Established in 1969, Manohar is a publishing house and a bookseller serving individuals and libraries. We export books by mail and have a bookstore at Ansari Road in Delhi. Manohar initially sold only rare and out of print publications, but soon branched out into local sale/export of new books published in India, and then into publishing of scholarly works under its own imprint.
30 November, 2012
The Good Country: Individual, Situation and Society in Saurashtra
The Good Country: Individual, Situation and Society in Saurashtra
By- Harald Tambs-Lyche
Dealing with Saurashtra, a complex but little studied part of western India, this book extends monographic treatment to an entire region, and thereby reveals the dynamic and changing nature of relations between castes. Town, village and hamlet all participate as backgrounds for the image people in Saurashtra have of their society, while the ever-present past informs them of the past itinerary of present groups, and provides a diachronic perspective on the power relations that inform the system and pervades the consciousness of the regional population. Their knowledge of society extends both through changing relations over time and variation within the region. Though considerable, such knowledge is always and necessarily partial. Constant but differing efforts are made to relate such knowledge to the precepts of caste society as structuring the image of the whole. But such efforts are made by people who are differently situated, and who construct contradictory images, of which the most important, traditionally, are those emanating from the feudal past, and those linked to the merchant communities. Thus caste cannot fruitfully be seen as a single structure, in static and synchronic terms. By analysing interaction in various settings, the author shows how the encounters of daily life are embedded in the rank consciousness peculiar to India, while difference is constantly underscored in hierarchizing discourse. In this study, the individual emerges as an agent of the hierarchical order, with an image of the self just as individual as his Western counterpart though differently constructed.
Harald Tambs-Lyche received his Ph.D. from the Univesity of Bergen in 1972. After early work on Indian immigrants in Europe, he has worked on Saurashtra since 1973, and has published a volume on the emergence of its traditional society: Power, Profit and Poetry (Manohar, 1997); and edited a collection of articles on The Feminine Sacred in South Asia (Manohar, 1999), A study of Scandinavian missionaries among the Santals, in collaboration with Marine Carrin, is being prepared for publication. He is presently working on ethnic and religious revitalization in Karnataka, and a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Picardie–Jules Verne, Amiens, France.
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25 November, 2012
The Forging of Nationhood
The Forging of Nationhood
By- Gyanendra Pandey and Peter Geschiere (eds.)
Unlike most writings on nationalism, and the related
concepts of development and modernity, this book is the product of a
conversation begun among historians of the South—or what used to be known as
the ‘Third World’. It shows how much there is to learn about these facets of
the modern world from closer attention to the experience of the directly or
indirectly colonized parts of Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America
and, no less importantly, from direct interaction between scholars from these
regions.
The notions of nationhood and liberal development
have been disseminated so successfully in recent times that they have come to
be viewed almost as ‘natural’. It is easy to forget how long and difficult the
struggle has been to establish ideas of popular sovereignty and individual
equality as universally applicable rights. For, as this book demonstrates, the
rhetoric of the inclusive claims of liberty and equality that nationalism and
other related movements promote is accompanied by the practice of exluding
numerous classes, communities and individuals from precisely these claims. This
happens to be the case both within, and across, nations. Indeed, the story of
nationalism and of modern ‘civilization’ could scarcely have been written
without such exclusions.
Several papers in this volume show how members of
excluded groups can suffer from nationalism’s impatience with difference, and
conclude with the hope of reforming the nation state. Yet their collective
contributions also suggest that the concept of the essential, cultural
nation—and perhaps therefore the idea of the nation itself, as it has been
handed down to us—needs serious questioning; and with that of course the existing
forms of the modern state.
Gyanendra
Pandey was Professor of History at the University of Delhi from 1986 to
1998, before moving to his present position as Professor of History and
Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Peter
Geschiere taught History and Anthropology at the Free University
(Amsterdam), the Erasmus University (Rotterdam) and the EHESS
(Paris/Marseille). At present he is Professor of African Anthropology at Leiden
University and the University of Amsterdam.
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24 November, 2012
The Feminine Sacred in South Asia
The Feminine Sacred in South Asia
By- Harald Tambs-Lyche (ed)
Published in association with
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, France
South Asia is the only major region where the ‘Great
Goddess’ is still a living reality for believers—yet its society remains
male-dominated. Drawing their examples from ritual practice, myth, and sacred
texts the contributors to this volume discuss the place of the feminine within
the sacred sphere of South Asian religion. The theme is full of contradictions,
for the impurity of woman must be held against the powers she incarnates, and
the religious status of these powers is an old theme of debate among Hindu and
Buddhist thinkers. Finally, the feminine pole in religious thought cannot
simply be equated with human womanhood. . . . Yet the very presence of feminity
in the sacred sphere contrasts with its exclusion from scriptural Islam or from
protestantism, and offers, perhaps, to women a mode of religious expression in
an idiom where gender is a central paradigm of thought.
