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Soft cover. Zustand: New. India's emergence as a new major power in the global sphere has been noted across the spectrum. India's capacity to succeed in emerging and sustaining herself as a significant global player is, however, crucially dependent on the evolving dynamics within the spheres of its neighbourhood and India's capacity to make this rise acceptable and enthusiastic. In this connection, it is important to note that the concept of 'region' or 'neighbourhood' has been enhanced to bypass geographical divisions and now includes not only South Asia but also India's extended neighbourhood consisting of West Asia, Central Asia along with Southeast and East Asia. India's neighbourhood policy, launched under Prime Minister Narendra Modi since 2014, not only undertook a fresh initiative towards India's immediate neighbourhood in South Asia but also recalibrated itself and extended into other Asian regions. This was perhaps necessitated by the failure of the SAARC to ensure regionalism in any substantial manner but more importantly, this is an acceptance of the pre-colonial and colonial linkages that had evolved and thrived till the emergence of the post 1945 global order signified by the Cold War dynamics. Given the importance of India's neighbourhood policymaking within the context of India's global diplomacy, the recently established Kolkata based think tank Bandhan-HP Ghosh Centre deemed it fit to initiate a research project trying to cover key areas of India's neighbourhood policymaking. The present volume, titled India and the Neighbourhood: Case Studies and edited by Suranjan Das and Shantanu Chakrabarti, is an outcome of the first phase of research under this project and covers India's evolving relations with her South Asian neighbours; with Central Asian Republics (CARs); Afghanistan and Bhutan.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. Pranab Bardhan has been arguing for a long time that a Universal Basic Income policy can be effective in a country like India to relieve economic insecurity to a large extent. Bardhan has also constructed a thorough critique of the political direction India has been taking over the last few years leading to considerable social stress. For him, the health of a country's political economy depends on its people's capacity to exercise their democratic rights as well as their capacity to earn and spend. Thus, empowerment of the people is linked organically with income for the people. Bardhan's argument has emerged stronger in the wake of the COVID-19 onslaught. Many people, especially in the vast informal sector and in the salaried sector too, have suffered loss of income during the long spells of lockdown. Ensuring a basic income for them is crucial for social insurance as well as the rejuvenation of the economy as a whole. Indian Polity and Economy: A Mirror to Difficult Times, brings together some of Bardhan's articles written over the past five years on Universal Basic Income, the current political situation, and political-economy and policy, culminating in the recent pandemic period. Three interviews which he has given to media persons on these issues are also included. These will help understand Bardhan's standpoint more clearly. In one of the articles, he engages in a discourse with a prominent friend of his, Thomas Piketty, on how applicable the latter's arguments against the basic income are to India. Articles comparing the Indian situation with other countries, particularly Indonesia and China, put the picture in perspective.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. The last few years have been marked by a consistent attack on the democratic matrix of our country. Constitutional and human rights of people, most notablythe fundamental right to equality, the right to live with dignity, to question the state and dissenthave been trampled with impunity. Institutions of oversight have been systematically emaciated, with the functioning of the Parliament gravely compromised. Rise of fascism and crony capitalism, and the concomitant increase in violence in society have had a devastating impact on the lives of people, especially those belonging to the Dalit, Adivasi, Muslim and other marginalised communities. The COVID-19 crisis too has exposed manifold the apathetic and anti-poor nature of the state. Amidst the oppression and intimidation, however, the country has witnessed strong peoples' movements against injustice and tyranny. In December 2019, people all over India rose to protect the Constitution when the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was brought in along with National Register of Citizens (NRC) and National Population Register (NPR). Exactly one year after the CAA protests shook the country, millions of farmers took to the streets to protest against the anti-people farm laws passed by the Parliament. Reclaiming India: Views of Public Intellectuals is the culmination of a public lecture series organised by ANHAD in 2021-22; it hopes to start a conversation to explore the contours of a society that is more just, equal and aligned to the Constitutional values of liberty and fraternity. The lectures, on relevant themes by leading public intellectuals, as under, will provide an alternate vision for the country.

