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Reading with Allah

Madrasas in West Bengal

By: Nilanjana Gupta

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Reading with Allah

Madrasas in West Bengal

By: Nilanjana Gupta

This book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses identity, ‘secular’ education and gender in this context, while exploring the myths that surround these institutions.

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1136704981

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Beyond the Madrasa

Muslim Communities and Educational Institutes in India Today

By: Nilanjana Gupta

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Beyond the Madrasa

Muslim Communities and Educational Institutes in India Today

By: Nilanjana Gupta

This book looks at madrasas and educational institutions run by Muslim communities in India focusing on the history, social relevance and importance of these institutions. It provides a sensitive and in-depth analysis of the push and pull of tradition, religiosity and modernity within these establishments. The book studies several institutions in Kozhikode, Surat, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Barak Valley in Assam, Ladakh, Delhi and several cities in Uttar Pradesh and examines new initiatives, curricula, models of education and professional training being offered. It contextualises educational reforms in madrasas in response to changing policies and larger socio-economic realities in contemporary India. It also interrogates stereotypes associated with Islam and madrasa education, paying particular attention to their syllabi and desired outcomes. This book also looks at the roles and positions of women in these institutions. Emphasising the long and complex history of Muslim communities and madrasas, the book showcases the remarkable diversity of approaches and pedagogical practices which combine deeni and duniyadi education across India today. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of the history of education, religious education, comparative education and sociology. It will also be useful to people working with NGOs and policymakers in the field of educational reform and planning.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000801306

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9781000801309

Community Psychology

Emerging Issues and Challenges

By: Sibnath Deb,Aleena Maria Sunny,Nilanjana Sanyal,Shayana Deb

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Community Psychology

Emerging Issues and Challenges

By: Sibnath Deb,Aleena Maria Sunny,Nilanjana Sanyal,Shayana Deb

This book focuses on the theoretical concepts of community psychology and its applications in day-to-day life. It discusses the challenges that adversely affect the welfare and well-being of common people and suggests community-centric, evidence-based measures to address them. Factors like new-age lifestyles, fast-paced development, and an increase in occurrence of natural calamities have been detrimental to the psychological well-being of the community. This volume integrates the social, cultural, economic, political, and environmental aspects of community psychology to address community life-based issues which include mental health stigma, social asymmetries, resource disparities, disadvantaged minority groups, the differently abled, HIV/AIDS patients, project-affected people, and disaster victims. Key features of this book include: • Dedicated intervention-based chapters on mental health, physical health, differently abled people, the elderly, vulnerable children, HIV/AIDS patients, and people affected by development projects and disasters. • Focus on challenges faced by students and school-based family counselling. • Case studies and conceptual models for better understanding and application of the subject. The volume will be a valuable resource to students, researchers, and teachers of Psychology, Social Work, Sociology, Public Health, and Social Economics. It will also be an indispensable read for social workers, NGOs, advocacy groups, and policymakers working in the field of social upliftment.

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495

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Taylor & Francis

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1000997340

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9781000997347

Geo-Spatial Analysis of Forest Landscape for Wildlife Management

By: Mrinmay Mandal,Nilanjana Das Chatterjee

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Geo-Spatial Analysis of Forest Landscape for Wildlife Management

By: Mrinmay Mandal,Nilanjana Das Chatterjee

This book presents research on landscape ecology and the relationship between humans and wildlife. It helps readers understand how ecological patterns and processes are interconnected. This research illustrates and proposes (practicable) management strategies toward long-term ecological restoration and mitigation of consequences of conflict. Increasing wildlife activities in localities and forest fringes are an alarming issue. Ecological processes like movement, colonization, extinction and conflict issues depend on the landscape and ecological activities, the movement for example of migratory elephants and their colonization not only affects society but the wildlife and biodiversity too. Strategic management measures can contribute to enriching the biodiversity, habitat quality as well as landscape, while minimizing human-wildlife conflicts. This book describes landscape ecological patterns and processes, habitat dominancy, habitat dependency, suitability, connectivity and corridor selection. To synthesize these patterns and processes, several ecological indices are used. Use of geo-spatial techniques improves future management strategies for similar circumstances, especially, related to forest regeneration and forest restoration. This book provides a concise overview to a wide range of readers including postgraduate students, researcher, academics, landscape planners, decision makers and even local populations. The techniques and management strategies described should help planners to improve forest management, by implementing quality enhancement programs such as plantation area selection and corridor selection.

