Towards freedom kolkata (10 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Acknowledgements. I. 1. Title. 2. Statement of the problem. 3. Objectives. 4. Main hypotheses. 5. Methodology. 6. Review of literature of contextual relevance. II. 1. Introduction. 2. The Bhaki Movement and Assam. 3. The Neo Vaisnavite Movement in Assam. 4. Srimanta Sankardeva and ethnic integration. 5. Neo Vaisnavism and women. III. 1. Introduction. 2. The evolution of the Namghar as a product of the Neo Vaisnavite Movement in Assam. 3. The Namghar as an institution facilitating democratisation. 4. Structure of Namghar and its democratic spirit. 5. The Borbhogia Namghar a field study. 6. Socio ethnic composition of Borbhogia. 7. Namghar as a centre for community development. 8. The Borbhogia Namghar as a (1) Community development centre and (2). Panchayat. 9. Bordowa Than a field study. IV. 1. Introduction. 2. Namghar as a means of communication and education. 3. The Borbhogia Namghar A centre of political and cultural activity. 4. The Namghar as a promoter of unity equality and social consciousness A cultural dimension. V. 1. Summary. Bibliography. Index. 72 pp.…

Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Do we need feminist theory. 2. History of ideas on woman Aristotle to mill. 3. Marxists feminism. 4. Women's oppression and the rise of private property Engel's view. 5. Psychoanalysis and women's oppression. 6. Women's oppression Simone De Beauvoir and the second sex. 7. Radical feminism. 8. Lesbian feminism. 9. Cultural feminism and gynocentrism. 10. Feminism and post modernism the crisis in feminism. 11. French feminism (s) Kristeva Irigary Wittig Cixous. 12. Appendix some vital issues in feminism. 13. Appendix what is to be done. Notes and references. In the 1960s and 70s a diverse group of political and cultural movements which included women's right to control her reproductive power the politicization of domestic violence via state intervention the incorporation of special job allocation for women the establishment of welfare policies by the liberal state for single mothers and other related rights came under the umbrella phrase Second Wave Feminism. While there remained substantial differences within the politics of feminism at this time one central theme running in the movement was that the personal is the political. This theme remains the slogan for feminist politics round the world today. A pedestrian account of Feminism will tell us that it is all about empowering women an inquiry into the history of feminism and feminist theory with tell us that it is about revolutionizing human relationships. That is why all power relationships and inequalities whether they stem from patriarchy the culture the feudal state the ideological state apparatus the global free market or the social arrangement of compulsory hetero sexuality are feminist concern. In the end feminism and feminist theory remains a revolutionary movement in praxis and theory. 162 pp.…

Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Freud Castration complex and the law of the father. 2. The castration complex starcke van ophuijen Alexander and Fenichel. 3. The Freud Jones debate on the feminine castration complex I. Melanie Klein early stages of the oedipal conflict. II. Helen Deutsch. III. Karen Horney. 4. Feminine sexuality Part II Deconstructing Phallocentric sexuality. Partial references. Since the publication of Freud essays Femininity and Feminine Sexuality there has been an interest hitherto unknown in the psycho analytic community a question about the feminine subjectivity self and sexuality. According to Freud the foundation of gendered identity is the castration complex. Since the publication of the above essays the question that raged in the psycho analytic community is this if the fear of castration leads one to adopt a gendered identity then how can a woman ever develop her identity as a woman she does not have a Phallus to be castrated. While the first part of the book deals with this issue and problem of explaining the feminine identity via the theory of castration complex the second part is a response to this Freudian notion of castration complex as the bedrock of gendered identities. Feminists like Luce Irigary and Julia Kristeva have shown that Freud's theory of castration complex cannot be used to explain gendered identities because it is entirely based on the idea that the Phallus is the only sex organ. The book deconstructs this Phallo centric idea and shows that the Phallus is a fetish and really does not hold any true power in society except what we give it culturally. The positive point in this theory is that if women's oppression is cultural and not natural then the current situation can be changed via social revolution. Ultimately a book on famine sexuality encompasses all genders and aim at surpassing the oppression of everyone's desire. 186 pp. …

Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents Preface. 1. Corruption perceptions reality and policy implications/Binayak Ray. 2. Corruption accountability and political parties in Bangladesh connections and consequences/Samiul Hasan. 3. Combating corruption the Indian experience/Arun Prosad Mukherjee. 4. Corruption among the public servants in India/Sankar Sen. 5. Corruption governance and economic development in Pakistan/Sajid Anwar and Ahmed M. Khalid. 6. Combating corruption an afterword/R.J. May. Index. Corruption in its many forms is being seen increasingly as an obstacle to good governance a constraint on economic development an impediment to social equity and eventually a source of political instability and in extreme cases state failure. By almost any indicator of corruption the performance of the South Asian countries has been poor. Corrupt practices in the region have a long history and were sustained during British colonial rule. They flourished during the Second World War and in the context of political and social change in the post independence states. In this volume a group of distinguished scholars and practitioners provides an overview of key issues and examines the varied experiences of the three major countries of South Asia Bangladesh India and Pakistan. The contributors focus on measures designed to address corrupt behaviour domestically and internationally bearing in mind the need to tailor reform efforts to local circumstances. 186 pp. …

Paperback. Condición: As New. New. Contents Acknowledgements. Acronym. I. Introduction. II. Research methodology. III. An overview of functioning of Gram Panchayats 1. Accountability. 2. Participation. 3. Performance. IV. State of women representatives 4. Profile of GPR. 5. Election dynamics. 6. Post election period and female GPR. V. Women agency at work 7. Outcome state I Female GPR appear as silent spectator. 8. Outcome State II Showing resistance in the private domain. 9. Outcome state III creating impact in public domain. VI. Exclusive intermediate interaction space the way forward 10. The need for interaction spaces for women. 11. Experimental learning. 12. Exclusive intermediate interaction spaces. VIII. Conclusion. Bibliography. The provision of not less than one third seats for women in PRIs through Seventy Third Constitutional Amendment has paved way for empowerment of women. The finding in this publication is based on primary data and provides a fresh framework to understand the process of empowerment of women. This book argues that three factors influence empowerment of women representatives in PRIs. These are patriarchy and cultural expectations empowering policy environment (such as mandated representation of women in PRIs) and gender relationship in the private domain. The study illustrates that provision of mandated representation of female in PRIs provides an opportunity to a woman to translate her passive reflection and observation on her environment into active agenda or demand. This book describes the unique duality of women agency where resistance and collusion goes together. The overt manifestation of women agency in the public domain is connected to the covert women agency at work in the private domain. Finally based on the research finding an attempt is made to derive some policy suggestions. The findings of this research are of direct relevance for academicians researchers policy makers and NGOs who are working in the area of women's empowerment and local governance. 74 pp. …

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Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents Foreword. Acknowledgements. Preface. I. Sport social history contemporary history 1. Sports history in India prospects and problems. 2. The legend of the Father of Indian Football sport culture modernity in Late Colonial Bengal. 3. 1911 in retrospect a revisionist perspective on a famous Indian sporting victory. 4. Where the Twain Shall Ever Meet sport and education as cultural bond in Colonial and Post Colonial India. 5. In search of a football ground in Twentieth Century Urban Bengal. 6. Pakistani Cricket at crossroads an outsider's perspective. II. The academic the popular and the widening horizon 7. The academic perceptions and the expanding Literature on Indian Sport. 8. The Genre of Vernacular Soccer Histories. 9. Sport and Subalternity in South Asia. Index. The history of sport is only in its infancy in Indian Academica. To establish its credibility as a viable academic discipline has proved something of a struggle for those Indian historians engaged in its research for the past few years. The struggle is overcome elsewhere in the world. To overcome it in India the teaching of sports history within the broader discipline of history must go hand in hand with serious research. This book which comprises a collection of essays and book reviews by the author published in national and international journals over the past five years using sport as a lens considers some relevant themes of social history and brings forth some important issues of contemporary history. 224 pp.…

Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents Introduction/H.S. Vasudevan. 1. Siberia at the crossroads of identities/Evgeny G. Vodichev. 2. Regional autonomy in the ideology of Siberian regionalism/N.N. Ablazhei. 3. The Siberian frontier the unfinished travel along virgin lands/M.V. Shilovskii. 4. The science of Siberia and transformation of the image of the region/Y.I. Uzbekova. 5. Problems of development of the Asian part of Russia in the beginning of the 21 century/V. Yu. Malov. 6. Problems of selecting civilizational identity in Kazakhstan ethno demographic aspect/A.N. Alekseenko. 7. Construction of the image of a migrant in the regional Russian Press/M.N. Baldano. 8. Transborder migrants and Russian Society strategies and practices of mutual adaptation/V.I. Dyatlov. 9. Eurasianism as a concept and as an instrument for the formation of geopolitical strategies and doctrines/O.A. Donskikh. 10. Changing perceptions of Siberia/Suchandana Chatterjee. 11. Dreams of a Eurasian Heartland the geopolitics of Mackinder's geographical pivot/Anita Sengupta. 12. Challenges of political transition in Central Eurasia in the Post Soviet Period/Arpita Basu Roy. 13. Significance of Siberia and the Russian far East in Russia's energy diplomacy/Sreemati Ganguli. 14. Russia and Post Soviet Central Asia the factor of regional co operation in maintaining security/O.N. Kalinina. 15. Linguistic security and self identification in the global world (Siberian region as an example)/E.G. Vodichev and M.I. Gritsko. 16. Inner Mongolia of PRC and Mongolia interaction in the atmosphere of world globalization/B.V. Bazarov. 17. From the land of cold and gloom to the land of wonders/V.A. Lamin. The current volume is the result of a cooperative enterprise between scholars of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute for Asian Studies and Members of the Institute of History of the Siberian Academy of Sciences of the Russian Federation to bring Siberia and its neighbourhood into focus. The volume is a collection of papers presented at the Seminar Eurasia Regional Perspectives June 2 3 2007 Novosibirsk. 192 pp. …

Hardbound. Condición: As New. New. Contents Preamble. Foreword. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. 2. Culture. 3. Philosophy. 4. Social life. 5. Early Bodo literature. 6. Realisation. 7. Conclusion. Index. The Pragiyotishpura or Kamrupa mentioned in the Kalikapurana or in the Jogini Tantra had been dominantly remained under the Mongolian cultural people since 2500 years to 3000 years back. The word Kamrupa changed into Asham Hasam Assam and Asom with the entrance of the Ahoms from the Burmadesh (Myanmar) after 1230 A.D. The Bodos in different parts of this region were according to place known a Dimacha Kachari Barman in Silchar Tippera in Tripura Rabha and Garos in the Southern Assam Mech and Koch kachari in the plain Assam and Meche in the West Bengal and East Nepal. This greater community fragmented in different names in different places have been tried to extract in the book and tried by the author for their unity and integrity to relate them with the Bod province of the Mongoloid region in the North China and the Sivarai mountain of the same region which relates them with their God Sivarai. In fact the Mongolian culture or the Bodo Community in Assam is a very rich culture which have been analytically discussed according to their subcommunities name. The main aim of the study on them was to unite uplift and identify them to the world stage as a culturally rich community though socially and literally backward in comparison to other communities. The great Vaisnavite prophet Sri Sri Sandardeva tried his best to bring all communities under the Ek Sarana Bhagamati Dharma but the Ahoms were irritated with him. His educational principle flourished at the time of king Naranarayana of the Koch dynasty. This has been studied in The Bodos in Assam A Socio Cultural study. 232 pp.…

Hardcover. Condición: New. 2nd Edition. The book is a detailed study on architecture and sculpture of the Buddhist Stupa of Bharhut, Madhya Pradesh. It deals primarily with three aspects of the stupa: 1. Stone as a storyteller 2. Ruinous condition of the stupa 3. Composition of inner railing.