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Burning Bright

Author : Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Publisher : Penguin Enterprise
ISBN 13 : 9780143424659
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Burning Bright written by Deepti Priya Mehrotra and published by Penguin Enterprise. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of the 'Iron Lady of Manipur' who fasted for 16 years against AFSPA Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces in Malom, a village near Imphal, in November 2000. The perpetrators were not punished, protected under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which empowers military and para-military personnel to arrest, shoot, even kill, anyone on the grounds of mere suspicion. In response to this tragedy--one among many such atrocities--Irom Sharmila, a young Manipuri, began an indefinite hunger strike. The government arrested her and force-fed her through nasal tubes. She was released and re-arrested innumerable times, but she stood by her demand. In July 2016, Irom brought her sixteen years of hunger strike to an end, and decided to contest the elections. Burning Bright is a hard-hitting account of a people caught between the crossfire of militants and security forces; of a once-sovereign kingdom whose culture has been brutally violated; of the many voices of dissent-from underground groups to the Meira Paibis, a women's movement opposed to all forms of violence whether by the state or insurgents and a moving portrait of 'the Iron Lady of Manipur'.

Burning Bright Irom Sharmila

Author : Deepti Priya Mehrotra
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184751532
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Burning Bright Irom Sharmila written by Deepti Priya Mehrotra and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irom Sharmila has been on a fast unto death for eight years, demanding a repeal of the draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act in Manipur. Ten innocent people were mowed down by security forces in Malom, a village near Imphal, in November 2000. The perpetrators were not punished, protected under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act which empowers military and para-military personnel to arrest, shoot, even kill, anyone on the grounds of mere suspicion. In response to this tragedy—one among many such atrocities—Irom Sharmila, a young Manipuri, began an indefinite hunger strike. The government arrested her and force-fed her through nasal tubes. She has been released and re-arrested innumerable times since then, but has stood by her demand, steadfastly refusing to eat until the Act is repealed. Burning Bright is a hard-hitting account of a people caught between the crossfire of militants and security forces; of a once- sovereign kingdom whose culture has been brutally violated; of the many voices of dissent— from underground groups to the Meira Paibis, a women’s movement opposed to all forms of violence whether by the state or insurgents and a moving portrait of ‘the Iron Lady of Manipur’.

Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence

Author : Vasilikie Demos
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783508949
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Gendered Perspectives on Conflict and Violence written by Vasilikie Demos and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers understandings of the relationship between violence and gender from the global to the domestic level. Authors trace the history of feminist antiviolence efforts, theorize the reproduction of symbolic gender violence, and show how violence might be re-conceptualized in comparative and intersectional perspectives.

Discrimination, Challenge and Response

Author : Venkat Pulla
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303046251X
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Discrimination, Challenge and Response written by Venkat Pulla and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-09-14 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores discrimination against Northeast Indians, who have been frequently stereotyped as backwards, anti-national, anti-assimilationist, immoral, and relegated to low paying positions across retail, hospitality, telecommunications and wellness industries. The contributions draw on interviews with individuals who have migrated to other Indian cities and towns to find jobs and escape from native poverty, and provide a critical examination of the intersections between power, privilege and racial hierarchy in India today. The chapters cover a variety of perspectives including social movements and activism, history, policy, youth studies and gender studies. With a focus on marginalised communities, and the effects and persistence of racial inequality in a South Asian context, this collection will be an important contribution to critical race studies, public policy, human rights discourse, and social work.

Insurgency in India's Northeast

Author : Jugdep Chima
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000952002
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Insurgency in India's Northeast written by Jugdep Chima and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insurgency in India’s Northeast provides a systematic analysis of every major secessionist group and insurgency in the region within a unified and original explanatory framework, focusing primarily on the postcolonial period. This book presents a parsimonious analytic narrative involving a rich sequential account of the historical evolution of Mizo, Naga, Meitei, and "ethnic Assamese" identities from precolonial to colonial to postcolonial times. Avoiding essentialist or primordialist arguments, the chapters in the book demonstrate how ethnic/(sub)national identities are dynamic and malleable phenomenon, not immutable natural givens. In particular, it argues that the postcolonial Indian state has attempted to integrate these ethnic/sub-state national groups into the Indian Union through a combination of democratic accommodation/consociationalism and hegemonic/violent control, strategically designed to encapsulate their evolving (sub) national identities into the overarching state-sponsored Indian nationality. Through this book, readers will gain a rich understanding of the dynamics of ethnicity/ nationality and the nation/state-building process in postcolonial India. It will be of interest to researchers in the fields of Asian studies, ethnicity, nationalism, separatism, security studies, border studies, and international relations.

