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Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

By: Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

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Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

By: Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and complex than anticipated either by India’s colonial railway builders or currently assumed by post-colonial scholars. At a related level, the book argues that this complex outcome of the impact of railways on colonial Indian society was a product of the interaction between the colonial context of technology transfer and the Indian railway passengers who mediated this process at an everyday level. In other words, this book claims that the colonised ‘natives’ were not bystanders in this process of imposition of an imperial technology from above. On the contrary, Indians, both as railway passengers and otherwise influenced the nature and the direction of the impact of an oft-celebrated ‘tool of Empire’. The historiographical departures suggested in the book are based on examining railway spaces as social spaces – a methodological index influenced by Henri Lefebvre’s idea of social spaces as means of control, domination and power.

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Routledge

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1315397080

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9781315397085

Ethics and Culture

Some Contemporary Indian Reflections

By: Aparajita Mukhopadhyay,Gargi Goswami

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Ethics and Culture

Some Contemporary Indian Reflections

By: Aparajita Mukhopadhyay,Gargi Goswami

The present volume of Ethics and Culture contains six articles of renowned teachers of Philosophy who are also the members of the Value Group, Centre of Advanced Study in Philosophy, Jadavpur University. In all these articles authors have explored the contributions of the great thinkers of modern India regarding the value system of our country. Here the perspectives of Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay, Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Dwijendranath Tagore, Tarabai Shinde, J.N. Mohanty and Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa have been discussed in detail as all of them have a distinct view and faith on the traditional cultural beliefs of India and also have taken a critical approach to judge the mundane, orthodox attitude of people. The authors have explained the views of these great thinkers as their unique interpretations about Indian tradition can be used as a weapon against cultural encroachment and intolerance. The book, thus, helps to revive the true essence of our culture which is veiled by many socio-political factors of the present world.

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168

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DK Printworld (P) Ltd

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8193607686

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9788193607688

The Gothique: Myriad Manifestations

-A Study of the Various Forms of the Gothic

By: Aparajita Hazra

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The Gothique: Myriad Manifestations

-A Study of the Various Forms of the Gothic

By: Aparajita Hazra

The Gothic has come a long way from the romantic quest for the imaginary. The gothic has proved to be an extremely enduing genre that has manifested itself in various forms in the cultural, literary, political, ecological and historical aspects of human existence. This anthology takes up various aspects of the Gothic ranging from ghost stories in literature and films to folklore and mythology to cultural horror, to showcase how Gothic is part of an omnipresent power structure that shapes the socio-cultural and psychological metanarrative that governs human ontology.

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Partridge Publishing

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1543708994

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9781543708998

Analyzing Population and Land Use Change

Selected Case Studies of Indian Metropolitan Cities

By: Ankit Sikarwar,Aparajita Chattopadhyay

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Analyzing Population and Land Use Change

Selected Case Studies of Indian Metropolitan Cities

By: Ankit Sikarwar,Aparajita Chattopadhyay

This multidisciplinary book discusses and scientifically analyzes issues related to population, land use/cover (LULC) and environmental transformations in the seven most populated cities in India: Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad and Ahmedabad. To do so, it closely examines and compares the trends in selected population parameters, including total population, total number of households, population density, population growth rate, percent of total population in slums and intercensal net migration over the past two decades. Presenting the changes in various LULC categories (built-up land, forest cover, agricultural land, fallow land and water bodies) using the supervised classification of Landsat TM-5 images, it assesses the impact of population and LULC on the maximum and minimum temperatures and average annual rainfall in these regions. The book is a valuable resource for researchers and academics in the areas of sustainability, population and development, and environmental studies as well as those in NGOs and humanitarian sectors working in the areas of sustainable development and environment.

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Springer Nature

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9811550360

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9789811550362

Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

By: Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

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A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

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Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

Ethics and Culture

Ethics and Culture

The Gothique: Myriad Manifestations

The Gothique: Myriad Manifestations

Analyzing Population and Land Use Change

Analyzing Population and Land Use Change

Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

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