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India and Subcontinent

  • Infant Mortality, Population Growth and Family Planning in Indiaby S. Chandrasekhar

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 140.00

    First published in 1972, this reissue deals with the crucial issue of population explosion, one of the most crucial problems facing the contemporary developing world. Written by a world-renowned demographer and family planning specialist, the book deals specifically with the Indian experience. Reviewing population change in India over the last... more...

  • Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Centuryby Nile Green

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 49.95

    Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs... more...

  • Connections and Complexityby Shinu Anna Abraham; Praveena Gullapalli; Teresa P Raczek; Uzma Z Rizvi

    Left Coast Press 2013; US$ 89.00

    This compilation of original research articles highlight the important cross-regional, cross-chronological, and comparative approaches to political and economic landscapes in ancient South Asia and its neighbors. Focusing on the Indus Valley period and Iron Age India, this volume incorporates new research in South Asia within the broader universe... more...

  • Status and Security in Southeast Asian Statesby Nicholas Tarling

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 135.00

    Southeast Asia serves as an excellent case study to discuss major transformations in the relationship between states. This book looks at the changing nature of relationships between countries in Southeast Asia, as well as their relationships with other states in Asia and beyond. A diverse region in many areas, open to outside influence in many... more...

  • Why Growth Mattersby Jagdish Bhagwati; Arvind Panagariya

    PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 28.99

    In its history since Independence, India has seen widely different economic experiments: from Jawharlal Nehru?s pragmatism to the rigid state socialism of Indira Gandhi to the brisk liberalization of the 1990s. So which strategy best addresses India?s, and by extension the world?s, greatest moral challenge: lifting a great number of extremely poor... more...

  • The Bhagavata Puranaby Ravi M. Gupta; Kenneth R. Valpey

    Columbia University Press 2013; US$ 33.99

    A vibrant example of living literature, The Bhagavata Purana is a versatile Hindu sacred text containing more than 14,000 Sanskrit verses. Finding its present form around the tenth century C.E., the work inspired several major north Indian devotional (bhakti) traditions as well as schools of dance and drama, and continues to permeate popular Hindu... more...

  • Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhiby Bidyut Chakrabarty

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 39.95

    During his campaign against racism in South Africa, and his involvement in the Congress-led nationalist struggle against British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi developed a new form of political struggle based on the idea of satyagraha, or non-violent protest. He ushered in a new era of nationalism in India by articulating the nationalist... more...

  • India Todayby Stuart Corbridge; John Harriss; Craig Jeffrey

    Wiley 2013; US$ 69.95

    Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world, and beset by problems of low economic growth, casteism and violent religious conflict. Now India is being feted as an economic power-house which might well become the second largest economy... more...

  • Becoming a Borderlandby Sanghamitra Misra

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00

    This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in... more...

  • History and the Making of a Modern Hindu Selfby Aparna Devare

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00

    Taking the contentious debates surrounding historical evidence and history writing between secularists and Hindu nationalists as a starting point, this book seeks to understand the origins of a growing historical consciousness in contemporary India, especially amongst Hindus. The broad question it poses is: Why has ?history? become such an important... more...