Language in South Asia

Kachru, Braj B et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9781107602212, 1107602211

This comprehensive new volume presents an overview of the language situation in this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable resource, it comprises authoritative contributions from leading international scholars within the fields of South Asian language and linguistics, historical linguistics, cultural studies and area studies.

Liberal perspectives for South Asia

Wijesinha, Rajiva (ed.)

ISBN: 9788175966628, 8175966629

Mad tales from the Raj: colonial psychiatry in South Asia, 1800-58

Ernst, Waltraud

ISBN: 9789380601489, 9380601484

Mad Tales from the Raj provides a comprehensive and authoritative assessment of British colonial psychiatry during the East India Company's rule in India.

The making of a new `Indian' art: artists, aesthetics and nationalism in Bengal, c. 1850-1920

Guha-Thakurta, Tapati

ISBN: 9780521059534, 0521059534

This book offers an analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and aesthetic values of Bengal during the colonial and nationalist periods.

The many faces of India: law and politics of the subcontinent, foreword by Soli J Sorabjee

MacLaren, Malcolm (ed.)

ISBN: 9788187374695, 8187374691

The volume brings together comparative scholarship on India that is representative of and relevant to contemporary interests. Its chapters cover Indian policy and legislative response to global climate change, mediation in India, sacred texts in Indian law, the codes of Manu, Indian federalism in international context, the Uniform Civil Code debate, the meaning of Indian citizenship, and Gandhi...

Mapping South Asian diaspora: recent responses and reminations, ed. by Ajay K. Chaubey et al, foreword by Emmanuel S. Nelson

ISBN: 9788131609019, 8131609014

This anthology deals with multiple theses on the issues of diasporic overtones, inter-ethnic relations, re/dislocations and merger of mental/physical boundaries represented in the literary texts authored by the young and veteran writers of the South Asian origin.

Marathi: a study in comparative South Asian languages

Kashi Wali

ISBN: 9788186323243, 8186323244

Merit and the millennium: routine and crisis in the ritual lives of the Lahu people

Walker, Anthony R

ISBN: 9788170750666, 8170750660

The Lahu mountain people, numbering some 700,000 are traditionally swidden farmers, sharing with other peoples the rugged highlands that form the borderlands between China's Yunnan Province and the southeast Asian nations of Burma, Laos, Vietnam and Thailand.

Militant groups in South Asia

Sharma, Surinder Kumar et al.

ISBN: 9788182747548, 8182747546

This book is an attempt to profile important militant groups presently active in South Asian countries.

Military intervention and secession in South Asia: the cases of Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir, and Punjab

Santos, Anne Noronha Dos

ISBN: 9780275999490, 0275999491

South Asia being fraught with secessionist movements - Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kashmir and Punjab - provides an ideal laboratory for the examination of this compelling issue.

Mission and Tamil society: social and religious change in South India (1840-1900)

Bugge, Henriette

ISBN: 9781138744738, 1138744735

The book studies missionary activity and conversion and examines the ritual, economic, and power status of the missionaries with focus on individual's conversion.

More than Maoism: politics, policies and insurgencies in South Asia

Jeffrey, Robin et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9788173049330, 8173049335

Muslim society and the Western Indian Ocean: the seafarers of Kachchh

Simpson, Edward

ISBN: 9781138998841, 1138998842

Nationalism in South Asia

Rai, Rajesh et al.

ISBN: 9788190475037, 8190475037

Nationalizing the body: the medical market, print and Daktari medicine

Mukharji, Projit B

ISBN: 9789380601502, 9380601506

Examines the different meanings of 'modern medicine' that were employed in colonial South Asia, and explores the different discourses that were constructed around 'modernity'.

Negation in South Asian languages

Bhatia, Tej K

ISBN: 9788186323106, 8186323104

Contents: (i) The syntax of negation (ii) Deletion and negation (iii) Quantifiers and negation (iv) Negation raising (v) Negation and subordination.;

Negotiations with the past: classical Tamil in contemporary Tamil (in English and Tamil), ed. by Kannan M. et al

This volume is an outcome of a seminar held under the joint auspicies of Indology Dept., FIP and the Tamil Chair, Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

Nepal's National Interests - II: secularism, free and responsible media and foreign employment, ed. by Nishchal N.Pandey & Tomislav Delinic

ISBN: 9789937270588, 9937270588

Nuclear risk reduction measures and restraint regime in South Asia

Jaspal, Zafar Nawaz

ISBN: 9788173045691, 8173045690

The book explains the nuclear perils in the South Asian strategic environment, along with possible solutions for viable nuclear risk reduction measures and a nuclear restraint regime in South Asia.

Nuclear South Asia: keywords and concepts

Rajagopalan, Rajesh

ISBN: 9781138795730, 1138795739

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.