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Religion Conversion And Identity
Joseph Marianus Kujur
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• Author(s): Joseph Marianus Kujur • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookSet in the theoretical perspective of religious conversion in general, and that of tribal identity of Christians in particular, this volume brings out the ...
View full detailsUrbanisms In South Asia
Meeta Deka
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• Author(s): Meeta Deka • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookUrban studies or urban history has recently emerged as a compelling framework for historical inquiry as it is a potent tool for the discovery of variations in urbanis...
View full detailsDevelopment And Deforestation
Louiza Rodrigues
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• Author(s): Louiza Rodrigues • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBased upon an in-depth empirical research, Development and Deforestation: Making of Urban Bombay studies the green dense in scaling the urban...
View full detailsNarratives From The Margins (Revised & Enlarged Edition) (Hb)
Sanjukta Das Gupta
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• Author(s): Sanjukta Das Gupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookAdivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations with definitio...
View full detailsThe World Of The Rebels Of 1857
Iqbal hussain
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• Author(s): Iqbal hussain • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookIn the ‘rebel world’ of 1857, indigenous discourse on the great uprising in the form of proclamations, pamphlets and appeals issued by rebel leaders and other ideo...
View full detailsHindu Pluralism: Religion and the Public Sphere in Early Modern South India
Elaine M Fisher
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• Author(s): Elaine M Fisher • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyIn Hindu Pluralism, Elaine M. Fisher complicates the traditional scholarly narrative of the unification of Hinduism. By callin...
View full detailsClio and Her Descendants
na
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• Author(s): na • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryReading 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 ever you want. ...
View full detailsBuilding Histories: The Archival And Affective Lives Of Five Monuments In Modern Delhi
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
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• Author(s): Mrinalini Rajagopalan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBuilding Histories provides innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi-the Red Fort, Rasul Numa Dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana...
View full detailsSpeaking Rivers: Environmental History of Mid-Ganga Flood Country, 1540-1885
Vipul Singh
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• Author(s): Vipul Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThe question of water and human dependence on river systems has become a major public concern of the twenty-first century. Base...
View full detailsPlanet Plants And Animals (Hb)
Anand Singh
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• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentThis book is a modest attempt to look at and examine the beginnings of ecological concerns in the Buddhist religious traditions,...
View full detailsLiterary Culture and Translation
Dorothy Figueira
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• Author(s): Dorothy Figueira • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asian - IndicThis volume makes significant and fresh contributions to fields of comparative literature and translation which are assuming increasing i...
View full detailsEcocriticism and Environmental Praxis
Shivani Jha
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• Author(s): Shivani Jha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookReading 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 ever you want. It is easy...
View full detailsPlunging the Ocean: Courts, Castes and Courtesans in the Kathasaritsagara
Tara Sheemar
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• Author(s): Tara Sheemar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaPlunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locat...
View full detailsThe Moving Space: Women in Dance
Urmimala Sarkar Munsi
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• Author(s): Urmimala Sarkar Munsi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Dance - History & CriticismAimed at addressing the lacunae in academic publications on women dancers in India, The Movin...
View full detailsDana: Reciprocity and Patronage in Buddhism
Anand Singh
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• Author(s): Anand Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Buddhism - HistoryThis book encompasses wide-ranging yet fundamental questions that have played a pivotal role in introd...
View full detailsInviting Death: Historical Experiments on Sepulchral Hill
S. Settar
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• Author(s): S. Settar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book presents the history of the Jaina rules of inviting death, descriptive accounts of Puranic and historical personalitie...
View full detailsPursuing Death: Philosophy and Practice of Voluntary Termination of Life
S. Settar
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• Author(s): S. Settar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Social HistoryPursuing Death widens the canvas of enquiry on the Jaina practices of voluntary termination of life, identified with terms such as Santāra, Sal...
View full detailsTilling the Land: Agricultural Knowledge and Practices in Colonial India
Deepak Kumar
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• Author(s): Deepak Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Agriculture & FoodThis volume sheds light on systems of agricultural knowledge, inherited agricultural practices and allied activities, adoption of ne...
View full detailsNature, Knowledge and Development: Critical Essays on the Environmental History of India
Arun Bandopadhyay
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• Author(s): Arun Bandopadhyay • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThe essays included in this volume highlight the importance of comparative studies within the field of environmental his...
View full detailsHope And Despair: Mutiny Rebellion And Death In India
Deshpande Anirudh
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• Author(s): Deshpande Anirudh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaHope and Despair: Mutiny, Rebellion and Death in India recounts the story of the thousands of Indians–sailors and forgo...
View full detailsChristianity In Indian History: Issues Of Culture Power And Knowledge
Pachuau Joy L.K. (Editor)
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• Author(s): Pachuau Joy L.K. (Editor) • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: History • BISAC: Christianity - History - GeneralChristianity in Indian History: Issues of Culture, Power and Knowledge is a collection of...
View full detailsManifestations Of History: Time Space And Community In The Andaman Islands
Zehmisch Philipp
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• Author(s): Zehmisch Philipp • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaManifestations of History highlights the significant, yet underestimated, place of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in so...
