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Contesting Nationalisms: Hinduism, Secularism and Untouchability in Colonial Punjab 1880-1930
Vikas Pathak
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• Author(s): Vikas Pathak • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Military - GeneralIndian nationalism has been a contested space over the last century. Claims and counter-claims have been advanced reg...
View full detailsCollage: A Textbook of Literature and Language
N, A
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• Author(s): N | A • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: English Literature
Cities, Citizens, Classrooms and Beyond: Essays for Narayani Gupta
Partho Datta
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• Author(s): Partho Datta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyNarayani Gupta’s pioneering scholarship, concern with the fate of Delhi and campaigns to make the city a habitable space conti...
View full detailsCaught in the Cogs of Time: The City of Copper
David Shulman
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• Author(s): David Shulman • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Creative Writing, Fiction‘The City of Copper’, probably the most chilling story in the Arabic Thousand and One Nights, tells of a mysterious city in th...
View full detailsCaste and Life Narratives
S. Shankar
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• Author(s): S. Shankar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyThis collection of twelve essays foregrounds the conjunction of the social phenomenon called ‘caste’ with the genre of represent...
View full detailsCancer: Fight With Awarness
Dr. Badwe, Rajendra
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• Author(s): Dr. Badwe, Rajendra • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Health Care IssuesCancer is associated with hopelessness, intractable pain and inevitable death. But the truth is that early diagnosis and treatmen...
View full detailsBraj Bhum in Mughal times: The Sate, Peasants and Gosains
Irfan Habib
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• Author(s): Irfan Habib • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBraj bhūm in Mughal times: the state, peasants and gosā’ins represents a unique effort at presenting the conditions of life of the ordinary people...
View full detailsBlending Nation and Region: Essays in Honour of Late Professor Amalendu Guha
Sajal Nag
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• Author(s): Sajal Nag • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Modern - 21st CenturyLate Professor Amalendu Guha belonged to that first generation of historians in post-independent India who not just g...
View full detailsBihar Crossing Boundaries
Sunita Lall
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• Author(s): Sunita Lall • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThis book binds together essays that, in spite of adopting diverse methodologies and different perspectives, study Bihar’s de...
View full detailsBeyond the Woman Question
Snigdha Singh
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• Author(s): Snigdha Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaBeyond the Woman Question both revisits and interrogates some of the central tenets of...
View full detailsBeyond the Metros: Anglo-Indians in India’s Smaller Towns and Cities
Robyn Andrews
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• Author(s): Robyn Andrews • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookBeyond the Metros: Anglo-Indians in India’s Smaller Towns and Cities focuses on Anglo-Indians residing in a number of small towns and cities, away from the metropo...
View full detailsBenign Imperialism?: Proper Conduct and the Public Interest in Colonial India
Peter Robb
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• Author(s): Peter Robb • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryWere colonial rulers in India worse than other governments and if so why? To consider those questions, the first part of Benign Imperialism? examin...
View full detailsBal Gangadhar Tilak: Popular Readings
Biswamoy Pati
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• Author(s): Biswamoy Pati • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis volume explores Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s engagements with not just the Indian national movement, but al...
View full detailsAssam in History and Memory: Restructuring the Past in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Sudeshna Purkayastha
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• Author(s): Sudeshna Purkayastha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryAssam in History and Memory examines the shaping of Assamese historiography in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A major them...
View full detailsAshokamitran's Chennai
Aloka Parasher Sen
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• Author(s): Aloka Parasher Sen • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
An Ocean of Gems: Essays on Language, Linguistics & Education
Deven M. Patel
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• Author(s): Deven M. Patel • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksAn Ocean of Gems is dedicated to Dr Dhanesh Jain (1939–2019), distinguished scholar of Indian sociolinguistics and founder of Ratna Sagar...
View full detailsAgainst the Mughals: Dreams and Wars of Dattū Sarvānī, a Sixteenth-Century Indo-Afghan Soldier
Simon Digby
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• Author(s): Simon Digby • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Life and Works of Simon Digby is intended to bring most of Simon Digby’s publications, together with a large body of work left unpublished at ...
View full detailsAdolescence The Wonder Years - Your Questions Answered
DoctorNDTV.com (
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• Author(s): DoctorNDTV.com ( • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookAdolescence is a period full of strange and exciting happenings. Yet, due to inept handling by adults, these wonder years can be marred by unpleasant experience...
View full detailsA Sanskrit Dictionary of Law & Statement
na
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• Author(s): na • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Law and CriminologyReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where eve...
View full detailsA Remembered Village, A Remembered Town: Socio- Economic Changes in Western Tamil Nadu
S. Neelakantan
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• Author(s): S. Neelakantan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyWestern Tamil Nadu has witnessed tremendous changes in the last many decades, which have underpinned its contemporary econom...