This volume then, contributing to the debate on
feminity in South Asian religion, should also be of interest to scholars
dealing with gender in a broader perspective.
Harald
Tambs-Lyche, a social
anthropologist, is professor of ethnology at the University of Picardie-Jules
Verne, Amiens (France). He has worked on Gujaratis at home and abroad (London Patidars, Routledge, 1980; Power, Profit and Poetry, Manohar,
1997). He is currently doing fieldwork in Karnataka.
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22 November, 2012
The Bengal Sultanate: Politics, Economy and Coins (AD 1205-1576)
The Bengal Sultanate: Politics, Economy and Coins (ad
1205-1576)
By- Syed Ejaz Hussain
The book presents a comprehensive account of the
politico-economic history of Bengal, from ad
1205 to 1576. It has made extensive use of coins and epigraphs to interpret and
substantiate the historical narrative culled out from the contemporaneous
chronicles and travelogues.
The first six chapters trace the political history.
The topics like the date of Bakhtiyar Khalji’s conquest of Bengal; the rule of
the Governors and later of the independent Sultans; Bengal’s relations with the
neighboring kingdoms; and its role in the regional politics and economy in
different phases of history, have been discussed in the light of some hitherto
untapped historical material. The debate of Bengal’s isolation from the north
and south India has also been revisited.
The seventh chapter traces the administrative
hierarchy, power and functions of the state functionaries while in the eighth
chapter the economy of the region, inter-local, coastal and foreign trade as
well as the currency pattern have been described.
The entire narrative is enriched by a corpus of rare
coins spread over 32 plates. Two appendices, the first giving the revised
chronology of the rulers of Bengal, and the second listing the mint towns,
together with thematic maps, make the book a veritable reference work for
medieval Indian history and numismatics.
Dr Syed Ejaz
Hussain belongs to the family of late Syed Luqman Haider, a devotee of
education and learning, who founded the Town High School at Ara (Bihar) as
early as 1882. In 1983, he topped in M.A. (History) from Magadh University,
Bodh-Gaya and was awarded gold medal. He obtained Ph.D. degree in History from
Patna University, Patna in 1991. Dr Ejaz has contributed a number of research
papers in national and international conferences as well as in learned
journals. He has toured extensively in India and abroad and has consulted the
coin-cabinets such as those of the American Numismatic Society, New York; the
British Museum, London and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He has also received the Charles Wallace
(India) Trust Fellowship to study the Sultanate coins in the collection of the
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge and is preparing a Catalogue of the said series.
Presently Dr Ejaz teaches History in Visva-Bharati University,
Santiniketan.
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20 November, 2012
The Afghan War and Its Geopolitical Implications for India
The Afghan War and Its Geopolitical Implications for
India
By- Salman Haidar (ed)
Published in association with
Academy of Third World Studies, New Delhi
Few countries have been more affected by the US-led
war against Afghanistan than India. There was initial hope that the war would
stamp out the terrorism plaguing India but this was soon belied, and the Afghan
situation remains highly unpredictable. By now, America’s interest has shifted
elsewhere, yet the military presence it has established all around Afghanistan
profoundly affects the geopolitical picture in the heart of Asia. The powerful
lure of oil and gas has begun to open up a region once off limits to the West,
and new commercial and political rivalries are taking shape.
The Academy of Third World Studies of Jamia Millia
Islamia recently organized a seminar where a number of noted experts looked in
depth at events in an around Afghanistan, its history, current situation and
future prospects; also what it tells us about today’s unipolar world. The newly
acquired significance of Central Asia is highlighted and the special situation
of Iran analysed. There is also an account of how developments in Central Asia
explain policy-making processes in the former hegemon Russia.
Collectively, these papers are an illuminating study
of events whose full implications can only be guessed at but whose relevance to
India’s future strategy cannot be bypassed.
Salman Haidar
is a former diplomat who retired from the Indian Foreign Service in 1997 as
Foreign Secretary. He is currently associated with the Academy of Third World
Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, and also with the Centre for Research in Ruural
and Industrial Development, Chandigarh.
