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Empire and Nation

Selected Essays

By: Partha Chatterjee

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Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an area of scholarship he continues to develop. In this collection, English-speaking readers are finally able to experience the breadth and substance of Chatterjee's wide-ranging thought. His provocative essays examine the phenomenon of postcolonial democracy and establish the parameters for research in subaltern politics. They include an early engagement with agrarian politics and Chatterjee's brilliant book reviews and journalism. Selections include one never-before-published essay, "A Tribute to the Master," which considers through a mock retelling of an episode from the classic Sanskrit epic, The Mahabharata, a deep dilemma in the study of postcolonial history, and several Bengali essays, now translated into English for the first time. An introduction by Nivedita Menon adds necessary context and depth, critiquing Chatterjee's ideas and their influence on contemporary political thought.

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Columbia University Press

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0231526504

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9780231526500

I Am the People

Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

By: Partha Chatterjee

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I Am the People

Reflections on Popular Sovereignty Today

By: Partha Chatterjee

Partha Chatterjee reconsiders the concept of popular sovereignty in order to explain today's dramatic outburst of movements claiming to speak for "the people." To uncover the roots of populism, Chatterjee traces the twentieth-century trajectory of the welfare state and neoliberal reforms.

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Ruth Benedict Book

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0231195486

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The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus

Comprising Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, The Nation and its Fragments, and A Possible India

By: Partha Chatterjee

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The Partha Chatterjee Omnibus

Comprising Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World, The Nation and its Fragments, and A Possible India

By: Partha Chatterjee

The Omnibus comprises three of Partha Chatterjee's finest works, marking a significant phase in the author's intellectual journey as a political scientist. The principal object of study in all three books is the existing nation state.

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OUP India

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0195651561

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The Politics of the Governed

Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

By: Partha Chatterjee

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The Politics of the Governed

Reflections on Popular Politics in Most of the World

By: Partha Chatterjee

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0231130627

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Lineages of Political Society

Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

By: Partha Chatterjee

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Lineages of Political Society

Studies in Postcolonial Democracy

By: Partha Chatterjee

Partha Chatterjee, a pioneering theorist known for his disciplinary range, builds on his theory of "political society" and reinforces its salience to contemporary political debate. Dexterously incorporating the concerns of South Asian studies, postcolonialism, the social sciences, and the humanities, Chatterjee broadly critiques the past three hundred years of western political theory to ask, Can democracy be brought into being, or even fought for, in the image of Western democracy as it exists today? Using the example of postcolonial societies and their political evolution, particularly communities within India, Chatterjee undermines the certainty of liberal democratic theory in favor of a realist view of its achievements and limitations. Rather than push an alternative theory, Chatterjee works solely within the realm of critique, proving political difference is not always evidence of philosophical and cultural backwardness outside of the West. Resisting all prejudices and preformed judgments, he deploys his trademark, genre-bending, provocative analysis to upend the assumptions of postcolonial studies, comparative history, and the common claims of contemporary politics.

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A Princely Impostor?

The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

By: Partha Chatterjee

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A Princely Impostor?

The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

By: Partha Chatterjee

In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, Partha Chatterjee sifts through evidence found in official archives, popular songs, and backstreet Bangladeshi bookshops. He evaluates the case of the man claiming, with the support of legions of tenants and relatives, to be the long-lost Kumar. And he considers the position of the sannyasi's detractors, including the colonial government and the Kumar's young widow, who resolutely refused to meet the man she denounced as an impostor. Along the way, Chatterjee introduces us to a fascinating range of human character, gleans insights into the nature of human identity, and examines the relation between scientific evidence, legal truth, and cultural practice. The story he tells unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Its plot is shaped by changing gender and class relations and punctuated by critical historical events, including the onset of World War II, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Great Calcutta Killings. And by identifying the earliest erosion of colonialism and the growth of nationalist thinking within the organs of colonial power, Chatterjee also gives us a secret history of Indian nationalism.

