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An Anthropologist Among the Marxists and Other Essays
Inside Every Thinking Indian There Is A Gandhian And A Marxist Struggling For Supremacy Says The Author In The Opening Sentence Of This Wonderfully Readable Book Of Ideas, Opinions And Reflection. A Substantial Portion Of The Book Expands On This Salvo: It Analyses Gandhians And Pseudo-Gandhians Marxists And Anti-Marxists, Nehruvians And Anti-Secularists Democrats And Stalinists, Scientists And Historians Among Other People.
The Flaming Feet and Other Essays
In this volume of sixteen essays, D. R. Nagaraj, the foremost non-Brahmin intellectual to emerge from India's non-English-speaking world, presents his vision of the Indian caste system in relation to Dalit politics--the Dalit being a self-designation for many groups in the lower castes of India. Nagaraj argues that the Dalit movement rejected the traditional Hindu world and thus dismissed untouchable pasts entirely; but he believes rebels too require cultural memory. Their emotions of bewilderment, rage, and resentment can only be transcended via a politics of affirmation. He theorizes the caste system as a mosaic of disputes about dignity, religiosity, and entitlement. Examining moments of caste defiance, he argues for a politics of cultural affirmation and creates a new cultural identity for Dalits. More significantly, he argues against self-pity and rage in artistic imagination, and for recreating the banished worlds of gods and goddesses. Nagaraj's importance lies in consolidating and advancing some of the ideas of India's leading Dalit thinker and icon, B. R. Ambedkar. He suggests an inclusivist framework to build an alliance of all the oppressed communities of India.
Culture and Creativity - Selected Writings of N Manu Chakravarthy
Culture and Creativity is a collection of essays of N Manu Chakravarthy, a prominent culture critic known for his discourses on music, cinema, literature and several aspects of culture and philosophy. This book illustrates the intellectual and ethical perspectives that shape his discussions on wide range of issues. These discussions are reflective of the inspiration he draws from his father Prof G N Chakravarthy and his teachers Prof C D Narasimhaiah, Prof U R Ananthamurthy, and Prof B Damodara Rao. The ideas of Ivan Illich and Noam Chomsky, and his friend D R Nagaraj are also instrumental in framing the critical nature of his interpretations. The essays in this book encompass Prof Manu Chakravarthy’s perspectives on religion, secularism, tradition, and modernity. The references to Sri Narayanaguru, M K Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, and the interview with Gustavo Esteva, evince his preoccupation with madhyamamarga. They also foreground his views on nationalism, metaphysics, media, politics and the crises of the third world and India in a globalised context. This work is a testimony to the form of scholarship he values.
India and Its Intellectual Traditions: of Love, Advaita, Power, and Other Things
The book, the third volume to emerge from the enterprise known as 'The Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics', attempts to further the collective's ambition to put into question the certitudes of conventional social science discourse, decolonize the dominant knowledge frameworks, and understand how the intellectual and cultural resources of Indian civilization may be deployed to think both, about some problems in contemporary politics and culture, and to introduce greater plurality into the world of modern knowledge systems. Some of the collective's members remain deeply committed to reinitiating metaphysics into politics, and similarly, the collective's enduring interest in Nara...
Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol.Iii
The state of our economy, the role of the state and markets are widely discussed topics. These debates are based on the expectations that economic policies and practices would improve. This is due to centuries of experience in farming, construction, fabri
Peterson's Graduate Programs in Computer Science & Information Technology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Energy & Power Engineering 2011
Peterson's Graduate Programs in Computer Science & Information Technology, Electrical & Computer Engineering, and Energy & Power Engineering contains a wealth of information on colleges and universities that offer graduate work these exciting fields. The profiled institutions include those in the United States, Canada and abroad that are accredited by U.S. accrediting bodies. Up-to-date data, collected through Peterson's Annual Survey of Graduate and Professional Institutions, provides valuable information on degree offerings, professional accreditation, jointly offered degrees, part-time and evening/weekend programs, postbaccalaureate distance degrees, faculty, students, degree requirements...
Free Radicals: from Basic Science to Medicine
Free radical-mediated reactions have been well known in chemistry and physical chemistry for many years. Applying this knowledge to living organisms, biochemists have shown that reactive free radicals are formed at many intracellular sites during normal metabolism, and they have started to suggest possible roles in various pathological processes and conditions, for example in radiation damage, in the metabolism of xenobiotics, in carcinogenesis and in metabolic disorders. At present, a large and relevant mass of experimental evidence supports the view that reactive free radicals are involved in the pathogenesis of several diseases and syndromes. This literature has captured the attention and...
Solid-Liquid Interfaces
Using combinations of in situ and ex situ experimental methods, fundamental and relevant phenomena such as adsorption and desorption of ions and molecules, restructuring of surfaces, thin film and nanocluster growth, and electrochemical reactions on the micrometer scale are addressed. The overview includes a wide range of experimental techniques and examples of solid-liquid interfaces and aims at stimulating an expansion of this important type of interface science.
Oxidative Stress and Aging
Oxidative stress and aging Over the past several years there has been an extraordinarily rapid growth in our knowledge of free radical chemistry and its possible involvement in both normal essential biology and age related disease and dysfunction. Much of this growth in the traditionally separate sciences of chemistry and molecular gerontology occurred independently, with little interaction or communi cation between the scientists working in these two fields. In view of the growing maturity of the two fields and the potential importance of advancing our knowledge in the area of oxidative stress and aging, we perceived a critical need to organize an international conference the "First Inter n...
Reagents in Mineral Technology
Reagents in Mineral Technology provides comprehensive coverage of both basic as well asapplied aspects of reagents utilized in the minerals industry.This outstanding, single-source reference opens with an explicit account of flotation fundamentals,including coverage of wetting phenomena, mineral/water interfacial phenomena, flo tationchemistry, and flocculation and dispersion of mineral suspensions.It then discusses flotation of sulfide and nonsulfide minerals, with attention to formation ofclithiolates, formation of metal thiol compounds, application of fatty acids, sulfosuccinic acids,amines, and other collectors.Reagents in Mineral Technology also reviews adsorption of surfactants on mine...
