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1 Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies Self-efficacy in Changing Societies analyzes the diverse ways in which beliefs of personal efficacy operate within a network of sociocultural influences to shape life paths. The chapters, by internationally known experts, cover such concepts as infancy and personal agency, competency through the life span, the role of family, and cross-cultural factors.The volume addresses important Author: Albert Bandura Ed. issues of human adaptation and change that will be of considerable interest to people in the fields of developmental psychology, Publisher: Cambridge University Press education, health and sociology.
Year: 1997 Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Self-Efficacy-Changing-Societies-Bandura/dp/0521586968
Call Number: 302.5 BAN 17521
Recommended by: Dr.Shalini Dixit
2 The Global Contemporary and the Rise Mapping the new geography of the visual arts, from the explosion of biennials to the emerging art markets in Asia and the Middle East. of New Art Worlds The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, Author: Hans Belting, Andrea interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visual arts have Buddensieg and Peter Weibel, Eds become globalized as surely as the world economy has. This book offers a new map of contemporary art's new worlds. Publisher: MIT Press Year: 2013 The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds documents the globalization of the visual arts and the rise of the contemporary over the last twenty years. Lavishly illustrated, with color throughout, it tracks developments ranging from exhibition histories and the rise of new art spaces to art's branding in such emerging markets as Hong Kong and the Gulf States. Essays treat Call Number: 709.04 such subjects as curating after the global turn; art and the migration of pictures; the end of the canon; and new strategies of BEL representation. 17522 Official URL: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/global-contemporary-and-rise-new-art-worlds
Recommended by: Miss. Sumithra Sunder
The 2014 Lok Sabha elections saw a tectonic shift in public sentiment. The people of India seemed to have embraced the winds of 3 Shades of Truth: A Journey Derailed change and the new language of governance in anticipation of ‗Achhe Din‘.
Author: Kapil Sibal But as the NDA Government under the leadership of Narendra Modi seeks a ‗Congress Mukt Bharat‘ and attempts to tackle all the Publisher: Rupa Publications issues for which it blamed previous governments, we must pause and reflect on the journey thus far; what lies ahead and on the gap between the promised change and delivery on the ground. Year: 2018 In Shades of Truth, Kapil Sibal examines the many actions of the Modi Government since 2014 and lays bare how this government Call Number: 320.540954 revels in the past without seeking to grapple with the problems of the present and prepare for future challenges. Apart from his SIB reflections on diverse topics and contemporary concerns, Sibal also reflects on the policy decisions of the UPA government in sectors as diverse as telecom, education, science and technology, and law. 17523 Official URL: https://rupapublications.co.in/books/shades-of-truth-a-journey-derailed/ Recommended by: Dr. Shailesh Nayak
Since the Great Financial Crisis swept across the world in 2008, there have been few certainties regarding the trajectory of global 4 A World Turned Upside Down 2019: capitalism, let alone the politics taking hold in individual states. This has now given way to palpable confusion regarding what sense Socialist Register to make of this world in a political conjuncture marked by Donald Trump's `Make America Great Again' presidency of the United States, on the one hand, and, on the other, Xi Jinping's ambitious agenda in consolidating his position as `core leader' at the top of the Author: Leo Panitch and Gregory Chinese state. * Is a major redrawing of the map of global capitalism underway? Is an unwinding of globalization in train, or will it continue, but with closure to the mobility of labour? * Is there a legitimacy crisis for neoliberalism even while neoliberal practices Albo, Eds continue to form state policy? * Are we witnessing an authoritarian mutation of liberal democracy in the 21st century? * Should the Publisher: The Merlin Press strategic issues today be posed in terms of `socialism versus barbarism redux'? Year: 2018 Related URL: https://www.amazon.in/World-Turned-Upside-Down-2019/dp/0850367360 Call Number: 335 PAN 17524
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
5 This volume examines the relationship between language and power across cultural boundaries. It evaluates the vital role of Culture, Language and Identity: translation in redefining culture and ethnic identity. During the first phase of colonialism, mid-18th to late-19th century, the English- English–Tamil In Colonial India, 1750 speaking missionaries and East India Company functionaries in South India were impelled to master Tamil, the local language, in To 1900 order to transact their business. Tamil also comprised ancient classical literary works, especially ethical and moral literature, which were found especially suited to the preferences of Christian missionaries.
