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The Judiciary I Served

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This book is an account of Justice P. Jaganmohan Reddy's long and distinguished career in the law, from his early days as a barrister to his retirement from the Supreme Court of India. As a judge of the apex court, Justice Reddy heard and decided on sever

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Biographies     Author : P. Jagmohan Reddy

9788125055143

Revisiting 1956 B.R. Ambedkar and States Reorganisation

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Revisiting 1956 is a twopart volume discussing and republishing Ambedkar's writings on the reorganisation of Indian states. The first part of the volume is a monograph by the authors and besides commenting on Ambedkar's views, it also provides a historica

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : History     Author : Sudha Pai

9788125053590

Cultural HIstory of Early South Asia A Reader

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•Cultural History of Early South Asia: A Reader presents a wide-ranging survey of the art forms of ancient and early medieval South Asia.

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Culture     Author : Shonaleeka Kaul

9788125056157

Beloved Bapu The Gandhi-Mirabehn Correspondence

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The current volume offers readers unprecedented insight into the relationship between Mahatma Gandhi and Mirabehn, his foremost Western woman disciple, who came to India to dedicate her life to Gandhi and and remained his faithful companion for twenty-thr

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Philosophy     Author : Tridip Suhrud

9788125055822

Rethinking Western India The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Religion

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While investigating the cultural, social and political dynamics in Maharashtra, Rethinking Western India looks into the relations and processes that make up what are usually thought to be regional problems.

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Sociology#     Author : Dusan Deak

9788125056195

Power and Contestation India Since 1989

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This book traces the post-1989 tectonic shifts in Indian society, economy and polity, which marked the unraveling of the 'Nehruvian consensus' around a 'modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy'.

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : General     Author : Nivedita Menon

9788125055099

Unforgotten Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in India

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As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss. In addressing this questio

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Novel     Author : Bianca Brijnath

9788125054290

Decolonisation, Development and Disease A Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka

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The 1901 Census of Ceylon identified malaria as a “bane” of the island. And through the ensuing century a story of development has sprung around the control of this endemic disease. A story of development that is scripted by a postcolonial state, as it gr

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Development Studies     Author : Kalinga Tudor Silva

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Decentering Translation Studies India and Beyond

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The book deals with translation in several non-western traditions. The essays show how social and historical contexts have shaped the way translations are rendered. They focus on multiple contexts of translation mainly in India, but also in Korea, Japan a

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : General     Author : Judy Wakabayashi

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Environmental Jurisprudence And The Supreme Court

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•Since the 1980s, the Supreme Court of India has intervened regularly in cases involving environmental issues, taking both state and private actors to task on environmentally destructive actions and policies and asserting itself in the implementation of i

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : General     Author : Geetanjoy Sahu

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The Socio-Cultural Context of Water Study of a Gujarat Village

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Water as a commodity in a consumer society is critically studied in this volume, the rural hinterland being viewed through the micro world of Mathnaa. Socio-cultural Context of Water: Study of a Gujarat Village analyses various aspects of water management

Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Culture     Author : Farhat Naz

9788125054917

Neoliberalism And Water

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Publisher : Orient Blackswan     Year : 2014

Category : Geography     Author : Priya Sangameswaran