India category: 2353 books
Governing Islam
Law, Empire, and Secularism in Modern South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Governing Islam traces the colonial roots of contemporary struggles between Islam and secularism in India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. The book uncovers the paradoxical workings of colonial laws that promised to separate secular and religious spheres, but instead fostered their vexed entanglement. It...
by ANDREW SCOWCROFT
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2017
When cultures collide they provide opportunities for misunderstanding, embarrassment, and humour. This book is a collection of stories demonstrating them all. Andrew Scowcroft has been a regular business visitor to the Indian mega-city that is Mumbai. He writes with genuine humour and affection for...
Holy Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
In the early 2000s, as India was emerging as a global superpower, a key development project off the southern Indian coast was thwarted by intense opposition. The construction of a new shipping canal angered Hindu nationalists who sought to protect what they saw as the land bridge built by Hanuman...
Beyond The Gopurams
A Woman's Spiritual Journey Through South India
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
An engaging book of journeys to the South Indian temple towns of Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, Beyond the Gopurams takes a close and interested look at the different faces of religious faith and devotion. Impelled both by the need to belong and the desire to not be rigidly rooted, it explores...
Communications, Media and the Imperial Experience
Britain and India in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
The Heartland of Divinity
Fairs and Festivals of Madhya Pradesh
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Madhya Pradesh is a region brimming with diversity, visibly prominent in its culture and customs. Home to people from different communities, religions and tribes, Madhya Pradesh is blessed with a unique cultural and religious identity - the heart of incredible India can be described as a cauldron of...
My Roads Tibet
My Roads
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2018
This book from the series of ''My Roads'' describes my journey from Nepal to Tibet and back to India.
Hijos de la medianoche de Salman Rushdie (Guía de lectura)
Resumen y análisis completo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 16, 2016
ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Hijos de la medianoche, de Salman Rushdie. Esta obra, magistralmente escrita por una de las mejores plumas de la época actual, narra la vida de Saleem, inexorablemente unida al destino de su país, la India. Un fascinante relato que mezcla...
by Sunanda Sikdar
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
In the 1950s, ten-year-old Dayamoyee watches with bewilderment and curiosity as her village, Dighpait, begins to change and people she knows and loves start to pack their belongings and move away. India has been partitioned, and Dighpait has now become part of a new country, (East) Pakistan. Soon, Dayamoyee’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2012
During the past forty years, South Asia has been the location and the focus of dynamic, important feminist scholarship and activism. In this collection of essays, prominent feminist scholars and activists build on that work to confront pressing new challenges for feminist theorizing and practice....
by Rabindranath Tagore
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: December 11, 2015
Tagore ha dispiegato la sua arte nella letteratura, drammaturgia, poesia e filosofia. Si impegnò a creare una “nuova India”, moderna ed indipendente; si proponeva di conciliare la cultura occidentale con quella orientale: era un profondo conoscitore della lingua inglese e tradusse lui stesso...
Srinagar
An Architectural Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
A unique part of India that is associated with the best living traditions in craft, cuisine, houseboats and shikaras, rushing mountain streams, and snow-clad mountains, Srinagar is a garden of paradise. Srinagar: An Architectural Legacy explores the history and architectural heritage of this 500-year-old...
Divorcing Traditions
Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Divorcing Traditions is an ethnography of Islamic legal expertise and practices in India, a secular state in which Muslims are a significant minority and where Islamic judgments are not legally binding. Katherine Lemons argues that an analysis of divorce in accordance with Islamic strictures is critical...
by The Rajah’s People
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Ida Alexa Ross Wylie, also Ida Alena Ross Wylie, born 16 March 1885 in Melbourne, died 4 November 1959 in Princeton, New Jersey, usually known by her pen name I. A. R. Wylie, she was an Australian-British-American novelist, screenwriter, magazine writer and poet. Wylie had a roommate named Esme who...