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Mumbai Fables by Gyan Prakash
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €29.13This is a place of spectacle and ruin, Mumbai exemplifies the cosmopolitan metropolis. It is not just a big city but also a soaring vision of modern urban life. Millions from India and beyond, of... -
Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India by Gyan Prakash
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €52.60Another Reason is a bold and innovative study of the intimate relationship between science, colonialism, and the modern nation. Gyan Prakash, one of the most influential historians of India writing... -
The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia by Gyan Prakash 9781350127760
Booksplease Price: €43.82By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South and Southeast Asia including India,... -
Noir Urbanisms: Dystopic Images of the Modern City by Gyan Prakash 9780691146447
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €29.85Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the... -
LL.B Entrance Examination (5 Year Course) by Gyan Prakash 9788178124612
Booksplease Price: €48.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788178124612Author Gyan PrakashFormat PaperbackPage Count 642Imprint Ramesh Publishing HousePublisher... -
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point by Gyan Prakash
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.39The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights... -
Bonded Histories: Genealogies of Labor Servitude in Colonial India by Gyan Prakash 9780521526586
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €58.25To the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and that money possesses the power to bind people appear as natural facts. Bonded Histories traces the historical... -
Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy's Turning Point by Gyan Prakash 9780691217369
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €21.04The gripping story of an explosive turning point in the history of modern IndiaOn the night of June 25, 1975, Indira Gandhi declared a state of emergency in India, suspending constitutional rights... -
A New Approach for Understanding the Mechanism and Drug Design of Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Responsive Protein: An In-Silico Study for the Design of Isoform Specific Anti-Leukemic Agent by Gyan Prakash Rai 9781952751516
RRP: €33.92Booksplease Price: €26.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952751516Author Gyan Prakash RaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Eliva PressPublisher Eliva... -
The Tower Of Silence by Phiroshaw Jamsetjee Chevalier Chaiwala 9789350296370
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €9.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789350296370Author Gyan PrakashFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint HarperCollins Publishers... -
Contesting Power: Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia by Douglas E. Haynes
RRP: €63.07Booksplease Price: €51.12Covering groups from peasants to urban laborers, and from women to merchants, the essays in this volume depict a rich variety of non-confrontational forms of resistance and contestatory behaviors... -
No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia Saloni Mathur 9780815373247
RRP: €63.06Booksplease Price: €56.88This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool... -
Utopia/Dystopia: Conditions of Historical Possibility by Michael D. Gordin 9780691146980
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €42.30The concepts of utopia and dystopia have received much historical attention. Utopias have traditionally signified the ideal future: large-scale social, political, ethical, and religious spaces that... -
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference - New Edition by Dipesh Chakrabarty
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.39First published in 2000, Dipesh Chakrabarty's influential Provincializing Europe addresses the mythical figure of Europe that is often taken to be the original site of modernity in many histories of... -
Becoming Yellow: A Short History of Racial Thinking by Michael Keevak
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €45.22In their earliest encounters with Asia, Europeans almost uniformly characterized the people of China and Japan as white. This was a means of describing their wealth and sophistication, their... -
Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863 by Murali Ranganathan 9781843312772
RRP: €83.30Booksplease Price: €81.04Guiding the reader on a tour of the sights and sounds of an emerging city struggling to shake off colonialism and wrestling with the formation of its own budding identity, Narayan's beguiling book... -
The Water-Food-Energy Nexus: Processes, Technologies, and Challenges by I. M. Mujtaba 9781138746077
RRP: €136.85Booksplease Price: €122.01Exponential growth of the worldwide population requires increasing amounts of water, food, and energy. However, as the quantity of available fresh water and energy sources directly affecting cost of... -
Govind Narayan's Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863 by Murali Ranganathan 9781843313052
Booksplease Price: €25.22Guiding the reader on a tour of the sights and sounds of an emerging city struggling to shake off colonialism and wrestling with the formation of its own budding identity, Narayan's beguiling book... -
Nation and Religion: Perspectives on Europe and Asia Peter van der Veer 9780691012322
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €40.76Does modernity make religion politically irrelevant? Conventional scholarly and popular wisdom says that it does. The prevailing view assumes that the onset of western modernity--characterized by the... -
Midnight's Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie by Daniel Herwitz 9780472070480
