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    de Dana Burde ...
    Foreign-backed funding for education does not always stabilize a country and enhance its statebuilding efforts. Dana Burde shows how aid to education in Afghanistan bolstered conflict both deliberately in the 1980s through violence-infused, anti-Soviet curricula and inadvertently in the 2000s through misguided stabilization programs. She also reveals how dominant humanitarian models that determine ... Leer más

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    Series series Bharata Bharati
    The Wheel, which adorns the flag of free India, has kept His memory green. Lord of a vast empire, after a great victory on the battlefield he grew sick of violence and took an oath never to fight again. He was an ideal ruler. He strove to carry to other lands the light he had won in his life. He dedicated himself to the victories of righteousness. ... Leer más

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  • Gandhi: From Monu to Mahatma

    This is a story of the amazing evolution of a great visionary and freedom fighter of India, Mahatma Gandhi. The narration of the evolution of a great soul is simple, straight-forward, unembellished but never simplistic. It is written for children but when an adult reads it the child in him is alive again. The Mahatma also had kept the child Monu alive in himself until he died as a martyr. This is ... Leer más

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  • The History of Doing

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    de Radha Kumar ...
    A thematic history of the women’s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at how women’ s issues were raised, initially by men and as part of the movements for social reform, and then with the involvement of women in the nationalist movement, by women themselves. Using photographs, old and new ... Leer más

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  • The Fall and Rise of Telangana

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    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

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  • 1971

    A Global History of the Creation of Bangladesh

    The war of 1971 was the most significant geopolitical event in the Indian subcontinent since its partition in 1947. At one swoop, it led to the creation of Bangladesh, and it tilted the balance of power between India and Pakistan steeply in favor of India. The Line of Control in Kashmir, the nuclearization of India and Pakistan, the conflicts in Siachen Glacier and Kargil, the insurgency in ... Leer más

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  • Art and Devotion at a Buddhist Temple in the Indian Himalaya

    A study of a set of sixteenth-century wall paintings at the Gyapagpa Temple in Nako, a village in India's Himachal Pradesh state.Sixteenth-century wall paintings in a Buddhist temple in the Tibetan cultural zone of northwest India are the focus of this innovative and richly illustrated study. Initially shaped by one set of religious beliefs, the paintings have since been reinterpreted and retraced ... Leer más

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  • Studies in Indian History and Culture

    de U N Ghoshal ...
    This book, first published in 1944, then revised and enlarged in 1957, has been in the archives for a long time and has now taken a new avatar in the electronic version.It does a thorough examination of Indian History and Culture, the beginnings of the historiography in the vedas, the early lives or legends of the Buddha, the historical traditions of the Puranas, and the two leading royal and ... Leer más

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  • Neutral Accent

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    In Neutral Accent, A. Aneesh employs India's call centers as useful sites for studying global change. The horizon of global economic shift, the consequences of global integration, and the ways in which call center work "neutralizes" racial, ethnic, and national identities become visible from the confines of their cubicles. In his interviews with call service workers and in his own work in a call ... Leer más

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  • The Long Partition and the Making of Modern South Asia

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    Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very histories that have sutured nations to territorial states. "India" and "Pakistan" were drawn onto maps in the midst of Partition's genocidal violence and one of the largest displacements of people in the twentieth century. Yet this historical specificity of decolonization on the very making of a nationalized ... Leer más

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  • Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India

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    In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India**, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance.** Placing special emphasis on women's rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization ... Leer más

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  • A Magical Marriage

    Series Libro 5 - The Legend of Ponnivala [Series 1
    "The Legend of Ponnivala" is a vast, ancient epic from the Kongu region of South India, where it is known as the "Annanmar Kathai" or "Elder Brothers' Story." It is the story of three generations of a farming family who through their exploits and the intercession of the Hindu gods rise to become kings of their region. Previously only told orally by bards in the local area, it is surprisingly ... Leer más

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