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Featured Books
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
September, 2022
£40.00 / $40.00
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Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh
50 Years On
Edited by Nusrat S Chowdhury, Lotte Hoek
‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
Anthem Press
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9781785273414
November 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00‘Art, Politics and the Environment in Bangladesh’ features original research of a new generation of scholars of Bangladesh. The chapters collectively engage with many enduring topics of academic interest, such as violence, poverty, environment, development, democracy, religion and human rights from the vantage point of Bangladesh.
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Love in India
Politics, Desires, and Sexualities
Henrike Donner, Parul Bhandari
This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
Anthem Press
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9781839988899
November 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00This book focuses on the multiple sites and articulations through which “love” is constructed, articulated and experienced in contemporary India.
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Strongman Eugen Sandow’s World Tour of 1904-1905
The ‘Perfect Man’ in Colonial India and Afro-Asia
Carey Watt
Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
Anthem Press
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9781839990670
June 2024
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£110.00 / $110.00Strongman Eugen Sandow (1867–1925) was renowned as the world’s “perfect man” at the turn of the 20thcentury. This book examines his fascinating 2-year “world tour” of South Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and China in 1904–1905, at the peak of European imperialism and rising Asian confidence and nationalism.
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Śambūka and the Rāmāyaṇa Tradition
A History of Motifs and Motives in South Asia
Aaron Sherraden
This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
Anthem Press
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9781839984693
August 2023
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£110.00 / $110.00This book details the developmental history of narratives that affirm, condemn, modify, or ignore the controversial execution of Śambūka, a minor Rāmāyaṇa character of low social standing. Changing socio-political sentiments throughout Indian history have forced numerous revisions to the Śambūka story, placing it in an underappreciated position of influence.
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Planning for Water Security in Southeast Asia
Community-Based Infrastructure During the Urban Transition
James Nguyen H. Spencer
This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure.
Anthem Press
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9781839984013
September 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines how four communities in the rapidly developing cities of Southeast Asia have creatively solved growing environmental problems. It’s description of how community-level collaboration in Vietnam, Cambodia and Indonesia provide new ways for thinking about how marginalized people can co-create their own equitable and efficient infrastructure.
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Early Buddhism as Philosophy of Existence
Freedom and Death
Susan E. Babbitt
This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
Anthem Press
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9781839983344
May 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book makes the connection between early Buddhism and nature. Early Buddhism was a system of thinking which applied the universal laws of nature to human beings. It was a comprehensive worldview. But after the first 400 to 500 years, it was mostly lost.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Civil Society in India
Nandini Deo
This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil society’s resistance to market forces?
Anthem Press
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9781839985966
March 2022
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£110.00 / $110.00This book explores how the partnerships between big businesses and civil society organizations are influencing the development and rights landscape in India. Can these collaborations lead to win-win solutions for marginalized groups or will they destroy civil society’s resistance to market forces?
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Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing
Amina Yaqin
This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
Anthem Press
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9781785277559
March 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00This book sets out an unconventional literary history of progressive Urdu poetry by Pakistani women in the twentieth century. It introduces the resilient voices of poets who tread a fine line between the secular and sacred in an Islamic society to articulate a new feminist aesthetic.
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The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, circa 1870s to 1960s
Nadeem Omar Tarar
Using archival sources, The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, c1870–1960 explores the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan by focusing on the history of the National College of Arts since the nineteenth century.
Anthem Press
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9781785277924
February 2022
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£125.00 / $125.00Using archival sources, The Colonial and National Formations of the National College of Arts, Lahore, c1870–1960 explores the colonial and postcolonial history of arts education in Pakistan by focusing on the history of the National College of Arts since the nineteenth century.
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Essays in Celebrity Culture
Stars and Styles
Pramod K. Nayar
This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
Anthem Press
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9781785277863
May 2021
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£125.00 / $125.00This book examines specific aspects of celebrity culture, from biopics around celebrities to celebrity victimhood, activism and politics.
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Rethinking Pakistan
A 21st Century Perspective
Edited by Bilal Zahoor, Raza Rumi
Rethinking Pakistan brings together some of the best minds of the country and invites them to reflect upon the most pressing issues that it is facing in all spheres, including politics, external relations, environment, human rights, gender relations, religious fundamentalism, education, and freedom of expression. This edited collection is highly accessible to everyone.
Anthem Press
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9781785274923
September 2020
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£125.00 / $125.00Rethinking Pakistan brings together some of the best minds of the country and invites them to reflect upon the most pressing issues that it is facing in all spheres, including politics, external relations, environment, human rights, gender relations, religious fundamentalism, education, and freedom of expression. This edited collection is highly accessible to everyone.
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Vyāsa Redux
Narrative in Epic Mahābhārata
Kevin McGrath
Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and 'Vyāsa Redux' examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization.
Anthem Press
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9781785270727
June 2019
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£125.00 / $125.00Vyāsa is the primary creative poet of the Sanskrit epic Mahābhārata and ‘Vyāsa Redux’ examines the many paradoxical dimensions of his narrative virtuosity in the poem where the poet is both the creator of the work and a character within it. Narrative is, in this view, cognitive rather than empirical in its organization.
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British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793–1861
Sutapa Dutta
‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mullens in the context of colonial evangelism.
Anthem Press
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9781783087266
November 2017
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£115.00 / $115.00‘British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861’ looks at the role and contributions of the early British women missionaries in Bengal, in eastern India, between 1793 and 1861. It traces the role of and challenges faced by women missionaries from Hannah Marshman to Hannah Mullens in the context of colonial evangelism.
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Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India
Edited by Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Anne Waldrop
‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change.
Anthem Press
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9781783082698
August 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ explores key processes of gendered change in contemporary India. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the volume foregrounds the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change.
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Globalization, Nationalism and the Text of ‘Kichaka-Vadha’
The First English Translation of the Marathi Anticolonial Classic, with a Historical Analysis of Theatre in British India
Edited and translated by Rakesh H. Solomon
This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082650
July 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This volume offers the first English translation of one of India’s most celebrated works of anticolonial resistance. It is also the first edition of the play to provide an extensive historical-critical commentary and to draw on a comprehensive range of colonial archival documents.
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The Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan
Ali Usman Qasmi
This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize 2015.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9781783082339
May 2014
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£115.00 / $115.00This path-breaking work traces the history of the political exclusion of the Ahmadiyya religious minority in Pakistan, drawing on revealing new sources and connecting its discussion to larger issues of Islam in postcolonial Muslim nation-states. Winner of the Karachi Literary Festival Peace Prize 2015.
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Two Decades of Market Reform in India
Some Dissenting Views
Edited by Sudipta Bhattacharyya
This edited volume of essays investigates the series of neoliberal policy reforms implemented in India between 1991 and the present day, and assesses the impact this reform agenda has had upon both the Indian economy and the country’s population.
Anthem Press
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9780857283269
December 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This edited volume of essays investigates the series of neoliberal policy reforms implemented in India between 1991 and the present day, and assesses the impact this reform agenda has had upon both the Indian economy and the country’s population.
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The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India
Bargaining with Capital
Jyotsna Kapur
A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857281098
October 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00A study of the profound preoccupation with time, youth and the relationship between generations in contemporary popular Indian media culture, this book suggests that the politics of time is a manifestation of the radicalised war between labour and capital inherent in India’s shift to neoliberalism since the 1990s.
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Fortified Cities of Ancient India
A Comparative Study
Dieter Schlingloff
Based on solid textual and archeological research, this volume offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India.
Anthem Press
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9780857283313
October 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00Based on solid textual and archeological research, this volume offers a comparative exploration of the development of towns and cities in ancient India.
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South Asia 2060
Envisioning Regional Futures
Edited by Adil Najam, Moeed Yusuf
“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia’s regional future will impact the rest of the world while also shedding light on its present condition.
Anthem Press
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9780857280749
July 2013
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£140.00 / $140.00“South Asia 2060” is a dialogue between 47 thought leaders, ranging from policymakers to academics to civil society activists and visionaries from across South Asia and the world, on the likely longer-range trajectories of South Asia’s future as a region. The collection explores how South Asia’s regional future will impact the rest of the world while also shedding light on its present condition.
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Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond
Structures, Agents, Practices
Edited by Uwe Skoda, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger
This book contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283221
June 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00This book contains a collection of lucid, empirically grounded articles that explore and analyse the structures, agents and practices of social inclusion and exclusion in contemporary India and beyond.
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Postliberalization Indian Novels in English
Politics of Global Reception and Awards
Edited by Aysha Iqbal Viswamohan
“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the reception of these works at a global level.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285645
April 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00“Postliberalization Indian Novels in English: Politics of Global Reception and Awards” focuses on trends in contemporary Indian novels and discusses the reception of these works at a global level.
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Signless Signification in Ancient India and Beyond
Edited by Tiziana Pontillo, Maria Piera Candotti
The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic theories on signless ways of expressing meanings in the context of traditional Indian language and culture.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857283153
April 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00The collection of interdisciplinary essays in this book examines the speculative, linguistic, literary and artistic theories on signless ways of expressing meanings in the context of traditional Indian language and culture.
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The Mahatma Misunderstood
The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in India
Snehal Shingavi
“The Mahatma Misunderstood” is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.
Anthem Press
Hardback
9780857285119
March 2013
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£115.00 / $115.00“The Mahatma Misunderstood” is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime, and explains why novelists both vehemently critiqued and lovingly collaborated with the Mahatma simultaneously.