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Text and Context in the History, Literature and Religion of Orissa
Text and Context in the History, Literature and
Religion of Orissa
By- Angelika Malinar, Johannes Beltz and Heiko Frese
(eds)
The last decades of the twentieth century have
witnessed an enlarged understanding of the notion of ‘text’ as not only comprising
written documents, but also rituals, artifacts and the like. Thereby, ‘texts’
were brought closer to the social religious or historical contexts that help to
interpret texts. Scholars, traditionally divided in different disciplines that
deal either more with texts (historians, philologists, etc.) or with contexts
(sociologists anthropologists, etc.) became interested in the methods and
perspectives of the other disciplines. This has resulted in a renewed interest
in the theoretical issues implied in the notions of text and context. The
essays in this volume reflect these debates and show how they influence and
enrich research on South Asia.
Anthropologists, historians, literary critics,
philologists and historians of religion deal with the mutli-layered interplay
between texts and contexts in past and present Orissa. Orissa, renowned for the
cults related to the Jagannatha Temple in Puri, is marked by a rich cultural
diversity. In dealing with the interdependence between text and context the
eassys provide fresh insights to the complexity and fluidity of cultural
contexts that use text as stable points of reference. The traditions of Orissa
are considered in their uniqueness as well as in their relationship to South
Asian cultural contexts on a larger scale.
Angelika
Malinar is Associate Professor at the Institute for Indian Languages.
Literatures and Art History of Free University of Berlin. Her major
publications are on the history and the modern religious movements of Hinduism,
epics and Puranas, Indian philosophy and aesthetics, and modern Hindi
literature.
Johannes Beltz
is Research Fellow at the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg.
He studied theology and Indian religions in Halle, Strasbourg, Lausanne and
Paris, and received his Ph.D. in 1999. Currently, he is Assistant Curator at
the Rietberg Museum, Zurich.
Heiko Fress,
Ph.D., is Research Associate at the University of Kiel. He is presently working
on a research project on historiography in seventeenth to twentieth century
Orissa sponsored by the German Research Council.
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19 November, 2012
Terrorism Post 9/11: An Indian Perspective
Terrorism Post 9/11: An Indian Perspective
By- P.R. Chari and Suba Chandran (eds)
India has been facing a wide range of terrorist
threats emanating from diverse groups with objectives purporting to being
inspired by leftist, rightist, secular and sectarian ideologies. Some groups
are plainly criminal organizations. They have used different tactics to achieve
their ends ranging from hit and run tactics to fidayeen (suicide) attacks. The terrorists have used a variety of
weapons to create mayhem including small arms. Improvised Explosive Devices
(IEDs), shoulder fired rockets and human bombs. Since India lies between two
volatile regions—South East Asia and Central Asia that are centres for arms and
drugs smuggling, the availability of weapons to the terrorists is not a
problem.
9/11 changed the contours of the international
system. It also enhanced the terrorist threat to India. Pakistan’s role in the
War against Terrorism has informed its promotion of terrorist activities across
its eastern border after it was coerced into assisting the US campaign against
terrorism on Pakistan’s western border and in Afghanistan. The terrorist
attacks against the J&K Assembly and the Indian Parliament, the Army camp
at Kaluchak and the Akshardham/Raghunath temples are manifestations of this new
reality.
This volume brings together the entire range of
issues relating to terrorism in India, the efforts made by the Indian
government to combat this menace, its successes and failures, besides profiling
some of the significant terrorist groups in South Asia. A documentation section
provides information on the legal framework available to assist the
anti-terrorism campaign.
P.R. Chari,
former member of the Indian Administrative Services, has held several important
positions including Additional Secretary, Ministry of Defence and Director,
Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses. He was International Fellow, Centre
for International Affairs, Harvard University and is currently Director of the
Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies (IPCS) He has worked extensively on
nuclear disamandment non-proliferation and Indian defence issues and is the
author of many distinguished publications.
Suba Chandran
has been with the IPCS since 1998 and currently is working on the Ford
Foundation study on India’s Security
Problematique. With a doctoral degree from the School of International
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, his research interests include Pakistan,
Kashmir Indo-Pak relations and suicide terrorism. He is a recipient of the Ford
ACDIS Fellowship and will be working at the ACDIS, University of Illinois
starting from June 2003 for six months on Limited
War between India and Pakistan.
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18 November, 2012
Taxation of Income: An International Comparison
Taxation of Income: An International Comparison
A Select Study of U.S., U.K., Australia, Malaysia, Pakistan, India
By- Indu Jain
Business and investment operations of individuals and companies are becoming increasingly international in scope in the wake of current wave of globalization and openness sweeping across the countries of the world. Income tax systems of different countries differ in terms of definition of income and expenses, exemptions and concessions, rates and collection procedures. Varying tax practices of different countries complicate decision-making by individuals and corporates. Hence a comparative study of taxation of income becomes relevant.
