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The Elephant-headed God and Other Hindu Tales

By: Debjani Chatterjee

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The Elephant-headed God and Other Hindu Tales

By: Debjani Chatterjee

The worlds of gods, demons and humans meet and come alive in these twelve stories. The gods and goddesses, heroes and heroines, birds, beasts, demons, monsters, sages and warriors that inhabit these classical tales deliver the enduring wisdom of Hindu folklore. The stories are amongst the oldest in the world and belong to children everywhere, regardless of religion or country of birth. Each tale is illustrated with dramatic black-and-white pictures by Margaret Jones. These evocative illustrations capture the wealth and strength of the culture behind the stories and give the tales a magnificent setting worthy of their power and drama.

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100

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James Clarke & Co.

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0718827864

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9780718827861

The Partition of Bengal

Fragile Borders and New Identities

By: Debjani Sengupta

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The Partition of Bengal

Fragile Borders and New Identities

By: Debjani Sengupta

This study looks at the rich literature that has been spawned through the historical imagination of Bengali-speaking writers in West Bengal and Bangladesh through issues of homelessness, migration and exile to see how the Partition of Bengal in 1947 has thrown a long shadow over memories and cultural practices. Through a rich trove of literary and other materials, the book lays bare how the Partition has been remembered or how it has been forgotten. For the first time, hitherto untranslated archival materials and texts in Bangla have been put together to assess the impact of 1947 on the cultural memory of Bangla-speaking peoples and communities. This study contends that there is not one but many smaller partitions that women and men suffered, each with its own textures of pain, guilt and affirmation.

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288

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Cambridge University Press

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1316673871

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9781316673874

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

By: Debjani Ganguly

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Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

By: Debjani Ganguly

One prevalent socio-cultural structure that is peculiar to South Asia is caste, which is broadly understood in socio-anthropological terms as an institution of ranked, hereditary and occupational groups. This book discusses the enigmatic persistence of caste in the lives of South Asians as they step into the twenty-first century. It investigates the limits of sociological and secular historical analysis of the caste system in South Asia and argues for ways of describing life-forms generated by caste on the subcontinent that supplement the accounts of caste in the social sciences. By focusing on the literary, oral, visual and spiritual practices of one particular group of ex-untouchables in western India called ‘Mahars’, the author suggests that one can understand caste not as an essence that is responsible for South Asia’s backwardness, but as a constellation of variegated practices that are in a constant state of flux and cannot be completely encapsulated within a narrative of nation-building, modernization and development.

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496

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Routledge

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113429137X

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9781134291373

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

Explores how the British Empire responded to the environmental challenges of the world's largest tidal delta.

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259

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Cambridge University Press

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1108425747

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9781108425742

Masala

Poems from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

By: Debjani Chatterjee

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Masala

Poems from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka

By: Debjani Chatterjee

A rich and vibrant collection of poems from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka from eighty classic and modern poets. These gorgeous poems encapsulate the heat, spices, colours and identity of the Indian subcontinent.

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197

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MacMillan UK

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0330415018

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9780330415019

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

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Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

The Making of Calcutta

By: Debjani Bhattacharyya

What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. Pushing beyond narratives of environmental decline, Bhattacharyya argues that 'property-thinking', a governing tool critical in making land and water discrete categories of bureaucratic and legal management, was at the heart of colonial urbanization and the technologies behind the draining of Calcutta. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent practices of land speculation and transformation in colonial law. Bhattacharyya demonstrates how this history continues to shape our built environments with devastating consequences, as shown in the Bay of Bengal's receding coastline.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108681727

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9781108681728

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-modernity

Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

By: Debjani Ganguly

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Notes on a Postcolonial Hermeneutics of Caste

By: Debjani Ganguly

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Routledge

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0415342945

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9780415342940

Book's by Debjani Chatterjee

The Elephant-headed God and Other Hindu Tales

The Elephant-headed God and Other Hindu Tales

The Partition of Bengal

The Partition of Bengal

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-Modernity

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Masala

Masala

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-modernity

Caste, Colonialism and Counter-modernity

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