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Download or read book Sister India written by Peggy Payne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The exotic and suspenseful New York Times Notable Book that tells the story of an eccentric guest-house keeper in Varanasi, India, and the passions evoked by her sacred city along the Ganges The Lonely Planet recommends the Saraswati Guest House, and meeting Madame Natraja, "a one-woman blend of East and West," as well worth a side trip. Over the course of a weekend, several guests turn up, shocked to encounter a three-hundred-some-pound, surly white woman in a sari. Then a series of Hindu-Muslim murders leads to a citywide curfew, and they unwittingly become her captives. So begins a period of days blending into nights as Natraja and her Indian cook become entangled in a web of religious violence, and their guests fall under the spell of this ancient kingdom--at once enthralled and repelled by the begging children, the public funeral pyres, the holy men bathing in the Ganges at dawn. This is a traveler's tale, a story about the strange chemistry that develops from unexpected intimacies on foreign ground. And Peggy Payne's extraordinary talent vividly conjures up the smells of the perfume market, the rhythms of holy men chanting at dawn, the claustrophobic feel of this ancient city's tiny lanes, and the magic of the setting sun over the holy Ganges. For anyone who has harbored a secret desire to go to India and be transformed, Sister India, called "mesmerizing" by Gail Harris and "a modern version of E. M. Forster's classic A Passage to India" by Dan Wakefield, takes you on this journey without ever leaving home.
Book Synopsis Indian Sisters by : Madelaine Healey
Download or read book Indian Sisters written by Madelaine Healey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health and medicine cannot be understood without considering the role of nurses, both as professionals and as working women. In India, unlike other countries, nurses have suffered an exceptional degree of neglect at the hands of state, a situation that has been detrimental to the quality of both rural and urban health care. Charting the history of the development of nursing in India over 100 years, Indian Sisters examines the reasons why nurses have so consistently been sidelined and excluded from health care governance and policymaking. The book challenges the routine suggestion that nursing’s poor status is mainly attributable to socio-cultural factors, such as caste, limitations on female mobility and social taboos. It argues instead that many of its problems are due to an under-achieved relationship between a patriarchal state on the one hand, and weak professional nursing organisations shaped by their colonial roots on the other. It also explores how the recent phenomenon of large-scale emigration of nurses to the West (leading to better pay, working conditions and career prospects) has transformed the profession, lifting its status dramatically. At the same time, it raises questions about the implications of emigration for the fate of health care system in India. An important contribution to the growing academic genre of nursing history, the book is essential reading for scholars and students of health care, the history of medicine, gender and women’s studies, sociology, and migration studies. It will also be useful to policymakers and health professionals.
Book Synopsis Brothers and Sisters in India by : G. N. Ramu
Download or read book Brothers and Sisters in India written by G. N. Ramu and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian society is rapidly becoming more urban, and while the level of urbanization and the values associated with it have yet to correspond with those of Western societies, the traditional ethos governing sibling relations is becoming increasingly less relevant. G.N. Ramu explores this phenomenon in Brothers and Sisters in India, the first detailed study of adult siblings in contemporary Indian society. Based on sixteen months of field work in the city of Mysore and over three decades of research in this area, Ramu's study focuses on the three types of sibling relationships (fraternal, sororal, and cross-sibling), and examines the frequency of interaction, the level of mutual assistance, and the incidence of conflict and strain between brothers and sisters.
Book Synopsis Sisters of Mokama by : Jyoti Thottam
Download or read book Sisters of Mokama written by Jyoti Thottam and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sisters of Mokama is proof that faith and courage does move mountains."—Abraham Verghese, author of Cutting for Stone The never-before-told story of six intrepid Kentucky nuns, their journey to build a hospital in the poorest state in India, and the Indian nurses whose lives would never be the same New York Times editor Jyoti Thottam’s mother was part of an extraordinary group of Indian women. Born in 1946, a time when few women dared to leave their house without the protection of a man, she left home by herself at just fifteen years old and traveled to Bihar—an impoverished and isolated state in northern India that had been one of the bloodiest regions of Partition—in order to train to be a nurse under the tutelage of the determined and resourceful Appalachian nuns who ran Nazareth Hospital. Like Thottam’s mother’s journey, the hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to everyone who walked through its doors, regardless of caste or religion. Fascinated by her mother’s story, Thottam set out to discover the full story of Nazareth Hospital, which had been established in 1947 by six nuns from Kentucky. With no knowledge of Hindi, and the awareness that they would likely never see their families again, the sisters had traveled to the small town of Mokama determined to live up to the pioneer spirit of their order, founded in the rough hills of the Kentucky frontier. A year later, they opened the doors of the hospital; soon they began taking in young Indian women as nursing students, offering them an opportunity that would change their lives. One of those women, of course, was Thottam’s mother. In Sisters of Mokama, Thottam draws upon twenty years’ worth of research to tell this inspiring story for the first time. She brings to life the hopes, struggles, and accomplishments of these ordinary women—both American and Indian—who succeeded against the odds during the tumult and trauma of the years after World War II and Partition. Pain and loss were everywhere for the women of that time, but the collapse of the old orders provided the women of Nazareth Hospital with an opening—a chance to create for themselves lives that would never have been possible otherwise.
