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In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India
ISBN: 9780822347446 / Angielski / Twarda / 273 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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...
In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the...
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446,19 |
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Caste and Family Politics Sinhalese 1947-1976
ISBN: 9780521133784 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1979, this book attempts to describe and analyse the social relationships which gave a unique character to Sri Lanka's politics at the time, and which helped to explain the persistence of Westminster-style parliamentary politics in a society undergoing rapid economic and social change. Dr Jiggins describes some of the main actors in Sri Lankan public life, and places their political careers and loyalties within a social context. She explores the adaptation of traditional social structures and relations within a modernising state, and traces the emergence and behaviour...
Originally published in 1979, this book attempts to describe and analyse the social relationships which gave a unique character to Sri Lanka's politic...
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208,05 |
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India and Pakistan: Continued Conflict or Cooperation?
ISBN: 9780520266773 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible primer on what is potentially the world's most dangerous crisis. He concisely distills sixty-three years of complex history, tracing the roots of the relationship between these two antagonists, explaining the many attempts to resolve their disputes, and assessing the dominant political leaders. While the tragic Partition left many urgent problems, none has been more difficult than the problem over Kashmir, claimed by both India and Pakistan. This...
Beginning in 1947, when "India and Pakistan were born to conflict," renowned India scholar Stanley Wolpert provides an authoritative, accessible prime...
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260,93 |
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The Politics of Belonging in India: Becoming Adivasi
ISBN: 9780415600828 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India and defines a new agenda for Adivasi studies. It considers the existing conceptual and historical parameters of Tribal studies, as a means of addressing new approaches to histories of de-colonization and patterns of identity-formation that have become visible since national... Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with A... |
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818,00 |
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Mother Teresa (Revised Edition): An Authorized Biography
ISBN: 9780062026149 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Manyhave called her a saint. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India'shighest civilian honor, the Jewel of India, in 1980. Pope John Paul II declaredher -Blessed, - beatifying her in 2003. For nearly fifty years at the head ofCalcutta's Missionaries of Charity, the Albanian-born Agnes GonxhaBojaxhiu, better known as Mother Teresa, advocatedfor the poor and homeless, ministered to the sick, provided hospice for theafflicted, and embodied the very essence of humanitarianism. Now, revised andupdated, Kathryn Spink's definitive, authorized biography is -simply the best . . . around, -... Manyhave called her a saint. She won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979 and India'shighest civilian honor, the Jewel of India, in 1980. Pope John Paul I... |
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66,00 |
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The Oxford History of Historical Writing: Volume 1: Beginnings to Ad 600
ISBN: 9780199218158 / Twarda / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to the present day and from all over the world. Volume I offers essays by leading scholars on the development and history of the major traditions of historical writing, including the ancient Near East, Classical Greece and Rome, and East and South Asia from their origins until c. AD 600. It provides both an authoritative survey of the field and an unrivalled opportunity to make cross-cultural comparisons.
The Oxford History of Historical Writing is a five-volume series that explores representations of the past from the beginnings of writing to ...
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699,06 |
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Electoral Politics in an Emergent State: The Ceylon General Election of May 1970
ISBN: 9780521153119 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book was first published in 1975. The process of electing governments and replacing them in a peaceful and constitutional manner has characterised Ceylonese politics since 1947. Against the background of Ceylon's political development, Professor Wilson presents a detailed description and analysis of the events and aftermath of the General Election of 1970. The contest was between two almost equally balanced coalitions led by influential rival politicians. More significantly the Election brought about the final stages of the socialisation of Ceylon's traditional Marxist parties into the...
This book was first published in 1975. The process of electing governments and replacing them in a peaceful and constitutional manner has characterise...
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194,12 |
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Indians in Malaya: Some Aspects of Their Immigration and Settlement (1786-1957)
ISBN: 9780521148139 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book discusses the Indians who lived in Malaya and the effects of their presence on Malayan social and economic development between 1786 and 1957, the period of British rule. Professor Sandhu examines in detail the character and flow of Indian immigration during its main fluctuating periods; from about the 1790s to the 1930s and from the 1930s to 1957. The social and economic causes of the immigration are studied and Professor Sandhu shows that the movement of Indian immigrants resulted in changes in the population structure and the cultural landscape of Malaya. Originally published in...
This book discusses the Indians who lived in Malaya and the effects of their presence on Malayan social and economic development between 1786 and 1957...
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291,26 |
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The Domestic Abroad
ISBN: 9780199733910 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relationships with "their" diasporas. These practices, which range from creating new ministries to granting dual citizenship, are aimed at integrating diasporas as part of a larger "global" nation that is connected to, and has claims on the institutional structures of the home state. Although links, both formal and informal, between diasporas and their presumptive homelands have existed in the past, the recent developments constitute a far more...
