Search Results - "nationalization"

South Asian masculinities : context of change, sites of continuity / by Chopra,Radhika

Table of Contents: “…plea for a communal Hindu identity / Alessandro Monti -- Developing powers : modernisation and the masculine hegemony of Hindu nationalism / P.K. Vijayan.…”

Desis divided : the political lives of South Asian Americans / by Mishra, Sangay K., 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Situating desis in U.S. ethnoracial politics -- South Asian Americans and immigration regimes: exclusion, Ghadar rebellion, and Silicon Valley -- Political incorporation and new immigrants: beyond racial solidarity -- Race, religion, and communities: South Asians in the post-9/11 United States -- Mapping the modes of mobilization -- Transnationalism and political participation: the challenges of "in-between" Americans -- Diasporic nationalism and fragments within -- Negotiating identities and crafting political solidarities -- The 2016 U.S. elections and South Asian Americans.…”

Indian government and politics / by Chakrabarty, Bidyut, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Salient features of the Indian constitution -- Founding fetters of the constitution -- The preamble -- Fundamental rights -- Fundamental duties -- Directive principles of state policy -- Federalism -- Parliamentary system -- Amending procedures -- Concluding observations -- Federalism -- Demystifying Indian polity -- Federalism in India -- The federal arrangement: its evolution -- Concluding observations -- The executive system in theory and practice -- Adopting the executive system -- The president -- The prime minister -- The council of ministers -- Bureaucracy -- Concluding observations -- Parliament -- A thoughtful choice -- Limitations/features of Indian parliament -- Composition of the parliament -- Changing socio-economic profile -- Concluding observations -- State executive -- Features of the state executive -- Office of the governor -- Chief minister -- The council of ministers -- Concluding observations -- The judiciary -- Perspectives of the constituent assembly -- Supreme court -- High courts -- Judicial review -- Public interest litigation -- Judicial activism -- Judicial reforms -- Union public service commission -- Election commission -- Comptroller and auditor general -- Finance commission -- Concluding observations -- Planning and economic development -- Concept of planned development -- Genesis and development of planning in India -- Role of the planning commission -- Planning in the era of liberalization -- Concluding observations -- Statutory institutions and commissions -- National commission for backward classes -- National commission for women -- National human rights commission -- National commission for minorities -- Concluding observations -- The Indian party system -- Evolution of the Indian party system -- Coalition governments at the centre and the states -- Pressure groups in Indian politics -- Elites in Indian party system -- Contemporary trends in Indian party system -- Concluding observations -- The evolution of Indian administration -- Genesis of administration in India -- Aspects of the Mughal administration -- Legacies of the British rule -- Developments during the rule of the company -- Developments in Indian administration since 1857 -- Concluding observations -- Panchayati governance in India -- Local self-government in India -- Structure of the Panchayati Raj institutions -- Powers and functions of the Panchayats -- Role of women and other marginalized sections of the society -- Rural development: Panchayats and the bureaucracy -- Issues in effective functioning of the Panchayats -- Role of Panchayati Raj in the era of liberlization -- Concluding observations -- Major issues in Indian politics -- Mandal II: reservation for social justice or appropriation by the creamy layer? …”
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Empire in question : reading, writing, and teaching British imperialism / by Burton, Antoinette M., 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Rules of thumb : British history and 'imperial culture' in nineteenth-century and twentieth-century Britain -- Who needs the nation? : interrogating "British" history -- Thinking beyond the boundaries : empire, feminism, and the domains of history -- Deja vu all over again -- When was Britain? …”
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Sharīʻa : theory, practice, transformations / by Hallaq, Wael B., 1955-

Table of Contents: “…The formative period -- Legal theory : epistemology, language and legal reasoning -- Legal education and the politics of law -- Law and society -- The circle of justice and later dynasties -- The legal pillars of religion -- Contracts and othe obligations -- Family law and succession -- Property and ownership -- Offenses -- Jihād -- Courts of justice, suits and evidence -- The conceptual framework : an introduction -- The jural colonization of India and South-East-Asia -- Hegemonic modernity : the Middle East and North Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Modernizing the law in the age of nation-states -- In search of a legal methodology -- Repercussions: concluding notes.…”

Language, capitalism, colonialism : toward a critical history / by Heller, Monica, McElhinny, Bonnie S., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…The contradictions of language in industrial capitalism -- Language and European notions of nation and state -- Internationalism, communism, and fascism : alternative modernities -- part III. …”

Bitter Freedom : Ireland in a Revolutionary World / by Walsh, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…-- Bolshevism in the air -- A crowd of unknown men -- The stigma of race -- No pity -- Flying columns -- Frightfulness -- A republic of their own -- Not Irish in the national sense -- The Crown close at hand -- The quietest triumph -- Call to arms -- "Terror will be struck into them" -- Dumping arms -- Jazz mad -- Epilogue.…”

Impossible citizens : Dubai's Indian diaspora / by Vora, Neha, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…-- Waves of indianness: taking and making the nation overseas -- Logics of belonging and citizenship in diaspora studies -- A tale of two creeks: cosmopolitan productions and cosmopolitan -- Erasures in contemporary Dubai -- New Dubai and the production of global futures -- Selling Arabia: producing differentiated foreign subjects -- Making purified pasts: heritage, citizenship, and national identity -- The making of tradition -- An Indian city? …”