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Springer Nature

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3031336062

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Communicating as a Global Citizen

By: Miriam Sobre-Denton,Nilanjana Bardhan

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Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Communicating as a Global Citizen

By: Miriam Sobre-Denton,Nilanjana Bardhan

Winner of the National Communication Association's International and Intercultural Communication Division's 2014 Outstanding Authored Book of the Year award This book engages the notion of cosmopolitanism as it applies to intercultural communication, which itself is undergoing a turn in its focus from post-positivistic research towards critical/interpretive and postcolonial perspectives, particularly as globalization informs more of the current and future research in the area. It emphasizes the postcolonial perspective in order to raise critical consciousness about the complexities of intercultural communication in a globalizing world, situating cosmopolitanism—the notion of global citizenship—as a multilayered lens for research. Cosmopolitanism as a theoretical repertoire provides nuanced descriptions of what it means to be and communicate as a global citizen, how to critically study interconnectedness within and across cultures, and how to embrace differences without glossing over them. Moving intercultural communication studies towards the global in complex and nuanced ways, this book highlights crucial links between globalization, transnationalism, postcolonialism, cosmopolitanism, social injustice and intercultural communication, and will help in the creation of classroom spaces devoted to exploring these links. It also engages the links between theory and praxis in order to move towards intercultural communication pedagogy and research that simultaneously celebrates and interrogates issues of cultural difference with the aim of creating continuity rather than chasms. In sum, this book orients intercultural communication scholarship firmly towards the critical and postcolonial, while still allowing the incorporation of traditional intercultural communication concepts, thereby preparing students, scholars, educators and interculturalists to communicate ethically in a world that is simultaneously global and local.

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Routledge

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1135136319

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THERE’S LOVE IN EVERY HEART

By: Nilanjana Sanyal

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THERE’S LOVE IN EVERY HEART

By: Nilanjana Sanyal

The novel has a mandate that there could be nothing more beautiful than the universal attributes of love, compassion, tolerance, forgiveness, a sisterhood and a brotherhood, understanding and humanitarianism seen through a variety of lenses and perspectives in general and gender in particular. The book carries a genuine message for humanity and the new world that is emerging. "A beautiful piece of writing that touches many issues such as violence; the pitfalls of retributive justice and the scourge of social inequality (all set against a backdrop of India) in a non-pedagogic, story like manner. Unputdownable." Shabnam Hashmi, Social Activist, Founder ANHAD (Act Now for Harmony and Democracy) “I have known Nilanjana Sanyal as a columnist for Tehelka magazines. Ms Sanyal’s new novel "There's Love In Every Heart" reminds me of noted author Francis Bacon who once penned “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.” Every word of her novel is to be tasted, swallowed, chewed and digested literally.” Charanjit Ahuja, Editor, Tehelka

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Notion Press

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1648059708

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Patriots, Poets and Prisoners

Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947

By: Nilanjana Roy

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Patriots, Poets and Prisoners

Selections from Ramananda Chatterjee's The Modern Review, 1907-1947

By: Nilanjana Roy

Founded in 1907 by the visionary Bengali thinker and reformist, Ramananda Chatterjee, The Modern Review quickly emerged as a vital platform for debates on nationalism, patriotism, history and society. Alongside the leaders of the freedom movement - M.K. Gandhi, Subhas Chandra Bose, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore - thinkers like Romain Rolland and J.T. Sutherland contributed to its pages. While questions of self-rule, gender justice and caste inequality were hotly debated, the Review also ran fiction, poetry and personal essays, forging a character for itself that was uniquely literary, political as well as cosmopolitan. Marking Chatterjee's 150th birth anniversary, this anthology, edited by members of his family and introduced by Ramachandra Guha, brings together a selection from the rich archives of the Review to convey its eclectic range and ambitions. Even after a century, the debates that played out in its pages resonate with the spirit of the turbulent times we live in, making it urgently relevant to the state of the nation and the body politic.

