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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Munshi at Seventy-five
Author: Speaking with Nature
Author: Ramachandra GuhaPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300280386
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 453
Book Description
From one of the world’s leading historians comes the first substantial study of environmentalism set in any country outside the Euro-American world By the canons of orthodox social science, countries like India are not supposed to have an environmental consciousness. They are, as it were, “too poor to be green.” In this deeply researched book, Ramachandra Guha challenges this narrative by revealing a virtually unknown prehistory of the global movement set far outside Europe or America. Long before the publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and well before climate change, ten remarkable individuals wrote with deep insight about the dangers of environmental abuse from within an Indian context. In strikingly contemporary language, Rabindranath Tagore, Radhakamal Mukerjee, J. C. Kumarappa, Patrick Geddes, Albert and Gabrielle Howard, Mira, Verrier Elwin, K. M. Munshi, and M. Krishnan wrote about the forest and the wild, soil and water, urbanization and industrialization. Positing the idea of what Guha calls “livelihood environmentalism” in contrast to the “full-stomach environmentalism” of the affluent world, these writers, activists, and scientists played a pioneering role in shaping global conversations about humanity’s relationship with nature. Spanning more than a century of Indian history, and decidedly transnational in reference, this book offers rich resources for considering the threat of climate change today.
An Epic and Puranic Bibliography (up to 1985) Annotated and with Indexes
Author: Heinrich von StietencronPublisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447030281
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1116
Book Description
Contemporary Issues in Lymphoma
Author: Mary Ellen McFaddenPublisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN: 9780763729578
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Understanding the nuances associated with the various neoplasm's that comprise lymphomas can be a challenge to nursing professionals. This book helps broaden the awareness of the biology, classification, and treatment options available to patients with lymphoma. Contemporary Issues in Lymphoma provides an overview of lymphoid malignancies (including epidemiology and etiology), the immune system and lymphoid malignancies, and the cytogenetics of lymphoid malignancies.
Pen-and-ink Sketches of Native Life in Southern India
Author: J. A. VThe City in Action
Author: Jim MasselosPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
These fourteen essays revisit Mumbai and the many facets of its political life over the last 100 years. They reveal the urban political and socio-cultural development of the city and together constitute an extremely readable and accessible biopgraphy of the city.
Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India
Author: Riho IsakaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000468585
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book is a historical study of modern Gujarat, India, addressing crucial questions of language, identity, and power. It examines the debates over language among the elite of this region during a period of significant social and political change in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Language debates closely reflect power relations among different sections of society, such as those delineated by nation, ethnicity, region, religion, caste, class, and gender. They are intimately linked with the process in which individuals and groups of people try to define and project themselves in response to changing political, economic, and social environments. Based on rich historical sources, including official records, periodicals, literary texts, memoirs, and private papers, this book vividly shows the impact that colonialism, nationalism, and the process of nation-building had on the ideas of language among different groups, as well as how various ideas of language competed and negotiated with each other. Language, Identity, and Power in Modern India: Gujarat, c.1850–1960 will be of particular interest to students and scholars working on South Asian history and to those interested in issues of language, society, and politics in different parts of the modern world.
Labor Immigration under Capitalism
Author: Lucie ChengPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520317815
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.
The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak
Author: Partha ChatterjeePublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438487789
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak presents a completely new way of telling the history of Indian nationalism. Severely criticizing the doctrines of both Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism, it examines the ongoing debates over Indian civilization and recounts in detail how the present borders of India were defined by British colonial policy, the partition of 1947, and the integration of the princely states and the French and Portuguese territories. The emphasis is not so much on the state machinery inherited from colonial times but on the moral foundation of a new republic based on the solidarity of different but equal formations of the people. After a trenchant critique of the present-day conflicts over religion, caste, class, gender, language, and region in India, the book proposes a new politics of revitalized federalism. Intended for a general readership, and eschewing academic jargon, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the future of India.
Growth of Nationalism in India: 1919-1929
Author: Sukhbir ChoudharyPublisher:
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Category : Nationalism
Languages : en
Pages : 670
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