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Development and Deception

Experiences from Eastern and North-Eastern India

by Kalipada Deb
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2006

The Independent India of 1947 was steeped in extreme of poverty, ignorance and illiteracy. An overwhelming proportion of the population was in semi-starving condition, and the literacy had reached less than a fifth. In this situation, the Constitution that came in 1950 opted for a parliamentary form...

Caricaturing Culture in India

Cartoons and History in the Modern World

by Ritu Gairola Khanduri
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2014

Caricaturing Culture in India is a highly original history of political cartoons in India. Drawing on the analysis of newspaper cartoons since the 1870s, archival research and interviews with prominent Indian cartoonists, this ambitious study combines historical narrative with ethnographic testimony...

India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad

The Covert War in Kashmir, 1947-2004

by Praveen Swami
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2006

India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war. Praveen Swami addresses...

The Heart Is a Shifting Sea

Love and Marriage in Mumbai

by Elizabeth Flock
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018

Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting "Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set in Bombay that I've read in years. Flock's total access to her characters, and her highly sympathetic and nonjudgmental...

Religious Cultures in Early Modern India

New Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014

Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India’s history. The centuries of the ‘early modern’ in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded their religious patronage,...

Bureaucracy, Community and Influence in India

Society and the State, 1930s - 1960s

by William Gould
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2010

Offering a fresh approach to the issue of government and administrative corruption through 'everyday' citizen interactions with the state, this book explores changing discourses and practices of corruption in late colonial and early independent Uttar Pradesh, India. The author moves away from assumptions...

Becoming a Borderland

The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

by Sanghamitra Misra
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational...

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pimpri Chinchwad : (India) Travel Guide

by Gil Matos
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Pimpri Chinchwad : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

India

by David Stott, Vanessa Betts, Victoria McCulloch
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016

India strikes its visitor with a sensory, intellectual, spiritual and philosophical assualt that's unmatched by any other place on earth: this subcontinent's sheer diversity is staggering. Footprint’s 19th edition India Handbook will guide you from tropical beach paradises and lush backwaters, to...

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bhopal : (India) Travel Guide

by Fabian Harring
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bhopal : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nagpur : (India) Travel Guide

by Laverna Ainsworth
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Nagpur : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bikaner : (India) Travel Guide

by Lowell Tocco
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Bikaner : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kanpur : (India) Travel Guide

by Clifton Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Kanpur : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hubli-dharwad : (India) Travel Guide

by Patti Reese
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2015

The Ultimate Handbook Guide to Hubli-dharwad : (India) is your second passport to everything interesting and relevant. It provides you with up-to-date advice on what to see and what hidden discoveries await you.

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