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Hindi commercial cinema has been invested in the supernatural since its earliest days. However, only a small segment of these films has been adequately explored in scholarly work. Haunting Bollywood addresses this gap.
From Gothic ghost films of the 1950s to snake films of the 1970s and 1980s to today’s globally influenced zombie and vampire films, Meheli Sen explores what the supernatural is and the questions it raises about film form, history, modernity, ...
Level Crossing: Railway Journeys in Hindi Cinema is a study of the representation of the railways as a cultural, perceptual, temporal and metaphoric paradigm of modern life in Hindi cinema. It examines the relationship of movement and stasis in late nineteenth century literary accounts and in Hindi cinema from 1935 to 1974 and asks how the three most important coordinates of the modern: machine, speed and vision shaped literary and film discourses.
As railways ...
This book provides a detailed introduction to the multifaceted and evolving discipline of ecocriticism. It locates ecocriticism within the varied domains of the Romantic movement, science, ethics, feminism and urban life, while tracing the evolution of the field from the coinage of the term to its new trajectories, through its various phases or ‘waves’. The book explores important concepts such as ecofeminism and material ecocriticism and points out ...
A single mirror reflects the truth as it is but only from one perspective. A ‘hall of mirrors’, on the other hand, exposes the truth through overlapping reflections, with varying depths and from a wide range of perspectives. In this book, political scientist Peter Ronald deSouza places India at the centre of such a hall of mirrors. He reveals for the reader the layered nature of Indian democracy, one particular depth, one particular perspective at a ...
The emergence of the Adivasi Gothra Maha Sabha led to a shift in Kerala's political landscape. The movement rejected the Communist rhetoric and instead framed its demands around adivasi and dalit identity. Yet, most activists in the movement had a Communist background, and building a coherent and effective political notion of adivasi (dalit) identity was complex. How and why, then, did the idea of indigenous belonging come to replace the discourse of class in ...
Rural’ and ‘urban’ are the foremost categories through which social life has been visualised and engaged with in modern and contemporary times.
The idea of the ‘rural’ or the ‘village’ has been of particular significance in India. British colonisers represented India to the world as a land of ‘village republics’. This representation was so influential that even the nationalist leaders accepted it uncritically. ...
This book explores how citizenship is differently gendered and performed across national and regional boundaries. Using ‘citizenship’ as its organizing concept, it brings together a collection of multidisciplinary approaches to the legal, socio-cultural and performative aspects of gender construction and identity: violence against women, victimhood and agency, and everyday issues of socialization in a globalized world.
The volume examines citizenship ...
A large number of Tibetans migrated to India following the Chinese occupation of Tibet in 1950. Till the end of the twentieth century, Tibetan studies focused primarily on Buddhism and pre-1950s Tibetan history in relation to Tibetan exiles, influenced largely by Western notions of Tibetan culture in an exotic ‘Shangri-La’. In Diasporic Lands moves away from this norm to study the dynamics of Tibetan refugees’ emergent culture in the midst of ...
Women and Political Thought provides an in-depth analysis of women’s role and place in political thought.
Beginning with Greek political thought, Sushila Ramaswamy traces the history of eighteenth-century liberalism, which, she demonstrates, carried the seed of modern feminism.
She discusses the effects the philosophies of Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Hegel had on eighteenth-century feminists. She offers detailed accounts of the main proponents of ...
India has posted a high growth rate since liberalisation in the 1990s. But, what does this number called growth rate mean?
Has there been uniform growth in all sectors
Has there been overall growth across all regions of the country?
Have all social groups of people (such as the socio-economically backward, the elderly) been benefitted by this growth?
Why is poverty still present to such a huge extent in India?
To answer these questions and to discuss the ...
Crossing Borders is a volume of interdisciplinary essays on the paradigm of borders in African American literature, multi-ethnic U.S. studies, and South Asian studies. Written by established and mid-career scholars from across the world, the essays employ a variety of approaches to the idea of “border crossings” and represent important contributions to the discourses on modernity, diasporic mobility, populism, migration, exile, sub-nation, ...
In this book, K. T. Margaret sets out to explain the substance of play and why she believes it is the most important element in the education of pre-primary children. Taking up common issues faced in nursery classes, she draws on her considerable experience as a teacher and educator for more than thirty years to elaborate on a methodology she devised to improve children’s overall learning experience. Personal yet instructive, the book includes anecdotes, ...
One of the most important agrarian institutions is tenancy, and Economic Analysis of Agrarian Institutions takes a fresh look at the issue of tenancy relations and its implications for agrarian development in the context of the changing agro-economic environment of the rural economy.
Through an extensive field study in four districts of the northeastern state of Assam, the author studies the nature of the existing tenancy arrangements in the state and analyses ...
Post-Independence India’s diverse economy witnessed major changes in the 1990s, most of which were aimed at changing the industrial landscape. As the control and command of the state were diluted, competitive market conditions were expected to take their place and enhance output growth in the manufacturing sector.
Hastening Slowly is a comprehensive analysis of the changes in the market structure and performance of Indian manufacturing industries since the ...
India’s Aged: Needs and Vulnerabilities discusses the most vulnerable aspects of elderly life-health and well-being-under the current conditions of economic and societal change. This volume explores (a) whether the nature of living arrangements has a bearing on the health outcomes of the elderly; (b) whether the real or perceived economic dependence and financial vulnerability of the elderly is conditioned by translation of capabilities into functioning; ...
Harmony – The Orient BlackSwan Term Book is a set of 15 books for students of classes 1–5. The package has:
for classes 1 and 2–English, Maths and EVS for classes 3 to 5–English, Maths, Science and Social Studies
The English language section aims to develop communicative skills. It has a clear, graded syllabus for language skill development, literary appreciation and concepts in grammar and vocabulary, apart from a focus on research ...
Harmony – The Orient BlackSwan Term Book is a set of 15 books for students of classes 1–5. The package has:
for classes 1 and 2–English, Maths and EVS for classes 3 to 5–English, Maths, Science and Social Studies.
The English language section aims to develop communicative skills. It has a clear, graded syllabus for language skill development, literary appreciation and concepts in grammar and vocabulary, apart from a focus on research ...
Harmony – The Orient BlackSwan Term Book is a set of 15 books for students of classes 1–5. The package has:
for classes 1 and 2–English, Maths and EVS for classes 3 to 5–English, Maths, Science and Social Studies.
The English language section aims to develop communicative skills. It has a clear, graded syllabus for language skill development, literary appreciation and concepts in grammar and vocabulary, apart from a focus on research ...
Harmony – The Orient BlackSwan Term Book is a set of 15 books for students of classes 1–5. The package has:
for classes 1 and 2–English, Maths and EVS for classes 3 to 5–English, Maths, Science and Social Studies.
The English language section aims to develop communicative skills. It has a clear, graded syllabus for language skill development, literary appreciation and concepts in grammar and vocabulary, apart from a focus on research ...