist pagoda west of Mandalay in Myanmar this book presents an original translation of the Thiri Rama rendered in prose. The volume also includes essays on the history and tradition of the Ramayana in Myanmar as well as the cultural context in which the play was performed. It contains many helpful resources incorporating a glossary and a list of characters and their corresponding personae in Valmiki’s Ramayana. With over 250 fascinating visuals and core text contributions by distinguished Burmese scholars U Thaw Kaung Tin Maung Kyi and U Aung Thwin this book will greatly interest scholars and researchers of South and Southeast Asian culture literary forms epics art and art history theatre and performance studies religion especially those concerned with Hinduism as well as folklorists. | The Thiri Rama Finding Ramayana in Myanmar

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The Poet’s Song ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

The Poet’s Song ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. The book shows how the genre thought to be a nearly extinct form is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how like many other ‘folk’ practices in South and South-East Asia the content and format of this genre has undergone vital changes thus raising questions of authenticity patronage and cultural politics. She captures live performances of Kobigaan through ethnographies spread across borders—from village rituals to urban festivals and from Bengali cinema to television and new media. While understanding Kobigaan from the practitioners’ points of view this book also explores the crucial issues of gender marginalisation and representation that are true of any performance genre. Drawing on case studies it underlines the issues of artistic agency empowerment cultural labour and heritage rituals authenticity creative industries media gender and identity politics. Part of the South Asian History and Culture series this book is a major intervention in South Asian folklore and performance studies. It also expands into the larger disciplines of literature social and cultural movements in South Asia ethnomusicology and the politics of performance. | The Poet’s Song ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

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The Vernacular Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

The Vernacular Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial settings. It addresses recent formulations and debates regarding the status of regional languages of South Asia in relation to English. The authors explore the range of meanings the term has assumed and trace a history of contestation since the colonial age. They contend that though the ‘vernacular’ in South Asia has since the nineteenth century often operated as a hegemonic category relegating the languages thus designated to an inferior status those languages (and other cultural formations labelled as ‘vernacular’) have also received empowering impulses and vested with qualities like groundedness and strength. The book highlights the need for a critical discussion of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ in the context of the ongoing rise of Anglophonia in South Asia as a whole and post-liberalisation India in particular. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literary and culture studies history postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | The Vernacular Three Essays on an Ambivalent Concept and its Uses in South Asia

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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

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Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media

Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media

This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to social media and explores its role in shaping the resistance and protest movements on the ground. The volume also explores the role of the Internet a global technology in framing debates on the idea of the nation state especially India as well as diplomacy and international relations. It also discusses the possibility of whether Internet can be used as a tool for social justice and change particularly by the underprivileged to go beyond caste class gender and other oppressive social structures. A tract for our times this book will interest scholars and researchers of politics media studies popular culture sociology international relations as well as the general reader. | Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media

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The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

This book presents a comprehensive overview of India’s electoral democracy and political system. It provides an in-depth analysis of the 2019 parliamentary elections to explore three crucial facts of India’s political life: the legitimacy of political competition as the only basis of power; elections as the only legitimate basis of political competition; and political parties as the only legitimate agency to conduct political competition. The book argues that the vitality and resilience of India’s electoral democracy remain high owing to large mass participation in elections that are competitive and relatively free and fair. The volume includes key theoretical empirical and comparative perspectives on parties and elections from experts and covers all major political parties of India along with the performance of many representative regional parties. It discusses themes such as elections and party competition in India; ideology interest religion and gender as they affect social mobilisation and political transaction; economic and politial change and multiparty democracy; the dynamics of the Muslim vote; fluctuating electoral fortunes; and electoral campaigns and role of social media. This book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of political science political sociology election studies Indian politics South Asian politics and South Asian studies. It will also interest those in politics public policy and governance civil society organisations media and journalism and the general reader. | The 2019 Parliamentary Elections in India Democracy at the Crossroads?

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Shakespeare in Tehran Meeting the Mothers of Those Who Lead the Iranian Revolution of Woman Life Freedom

Shakespeare in Tehran Meeting the Mothers of Those Who Lead the Iranian Revolution of Woman Life Freedom

Shakespeare in Tehran is a personal history of Iran through the eyes of an award-winning Iranian American artist. Drawing on parallels between life and the stage it uses A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a roadmap to explore social political economic and cultural aspects of Iran before and after the revolution of 1979. Through first-person accounts interspersed with emotional reflections of the universal human experience it delves into the historical and sociological context of a divided country. Storytelling flashbacks and flashforwards paint an intimate picture of public life in Iran in a time of uncertainty. Accessible engaging and nuanced this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of politics history theater and performance studies and West Asian studies. | Shakespeare in Tehran Meeting the Mothers of Those Who Lead the Iranian Revolution of Woman Life Freedom

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Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

This book focuses on India’s anti-colonial politics which Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) brought into the mainstream of nationalist thinking. It browses through the entire corpus of Tagore’s writings in the genres of poetry fiction and essays to glean both used and hitherto unused/un-translated writings that illumine Tagore’s gender consciousness and (proto)feminist thought and empathy presenting it in a wholly new light. It teases out Tagore’s original views on India’s industrial-capitalist development and his views on the roles of applied scientists and engineers in it to highlight his critique of the nature of science teaching in colonial India. The volume also delineates Tagore’s Upanişadic ecologism that creatively evoked anticolonialism and patriotism. Lucid and topical the book will be indispensable for students and researchers in the fields of comparative literature history political science international relations and sociology at all levels and anybody interested in literary criticism and cultural studies. | Tagore and the Margins of the Nation under Colonialism

