Author : Ā. Irā Vēṅkaṭācalapati
Publisher : Yoda Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 26,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9788190227278
Suitable for both the academician as well as the layman, this book draws from sources as varied as fiction, essays, reviews, and more.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency
Publisher :
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 23,91 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Coffee industry
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Author : Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 2018-07-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0429850905
This volume maps the breadth and domain of genre literature in India across seven languages (Tamil, Urdu, Bangla, Hindi, Odia, Marathi and English) and nine genres for the first time. Over the last few decades, detective/crime fiction and especially science fiction/fantasy have slowly made their way into university curricula and consideration by literary critics in India and the West. However, there has been no substantial study of genre fiction in the Indian languages, least of all from a comparative perspective. This volume, with contributions from leading national and international scholars, addresses this lacuna in critical scholarship and provides an overview of diverse genre fictions. Using methods from literary analysis, book history and Indian aesthetic theories, the volume throws light on the variety of contexts in which genre literature is read, activated and used, from political debates surrounding national and regional identities to caste and class conflicts. It shows that Indian genre fiction (including pulp fiction, comics and graphic novels) transmutes across languages, time periods, in translation and through publication processes. While the book focuses on contemporary postcolonial genre literature production, it also draws connections to individual, centuries-long literary traditions of genre literature in the Indian subcontinent. Further, it traces contested hierarchies within these languages as well as current trends in genre fiction criticism. Lucid and comprehensive, this book will be of great interest to academics, students, practitioners, literary critics and historians in the fields of postcolonialism, genre studies, global genre fiction, media and popular culture, South Asian literature, Indian literature, detective fiction, science fiction, romance, crime fiction, horror, mythology, graphic novels, comparative literature and South Asian studies. It will also appeal to the informed general reader.
Author : Utsa Ray
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1316222675
This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali cuisine cannot be labeled as indigenist although it never became widely commercialized. The point was to cosmopolitanize the domestic and yet keep its tag of 'Bengaliness'. The resultant cuisine was hybrid, in many senses like its makers.
Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
Page : 2148 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 1955
Category :
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Author : Sarah Hodges
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9780754638094
This book outlines both the overlapping stories of the international birth control movement in south India, one of the strong-holds of Indian birth control advocacy, as well as the south Indian indigenization of international birth control. More than simply a supplementary narrative or case study, it argues that India's engagement with birth control remade the international scene just as India was refashioned by its engagement with international birth control.
Author : Erika Rappaport
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 2017-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1400884853
How the global tea industry influenced the international economy and the rise of mass consumerism Tea has been one of the most popular commodities in the world. Over centuries, profits from its growth and sales funded wars and fueled colonization, and its cultivation brought about massive changes—in land use, labor systems, market practices, and social hierarchies—the effects of which are with us even today. A Thirst for Empire takes a vast and in depth historical look at how men and women—through the tea industry in Europe, Asia, North America, and Africa—transformed global tastes and habits and in the process created our modern consumer society. As Erika Rappaport shows, between the seventeenth and twentieth centuries the boundaries of the tea industry and the British Empire overlapped but were never identical, and she highlights the economic, political, and cultural forces that enabled the British Empire to dominate—but never entirely control—the worldwide production, trade, and consumption of tea. Rappaport delves into how Europeans adopted, appropriated, and altered Chinese tea culture to build a widespread demand for tea in Britain and other global markets and a plantation-based economy in South Asia and Africa. Tea was among the earliest colonial industries in which merchants, planters, promoters, and retailers used imperial resources to pay for global advertising and political lobbying. The commercial model that tea inspired still exists and is vital for understanding how politics and publicity influence the international economy. An expansive and original global history of imperial tea, A Thirst for Empire demonstrates the ways that this fluid and powerful enterprise helped shape the contemporary world.
Author : Maya- Rose Nash
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2010-08
Category :
ISBN : 1452022364
Tea-ology- A Guide To All Things Tea! by Maya-Rose Nash From its early beginnings, to how Tea found its way into our cups and hearts, Tea-Ology is filled with historic and interesting facts about Tea. The author has blended her love of the Victorian Era and family traditions, with all things tea, for the reader to not only learn about the world's second most popular beverage, but to discover some useful and practical infomation. Recipes, hosting a tea party and a section devoted to the art of tea leaf reading, including a tutorial on becoming an expert in the age old form of divination. So brew a pot of tea and pick up a copy and get ready to discover Tea-Ology!
Author : Harald Fischer-Tiné
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 15,39 MB
Release : 2021-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429774699
The Routledge Handbook of the History of Colonialism in South Asia provides a comprehensive overview of the historiographical specialisation and sophistication of the history of colonialism in South Asia. It explores the classic works of earlier generations of historians and offers an introduction to the rapid and multifaceted development of historical research on colonial South Asia since the 1990s. Covering economic history, political history, and social history and offering insights from other disciplines and ‘turns’ within the mainstream of history, the handbook is structured in six parts: Overarching Themes and Debates The World of Economy and Labour Creating and Keeping Order: Science, Race, Religion, Law, and Education Environment and Space Culture, Media, and the Everyday Colonial South Asia in the World The editors have assembled a group of leading international scholars of South Asian history and related disciplines to introduce a broad readership into the respective subfields and research topics. Designed to serve as a comprehensive and nuanced yet readable introduction to the vast field of the history of colonialism in the Indian subcontinent, the handbook will be of interest to researchers and students in the fields of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and global and world history.
Author : Anne Gerritsen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 24,1 MB
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1350195901
Introducing materiality into the study of the history of medicine, this volume hones in on communities across the Indian Ocean World and explores how they understood and engaged with health and medical commodities. Opening up spatial dimensions and challenging existing approaches to knowledge, power and the market, it defines 'therapeutic commodity' and explores how different materials were understood and engaged with in various settings and for a number of purposes. Offering new spatial realms within which the circulation of commodities created new regimes of meaning, Histories of Health and Materiality in the Indian Ocean World demonstrates how medicinal substances have had immediate and far-reaching economic and political consequences in various capacities. From midwifery and umbilical cords, to the social spaces of soap, perfumes in early modern India and remedies for leprosy, this volume considers a vast range of material culture in medicinal settings to better understand the history of medicine and its role in global connections since the early 17th century.
