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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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Local Selfhood, Global Turns

Akshay Kumar Dutta and Bengali Intellectual History in the Nineteenth Century

By: Sumit Chakrabarti

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Local Selfhood, Global Turns

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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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

By: Sumit Guha

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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000

By: Sumit Guha

In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By describing how these processes work through sociopolitical organizations, Guha delineates the historiographic legacy acquired by the British in colonial India; the creation of the centralized educational system and mass production of textbooks that led to unification of historical discourses under colonial auspices; and the divergence of these discourses in the twentieth century under the impact of nationalism and decolonization. Guha brings together sources from a range of languages and regions to provide the first intellectual history of the ways in which socially recognized historical memory has been made across the subcontinent. This thoughtful study contributes to debates beyond the field of history that complicate the understanding of objectivity and documentation in a seemingly post-truth world.

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University of Washington Press

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0295746238

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9780295746234

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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Lost Glory

India's Capitalism Story

By: Sumit K Majumdar

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Lost Glory

India's Capitalism Story

By: Sumit K Majumdar

Lost Glory: India's Capitalism Story deconstructs India's industrialization story, challenging contemporary ideas about her economy. Based on careful and detailed empirical analyses of India's industrialization, for a period of almost seven decades, the book provides deeply-nuanced depictions of the history of political economy, that have affected India's industrialization over the course of a century. These dimensions of India's economic history have never before been collated and presented. The presentation takes readers on a definitive evidence-based survey of India's industrial landscape. It includes a detailed historical description of the intellectual origins of India's modern industrialization, anchored in a privileged view of economic policy making. Grounded in deep historical and political analyses, that account for the variations, continuities, and changes in institutional contingencies, the facts derived on India's long-term economic performance are used to put the record straight. The findings of the book will transform debate, and set the agenda for thoughtfully assessing what course the Indian economy needs to follow.

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Oxford University Press

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0192559281

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Dilemma of Development among the Onge of Andaman

By: Dipali Danda,Sumit Mukherjee

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Dilemma of Development among the Onge of Andaman

By: Dipali Danda,Sumit Mukherjee

The Onge of Little Andaman, one of the surviving important Negrito communities in the world, have a very small static population since last four decades. There have been several critical issues pertaining to adopting the induced changes in their habitat and economy. The volume presents detailed documentation and in-depth analysis of the situation and concerns related to their survival. The volume is the outcome of a prolonged field investigation and research presented in the form of analytical and development ethnography with ecological, socio-cultural, economic and political perspectives of a dwindling community listed under Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group of India. The Onge have been rather vulnerable toward any option for radical change, they deserve close, careful attention to ward off any untoward impact of change-initiatives. The authors, a team composed of an Anthropologist and a Human Ecologist, have tried to throw light on the degree of agreements between the induced change programmes and the peoples’ age-old survival strategy. The depth of the authors’ intimate interaction with the people, their ecology, cultural niche, psychology, economy, and in a way the livelihood as such, presents a flavour hitherto unknown. The volume is remarkably enriched with good number of rare photographs along with important maps, charts and illustrations. This work is an invaluable record for reviewing and revising process and outcome of the long continued welfare programme before further such application on the remaining groups in the archipelago. The local and global level researchers, teachers and planners, interested in foraging tribal population and issues related to their welfare, development, etc., will certainly find this volume extremely useful. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

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Routledge

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1000486079

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India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution

Democratizing Entrepreneurship

By: Sumit Kumar Majumdar

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India's Late, Late Industrial Revolution

Democratizing Entrepreneurship

By: Sumit Kumar Majumdar

Catalogues and explains India's late, late industrial revolution through a combination of rigorous analysis and entertaining anecdotes.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015006

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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

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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1119029392

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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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9004254854

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9789004254855

Indian Manufacturing Sector in Post-Reform Period

An Assessment of the Role of Macroeconomic and Firm-Specific Factors in Determining Financial Performance

By: Sumit Kumar Maji,Arindam Laha,Debasish Sur

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Indian Manufacturing Sector in Post-Reform Period

An Assessment of the Role of Macroeconomic and Firm-Specific Factors in Determining Financial Performance

By: Sumit Kumar Maji,Arindam Laha,Debasish Sur

The book outlines the importance of Indian manufacturing sector and its growth under alternative policy regimes. The authors highlight the significance of various firm-specific and macroeconomic factors on the level of efficiency and profitability of the firms operating in the diverse manufacturing sector during the post-liberalization era. The book also examines the dynamic relationship between the select manufacturing sector-specific stock market indices and the various macroeconomic variables.

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Springer Nature

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9811926662

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The Hope And The Reality

U.s.-indian Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan

By: Harold A Gould,Sumit Ganguly

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The Hope And The Reality

U.s.-indian Relations From Roosevelt To Reagan

By: Harold A Gould,Sumit Ganguly

This book charts the relationship between the evolving governments of independent India and concurrent US presidential administrations. It provides an in-depth analysis of the motivations, external constraints and ideological agendas that characterized Indian-US relations.

