ratna sagar jul 2021 (10 resultados)

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - A luminous account of jail from the pen of a sensitive young woman who draws deeply moving sketches of women who sometimes do not even know why they are in prison. Anuradha's stories move from children who are born in prison, with no idea of the world outside their walls - not even knowing what the moon looks like except on television - to old women bent with age serving life sentences and longing for release before they die so that they can die at home. But jail life is also throbbing with humanity in the midst of trauma and sadness. Women share their pain, write petitions for each other, discover histories of the jail where the staff recall other inmates who are incarcerated for their conscience, and unexpectedly the jail library has a copy of one such memoir. The same jack fruit tree bears witness to those who come and sit under its shade and then move to others who come in and may even die in jail before they are released. Every year on 26 January and then on August 15, they wait with bated breath to hear of who is released on those days. Will their names figure, or will they have to wait another year for the mercy of the state to return home, in spite of being a world where there is no place for the many women who cross the line of the law even as they stand up to the torment of caste and gender violence. Anuradha is the scribe in the jail, who tells stories of women and children who are victims of a cruel and inhuman world, and the unexpected legacies of kindness, solidarity and courage - women who sustain a spirit of resistance against the cruel norms in the world outside and in the way the law works. Long after we have finished reading the stories, we stay with Lathi Budhiya; with Paro's daughters outside the jail and her cats inside the jail; with baby Chandini's discovery of the moon on the night of Holi because lock up time has been extended as a special concession to the festivities.This is a poignant book about a world we need to know and think about: a world that presses against conventional boundaries and is just beyond the prison walls, not so far from us at all.UMA CHAKRAVARTI, Feminist Historian and Filmmaker.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - What happens to the woman who is loved, used and discarded because of her caste Will a Vice Chancellor give in to the political pressures of a minister, when both of them are Dalits What happens to a man destined to live in stench all his life Whose victory is it - that of the Dalit boy who plays the tappeta or the landlord who wins the election Does one have the right to decide on another's life no matter how beholden he is What is the relationship between sub-castes among Dalits Will the exploitation of the poor Dalit continue What is the bond between the bull and the Dalit who tends it.

Taschenbuch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - T. Janakiraman is one of the most accomplished writers in modern Tamil literature. His fiction continues to unravel fresh meanings for contemporary readers. His sensitive writing explores the complexities of the human mind and human emotions, and the ways they clash with societal norms and traditions, leading to violations and crossing of boundaries set by the society. He traces the immense suffering and mental agony that his characters undergo as a result of these clashes. Janakiraman's women characters are sensitive, intelligent and intellectual, capable of determined action. Fascinated by the live portrayal of his characters, his readers have travelled to the towns and streets which these characters have inhabited, verily like pilgrims. It is rare to find in modern literature characters of classic quality. But many characters of Janakiraman have such a quality and are cherishedin the hearts of the readers. Set in Marudam, as the fertile Thanjavur delta region with its own landscapes and lifestyles was known, his style of writing, with exquisite dialogues, wordplay and vivid descriptions, is absorbing. The Crimson Hibiscus, like his other fiction, also absorbs and engulfs the reader. Time itself celebrates an artist of his calibre!PERUMAL MURUGAN, WriterThis intimate portrait of a family, told through the eyes of the youngest of three brothers, Sattanaathan, brings to life the everyday negotiations, heartbreaks and joys that make up domestic life. The story unfolds in the richly described context of semi-rural Tamil Nadu of the first half of the 20th century, and explores the complexity of filial and conjugal relationships in a joint family. T. Janakiraman's work is for many decades a staple in Tamil literary magazines. The translation and editing is expertly done, losing neither the character nor the nuance of the culture and language of the original.USHA RAMAN, Writer and Academic.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Social Worlds of Premodern Transactions bring together a range of new perspectives on social and economic history. They show how exchange is not only about commodities or items, but also about interactions and relationships between people. The essays span a broad time frame, starting from the early historic and extending into the medieval. They range from studies of sites and micro-regions to translocal communities and transcontinental voyages.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume contains well researched papers based on primary sources and archaeological explorations and presents new findings on medieval Indian administration, culture, science and technology. It also has a study of new literary sources, both Persian and Europeans, with a full section to literary sources.The section on state and administration highlights Central Asian and European influence on state craft and the army. Mysticism and its impact on medieval policy, architecture and the new genre of literature known as 'Shahr Ashob' helps in the reconstruction of the eighteenth-century history of Shah- Jahanabad. The chapter on science and technology studies the military technology of the Delhi Sultanate and the impact of metal technology of the later Mughal period on the state of Bikaner in the skill development of both urban and rural workers. This chapter also includes a study of water harvesting and agricultural produce. This volume covers a large canvas of medieval Indian history examining many unexplored aspects of the period.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - The Marginalized Self questions the century-old perception of the Musahar community as rat-eating, pig-rearing, habitually drunk, lazy and unmotivated; a perception fostered by the dominant discourse of development, and the historically prevalent hierarchical social system. This collection of essays argues that these victims of the dominant model of development acquire a different kind of power and critical consciousness due to their marginality, which helps them to examine the processes, practices, and institutions that give rise to and justify poverty, displacement, corruption, greed, competition, and violence in the name of development.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume is a collection of eighteen ethnographic essays on Anthropological Explorations in East and South-East Asia, reprinted from Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, published during 1886-1936. Divided into five parts, it includes works on history, religion, tea cult, the Torii of Japan and the Torans of India; on the veneration of the dead in China; on Tibet and its customs and practices, the Lamas and folklore in eastern Himalayas; on the monastic institution of Burma and its Phongys; Malay folklore, folk medicine, etiological folktales; and Burmese and Indian folk beliefs.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - This volume, focused on Odisha, situates the region in the wider context of its trans-regional background for as the archaeological and epigraphic evidence available shows that it was an integral part of a wider zone from the early historical period. Juxtaposing the patterns obtaining in the region with developments in other parts of the subcontinent, The Making of Regions in Indian History: Society, State and Identity in Premodern Odisha delineates the cultural transactions within and beyond that went into the making of Odisha.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Braj Bhum in Mughal Times: The State, Peasants and Gosa'ins represents a unique effort at presenting the conditions of life of the ordinary people in a small region of the Mughal Empire from about the accession of Akbar (1556) to the collapse of Mughal power (1739). The study brings out how the Mughal administration functioned on the ground, how peasant communities were organized and religious men conducted their worldly affairs. We are even able to meet some lowly men and women as distinct individuals.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - Alternative Arguments is a tribute to Professor Surendra Gopal, a truly extraordinary historian, well-known for his undisputed and sterling scholarship. This collection of essays by his former colleagues, students and friends from India and abroad, comprises 37 scholarly contributions that have been broadly grouped into six sections: the Idea of India; Bihar: Ancient, Medieval and Modern; Indian Economy, Trade and Commerce; Nationalism and Freedom Struggle; Original Sources; and History through Art and Media.