Ecological Entanglements: Affect, Embodiment and Ethics of Care is a contributory volume that calls for new ways to apprehend the ecological crisis by formulating a framework that integrates social, material, and cultural dimensions of ecology.
This book studies the interlinking of religious, social and political identities in modern Tamil Nadu.
Gandhi’s importance in the Western world, and his interaction with foreign visitors, have been well-documented.
At present, Bangladesh is one of the fastest growing economies in Asia, which has transitioned to a middle-income country, progressing significantly in terms of both development and social welfare parameters.
What is Hinglish—sociolect, insurrection or language? Why and how does Hinglish occupy such a prominent place in our daily language? What does it represent and how does it define our notions of self? Hinglish Live asks these and other questions about English and language mixing in contemporary India across a range of media domains—from English teaching to advertising; FM radio to literature; newspapers to cinema; technology to TV programmes.
The work examines the nature and contents of the Sanskrit epic poem, generally called the Valmiki Ramayana, in the form(s) it has come down to us in modernity.
The book consists of three essays by the author: ‘Electric Steel: Parallel Stories from Italy, India and the Americas’, ‘What Makes Oral History Different’ and ‘A Dialogical Relationship: An Approach to Oral History’.
This volume constructs a posthumanist subject through philosophy, critical theory and literature.
Postcolonialism Now introduces a new method of decolonial reading and criticism.
This unique volume presents all twenty of Kazi Nazrul Islam’s short stories for the first time in English translation.
This book is a critical engagement with the ideas of Frantz Fanon, focusing on the politics of identity and resistance.
This essay charts a vision of Humanities education in terms of global and social responsibilities.
This volume commemorates 100 years of the publication of E. M. Forster’s A Passage to India.
Is there such a thing as an ‘Indian university’? Is there an ‘idea’ of an Indian university? Were universities in India living and breathing products of the soil, or were they conceptual imports from a colonial heritage? What is the relationship between universities in India and the ‘publics’ that have inhabited or are alienated by them? More pointedly, how ‘public’ is the Indian public university? This volume explores the historical makings of the Indian university as it stands today, by sifting through archives, colonial/postcolonial policies, textual-literary records and political-economic developments.
This volume marks the fiftieth anniversary of one of the defining moments of Indian history.
The trauma of Partition is an indelible part of the collective memory of the citizens of India and Pakistan and, later, Bangladesh.
This book provides a detailed introduction to the multifaceted and evolving discipline of ecocriticism.
