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Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Interrogating Marginalities across Disciplinary Boundaries

This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality – political, societal, economic, cultural, legal and spatial. It explores their new representations in colonial and post-colonial India. Departing from extant analyses of experiences of marginalization in diverse social groups, it proposes to problematize the conceptualization of marginality, focusing on its evolution through space and time. A relational position, marginality, it is argued, presupposes a confrontation with centrality or the ‘mainstream’ within a common discourse of knowledge and power. The volume emphasizes that the process of marginalization is not a ‘marginal’ pheno...

Ecology and Man in the Himalayas
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 290

Ecology and Man in the Himalayas

The present volume emphasizes the importance of studying the structure and functioning of ecological systems and their mode of reaction on exposure to human intervention in the Himalayas. It stresses the impact of man on his environment and vice-versa, considered in the areas of biological and adaptative entity, as well as a social, cultural and economic being.

The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 533

The Making of Modern Muslim Selves through Architecture

This collection seeks to explore alternative definitions of bounded identities, facilitating new approaches to spatial and architectural forms. Taking as its starting point the emergence of a new sense of ‘boundary’ emerged from the post-19th century dissolution of large, heterogeneous empires into a mosaic of nation-states in the Islamic world. This new sense of boundaries has not only determined the ways in which we imagine and construct the idea of modern citizenship, but also redefines relationships between the nation, citizenship, cities and architecture. It brings critical perspectives to our understanding of the interrelation between the accumulated flows and the evolving concepts...

An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 186

An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2009
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

An Environmental History of Postcolonial North India is a study of an increasingly important part of the Indian landscape. It examines the social process of accelerated land use as it has been affected by political and epidemiological factors and pays particular attention to the shifting representations of the landscape. As a contribution to the literature of the environmental history of India, this book examines the questions of agricultural colonization, wildlife conservation, and disease control.

The Geographer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 226

The Geographer

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1988
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Land Utilization in the Central Himalaya
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

Land Utilization in the Central Himalaya

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Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 345

Urban Food Democracy and Governance in North and South

“Grounded in the urban politics of the 21st Century world-wide, this thoughtful volume hooks urban food – and especially its production – to social justice in a realistic and manageable way.” —Diana Lee-Smith, Mazingira Institute, Kenya “An excellent international overview of urban food democracy and governance, with impressive geographical reach.” —Andre Viljoen, University of Brighton, UK This edited collection explores urban food democracy as part of a broader policy-based approach to sustainable urban development. Conceptually, governance and social justice provide the analytical framework for a varied array of contributions which critically address issues including urban...

Universal's Guide to Judicial Service Examination
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1530

Universal's Guide to Judicial Service Examination

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Punjab Legislative Assembly Debates
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1290

Punjab Legislative Assembly Debates

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1966
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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D-Z (from 1938 to 1967 August)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1128

D-Z (from 1938 to 1967 August)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1967
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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