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  • Rukhmabai

    The Life and Times of a Child Bride Turned Rebel-Doctor

    by Sudhir Chandra ...
    The extraordinary story of a child bride who took on the patriarchy and emerged one of India’s pioneering women doctors.From overcoming stupendous trials to inscribing her name in the annals of women’s liberation, Rukhmabai’s journey is marked by a quiet, unyielding strength. Denied formal education and wedded off at eleven years of age to a nineteen-year-old wastrel named Dadaji Bhikaji, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gandhi

    An Impossible Possibility

    by Sudhir Chandra ...
    Translated by Chitra Padmanabhan ...
    Gandhi was perhaps the most influential yet misunderstood figure of the twentieth century. Drawing close attention to his last years, this book explores the marked change in his understanding of the acceptance of non-violence by Indians. It points to a startling discovery Gandhi made in the years preceding India’s Independence and Partition: the struggle for freedom which he had all along believed ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Enslaved Daughters

    Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights

    by Sudhir Chandra ...
    This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven and refused to go and live with her husband. This lucid and engaging account captures the dramatic ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Oppressive Present

    Literature and Social Consciousness in Colonial India

    by Sudhir Chandra ...
    Marking a departure from studies on history and literature in colonial India, The Oppressive Present explores the emergence of social consciousness as a result of and in response to the colonial mediation in the late nineteenth century. In focusing on contemporary literature in Hindi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Marathi, it charts an epochal change in the gradual loss of the old pre-colonial self and ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Cryogenic Processing

    Advances in the Food Industry

    Edited by Sumit Sudhir Pathak, Rama Chandra Pradhan, Sudarshan Ramanathan ...
    Presents comprehensive insights into cryogenic processing to transform food industries and expand future technological applicationsCryogenic processing has advanced rapidly from its origins in industrial metal treatment to becoming a powerful, interdisciplinary technology that is reshaping food production, preservation, and innovation. As food industries worldwide face the challenges of ... Read more

    $221.99 CAD

  • Violence and Non-Violence across Time

    History, Religion and Culture

    Edited by Sudhir Chandra ...
    This book probes the complex interweaving, across time and cultures, of violence and non-violence from the perspective of the present. One of the first of its kind, it offers a comprehensive examination of the interpenetration of violence and non-violence as much in human nature as in human institutions with reference to different continents, cultures and religions over centuries. It points to the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Mangroves: Biodiversity, Livelihoods and Conservation

    Edited by Sudhir Chandra Das, Pullaiah, Elizabeth C. Ashton ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This contributory volume is a comprehensive collection on the mangrove forest eco-system and its ecology, the resources and potentials of mangroves, conservation efforts, mangrove eco-system services and threats to conservation. The book is an all-inclusive compilation on the status, conservation and future of mangroves.Mangroves are a unique ecosystem providing several ecosystem services. They ... Read more

    $358.99 CAD

  • Sandalwood: Silviculture, Conservation and Applications

    Edited by Thammineni Pullaiah, Sudhir Chandra Das, Vishwas A. Bapat, Mallappa Kumara Swamy, Vaddi Damodar Reddy, Kongdragunta Sri Rama Murthy ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book collects comprehensive information on taxonomy, morphology, distribution, wood anatomy, wood properties and uses. It also discusses silvicultural aspects, agroforestry, pests and diseases, biotechnology, molecular studies, biosynthesis of oil, conservation, trade and commerce of Sandal wood. Sandalwood (Santalum album L.) is considered as one of the world's most valuable commercial ... Read more

    $268.99 CAD

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  • Gandhi's Passion

    The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi

    by Stanley Wolpert ...
    Mahatma Gandhi, through his indomitable will and selfless determination, transformed himself into a model of courage and integrity for India's people to emulate in their nonviolent struggle for political power. More than half a century after his death, Gandhi continues to inspire millions throughout the world. Yet modern India seems to have abandoned much of his nonviolent vision, joining the ... Read more

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  • My Non-violence 

    by M.K. Gandhi ...
    I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it ... Read more

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  • Keeping the Jewel in the Crown

    The British Betrayl of India

    by Walter Reid ...
    An in-depth look at what truly happened when the Great Britain gave India its independence, from the author of Five Days from Defeat.When India became independent in 1947, the general view, which has prevailed until now, is that Britain had been steadily working for an amicable transfer of power for decades. In this book, Walter Reid argues that nothing could be further from the truth. With ... Read more

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  • Nehru

    The Invention of India

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Shashi Tharoor delivers an incisive biography of the great secularist who-alongside his spiritual father, Mahatma Gandhi-led the movement for India’s independence from British rule and ushered his newly independent country into the modern world. The man who would one day help topple British rule and become India’s first prime minister started out as a surprisingly unremarkable student. Born into a ... Read more

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