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Covering and Explaining Conflict in Civil Society

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Covering and Explaining Conflict in Civil Society is a collection of essays that highlights issues of ethics specifically in journalism of conflict. The media takes an active interest in reporting cases of conflict as political unrest has a direct and imm

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Sociology     Author : Nalini Rajan

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Gandhi is Gone Who Will Guide us Now

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As India became free on 15 August 1947, and Jawaharlal Nehru became the first prime minister of the country, the larger ‘Gandhi family’, comprising the political and non-political associates of the Mahatma, needed to think through their future equations.

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2011

Category : Philosophy     Author : Gopalkrishna Gandhi

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Early Medieval Indian Society A Study in Feudalisation

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The traditional view of feudalism, defined by scholars like Karl Marx and Marc Bloch, describes a system where a dominant social group controlled ownership of land and enjoyed the benefits of labor of servile serfs who toiled to generate produce from land

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : R.S. Sharma

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English in The Dalit Context

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Language does not confine itself to communication alone. It gets closely connected with politics, be it cultural, identity, or international politics. This becomes all the more true in the case of languages that were imported and imposed by colonial power

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : Alladi Uma

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The Durable Slum Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai

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In this volume, Liza Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including more than a year of firsthand research in Dharavi, to explain how, despite innumerable threats, the slum has survived for so long, achieving a precarious stability. She describes how econ

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : Liza Weinstein

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The Ground Between Anthropologists Engage Philosophy

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The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual anthropologists and particular regions of philosophy. Several of t

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Philosophy     Author : Veena Das

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Out of Line Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary India

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This book explores the career of 'graphic satire', i.e., newspaper cartoons, in independent India (post-1947). It offers detailed analyses of the work of prominent practitioners of the genre, including: Shankar Pillai, R.K. Laxman, Abu Abraham, O. V. Vija

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : General     Author : Christel R. Devadawson

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Duty, Destiny And Glory The Life of C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar

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C.P. Ramaswamy Aiyar, famously known as C.P., was born in 1879 to a marriage that was a celebrated union of two leading Tamil Brahmin families. He became one of India’s greatest constitutional lawyers, a passionate general secretary of the Indian National

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : Raghu A

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Everywhere is Becoming The Same REgulating IT-Work Between India and Germany

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Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Sociology     Author : Nicole Mayer - Ahuja

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The Shifting Scales of JUstice The Supreme Court in Neo-Liberal India

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In the course of the last two decades, the Supreme Court has tried to regulate the use of India's forest resources, has passed orders on the type of fuel to be used by urban public transport, has controlled appointments to the higher judiciary and has eve

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : Mayur Suresh

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Combating Corruption The Indian Case

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•Combating Corruption: The Indian Case documents the popular upsurge that was witnessed in India during 2011-12 in the wake of major scams like 2G Spectrum, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh.

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : Yogesh Atal

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Citizenship And its Discontents An Indian History

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Breaking new ground in scholarship, this is the first history of citizenship in India.

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2013

Category : History     Author : Niraja Gopal Jayal