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  • Reappraising Modern Indian Thought

    Themes and Thinkers

    Edited by Ankit Tomar, Suratha Kumar Malik ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Reappraising Modern Indian Thought: Themes and Thinkers is a lucid and comprehensive account of the thread of socio-political thought of major Indian thinkers over the decades. In contrast to the existing texts on the subject, it explores the social and political conditions that formed the basis of political thinking of the thinkers in the past two centuries. The book begins with a detailed ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Revisiting Modern Indian Thought

    Themes and Perspectives

    Edited by Suratha Kumar Malik, Ankit Tomar ...
    This book presents a comprehensive account of the socio-political thought of prominent modern Indian thinkers. It offers a clear understanding of the basic concepts and their contributions on contemporary issues.Key features:Explores the nature, scope, relevance, context, and theoretical approaches of modern Indian thought and overviews its development through an in-depth study of the lives and ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

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  • Gandhi

    In His Time and Ours

    by David Hardiman ...
    This book examines Gandhi as the creator of a radical style of politics. It argues that whereas politicians garner support by demonising those they oppose, Gandhi resisted such a politics. He asserted that there are always grounds for a fruitful dialogue between opponents. How did Gandhi create this new form of politics? Hardiman shows its basis within Gandhis larger vision of an alternative ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Social and Political Thought of Mahatma Gandhi

    by Bidyut Chakrabarty ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    During his campaign against racism in South Africa, and his involvement in the Congress-led nationalist struggle against British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi developed a new form of political struggle based on the idea of satyagraha, or non-violent protest. He ushered in a new era of nationalism in India by articulating the nationalist protest in the language of non-violence, or ahisma, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Religion and Nationalism in India

    The Case of the Punjab

    by Harnik Deol ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This timely and significant study explores the reasons behind the rise in Sikh militancy over the 1970s and 1980s. It also evaluates the violent response of the Indian State in fuelling and suppressing the Sikh separatist movement, resulting in a tragic sequence of events which has included the raiding of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The book ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions

    Edited by John R. Hinnells ...
    Comprehensive, informative and authoritative, The Penguin Handbook of the World's Living Religions is compiled by a team of leading international scholars, and is the definitive guide to the religious belief systems and practices of the world today. This in-depth survey of active religions has now been fully updated to include modern developments and the most recent scholarship. It explains the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Doctor and the Saint

    Caste, Race, and Annihilation of Caste: The Debate Between B. R. Ambedkar and M. K. Gandhi

    by Arundhati Roy ...
    The little-known story of Gandhi's reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India's downtrodden.Democracy hasn't eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why I Am a Hindu

    by Shashi Tharoor ...
    Shashi Tharoor offers a profound re-examination of Hinduism, one of the world's oldest and greatest religious traditions.Opening with a frank and touching reflection on his personal beliefs, he lays out Hinduism's origins and its key philosophical concepts — including Vedanta, the Purusharthas, and Bhakti — before focusing on texts such as the Bhagadvagita. The 'Great Souls', or key individuals of ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Sikhism: A Very Short Introduction

    by Eleanor Nesbitt ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The Sikh religion has a following of over 20 million people worldwide and is one of the largest religions in the world. However, events such as the verbal and physical attacks on Sikhs just after September 11 indicated that Sikhs were being mistaken for Muslims, and suggests that the raising of sufficient and appropriate awareness about Sikhism still needs to be addressed. This book will introduce ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation

    Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism

    by Tanika Sarkar ...
    This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies

    Edited by Pashaura Singh, Louis E. Fenech ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies innovatively combines the ways in which scholars from fields as diverse as philosophy, psychology, religious studies, literary studies, history, sociology, anthropology, political science, and economics have integrated the study of Sikhism within a wide range of critical and postcolonial perspectives on the nature of religion, violence, gender, ethno-nationalism ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Brahmin and Non-Brahmin

    Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present

    by M.S.S.Pandian ...
    In South India, the categories ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’ are frequently treated as self-evident, both within contemporary Tamil politics and in mainstream academic discourses. Departing from this political and academic ‘common sense’, the present book historicizes the complex processes by which these categories came into being and acquired political power over the past century. Using archival, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD