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Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

The Making of a Moral Community

By: Ananya Dasgupta

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Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

The Making of a Moral Community

By: Ananya Dasgupta

This book is a historical exploration of the social and cultural processes that led to the rise of the ideology of labor as a touchstone of Bengali Muslim politics in late colonial India. The book argues that the tremendous popularity of the Pakistan movement in Bengal is to be understood not just in terms of "communalization" of class politics, or even "separatist" demands of a religious minority living out anxieties of Hindu political majoritarianism, but in terms of a distinctively modern idea of Muslim self and culture which gave primacy to production/labor as the site where religious, moral, ethical, as well as economic value would be anchored. In telling the story of the formation of a modern Muslim identity, the book presents the conceptual congruence between Islam and egalitarianism as a distinctively early twentieth-century phenomenon, and the approach can be viewed as key to explaining the mass appeal of the desire for Pakistan. A novel contribution to the study of Bengal and Pakistan’s origins, the book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian history, the history of colonialism and end of empire, South Asian studies, including labor studies, Islamic Studies, and Muslim social and cultural history.

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141

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Taylor & Francis

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1000854000

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9781000854008

Belief in Witch

Witch-killing in Dooars

By: Ananya Baruya

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Belief in Witch

Witch-killing in Dooars

By: Ananya Baruya

This book courageously illustrates the societal practice of witch-hunting which is simply nothing but a manmade evil. â€¢ Special attention has been given to Dooars region in northern parts of West Bengal. â€¢ Focuses also socio-economic structures and status of women in the tribal society. â€¢ Indicates some solutions, which have not been received adequate attention so far. â€¢ Highlights strong protest against the shadows of superstitions and beliefs. Encourages people to prevent this social exclusion bravely.

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132

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Northern Book Centre

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8172111797

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9788172111793

City Requiem, Calcutta

Gender and the Politics of Poverty

By: Ananya Roy

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City Requiem, Calcutta

Gender and the Politics of Poverty

By: Ananya Roy

Housing developments emerge amid the paddy fields on the fringes of Calcutta; overflowing trains carry peasant women to informal urban labor markets in a daily commute against hunger; land is settled and claimed in a complex choreography of squatting and evictions: such, Ananya Roy contends, are the distinctive spaces of a communism for the new millennium -- where, at a moment of liberalization, the hegemony of poverty is quietly reproduced. An ethnography of urban development in Calcutta, Roy's book explores the dynamics of class and gender in the persistence of poverty. City Requiem, Calcutta emphasizes how gender itself is spatialized, and how gender relations are negotiated within the geopolitics of modernity and through the everyday practices of territory. Thus Roy shows how urban developmentalism, in its populist guise, reproduces the relations of masculinist patronage, and, in its entrepreneurial guise, seeks to reclaim a bourgeois Calcutta, gentlemanly in its nostalgias. In doing so, her work expands the field of poverty studies by showing how a politics of poverty is also a poverty of knowledge, a construction and management of social and spatial categories.

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306

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816639329

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9780816639328

Territory of Desire

Representing the Valley of Kashmir

By: Ananya Jahanara Kabir

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Territory of Desire

Representing the Valley of Kashmir

By: Ananya Jahanara Kabir

A result of territorial disputes between India and Pakistan since 1947, exacerbated by armed freedom movements since 1989, the ongoing conflict over Kashmir is consistently in the news. Taking a unique multidisciplinary approach, Territory of Desire asks how, and why, Kashmir came to be so intensely desired within Indian, Pakistani, and Kashmiri nationalistic imaginations.

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277

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816653569

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9780816653560

Encountering Poverty

Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World

By: Ananya Roy,Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales,Kweku Opoku-Agyemang,Clare Talwalker

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Encountering Poverty

Thinking and Acting in an Unequal World

By: Ananya Roy,Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales,Kweku Opoku-Agyemang,Clare Talwalker

Encountering Poverty challenges mainstream frameworks of global poverty by going beyond the claims that poverty is a problem that can be solved through economic resources or technological interventions. By focusing on the power and privilege that underpin persistent impoverishment and using tools of critical analysis and pedagogy, the authors explore the opportunities for and limits of poverty action in the current moment. Encountering Poverty invites students, educators, activists, and development professionals to think about and act against inequality by foregrounding, rather than sidestepping, the long history of development and the ethical dilemmas of poverty action today.

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209

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Univ of California Press

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0520962737

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9780520962736

Lingering Twilight

By: Ananya & Arunangshu Das

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Lingering Twilight

By: Ananya & Arunangshu Das

This is a book of poetry and a collection of photographs. Spread across every page of this book are carefully taken photographs from all over the world by Arunangshu Das. Accompanying those photographs Ananya Das has presented a collection of deep meaningful poems. "Sensitive ....evocative"- Dr. Richard Marshall, General Director, Center for Contemporary Opera, USA. "Rarely do you find such an enchanting duet of poetry and photography"- KabiSammelan, June 2007 issue.

