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  • 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

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    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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  • Sculpting the Middle Class

    History, Masculinity and the Amar Chitra Katha

    by Deepa Sreenivas ...
    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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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

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  • Debates in Indian Philosophy

    Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary

    by A. Raghuramaraju ...
    This volume traces the impact of colonialism and Western philosophy on the dialogical structure of Indian thought and highlights the general tendency in contemporary Indian philosophy to avoid direct dialogue as opposed to the rich and elaborate debates that formed the pivot of the classical Indian tradition. It defines three possible areas of debate: between Swami Vivekanand and Mahatama Gandhi; ... Read more

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  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    by Balmurli Natrajan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    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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  • The Oxford Handbook of Buddhist Ethics

    Edited by Daniel Cozort, James Mark Shields ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Many forms of Buddhism, divergent in philosophy and style, emerged as Buddhism filtered out of India into other parts of Asia. Nonetheless, all of them embodied an ethical core that is remarkably consistent. Articulated by the historical Buddha in his first sermon, this moral core is founded on the concept of karma—that intentions and actions have future consequences for an individual—and is ... Read more

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  • Dalit Feminist Theory

    A Reader

    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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  • Japan's Ainu Minority in Tokyo

    Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics

    by Mark K. Watson ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    This book is about the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, living in and around Tokyo; it is, therefore, about what has been pushed to the margins of history. Customarily, anthropologists and public officials have represented Ainu issues and political affairs as limited to rural pockets of Hokkaido. Today, however, a significant proportion of the Ainu people live in and around major cities on ... Read more

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  • Politics of Education in Colonial India

    by Krishna Kumar ...
    In retracting from the popular view that India’s modern educational policy was shaped almost entirely by Macaulay, this incisive work reveals the complex ideological and institutional rubric of the colonial educational system. It examines its wide-ranging and lasting impact on curriculum, pedagogy, textbooks, teachers’ role and status, and indigenous forms of knowledge. Recounting the nationalist ... Read more

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  • Studying Hinduism

    Key Concepts and Methods

    Edited by Sushil Mittal, Gene Thursby ...
    This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers wishing to develop a deeper understanding of one of the world's oldest and most multifaceted religious traditions.Sushil Mittal and Gene Thursby, leading scholars in the field, have brought together a rich variety of perspectives which reflect the current lively state of the field. Studying Hinduism is the result of cooperative ... Read more

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  • The Cracked Mirror

    An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory

    by Gopal Guru, Sundar Sarukkai ...
    Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing their tenuous relationship, this book presents a passionate plea to create new frameworks for describing contemporary Indian social experiences. Using a dialogic form and placing the reality of untouchability and Dalit life at the centre of analyses, Gopal ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD