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The Untold Charminar

Author : Syeda Imam
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184759711
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book The Untold Charminar written by Syeda Imam and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-05-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling collection that captures the essence of Hyderabad, offering glimpses of the various strands that go into its making, fact and legend, old-world quaintness and the highest hi-tech, eccentricity and intrigue, the calm of genteelness and the fury of rebellion. Hyderabad is a city once ruled by the worlds richest man who invested most lavishly in his state, most shabbily in his wardrobe; it holds stories of a courtesan who fought wars, counselled prime ministers, sang her own verse and enthralled luminaries who mattered; of a chief minister who transformed it into a hi-tech hub; and of a sports star who brought the young glamour of India to every tennis court in the world. Home as much to the Golconda as to Jacob, the 187-carat diamond used as a paperweight by the Nizam, and to rock landscapes two and a half million years old, Hyderabad is a city that forever mixes cultures, cuisines, religions and languages. Here, Persian turned alloy with Telugu, Marathi and Arabic to yield a special version of Urdu, Dakhini. And here, as Andhra mingled with Telangana, a smiling mildness has survived, disarming at every turn, just as grace under pressure, regardless of gender, is unfailing. In The Untold Charminar readers will discover a city they will want to explore, as Sarojini Naidu, Sir Mark Tully and William Dalrymple rub shoulders with Ian Austin, Meenakshi Mukherjee and Anees Jung, regaling you with their feast of hard facts and hearsay; as each foreign visitor shares his story through Narendra Luther; as the film-makers Shyam Benegal and Nagesh Kukunoor paint their vivid memories of home; as poets, not just the maverick Makhdoom and Gaddar, raise their voices in song; as statesmen, academics and aficionados hold forth on the completely different Hyderabad each experienced. And when Tejaswini Niranjana profiles the vigilante Vijayasanthi and Dharmender Prasad picks out place names and explains their sometimes almost mystic origins, as Bachi Karkaria, Omkar Goswami and Harsha Bhogle share their typically offbeat views of a favourite city, readers will be persuaded to believe they have encountered not a city but the inner workings of a very complex character.

Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad

Author : Kousar J Azam
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351393995
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Languages and Literary Cultures in Hyderabad written by Kousar J Azam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is great interest in recent scholarship in the study of metropolitan cultures in India as evident from the number of books that have appeared on cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata. Though Hyderabad has a rich archive of history scattered in many languages, very few attempts have been made to bring this scholarship together. The papers in this volume bring together this scholarship at one place. They trace the contribution of different languages and literary cultures to the multicultural mosaic that is the city of Hyderabad How it has acquired this uniqueness and how it has been sustained is the subject matter of literary cultures in Hyderabad. This work attempts to trace some aspects of the history of major languages practiced in the city. It also reviews the contribution of the various linguistic groups that have added to the development not just of varied literary cultures, but also to the evolution of an inclusive Hyderabadi culture. The present volume, it is hoped, will enthuse both younger and senior scholars and students to take a fresh look at the study of languages and literary cultures as they have evolved in India's cities and add to the growing scholarship of metropolitan cultures in India.

Outlook Traveller

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlook Traveller written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities

Author : Taher, Mohamed
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1799883655
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities written by Taher, Mohamed and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2021-11-12 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In achieving civic engagement and social justice in smart cities, literacy programs are offered in the society by three essential information service providers: libraries, archives, and museums. Although the library and museum services are documented in literature, there is little evidence of community-led library or museum services that make a full circle in understanding community-library, community-archive, and community-museum relationships. The Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities examines the application of tools and techniques in library and museum literacy in achieving civic engagement and social justice. It also introduces a new outlook in the services of libraries and museums. Covering topics such as countering fake news, human rights literacies, and outreach activities, this book is essential for community-based organizations, librarians, museum administrations, education leaders, information professionals, smart city design planners, digital tool developers, policymakers engaged in diversity, researchers, and academicians.

