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The Bullet and the Ballot Box

The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution

By: Aditya Adhikari

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The Bullet and the Ballot Box

The Story of Nepal’s Maoist Revolution

By: Aditya Adhikari

The Bullet and the Ballot Box offers a rich and sweeping account of a decade of revolutionary upheaval. When Nepal's Maoists launched their armed rebellion in the nineties, they had limited public support and many argued that their ideology was obsolete. Twelve years later they were in power, and their ambitious plan of social transformation dominated the national agenda. How did this become possible? Adhikari's narrative draws on a broad range of sources - including novels, letters and diaries - to illuminate the history and human drama of the Maoist revolution. An indispensible account of Nepal's recent history, the book offers a fascinating case study of how communist ideology has been reinterpreted and translated into political action in the twenty-first century.

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Verso Books

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1781686815

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9781781686812

Power and Contestation

India since 1989

By: Nivedita Menon,Aditya Nigam

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Power and Contestation

India since 1989

By: Nivedita Menon,Aditya Nigam

1989 marks the unraveling of India's 'Nehruvian Consensus' around the idea of a modern, secular nation with a self-reliant economy. Caste and religion have come to play major roles in national politics. Global economic integration has led to conflict between the state and dispossessed people, but processes of globalization have also enabled new spaces for political assertion, such as around sexuality. Older challenges to the idea of India continue from movements in Kashmir and the North-East, while Maoist insurgency has deepened its bases. In a world of American Empire, India as a nuclear power has abandoned non-alignment, a shift that is contested by voices within. Power and Contestation shows that the turbulence and turmoil of this period are signs of India's continued vibrancy and democracy. The book is an ideal introduction to the complex internal histories and external power relations of a major global player for the new century.

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Zed Books Ltd.

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1848137575

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9781848137578

Void of Darkness

A Collection of Short Horror Stories

By: Aditya Sarkar

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Void of Darkness

A Collection of Short Horror Stories

By: Aditya Sarkar

When schoolteacher Miss Cole decides to visit the school during the summer break, she is surprised by things that seem to be oddly out of place. Until she reaches her classroom. Trying to fathom the messages on the classroom board, she suddenly hears a voice. It is Ryan Edwards, her former fourth-grade student, calling out to her. An eerie cat-and-mouse game follows as sinister events unfold. But nothing is what it seems to be. What will Miss Cole and Ryan Edwards discover in the abandoned school? What happens when you take a selfie with the face-swap app… And if that 3D printer in your garage develops a mind of its own? This collection of short stories comes with blades of horror that will gnaw the edges of your feeble heart. Statutory Warning: Don’t switch off the lights when you go to sleep tonight.

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Notion Press

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1639975667

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9781639975662

India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Mridula Mukherjee,Aditya Mukherjee,K N Panikkar,Sucheta Mahajan

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India's Struggle for Independence

By: Bipan Chandra,Mridula Mukherjee,Aditya Mukherjee,K N Panikkar,Sucheta Mahajan

India’s struggle for Independence by Bipin Chandra is your go to book for an in-depth and detailed overview on Indian independence movement . Indian freedom struggle is one of the most important parts of its history. A lot has been written and said about it, but there still remains a gap. Rarely do we get to hear accounts of the independence from the entire country and not just one region at one place. This book fits in perfectly in this gap and also provides a narration on the impact this movement had on the people. Bipin Chandra’s book is a well-documented history of India's freedom struggle against the British rule. It is one of the most accurate books which have been painstakingly written after thorough research based on legal and valid verbal and written sources. It maps the first war of independence that started with Mangal Pandey’s mutiny and witnessed the gallant effort of Sri Rani Laxmi Bai. Many of the pages of this book are dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi’s non-cooperation and the civil disobedience movements. It contains detailed description of Subash Chandra Bose’s weapon heavy tactics and his charisma. This book includes all the independence movements and fights, irrespective of their size and impact, covering India in its entirety. Although these movements varied in means and ideas, but they shared a common goal of independence. This book contains oral and written narratives from different parts of the country, making this book historically rich and diverse. The book captures the evolution of Indian independence struggle in full detail and leaves no chapter of this story untouched. This book is a good read for the students of Indian modern history and especially for students who are preparing for UPSC examination and have taken History as their subject.

