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The Long Conquest

Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

By: Sanghamitra Misra

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The Long Conquest

Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

By: Sanghamitra Misra

This book is an enquiry into the elision of the figure of the sovereign, cotton-producing Garo in the colonial archive and its savage transformation into imperialism’s quintessential ‘primitive’ in the period between 1760 CE and 1900 CE. The precolonial political economy of hill cotton produced by the Garos, its unhinging from the exercise of Garo sovereignty and its eventual commodification twined with the deterritorialization of the community as it made way for elephant mehals and reserved forests form the kernel of the book. This history is seen as participating in and mirroring analogous processes of colonization across vast contiguous swathes of India, including Mymensingh, Chittagong, Bhagalpur, the Khasi hills and the Cachar valley. A central theme explored is the long history of Garo rebellions and their rationality, examined in conjunction with contiguous polities such as that of the Khasis; even as the book follows the growing arc of colonial power in eastern and northeastern India as it converted territory and revenue appropriated through conquest, into dominium. The book makes an original contribution to the historiography of the colonial state, the ‘tribe’ and primitivism by making a case for the welded histories of war, ethnogenesis, revenue extraction and anthropological knowledge otherwise often studied as disparate fields of scholarship. It therefore also offers a new interpretation of the history of the colonization of eastern and northeastern India. The book will be of interest to academics and researchers of these regions and of empire and political economy, law and ‘primitivism’, and anthropology and colonial revenue.

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1040024726

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Becoming a Borderland

The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

By: Sanghamitra Misra

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Becoming a Borderland

The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

By: Sanghamitra Misra

This book discusses the politics of space and identity in the borderlands of northeastern India between the early 1800s and the 1930s. Critiquing contemporary post-colonial histories where this region emerges as fragments, this book sees these perspectives as continuing to be entrapped in a civilizational approach to history writing. Beginning in the pre-colonial period where it focuses on the negotiated character of state-formation during the Mughal imperium, the book then enters the space of the colonial where it looks at some of the early interventions of the East India Company. The analysis of markets as transmitters of authority highlights an important argument that the book makes. Peasantization and the introduction of the notion of the sedentary agriculturist as the productive subject also come up for a detailed discussion, along with economic change and property settlements, which are seen as important ways through which the institution of colonial legality got entrenched in the region. Underlining the interface between the political economy and practices of cultural studies, the book also explores the connections between speech, production of counter narratives of historical memory, political culture and economy, with a focus on the cultural production of a borderland identity that was marked by hyphenated existence between proto- 'Bengal' and proto- 'Assam'.

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Routledge

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1136197214

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A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional

By: Sanghamitra M. Misra,Ana Maria Verissimo

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A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional

By: Sanghamitra M. Misra,Ana Maria Verissimo

In response to the rise in chronic medical conditions--and the growing use of complementary and alternative therapies--among pediatric and adolescent patients, healthcare practitioners are taking a serious look at pediatric integrative medicine (PIM). Although it dovetails with current concepts of preventive medicine, wellness, and patient control, PIM is still an evolving field with its own particular challenges and opportunities. A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional explores its subject through the more familiar lens of integrative medicine. This concise comprehensive resource synthesizes the knowledge base on a range of therapies commonly associated with PIM, such as acupuncture, herbal remedies, clinical hypnosis, yoga, homeopathy, and therapeutic massage, with findings on their effective use with children. Case examples illustrate uses of PIM modalities with allopathic medicine to treat young patients at various developmental stages, and the authors pinpoint safety and appropriateness concerns, answer licensing questions, and note clinical areas requiring further study. The wide-ranging information contained here will help support interest in PIM at the research, training, and practice levels. Features of the Guide: An introduction to basic concepts in PIM. Trends in IM/PIM education. A survey of complementary and alternative therapies, including biologically-based, body-based, mind-body, energy-based, and alternative whole systems. Current evidence for IM in treating common pediatric conditions. The future of integrative pediatrics. References and links for further information. Offering a front-row seat to the continued expansion of the field, A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional is a salient text not only for pediatricians but for all healthcare practitioners tasked with improving children's wellbeing. “/p>

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Springer

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3319068350

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

First International Conference, PReMI 2005, Kolkata, India, December 20-22, 2005, Proceedings

By: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

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Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

First International Conference, PReMI 2005, Kolkata, India, December 20-22, 2005, Proceedings

By: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2005, held in Kolkata, India in December 2005. The 108 revised papers presented together with 6 keynote talks and 14 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 250 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on clustering, feature selection and learning, classification, neural networks and applications, fuzzy logic and applications, optimization and representation, image processing and analysis, video processing and computer vision, image retrieval and data mining, bioinformatics application, Web intelligence and genetic algorithms, as well as rough sets, case-based reasoning and knowledge discovery.

