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  • The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak

    An Intellectual Biography

    de Robert E. Upton ...
    This work is a systematic study of Bal Gangadhar Tilak's thought, focusing on his views on 'communal' relations within the Indian polity, on caste and reform in Hindu society, and on political ethics regarding violence and non-cooperation. The Thought of Bal Gangadhar Tilak adopts a contextualist approach, situating his ideas in local Maharashtrian as well as pan-Indian and global cultural ... Leer más

    $102.59 USD

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  • The Doctor and the Saint

    Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi

    de Arundhati Roy ...
    The little-known story of Gandhi's reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India's downtrodden.Democracy hasn't eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: ... Leer más

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  • Gandhi: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Bhikhu Parekh ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. During his time as a lawyer in South Africa he developed his strategy of non-violence: the idea of opposing unjust laws by non-violent protest, which he made the basis of his successful struggle against British rule in India. In this Very Short ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men

    An Annotated Critical Selection from The Untouchables

    de B. R. Ambedkar ...
    One of twentieth-century India’s great polymaths, statesmen, and militant philosophers of equality, B. R. Ambedkar spent his life battling Untouchability and instigating the end of the caste system. In his 1948 book The Untouchables, he sought to trace the origin of the Dalit caste. Beef, Brahmins, and Broken Men is an annotated selection from this work, just as relevant now, when the oppression ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Mahatma Gandhi

    Nonviolent Power in Action

    de Dennis Dalton ...
    Dennis Dalton's classic account of Gandhi's political and intellectual development focuses on the leader's two signal triumphs: the civil disobedience movement (or salt satyagraha) of 1930 and the Calcutta fast of 1947. Dalton clearly demonstrates how Gandhi's lifelong career in national politics gave him the opportunity to develop and refine his ideals. He then concludes with a comparison of ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation

    Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism

    de Tanika Sarkar ...
    This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Brahmin and Non-Brahmin

    Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present

    de M.S.S.Pandian ...
    In South India, the categories ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’ are frequently treated as self-evident, both within contemporary Tamil politics and in mainstream academic discourses. Departing from this political and academic ‘common sense’, the present book historicizes the complex processes by which these categories came into being and acquired political power over the past century. Using archival, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • B. R. Ambedkar

    The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed

    de Shashi Tharoor ...
    Series series Global Icons
    A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination.Ambedkar was born into a Dalit caste (the so-called ‘untouchables’), but his academic brilliance saw him study at Columbia University ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Sri Aurobindo

    A Contemporary Reader

    Edición de Sachidananda Mohanty ...
    This book compiles some of the finest writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872–1950) — the nationalist, visionary, poet-philosopher. It reflects the range, depth and outreach of the moral, intellectual and spiritual vision of this versatile and multifaceted genius. It aims at providing, at one place, access to the key concepts, tenets, and the spirit of the extraordinary range of texts authored by him ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Rebels, Wives, Saints

    Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times

    de Tanika Sarkar ...
    Tanika Sarkars writings on women, religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking. In this new book of connected essays, she gives a new direction to the same themes, this time by focusing on some of the key historical texts within which these identities were given shape. The colonial universe outlined in this book centres around woman as both defiled and deified ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History

    de SUMIT SARKAR ...
    The political context in which the Historian of India finds himself today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalised forms of capitalism. Simultaneously, the historians intellectual context is now dominated by the marginalisation of Marxism and a shift to cultural studies and postmodern critiques. In this scenario, how may a thinking historian practice the ... Leer más

    $21.00 USD

  • Sexuality, Obscenity, Community

    Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD