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Centring disability
This book demands reconfiguring the centre of knowledge generation by relocating disability from its present peripheral position to the centre.
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Decolonial keywords
Presents a set of keywords, concepts thar represent the importance in moving away from the intellectual shackles of colonial and neo-colonial experiences.
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Exploring the poverty question
The author argues that the claim that South Asia has seen a large reduction in poverty over the last three decades is a spurious claim. Using nearly 50 years of data from India’s National Sample Survey, she shows that applying a constant nutrition standard over time, poverty had worsened consider...
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Portal
Portal presents the diary of the owner of a small photography studio in Calcutta, maintained sporadically from 1994 to 1996, before his sudden unexplained disappearance. The diary is a fictional found archive that attempts to trace photographic ‘evidence’ and information about an elusive woman wh...
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Alladi memorial lectures 3
Alladi Memorial Lectures, volume 3, is a collection of essays brought out by The Alladi Memorial Trust, comprising fourteen annual lectures delivered between 2001 and 2025
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On the pulse of time
This book brings together, for the first time, the bilingual collection of journalistic writings on India by the Nobel Prize-awarded Guatemalan-Spanish writer, Miguel Ángel Asturias.
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Economic change in the lower cauvery delta
This book discusses agrarian relations in the Lower Cauvery delta, historically part of the "rice bowl" of south India, based on socio-economic studies of two villages in the region.
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Constitutional concerns
This book is an attempt to explore the process of ‘deconstitutionalization’ happening in India by looking at certain contemporary topics. The chapters, cumulatively, make out a case for cautious political optimism in the face of challenges.
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Maps of sorrow
This book takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions that were interconnected through long-distance trade, slavery and migration.
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Revelation of self in language
This book draws us into questions about personal identity through narratives. Firmly ensconced within the discipline of linguistics and using the framework of Conversation Analysis, it captures the moment of interlocution when our stories define us in conversation.
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I know the psychology of rats
“I hope the reader will find the book interesting because there is a story in it . . . Of a deeply passionate Indian and world citizen. The one who, in 1987, said: ‘I know the psychology of rats.’ Kundan Shah died on 7 October 2017.”
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Before my memories fade
Between the covers of this book lie mnemonic snapshots – in his own words and verse – of a towering figure in Malayalam poetry, song, and cinema, P. Bhaskaran (1924–2007).
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Palestine
The book explores the events leading to the current genocide in Gaza and far-right Jewish settler onslaught in the occupied West Bank.
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Finance and development
This edited volume celebrates the work of C.P. Chandrasekar, a leading economist from the global South.
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Subarnarekha
The concluding volume of the Partition Quartet Screenplays of Ritwik Ghatak, Subarnarekha is a devastating critique of the fallout of the partition.
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Vivan sundaram is not a photographer
Belonging to a generation of figurative artists that emerged from the Baroda School in the early 1960s, Vivan Sundaram has consistently and passionately engaged with the historical and political particularities of his own position as a subject in India and in the world at large. Ruth Rosengarten ...
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Jahan ara begum 1614–1681
Nausheen Jaffery brings to us the story of the remarkable Indian princess Jahan Ara.
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Socio-economic surveys of three villages in karnataka
In 2005, the Foundation for Agrarian Studies (FAS) initiated the Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI), with the aim of studying village-level production, production systems and livelihoods, and the socio-economic characteristics of different strata of the rural population by means of det...
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K.b. goel
The Delhi-based art critic K. B. Goel (1930–2018) wrote on art from the late 1950s to the 90s, his career broadly coinciding with the modernist period. This annotated volume seeks to bring together Goel’s major writings, accompanied by a critical introduction that draws attention to his framework...
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Debating education in india
The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue.
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The ghazal eros
This book argues that there is one element – the expression of masculine passion for a masculine object – that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages.
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A new statistical domain in india
This book is a study of panchayat-level databases and their potential use in local-level administration, planning, and policy implementation. It attempts to understand the current and potential use of such records in decentralized development planning, how frequently the records are updated, and ...
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Embedding subversion and gender identity
This book introduces Ulti, a secret language spoken by the Hijra-Koti community in West Bengal, from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic perspective.
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How do small farmers fare?
This book is the outcome of a two-year research project undertaken by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies and supported by the Rosa Luxemberg Stiftung (New Delhi). The objective of the project was to examine the socioeconomic characteristics and viability of small producers in different agro-ecol...
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Telling the truth, taking sides
This book is a collection of essays written in tribute to N. Ram, journalist, writer, and person of the Left. Its title reflects Ram’s concern that journalism, and indeed intellectual endeavor, be both informative and credible and committed to the social good.The contributors to the book are: Ven...
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Politics of the possible
This collection of essays covers a broad range of disciplines to produce a work that rethinks relationships and divisions in gender, geography, class relations, culture, and much more to create a true 'politics of the possible.'
