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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “srirupa roy”
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  • The Political Outsider

    Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism

    by Srirupa Roy ...
    Series series South Asia in Motion
    Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of actually existing democracy are intense and strident. In recent years, the trope of victimized people suffering at the hands of a predatory elite and political dysfunction has reaped rewards. The populist ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Beyond Belief

    India and the Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism

    by Srirupa Roy, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    Beyond Belief is a bold rethinking of the formation and consolidation of nation-state ideologies. Analyzing India during the first two decades following its foundation as a sovereign nation-state in 1947, Srirupa Roy explores how nationalists are turned into nationals, subjects into citizens, and the colonial state into a sovereign nation-state. Roy argues that the postcolonial nation-state is ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Visualizing Secularism and Religion

    Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, India

    by Maha Yahya ...
    Over the past two decades secular polities across the globe have witnessed an increasing turn to religion-based political movements, such as the rise of political Islam and Hindu nationalism, which have been fueling new and alternative notions of nationhood and national ideologies. The rise of such movements has initiated widespread debates over the meaning, efficacy, and normative worth of ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • In Spite of the Gods

    The Rise of Modern India

    by Edward Luce ...
    As the world's largest democracy and a rising international economic power, India has long been heralded for its great strides in technology and trade. Yet it is also plagued by poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, and a vast array of other social and economic issues. Here, noted journalist and former Financial Times South Asia bureau chief Edward Luce travels throughout India's many regions, ... Read more

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  • The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism

    Its Fundamentals and History

    by Dudjom Rinpoche ...
    Written by a great modern Nyingma master, Dudjom Rinpoche's The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism covers in detail and depth both the fundamental teachings and the history of Tibetan Buddhism's oldest school. This, the first English translation of His Holiness' masterwork, constitutes the most complete work of its type in the West.An absolute treasure for students of the tradition, it is also an ... Read more

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  • The Pirates of Malabar

    And An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago

    by Colonel John Biddulph ...
    Colonel John Biddulph (25 July 1840 – 24 December 1921) was a British soldier, author and naturalist who served in the government of British India. He was educated at Westminster School, and at the age of 18 joined the 19th Lancers and proceeded to India where he served in Awadh during the Indian Rebellion of 1857. Afterwards, he joined the political department of the government of British India ... Read more

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  • The History of Modern Egypt: From Napoleon to Now

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  • Reel World

    An Anthropology of Creation

    by Anand Pandian ...
    Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and craftsmen in the south Indian movie studios of "Kollywood," Anand Pandian examines how ordinary moments become elements of a cinematic world. With inventive, experimental, and sometimes comical zeal, Pandian pursues the sensory ... Read more

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  • Mamluk ‘Askari 1250–1517

    by Dr David Nicolle ...
    Series Book 173 - Warrior
    New archaeological material and research underpins this extensive, detailed and beautifully illustrated account of the famous Mamluk Askars who are credited with finally defeating and expelling the Crusaders, halting the Mongol invasion of the Islamic Middle East, and facing down Tamerlane. Probably the ultimate professional soldiers of the medieval period they were supposedly recruited as ... Read more

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  • Poles in India 1942-1948

    by Association of Poles in India 1942-1948 ...
    This Indian adventure is intrinsically linked to World War II: after the deportations to the Soviet Union a group of Poles found safe refuge in India, where they would stay until the end of the War , hoping to return to their own country. Unfortunately the Yalta Agreements made that impossible. Very few people went back to Communist Poland; the great majority scattering throughout the Western ... Read more

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  • Grains of Gold

    Tales of a Cosmopolitan Traveler

    by Gendun Chopel ...
    Translated by Thupten Jinpa, Donald S. Lopez ...
    "Translated with grace and precision . . . gives us a rare glimpse of how Asian religion and life appeared from the perspective of the Tibetan plateau." —Janet Gyatso, Harvard UniversityIn 1941, philosopher and poet Gendun Chopel sent a manuscript by ship, train, and yak across mountains and deserts to his homeland in Tibet. He would follow it five years later, returning to his native land after ... Read more

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