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Making Sense Of The University - A Manifesto For Our Times

by Debaditya (Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi) Bhattacharya

~~54,08€~~ 43,26€ 20% OFF

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 This book looks into four different concepts of 'publicness' vis-Ã -vis the academy â€" namely, 'community', 'secularity', 'solidarity' and 'freedom'. It takes examples rooted in the recent political history of India to inquire into the university's hallowed pasts and possible futures.
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Becoming Allies - Civil Liberties Activism In India

by Ankita (University Of Oxford, Uk) Pandey

~~128,43€~~ 102,74€ 20% OFF

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 Becoming Allies is a political history of allyship in India. It shines light on those who support movement groups. It offers an insight into solidarity, protest, and collective ethics, making it essential for readers of political theory, history, democracy, social justice, and human rights.
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A Woman'S Job - Making Middle Lives In New India

by Asiya (London School Of Economics And Political Science, Uk) Islam

~~40,55€~~ 32,44€ 20% OFF

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 Presents a unique urban ethnography of young lower middle class women's lives in Delhi as they weave in and out of service employment, education, and domestic contracts.
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Legalizing The Revolution - India And The Constitution Of The Postcolony

by Sandipto (New School For Social Research, New York) Dasgupta

~~47,30€~~ 37,84€ 20% OFF

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 An innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. Contributes to the field of political theory of decolonization; presents an original theory of the Indian constitution as well as the concept of 'postcolonial constitutionalism'; and offers an appraisal of the crisis of democratic institutions in the Global South
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Founding Mothers Of The Indian Republic - Gender Politics Of The Framing Of The Constitution

by Achyut Chetan

~~131,18€~~ 104,94€ 20% OFF

 It shows that women members of the Constituent Assembly contributed significantly to shaping the moral imagination enshrined in the Constitution of India. By showcasing the immense debt owed by several of its articles to these women it breaks new ground in the fields of modern Indian history, women's history, and constitutional studies.
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Legalizing The Revolution - India And The Constitution Of The Postcolony

by Sandipto (New School For Social Research, New York) Dasgupta

~~141,95€~~ 113,56€ 20% OFF

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 An innovative synthesis of the history of decolonization and constitutional theory. Contributes to the field of political theory of decolonization; presents an original theory of the Indian constitution as well as the concept of 'postcolonial constitutionalism'; and offers an appraisal of the crisis of democratic institutions in the Global South
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When Ideas Matter - Democracy And Corruption In India

by Bilal A. (University Of Pennsylvania) Baloch

~~32,45€~~ 25,96€ 20% OFF

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 Breaks new ground in the study of the role of ideas in government decision-making in India. It traces where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behaviour in developing democracies.
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Colossus - The Anatomy Of Delhi

~~131,18€~~ 104,94€ 20% OFF

 Colossus is a comprehensive, data-driven, theory-rich, and multidisciplinary compilation that dissects the figurative anatomy of Delhi and India's National Capital Region. It will find a prominent place in studies on South Asia, urbanization and urban social behavior, and become a standard resource on these subjects.
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In Search Of Home - Citizenship, Law And The Politics Of The Poor

by Kaveri Haritas

~~108,65€~~ 86,92€ 20% OFF

 Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty â€" rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities and examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender. It studies how the state produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain.
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Uneasy Hegemony - Politics Of State-Building And Struggles For Justice In Sri Lanka

by Shyamika Jayasundara-Smits

~~131,18€~~ 104,94€ 20% OFF

 It departs from the dominant liberally oriented scholarship produced on Sri Lanka in the past three decades. It re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci and draws attention to class and inter-ethnic class relations as useful variables in the contemporary political analysis.
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Freedom In Captivity - Negotiations Of Belonging Along Kashmir'S Frontier

by Radhika (Leiden University, The Netherlands) Gupta

~~120,32€~~ 96,26€ 20% OFF

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 N ethnography of postcolonial sectarian politics in South Asia along the frontiers of Kashmir, this book speaks to interdisciplinary audience from anthropology, sociology and political science. It is a transregional study that explores how politics in South Asia are informed by the travel of religious-cultural ideas from west Asia.
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An Uneasy Hegemony - Politics Of State-Building And Struggles For Justice In Sri Lanka

by Shyamika (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam) Jayasundara-Smits