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Princeton University Press

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0691218315

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9780691218311

Through my looking glass

Close Encounters of a personal kind

By: Partha Chatterjee

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Through my looking glass

Close Encounters of a personal kind

By: Partha Chatterjee

Partha never worked behind a desk and from 9 to 5. He started his career in the exotic tea gardens of Northeast India and continued his career in luxury hotels around the country. During his life’s journey, he met various interesting people, and he has been in unique situations. These stories make up this beautiful collection.” There are celebrated movies and books on the people he encountered like Dr. John Nash covered in the film A Beautiful Mind, female war correspondents reflected in the movie Private War and his association with JRD Tata and Russi Mody, The story of Billy Arjan Singh and Billy’s association with the film Born Free, Partha’s own experiences during The Sikh Riots and his travels through Zululand are just some of the stories.” This is an anthology of a person’s experiences who knows how to spin a tale.

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Notion Press

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1684669367

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Empire and Nation

Selected Essays

By: Partha Chatterjee

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Selected Essays

By: Partha Chatterjee

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Make It or Break It

The Real Dos and Don’ts for a Successful Career

By: Partha Sarathi Basu

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Make It or Break It

The Real Dos and Don’ts for a Successful Career

By: Partha Sarathi Basu

The corporate world can be ruthless with its unwritten rules and hidden pitfalls. To succeed, it is crucial to learn the tricks of survival quickly. Make It or Break It is an indispensible guide to imbibing these skills early on in one’s career. Packed with important life lessons, it shows you how to get started on the right foot and emerge a winner.

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8184756836

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Optical Networks and Components

Fundamentals and Advances

By: Partha Pratim Sahu

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Optical Networks and Components

Fundamentals and Advances

By: Partha Pratim Sahu

Intended as an undergraduate/post graduate level textbook for courses on high speed optical networks as well as computer networks. Nine chapters cover basic principles of the technology and different devices for optical networks, as well as processing of integrated waveguide devices of optical networks using different technologies. It provides students, researchers and practicing engineers with an expert guide to the fundamental concepts, issues and state of the art developments in optical networks. Includes examples throughout all the chapters of the book to aid understanding of basic problems and solutions.

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1000807487

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Advances in Optical Networks and Components

By: Partha Pratim Sahu

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Advances in Optical Networks and Components

By: Partha Pratim Sahu

This book is intended as a graduate/post graduate level textbook for courses on high-speed optical networks as well as computer networks. The ten chapters cover basic principles of the technology as well as latest developments and further discuss network security, survivability, and reliability of optical networks and priority schemes used in wavelength routing. This book also goes on to examine Fiber To The Home (FTTH) standards and their deployment and research issues and includes examples in all the chapters to aid the understanding of problems and solutions. Presents advanced concepts of optical network devices Includes examples and exercises inall the chapters of the book to aid the understanding of basic problems and solutions for undergraduate and postgraduate students Discusses optical ring metropolitan area networks and queuing system and its interconnection with other networks Discusses routing and wavelength assignment Examines restoration schemes in the survivability of optical networks

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1000060608

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The Triumph of Modernism

India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-47

By: Partha Mitter

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The Triumph of Modernism

India's Artists and the Avant-garde, 1922-47

By: Partha Mitter

The Triumph of Modernism probes the intricate interplay of Western modernism and Indian nationalism in the evolution of colonial-era Indian art.

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1861893183

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The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia

Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code

By: Partha S. Ghosh

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The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia

Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code

By: Partha S. Ghosh

The viability of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) has always been a bone of contention in socially and politically plural South Asia. It is entangled within the polemics of identity politics, minority rights, women’s rights, national integration, uniform citizenry and, of late, global Islamic politics and universal human rights. While champions of each category view the issue from their own perspectives, making the debate extremely complex, this book takes up the challenge of providing a holistic political analysis. As most of the South Asian states today subscribe to a decentralised view and share a common history, this study is an excellent comparative analysis of the applicability of the UCC. In this work, India figures prominently, being the most plural and vibrant democracy, as well as accounting for almost three-fourths of the region’s population. This provides the backdrop for an analysis of the other states in the region. This second edition will be indispensable for scholars, researchers and students of law, political science and South Asian Studies.

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042901547X

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A Princely Impostor?

