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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “supurna banerjee”
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  • Star Named Bibha And Other Stories

    by Anwesha Sengupta, Simantini Mukhopadhyay, Supurna Banerjee, S Banerjee, S Mukhopadhyay, A Sengupta, M Chowdhury ...
    Illustrated by Mistunee Chowdhury ...
    Series series Timeless Biographies
    What's a common thread that connects remarkable women such as Tun Tun, Bibha Chowdhury and Pandita Ramabai?That they were born, lived and worked between the late-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries, when being a woman was a challenging experience, shaped by caste, religion, place of residence, class and occupation. These women dared to go against social conventions and made their mark in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Activism and Agency in India

    Nurturing Resistance in the Tea Plantations

    by Supurna Banerjee ...
    Series series Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
    During the period 2000 to 2010, tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation, framed by conflict and turbulence.This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among women workers on tea plantations in North Bengal, India. The author views tea plantations as social spaces, rather than only economic ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Negotiating Borders and Borderlands: The Indian Experience

    by Gorky Chakraborty, Supurna Banerjee ...
    Borders have always been seen as physical lines of separation, which mark the ‘other’ and group geographical spaces into territories and nation-States. However, can borders and borderlands also simultaneously exist as gateways for trade and commerce while being rigid institutions that disallow the movement of people from one part to another?Are some borders seen while others are only felt ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Caste and Gender in Contemporary India

    Power, Privilege and Politics

    Edited by Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh ...
    This book explores the intersectional aspects of caste and gender in India that contribute to the multiple marginalities and oppressions of lower castes, with particular reference to Dalits, Muslims and women. It moves beyond the conventional accounts of experiences of women in unequal social and political relationships to examine how caste as a system and ideology shapes hegemonic masculinity and ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

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  • 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

    $28.99 USD

  • Modern India

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

    $68.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Governed

    Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

    by Partha Chatterjee ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Often dismissed as the rumblings of "the street," popular politics is where political modernity is being formed today, according to Partha Chatterjee. The rise of mass politics all over the world in the twentieth century led to the development of new techniques of governing population groups. On the one hand, the idea of popular sovereignty has gained wide acceptance. On the other hand, the ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Postcolonial Resistance

    Culture, Liberation, and Transformation

    by David Jefferess ...
    Despite being central to the project of postcolonialism, the concept of resistance has received only limited theoretical examination. Writers such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, and Homi K. Bhabha have explored instances of revolt, opposition, or subversion, but there has been insufficient critical analysis of the concept of resistance, particularly as it relates to liberation or social and ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Colonial Origins of Ethnic Violence in India

    by Ajay Verghese ...
    Series series Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
    The neighboring north Indian districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are identical in language, geography, and religious and caste demography. But when the famous Babri Mosque in Ayodhya was destroyed in 1992, Jaipur burned while Ajmer remained peaceful; when the state clashed over low-caste affirmative action quotas in 2008, Ajmer's residents rioted while Jaipur's citizens stayed calm. What explains these ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Daughters of the Tharu

    Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

    by Mary Ann Maslak ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal. ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • 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

    $64.99 USD