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Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

Eloquent Spaces adopts the twin analytic of meaning and community to write a fresh history of building in early India. It presents a new perspective on the principles and practices of early Indian architecture. Defining it broadly over a range of space uses the book argues for architecture as a form of cultural production as well as public consumption. Ten chapters by leading archaeologists architects historians and philosophers examining different architectural sites and landscapes including Sanchi Moodabidri Srinagar Chidambaram Patan Konark Basgo and Puri demonstrate the need to look beyond the built form to its spirit beyond aesthetics to cognition and thereby to integrating architecture with its myriad living contexts. The volume captures some of the semantic diversity inherent in premodern Indian traditions of civic building both sacred and secular which were however unified in their insistence on enacting meaning and a transcendent validity over and above utility and beauty of form. The book is a quest for a culturally rooted architecture as an alternative to the growing crisis of disembededness that informs modern praxis. This volume will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of architecture ancient Indian history philosophy art history and cultural studies. | Eloquent Spaces Meaning and Community in Early Indian Architecture

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Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

This book looks at the life and music of Veena Dhanammal (1866–1938) considered the embodiment of ‘classicism’ in Karnatik music. It locates her art within the cultural social and intellectual milieu she inhabited allowing readers to track the changing musical landscape of southern India as a process of urbanisation — beginning in the late nineteenth century — resulted in Karnatik music’s movement from a ritual and courtly location to a modern secular form of entertainment in the city space. | Veena Dhanammal The Making of a Legend

GBP 160.00
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The Poet’s Song ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

The Poet’s Song ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Bengal in India and Bangladesh. The book shows how the genre thought to be a nearly extinct form is still prevalent in the region. The author shows how like many other ‘folk’ practices in South and South-East Asia the content and format of this genre has undergone vital changes thus raising questions of authenticity patronage and cultural politics. She captures live performances of Kobigaan through ethnographies spread across borders—from village rituals to urban festivals and from Bengali cinema to television and new media. While understanding Kobigaan from the practitioners’ points of view this book also explores the crucial issues of gender marginalisation and representation that are true of any performance genre. Drawing on case studies it underlines the issues of artistic agency empowerment cultural labour and heritage rituals authenticity creative industries media gender and identity politics. Part of the South Asian History and Culture series this book is a major intervention in South Asian folklore and performance studies. It also expands into the larger disciplines of literature social and cultural movements in South Asia ethnomusicology and the politics of performance. | The Poet’s Song ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia

GBP 130.00
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Cultural Studies in India

Cultural Studies in India

This volume discusses the development of cultural studies in India. It shows how inter-disciplinarity and cultural pluralism form the basis of this emerging field. It deals with contemporary debates and interpretations of post-colonial theory subaltern studies Marxism and post-Marxism nationalism and post-nationalism. Drawing upon literature linguistics history political science media and theatre studies and cultural anthropology it explores themes such as caste indigenous peoples vernacular languages and folklore and their role in the making of historical consciousness. A significant intervention in the area this book will be useful to scholars and students of cultural studies and theory literature history cultural anthropology sociology and media and mass communication as well as the general reader.

GBP 46.99
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Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

By focusing on the socio-political ideas of the nationalist Aurobindo Ghosh (1872-1950) the book is an analytical dissection of his ideational vision which is still a relatively under-studied area of nationalist thoughts. During the perod 1893-1910 Ghosh radically altered the texture of Indian nationalism by dwelling on how nationalism flourished in different parts of India particularly Japan Italy and Ireland. conceptually different from the prevalent form of nationalist voice it was he who clearly charted out a new course for anti-British campaign that fully unfolded with the appearance of Gandhi (1869-1948) on the Indian political scene. So Aurobindo's politico-ideological vision ushered in a new era in the nationalist battle for India's political emancipation. Not only is the book therefore an intervention in the nationalist thought but also devised new conceptual parameters for comprehending the radicalization of politico-ideological voices while simultaneously mobilizing those who were ready to make supreme sacrifices for the cause. | Socio-political Ideas of Aurobindo Ghose