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Harper Collins

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9352640225

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Beyond the Madrasa

Muslim Communities and Educational Institutes in India Today

By: Nilanjana Gupta

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Muslim Communities and Educational Institutes in India Today

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Taylor & Francis

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1000801306

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Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947

A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics

By: Nilanjana Paul

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Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947

A Study of Curriculum, Educational Institutions, and Communal Politics

By: Nilanjana Paul

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling, eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School, Lady Brabourne College, Eden College, Calcutta, and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them. An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India, the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history, religion, education, Partition studies, minority studies, imperialism, colonialism, and South Asian history.

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1000559238

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The Role of Leadership in Building Inclusive Diversity in Public Relations

By: Nilanjana Bardhan,Karla Gower

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The Role of Leadership in Building Inclusive Diversity in Public Relations

By: Nilanjana Bardhan,Karla Gower

This book focuses on the relationship between leadership and diversity, inclusion and equity within the US public relations industry. The authors argue that there is ample research evidence that diversity and inclusion efforts cannot succeed without leadership support that commits to and assumes responsibility and accountability for the structural and cultural changes required. Drawing on literature from three different areas – public relations, diversity and inclusion/equity in US societal and organizational contexts and leadership – the authors build a conceptual framework and model for inclusive leadership in public relations that addresses industry dynamics. The book is timely as a resource for public relations scholars and as a supplementary text for advanced courses in public relations principles, theory, management, leadership and diversity. It also provides practitioners theoretical guidance on how to improve diversity, inclusion and equity in their organizations.

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245

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Taylor & Francis

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1000623408

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Reading Jhumpa Lahiri

Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora

By: Nilanjana Chatterjee

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Reading Jhumpa Lahiri

Women, Domesticity and the Indian American Diaspora

By: Nilanjana Chatterjee

This book is an innovative and rigorous study of Jhumpa Lahiri's Indian American female characters' lived and imagined diasporic house space, using domesticity and the house as an analytical tool to explore their hidden domestic spaces. The book explores how the house as a spatial construct, shares a symbiotic relationship with its inhabitants, and through their implicit and explicit response to various parts of their diasporic house space, interprets their maladies, limitations and opportunities. Indian American diasporic women, especially homemakers, have long been grappling with issues of socio-cultural invisibility as they have no other space to interact with except their houses in the hostland, now more than ever, during the global corona crisis. A reading of this multi-layered relationship between houses and their women will help readers understand not only the political, intellectual, emotional and sexual dispositions of middleclass Indian women in America, but also social, cultural and economic positions they occupy within the hostland. The book shows the represented domestic interstices and looks at them as signifiers of distinct individual trajectories, wherein lies embedded the women inhabitants’ oppositions beneath the acceptance of normative Indian family values in diaspora. It also offers elemental insights into ways in which migration acts as an opportunity for establishing new, often hybridized, identities, for which it is important to realise their connections with their house space. Presenting an alternative methodology for reading real and imagined lives of women in Indian American diaspora, the book proposes an unconventional mode of understanding diasporic realities and representations in cultural studies that is not readily apparent. It will be of interest to researchers in the field of South Asian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Migration Studies, Culture Studies, Feminist Writings, Gender Studies and Asian Literature. Foreword by Bill Ashcroft

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Routledge

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1000572064

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An Annotated English Translation of Tagore en las barrancas de San Isidro

