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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy as well as the exploration of race gender politics and conflicts urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia Finland France Iran Italy Morocco India and the USA. It also asks the question whether along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies media popular culture digital culture sociology digital sociology and anthropology and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki. | Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

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Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

This book explores how cities are shaped by the lived experiences of inhabitants and examines the ways they develop strategies to cope with daily and unexpected challenges. It argues that migration livelihood and public health challenges result from inadequacies in the hard city—urban assets such as land infrastructure and housing and asserts that these challenges and escalating vulnerabilities are best negotiated using the soft city—social capital and community networks. In so doing the authors criticise a singular knowledge system and argue for a granular nuanced understanding of cities—of the interrelations between people in places everyday urbanisms social relationships cultural practices and histories. The volume presents perspectives from the Global South and the Global North and engages with city-specific cases from Africa India and Europe for a deeper understanding of resilience. Part of the Urban Futures series it will be of great interest to students and researchers of urban studies urban planning urban management architecture urban sociology urban design ecology conservation and urban sustainability. It will also be useful for urbanists architects urban sociologists city and town planners policy makers and those interested in a deeper understanding of the contemporary and future city. | Negotiating Resilience with Hard and Soft City

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Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign discourses which better understand our future. The volume: • Engages with the paradigms of oceanic narratives to identify connections between continents through trade migration and economic processes thinking beyond the artificial distinctions between the Pacific Atlantic and Indian Oceans; • Discusses oceanic travel accounts by Muslim travellers to counter the idea that the colonial era was marked by European travel to Asia and Africa without a counterflow of “native travel”; •Examines the connections between South Africa South Asia and South East Asia through histories of Indian indenture and the slave trade and engages with the idea of the ocean and enforced movement; •Compares and connects recent scholarship in the social sciences and the humanities centring the ocean to break away from inherited paradigms which have shaped world history so far. As a unique transdisciplinary collaboration this volume will be of much interest to scholars and researchers of history especially oceanic history historiography critical theory literature geography and Global South studies. | Ocean as Method Thinking with the Maritime

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Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

This book analyses the creation and dissemination of discourse in China while examining how its media and the people interact and communicate with the rest of the world. It explores the interplay between language meanings social practices culture and politics in the processes of discourse generation. The book critically studies intercultural communication and Chinese discourse models at the national institutional and individual levels and the different modes of interaction between China and the world. With the help of several case studies the book analyses reports from the People’s Daily interpersonal meaning in promotional videos and advertisements in China rhetoric in the editorials of China Daily and the representation by international media like The Associated Press and The New York Times to explore differences between Chinese and the Western media reporting the same event. It also looks at the complex models through which the Chinese people—both as individuals and as a collective—communicate with and gain an understanding of the rest of the world. Rich in empirical case studies this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Chinese Studies communication studies media and cultural studies international relations and political communication. | Communicating with the World Interaction between Chinese and International Media

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Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

This book is an introduction to Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras and its core concepts about the self suffering and consciousness. It highlights its relevance to contemporary theories and applications in the fields of psychology and health. The book adopts sociology of knowledge as a broad framework as it delves into the core concepts of yoga psychology in the Yoga Sūtras in the context of worldviews and frameworks present in the Upanisads and the Sāṁkhya system. It provides an interpretation of Kriya Yoga and its practice in pursuit of spiritual upliftment and concept of Samādhi or the transformation of consciousness using the language and idiom of contemporary psychology. It draws parallels between yoga psychology and the ideas of Husserl Jung and Piaget while reconciling the seemingly disparate cultural religious spiritual and intellectual traditions of eastern spirituality and schools of modern psychology. The book also discusses yoga psychology in relation to psychoanalysis radical behaviorism as well as mainstream cognitive humanistic transpersonal and indigenous psychologies and provides a guide to both the theories of yoga psychology and its applications. This book will be of interest to students teachers researchers and practitioners of psychology psychiatry philosophy and yoga psychology as well as to psychologists psychiatrists counselors mental health professionals clinical psychologists and yoga enthusiasts. | Understanding Yoga Psychology Indigenous Psychology with Global Relevance