The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

By: Partha Chatterjee

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The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal

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Princeton University Press

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0691218315

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The Nation and Its Fragments

Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

By: Partha Chatterjee

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The Nation and Its Fragments

Colonial and Postcolonial Histories

By: Partha Chatterjee

In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference with the nationalism propagated by the West. Arguing that scholars have been mistaken in equating political nationalism with nationalism as such, he shows how anticolonialist nationalists produced their own domain of sovereignty within colonial society well before beginning their political battle with the imperial power. These nationalists divided their culture into material and spiritual domains, and staked an early claim to the spiritual sphere, represented by religion, caste, women and the family, and peasants. Chatterjee shows how middle-class elites first imagined the nation into being in this spiritual dimension and then readied it for political contest, all the while "normalizing" the aspirations of the various marginal groups that typify the spiritual sphere. While Chatterjee's specific examples are drawn from Indian sources, with a copious use of Bengali language materials, the book is a contribution to the general theoretical discussion on nationalism and the modern state. Examining the paradoxes involved with creating first a uniquely non-Western nation in the spiritual sphere and then a universalist nation-state in the material sphere, the author finds that the search for a postcolonial modernity is necessarily linked with past struggles against modernity.

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Princeton University Press

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0691201420

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State, Nation and Democracy

Alternative Global Futures

By: Partha Pratim Basu,Purusottam Bhattacharya,Rochana Das,Anjali Ghosh And Kanak Chandra Sarkar

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State, Nation and Democracy

Alternative Global Futures

By: Partha Pratim Basu,Purusottam Bhattacharya,Rochana Das,Anjali Ghosh And Kanak Chandra Sarkar

Papers presented at the Seminar: Alternative Global Futures, held at Kolkata during 5-6 March 2003 and the Seminar: State, Nation and Democracy : Global Politics in the 21st Century, held at Kolkata during 9-10 March 2004

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180694208

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9788180694202

Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems, Second Edition

By: John M. Jarem,Partha P. Banerjee

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Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems, Second Edition

By: John M. Jarem,Partha P. Banerjee

This text examines a variety of spectral computational techniques— including k-space theory, Floquet theory and beam propagation— that are used to analyze electromagnetic and optical problems. The authors tie together different applications in EM and optics in which the state variable method is used. Emphasizing the analysis of planar diffraction gratings using rigorous coupled wave analysis, the book presents many cases that are analyzed using a full-field vector approach to solve Maxwell’s equations in anisotropic media where a standard wave equation approach is intractable.

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1439804230

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Fundamentals of Optical Networks and Components

By: Partha Pratim Sahu

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Fundamentals of Optical Networks and Components

By: Partha Pratim Sahu

This book is intended as an undergraduate/postgraduate level textbook for courses on high-speed optical networks as well as computer networks. Nine chapters cover the basic principles of the technology and different devices for optical networks, as well as processing of integrated waveguide devices of optical networks using different technologies. It provides students, researchers and practicing engineers with an expert guide to the fundamental concepts, issues and state-of-the-art developments in optical networks. It includes examples throughout all the chapters of the book to aid understanding of basic problems and solutions. Presents basics of the optical network devices and discusses latest developments Includes examples and exercises throughout all the chapters of the book to aid understanding of basic problems and solutions for undergraduate and postgraduate students Discusses different optical network node architectures and their components Includes basic theories and latest developments of hardware devices with their fabrication technologies (such as optical switch, wavelength router, wavelength division multiplexer/demultiplexer and add/drop multiplexer), helpful for researchers to initiate research on this field and to develop research problem-solving capability Reviews fiber-optic networks without WDM and single-hop and multi-hop WDM optical networks P. P. Sahu received his M.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and his Ph.D. degree in engineering from Jadavpur University, India. In 1991, he joined Haryana State Electronics Development Corporation Limited, where he has been engaged in R&D works related to optical fiber components and telecommunication instruments. In 1996, he joined Northeastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology as a faculty member. At present, he is working as a professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Tezpur Central University, India. His field of interest is integrated optic and electronic circuits, wireless and optical communication, clinical instrumentation, green energy, etc. He has received an INSA teacher award (instituted by the highest academic body Indian National Science Academy) for high level of teaching and research. He has published more than 90 papers in peer-reviewed international journals, 60 papers in international conference, and has written five books published by Springer Nature, McGraw-Hill. Dr Sahu is a Fellow of the Optical Society of India, Life Member of Indian Society for Technical Education and Senior Member of the IEEE.