View full detailsWhat Happened To The Bhadralok?
Ghosh Parimal
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• Author(s): Ghosh Parimal • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Social HistoryWhat Happened to the Bhadralok suggests that the arrival of new consumers of culture, drawn from the rural middle class, and the unorganiz...
View full detailsEssays in Ancient Indian Economic History
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
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• Author(s): Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookEssays in Ancient Indian Economic History is part of a three-volume set focusing on the developments in the economic history of India during the last m...
View full detailsLiving With Floods: Archaeology of a Settlement in the Lower Ganga Plains, C600-1800
Sheena Panja, Arun K. Nag, Sunando Bandyopadhyay
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• Author(s): Sheena Panja | Arun K. Nag | Sunando Bandyopadhyay • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/Environment • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book seeks to understand archaeological sites...
View full detailsAgriculture And Environment: Debates in the Central Legislature of India 1937-1957
Surendra Mohan Mishra
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• Author(s): Surendra Mohan Mishra • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaAgriculture and Environment: Debates in the Central Legislature of India, 1937–1957 is based on a simple truism: the...
View full detailsColonial State, Agrarian Transition And Popular Protest In Orissa 1921 - 1947
Susanta Kumar Bag
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• Author(s): Susanta Kumar Bag • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaColonial State, Agrarian Transition and Popular Protest in Orissa: 1921–1947 attempts to understand the agrarian socioec...
View full detailsGender Space And Creative Imagination
Rekha
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• Author(s): Rekha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asian - GeneralGender, Space and Creative Imagination is about contemporary women’s writing in India and its experiential, ideological and representational topog...
View full detailsGenealogy, Time And Identity
Aruna Pariti
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• Author(s): Aruna Pariti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaGenealogy, Time and Identity provides, for the first time, a detailed analysis of the prasasti and donative parts of the insc...
View full detailsDangerous Marginality
Priyadarshini Vijaisri
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• Author(s): Priyadarshini Vijaisri • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Hinduism - GeneralDangerous Marginality focuses on villages festivals invoking the Matangi, an outcaste clan goddess in Andhra Pradesh. It explo...
View full detailsOur Place In The Universe: An Introduction to Big History
Barry Rodrigue, Leonid Grinin, Andrey Korotayev
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• Author(s): Barry Rodrigue | Leonid Grinin | Andrey Korotayev • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: World - GeneralIn volume one Our Place in the Universe: An Introduction to Big History our existence is regarded from...
View full detailsIndia'S Indigenous Medical Systems: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach
Syed Ejaz Hussain, Mohit Saha
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• Author(s): Syed Ejaz Hussain | Mohit Saha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health Sciences • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaIndia’s Indigenous Medical Systems: A Cross-Disciplinary Ap...
View full detailsUrban Development In Howrah
Mahalaya Chatterjee, Anis Mukhopadhyay
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• Author(s): Mahalaya Chatterjee | Anis Mukhopadhyay • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban Development in Howrah is the first comprehensive effort to understand and analyse the various aspects of...
View full detailsContesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century India
Ed. Poonam Bala
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• Author(s): Ed. Poonam Bala • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis volume explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India and highlights various indigenous interpreta...
View full detailsClass, Power & Consciousness In Indian Cinema & Television
Anirudh Deshpande
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• Author(s): Anirudh Deshpande • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book provides a historical understanding of the Indian Audio-Visual media. It...
View full detailsNarratives Of Indian Cinema
Manju Jain
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• Author(s): Manju Jain • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Music, Theatre & Films • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume attempts to address some of the questions that arise when considering the co...
View full detailsApplied Case Studies In Marketing: (With CD)
S. Shajahan
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• Author(s): S. Shajahan • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Business Management • BISAC: Management - GeneralThe 2008 recession brought to the fore one of the most significant criticisms levelled at higher educati...
View full detailsInterrogating Politics And Society: Twentieth-Century Indian Subcontinent
Suranjan Das
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• Author(s): Suranjan Das • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyInterrogating Politics and Society: Twentieth-Century Indian Subcontinent broadly addresses three themes relevant to South Asian hist...
View full detailsCross-Cultural Management: Practice and Research
Neelu Rohmetra, Anil Gupta
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• Author(s): Neelu Rohmetra | Anil Gupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Management - GeneralThis volume will appeal to researchers, academicians and practitioners of behaviour and culture management. It will als...
View full detailsThe Junaydi Sufis Of The Deccan: A Discovery From a Seventeenth Century Scroll
Mohammed Suleman Siddiqui
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• Author(s): Mohammed Suleman Siddiqui • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book recasts the history of Sufism in the Deccan and in India in general. Establishing the presence and act...
View full detailsBeyond The Private World: Women in the Public Sphere
Subraha Bagchi
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• Author(s): Subraha Bagchi • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralBeyond the Private World explores the status of Indian women, through the ages, in the framework of the private-public dichotomy, as ...
View full detailsMughal Architecture: An Outline of Its History and Development (1526 - 1858)
Ebba Koch
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• Author(s): Ebba Koch • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Architecture & Interior Designs • BISAC: History - MedievalThe architecture created in southern Asia under the patronage of the great Mughals (1526-185...
