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Discovering Brides

Author : Anoop Chandola
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 9780595099009
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Brides written by Anoop Chandola and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indian-American anthropologist, whose own dramatic marriage was arranged in his non-vegetarian polygamous priestly family background, struggles to find a vegetarian and sexy bride for his U.S.-born lawyer son. The long journeys from America to India move the bride search, through social-cultural ups and downs, with girls after girls, and their spicy episodes, stirring up the anthropologist抯 own bittersweet memoirs. A wife begs a man to spare her abusive husband抯 life; a bride at the altar refuses to marry due to greed; a woman drinks cow urine because a low-caste man saved her; a man urinates over a wild tiger; a girl disappears minutes before the parents want to introduce her to the visiting bride searchers; a bridegroom is beaten by his relatives hours before the marriage; policeman on orders to stop marchers beat, rape and shoot women; and deeper discoveries. Some are highly controversial as they involve big political, historical and international names and events. Then the search takes an abrupt turn. Overall, this provocatively entertaining novel offers intercultural education by interweaving religion and mythology, folklore and literature, historical accounts and personal philosophy of fair human contact. Anoop Chandola, born in India, presently a professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. His last two degrees are from the University of California (Berkeley) and of Chicago. He is the author of several scholarly books and articles.

100 Jewish Brides

Author : Barbara Vinick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253068371
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book 100 Jewish Brides written by Barbara Vinick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-06 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 100 Jewish Brides: Stories from Around the World features stories of Jewish brides from six continents, highlighting diverse customs and rituals related to weddings now and in the past. The stories, written by brides, their relatives, clergy, and other intimates, cover similarities and differences across the Jewish diaspora, from courtship and betrothal to pre-wedding customs, the wedding ceremony, and beyond. With stories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, this collection of intimate personal testimonies will surprise and inspire. A Jewish wedding after conversion in Madagascar, a reunion of Holocaust survivors in Sweden, a shipboard romance initiated by a celebrity, these stories from 83 countries describe Jewish wedding traditions, some familiar and others eye-opening, in a multitude of cultures and settings, past and present. 100 Jewish Brides offers intimate glimpses into the worlds of brides and their families based on their own written accounts. It represents opportunities to learn how Jewish lives were and are currently lived around the world from memories of the distant past to recent times.

Bombay Brides

Author : Esther David
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9352779460
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (527 download)

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Download or read book Bombay Brides written by Esther David and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Juliet and Romiel get married and relocate to Israel, they rent out their Apartment 107 in Ahmedabad's Shalom India Housing Society to Jews. Each character who inhabits the house has a story to tell: about run-ins with the other residents, the diminishing community of Jews, cross-cultural conflicts, and the difficulty of choosing between India and Israel. Prophet Elijah, whom the Bene Israel Jews of western India believe in, plays an important role in their lives, appearing at critical or amusing moments and wreaking havoc with his mischief, but ensuring that ultimately peace prevails. Bombay Brides - as most Jewish men of Ahmedabad are married to women from Mumbai - is drawn from Jewish homes in Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Kochi, Kolkata and Alibaug. This is a story about home, heritage, rites, rituals, roots and what it means to be one of the last survivng members of a community in a vast multi-cultural country like India.

The Age of Shiva

Author : Manil Suri
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408806789
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Shiva written by Manil Suri and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India, 1955. As the scars of Partition are beginning to heal, seventeen-year-old Meera sits enraptured: in the spotlight is Dev, singing a song so infused with passion that it arouses in her the first flush of erotic longing. But when Meera's reverie comes true, it does not lead to the fairy-tale marriage she imagined. Meera has no choice but to obey her in-laws, tolerate Dev's drunken night-time fumblings, even observe the most arduous of Hindu fasts for his longevity. A move to Bombay seems at first like a fresh start, but soon that dream turns to ashes. It is only when their son is born that things change and Meera is ready to unleash the passion she has suppressed for so long.