By: Victoria Ocampo,Nilanjana Bhattacharya

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An Annotated English Translation of Tagore en las barrancas de San Isidro

By: Victoria Ocampo,Nilanjana Bhattacharya

A detailed account of Rabindranath’s stay in Argentina, this book by Victoria Ocampo is an important document in tracing Indo-Argentine contact. This first English translation of the book makes it available to the larger English-speaking world. Its critical introduction uncovers the backdrop of Ocampo’s text in such a way that it helps the reader to situate the work within its specific context, and also raises significant critical questions. Scholars interested in Rabindranath Tagore or Victoria Ocampo, or Indo-Argentine contact in general, will benefit from the book’s notes and annotated bibliography. In addition, readers interested in translation studies will also find the volume helpful.

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102

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527572609

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Reading with Allah

Madrasas in West Bengal

By: Nilanjana Gupta

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Reading with Allah

Madrasas in West Bengal

By: Nilanjana Gupta

Based on extensive fieldwork and archival records, this book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses issues of identity, ‘secular’ education and gender in this context, while exploring the myths that surround these institutions. Amongst other things, it interrogates why Muslim communities prefer sending their sons to government schools to receive a secular education, while the daughters are sent to madrasas.

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1136704973

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Calcutta Mosaic

Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta

By: Himadri Banerjee,Nilanjana Gupta,Sipra Mukherjee

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Calcutta Mosaic

Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of Calcutta

By: Himadri Banerjee,Nilanjana Gupta,Sipra Mukherjee

This collection brings together the stories of the Armenians, Chinese, Sikhs, ‘South Indians’, Bohra Muslims and other communities who have come and created this wondrous mosaic, the city of Calcutta.

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Anthem Press

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1843318059

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Dance Matters Too

Markets, Memories, Identities

By: Pallabi Chakravorty,Nilanjana Gupta

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Dance Matters Too

Markets, Memories, Identities

By: Pallabi Chakravorty,Nilanjana Gupta

Dance Matters Too: Markets, Memories, Identities is a rich intellectual contribution to the growing field of dance studies in India. It forges new avenues of scholarly inquiry and critical engagement and opens the field in innovative ways. This volume builds on Dance Matters (2009), which mapped the interdisciplinary breadth of the field. The chapters presented here continue to underline the uniqueness of a field that is a blend of critical scholarship on aesthetics and performance with the humanities and social sciences. Including diverse material, analytical approaches and perspectives from scholars and practitioners, this multidimensional volume explores debates on dance preservation and tradition in globalizing India, multimedia choreographies and the circulation of dance via electronic media, embodiment and memory, power, democracy and bourgeoning markets, classification and censorship, and corporatization and Bollywood. This tour de force will appeal to those in dance and performance studies, cultural studies, sociology as well as to readers interested in tradition, modernity, gender and globalization.

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Routledge Chapman & Hall

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0367735318

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9780367735319

Book's by Nilanjana Gupta

Reading with Allah

Reading with Allah

Beyond the Madrasa

Beyond the Madrasa

Community Psychology

Community Psychology

Geo-Spatial Analysis of Forest Landscape for Wildlife Management

Geo-Spatial Analysis of Forest Landscape for Wildlife Management

Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

Cultivating Cosmopolitanism for Intercultural Communication

THERE’S LOVE IN EVERY HEART

THERE’S LOVE IN EVERY HEART

Patriots, Poets and Prisoners

Patriots, Poets and Prisoners

Beyond the Madrasa

Beyond the Madrasa

Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947

Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education, 1854–1947

The Role of Leadership in Building Inclusive Diversity in Public Relations

The Role of Leadership in Building Inclusive Diversity in Public Relations

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri

Reading Jhumpa Lahiri

An Annotated English Translation of Tagore en las barrancas de San Isidro

An Annotated English Translation of Tagore en las barrancas de San Isidro

Reading with Allah

Reading with Allah

Calcutta Mosaic

Calcutta Mosaic

Dance Matters Too

Dance Matters Too

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