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Penguin UK

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8184751834

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9788184751833

Designing Development

Case Study of an International Education and Outreach Program

By: Aditya Johri,Akshay Sharma

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Designing Development

Case Study of an International Education and Outreach Program

By: Aditya Johri,Akshay Sharma

The creation of physical and material infrastructure is the cornerstone of human development; not surprisingly, engineers and designers are often motivated and inspired in their practice to improve the world around them, to make things better for others, and to apply their knowledge for the good of mankind. These aspirations often get translated into engineering and design curricula where students and faculty work on development related projects usually under the category of community or service learning. This book presents an overview of such an education and outreach program designed to empower stakeholders to improve their lives. The project described here was an international multi-institutional undertaking that included academic institutions, non-governmental organizations, and private firms. Within the academic setting, an interdisciplinary set of actors that included engineering and industrial design students and faculty worked on the project. We concretize our work by presenting a design case study that illustrates how different approaches can help guide the works of engineers and designers as they create global infrastructures and localized artifacts. We emphasize the importance of developing long term relationships with organizations on the ground in order to ensure appropriate design as well as successful transfer and long term use of designed artifacts. We discuss the life trajectories of the authors to provide a grounded perspective on what motivated us to undertake this work and shaped our approach with the intention to demonstrate that there are multiple paths toward this goal.

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Morgan & Claypool Publishers

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1627050035

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9781627050036

Love's Subtle Magic

An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545

By: Aditya Behl

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Love's Subtle Magic

An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545

By: Aditya Behl

The encounter between Muslim and Hindu remains one of the defining issues of South Asian society today. It began as early as the 8th century, and the first Muslim kingdom in India, the Sultanate of Delhi, was established at the end of the 12th century. This power eventually reduced to vassalage almost every independent kingdom on the subcontinent. In Love's Subtle Magic, a remarkable and highly original book, Aditya Behl uses a little-understood genre of Sufi literature to paint an entirely new picture of the evolution of Indian culture during the earliest period of Muslim domination. These curious romantic tales transmit a profound religious message through the medium of adventurous stories of love. Although composed in the Muslim courts, they are written in a vernacular Indian language and involve Hindu yogis, Hindu princes and princesses, and Hindu gods. Until now, they have defied analysis. Behl shows that the Sufi authors of these charming tales sought to convey an Islamic vision via an Indian idiom. They thus constitute the earliest attempt at the indigenization of Islamic literature in an Indian setting. More important, however, Behl's analysis brilliantly illuminates the cosmopolitan and composite culture of the Sultanate India in which they were composed. This in turn compels us completely to rethink the standard of the opposition between Indian Hindu and foreign Muslim and recognize that the Indo-Islamic culture of this era was already significantly Indian in many important ways.

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Oxford University Press

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0190628820

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9780190628826

Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By: Aditya Balasubramanian

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Toward a Free Economy

Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India

By: Aditya Balasubramanian

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence Neoliberalism is routinely characterized as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected on the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, Toward a Free Economy shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the logic of democracy. Twelve years after the British left India, a Swatantra (“Freedom”) Party came to life. It encouraged Indians to break with the Indian National Congress Party, which spearheaded the anticolonial nationalist movement and now dominated Indian democracy. Rejecting Congress’s heavy-industrial developmental state and the accompanying rhetoric of socialism, Swatantra promised “free economy” through its project of opposition politics. As it circulated across various genres, “free economy” took on meanings that varied by region and language, caste and class, and won diverse advocates. These articulations, informed by but distinct from neoliberalism, came chiefly from communities in southern and western India as they embraced new forms of entrepreneurial activity. At their core, they connoted anticommunism, unfettered private economic activity, decentralized development, and the defense of private property. Opposition politics encompassed ideas and practice. Swatantra’s leaders imagined a conservative alternative to a progressive dominant party in a two-party system. They communicated ideas and mobilized people around such issues as inflation, taxation, and property. And they made creative use of India’s institutions to bring checks and balances to the political system. Democracy’s persistence in India is uncommon among postcolonial societies. By excavating a perspective of how Indians made and understood their own democracy and economy, Aditya Balasubramanian broadens our picture of neoliberalism, democracy, and the postcolonial world.

