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The essays in the book look at the transcontinental dialogic relationship which emerges from the cross-cultural experiences between Latin America, Caribbean and India and directs our gaze towards a present animated by mutual interest and transcultural fertilization.
The author argues that the claim that South Asia has seen a large reduction in poverty over the last three decades is a spurious claim. Using nearly 50 years of data from India's National Sample Survey, she shows that applying a constant nutrition standard over time, poverty had worsened considerably over the period of neoliberal reforms.
This book provides an analysis of the impact of subordination in the major EMEs. Distinct from 'dependence' under official aid till 1970s, subordination prevailed over developing nations with liberalization of capital-flows by the 1990s when markets used as agents for overseas capital for extracting surpluses.
This book tell the story of the the Kokani Muslims. A multiracial, multi-ethnic community whose tale begins 1,300 years ago.
These essays written since the catastrophic events of 9/11 try to come to terms with the violence that shapes our everyday lives.
This book argues that there is one element - the expression of masculine passion for a masculine object - that has shaped the ghazal historically and across languages.
Nausheen Jaffery brings to us the story of the remarkable Indian princess Jahan Ara.
This book demands reconfiguring the centre of knowledge generation by relocating disability from its present peripheral position to the centre.
This book advances contemporary debates on the evolution of patriarchal institutions in agrarian transitions and the struggles for women's liberation today. It focuses on the complexities of agrarian transitions in the Global South and the crisis of socia
This is the first study of the artist, and it tries to present her as a person and an artist of singular determination.
This book is a collection of papers presented at a colloquium, 'AfroAsian Musical Imaginaries' that was organized by the IIC-IRD in collaboration with a project titled 'RecentringAfroAsia: Musical and Human Migrations, 700-1500 AD' that started from Cape Town in South Africa.
The book is a simple commemoration of the work of master potter Ira Chaudhuri over seven decades.
The book situates diverse lens-based practices within a larger orbit of South Asian visual culture.
Book argues that the social reform movement in Kerala contributed to the growth of progressive democratic movements there.
This work establishes the monarchical form of the British empire between CE 1600 and 1900.
This memoir takes us through modern Indian and Kerala history, both of which the author had a ringside view of.
Labor bondage is discussed as a major feature of the peasant economies which have dominated the subcontinent of South Asia from an unrecorded precolonial past until the postcolonial present.
This book introduces Ulti, a secret language spoken by the Hijra-Koti community in West Bengal, from a sociolinguistic and formal linguistic perspective.
Cities Untold assembles diverse works to reconceptualize a 'southern urban' that is usually locked within predictable narratives of opportunity and dystopia.
This book on the Kasauli Art Center (1976-1991), contextualizes and examines the center within the broader framework of the cultural scene in India.
The essays in this book highlight how education as a component of cultural inheritance remains a contentious issue.
This book tells the history of the protest at the Film & Television Institute of India in 2015. Amid growing state totalitarianism, technological and political transformations a redefined cinema in India emerged that created a new era in political struggle.
This book draws us into questions about personal identity through narratives. Firmly ensconced within the discipline of linguistics and using the framework of Conversation Analysis, it captures the moment of interlocution when our stories define us in conversation.
This book discusses agrarian relations in the Lower Cauvery delta, historically part of the "rice bowl" of south India, based on socio-economic studies of two villages in the region.
This book takes readers through the polycentric world of the pre-colonial period in AfroAsia, which involved systems, processes and interactions that were interconnected through long-distance trade, slavery and migration.
¿I hope the reader will find the book interesting because there is a story in it . . . Of a deeply passionate Indian and world citizen. The one who, in 1987, said: `I know the psychology of rats.¿ Kundan Shah died on 7 October 2017.¿
This book is a collection of essays written over the last five decades to document events related to the communal politics that have flourished in Gujarat. It features chapters on the historical aspects of communalism and the growth of the BJP in Gujarat, particularly focusing on its electoral politics.
Jammu and Kashmir has been different things to different people throughout the twentieth century and well into the twenty-first. This book challenges commonly held misconceptions about the region and brings to light its achievements during the state-led developmental process of Jammu and Kashmir from 1948 to 1988.
The COVID-19 pandemic has generated human suffering and economic devastation¿but these reflect not just the impact of the disease but the policy failures of governments. This volume brings together analyses of the responses from many different countries to evaluate what has worked and what hasn¿t¿and potential directions for the future.
This book is a compilation of texts that were written as a response to different compulsions¿diary entries, seminar papers, catalog essays, and excerpts from a series of nine books that were part of the outcome of an extended project undertaken between 2002 and 2012. Woven together, they create a narrative that exceeds the sum of its parts.
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