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Federalism in South Asia

By: Mahendra Prasad Singh,Veena Kukreja

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This book is one of the first in-depth and systematic studies on the functioning and aspiring federations of South Asia. It examines how federal dynamics in India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are impinged on by the nature of their specific constitutions; their societal, political and cultural fabrics; composition of power elites and ruling classes; structures of political economy and market; electoral and party systems; mass media; and information technology. The authors offer a comparative, analytical, conceptual, and theoretical framework to understand patterns and trends as also experiences of and possibilities for federalism in South Asia. They highlight divergences and similarities, successes and key challenges, while indicating federalism’s wider regional relevance in the discourse on democracy and governance. The book concludes that the multicultural character of these societies — beset with ethnic and regional conflicts, separatist and military undercurrents — makes federal political solutions the only viable route. Providing a wealth of material, this will deeply interest scholars, students and teachers of comparative politics, political science, federal studies, area studies as well as those interested in political structures and processes in South Asia.

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131755972X

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Purple Lotus

A Novel

By: Veena Rao

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Purple Lotus

A Novel

By: Veena Rao

2021 WINNER, AMERICAN FICTION AWARD A 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award Finalist Award-Winning Finalist, Women's Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards Award-Winning Finalist, Multicultural Fiction, 2021 International Book Awards Featured in Travel + Leisure’s "20 Most-anticipated Books for Fall” “20 Classic and New Books About Feminism That Will Get You Thinking and Talking” ―Parade “A moving and polished novel that highlights Rao’s literary promise.” ―Kirkus Reviews “Rao’s resonant novel is an ode to the value of personal dignity and the importance of being true to oneself that carries on long after the final chapter.” ―Newsweek magazine “Purple Lotus is the Atlanta novel you need to be reading this year… Tara is probably one of the strongest characters you’ll find in Southern fiction.” —ArtsATL “I’d recommend it to people who are fans of the expansive storytelling of Tayari Jones... and then to anyone who wants to add to their bookshelf of growing Atlanta literature.” —PANK Magazine” ” “The dazzling tale of an Indian-American woman finding her way through the labyrinth of tradition to self-awareness in the modern world. The writer employs an energetic prose style interspersed with melodic passages to make the writing itself a hybrid. Set in particular times and places, Purple Lotus nonetheless appeals to readers everywhere, especially women, to claim the full measure of their human rights. A vivid and resplendent novel for our time.” ―Elaine Neil Orr, critically acclaimed author of Swimming Between Worlds Tara moves to the American South three years after her arranged marriage to tech executive Sanjay. Ignored and lonely, Tara finds herself regressing back to childhood memories that have scarred her for life. When she was eight, her parents had left her behind with her aging grandparents and a schizophrenic uncle in Mangalore, while taking her baby brother with them to make a new life for the family in Dubai. Tara’s memories of abandonment and isolation mirror her present life of loneliness and escalating abuse at the hands of her husband. She accepts the help of kind-hearted American strangers to fight Sanjay, only to be pressured by her patriarchal family to make peace with her circumstances. Then, in a moment of truth, she discovers the importance of self-worth—a revelation that gives her the courage to break free, gently rebuild her life, and even risk being shunned by her community when she marries her childhood love, Cyrus Saldanha. Life with Cyrus is beautiful, until old fears come knocking. Ultimately, Tara must face these fears to save her relationship with Cyrus—and to confront the victim-shaming society she was raised within. Intimate and deeply moving, Purple Lotus is the story of one woman’s ascension from the dark depths of desolation toward the light of freedom.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631527622

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Signal Processing

Principles and Implementation

By: S. V. Narasimhan,S. Veena

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Signal Processing

Principles and Implementation

By: S. V. Narasimhan,S. Veena

Signal Processing: Principles and Implementation, has been developed in a simple logical manner. The ease of understanding is not at the cost of the rigor and depth of the subject but has been achieved by giving all the intermediate mathematical steps involved in a derivation and by giving the physical meaning of the mathematical relations. To understand the subject, knowledge of junior level Physics and Mathematics is required."--BOOK JACKET.

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Alpha Science Int'l Ltd.

