Oup India: 245 books
by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s Ethics and Politics in Tagore, Coetzee and Certain Scenes of Teaching attempts to track the ‘literary’ in the production of ethics and politics. Ethics here is not an inventory of moral principles to be followed in action. Instead, the ethical is proposed as an unconditional...
Caste, Class and Power
Changing Patterns of Stratification in a Tanjore Village
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
In Caste, Class and Power, André Béteille recounts the gradual transformation of a social system that, till the end of the nineteenth century, was structured primarily on distinctions of caste—between the Brahmins, the middle-level non-Brahmins and the Adi-Dravidas. Based on extensive field study...
Battle Beyond Kurukshetra
A Mahabharata Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Light from the fire burning afar mingled with the moonlight in Kurukshetra to create a terrible twilight. Scattered corpses … broken chariots … sporadic death cries … prowling scavengers … the battlefield stretched endlessly.The victorious Pāndava camps burst into deafening cheers amidst...
Religion and Rabindranath Tagore
Select Discourses, Addresses, and Letters in Translation
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2014
This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings in Bengali. With a substantive introduction by Amiya P. Sen identifying various stages in the evolution of Tagore's religious thoughts, beginning from about the 1880s, the book includes representative...
Travels of Bollywood Cinema
From Bombay to LA
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2014
From Bombay (Mumbai) and other production centres on the Indian subcontinent, Indian popular cinema has travelled globally for nearly a century, culminating in the Bollywood-inspired, Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire. This volume brings together perspectives on Indian popular cinema, universally...
Resolving Disputes in Telecommunications
Global Practices and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The Indian telecommunication sector has seen far-reaching changes in the last two decades due to increasing globalization, rapid pace of technological innovations, and rising consumer demands. Myriad and complex problems have arisen as a result of these developments. Though attempts have been made...
Jumpstarting South Asia
Revisiting Economic Reforms and Look East Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
Jumpstarting South Asia focuses on the slowing pace of economic growth and makes the case for a two-pronged strategy to jumpstart South Asian economies. South Asian countries should complete the economic reform process that they had begun in the 1980s and the early 1990s and implement the more microeconomic...
The Anti-Dumping Agreement and Developing Countries
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2006
In the era of globalization, trade policy has become a key development tool and expanding exports a major policy objective for developing countries. However, pressures for protectionism are threatening to reverse the gains. The surge of anti-dumping practices in the 1990s in many countries have triggered...
Another Asia
Rabindranath Tagore and Okakura Tenshin
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2006
The book weaves through an intricate tapestry of ideas relating to pan-Asianism, nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and friendship, and positions the early modernist tensions of the period within—and against—the spectre of a unified Asia that concealed considerable political differences. The book draws...
Just One Word
Short Stories by Bama
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
What are the stages in the life of a butterfly? If you trap a caterpillar in a box, will it blossom into a butterfly? When discrimination and violence are hidden lessons in our schools, can we hope to make a better world? In Just One Word, Bama takes us into the spaces that appear innocent and artless,...
Life and Work of Guru Arjan
History, Memory, and Biography in the Sikh Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2006
A comprehensive study of the life and work of Guru Arjan (1563–1606), the fifth Guru of the Sikhs, this volume reconstructs his life based on history, memory, tradition, and mythic representation. Pashaura Singh focuses on the major influences that shaped Guru Arjan's thought. He discusses the socio-political...
Talking Films and Songs
Javed Akhtar in conversation with Nasreen Munni Kabir
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
One of the great thinkers of Indian cinema, Javed Akhtar needs no introduction. As a screenplay writer, he and Salim Khan wrote the dialogue for blockbusters like Zanjeer, Deewar, and Sholay; as a songwriter, he has composed a huge variety of songs including, ‘Yeh kahaan aa gaye hum’, ‘Kuchh...
Hindu Revivalism in Bengal, 1872–1905
Some Essays in Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2001
This work is an intensive study of certain facets of social and intellectual life in Bengal between 1872 and 1905, particularly Hindu revivalism. The period under discussion represents significant progress in the area of social and religious reform as well as a period which witnessed hostile attitudes...
The Buddha and His Dhamma
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
The Buddha and His Dhamma was B.R. Ambedkar's last work. Published posthumously, it presented a radical reorientation of Buddhist thought and literature, aptly called navayana. It deals with Ambedkar's conceptualization of Buddhism and the possibilities it offered for liberation and upliftment of...