Reel India
Reel India

Author: Namrata Joshi

Publisher: Hachette India

Published: 2019-07-20

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9350097281

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‘Picture abhi baaki hai...’ If there’s one experience that unites India, it is cinema. In Reel India, award-winning film critic Namrata Joshi journeys through the interiors of the country intimately chronicling little-known accounts about the nation’s incessant obsession with the movies. In Lucknow, she encounters a Shah Rukh Khan fan who has embraced an alternate reality in which he lives and breathes the star. In Wai, she finds an entire economy fuelled by the film industry as the town transforms into a film set. An activist filmmaker in Odisha demonstrates how he teaches local tribal people the basics of his craft, empowering them to train the spotlight on issues threatening their habitat and livelihood. From the fever pitch of the ‘first day first show’ in makeshift halls to the rivalries of regional cinema, this is India’s immersion in the movies like it’s never been seen before. Filled with real-life stories that are as fascinating as the revelations and insights they offer, Reel India raises the curtain on the starry-eyed dreams and big-screen passions that live on after the final ‘cut’ is announced.

India's Partition
India's Partition

Author: Devendra Panigrahi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-19

Total Pages: 721

ISBN-13: 1135768129

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Based on new source material available in both England and India, India's Partition examines the partition in the context of the retreat of the British Empire. The freeing of India from British rule was the result of internal forces in both countries, while the split of the subcontinent along religious lines served as a harbinger for things to come. Panigrahi argues that partition was not a foregone conclusion and was not the favoured option for most of the main parties, but rather was the result of a unique set of circumstances. An erudite exploration of the highly complex relations between India and Britain leading up to independence and the split, India's Partition looks at the leaders who made far-reaching decisions - and their motivations - during this critical time.

Reel Families
Reel Families

Author: Patricia R. Zimmermann

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 1995-07-22

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780253209443

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Examines amateur film, filmmaking, and equipment from the late 1890s to the present, focusing on the emerging and changing discourse of aesthetics, creativity and innovation, and standards of production.

Indian Secularism
Indian Secularism

Author: Shabnum Tejani

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2008-09-17

Total Pages: 642

ISBN-13: 0253220440

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Many of the central issues in modern Indian politics have long been understood in terms of an opposition between ideologies of secularism and communalism. Observers have argued that recent Hindu nationalism is the symptom of a crisis of Indian secularism and have blamed this on a resurgence of religion or communalism. Shabnum Tejani unpacks prevailing assumptions about the meaning of secularism in contemporary politics, focusing on India but with many points of comparison elsewhere in the world. She questions the simple dichotomy between secularism and communalism that has been used in scholarly study and political discourse. Tracing the social, political, and intellectual genealogies of the concepts of secularism and communalism from the late nineteenth century until the ratification of the Indian constitution in 1950, she shows how secularism came to be bound up with ideas about nationalism and national identity.

New Serial Titles
New Serial Titles

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 992

ISBN-13:

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A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.

Lost Prophet
Lost Prophet

Author: John D'Emilio

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0684827808

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A biographical tour de force on one of the 20th century's bravest civil rights champions. Critically heralded American historian D'Emilio brings Bayard Rustin out of the shadows of the past to tell the story of a man who was a victim of homophobic prejudice.

Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities
Indian and Chinese Immigrant Communities

Author: Jayati Bhattacharya

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2015-03

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 1783083638

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This interdisciplinary collection of essays offers a window onto the overseas Indian and Chinese communities in Asia. Contributors discuss the interactive role of the cultural and religious ‘other’, the diasporic absorption of local beliefs and customs, and the practical business networks and operational mechanisms unique to these communities. Growing out of an international workshop organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore and the Centre of Asian Studies at the University of Hong Kong, this volume explores material, cultural and imaginative features of the immigrant communities and brings together these two important communities within a comparative framework.