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  • Mother Cow, Mother India

    A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in India

    Series series South Asia in Motion
    India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred. And yet India is among the world's leading producers of beef, leather, and milk, industries sustained by the mass slaughter of bovines. What is behind this seeming contradiction? What do bovines, deemed holy in Hinduism, experience in the ... Leer más

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  • Religion, Heritage and the Sustainable City

    Hinduism and urbanisation in Jaipur

    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Development
    The speed and scale of urbanisation in India is unprecedented almost anywhere in the world and has tremendous global implications. The religious influence on the urban experience has resonances for all aspects of urban sustainability in India and yet it remains a blind spot while articulating sustainable urban policy.This book explores the historical and on-going influence of religion on urban ... Leer más

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  • Religion and Urbanism

    Reconceptualising sustainable cities for South Asia

    Edición de Yamini Narayanan ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Religion and Development
    Conceptions of 'sustainable cities' in the pluralistic and multireligious urban settlements of developing nations need to develop out of local cultural, religious and historical contexts to be inclusive and accurately respond to the needs of the poor, ethnic and religious minorities, and women.Religion and Urbanism contributes to an expanded understanding of 'sustainable cities' in South Asia by ... Leer más

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  • The Trauma of Caste

    A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition

    **Instant Amazon Best Seller and Hot New ReleaseFor readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.**“Dalit” is the name that we chose for ourselves when Brahminism declared us “untouchable.” Dalit means broken. Broken by suffering. Broken by caste: the world’s oldest, longest-running dominator system. ... Leer más

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  • A River Runs Again

    India's Natural World in Crisis, from the Barren Cliffs of Rajasthan to the Farmlands of Karnataka

    Crowded, hot, subject to violent swings in climate, with a government unable or unwilling to face the most vital challenges, the rich and poor increasingly living in worlds apart; for most of the world, this picture is of a possible future. For India, it is the very real present.In this lyrical exploration of life, loss, and survival, Meera Subramanian travels in search of the ordinary people and ... Leer más

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  • Animal Intimacies

    Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    "A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Leer más

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  • Where India Goes

    Abandoned Toilets, Stunted Development and the Costs of Caste

    More than half the people who defecate in the open live in India.Around the world, people live healthier lives than in centuries past, in part because latrines keep faecal germs away from growing babies. India is an exception. Most Indians do not use toilets or latrines, and so infants in India are more likely to die than in neighbouring poorer countries. Children in India are more likely to be ... Leer más

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  • "And Gulliver Returns" Book 7 A Visit to Indus

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  • Waste of a Nation

    Garbage and Growth in India

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  • Buddha on Wall Street

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  • Water Culture in South Asia: Bangladesh Perspectives

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