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Secularism as misdirection : critical thought from the Global South / by Menon, Nivedita

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Thinking secularism from the Global South -- State, religion, and the bodies of women -- Hindu majoritarianism and the construction of religion -- The failed project of creating Hindus -- The self and psychoanalysis from the Global South -- Capitalism as secular science -- Insurgent constitutionalism and radical frames of citizenship -- Reshaping worlds : beyond the capitalist horizon.…”

The absent-minded imperialists : empire, society, and culture in Britain / by Porter, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Empire and society -- Participation -- The prefects -- The middle classes at school -- Trade, liberty, and empire : the middle classes to 1880 -- Not in front of the servants -- Culture and imperialism -- Peril and propaganda, c. 1900 -- What about the workers? …”

Medical pluralism in contemporary India /

Table of Contents: “…Competing indigenities : mainstream versus marginal in medicine and healing -- pt. 5. Medicine, market and civil society.…”
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Lacan and the limits of language by Shepherdson, Charles

Table of Contents: “…The intimate alterity of the real -- The atrocity of desire : of love and beauty in Lacan's Antigone -- Emotion, affect, drive -- Telling tales of love : philosophy, literature, and psychoanalysis -- The place of memory in psychoanalysis -- Human diversit…”

A governors' Raj : British administration during Lord Irwin's viceroyalty, 1926-1931 / by Macnamara, Michael Fenwick

Table of Contents: “…The governors : their constitutional, legal and personal standing -- The Montford reforms and dyarchy -- The governors' contribution to the Simon Commission -- The dominion status declaration and first round table conference -- Communal tensions and the detenu issue -- Communism, terrorism and countermeasures -- The challenge of Bardoli and lessons learnt -- The direct challenge of congress, Gandhi and the civil disobedience movement -- Conclusion.…”

Ethnography principles in practice by Hammersley, Martyn

Table of Contents: “…-- Research design : problems, cases, and samples -- Access -- Field relations -- Oral accounts and the role of interviewing -- Documents and other artefacts, real and virtual -- Recording and organizing data -- The process of analysi…”

Social capital by Field, John

Table of Contents: “…: social capital in a changing world -- Policy and politics : social capital in the real world…”

From street to hope faith based and secular programmes in Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Nairobi for street-living children by Dabir, Neela

Table of Contents: “…Theorizing and researching street children in Los Angeles, Mumbai, and Nairobi -- Street children conceptualized : the problem with the definition -- From definitional to real : global realities of street children -- Street children in the big city : the…”

Empire and ecology in the Bengal Delta : the making of Calcutta / by Bhattacharyya, Debjani

Table of Contents: “…Almanac of a Tidal Basin -- Environmental consolidations -- Power and silt -- Drying a delta -- Legal maneuvers -- Notarizing possessions -- Commerce in land -- Un-real estate -- Speculative properties -- Disappearing coastlines.…”

Seeds of terror : the Taliban, the ISI and the New Opium Wars /

Table of Contents: “…Follow the Money; 7. Mission Creep; 8. Zero-Sum Game; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index.…”

Regulating aversion : tolerance in the age of identity and empire / by Brown, Wendy, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Tolerance as a discourse of depoliticization -- Tolerance as a discourse of power -- Tolerance as supplement: the "Jewish question" and the "woman question" -- Tolerance as governmentality: faltering universalism, state legitimacy, and state violence -- Tolerance as museum object: the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance -- Subjects of tolerance: why we are civilized and they are the barbarians -- Tolerance as/in civilizational discourse.…”
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Anthropology and the racial politics of culture / by Baker, Lee D., 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Research, reform, and racial uplift -- Fabricating the authentic and the politics of the real -- Race, relevance, and Daniel G. Brinton's ill-fated bid for prominence -- The cult of Franz Boas and his "conspiracy" to destroy the white race.…”

Marx at the margins : On nationalism, ethnicity, and non-western societies / by Anderson, Kevin, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Colonial encounters in the 1850s: the European impact on India, Indonesia, and China -- Russia and Poland: the relationship of national emancipation to revolution -- Race, class, and slavery: the Civil War as a second American revolution -- Ireland: nationalism, class, and the labor movement -- From the Grundrisse to Capital: multilinear themes -- Late writings on non-western and precapitalist societies -- Conclusion -- Appendix: the vicissitudes of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe from the 1920s to today.…”

Letters from Madras during the years 1836-1839 / by Maitland, Julia Charlotte, -1864

Fascinating Hindutva saffron politics and Dalit mobilisation by Badri Narayan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : pastness and politics -- Saffron imagining of the local : a communal map of an Indian village -- Exploring Dalit militia : local cultures and communal politics -- Making of a warring hero : Hindutva politics of memory and forgetting -- Crea…”

English constitutional conflicts of the seventeenth century, 1603-1689/ by Tanner, J. R. (Joseph Robson), 1860-1931

Table of Contents: “…The long parliament and the civil war; 9. The long parliament and the army; 10. …”

The participation gap : social status and political inequality / by Dalton, Russell J.

Table of Contents: “…Political equality as the foundation of democracy -- Opening political doors -- For richer or poorer, politically speaking -- Civil society mobilizing action -- Age, generations, and participation -- What's a good citizen to do? …”

Colonial justice in British India / by Kolsky, Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…White peril : law and lawlessness in early colonial India -- Citizens, subjects, and subjection to law : codification and the legal construction of racial differences -- Indian human nature : evidence, experts, and the elusive pursuit of truth -- One scale of justice for the planter and another for the coolie : law and violence on the Assam tea plantations -- A judicial scandal : the imperial conscience and the race against empire.…”
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The political life of memory : Birsa Munda in contemporary India / by Ranjan, Rahul, 1992-

Table of Contents: “…Claiming the Munda Raj from the Margins : Land, Missionaries and the Making of the Birsa Ulgulan in Chota Nagpur (1845-1900) -- Memories Set in Stone : Political Aesthetics and the Statue of Birsa Munda in Post-colonial Jharkhand -- 'Burying the Dead, Creating the Past' : The Making of Memorials, Stone Slabs and Birsa Munda in Jharkhand -- Echoes from the Graveyard : Pathalgadi, Birsaites and the Landscape of Memory.…”

Picturing the city urban vision and the Ashcan School by Zurier, Rebecca

Table of Contents: “…The setting: Another look at the Ashcan School -- Seeing New York: the turn-of-the-century culture of looking -- A walk through the city on paper: the tradition of the mobile observer -- The artists -- Robert Henri and the real thing -- The reporter's vis…”