The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure, Sadana Rashmi
Автор: Sadana Rashmi Название: The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure ISBN: 0520383958 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780520383951 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 145610.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With a healthy perspective we can become resilient in ways that not only help us bounce back from stress and tough times, but we can actually deepen in ways which would not have been possible had they not occurred in the first place. The Simple Care of a Hopeful Heart offers a series of brief, accessible lessons in self-care and self-understanding to enhance such possibilities.
Автор: David A. Johnson Название: New Delhi: The Last Imperial City ISBN: 1137469862 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137469861 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In New Delhi: The Last Imperial City, Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi,
Автор: Duncan McDuie-Ra Название: Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail ISBN: 9089644229 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789089644220 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 91450.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Receives accolades by the ICAS 8 Committee 2013 Northeast Migrants in Delhi: Race, Refuge and Retail is an ethnographic study of migrants from India`s north-east border region living and working in Delhi, the nation`s capital. Northeast India borders China, the Himalayas, and Southeast Asia. Despite burgeoning interest in the region, little atten
Автор: Kainikara Dr Sanu Название: From Indus to Independence: A Trek Through Indian History (Vol V the Delhi Sultanate) ISBN: 9386457725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789386457721 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 52050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The fifth volume in the series, this book recounts the historic events and analyses the social, cultural and religious developments that transformed India permanently.
Автор: Flinders Stuart Название: Cult of a Dark Hero: Nicholson of Delhi ISBN: 135025486X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350254862 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 29050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: "Flinders investigates the charismatic soldier’s sexuality and religious views" India Today
"…balanced and meticulously researched…a welcome addition to our understanding of Britain’s imperial history." Military History Magazine
In September 1857, a member of a religious sect killed himself on hearing the news that the object of his devout observance, Nikal Seyn, had died. Nikal Seyn was, in fact, John Nicholson, the leader of the British assault that recovered Delhi at the turning-point of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. What was it about Nicholson that prompted such devotion, not just from his religious followers, but from the general public? And why is he no longer considered a hero? The man called 'The Lion of the Punjab' by his contemporaries and compared to General Wolfe of Quebec, and even to Napoleon, has in recent times been dubbed 'an imperial psychopath' and 'a homosexual bully'. Yet his was a remarkable tale of a life of adventure lived on the very edge of the British Empire; of a man who was as courageous as he was ruthless, as loyal to his friends as he was merciless to those who crossed him. But it is also the story of how modern attitudes to race and Empire have changed in the years since he died.
Previously unpublished material, including the diaries of contemporaries and personal letters, helps build a new perspective on Nicholson's personality. The book considers his sexuality and ambivalent attitude towards religion. It traces his murderous thoughts towards the Chief Commissioner of the Punjab, John Lawrence, and reveals that, remarkably, the Nikal Seyni cult continued into the 21st century. This is the first book-length biography of Nicholson for over 70 years. A new account of the Irish soldier who became an Indian God, an examination of the cult of a dark hero, is long overdue.
Автор: Garrido Marco Z. Название: The Patchwork City: Class, Space, and Politics in Metro Manila ISBN: 022664314X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226643144 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 27450.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In contemporary Manila, slums and squatter settlements are peppered throughout the city, often pushing right up against the walled enclaves of the privileged, creating the complex geopolitical pattern of Marco Z. Garrido's "patchwork city." Garrido documents the fragmentation of Manila into a m lange of spaces defined by class, particularly slums and upper- and middle-class enclaves. He then looks beyond urban fragmentation to delineate its effects on class relations and politics, arguing that the proliferation of these slums and enclaves and their subsequent proximity have intensified class relations. For enclave residents, the proximity of slums is a source of insecurity, compelling them to impose spatial boundaries on slum residents. For slum residents, the regular imposition of these boundaries creates a pervasive sense of discrimination. Class boundaries then sharpen along the housing divide, and the urban poor and middle class emerge not as labor and capital but as squatters and "villagers," Manila's name for subdivision residents. Garrido further examines the politicization of this divide with the case of the populist president Joseph Estrada, finding the two sides drawn into contention over not just the right to the city, but the nature of democracy itself.
The Patchwork City illuminates how segregation, class relations, and democracy are all intensely connected. It makes clear, ultimately, that class as a social structure is as indispensable to the study of Manila--and of many other cities of the Global South--as race is to the study of American cities.
Автор: Thomas Crowley Название: Fractured Forest, Quartzite City: A History of Delhi and its Ridge ISBN: 935388554X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353885540 Издательство: Sage Publications Рейтинг: Цена: 25350.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: A sprawling megacity of nearly twenty million people, Delhi has forgotten its ecological history, a key part of which is the Ridge, often referred to as Delhi's ‘green lung’. At various points, Delhi has been a crucial hub of politics, warfare, trade and religious expansion on regional and global levels. Placing Delhi’s environment at the front and centre of its unique history, the book tells the tale of the Ridge, which resonates far beyond the boundaries of India's capital. The Ridge offers a crucial vantage point for viewing these historical and geographical interconnections. Its trees can't be separated from the stones below them, nor the cities that rose and fell around them. Only with this perspective does a clear picture of the Ridge—and Delhi as a whole—emerge.
Автор: Liddle Swapna Название: Chandni Chowk: The Mughal City of Old Delhi ISBN: 9386338068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789386338068 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 15690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Ghertner D. Asher, Ghertner Asher Название: Rule by Aesthetics: World-Class City Making in Delhi ISBN: 0199385572 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199385577 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 36420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Rule by Aesthetics draws on extensive fieldwork in Delhi`s slums, courtrooms and state offices to shed fresh light on the violent underpinnings of contemporary city making. Presenting a new theory of urban power, Ghertner shows how aesthetic codes replaced conventional city planning tools in Delhi`s millennial slum clearance drive.
In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history.
The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.
Автор: Saxena, Monika (associate Professor Of History, University Of Delhi, India) Название: Women and the puranic tradition in india ISBN: 1138286419 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138286412 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book analyses the diverse ways in which women have been represented in the Puranic traditions in ancient India - the virtuous wife, mother, daughter, widow, and prostitute.
Автор: Kaicker Abhishek Название: The King and the People: Sovereignty and Popular Politics in Mughal Delhi ISBN: 0190070676 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190070670 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 218410.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: An original exploration of the relationship between the Mughal emperor and his subjects in the space of the Mughal empire's capital, The King and the People overturns an axiomatic assumption in the history of premodern South Asia: that the urban masses were merely passive objects of rule and remained unable to express collective political aspirations until the coming of colonialism. Set in the Mughal capital of Shahjahanabad (Delhi) from its founding to Nadir Shah's devastating invasion of 1739, this book instead shows how the trends and events in the second half of the seventeenth century inadvertently set the stage for the emergence of the people as actors in a regime which saw them only as the ruled. Drawing on a wealth of sources from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book is the first comprehensive account of the dynamic relationship between ruling authority and its urban subjects in an era that until recently was seen as one of only decline. By placing ordinary people at the centre of its narrative, this wide-ranging work offers fresh perspectives on imperial sovereignty, on the rise of an urban culture of political satire, and on the place of the practices of faith in the work of everyday politics. It unveils a formerly invisible urban panorama of soldiers and poets, merchants and shoemakers, who lived and died in the shadow of the Red Fort during an era of both dizzying turmoil and heady possibilities. As much an account of politics and ideas as a history of the city and its people, this lively and lucid book will be equally of value for specialists, students, and lay readers interested in the lives and ambitions of the mass of ordinary inhabitants of India's historic capital three hundred years ago.
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