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COUNTERING GENDER VIOLENCE 13 Dec 2010 | 08:46 pm
Violence constitutes a major form of oppressing women. Rooted in the practical experiences of rural Indian women, Countering Gender Violence explores those facets of social, cultural and economic life...
Brand Bollywood 13 Dec 2010 | 08:46 pm
Convenient coincidences and glycerine tears, star-crossed lovers and happy endings, mindless songs and energetic dances…These elements, and more, have sustained the Bollywood brand of cinema for nearl...
Bombay Cinema 13 Dec 2010 | 08:45 pm
Cinema is a major industry in India. It is also the country's most powerful cultural form. Yet until now there has been no major examination of the ways in which Bombay's films serve as a medium for t...
A Critique of Postcolonial Reason 13 Dec 2010 | 08:44 pm
Are the ‘culture wars’ over? When did they begin? What is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a field that she helped ...
A Historical Dictionary of Indian Food 13 Dec 2010 | 08:43 pm
Outside India Indian food is popular the world over, from Tokyo to Telford and from Canberra to California. For centuries India has produced an unusually diverse cuisine. The food of the 17 states tha...
Fragrance of Peace 13 Dec 2010 | 07:17 pm
A collection of Irom Sarmila's poems, translated into English from Meiteilon. Published on the tenth anniversary of Sarmila's hunger fast for the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, a dra...
A Current of Blood 13 Dec 2010 | 07:16 pm
This is a re-issue of Namdeo Dhasal’s high-voltage, bruising poetry that was first published in 2007 in hardcover.
Fingerprinting popular culture 13 Dec 2010 | 07:15 pm
Popular cinema is a particularly potent political and cultural document in highly diverse societies, where the audiovisual can cut across barriers of language and region, culture and class. This book ...
A Field of One's Own 13 Dec 2010 | 07:14 pm
This is the first major study of gender and property in South Asia. Bina Agarwal argues that the single most important economic factor affecting women's situation is the the gender gap in command over...
A Gift of Tamil 13 Dec 2010 | 07:13 pm
This volume provides an anthology of translations from Tamil into English. The contributors have striven to translate not just the meaning of original words, but also their overall rhetorical and poet...
