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Author: Oishik Sircar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2024-05-31
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1316512819
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigation into how a shared narrative of law and cinema produces ways of collectively remembering mass violence in postcolonial India.
Author: Zarin Ahmad
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-06-14
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0199095388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega-city. The author addresses the tensions that meat throws up in a bristling society whose stakes are now more than ever intense. She shows how meat is also a rising sector in the Indian economy, and fetches precious foreign exchange. Qureshi butchers stand at the crossroads of class, caste, stigma, religion, market, urban ecological policies, and a never-ceasing political debate around these issues. Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-)meat choices.
Author: R,V. Smith
Publisher: Roli Books Private Limited
Published: 2015-05-30
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9351941256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRonald Vivian Smith is an author of personal experiences – a rare breed to find in a time when even journalists hesitate to put pen to paper without scanning through the internet. A definitive voice when it comes to some known and unknown tales and an inspiration to a new generation of city-scribes, Smith is a master-chronicler of Delhi’s myriad realities. Among the capital’s most ardent lovers, Smith believes in the power of observation and interaction. His travels across Delhi, most often in a DTC bus, examine the big and small curiosities – seamlessly juxtaposing the past with the present. Be it the pride he encounters in the hutments of one of Chandni Chowk’s age-old beggar families, or his ambling walks around Delhi’s now-dilapidated cemeteries, Smith paints with his words a city full of magic and history. This anthology features short essays on the Indian sultanate, its fall after the British Raj, and its resurrection to become what it is today – the National Capital Territory of Delhi. ‘No amount of bookish knowledge can compete with the sort of insights and real, lived memories he [Smith] has.’ —Rakshanda Jalil, LiveMint ‘… When it comes to writing on monuments of Delhi – known, little known or unknown – no one does a better job than R.V. Smith.’ —Khushwant Singh, Hindustan Times
Author: Khushwant Singh
Publisher: Penguin Books India
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 404
ISBN-13: 9780140126198
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravelling through time, space and history to 'discover' his beloved city, the narrator of this novel meets a myriad of people - poets and princes, saints and sultans, temptresses and traitors, emperors and eunuchs - who have shaped and endowed Delhi with its very mystique.
Author: Professor Ashok Swain
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-03-28
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1409499928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMany developing countries pursue policies of rapid industrialization in order to achieve faster economic growth. Some policies cause displacement forcing many individuals to take up a fight against the state. Interestingly some of these dissenting individuals are more successful in organizing their protests than others. In this book, Ashok Swain demonstrates how displaced people mobilize to protest with the help of their social networks. Studying protests against large industrial and development projects, Swain compares the mobilization process between a traditionally protest rich and a protest poor region in India to explain how social network structures are a key component to understand this variation. He reveals how improved mobilization capability coincides with their evolving social network structure thanks to recent exposure to external actors like religious missionaries and radical left activists. The in-depth examination of the existing literature on social mobilization and extensive fieldwork conducted in India make this book a well-organized and useful resource to analyze protest mobilization in developing regions.
Author: Sam Miller
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2010-07-20
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1429963859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA provocative portrait of one of the world's largest cities, delving behind the tourist facade to illustrate the people and places beyond the realms of the conventional travelogue Sam Miller set out to discover the real Delhi, a city he describes as "India's dreamtown—and its purgatory." He treads the city streets, making his way through the city and its suburbs, visiting its less celebrated destinations—Nehru Place, Rohini, Ghazipur, and Gurgaon—which most writers and travelers ignore. His quest is the here and now, the unexpected, the overlooked, and the eccentric. All the obvious ports of call make appearances: the ancient monuments, the imperial buildings, and the celebrities of modern Delhi. But it is through his encounters with Delhi's people—from a professor of astrophysics to a crematorium attendant, from ragpickers to members of a police brass band—that Miller creates this richly entertaining portrait of what Delhi means to its residents, and of what the city is becoming. Miller, like so many of the people he meets, is a migrant in one of the world's fastest growing megapolises, and the Delhi he depicts is one whose future concerns us all. He possesses an intense curiosity; he has an infallible eye for life's diversities, for all the marvelous and sublime moments that illuminate people's lives. This is a generous, original, humorous portrait of a great city; one that unerringly locates the humanity beneath the mundane, the unsung, and the unfamiliar.
Author: Prabha Chopra
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Published: 1976
Total Pages: 1208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Suddhabrata Deb Roy
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 3031581288
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Charles Arthur Kelly
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Published: 1864
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sorabh Pant
Publisher: Hachette India
Published: 2014-07-25
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9350098105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK`If you?re being raped, call your perpetrator ?bhaiya? and he will stop.? Asaram Bapu, `holyman?. `Chowmein and fast food causes rapes.? ? Haryana Khap Panchayat. '(Some) Women protesting rape are dented and painted.?? Abhijit Mukherjee, The President's son. Ladies: throw away your pepper sprays. You don?t need them as long as your lips are armed with the potent word, `bhaiya?. Fire at will. Don?t eat fast food. Eating needs you to use your mouth in front of men, which is just `asking for it?. Always agree to any man?s sexual proposition ? just say, `Yes?, to everyone. Most importantly, before making any wardrobe choices do consult with the President?s son. He?s never too busy to help you out with his insightful fashion tips. OR, ignore these wise words and go out and kick men like that in the grapes and fight back. That?s what I do. This is that story. The story of Tanya Bisht, over and under Delhi.
