One of the great thinkers of Indian cinema, Javed Akhtar needs no introduction. As a screenplay writer, he and Salim Khan wrote the dialogue for blockbusters like Zanjeer, Deewar, and Sholay; as a songwriter, he has composed a huge variety of songs including, ‘Yeh kahaan aa gaye hum’, ‘Kuchh na kaho’, and ‘Kal ha na ho’. Talking Films and Songs showcases both these aspects of Javed Akhtar’s versatile genius, through ...
Agriculture is one of the largest sources of livelihood in India, contributing significantly to the gross domestic product of the country. However, it has witnessed a decline in the last few decades. While there has been a significant increase in production of foodgrains in the recent past, the sector has been facing some formidable challenges of climate change, increasing costs and uncertainties associated with volatility in international markets, and decline in ...
Popular depictions of campaigns for women’s suffrage in films and literature have invariably focused on Western suffrage movements. The fact that Indian women built up a vibrant suffrage movement in the twentieth century has been largely neglected. The Indian ‘suffragettes’ were not only actively involved in campaigns within the Indian subcontinent, they also travelled to Britain, America, Europe, and elsewhere, taking part in transnational ...
Indians and The Antipodes: Networks, Boundaries, and Circulation
The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies and economies. However, because of their small number—slightly more than half a million— they rarely find mention in the global literature on Indian diaspora. The present volume seeks to remedy this oversight. Charting the chequered 250-year-old history of both the ‘old’ and the ...
Resisting Regimes: Myth, Memory and the Shaping of a Muslim Identity
Resisting Regimes examines how colonial and princely regimes and the Tablighi Jama’at have been perceived, responded to and resisted by a subject group called the Meos, a community largely based in India and Pakistan. Meo myth and memory counter the statist enunciation of truth and history and denial of identity. The group located historically between Hinduism and Islam also challenges the theoretical terrain based on the binary categories, ...
Equity and Access attempts to unravel the complex narrative of why inequities in the health sector are growing and access to basic health care is worsening, and the underlying forces that contribute to this situation. It draws attention to the way globalization has influenced India’s development trajectory as healthcare issues have assumed significant socio-economic and political significance in contemporary India. The volume explains how state and market ...
The Handbook of Benign Proctological Disorders, part of the Oxford Clinical Practice Series, is a multidisciplinary yet portable clinical reference for medical and surgical practitioners and other healthcare providers. Centered on hands-on experience, the book includes all known benign proctological pathologies like anal fissures, haemorrhoids, anal infections, anorectal abscess and fistula, and so on. Concise yet comprehensive, the handbook includes sections on ...
The Handbook of Nutrition in Kidney Disease, part of the Oxford Clinical Practice Series, is a comprehensive handbook for nephrologists, physicians, and dieticians as well as medical students. In patients of chronic kidney disease, the management of nutrition is a prime concern, but adequate literature on the practical aspects is not available. This handbook fills the gap by providing theoretical and practical approaches to handling nutritional requirements of ...
Tabiyat: Medicine and Healing in India and Other Essays
This book, aptly titled ‘Tabiyat’ which translates to ‘health’, ‘nature’, ‘temperament’ or ‘disposition’, is a collection of nine masterly and thought-provoking essays which explore some important discoveries, dwelling on their relevance in our daily lives. Including essays on War and Medicine, Medical Ethics, Music and Medicine, Nursing and Death, the book encompasses various fields of human endeavour ...
Marketing to India’s diverse and rapidly changing consumers requires constant refreshment of knowledge and skills. To the keen MBA student specializing in marketing as well as its ardent practitioner, this book blends practical insights with theoretical frameworks. Understanding Indian Consumers is a compilation of 20 articles from among some of the best minds in academia and business. So whether you are looking for insights and strategies to market to ...
Economics II and Advanced Business Mathematics is specially designed to serve as a textbook for B Com (Hons) students of University of Calcutta. It provides a comprehensive coverage of the various topics related to macroeconomics and advanced business mathematics. The book is divided into two sections. The first section, Macroeconomic Theory, begins with introducing the concept of macroeconomics, followed by a detailed coverage of the theories of national income, ...
Ground Down by Growth: Tribe, Caste, Class and Inequality in Twenty-First Century India
Why has India’s astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India’s ‘untouchables’ and ‘tribals’ fit into the global economy. Ground Down by Growth reveals the impact of global capitalism on their lives. It shows how capitalism entrenches, rather than erases, social difference and has transformed ...
Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace
Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam--indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices. Challenging common views of Islam as hostile to critical thinking, Ahmad delineates thriving traditions of critique in Islamic culture, focusing in large part on South Asian traditions. Ahmad interrogates Greek and Enlightenment notions of reason and ...
Suragi, the flower Ananthamurthy loved, gives out more fragrance as it fades U.R. Ananthamurthy’s oeuvre stands out in glittering letters in the history of modern Indian literature. As teacher, writer, and critic, he inspired and challenged his peers, influenced cultural policy, and defined the role of the public intellectual as the ‘critical insider’. His novels in Kannada, Samskara, Bharathipura, and Avasthe, are now regarded as classics. ...
India faces an array of national security challenges ranging from territorial disputes with China and Pakistan, state-sponsored cross-border terrorism to internal security issues related, ethnic and class-based insurgencies. Its national security agenda encompasses issues related to economics, environment, development, and transnational criminal activities. More than two decades of rapid economic growth in India has also added energy security to the national ...
China’s India War: Collision Course on The Roof of The World
Maharaja Ripudaman Singh of Nabha (1883-1942) was an exceptional ruler, a princely ‘rebel’ who resisted the paramount power in different ways. Forced to abdicate in 1923 ostensibly on account of ‘maladministration’, Ripudaman Singh was sent to Kodaikanal in 1928, where he died after 14 years in captivity without any recourse to judicial appeal. Set against the backdrop of Indian nationalism, Sikh resurgence, and British paramountcy, J.S. ...
Malabar in The Indian Ocean: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region
Malabar is a crucial place in the Indian Ocean world, but its historical diversity is largely unexplored. Seafarers and writers have described it in terms of its own cultural and social life; however, a complete historical description of the engagement of the Arabs, Persians, Portuguese, Dutch, French and British has still not been attempted. Unlike the existing studies that rely heavily on European sources, Malabar in the Indian Ocean calls the attention of ...
The Great Convergence: Environmental Histories of BRICS
The emergence of BRICS, a complex yet intriguing entity, is representative of the coming together of nations with vastly different histories, cultures, and ideals. The Great Convergence offers new perspectives on it through a collaborative effort of environmental historians from Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. This edited volume attempts to go beyond the economic and geopolitical paradigms to trace the dynamics of environmental change within the ...
Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’: Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi: An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940
Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship, this volume questions the linearity of considering trade as the sole determinant of creation of settlement in the coastal regions. Focusing on settlement strategies, Chattopadhyay unravels how human societies, through successive generations, have adapted to the coastal environment and bioregime. First-hand data, procured through ...