Catholics in Bombay

Author : Sebastian Irudaya Rajan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catholics in Bombay written by Sebastian Irudaya Rajan and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Foreword (by Cardinal Simon Ignatius Pimenta): "An exercise in historical demography, Dr. Rajan's research studies the trends and patterns of three demographic characteristics -- birth, marriage, death -- of the Roman Catholic population in the Archdiocese of Bombay over the past hundred years. . . . This study is confined to the Catholic population in only four parishes -- Kurla, Chembur, Mankhurd, Marouli -- situated in the eastern suburbs of Greater Bombay. . . . [T]he four parish populations of Dr. Rajan's study are 'typical' of the parish populations in the rest of Greater Bombay and its suburbs." Extensive data (in both text and tables) on: births; marriages; deaths; Christian population in India (by age and sex, urban vs. rural, etc); gender ratios and distribution; baptism; mortality rates; intersections of age or gender with birth, baptism, marriage, death, etc; seasonal fluctuations in demographic data; etc etc.

Riot

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Skyhorse
ISBN 13 : 1628722509
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Riot written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Skyhorse. This book was released on 2011-12-03 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who killed twenty-four-year-old Priscilla Hart? This highly motivated, idealistic American student had come to India to volunteer in women’s health programs, but had her work made a killer out of an enraged husband? Or was her death the result of a xenophobic attack? Had an indiscriminate love affair spun out of control? Had a disgruntled, deeply jealous colleague been pushed to the edge? Or was she simply the innocent victim of a riot that had exploded in that fateful year of 1989 between Hindus and Muslims? Experimenting masterfully with narrative form in this brilliant tour de force, internationally acclaimed novelist Shashi Tharoor chronicles the mystery of Priscilla Hart’s death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. Like his two previous novels, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India, and is at once about love, hate, cultural collision, the ownership of history, religious fanaticism, and the impossibility of knowing the truth.

A Life to Remember

Author : Balawant Shankar Joshi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503549283
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book A Life to Remember written by Balawant Shankar Joshi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-04-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Life to Remember This amazingly detailed memoir spans three continents and nearly a century of the life of Balawant Joshi. In it he recalls a journey beginning in a small village in southern India and ending in the southern United States. The son of a poor but brilliant school teacher and linguist, Joshi relates his beginnings at school, moving through hard-fought successes to the completion of the highest levels of education at Cambridge. Throughout the journey and for all his life, a philosophy of peace, regard for his fellow man, and an attitude of determination regardless of the pitfalls of life shine through his modest writing. Joshi expands on his long career in experimenting with plants and Natural Products for synthesis and use in pharmaceuticals in India, Switzerland, and the United States. He writes of family, weddings, and celebrations in India, and travels to many countries. He recalls a small but dangerous role he played in the fight for independence of India from Great Britain. Retired many years ago and living in Georgia, he loses his beloved wife, finds productive activity in a Natural Products, learns painting, and finds new friends and companionship throughout his senior years. Joshi is a great example for all of a life well lived and a love for humanity and a mind still keen and full of stories at the age of ninety.

Christ and Families

Author : J. N. Manokaran
Publisher : Centre for Contemporary Christianity
ISBN 13 : 9380548559
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Christ and Families written by J. N. Manokaran and published by Centre for Contemporary Christianity. This book was released on 2011-12-30 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family is challenged today in multivarious ways. Manokaran addresses the various issues faced by families from a scriptural and Christian perspective. In simple style but in practical wisdom he compiles the content of this book which I am glad to commend to all Christian families to edify them.

No Birds of Passage

Author : Michael O’Sullivan
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674271904
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book No Birds of Passage written by Michael O’Sullivan and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons. Often stereotyped as “Westernized” and as Hindus in all but name, these groups are better seen as having developed a distinctive Muslim capitalism, in which religious and commercial prerogatives are inseparable.

Brides are Not for Burning

Author : Ranjana Kumari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Brides are Not for Burning written by Ranjana Kumari and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study conducted in Delhi during 1986.

