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Koji Nomura
Hydropower-Led Economic Growth in Bhutan

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Bhutan's economic growth and productivity dynamics from 1990 to 2022, with a special focus on hydropower development. Through the construction of detailed in…

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Anas Galet M. Alhaisony
Multiculturalism in Contemporary British South Asian Fiction

This book explores the multifaceted themes of home, belonging, and multiculturalism in contemporary British South Asian fiction. Through detailed literary analysis of novels by authors such as Nadeem Asla…

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Vinay Gidwani, Priti Ramamurthy
City Lives, Rural Ties

Stories of migrants building precarious futures through ingenuity, desire, obligation, and resilience India's cities depend on millions of rural migrants whose labor sustains urban life. City Lives, Rural…

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Religion and Identity in the Indian Ocean World

This is a ground-breaking volume on the role of religion as a major force of cohesion across the Indian Ocean region.A diverse range of experts present a case for conceptualizing religion as an enabler of…

lieferbar ab 18.3.2027.

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Preethi Lolaksha Nagaveni
Untouchability in 21st Century India

This book examines caste-based discrimination in India through the practice of manual scavenging and exclusion within higher education. It analyses how Untouchability persists across these distinct yet in…

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The Partition of India

The partition of India in 1947 was an outstanding event in world history. It formed a major turning point in the modern history of the sub-continent and of the Commonwealth. Originally published in 1970, …

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Biswaranjan Tripura
Everyday State and Development in Northeast India

This book examines the everyday state from the perspective of the lived experiences of peripheralized Indigenous tribal peoples in contemporary Tripura, Northeast India.Building on discussions in the anth…

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Trayee Sinha
Swarnakumari Debi

Swarnakumari Debi: Bengali Female Writer unpacks the scholarship of the 19th-century Bengal luminary. It explores Debi's literary activism, assesses her works in a contemporary context, and explores possi…

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Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy,
Jainism and Tamil

Jainism has a long history in the Tamil country. The Jains had a significant role in the formation of the Tamil script, including their great literary contribution. Despite this, most people were unaware …

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Decolonial Travel

This volume brings together scholarship on indigenous forms of travel to decolonize travel theory. It looks at certain minoritarian-vernacular traveling cults - very rarely examined - that compel us to re…

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Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy,
Buddhism and Tamil

First published in 1940, Mayilai Seeni Venkatasamy's Buddhism and Tamil was one of the pioneering attempts to trace the history of Buddhism in the Tamil country. With judicious exploitation of archaeologi…

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Lopita Nath
Bhutanese Refugee Resettlement in the United States

A definitive account of one of the twenty-first century's most consequential yet frequently overlooked humanitarian stories. Drawing on a decade of oral histories, archival research, and community immersi…

lieferbar ab 10.12.2026.

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Ashish Koul
Reinventing Caste

This book reveals that caste, usually assumed to be a feature of Hindu society, was in fact a trans-religious phenomenon in colonial India, as it is today. Even in an Islamic religious milieu that was sup…

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Creating Successful Community and Academic Partnerships in Service-Learning

This book showcases compelling case study examples of successful university--community service-learning projects in socially and economically developing regions in India and South Asia, South East Asia an…

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Nico Slate
The Art of Freedom

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was a prominent socialist, anticolonial and antiracist activist, champion of women's rights, and advocate for the arts and crafts. Defying the borders of gender, natio…

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Anirban Banerjee
Passenger Traders in Transit

This monograph is one of the first scholarly investigations into the literary representations of the lived realities of Ugandan-Indians, often referred to as "Passenger Traders", who were exiled…

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Scott Miller
Let My Country Awake

"[Miller] plunges into his tale with gusto . . . [Let My Country Awake is] never less than fascinating." -Tunku Varadarajan, The Wall Street Journal"Propulsive . . . A thrilling excavation …

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Meha Dixit
Disquieting Edges

This book explores the intersections of gender, religion, ethnicity, and class in the fragile borderlands of Jammu, Kashmir, and Ladakh against the backdrop of the abrogation of Article 370 in August 2019…

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S M Dahiwale
Dialectics of Brahmanism and Un-Brahmanism

Addressing the complex social fabric of Indian society, this book explores its history, marked by enduring conflicts between Brahmanic and Un-Brahmanic forces that have shaped its ideological and philosop…

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