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Princeton University Press

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0691249296

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9780691249292

A Poet's Ballad: A Crossword Mystery

By: Aditya Banerjee

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A Poet's Ballad: A Crossword Mystery

By: Aditya Banerjee

It’s 1980, and Mahesh Pal has just a couple of weeks before he flies out to start a new life in London for his doctoral studies. It hasn’t exactly been smooth sailing: His parents are unhappy that he hasn’t taken charge of the family business and settled down with a wife and kids. They are even more disappointed in his desire to move abroad. Mahesh remains steadfast in his decision until he receives an unusual letter. A professor whom he barely knew, Devesh Tripathi, has passed away, leaving behind a box of possessions that Mahesh must retrieve in person. Before he knows it, he is on a train to Benares to pick up the box before leaving for London. Aarvi Lal, the daughter of a local Benares bookseller, enjoys working with her father in his shop. Books are her whole world, and she’s dreading the day of her marriage—as well as all that will change with it when she starts a new life with her husband. But things take a mysterious turn when she’s informed that Devesh, her father’s friend, has left behind a folder and books for her. Mahesh and Aarvi discover that they have received a series of crosswords, and solving them unearths cryptic clues. Their answers unravel a mystery about who Devesh truly was and whether his death was really an accident. But why did he choose them, two crossword puzzle aficionados from different corners of India, to reveal the truth? As the pair get closer to finding the answer, they form a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. But they are running out of time . . . and solving the mystery has bigger implications than they had ever anticipated. A Poet’s Ballad: A Crossword Mystery is a charming, wistful tale about two characters who find themselves at major crossroads in their lives; one because of their own choices and the other due to parental and societal expectations.

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Aditya Banerjee

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1777357861

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9781777357863

King’s Fall

Book One of The Moryan Chronicles

By: Aditya Wig

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King’s Fall

Book One of The Moryan Chronicles

By: Aditya Wig

There are sorcerers loose in Jambu. Men and women with dangerous knowledge, not bound to the Temple, not to be trusted.’ It has been more than three centuries since the Kali Yuga began, but the storm is only now gathering strength. The Yavanna king Sikandar, a warlord who has never known defeat, has already begun his march on Jambu, while rebellion and war stalk the ancient kingdoms of the land. The empire of Magadha, the largest that Jambu has ever known, is plagued by an asura who seeks only destruction; and in the shadows behind the throne lurk the sorcerers of Dandakaranya, an ancient temple of magic. At the heart of it all stand two men—the renegade King Arjuna and his brother, Prince Karna—the last royals of proud Morya, an ancient kingdom now destroyed by the greed of Magadha’s emperor. King’s Fall, Book One of The Moryan Chronicles, weaves together myth, magic and fragments of history to tell a story of what might have been.

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Penguin UK

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935118871X

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9789351188711

Thermal Characteristics and Convection in Nanofluids

By: Aditya Kumar,Sudhakar Subudhi

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Thermal Characteristics and Convection in Nanofluids

By: Aditya Kumar,Sudhakar Subudhi

This book covers synthesis, characterization, stability, heat transfer and applications of nanofluids. It includes different types of nanofluids, their preparation methods as well as its effects on the stability and thermophysical properties of nanofluids. It provides a discussion on the mechanism behind the change in the thermal properties of nanofluids and heat transfer behaviour. It presents the latest information and discussion on the preparation and advanced characterization of nanofluids. It also consists of stability analysis of nanofluids and discussion on why it is essential for the industrial application. The book provides a discussion on thermal boundary layer properties in convection. Future directions for heat transfer applications to make the production and application of nanofluids at industrial level are also discussed.

