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  • A World of Resistance

    India and the Global Antibiotic Crisis

    by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    A sweeping analysis uncovers the causes of—and solutions to—one of the most daunting public health challenges facing the world today: antibiotic resistance exploding in India.The discovery of antibiotics was one of the most significant medical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, dramatically increasing human lifespans. Yet today, with antibiotic-resistant superbugs implicated in as many deaths ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Gender and Masculinities

    Histories, Texts and Practices in India and Sri Lanka

    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Gender persists as a key site of social inequality globally, and within contemporary south Asian contexts, the cultural practices which make upmasculinities remain vital for understanding everyday life and social relations. Yet masculinities, and their discontents, are an understudied and often misrepresented facet of gender relations and cultural dynamics. Gender and Masculinities offers a ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia

    Critical Perspectives

    Edited by Assa Doron, Alex Broom ...
    Series series Routledge South Asian History and Culture Series
    Health, Culture and Religion in South Asia brings together top international scholars from a range of social science disciplines to critically explore the interplay of local cultural and religious practices in the delivery and experiences of health in South Asia. This groundbreaking text provides much needed insight into the relationships between health, culture, community, livelihood, and the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Caste, Occupation and Politics on the Ganges

    Passages of Resistance

    by Assa Doron ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. Assa Doron examines the evolution of the boatmen community, drawing on a variety of sources to illuminate the cultural politics of social and economic ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Waste of a Nation

    Garbage and Growth in India

    by Assa Doron, Robin Jeffrey ...
    In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottles—anything for which he can get a little cash. This custom persists and recreates itself alongside the new economies and ecologies of consumer capitalism. Waste of a Nation offers an anthropological and historical account of India’s complex ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Great Indian Phone Book

    by Assa Doron ...
    Over just a decade in India, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare, unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized staple that even poor fisherman can afford. Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey investigate the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history and explore the whole ecosystem of cheap mobile phones. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

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    by B.K. Sharma ...
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    The present anthology The Fiction of Amitav Ghosh: A Post-colonial Perspective attempts to bring together reading of Ghoshs selected and most exquisite novels from a refreshingly different viewpoint against the background of Post-colonialism. Amitav Ghosh is unarguably one of the most cosmopolitan of contemporary Indian English writers whose extra ordinary oeuvre of fiction has been a source of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • India

    Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse

    by Gurpreet Mahajan ...
    Series series World Political Theories
    In this groundbreaking work, Gurpreet Mahajan tackles the predisposition of political theory to be limited by the Western canon. Bringing into focus how concepts central to the modern democratic political imaginary are interpreted in India, this book elaborates the ways that ideas of freedom, equality and difference are layered with new meanings and how questions of religion and state, critical ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • The Modern Anthropology of India

    Ethnography, Themes and Theory

    Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann ...
    The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Safe Food

    The Politics of Food Safety

    by Marion Nestle ...
    Series Book 5 - California Studies in Food and Culture
    Food safety is a matter of intense public concern, and for good reason. Millions of annual cases of food "poisonings" raise alarm not only about the food served in restaurants and fast-food outlets but also about foods bought in supermarkets. The introduction of genetically modified foods—immediately dubbed "Frankenfoods"—only adds to the general sense of unease. Finally, the events of September ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Formula for Better Health

    How to Save Millions of Lives--Including Your Own

    by Tom Frieden ...
    **The formula to stop invisible killers—an approach that can protect your health and prevent the next pandemic—from one of the most influential public health leaders in the US.Gold Medal, 2025 Foreword INDIES Awards, Health (Adult Nonfiction) Category**In The Formula for Better Health, Tom Frieden—named “the most influential leader in American public health since C. Everett Koop” by former Mayor ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Everyday Life in South Asia

    Edited by Diane P. Mines, Sarah Lamb ...
    Now updated: An "eminently readable, highly engaging" anthology about the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka (Margaret Mills, Ohio State University).For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, ... Read more

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