Author: Donald L. ReidPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952272045
Category : Doon Valley (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
Yesterday's Patna & the Lost Villages of Doon Valley
Author: Donald L. ReidPublisher:
ISBN: 9780952272045
Category : Doon Valley (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 73
Book Description
The Doon Valley Down the Ages
Author: Prem Hari Har LalPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dehra Dūn (India : District)
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
An Indian Englishman
Author: Jack GibsonPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1435734610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 421
Book Description
John Travers Mends (Jack) Gibson was born on March 3, 1908 and died on October 23, 1994 at the age of 86.In some ways, Jack was the last Indian Englishman. He came ten years before independence and stayed on 47 years after it, rendering dedicated service to the country of his adoption for 57 years. Jack's journey started as a school teacher at The Doon School. He was the last English Principal of Mayo College and the last English President of the Himalayan Club. He was the last, and for most of the time the only English resident of Ajmer. He must have been just about the last Englishman to have been honored by both the British and Indian Governments.Brij Sharma is a journalist based in Bahrain. He spent much of his childhood and youth in Dehra Dun, and while not a product of The Doon School, he has known its campus, the surroundings of the city and much of the mountainous terrain described in Gibson's letters.http://www.jtmgibson.com
Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque
Author: Fanny Parkes ParlbyPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719053504
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
This edition of Fanny Parkes' account of her travels in India provides valuable insight into middle-class British women's views on Indian life. It includes descriptions of the Zenana and Indian domestic life--subjects that are often omitted from male-authored travel texts.
The Beith Supplement
Author: Donald L. ReidPublisher: Duke of Edinburgh's Award Beit Group
ISBN: 9780952272014
Category : Beith (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 123
Book Description
Handbook on Wildlife Law Enforcement in India
Author: Samir SinhaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788181581341
Category : Wildlife conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This is an illustrated book that points out wildlife crimes conducted in India -- it shows how poachers work, their mechanisms and how officials can control and curb wildlife crime -- which accounts for a shockingly large percentage of illegal trade and crime in the world.
Staying Alive
Author: Vandana ShivaPublisher: North Atlantic Books
ISBN: 1623170516
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a process of exploitation, inequality, and injustice—is dragging the world down a path of self-destruction, threatening survival itself. Shiva articulates how rural Indian women experience and perceive ecological destruction and its causes, and how they have conceived and initiated processes to arrest the destruction of nature and begin its regeneration. Focusing on science and development as patriarchal projects, Staying Alive is a powerfully relevant book that positions women not solely as survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle.
Identity and Violence
Author: Amartya SenPublisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780141027807
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Amartya Sen argues that most of the conflicts in the contemporary world arise from individuals' notions of who they are, and which groups they belong to - local, national, religious - which define themselves in opposition to others.
Staying Alive
Author: Vandana ShivaPublisher:
ISBN: 9788188965588
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Vandana Shiva is one of the world's most prominent radical scientists . . . in Staying Alive she defines the links between ecological crises, colonialism, and the oppression of women. It is a scholarly and polemical plea for the rediscovery of the 'feminine principle' in human interaction with the natural world, not as a gender-based quality, rather an organizing principle, a way of seeing the world. --Guardian In this pioneering work, Vandana Shiva looks at the history of development and progress, stripping away the neutral language of science to reveal third-world development policy as the global twin of the industrial revolution. As Shiva makes clear, the way this development paradigm is being implemented--through violence against nature and women--threatens survival itself. She focuses on how rural Indian women experience and perceive the causes and effects of ecological destruction, and how they conceive of and initiate processes to stop the destruction and begin regeneration. As the world continues to follow destructive paths of development, Shiva's Staying Alive is a fiercely relevant book that positions women not as mere survivors of the crisis, but as the source of crucial insights and visions to guide our struggle. A world-renowned environmental leader and thinker, Vandana Shiva is the author of many books, including Stolen Harvest, Earth Democracy, and Soil Not Oil. She is the founder of Navdanya and a leader in the International Forum on Globalization (IFG) and the Slow Food movement.
Author: Edward Money