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Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

Since the 9/11 attacks terror has established its permeating hold on society’s psyche. Creative writing a popular and visible cultural witness to the strain has taken up this destabilization with remarkable regularity. Troubled Testimonies focuses on the Indian novel in English deriving inspiration from these disturbances to essay a unique grasp of the cultural make-up of the times and its reverberations on the sense of self and belonging to the nation. This first full-length study of terror in the subcontinental novel in English (from India) places it in the world context and analyzes the fictional coverage of the spread of terrorism across the country and its cultural fallout. The enigmatic coming together of the contemporary with the anguish of loss and betrayal unleashed by terror occasions a significant redefinition of the issues of trauma conflict and gender and opens a fresh window to Indian writing and the culture of the subcontinent and a new paradigm in literary and cultural criticism termed ‘post-terrorism’. Lucid and thought provoking this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of South Asian literature cultural studies postcolonial studies history politics and sociology. | Troubled Testimonies Terrorism and the English novel in India

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Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

Public speaking is a much coveted yet difficult art. This book illustrates the use of various linguistic devices and persuasive strategies with examples from the speeches of powerful orators in history. It systematically draws on the various approaches to public speaking and persuasive discourse to present new insights and techniques. The volume: Critically examines strategies of persuasive oratory. Draws on extensive investigation of a corpus of famous public speeches in history. Focuses on the needs of those who want to brush up their public speaking skills. The volume will be a key reference for aspiring civil servants lawyers business and corporate professionals and politicians. It will be of great interest to scholars of linguistics and political and business communication. | Understanding Public Speaking A Learner's Guide to Persuasive Oratory

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Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

World economics and the industrial environment has recently created a fertile ground for the creation of new enterprises and start-ups. This book skilfully identifies the challenges of building a new business venture from an idea to a marketable product. It highlights • Robust methods for keeping up with innovation; • Designing new ways to grow improve and market your product; and • Managing the changes in the business environment market dynamics and other uncertainties. The volume is rich with examples and case studies of many small and large businesses. It further reflects on the business and entrepreneurship ecosystem the challenges and opportunities in India entrepreneurship and women e-commerce the new generation of entrepreneurs and exit strategies for entrepreneurs. An essential guide for entrepreneurs and professionals working in business management and marketing communications as well as scholars of business administration and financial sciences this book by an industry expert offers many new and practiced approaches examples and lessons for innovative thinking and breaking new ground in business. | Managing Start-ups for Success Entrepreneurship in Difficult Times

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Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

This book explores the finer nuances of community engagement in Indian higher education ranging from theory to practice. It contextualizes the concept and practice of community engagement in the contemporary context capturing global experiences insights and varied standpoints. The volume also identifies gaps present in the system and recommends solutions for the successful implementation and scaling up of the practice of community engagement not only in India but also at the global level. It also brings to the forefront; opinions perspectives and experiences of stellar women and their valuable scholarship with the aim of addressing the gender gap in the field of knowledge production on community engagement. The book will be of interest to scholars teachers and researchers of education higher education and sociology of education. It will also be useful for academicians think tanks higher education administration policymakers civil society organizations higher education institutions and those interested in the study of community engagement. | Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

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The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

This book highlights the links between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how literature and music have challenged those in power risking political censure. In addition they also try to delineate how patronage has been used for propaganda or to stir up national fervour. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in Literature and Music

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Negotiating Identity and Religion Young Adults in Inter-religious Families

Negotiating Identity and Religion Young Adults in Inter-religious Families

This book examines the religious lives of young adults growing up in inter-religious families in India. It explores complex questions of identity social background and religion in twenty-first-century India. The volumestudies the religious commitments of young adults analyses the identity formation process for a critical age group and discusses the interpersonal dynamics within inter-religious families. Drawing on real life stories of mixed heritage – Hindu Sikh Muslim Christian Jain Buddhist and Parsi – this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of psychology education sociology and social anthropology religious studies politics and other interdisciplinary studies. | Negotiating Identity and Religion Young Adults in Inter-religious Families