Great Game East

Author : Bertil Lintner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300195672
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Great Game East written by Bertil Lintner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1950s, China and India have been locked in a monumental battle for geopolitical supremacy. Chinese interest in the ethnic insurgencies in northeastern India, the still unresolved issue of the McMahon Line, the border established by the British imperial government, and competition for strategic access to the Indian Ocean have given rise to tense gamesmanship, political intrigue, and rivalry between the two Asian giants. FormerFar Eastern Economic Review correspondent Bertil Lintner has drawn from his extensive personal interviews with insurgency leaders and civilians in remote tribal areas in northeastern India, newly declassified intelligence reports, and his many years of firsthand experience in Asia to chronicle this ongoing struggle. His history of the “Great Game East” is the first significant account of a regional conflict which has led to open warfare on several occasions, most notably the Sino-India border war of 1962, and will have a major impact on global affairs in the decades ahead.

Food Culture Studies in India

Author : Simi Malhotra
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811552541
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (115 download)

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Download or read book Food Culture Studies in India written by Simi Malhotra and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses food in the context of the cultural matrix of India. Addressing topical issues in food and food culture, it explores questions concerning the consumption, representation and mediation of food. The book is divided into four sections, focusing on food fads; food representation; the symbolic valence of food; modes and manners of resistance articulated through food. Investigating consumption practices in both public and ethnic culture, each chapter introduces a fresh approach to food across diverse literary and cultural genres. The book offers a highly readable guide for researchers and practitioners in the field of literary and cultural studies, as well as the sociological fields of food studies, body studies and fat studies.

Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif

Author : Jean Michaud
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442272791
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif written by Jean Michaud and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dwelling in the highland areas of Northeast India, Bangladesh, Southwest China, Taiwan, Burma (Myanmar), Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Peninsular Malaysia are hundreds of “peoples”. Together their population adds up to 100 million, more than most of the countries they live in. Yet in each of these countries, they are regarded as minorities. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on about 300 groups, the ten countries they live in, their historical figures, and their salient political, economic, social, cultural and religious aspects. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more.

Who is a Terrorist?

Author : Soyam Lokendrajit
Publisher : Waba Publications
ISBN 13 : 8192668703
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Who is a Terrorist? written by Soyam Lokendrajit and published by Waba Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contents of this book include: 'On Who a Terrorist Is'; 'Terrorism and Death of the Revolution'; 'Russell on the State and Right to Self-Determination'; 'The Dialectics of Transcendence'; and much more.

Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Conflict Across Asia

Author : Kunal Mukherjee
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000371573
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Race, Ethnicity and Religion in Conflict Across Asia written by Kunal Mukherjee and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at conflict zones in the Asia Pacific with a special focus on secessionist groups/movements in the Indian Northeast, Tibet, Chinese Xinjiang, the Burmese borderlands, Kashmir in South Asia, CHT in Bangladesh, South Thailand, and Aceh in Indonesia. These conflict zones are predominantly ethnic minority provinces, which by and large do not share a sense of one-ness with the country that they are currently a part of; most of these insurgencies have had strong linkages with separatist nationalist groups in the region. Methodologically, the author uses extensive fieldwork, interview data, and participant observation from these conflict zones to take a bottom-up approach, giving importance to the voices of ordinary people and/or the residents of these conflict zones whose voices have generally been ignored. Although the book looks at both the historical background and contemporary dimensions of these conflicts, the author focuses on exploring how the role of race, ethnicity and religion in these conflicts can be both direct and indirect. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conflict and security in contemporary Asia with a background in politics, history, IR, security studies, religion, and sociology.

In Search of Return

Author : Shifa Haq
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498582494
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Return written by Shifa Haq and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1989, more than 8,000 men disappeared in Kashmir. These disappearances were publicly denied, leaving mourners to grapple with unrecognized grief. Drawn from ten years of psycho-historical research in Kashmir, Shifa Haq reflects on the bereaved families’ intricate experiences of mourning. Haq expands the psychoanalytic understanding of loss and argues for a mourning that includes porous affective links with the political.

Northeast India

Author : Yasmin Saikia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108225780
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Northeast India written by Yasmin Saikia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast India: A Place of Relations focuses on encounters and experiences between people and cultures, the human and the non-human world, allowing for building of new relationships of friendship and amity in the region. The twelve essays in this volume explore the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of the lived and the loved world of Northeast India from within. The volume employs a variety of perspectives and methodological approaches - literary, historical, anthropological, interpretative politics, and an analytical study of contemporary issues, engaging the people, cultures, and histories in the Northeast with a new outlook. In the study, the region emerges as a place of new happenings in which there is the possibility of continuous expansion of the horizon of history and issues of current relevance facilitating new voices and narratives that circulate and create bonding in the borderland of South, East, and Southeast Asia.

