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“apalak das”

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  • Empire and Leprosy in Colonial Bengal

    by Apalak Das ...
    Leprosy, widely mentioned in different religious texts and ancient scriptures, is the oldest scourge of humankind. Cases of leprosy continue to be found across the world as the most crucial health problem, especially in India and Brazil. There are a few maladies that eventually turn into social disquiets, and leprosy is undoubtedly one of them. This book traces the dynamics of the interface ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Epidemic Encounters, Communities, and Practices in the Colonial World

    by Poonam Bala, Russel Viljoen, Sahara Ahmed, Mark Briskey, Apalak Das, Sohini Das, Suvankar Dey, Mathew Franco, Amina Issa0, Vicki Luker1, Saurav Kumar Rai2, Jeff Ramsay3, Arabinda Samanta4, Jacob Steere-Williams5, Elizabeth Van Heynigen6 ...
    The essays in this volume examine the nature and extent of disease on indigenous communities and local populations located within the vast regions of the Indian and Pacific Oceans as a result of colonial sea power and colonial conquest. While this established a long-term impact of disease on populations, the essays also offer insights into the dynamics of these populations in resisting colonial ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

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  • Supreme Whispers

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    by Abhinav Chandrachud ...
    Based on 114 intriguing interviews with nineteen former chief justices of India and more than sixty-six former judges of the Supreme Court of India, Abhinav Chandrachud opens a window to the life and times of the former judges of India's highest court of law and in the process offers a history that largely remained in oblivion for a long time. ... Read more

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  • B. R. Ambedkar

    The man who gave hope to India's dispossessed

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Series series Global Icons
    A household name throughout India, B. R. Ambedkar is one of the country’s most important figures, second only to Mahatma Gandhi. He played a major role in drafting the constitution for a newly independent India and led the fight against caste-based discrimination.Ambedkar was born into a Dalit caste (the so-called ‘untouchables’), but his academic brilliance saw him study at Columbia University ... Read more

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  • Science and National Consciousness in Bengal 1870 1930

    by J Lourdusamy ...
    This book gives a flavour of the Indian response to modern science by analysing the lives and careers of four scientifically influential personalities in Bengal. ... Read more

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  • Colonial masculinity

    The 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali' in the late nineteenth century

    by Mrinalini Sinha ...
    Series Book 24 - Studies in Imperialism
    This book is about the processes and practices through which two differently positioned elites, among the colonisers and the colonised, were constituted respectively as the 'manly Englishman' and the 'effeminate Bengali'. It argues that the emerging dynamics between colonial and nationalist politics in the 1880s and 1890s in India is best captured in the logic of colonial masculinity. The figures ... Read more

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  • Society and History of Gujarat since 1800

    A Select Bibliography of the English and European Language Sources

    by Edward Simpson ...
    This book consolidates scholarship on Gujarat in English and other European languages, notably, Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. It draws together well-known sources, as well as rare and under-exploited research material. Detailed bibliographical references are provided for books, chapters, periodical literature, dissertations, project reports, other materials published since 1800; ... Read more

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    by Jayeeta Sharma ...
    Series series Radical perspectives
    In the mid-nineteenth century the British created a landscape of tea plantations in the northeastern Indian region of Assam. The tea industry filled imperial coffers and gave the colonial state a chance to transform a jungle-laden frontier into a cultivated system of plantations. Claiming that local peasants were indolent, the British soon began importing indentured labor from central India. In ... Read more

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