Author: C. T. Indra and R. This interface between English and Tamil acted as a conduit for cultural transmission among different groups. The essays in this Rajagopalan, Eds volume are on chosen areas of translation activities and explore cultural, religious, linguistic and literary transactions. Publisher: Routledge Year: 2018 This volume and its companion (which looks at the period between 1900 CE to the present) cover the late colonial and postcolonial era and will be of interest to students, scholars and researchers of translation studies, literature, linguistics, sociology and social
anthropology, South Asian studies, colonial and postcolonial studies, literary and critical theory as well as culture studies.
Call Number: 894.81109 Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Culture-Language-and-Identity-EnglishTamil-In-Colonial-India-1750/Indra- IND Rajagopalan/p/book/9781138282339 17525
Recommended by: Prof. Sundar Sarukkai
6 The Soul of India
Author: Bipin Chandra Pal Publisher: LG Publishers Year: 2017
Call Number: 954 PAL 17526
Recommended by: Prof. Sundar Sarukkai
Genetics, Ethics and Education Advances in human genetics and genomics are beginning to move outside the traditional realm of medicine and into the classroom. 7 How will educational officials react when asked to incorporate personalized genomic information into the educational program? This volume bridges the divide between science, education and ethics around the emergent integration of genomics and education. By Author: Susan Bouregy pairing comprehensive analysis of the issues with primers on the underlying science, the authors put all relevant parties on a level Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press field to facilitate thorough consideration and educated discussion regarding how to move forward in this new era, as well as how best to support the future of education and the future of all students. The volume is unique in bringing together not only scholarly experts Year: 2017 but also parents and laypersons. In doing so, it gives voice and understanding to a broad spectrum of disciplines that have a stake in the future of education. Call Number: 576.5071 BOU Related URL: https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Genetics_Ethics_and_Education.html?id=u-w0DwAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y 17527
Recommended by: Prof. Anitha B. K.
The Hungry Mind: The Origins of Despite American education‘s recent mania for standardized tests, testing misses what really matters about learning: the desire to 8 learn in the first place. Curiosity is vital, but it remains a surprisingly understudied characteristic. The Hungry Mind is a deeply Curiosity in Childhood researched, highly readable exploration of what curiosity is, how it can be measured, how it develops in childhood, and how it can be fostered in school.
Author: Susan Engel Children naturally possess an active interest in knowing more about the world around them. But what begins as a robust trait becomes more fragile over time, and is shaped by experiences with parents, teachers, peers, and the learning environment. Susan Publisher: Harvard Uni Press Engel highlights the centrality of language and question-asking as crucial tools for expressing curiosity. She also uncovers Year: 2015 overlooked forms of curiosity, such as gossip—an important way children satisfy their interest in other people. Although curiosity leads to knowledge, it can stir up trouble, and schools too often have an incentive to squelch it in favor of compliance and discipline. Call Number: 155.4133 Balanced against the interventions of hands-on instructors and hovering parents, Engel stresses the importance of time spent alone, ENG which gives children a chance to tinker, collect, read about the things that interest them, and explore their own thoughts. In addition 17528 to providing a theoretical framework for the psychology of curiosity, The Hungry Mind offers educators practical ways to put curiosity at the center of the classroom and encourage children‘s natural eagerness to learn. Recommended by: Prof. Anitha B. K. Official URL: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674736757
9 Eknath Awad was a rare Dalit Mang activist from the Marathwada region of Maharastra, who fought for the rights of all Strike a Blow to Change the World underprivileged communities, irrespective of their caste or religion. In his compelling autobiography, Awad describes his rage against the humiliation of the Mangs by the upper castes; and his struggle to overcome caste prejudices as well as extreme poverty to Author: Eknath Awad get an education. He revisits his heady days of activism: rejecting caste-based labour and religious practices by cutting the Potraj‘s Publisher: Spiking Tiger dreadlocks; joining the Dalit Panthers; being at the forefront of the Land Rights Movement; battling to rename Marathwada University after Dr Ambedkar; and working with an NGO in Thane that helped free Adivasis from bonded labour. He writes about Year: 2018 his decision to return to Marathwada, where he continued to fight against caste-based discrimination until his death. Awad doesn‘t shy away from admitting his shortcomings, such as his tendency to resort to violence to settle disputes. He also recounts the casteism Call Number: 923.254 he faced from other Mangs, and his pain and disillusionment after some of them attempted to kill him. AWA Originally published in Marathi as Jag Badal Ghaluni Ghaav, Jerry Pinto‘s remarkable translation makes this inspiring book available in English for the first time. 17529 Official URL: https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/books/strike-a-blow-to-change-the-world/ Recommended by: Prof. Anitha B. K.
10 World Development Report 2018 The World Development Report 2018 (WDR 2018)—LEARNING to Realize Education‘s Promise—is the first ever devoted entirely to education. And the timing is excellent: education has long been critical to human welfare, but it is even more so in a time of rapid economic and social change. The best way to equip children and youth for the future is to place their learning at the center. The 2018 Author: World Bank WDR explores four main themes: 1) education‘s promise; 2) the need to shine a light on learning; 3) how to make schools work for Publisher: World Bank learners; and 4) how to make systems work for learning.
Year: 2018 Official URL: http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/wdr2018
Call Number: 338.9 BAN 17530
Recommended by: Prof. Anitha B. K.
11 Gandhi Reconsidered
Author: Publisher: SAHMAT Year: 2018
Call Number: 923.254 GAN 17531
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
12 India‘s Railway Man: A Biography of Sreedharan‘s expertise and foresight—on behalf of those not as richly blessed as he was—ensured that political will was converted into a multipurpose railway project. The [Chithoni railway link] bridge was completed eleven weeks ahead of schedule and proved to E. Sreedharan be helpful to one and all. Two key railway projects changed the way India travels by train—the 760-km stretch of Konkan Railway and the Delhi Metro. Both Author: Rajendra B. Aklekar the projects were up and running in seven years flat and the man in charge was Dr Elattuvalapil Sreedharan, popularly known as the Railway Man. He has been hailed as the messiah of new-age infrastructure projects and his success stories have become railway Publisher: Rupa Publications engineering benchmark. Year: 2017 Respected, loved and equally hated, this book covers the amazing story of one man—his perseverance, beliefs and public and private battles. India‘s Railway Man: A Biography of E. Sreedharan is a tribute to this extraordinary man. Call Number: 926.251 Related URL: https://www.amazon.in/Indias-Railway-Man-Biography-Sreedharan/dp/8129145219 AKL 17532
Recommended by: Prof. V S Ramamurthy
13 Bringing together M.N. Srinivas's best writings on subjects ranging from village studies, caste and the social structure, gender, The Oxford India Srinivas religion, and cultural and social change in India, The Oxford India Srinivas re-introduces a new generation of readers to the one of the pioneers of sociology and social anthropology in India. This compilation of essays examines many diverse aspects of Indian Author: Srinivas, Ramachandra Guha, society and culture, both traditional as well as contemporary. and Shah Part I, on village studies, contains essays on Srinivas's studies in the village of Rampura, looking at various aspects of life in an Indian village, including the domination of caste in social life and village hierarchy. Part II focuses on caste and social structure in Publisher: Oxford Uni Press India, discussing caste in India, not just its evolution over time but also its place in modern times. Parts III and IV contain essays on Year: 2009 gender and religion, while Part V examines the phenomena of cultural and social change in India, including a discussion on nation- building, science, technology and development as well as changing values and institutions in modern India. Parts VI and VII examine Call Number: 301.0954 the development and scope of sociology and social anthropology in India, including a discussion on the importance of method in these disciplines. Part VIII is a unique section which includes essays of an autobiographical nature.