This book attempts to provide a detailed analysis of income tax provisions of six countries—three of them developed, namely, the U.K., the U.S., and Australia and three developing, Malaysis, Pakistan and India. The book makes a detailed analysis of the tax rate structure and explains the model of the computation of the taxable income of the individual and the corporate taxpayer.
The work will be most useful for a cross-section of readers including researchers, teachers and students of economics, commerce, law and management. The analysis of the income tax systems of chosen countries would also be beneficial for policy makers, legislators, tax consultants, executives and enterprises having multinational operations.
Indu Jain obtained her Ph.D. degree from the Department of Commerce, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. She is Reader in the Department of Commerce, Daulat Ram College, University of Delhi.
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16 November, 2012
Tashrih-ul-Moosiqu: Persian Translation of Tansen’s Original Work ‘Budh Prakash’
Tashrih-ul-Moosiqu: Persian
Translation of Tansen’s Original Work ‘Budh Prakash’
By- Najma Perveen Ahmad (Editor,
Translator, Commentator)
Several Persian and Urdu manuscripts of the medieval
period are very precious and provide valuable information and insights into
various aspects of Indian musicology. Most of them contain translations and
references to ancient Sanskrit texts which could not be preserved and are not
available now for various reasons.
One such rare manuscript is Tashrih-ul-Moosiqui, written by Hakeem Mohammad Arzani during
the seventeenth century. It is the Persian translation of Tansen’s work Budh
Prakash. Like Man Kautuhal, of which only Persian
translation Raag Darpan is
available, probably Budh Prakash
may also be available only in this form.
The present work is an English translation of Tashrih-ul-Moosiqui that consists of
eight chapters containing description of Origin of Music, Types of Samaah,
Attributes of Musicians, Svara, Classification and Time Theory of Ragas, Tala
and Musical Instruments. The most significant and comprehensive part of the
manuscript is the seventh chapter which is about Mishra Ragas where the author
has used the word Miloni for a combination of ragas, in place of the
well-known terms like Chhayalag, Sankeerna and Mishra Ragas, used by the other
authors of the period. It elaborates the classification system of the wide
range of well-known ragas mentioned in Budh Prakash that has some
different nuances as compared to the description given in Persian works of later
medieval period.
It is hoped that this work will
bring to light the work of the great musician Tansen. In addition to the
translation of the manuscript, the author has provided brief commentary and
critique wherever required.
Najma Perveen Ahmad, former
Dean and Head of the Department of Music, University of Delhi, is a teacher,
scholar and vocalist in Hindustani Classical Music belonging to Delhi Gharana.
At present she is Emeritus Fellow of UGC at the Faculty of Music and Fine Arts,
University of Delhi
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Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects Found in India
Symbols of Trade: Roman and Pseudo-Roman Objects
Found in India
By- S. Suresh
Roman objects such as coins, ceramics, metal and
glass artefacts have been discovered in different parts of the Indian
subcontinent. These objects were brought to this land by ancient traders,
sailors and travellers. Often, ancient Indians produced coins and other objects
closely resembling these foreign objects. Many of these objects have either
been lost or destroyed. Those that have survived are scattered in various
museums and private collections in South Asia and Europe.
This study provides the first-ever systematic,
comprehensive and integrated collation of all these objects. Combining
theoretical insights with empirical data, it investigates the reasons for the
uneven distribution pattern and complex chronology of the varied types of
objects in the different regions of the subcontinent. It also includes an
insightful analysis of the peculiar features such as slash marks and
countermarks seen on some of the Roman coins found in India. The Epilogue sets
these objects in the wider context of the early commerce between China,
South-East Asia, Sri Lanka, India, Africa and Rome.
Written in an attractive narrative style, this volume
will be of immense volume not only to serious scholars but also to all those
interested in ancient Roman and Indian archaeology, numismatics and economic
history.
S. Suresh
is currently an ICHR Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Sudharsanam Centre
for Arts and Culture, Pudukkottai (Tamil Nadu). He has been a Consultant at the
Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage (INTACH) and the TVS
Educational Society, Chennai. He was earlier Research Fellow at the Indira
Gandhi National Centre for Arts, New Delhi, Victoria and Albert Museum, London and
the French Institute of Pondicherry (India) and Visiting Professor at Sorborne
IV University, Paris (France).
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15 November, 2012
Stories About the Partition of India (Vols. I-III)
Stories About the Partition of
India (Vols. I-III)
By- Alok Bhalla (ed.)
