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Future of Cities Planning Infrastructure and Development

Future of Cities Planning Infrastructure and Development

This book critically analyses the existing condition of cities in developing countries with special reference to planning and infrastructure networks in India. It provides an overview of the nature of opportunities presented by cities; major challenges that cities would face in future; and codifies the ways and means to transcend the challenges of contemporary urban growth and quality of urbanisation. It discusses key themes such as architecture of density transformation of land-use zones to development zones development of railway infrastructure planning and design guidelines for bus rapid transit and urban water planning and universal access to housing to create an enabling environment for deliberations and a better future for cities in the developing world. The book integrates insights from governance planning and design and highlights implications of spatial integration. It brings together current issues in Indian urbanisation smart technologies used in building smart cities and high-rises and urban and regional governance to explore forms of sustainable development planning that factor human needs. Accessible and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of urban studies urban and city planning development studies sociology public policy and administration political sociology anthropology architecture geography and economics as well as to professionals planners policymakers and non-governmental organisations. | Future of Cities Planning Infrastructure and Development

GBP 35.99
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Regional Language Television in India Profiles and Perspectives

Regional Language Television in India Profiles and Perspectives

This book examines the evolution and journey of regional language television channels in India. The first of its kind it looks at the coverage uniqueness ownership and audiences of regional channels in 14 different languages across India covering Hindi Bengali Marathi Telugu Tamil Urdu Assamese Bhojpuri Gujarati Kannada Kashmiri Odia Punjabi and Malayalam. It brings together researchers scholars media professionals and communication teachers to document and reflect on language as the site of culture politics market and social representation. The volume discusses multiple media histories and their interlinkages from a subcontinental perspective by exploring the trajectories of regional language television through geographical boundaries state language identities and culture. It offers comparative analyses across regional language television channels and presents interpretive insights on television culture and commerce contemporary challenges mass media technology and future relevance. Rich in empirical data this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of media studies television studies communication studies sociology political studies language studies regional studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful to professionals and industry bodies in television media and is broadcasting journalists and television channels. | Regional Language Television in India Profiles and Perspectives

GBP 38.99
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Tagore Einstein and the Nature of Reality Literary and Philosophical Reflections

Tagore Einstein and the Nature of Reality Literary and Philosophical Reflections

This volume consists of a selection of scholarly essays from literature philosophy and history on the conception of reality as understood by Rabindranath Tagore and Albert Einstein. The nature of reality has been a long-debated issue among scientists and philosophers. Tagore (1861–1941) met Einstein (1879–1955) at the latter’s house in Kaputh Germany on 14 July 1930 and had a long conversation on this issue. This conversation has been widely quoted and discussed by scientists philosophers and scholars from the literary world. The important question that Tagore and Einstein discussed was whether the world is a unity dependent on humanity or the world is a reality independent of the human factor. Einstein believed that reality is independent of the mind and the human factor. On the other hand Tagore adopted the opposite view. Nevertheless both Einstein and Tagore claimed to be realists — their conceptions of reality were obviously fundamentally different. Where does the difference lie? Can it be harmonized at a deeper level? This volume brings together for the first time a gamut of views on this subject from eminent scholars. It presents some key reflections on reality language poetry truth science personality human sciences virtue ethics intelligibility and creativity. It will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy literature history and political studies as also to those interested in Tagore. | Tagore Einstein and the Nature of Reality Literary and Philosophical Reflections

GBP 36.99
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Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

This book—an English translation of a key Tamiḻ book of literary and cultural criticism—looks at the construction of Tamiḻ scholarship through the colonial approach to Tamiḻ literature as evidenced in the first translations into English. The Tamiḻ original Atikāramum tamiḻp pulamaiyum: Tamiḻiliruntu mutal āṅkila moḻipeyarppukaḷ by N Govindarajan is a critique of the early attempts at the translations of Tamiḻ literary texts by East India Company officials specifically by N E Kindersley. Kindersley who was working as the Collector of South Arcot district in the late eighteenth century was the first colonial officer to translate the Tamiḻ classic Tirukkuṟaḷ and the story of King Naḷa into English and to bring to the reading public in English the vibrant oral narrative tradition in Tamiḻ. F W Ellis in the nineteenth century brought in another dimension through his translation of the same classic. The book thus focuses on the attempts to translate the Tamiḻ literary works by the Company’s officials who emerged as the pioneering English Dravidianists and the impact of translations on the Tamiḻ reading community. Theoretically grounded the book makes use of contemporary perspectives to examine colonial interventions and the operation of power relations in the literary and socio-cultural spheres. It combines both critical readings of past translations and intensive research work on Tamiḻ scholarship to locate the practice of literary works in South Asia and its colonial history which then enables a conversation between Indian literary cultures. In this book the author has not only explored all key scholarly sources as well as the commentaries that were used by the colonial officials chiefly Kindersley but also gives us an insightful critique of the Tamiḻ works. The highlight of the discussion of Dravidian Orientalism in this book is the intralinguistic opposition of the “mainstream” Tamiḻ literature in “correct/poetical” Tamiḻ and the folk literature in “vacana” Tamiḻ. This framework allows the translators to critically engage with the work. Annotated and with an Introduction and a Glossary this translated work is a valuable addition to our reading of colonial South India. The book will be of interest to researchers of Tamiḻ Studies Orientalism and Indology translation studies oral literature linguistics South Asian Studies Dravidian Studies and colonial history. | Colonial Authority and Tamiḻ Scholarship A Study of the First English Translations

GBP 130.00
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