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The Story Behind the Pose
We are each a storehouse of personal stories. How do we become awake to these stories so we can get the best of ourselves out into the world, and why is that important? This book will answer these questions and many more, by exploring the power of yoga, and story and in that process, it just may enable us to become aware of the big story that we are all part of.
'The Bodhisattva's Tusks'
This Novella is set in a Buddhist monastery at the foothills of the Khangchendzonga mountains in north east India. The inspiration for this work comes from an exquisite painting of the same name, ‘The Bodhisattva’s Tusks’ by Abanindronath Tagore, in which a meditating prince has draped his flowing locks of hair over the ivory tusks of an elephant. The book deals with characters who From New Zealand to New Delhi and beyond, the characters travel the metaphoric distance from being too comfortable with themselves to feeling a great level of personal and emotional turmoil and then finally arrive at the gates to self knowledge.come to this monastery for their slice of personal truth, and each one’s moment of reckoning inevitably arrives.
The Nonviolent Struggle for Indian Freedom, 1905-19
Argues that the passive resistance movement made famous by Gandhi was actually something Indians had been practicing well before WWI
United We Stand
A family that comprises of teaching fraternity was superseded by a generation inclined to a lucrative profession that could up the ante of living. The daughter desired to break loose and escape to a megacity, primarily, for greater exposure and secondly, to dodge the elderly intruding in her affairs. United We Stand is the story of how a collective thought-process can add value to your lives when it has a great bearing on your interest. Collective thinking, weighing all the pros and cons are, most likely, to be proposed only by the oldest social institution called Family.
A Business History of India
Studying firms and entrepreneurs over three centuries, this book unravels the historical roots of the impressive business growth witnessed in contemporary India.
Minority Pasts
Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is pejoratively labelled as the centre of "Muslim votebank" politics in contemporary Uttar Pradesh. The book highlights the importance of locality and emotions in shaping Muslim identities, politics, and belonging in Rampur. The book shows that we need to move beyond such homogeneous categories of nation and region, in order to comprehend local dynamics that allow a better and closer understanding of the historical re-negotiations of politics and identities by Muslims in South Asia.
Politics of Patronage and Protest
"Studies on state-formation in India rarely focus on the agency of subordinate groups. Questioning the dominant narratives on state - subordinate interactions, Sahai provides a unique account of state-formation in early modern Rajasthan. She also engages with larger debates on state-formation and popular protest in early modern India by demonstrating the role of a subaltern group." "Politics of Patronage and Protest explores the process of state-formation 'from below' through the prism of artisanal experience. Focusing on the multidimensional interface of the Jodhpur state with resident artisans, the author highlights the political culture of the period."--BOOK JACKET.
An Economic History of India 1707–1857
This new edition of An Economic History of Early Modern India extends the timespan of the analysis to incorporate further research. This allows for a more detailed discussion of the rise of the British Empire in South Asia and gives a fuller context for the historiography. In the years between the death of the emperor Aurangzeb (1707) and the Great Rebellion (1857), the Mughal Empire and the states that rose from its ashes declined in wealth and power, and a British Empire emerged in South Asia. This book asks three key questions about the transition. Why did it happen? What did it mean? How did it shape economic change? The book shows that during these years, a merchant-friendly regime amon...
Ironies of Colonial Governance
The Indian village council, or panchayat, has long held an iconic place in India. Ironies of Colonial Governance traces the history of that ideal and the attempts to adapt it to colonial governance. Beginning with an in-depth analysis of British attempts to introduce a system of panchayat governance during the early nineteenth century, it analyses the legacies of these actions within the structures of later colonial administrations as well as the early nationalist movement. Particular attention is paid to the ways in which the ideologies of panchayat governance evolved during this period and to the transnational exchange and circulation of panchayat ideologies.
