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The Truth About Us

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty

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‘India...has an information space packed with numerous sources and agents – from politicians and activists to profiteers and extortionists – all competing for attention and legitimacy in a growing information market... Whom does one believe?’ The political manipulation and simplification of information about a dizzyingly complex society have fashioned certain ‘truths’ about India. These truths have resulted in the creation of major religious and caste identities, which have been the defining features of the country’s politics and history for over 200 years. An unsparing study of how this situation has come about, The Truth about Us explores answers to crucial questions: Is India a homogenous Hindu nation sprinkled with minorities, or a pluralistic, heterogeneous one? Is our knowledge of the inequalities in our society founded on facts or perceptions? What are the real origin stories of India’s social categories, and how are they being constructed and challenged today? At a time when India is in the throes of an existential debate, convulsed by contesting claims over identity and history, Hindutva and Dalit consciousness, nationalism and freedom of speech, and the rights and realities of minorities, this deeply provocative book is urgent reading for every thinking Indian.

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Hachette India

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9351950263

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9789351950264

The Other One Percent

Indians in America

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh

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Indians in America

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh

In The Other One Percent, Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh provide the first authoritative and systematic overview of South Asians living in the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0190648740

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9780190648749

The Promoter

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty

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The Promoter

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty

A dark comedy of desire, this is the story of Bodhi Banerjee, a small-time real estate developer who is “always pondering the big moral question of all time. How to do good and be right and win at the same time?” Bodhi’s life unravels as he becomes the central figure in a struggle to preserve a heritage building. His descent is assisted by a large cast of characters- Neera, the woman of his dreams, enigmatic, idealistic, wealthy, and given to dropping hints that she may be in love with someone else. Chhotomama, his communist uncle who is moralistic, and obstinate, and the instigator of the fight over the historic house. Cookie, Bodhi’s business partner, who has several disturbing tendencies, including untimely honesty and general immoderation. And a family of fallen tycoons, including a deceased philandering patriarch. All these characters collide over two months of farce in sweltering Calcutta. Sanjoy Chakravorty has written several books of nonfiction on subjects like inequality, industrialisation, immigration, and land. His last book (The Price of Land) was shortlisted for the 2013 Crossword Award. The Promoter is his first work of fiction. It was written in Philadelphia and Calcutta, the gorgeously crumbling twins born a decade apart, where he spends most of his time. Talking Points -Reviewed and recommended by author Anees Salim, Winner of The Hindu Literary Prize 2013, -Raymond Crossword Book Award 2014 -After The Price of Land (2013), shortlisted for the 2013 Crossword Award for Non-Fiction, Fragments of Inequality (2007) and Made in India (2006); The Promoter is Sanjoy Chakravorty’s first work of fiction -Provides an intriguing insight into the world of conspiring promoters and real estate agents -Dramatic, thrilling and engaging; The Promoter is a tribute to Calcutta’s history of a lost era. Worldwide readership/market Students, professors, educational institutions, libraries, academicians, schools, journalists, lovers of literature, political science and history, general readers

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Om Books International

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9385031732

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9789385031731

Rites of Passage

Border Crossings, Imagined Homelands, India's East and Bangladesh

By: Sanjoy Hazarika

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Border Crossings, Imagined Homelands, India's East and Bangladesh

By: Sanjoy Hazarika

Analysis of the social and economic pressures in Bangladesh as main reasons for the influx of migrants to India.

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Penguin Books India

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0141004223

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9780141004228

Of Reels, Romance and Retakes

Social Narratives of Cinema in Odisha

By: Sanjoy Patnaik

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Of Reels, Romance and Retakes

Social Narratives of Cinema in Odisha

By: Sanjoy Patnaik

Of Reels, Romance and Retakes carries the reader on a fascinating journey into the genesis, evolution and reception of Odia cinema. Telling the story of its quiet emergence in 1936, the book goes on to chronicle its unexpected triumphs in the coming decades when cinema arose as an undisputed cultural form of both the middle class and the masses. The account the book gives of how Odia cinema, aesthetically intertwined with the indigenous folk and literary tradition, carried forward both the project of modernity and Odia cultural identity is particularly illuminating and instructive. At the same time it takes an introspective look at the crisis Odia cinema faces now, sandwiched as it is between two competing social trends - one following the route to Hindi as the chief language of entertainment and the other that is focused on regional cultural assertion as a key to commercial success. On the whole, it is a timely and much awaited book that seeks to construct the hitherto uncharted ‘social narratives’ of cinema in Odisha.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000994066

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The Truth About Us

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty

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The Other One Percent

Indians in America

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh

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Indians in America

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh

In 'The Other One Percent', Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh provide an authoritative and systematic overview of South Asians living in the United States.

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0190648775

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The Other One Percent

Indians in America

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh

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The Other One Percent

Indians in America

By: Sanjoy Chakravorty,Devesh Kapur,Nirvikar Singh

In The Other One Percent, Sanjoy Chakravorty, Devesh Kapur, and Nirvikar Singh provide the first authoritative and systematic overview of South Asians living in the United States.

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Oxford University Press

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0190648740

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