Towards Freedom
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Indian Museum is an offspring of the Asiatic Society of Bengal and owes its birth to Dr. Nathaniel Wallich in the year 1814. This cultural Insititution was established to preserve, exhibit, research and share the cultural heritage in the subcontinent. This monograph deals with the early history of the Indian Museum-the oldest museum in the country, formally know as the Imperial Museum' in the days of British rule in Indian. The main emphasis in the book, das ...
This book examines the important aspects of Feminist Theories—Liberal, Marxist, Socialist, Radical, Cultural, Gyno-centric, Psychoanalytic, and Post-modern. It discusses at length the dialogue among these different types of feminisms as well as the critique of some feminist theories by other theories.
It addresses important issues like the contested notion of women’s rights, labour, sexuality, love, hetro-normativity, race and class. It also covers a ...
Public administration scholars, media and the general public denounce the administrative machinery in India as inefficient, wasteful and unresponsive. The book seeks to examine the dynamics of corruption in order to bringing in accountability and transparency in Indian Administration.
The book gives us a true picture of Swamiji and Maharaja Ajit Singh of Khetri , the principal sponsor of his trip to America for attending the “Parliament of Religions”. The book reveals many unknown facts of Swamiji and his numerous correspondences with various people. It is an emotionally moving book on hardships and pain he had to incur to reach his goal. A must read for all. Few comments on the book given below.
The Mahabharat is the longest epic in the world. It is a huge storehouse of fascinating stories, myths, legends, historical events of ancient India and many other branches of knowledge. It formed the mindset of India throughout the ages and it is as popular in India today as it was in the past. The foreign readers will not only be fascinated by its stories, they will also understand the relevance of the ethical values contained in it to the contemporary world. ...
In everyday life we are taught the gender and sexuality is biological. Such construction of the biological nature of gender and sexuality neglects the power relation involved in both. Once such power relations are brought to the forefront, the nature of “gender†and “sexuality†reveal themselves as cultural constructs. Power creates and normalizes a set of human gender and sexual behavior as “normal†thereby also crating another set as ...
In the 1960s and 70s a diverse group of political and cultural movements which included women’s right to control her reproductive power, the politicization of domestic violence via State intervention, the incorporation of special job allocation for women, the establishment of welfare policies by the liberal State for single mothers, and other related rights, came under the umbrella phrase, “Second Wave Feminism.†...
Corruption, in its many forms, is being seen increasingly as an obstacle to good governance, a constraint on economic development, an impediment to social equity, and eventually a source of political instability and, in extreme cases, state failure. By almost any indicator of corruption, the performance of the South Asian countries has been poor. Corrupt practices in the region have a long history, and were sustained during British colonial rule. They flourished ...
Since the publication of Freud essays, “Femininity†and “Feminine Sexualityâ€, there has been an interest hitherto unknown in the psycho-analytic community, a question about the feminine subjectivity, self, and sexuality. According to Freud the foundation of gendered identity is the castration complex. Since the publication of the above essays the question that raged in the psycho-analytic community, is this: if the fear of castration leads one to adopt a ...
This book is a result of wide ranging academic collaboration between two scholars of two neighbouring countries -Bangladesh and India. Significantly, their ideas and interests have covered on important topics such as nationalism, colonialism, civil-military relations and challenges of good governance. The authors have largely dealt with four countries -Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Thailand. Various issues like relations between the people, politicians and ...
The history of Sport is only in its infancy in Indian academia. To establish its credibility as a viable academic discipline has proved something of a struggle for those Indian historian engaged in its research for the past few years. The struggle is overcome elsewhere in the world. To overcome it in India, the teaching of sports history within the broader discipline of history must go hand in hand with serious research. t his book, which ...
The Pragiyotishpura or Kamrupa mentioned in the Kalikapurana or in the Jogini Tantra, had been dominantly remained under the Mongolian cultural people since 2500 years to 3000 years back. The word 'Kamrupa' changed into Asham, Hasam, Assam and Asom with the entrance of the Ahoms from the Burmadesh (Myanmar) after 1230 A.D. The bodos in different parts of this region were, according to place, known a Dimacha Kachari, Barman in Silchar, Tippera in Tripura, Rabha ...
This book is a collection of some of his favourite poems in forms, rhymes and free writes in love, spiritual, philosophical and social scenarios. It contains many form poems e.g. sonnets, villanelles, haikus, senryus, cinquains etc. He has published many poems in international/national poetic sites with pen names 'Manoj Anmol', 'Manoj' and 'Manoj Sanyal'. Hope, the readers like his poetics and poems.
The present book contains papers on different aspects of SAARC Writing in English. They are arranged country-wise in the alphabetical order. The first two papers on Bangladesh introduce the national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam and examine reflection of communalism in the writings of Bangladesh. Bhutanese Lo-Zey and a novel The Circle of Karma are the subject matter of Bhutanese section. There are two papers on India, one analysing contemporary trends in Indian fiction ...
The provision of not less than one-third seats for women in PRIs through Seventy Third Constitutional Amendment has paved way for empowerment of women. The finding in this publication is based on primary data and provides a fresh framework to understand the process of empowerment of women. This book argues that three factors influence empowerment of women representatives in PRIs. These are patriarchy and cultural expectations, empowering policy environment (such ...
The theme of Globalization and the Turkic Civilization was aimed at depicting the role of the Turkic Civilization within the process of globalization. It aimed at gathering scholars conducting research in this field in order to evaluate the past studies and to determine future goals. Participants presented their papers in the Kyrgyz, Turkish, English and Russian languages.
Contents: I. 1. Raja Mahendra Pratap : President of the first provisional Government of India/M. Hassan Khan. 2. Raja Mehendra Pratap and Prof. Barkatullah in USSR-The beginning of a new socio economic understanding/Ashok Ku. Patnayak. 3. Role of Maulana Barkatullah in the freedom struggle of India/Abdul Ali. 4. Raja Mahendra Pratap : a life in our time/Suhbha Singh. 5. A globetrotting freedom fighter and humanitarian to the core : Raja Mahendra Pratap/Abdul ...