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The Bollywood Reader

By: Dudrah, Rajinder,Desai, Jigna

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Provides a road map of the scholarship on modern Hindi cinema in India, with an emphasis on understanding the interplay between cinema and colonialism, nationalism, and globalization. This book attends to issues of capitalism, nationalism, orientalism, and modernity through understandings of race, gender and sexuality, religion, and politics.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335222129

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Beyond Bollywood

The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

By: Jigna Desai

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The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

By: Jigna Desai

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Psychology Press

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0415966841

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Equity in Heritage Conservation

The Case of Ahmedabad, India

By: Jigna Desai

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Equity in Heritage Conservation

The Case of Ahmedabad, India

By: Jigna Desai

Recognised by the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural heritage has become an increasingly important issue across the globe. The equity principle of sustainable development necessitates that citizens hold the right to participate in the cultural economy of a place, requiring that inhabitants and other stakeholders are consulted on processes of continuity or transformation. However, aspirations of cultural exchange do not translate in practice. Equity in Heritage Conservation takes the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ahmedabad, India, as the foundational investigation into the realities of cultural heritage conservation and management. It contextualises the question of heritage by citing places, projects and initiatives from other cities around the world to identify issues, processes and improvements. Through illustrated chapters it discusses the understanding of heritage in relation to the sustainable development of living historic cities, the viability of specific measures, ethics of engagement and recommendations for governance. This book will appeal to a range of scholars interested in cultural heritage conservation and management, sustainable development, urban and regional planning, and architecture.

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Routledge

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0429888643

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Beyond Bollywood

The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

By: Jigna Desai

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The Cultural Politics of South Asian Diasporic Film

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Subaltern Movements in India

Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

By: Manisha Desai

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Subaltern Movements in India

Gendered Geographies of Struggle Against Neoliberal Development

By: Manisha Desai

Social struggles in India target both the state and private corporations. Three subaltern struggles against development in Gujarat, India, succeeded, to varying degrees, due to legalism from below and translocal solidarity, but that success has been compromised by its gendered geographies. Based on extensive field research, this book examines the reasons for the three social movements succeess. It analyses the contradictory reality of the deepening of democracy along with coercive state measures in the era of neoliberal development, the importance of the legal changes in the state, the nature of the local fields of protest, and the translocal field of protest in contemporary subaltern protests. Addressing gender inequalities within and outside the struggle, the author shows that despite subaltern women having symbolic visibility in the public spaces of the struggles – such as rallies, protests, and meetings with government officials – they are absent from the private spaces of decision-making and collective dialogues. This book offers a new approach on the politics of social movements in contemporary India by discussing the nuanced relationship between development and democracy, social justice and gender justice. It will be of interest to academics in the field of Development and Gender studies, Studies of social movements and South Asian Studies.

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1317382781

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Commerce with the Universe

Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination

By: Gaurav Desai

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Commerce with the Universe

Africa, India, and the Afrasian Imagination

By: Gaurav Desai

Reading the life narratives and literary texts of South Asians writing in East Africa, Gaurav Desai builds a new history of Africa’s encounter with slavery, colonialism, migration, nationalism, development, and globalization. Rather than approach literature and culture from a nation-centered perspective, Desai connects the medieval trade routes of the Islamicate empire, the early independence movements galvanized in part by Gandhi’s southern African experiences, the invention of new ethnic nationalisms, and the rise of plural, multiethnic nations to the fertile exchange taking place across the Indian Ocean.

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Columbia University Press

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0231164548

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Equity in Heritage Conservation

The Case of Ahmedabad, India

By: Jigna Desai

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The Case of Ahmedabad, India

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From England with Love

An Indian Student Writes from Cambridge (1926–27)

By: Padma Desai

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From England with Love

An Indian Student Writes from Cambridge (1926–27)

By: Padma Desai

In 1926–27, Kalidas Desai, a student of English literature at the University of Cambridge, wrote a letter every other week to his friend and colleague Vishnuprasad Trivedi. During one of her visits to Surat, his daughter Padma Desai was handed a metal box containing these letters, written in ink on brown decaying paper, the ruminations of a young Kalidas on a wide spectrum of topics: from his battles with Icelandic Norse and Scandinavian Anglo-Saxon languages to his great delight at attending the lectures of T.S. Eliot; from his enchantment with London, its theatres and cricket, to his deep appreciation of the English countryside; from the cultural and social contrasts between Britain and India to the general nature of love, religion and education. In From England with Love, Padma Desai presents a comprehensive selection of these letters. Detailed, picturesque and exquisitely crafted, Kalidas’s prose captures the ethos and zeitgeist of England in the mid-1920s, the trials and victories of an Oxbridge education almost a century ago, and the scholarly reflections of an Indian student in the midst of new and exciting adventures.

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Penguin UK

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9351189023

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The Bollywood Reader

The Bollywood Reader

Beyond Bollywood

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Equity in Heritage Conservation

Equity in Heritage Conservation

Beyond Bollywood

Beyond Bollywood

Subaltern Movements in India

Subaltern Movements in India

Commerce with the Universe

Commerce with the Universe

Equity in Heritage Conservation

Equity in Heritage Conservation

From England with Love

From England with Love

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