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The Language Loss of the Indigenous

The Language Loss of the Indigenous

This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The essays here show how the cultures and the imaginative expressions of indigenous communities all over the world are undergoing a phase of rapid depletion. They unravel the indifference of market forces to diversity and that of the states unwilling to protect and safeguard these marginalized communities. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of cultural and literary studies linguistics sociology and social anthropology as well as tribal and indigenous studies. | The Language Loss of the Indigenous

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The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society. It studies the concept theories and causes of poverty as well as the design and delivery of social welfare policies related to specific groups such as women children and the elderly. The chapters are theoretical evidence-based and empirical in nature and bring together a holistic understanding of social problems and issues in developing countries. The volume brings together researchers educators and practitioners from across the globe to develop a hands-on reference work that will be requisite for several social science disciplines concerned with poverty and the welfare of poor people. The first of its kind the handbook will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of development studies economics social work political studies poverty studies population and demographic studies sociology social anthropology public policy and political economy especially those concerned with the Global South. | The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the Global South

GBP 205.00
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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

GBP 120.00
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On Modern Indian Sensibilities Culture Politics History

On Modern Indian Sensibilities Culture Politics History

This book consists of incisive and imaginative readings of culture politics and history – and their intersections – in eastern India from the 16th to the 20th century. Focusing especially on Assam Odisha Bengal and their margins the volume explores Indo-Islamic cultures of rule as located on the cusp of Mughal-cosmopolitan and regional–local formations. Tracking sensibilities of time and history senses of events and persons and productions of the past and the present the volume unravels intimate expressions of aesthetics and scandals heroism and martyrdom and voice and gender. It examines key questions of the interchanges between literary cultures and contending nationalisms culture and cosmopolitanism temporality and mythology literature and literacy history and modernity and print culture and popular media. The book offers grounded and connected accounts of a large important region usually studied in isolation. It will be of interest to scholars and students of history literature politics sociology cultural studies and South Asian studies. | On Modern Indian Sensibilities Culture Politics History

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Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tripura and its agrarian relations from monarchy in the nineteenth century to democracy in the twentieth century the book discusses the nature of the erstwhile princely state of Tripura analyses the emergence of differentiation within tribes and documents the emergence of the tribal movement in the state. It specifically focuses on the tribal movement led by the Ganamukti Parishad beginning with the historic revolt of 1948-51 against state repression on the tribal people followed by the mass movements in the 1950s and 1960s which were founded on a recognition of class relations and the slogan of unity across the tribal and non-tribal (Bengali) peasantry. The first of its kind the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of tribal studies agrarian studies exclusion studies tribe-class relationships minority studies sociology development studies history political science north-east India studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for activists and policymakers working in the area. | Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

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The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

This book examines knowledge traditions that held together the fluid and overlapping maritime worlds of the Indian Ocean in the premodern period as evident in the material and archaeological record. It breaks new ground by shifting the focus from studying cross-pollination of ideas from textual sources to identifying this exchange of ideas in archaeological and historical documentation. The themes covered in the book include conceptualization of the seas and maritime landscapes in Sanskrit Arabic and Chinese narratives; materiality of knowledge production as indicated in the archaeological record of communities where writing on stone first appears; and anchoring the coasts not only through an understanding of littoral shrines and ritual landscapes but also by an analysis of religious imagery on coins more so at the time of the introduction of new religions such as Islam in the Indian Ocean around the eighth century. This volume will be of great interest to researchers and scholars of archaeology anthropology museum and heritage studies Indian Ocean studies maritime studies South and Southeast Asian studies religious studies and cultural studies. | The Archaeology of Knowledge Traditions of the Indian Ocean World

GBP 42.99
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Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

This book looks at the institutionalisation and refashioning of Ayurveda as a robust literate classical tradition separated from the assorted vernacular traditions of healing practices. It focuses on the dominant perspectives and theories of indigenous medicine and various compulsions which led to the codification and standardisation of Ayurveda in modern India. Critically engaging with authoritative scholarship the book extrapolates from some of these theories raising significant questions on the study of alternative knowledge practices. By using case studies of the southern Indian state of Kerala – which is known globally for its Ayurveda – it provides an in-depth analysis of local practices and histories. Drawing from interviews of practitioners archival documents vernacular texts and rare magazines on Ayurveda and indigenous medicine it presents a nuanced understanding of the relationships between diverse practices. It highlights the interactions as well as the tensions within them and the methods adopted to preserve the uniqueness of practices even while sharing elements of healing herbs and medicine. It also discusses how regulations and standards set by the state have estranged assorted healing practices created uncertainties and led to the formation of categories like Ayurveda and nattuvaidyam (indigenous medicine/ayurvedas). Lucid and topical the book will be useful for researchers and people interested in social medicine history of medicine Ayurveda cultural studies history indigenous studies and social anthropology. | Mapping the History of Ayurveda Culture Hegemony and the Rhetoric of Diversity

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