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AANDADAS

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8190465406

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9788190465403

Food Preservation

By: Ananya Gaur,Shivani Bansal

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Food Preservation

By: Ananya Gaur,Shivani Bansal

Handbook of Food Preservation presents the information necessary to design food processing operations and goes on to describe the equipment needed to carry them out in detail. The book covers every step in the sequence of converting raw material to the final product. It also discusses the most common food engineering unit operations and food preservation processes,such as,blanching,pasteurization,chilling and freezing to aseptic packaging,non-thermal food processing and the use of biosensors.The book provides information regarding the common food preservation methods such as blanching,thermal processing of foods,canning,extrusion cooking,drying or dehydration of foods,chilling and freezing. It also describes the principles and applications of new thermal and non-thermal food processing technologies,i.e.,microwave heating,ohmic heating,high pressure processing etc.

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610

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Onlinegatha

ISBN 10

9390662184

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9789390662180

Bubbles

A Bunch of Limericks

By: Ananya Das

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Bubbles

A Bunch of Limericks

By: Ananya Das

This little book is for happy folks Contains lots of everyday jokes Tiny bits of fun To please everyone Some scribbles and some master strokes.

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8190465430

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9788190465434

Kitty Party Sanyasins

By: Ananya Banerjee

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Kitty Party Sanyasins

By: Ananya Banerjee

We'll meet on the last Saturday of every month, whenever our schedules permit. Just the five of us. Brunch. Either at our houses or breakfast joints or our clubs. Catch up on our lives. Meditate together a bit. Tell each other feel-good stories. How does that sound?' Sounds perfect--but the outcome can be unforeseen. A much-honoured dancing diva meditates herself into a passionate love affair with the thirty-year-old son of her best friend. The mighty Garuda has to fly down from the legends to impart sense to some troubled teens. A Zen disciple runs frenziedly through the forest with a woman inside his head while a son listens in shock as his mother reveals babyhood trauma of molestation, and sage Durbasha steps out of the Mahabharat to give Ginny, the Crystal Nova ashramite from Los Angeles, a curse within a blessing. Through this crowd wanders Alison Jordan, the Indophile with golden hair and green eyes. She is an excellent raconteur, has a penchant for quality tea and is on a Himalayan quest for salvation and a path to reach out to a frozen Ice King, who has collected thousands of keys but has lost all the locks. Join the Kitty Party Sanyasins on their quest for a happier life. A charming first novel that will make you both laugh and cry as it uses ancient stories to tell new ones.

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255

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Harper Collins

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9351368300

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9789351368304

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

The Making of a Moral Community

By: Ananya Dasgupta

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The Making of a Moral Community

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Taylor & Francis

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1000854000

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9781000854008

There's a Hole in My Galaxy: Children Explore Space - Great Story and Science Lesson All in One.

By: Ananya Dasgupta,Peter Fogarty

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There's a Hole in My Galaxy: Children Explore Space - Great Story and Science Lesson All in One.

By: Ananya Dasgupta,Peter Fogarty

Three friends blast off from Earth in a rocket to explore the Solar System. Suddenly, they find themselves being pulled by a black hole. Do they manage to escape? Find out what happens on this space odyssey.

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Independently Published

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1090657269

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A Masterful Spirit

Homi J. Bhabha, 1909-1966

By: Indira Chowdhury,Ananya Dasgupta

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A Masterful Spirit

Homi J. Bhabha, 1909-1966

By: Indira Chowdhury,Ananya Dasgupta

Scientist, citizen, artist-the Renaissance man of India Homi Jehangir Bhabha, one of India's outstanding scientists, shouldered the beginnings of India's nuclear programme. He was the first chairman of India's Atomic Energy Commission, and the builder of two of India's most significant scientific institutions-the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and the Atomic Energy Establishment, renamed Bhabha Atomic Research Centre in 1966. A Masterful Spirit presents the life and achievements of the man through previously unpublished letters, and photographs and paintings, and the recollections of his family, friends, colleagues and students. Designed to convey the flavour of Bhabha's life and times, this book tells the inspiring story of a man whom Sir C.V. Raman described as 'the modern equivalent of Leonardo da Vinci'. It acquaints us with the many facets of Bhabha's personality: physicist, institution-builder, concerned citizen, artist, connoisseur of the arts, designer of gardens and, above all, a charismatic and compassionate human being.

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0143066722

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9780143066729

Book's by Ananya Dasgupta

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

Belief in Witch

Belief in Witch

City Requiem, Calcutta

City Requiem, Calcutta

Territory of Desire

Territory of Desire

Encountering Poverty

Encountering Poverty

Lingering Twilight

Lingering Twilight

Food Preservation

Food Preservation

Bubbles

Bubbles

Kitty Party Sanyasins

Kitty Party Sanyasins

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

Islam and Egalitarianism in Colonial Bengal

There's a Hole in My Galaxy: Children Explore Space - Great Story and Science Lesson All in One.

There's a Hole in My Galaxy: Children Explore Space - Great Story and Science Lesson All in One.

A Masterful Spirit

A Masterful Spirit

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