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Brink & Beyond

a collection of short stories

By: Supriya Saraswati

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Brink & Beyond

a collection of short stories

By: Supriya Saraswati

To anyone who has ever wondered if broken could be powerful and beautiful, the cover portrait depicts you, and everyone who, when at the brink of breaking, chose to heal. This is you – unbound, invaluable, whole. In this collection of stories, walk along the journey of the characters and witness their distinctive ways of escaping and embracing the cracks within them. Losing innocence to hunger. Being married to abuse. A gaping wound left by miscarriage. “One thing I knew back then was that hunger does not starve with you. Hunger slowly eats you. In its rancidity the good, the right, the bad and the wrong corrode alike.” – To the Elysian Fields “Given the social stigma sewn in strongly with incidences of domestic violence, the victims suffer in the embrace of torture without a noise. Is it murder only when you kill a person? What is it when you kill a personality?” – The Bird that Stayed Back “Somehow it is so much easier to spot people who have void in their lives. It shows up on them. He and I share the same void, only it does not show up on him as severely as it does on me.” – By the Name of Faith If you knew you could heal your cracks with something precious, would you still resist healing?

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Notion Press

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1648996787

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The Caravan Book of Profiles

By: Supriya Nair

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The Caravan Book of Profiles

By: Supriya Nair

Whether it is getting the scoop on insider influence or anointing game changers, Caravan has made a place for itself in the minds of readers in India and beyond, winning countless awards and accolades and showcasing the finest writers and thinkers in long-form journalism. Twelve definitive profiles of our agents of change are presented in this volume, with new insight from their authors on their place in contemporary Indian history: Praveen Donthi on finance minister Arun Jaitley; Leena Reghunath on Swami Aseemanand; Krishn Kaushik on former Attorney-General Goolam Vahanvati; Mira Sethi on Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif; Deepak Adhikari on Nepal Prime Minister Prachanda; Mark Bergen on Raghuram Rajan; Samanth Subramanian on Sameer Jain; Mehboob Jeelani on Ponty Chadha; Rahul Bhatia on N. Srinivasan; T.M. Krishna on musician M.S. Subbulakshmi; Ali Sethi on Farida Khanum; Baradwaj Rangan on Vikram; and Vinod K. Jose on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. In this invaluable collection, the pioneering journal presents a valuable and far-reaching record of our times for readers, citizens and students of journalism alike.

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464

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Random House India

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9352140494

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9789352140497

Bangalore Girls

Witnessing the Rise of Nationalism in a Progressive City

By: Supriya Baily

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Bangalore Girls

Witnessing the Rise of Nationalism in a Progressive City

By: Supriya Baily

Bangalore is looked at in depth in Supriya Baily's exploration of one of India’s most dynamic cities. Booklist praises the book, saying, "This deeply researched book is especially timely in light of recent gender-based violence in India.” Through the stories of a group of school girls in what used to be India’s most progressive city, Bangalore Girls reveals how the freedom women once enjoyed in the “Silicon Valley of India” has been eroded by the rising tide of right-wing nationalism, misogyny, and religious fundamentalism. Author Supriya Baily explores one of India’s most dynamic cities through the eyes of a group of women who grew up and went to school together in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As they enjoyed the trappings of a burgeoning middle class, these classmates also watched their country move to the right politically and socially, spurred on by the Ayodhya riots that tore down the Babri Masjid Mosque in 1992 and the sectarian violence that followed—a Hindu nationalist tide that continues to rise today. The book offers us a window into these women’s lives and shows us how they are responding to the breakdown of progressivism across multiple domains. They discuss not only their own safety and the educational opportunities and challenges confronting their families; they also talk about such society-wide issues as anti-Muslim sentiment, the backlash against science, and the dangers of independent thinking. Baily gives voice to their worries about political cults of personality and government policies that seek to marginalize and ostracize anyone who speaks out against the authorities, but especially women. As Indian prime minister Narendra Modi now consecrates the new Ram Temple in Ayodhya, it has never been more important to understand the wave of nationalism that began in 1992. The stories of these women told by Supriya Baily are a must-read tale of extremism’s threat to women’s rights and human rights.