Book Synopsis India-China Relations by : Jagannath P. Panda
Download or read book India-China Relations written by Jagannath P. Panda and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of India and China as two major economic and political actors in both regional and global politics necessitates an analysis of not only their bilateral ties but also the significance of their regional and global pursuits. This book looks at the nuances and politics that the two countries attach to multilateral institutions and examines how they receive, react to and approach each other’s presence and upsurge. The driving theme of this book is to highlight the enduring and emerging complexities in India-China relations, which are multi-layered and polygonal in nature, and both a result and reflection of a multipolar world order. The book argues that coexistence between India and China in this multipolar world order is possible, but that it is limited to a medium-term perspective, given the constraints of identity complexities and global aspirations these two rising powers are pursuing. It goes on to discuss how their search for energy resources, quest to uphold their own identity as developing powers, and engagement in balance-of-power politics to exert authority on each other’s presence, are some elements that guide their non-cooperative relationship. By explaining the foreign policy approaches of Asia’s two major powers towards the growing Asian and global multilateralism, and highlighting the policies they carry towards each other, the book is a useful contribution to students and scholars of Asian Politics, Foreign Policy and International Relations.
Book Synopsis The India List and India Office List for ... by : Great Britain. India Office
Download or read book The India List and India Office List for ... written by Great Britain. India Office and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The India List and India Office List by : Great Britain. India Office
Download or read book The India List and India Office List written by Great Britain. India Office and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Specters of Mother India by : Mrinalini Sinha
Download or read book Specters of Mother India written by Mrinalini Sinha and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-12 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country’s child wives. According to Mayo, the roots of the social problems she chronicled lay in an irredeemable Hindu culture that rendered India unfit for political self-government. Mother India was reprinted many times in the United States, Great Britain, and India; it was translated into more than a dozen languages; and it was reviewed in virtually every major publication on five continents. Sinha provides a rich historical narrative of the controversy surrounding Mother India, from the book’s publication through the passage in India of the Child Marriage Restraint Act in the closing months of 1929. She traces the unexpected trajectory of the controversy as critics acknowledged many of the book’s facts only to overturn its central premise. Where Mayo located blame for India’s social backwardness within the beliefs and practices of Hinduism, the critics laid it at the feet of the colonial state, which they charged with impeding necessary social reforms. As Sinha shows, the controversy became a catalyst for some far-reaching changes, including a reconfiguration of the relationship between the political and social spheres in colonial India and the coalescence of a collective identity for women.
Book Synopsis India’s Family in Transition by : J.P. Singh
Download or read book India’s Family in Transition written by J.P. Singh and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2022-12-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a summary of research papers published either in leadingprofessional journals from India and abroad or unpublished papers presentedin some international seminar or workshop during 1980–2010. But all thepapers have been thoroughly recast in view of the latest facts and figuresand presented in a thematically coherent manner. It is a fresh attempt tobridge the gap between demographic processes and family structure in theIndian context. This study has also tried to cover changes in marital practices.The study sets off a long-overdue dialogue between anthropology/sociologyand demography in the Indian context. The prime purpose of this book is to provide a comprehensive overviewof the state of family in contemporary India. This book will be found usefulby scholars, students and professionals who work with families and also bylaypeople interested in family matters of India.
Book Synopsis The All India Digest, Section Ii (civil), 1811-1911 by : T. V. Sanjiva Row
Download or read book The All India Digest, Section Ii (civil), 1811-1911 written by T. V. Sanjiva Row and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1076 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sukanya Ray Publisher :Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math) ISBN 13 :817505915X Total Pages :124 pages Book Rating :4.1/5 (75 download)
Book Synopsis Sister Nivedita : The Fighter Extraordinary for India by : Sukanya Ray
Download or read book Sister Nivedita : The Fighter Extraordinary for India written by Sukanya Ray and published by Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sister Nivedita arrived in India in January 1898, in response to the call of her Guru, Swami Vivekananda. After initiating her, Swamiji gave her the name Nivedita, “the dedicated”. Later he brought out the significance of that name in the following lines he penned for her as his blessings: The mother’s heart, the hero’s will, The sweetness of the southern breeze, The sacred charm and strength that dwell On Aryan altars, flaming, free; All these be yours and many more No ancient soul could dream before— Be thou to India’s future son The mistress, servant, friend in one! Since then, Nivedita embraced her adopted country as her very own. She selflessly gave her all to her beloved country and waged a relentless fight for India and the causes dear to India. Of the numerous instances of Nivedita’s Indian struggles in the fields of thought and activity such as religion, education, art, and politics, a few that show 'The Extraordinary Fighter' that Nivedita was are analysed by the authors in this book published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math.