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1842651994

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Living and Dying in the Contemporary World

A Compendium

By: Veena Das,Clara Han

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Living and Dying in the Contemporary World

A Compendium

By: Veena Das,Clara Han

Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the Contemporary World is not just another reader in medical anthropology but a true tour de forceÑa deep exploration of all that makes life unbearable and yet livable through the labor of ordinary people. This book comprises forty-four chapters by scholars whose ethnographic and historical work is conducted around the globe, including South Asia, East Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Europe, and the United States. Bringing together the work of established scholars with the vibrant voices of younger scholars, Living and Dying in the Contemporary World will appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, health scientists, scholars of religion, and all who are curious about how to relate to the rapidly changing institutions and experiences in an ever more connected world. Ê

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Univ of California Press

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0520278410

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9780520278417

Gandhi's Ascetic Activism

Renunciation and Social Action

By: Veena R. Howard

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Gandhi's Ascetic Activism

Renunciation and Social Action

By: Veena R. Howard

Discusses Gandhi’s creative use of ascetic practice, particularly his practice of celibacy, for nonviolent activism.

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SUNY Press

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1438445571

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Language, Politics, Elites and the Public Sphere

Western India Under Colonialism

By: Veena Naregal

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Language, Politics, Elites and the Public Sphere

Western India Under Colonialism

By: Veena Naregal

The bilingual relationship between the English and the Indian vernaculars has long been crucial to the construction of ideology as well as cultural and political hierarchies. Print was vital for colonial literacy; it was thereby instrumental in initiating a shift in the relation between 'high' and 'low' languages. Here, Dr Naregal examines the relationship between linguistic hierarchies, textual practices and power in colonial western India. Whereas most studies of colonialism focus on India's 'high' literary culture, this book looks at how local intellectuals exploited their 'middling' position through such initiatives as the establishment of newspapers and of influential channels of communication. How was the 'native' intelligentsia able to achieve a position of ideological influence? Dr Naregal shows that, despite their minority position, such people negotiated the arenas of education policy, the press and voluntary associations to advance their social class. In doing this, she sheds light on the process of self-definition among the Indian intelligentsia before anticolonial thinking articulated its hegemonic claims as a nationalistic discourse.

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Anthem Press

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1843310546

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9781843310549

Organic Building Materials in Residential Constructions

By: Veena Gandotra,Promila Sharma

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Organic Building Materials in Residential Constructions

By: Veena Gandotra,Promila Sharma

Study conducted in Nainital District from hill areas and Udham Singh Nagar District from plain areas of Uttarakhand, India.

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Concept Publishing Company

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8180696324

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9788180696329

A Systematic Comprehensive Review of Human Resource Management Practices at North East Karnataka Road Transportation Corporation

By: DR. VEENA ISHWARAPPA BHAVIKATTI ,DR. SONY HIREMATH

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A Systematic Comprehensive Review of Human Resource Management Practices at North East Karnataka Road Transportation Corporation

By: DR. VEENA ISHWARAPPA BHAVIKATTI ,DR. SONY HIREMATH

The accomplishment of any association, over the long haul, relies on the quality of its HR. This is particularly obvious in administrations situated industry like transport division where improvement in administration must be persistently made to meet the rising desire for the travelers. The facts confirm that nation lives through its kin, creates through them and additions acknowledgement and greatness through them. Road Transport is irreplaceable for the improvement of the economy of a nation. It remains the basic decision of versatility of individuals and transport of merchandise because of its expertise in utility, proficiency and matchless flexibility improved by an impeccable connection to other vehicle implies. Road Transport consistently assumes an important job of shipping short and medium separation traveler exchange. In India, it is the main method of transport capable of connecting towns to the standard

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9355150547

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Life and Words

Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary

By: Veena Das

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Life and Words

Violence and the Descent Into the Ordinary

By: Veena Das

Weaving anthropological and philosophical reflections on the ordinary into her analysis, Das points toward a new way of interpreting violence in societies and cultures around the globe.

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Univ of California Press

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0520247450

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9780520247451

Slum Acts

By: Veena Das

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Slum Acts

By: Veena Das

This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces, this book provides a detailed analysis of the institutions of the state, particularly of policing and law in India. It argues that catastrophic events at the national level and the techniques of governance through which they are handled secrete forms of knowing that get embedded into the nooks and crannies of everyday life, eroding trust, sowing suspicions, and leading to an exhaustion of capacity for care. Yet the paths to survival honed within these spaces generate critique that compels us to ask how punishment and torture become routinized in democracies. Following the paths of those who struggle with these questions in these neighborhoods, the book finds that deep philosophical questions, such as the inhuman as a possibility of the human rather than its boundary, arise in the weaves of these lives and are experienced as a dimension of the social. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars in anthropology and throughout the social sciences and humanities.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1509537872

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9781509537877

Ordinary Feet, Extra-Ordinary Feat

By: Dr Veena Bharathi

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Ordinary Feet, Extra-Ordinary Feat

By: Dr Veena Bharathi

Neerja Bhanot gave -up her young precious life, so that the 380-odd passengers of the hijacked Pan-Am airlines could survive. Read about the first ever woman recipient of The Ashoka-Chakra award ,the highest bravery award given by The Indian Government. Neerja became 'The Heroine' of the Pan-Am hijack at Karachi, that shook the world in September 1986 , she infact became the Captain of the deserted Aircraft, the moment she realised that the passengers and the entire crew were at the mercy of trigger-happy hijackers. Read the soul-stirring real life story ' Neerja of heroic height '. 2. Read about the tribal-welfare doctor, Dr.H.Sudarshan, who though was a target of forest brigand Veerappan, refused to take the security-cover provided by The Karnataka Government

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Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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9384318787

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Contemporary Pakistan

Political Processes, Conflicts and Crises

By: Veena Kukreja

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Contemporary Pakistan

Political Processes, Conflicts and Crises

By: Veena Kukreja

Veena Kukreja provides a rare reasoned analysis of the political processes at work in contemporary Pakistan and an objective understanding of the problems and crises confronting the country. The author points out that for 25 out of the 53 years of its existence, the military has been the arbiter of Pakistan`s destiny. The military, she maintains, regards its dominance of Pakistani politics not only as a right but as a duty. As a result, state security has taken precedence over the need to create participatory political processes and institutions. The book points out that the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the resulting US offensive in Afghanistan, has put the military regime in Islamabad in a tight spot. Caught between unyielding ulemas, a faltering economy, and American pressure to demolish militant networks in Pakistan, these recent developments combined with the dangerous cleavage within Pakistani society-could well push that country into another bout of instability and even anarchy. The situation is made more complex by the nexus between terrorism and drugs .

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SAGE

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0761996834

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9780761996835

A Pinch of HOPE in a Bowl of LIFE

By: Veena Sethuraman

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A Pinch of HOPE in a Bowl of LIFE

By: Veena Sethuraman

Love has many forms. Every seeker may have their own journey towards it, each one filled with its own set of obstacles and life lessons. For Gayathri, a chance encounter with a Gynaecologic Oncologist reminds her of her own belief in a soulmate and helps her embrace self-love. For Charanjeet, love is about getting over his helplessness and working to strengthen his marriage, building his family. Joseph had to first encounter himself, deal with his own anger and shame to find his expression, before he could accept someone’s love. Ranganayaki’s journey is that of learning to stand up for herself in an unsupportive environment and yet viewing the world through the lens of humour along with her strong faith on her ‘Ranga’. Suraiya had to allow the churning in her to realize that self-care is not selfish, while facing up to her disappointing marriage and walking out of it. They say Love Conquers All; here are stories of a few common people who had to break the shackles – sometimes of traditions, sometimes of societal norms and at times even their own expectations to reach their destinations. As they conquered, they embodied HOPE. After all, LOVE is the source of HOPE.

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Leadstart Publishing Pvt Ltd

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9354582591

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9789354582592

Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

By: Veena Das

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Textures of the Ordinary

Doing Anthropology after Wittgenstein

By: Veena Das

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the answers to these question lie not in foundational ideas about human nature but in a close attention to the diverse ways in which the natural and the social mutually absorb each other on a daily basis. Textures of the Ordinary shows how anthropology finds a companionship with philosophy in the exploration of everyday life. Based on two decades of ethnographic work among low-income urban families in India, Das shows how the notion of texture aligns ethnography with the anthropological tone in Wittgenstein and Cavell, as well as in literary texts. Das shows that doing anthropology after Wittgenstein does not consist in taking over a new set of terms such as forms of life, language games, or private language from Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Instead, we must learn to see what eludes us in the everyday precisely because it is before our eyes. The book shows different routes of return to the everyday as it is corroded not only by catastrophic events but also by repetitive and routine violence within everyday life itself. As an alternative to normative ethics, this book develops ordinary ethics as attentiveness to the other and as the ability of small acts of care to stand up to horrific violence. Textures of the Ordinary offers a model of thinking in which concepts and experience are shown to be mutually vulnerable. With questions returned to repeatedly throughout the text and over a lifetime, this book is an intellectually intimate invitation into the ordinary, that which is most simple yet most difficult to perceive in our lives.

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Fordham University Press

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0823287904

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9780823287901

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

By: VEENA KESHAV PAILWAR

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BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT

By: VEENA KESHAV PAILWAR

Designed primarily as a text for undergraduate and postgraduate students of management and commerce, this comprehensive and well-organized book equips the readers with the knowledge to analyze the domestic and global business environment. The focus of the book is on the assessment of the evolving business scenario using analytical underpinnings and latest data. This book clearly brings out the implications of changes in socio-economic and legal environment of business, and covers business environment by tracking changes in national income, inflation, fiscal deficit, money supply, exchange rate, balance of payment and many other economic variables. Besides, it briefs on legal aspects, deliberates on demographic changes and changes in technical and natural environment of business. Besides students, practising managers and policy makers will also find the book as a useful reference. Key Features • Illustrations using latest data (upto June 2013) • Boxes containing numerical illustrations and technical details • Cases depicting Indian Business Environment and providing glimpses of evolving global business environment • Review questions, numerical problems and case analysis Companion Website: This text is supported by the companion website: www.phindia.com/veenapailwar/ containing useful resources for the teachers and study aids for the students. Instructors’ Resources: To support the teaching efforts the website contains—Answers to the end of the chapter Numerical Problems with explanation; More than 1000 crisp, clear and colourful PowerPoint Slides; and more than 1000 Multiple Choice Questions. Students’ Resources: To strengthen the understanding of the students on the subject the website resources comprise—Interactive Multiple Choice Questions and hints for solving chapter-end Numerical Problems.

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PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.

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8120348907

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9788120348905

Diagnostic Radiology Paediatric Imaging

By: Arun Kumar Gupta,Veena Chowdhury,Niranjan Khandelwal,Ashu Seith Bhalla

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Diagnostic Radiology Paediatric Imaging

By: Arun Kumar Gupta,Veena Chowdhury,Niranjan Khandelwal,Ashu Seith Bhalla

Rapid advances are taking place in the field of imaging. This results in the need for re-evaluating and redefining the role of a modality in different clinical scenarios. Coupled to this, particularly in paediatric radiology is the need for ensuring patient safety. The industry has made significant attempts to minimize radiation exposures in imaging and this is pre-requisite that cannot be over-emphasized in children. Paediatric radiology is already a well-established subspecialty in the West, but in the developing world due to the paucity of trained radiologists in proportion to our population, every practicing radiologist needs to be aware of the special needs and disease entities in children. The third edition of the book has been designed to include current recommendations, guidelines and existing knowledge on the subject. The content of all chapters has been updated, while some have been significantly restructured. New chapters have also been added. It is our earnest hope that our readers will find this text informative and that it will aid in their learning process and daily practice.

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JP Medical Ltd

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9350252058

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9789350252055

(40)FORTY WINKS IN THE LIFE OF CHESTER

By: VEENA RAO

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(40)FORTY WINKS IN THE LIFE OF CHESTER

By: VEENA RAO

The book is about a cat named Chester, who wakes up to find himself in a new surrounding and new people each time and the adventure he goes through in his eventful and joyous journey.

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