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Dowry Murder

The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime

By: Veena Talwar Oldenburg

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Dowry Murder

The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime

By: Veena Talwar Oldenburg

Oldenburg argues that dowry murder is not about dowry per se nor is it rooted in an Indian culture or caste system that encourages violence against women. Rather, dowry murder can be traced directly to the influences of the British colonial era.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195150716

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Affliction

Health, Disease, Poverty

By: Veena Das

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Affliction

Health, Disease, Poverty

By: Veena Das

Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of health and disease in the context of poverty. Focusing on low-income neighborhoods in Delhi, it stitches together three different sets of issues. First, it examines the different trajectories of illness: What are the circumstances under which illness is absorbed within the normal and when does it exceed the normal—putting resources, relationships, and even one’s world into jeopardy? A second set of issues involves how different healers understand their own practices. The astonishing range of practitioners found in the local markets in the poor neighborhoods of Delhi shows how the magical and the technical are knotted together in the therapeutic experience of healers and patients. The book asks: What is expert knowledge? What is it that the practitioner knows and what does the patient know? How are these different forms of knowledge brought together in the clinical encounter, broadly defined? How does this event of everyday life bear the traces of larger policies at the national and global levels? Finally, the book interrogates the models of disease prevalence and global programming that emphasize surveillance over care and deflect attention away from the specificities of local worlds. Yet the analysis offered retains an openness to different ways of conceptualizing “what is happening” and stimulates a conversation between different disciplinary orientations to health, disease, and poverty. Most studies of health and disease focus on the encounter between patient and practitioner within the space of the clinic. This book instead privileges the networks of relations, institutions, and knowledge over which the experience of illness is dispersed. Instead of thinking of illness as an event set apart from everyday life, it shows the texture of everyday life, the political economy of neighborhoods, as well as the dark side of care. It helps us see how illness is bound by the contexts in which it occurs, while also showing how illness transcends these contexts to say something about the nature of everyday life and the making of subjects.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823261824

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9780823261826

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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0520247442

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9780520247444

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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Diagnostic Radiology: Recent Advances and Applied Physics in Imaging

By: Arun Kumar Gupta,Veena Chowdhury,Niranjan Khandelwal

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Diagnostic Radiology: Recent Advances and Applied Physics in Imaging

By: Arun Kumar Gupta,Veena Chowdhury,Niranjan Khandelwal

This second edition has been fully updated to provide radiologists with all the recent technological advances in diagnostic radiology. Divided into six sections, it covers all the key aspects of the imaging – ultrasound, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, radiography and interventional radiography, and contrast media. The final section discusses miscellaneous topics including evidence based radiology, radiation protection, molecular imaging, planning a modern imaging department, and common drugs used. A separate chapter is dedicated to picture archiving and data management. This comprehensive new edition includes nearly 600 full colour radiological images and illustrations. Key points Fully updated, new edition presenting recent technological advances in diagnostic radiology Covers all key imaging techniques Includes nearly 600 radiological photographs and illustrations Previous edition published in 2007

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JP Medical Ltd

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9350904977

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9789350904978

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

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

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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Kailash Manasarovar

A Sacred Journey

By: Veena Sharma

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Kailash Manasarovar

A Sacred Journey

By: Veena Sharma

Is a physical journey the necessary path to spiritual evolution? Kailash Manasarovar:A Sacred Journey dwells on this question and perceives the possibility for the three stages of inner transformation during the journey, using the Devi Mahatmayam as a metaphor. The journey shows that it takes just a shift in perspective to behold the divine in the mundane. By eroding the conditioning of our essence, the journey helps us connect with a pure centre, marking the beginning of interactions which are actions, rather than mere reactions to situations. From this point on, it is in maintaining a heightened awareness of one?s emotions, memories, surroundings and companions that makes the journey more meaningful.

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Roli Books Private Limited

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9351940217

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Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating A Cultural

By: Veena Talwar Oldenburg,Veena Talwar

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Dowry Murder: Reinvestigating A Cultural

By: Veena Talwar Oldenburg,Veena Talwar

Dowry in India has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants. Reconstructing the history of dowry in this highly provocative book, Veena Talwar Oldenburg argues that dowry is not always the motive for these killings as is widely believed; nor are these crimes a product of Indian culture or caste system. In the pre-colonial period, dowry, an institution managed by women to enable them to establish their independence, was a safety net. As a consequence of massive economic and societal upheaval brought on by British rule, however, women's control of the system diminished and dowry became extortion." -- Page 4 of cover.