When the first three volumes of the Stories
about the Partition of India were published more than a decade ago,
they were widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive collection of texts in
English translations from the three countries of the subcontinent. Ever since
then, the anthology has remained an invaluable resource for historical and
literary studies trying to understand the politics of religious identities,
colonial predatoriness, linguistic chauvinism, or the partitions of large
states to resolve ethnic conflicts anywhere. The new edition of the collection
enlarges the range of the anthology by adding a fourth volume which includes a
large number of stories from Bengali and Sindhi that speak eloquently about the
continuing sorrows of separatist and fundamentalist world-views which destroy
old neighbourhoods, encourage despair and add to human misery. The additional
volume should enable scholars to add fresh insights into the history of the
partition as it affected two regions which have yet not become the subject of
serious literary and archival research. The anthology is further enriched by
including stories by many of the finest writers in Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi
which have become available only recently in English translations. This volume
has also made a special effort to include more stories by major women writers
from different languages like Qurratulain Hyder, Khadija Mastur, Popati
Hiranandani, Dalip Kaur Tiwana, Nisha Da Cunha, Rajee Seth, Farkhanda Lodhi and
Syeda Farida Rahman.
In a review of the first edition
of this collection, the New York Times said that Alok Bhalla’s
anthology had done a “fine…job of evoking the terror, the bewilderment and the
remorse that still shadow so many lives on the subcontinent.”
Alok Bhalla obtained
his Ph.D from Kent State University, USA. He was a Lady Davis Visiting
Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Fellow at the Rockefeller Centre,
Bellagio, Italy and Fellow at the IIAS, Shimla.
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Stories About the Partition of India (Vol. IV)
Stories About the Partition of India (Vol. IV)
By- Alok Bhalla (ed.)
When the first three volumes of the Stories about the Partition of India were published more than a decade ago, they were widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive collection of texts in English translations from the three countries of the subcontinent. Ever since then, the anthology has remained an invaluable resource for historical and literary studies trying to understand the politics of religious identities, colonial predatoriness, linguistic chauvinism, or the partitions of the large states to resolve ethnic conflicts anywhere. The new edition of the collection enlarges the range of the anthology by adding a fourth volume which includes a large number of stories from Bengali and Sindhi that speak eloquently about the continuing sorrows of separatist and fundamentalist world-views which destroy old neighborhoods, encourage despair and add to human misery. The additional volume should enable scholars to add fresh insights into the history of the partition as it affected two regions which have yet not become the subject of serious literary and archival research. The anthology is further enriched by including stories by many of the finest writers in Urdu, Punjabi or Hindi which have become available only recently in English translations. This volume has also made a special effort to include more stories by major women writers from different languages like Qurratulain Hyder, Khadija Mastur, Popati Hiranandani, Dalip Kaur Tiwana; Nisha Da Cunha, Rajee Seth, Farkhnanda Lodhi and Syeda Farida Rahman.
In a review of the first edition of this collection, the New York Times said that Alok Bhalla’s anthology had done a “fine . . . job of evoking the terror, bewilderment and the remorse that still shadows so many lives on the subcontinent”.
Alok Bhalla obtained his Ph.D from Kent State University, USA. He was a Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Fellow at the Rockefeller Centre, Bellagio, Italy and Fellow at the IIAS, Shimla.
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13 November, 2012
Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders: Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume
Sufis, Sultans and Feudal Orders: Professor Nurul Hasan Commemoration Volume
By- Mansura Haidar (ed)
Published in association with
Centre for Advanced Study, Aligarh Muslim University
Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan who hailed from an
illustrious family, which had given to the nation a galaxy of luminaries, was a
scholar, teacher, parliamentarian, minister, an ambassador to the USSR,
governor of West Bengal, a social worker and above all a generous and graceful
human being. His friends found him to be imbued with a traditional Lucknow
culture, the very embodiment of courtesy and good manners, suave, urbane and
highly sophisticated. To him personal ties mattered a great deal which he
cultivated irrespective of an individual’s politics or religion.
This book is a glowing tribute to the memory of
Professor Saiyid Nurul Hasan by his colleagues, students, relatives and friends
and also from a grateful History Department of Aligarh Muslim University which
under his stewardship had been elevated to the status of a National Centre of
Advanced Study in Medieval History. His area of study was as wide as his field
of action. A fact which is reflected in the topics and subjects chosen for this
volume. The essays are divided into five sections namely: Sufis; Sultans; Feudal
Order; Miscellaneous; and Reminiscences. The volume will be of much use to
medieval, modern, maritime and Central Asian historians and scholar.