The Eastern Gate

Author : Sudeep Chakravarti
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 9392099266
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Eastern Gate written by Sudeep Chakravarti and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-01-06 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traders, Pushers, Soldiers, Spies. A pivot for India’s Act-East policy. The gateway to a future of immense possibilities from hydrocarbons to regional trade over land and water that could create a new Silk Route. A bulwark against China. A cradle of climate change dynamics and migration. ‘Northeast’ India, the appellation with which India’s far-east is known, is all this and more. Alongside hope and aspiration, it is also home to immense ethnic and communal tension, and a decades-old Naga conflict and the high-profile peace process that involves four gateway states—Nagaland, Manipur, Arunachal Pradesh and Assam—and several million people. It’s among the most militarized zones in the world. It’s a playground of corruption and engineered violence. Only real peace, and calm in both Myanmar and Bangladesh, will unlock this Eastern gate. A keen observer and frequent chronicler of the region, Sudeep Chakravarti has for several years offered exclusive insights into the Machiavellian—Chanakyan—world of the Naga and other conflicts and various attempts to resolve these. He now melds the skills of a journalist, analyst, historian and ethnographer to offer inside stories and a ringside view to the tortuous, no-holds-barred attempts at resolving conflict. Employing a ‘dispatches’ style of storytelling, and interviews with rebel leaders, politicians, bureaucrats, policymakers, security specialists and operatives, gunrunners, ‘narcos’, peace negotiators and community leaders, Chakravarti’s narrative provides a definitive guide to the transition from war to peace, even as he keeps a firm gaze on the future. The Eastern Gate is a tour de force that captures this story of our times.

Subaltern Vision

Author : Aparajita De
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 144383694X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Subaltern Vision written by Aparajita De and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Ever since the Gramscian notion of the subaltern became the lynch-pin of the counter-hegemonic project developed by the Subaltern Studies group in the early 1980s, attempts to give voice to India's unrepresented or under-represented classes have played a

Violent Modernities

Author : Oishik Sircar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019099214X
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Violent Modernities written by Oishik Sircar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is believed that law and violence generally share an antithetical relationship in liberal democracies. Lawlessness is understood to produce violence, and law is invoked and deployed as a means to resist and undo that. Violent Modernities attempts to establish that this relationship is not one of animosity, but of a deep, counterintuitive intimacy and is at the base of what makes India a modern nation-state. Delving into the patterns of law and violence through the cultural imaginaries of justice, marked by the combined rise of neoliberalism and Hindutva—the book argues that legal imagination in India does not only emanate from courtrooms, legislations and judgments, but is also lived in the practices of ordinary disobediences and everyday failures. The author suggests that it is only when law can be re-imagined as such, that the violence at the foundations of state law can be unsettled.

Women’s and Gender Studies in India

Author : Anu Aneja
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429655789
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Women’s and Gender Studies in India written by Anu Aneja and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book frames the major debates and contemporary issues in women’s and gender studies in India. It locates them in the context of key theories, their interlinkages, and significant crossings and overlaps within the field while juxtaposing feminist and queer perspectives. The essays in the volume foreground emerging challenges as well as offer clues to future trajectories for women’s and gender studies in the country through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary survey of intersectionalities in feminist activism and theory; gender, caste and class; feminist, masculinity, queer and transgender studies; disability and feminism; feminist and queer pedagogies; and Indian, Western and transnational feminisms. The volume traces how gender studies have shaped established social science as well as interpretative and representational discourses (psychoanalysis, literature, aesthetics, cinema, new media studies and folklore). It examines their strategic potential to draw upon and transform these areas in national and international contexts. This book will be useful to students, teachers and researchers in women’s studies, gender studies, cultural studies, queer studies and South Asian studies.

Starving for Justice

Author : Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653621X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Starving for Justice written by Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1990s three college campuses in California exploded as Chicano/a and Latino/a students went on hunger strikes. Through courageous self-sacrifice, these students risked their lives to challenge racial neoliberalism, budget cuts, and fee increases. The strikers acted and spoke spectacularly and, despite great odds, produced substantive change. Social movement scholars have raised the question of why some people risk their lives to create a better world. In Starving for Justice, Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval uses interviews and archival material to examine people’s willingness to make the extreme sacrifice and give their lives in order to create a more just society. Popular memory and scholarly discourse around social movements have long acknowledged the actions of student groups during the 1960s. Now Armbruster-Sandoval extends our understanding of social justice and activism, providing one of the first examinations of Chicana/o and Latina/o student activism in the 1990s. Students at University of California, Los Angeles; University of California, Santa Barbara; and Stanford University went on hunger strikes to demand the establishment and expansion of Chicana/o studies departments. They also had even broader aspirations—to obtain dignity and justice for all people. These students spoke eloquently, making their bodies and concerns visible. They challenged anti-immigrant politics. They scrutinized the rapid growth of the prison-industrial complex, racial and class polarization, and the university’s neoliberalization. Though they did not fully succeed in having all their demands met, they helped generate long-lasting social change on their respective campuses, making those learning institutions more just.