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Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal intergroup and intrapersonal inequalities in the country’s rural transformation. Through research based on ethnographic primary survey and secondary data methods this multidimensional study discusses key themes such as normative and descriptive inequalities; class caste and other identities; economic poverty; educational poverty; poverty in health; gendered poverty; inequality and power; the impact of migration; ethical issues and vulnerabilities; and suicidal consequences of inequality. It builds cohesive arguments based on the development of several new indicators to examine rural inequality. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political economy economics development studies development economics sociology public policy political science political sociology and rural sociology. | Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

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Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

This volume explores the impact of good governance upon social sectors’ development in India and other selected economies of the world. Economic development in the true sense depends on the development of different social sectors like education healthcare gender equality etc. as well as economic factors. Good governance makes the sectors perform well on the one hand and helps in economic growth and development on the other. Conversely bad or weak governance in the form of corruption and low effectiveness of the governments may lead to poor performance of the sectors and low growth and backwardness of the economies. This book explores the associations between different social sectors’ performances with quality of governance and growth and development of different economies and groups in detail and establishes theoretical and empirical examinations for the individual economies and groups from the different corners of the globe with the help of new theories and latest data. This book will be useful for students and researchers in the fields of Economics Sociology Political Studies Public Finance International Relations Social Sciences as well as policy makers and think tanks. | Social Sector Development and Governance Empirical Investigations for Countries and Groups

GBP 130.00
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Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

This volume shows how grassroots educational innovations and technology can be brought together in a fresh approach to human resource development in public social services. Based on a three-decade-long engagement with innovation in public education this book provides an illustration of how teacher-driven innovations can be transformed into learning objects for technology-based professional development. It describes how innovations can be identified screened and validated and disseminated through two mechanisms—a clearinghouse-based approach and grassroots innovation “fairs. ” It then demonstrates how these innovations can form the backbone of a “third space ” problem-based-learning curriculum which can be delivered through a technology platform for large-scale professional development. The book offers guidance on practical ways of doing this and on evaluating the curriculum’s impact with case studies of programmes that covered thousands of teachers. This book will be of interest to teachers students and professionals in education teacher education digital education information technology communication and media studies. It will also be useful to educationists policymakers teacher educators educational institutions online education centres and practitioners involved in professional development education and training in developing countries. | Teacher Development in India Building on Grassroots Innovations and Technology

GBP 120.00
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Nation and Its Modes of Oppressions in South Asia

Nation and Its Modes of Oppressions in South Asia

This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia. It studies the emergence of nationalism in modern states as a powerful omnipotent and omnipresent form of political identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book examines the idea of a nation as it originated in medieval Europe as an unending process of 'othering' individuals groups and communities to establish its hegemony exclusivity and absolute power within a political discourse. It sheds light on how these new political frameworks in the name of nationalism resulted in conflicts and bloodshed. It unleashed politics of retribution and facilitated majoritarianism minority persecution and collective authoritarianism which devastated individuals and collectivities. Further the author also discusses various prominent ideas and contemporary theories on nationalism alongside pivotal socio-cultural factors which have significantly shaped the formation of modern nation states and their politics. Topical and nuanced this book will be indispensable to researchers scholars and readers interested in nationalism political science modern history political theory political philosophy political sociology political history post-colonial studies and South Asia studies. | Nation and Its Modes of Oppressions in South Asia

GBP 120.00
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Mahasweta Devi Writer Activist Visionary

Mahasweta Devi Writer Activist Visionary

Mahasweta Devi occupies a singular position in the history of modern Indian literature and world literature. This book engages with Devi’s works as a writer-activist who critically explored subaltern subjectivities the limits of history and the harsh social realities of post-independence India. The volume showcases Devi’s oeuvre and versatility through samples of her writing – in translation from the original Bengali—including Jhansir Rani Hajar Churashir Ma and Bayen among others. It also looks at the use of language symbolism mythic elements and heteroglossia in Devi’s exploration of heterogeneous themes such as exploitation violence women’s subjectivities depredation of the environment and failures of the nation state. The book analyses translations and adaptations of her work debates surrounding her activism and politics and critical reception to give readers an overview of the writer’s life influences achievements and legacy. It highlights the multiple concerns in her writings and argues that the aesthetic aspects of Mahasweta Devi’s work form an essential part of her politics. Part of the ‘Writer in Context’ series this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of Indian literature Bengali literature English literature postcolonial studies cultural studies global south studies and translation studies. | Mahasweta Devi Writer Activist Visionary

