Print Modernity in Colonial Assam considers the historical context of colonial Assam and traces literary trends which were subject to acknowledgment and evasion in the (over)emphasized periodicals and magazines of the time. Raktima Bhuyan and Sanjib Pol Deka argue for alternative literary trends and reading public in colonial Assam. The ......
Kashmir's Necropolis: New Literatures and Visual Texts is an interdisciplinary book that studies literary texts, film, photography, and art to understand the different forms of violence represented in the cultural productions from and on Kashmir. The author argues that selected texts present how the long conflict in the postcolonial nation-state ......
In Medical Tourism and Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues.
The book brings together three strains of detective fiction: British, American, and Bengal. The essays explore varied aspects of detective fiction, offering new avenues of critical thought from a Postcolonial perspective.
Explores the relationship between people, street animals, and rabies in urban India. Incorporates epidemiological goals within anthropological frameworks to investigate the ways in which people come into contact with animals and create favorable conditions for the rabies virus to flourish.
Conventional wisdom says that integration into the global marketplace tends to weaken the power of traditional faith in developing countries. But, as Meera Nanda argues in this path-breaking book, this is hardly the case in today's India. Against expectations of growing secularism, India has instead seen a remarkable intertwining of Hinduism and ......
Dialogue on Partition shows how shared time and space as depicted in partition literature can foster dialogue despite separation and relocation. By incorporating the multiple and eclectic perspectives of characters, narrators, writers, and historians, art and literature can be used as tools of integration between sects, religions and differences.
North East Indian Perspectives on Peace, Justice, and Life in Community
In Negotiating Peace, Shimreingam L. Shimray argues that peace cannot be derived from outside forces but that it must instead be created from within the local context.
"Political and sociological analysis of the Naxalite movement, beginning with its 1967 armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, and continuing into the present as the world's longest-running revolutionary "people's war," based in Maoist resistance."--Provided by publisher.