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219

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538198029

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9781538198025

The Emperor Who Never Was

Dara Shukoh in Mughal India

By: Supriya Gandhi

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The Emperor Who Never Was

Dara Shukoh in Mughal India

By: Supriya Gandhi

The definitive biography of the eldest son of Emperor Shah Jahan, whose death at the hands of his younger brother Aurangzeb changed the course of South Asian history. Dara Shukoh was the eldest son of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor, best known for commissioning the Taj Mahal as a mausoleum for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. Although the Mughals did not practice primogeniture, Dara, a Sufi who studied Hindu thought, was the presumed heir to the throne and prepared himself to be India’s next ruler. In this exquisite narrative biography, the most comprehensive ever written, Supriya Gandhi draws on archival sources to tell the story of the four brothers—Dara, Shuja, Murad, and Aurangzeb—who with their older sister Jahanara Begum clashed during a war of succession. Emerging victorious, Aurangzeb executed his brothers, jailed his father, and became the sixth and last great Mughal. After Aurangzeb’s reign, the Mughal Empire began to disintegrate. Endless battles with rival rulers depleted the royal coffers, until by the end of the seventeenth century Europeans would start gaining a foothold along the edges of the subcontinent. Historians have long wondered whether the Mughal Empire would have crumbled when it did, allowing European traders to seize control of India, if Dara Shukoh had ascended the throne. To many in South Asia, Aurangzeb is the scholastic bigot who imposed a strict form of Islam and alienated his non-Muslim subjects. Dara, by contrast, is mythologized as a poet and mystic. Gandhi’s nuanced biography gives us a more complex and revealing portrait of this Mughal prince than we have ever had.

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Belknap Press

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0674987292

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9780674987296

A Global History of Modern Historiography

By: Georg G Iggers,Q. Edward Wang,Supriya Mukherjee

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A Global History of Modern Historiography

By: Georg G Iggers,Q. Edward Wang,Supriya Mukherjee

The first book on historiography to adopt a global and comparative perspective on the topic, A Global History of Modern Historiography looks not just at developments in the West but also at the other great historiographical traditions in Asia, the Middle East, and elsewhere around the world over the course of the past two and a half centuries. This second edition contains fully updated sections on Latin American and African historiography, discussion of the development of global history, environmental history, and feminist and gender history in recent years, and new coverage of Russian historical practices. Beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, the authors analyse historical currents in a changing political, social and cultural context, examining both the adaptation and modification of the Western influence on historiography and how societies outside Europe and America found their own ways in the face of modernization and globalization. Supported by online resources including a selection of excerpts from key historiographical texts, this book offers an up-to-date account of the status of historical writing in the global era and is essential reading for all students of modern historiography.

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376

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Routledge

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1134856474

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9781134856473

A Global History of Modern Historiography

By: Georg G Iggers,Q. Edward Wang,Supriya Mukherjee

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A Global History of Modern Historiography

By: Georg G Iggers,Q. Edward Wang,Supriya Mukherjee

So far histories of historiography have concentrated almost exclusively on the West. This is the first book to offer a history of modern historiography from a global perspective. Tracing the transformation of historical writings over the past two and half centuries, the book portrays the transformation of historical writings under the effect of professionalization, which served as a model not only for Western but also for much of non-Western historical studies. At the same time it critically examines the reactions in post-modern and post-colonial thought to established conceptions of scientific historiography. A main theme of the book is how historians in the non-Western world not only adopted or adapted Western ideas, but also explored different approaches rooted in their own cultures.

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449

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Routledge

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1317895010

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9781317895015

City of Shadows

Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore

By: Supriya RoyChowdhury

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City of Shadows

Slums and Informal Work in Bangalore

By: Supriya RoyChowdhury

Alongside debates over rising inequalities, the stubbornness of urban poverty, globally, has emerged as a major academic and policy concern. Urban poverty policy positions are typically framed by paradigms of basic services and welfare. In the backdrop of Bangalore's evolution into India's silicon valley, the book presents research spanning old, inner city slums, new migrant settlements in urban peripheries, slum development projects, and garment export and construction workers, highlighting that intergenerationally, the urban poor remain tied to traditional low paying occupations, or, get incorporated into new urban growth channels (export industries, low end services) under highly unfavourable terms and conditions. Using the concepts of the old and the new poor, to explore channels of inclusion and exclusion, the book underscores that the poor's vulnerabilities are defined by different regimes of informality. Debates on the urban poor's political agency are used to problematize informality's complex relationship to contemporary theories of class.

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244

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Cambridge University Press

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1009003763

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9781009003766

Brink & Beyond

a collection of short stories

By: Supriya Saraswati

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Brink & Beyond

Brink & Beyond

The Caravan Book of Profiles

The Caravan Book of Profiles

Bangalore Girls

Bangalore Girls

The Emperor Who Never Was

The Emperor Who Never Was

A Global History of Modern Historiography

A Global History of Modern Historiography

A Global History of Modern Historiography

A Global History of Modern Historiography

City of Shadows

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