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Resisting Modernity

Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India

By: Samir Dayal

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Resisting Modernity

Counternarratives of Nation and Masculinity in pre-Independence India

By: Samir Dayal

Samir Dayal’s book Resisting Modernity is provocative. Provocative because it undoes the allures of propulsion toward modernity at the same time that it refrains from a retreat into an idyllic and elusive pre-colonial past. Drawing on a wide body of postcolonial studies scholarship emanating from South Asia and on psychoanalytic theory, Dayal complicates our understanding of three prominent Indian figures—Ramakrishna Paramahansa, Rabindranath Tagore, and Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi—active in the decades before independence from British colonial rule. He sees them as resisting the modernist rhetoric of sovereignty and rational nationalism prevalent in those years. Through his focus on these protagonists, Dayal illuminates how their critique of the nationalist project of the pre-independence years was at once strategic and limiting, inclusive and exclusionary, empowering and potentially debilitating." --Rajini Srikanth, University of Massachusetts, Boston. She is the author of The World Next Door: South Asian American Literature and the Idea of America (Temple, 2006), co-editor of the award winning anthology Contours of the Heart: South Asians Map North America (Rutgers, 1996) and co-editor of the collection of critical essays A Part, Yet Apart: South Asians in Asian America (Temple, 1998). "Resisting Modernity is an admirable endeavor that opens up modernity to possibilities of postcolonial/subaltern re-recognition. Dayal's conjunctural readings of the gendered, affective as well as cognitive performances of Ramakrishna, Tagore, Gandhi, and Ambedkar are richly symptomatic of the human condition under colonial modernity. A welcome addition to the genre of the global interrogation of modernity." ---R. Radhakrishnan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Department of Asian American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Diasporic Mediations: Between Home and Location (Minnesota, 1996) and Theory in an Uneven World (Blackwell, 2003).

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527565971

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9781527565975

NOTHING BUT!

By: Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya

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NOTHING BUT!

By: Brigadier Samir Bhattacharya

This is the third part of the six part saga titled "NOTHING BUT " and subtitled 'WHAT PRICE FREEDOM.' it is the story of the Indian Subcontinent and what people had to go through after India and Pakistan became two independent separate nations and about the Princely state of Kashmir which has become the biggest bone of contention between the two new nations, and which led to three bitter wars and also heralded the birth of a new nation called Bangladesh .

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777

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Partridge Publishing

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1482816261

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9781482816266

Dream Machine

Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema

By: Samir Dayal

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Dream Machine

Realism and Fantasy in Hindi Cinema

By: Samir Dayal

In Dream Machine, Samir Dayal provides a history of Hindi cinema starting with films made after India's independence in 1947. Dayal suggests that Hindi cinema functions as both mirror and lamp, reflecting and illuminating new and possible representations of national and personal identity, beginning with early postcolonial films including Awaara and Mother India, a classic of the Golden Age. More recent films address critical social issues, such as My Name is Khan and Fire, which concern terrorism and sexuality, respectively. Dayal also chronicles changes in the industry, audience reception, and the influence of globalization, considering such films as Slumdog Millionaire.

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320

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Temple University Press

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1439910642

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9781439910641

Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2nd Edition

By: Samir S. Shah

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Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2nd Edition

By: Samir S. Shah

The most practice-oriented guide to diagnosing and managing infectious diseases in children Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, Second Edition is filled with practical, clinically relevant guidance for successful infectious disease management. The care of the patient forms the core of this indispensable resource, which also provides perspectives on epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis that every pediatrician, pediatric hospitalist, and pediatric nurse practitioner needs to know. The book's high-yield coverage includes detailed, yet precise overviews of specific infections and their etiology, along with proven diagnostic and management strategies that readers can incorporate into their practice right away. FEATURES: •Tips that tell you what you must know--and do--at every stage of care •Diagnostic and treatment algorithms •Signs/Symptoms and Differential Diagnosis boxes •"When to Refer" boxes, which examine all the relevant clinical considerations •Diagnostic Tests--with a realistic emphasis on the right tests to order •Medical Treatment coverage that includes drugs, dosages, and administration in an easy-to-read tabular format •Convenient icons and a templated chapter design •Numerous clinical color photos and didactic diagrams •NEW! Clinical Pearls boxes accompany coverage of each infectious disease •Updated treatment guidelines and protocols from the CDC If you are in need of an up-to-date, clinically relevant guide to treating infectious diseases in pediatric patients, your search ends here.

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McGraw Hill Professional

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125986152X

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9781259861529

Global Babel

Questions of Discourse and Communication in a time of Globalization

By: Samir Dayal,Margueritte Murphy

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Global Babel

Questions of Discourse and Communication in a time of Globalization

By: Samir Dayal,Margueritte Murphy

Globalization as we know it today would be unimaginable without the revolution in information and communication technologies of the last thirty years. Yet have we achieved “one world” as the promotional hype for cellular and digital networks would have it? This collection of essays, Global Babel: Questions of Discourse and Communication in a Time of Globalization, explores the current state of communication and discourse in a globalized environment. The essays are united by an awareness that, whether understood technologically, economically, epistemologically, or culturally, globalization is a discursive field with discrepant assumptions, categories and conclusions. As such, globalization is double-edged, and complex. It can certainly enable the exploitation of the powerless by the powerful; in different contexts, or at different moments, it can also facilitate individual and collective agency. It is this doubleness, this complexity, that this collection seeks to bring into focus. This volume offers an interdisciplinary forum where technological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to globalization inhabit the same conceptual frame. Together the essays address the central issue of how the new knowledges of globalization are being articulated, and explore the cultural consequences and success of such communication and knowledge exchange.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527566013

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Resisting Modernity

Resisting Modernity

NOTHING BUT!

NOTHING BUT!

Dream Machine

Dream Machine

Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2nd Edition

Pediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, 2nd Edition

Global Babel

Global Babel

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