Book Synopsis Daughters of the People Omnibus One by : Lucy Varna
Download or read book Daughters of the People Omnibus One written by Lucy Varna and published by Bone Diggers Press. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ancient curse, a lost prophecy, and the deadliest enemy a Daughter can face: Her own heart. In this three-book collection, three immortal descendants of the Seven Sisters battle to save their people from a curse laid down upon them nearly ten thousand years ago. Book 1: The Prophecy Maya Bellegarde journeys to Sweden on behalf of the People. There, she meets James Terhune, an attractive language expert. Together, they must uncover the secrets of the grave and protect them from an ancient enemy, and Maya must decide whether or not to trust James with her deepest secret. Book 2: Light's Bane When Daniella Nehring teams up with Dave Winstead to track down and recover stolen artifacts, her task is complicated by the attraction sparking between her and the stalwart undercover FBI agent, and by her own sinister heritage. Book 3: The Enemy Within Indigo Dupree and Bobby Upton are drawn into a deadly game involving the Prophecy of Light, forcing Indigo to choose between her duty and her heart. Three women, three challenges, three loves, at a time when the People stand at the crossroads between two paths, one leading to their salvation, the other to their utter destruction.
Download or read book Woman's Missionary Friend written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle by : Clara A. B. Joseph
Download or read book India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle written by Clara A. B. Joseph and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-29 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s Nonviolent Freedom Struggle focuses on the Thomas Christians, a group of Christians in South India who waged a nonviolent struggle against European colonization during the politically volatile period of 1599-1799. This book has three related objectives and unique characteristics. First, it offers a comprehensive study of primary sources that scholars have referenced but rarely studied in-depth. Second, it argues that the Thomas Christian narratives provide a unique position to challenge prevalent estimations found in canonical and postcolonial critical discourse on the nation. Third, it considers how an account of a nonviolent struggle by Thomas Christians further complicates received ideas of the postcolonial nation. It sheds light on the often-overlooked contributions of the Thomas Christians in India’s nonviolent freedom struggle and challenges readers to reimagine the complex and often contentious relationship between colonizers and colonized. A groundbreaking book that offers a fresh perspective on the Indian freedom struggle and the study of Indian history, this book is an essential read for scholars of colonialism, anticolonial movements, and the history of India.
Book Synopsis The Role of Sisters in Women's Development by : Sue A. Kuba
Download or read book The Role of Sisters in Women's Development written by Sue A. Kuba and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychological theory has traditionally overlooked or minimized the role of siblings in development, focusing instead on parent-child attachment relationships. The importance of sisters has been even more marginalized. Sue A. Kuba explores this omission in The Role of Sisters in Women's Development, seeking to broaden and enrich current understanding of the psychology of women. This unique work is distinguished by Kuba's phenomenological method of research, rooted in a single prompt: "Tell me about your relationship with your sister." Rich in detail, the responses (many of which are reproduced at length within the book) provide a complex picture of sister relationships across the lifespan. Integrating these stories with current literature about gender and family composition for sisters of difference (disabled and lesbian sisters) and ethnic sisters, this book provides useful recommendations for therapeutic understanding of the significance of sisters in everyday life, integrating diverse perspectives in order to address the ways clinicians can enhance psychological work with women clients. A valuable contribution to the field of mental health, The Role of Sisters in Women's Development is highly recommended for therapists who wish to broaden their inquiry into the sister connection, as well as anyone who wants to further understand the importance of sisterhood.
Book Synopsis Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions by : Nandini Hebbar N.
Download or read book Gender, Caste, and Class in South India's Technical Institutions written by Nandini Hebbar N. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a wide arc encompassing the institutional big men, who run technical institutes and colleges, and the micro-politics of friendships and relationships, this book is a deep dive into the world of Indian engineering colleges. It juxtaposes the stark realities and lived experiences of students against the global sensibilities and standards to which such institutes lay claim. From the 1980s to the early 2000s, Tamil Nadu witnessed a record rise in the number of private engineering colleges. However, despite the manifold increase in the number of institutions and consequently, first-generation learners, hierarchies and inequalities continue to be reproduced in these almost temple-like institutions. Groups lacking the explicit markers of cultural and social capital struggle to find employment. By presenting perspectives on engineering students desires, anxieties, and processes of self-construction, the monograph examines how gender differences are reinforced through language, rules, regulations, surveillance, and control. In shifting the theoretical emphasis from subjects to subjectivities, Hebbar draws on the youths narratives of upward social mobility, crafting respectability, and notions of adulthood, holding a mirror to the fraught social scape of Indias private education sector.
Download or read book The Indian Law Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
