Imprint of the Raj
Imprint of the Raj

Author: Chandak Sengoopta

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780330491402

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A fascinating account of the invention of fingerprinting in colonial India and the story of how the technique was exported back to Victorian England. Opening with the first case in a British criminal court to use the radical new technique of fingerprinting to identify the perpetrators of crime in 1902 this riveting book takes us back to the origins of fingerprinting in India. Despite many books on the subject of fingerprints in general, none have looked closely at the fact that this standard tool of forensic science was born in India during the Raj. As the author points out, with the exception of curry there is not one other instance of something so fundamental to British life being imported fully-formed from the Empire and then being tailored to fit conditions at home. Based on original and hitherto unpublished research imprint of the Raj gives a unique insight into our colonial past and offers a vivid account of this extraordinary and largely ignored story.

Stuffed and Starved
Stuffed and Starved

Author: Raj Patel

Publisher: Melville House

Published: 2012-06-05

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 1612191282

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Completely updated and revised edition of one of the most widely-praised food books of recent years. It’s a perverse fact of modern life: There are more starving people in the world than ever before, while there are also more people who are overweight. To find out how we got to this point and what we can do about it, Raj Patel launched a comprehensive investigation into the global food network. It took him from the colossal supermarkets of California to India’s wrecked paddy-fields and Africa’s bankrupt coffee farms, while along the way he ate genetically engineered soy beans and dodged flying objects in the protestor-packed streets of South Korea. What he found was shocking, from the false choices given us by supermarkets to a global epidemic of farmer suicides, and real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa. Yet he also found great cause for hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable and joyful food system. Going beyond ethical consumerism, Patel explains, from seed to store to plate, the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of both farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.

Your Love Is Still Imprint…
Your Love Is Still Imprint…

Author: Bairister Sharma

Publisher: Bairister Sharma

Published: 2022-11-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13:

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‘True love is always eternal and immortal. If we love someone truly with heart and soul; we never forget him. He will ever remain alive in our lives!’ Suman and Raj are like the North Pole and the South Pole. There is no match between them. They are absolutely different in everything-their likes and dislikes, hobbies and moods. In spite of differences, they liked each other and fallen in love. Their love is eternal and immortal. They couldn’t live without each other. Everything was set up for the confluence of two hearts into a lifelong union, but in the mean time like a thunderbolt strikes on their beautiful lives. In one of the terrible mishap, Raj was killed. Suman’s life was all of a sudden engulfed with the ocean of laments and a lifelong tragedy. Can Suman rescue herself from the tragedy of Raj? Can ever Suman forget the sweet memories of Raj? Your Love is still imprint…. is based on a real story that shows you true love that never dies even one’s beloved left this mortal world forever. Their love ever remains immortal.

Identifying the English
Identifying the English

Author: Edward Higgs

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2011-10-06

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 144113560X

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Personal identification is very much a live political issue in Britain and this book looks at why this is the case, and why, paradoxically, the theft of identity has become ever more common as the means of identification have multiplied. Identifying the English looks not only at how criminals have been identified - branding, fingerprinting, DNA - but also at the identification of the individual with seals and signatures, of the citizen by means of passports and ID cards, and of the corpse. Beginning his history in the medieval period, Edward Higgs reveals how it was not the Industrial Revolution that brought the most radical changes in identification techniques, as many have assumed, but rather the changing nature of the State and commerce, and their relationship with citizens and customers. In the twentieth century the very different historical techniques have converged on the holding of information on databases, and increasingly on biometrics, and the multiplication of these external databases outside the control of individuals has continued to undermine personal identity security.

Locating the Medical
Locating the Medical

Author: Rohan Deb Roy

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-11-21

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 0199091706

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This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries, from colonial Bengal and British Burma to present-day Andaman Islands and Ladakh. By examining the close interactions between political authorities, corporeal knowledge, and objects of governance in a sustained manner, the domains of the medical and the non-medical are revealed to be more blurred and porous than apparent. This provides us with new perspectives on the co-production of medicine and social worlds by actors and agencies in specific times and places.

Fingerprints and Impressions
Fingerprints and Impressions

Author: Brian Innes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-11

Total Pages: 96

ISBN-13: 1317470486

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Explores the forensic field of Fingerprints and impressions, providing a background into the field; an explanation of the principles involved; a look at the scientific method used; historic case studies; and applications in everyday life.

Practical Management of Pain
Practical Management of Pain

Author: Honorio MD Benzon

Publisher: Elsevier Health Sciences

Published: 2013-09-12

Total Pages: 1379

ISBN-13: 0323083404

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Obtain all the core knowledge in pain management you need from one of the most trusted resources in the field. The new edition of Practical Management of Pain gives you completely updated, multidisciplinary overview of every aspect of pain medicine, including evaluation, diagnosis of pain syndromes, rationales for management, treatment modalities, and much more. In print and online, it is all the expert guidance necessary to offer your patients the best possible relief. "In summary, this is the best explanation of what lies behind MRI that I have read, taking what can be a dry subject and making it readily understandable and really interesting. I would recommend it to anyone starting their MRI training and anyone trying to teach MRI to others." Reviewed by RAD Magazine, June 2015 Understand and apply the latest developments in pain medicine with brand-new chapters covering disability assessment, central post-stroke pain, chronic widespread pain, and burn pain. Effectively ease your patients' pain with today's best management techniques, including joint injections, ultrasound-guided therapies, and new pharmacologic agents (such as topical analgesics). Access up-to-the-minute knowledge on all aspects of pain management, from general principles to specific management techniques, with contributions from renowned experts in the field. Read the full text and view all the images online at expertconsult.com. Understand and apply the latest developments in pain management with brand-new chapters covering disability assessment, central post-stroke pain, widespread chronic pain, and burn pain. Effectively ease your patients' pain with today's best management techniques, including joint injections, ultrasound-guided therapies, and new pharmacologic agents (such as topical analgesics).

Arrow of the Blue-skinned God
Arrow of the Blue-skinned God

Author: Jonah Blank

Publisher: Grove Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780802137333

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Anthropologist and journalist Blank gives a new perspective to the 3,000-year-old Hindu classic, retelling the ancient tale while following the course of Rama's journey through present-day India and Sri Lanka.

Biometric State
Biometric State

Author: Keith Breckenridge

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-10-02

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 1107077842

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A groundbreaking study of South Africa's role as a site for global experiments in biometric identification throughout the twentieth century.

A History of Forensic Science
A History of Forensic Science

Author: Alison Adam

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-11-19

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1135005583

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How and when did forensic science originate in the UK? This question demands our attention because our understanding of present-day forensic science is vastly enriched through gaining an appreciation of what went before. A History of Forensic Science is the first book to consider the wide spectrum of influences which went into creating the discipline in Britain in the first part of the twentieth century. This book offers a history of the development of forensic sciences, centred on the UK, but with consideration of continental and colonial influences, from around 1880 to approximately 1940. This period was central to the formation of a separate discipline of forensic science with a distinct professional identity and this book charts the strategies of the new forensic scientists to gain an authoritative voice in the courtroom and to forge a professional identity in the space between forensic medicine, scientific policing, and independent expert witnessing. In so doing, it improves our understanding of how forensic science developed as it did. This book is essential reading for academics and students engaged in the study of criminology, the history of forensic science, science and technology studies and the history of policing.