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  • The Routledge Companion to Northeast India

    The Routledge Companion to Northeast India is a trans-disciplinary and comprehensive compendium of a vital yet under-researched region in South Asia. It provides a unique guide to prevailing themes, theories, arguments, and history of Northeast India by discussing its life-forms – human and not – languages, landscapes, and lifeways in all its diversity and difference. The companion contains ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Nepali Diaspora in a Globalised Era

    Edición de Tanka B. Subba, A. C. Sinha ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    This is one of the first books to explore Nepali diaspora in a global context, across India and other parts of South Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Australia. It discusses the social, political and economic status and aspirations of the Nepali community worldwide. The essays in the volume cover a range of themes including belonging and identity politics among Nepalese migrants, representation ... Leer más

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  • India's Environmental History—A Reader

    Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period; Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation

    Environmental history in India has generated a rich literature on forests, wildlife, humananimal conflict, tribal rights and commercial degradation, displacement and development, pastoralism and desertification, famine and disease, sedentarism and mobility, wildness and civility, and the ecology versus equity debate.This reader brings together some of the best and most interesting writing on India ... Leer más

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  • In the Shadows of the State

    Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India

    de Alpa Shah ...
    In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful critique based on extensive ethnographic research in Jharkhand, a state in eastern India officially created in 2000. While the realization of an independent Jharkhand was the culmination of many years of ... Leer más

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  • Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

    Intersections in Theory and Practice

    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights.It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich ... Leer más

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  • India and the British Empire

    Edición de Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... Leer más

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  • Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

    The Making of Calcutta

    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing ... Leer más

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  • Forest of Tigers

    People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans

    de Annu Jalais ...
    Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work. The key question that the author explores is: what do tigers mean for the islanders of the Sundarbans? The diverse origins and current occupations of the local population produce different answers to this ... Leer más

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  • Nature, Environment and Society

    Conservation, Governance and Transformation in India

    The future of humanity lies uncertain as nature falls prey to the loot and plunder initiated in the name of development, growth and progress today. As the vast riches of the earth continue to be endangered, a global consciousness regarding the importance of natural resources, biodiversity, etc. is on the rise. Given such a scenario, what is required is further understanding of man’s interaction ... Leer más

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  • Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation

    Reflections from India

    A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies can make to this debate.In this anthropological narrative both nation and trans-nation are ‘moving ... Leer más

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  • Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora

    Edición de Radha Hegde, Ajaya Sahoo ...
    The geographical diversity of the Indian diaspora has been shaped against the backdrop of the historical forces of colonialism, nationalism and neoliberal globalization. In each of these global moments, the demand for Indian workers has created the multiple global pathways of the Indian diasporas.The Routledge Handbook of the Indian Diaspora introduces readers to the contexts and histories that ... Leer más

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  • Modernity and Spirit Worship in India

    An Anthropology of the Umwelt

    de Miho Ishii ...
    Series series Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies
    This book investigates the entangled relations between people’s daily worship practices and their umwelt in South India. Focusing on the practices of spirit (būta) worship in the coastal area of Karnataka, it examines the relationship between people and deities.Based on extensive fieldwork, this book links important anthropological theories on personhood, perspectives, transactions, and gift ... Leer más

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