Sultana’s Sisters

Author : Haris Qadeer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000458016
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Sultana’s Sisters written by Haris Qadeer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-09-27 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the genealogy of ‘women’s fiction’ in South Asia and looks at the interesting and fascinating world of fiction by Muslim women. It explores how Muslim women have contributed to the growth and development of genre fiction in South Asia and brings into focus diverse genres, including speculative, horror, campus fiction, romance, graphic, dystopian amongst others, from the early 20th century to the present. The book debunks myths about stereotypical representations of South Asian Muslim women and critically explores how they have located their sensibilities, body, religious/secular identities, emotions, and history, and have created a space of their own. It discusses works by authors such as Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Hijab Imtiaz Ali, Mrs. Abdul Qadir, Muhammadi Begum, Abbasi Begum, Khadija Mastur, Qurratulain Hyder, Wajida Tabbasum, Attia Hosain, Mumtaz Shah Nawaz, Selina Hossain, Shaheen Akhtar, Bilquis Sheikh, Gulshan Esther, Maha Khan Phillips, Zahida Zaidi, Bina Shah, Andaleeb Wajid, and Ayesha Tariq. A volume full of remarkable discoveries for the field of genre fiction, both in South Asia and for the wider world, this book, in the Studies in Global Genre Fiction series, will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literary studies, South Asian literature, cultural studies, history, Islamic feminism, religious studies, gender and sexuality, sociology, translation studies, and comparative literatures.

Outlook Traveller

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outlook Traveller written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commissions of Inquiry on Communal Disturbances: A Study, Volume 4

Author : Shailendra Kumar Agnihotri
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 : 8188772151
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Commissions of Inquiry on Communal Disturbances: A Study, Volume 4 written by Shailendra Kumar Agnihotri and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of forty one reports of commissions of inquiry right from 1960, set up after communal violence in different states in India.

The Language of Secular Islam

Author : Kavita Datla
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824837916
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book The Language of Secular Islam written by Kavita Datla and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the turbulent period prior to colonial India’s partition and independence, Muslim intellectuals in Hyderabad sought to secularize and reformulate their linguistic, historical, religious, and literary traditions for the sake of a newly conceived national public. Responding to the model of secular education introduced to South Asia by the British, Indian academics launched a spirited debate about the reform of Islamic education, the importance of education in the spoken languages of the country, the shape of Urdu and its past, and the significance of the histories of Islam and India for their present. The Language of Secular Islam pursues an alternative account of the political disagreements between Hindus and Muslims in South Asia, conflicts too often described as the product of primordial and unchanging attachments to religion. The author suggests that the political struggles of India in the 1930s, the very decade in which the demand for Pakistan began to be articulated, should not be understood as the product of an inadequate or incomplete secularism, but as the clashing of competing secular agendas. Her work explores negotiations over language, education, and religion at Osmania University, the first university in India to use a modern Indian language (Urdu) as its medium of instruction, and sheds light on questions of colonial displacement and national belonging. Grounded in close attention to historical evidence, The Language of Secular Islam has broad ramifications for some of the most difficult issues currently debated in the humanities and social sciences: the significance and legacies of European colonialism, the inclusions and exclusions enacted by nationalist projects, the place of minorities in the forging of nationalism, and the relationship between religion and modern politics. It will be of interest to historians of colonial India, scholars of Islam, and anyone who follows the politics of Urdu.

Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts

Author : Hoshang Merchant
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000083969
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts written by Hoshang Merchant and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that there is no monolithic homosexuality; there are only homosexualities, that is, there are as many reasons for being gay as there are gays. Some people are born gay, some have gayness thrust upon them, and some do, indeed, achieve to great gayness. Representation of homosexuality/homoeroticism, as it is understood today, is thus a western import. The act and public/social discourses on same-sex love are still illegal; it is, according to many, against the Indian ‘tradition’; and a sense of ‘history’ is seriously problematic when we dig out for a past tradition of homoerotic love and desire. Hoshang Merchant, through an examination of texts, films, poetry, attempts to analyse and crack the codes of sexual (mis)conduct in contemporary India, giving short histories of the fate of several gay writers and explaining the difficulties of ‘coming out’.

Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India

Author : Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319966707
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Drivers of Climate Change in Urban India written by Lutz Meyer-Ohlendorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study transcends the homogenizing (inter-)national level of argumentation (‘rich’ versus ‘poor’ countries), and instead looks at a sub-national level in two respects: (1) geographically it focuses on the rapidly growing megacity of Hyderabad; (2) in socio-economic terms the urban population is disaggregated by taking a lifestyle typology approach. For the first time, the lifestyle concept – traditionally being used in affluent consumer societies – is applied to a dynamically transforming and socially heterogeneous urban society. Methodically, the author includes India-specific value orientations as well as social practices as markers of social structural differentiation. The study identifies differentials of lifestyle-induced GHG emissions (carbon footprints) and underlines the ambiguity of a purely income based differentiation with regard to the levels of contribution to the climate problem.