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1000060594

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Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems

By: John M. Jarem,Partha P. Banerjee

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Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems

By: John M. Jarem,Partha P. Banerjee

The current rapid and complex advancement applications of electromagnetic (EM) and optical systems calls for a much needed update on the computational methods currently in use. Completely revised and reflecting ten years of develoments, this second edition of the bestselling Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical Systems provides the

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1439891281

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Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922

Occidental Orientations

By: Partha Mitter

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Art and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1850-1922

Occidental Orientations

By: Partha Mitter

Partha Mitter's book is a pioneering study of the history of modern art on the Indian subcontinent from 1850 to 1922. The author tells the story of Indian art during the Raj, set against the interplay of colonialism and nationalism. The work addresses the tensions and contradictions that attended the advent of European naturalism in India, as part of the imperial design for the westernisation of the elite, and traces the artistic evolution from unquestioning westernisation to the construction of Hindu national identity. Through a wide range of literary and pictorial sources, Art and Nationalism in Colonial India balances the study of colonial cultural institutions and networks with the ideologies of the nationalist and intellectual movements which followed. The result is a book of immense significance, both in the context of South Asian history and in the wider context of art history.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521443547

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9780521443548

An Inquiry Into Well-being and Destitution

By: Partha Dasgupta

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An Inquiry Into Well-being and Destitution

By: Partha Dasgupta

An interdisciplinary book by one of the most respected scholars in what is broadly development economics but encompasses the most recent insights from philosophical research and empirical work on resource allocation, nutrition science, and anthropology. It has been widely recognized as aseminal work presenting a wide-ranging description of the causes and remedies of poverty and undernourishment, and addressing the current debate over methods of estimating their incidence.

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Oxford University Press

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0198288352

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9780198288350

The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia

Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code

By: Partha Sarathy Ghosh

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The Politics of Personal Law in South Asia

Identity, Nationalism and the Uniform Civil Code

By: Partha Sarathy Ghosh

It is a political study of the controversy surrounding the issue of the uniform civil code vis-à-vis personal laws from a South Asian perspective. At the centre of the debate is whether there should be a centralized view of the legal system in a given society or a decentralized view, both horizontally and vertically. This issue is entangled within the threads of identity politics, minority rights, women's rights, national integration, global Islamic politics and universal human rights. Champions of each category view it through their own prisms, making the debate extremely complex, especially in politically and socially plural South Asia. So, this book attempts to harmonize the threads of the debate to provide a holistic political analysis.

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Routledge

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0415445442

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Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World

A Derivative Discourse

By: Partha Chatterjee

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Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World

A Derivative Discourse

By: Partha Chatterjee

Originally published: London: Zed Books for the United Nations University, 1986.

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0862325536

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Water Harvesting for Groundwater Management

Issues, Perspectives, Scope, and Challenges

By: Partha Sarathi Datta

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Water Harvesting for Groundwater Management

Issues, Perspectives, Scope, and Challenges

By: Partha Sarathi Datta

Outlines the concept and principles of water harvesting for groundwater management for an international audience, and looks at the positives and negatives surrounding water harvesting technologies This book is the first to fully outline the concept and principles of water harvesting for groundwater management for a global audience. It offers guidance to academics, students and researchers on effective water harvesting approaches for groundwater recharge, and educates them on the risks associated with managed aquifer recharge, as well as the causes of success or failure of particular management strategies, and demand management strategies and tools. The book is helpful to water managers, administrators, and professionals, to make decisions to allocate resources; developing innovative cost-effective measures and approaches to achieve demand-supply balance. The book provides readers with an overview of the historical evolution of water harvesting for groundwater recharge. It looks at the benefits and gaps in knowledge, their implementation and funding strategies, and public participation. It also assesses the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) of water harvesting technologies. Water Harvesting for Groundwater Management: Issues, Perspectives, Scope and Challenges offers chapters covering: issues on water harvesting and water security; mega-trends that impact water security; groundwater occurrence, availability, and recharge-ability; phases of water harvesting systems; SWOT analysis of water harvesting systems; case studies and short examples of implementing water harvesting; scope of water harvesting for GWM strategies; guidelines to make water harvesting helpful and meaningful for GWM; and more. Summarizes the theories and applications of water harvesting for groundwater management for a world audience Offers guidance on effective water harvesting approaches for groundwater recharge, managed aquifer recharge, and successful water management strategies Evaluates the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) of water harvesting technologies Part of the Challenges in Water Management series Water Harvesting for Groundwater Management: Issues, Perspectives, Scope and Challenges is an excellent resource for water management professionals working with water harvesting technologies, and will be of great interest to water managers, administrators, professionals, academics and researchers working in water management.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119472016

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9781119472018

Power, Politics and the People

Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism

By: Partha Sarathi Gupta

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Power, Politics and the People

Studies in British Imperialism and Indian Nationalism

By: Partha Sarathi Gupta

An original and groundbreaking look at the encounter between British imperialism and Indian nationalism.

