This easy-to-use identification guide to the 280 native and introduced species of garden flower most commonly seen in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka is perfect for resident and visitor alike.
American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India: Critical Perspectives is a collection of critical essays on Contemporary American Literature. This book is a classic and unique collection of critical essays on various topics such as Americanness, American Dream, Transcendentalism, Counterculture, Gay culture, Post Communism, Race, Class, Gender ......
Education, Religion, and Culture at the Ancient Sri Nalanda Mahavihara
This interdisciplinary study provides a broad analysis of Sri Nalanda Mahavihara, the Buddhist learning center, during the first millennium AD. Drawing from history, archaeology, and religious studies, the author examines its role both as a religious and educational institutio...
A reprint from the library collection of the national archives of india, this book illustrates the progress, rather than the process, leading to the siege of delhi and its recapture the principal events of the 1857 revolt are represented but only as pointers to the imminent victory of the British army
ISBN-13: 9780948092633
(Paperback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
'Chitral 1895: An Episode of the Great Game' examines the true story of a garrison of British Army officers and their Indian troops at Chitral Fort, and the subsequent military campaign fought to relieve them. Although called a 'minor siege' at the time, it was an important last move in the 'Great Game' between the British and Russian empires.
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.
Global Scattering and Gathering of South Asian Christians
This book is a global account of the lived religious experiences of South Asian Christians from different parts of the world and the mission of God among, by, and through South Asian Christians living in diasporic locations and from diverse disciplinary vantage points.
Twenty years ago, India launched its "Look East" policy. For most of those 20 years, Myanmar's isolation, mistrust between India and its neighbors, and poor infrastructure connectivity hindered the development of links between South and Southeast Asia. With Myanmar's tentative opening and improved relations between India and Bangladesh, an ......
Exploring Caste and Sexuality in Indian English Writing: Outcast Subcultures examines the ways in which caste intersects and shapes matters of desire, gender, religion, and language. It demonstrates how postcolonial upper-caste theorists and fiction writers obscure caste, and when they do discuss it, they seem to reinforce it. Dominant brahminic ......
Analyses the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood
Analyses the transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood
Religion, Print, and Modernity in Early British India, 1793-1835
From Little London to Little Bengal traces the traffic in culture between Britain and India during the Romantic period. To some, Calcutta appeared to be a "Little London," while in London itself an Indianized community of returned expatriates was emerging as "Little Bengal." Circling between the two, this study reads British and Indian literary, ......
For an unsuspecting Westerner, the reading of Gandhi as he is portrayed on these shelves can bring about the intended result. This book attempts to close the gap between the popularised Gandhi and the historical Gandhi. It aims to incite readers to be more open-minded and to seek to validate the "truths" presented.
Organized thematically, this book examines contestations surrounding the term Bollywood, changing relations between the state and the film industry, convergence with television and new media, online fan culture, film journalism, and the reception and negotiations of gender and sexuality in diverse socio-cultural contexts.
A common critique of globalization is that it causes economic segmentation and even disintegration of the national economy. While globalization has its benefits, such as higher economic growth, and costs, such as external shocks, the author's findings show that India has benefited from globalization more than it has been victimized by it.
India Adventure Set consists of a Pocket Naturalist Guide and National Geographic Map, offering a perfect resource for travelers wanting "hands on" information on what to see and where to go to find some of the world's most dramatic natural attractions.
Waterford's INDIA WILDLIFE is the perfect pocket-sized, folding guide for the nature ......
"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.
Although the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to be the world's longest-running "people's war," and Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India.
One of Indias most distinguished foreign policy thinkers addresses the many questions facing India as it seeks to find its way in the complex world of Asian geopolitics. A former Indian foreign secretary and national security adviser, Shivshankar Menon traces Indias approach to the shifting regional landscape since its independence in 1947.
India and Nuclear Asia will fill a gap in the outside world's knowledge by focusing on the post-1998 evolution of Indian nuclear thought, its arsenal, its rivalry with Pakistan and China, and New Delhi's nonproliferation policy, and by showing how India's nuclear trajectory has evolved in response to domestic, regional, and global drivers.
India and Nuclear Asia will fill a gap in the outside world's knowledge by focusing on the post-1998 evolution of Indian nuclear thought, its arsenal, its rivalry with Pakistan and China, and New Delhi's nonproliferation policy, and by showing how India's nuclear trajectory has evolved in response to domestic, regional, and global drivers.
India's diverse habitats are the permanent or migratory home of 1,300 species of birds, including the national bird - the Indian Peafowl. This beautifully illustrated guide highlights over 140 familiar and unique species and includes a map featuring prominent bird-viewing areas. A back panel map is also included, showing the country's top ......
India's diverse habitats - from the towering Himalayas in the north to the interior jungles and deserts to the coastal beaches - harbor an equally diverse assemblage of wildlife ranging from tigers and lions, to elephants, rhinos, flying lizards, pangolins and dugongs. India Wildlife is a beautifully illustrated guide highlighting over 120 ......
Following Francoise d'Eaubonne's creation of the term "ecofeminism" in 1974, scholars around the world have explored ways that the degradation of the environment and the subjugation of women are linked. In the nearly three decades since the publication of the classical work Ecofeminism by Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva in 1993, several collections ......
Examines India's rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region.
Examines India's rise to power and the obstacles it faces in the context of domestic governance and security, relationships and security issues with its South Asian neighbors, and international relations in the wider Asian region.
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 ......
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in ......
How the rise of HIV in India resulted in government protections for gay groups, transgender people, and sex workers This original ethnographic research explores the relationship between the HIV/AIDS epidemic and the rights-based struggles of sexual minorities in contemporary India. Sex workers, gay men, and transgender people became visible in ......
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.
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.