~~133,84€~~ 107,07€ 20% OFF

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 It departs from the dominant liberally oriented scholarship produced on Sri Lanka in the past three decades. It re-introduces the neo-Marxist approaches through the works of Antonio Gramsci and draws attention to class and inter-ethnic class relations as useful variables in the contemporary political analysis.
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Development After Statism - Industrial Firms And The Political Economy Of South Asia

by Adnan (King'S College London) Naseemullah

~~45,96€~~ 36,77€ 20% OFF

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 This book explores how industrial firms in South Asia manage the challenges of production after the withdrawal of the government from directing industry in the 1980s. Naseemullah argues that in Pakistan and India, manufacturers manage capital and labor differently based on their backgrounds, complicating industrial transformation by the state.
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The Odds Revisited - Political Economy Of The Development Of Bangladesh

by K. A. S. Murshid

~~124,37€~~ 99,50€ 20% OFF

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 Provides a comprehensive multi-sectoral approach combining economics, politics, history and the role of individual actors to explain Bangladesh's record of 'outlier' development. This book is an essential read for diplomats, students and scholars interested in the economic development of Bangladesh and South Asia.
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When Ideas Matter - Democracy And Corruption In India

by Bilal A. Baloch

~~31,80€~~ 25,44€ 20% OFF

 Breaks new ground in the study of the role of ideas in government decision-making in India. It traces where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behaviour in developing democracies.
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Deceptive Majority - Dalits, Hinduism, And Underground Religion

by Joel Lee

~~53,00€~~ 42,40€ 20% OFF

 An account of contemporary religious life in Lucknow illuminates the embrace and contestation of Hinduization in a Dalit community, it examines the practices by which signs of the community's Hindu affiliation are amplified and tied to a new ethic of publicity. Lee tracks Dalit religion to encompass it within a newly imagined Hindu body politic.
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Bureaucratic Archaeology - State, Science, And Past In Postcolonial India

by Ashish (University Of Rhode Island) Avikunthak

~~133,84€~~ 107,07€ 20% OFF

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 This book uncovers an endemic link between micro-practice of archaeology in the trenches of Archaeological Survey of India to the manufacture of archaeological knowledge wielded in the making of political and religious identity by Indian state and summoned as indelible evidence in the juridical adjudication in the highest Indian courts.
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When Ideas Matter - Democracy And Corruption In India

by Bilal A. (University Of Pennsylvania) Baloch

~~110,85€~~ 88,68€ 20% OFF

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 Breaks new ground in the study of the role of ideas in government decision-making in India. It traces where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behaviour in developing democracies.
ENGLISH

In Search Of Home - Citizenship, Law And The Politics Of The Poor

by Kaveri Haritas

~~110,85€~~ 88,68€ 20% OFF

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 Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty â€" rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripheries of Indian cities and examines the politics of the poor focusing on law, citizenship and gender. It studies how the state produces illegalities, and how state institutions and actors stand to gain.
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Simultaneous Identities - Language, Education, And The Nepali Nation

by Uma Pradhan

~~108,65€~~ 86,92€ 20% OFF

 This book illustrates that social actors in minority language education in Nepal made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning 'ethnic identity' as 'national identity'. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities.
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Dynamics Of Caste And Law - Dalits, Oppression And Constitutional Democracy In India

by Dag-Erik Berg

~~121,90€~~ 97,52€ 20% OFF

 The caste system is central to understanding the politics of inequality and discrimination in India and elsewhere. This book explains how caste and law have mutually evolved in India's democratic order, providing new insights into why caste oppression may persist despite India's constitutional promises of equal opportunities.
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Colossus - The Anatomy Of Delhi

~~133,84€~~ 107,07€ 20% OFF

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 Colossus is a comprehensive, data-driven, theory-rich, and multidisciplinary compilation that dissects the figurative anatomy of Delhi and India's National Capital Region. It will find a prominent place in studies on South Asia, urbanization and urban social behavior, and become a standard resource on these subjects.
ENGLISH

Simultaneous Identities - Language, Education, And The Nepali Nation

by Uma (University Of Oxford) Pradhan

~~110,85€~~ 88,68€ 20% OFF

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 This book illustrates that social actors in minority language education in Nepal made simultaneous claims to more than one social identity by discursively positioning 'ethnic identity' as 'national identity'. By arguing for an analytical necessity to adopt relational approach, it aims to complicate the neat compartmentalisation of identities.
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Dynamics Of Caste And Law - Dalits, Oppression And Constitutional Democracy In India

by Dag-Erik (Hã¸Gskolen I Molde, Norway) Berg

~~124,37€~~ 99,50€ 20% OFF

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 The caste system is central to understanding the politics of inequality and discrimination in India and elsewhere. This book explains how caste and law have mutually evolved in India's democratic order, providing new insights into why caste oppression may persist despite India's constitutional promises of equal opportunities.
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