Tag: India

Free Download David John Arnold, K. Sivaramakrishnan, "The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800-1856"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 0295993839, 029598581X | PDF | pages: 309 | 2.3 mb
The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze considers the European representation and understanding of landscape and nature in early nineteenth-century India. It draws on travel narratives, literary texts, and scientific literature to show the diversity of European (especially British) responses to the Indian environment and the ways in which these contributed to the wider colonizing process. Through its close examination of the correlation between tropicality and "otherness," and of science as a means of colonial appropriation, the book offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. It will be of interest to historians of the environment, science, and colonialism; South Asianists; and cultural and environmental anthropologists and geographers.

Free Download Sudha Tiwari, "The State and New Cinema in Contemporary India"
English | ISBN: 1032371013 | 2023 | 310 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This book examines the relationship between the newly independent Indian state and its New Cinema movement. It looks at state formative practices articulating themselves as cultural policy. It presents an institutional history of the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), later the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC), and their patronage of the New Cinema in India, from the 1960s to the 1990s, bringing into focus an extraordinary but neglected cultural moment in Indian film history and in the history of contemporary India.

Free Download The Incarcerations: BK-16 and the Search for Democracy in India by Alpa Shah
English | 14 Mar. 2024 | ISBN: 0008518807, 9354899862 | True EPUB | 672 pages | 39.8 MB
‘A gripping and rigorous crime story about the murder of a once thriving democracy, exposing an arsenal of lethal weapons, some wielded on the streets, others in the courts and press’ NAOMI KLEIN

Free Download Vinay Lal, "The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0195672445, 0195664655 | PDF | pages: 321 | 2.4 mb
A radical contribution to the understanding of Indian history as a discipline, this book explores the politics of history-writing in modern India. It narrativizes the engagement of a civilization with the historical sensibility and modality. In doing so, it asserts that history, in order to be understood better, has to deploy the language of the layperson in India, and interact with the mythic, the ahistorical, and the folk. The endeavor is not to offer a comprehensive account over the last two centuries, but rather to explore the manner in which historical thinking inserted itself into the public domain.

Free Download Baby Varghese, "Syriac Liturgy in India: Syro-Malabar, Malankara Orthodox and Marthoma Liturgies"
English | ISBN: 3447119640 | 2023 | 84 pages | PDF | 1378 KB
About four million Syriac Christians, living in the South Indian State of Kerala with important diaspora in India and outside, are following East or West Syriac liturgical traditions. They are popularly known as St Thomas Christians, as they are believed to have been evangelized by the apostle Thomas. As these Christians were in intermittent relationship with the Syriac Christianity in Mesopotamia since the early centuries, they are also known as Syriac Christians. At least since the sixth century, perhaps fourth century, they were following East Syriac Liturgy. In the sixteenth century several East Syriac Prelates, both Catholics and non-Catholics, introduced the East Syriac liturgy in its final form. Since the middle of the sixteenth century nearly half of them are following the West Syriac liturgy. Their liturgical practices provide examples of liturgical conservatism and radical reforms. Now the liturgical texts have been translated into Malayalam, language of Kerala, and English, Hindi or other regional language for the use of the diaspora. However, Syriac is used by several clergy. Syro-Malabar liturgy is a highly latinised form of East Syriac liturgy, followed in the Eastern-Catholic community. Malankara Orthodox Church follows the liturgical rites of the Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch. History of the Marthoma liturgy, a reformed version of the West Syriac liturgy and used by the Reformed group, is presented here for the first time for the students of Syriac Christianity and liturgy.

Free Download Sustainability: Science, Policy, and Practice in India: Challenges and Opportunities
by Venkatesh Dutta and Priyanka Ghosh
English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031501314 | 245 Pages | True PDF | 10.8 MB

Free Download Studies on Tantra in Bengal and Eastern India
by Madhu Khanna
English | 2022 | ISBN: 981193021X | 192 Pages | True PDF | 3.3 MB

Free Download Shuchi Kapila, "Postmemory and the Partition of India: Learning to Remember "
English | ISBN: 3031433963 | 2024 | 160 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1153 KB + 4 MB
This book examines the memories of the Partition of India in 1947 with a focus on the generation of postmemory (those who came after it) and how partition experiences have been shared (or not) and understood. It explores the formal and narrative properties of different memory practices that have been built around the partition, and the methods of oral historians involved in collecting testimonies as part of the 1947 Berkeley partition archive.

Free Download Population Control Policies in China and India: Comparisons with Social and Cultural Factors
by Gabe T. Wang
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1032309563 | 152 Pages | True ePUB | 1.26 MB

Free Download Bhisham Sahni, "Middle India: Selected Stories"
English | 2009 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0143066463 | EPUB | 0,3 mb
A new translation of stories by one of the best modern Hindi writers In this collection of seventeen short stories, Bhisham Sahni examines middle India-the lower middle class-not rich or famous or educated in convent schools, not cosmopolitan but urban or semi-urban. In these tightly told tales, he explores with precision of thought and expression the humanity of individuals and their places in society. The collection includes some of Sahni’s best known stories: ‘Dinner for the Boss’, a tragi-comic tale of a man trying to please his employer and a mother’s attempt to please her son; ‘Paali’, the drama of a young boy shared between a Muslim and a Hindu family during Partition; and ‘Sparrow’, a story of love and loss in a marriage. Among the other stories in this anthology are popular favourites like ‘Veero’, ‘The Witch’, ‘Before Dying’, ‘Radha-Anuradha’ and ‘Salma Aapa’. The author, Bhisham Sahni, is a well known novelist and was recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel Tamas in 1976. He lives in New Delhi.