The Jews of India

Author : Orpa Slapak
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9789652781796
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (817 download)

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Download or read book The Jews of India written by Orpa Slapak and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jews of India, one of the lesser-known and perhaps most interesting of the Diaspora, comprise the three geographically and ethnographically distinct communities examined in The Israel Museum's unique and authoritative volume The Jews of India. The Bene Israel, the largest group at approximately 24,000 members, inhabited the Maharashtra State on India's western coast; its ties with mainstream Judaism were reestablished in the nineteenth century. The smallest and oldest of the Indian Jewish communities, the Jews of Cochin have been a presence on the Malabar Coast of southwestern India for at least a thousand years. They numbered about 2,500 in the mid-1950's, just prior to their immigration to Israel. The Baghdadi Jews migrated from Iraq and Syria to large commercial cities in western and eastern India in the late eighteenth century. Numbering about 5,000 at the population's peak, Baghdadi Jews were largely assimilated into British colonial society, did not develop a distinct material culture in India, and so are a relatively minor presence in this book. Esteemed editor Orpa Slapak spearheaded studies of all three Indian Jewish communities in Israel and in India, and has assembled a vivid and powerful portrait of these peoples. The text is profusely illustrated with striking color and black and white photographs of Indian Jews at home, work, prayer, and leisure, as well as a multitude of remarkable Indian Jewish artifacts, including illuminated manuscripts, lamps, clothing, jewelry, and household implements. Several maps, useful glossaries, and a selected bibliography complete the volume.

Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library)

Author : Army Medical Library (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1362 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States Army (Army Medical Library) written by Army Medical Library (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 1362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics

Author : James Hastings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1838 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English

Author : Manju Jaidka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000933229
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English written by Manju Jaidka and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, Indian writing in English is a fi eld of study that cannot be overlooked. Whereas at the turn of the 20th century, writers from India who chose to write in English were either unheeded or underrated, with time the literary world has been forced to recognize and accept their contribution to the corpus of world literatures in English. Showcasing the burgeoning field of Indian English writing, this encyclopedia documents the poets, novelists, essayists, and dramatists of Indian origin since the pre-independence era and their dedicated works. Written by internationally recognized scholars, this comprehensive reference book explores the history and development of Indian writers, their major contributions, and the critical reception accorded to them. The Routledge Encyclopedia of Indian Writing in English will be a valuable resource to students, teachers, and academics navigating the vast area of contemporary world literature.

Royal Commission and Government of India Silk Culture Court

Author : Sir Thomas Wardle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Royal Commission and Government of India Silk Culture Court written by Sir Thomas Wardle and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, Empire of India--special Catalogue of Exhibits by the Government of India and Private Exhibitors

Author : Sir Thomas Wardle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886, Empire of India--special Catalogue of Exhibits by the Government of India and Private Exhibitors written by Sir Thomas Wardle and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Child Rights Education for Inclusion and Protection

Author : Murli Desai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9811304173
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Child Rights Education for Inclusion and Protection written by Murli Desai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-27 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aims of child rights education are to make children and their primary duty-bearers aware of child rights so that they both can be empowered to together advocate for and apply them at their family, school and community levels. This sourcebook focuses on child rights education for primary prevention related to inclusion and protection. Child rights education for exclusion, non-discrimination and inclusion is discussed in the context of family and society with reference to girls, children with disability, and Dalit and tribal children, and child rights to cultural and financial inclusion. Child rights education for protection comprises prevention of violence against children with reference to physical abuse/ corporal punishment and bullying, commercial exploitation of children with reference to child labour and trafficking and sale of children, sexual abuse and exploitation of children, problems in adolescent sexual relationships such as violence, teenage pregnancy, abortion and unwed motherhood, and sexually transmitted infections and HIV, child marriage, and conflict with law. This is a necessary read for social workers, lawyers, researchers, trainers and teachers working on child rights across the world, and especially in developing countries.