The definitive biography of an Indian prince and English cricketer Ranji is enshrined in popular perception as the sporting icon who electrified Victorian England and scored over 25,000 runs without ever ???playing a Christian stroke'. But there was a lot more to the ???mysterious prince of Hindoo' and much of it doesn't quite fit with the extant s... Published by: Penguin India
Author(s) Mario Rodrigues |
Sports Studies in India, as a part of The Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society, emerges from a sociological curiosity about sporting experience in terms of participation in sports as well as its theorization in scholarship. This volume aims to forge interest in the field of sports studies and offers a platform for a wide range of studies on... Published by: Oxford University Press
Author(s) Edited by Meena Gopal and Padma Prakash |
Growing up a Guyanese Indian immigrant in Central Florida, Rajiv Mohabir is fascinated by his family’s abandoned Hindu history and the legacy of his ancestors, who were indentured laborers on British sugarcane plantations. In Toronto he sits at the feet of Aji, his grandmother, listening to her stories and songs in her Caribbean Bhojpuri. By now Aj... Published by: Restless Books, New York, USA
Author(s) Rajiv Mohabir |
Originally published in 1943, Civilization and Disease was based on a series of lectures that the medical historian Henry E. Sigerist delivered at Cornell University in 1940. Now back in print, the book is a wide-ranging account of the importance of social factors on health and illness and the impact that disease has had on societies throughout hum... Published by: Cornell University Press
Author(s) Henry E. Sigerist |
How do journalists around the world view their roles and responsibilities in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and th... Published by: Columbia University Press
Author(s) Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Jyotika Ramaprasad, and Arnold S. de Beer (Editors) |
Anandita Pan argues that dalit women are an intersectional category, simultaneously affected by caste and gender. The use of intersectionality permits observation of the ways in which different forms of discrimination combine and overlap, challenging the apparent homogeneity of the categories ‘woman’ and ‘dalit’ as seen by mainstream Indian Feminis... Published by: SAGE Stree
Author(s) Anandita Pan |
2018. 347 pp. $31.99, paper, ISBN 978-1-316-62724-2. Published by: Cambridge University Press
Author(s) Bérénice Guyot-Réchard |
The is in honour of Amit Sengupta. It traces how his work and his personal and political development as an activist were integral to the history of the health movement. The sections here trace this development, from ‘medicines for all’ to ‘health for all’. Published by: LeftWord
Author(s) Edited by Prabir Purkayastha, Indranil, Richa Chintan |
The Birmingham Black Barons was a nationally known team in baseball's Negro leagues from 1920-1962. Among its storied players were Baseball Hall of Famers Satchel Paige, Willie Mays, and Mule Suttles. The Black Barons played in the final Negro Leagues World Series in 1948 and were a major drawing card when barnstorming throughout the United States... Published by: McFarland & Co Ltd
Author(s) William J Plott |
What happens when a distant colonial power tries to tame an unfamiliar terrain in the world's largest tidal delta? This history of dramatic ecological changes in the Bengal Delta from 1760 to 1920 involves land, water and humans, tracing the stories and struggles that link them together. The story of ecological change is narrated alongside emergent... Published by: Cambridge University Press
Author(s) Debjani Bhattacharyya |