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“benjamin robert siegel”

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  • Hungry Nation

    Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India

    de Benjamin Robert Siegel ...
    This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

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    Markets of Pain

    Opium, Capitalism, and the Global History of Painkillers

    de Benjamin Robert Siegel ...
    Narrado por Jamie Renell ...

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    9 hora 12 minutos

    For centuries, opium has been a source of both profit and peril, its legacy entangled with addiction, imperialism, and the complex interplay of global trade and national development. While the illicit opium trade is infamous, the history of licit opium has remained largely untold.Markets of Pain traces the global arc of licit opium from poppy fields and processing plants to the clinics and ... Leer más

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  • India Is Broken

    A People Betrayed, Independence to Today

    de Ashoka Mody ...
    A provocative new account of how India moved relentlessly from its hope-filled founding in 1947 to the dramatic economic and democratic breakdowns of today.When Indian leaders first took control of their government in 1947, they proclaimed the ideals of national unity and secular democracy. Through the first half century of nation-building, leaders could point to uneven but measurable progress on ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Battles of the New Republic

    A Contemporary History of Nepal

    de Prashant Jha ...
    Battles of the New Republic: A Contemporary History of Nepal is a story of Nepal's transformation from war to peace, monarchy to republic, a Hindu kingdom to a secular state, and a unitary to a potentially federal state. Part-reportage, part-history, part-analysis, part-memoir, and part-biography of the key characters, the book breaks new ground in political writing from the region. With access to ... Leer más

    $20.89 USD

  • The Fall and Rise of Telangana

    de Gautam Pingle ...
    Post Independence, the state of Andhra Pradesh was created by merging the Telangana region, a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, with the coastal region of Andhra and Rayalaseema—both parts of the erstwhile Madras state. With Madras, the major source of income of the state, allocated to Tamil Nadu, it was necessary to include the revenue-surplus Telangana to create a financially viable ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • India's Power Elite

    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

    de Sanjaya Baru ...
    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Modern India

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture ... Leer más

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  • From Chanakya to Modi

    Evolution of India's Foreign Policy

    de Aparna Pande ...
    Foreign policy of India is as deeply informed by its civilizational heritage as it is by modern ideas about national interest. The two concepts that come and go most frequently in Indian engagement with the world - from Chanakya in the third century bce to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2017 - are autonomy and independence in decision making. Aparna Pande's From Chanakya to Modi explores the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • Maoism In India

    de Arun Srivastava ...
    Maoism in india is an attempt to study and analyse the movement. already a number of left intellectuals and scholars have studied the movement and written about it. my attempt has been to find out the difference between the naxalite and cpi (maoist) movements. is there any difference as such? though the naxalite movement took birth in naxalbari in 1967, it is still striving to find a sustainable ... Leer más

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  • India Since 1980

    de Sumit Ganguly, Rahul Mukherji ...
    Series series The World Since 1980
    This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi era. Although the country remains one of the few democracies in the developing world, many of the policies instigated by ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • India's First Dictatorship

    de Christophe Jaffrelot, Pratinav Anil ...
    In June 1975 Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed a 'State of Emergency', resulting in a 21-month suspension of democracy. Jaffrelot and Anil explore this black page in India's history, a constitutional dictatorship of unequal impact, with South India largely spared thanks to the resilience of Indian federalism. India's First Dictatorship focuses on Mrs Gandhi and her son, Sanjay, who was largely ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Rival Claims

    Ethnic Violence and Territorial Autonomy under Indian Federalism

    de Bethany Ann Lacina ...
    In this study of struggles for ethnoterritorial autonomy, Bethany Lacina explains regional elites’ decision whether or not to fight for autonomy, and the central government’s response to this decision. In India, the prime minister’s respective electoral ties to separate, rival regional interests determine whether ethnoterritorial demands occur and whether they are repressed or accommodated.Using ... Leer más

    $46.79 USD