India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India (James Rajesh)(Pevná vazba)

India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India (James Rajesh)(Pevná vazba)

India Retold: Dialogues with Independent Documentary Filmmakers in India is an attempt to situate and historicize the engagement of independent documentary filmmakers with the postcolonial India and its discourses with a focus on their independent documentary practices. Structured as an interview

Made in India: Decolonizations, Queer Sexualities, Trans/National Projects (Bhaskaran S.)(Pevná vazba)

Made in India examines seemingly disparate and high profile events in postcolonial India that captured national and transnational/diasporic interest since the 1990s: The emergence of the Indian homosexual, the new trans/national heterosexual woman, lesbian suicides, marriage and kinship contracts

Around India in 80 Trains (Rajesh Monisha)(Paperback)

Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks. -- William DalrympleIn 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy colonel across

The Partition of India (Talbot Ian)(Pevná vazba)

The British divided and quit India in 1947. The partition of India and the creation of Pakistan uprooted entire communities and left unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells the story of partition through the events that led up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to migration and

The Beatles in India (Saltzman Paul)(Pevná vazba)

In 1968, the Beatles went to Rishikesh, India, studied transcendental meditation, and wrote music. These intimate photos are the only record of their time in this sacred retreat. This new edition of The Beatles in India brings intimate images of the group, taken at an ashram in Rishikesh, India, to

Women and Work in Rural India (Ramachandran V.)(Pevná vazba)

This book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections; the first section explores conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues with respect to understanding women's work. The second, third, and fourth sections

India Hicks: A Slice of England (Hicks India)(Pevná vazba)

The first look at designer India Hicks's house in the English countryside, as well as the houses of her childhood. A follow-up to India Hicks's New York Times bestselling book, India Hicks: Island Style, India Hicks: A Slice of England is the designer's exploration of her British heritage and how

Passage To India (Forster E. M.)(Pevná vazba)

Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged assault of Adela Quested even the strongest inter-racial friendships come under

Financial Markets and Financial Services in India (Kunjukunju Benson)(Pevná vazba)

Political Economy of Caste in India (Chalam K. S.)(Pevná vazba)

Political Economy of Caste in India presents the caste mode of production as an important analytical tool to understand the socio-economic and political dynamics of India. The book looks at caste from the economic base and also links it with the superstructure that includes judiciary,

Start-Up Marketing Strategies in India (Ramesh M. Anil)(Pevná vazba)

Start-up Marketing Strategies in India analyses real-life marketing challenges faced by Indian start-ups from across the marketing mix of Product, Price, Place & Promotion. Eleven original case studies discuss the experiences of successful Indian entrepreneurs across a wide variety of sectors,

Handbook of Tribal Politics in India (Ambagudia Jagannath)(Pevná vazba)

Handbook of Tribal Politics in India is undoubtedly the most authoritative source for a systematic and comprehensive study of this vibrant field of scholarship. Divided into three sections, the chapters cover a broad range of themes ranging from a general introduction to tribal politics to

Empress: Queen Victoria and India (Taylor Miles)(Pevná vazba)

An entirely original account of Victoria's relationship with the Raj, which shows how India was central to the Victorian monarchy from as early as 1837 'A widely and deeply researched, elegantly written, and vital portrayal of [Queen Victoria's] place in colonial Indian affairs.'--Journal of Modern

Building Research Universities in India (Jalote Pankaj)(Pevná vazba)

With the emergence of global university rankings, there is increased interest in research universities. The focus of the higher education system in India has traditionally been on educating students and not on research. However, in the last decade or so, there has been a growing appreciation of

Social Sector Development in North-East India (Pankaj Ashok)(Pevná vazba)

Social Sector Development in North-east India is the first comprehensive book that makes a strong case for people-centric social sector development of North-east India. This book argues that human capital formation through social sector development should be the strategic goal of development of

Critical Themes in Environmental History of India (Chakrabarti Ranjan)(Pevná vazba)

A first of its kind in India, the book addresses the fundamental questions of environmental concern and enquires into the complex patterns of human - nature interaction within the discipline of environmental history in India. This book delves into history to examine a number of critical themes,

Public Sector Enterprises in India: Evolution, Privatisation and Reforms (Bhattacharjee Govind)(Pevná vazba)

Public Sector Enterprises in India is the first comprehensive and authoritative work covering the entire public sector in India, including public sector enterprises such as banks, insurance companies, railways and so on. The book begins with the philosophy behind the public sector and traces its

Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India (Sadanandan Anoop)(Pevná vazba)

'Democracy in India is only a top-dressing on an Indian soil, which is essentially undemocratic', warned Bhimrao Ambedkar, the principal architect of the country's constitution, a year into independence. The social order - the soil on which India's new democratic edifice was then being erected -

Noncooperation in India - Nonviolent Strategy and Protest, 1920-22 (Hardiman David)(Pevná vazba)

Islamic Revival in British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 (Metcalf Barbara D.)(Pevná vazba)

In a study of the vitality of Islam in late-nineteenth-century north India, Barbara Metcalf explains the response of Islamic religious scholars ('ulama) to the colonial dominance of the British and the collapse of Muslim political power.Originally published in 1982.The Princeton Legacy Library uses

Zombie, or Not to Be (Sullivan Kyle)(Pevná vazba)

★ 2022 Independent Publisher Book Award Winner ★ 2022 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Finalist Something is rotten in the state of Deadmark, but of course there is: it's filled with zombies. This brainy middle-grade adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet follows a young science-minded zombie named

India as a Pioneer of Innovation (Singh Harbir)(Pevná vazba)

What does innovation mean to and in India? What are the predominant sites of activity where Indians innovate, and under what situations do they work or fail? This book addresses these all-important questions arising within diverse Indian contexts: informal economy, low-cost settings, large business

The Vanishing Stepwells of India (Lautman Victoria)(Pevná vazba)

Some of the most stunning architectural structures in India are to be found below ground: these are its stepwells, ancient water stores. Stepwells are unique to India and from around the 3rd century CE were built throughout the country, particularly in the arid western regions. Excavated several

The Battle to Stay in America: Immigration's Hidden Front Line (Kagan Michael)(Pevná vazba)

2020 Foreword INDIE awards longlist 'Day-to-day life in immigrant communities is described with refreshing clarity and heart... an unusually accessible primer on immigration law and a valuable guide to the ways it currently works to perpetuate an excluded immigrant underclass with diminished