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1000302229

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Rise of Generative AI and ChatGPT

Understand how Generative AI and ChatGPT are transforming and reshaping the business world (English Edition)

By: Utpal Chakraborty,Soumyadeep Roy,Sumit Kumar

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Rise of Generative AI and ChatGPT

Understand how Generative AI and ChatGPT are transforming and reshaping the business world (English Edition)

By: Utpal Chakraborty,Soumyadeep Roy,Sumit Kumar

Everything you need to know about the next generation Generative AI tool and ChatGPT KEY FEATURES ● Get familiar with the technical aspects of Generative AI and ChatGPT. ● Understand how you can implement Generative AI and ChatGPT in your organization. ● Explore use cases of Generative AI and ChatGPT in various industries and businesses, such as healthcare, finance, retail, network security, and more. DESCRIPTION Generative AI and ChatGPT have the potential to transform industries and society by improving efficiency, enhancing creativity, and enabling more personalized experiences. If you are someone who is looking to stay ahead of the curve in this rapidly evolving digital age and utilize its potential, this book is for you. This book gives a comprehensive overview of Generative AI and ChatGPT, the cutting-edge technologies that have gained significant attention in recent times. The book aims to provide a thorough understanding of these technologies, architectures, and training methods, including their background, development process, and current state. The book helps discover innovative ways in which these technologies have been implemented to achieve measurable benefits, including improved efficiency, customer satisfaction, security, and revenue growth and its potential application across different industries and use cases. The book also explores the challenges and considerations that organizations must take into account when implementing Generative AI and ChatGPT with existing limitations. Towards the end, the book provides insights into the substantial improvements and advancements in these technologies. It also helps you identify several areas for further research and development that could enhance the capabilities of ChatGPT in the near future. WHAT YOU WILL LEARN ● Explore how different industries and domains are using ChatGPT. ● Understand how content creators and marketing industries can benefit from using ChatGPT. ● Learn how to benefit from the problem-solving abilities of ChatGPT. ● Understand how ChatGPT can be used in various coding areas. ● Get familiar with the recent advancements in ChatGPT. WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR This book is for individuals and groups interested in AI and its practical applications in the business world. Business leaders, entrepreneurs, researchers, academicians, data scientists, Machine Learning engineers, and other professionals working in the field of AI can all find value in the book's insights into the latest technological advancements and how they can be leveraged to achieve business goals. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction to ChatGPT 2. History Of Generative Models 3. Generative AI in Banking and Finance 4. Regulatory and Legal aspects of Generative AI 5. Generative AI and ChatGPT for Government Departments 6. Authenticity AI generated content 7. ChatGPT Technical Overview: Introduction 8. Brief of top other NLP models 9. Historical flow and development of GPT series 10. API Pricing model and technical limitations of ChatGPT 11. Customer Journey in ChatGPT free version UI 12. Use Cases in Modern Era: Introduction 13. Use case in Content-marketing 14. Education and e-learning abilities 15. Use case in Entertainments purposes 16. Potential of ChatGPT in Coding and Programming 17. Problem solving abilities (Quantitative) 18. Problem solving abilities (Qualitative) 19. Use cases Financial Industry 20. Use cases in Healthcare Industry 21. Use cases in E-commerce Industry 22. Use cases in Hospitality Industry 23. Problem solving abilities of ChatGPT 24. How beginner start ChatGPT for problem-solving 25. ChatGPT for National Cyber Security and TechnoPolicy 26. Use cases in edtech industry 27. Potential of ChatGPT in Research work 28. Potential of ChatGPT in Coding and Programming 29. Recent advancements that are made in ChatGPT 30. ChatGPT and the market right now 31. Generative AI and Chatgpt Help India G20 Summit 32. GPT- 4 33. Future scope of ChatGPT

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Beyond Nationalist Frames

Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Postmodernism, Hindu Fundamentalism, History

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Essays of a Lifetime

Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns

By: Sumit Sarkar

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Reformers, Nationalists, Subalterns

By: Sumit Sarkar

A distillation of the historians finest writings on modern Indian historical themes. 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 19031908, 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 18851947, 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 Sarkars finest writings, shows an intellectually scintillating, skeptical-Marxist mind at its sharpest. here we see Sarkar grappling with his intellectual heritage, negotiating his own location within the new Marxist nationalist history of the period. Working within its frame, he pushes at the boundaries, disturbing neat classificatory schemes, resisting false historical comparisons, problematizing categories, and questioning linear narratives. The desire to explore contrary experiences and contradictory pictures is part of his process of questioning. Neeladri Bhattacharya

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SUNY Press

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1438474318

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Hybrid Micro-Machining Processes

By: Sumit Bhowmik,Divya Zindani

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Hybrid Micro-Machining Processes

By: Sumit Bhowmik,Divya Zindani

This book presents some of the recent hybrid micro-machining processes used to manufacture miniaturized products with micro level precision. The current developed technologies to manufacture the micro dimensioned products while meeting the desired precision level are described within the text. The authors especially highlight research that focuses on the development of new micro machining platforms while integrating the different technologies to manufacture the micro components in a high throughput and cost effective manner.

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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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1349197122

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A Critique on Colonial India

By: Sumit Sarkar

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A Critique on Colonial India

By: Sumit Sarkar

Presents Sumit Sarkar`S Essays Written Between 1972 And 1981. The Articles Mainly (1-5) Relate To Bengal. The Remaining 3 Relate To Non-Cooperation, Gandhian Nationalism And Popular Movements.

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