View full detailsThe Millennial Sovereiegn
A. Azfar Moin
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• Author(s): A. Azfar Moin • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThis book traces how royal dynastic cults and shrine-centred Sufism came together in the imperial cultures of Timurid Central Asia, Safavid Iran, and Mughal India....
View full detailsEpithalamiums: An Anthology of Marriage Poems from Chaucer to the Modern Age
Masoodul Hasan, Syed Naqi Husain Jafri
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• Author(s): Masoodul Hasan | Syed Naqi Husain Jafri • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Anthologies (multiple authors)Anthologies provide ready, expansive insights into specific forms of literature. In the genre of ...
View full detailsThe Mughals, The Portuguese And The Indian Ocean: Changing Imageries of Maritime India
Pius Malekandathil
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• Author(s): Pius Malekandathil • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis volume explores the changing meanings that maritime India acquired during the early modern period owing to the fre...
View full detailsReligious Tradition And Culture In Eighteenth Century Northern India
Tabir Kalam
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• Author(s): Tabir Kalam • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaReligious Tradition and Culture in Eighteenth Century Northern India contends that the ‘dec...
View full detailsDictionary Of Historical Places: Bengal, 1757-1947
Ranjan Chakrabarti
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• Author(s): Ranjan Chakrabarti • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Encyclopaedias and References • BISAC: Dictionaries - GeneralFew would recall that Digha, a popular beach resort in West Bengal, was once a small ...
View full detailsPopular Translations Of Nationalism Bihar 1920-1922
Lata Singh
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• Author(s): Lata Singh • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis book revisits historiography on nationalism by moving beyond the binary of elite a...
View full detailsSmart Surgeons Sharp Decisions
Uttam Shiralkar
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• Author(s): Uttam Shiralkar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Byword Books • Subject: Medical, Nursing and Health SciencesA vital and valid question that concerns many surgeons: how to make surgery safer? Is it by tightening the rule...
View full detailsPelagic Passageways: The Northern Bay of Bengal Before Colonialism
Mukherjee R
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• Author(s): Mukherjee R • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • BISAC: Asia - India & South AsiaThis volume visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bengal as embracing upland landlocked areas—Ava, Yunnan, the ...
View full detailsEssentials Of Head And Neck Cancer
Alberto Staffieri
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• Author(s): Alberto Staffieri • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: Byword Books • BISAC: OncologyThis book brings together a broad, comprehensive and balanced view of current approaches to the multidisciplinary management and underlying...
View full detailsBombay Presidency, 1850-1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities
Mridula Ramanna
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• Author(s): Mridula Ramanna • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryBombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities examines the defining shifts in health and medicine, in Bomb...
View full detailsCracked Glass Jar and Other Stories
Chandra Latha
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• Author(s): Chandra Latha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: English LiteratureThese fifteen stories reflect contemporary cultural changes in Indian families. They stand witness to social, political and economic ...
View full detailsThe Observant Owl: Hutom's Vignettes of Nineteenth Century Calcutta
Kaliprasanna Sinha
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• Author(s): Kaliprasanna Sinha • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: English LiteratureHutom Pyanchar Naksha (literally, 'Sketches by Hutom the Owl'), a set of satirical portraits in Bengali about ordinary life in t...
View full detailsThe Shattered Earth: Histories of Climate, Catastrophe and the Wilderness
Mili Ghose
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• Author(s): Mili Ghose • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Earth-Science/EnvironmentGlobal climate change poses a genuine risk to the survival of the human species and raises questions regarding human existence on...
View full detailsA Fine Thread: and Other Stories
Jegadeesh Kumar
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• Author(s): Jegadeesh Kumar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: Creative Writing, FictionA Fine Thread and Other Stories is a collection of sixteen translated stories originally written in Tamil by the acclaimed a...
View full detailsMaligned Maverick Michael Madhusudan Datta: Life, Letters and Literature
Nandan Dasgupta
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• Author(s): Nandan Dasgupta • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: English LiteratureThe playwright and poet, Michael Madhusudan Datta is easily one of the most important and controversial literary figures of ninetee...
View full detailsForever Yours, Krishna
Indira Parthasarathy
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• Author(s): Indira Parthasarathy • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: RatnaBooks • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyKrishna is an anti-hero, an anarchist and a rebel extraordinaire. He fulfils all the dark desires lurking in the depths o...
View full detailsEurasia, India and the Spaces in Between: Essays in Memory of Hari Shankar Vasudevan
Kingshuk Chatterjee
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• Author(s): Kingshuk Chatterjee • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook • Subject: HistoryHari Shankar Vasudevan (1952-2020) had an interest and engagement with history writings that belied the constraints of time and space. Eur...
View full detailsThe Gasping City: An Environmental History of Calcutta, 1817-1923
Mahua Sarkar
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• Author(s): Mahua Sarkar • Publisher: Ratna Sagar • Publisher Imprint: PrimusBookThe Gasping City explores the urban environment of colonial Calcutta from the perspective of science as ‘knowledge’, planning as ‘development’ and the response of t...
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