Bøker av Ashutosh Kumar

Heart Harmony: Understanding and Living with Heart Disease is a comprehensive and accessible guide or the general public. It provides valuable information on the functioning and anatomy of the heart, as well as how it can be affected by various diseases. The book covers topics such as coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, and heart failure, explaining their causes, symptoms, and risk factors. One of the standout features of the book is its focus on living in harmony with heart disease. It offers practical advice on lifestyle modifications, including exercise, diet, and stress management techniques. The book also emphasizes the importance of medication adherence, regular check-ups, and effective communication with healthcare providers. In addition to managing heart disease, "Heart Harmony" also provides precautionary measures to reduce the risk of developing heart disease. It guides readers on maintaining a healthy heart through strategies such as adopting a heart-healthy diet, engaging in regular physical activity, and avoiding harmful habits like smoking. Throughout the book, the author maintains a compassionate and understanding tone, reassuring readers that a heart disease diagnosis does not mean the end of a fulfilling life. The goal of "Heart Harmony" is to empower individuals with heart disease, offering encouragement and support to help them navigate their journey with confidence. Overall, "Heart Harmony" is an informative and practical guide that educates the general public on heart health, disease prevention, and living harmoniously with heart conditions. It provides valuable information, practical tips, and a compassionateperspective to help readers lead fulfilling lives while managing their heart health.

This book explores the lives and social histories of Indians soldiers who fought in the First World War. It focuses on their motivations, experiences, and lives after returning from service in Europe, Mesopotamia, East Africa, and Palestine, to present a more complete picture of Indian participation in the war.The book looks at the Indian support to the war for political concessions from the British government and its repercussions through the perspective of the role played by more than one million Indian soldiers and labourers. It examines the social and cultural aspects of the experience of fighting on foreign soil in a deadly battle and their contributions which remain largely unrecognised. From micro-histories of fighting soldiers, aspects of recruitment and deployment, to macro-histories connecting different aspects of the War, the volume explores a variety of themes including: the material incentives, coercion and training which converted peasants into combatants; encounters of travelling Indian soldiers with other societies; and the contributions of returned soldiers in Indian society.The book will be useful to researchers and students of history, post-colonial studies, sociology, literature, and cultural studies as well as for those interested in military history, World War I, and colonial history.

This book explores the intricate and intimate relationship between military organization, imperial policy, and society in colonial South Asia. The essays in the volume highlight the salient features of expansion and consolidation of imperial control over the subcontinent, and ultimate demise of the Raj.

This book studies Indian overseas labour migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, which involved millions of Indians traversing the globe in the age of empire, subsequent to the abolition of slavery in 1833. This migration led to the presence of Indians and their culture being felt all over the world. This study delves deep into the lives of these indentured workers from India who called themselves girmitiyas; it is a narrative of their experiences in India and in the sugar colonies abroad. It foregrounds the alternative world view of the girmitiyas, and their socio-cultural and religious life in the colonies. In this book, the author has developed highly original insights into the experience of colonial indentured migrant labour, describing the ways in which migrants managed to survive and even flourish within the interstices of the indentured labour system and how considerably the experience of migration changed over time.