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Focuses on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. This work describes a colonial universe that centers around symbols of women as both defiled and deified, exemplified in the idea of woman as widow and woman as goddess. The nation, it explains, is imagined as a woman-goddess within a country comprising plural cultural traditions.

Why do commercial advertisements stress that the products they offer are exactly the same as they used to be in Soviet times? And why, year after year, does the government in Moscow organize impressive celebrations for Victory Day, inevitably drawing parallels to the old Soviet ceremonies? This title tackles these questions.

Including an investigation of the notion of sovereignty from Bodin and Hobbes, through Rousseau and the Federalists, to Foucault and the framers of the European constitution, this title examines the articulation of the concept through the bloody history of European colonialism.

The Theatre of Roots was the first conscious effort at creating a body of work for urban audiences combining modern European theatre with traditional Indian performance while maintaining its distinction from both. This book presents an in-depth analysis of this movement: its innovations, theories, goals, accomplishments, problems and legacies.

Whatever the nature of a work of art, it can only be one if the artistic quality it claims for itself can be justified. Thus it is urgent to find aesthetic arguments that pay proper attention to the internal logic of artworks, arguments that are rigorous without claiming absolute truth. This work attempts to find fresh bases for such arguments.

During the late Seventies and Eighties a new logo began to jostle for space with the more traditional landmarks on high streets throughout Britain. It was the badge of a remarkable Third World Bank...the BCCI (Bank of Credit and Commerce International). BCCI soon become a global corporate empire with former US Presidents, ex-British Prime Ministers and a range of dictators on its payroll, all helping with promoting the company.Tariq Ali was the first public voice to warn that the Bank was not all it seemed to be. Indeed, many of its own employees called BCCI the "Bank of Crooks and Cheats Incorporated." Some political analysts also predicted the companys collapse. The Bank finally imploded amidst a welter of scandal.This revealing screenplay presents an account of the rise and fall of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Here, Ali reveals how BCCI lasted so long, how financial regulators failed to see what was going on and how BCCI pioneered a mode of operation that prepared the way for an even greater financial cataclysm, the fall of Enron.

Presents the writings of David Hardiman, one of the foremost contemporary historians of the subcontinent. Ranging across politics, environmental issues, Gandhi, moneylending, disease, and subaltern history, this book is of interest to readers of Indian history as well as scholars in the areas of politics, sociology, culture, and religion.

The relationship between cinema and modernity in the Indian context is both complex and multifaceted. This book features essays that range from discussions of urbanity and film language to realism and the Indian city in Bengali film of the 1940s; and from the complexities of female spectatorship to an analysis of the primacy of Bollywood.

The BBC commissioned Tariq Ali to write a three-part TV series on the circumstances leading to the overthrow, trial and execution of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the first elected Prime Minister of Pakistan. As rehearsals were about to begin, the BBC hierarchy decided to cancel the project. This work presents both the script and the story of censorship.

The Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi is a unique theatrical and religious event, an annual, month-long enactment of the Ramayana story. The performance covers a whole town and involves an entire community. Documenting the unique tradition, this book talks about the svarupas, effigies, masks, Ramayanis, Vyasas, gods, goddesses, demons and monkeys.

Explores the connections between worship and performance, the sacred and the profane. This book challenges the common assumptions about worship as being simply about religious feeling, and opens up the multifaceted possibilities of layering and overlapping that make public act of worship simultaneously an act of socio-historical practice.

While our social and cultural lives are determined by a fairly universal heterosexual code, this anthology argues that it is imperative to recognize multiple sites and discourses as equally valid. It captures the complex issues, theories, contexts and debates crowding the sexualities arena in contemporary Indian society.

Analyses the development of Jinnah's relationship with India's Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. This book shows that a dominant view of Jinnah - that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist in the 1940s - is far from the truth.

With the "Apu Trilogy", Satyajit Ray caught the attention of film enthusiasts all over the world. This work Traces Apu's growth from childhood - cruelly poor but brightened by a passion for creativity and learning - to battered maturity. Containing a foreword and working sketches by Ray, it presents the scripts with interviews with Ray himself.

A title in which, the author personalizes the political and social changes in his country over the past few decades. By moving back and forth in time and focusing on small events and everyday people, it breathes life into Chinese history by describing the effects of larger-than-life events on the average citizen.

The African American at the end of the nineteenth century was described by W E B Du Bois as "two souls in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." In the United States today, the hyphen between these two souls-African and American, African-American-is still being negotiated. This book deals with this topic.

Includes dialogues with theorists, curators, activists, and fellow artists - such as Lisa Wolford Wylam, Tim Miller, Felipe Ehrenberg, Orlando Britoo Jinorio, Silvana Straw, and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer that explore the terrain between art and theory.

Over ten rainy nights, Thomas, an ex-barge-man who used to be skipper of his own boat, walks the muddy fields of the land-locked German interior and remembers the events that lost him his home, his boat, and his livelihood. In this novel, Thomas remembers childhood, his first love, and the warning of his grandfather: Beware the dark company.

A haunting homage to life and liberty, to society and solitude, and to the binding and unbinding that constitute the weft of our lives. Drawing on materials from across many cultures, Pascal Quignard makes an effort to establish shared human values as the breeding ground for a modern Enlightenment. Considering atheism as a spiritual liberation, suicide as a free act, and the rejection of society as a free choice, the author explores philosophical themes that have run through human civilizations--most often as heresies--from our earliest days. In his search for freedom, Quignard questions the binding dependency of religion, querying how, in a world where all forms of society presuppose that someone (or some collective) is looking over our shoulders, we can be free. These reflections, he implies, are the essential spiritual exercise for our times. Few voices in contemporary French literature are more distinct than that of Quignard. By reading this fragmentary, episodic assemblage of intimate experiences and borrowed tales, we open up a space of liberty, creating for the reader space for meditation and, perhaps, liberation.

Kore, also called Persephone and referred to poetically by the Greeks as "the unspeakable girl," was the daughter of Demeter and Zeus who was abducted by Hades and made queen of the netherworld. This title presents three richly detailed treatments of the myth of Kore.

An iconic work of Western art, Fragonard's "L'escarpolette", or "The Swing", is often reproduced, and its foreground image of a young woman losing her slipper midswing is widely familiar. This book explores that scene in a long poem that engages with the image of the flying slipper, and presents two other sequences of poems based on paintings.

The 'Chipko Movement' drew world attention to the struggle over forest rights. Arguing that the hype took control away from local people, this book says that issues of forest control and sustainable forest use have to be seen in the context of concerns about social and economic development, regional autonomy and the futures of the local people.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most visible and controversial cultural critics. Her reputation was first made by her translation and preface to Jacques Derrida's ground-breaking work, "Of Grammatology". The interviews collected here reflect the international character of her intellectual engagement with various ideas and politics.

Marlowe, searching for his dead partner's killers, is lured into a web of murder, deceit, lust, despair, and, of course, a frantic quest for the Holy Grail. Doped, pistol-whipped, framed by the cops, and going nowhere fast, Marlowe enters a nightmare world where Robert Frost, Norman Mailer, and Edmund Wilson drink in the gloom of a London pub.

Since the publication of his first book in 1953, the author has become one of the most important French poets of the postwar years. This English translation of his celebrated work "L'Arriere-Pays", takes us to the heart of his creative process and to the very core of his poetic spirit.

Masterfully translated by Laurent Milesi, this book preserves the sonic complexities and intricate wordplay at the core of author's writing, and reveals the struggles, ideas, and intents at the center of her work.

Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields. In March 2009, Agamben was invited to speak in Paris' Notre-Dame Cathedral in the presence of the bishop of Paris and a number of other high-ranking church officials. This title presents this speech.

The inner workings of the European Union are as much a mystery to those living within its confines as they are to those of us who reside elsewhere. This title intends to make sense of the EU's political and economic roles and examine the EU's origins and inherent contradictions.

Almost twenty years after the fall of the wall, the Kreuzberg district of Berlin has become unbearably trendy and deeply unappealing to Alina and Wolf. They move to Muggelsee, at the city's bucolic border. But there, Wolf finds himself increasingly strained by the triviality of his daily routine with Alina.

The eponymous Old Testament hero Noah fuels his local economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no one around him seriously believes in the coming flood, everyone is more than willing to do business with him: The people of Mesopotamia had never had it so good.