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Beyond Kolkata

Author : Ishita Dey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134931379
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Kolkata written by Ishita Dey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics behind, and the socio-economic and ecological repercussions of, the making of a new township, variously called New Town, Megacity or Jyoti Basu Nagar, in Rajarhat near Kolkata. Conceived by the West Bengal state government in the mid-1990s, in pandering to the vision of urban planners of creating a hi-tech town beyond an unruly, crowded Kolkata, and feeding the hunger of realtors and developers, the city is built on the foundations of coercive, even violent, land acquisition, state largesse and corruption — and at the cost of erasing a self-sufficient subsistence economy and despoiling a fragile environment. Yet, after its completion and departure of construction labour, the new town appears as a necropolis, a ghost city, that belies its promised image of an urban utopia, even as the displaced locals lead a precarious, mobile existence as ‘transit labour’, engaged in odd and informal jobs. Written on the basis of intensive fieldwork, government documents, court records, and chronicles of public protests, this book broadly analyses the politics and economics of urbanisation in the age of post-colonial capitalism, particularly the paradoxical combination of neoliberal and primitive modes of capital accumulation upon which the global emergence of ‘new towns’ is based. Departing from the dominant styles of urban studies that focus on cultural or spatial analysis of cities, the authors show the links between changes in space, technology, political economy, class composition, and forms of urban politics which give concrete shape to a city. It will immensely interest those in sociology, political science, economics, development studies, urban studies, policy and governance studies, and history.

West Bengal, Beyond the Millennium

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book West Bengal, Beyond the Millennium written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume is the result of an international seminar organized on March 25, 2000 in Calcutta.

Beyond Metropolis

Author : Aprodicio A. Laquian
Publisher : Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Metropolis written by Aprodicio A. Laquian and published by Washington, D.C. : Woodrow Wilson Center Press. This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Metropolis builds on studies conducted during the 1990s under the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia.

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 642 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Rules and Orders of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal in Its Several Jurisdictions

Author : India. High Court (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rules and Orders of the High Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal in Its Several Jurisdictions written by India. High Court (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Counter-insurgency

Author : Sanjib Baruah
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Counter-insurgency written by Sanjib Baruah and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years there has been a significant reorientation in India's policy towards its Northeast region. Yet, Indian policy thinking has been insulated from the virtual intellectual revolution in the last one decade to study armed civil conflicts and ways to manage, resolve, and transform them. This volume lays emphasis on the term 'rethinking' and offers new ways of understanding the conflicts, and of ways to resolve them. The chapters discuss wide-ranging issues which include the multilayered nature of the conflict in the Northeast, and how democratic politics and the world of armed rebellions intersect in complex ways in this region. An analysis of the Naga war and its nation-building project is discussed. How the Northeast figures in postcolonial India's national imagination, how Assamese society engages with the term 'terrorist', and how state-society conflicts are muted in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation, and an alternative vision of development in Mizoram have been argued. The role of ideas in conflict transformation, and an alternative vision of development in Arunachal Pradesh have also been discussed.

Field Notes from a Waterborne Land

Author : Parimal Bhattacharya
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9354894410
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Field Notes from a Waterborne Land written by Parimal Bhattacharya and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 2000s, when the three-decade-long Left Front rule in West Bengal was crumbling, Parimal Bhattacharya began to travel outside the well-trodden urban centres to different parts of the region - from the Sundarbans to tribal Jangalmahal, from the outskirts of Kolkata to villages on the Bangladesh border, from the floodplains of the Hooghly to the forests of Simlipal in neighbouring Odisha. There, he encountered: a woman who was branded a witch because she was listed in the census as literate; an island that vanished famously, only to resurface; a paralysed communist who dreams about the death of a river; a forest community who believe they are descendants of the Harappans; an old millworker and his wife who fight the ghosts of a dead industrial town with laughter; a fisherman uprooted by a river eleven times in twenty years; and many more. This book documents the missing narratives of these 'other' Bengalis, the largely invisible majority beyond the bhadralok that the rest of India knows. Moving between the personal and the political, and between travelogue, journal and memoir, Field Notes from a Waterborne Land takes the reader on a journey across a fascinating land peopled with unforgettable characters.

Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Author : Asiatic Society of Bengal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society of Bengal and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Beyond Appearances?

