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The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

Life, Labour, Latitude

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

Life, Labour, Latitude

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

This book examines the location and representation of the colonial clerk or the kerani within the cultural and social space of nineteenth century colonial India. It provides a comparative history of the clerk in Calcutta vis-à-vis the clerk in contemporary London in order to understand the manifestations of modernity in these two disparate but intimately related spaces. The volume traces the socio-historical life of the clerk in the newly emerged city-space of Calcutta and reveals how the Bengali kerani became a complex and distinct figure of bureaucratic and colonial modernity. It analyses the techniques of surveillance and ethical training given to the native clerks and offers insights into the role of education in the production and dissemination of knowledge and hegemony in the colonial setting. The author, through a reading of clerk manuals, handbooks and literary representations, highlights the class and cultural identity of the English educated colonial clerk in the new city-space. He also focuses on the ambivalence and unreliability of the clerk or colonial babu who became complicit and gave legitimacy to the empire while personifying a complex modernity within the networks of the colonial administration. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of colonial and imperial history, literature, cultural studies, city studies, British studies, area studies, commonwealth studies and South Asian studies, particularly those interested in colonial Bengal.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000193683

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9781000193688

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

Examines the works of Akshay Kumar Datta (1820–1886), who can be seen as ideologically inhabiting the cusp between religion and rationalism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009383930

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9781009383936

Essays of a Lifetime

Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Essays of a Lifetime

Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns

By: Sumit Sarkar

For the past forty years or more, the most influential, respected, and popular scholar of modern Indian history has been Sumit Sarkar. When his first monograph, The Swadeshi Movement in Bengal 1903–1908, appeared in 1973 it soon became obvious that the book represented a paradigm shift within its genre. As Dipesh Chakrabarty put it when the work was republished in 2010: "Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled the meticulous research and the thick description that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive power of its overall argument." Ten years later, Sarkar published Modern India 1885–1947, a textbook for advanced students and teachers. Its synthesis and critique of everything significant that had been written about the period was seen as monumental, lucid, and the fashioning of a new way of looking at colonialism and nationalism. Sarkar, however, changed the face not only of modern Indian history monographs and textbooks, he also radically altered the capacity of the historical essay. As Beethoven stretched the sonata form beyond earlier conceivable limits, Sarkar can be said to have expanded the academic essay. In his hands, the shorter form becomes in miniature both monograph and textbook. The present collection, which reproduces many of Sarkar's finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest.

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State University of New York Press

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1438474334

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9781438474335

Motion Estimation for Video Coding

Efficient Algorithms and Architectures

By: Indrajit Chakrabarti,Kota Naga Srinivasarao Batta,Sumit Kumar Chatterjee

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Motion Estimation for Video Coding

Efficient Algorithms and Architectures

By: Indrajit Chakrabarti,Kota Naga Srinivasarao Batta,Sumit Kumar Chatterjee

The need of video compression in the modern age of visual communication cannot be over-emphasized. This monograph will provide useful information to the postgraduate students and researchers who wish to work in the domain of VLSI design for video processing applications. In this book, one can find an in-depth discussion of several motion estimation algorithms and their VLSI implementation as conceived and developed by the authors. It records an account of research done involving fast three step search, successive elimination, one-bit transformation and its effective combination with diamond search and dynamic pixel truncation techniques. Two appendices provide a number of instances of proof of concept through Matlab and Verilog program segments. In this aspect, the book can be considered as first of its kind. The architectures have been developed with an eye to their applicability in everyday low-power handheld appliances including video camcorders and smartphones.

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170

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Springer

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331914376X

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9783319143767

Low Power Design with High-Level Power Estimation and Power-Aware Synthesis

By: Sumit Ahuja,Avinash Lakshminarayana,Sandeep Kumar Shukla

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Low Power Design with High-Level Power Estimation and Power-Aware Synthesis

By: Sumit Ahuja,Avinash Lakshminarayana,Sandeep Kumar Shukla

This book presents novel research techniques, algorithms, methodologies and experimental results for high level power estimation and power aware high-level synthesis. Readers will learn to apply such techniques to enable design flows resulting in shorter time to market and successful low power ASIC/FPGA design.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461408725

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9781461408727

Modern India 1885–1947

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Modern India 1885–1947

By: Sumit Sarkar

...it is well written, balanced and comprehensive. It splendidly incorporates the new work of the last twenty years as no one else has and it will be the starting point for everyone doing any work, from sixth forms upwards, on modern India.' D.A.Low

