In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of local, regional, and transnational activism for the rights of the region's culturally autonomous indigenous people, Alpa Shah argues that the activism unintentionally further marginalized the...

As India emerges as a major economic power, producing dollar billionaires rising at the rate of 17 per year, more than 800 million Indians eke out a living on less than two dollars a day. This book takes the reader to the underbelly of the Indian boom, an India that is not shining but is struggling to survive. From the Indo-Soviet Bhilai Steel Plant in Chhattisgarh, where an aristocracy of labour is increasingly being replaced by a more vulnerable contract labour force, we move to the banks of the Hoogly River. Here, Norwegian shipping companies exploit a precarious labour force that is as...

According to the left brain, right brain dominance theory, the right side of the brain is best at expressive and creative tasks. Six special abilities that a Genius Right Brain Trained child exhibits are: a)Superb Intuition, b)Photographic Memory, c)Calculation Ability, d)Perfect Pitch Music Ability, e)Multiple Language Acquisition ability and f)Image Healing Ability. As Right Brain Education is a precious gift which can last a life time, we at The Brain Buddies have compiled non-time consuming, simple yet fun Right Brain Stimulation activities for your child. The Brain Buddies Activity Kit...

A first-hand account of India's widespread leftist insurgency, and the state's brutal response.