View full detailsA History Of The Modern World: An Outline
Ranjan Chakrabarti
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• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaA History of the Modern World: An Outline is an introductory text that provides a well-rounded histo...
View full detailsA History of Humanity
Marvin Bram
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• Author(s): Marvin Bram • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyA History of Humanity completes the remarkable story of the worldwide human community by including the unique insights of symbo...
View full detailsCeramic Variability: An Ethnographic Perspective
Sharmi Chakraborty
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• Author(s): Sharmi Chakraborty • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaVariations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of t...
View full detailsAgnes Smedley: The Life and Times of an American Radical
Janice R. Mackinnon
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• Author(s): Janice R. Mackinnon • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe authors skillfully blend a thorough grasp of the first half century with sensitive use of psycho-biographical technique.
Cultural Politics of Popular Performances: The Structure and Representation of the Odia Jatra
Sharmila Chhotaray
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• Author(s): Sharmila Chhotaray • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyCultural Politics of Popular Performances: The Structure and Representation of the Odia Jatra explores how, as a consequ...
View full detailsOrder and Disorder in Early Colonial Bengal, 1800-1860
Ranjan Chakrabarti
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• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis book is a historical study of order and disorder in early colonial Bengal. It focuses on the encounter of social restlessness, crime, and violence, on th...
View full detailsInscribing Identities: Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic India
Snigdha Singh
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• Author(s): Snigdha Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyInscribing Identities, Proclaiming Piety: Exploring Recording Practices in Early Historic India focuses on votive inscription...
View full detailsPassword and Other Stories
S. Thillainayagam
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• Author(s): S. Thillainayagam • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks
Linguistic Diversity in South and Southeast Asia
Anvita Abbi, Kapila Vatsyayan
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• Author(s): Anvita Abbi | Kapila Vatsyayan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyGlobalization, by incessantly promoting uniformity, is not only destroying biological and cultural diversity...
View full detailsMedicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes:: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh
Tajen Dabi
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• Author(s): Tajen Dabi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsMedicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh traces the use of medicine as an instr...
View full detailsRepresentations Of Marriage And Beyond: Investigation Of Early Buddhist Textual Traditions
Tanjya Roy
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• Author(s): Tanjya Roy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryAt the core of the social world of Buddhism was the alternative system of salvation provided by the Buddha. Representations of Marriage and Beyond ...
View full detailsNationhood, Social Justice and Unequal Transformations: Essays for K.R. Narayanan
D.D. Nampoothiri
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• Author(s): D.D. Nampoothiri • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsNationhood, Social Justice and Unequal Transformations: Essays for K.R.Narayanan is a commemorative volume consisting of...
View full detailsClimate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta, c.1737-1947
Ranjan Chakrabarti
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• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentClimate, Calamity and the Wild: An Environmental History of the Bengal Delta c.1737–1947 offers a climatic and environmen...
View full detailsCity of Facades: Archaeology, History, and Urbanism in Velha Goa
Brian C. Wilson
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• Author(s): Brian C. Wilson • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookCity of Façades: Archaeology, History, and Urbanism in Velha Goa revisits early modern colonial urbanisms through an archaeological project conducted in 2012 at ...
View full detailsEmperors, Saints and People: Revisiting Deccan History
Mohammad Nazrul Bari, R. Arjun
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• Author(s): Mohammad Nazrul Bari | R. Arjun • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Deccan Plateau has diverse ecological formations that have shaped human ecology, politics, philosophies, trade and urbaniz...
View full detailsLiterature of Protest: Reading Dalit Women's Autobiographies and Fiction
Suresh Kumar
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• Author(s): Suresh Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Education & PsychologyThis book attempts to critically examine Dalit women’s literature to analyse how Dalit women perceive and depict caste, class,...
View full detailsReading Texts and Narrating History: Collected Essays III
Patrick Olivelle
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• Author(s): Patrick Olivelle • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe close attention required for editing and translating gives Olivelle an unparalleled understanding of the texts and inspires numerous arti...
View full detailsReading the Rāmcaritmānas: A Companion to the Awadhi Ramayana of Tulsidas
Rupert Snell
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• Author(s): Rupert Snell • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe Rāmcaritmānas of Tulsidas, begun in 1574 CE, is the most widely known and best loved devotional text in the whole of the north Indian vernacu...
View full detailsModern(ist)Drama: Essays in Criticism: A Casebook
R.J. Cardullo
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• Author(s): R.J. Cardullo • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Education & PsychologyModern(ist) Drama: Essays in Criticism is a casebook of ideas and arguments about Western modern as well as avant-garde drama...
View full detailsCulture and Circulation: Litrature in Motion in Early Modern India
Allison Busch
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• Author(s): Allison Busch • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookCulture and Circulation takes an innovative approach to early modern Indian literature. The authors foreground the complex hybridity of literary genres and social ...
