Subaltern studies: writings on South Asian history and society, 10 vols. (in box)

ISBN: 9780195651256, 0195651251

Subaltern Studies I: The aim of this collection of essays, the first of a series, is to promote a systematic and informed discussion of subaltern themes in the field of South Asian studies; Subaltern Studies II: In this volume the author writes on `The Prose of counter-Insurgency', Gautam Bhadra on `Frontier Uprisings in Mughal India'...; Subaltern Studies III: It consists of seven essays, six ...

Steel town Adivasis: industry and inequality in eastern India

Strumpell, Christian

ISBN: 9789383166572, 9383166576

It presents an analysis of class formation in the industrial town, Rourkela in the eastern Indian state Odisha, and the ways this process relates to regional ethnicity and caste. This study is based on long-term ethnographic research conducted in the 2000s and oral histories covering the period from the inception of the steel plant, and it focuses on the region's 'tribes', indigenous people or ...

Reflections on Myanmar: identity, heritage, aspirations

Banerjee, Reshmi

ISBN: 9781032607108, 1032607106

Myanmar is known for its engaging history, rich cultural heritage, and diverse ethnic communities.

Gender and masculinities: histories, texts and practices in India and Sri Lanka

Doron, Assa et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9781138349834, 1138349836

By carefully attending to historical and contemporary gender structures this book provides a critical and probing exploration of masculinities as embedded in religious or scriptural doctrines, colonialism, nationalism, globalization, and economic struggles.

Citizenship in contemporary times: the Indian context,

ISBN: 9781032668109, 1032668105

This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asian region.

Gender, genre and power in South Asian expressive traditions

Appadurai, Arjun et al

ISBN: 9788120811782, 812081178X

The gendered body in South Asia: negotiation, resistance, struggle

Malhotra, Meenakshi et al.

ISBN: 9781032702285, 1032702281

This book situates the discourse on the gendered body within the rapidly transitioning South Asian socio-economic and cultural landscape.

Human rights violations in Kashmir

Balcerowicz, Piotr et al.

ISBN: 9781032725482, 1032725486

The book is a comprehensive study on human rights in Kashmir in relation to the dynamics of Indo-Pakistani policies, providing a structured and interdisciplinary approach to the subject. Whilst surveying some of the most appalling case studies of human rights abuses, the book offers a methodical analysis of the structural and structured human rights violations in the divided Kashmir and placing...

Nuclear South Asia: keywords and concepts

Rajagopalan, Rajesh

ISBN: 9781138349537, 1138349534

The book provides a comprehensive and readily accessible guide to the key concepts, issues, persons and technologies related to the nuclear programs of India, Pakistan and other South Asian states.

South Asia's Christians: between Hindu and Muslim

Mallampalli, Chandra

ISBN: 9780197786345, 0197786340

In this overview of South Asian Christianity, Chandra shows how the faith has been shaped by Christians' location between Hindus and Muslims.

Kalyana Mitra: a treasure house of history, culture and archaeological studies, festschrift to P. Chenna Reddy, Vol.VIII: Economy, Trade and Commerce,

ISBN: 9789357411066, 9357411062

The volume contains 31 articles include, process of urbanization, Buddhism and trade routes, marine trade, epigraphical references to trade, mercantile activities, commercial contacts with South Asian countries, trade and craft guilds, trade on Indian Ocean, role of ports in promoting trade and commerce, and migrant trading communities.

Religious journeys in India: Pilgrims, tourists, and travelers,

ISBN: 9788195293100, 8195293107

The volume engages with central themes in South Asian studies such as gender, exile, and spirituality; a variety of religious, including Sikhism, Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity; and understudied regions and emergins places of pilgrimage such as Manipur and Maharashtra.

The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in North India

Alter, Joseph S

ISBN: 9788121507998, 8121507995

Wrestling provides a unique perspective on South Asian culture and society. Self-consciously outside the culture mainstream, it cuts against the weave of the larger cultural fabric.;

Violence denied: violence, non-violence and the rationalization of violence in South Asian cultural history,

ISBN: 9789360807528, 9360807524

In this book, historical and cultural aspects of the tensions between violence and its denial and rationalization in South Asia are taken up in the contributions of this volume which deal with topics ranging from the origins of the concept of ahimsa, to the iconography and interpretation of a self-beheading goddess, and violent heroines in Ajneyas Hindi short stories.