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This illuminating book critically examines multicultural language politics and policymaking in the Andean-Amazonian countries of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, demonstrating how issues of language and power throw light on the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the state.
The book analyses mental health, well-being, and their interdependence through Indian perspectives. It offers critical insights on mastering wellness, stress, and coping, suffering and healing, and achieving work-life balance.
Focusing on the practice of journalism in modern China, this book studies the history of modern Chinese journalism and gives insights on its culture and value.
This volume examines nationhood as a concept and how it became the basis of political discourse in South Asia. It studies the emergence of nationalism in modern states as a powerful, omnipotent, and omnipresent form of political identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
By considering why the desert, and the human story therein, continues to fascinate Western writers, it reveals no barren legacy but a strand of ever-evolving inter-cultural practice of representation and self-reflection.
This edited collection uses new sources to address issues as diverse as the Turkey–Iraq frontier, colonial governance in Cyprus, the legal rights of... Læs mere
This book engages with evolving definitions of borders and citizenship in the public discourse in the South Asia region.
This book explores the transitions in the Adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of Adivasi communities in Bangladesh.
Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China.
This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of Swaraj – self-rule – both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development. The book will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of Gandhian studies and development studies.
This book focuses on the Kshatriyaization movement of Rajbansis, the Matua movement of Namasudras, and the colonial policy of... Læs mere
Shantanu Roy-Chaudhury’s The China Factor explores Beijing’s political, economic, and defence relations with Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, and weighs the dividends of the bilateral relationships to better comprehend the geopolitical subtleties in the region.