GBP 120.00
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COVID-19 Assemblages Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia

COVID-19 Assemblages Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia

This book documents and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through queer and feminist perspectives. A testament of dispossessions as well as a celebration of various forms of resilience community building and critical responses it chronicles the social history of queer and trans persons and women in South Asia and the diasporas. Through a creative and collaborative form of ethnographic writing the book enters in conversation with the worlds of domestic helps caregivers cultural workers students sex workers and other precariously employed people. It examines the confining effects of the pandemic on the lived realities of many queer and trans individuals the caste-oppressed and women across socio-economic backgrounds. The chapters in the volume piece together narratives of prejudice hardship self-expression and resistance from interviews personal accounts as well as poems and stories from activists artists and other collaborators. The book pays particular attention to issues of power and asymmetrical relationships amidst COVID-19 and offers critiques to deepen the understanding of the uneven fault lines within which historically oppressed persons reside in South Asia. Exploring themes of migration disability and sexual politics this book is an essential reading for scholars and researchers of gender and sexuality studies cultural studies South Asian studies sociology and social anthropology. | COVID-19 Assemblages Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia

GBP 38.99
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Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived practiced and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi Urdu Punjabi Bengali Odia Gujarati Marathi Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and languages from Northeast India which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through sociohistorical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays research works and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English Indian literatures and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies literary historians linguists and scholars of cultural studies across the globe. | Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

GBP 130.00
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Narrating Nomadism Tales of Recovery and Resistance

Narrating Nomadism Tales of Recovery and Resistance

Narrating Nomadism provides an unflinching account of ethnic groups and nomadic communities across the world that were branded as ‘criminal’ during colonial times. It explores the tragic effect of the new identity imposed on them the traumatic survival of these communities and cultures and the creative expression of this experience in their arts and literature in the form of resistance. Presenting specific contexts and locations of cultural devastation in history the volume traces colonial social imagination as such showing how the grossly misperceived non-sedentary communities in the colonies were subjected to the mission of ‘settling’ them. The essays presented here document these alternative histories from perspectives ranging from literary criticism and art history to ethnography and socio-linguistics highlighting in what ways different nomadic communities negotiate discrimination and challenge in contemporary times while finding remarkable convergence in their local histories and collective testimonies. This anthology opens up a new area in postcolonial studies as well as cultural anthropology by bringing the viewpoint of marginalized communities and their cultural rights to bear upon history society and culture. It places an activist’s ‘view from below’ at the centre of literary interpretation engages with oral history more substantially than folklore studies usually do and brings together several historical narratives hitherto unexplored. This will be essential for students of anthropology sociology cultural studies history linguistics post-colonial studies literature and tribal studies as well as the general reader. | Narrating Nomadism Tales of Recovery and Resistance

GBP 44.99
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Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat Western India

Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat Western India

This volume explores one of the most complex labour landscapes of India - the urban daily labour market. These markets form an important sector of the urban informal labour market and contribute significantly to the Indian economy. This book presents an empirical comparative picture of daily labour markets in Gujarat Western India. These markets consist mostly of intra-state and interstate migrant workers who suffer from layered multiple marginalities based on markers of informality migrant status caste ethnicity gender and poor agency and often live in the peripheries of the cities without any rights and entitlements to their spaces and services. This study based on an extensive survey of three cities in Gujarat contains descriptions and analyses of the places of migration and their causes as well as the working and living conditions of the workers along with their spending patterns on food health education and leisure. It mirrors the work life and issues of these workers on the regional level while contributing to a better understanding for future policy interventions. An in-depth study the book will be of interest to students and researchers of labour economics labour studies urban planning social work sociology anthropology and demography. It will also be useful to NGOs/trade unions working with migrant workers civil servants in Labour department and other related departments city planners and policy makers. | Urban Daily Labour Markets in Gujarat Western India

GBP 130.00
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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy as well as the exploration of race gender politics and conflicts urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia Finland France Iran Italy Morocco India and the USA. It also asks the question whether along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies media popular culture digital culture sociology digital sociology and anthropology and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki. | Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

GBP 34.99
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