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A people's history of india 14
This volume explores the economic and social history of India from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. It describes the agrarian order, urban economy, and trading world during the Delhi Sultanate, the subsequent period of political divisions, and conditions in the Vijayanagara Empire, which ...
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Defying death
The essays in this volume document various episodes of resistance highlighting the role of freedom fighters who inspired generations of Indians by their sacrifices. They discuss the Vellore Mutiny, the Chittagong Uprising, the Non-Cooperation Movement and the militants of Bengal, and Gandhi’s att...
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Similarity
This volume is a collection of papers based on the idea that the concept of similarity could offer a new, alternative approach in culture studies, as compared to the hitherto dominant paradigm of difference. The concepts of identity and otherness are both becoming ever more questionable, not leas...
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Vivan sundaram: history project
This book is an intensive reconsideration of the very first site-specific installation staged in India. Vivan Sundaram, one of India's most innovative artists, located his History Project, marking fifty years of Indian independence, in a hugely visited and popular public institution, the Victoria...
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Agrarian and other histories
There is no area of Indian agrarian history that Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri has not traversed. This volume considers his work on the peasantry and the political economy of agriculture in eastern India, including the process of 'depeasantization' and the forcible induction of tribes and forest dwelle...
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The radical impulse
The period from the mid-1930s to the end of the 1950s in India saw the cultural expression of a wide range of political sentiments and positions around imperialism, fascism, nationalism, and social transformation. It was a period that covered a crucial transitional phase: from colonialism to a po...
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A people's history of india 7
This book is the companion volume to A People's History of India 6, which gave an account of the political and economic history of the post-Mauryan period from c. 200 B.C. to A.D. 300. The present volume deals with the important aspects of the society and culture of the same period. It traces the...
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The king's plunder, the king's bodies
This work establishes the monarchical form of the British empire between CE 1600 and 1900.
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The vernacularization of labour politics
The decline of trade unionism and the absence of labor unions in the public sphere in India as well as at the global level has generated much discussion. In the era of neoliberalism, trade unions are perceived as marginalized and ineffective, replaced by other institutions and alternative forms o...
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A people's history of india 31
This volume takes up the story of the Indian National Movement from 1919 when the first nationalist struggle took place on an all-India scale. The work ends with August 1947 when India finally attained independence.
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The dancing poet
Drawing on a range of visual archives and personal collections, this book casts Rabindranath Tagore as the "Dancing Poet"—in whom the contours of a pan-Indian diversity seek to merge, albeit selectively, with that of the world, eschewing most emphatically the territorial borders of the nation-sta...
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Decolonization and humanism
This collection challenges the understanding of decolonization and humanism pervasive in post-Foucauldian postcolonial studies.
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Weighing the evidence: who killed gandhi?
This volume brings to light the report of the Kapur Commission, which was appointed by the government of India in 1965 to examine the depth and scope of the conspiracy that lay behind the killing of Gandhi. This three-volume report has been absent from the public domain though it contains invalua...
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Transcultural practices
A collection of essays written in honour and memory of Anil Bhatti, Professor Emeritus of the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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When was modernism
A commitment to modernity is the underlying theme of this volume. Through interpretive and theoretical essays, Geeta Kapur seeks to situate the modern in contemporary cultural practice. The essays here propose resistance to the depoliticization of narratives and affirm an open-ended engagement wi...
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Rethinking the social sciences with sam moyo
This book brings together renowned scholars from four continents to celebrate the lifelong and seminal contribution of Professor Sam Moyo to the social sciences. Moyo was a Zimbabwean scholar whose intellectual trajectory was part of the emergence of a critical scholarship based in the realities ...
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Displacement and citizenship
This book seeks to explore the multiplicity of memories and experiences of belonging and exclusion in a range of societies that have been marked by displacement. The volume draws from the wide fields of literature, humanities, and social sciences to reflect on the questions of displacement and ci...
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Alladi memorial lectures
This is the second volume of a compilation of annual lectures delivered under the auspices of the Alladi Memorial Trust. Eminent jurists, lawyers, academicians, social activists, and distinguished persons serving in several fields of cognitive endeavor have delivered the annual lectures organize...
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Pluriverse
Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary contains over one hundred essays on transformative initiatives and alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values.
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The cultural economy of land
The Cultural Economy of Land attempts to bring out a multilayered pattern of rural life-worlds by tracing on the one hand, major social and political changes, and on the other hand, the everyday life of Birbhum district at a specific historical juncture.
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The making of brahmanic hegemony
The discipline of history in India is under attack—not only from those who adopt a pseudo-historical mode to popularize a mythical version of the past colored with their ill-concealed political objectives, but also from those who, posing methodological challenges through unbridled theoretical rel...
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The fight for the republic
This book of three essays by Sitaram Yechury, the topmost leader of the Community Party in India, introduced by Prabhat Patnaik.
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