In the past few decades, and across disparate geographical contexts, states have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing relation...
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372,63 |
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The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs
ISBN: 9780415545129 / Angielski / Twarda / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both global economic development and world peace and stability. This Atlas highlights the global significance of South Asia in relation to economic, geopolitical and strategic interests. It provides a coherent descriptive and analytical account of the key elements of the complex societies that make up the region and its component countries. Illustrated with more than 100 original maps and... South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current p... |
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1214,61 |
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The Routledge Atlas of South Asian Affairs
ISBN: 9780415545136 / Angielski / Miękka / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current position as a region of central strategic importance to both global economic development and world peace and stability. This Atlas highlights the global significance of South Asia in relation to economic, geopolitical and strategic interests. It provides a coherent descriptive and analytical account of the key elements of the complex societies that make up the region and its component countries. Illustrated with more than 100 original maps and... South Asia has developed from a group of newly independent post-Colonial states of at most secondary importance to the wider world to its current p... |
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346,98 |
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Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home
ISBN: 9780231146531 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to research how the Yamphu Rai acquired, farmed, and held onto their land; how they perceived their area's recent designation as a national park and conservation area; and whether--as she believed--they held a wisdom about living on the earth that the industrialized West had forgotten. What...
Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a ...
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196,67 |
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The Economic Development of India Under the East India Company 1814-58: A Selection of Contemporary Writings
ISBN: 9780521153362 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This 1971 volume brings together a number of tracts on problems of India's economic development, particularly in relation to the changes taking place in her international trade. The first half of the nineteenth century was a period of important economic transition for India. A vital aspect of it was the rapid expansion in the volume and value of Indian foreign trade, accompanied by fundamental structural changes, which transformed the old eighteenth-century mercantile pattern of India's trade with the West into a system based on an exchange of primary commodities for finished manufactured...
This 1971 volume brings together a number of tracts on problems of India's economic development, particularly in relation to the changes taking place ...
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231,16 |
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Sinister Yogis
ISBN: 9780226895147 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our modern conception of yoga derives much from nineteenth-century European spirituality, and the true story of yoga s origins in South Asia is far richer, stranger, and more entertaining than most of us realize. To uncover this history, David Gordon White focuses on yoga s practitioners. Combing through millennia of South Asia s vast and diverse literature, he discovers that yogis are usually portrayed as wonder-workers or sorcerers who use their... Since the 1960s, yoga has become a billion-dollar industry in the West, attracting housewives and hipsters, New Agers and the old-aged. But our mod... |
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146,12 |
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Up the Country: Letters Written to Her Sister from the Upper Provinces of India
ISBN: 9781108020749 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eden's candid letters represent thousands of nineteenth-century women who dutifully accompanied their men to outposts of the British Empire.
Eden's candid letters represent thousands of nineteenth-century women who dutifully accompanied their men to outposts of the British Empire.
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242,85 |
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Pakistan's Stability Paradox : Domestic, Regional and International Dimensions
ISBN: 9780415619486 / Angielski / Twarda / 217 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume highlights and explores the paradoxes that characterise contemporary Pakistan from the simultaneous democratisation and Islamisation of civil society to the schizophrenic US-Pakistan relationship. The central theme of the book looks at Pakistan's stability paradox.
This volume highlights and explores the paradoxes that characterise contemporary Pakistan from the simultaneous democratisation and Islamisation of ci...
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793,21 |
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India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India in the Century Preceding the Portuguese Discovery of the Cape of
ISBN: 9781108008167 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A compilation (published in 1857) of descriptions of journeys to India in the fifteenth century.
A compilation (published in 1857) of descriptions of journeys to India in the fifteenth century.
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206,68 |
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Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class
ISBN: 9780822348436 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India s labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country s economic and cultural scene, as do their notions of what it means to be Indian. Drawing on the stories of Indian professionals in Mumbai, Bangalore, Silicon Valley, and South Africa, Smitha Radhakrishnan explains how these high-tech workers create a global Indianness by transforming the diversity of Indian cultural...
Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India...
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446,19 |
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Aid, Peacebuilding and the Resurgence of War: Buying Time in Sri Lanka
ISBN: 9780230240278 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement in the settlement of civil wars. Based on nine years of research, and more than 100 interviews with those affected by the war, NGOs, and local and international elites engaged in the peace process.
As one of South Asia's oldest democracies Sri Lanka is a critical case to examine the limits of a liberal peace, peacebuilding and external engagement...
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203,13 |
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
ISBN: 9781400067558 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle...
In this brilliant, breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through t...
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104,90 |
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