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Anthem Press

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1843310678

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The Economics of Biodiversity

By: Partha Dasgupta

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The Economics of Biodiversity

By: Partha Dasgupta

This landmark report explains the current state of play in relation to biodiversity loss and explores the ways in which we can find a sustainable path to deal with this problem, one that will require us to change how we think, act and measure success"--

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Cambridge University Press

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1009494333

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9781009494335

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling

A Framework Based on Philosophy and Modern Science

By: Partha Ghose,Sudip Patra

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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling

A Framework Based on Philosophy and Modern Science

By: Partha Ghose,Sudip Patra

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Cognitive Modelling presents a new approach to cognition that challenges long-held views. It systematically develops a broad-based framework to model cognition, which is mathematically equivalent to the emerging ‘quantum-like modelling’ of the human mind. The book argues that a satisfactory physical and philosophical basis of such an approach is missing, a particular issue being the application of quantization to the mind for which there is no empirical evidence as yet. In response to this issue, the book adopts a COM (classical optical modelling) approach, broad-based but mathematically equivalent to quantum-like modelling while avoiding its problematic features. It presents a philosophically informed and empirically motivated mathematical model of cognition, mainly concerning decision-making processes. It also deals with applications to different areas of the social sciences. It will be of interest to scholars and research students interested in the mathematical modelling of cognition and decision-making, and also interdisciplinary researchers interested in broader issues of cognition.

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100381865X

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9781003818656

The Black Hole of Empire

History of a Global Practice of Power

By: Partha Chatterjee

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The Black Hole of Empire

History of a Global Practice of Power

By: Partha Chatterjee

When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation. While this episode was never independently confirmed, the story of "the black hole of Calcutta" was widely circulated and seen by the British public as an atrocity committed by savage colonial subjects. The Black Hole of Empire follows the ever-changing representations of this historical event and founding myth of the British Empire in India, from the eighteenth century to the present. Partha Chatterjee explores how a supposed tragedy paved the ideological foundations for the "civilizing" force of British imperial rule and territorial control in India. Chatterjee takes a close look at the justifications of modern empire by liberal thinkers, international lawyers, and conservative traditionalists, and examines the intellectual and political responses of the colonized, including those of Bengali nationalists. The two sides of empire's entwined history are brought together in the story of the Black Hole memorial: set up in Calcutta in 1760, demolished in 1821, restored by Lord Curzon in 1902, and removed in 1940 to a neglected churchyard. Challenging conventional truisms of imperial history, nationalist scholarship, and liberal visions of globalization, Chatterjee argues that empire is a necessary and continuing part of the history of the modern state.

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Princeton University Press

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0691152012

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9780691152011

Raghubir Singh

Modernism on the Ganges

By: Mia Fineman,Amit Chadhuri,Shanay Jhaveri,Partha Mitter

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Raghubir Singh

Modernism on the Ganges

By: Mia Fineman,Amit Chadhuri,Shanay Jhaveri,Partha Mitter

In the New York Times, critic Teju Cole offered this appreciation of the work of Indian–born photographer Raghubir Singh (1942—1999): "Singh gives us photographs charged with life: not only beautiful experiences or painful scenes but also those in–between moments of drift that make up most of our days." This richly illustrated volume, the first in–depth study of Singh's work, situates it at the intersection of Western modernism and traditional South Asian modes of picturing the world. A major practitioner of color street photography, Singh captured images that demonstrate the diverse culture of India. Raghubir Singh features over 100 of his photographs—in counterpoint with the work of such influences as Henri Cartier–Bresson and Lee Friedlander and with images of traditional South Asian artworks that inspired his practice—providing an extensive overview of the artist's career. With its vibrant plates and insightful essays, this publication brilliantly illustrates Cole's assessment that Singh's work draws "breathtaking coherence out of the chaos of the everyday.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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ISBN 10

1588396355

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9781588396358

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