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Penguin Books India

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0143063995

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9780143063995

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

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

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

Eco-Labelling and International Trade

By: Veena Jha,Rene Vossenaar,Simonetta Zarrilli

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Eco-Labelling and International Trade

By: Veena Jha,Rene Vossenaar,Simonetta Zarrilli

Eco-labelling is an increasingly popular way of meeting consumer's demands for environmental information about the products they purchase. The first book on this important subject collects contributions from the academic, policy-making and commercial spheres to look at the conceptual and practical issues, and to discuss how eco-labelling can be made effective and equitable, and must avoid distorting international trade to the detriment of developing countries.

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Springer

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1349254924

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9781349254927

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

Quality Management of Iron and Steel Industry -A Prelude to Scientific Temperament for Aspirants of Quality

By: Dr. K C Prashanth & Dr. Veena M

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Quality Management of Iron and Steel Industry -A Prelude to Scientific Temperament for Aspirants of Quality

By: Dr. K C Prashanth & Dr. Veena M

1.1 Background Steel besides an alloy is referred to as the backbone of human civilization, since it has been serving mankind from hundreds of years in realizing their social, cultural, political and economical needs. Steel essentially composed of iron and other elements like carbon, manganese, silicon etc. Steel by its virtue of nature is an eco-friendly product used in our everyday life. It has been the material for innumerable applications in the past and it would likely to continue in the future for sure. At modern times, its production is considered as the crucial factor for the development of economies. Steel is shining up to the extent that any country’s socio-economic development and standard of living is determined by its per-capita consumption. During the early period of globalization steel industry was in the forefront among the other sectors and made rapid strides since then. Increasing modernization of green and brown field plants in the twenty-first century has led in doubling of global steel production from 851 million tons at the turn of the century in 2000 to 1,662 million tons in 2014. According to World Steel Association, the global steel demand is estimated to realize 3000 million tons in 2025. The past growth in production and consumption of steel has largely been at the cornerstone of the heightened economic activity in the emerging economies, especially China, whose demand remains a pivotal factor driving the global steel industry.

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Ashok Yakkaldevi

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1716805767

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9781716805769

Ecology, Culture, and Change

Tribals of Sikkim Himalayas

By: Veena Bhasin

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Ecology, Culture, and Change

Tribals of Sikkim Himalayas

By: Veena Bhasin

Sikkim has a population of 3,16,355 people (1981 census) and an area of 4276 Sq. Kms. Despite its small area, much ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is exhibited. Very few studies on the diverse tribal culture were undertaken in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century. No anthropological studies have been undertaken on Sikkim since its integration with India. This work prepared under Man and Biosphere Programme of UNESCO is a significant contribution to the knowledge of this little known part of the mountain world. In the present book, Dr. Veena Bhasin, who carried out field work during 1981 to 1983 in North Sikkim records the complex patterns of the two diverse culture of the Lepchas and the Bhutias of North Sikkim. A micro approache has been used to explore indepth, the myriad aspects of life at Dzongu reserve habited by Pepaches and Lachen and Lachung valleys habited by Bhutias. The Social organisation, religious beliefs, economic structure and social control have been described in detail.

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8121002176

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9788121002172

The Spark That Changed Everything

Stories of the Greatest Discoveries, Ideas and Inventions

By: Veena Prasad

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The Spark That Changed Everything

Stories of the Greatest Discoveries, Ideas and Inventions

By: Veena Prasad

First, they made fire. With fire, they made food... and later tools to cultivate more food. With cultivation came homes... which became societies and then civilizations. And humans are still thinking of extraordinary ideas every day! Countless discoveries, ingenious inventions and lucky accidents have gone into shaping the world as we know it today. This book delves into science, history and every subject in between, revealing the stories behind the most significant breakthroughs that humans have made through the ages – from clothing, cartography and chemistry to music, maths and metallurgy. Find out who had the biggest brainwaves, how these set other innovations in motion and why some great ideas are not necessarily good ideas! Peppered with illustrations, photographs and fabulous facts, The Spark That Changed Everything is a lively and fascinating account of the marvels of human imagination and enterprise. So what are you waiting for? Take a trip to our thrilling past and see how we got here.

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Hachette India Children's Books

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9388322657

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9789388322652

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