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  • The New BJP

    Modi and the Making of the World's Largest Political Party

    by Nalin Mehta ...
    This book examines how the BJP became the world’s largest political party. It goes beyond the usual narrative of the party’s Hindutva politics to explain how, under Narendra Modi, the party reshaped the Indian polity using its own brand of social engineering. According to the findings of this book, this reconstruction was cleverly powered by new caste coalitions, the claim of a new welfare state ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • India On Television

    by Nalin Mehta ...
    'Excellent...an incisive and much needed study of how television is changing India.' - Rajdeep Sardesai, Managing Editor, CNN-IBN and IBN-7More than fifty 24-hour news networks, operating in eleven different languages, emerged in India between 1992 and 2006. This book traces the evolution of satellite television and how it effected major changes in political culture, the state, and expressions of ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Changing Face of Cricket

    From Imperial to Global Game

    Edited by Dominic Malcolm, Jon Gemmell, Nalin Mehta ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    For cricket enthusiasts there is nothing to match the meaningful contests and excitement generated by the game’s subtle shifts in play. Conversely, huge swathes of the world’s population find cricket the most obscure and bafflingly impenetrable of sports. The Changing Face of Cricket attempts to account for this paradox.The Changing Face of Cricket provides an overview of the various ways in which ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • India and the Olympics

    by Boria Majumdar, Nalin Mehta ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In most accounts of Olympic history across the world, India's Olympic journey is a mere footnote. This book is a corrective. Drawing on newly available and hitherto unused archival sources, it demonstrates that India was an important strategic outpost in the Olympic movement that started as a global phenomenon at the turn of the twentieth century. Among the questions the authors answer are: When ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Gujarat Beyond Gandhi

    Identity, Society and Conflict

    Edited by Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    The birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi and the land that produced Mohammad Ali Jinnah, the founder of Pakistan, Gujarat has been at the centre-stage of South Asia’s political iconography for more than a century. As Gujarat, created as a separate state in 1960, celebrates its golden jubilee this collection of essays critically explores the many paradoxes and complexities of modernity and politics in the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Television in India

    Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change

    Edited by Nalin Mehta ...
    Series series Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia
    This book examines the development of television in India since the early 1990s, and its implications for Indian society more widely. Until 1991, India possessed only a single state-owned television channel, but since then there has been a rapid expansion in independent satellite channels which came as a complete break from the statist control of the past. This book explores this transformation, ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

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    Views from the Front Row

    by Derek O'Brien ...
    Derek O'Brien dominated Indian television as the country's most well-known quizmaster for over two decades, asking questions to millions across India. Now he plays a key role in the Rajya Sabha raising important questions from the front row in the Upper House. One of the most candid, courageous voices of the Opposition, O'Brien is articulate, incisive and provocative - qualities that are apparent ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • A Million Missions

    The Non Profit Sector in India

    by Mathew Cherian ...
    After the assassination of Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi on 30 January 1948, there was a major thrust in favour of voluntary action in India. Six weeks later a few men and women met at Sewagram near Wardha in Maharashtra. They were seeking answers to various questions, including the role that civil society should play in addressing the concerns of the country’s underprivileged and ... Read more

    $5.15 CAD

  • The 2024 Parliamentary Elections in India

    Nation, Region and Religion

    Edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Subrata Mitra ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides an explanation and analysis of the 2024 national parliamentary elections in India. The elections of 2024 have raised many questions regarding India’s transition to democracy and its consolidation, and the exact nature of the ‘national’ verdict, the role of religion, caste and regional identity in determining the outcome. We ask: is the state of Indian democracy a function of who ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Modi's India

    Hindu Nationalism and the Rise of Ethnic Democracy

    by Christophe Jaffrelot ...
    Translated by Cynthia Schoch ...
    A riveting account of how a popularly elected leader has steered the world's largest democracy toward authoritarianism and intoleranceOver the past two decades, thanks to Narendra Modi, Hindu nationalism has been coupled with a form of national-populism that has ensured its success at the polls, first in Gujarat and then in India at large. Modi managed to seduce a substantial number of citizens by ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Sikkim

    Requiem for a Himalayan Kingdom

    by Andrew Duff ...
    A history of larger-than-life characters and the demise of the tiny Himalayan kingdom nestled between India and China.This is the true story of Sikkim, a tiny Buddhist kingdom in the Himalayas that survived the end of the British Empire only to be annexed by India in 1975.It tells the remarkable tale of Thondup Namgyal, the last King of Sikkim, and his American wife, Hope Cooke, thrust unwittingly ... Read more

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  • An Uncommon Road: How Canadian Sikhs Struggled out of the Fringes and into the Mainstream

    by Gian Sandhu ...
    A riveting, incisive account of some of the most complex politics in modern Canada, from the founder of the World Sikh Organization of Canada.Widely publicized atrocities in the mid-80s came to define Canada's Sikhs: the 1984 assault on the Golden Temple by the Indian military, the assassination of Indira Gandhi and subsequent pogroms that left over 3,000 Sikhs dead in Delhi alone, and the bombing ... Read more

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