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Academic Hinduphobia: a critique of Wendy Doniger's erotic school of Indology

Malhotra, Rajiv

ISBN: 9789385485015, 9385485016

The departments for the study of ancient India (Indology) and South Asian Studies in the West are the last bastions of colonialism today. In the name of scholarship, which is often hatred and racism in disguise, Hindus are routinely characterized as misogynists, oppressive, anti-minority, irrational, violent and debauched. The author terms this mass-produced hate-mongering literature as `Atroci...

Citizenship in a caste polity, religion, languge and belonging in Goa

Fernandes, Jason Keith

ISBN: 9789352879946, 9352879945

Konkani was recognised only in the Devanagari script, one of two scripts used for the language in Goa, the other being the Roman script. Set against this historical background, this book studies the contestations around the demand that the Roman script also be officially recognised and given equal status.

Against stigma: studies in caste, race and justice since Durban

Natrajan, Balmurli et al. (eds.)

ISBN: 9788125036005, 8125036008

Ancient metal technology and archaeology of South Asia: a Pan-Asian perspective

Agrawal, D.P.

ISBN: 9788173051777, 8173051771

Archaeometallurgy has been situated in the matrix of archaeology. Such studies have a meaning only in the human context of the past. All in all it is a book with a different perspective, written without using much technical jargon, tracing the evolution of metal technologies in an archaeological context.

The Anglo-Maratha campaigns and the contest for India: the struggle for control of the South Asian military economy

Cooper, Randolf GS

ISBN: 9788175962507, 817596250X

A cross cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia.

Anthropologists inside organisations: South Asian case studies

Sridhar, Devi (ed.)

ISBN: 9788178298863, 8178298864

This book brings together seven fresh case studies on how anthropologists have negotiated the issues related to interacting with organisations. While providing examples of how research has been conducted inside and with organisations, the collection also offers analyses of the methodological issues that researchers face.

Armed conflicts in South Asia 2008: growing violence

Chandran, D Suba

ISBN: 9780415476225, 0415476224

Armed conflicts in South Asia 2011: the promise and threat of transformation

Chandran, D Suba et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9780415529631, 0415529638

The collection brings together annual reviews on strife-ridden Pakistan, Jammu and Kashmir, northeast India, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Afghanistan as well as regions with dominant Naxalite presense.

Asoka: in history and historical memory

ISBN: 9788120834026, 812083402X

This volume contains the presentations at a symposium sponsored by the South Asia Institute and the Department of Asian Studies of the University of Texas at Austin (February 4, 2006) is intended to advance the study of Asoka both as history and historical memory.;

Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay's Srimadbhagabadgita, translation and analysis by Hans Harder

ISBN: 9788173043765, 8173043760

This book is an attempt to re-examine Bankimchandra's religious thinking in the context of the nineteenth century on the basis of his Srimadbhagvadgita. Written in instalments from 1886-88, his little noted Gita commentary is a key text of nascent modern Hinduism.

SAARC perspective

Bhuimali, Anil et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788183871686, 8183871682

This volume is the outcome to collective efforts of researchers covering various socio-economic aspects, such as education, literacy, trade tourism, finance and some specific problems of small tea growers and jute industries. The research papers cover the whole of South Asian Nations except Sri Lanka.

Bhakti in current research, 2001-2003: proceedings of the ninth international conference on early devotional literature in new Indo-Aryan language, Heidelberg, 23-26 July 2003,...

Horstmann, Monika (ed.)

ISBN: 9788173046940, 8173046948

...with a DVD by Daniel Gold.;;The contributions addresss literary sources and historiography, manuscriptology, painting, hagiography, various sects, musical practice as related to Bhakti authors and sects, and the interface of yoga and the Indic and Islamicate traditions respectively.

Bodymaps: stories by South Asian women

Chakravarty, Radha (ed.)

ISBN: 9788189884024, 8189884026

The stories in this anthrology present a range of ways in which women writers of South Asia have remapped the female body as a site for oppression as well as resistance. These connect the traditional female areas of experience such as marriage motherhood, family dynamics, women's education and work, with broader issues of class, caste, sexuality, religion etc.

Bonded histories: genealogies of labour servitude in colonial India

Gyan Prakash

ISBN: 9780521362788, 0521362784

A sophisticated theoretical analysis with evidence from archival records, village documents and oral testimonies to present an original and compelling view of the changing relationship of bondage.;

Buddhism across Asia: networks of material, intellectual and cultural exchange, Vol.1, ed. by Tansen Sen

ISBN: 9789350980453, 9350980452

Papers originally presented to a Conference on Buddhism Across Asia: Networks of Material, Intellectual and Cultural Exchange, organized by Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre at ISEAS and held in Singapore from 2 to 5 February 2009.

Buddhism in global perspective, 2 vols. with CD-R

Sankaranarayan, Kalpakam et al. (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170392606, 8170392608

Papers presented at the International Conference on Buddhism-- in Global Perspective jointly organized by K.J. Somaiya Centre for Buddhist Studies, Mumbai, India, Nava Nalanda Mahavihara, Bihar, India and Otani University, Kyoto, Japan, March 13-15, 2002.;Volume I, contains thirty papers divided into three sections. Casting a glance at the contents sixteen papers are about early Buddhism. Six o...