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Artificial Intelligence Evolution Ethics and Public Policy

Artificial Intelligence Evolution Ethics and Public Policy

What will the future be? A dystopian landscape controlled by machines or a brave new world full of possibilities? Perhaps the answer lies with Artificial Intelligence (AI)—a phenomenon much beyond technology that has continues to and will shape lives in ways we do not understand yet. This book traces the evolution of AI in contemporary history. It analyses how AI is primarily being driven by capital as the only factor of production and its consequences for the global political economy. It further explores the dystopian prospect of mass unemployment by AI and takes up the ethical aspects of AI and its possible use in undermining natural and fundamental rights. A tract for the times this volume will be a major intervention in an area that is heavily debated but rarely understood. It will be essential reading for researchers and students of digital humanities politics economics science and technology studies physics and computer science. It will also be key reading for policy makers cyber experts and bureaucrats. | Artificial Intelligence Evolution Ethics and Public Policy

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Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

This book reconstructs Istanbul through the prism of Orhan Pamuk’s fiction. It navigates the multiple selves and layers of Istanbul to present how the city has shaped the writings of Pamuk and has in turn been shaped by it. Through everyday objects and architecture it shows how Pamuk transforms the city into a living museum where different objects converse along with characters to present a rich tapestry across space and time. Further the monograph explores the formation of communal and literary identity within and around nation-building narratives informed by capitalism and modernization. The book also examines how Pamuk uses the postmodern city to move beyond its postmodern confines and utilizes the theories and universes of Bakhtin Benjamin and Foucault to open up his fiction and radically challenge the idea of the novel. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature literary theory museum studies architecture and cultural studies and especially appeal to readers of Orhan Pamuk. | Pamuk's Istanbul The Self and the City

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Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

This book presents a comprehensive overview of three key areas: heterodox macroeconomics development economics and classical political economy. It offers an alternative macroeconomic framework to analyse policies with an emphasis on issues of equity and justice. With contributions by leading economists from across the world it examines the growth and distribution of income; trade and finance in developing countries; classical political economy and Marxist theory; dualism in the US economy; economic crisis; and agrarian economy in poor countries. It explores themes such as the effect of an exogenous shock to wage share; Harrodian instability and Steindlian solutions; economics and politics of social democracy; the role of power in the macroeconomy; economic development through the promotion of domestic value chains; and reflections on primitive accumulation. Going beyond the neo-classical tradition the volume opens up a new vista of economics by discussing unexplored questions. It provides a refreshing treatment of time-tested ideas as well as discussions of recent developments and current research. A major intervention in heterodox macroeconomics and a tribute to macroeconomist Amit Bhaduri this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of economics political economy development studies sociology political science public administration economic theory economic history economic geography and critical studies as well as professionals economists and policymakers. | Conflict Demand and Economic Development Essays in Honour of Amit Bhaduri

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The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

This volume deals with the manifold ways in which histories are debated and indeed historicity and historiography themselves are interrogated via the narrative modes of the truth commissions. It traces the various medial responses (memoirs fiction poetry film art) which have emerged in the wake of the truth commissions. The 1990s and the 2000s saw a spate of so-called truth commissions across the Global South. From the inaugural truth commissions in post-juntas 1980s Latin America to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission set up by the incoming post-apartheid government in South Africa and the twinned gacaca courts and National Unity and Reconciliation Commission in Rwanda and that in indigenous Australia various truth commissions have sought to lay bare human rights abuses. The chapters in this volume explore how truth commissions crystallized a long tradition of dissenting and resisting cultures of memorialization in the public sphere across the Global South and provided a significant template for contemporary attempts to work through episodes of violence and oppression across the region. Drawing on studies from Latin America Africa Asia and Australia this book illuminates the modes in which societies remember and negotiate with traumatic pasts. This book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of human rights popular culture and art literature media politics and history. | The Culture of Dissenting Memory Truth Commissions in the Global South

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The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

