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Health, Medicine and Encounter of Cultures in India

Mumtaz Alam

• Hardcover | Engels
• Before Western medical systems became prominent, Ayurveda and Unani had evolved into specialized indigenous medicinal systems in India. Health, Medici... Lees meer

South Asian Ways of Seeing

Samarth Singhal, Amrita Ajay

• Hardcover | Engels
• South Asian Ways of Seeing: Contemporary Visual Cultures brings together eminent as well as new scholarly voices from across disciplines to explore So... Lees meer

Development and Deforestation

Louiza Rodrigues

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book underscores the colonial psyche in articulating conservation policies and uncovers strategies that have been overlooked in the literature on... Lees meer

Children of the Goddess

Marine Carrin

• Hardcover | Engels
• The women featured in this book Children of the Goddess: Devotion and Female Priesthood in Bengal live on the frontier between the tribal and the low-... Lees meer

Beyond the Women in Question

Kumkum Roy

• Hardcover | Engels
• Beyond the 'Woman Question' both revisits and interrogates some of the central tenets of the 'woman question' as it emerged in colonial India and shap... Lees meer

Essays on Suicide and Self-Immolation

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book is a collection of papers on suicide and self-immolation, reprinted from the almost forgotten Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bomb... Lees meer

Pondicherry under the French

S Jeyaseela Stephen

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pondicherry under the French: Illuminating the Urban Landscape, 1674-1793 explores how the town of Pondicherry developed as the epicentre of the Frenc... Lees meer

Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India

Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya

• Hardcover | Engels
• Aspects of Rural Settlements and Rural Society in Early Medieval India seeks to undertake two kinds of explorations, one methodological and the other ... Lees meer

The Colonial State and Forms of Knowledge

• Hardcover | Engels
• Colonialism is generally understood to encompass political domination, military expansion, and economic exploitation, but the British, in their nearly... Lees meer

Speaking Rivers

Vipul Singh

• Hardcover | Engels
• The question of water and human dependence on river systems has become a major public concern of the twenty-first century. Based on a long term histor... Lees meer

India and the Silk Road

• Hardcover | Engels
• India and the Silk Road: Exploring Current Opportunities is based on the historical as well as contemporary relevance of the Silk Road. This volume co... Lees meer

Understanding Drama

R J Cardullo

• Paperback | Engels
• Understanding Drama contains 70 short essays that analyse a number of geographically diverse, historically significant plays-among them Oedipus Tyrann... Lees meer

Agnes Smedley

Janice R MacKinnon, Stephen R MacKinnon

• Hardcover | Spaans
• Agnes Smedley's (1894-1950) career as an activist journalist began in the 1910s and 1920s, with a commitment to the Indian Independence movement. Her ... Lees meer

Highland Odisha

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume inverts the othering characteristic of most studies of Odisha by drawing attention to the highlands in the west and south. Based on fieldw... Lees meer

Plunging the Ocean

Tara Sheemar Malhan

• Hardcover | Engels
• Plunging the Ocean engages with the voluminous content of the Kathāsaritsāgara, a text meant for courtly entertainment, locating the various points of... Lees meer

Dāna

• Hardcover | Engels
• Dāna: Reciprocity and Patronage in Buddhism explores the concept of dāna in Buddhism as a primarily rational and ethical phenomenon and examines its s... Lees meer

Anthropological Exploration in East and South-East Asia

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume is a collection of eighteen ethnographic essays on Anthropological Explorations in East and South-East Asia, reprinted from Journal of the... Lees meer

Modernity and Changing Social Fabric of Punjab and Haryana

Lallan S Baghel

• Hardcover | Engels
• This eclectic collection of essays is embedded in both the past and present of the region's complex interface with modernity. It is pertinent to note ... Lees meer

The Ṛgveda

Ramendra Nath Nandi

• Hardcover | Engels
• The text-archaeology correlation in respect of the Harappan Civilization shows that the Harappans and the people of the Ṛgveda were part of the same m... Lees meer

Social Statistics

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection of essays, presenting various dimensions of research in social statistics, includes articles that are important from a historical as w... Lees meer

Candala

Vivekanand Jha

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume is a collection of essays on untouchability written by Professor Jha at various points of his long and illustrious career. It dwells on th... Lees meer

Reimagining Nations and Rethinking Nature

Divya Anand

• Hardcover | Engels
• The similarities and differences in the evolution of modern nations across the world are most evident in the ways in which ideas of development and pr... Lees meer

Revisiting the History Of Medieval Rajasthan

• Hardcover | Engels
• Immensely rich and diverse documentation for the region have resulted in exceptional growth in the research conducted on the history of medieval Rajas... Lees meer

The Rite of Seeing

David Shulman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Kūṭiyāṭṭam, the only surviving live Sanskrit theatre in the world, was defined by UNESCO as 'a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of huma... Lees meer