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At home in the world
Gulammohammed Sheikh has played a pioneering role in contemporary Indian art’s engagement with hybridity. At Home in the World presents the first comprehensive study of the art and life of this seminal figure, bringing together aspects of biographical discussion alongside other modes of art histo...
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Coming out of partition
Exploring the category of ‘refugee women’ as it emerged in the events of the Bengal Partition, the book claims that they have not only played an important role in shaping women’s movement but also have been responsible for the radical reorientation of social lives in Bengal as they rebuild and re...
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Dispossession, deprivation, and development
Agrarian transition, exploitative production relations, bondage in the agriculture and informal sectors, food insecurity, and poverty are among the central concerns that have marked the work of the eminent economist and author Utsa Patnaik. She has sought to seek and define alternative economic m...
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Connected histories, shared present
The essays in the book look at the transcontinental dialogic relationship which emerges from the cross-cultural experiences between Latin America, Caribbean and India and directs our gaze towards a present animated by mutual interest and transcultural fertilization.
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Arc silt dive
Over the last three decades, Sheba Chhachhi has developed an art practice that traverses the fields of documentary photography, installation, video and new media, creating immersive environments and bringing the contemplative into the political, in both site-specific public art and independent wo...
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Voices of komagata maru
Early twentieth-century Calcutta was not just a point of passage within the British Empire, but a key center of colonial power; a crucial laboratory of imperial repressive practices cultivated and applied elsewhere. Histories of the Komagata Maru or the Ghadar Movement offer rewarding perspective...
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Nagarik
Set in Calcutta in the aftermath of Partition, Ritwik Ghatak’s Nagarik (released in 1977 after Ghatak’s death in 1976) chronicles the struggles of a refugee family from East Bengal as they desperately strive to survive in a metropolis that is unable to address the necessities of thousands of peop...
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In search of answers
This memoir takes us through modern Indian and Kerala history, both of which the author had a ringside view.
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Jalsa
Jalsa takes the reader through the journeys of women performers in India from the salon to the studio. It attempts to give insight into and a perspective on the beginning of the interface of technology and entertainment, and the irreversible impact this has had on how we listen to, enjoy, and con...
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Developmental modernity in kerala
Winner, 2021 P.S. Velayudhan Memorial Award for the Best Book On History, Kerala History AssociationThis study of the Sree Narayana Dharma Paripalana Yogam (SNDP Yogam), one of the earliest social reform movements in Kerala, investigates the relationship of social reform, religion, and caste. The...
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Fighting free to become unfree again
Labor bondage is discussed as a major feature of the peasant economies which have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded precolonial past until the postcolonial present.
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Working at others’ homes
The specificities of domestic work in relation to the workplace alongside the intersections of gender, class, and caste indicate a complex picture in India. Though domestic workers have become a significant workforce in all large cities and even in small towns, not much information on the specifi...
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Gender in agrarian transitions
This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and the struggles for women's liberation today. It focuses on the complexities of agrarian transitions in the Global South and the crisis of socia
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Subordination and development
This book provides an analysis of the impact of subordination in the major EMEs. Distinct from ‘dependence’ under official aid till 1970s, subordination prevailed over developing nations with liberalization of capital-flows by the 1990s when markets used as agents for overseas capital for extract...
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Who is an alien?
The questions Gandhi asked about imperial nations and how free nations should be made remain at the core of casteist, racist, patriarchal, and sectarian regimes. This book examines Gandhi’s struggle with the burden of colonial historiography, legal systems, and scriptural texts in the attempt to ...
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Speech acts
Speech Acts contains select interviews that annotate Geeta Kapur’s contributions to modern Indian art criticism and trace her interrogations of the contemporary through various historical conjunctures
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Notes for an oratorio on small things that fall
Notes for an Oratorio on Small Things That Fall is a poetic, creative, and sociological take on our contemporary silk roads and hazmat highways. The journey reconstructs a via dolorosa through the excesses and forms of exploitation, discrimination, and suffering.
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Women and work in rural india
The book is a compilation of papers examining women’s role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six sections that explore conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues; primary and secondary data; and historical perspectives.
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Conversations with ambedkar
The book is a collection of ten public lectures that were delivered annually from 2009 to 2018 as part of the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Memorial Lecture Series, instituted by Ambedkar University Delhi.
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Karl marx’s ‘capital’ and the present
This book presents four lectures on Marx's Capital, delivered by C. P. Chandrasekhar on Volume 1's anniversary: "Capital and the Critique of Bourgeois Political Economy"; "Order and Anarchy in the Capitalist System"; 'Revisiting Capital in the Age of Finance"; and "Marx's Capital and the Current ...
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Another lens
The book situates diverse lens-based practices within a larger orbit of South Asian visual culture.
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Afroasian musical imaginaries
This book is a collection of papers presented at a colloquium, ‘AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries’ that was organized by the IIC-IRD in collaboration with a project titled ‘RecentringAfroAsia: Musical and Human Migrations, 700-1500 AD’ that started from Cape Town in South Africa.
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Critical explorations in social sciences
Consisting of invited contributions from scholars, this book celebrates two outstanding economists and public intellectuals in contemporary India.
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Whither rural india?
The doctoral students of the economist and teacher Venkatesh B. Athreya organized a seminar in his honor in January 2016. This book is a collection of the papers presented at that seminar and a few invited contributions on the theme of agriculture and rural India with special emphasis on the expe...
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Interpreting the world to change it
Born in 1945 in Odisha, India, to parents who were deeply committed to the Communist cause as members of the Communist Party of India, Patnaik is one of the most outstanding economists of his generation and a leading Marxist theoretician in the world today. Through his work as an academic, he has...
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Asār-us-sanadīd
This volume joins together in English for the first time the two editions of Sir Sayyid Ahmed Khan’s classic account of the monuments and environs of precolonial Delhi. Translator Rana Safvi’s annotations and appendices trace the historical development of the text between 1847 and 1854, before th...
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Socio-economic surveys of three villages in west bengal
This book reports findings from surveys conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies’ Project on Agrarian Relations in India (PARI) in different agro-climatic regions in three villages in West Bengal in June–July 2010 and in May–June 2015.
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Revolution within
Book argues that the social reform movement in Kerala contributed to the growth of progressive democratic movements there.
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Political choices
These essays written since the catastrophic events of 9/11 try to come to terms with the violence that shapes our everyday lives.
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Is this ‘azaadi’?
This study of the living conditions of Dalit agricultural laborers in Muktidih Village in southwest Bihar throws light on the problems they face in accessing the basic necessities of existence, including food, clothing, shelter, health care, and education. Their tribulations are conveyed through ...
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The hindi canon
This book was first published in Hindi under the title Hindi Alochana mein Canon-Nirman ki Prakriya in 2015. It was acclaimed as one of the first critical studies of the processes of canonization (pratimanikaran) in Hindi. Indeed, the word ‘canon’ was used by the author to ask a new set of questi...
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A people's history of india 30
This book considers the first phase of Indian popular resistance to colonial rule, including the Revolt of 1857–58, its nature and legacy; the rise of national consciousness; the movement for social reform and political awakening among the middle classes, and, finally, Gandhiji’s arrival and the ...
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Socio-economic surveys of three villages in tripura
The book is a report on the village economy of the state of Tripura in India, based on a survey of three villages in the state conducted by the Foundation for Agrarian Studies in May–June 2016. A team from the Foundation for Agrarian Studies revisited the three villages in April 2017 to conduct c...
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