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  • Rendering Houses in Ladakh

    par Sophie Day ...
    Collections series Home
    Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth ‘house portraits’ are selected for the insight they provide into major regional developments, based on the author’s extended engagement since 1981. Most of these houses are Buddhist ... En savoir plus

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  • The Argumentative Indian

    Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

    par Amartya Sen ...
    India is a very diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widely divergent customs, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. The Argumentative Indian brings together an illuminating selection of writings from Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen that outline the need to understand contemporary India in the light of its long argumentative tradition.The ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Educational Heritage of Ancient India

    How an Ecosystem of Learning Was Laid to Waste

    par Sahana Singh ...
    Just a thousand years ago, India was dotted with universities across its length and breadth, where international students flocked to gain credentials in advanced education. This illustrated book describes how these multi-disciplinary centers of learning existed in several forms such as forest universities, brick-and-mortar universities and temple universities.It examines the funding for these ... En savoir plus

    $1.47 CAD

  • Home in the World

    A Memoir

    par Amartya Sen ...
    From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen, a memoir about home, belonging, inequality, and identity, recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanity.A towering figure in the field of economics, Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine, as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal, India. But Sen has, in fact, called many places “home,” from Dhaka in ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

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    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Incarnations

    India in 50 Lives

    par Sunil Khilnani ...
    One of the world's most ancient cultures, India can be understood and explained in as many ways as humans can possibly devise. To make sense of this astonishing turmoil of ideas, Sunil Khilnani has created a remarkably simple and attractive solution. In this book (which accompanies a major Radio 4 series which he is narrating) he takes the lives of 50 Indians, starting with the Buddha, some very ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

    Aussi disponible en : Livre audio

  • Everyday Life in South Asia

    Modifié par Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... En savoir plus

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  • Sikhism

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Eleanor Nesbitt ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide. However,events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11, where Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, suggest that the Sikh faith still remains mysterious to many. This Very Short Introduction introduces newcomers to the meaning of the Sikh religious tradition, its teachings, practices, rituals ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Sikhism

    An Introduction

    par Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh ...
    Collections series I.B.Tauris Introductions to Religion
    Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive identity. This sense of difference, forged during Sikhism's fierce struggles with the Mughal Empire, is still symbolised by the 'Five Ks' ('panj kakar', in Punjabi), those articles of faith to which all baptised Sikhs subscribe: uncut hair bound in a turban ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Modifié par Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Collections series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... En savoir plus

    $49.99 CAD

  • The Passenger: India

    par The Passenger, Arundhati Roy, Prem Shankar Jha, Tishani Doshi ...
    Collections series The Passenger
    A journey into today's India through essays, photography, and more, shortlisted for a 2022 Edward Stanford Travel Writing Award.Since its earliest interactions with the West, India has been the object of a gross misinterpretation, a vague association with ideas of peace, spiritualism, the magic of the fakirs. Constantly reframed and mythologized by Westerners fleeing their supposedly rationalist ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    par 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 ... En savoir plus

    $63.99 CAD

  • Sexuality, Obscenity, Community

    Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India

    par Charu Gupta ...
    The cultural imagination of Hindu India is the subject of this book. Anyone interested in the prehistory of present-day tensions between Hindus and Muslims will find it exceptionally valuable. Charu Gupta shows how gendered notions about women's sexuality and Muslim debauchery were used to pull together a heterogeneous populace into a coherent Hindu community in colonial north India. She traces ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD