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“susan visvanathan”

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  • Wisdom of Community

    Essays on History, Social Transformation and Culture

    by Susan Visvanathan ...
    The Wisdom of Community is a compilation of essays which documents the key issues that have been pertinent in national debates in India. In some ways it takes a linear and chronological position on how the past informs us as we proceed with making sense of postmodern fluid society. It tries to understand how affected or influenced we are by colonialism, and the debates which brought us our freedom ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Work, Word and the World

    Essays on Habitat, Culture and Environment

    by Susan Visvanathan ...
    Word, Work and the World begins with the assumption that people are interested in the world around them. The book is written with the intent of drawing in lay and specialised readers into the interdisciplinary world of Sociology/Social Anthropology. The methods of both, since the 1960s, has been seen as combined for the reasons that the dichotomy of tribal/ peasant in relation to urban ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

  • Nelycinda and Other Stories

    by Susan Visvanathan ...
    Susan Visvanathan is Professor of Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University. She is the author of The Christians of Kerala; Friendship, Interiority and Mysticism; and The Children of Nature. Her books of fiction include Something Barely Remembered, The Visiting Moon, Phosphorous and Stone, and The Seine at Noon. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Children of Nature: The Life and Legacy of Ramana Maharshi

    by Susan Visvanathan ...
    An autobiographical interpretative work, The Children of Nature is an attempt to understand the role of spirituality and its social relevance. Susan Visvanathan also tries to comprehend the volatility of the town of Tiruvannamalai: abode of Ramana Maharshi. Using published material as well as diaries and letters from Sri Ramanasramam, the author uses the method of collage to splice together many ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Indian Culture

    Edited by Vasudha Dalmia, Rashmi Sadana ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues to move from its colonial past to its globalised future. This Companion offers a framework for understanding that change, and how modern cultural forms have emerged out of very different histories and traditions. The book provides accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and popular art, music, television and food; it also explores in detail ... Read more

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  • The Question of Silence: A Para-biography

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    A selection of conversations, lectures, and philosophical and biographical essays that look at the significance of the polyphony of human voices that are fast vanishing with the advance of civilisation, the place of silence in the making of meaning, and of language itself in the future of knowledge, The Question of Silence is an insightful and thought-provoking meditation on the many silences ... Read more

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  • Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia

    Vertiginous Exchange

    by Natasha Eaton ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art and Race
    Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what are ideas of vertiginous collecting, art-making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses and missionary museums (or museobuses) in Britain and South Asia.If the historiography of British India has privileged photography and the 'Imperial Picturesque', the emphasis here is on the formation of a creole modernity, one that ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Home in the World

    A Memoir

    by Amartya Sen ...
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  • The Small Voice of History

    Collected Essays

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  • Monasticism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen J. Davis ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Beyond Enlightenment

    Buddhism, Religion, Modernity

    by Richard Cohen ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism
    The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment.Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates ... Read more

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