Urban marginalisation in South Asia: waste pickers in Calcutta

Sen, Nandini

ISBN: 9780367025359, 0367025353

Varieties of activist experience: civil society in South Asia

Gellner, David N. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788132104506, 8132104501

This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka.

Violence, terrorism and human security in South Asia

Behera, Ajay Darshan

ISBN: 9847022000042, 7022000042

This study is a product of a collaborative research project of the BIISS and ford foundation on Human Security in South Asia: Discourse, Practice and Policy Propositions.

Visual histories of South Asia, ed. by Annamaria Mortescu-Mayes et al

ISBN: 9789386552440, 9386552442

This book is one of the first comprehensive contributions to the rapidly developing cross disciplinary scholarship that connects visual studies with South Asian historiography.

Enduring and merging issues in South Asian security

ISBN: 9789354420917, 9354420915

This book examines a number of security and governance issues in South Asia and their implications for U.S. foreign policy in the region. The major enduring issues include India-Pakistan and India-China relations, conventional forces, and nuclear weapons.

Contours of culture: India and beyond: essays on culture, tradition and religion in South Asia and South-East Asia,

ISBN: 9789390692835, 9390692830

The present collection of essays is an outcome of an international e-conference on `Indian Influence on South Asian Culture and Heritage' organized by the Department of History and IQAC, Saldiha College, Bankura, West Bengal in collaboration with Cinnamara College, Assam and Nandalal Borgahain City College, Dibrugarh, Assam on 3rd and 4th September 2020.

Woman and empire: representations in the writings of British India, 1858-1900

Sen, Indrani

ISBN: 9788125021117, 8125021116

Drawing upon a wide range and variety of literary and non-literary sources of nineteenth-century British India, this book examines perceptions of gender over the 1858-1900 period.

Women, healthcare, and violence in Pakistan

Jafree, Sara Rizvi

ISBN: 9780199406067, 0199406065

Seeking to explore the plight of female healthcare practitioners in the country, this book is an examination of the South Asian cultural approach towards the traditional and historical working woman, particularly the healthcare professionals.

Writing diaspora: South Asian women, culture and ethnicity

Hussain, Yasmin

ISBN: 9781138270916, 1138270911

`When the war began we heard of several kings': South Asian prisoners in World War I Germany, (with CD Rom)

Roy, Franziska et al (ed)

ISBN: 9788187358435, 8187358432

In this facinating collection of disturbing essays, Indian soldiers who survived the killing fields of World War I are made to speak directly as POW from German camps.

Delhi: Urban space and human destinies

ISBN: 9788173043666, 8173043663

Beyond its monuments, bureaucracy and pollution, there lies a Delhi which is at once more complex, intriguing and, at times, disturbing. This book is not a history of the capital, but rather an attempt to trace the ever-changing relationship's between people, power and place in contemporary urban life.

Nirgun Bhakti Sagar: Devotional Hindi literature, 2 vols. (a critical ed. of the Panc Vani or five works of Dadu, Kabir, Namdev, Raidas, Hardas with the Hindi songs of Gorakhnath..

Callewaert, Winand M. et al.

ISBN: 9788185425658, 8185425655

and Sundardas, and a complete word-index. Vol.1 (ISBN 9788185425665); Vol.2: Global index (ISBN 9788185425672)

Writing the city: looking within, looking without,

ISBN: 9789352879229, 9352879228

It is a collection of essays that portrays both the commonalities and the diversity of the cities of contemporary South Asia.

Against the nation: thinking like South Asians

Perera, Sasanka et al.

ISBN: 9789388630221, 938863022X

The authors take the readers across a vast terrain of prospects like visual culture, music, film, knowledge systems and classrooms, myth and history as well as forms of politics that offer possibilities for reading South Asia as a collective enterprise that has historical precedents as well as untapped ideological potential for the future.

Cultures of memory in South Asia: orality, literacy and the problem of inheritance,

Rao, D. Venkat

ISBN: 9788132239819, 8132239814

..... and Cultures; Vol. 6. This book reconfigures European representations of India as a paradigmatic extension of a classical reading, which posits the relation between text and context in a determined way. It explores the South Asian cultural response to European `textual inheritances. The main argument of this work is that the reflective and generative nodes of Indian cultural formations ar...

The prolonged partition and its pogroms: testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64, foreword by Koenraad Elst

Kamra, AJ

ISBN: 9789385485251, 9385485253

A.J. Karma grew up in Quetta and Karachi, currently in Pakistan, until;Partition in 1947 when his family moved to Delhi. He graduated from Bombay;University and spent most of his life working within the United Nations in;various countries. After retirements, he began to pursue his strong;interest in the history of the Indian Subcontinent. He spent many years;collecting material on the treatment...

Religious reconstruction in the South Asian diasporas: from one generation to another

ISBN: 9781349959938, 1349959936

This collection examines how religions from South Asia have been reconstructed within Western settings and how identity is shaped, not only by migrants but also by subsequent generations.

Women empowerment and welfare: recent issues and trends

ISBN: 9788194936039, 8194936039

This book is an outcome of collective research work done by various researchers all over South Asia on the recent trends of the condition of women in spheres of empowerment and welfare. In twenty-five essays authors collectively explored situation of women in the South Asian scenario in several domains including the women condition in workforce, domestic arena, Covid 19 period; their manifestat...

Heritage of India and the West

Chandra, Lokesh

ISBN: 9788195096152, 8195096158

It is a survey of the researches of Indian, Asian and European savants on the evolution of life and thought from the transcendent visions of the Vedic samhitas to srauta and grhya rituals, from philosophical speculation to the social order of the Smrtis, phonetics to grammar, from Brahman of the Upanisads to the Bodhi of Lord Buddha. Scholars from the East and the West have collaborated in crit...

Flags of fame: studies in south Asian folk culture

ISBN: 9788173040498, 8173040494

The volume contains fifteen articles by eminent Indian and European scholars describing and analyzing various aspects of folk culture in South Asia. The principal emphasis is on folk religion, including both ritual performances and oral texts.