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Zustand: New. Brand New. Soft Cover International Edition. Different ISBN and Cover Image. Priced lower than the standard editions which is usually intended to make them more affordable for students abroad. The core content of the book is generally the same as the standard edition. The country selling restrictions may be printed on the book but is no problem for the self-use. This Item maybe shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

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Zustand: New. Brand New. Soft Cover International Edition. Different ISBN and Cover Image. Priced lower than the standard editions which is usually intended to make them more affordable for students abroad. The core content of the book is generally the same as the standard edition. The country selling restrictions may be printed on the book but is no problem for the self-use. This Item maybe shipped from US or any other country as we have multiple locations worldwide.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. Among the Indian luminaries of the first half of the 20th Century, well-known in the East as well as the West, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature (1913), was arguably the most 'gifted' personality. An 'ambassador' of Indian culture to the West, Tagore also wrote voluminous essays and letters on socio-political issuesengaged himself in various protests against the raj; as a pacifist in international arena; and also as a polemical writer. It is not an easy task to carve out Tagore's Political Philosophy from an ocean-like and multifaceted works of the poet. It is more difficult to draw a coherent and cohesive position/perspective of the poet on various related issues like justice, gender, ecology, community development and so on. Even when his ideas on a particular phenomenon were very fluid, Tagore always tried to evaluate them in order to justify his standpoint. And the axes that helped him to judge/evaluate an event/issue/phenomenon were twofold: Satya/Truth and Sundara/Beauty, which can also be understood as Ethics and Aesthetics. These axes formed Tagore's axiology of weighing and evaluating all the social phenomena around him, including politics. The present book attempts to revisit Tagore's opinion and standpoints on these constituent elements of politics from the stance of this markeraxiology, so that many well-known aspects of his thought may be seen in a different light.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. In India, life of millions of Dalits, even today, is characterised by long, consistent struggle from cradle to grave. Their life is defined by caste-discrimination, exploitation, abuse, and denial of basic right to life with resources for survival food, shelter, clothing, livelihood, and education. Sufferings and pains associated with vicious cycle of poverty continue for generations together. Margins to Centre Stage: Empowering Dalits in India chronicles the process of empowerment of many powerless and marginalised Dalits, located in Varanasi district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It portrays the triumph of hope, courage and social action over despair, poverty, oppression and vulnerability narrating the struggle of Dalits who paved their way to a life of dignity, rightful share in the resources and decision making. The critique records how the innocent victims of custodial-torture become active human rights defenders or freedom of bonded-labourers is snatched from the confinement of feudal and capitalist oppressors, and the change of weavers' nightmares transformed into dreams, optimism and motivation. The discourse would be beneficial for the educators, students and practitioners of social work, and administrators in welfare and development sector, NGO workers, policy planners and all those who wish to build an egalitarian society that is free from all forms of exploitation and abuse. (jacket).

Pbk. Contents 1 Refugees IDPs and the Stateless 2 The Refugees and Stateless in the North East 3 Conflict Violence-Induced Displacement 4 Resource Politics Climate Change Environmental Degradation and Displacement 5 LawsPolitics Relating to Forced Migration 6 Sources and Research on Forced Migration 7 From The Field to the NewsroomForced Migration in North East India A Media Reader is a comprehensive ready reference and toolkit for journalists researchers and people in general - who are interested in the media and North East IndiaThe region though geographically isolated and economically underdeveloped has a distinctive cultural socio-economic and political identity Viewed from within it represents an incredible diversity comprising over 200 indigenous communitiesAs the states in North East India have borders with several countries China Myanmar Bhutan Nepal and Bangladesh since vivisection of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 the region has faced waves of population influx from across the borders at various times Forced migration and displacement due to repeated ethnic violence have led to hundreds of villages being burnt and thousands of people killed The figure of internally displaced persons in the region has surpassed the half a million mark according to a recent estimateBesides ethnic conflicts natural calamities such as floods and erosion as well as construction activities or eviction in the reserve forest areas have added to the misery of the displaced persons in North East India many of whom are languishing in the temporary camps for decadesHowever the issue often does not get due coverage in the media and many journalists feel that the resources tools and skills to cover this issue at their disposal are inadequate The Media Reader is an effort to bridge this gap 228 pp.

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Soft cover. Zustand: New. The postcolonial compendium aims at a compilation and brief explication of key terms used in the multidisciplinary field of forced migration and refugee studies. There have been significant debates, contributions, and interpretations in recent years which have reshaped the way academia analyses and maps refugee and migration studies, at the same time, expanding its scope. Research on refugees and forced migrants has had a long history cutting across disciplines, exploring multiple dynamics such as forced and voluntary movements, displacement and dispossession, heterogeneity and agency of forced migrants, human rights, humanitarianism, protection, practice and policy. In addition, academics, policy makers and practitioners are still contending with the diverse challenges that remain in the aftermath of a global pandemic and continue to permeate the refugee and migrant space exacerbating the precarious state of public health, particularly in the global south with far reaching consequences. At this critical juncture/crossroads, migrant and refugee studies as a field of enquiry is rapidly expanding and diversifying, concomitantly, its terminology is constantly evolving to keep pace with the burgeoning discipline, which found its moorings as a separate entity in the early 1980s. With the development of refugee and forced migration studies, academic research as well as advocacy in terms of the rights of migrants and refugees have acquired a global reach which in turn has induced the emergence of a rapidly growing literature focused on the same, including handbooks devoted to the study of refugees and forced migrants from an interdisciplinary perspective. In comparison, the vocabulary or terminology of refugee and forced migration studies, which has amplified by leaps and bounds in scope and importance, has not yet found a separate, focused and comprehensive compendium dedicated to itself. The Postcolonial Compendium: Keywords in Forced Migration and Refugee Studies intends to fill this lacuna/void.