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Springer Nature

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981334248X

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9789813342484

Decolonizing Theory

Thinking across Traditions

By: Aditya Nigam

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Decolonizing Theory

Thinking across Traditions

By: Aditya Nigam

Decolonizing Theory: Thinking across Traditions aims at disentangling theory from its exclusively Western provenance, drawing insights and concepts from other thought traditions, connecting to what it argues is a new global moment in the reconstitution of theory. The key argument, which is the point of departure of the book, is that any serious theorizing in the non-West should be fundamentally suspicious of any theory that only gives you one result-that four-fifths of the world does not and cannot do anything right. Everything in the non-West, from its modernity and secularism to its democracy and even capitalism, is always seen to be deficient. In other words, all it tells us is that we do not live up to the standards set by Western modernity. From this point of departure, it seeks to create a conceptual space outside (Western) modernity and capitalism, by insisting on a rethink of non-synchronous synchronicities. The book takes three key themes around which the whole story of modernity can be unraveled, namely the question of the political, capital and historical time, and secularism for a detailed discussion. It does so by bracketing, in a sense, the autobiographical story that Western modernity gives itself. In each case, it tries to show that past forms never simply disappear, without residue, to be fully supplanted by the modern, and merely applying theory produced in one context to another is, therefore, very misleading.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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9389812364

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9789389812367

Banaras

A journey into the heart of the city

By: Santosh Singh,Aditya Anmol

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Banaras

A journey into the heart of the city

By: Santosh Singh,Aditya Anmol

Karpoori Thakur often called Jannayak was a legendary leader from Bihar who had a significant impact on India’s politics. In early 2024 he was posthumously honoured with the Bharat Ratna in recognition of his extraordinary contributions to society. Commemorating his birth centenary this gripping biography brings to light the life legacy and enduring relevance of Thakur. It focuses on Karpoori Thakur’s politics which introduced ‘quota within quota’ and opens a window to his role in bifurcating reservation among the backward classes and women in 1978. Deeply researched anecdotal and unputdownable The Jannayak promises to be a beacon for readers seeking to understand the complex landscape of Indian politics and society.

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357087761

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9789357087766

Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes

By: Aditya Pratap,Jitendra Kumar

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Biology and Breeding of Food Legumes

By: Aditya Pratap,Jitendra Kumar

Food legumes are important constituents of the human diet and animal feed where they are crucial to a balanced diet, supplying high quality proteins. These crops also play an important role in low-input agricultural production systems by fixing atmospheric nitrogen. Despite systematic and continuous breeding efforts through conventional methods, substantial genetic gains have not been achieved. With the rise in demand for food legumes/pulses and increased market value of these crops, research has focused on increasing production and improving the quality of pulses for both edible and industria.

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CABI

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1845937813

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9781845937812

Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India

Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans

By: Aditya Ghosh

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Sustainability Conflicts in Coastal India

Hazards, Changing Climate and Development Discourses in the Sundarbans

By: Aditya Ghosh

This multidisciplinary work analyses challenges to sustainable development amidst rapidly changing climate in the world’s largest delta – the Sundarbans. Empirical evidence unpacks grounded vulnerabilities and reveals their temporal socio-economic impacts. A novel concept of ‘everyday disasters’ is proposed – supported by data and photographic evidence – that contests institutional disaster definition. Then it uncovers how the geopolitics of ecological governance and its hegemonic discourse dominate local policies, which in turn fail to address local socio-ecological concerns, adaptation needs and development aspirations. Absence of local vocabularies, cognitive values and socio-cultural contexts along with spatially constricted, exclusionary, top-down techno-science approaches further escalate knowledge-action gaps. Deconstruction of multiscalar conflicts between the global rhetoric and transformative postcolonial geographies offers an ethical, Southern perspective of sustainability.

