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Fractured States
Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy in British India
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This work provides a well rounded history of official smallpox measures and their links with the development of public health in policies and programmes in Brititsh India. It examines vaccination policy and technology from a political, economic and technical perspective as well as the cultural and religious...
Gendered Citizenship
Historical and Conceptual Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Adopting a historical conceptual approach, this book examines the gendering of citizenship. It argues that through successive historical periods, `becoming a citizen has involved a gradual extension of the status, to more and more persons and groups, in particular, women, which resulted in a more inclusive...
Science Alive 5
Practical Experiments for Grade 5
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Science Alive (1-5) is a completely new 5-year course specially designed to make the teaching and learning of science a meaningful and truly 'aliVe' experience. The series is planned around the philosophy that science can be learnt only if the child acquires a scientific temperament — there must...
Journeys and Dwellings
Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This collection of essays makes a significant and innovative contribution to the emerging field of Indian Ocean Studies. New perspectives come into view that highlight movement and exchange across borders, travelling actors, cultures and faiths as well as processes of cultural re-localisation, mixture...
Vanara
The Legend of Baali, Sugreeva and Tara
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Baali and Sugreeva of the Vana Nara tribe were orphan brothers who were born in abject poverty and grew up as slaves like most of their fellow tribesmen. They were often mocked as the vanaras, the monkey men. Sandwiched between the never-ending war between the Deva tribes in the north and the Asura...
by Guy De Maupassant
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
The book titled Simon’s Papa and other Stories comprises various interesting stories related to human life on pragmatic, imaginative thought process. Most of the stories give the lesson to live a placid life. Simon’s Papa is one of the inspiring stories. Let’s read, relish and acknowledge....
Jangalnama
Travels in a Maoist Guerilla Zone
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2010
Maoist guerillas—always on the move, always on guard—living deep in the jungles of Bastar. Outlawed, demonized and hunted by the state, they are perceived with fear, incomprehension and terror by the outside world. Satnam spent two months in remarkable intimacy with the guerillas: travelling with...
by Savitri Ramaiah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
You need this book.For better health and longer life.For more up-to-date information on medical treatments.***A product of the combined knowledge and experience of many doctors and scientists, this book offers a clear look at sickness and therapy-therapy which uses both alternative care and conventional...
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market
The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani Industry, 19802000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market explores the paradox at the heart of the ayurvedic and unani medicine manufacturing industry—to present itself as modern and traditional, common and professional at the same time. On the one hand, the natural, wholesome and authentic nature of these medicines...
by R S Sharma
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Who were the Aryans? Where did they come from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan problem has been attracting fresh attention in academic, social and political arenas. This book identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and follows the spread of their cultural markers. Using the latest archaeological...
by Felix Padel
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2014
Sacrificing People is a provocative anthropological study of the structures of power and authority which the British rule imposed on a tribal people of Central India, the Konds. The Konds practised human sacrifice and in the pretext of rooting out this ‘barbaric’ ritual, the British waged wars of...
From Western Medicine to Global Medicine
The Hospital Beyond the West (1 Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The hospital has for many years been the symbol of modern, scientific medicine. Indeed, it was in the hospital that modern Western medicine was born. But until recently we had little idea of how or why these iconic medical institutions developed outside the Western World. From Western Medicine to Global...
French Studies in History
Vol. II-The Departures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The early years of this century saw a rapid renewal in the subject as well as the methodology of history. This process was both influenced an reoriented by a rich, but often difficult dialogue with the other social sciences. It was thus that the territory of the historian was extended to cover areas...
Modern Cookery
For Teaching and the Trade Volume 1 (Sixth Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Going into their sixth edition, Thangam Philip’s Modern Cookery Volumes I and II are one of India’s most prestigious and encyclopaedic books on cookery and have proved to be an invaluable reference and guide to both students of catering and to professionals in the food and catering industry in India....