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Springer

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1349197122

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Network Routing

Fundamentals, Applications, and Emerging Technologies

By: Sudip Misra,Sumit Goswami

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Network Routing

Fundamentals, Applications, and Emerging Technologies

By: Sudip Misra,Sumit Goswami

Network Routing: Fundamentals, Applications and Emerging Technologies serves as single point of reference for both advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying network routing, covering both the fundamental and more moderately advanced concepts of routing in traditional data networks such as the Internet, and emerging routing concepts currently being researched and developed, such as cellular networks, wireless ad hoc networks, sensor networks, and low power networks.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470750065

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9780470750063

Household Finance

A Functional Approach

By: Sumit Agarwal,Wenlan Qian,Ruth Tan

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Household Finance

A Functional Approach

By: Sumit Agarwal,Wenlan Qian,Ruth Tan

Household finance studies is a relatively recent field, exploring a growing understanding of how households make financial decisions relating to the functions of consumption, payment, risk management, borrowing and investing; how institutions provide goods and services to satisfy these financial functions of households; and how interventions by firms, governments and other parties affect the provision of financial services. This timely book analyses existing findings about household behavior as well as findings related to policy interventions. With international case studies, this book reviews a topic of global importance and brings a crucial up-to-date survey of the field for researchers and postgraduate students.

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Springer Nature

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9811555265

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9789811555268

Beyond Nationalist Frames

Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Beyond Nationalist Frames

Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

By: Sumit Sarkar

The political context in which historians of India find themselves today, says Sumit Sarkar, is dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and globalized forms of capitalism, while the historian's intellectual context is dominated by the marginalization of all varieties of Marxism and an academic shift to cultural studies and postmodern critique. In Beyond Nationalist Frames, one of India's foremost contemporary historians offers his view of how the craft of history should be practiced in this complex conjuncture. In studies of colonial time-keeping, Rabindranath Tagore's fiction, and pre-Independence Bengal, Sarkar explores new approaches to the writing of history. Essays on contemporary politics consider the implications of the "Hindu Bomb," the rewriting of national history textbooks by Hindu fundamentalists, and the issue of conversion to Christianity. Scholars in all the fields touched by recent developments in South Asian historiography—anthropology, feminist theory, comparative literature, cultural studies—will find this a stimulating and provocative collection of essays, as will anyone interested in Indian politics.

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Indiana University Press

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0253342031

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9780253342034

Beyond Caste

Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

By: Sumit Guha

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Beyond Caste

Identity and Power in South Asia, Past and Present

By: Sumit Guha

Caste' is today almost universally perceived as an ancient and unchanging Hindu institution preserved solely by a deep-seated religious ideology. Yet the word itself is an importation from sixteenth-century Europe. This book tracks the long history of the practices amalgamated under this label and shows their connection to changing patterns of social and political power down to the present. It frames caste as an involuted and complex form of ethnicity and explains why it persisted under non-Hindu rulers and in non-Hindu communities across South Asia.

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BRILL

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9004254854

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9789004254855

The Kashmir Question

Retrospect and Prospect

By: Sumit Ganguly

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The Kashmir Question

Retrospect and Prospect

By: Sumit Ganguly

India, which had been created as a civic polity, initially sought to hold on to this Muslim-majority state to demonstrate its secular credentials. Pakistan, in turn, had laid claim to Kashmir because it had been created as the homeland for the Muslims of South Asia. After the break-up of Pakistan in 1971 the Pakistani irredentist claim to Kashmir lost substantial ground. If Pakistan could not cohere on the basis of religion alone it had few moral claims on its co-religionists in Kashmir. Similarly, in the 1980s, as the practice of Indian secularism was eroded, India's claim to Kashmir on the grounds of secularism largely came apart. Today their respective claims to Kashmir are mostly on the basis of statecraft. This title provides a comprehensive assessment of a number of different facets of the on-going dispute over Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Among other matters, it examines the respective endgames of both states, the evolution of American policy toward the dispute, the dangers of nuclear esculation in the region and the state of the insurgency in the Indian-controlled portion of the disputed state.

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Routledge

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1135756570

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The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

Life, Labour, Latitude

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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Life, Labour, Latitude

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

Locates Akshay Kumar Datta as one of the foundational figures of intellectual refashioning in nineteenth-century Bengal.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009339826

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Book's by Sumit Chakrabarti

The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Essays of a Lifetime

Essays of a Lifetime

Motion Estimation for Video Coding

Motion Estimation for Video Coding

Low Power Design with High-Level Power Estimation and Power-Aware Synthesis

Low Power Design with High-Level Power Estimation and Power-Aware Synthesis

Modern India 1885–1947

Modern India 1885–1947

Network Routing

Network Routing

Household Finance

Household Finance

Beyond Nationalist Frames

Beyond Nationalist Frames

Beyond Caste

Beyond Caste

The Kashmir Question

The Kashmir Question

The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

The Calcutta Kerani and the London Clerk in the Nineteenth Century

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Public Culture in Nineteenth-Century Bengal

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