This book highlights the linkages between politics and governance and the arts. The essays in the volume show how visual and performative arts have challenged those in power – or conversely patronised by them – been used for propaganda to stir up national fervour and found themselves at the receiving end of political censure. They focus on the tension and symbiosis between the politician and the artist foregrounding how they have always tried to influence challenge and in some cases undermine one another. This volume will serve as an indispensable source for researchers and academics in political science the humanities and performing arts. | The Different Faces of Politics in the Visual and Performative Arts

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English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known but there exists a vast body of texts from Afghanistan Sri Lanka and Burma and the Indian subcontinent that have rarely been compiled or examined. Written in anxiety and distress or recalled with poignancy and anger these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror explorer or ruler these texts give us the vulnerable injured and frightened Englishman and woman who seek in the most adverse of conditions to retain a measure of stoicism and identity. From Robert Knox’s 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka through J. Z. Holwell’s famous account of the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta through Florentia Sale’s Afghan memoir and Lady Inglis’s ‘Mutiny’ diary from Lucknow the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive. Lucid and intriguing this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asia colonial history literary and culture studies. | English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

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European Adventurers in North India 1750–1803

European Adventurers in North India 1750–1803

This book explores how European particularly French adventurers shaped early modern India. It highlights the significant contributions of these adventurers in social political economic and intellectual life of north India in the 18th and the 19th centuries. The author examines how the French adventurers played a key role in bringing Western science and ideas to a polity in flux. He examines the role of individuals like René Madec Sombre De Boigne Perron Gentil Canaple Delamarr Sonson and Pedrose who made instrumental contributions in modernising armies of pre-modern states in South Asia. The volume also underlines how French adventurers’ commercial networks developing from their enterprises opened up markets in the heartlands of north India for European consumers. Further it brings to the fore intellectual pursuits of the leading French figures such as Anquetil Duperron Polier Gentil De Boigne and Perron whose engagement with Indian literature opened a new chapter framing studies of the Occident. Rich in French English and translated Persian archival resources this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of colonial history early modern history military history and South Asian studies. | European Adventurers in North India 1750–1803

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Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

This book examines cultural imaginations post 9/11. It explores the idea of a religious community and its multifaceted representations in literature and popular culture. The essays in the volume focus on the role of literature film music television shows and other cultural forms in opening up spaces for complex reflections on identities and cultures and how they enable us to rethink the ‘trauma of familiarity’ post-traumatic heterotopias religious extremism and the idea of the ‘neighbour’ in post-9/11 literary and cultural imagination. The volume also probes the intersections of religion popular media televised simulacrum and digital martyrdom in the wake of 9/11. It also probes the simulation of new- age media images with reference to the creation and dissemination of ‘martyrs’ the languages of grief religionisation of terrorism islamophobia religious stereotypes and the reading of comics in writing the terror. An essential read the book reclaims and reinterprets the alternative to a Eurocentric/Americentric understanding of cultural and geopolitical structures of global designs. It will be of great interest to researchers of literature and cultural studies media studies politics film studies and South Asian studies. | Literature and the War on Terror Nation Democracy and Liberalisation

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Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

This book discusses effective social innovation strategies facilitated by civil society organisations (CSOs) to tackle India’s significant urban sanitation challenge. It presents the contours of an ecosystem that includes citizen participation and strengthening community-managed systems for improved sanitation and public health. The book analyses case studies of effective sanitation programmes as well as experiments with innovative ideas in different regional contexts by CSOs to meet the contextual needs of the community and to ensure access to safe sanitation especially among the urban poor. It highlights the challenges and the need for active participation of communities for change in behaviour increasing institutional capacities of municipalities for standardising and scaling up strategies which work. The authors highlight the need for designing low-cost solutions organising informal sanitation workers serving marginalised communities and building effective alliances between communities and institutions to influence public policy. Rich in empirical data this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of urban studies public policy governance political science development studies and sociology as well as for CSOs and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) working on urban sanitation urban planning and public policy. | Social Innovations in Urban Sanitation in India Meeting Unmet Needs

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The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the history and evolution of the major disciplines of science which include the basic sciences bioscience natural sciences and medical science with special emphasis on the Indian perspective. While academic interest shown in the history and philosophy of science dates back to several centuries serious scholarship on how the sciences and the society interact and influence each other can only be dated back to the twentieth century. This volume explores the ethical and moral issues related to social values along with the controversies that arise in relation to the discourse of science from the philosophical perspectives. The book sheds light on themes that have proved to have a significant and overwhelming influence on present-day civilisation. It takes the reader through a journey on how the sciences have developed and have been discussed to explore key themes like the colonial influences on science; how key scientific ideas have developed from Aristotle to Newton; history of ancient Indian mathematics; agency representation deviance with regard to the human body in science; bioethics; mental health psychology and the sciences; setting up of the first teaching departments for subjects such as medicine ecology and physiology in India; recent research in chemical technology; and even the legacy of ancient Indian scientific discoveries. A part of the Contemporary Issues in Social Science Research series this interdisciplinary work will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy modern history sociology of medicine physical sciences bioscience chemistry and medical sciences. It will be of interest to the general reader also. | The History and Philosophy of Science An Indian Perspective

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Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

Embracing sustainable management practices is important for businesses and commercial organizations wishing to responsibly contribute to the socioeconomic development of societies and communities. This book provides insights into recent trends issues and challenges in embracing these practices while promoting growth and innovation in business. The COVID-19 pandemic has redefined the necessity of implementing sustainable practices. This book looks at the process implementation and evaluation of sustainable practices in the social and commercial sectors in recent years. With case studies from different industries these chapters explore and document creative applications of effective measures to chart out financial growth for businesses while reducing carbon emissions focusing on corporate social responsibility and working toward socio-economic sustainability for workers and communities among others. They also examine how these innovative strategies can be scaled up and applied across diverse industries for small and large businesses and in different economic environments. Part of the Contemporary Management Practices series this book will be useful to practising managers researchers and students who are interested in business strategy financial strategy and social inclusion. It will be especially of use to those working in the areas of corporate governance corporate social responsibility green marketing corporate finance and organizational performance. | Perspectives in Sustainable Management Practices

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Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

This book looks at the life of Pandita Ramabai one of the major social reformers of 19th-century India. Her unique life trajectory spanned across a pan-Indian orthodox Hindu mould to being part of Brahmo Samaj and Prarthana Samaj and further to Christianity. At the age of 30 she had travelled widely within India and across the world from USA and UK in the West to Japan in the Far East. She reported these fascinating journeys to international friends and fellow Maharashtrians in both English and Marathi. Fighting conservatism and marginalization she set up several projects to empower women notably the Sharada Sadan in Mumbai and the Mukti Mission in Kedgaon near Pune in Maharashtra. This work locates Pandita Ramabai within her liminal social milieu and discursive networks during various phases of her life and traces her diverse ideological routes along with her critical writings some of which have been retrieved and/or presented in English translation here for the first time including The High-Caste Hindu Woman and the newly discovered Voyage to England. Offering a comprehensive insight into aspects of 19th-century Indian society — religion and reform women’s rights and feminism social movements poverty and colonialism — this book will greatly interest researchers and students of South Asian history sociology and gender studies. | Pandita Ramabai Life and landmark writings

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Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

This book studies how a modern monarchy transformed Bhutan into a parliamentary democracy. A political ethnography it focuses on the historic elections of 2007–2008 and studies democracy and its transformational processes from the ground up. It draws on historical as well as contemporary theories about kingship and regime change to analyse Bhutan’s nascent democratic process and reflect on the direction of political change both at the state and local levels in the aftermath of the elections. It also presents insights into the electoral and political process by giving a first-hand account of the author’s own participation in the elections and ponders on the larger political implications of this election for the region. A strong theoretical discussion situated in robust fieldwork and personal experience this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of politics especially comparative politics and political institutions South Asian and Himalayan Studies political sociology and social anthropology. | Democratic Transition in Bhutan Political Contests as Moral Battles

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