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A Monsoon of Music by Mitra Phukan
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £21.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932441Author Mitra PhukanFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
The Search by Shaheen Akhtar
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.19Twenty-five long years after the war that was supposed to liberate Bangladesh and that instead, for far too many people, merely brought fear, violence, and loss a young researcher arrives on the... -
From Possession to Freedom - The Journey of Nili-Nilakeci by R. Umamaheshwari
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The Tamil text Nilakeci, published between the first and fifth centuries, deals with Jaina philosophy through the use of an unusual literary technique: retrieving a pey, or possessing spirit (usually... -
Of the Nation Born - The Bangladesh Papers by Meghna Guhathakurta 9789384757793
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £24.13Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Of the Nation Born takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling... -
Close To Home by Parvati Sharma 9789383074822
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £5.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383074822Author Parvati SharmaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint ZubaanPublisher Zubaan -
Crafting the Word - Writings from Manipur by Thingnam Anjuli Samom 9789385932809
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £13.52Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in eighth century AD. But it was only in the second half of the twentieth century that women... -
Organizing Empire Individualism, Collective Agency and India by Purnima Bose 9788189884017
Booksplease Price: £11.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189884017Author Purnima BoseFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Mannequin - Working Women in India`s Glamour Industry Manjima Bhattacharya 9789385932229
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932229Author Manjima BhattacharyaFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
A Difficult Transition - The Nepal Papers Mandira Sharma 9789385932052
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £29.92Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally immune to the influence of colonialism in its... -
No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy by Chaynika Shah
Booksplease Price: £25.30How is gender understood and constructed? How does it operate in the sociopolitical structures we inhabit? How is gender lived? No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy answers these questions by analyzing... -
A Foot in the Door – Dalit Women in Panchayati Raj in Gujarat and Tamil Nadu by Jayshree Mangubhai
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £25.05The culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, A Foot in the Door brings the voices of Dalit women to the forefront of the ongoing conversation about their... -
The Search for Justice – The Sri Lanka Papers by Kumari Jayawardena
Booksplease Price: £40.94At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexual violence. The subsequent cry for justice cannot be ignored. In... -
Rewriting History – The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai by Uma Chakravarti
Booksplease Price: £27.15Pandita Ramabai was one of India's earliest feminists. Honored with the title of Saraswati in Calcutta in 1879, she soon alienated the men who had initially supported her. A high-caste Hindu widow,... -
Writing Caste/Writing Gender - Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonios by Sharmila Rege
Booksplease Price: £27.15A pathbreaking study of Dalit women's writings and lives, Writing Caste/Writing Gender offers a powerful counternarrative to mainstream assumptions about the development of feminism in India in the... -
No Ghosts in This City: And Other Short Stories by Uddipana Goswami
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £9.63The powerful short stories in this collection are set against - and frequently driven by - the picturesque yet often violent backdrop of Assam, a province in India's northeast. In one, a young man... -
Spectacles of Blood – A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films by Swaralipi Nandi 9789381017159
Booksplease Price: £27.60This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showing how the cinema challenges, normalizes, or contests these major... -
Stilettos in the Boardroom: A BPO Story by Shruti Saxena 9788189884659
Booksplease Price: £19.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788189884659Author Shruti SaxenaFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint ZubaanPublisher Zubaan -
Fence by Ila Arab Mehta
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.54Ila Arab Mehta is an award-winning Gujarati author, perhaps most noted for her explorations of feminist thinking. In this new translation by Rita Kothari of her beautiful and skillfully crafted novel... -
Waiting - A Collection of Stories by Nighat Gandhi
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young... -
The Empty Room Sadia Abbas 9789385932267
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49In 1960s Karachi, a place of ever increasing violence and political and social uncertainty, a beautiful and talented artist, Tahira, tries to hold her life together as it shatters around her. Her... -
Words to Win - The Making of a Modern Autobiography Tanika Sarkar 9789381017906
Booksplease Price: £27.15The first full-length autobiography in Bengali, Amar Jiban (My Life) was written in the early nineteenth century by an upper-caste rural housewife named Rashundari Debi. Published in 1868 when she... -
Mahuldiha Days Anita Agnihotri 9789385932175
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £14.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932175Author Anita AgnihotriFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Swarnalata Fourth edition by Tilottoma Misra
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789385932458Author Tilottoma MisraFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint ZubaanPublisher... -
Of Mothers and others - Stories, Essays, Poems by Jaishree Misra
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £14.75"Taking care of our women and children builds not just a generation but the nation itself," writes the Indian film star Shabana Azmi in her introduction to this unique volume. "We neglect mothers at... -
Doing Time with Nehru - The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family by Yin Marsh
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £10.48It's midnight and there are fists pounding on the door. Authoritative voices shouting, "We're coming in! Get on the floor!" A few terrorized minutes later a family member is dragged out by armed men,... -
Reconfiguring Reproduction Feminist Health Perspectives on Assosted by N. Sarojini
Booksplease Price: £28.55Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproductive technology (ART) has revolutionized our understanding of... -
The Power to Forgive: And Other Stories by Avinuo Kire
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.45In this collection of short stories, Avinuo Kire tells powerful tales of women overcoming violence and repression. In The Power to Forgive, many of the stories are told against the backdrop of the... -
Picture This! – Painting the Women′s Movement by Radhaben Garwa
Booksplease Price: £45.90From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western India and beyond through her drawings. Her images -... -
Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India by Ashild Kolas
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £23.83In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend... -
Prisoner No. 100 - An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison Anjum Zamarud Habib 9789385932182
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £13.94On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamrud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's... -
Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence - The Right to Heal; Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India by Angana P. Chatterji 9789384757113
Booksplease Price: £40.85Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the... -
Eating Women, Telling Tales by Bulbul Sharma 9789381017890
RRP: £9.00Booksplease Price: £7.93In Eating Women, Telling Tales, acclaimed feminist writer and artist Bulbul Sharma explores the many roles - some perennial, some unexpected - that food can play in women's lives. One of the stories... -
Undoing Impunity - Speech After Sexual Violence by V. Geetha
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £16.37Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity-perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by... -
Breaching the Citadel - The India Papers Urvashi Butalia 9789384757786
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £24.54Breaching the Citadel, part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and... -
Voices and Values - The Politics of Feminist Evaluation Ratna Sudarshan 9789385932397
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually... -
High Wind by Tilottoma Misra
RRP: £16.00Booksplease Price: £5.79Jeumon has a complicated story stuck in her head: her family's. In the newly-drawn boundaries of Assam and Meghalaya in 1972 India, young Jeumon wonders how she should define herself. Is she... -
The Madness of Waiting Muhammad Hadi Ruswa 9789381017708
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £13.54Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel "Umrao Jaan Ada" created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of the life of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned... -
These Hills Called Home - Stories from a War Zone Temsula Ao 9789381017975
Booksplease Price: £17.73The Naga people of the troubled northeastern region of India have endured more than a century of bloodshed in their struggle for an independent Nagaland and a national identity. It is against this... -
Centrepiece - Women's Writing and Art from Northeast India by Parismita Singh
RRP: £26.50Booksplease Price: £23.91Though the northeastern region of India contains eight ethnically diverse, politically complex, and historically different states, it is often homogenized into a problematic category called "the... -
The Saga of Satisar by Chandrakanta Chandrakanta
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £17.49Combining myth, legend, geography, history, and politics, The Saga of Satisar is the panoramic history of the Kashmiri Pandits. In it, award-winning Hindi writer Chandrakanta unspools a novel that...