City of Dreadful Night

Author : Lee Siegel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226756882
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (568 download)

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Download or read book City of Dreadful Night written by Lee Siegel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-10-31 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel of horror and the macabre in India, featuring an American scholar. With the help of a vagrant storyteller he discovers reincarnation, magical transformation, flesh-eating demons and vampires. Lots of stories within stories. By the author of Net of Magic.

Hyderabad

Author : Narendra Luther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hyderabad written by Narendra Luther and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Envisioned By Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah As A Replica Of Heaven On Earth, Hyderabad Bore The Brunt Of Aurangzeb S Fury And After A Long Period Of Neglect, Rose To Be The Capital Of The Expansive Deccan Province. The City Witnessed The Phenomenal Expansion Of The Province Under Asaf Jah I, As Also The Dissipation Of His Legacy. Pampered During Her Childhood, Glamorous When Young, The City Changed Utterly Over The Years And Now Recounts Her Moments Of Excitement And Bouts Of Depression. This Fascinating Book, Combines The Sweep Of Popular History, With The Rigour Of Historiography.

Legend[O]Tes of Hyderabad

Author : Narendra Luther
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789383098170
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book Legend[O]Tes of Hyderabad written by Narendra Luther and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of Hyderabad is rooted in two legends. Over the five centuries following its founding in 1591, numerous new legends have come to be associated with the city, its rulers and people. The author has written extensively on the history and culture of Hyderabad. Here he presents a selection of some interesting legends and anecdotes relating to Hyderabad which, despite their traditional spice and flavour, are rooted in facts. The 'legendotes', as he calls them, form a chain of gripping 'snippets' from the history of Hyderabad.

India Today

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1250 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book India Today written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hyderabad Hazir Hai

Author : Vanaja Banagiri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788129113764
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Hyderabad Hazir Hai written by Vanaja Banagiri and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyderabad Hazir Hai: Writings from the City of Nizams holds a mirror to the city that is not only historically rich and glorious but has also in recent times emerged as a booming economic hub. Hyderabad is a city that you can never have enough of once you fall in love with it. The inent is to capture the city's matchless indefatigable spirit that echoes in the heart of every Hyderabadi.

The Last Nizam

Author : John Zubrzycki
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9395624345
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (956 download)

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Download or read book The Last Nizam written by John Zubrzycki and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Nizam is the story of an extraordinary dynasty, the Nizams of Hyderabad, and how the heir to India's richest princely state gave up a kingdom and retired to the dusty paddocks of outback Australia. With vivid detail and anecdotes, John Zubrzycki charts the rise of the Nizams to fabulous wealth and prominence in the detritus of the Mughal empire, giving a rich and vibrant portrait of a realm soaked in blood and intrigue. Above all he describes the strange and sometimes tragic life of Mukarram Jah, His Exalted Highness, the last Nizam, the man who left behind the diamonds of Golconda and the palaces of Hyderabad to drive bulldozers in the Australian bush. Meticulously researched, The Last Nizam adds a crucial chapter to the history of India, capturing the conspiracies and machinations that kept the Nizams in the news while simultaneously deepening their legend.

A Leader Listens

Author : Ajay Banga
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 9387326845
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book A Leader Listens written by Ajay Banga and published by Penguin Random House India Private Limited. This book was released on 2017-12-25 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is getting smaller and more interdependent, which makes leadership and developing a sense of globality more important than ever.' When Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard, makes such a statement, you perk up and listen to everything he has to say. According to him, the leaders of today need to understand the value of their time and develop the need for urgency, but not at the cost of listening—to clients and employees. Taking thoughtful risks and being competitively paranoid are qualities that should be ingrained in today's leaders. Listening is the first step to true knowledge, and a good leader knows that knowledge is invaluable. In this inspiring convocation address delivered at IIM Ahmedabad in March 2015, Banga demonstrates the key responsibilities of being a good leader in today's world. Read on.