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“ritu tyagi”

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  • Kala Pani Crossings, Gender and Diaspora

    Indian Perspectives

    Edited by Judith Misrahi-Barak, Ritu Tyagi, H. Kalpana ...
    This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, class, caste, gender, and sexuality intersect with concepts of home, belonging, displacement and the reinvention of the nation and of self.Positioning itself as a companion to Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th century Migrations from India’s ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    by B.K. Sharma ...
    Series Book 1 - Surf Rangers
    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... Read more

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  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

    The Making of Calcutta

    by Debjani Bhattacharyya ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing ... Read more

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  • The Return of Polyandry

    Kinship and Marriage in Central Tibet

    by Heidi E. Fjeld ...
    Tibet is known for its broad range of marriage practices, particularly polyandry, where two or more brothers share one wife. With economic development and massive Chinese social and political reforms, including new marriage laws prohibiting plural marriages, polyandry was expected to disappear from Tibetan communities. This book takes as its starting point the surprising increase in polyandry in ... Read more

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  • English Heart, Hindi Heartland

    The Political Life of Literature in India

    by Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series Book 8 - FlashPoints
    English Heart, Hindi Heartland examines Delhi’s postcolonial literary world—its institutions, prizes, publishers, writers, and translators, and the cultural geographies of key neighborhoods—in light of colonial histories and the globalization of English. Rashmi Sadana places internationally recognized authors such as Salman Rushdie, Anita Desai, Vikram Seth, and Aravind Adiga in the context of ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • A Time for Tea

    Women, Labor, and Post/Colonial Politics on an Indian Plantation

    by Piya Chatterjee ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In this creative, ethnographic, and historical critique of labor practices on an Indian plantation, Piya Chatterjee provides a sophisticated examination of the production, consumption, and circulation of tea. A Time for Tea reveals how the female tea-pluckers seen in advertisements—picturesque women in mist-shrouded fields—came to symbolize the heart of colonialism in India. Chatterjee exposes how ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing

    Edited by Robert Clarke ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Travel Writing offers readers an insight into the scope and range of perspectives that one encounters in this field of writing. Encompassing a diverse range of texts and styles, performances and forms, postcolonial travel writing recounts journeys undertaken through places, cultures, and communities that are simultaneously living within, through, and after ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Understanding Rituals

    Edited by Daniel de Coppet ...
    Series series European Association of Social Anthropologists
    Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's cultural identity and social relations. By examining specific rituals from various theoretical ... Read more

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  • Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought

    Genealogies, Theories, Enactments

    Edited by Gabrielle Jamela Hosein, Lisa Outar ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Bringing together three generations of scholars, thinkers and activists, this book is the first to trace a genealogy of the specific contributions Indo-Caribbean women have made to Caribbean feminist epistemology and knowledge production. Challenging the centrality of India in considerations of the forms that Indo-Caribbean feminist thought and praxis have taken, the authors turn instead to the ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

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  • The Literature of the Indian Diaspora

    Theorizing the Diasporic Imaginary

    by Vijay Mishra ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    The Literature of the Indian Diaspora constitutes a major study of the literature and other cultural texts of the Indian diaspora. It is also an important contribution to diaspora theory in general. Examining both the ‘old’ Indian diaspora of early capitalism, following the abolition of slavery, and the ‘new’ diaspora linked to movements of late capital, Mishra argues that a full understanding of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Orality: the Quest for Meanings

    by Zothanchhingi Khiangte ...
    This collection assembles significant research papers on the concept of orality, theoretical approaches, and oral traditions juxtaposed with writing, culture, and folklore. Many of the essays also deal with issues of gender in oral cultures like those of Northeast India. The collection serves as an introduction to the varied ways in which the analysis of oral traditions has revitalized the quest ... Read more

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