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xv + 223pp, bibliography, index. Author's inscription title page, a very good hardback copy. "China's Economic Reform: Ideological Legitimacy and Deng Xiaoping Theory examines the discussions and debates among Chinese theoreticians and economists regarding the economic reform measure adopted by the leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in the late 1970s. Based on an extensive survey of Chinese material, the study focuses on the internal discourse on the nature and rationale for economic reform, the decision to implement the "open-door" policy; as well as the attempts to legitimise the transition from a planned to a market economy. It also outlines the evolution of Deng Xiaoping Theory and the concerns of Chinese theoreticians and economists about the problems and prospects of the economic reform. More importantly, it endeavours to bring to light the Chinese attempts to explain and legitimise the economic reform in relationship to the ideals of Marxism and Mao Zedong Thought." (Publisher's description).

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Hardcover. Zustand: As New. Alipore Bomb Trial or Maniktala Conspiracy Case, as it is popularly known, occupies a significant place in the history of India's freedom struggle. Having failed to kill Lieutenant-Governor Andrew Fraser after two attempts, on 30 April 1908, two teenagers named Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki blasted a carriage at Muzaffarpur, Bihar mistaking it in darkness as the carrier of D H Kingsford, former Chief Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta. The Government acted with speed and success, and eventually 36 persons, including Sri Aurobindo, Barindra Kumar Ghose (younger brother of Sri Aurobindo), Upendra Nath Banerjee, Ullaskar Datta, Hemchandra Das were arrested and committed to trial in Alipore Sessions Court for "waging war against the King-Emperor". Alipore Bomb Trial, 1908-1910: A Compilation of Unpublished Documents, Volume 1, which includes hitherto unpublished documents related to the trial vis-a-vis the statements of all 206 witnesses along with 1,575 documents and materials placed before the court, is an invaluable companion for the students, researchers, academia and the general readership as well. With a researcher's acumen coupled with his long experience in dealing with criminal intelligence, the author critically examines the issues like Aurobindo's ideas on violent struggle and much 'published' influence of religion on early revolutionary terrorism, circumstances that led to the expansion of the secret societies, 'daring actions' like the murder of Naren Gossain, the approver, inside the jail, killing of Police Officer Nandalal Banerji for trying to arrest Prafulla Chaki at Mokama Ghat Station, elimination of Ashutosh Biswas for acting as the prosecutor in the case, assassination of Rai Bahadur Moulavi Shamsul Alam for fabricating evidence against the accused and murder of Intelligence Officer Madhusudan Bhattacharya who traced the Garden as the centre of 'conspiracy'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In early January 1948, Dr Jagdishchandra Jain, the Chief Prosecution Witness of the Mahatma Gandhi Murder Trial, came to know of the plot to assassinate Mahatma Gandhi. He immediately informed the Bombay Government, but unfortunately, his warning went unheeded. Jain had information of the secret plan when the Punjabi refugee Madanlal Pahwa, one of the key conspirators, had confided in him.What followed was a series of plots, intrigues and an amazing tale of Government apathy versus a lone citizen's frustrating attempt to thwart one of the biggest conspiracies of the century.This book has its genesis in this unpublished diary which is an invaluable document. Jain paints a vivid picture of the assassination plot and the predicament he faced when his repeated warnings to the Government fell on deaf ears. The authorities chose to ignore the definite clues, given by him risking his life, and most shockingly, the book shows how the Administration failed to protect Mahatma Gandhi.While writing about the murder trial, Jain has elaborated how the crucial information, which could have altered the history of India, was ignored.Prof Dr Jagdischandra Jain (1909-1994) held the Chair in the Universities of Bombay, India, Peking, China and Kiel, Germany. A renowned scholar and author, Prof Jain has to his credit, several books on subjects ranging from Jainism, Prakrit literature to Indian Philosophy.Dr Jain, a direct disciple of Rabindranath Tagore, and a Gandhian, was actively involved in India's freedom struggle and imprisoned during the Quit India movement of 1942.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Pranab Bardhan has been arguing for a long time that a Universal Basic Income policy can be effective in a country like India to relieve economic insecurity to a large extent. Bardhan has also constructed a thorough critique of the political direction India has been taking over the last few years leading to considerable social stress. For him, the health of a country's political economy depends on its people's capacity to exercise their democratic rights as well as their capacity to earn and spend. Thus, empowerment of the people is linked organically with income for the people.Bardhan's argument has emerged stronger in the wake of the COVID-19 onslaught. Many people, especially in the vast informal sector and in the salaried sector too, have suffered loss of income during the long spells of lockdown. Ensuring a basic income for them is crucial for social insurance as well as the rejuvenation of the economy as a whole.