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  • Contested Representation

    Dalits, Popular Hindi Cinema, and Public Sphere

    by Dhananjay Rai ...
    Popular Hindi cinema has become a significant signpost of contemporaneity due to its construction of social language. Generally, Hindi cinema has been understood through internal (auteur or genre or cinéma verité) and external aspects (consumption spheres and moviegoers’ complex response in the form of catharsis or everydayness mimesis). However, cinema also needs a new way of discerning with ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Gandhi and National Identities

    Edited by Dhananjay Rai, Vikas Pathe ...
    This book explores the enduring relevance of Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas for rethinking national identity in the contemporary world and offers interdisciplinary perspectives on them, spanning political science, sociology, history, Gandhian studies, and cultural studies.The book begins with the premise that understanding a nation requires revisiting how belonging has historically been imagined through ... Read more

    $87.40 CAD

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  • Poorna Swaraj

    Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place

    by M. K. Gandhi, Dhananjay Rai ...
    It contributes to current analyses of the health of liberal democracies**-Rajmohan Gandhi** An impressive contribution to Gandhian studies-Bhikhu Parekh This work merits attention**-Gopal Guru** An extremely valuable and timely work**-Prabhat Patnaik** Time and again, Mahatma Gandhi’s life, work and philosophy have played pivotal roles in bringing positive change in society. Poorna S... ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system that gave rise to it and adapts to new demands of capitalism and democracy.Based on original ... Read more

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  • Dalit Feminist Theory

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    Edited by Sunaina Arya, Aakash Singh Rathore ...
    Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm, namely, that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing ... Read more

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  • India

    Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse

    by Gurpreet Mahajan ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    In this groundbreaking work, Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon. Bringing into focus how concepts central to the modern democratic political imaginary are interpreted in India, this book elaborates the ways that ideas of freedom, equality and difference are layered with new meanings and how questions of religion and state, critical ... Read more

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  • Gandhi in Political Theory

    Truth, Law and Experiment

    by Anuradha Veeravalli ...
    Can Gandhi be considered a systematic thinker? While the significance of Gandhi’s thought and life to our times is undeniable it is widely assumed that he did not serve any discipline and cannot be considered a systematic thinker. Despite an overwhelming body of scholarship and literature on his life and thought the presuppositions of Gandhi’s experiments, the systematic nature of his intervention ... Read more

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Caste

    by Surinder S. Jodhka, Jules Naudet ...
    Beginning with the 1990s, the subject of caste has seen a profound increase in interest among scholars. What was until then approached as a fossilized tradition of the ritual-obsessed Hindus refusing to see the progressive spirits of the emerging world and studied as a branch of anthropology, suddenly began to be seen as a complex reality deeply embedded in a range of institutions and social ... Read more

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  • Gandhi’s Dharma

    by Koneru Ramakrishna Rao ...
    When asked about his message to the world, the Mahatma famously said, ‘My life is my message.’ In him there was no room for contradiction between thought and action. His life in its totality is a series of experiments to convert dharma, moral principles, into karma, practices in action. Gandhi believed that development is a dialectical process stemming from the antinomy of two aspects latent ... Read more

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  • The Great Awakening

    A Buddhist Social Theory

    by David R. Loy ...
    The most essential insight that Buddhism offers is that all our individual suffering arises from three and only three sources, known in Buddhism as the three poisons: greed, ill-will, and delusion. In The Great Awakening, scholar and Zen teacher David Loy examines how these three poisons, embodied in society's institutions, lie at the root of all social maladies as well. The teachings of Buddhism ... Read more

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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bhikhu Parekh ...
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    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Read more

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  • Sculpting the Middle Class

    History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

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    This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the last 4 decades of the 20th century. ... Read more

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