Mansura Haidar
is a well-known specialist on history and culture of Central Asia. She has been
teaching Islamic History, History of Central and West Asia and medieval and
modern Indian history at the Centre of Advanced Study, Department of History,
Aligarh Muslim University for the past thirty-eight years. She has a profound
knowledge of Islamic history both in terms of vastness of sphere and span and
her information is based on an in-depth study of the original sources.
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Stealing The Environment: Social and Ecological Effects of Industrialization in Rourkela
Stealing The Environment: Social and Ecological Effects of Industrialization in Rourkela
By- Rajkishor Meher
In India as in other developing countries intensive
industrialization followed by urbanization has now attracted the attention of
urban ecologists to the issues of ecological degradation. An attempt has been
made in this study to examine not only the issue of industrial pollution,
patterns of human settlement and land use in the city, but also to investigate
the processes that have contributed to the deteriorating quality of life in
Indian cities. Apart from the problem of industrial pollution, this study
demonstrates how the social structure of a city also contributes to its
environmental decay.
The focus of this research has been on Rourkela which
as a city planned to support the Rourkela Steel Plant and its ancillary
industrial units, provides a unique opportunity to examine the linkages between
industrialization, patterns of urbanization and environmental degradation. The
approach adopted in this study is, however, a pragmatic one, which underlines
that rejection of modernity is not practicable given the altered gestalt of man
today. In other words, mere traditional knowledge systems in themselves are not
enough to tackle the problems of a burgeoning population, poverty, hunger and
disease.
Hence, instead of rejecting modern industrialization
as such the approach adopted here seeks to explore ways by which the resulting
ecological damage can be reduced, if not entirely eliminated.
Rajkishor Meher
is at present working as Reader in Sociology at Nabakrushna Choudhury Centre
for Development Studies, Bhubaneswar.
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11 November, 2012
State Politics and Panchayats in India
State Politics and Panchayats in India
By- Buddhadeb Ghosh and Girish Kumar
Since independence several attempts were made to find
a space for the panchayati raj institutions (PRIs) in Indian polity. However,
barring Maharashtra, Gujarat and West Bengal, the PRIs could never survive
elsewhere in the country. This led to the necessity of constitutionalizing
panchayats in 1992, an attempt which also met with limited success.
Why were PRIs retained in certain states even without
a constitutional mandate? Conversely, why did others lag behind? These facts
draw attention to the question of ‘political will’. But what prompts certain
political regimes to adopt a pro-panchayat approach and others to oppose them,
even though all states are operating within the same democratic system?
In their quest to answer theses questions, the
authors have tried to look into the linkages between the panchayats and state
level politics. This, in turn, has enabled them to identify the political
factors that have so far determined the course of decentralization in this
country. Their findings are based on the case studies of four states, namely,
Maharashtra, Gujarat, West Bengal and Bihar. Apart from highlighting the
political variables whose presence or absence make or mar the prospects of
panchayats, this volume also raises serious questions about the capacity of the
present political system to provide genuine support to the project of
decentralization and local democracy.
Buddhadeb
Ghosh is a Senior Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi.
Earlier, he served the Government of West Bengal in various capacities
including a stint as Director, State Institute of Panchayats.
Girish Kumar
is a Fellow in Political Science at the Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi.
Earlier, he worked with the Institute of Social Sciences and also at the LBS
National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie.
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81-7304-487-2 2003 244p.
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Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh : European Perspectives
Social and Political Change in Uttar Pradesh : European Perspectives
By- Roger Jeffery and Jens Lerche (eds)
The state of Uttar Pradesh—India’s most populous, but
also one of its poorest—is in crisis, lagging behind the rest of the country in
terms of social development, economic growth, and women’s empowerment, with
inefficient and ineffective democratic institutions. In this timely book,
established scholars and new voices from Europe reflect on aspects of the
perilous condition of UP, addressing a range of issues, all drawing on
intensive and extended fieldwork.
What used to be UP’s strength has turned into its
weakness. Its position in India—as the quintessential Indian state – is unique,
but no specific UP-identity has been developed. In papers discussing people’s
own perceptions of core social and political issues, local ideas of what is
needed for development are discussed. Gender relations are a central concern of
two papers, one on customary marriage and divorce practices at village level
and the other on changing notions of education for girls and the images of the
UP plains held by those in the hills. Other papers deal with the social bases
and ideology of the separatist movement in the UP hills; with Dalits and
farmers, and the political organizations aiming to represent their interests;
with farmers, and how far the BKU is articulating their demands in western UP;
and with how Jats in western UP are changing the way they maintain their
dominance. The two final papers discuss how modern mass media—TV and
newspapers—are shaping developments in UP.
