Hidden horrors: Japanese war crimes in World War II, 2nd ed.

Yuki Tanaka

ISBN: 9789387496613, 9387496619

This landmark book documents little-known wartime Japanese atrocities during World War II. Yuki Tanaka's case studies, still remarkably original and significant, include cannibalism; the slaughter and starvation of prisoners of war; the rape, enforced prostitution, and murder of non-combatants; and biological warfare experiments. The author describes how desperate Japanese soldiers consumed the...

Manju Kapur, the Indian novelist: a bibliography

Kuortti, Joel

ISBN: 9789382186953, 9382186956

Manju Kapur is a remarkable contemporary Indian novelist. She has so far published six novels between 1998 and 2016, and has edited the anthology Shaping the World: Women Writers on Themselves (2014). Kapur's first novel, Difficult Daughters (1998) won the 1999 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, best first book, Europe and South Asia. Her works have been translated into eleven languages. Interest in ...

Public women in British India: icons and the urban stage

Bhattacharya, Rimli

ISBN: 9781138363632, 1138363634

Founding mothers of the Indian Republic: gender politics of the framing of the constitution

Chetan, Achyut

ISBN: 9781108832564, 1108832563

Achyut Chetan's founding mothers are the eleven women members of the Constituent Assembly omitted from histories of the Indian Constitution. In this impressively researched, thoroughly analysed, and persuasively written account of the arguments of the 'missing mothers' Chetan illuminates the distinct moral vision of the women framers of the Constitution.

Punjab 1999: political and socio-economic developments

Singh, Mohinder (ed.)

ISBN: 9788186565766, 8186565760

Provides the gist of most of the important events during 1998 and this volume would be of help to those interested in Punjab in general and scholars working on Punjab studies in particular.

A question of community: religious groups and colonial law

Shodhan, Amrita

ISBN: 9788185604435, 8185604436

Taking two famous and popular legal trials in Bombay, the Aga Khan Case and the Maharaj Libel Case, the author shows that the court worked with a notion of group membership as religious community where experts, westernized Indians or British scholars, elicited the truth.

Questioning the Muslim women: identity and insecurity in an Urban Indian locality

Kirmani, Nida

ISBN: 9781138042995, 1138042994

Rangmanc evam stri (women studies)

Pathak, Supriya

ISBN: 9788126730186, 8126730188

Right to privacy of women: the legal landscape, foreword by Ujjal Bhuyan

Rajkhowa, Sriparna

ISBN: 9789392038228, 9392038224

Unequal images: looking through gender lens,

ISBN: 9789394569522, 9394569529

It is a compilation of 20 chapters from Academicians and Researchers (Nigeria, Bangladesh, and India-Assam, Sikkim, West Bengal, Delhi, Punjab, Jammu & Kashmir, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu) who have put in their vast knowledge and experiences in making this volume a source for researchers.

Re-imagining sociology in India: feminist perspectives,

ISBN: 9781138363656, 1138363650

Re-presenting feminist methodologies: interdisciplinary explorations, ed. by Kalpana Kannabiran and Padmini Swaminathan

ISBN: 9781138098367, 1138098361

Recasting women: essays on colonial history, ed. by Kumkum Sangari et al

ISBN: 9789384757731, 938475773X

In this landmark collection on colonial history, Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid bring together some of India's leading historians and feminist theorists to examine the impact of patriarchy on women's daily lives during the colonial period, specifically in relation to caste and class.

Redefining family law in India: essays in honour of B. Sivaramayya, ed. by Archana Parashar et al

Religion and Rajput women: the ethic of protection in contemporary narratives Ist Indian edition

Harlan, Lindsey

ISBN: 9788121506137, 8121506131

Contents: (i) Rajasthan and the rajputs (ii) Kuldevi tradition (iii) Kuldevi tradition: inter-pretation and intention (iv) Satimata tradition: the transformative process (v) Satimata tradition: the role of volition (vi) The heroic paradigm: Padmini (vii) The Bhakt Paradigm: Mira Bai.; ;

Understanding women's experiences of displacement: literature, culture and society in South Asia,

ISBN: 9781032332529, 1032332522

The South Asian region has been especially prone to mass displacement and relocations owing to its varied geographical settings as well as socio-political factors. This book examines the women's perspective on issues related to displacement, loss, conflict, and rehabilitation.

Rethinking tribal culture and development

Ao, Imotemsu Longkumer

ISBN: 9788171394777, 8171394779

In tribal dominated area of our country, women from Bhil tribe came together to fight the liquor mafias. The tribal people of India have been in contact with other people, that is the urban society, for a very long time and have been greatly influenced by them.

Roots of riots: essays in community psychology

Om Prakash, S (ed.)

ISBN: 9788173911903, 8173911908

It provides insight into the causation and mechanism of riots and also suggests possible measures for containing and managing riots.

The Routledge companion to feminism and postfeminism, ed. by Sarah Gamble

ISBN: 9781138707115, 1138707112

Royalty in transition: the changing face of the Rajput women in Rajasthan

Rathore, Sharad

ISBN: 9788129116925, 8129116928

The present work is a study of the basic social institutions of upper-class Rajput society. An attempt has been made to study Rajput social institutions in the nineteenth century, the effects of the various factors of change, and the final emergence of the society in its present context, with a changed perspective. The main emphasis of the work is to highlight the changes in Rajput society whic...