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Springer

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3319638920

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9783319638928

Trouble at the Mill

Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay

By: Aditya Sarkar

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Trouble at the Mill

Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay

By: Aditya Sarkar

The colonial administration passed a Factory Act in 1881, producing the first official definition of ‘factory’ in modern Indian history—as a workplace using steam power and regularly employing over 100 workers. In 1891, the Act was amended: factories were redefined as workplaces employing over 50 workers; the upper age limit of legal ‘protection’ was raised; weekly holidays were established; and women mill-workers were brought within its ambit. Sarkar analyses the two versions of the Act and reveals the tensions inherent within the project of protective labour regulation. Combining legal and social history, he identifies an emergent ‘factory question’. The cotton mill industry of Bombay, long considered as one of the birthplaces of modern Indian capitalism, is the principal focal point of his investigation. Factory law, though experienced as a minor official initiative, connected with some of the most potent ideological debates of the age. Trouble at the Mill explores a shifting set of themes and raises questions rarely thematized by labour historians—the ideologies of factory reform, the politics of factory commissions, the routines of factory inspection, and the earliest waves of strike action in the cotton textile industry in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

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Oxford University Press

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0199093296

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9780199093298

The Spy Chronicles

RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

By: A.S. Dulat,Asad Durrani,Aditya Sinha

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The Spy Chronicles

RAW, ISI and the Illusion of Peace

By: A.S. Dulat,Asad Durrani,Aditya Sinha

Pointing to the horizon where the sea and sky are joined, he says, 'It is only an illusion because they can't really meet, but isn't it beautiful, this union which isn't really there.' -- SAADAT HASAN MANTO Sometime in 2016, a series of dialogues took place which set out to find a meeting ground, even if only an illusion, between A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani. One was a former chief of RAW, India's external intelligence agency, the other of ISI, its Pakistani counterpart. As they could not meet in their home countries, the conversations, guided by journalist Aditya Sinha, took place in cities like Istanbul, Bangkok and Kathmandu.On the table were subjects that have long haunted South Asia, flashpoints that take lives regularly. It was in all ways a deep dive into the politics of the subcontinent, as seen through the eyes of two spymasters. Among the subjects: Kashmir, and a missed opportunity for peace; Hafiz Saeed and 26/11; Kulbhushan Jadhav; surgical strikes; the deal for Osama bin Laden; how the US and Russia feature in the India-Pakistan relationship; and how terror undermines the two countries' attempts at talks.When the project was first mooted, General Durrani laughed and said nobody would believe it even if it was written as fiction. At a time of fraught relations, this unlikely dialogue between two former spy chiefs from opposite sides--a project that is the first of its kind--may well provide some answers.

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HarperCollins

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9352779266

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9789352779260

Structural Geological Atlas

By: Soumyajit Mukherjee,Narayan Bose,Rajkumar Ghosh,Dripta Dutta,Achyuta Ayan Misra,Mohit Kumar,Swagato Dasgupta,Tuhin Biswas,Aditya Joshi,Manoj A. Limaye

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Structural Geological Atlas

By: Soumyajit Mukherjee,Narayan Bose,Rajkumar Ghosh,Dripta Dutta,Achyuta Ayan Misra,Mohit Kumar,Swagato Dasgupta,Tuhin Biswas,Aditya Joshi,Manoj A. Limaye

This book presents more than 600 eye-catching structural geological photographs and explanatory descriptions, from different Indian terrains. This book will enable easy identification of deformation features, one of the most important tasks in structural geology at the meso- and micro-scales. The book focuses on ductile and brittle shear sense indicators. This book suits for the undergraduate and graduate geoscience students. The book will be of considerable interest to tectonicians and structural geologists, given the enormous international importance of Indian terrains for exploration and other purposes.

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9811398259

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9789811398254

Trouble at the Mill

Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay

By: Aditya Sarkar

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Factory Law and the Emergence of the Labour Question in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay

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