The book—a major advance in our understanding of
contemporary patterns of social change in UP—will be essential reading for
concerned citizens, students and academics alike.
Roger Jeffery
holds a personal chair in the Sociology of South Asia in the University of
Edinburgh. His research interests are in social demography, rural social
change, social aspects of forestry and education and social inequality. Since
1982 he has carried out three extended periods of research in Bijnor district,
each concerned with gender relationships.
Jens Lerche
has taught Development Studies at London University’s School of Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS) since 1994. His main research interests are rural labour
relations and the role of government institutions in India and Nepal. He has
researched Uttar Pradesh since 1992, investigating socio-economic and political
processes influenceing the livelihoods of the rural poor, the feminization of
agricultural labour; emergence of new types of labour relations within modern
agriculture; and violent dominance of rural workers.
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07 November, 2012
Social and Cultural History of the Punjab : Prehistoric, Ancient and Early Medieval
Social and Cultural History of the Punjab : Prehistoric, Ancient and Early Medieval
By- J.S. Grewal
The ‘Punjab’ of this book is a metaphor for the
geographical region surrounded by the Himalayas, the Great Indian Desert, the
Aravali Hills and the river Jamuna. During a period of about 4000 years up to ad 1000, the cultural boundaries of this
region did not coincide with its geographical boundaries and there were
sub-regional differences as well. There was a great deal of interaction with
the outside world and between sub-regions. The socio-cultural dynamics of the
region are well reflected in the different periods of its history.
Seen from the regional angle, the Harappan
civilization reveals sub-regional diversities and continuation in a rural
setting. The Rigvedic culture appears to be a regional rather than an ethnic
articulation. The formation of states within the region and its incorporation
in empires set the stage for trade and urbanization, and for new socio-cultural
formations. For the first time the great importance of Buddhism in the region
gets underscored. Gradually, however, it was replaced by Shaivism, Vaishnavism
and Shaktism.
Changes in religious history are related to the
changing contexts of polity and economy in their bearing on the social order,
languages, literature and the arts. The book should be of equal interest to the
student, the professional historian and the general reader.
J.S. Grewal,
formerly Professor of History and then Vice-Chancellor, Guru Nanak Dev
University, Amritsar, and Director, Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla,
is an eminent historian of the Punjab, and of medieval and modern Indian
history in general.
ISBN
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Small Hands in South Asia: Child Labour in Perspective
Small Hands in South Asia: Child Labour in Perspective
By- G.K. Lieten, Ravi Srivastava and Sukhadeo Thorat
(eds.)
Published in association with
Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development
Child labour has become a hot issue. International
attention has often been focused on South Asia, and initiatives have been
undertaken to use pro-active policies, such as a trade boycott, to pressurise
governments in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Bangladesh to implement a complete
ban on child labour and to realize universal education.
A gathering of outstanding international scholars,
financed by the Indo-Dutch Programme on Alternatives in Development, has
discussed these issues on the basis of empirically grounded research papers. A
selection of these papers has been edited for this volume.
The volume contains papers on the extent of child
labour in South Asia (and the spread across regions and sectors), its
correlation with education, some of the worst forms of child labour, and best
practices. The papers are a good mix of social anthropology, economics and
political science approaches.
The expertise of the contributors and their concern
for what continues to be a stark reality in South Asia make this book an
invaluable source of reference on the issue of child labour, academically
rigorous and politically relevant. It will be highly relevant to policy makers,
scholars, journalists and practitioners.
Kristoffel Lieten holds the Child Labour chair
at the University of Amsterdam and at the International Institute of Social
History in Amsterdam. He has been the chairman of the IREWOC Foundation
(Institute for Research on Working Children) and has initiated several research
projects on child labour and child agency.
Ravi K. Srivastava earlier worked at
the University of Allahabad and is now professor of economics of the Jawaharlal
Nehru University in New Delhi. He has published extensively on the agrarian
problem in India and has recently conducted various studies on human
development, particularly on education,
in the rural areas of north India.
Sukhadeo Thorat is a professor at the Centre
for Regional Development at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and is the Director
of the Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, New Delhi. He has published various
articles on agriculture development, poverty, caste, the discrimination of
dalits and inequality.
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06 November, 2012
Saffron Versus Green: Communal Politics in the Central Provinces and Berar 1919-1947
Saffron Versus Green: Communal Politics in the Central Provinces and Berar 1919-1947
By- Kanchanmoy Mojumdar
Communalism was a factor in the politics of the
Central Provinces and Berar after the Montford Reforms. The problem of
adjustment of the interests of the entrenched Hindu and emerging Muslim elite
was coeval with the process of administrative changes brought about by
successive constitutional measures adopted by the British government. The
social fall-out of the problem was the riots that raged in the region.
This work is a pioneering attempt at tracing the
course of communalism in this particular politically backward province. The
role of the British administrators in this growth of communalism has been
critically analysed alongside the involvement of their politically ambitious
Indian collaborators. The influence of the Hindu Mahasabha and the RSS and many
Congressmen’s involvement in the Hindu unity movement have been explained. This
is the first full-length study of the growth of Muslim political activity in
central India both before and after the Muslim League became a factor to reckon
with in this region.
Kanchanmoy
Mojumdar has given lectures and seminars at Australian and American
universities under the Commonwealth Universities Interchange Programme and
Fulbright (Indo-American Cultural Exchange) Fellowship scheme respectively. In
1996 and 2000 he taught a course on the history of Modern India at the
University of Colorado at Boulder, USA.
He was a Reader at Behrampur University, Orissa and
later Professor and Head of the Department of History, Nagpur University.
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RSS’S Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan
RSS’S Tryst with Politics: From Hedgewar to Sudarshan
Pralay Kanungo
This RSS is perhaps the most controversial
organization in contemporary India. This book explores the mission, method and
motive of the RSS and suggests that the ideological core of the RSS—Hindu
Rashtra—is political and not cultural. It argues that K.B. Hedgewar the founder
of the RSS, had a clear political mission, while M.S. Golwalkar, his successor,
despite his saintly appearance and overt distaste for ‘politics’, sharpened and
amplified its ideology Nevertheless, deep down the RSS remained political.
This book goes on to delineate how Balasaheb Deoras,
the third chief, who did not have much of a fancy for ‘culture’, plunged into
Indian politics on the organizational and ideological foundation created by his
predecessors. Deoras seriously pursued the homogenizing agenda of the RSS to
integrate different sections like the Dalits, tribals and women into the fold
of the Hindu Rashtra. Rajendra Singh, the successor of Deoras, consolidated the
political mission by getting control over the State and reaching out to civil
society more effectively. K.S. Sudarshan, the present chief, while attempting
to retain a tight control over State power, simultaneously reinforces Hindutva.
The author concludes by arguing that the RSS—from
Hedgewar to Sudarshan—continues its tryst with politics to convert India into a
Hindu Rashtra.
Highly readable and of contemporary relevance, this
book would be of immense interest to political scientists, political sociologists
and all those interested in present-day India.
Pralay Kanungo
is Reader at the Department of Political Science, Ramjas College, University of
Delhi. His current research is on aspects of Hindu identity and diaspora in the
United States, for which he has been awarded a Fellowship by the Nehru Memorial
Museum & Library, New Delhi.
ISBN
81-7304-506-2 2003 314p.
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Punjab Politics, 1936–1939
Punjab Politics, 1936–1939
The Start of Provincial Autonomy
Governor’s Fortnightly Reports and other Key
Documents
By - Lionel Carter (Comp. and ed.)
This volume produces the texts of 123 fortnightly
reports and other documents sent to the Viceroy by the Governors of the Punjab
or their secretaries between 1936 and 1939. The Governors’ descriptions of
their many tours throughout the Province provide a vivid picture of the Punjab
in these last self-confident years of the Raj. There is much discussion of political
developments taking place within the various communities. Congress was
relatively weak in the Punjab at the start of the volume but its growing
importance is evident at the close. The volume is dominated by the personality
and activities of the Muslim Premier of the ruling Unionist Party, Sir Sikander
Hyat Khan. His negotiation of a Pact with Jinnah’s Muslim League in October
1937 was to prove a milestone of the pre-independence years. The documents show
the problems which arose in the actual working-out of the arrangements then
agreed.
For more than 10 years. Lionel Carter was a member of the team (led by Nicholas Mansergh)
which produced the British Government’s series of Documents on the Transfer of Power to India, 1942-47. From 1980
until 1999, Carter served as Secretary and Librarian of the Centre of South
Asian Studies at the University of Cambridge. Carter has compiled a volume of Chronicles of British Business in Asia,
1850-1960 (Manohar, 2002) and has edited Mountbatten’s Report on the Last Viceroyalty (Manohar, 2003).
ISBN
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2004 444p. Rs.995/Pounds 60
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