Author : Sumathi Ramaswamy
Publisher : SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Appearances? written by Sumathi Ramaswamy and published by SAGE Publications Pvt. Limited. This book was released on 2003-04-25 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Beyond Appearances? provides a dynamic fourm for the main exponents of the anthropological turn in studies of South Asian popular visual culture, and will prove an inspiration for a generation of emerging scholars' - The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute A striking feature of modern-day society is the ubiquity of the visual or the image in everyday life. Modernity seems to be marked by the hegemony of its vision, with everything being measured by its ability to show or be shown. But how does this linking of the visual to the modern stand up to scrutiny when placed within the contexts of the complicated picture-worlds, print-complexes and image-cultures of India? This is the principal question that Beyond Appearances? investigates. The 11 essays in this book analyse the material and political work of a wide array of artefacts, media, and habits with the aim of understanding the principal contours of the visual practices and ideologies that distinguish an Indian modern. Recognising the enormous power contained within images to transform and mobilise the self and the community, the contributors focus on a variety of visual media including calendar art, photography, theatre, popular cinema, documentary films and propaganda videos, maps and fine art. In the process, they also examine the inter-visual dialogue between these diverse media, exploring their underlying technologies of production and modalities of circulation and exchange. The volume is also crucially concerned with understanding the role of visuality (broadly understood as regimes of seeing and being seen) in the constitution of national, ethnic, religious and community identities in modern India. The contributors contended that visuality does not lie outside history, culture or politics, and that the visual is constitutive of both the social and the political. Overall, this volume draws attention to the fact that the visual can no longer be treated as a mere supplement to knowledge derived from written texts but constitutes a distinct field of enquiry. Multi-disciplinary, comprehensive and informative, this fascinating volume will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of visual culture, sociology, anthropology, art history, political science and media studies.

Beyond Textual Islam

Author : Nadeem Hasnain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Textual Islam written by Nadeem Hasnain and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With special reference to India.

Beyond the World of Apu

Author : John W. Hood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the World of Apu written by John W. Hood and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new work, John W. Hood makes a thoroughly informed critique of all twenty-nine feature films of Satyajit Ray. Structured along themes which the author has identified in Ray's movies, this reassessment analyses each film on the basis of its individual merits and lapses. Having taken us through the two ends of the spectrum of excellence and mediocrity that comprise Ray's work, Hood concludes his incisive study by affirming that what makes Ray ascend into the realms of the great is his profound sense of humanity. A highly accessible work on arguably the finest filmmaker India has ever produced, this book will engage not only serious readers of cinematic texts but also be a valuable leaning resource for students of film studies, all over the world.

Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 838 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal written by Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes indexes to Numismatic supplements.

The Indian Law Reports

Author : India. High Court (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Indian Law Reports written by India. High Court (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Calcutta Law Reports of Cases Decided by the High Court, Calcutta, Also Judgments of H. M.'s Privy Council, 1877

Author : India. High Court (Kolkata, India)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calcutta Law Reports of Cases Decided by the High Court, Calcutta, Also Judgments of H. M.'s Privy Council, 1877 written by India. High Court (Kolkata, India) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

281 and Beyond

Author : V. V. S. Laxman
Publisher : Westland Publication Limited
ISBN 13 : 9789387894402
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (944 download)

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Download or read book 281 and Beyond written by V. V. S. Laxman and published by Westland Publication Limited. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stylish batsman who could score against any kind of bowling, VVS Laxman played over a hundred Tests to aggregate more than 8,000 runs. Cricket fans still remember with awe his game-changing knock of 281 against Australia in 2001 at Eden Gardens. But playing for India was never easy. He was dropped as often as he was picked, and despite his vast experience and unimpeachable skill, he never made it to a World Cup team. All through his playing years, Laxman was known to be a soft-spoken man who kept his distance from controversy. Which is what makes this autobiography truly special. It's candid and reflective, happy and sad by turns, and deeply insightful. He writes of dressing-room meltdowns and champagne evenings, the exhilaration of playing with and against the best in the world, the nuances of batting in different formats and on various pitches, the learnings with John Wright and the rocky times under Greg Chappell. In 281 and Beyond, Laxman lays bare the ecstasy and the trauma of being one of the chosen XI in a country that is devoted to cricket.

Beyond All Heavens

Author : Jayabrato Chatterjee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Beyond All Heavens written by Jayabrato Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The London Of 1895 At Oscar Wilde, Gilbert And Sulivan Operas, An Seductive West End Actresses. Nikilesh Mitra Is Only Nineteen When He Steps Into This Dazzling World Of Excitement And Glamour To Study Law. Away From The Initial Rumblings Of India S Freedom Movement, He Falls Madly In Love With Ruth Lavine, A Ravishing Stage Artiste. Their Affair Becomes The Grist For Many Victorian Gossip Mills. But, Reckless And Caught In The First Throes Of Passion, Little Does Nikhil Know That His Life Will Soon Change Dramatically. Half A Century Later, Maya, An English Journalist, Discovers A Spiritual Pamphlet On The Underground In London. Mesmerized, She Decides To Come To India A Land With Which She Shares A Tenuous Link. Violent Riots Blaze Across The Country As Maya Arrives In Bombay In 1947. A Series Of Events Unfold As Maya Confronts The Mysteries Of Her Past And Unravels A Family Secret That Has Haunted Her All Her Life.