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831

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540305068

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9783540305064

Women and Conflict in India

By: Sanghamitra Choudhury

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Women and Conflict in India

By: Sanghamitra Choudhury

This book analyses the impact that prolonged socio-political conflict in India has had on political and social spaces for women. Focusing in particular on Assam in the North East of India, it looks at how the conflict can be restricting, and yet can also have the potential to expand these spaces for women owing to the collapsing of boundaries of gender roles, thereby creating niche areas that may be leveraged for socio-political transformation. Based on empirical material collected from in-depth interviews with individuals on both sides of the conflict, the book locates the analysis in both a legal and political context. It examines the causes, dynamics and impact of the ethno-political conflicts in Assam, as well as the efficacy and outcomes of ‘capacity building’ programmes aimed at rehabilitating the surrendered militants as well as assisting affected women. The book goes on to look at the role played by civil society, especially the Mahila Shanti Sena (Women Peace Corp), towards conflict transformation. It highlights the preventive, mitigative and adaptive measures taken by the women and their role as agents of peace in the volatile zones of North East India. Analysing the changing role of women in conflict situations, as well as the legal measures and regulatory mechanisms in place for women in vulnerable pockets of India, this book is a useful contribution to Gender Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies, and South Asian Politics.

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179

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1317553624

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9781317553625

Human Rights in the Indian Armed Forces

An Analysis of Article 33

By: Dr. U C Jha,Dr Sanghamitra Choudhury

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Human Rights in the Indian Armed Forces

An Analysis of Article 33

By: Dr. U C Jha,Dr Sanghamitra Choudhury

The military plays an important role in nation-building and national security. Notwithstanding special requirements of military life, the members of the armed forces should enjoy the rights guaranteed in the Constitution and other relevant international human rights treaties which India has ratified to the extent that those rights are available to other citizens of the country. The guarantee of a fair trial should apply to all proceedings under the military legal system, including summary trial and summary systems of court martial. The government must ensure the economic, social, and cultural rights of military personnel including housing, medical care, education, free legal aid and social security. Derogations of the Fundamental Rights under Article 33 should not be carried so far as to create a class of citizens who are not entitled to the benefits of the liberal interpretation of the Constitution. This book is aimed at all those who are involved in promoting, protecting, and enforcing the rights of not only the members of the armed forces, but also the other forces engaged in the security of the country. It will of relevance to parliamentarians, government officials, military authorities and members of the civil society who have a stake in the armed forces.

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Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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9388161246

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9789388161244

Unsupervised Classification

Similarity Measures, Classical and Metaheuristic Approaches, and Applications

By: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay,Sriparna Saha

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Unsupervised Classification

Similarity Measures, Classical and Metaheuristic Approaches, and Applications

By: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay,Sriparna Saha

Clustering is an important unsupervised classification technique where data points are grouped such that points that are similar in some sense belong to the same cluster. Cluster analysis is a complex problem as a variety of similarity and dissimilarity measures exist in the literature. This is the first book focused on clustering with a particular emphasis on symmetry-based measures of similarity and metaheuristic approaches. The aim is to find a suitable grouping of the input data set so that some criteria are optimized, and using this the authors frame the clustering problem as an optimization one where the objectives to be optimized may represent different characteristics such as compactness, symmetrical compactness, separation between clusters, or connectivity within a cluster. They explain the techniques in detail and outline many detailed applications in data mining, remote sensing and brain imaging, gene expression data analysis, and face detection. The book will be useful to graduate students and researchers in computer science, electrical engineering, system science, and information technology, both as a text and as a reference book. It will also be useful to researchers and practitioners in industry working on pattern recognition, data mining, soft computing, metaheuristics, bioinformatics, remote sensing, and brain imaging.

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3642324517

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The Long Conquest

Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

By: Sanghamitra Misra

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Territorialisation, Rebellion and the 'Tribe' in Eastern India, circa 1760 to 1900

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Becoming a Borderland

The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

By: Sanghamitra Misra

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The Politics of Space and Identity in Colonial Northeastern India

By: Sanghamitra Misra

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The Long Conquest

The Long Conquest

Becoming a Borderland

Becoming a Borderland

A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional

A Guide to Integrative Pediatrics for the Healthcare Professional

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Women and Conflict in India

Women and Conflict in India

Human Rights in the Indian Armed Forces

Human Rights in the Indian Armed Forces

Unsupervised Classification

Unsupervised Classification

The Long Conquest

The Long Conquest

Becoming a Borderland

Becoming a Borderland

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