Author: David Arnold
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217271
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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Considers the meaning and nature of life history narrative in India.

Author: Sunil Khilnani
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 9385990950
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.

Author: Sherman Alexie
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448188563
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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An all-new edition of the tragicomic smash hit which stormed the New York Times bestseller charts, now featuring an introduction from Markus Zusak. In his first book for young adults, Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist who leaves his school on the Spokane Indian Reservation to attend an all-white high school. This heartbreaking, funny, and beautifully written tale, featuring poignant drawings that reflect the character's art, is based on the author's own experiences. It chronicles contemporary adolescence as seen through the eyes of one Native American boy. 'Excellent in every way' Neil Gaiman Illustrated in a contemporary cartoon style by Ellen Forney.

Author: Anand Giridharadas
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458763099
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Reversing his parents immigrant path, a young writer returns to India and discovers an old country making itself new. Anand Giridharadas sensed something was afoot as his plane prepared to land in Bombay. An elderly passenger looked at him and said, Were all trying to go that way, pointing to the rear. You, youre going this way. Giridharadas was...

Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701509X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 239

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This fascinating book uses biographical fragments to shed new light on colonial life and convictism in the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean.

Author: Ranabir Samaddar
Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN: 9780803991743
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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"This is a book written with conviction and supported by well researched data. It should attract the attention of both academicians and practitioners who would like to make the world a better place to live in." --Management & Labour Studies "Bagchi's and Samaddar's work is important for several reasons. Despite the fact that neither book is explicitly concerned with the social shaping of technological change in India, and both are, rather, concerned with the social and economic impacts of new technologies, they provide critical insights into the behaviour of Indian industrial management and into the process of effects of technological change there. This sort of material tends to have very poor visibility in the West, and this makes their contribution all the more valuable for our understanding of the dynamics of capitalism at a global level in this era of information technology. The work of Bagchi and his colleagues in particular underlines, in the Indian context, the claims of economists of technology who have examined the reasons for success and failure of technological change in other countries in the Asian economic bloc. Furthermore, Samaddar's insistence on the importance of linking labour market to labour process dynamics in fact makes a valuable contribution to the social shaping of technology approach." --Work, Employment & Society "This is an important thesis, which opens up exciting perspectives.... Samaddar describes and criticises in detail the round of national wage negotiations in the mid-1980s.... An inspiring defence of class analysis and class politics." --Capital and Class "This book is a well-researched volume containing a wealth of information regarding the process of automation in the newspaper industry. . . . The author aptly identifies how new technology has brought in new issues and how inadequately prepared the union leaders are for addressing these issues on behalf of labor. The author has clearly brought out how the working life of the laborer is affected by the induction of new technology. . . . The study is well researched and enlightening." --Productivity "With its unusual organization and framework and new research data, the book constitutes a significant contribution to the corpus of theoretical studies on the labor process." --Finance India "This is an important thesis, which opens up exciting perspectives. I enjoyed the book and learned much from it. The final chapter in particular contains an inspiring defence of class analysis and class politics, in which he points out that while erstwhile 'friends' of the labour movement declare that the working class is dead, the functionaries of capital are quite clear that it is alive, and kicking, and a formidable adversary. And he exposes neatly the murderous lie which lurks behind the pristine rhetoric of 'rationalisation': 'The more thoroughly business rationalises itself, the more extreme becomes the chaos in organised working class life'." --Martin Spence in Capital and Class Political power is the determining force behind much of industrial evolution. In Workers and Automation, Ranabir Samaddar discusses the political impetus driving the introduction of computerized technology in the Indian newspaper industry. Samaddar identifies and assesses the impact of change on three main issues: the institutionalized process of wage settlement; the dissemination of technological information among the workforce; and the impact of new technology on the bargaining processes of industry labor unions. As the effects created by this technological progression are examined, parallel shifts within the power structure that engendered them also emerge. Offering a cogent and detailed exploration of this crucial topic, Workers and Automation will prove an indispensable volume to students and professionals in such fields as sociology, industrial relations, personnel management, and information technology.

Author: Vikram Seth
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780143104087
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Vikram Seth'S Captivating Book Is The Story Of A Century And Of A Love Affair Across A Racial Divide Shanti Behari Seth Was Born On The Eighth Day Of The Eighth Month In The Eighth Year Of The Twentieth Century; He Died Two Years Before Its Close. He Was Brought Up In India In The Late Years Of The Raj, And Was Sent By His Family In The 1930S To Berlin Though He Could Not Speak A Word Of German To Study Medicine And Dentistry. It Was Here, Before He Migrated To Britain, That Shanti'S Path First Crossed That Of His Future Wife. Henny Gerda Caro Was Also Born In 1908, In Berlin, To A Jewish Family, Cultured, Patriotic And Intensely German. When The Family Decided To Have Shanti As A Lodger, Henny S First Reaction Was, 'Don'T Take The Black Man!' But A Friendship Flowered, And When Henny Fled Hitler'S Germany For England, Just One Month Before The War Broke Out, She Was Met At Victoria Station By The Only Person She Knew In The Country: Shanti. Vikram Seth, Their Great-Nephew From India, Arrived In This Childless Couple'S Life As A Teenage Student. Now He Has Woven Together The Astonishing Story Of Shanti And Henny, And The Result Is An Extraordinary Tapestry Of India, The Third Reich And The Second World War, Auschwitz And The Holocaust, Israel And Palestine, Postwar Germany And 1970S Britain. Two Lives Is Both A History Of A Violent Country Seen Through The Eyes Of Two Survivors As Well As An Intimate Portrait Of Their Friendship, Marriage And Abiding Yet Complex Love. Part Biography, Part Memoir, Part Meditation On Our Times, This Is The True Tale Of Two Remarkable Lives A Masterful Telling From One Of Our Greatest Living Writers. Click Here To See Vikram Seth'S Microsite

Author: Philipp Zehmisch
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199091293
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Often called ‘Mini-India’, the Andaman Islands have been a crucial site of encounter between different regimes, subjects, castes, creeds, languages, and ethnicities. Since 1858, subaltern convicts, refugees, repatriates, and labourers from South and Southeast Asia have moved to the islands, condemned to, or in search of a new life. While some migrants have achieved social mobility, others have remained disenfranchised and marginalized. This ethnographic study of the Andaman settler society analyses various shades of inequality that arise from migrant communities’ material and representational access to the state. The author employs the concept of subalternity to investigate political negotiations of island history, collective identity, ecological sustainability, and resource access. Interpreting characteristic views, practices, and voices of subaltern interlocutors, the author untangles their collective agency and consciousness in migration, settlement, and place-making processes. Further, the book highlights particular subaltern strategies in order to achieve autonomy and peaceful cohabitation through movement, cultural and social appropriation, and multi-layered methods of resistance.

Author: Clare Anderson
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 0857287001
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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This fascinating book, based on extensive archival research in Britain and India, examines why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and release prisoners, discusses the impact of the destruction of the jails on British penal policy in mainland India, considers the relationship between India and its penal settlements in Southeast Asia, re-examines Britain’s decision to settle the Andaman Islands as a penal colony in 1858 and re-evaluates the experiences of mutineer-rebel convicts there. This book makes an important contribution to histories of the mutiny-rebellion, British colonial South Asia, British expansion in the Indian Ocean and incarceration and transportation.

Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1408801248
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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A Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE