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  • Longing for an Elsewhere

    Mysore and the Making of India's Developmental State

    by Chandan Gowda ...
    Series series Modern South Asia
    Longing for an Elsewhere is about the colonial ancestry of India's contemporary embrace of economic development. Unlike existing scholarship that traces the emergence of the developmental state to the mid-twentieth century process of decolonization, the book argues that these origins are anchored in the preoccupation of colonized Indian elites with emulating the industrial modernity of Europe and ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Another India

    Events, Memories, People

    by Chandan Gowda ...
    ‘A product of immaculate scholarship, refined rumination and humane sensibility — drawing upon little known or forgotten bits of history, mythology, literature, and personal encounters with exceptional individuals, this excellent book urges us to reflect on our predicament as a people.’ GEETANJALI SHREE‘Another India is a metaphor for rich cultural diversity. It is a tapestry that lucidly marks ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Bara

    Translated by Chandan Gowda ...
    by U.R. Ananthamurthy ...
    Ajji, can I have some water? … Just a few drops will do, Ajji. With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cactus the people of this parched terrain are determined to stay alive. Emaciated children scurry along, dejected farmers pawn their ploughs, weary women sleep on empty stomachs…. Would those perishing now have died anyway? Or is hunger calling them away prematurely? ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • A Life in the World

    U.R. Ananthamurthy in Conversation with Chandan Gowda

    by U. R. Ananthamurthy, Chandan Gowda ...
    A fascinating portrait of the life and ideas of the great Indian writer and public intellectual, U.R. Ananthamurthy. Between 2012 and 2013, Ananthamurthy shared his personal experiences in a series of lively conversations with academic and writer Chandan Gowda, and reflected on issues that would preoccupy him until the end. Besides the vivid accounts of his childhood, friendships, the evolution of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Proceedings of the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference (RSCC 2020)

    Volume 4: Shift to a Circular Economy

    Edited by Vítor M.C.F. Cunha, Mohammadali Rezazadeh, Chandan Gowda ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held at Guimarães and hosted by the University of Minho, Portugal, on March 9-14, 2020. The theme of the Conference was “Ambitioning a Sustainable Future for Built Environment: comprehensive strategies for unprecedented challenges”, which was aimed at discussing current challenges and impacts ... Read more

    $215.99 USD

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
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  • Gandhi

    A Spiritual Biography

    by Arvind Sharma ...
    In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, “What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end.” While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), nearly all ... Read more

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  • Gita Press and the Making of Hindu India

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    In the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned-spiritualists, set up the Gita Press and Kalyan magazine. As of early 2014, Gita Press had sold close to 72 million copies of the Gita, 70 million copies of Tulsidas's works and 19 million copies of scriptures like the Puranas and Upanishads. And while most other journals of the period, whether ... Read more

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    'A rare treasure trove.' - Arundhati Roy'[An] important and timely contribution to the study of religious-cultural populism.' - Pankaj Mishra'A powerful and original work of historical scholarship.' - Ramachandra Guha''Mukul rolls out a remarkably detailed map of print Hinduism.' - Shahid AminIn the early 1920s, Jaydayal Goyandka and Hanuman Prasad Poddar, two Marwari businessmen-turned ... Read more

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  • Hindutva or Hind Swaraj

    by U. R. Ananthamurthy ...
    A trenchant critique of the rise of Hindutva nationalism in India by one of India's best known writers and thinkers.The very last work of Jnanpith award winner and preeminent writer U.R. Ananthamurthy is a timely reading, and trenchant critique, of the rise of Hindutva nationalism in India. Juxtaposing Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh founder V.D. Savarkar's idea of Hindutva with M.K. Gandhi's concept ... Read more

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  • Dalit Literature : A Critical Exploration

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    The book saw the light of the day after the invaluable co-operation of a number of people, particularly all the contributors of this book who had to burn their mid-night lamps to contribute their scholarly research papers. We are also very thankful to Prof. Jagdish Chandra Dave, Principal, Dr. A. A. Shaikh, Mr. Bhargav Jani, Harish Manglam, Dr. Pathik Paramar, Dalapat Chauhan, Daxa Damodara, Dr. ... Read more

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  • Hindutva or Hind Swaraj

    by U. R. Ananthamurthy, Keerti Ramachandra ...
    Born out of a meditation on the ideas of the nation state and nationalism, and what the new power structures and centres mean for the very idea of India, Hindutva or Hind Swaraj is a manifesto -- written in the form of aphorisms, using shifting tones and styles to make a deep, elegant and heartfelt point about the human cost of radicalization. This last work of Jnanpith award winner and pre ... Read more

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