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  • Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition

    Branding the Potters of Kolkata

    by Geir Heierstad ...
    Series series Diversity and Plurality in South Asia
    In Kolkata’s traditional potter quarter of Kumartuli, a modern and a competitive market oriented approach to life is concealed behind tradition. Among the potters inhabiting the dirt-floored workshops of this caste-based neighbourhood, the history of a modern and economicly neoliberal-minded India unfolds. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition

    Branding the Potters of Kolkata

    by Geir Heierstad ...
    Series series Diversity and Plurality in South Asia
    In Kolkata’s traditional potter quarter of Kumartuli, a modern and a competitive market oriented approach to life is concealed behind tradition. Among the potters inhabiting the dirt-floored workshops of this caste-based neighbourhood, the history of a modern and economicly neoliberal-minded India unfolds. To these contemporary potters, caste is in their blood, caste is about being a creative and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition

    Branding the Potters of Kolkata

    by Geir Heierstad ...
    Series series Diversity and Plurality in South Asia
    Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata’s Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalization of caste. This group of artisans turned artists do not display passive responses to colonial and capitalist encounters but engage actively with the modern and economic developments of society at ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Politics of Caste in West Bengal

    Edited by Uday Chandra, Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Bo Nielsen ...
    Series series Exploring the Political in South Asia
    This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern caste society in colonial and postcolonial West Bengal in India. Drawing on cutting-edge multidisciplinary scholarship, it explains why caste continues to be neglected in the politics of and scholarship on West Bengal, and how caste relations have permeated the politics of the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

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    “Sadhana – The Realisation of Life” is a breathtaking collection of spiritual discourses given by Rabindranath Tagore. A repository of the timeless wisdom of the East, Sadhana is one of the most profound books on spirituality that you will ever read! We highly recommend it to any seeker of spiritual wisdom.The book consists of eight essays, in which Tagore answers some of the most profound ... Read more

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  • Dharma: Hindu Approach to a Purposeful Life

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