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Digital India and the Poor Policy Technology and Society

Digital India and the Poor Policy Technology and Society

Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitised political economy commercial and public policy media and academic research. This book: Interrogates the category of the poor in India and how they have come to be classified in economic and policy documents over the past few decades Explores the influential digital education technology ‘experiments’ conducted in Indian slums from the late 1990s now popularly known as the ‘hole-in-the-wall experiments’ Discusses financial inclusion initiatives predominantly as they converged between 2014 and 2017 such as the Jan Dhan Yojana the Aadhaar Project and the banknote demonetisation Presents an in-depth study of the bearing of technology on domestic employment in India The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian studies politics political science and sociology technology studies linguistics and development studies. | Digital India and the Poor Policy Technology and Society

GBP 38.99
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The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history colonial art colonial studies British history economic history business history South Asian history post-colonial studies and cultural studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. 0 International license. | The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

GBP 120.00
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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists sculptors and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice applied to the study of material and visual culture offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings sculptures found objects fragments built environments and ecologies. This volume takes the process of seeing as its focus—to look closely remaining true to the object but also to see widely—from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements such as walking to dreaming glancing to looking askance hypnotic stares and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality aesthetics and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research that builds on the contributions of Michael W. Meister W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology exploring artistic media including temples and paintings as well as Bengali-quilted textiles manuscript ‘lozenges ’ and metal repousse. This volume part of the Visual Media and Histories Series will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art religious studies and history as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

GBP 130.00
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