Search Results - "nationalization"

Women, security, South Asia a clearing in the thicket by Faizal, Farah, eds

Table of Contents: “…Women and security : in search of a new paradigm / Swarna Rajagopalan -- Societal insecurities : a Maldivian study / Farah Faizal -- In/security : Afghan women refugees / Saba Gul Khattak -- Silence and marginality : gendered security and the nation-state…”

Colonial and post-colonial geographies of India by Raju, Saraswati, eds

Table of Contents: “…Satish Kumar -- Home, community and nationality : Anglo-Indian women in India before and after Independence / Alison Blunt -- Militant cartographies and traumatic…”

Not enough : human rights in an unequal world / by Moyn, Samuel

Table of Contents: “…Jacobin legacy: the origins of social justice -- National welfare and the universal declaration -- FDR's second bill -- Globalizing welfare after empire -- Basic needs and human rights -- Global ethics from equality to subsistence -- Human rights in the neoliberal maelstrom.…”

Collection/ by Roy, M.N. 1887-1954 (Manabendra Nath Roy)

Table of Contents: “…1.Nationalism and democracy._2.Freedom and formal democracy._3.Beyond Communism/ M.N. …”

Disasters in India studies of grim reality by Kapur, Anu

Table of Contents: “…A grim reality -- Delhi, a disaster prone national capital -- Greater Mumbai, yeaming with disasters -- Kolkata, a city on the brink -- Bhuj earthquake, rural-urban differentiation -- Problematic city space, relocation of hazardous industries -- Indian ra…”

Museums and difference by Sherman, Daniel J., ed

Table of Contents: “…Art museums and commonality : a history of high ideals / Andrew McClellan -- "The last wild Indian in North America" : changing museum representations of Ishi / Ira Jacknis -- National museums and other cultures in modern Japan / Angus Lockyer -- Cultural…”

Food insecurity, vulnerability and human rights failure /

Table of Contents: “…Vulnerability to hunger : causes and remedies. 1. National food policies impacting on food security : the experience of a large populated country : India / Shabd S. …”

The long partition and the making of modern South Asia : refugees, boundaries, histories / by Zamindar, Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali

Table of Contents: “…The making of refugees, 1947 : Muslim exodus from Delhi ; Hindu exodus from Karachi -- Moving people, immovable property : Refugees, boundaries, citizens ; Economics of displacement -- Imagined limits, unimaginable nations : Passports and boundaries ; The phantasm of passports -- In conclusion : Moving boundaries.…”

Democracy in a global world : human rights and political participation in the 21st century /

Table of Contents: “…Nussbaum -- Democracy, nationalism, and political globalization -- The varieties of nationalism / Andrew Oldenquist -- Global democracy : international, not cosmopolitan / Kok-Chor Tan -- Global public and the new world order -- Rawls' law of peoples and the new world order / William McBride -- The global public and its problems / Frank Cunningham.…”
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Marriage and modernity : family values in colonial Bengal / by Majumdar, Rochona

Table of Contents: “…Looking for brides and grooms -- Snehalata's death: questions of dowry -- Marriage and distinction: new critiques of vulgarity -- The not-quite bourgeois: the couple form and the joint family -- A nineteenth-century debate: law versus rituals -- Nationalizing the joint family: the Hindu code debate, 1955/56.…”
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Indigo plantations and science in colonial India / by 1967-

Table of Contents: “…The world of indigo plantations: diasporas and knowledge -- The course of colonial modernity: negotiating the landscape in Bengal -- Colony and the external arena: seeking validation in the market -- Local science: agricultural institutions in the age of nationalism -- The last stand in science and rationalization -- A lasting definition of improvement in the era of World War.…”

Becoming Asia : change and continuity in Asian international relations since World War II / by Miller, Alice Lyman

Table of Contents: “…Planning the postwar world -- The Chinese Civil War -- Japan : occupation and recovery -- The Korean War -- Decolonization, nationalism, and revolution -- The U.S. alliance system -- The Sino-Soviet alliance -- The Vietnam War -- Strategic realignment -- The end of the Cold War -- The rise of China -- Entering the new century -- Change and continuity.…”

The many faces of a Himalayan goddess : Haḍimbā, her devotees, and religion in rapid change / by Halperin, Ehud

Table of Contents: “…Getting there: the land of the gods -- Assembling the ritual core: Haḍimbā as a complex agent -- Narrating the local web of associations: the goddess of many faces -- Encountering epic India: Haḍimbā and the Mahabharata -- Negotiating national Hinduism: the controversy over blood sacrifice -- Confronting the global: Haḍimbā and climate change.…”

India Abroad : Diasporic Cultures of Postwar America and England by Shukla, Sandhya

Table of Contents: “…Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION Geographies of Indianness -- ONE Histories and Nations -- TWO Little Indias, Places for Indian Diasporas -- THREE Affiliations and Ascendancy of Diasporic Literature -- FOUR India in Print, India Abroad -- FIVE Generations of Indian Diaspora -- EPILOGUE Presents and Futures -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INDEX…”

Getting away with murder : Benazir Bhutto's assassination and the politics of Pakistan / by Muñoz, Heraldo, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…A murder foretold -- An early history of instability -- Violence in the family and in the nation -- On the road to Islamabad -- The US gravitas in Pakistani affairs -- The US-brokered return of Bhutto to her homeland -- The assassination -- Whodunit? …”

The calling of history : Sir Jadunath Sarkar and his empire of truth / by Chakrabarty, Dipesh

Table of Contents: “…The popular origins of academic history -- Debating research -- Hunters and gatherers of historical documents -- The politics of "unquestionable" facts -- The statesman as hero : imperial aesthetics of political history -- Between providence and character: the historian himself -- Archiving the nation : Sarkar's fall from grace -- The author and the historian : a conversational reverie.…”

The third revolution : Xi Jinping and the new Chinese state / by Economy, Elizabeth, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Heart of Darkness -- Chapter 3: Chinanet -- Chapter 4: The Not-So-New Normal -- Chapter 5: Innovation Nation -- Chapter 6: War on Pollution -- Chapter 7: The Lion Awakens -- Chapter 8: The Road Forward.…”

Dutch sources on South Asia, c. 1600-1825 / by Stolte, Carolien

Table of Contents: “…Bibiliography and archival guide to the National Archives at the Haque (The Netherlands) -- v. 2. …”

India's war : World War II and the making of modern South Asia / by Raghavan, Srinath

Table of Contents: “…Politics of war -- Defence of India -- Competing offers -- Mobilizing India -- Into Africa -- The oil campaigns -- Fox hunting -- Collapsing dominoes -- Coils of war -- Declarations for India -- Rumour and revolt -- Indian National Armies -- Allies at war -- War economy -- Around the Mediterranean -- Preparation -- Back to Burma -- Post-war -- Last post.…”
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Women with mustaches and men without beards : gender and sexual anxieties of Iranian modernity / by Najmabadi, Afsaneh, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Beauty, love, and sexuality: early Qajar -- Beauty, love, and sexuality: nineteenth-century transformations -- The eclipse of the (fe)male sun -- Vatan, the beloved: Vatan, the mother -- Women's veil and unveil -- The tragedy of romantic marriage -- Crafting an educated wife and mother -- Women or wives of the nation? -- Epilogue: feminism and its burden of birth.…”