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Globalisation, Democracy and Corruption: An Indian Perspective, a compilation of articles and commentaries on contemporary issues concerning Globalisation, Capitalism, Inequality and Poverty, Democracy, India-China comparative perspectives, and Corruption, and other topical issues of Indian Polity and Economy, is the culmination of reflections the author made over the last decade in different popular outlets.Globalisation, neither a plague nor a panacea, makes Bardhan's approach stand out among the contentious debates in both media and academia. Within this framework, the discourse further probes into how economic globalisation which can address the problem of poverty has affected wages, incomes and access to resources for the poorest people in India and abroad.Like globalisation, democracy too, despite rhetoric, does not offer magic solutions. Democracy often encourages popular movements against capitalist excesses, and experiences more intense pressure to share the benefits of development among the people, but it also leads to competitive populism and is subject to capture by oligarchic interests. Similarly, the long-term prospects of Indian capitalism, as Bardhan investigates, call for a great deal of structural and political overhauling to be sustainably useful.Corruption, especially in developing economies like India and China, is indeed a hurdle standing in the way of development. In spite of pervasive corruption, the author addresses the question as to how and how far the Chinese economic performance has been better than India's.A perfect blend of an economist's insight and field experience based analysis offering guidelines for political opportunities to mitigate social inequalities and for broad-based development, this volume is an invaluable companion for the policymakers, academia and the general readership as well.Pranab Bardhan is Professor of Graduate School at the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley. Educated at Presidency College, Kolkata and Cambridge University, England, before joining Berkeley, Bardhan taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Indian Statistical Institute and Delhi School of Economics. He has been a visiting professor/fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge, St Catherine's College, Oxford, and London School of Economics. With a social thinker's vision and economist's acumen, Bardhan's interest centres around issues of global development, inequality and poverty.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Sickle and the Crescent: Communists, Muslim League and India's Partition makes an in-depth study of the role played by the communists in India during India's Partition in 1947.While Indian National Congress and Muslim League are primarily blamed for vivisection of the country, the communists' support to the Muslim League between 1942 and 1947 only accelerated the birth of the two nations: India and Pakistan.The Communists, following the Soviet model of the Nationality Theory, declared that India was only a family of nations, where places like Punjab, Hyderabad and Bengal being nations had the right of self-determination to the extent of right to secede - a theory only corroborated League's demand for a separate state of Pakistan.With the end in view of expanding party base in an opportune political scenario, it makes an interesting read to examine how the Communist Party of India, a class-based representative had joined hands with the Muslim League having roots in religious sentiments.The discourse is the outcome of relentless research made in the archival sources including the intelligence documents which unearth the communists' participation in the Muslim League sponsored Direct Action Day in August 1946 which, as a sequel of communal bloodbath, rendered hundreds dead and thousands homeless only in the city of Calcutta itself.The Sickle and the Crescent: Communists, Muslim League and India's Partition offers a new approach to India's Partition and aims to evoke a fresh debate and rethinking.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As scholars we are eager to get beyond the bounds of knowledge generated in Western Europe and North America, yet we continue to teach classical theory by featuring (mostly white male) scholars from this region. Since the Euro-American perspectives are powerful, around the world, sociological theory focuses on the same theorists.This book is an attempt to decolonise social theory: to rethink theory by focusing on theorists from other regions, chosen by scholars who live and work in countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. We feature the selections and presentations of sociologists from Brazil, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Poland, South Africa, Singapore, and Tunisia.Rianka Roy, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Wake Forest University, USA; Anjana Narayan, Professor of Sociology, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, USA; Melanie Heath, Professor of Sociology, McMaster University, Canada; Bandana Purkayastha, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut, USAHow should we teach and learn theory in Sociology Once it seemed enough to learn about a handful of founding fathers and modern masters, all men, all White, all from the old imperial centres. But the world is wider and deeper than that, and has changed profoundly. How should we teach and learn theory now The editors and authors of Theory Reimagined have given us a rich gift: a collection packed with studies of social thought, and social thinkers, from around the post-colonial world. Here students and teachers will find issues ranging from migration to gender, decolonisation, land rights, environment, economic development, school education, political repression, and intellectuals themselves. Many of the details may be unfamiliar, but the writing is clear, and these chapters are worth re-reading. The editors have helpfully added teaching notes and a glossary. It's a bold and practical contribution to the revolution in the social sciences that is under way now.