View full detailsGandhi and the Champaran Satyagraha: Select Readings
Suranjan Das
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• Author(s): Suranjan Das • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis volume looks back at the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 through contemporary accounts and scholarly reflections. Organized into five parts, the collection contai...
View full detailsBoundaries and Belonging: Rehabilitating Refugees in India, 1947-1971
Pallavi Chakravarty
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• Author(s): Pallavi Chakravarty • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs
Widows of Colonial Bengal: Gender, Morality and Cultural Representation
Aishika Chakraborty
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• Author(s): Aishika Chakraborty • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryWidows of Colonial Bengal: Gender, Morality, and Cultural Representation seeks to explore the unique vulnerability and precarity of widowh...
View full detailsA Long Way from Hyderabad: Diary of A Young Muslim Woman in 1930s Britain
Muhammadi Begum
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• Author(s): Muhammadi Begum • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887-1888
Shireen Moosvi
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• Author(s): Shireen Moosvi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIt is seldom recognized that Indian nationalism had its beginnings in the belief that India was being increasingly impoverished under British r...
View full detailsWomen and Medical Profession in Colonial Bengal 1883-1947
Susmitha Mukherjee
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• Author(s): Susmitha Mukherjee • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe expansionist policy of the colonial power necessitated official involvement with medical education in Bengal from the early nineteenth century. By the mid...
View full detailsCrisis of Liberal Deliberation: Facets of Indian Democracy
Manas Ray
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• Author(s): Manas Ray • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Iss...
View full detailsStudies in thought Polity and Economy of Mediwval India 1000-1500
Iqtidar Alam Khan
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• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThis book attempts to comprehend the history of the Delhi Sultanate with reference to its Islamic identity. The Turkish chiefs, despite havi...
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Researches in Medieval Archaeology: Carvanserais, Buildings, Other Remains from Sultanate and Mughal
Researches in Medieval Archaeology: Carvanserais, Buildings, Other Remains from Sultanate and Mughal
Iqtidar Alam Khan
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• Author(s): Iqtidar Alam Khan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryThe essays in this volume focus on the surviving remains in India of pre-modern public buildings like sarais, bridges and water-works of dif...
View full detailsSocial Worlds of Premodern Transactions: Persectives from Indian Epigraphy and History
Mekhola Gomes
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• Author(s): Mekhola Gomes • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookFocusing on inscriptional materials from South Asia, The essays in social worlds of premodern transactions bring together a range of new perspectives on social and...
View full detailsKashmir : Before the Accession and After
Rattan Lal Hangloo
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• Author(s): Rattan Lal Hangloo • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsThe region and people of Kashmir have been at the centre of processes that transformed South Asia after the two World ...
View full detailsDreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal: Cholera, Malaria and Smallpox: A Documentation
Suranjan Das
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• Author(s): Suranjan Das • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryDreadful Diseases in Colonial Bengal is the third volume produced under the aegis of the Wellcome Trust (London) funded documentation project ‘We...
View full detailsCommon Sense and Legal History in India: Collected Essays on Hindu Law and Dharmasastra
Richard W., Donald R. Davis Jr. Lariviere
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• Author(s): Richard W. | Donald R. Davis Jr. Lariviere • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Law and CriminologyCommon Sense and Legal History in India: Collected Essays on Hindu Law and Dharmaśāstra brings together...
View full detailsIndian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship
Jacob Smith
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• Author(s): Jacob Smith • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: General BooksThe essays in Indian Sound Cultures, Indian Sound Citizenship argue that sound, from the cinema hall to the recording studio and the public ...
View full detailsSouth Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures
Samarth
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• Author(s): Samarth • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & FilmsSouth Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across discip...
View full detailsThe Crimson Hibiscus
T. Janakiraman
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• Author(s): T. Janakiraman • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookSet in the pre-Second world War decades in Tamil Nadu and considered among the best of Tamil novels, ‘sembaruthi’ is the story of an ordinary person, a shopkeeper...
View full detailsStrategies For Human Development And People'S Participation In Rural India
Yatindra Singh
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• Author(s): Yatindra Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Sociology and AnthropologyHuman development is the process of enlarging possibilities, to enhance human choices. In a developing country like India se...
View full detailsSources On The Gauda Period In Bengal
Jea-François Salles
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• Author(s): Jea-François Salles • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryIn the late sixth century CE, śaśāṅka—raised as the king of gauḍa—extended his power over Magadha and northern Bihar. Whatever the details...
View full detailsHistoricizing Gendered Modernities In India
Amitava
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• Author(s): Amitava • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryHistoricizing gendered modernity's in India underscores how gender, as a category of historical analysis and identity, is central to our imagination a...
View full detailsThe Eternal Dastur Craft
Manisha Choudhary
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• Author(s): Manisha Choudhary • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryRituals—loosely defined as symbolically meaningful action—pervaded medieval society, up and down the social strata. Royal Courts were a cons...
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