Bridging the social gap: perspectives on dalit empowerment, ed. by Sukhadeo Thorat & Nidhi Sadana Sabharwal

ISBN: 9788132113119, 813211311X

Ambedkar, Gandhi and empowerment of Dalit

Dubey, Aditya

ISBN: 9788194205623, 819420562X

The British origin of cow-slaughter in India: with some British documents on the anti-kine-killing-movement 1880-1894

Dharampal et al.

ISBN: 9788187827047, 8187827041

This book includes three major documents regarding the anti-kine-killing movement of 1880-1894. The first is the very precise report of the Superintendent of Thagi & Dacoity Department, on the movement written for his superiors (dated 9 August 1893). The second is a narrative of the happenings in the Punjab from 1882-1893, as reported by the Punjab Intelligence Department. The third is a report...

The broken ladder: the paradox and the potential of India's one- billion

Krishna, Anirudh

ISBN: 9788184007626, 8184007620

In contrast to other investigations, which have taken a top-down view of the developments in the country, Krishna presents a group-up perspective, delving into the lives of ordinary individuals. Through decades-long research conducted on the ground, living in villages and studying slum communities, he reveals the heartbreaking and eye-opening details of missed opportunities and immense, but unt...

Non-farm employment in rural India: nature, extent and determinants

Robina

ISBN: 9789354390395, 9354390390

The study contributes significantly to literature by generating empirical information on extent and nature of the temporal and spatial patterns of the rural non-farm employment (RNFE) in more then 600 districts over the last four decades of the 20th century in India.

Buddha to Krishna: life and times of George Keyt.

Dalmia, Yashodhara

ISBN: 9781138038141, 1138038148

This book traces the emergence of modernism in art in South Asia by exploring the work of the iconic artist George Keyt. Closely interwoven with his life, Keyt's art reflects the struggle and triumph of an artist with very little support or infrastructure. He painted as he lived: full of colour, turmoil and intensity.

Buddhist art-objects in the museums of West Bengal

Chakrabarti, Saktirani

ISBN: 9788187661917, 8187661917

Museums bear the Art, Archaeology, Anthropology, Folklore, History and Sociology of a nation. They form a bridge between formal and non-formal education through art-objects and audio-visual materials to promote learning, which would certainly be a respite from the monotonous usual teaching patterns.

Buddhist women across culture-realizations

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170306603, 8170306604

The Buddhists: encyclopaedia of Buddhism, 5 vols.: A-Z, comp. and ed. by Subodh Kapoor

ISBN: 9788177550689, 8177550683

The work is alphabetically organised covering over 450 subjects and areas connected with all aspects of Buddhist history, theology, and philosophy as well as anthropology, mythology, folklore, psychology, economics, politics, sociology and its arts.

Building alternatives: the story of India's oldest construction workers' cooperative by T.M. Thomas Isaac et al.

ISBN: 9789380118468, 9380118465

The development dilemma: displacement in Meghalaya 1947-2010

Fernandes, Walter et al

ISBN: 9788189762568, 8189762567

This publication continues the debate on development and displacement that are two faces of the same coin.

Building from the bottom: infrastructure and poverty alleviation

Kochhar, Sameer et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788171888412, 8171888410

Development and tribes: contemporary issues and challenges

ISBN: 9789386611635, 9386611635

Building the Ambedkar revolution: Sambhaji Tukaram Gaikwad and the Kokan dalits

Omvedt, Gail

ISBN: 9789383206599, 9383206594

Bulletin on Food Statistics (1998-2000)

Occupational mobility in an exile community: a social-economic study of Tibetan women in Dharamshala and Dehradun

Rajput, Madhu

ISBN: 9789387023796, 9387023796

The book is an empirical research done by author on socio-economic status of Tibetan women in exile. In early 1960s during conflict, migration and resettlement, it were the Tibetan women and children who suffered the most, as out of their sheltered existence, they became vulnerable to various forms of gender based exploitation.

Emergence of the new women: the novels of Shobha De and Bharati Mukherjee

Saleema, P.

ISBN: 9789382186892, 9382186891

The striking quality of this book is its brilliant psychoanalysis of the behavioural patterns of women protagonists painted on a single canvas of universal womanhood by two different authors, cutting across continental boundaries. The selected authors Shobhaa De and Bharati Mukherjee are writers from diverse backgrounds. The former is a well-known socialite and a contemporary Indian writer whil...

Other voices: missionary women's writing and Assam

Phukan, Sudipta

ISBN: 9789355293411, 9355293410

The book deals with the Christian missionary women's writing during the colonial Assam. The women missionaries who accompanied their male counterparts as well as single women missionaries stayed in Assam throughout their lives or for a considerable period of time.

Calcutta then / Kolkata now, text by Indrajit Hazra et al., photo research by Abhijit Chakraborty et al., ed. by Neelam Narula

ISBN: 9788193750193, 8193750195

A pictorial book on Kolkata, capital city of West Bengal.

Camel Karma: twenty years among India's camel nomads, with a foreword by HH Maharajah Shri Gaj Singhji

Kohler, Rollefson Ilse

ISBN: 9789384030636, 9384030635

The Raika of Rajasthan have had a unique and enduring relationship with camels. Their entire way of life revolves around looking after the needs of these animals which, in turn, provide them with sustenance, wealth and companionship. This is the story of the quest that follows to save a globally unique and humane animal culture and find a place for the camel in a rapidly changing India.