Booksplease Price: €80.03Almost twenty years after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie remains the most controversial and perhaps the most famous living novelist. Far more than an acclaimed... -
Midnight's Diaspora: Critical Encounters with Salman Rushdie by Daniel Herwitz 9780472050482
RRP: €24.93Booksplease Price: €24.55Almost twenty years after the Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him, Salman Rushdie remains the most controversial and perhaps the most famous living novelist. Far more than an acclaimed... -
Questions Of Modernity by Timothy Mitchell 9780816631346
RRP: €26.17Booksplease Price: €22.35Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts.Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty-which meant assigning a different and... -
Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial by Vinayak Chaturvedi
Booksplease Price: €31.26Inspired by Antonio Gramsci's writings on the history of subaltern classes, the authors in Mapping Subaltern Studies and the Postcolonial sought to contest the elite histories of Indian nationalists... -
At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West by Jackie Assayag 9780253216366
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.74During the past two decades, at the same time that the South Asian presence in the U.S. and Europe has become an increasingly visible part of mainstream social life and popular culture, scholars of... -
Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation by Homi K. Bhabha 9780226532035
Booksplease Price: €25.05In Edward Said: Continuing the Conversation, Edward Said's long-time friends and collaborators continue their dialogue with Said where they left off following his death in the fall of 2003. The... -
Other Cities, Other Worlds: Urban Imaginaries in a Globalizing Age by Andreas Huyssen
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Other Cities, Other Worlds brings together leading scholars of cultural theory, urban studies, art, anthropology, literature, film, architecture, and history to look at non-Western global cities. The... -
Fragments of Empire: Capital, Slavery, and Indian Indentured Labor in the British Caribbean by Madhavi Kale
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €47.48When Great Britain abolished slavery in 1833, sugar planters in the Caribbean found themselves facing the prospect of paying working wages to their former slaves. Cheaper labor existed elsewhere in... -
The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories by Partha Chatterjee
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €46.22In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist imagination in Asia and Africa that are posited not on identity but on difference... -
After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas by Mark Thurner 9780822331940
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and... -
Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India by Arvind Rajagopal 9780521648394
RRP: €55.93Booksplease Price: €52.29In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, The Ramayana, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What... -
Politics after Television: Hindu Nationalism and the Reshaping of the Public in India by Arvind Rajagopal 9780521640534
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €113.41In January 1987, the Indian state-run television began broadcasting a Hindu epic in serial form, The Ramayana, to nationwide audiences, violating a decades-old taboo on religious partisanship. What... -
Beijing Time by Michael Dutton 9780674047341
RRP: €32.07Booksplease Price: €29.87"Where is the market?" inquires the tourist one dark, chilly morning. "Follow the ghosts," responds the taxi driver, indicating a shadowy parade of overloaded tricycles. "It's not called the ghost... -
The Black Hole of Empire: History of a Global Practice of Power by Partha Chatterjee
Booksplease Price: €51.54When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison. Of the group, 123 died of suffocation... -
Colonial Caregivers: Ayahs and the Gendered History of Race and Caste in British India by Satya Shikha Chakraborty 9781009467148
RRP: €113.05Booksplease Price: €102.51Colonial Caregivers offers a compelling cultural and social history of ayahs (nannies/maids), by exploring domestic intimacy and exploitation in colonial South Asia. Working for British imperial... -
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism by Srirupa Roy 9781503636460
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of... -
The Political Outsider: Indian Democracy and the Lineages of Populism by Srirupa Roy 9781503637986
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Defying the dire predictions that attended its birth as an independent nation-state in 1947, the Indian republic is more than seventy-five years old. And yet, it is a place where criticisms of... -
After the Imperial Turn: Thinking with and through the Nation by Antoinette Burton 9780822331421
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €32.02From a variety of historically grounded perspectives, After the Imperial Turn assesses the fate of the nation as a subject of disciplinary inquiry. In light of the turn toward scholarship focused on... -
Questioning Migrants: Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan Tahir H. Naqvi 9781009492300
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €97.25The Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), propelled by ethnic violence and led by university students with lower-middle-class backgrounds, transformed the cities of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh... -
Wages of Violence: Naming and Identity in Postcolonial Bombay by Thomas Blom Hansen 9780691088402
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.49When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of intense ethnic... -
Pirate Modernity: Delhi's Media Urbanism Ravi Sundaram (The Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, India) 9780415611749
RRP: €58.30Booksplease Price: €52.80Using Delhi's contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive...