Karunakaran (192 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. A NOVEL ON THE INNER LIFE OF SHAH JAHAN'S DAUGHTER, JAHANARA Little is known about Shah Jahan's daughter Jahanara, the most erudite of Mughal princesses. Even as an adolescent she advised her emperor father on state affairs and diplomacy. Fending off the machinations of Shah Jahan's devious stepmother, Noor Mahal, who manipulated her husband Jahangir and later Aurangzeb like a puppeteer, Jahanara is known to have continually attempted to broker peace between Shah Jahan, Dara Shikoh and Aurangzeb. Conversant in Persian, Sanskrit and several other languages, she had studied not only the Quran but also the Vedas and Puranas. She owned, at one point, the largest number of ships for sea trade in the Bay of Bengal. However, hers was also a life of great emotional turmoil. Her grandfather, the Emperor Akbar, had ruled that women born into the royal family were not to take lovers or enter into marriage. But Jahanara had fallen deeply in love with the Rajput king Chattar Sal. She led a life of constant isolation, tending to her father and relying on the friendship of a tenacious eunuch called Panipat. An unusual novel in Tamil literature, Sukumaran's Jahanara tells the story that Panipat stood witness to. It brings to vivid life a woman whose personal freedom was tossed into the hellfire burning between her brothers. Stifled by the veil of Mughal traditions, Jahanara found solace in writing diaries, which this moving novel draws upon.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Indulging innocently in primeval adultery and consummate sensuality, the rustic population of Kotta, sandwiched between ancient hills and enchanting backwaters, perpetually trapped in the cinematic illusions of Sreedevi Talkies; their transition to modernity was replete with disillusionments and disasters. In a saga replete with archetypal and mythical lore from Ulysses, Tiresias, Jesus Christ, Ancient Mariner and Kerala's historical tryst with Communism - the novel is a lyrical journey into borderless territories of the unconscious, when ghosts let out by the Talkies endlessly ensnare the rustics on the slippery paths between reality and fantasy.…

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gebundene Ausgabe. Zustand: Gut. 236 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch befindet sich in einem ordentlich erhaltenen Zustand; Schnitt und Einband sind etwas staubschmutzig; leichte altersbedingte Anbräunung des Papiers; Originalschutzumschlag vorhanden, jedoch beschädigt (kleinere Einrisse im Randbereich). Text in ENGLISCHER Sprache! Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.…

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF A HOUSEWIFE'S QUEST FOR INTELLECTUAL GROWTH AND HER ABILITY TO RESIST TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORTHODOXIES IN MADRAS VIA WRITING AND READING. In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911-2007), Kalpana Karunakaran achieves the remarkable: capturing the singularity of an exceptional woman, even as it situates her in a social universe shaped by the conventions of Tamil Brahmin orthodoxy. Karunakaran conveys with clarity how the 'utterly ordinary' life of a 'woman of no consequence' (as Pankajam writes of herself), lived out largely within the confines of family and kin, was quite far from ordinary. The book draws extensively upon letters, glimpses of Pankajam's life narrated through her thinly-disguised semi-autobiographical short stories that allowed her to 'say the unsayable' about love, intimacy and conjugality, and her autobiography, which she began writing in 1949 and kept writing till her last piece in 1995. What comes together is a riveting portrait of heartbreak and violence, yearning and delight, a housewife's quest for intellectual growth and her talent for friendships across cultures and continents. In the final reckoning, A Woman of No Consequence is about the chequered trajectories of a newly-born nation as seen through the lens of its daughters—restless women forcing home and nation to reckon with their stubborn striving for self-actualisation.…

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Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. Contents: Preface. 1. Financial inclusion of the poor: policies and measures. 2. Micro credit self-help groups (SHGs) and support agencies. 3. Rural co-operative banks in India. 4. Urban co-operative banks (UCBs) in India. 5. Co-operative banks in Europe. 6. Co-operative banks in select countries. 7. International associations/institutions of co-operative banks. 8. Problems and future challenges for co-operative banks. 9. Globalization and co-operatives. Glossary of banking terms. Bibliography. References. Index. In a market-oriented economy, the terms of contract are frequently weighted in favour of persons of large means. Those who have the command of scarce resources are left free to drive a bargain with those who need such resources but are ill-equipped to compete for their possession. Co-operatives are institutional agencies for achieving social cohesion. In a country whose economic structure has its roots in the villages, co-operation is something more than a series of activities organised on co-operative lines. Basically, its purpose is to evolve a system of co-operative community organization which touches upon all aspects of life. Co-operatives in India started as a means of ensuring, for the poorly equipped citizens, advantages which better placed persons were able to command by their own individual resources. The principle of mutual aid, which is the basis of co-operative organisation, and the practice of thrift and self-help which sustains it generate a study feeling of self-reliance which is of basic importance in a democratic way of life. By pooling their experience and knowledge and by helping one another, members of co-operative societies cannot only find the solutions of individual problems but also become better citizens. The present work explains and examines the functioning of co-operative banks in India and select other countries including Grameen Bank of Bangladesh to understand their role in the globalized world. (jacket). …

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