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - What intellectual exchanges occurred between British and Indian women writers during the colonial period Why does recovering these conversations fundamentally challenge our understanding of empire, nationalism, and gendered subalternity And what methodological interventions does archival recovery demand of postcolonial scholarship Purna Banerjee's archival investigation began with a revealing discovery: deteriorating issues of The Indian Ladies Magazine in Kolkata's National Library-never catalogued, never preserved, never analysed. What emerged from these crumbling pages rewrites the historiography of colonial modernity. Drawing on travel narratives, New Woman novels, and periodical correspondence, Banerjee documents a transnational 'female counter-public sphere' where women engaged in complex intellectual exchanges. From Mary Frere's subversive retellings of Indian folklore to Victoria Cross's provocative Anna Lombard, from Pandita Ramabai's strategic Christian conversion to Krishnabhabini Das's critical ethnography-these writers negotiated what Simon Gikandi terms the 'complicity/resistance dialectic', simultaneously inhabiting and critiquing colonial and nationalist patriarchies. Theorising through Habermas, Bhabha, and Spivak, Banerjee demonstrates how women constructed hybrid identities that resist metropolitan/peripheral binaries. Their fragmented narratives-spanning the 1835 Minute on Indian Education to the 1929 Sarda Act-reveal collaborative activism shaping social reform, educational policy, and women's rights across national boundaries. This study makes crucial interventions in postcolonial literary studies, subaltern historiography, and transnational feminism. By radically reorganising the colonial archive, Banerjee recovers the intellectual labour that traditional scholarship has systematically marginalised, offering new methodologies for reading women's agency in the empire. Purna Banerjee is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Constance Fulmer Award in Mentorship, conferred by the British Women Writers Association (BWWA), USA. She has published on Victorian novels, nineteenth-century travel literatures, periodicals, twentieth-century displaced women's narratives from Indo-Bangladesh border and contemporary social-media-driven protest movements. Feminist, postcolonial, and subaltern theories are the lenses through which she critiques all cultural and literary texts. Purna returned home to Kolkata (India) and joined Presidency University, as an Associate Professor of English. For the previous two decades she lived and taught in the USA (Associate Professor of English, the Co-Director of Gender Studies, Millikin University, 2005 to 2013 & again in 2015). She received her MA degree (1999) from the University of Rochester (NY, USA) and her PhD (2005) from Texas Christian University (TX, USA).

Hardcover. Zustand: New. 1st Edition. Alipore Bomb Trial or Maniktala Conspiracy Case, as it is popularly known, occupies a significant place in the history of India's freedom struggle. Having failed to kill Lieutenant-Governor Andrew Fraser after two attempts, on 30 April 1908, two teenagers named Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki blasted a carriage at Muzaffarpur, Bihar mistaking it in darkness as the carrier of D H Kingsford, former Chief Presidency Magistrate, Calcutta. The Government acted with speed and success, and eventually 36 persons, including Sri Aurobindo, Barindra Kumar Ghose (younger brother of Sri Aurobindo), Upendra Nath Banerjee, Ullaskar Datta, Hemchandra Das were arrested and committed to trial in Alipore Sessions Court for "waging war against the King-Emperor". Alipore Bomb Trial, 1908-1910: A Compilation of Unpublished Documents, Volume 2, critically examines the criminal justice system prevalent during the 'British Raj' particularly in the light of the famous trial in the Alipore Sessions Court and subsequently in the appeal at the High Court, Calcutta. Although Beachcroft, the Additional Sessions Judge, Alipore flamboyantly wrote in the judgment, "No Englishman worthy of the name will grudge the Indian the ideal of independence", such rhetoric was meaningless as at every stage, inadmissible or fabricated evidences were relied upon, seizure lists vetted by illiterate witnesses were endorsed and overall rights of the accused as enshrined in the laws then in force were blatantly flouted. An astute analysis of the historic courtroom peroration of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das, assisted by other defence counsels viz. Bymokesh Chakraborty, R C Banerjee, Bijoy Krishna Bose in the Sessions Court and the High Court which ultimately led to rescue Sri Aurobindo and others from the gallows, makes the treatise a treasurable companion for researchers, students and general readers as well. (jacket).