Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh

Bangladeshi women recall the sexualized violence of the war of 1971, fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan.

Fragmented Memories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

Fragmented Memories

DIVA study of identity and its connection to memory, focusing on the history of community identity formation among the Tai-Ahom in Assam./div

The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan
  • Language: en

The Cambridge Companion to Sayyid Ahmad Khan

This volume examines Sayyid Ahmad Khan's life, his contribution, and legacy in the context of current times. The editors engage his writings, ideas, and activities to read and present his work critically, not as a biographical account of his life but approach his work keeping in mind the tumultuous political events and changes of the nineteenth century, after the failed revolt of 1857 when Indians were transformed into colonial subjects. The collective anxieties of the Indian communities, particularly the Muslims, cried out for a new local leadership; Sayyid Ahmad Khan rose up to this occasion etching the way forward for Indians, in general, and Muslims in particular. Sayyid Ahmad Khan's multifaceted work offers an important understanding for national thinking emerging from the location of the Muslim, but it is not a 'minority' voice with vested political interests rather a constructive and integrative voice of relevance even today for addressing difficult problems.

Northeast India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Northeast India

Explores the possibility of a new search enabling a 'discovery' of Northeast India from within.

In the Meadows of Gold
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 284

In the Meadows of Gold

On the history of Assam, from the earliest time to the early nineteenth century.

Assam and India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Assam and India

This Book Explores How During The 1990S, Socially And Marginalized People In Asam Sought To Produce A Past In Order To Create For Themselves A Distinctive Identity Recognized Within Contemporary India.

Women and Peace in the Islamic World
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 440

Women and Peace in the Islamic World

How realistic is the prospect of peace in the Muslim world? This question is the predominant focus for global analysis today, but its debate frequently ignores the cultural and social complexity of the Muslim world, reducing it into a system of states and select actors. This book addresses such a failing by exploring how the everyday interactions of women, in accordance with Islamic personal ethics, can offer the world a new interpretation of peace. In particular, it focuses on the women in Islamic societies, from Aceh to Bosnia, Morocco to Bangladesh, initiating a dialogue on the role of these women in peacemaking. This concentration upon the complex issues of the everyday both enables a de...

People’s Peace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

People’s Peace

People’s Peace lays a solid foundation for the argument that global peace is possible because ordinary people are its architects. Saikia and Haines offer a unique and imaginative perspective on people’s daily lives across the world as they struggle to create peace despite escalating political violence. The volume’s focus on local and ordinary efforts highlights peace as a lived experience that goes beyond national and international peace efforts. In addition, the contributors’ emphasis on the role of religion as a catalyst for peace moves away from the usual depiction of religion as a source of divisiveness and conflict. Spanning a range of humanities disciplines, the essays in this ...

On Othering
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

On Othering

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance have polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is deemed acceptable—has fractured humanity, creating divisions that seemingly defy reconciliation. How do we restore the bonds of connection among human beings? How do we shift from polarization to peace? On Othering: Processes and Politics of Unpeace examines the process of othering from an international perspective and considers how it undermines peacemaking and is perpetuated by colonialism and globalization. Taking a humanistic approach, contributors argue that celebrating differences can have a transformative change in seeking peaceful solutions to problems created by people, institutions, ideas, conditions, and circumstances. Touching on race, gender, sexuality, nationalism, and our relationship with the natural world, this volume attends to the deep injustices brought about by othering and recommends actions for mending the relationships that are essential to renewing the possibility of peace.

Changing Agricultural Scenario in North-East India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 372

Changing Agricultural Scenario in North-East India

Papers presented at a national seminar organised by the North-East India Council for Social Science Research, Shillong during 12-13 Dec. 2004.