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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…

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Himalayan Masculinities

This book offers novel and valuable insights into the often abstracted and overlooked social worlds of men in the Himalaya. Long cast through colonial and nationalist imaginaries as martial warriors, agra…

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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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Rethinking Satyagraha

Rethinking Satyagraha: Truth, Travel and Translations explores the multi-dimensional aspects of Satyagraha as a movement of being with and striving for and fighting for Truth and Truth realizations. The b…

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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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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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Shamika Shabnam
Remembering the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War

This monograph draws on literary and archival texts to explore the variegated experiences of survivors of the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. It focuses on muktijouddhas and their mothers, survivors of se…

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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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Lavanya Vemsani
Reframing India in World History

Lexington Books

Reframing India in World History breaks the stereotypical portrayal of India based on misconstrued historical theories. Prevalent constructions of Indian history are tinged with colonial historical framew…

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75 Years After Partition

This book explores how the 1947 Partition of British India not only divided people and territories but also deepened cultural rifts in postcolonial India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, especially between Hindu…

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Bidyut Chakrabarty
Many Ideas of Nationalism in India

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the many visions of nationalism and nationalist leadership that emerged during India's struggle for independence. The volume examines key nationalist thinkers such…

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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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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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Gendered Transformative Initiatives in South Asia

This volume discusses gendered transformative initiatives in South Asian feminism, discussing gender norms, labour and market participation by women, along with family planning, reproductive rights and in…

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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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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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