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Paperback. A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape. Series: Radical Perspectives. Num Pages: 344 pages, 12 photographs, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFN; JPFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822350491
ISBN
9780822350491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. This collection intervenes in key areas of feminist scholarship and activism in contemporary South Asia, particularly India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka, while asking how this investigation might enrich feminist theorizing and practice globally. Editor(s): Loomba, Ania; Lukose, Ritty A. Num Pages: 432 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 226 x 15. Weight in Grams: 564.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822351795
ISBN
9780822351795
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.83

Hardback. Producing Bollywood is an in-depth ethnography of the Bombay-based Hindi film industry, more popularly known as Bollywood. Taking readers inside this hugely popular global industry, Tejaswini Ganti focuses on the social world and professional practices of well-known Hindi filmmakers. Num Pages: 440 pages, 28 photographs, 6 tables, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KNTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 30. Weight in Grams: 744.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822352020
ISBN
9780822352020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.47

Hardback. In this ethnography of sexual violence during the 1971 Bangladesh War for Independence, Nayanika Mookherjee shows how the public celebration of the hundreds of thousands of rape victims-called "birangonas" by the state-works to homogenize and silence the experiences of these women. Num Pages: 352 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 613.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822359494
ISBN
9780822359494
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Hardback. With an adventurous writing style, Anand Pandian explores the transformative potential of cinema, following Tamil films from the spark of artistic impulse through their production, marketing, and reception to show how cinema recasts the ordinary experience of everyday life. Num Pages: 360 pages, 51 illustrations, incl. 1 in color. BIC Classification: 1FK; APFA; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359579
ISBN
9780822359579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.55

Paperback. In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjorkman explores why water is chronically unavailable in Mumbai, India's economic and financial capital. She attributes water shortage to economic reforms that allowed urban development to ignore the water infrastructure, which means that in Mumbai, politics is often about water. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; RNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 409.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822359692
ISBN
9780822359692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.51

Hardback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 239 x 19. Weight in Grams: 472.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360261
ISBN
9780822360261
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.75

Paperback. In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; 5SG; HBJF; JFSK2; JPA; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822360438
ISBN
9780822360438
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.29

Hardback. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon studies obesity and diabetes in Mumbai, India, presenting a new narrative of metabolic illness in which it is less about the overconsumption of food than it is about the body's relationship to its environment and the substances it absorbs. Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography. Num Pages: 304 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC; MFGM; MJG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822360872
ISBN
9780822360872
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.89

Hardback. The contributors to this major intervention into Indian historiography recover the long history of Dalit struggles against caste violence, exclusion, and discrimination by focusing on the importance of humiliation, dignity, and spatial exclusion to Dalit emancipatory politics. Editor(s): Rawat, Ramnarayan S.; Satyanarayana, K. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822361138
ISBN
9780822361138
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Hardback. Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship and the rights through which to make demands on the state for public services emerges through the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3000 miles of pipe that bind them. Num Pages: 312 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JFSG; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822362548
ISBN
9780822362548
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

Hardback. Kaushik Sunder Rajan traces the structure and operation of what he calls pharmocracy-a concept explaining the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He outlines pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India to demonstrate the stakes of its intersection with health, politics, democracy, and global capital. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822363132
ISBN
9780822363132
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.81

paperback. Beginning where the autobiography left off, Green has selected letters, essays, interviews, and speeches that offer a complete self-narration of Gandhi's life from 1920 to 1948. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 585.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780874514186
ISBN
9780874514186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.64

Hardcover. Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAG Providing important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community. Series: RGS-IBG Book Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFSR2; JP; RGCP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781118837818
ISBN
9781118837818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.10

Hardback. The Siddhantasundara is the last major treatise of Indian astronomy and cosmology to receive serious scholarly attention, Knudsen's careful effort unveils the 500-year-old Sanskrit verses and shows the clever quirkiness of Jnanaraja's writing style, his keen use of mathematics, and his subtle philosophical arguments. Num Pages: 376 pages, 31, 31 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FKA; PBX; PDX; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 32. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421414423
ISBN
9781421414423
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.50
€ 81.91

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; KCM; KNTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439912584
ISBN
9781439912584
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 93.01

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477311578
ISBN
9781477311578
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages, b&w photos. BIC Classification: 1FKA; APFA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781477311585
ISBN
9781477311585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.59

Paperback. Series: Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power and Practice. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JHBF; JHBK; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 278 x 21. Weight in Grams: 452.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9781479828388
ISBN
9781479828388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8, 8 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FKA; HBJF; JHB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781501707520
ISBN
9781501707520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.70

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