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| This collection of essays by subject specialists examines the politics of violence, communalism, and terrorism as negotiated in cinema; the representations of identitarian politics; and the complex ideological underpinnings of literary adaptations. |
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IT AND RURAL HEALTH CARE
Edited by Murli D Tiwari and Kamlesh N Agarwala
2010, xviii + 180pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-81-8332-645-2
Price: Rs 695
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| This book, with contributions from seventeen specialists dealing with different issues of health, provides insights into existing technological developments and how government's initiative e-governance can bring about rural empowerment. This has strategically been demonstrated by several case studies with practical suggestions for further improvement. |
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| This book offers a historical understanding of the Indian Audio-Visual media as well as examines and deconstructs the relationship between fact and fiction, history and imagination, nationalism and communalism, nation and gender, history and war, media and mentality and cinema and social identities particularly in Hindi cinema. |
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| Public debate and critical opinion has been diverse and divided on the 1857 Indian revolution against colonialism. And no ‘conclusive truth’ has been established on whether the 1857 ‘Mutiny’ was a military revolt or India’s first war of Independence. This book of essays takes up the micro-narratives of 1857 to comprehend its influence on the public imaginary and the political events to follow. |
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CHINGIZ KHAN
The Life and Legacy of an Empire Builder
Syed Anwarul Haque Haqqi
2010, xxx + 326pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-81-908918-9-9
Price: Rs 995
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| This volume provides an evocative account of Temuchin Chingiz Khan, who knitted the warring Mongol tribes into well-trained warriors, and who went on to establish an empire from the Great Wall of China to the Caspian Sea and the Indus River. |
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ESSAYS ON LITERATURE, HISTORY AND SOCIETY
Syed Naqi Husain Jafri
2010, xxii + 218pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-81-908918-5-1
Price: Rs 675
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| The collection of essays looks at various themes such as ghazal as a form of non-conformist poetry, Hispano-Arabic connections with English poetry, Syed Ahmad Khan's role in the Urdu-Hindi controversy, and madrasa education and its contemporary criticism. |
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MUSIC AS HISTORY IN TAMILNADU
T.K. Venkatasubramanian
2010, xvi + 158pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-93-80607-06-1
Price: Rs 695
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| This volume examines the ways in which interdisciplinarity between music and history may be established and also how history and aesthetics exist in reciprocal relation to one another. |
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THE MAKING OF THE AWADH CULTURE
Madhu Trivedi
2010, xii + 314pp + 32 plates (4 in colour), Hb
ISBN: 978-81-908918-8-2
Price: Rs 1095
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| This book makes an extensive study of the art and culture of Awadh during the Nawabi period (c. 1722-1856), with a focus on the city of Lucknow. It takes up evidence available in the Persian and Urdu languages, as well as performance traditions and craft techniques of the age. |
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GINANS
Texts and Contexts
Edited by Francoise Mallison and Tazim R. Kassam
2010, xxvi + 226pp, Hb with CD
ISBN: 978-81-908918-7-5
Price: Rs 795
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| This volume on the Ginans illustrates how Satpanth Ismaili Muslims of South Asia were influenced by the surrounding cultures and philosophies, and evolved new ways of expressing their beliefs and values. |
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MARITIME INDIA
Trade, Religion and Polity in the Indian Ocean
Pius Malekandathil
2010, xxviii + 212pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-93-80607-01-6
Price: Rs 695
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| This volume discusses the socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the coastal fringes of India and out of the circuits of the Indian Ocean, to give it the consciousness and identity of Maritime India. |
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EXPLORATIONS IN MODERN BENGAL, C. 1800-1900
Essays on Religion, History and Culture
Amiya P. Sen
2010, x + 256pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-81-908918-6-8
Price: Rs 750
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| This book examines a regional culture through a study of three key facets to contemporary Hindu thought - possible interplay between the divinely ordained and human history, innovative extensions in the meaning of older terms like 'Dharma', and new moral and cultural theories around select mythical figures and traditionally revered texts. |
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COASTAL HISTORIES
Society and Ecology in pre-Modern India
Edited by Yogesh Sharma
2010, xii + 216pp, Hb
ISBN: 978-93-80607-00-9
Price: Rs 695
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| The book, thus takes up for consideration maritime and oceanic history and related thematic engagements such as the history of overseas exploration and expansion, naval-military history, shipping, port cities, the role of migrations and cross-cultural processes. |
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INDIA'S PRINCELY STATES
People, Princes and Colonialism
Edited by Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati
2010, 244pp, Pb
ISBN: 978-93-80607-03-0
Price: Rs 495
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| This book reassesses the place of the Indian princely states within the history of South Asia and weaves together hitherto uncharted areas. |
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