Human bondage : tracing its roots in India / by Mishra, L., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Historical perspective -- Concept and definition -- Unemployment, underemployment, and income insecurity -- Poverty, population explosion, hunger, and malnutrition -- Minimum wage -- Migration -- Caste hierarchy -- Land tenurial system -- Tribal land alienation -- Illiteracy -- Child labour and trafficking -- Devadasis and Yoginis -- Credit and indebtedness -- Globalization, state, and market -- Constitutional and legal provisions -- National policy and implementation of the program at the state level -- International instruments and initiatives -- Public interest litigation and judicial activism -- Role of voluntary organizations -- Role of trade unions of workers and employer's organizations -- Role of media and communication agencies -- In retrospect and prospect.…”

Global shadows : Africa in the neoliberal world order / by Ferguson, James, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…: observations from an inconvenient continent -- Paradoxes of sovereignty and independence : "real" and "pseudo-" nation-states and the depoliticization of poverty -- De-moralizing economies : African socialism, scientific capitalism, and the moral politics of structural adjustment -- Transnational topographies of power : beyond "the state" and "civil society" in the study of African politics -- Chrysalis : the life and death of the African renaissance in a Zambian internet magazine -- Of mimicry and membership : Africans and the "new world society" -- Decomposing modernity : history and hierarchy after development -- Governing extraction : new spatializations of order and disorder in neoliberal Africa.…”

A history of Bangladesh / by Schendel, Willem van

Table of Contents: “…A land of water and silt -- Jungle, fields, cities and states -- A region of multiple frontiers -- The delta as a crossroads -- From the Mughal empire to the British empire -- The British impact -- A closing agrarian frontier -- Colonial conflicts -- Towards partition -- Partition -- The Pakistan experiment -- Pakistan falls apart -- East Pakistani livelihoods -- The roots of aid dependence -- A new elite and cultural renewal -- Armed conflict -- A state is born -- Imagining a new society -- Creating a political system -- Transnational linkages -- Bursting at the seams -- A national culture? -- Conclusion.…”

Mediaeval Germany, 911-1250/ by Barraclough, Geoffrey, 1908-1984

Table of Contents: “…The beginning of the national state in mediaeval Germany and the Norman monarchies, by Albert Brackmann.…”

Crisis and consciousness /

Table of Contents: “…On the formation of national spirit in Vietnam.--Faris, R. M. Reflections of crisis.…”

Debates in contemporary political philosophy : an anthology /

Table of Contents: “…/ Alasdair MacIntyre -- In defence of nationality / David Miller -- The market and the forum: three varieties of political theory / Jon Elster -- Delibration and democratic legitimacy / Joshua Cohen -- Philosophy and democracy / Michael Walzer -- Punishment, communication and community / Antony Duff -- Punishment, penance and the state: a reply to Duff / Andrew Von Hirsch -- Appendix: response to von Hirsch / Antony Duff -- The justification of general deterrence / Daniel Farrell.…”

From the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean : the global trade networks of Armenian merchants from New Julfa / by Aslanian, Sebouh David

Table of Contents: “…From trade diasporas to circulation society -- Old Julfa, the great deportations, and the founding of New Julfa, 1604/1620 -- The new Julfan trade network I: the world of the Indian Ocean -- The New Julfan trade network II: the Mediterranean, Western European, and Russian Networks -- "The salt in a merchant's letter": the art of writing business correspondence, the courier system, and their role in Julfan economy and society -- Social capital, "trust" and the role of networks in Julfan trade: informal and semi-formal institutions at work -- The circulation of men and credit: the role of the commenda, the family firm and of non-circulating women in Julfan society -- From coalition to nation: the collapse and transformation of the Julfan trade network.…”

Thinking politically : essays in political theory / by Walzer, Michael

Table of Contents: “…-- Drawing the line : religion and politics -- The politics of difference : statehood and toleration in a multicultural world -- Nation and universe -- The moral standing of states : a response to four critics -- The argument about humanitarian intervention -- Beyond humanitarian intervention : human rights in global society -- Terrorism and just war -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands -- The United States in the world--just wars and just societies : an interview with Michael Walzer.…”

Context and meaning in cultural anthropology / by Spiro, Melford E., 1920-2014

Table of Contents: “…An approach to the historical study of national character, by M.G. Murphey. The life and death of a myth, by L. …”

Politics in dark times : encounters with Hannah Arendt /

Table of Contents: “…King; Part II. Sovereignty, the Nation-State and the Rule of Law: 7. Banishing the sovereign? …”

Amending America's unwritten Constitution /

Table of Contents: “…Marshfield -- The drive for a national popular vote for the presidency : a case study in amending the unwritten Constitution / Vikram David Amar -- The Trump presidency, racial realignment, and the future of constitutional norms / Neil S. …”

Democracy by petition : popular politics in transformation, 1790-1870 / by Carpenter, Daniel , 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Signature moments, 1846-1849 -- Eruptions and democracies -- Stirrings: Petitions, prayers, and their venues -- Petitioning in the Settler Republic: space, capital, soldiers -- First nations, first wave petitioners -- Slavery, skin, and black strategy -- Awakenings: Patriotes and rebels: petitioning and parliamentary sovereignty in French Canada -- Producers, electors, city democrats -- The coalescence of opposition: from the Bank War to Canadian reform -- Abolition and the transformation of U.S. politics -- Democracies and closures: Women contesting collectively: work, war, Iglesia, and the ballot -- The eclipse of lordship: petitioning and land tenure in the United States and Canada -- Native continuance, native governance: The closure of petition democracy in the U.S. …”