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One of the earliest planned neighbourhoods of Bombay, Shivaji Park in Dadar was conceived in order to decongest the mega city’s residential and commercial centre after the plague epidemic of 1896. With its massive playground named after the Maratha warrior king, gorgeous Art Deco buildings and the great Arabian Sea beyond, Shivaji Park was a covete...
Ramachandra Guha
2021-04-15T03:58:17.000ZAn 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 aspiratio...
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2021-02-25T09:54:20.000ZFrom 2011 to 2015, Ashutosh Bhardwaj lived in Indias red corridor, and made several trips thereafter, reporting on the Maoists, on the states atrocities, and on lives caught in the crossfire.In The Death Script, he writes of his time there, of the various men and women he meets from both sides of the conflict, bringing home with astonishing power t...
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2020-12-08T16:47:54.000ZHISTORY...
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2020-12-02T09:33:25.000ZRamachandra Guha
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2020-12-02T09:33:25.000ZDefying the Odds is about the new Dalit identity. It profiles the phenomenal rise of twenty Dalit entrepreneurs, the few who through a combination of grit, ambition, drive and hustle—and some luck—have managed to break through social, economic and practical barriers. It illustrates instances where adversity compensated for disadvantage, where worki...
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2020-09-20T04:56:32.000ZChandra Bhan Prasad writes Dalit Diary, the only column by a dalit in a mainstream newspaper, The Pioneer. This book collects many of these columns. Week after week, Prasad relentlessly voices the aspirations of millions of dalits with controlled rage, clothes facts in original perceptions, and demonstrates how untouchability stares you in the face...
Ramachandra Guha
2020-09-20T04:56:32.000Z
The Environmentalism of the Poor
A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation
The Environmentalism of the Poor has the explicit intention of helping to establish two emerging fields of study - political ecology and ecological economics - and also investigating the relations between them. The author analyzes several manifestations of the growing `environmental justice movement', and also of `popular environmentalism' and the ...
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2020-09-15T13:34:31.000Z
Small Is Beautiful
Economics as if People Mattered (Harper Perennial Modern Thought)
"Nothing less than a full-scale assault on conventional economic wisdom."—NewsweekOne the 100 most influential books published since World War II—The Times Literary SupplementHailed as an "eco-bible" by Time magazine, E.F. Schumacher's riveting, richly researched statement on sustainability has become more relevant and vital with each year since it...
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2020-04-23T16:03:27.000ZImperfect by Sanjay Manjrekar
The Burning Forest by Nandini Sundar
Elephants and Kings by Thomas R. Trautmann
Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano
Whigs and Hunters by E. P. Thompson
Telling Times by Nadine Gordimer
A Life in Two Worlds by Sarala Behn
Britons by Linda Colley
Duties and Delights by Tzvetan Todorov
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Essays by George Orwell
Something New Under the Sun by J. R. McNeill
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard M. Eaton
Autobiography of an Unknown Cricketer by Mukherjee S.
The Construction of Religious Boundaries by Harjot Oberoi
Politics, Women and Well-Being by Robin Jeffrey
The Death of Nature by Carolyn Merchant
French Rural History by Marc Bloch