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  • Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

    de Poonam Bala, Russel Viljoen, Sahara Ahmed, Mark Briskey, Apalak Das, Sohini Das, Suvankar Dey, Mathew Franco, Amina Issa0, Vicki Luker1, Saurav Kumar Rai2, Jeff Ramsay3, Arabinda Samanta4, Jacob Steere-Williams5, Elizabeth Van Heynigen6 ...
    The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting colonial ... Leer más

    $105.99 USD

  • Pandemics and Literature

    Regional and Global Perspectives

    Edición de Kamlesh Mohan, Saurav Kumar Rai ...
    This volume provides a literary-cum-historiographical analysis of epidemics and pandemics. It looks at folklore, tribal folktales, eyewitness accounts, memoirs and missionary writings from India and the west to explore the history of some of the major outbreaks in history. The chapters focus on the impact of outbreaks such as plague, cholera, malaria, tuberculosis and COVID-19, upon the material ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

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  • Home in the World

    A Memoir

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Argumentative Indian

    Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

    de Amartya Sen ...
    A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native countryIndia is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long ... Leer más

    $14.99 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

  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Leer más

    $4.99 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

  • 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

  • Travels to Europe

    Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives, 1870-1910

    de Simonti Sen ...
    Series series New Perspectives in South Asian History
    This work examines in detail the world of travelogues of a highly interesting culture-universe: the Bengali bhadralok. A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic text. Its very fabric is structured in space and power - it creates, relates, compares and contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis travelling to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to produce such texts. An analysis of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • When Does History Begin?

    Religion, Narrative, and Identity in the Sikh Tradition

    de Harjot Oberoi ...
    Documents how the premodern techniques of narrating the past in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonial modernity, resulting in newer forms of truth-telling within the Sikh community.Focusing on important issues in Sikh religious identity and memory, Harjot Oberoi shows how premodern techniques of narrating the past and truth-telling in South Asia were deeply transformed by colonialism. ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920)

    How they shaped India and the World

    de Chinmay Tumbe ...
    From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, the movement of people to the movement of bowels, from rats to cats, and more, The Age of Pandemics chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India being the epicentre in all these episodes.The book argues that the period between the early nineteenth ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Brief History of Death

    de William M. Spellman ...
    A Brief History of Death offers a topical survey of views concerning death and its aftermath in the Western tradition, from prehistory to the present. It explores how humans understand and come to terms with the fact of mortality and looks at the physical and social aspects of death, how dying people are treated, how the dying conduct themselves in the knowledge of their approaching demise and how ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD