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This book is the first inter-disciplinary engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida Husain, arguably India s most iconic contemporary artist today, whose life and work are intimately entangled with the career of independent India as a democratic, secular and multi-ethnic nation. For more than half a century, and across thousands of canvases, Husain has painted individuals and objects, events and incidents that offer an astonishing visual chronicle of India through the ages.

The 13 articles in this volume written by distinguished artists, curators, anthropologists,...

This book looks at movements of communities which formed the lower and middle rungs of society in medieval and early colonial India. It presents migration, mobility and memories from a specifically Indian perspective, breaking away from previous Eurocentric studies. The essays in the volume focus on labour, peasant and craft migrations, and in fleshing out the causes and trajectories taken by these communities, they speak to each other by addressing similar issues as well as documenting varying responses to analogous situations.

A fascinating history of migrations of people from below,...

In Terrestrial Lessons, Ramaswamy provides the first in-depth analysis of the globe's history in and impact on the Indian subcontinent during the colonial era and its...

The blame for the financial crisis has been attributed to many actors: bankers, credit rating agencies, central bankers, regulators, hedge funds, financial engineers and mortgage originators to name a few. But seen from a policy perspective for building a more resilient financial system, understanding the mechanisms in the financial system architecture that allowed this to happen are more important than identifying the actors. Keeping the financial jargon to a minimum to reach out to a wider audience, this book provides deeper insights into the financial structures that led to the build-up...

Sumathi Ramaswamy suggests that these discourses cannot be contained within a singular metanarrative of linguistic nationalism and instead proposes a new analytic, "language devotion." She uses this concept to track the many ways...