SRI The new Introduction by Ramachandra Guha assesses Srinivas's contributions to both Indian academic as well as his position as one of the heavyweights of the disciplines he was associated with. The Foreword by A.M. Shah highlights the importance of Srinivas's 17533 work for both academia and in understanding the dynamics of social reality in India. This edition will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology and social anthropology, as well as the informed general reader interested in Indian society. Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya Official URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-india-srinivas-9780198060345?lang=en&cc=nz#
14 The Aadhaar Effect: Why the World's Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency — the idea of Aadhaar has bitterly polarized India since its launch eight years ago. No other project has captured the imagination of the people-or inspired such awe and anxiety- Largest Identity Project Matters in recent memory.
Author: Charles Assisi and N.S. Aadhaar began life with a singular mandate: offer an identity to those Indian residents who didn't have any. Along the way, it evolved into the welfare state's flagship technology and altered forever how government, business, and society interact. Ramnath Publisher: Oxford Uni Press The Aadhaar Effect is the story of the visionaries-bureaucrats, technologists, activists-who created or challenged India's biggest Year: 2018 juggernaut. It is equally the story of humans conflicted about complex choices that may make the world a better place.
Award-winning journalists N.S. Ramnath and Charles Assisi dive deep into the 12-digit number that has touched 1.2 billion lives and Call Number: 323.440954 counting-and in the bargain, made the world sit up and take note of India's ambition. ASS 17534 Official URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-aadhaar-effect-9780199487615?cc=nz&lang=en&#
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of 15 Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Settled Strangers: Asian Business Indian history nor that of East African history writing. This is surprising because South Asians in East Africa outnumbered the Elites in East Africa (1800-2000) Europeans ten-to-one. Moreover, their overall economic contribution and political significance may be more important than the history of the colonisers. Author: Gijsbert Oonk This book is an attempt to provide some balance in the form of a history of the South Asians in East Africa through the lens of the actors themselves. It studies the kind of social, economic and political adjustments the emigrant Gujaratis had to make in the course Publisher: Sage of this migration. By using insights from the social sciences, including concepts like cultural capital, family firm, transnationality, Year: 2013 middleman minorities and cultural change, this book aims to achieve a broader understanding of communities that do not belong to nations, yet are part of national states. Call Number: 305.89506 Official URL: https://in.sagepub.com/en-in/sas/settled-strangers/book241470 OON 17535
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
16 Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately Environmental Politics connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, Author: Mukul Sharma the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter's standpoint.
Publisher: Oxford Uni Press Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Year: 2017 Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge Call Number: 304.20954 to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.
SHA Official URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/caste-and-nature-9780199477562?cc=nz&lang=en&# 17536
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
17 The Cow in the Elevator: An In The Cow in the Elevator Tulasi Srinivas explores a wonderful world where deities jump fences and priests ride in helicopters to present a joyful, imaginative, yet critical reading of modern religious life. Drawing on nearly two decades of fieldwork with priests, Anthropology of Wonder residents, and devotees, and her own experience of living in the high-tech city of Bangalore, Srinivas finds moments where ritual enmeshes with global modernity to create wonder—a feeling of amazement at being overcome by the unexpected and sublime. Author: Tulasi Srinivas Offering a nuanced account of how the ruptures of modernity can be made normal, enrapturing, and even comical in a city swept up in globalization‘s tumult, Srinivas brings the visceral richness of wonder—apparent in creative ritual in and around Hindu temples— Publisher: Oxford Uni Press into the anthropological gaze. Broaching provocative philosophical themes like desire, complicity, loss, time, money, technology, Year: 2018 and the imagination, Srinivas pursues an interrogation of wonder and the adventure of writing true to its experience. The Cow in the Elevator rethinks the study of ritual while reshaping our appreciation of wonder‘s transformative potential for scholarship and for Call Number: 294.54 life.
SRI Official URL: https://india.oup.com/product/the-cow-in-the-elevator-9780199487790? 17537
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
18 Future Politics confronts one of the most important questions of our time: how will digital technology transform politics and society? Future Politics: Living Together in a The great political debate of the last century was about how much of our collective life should be determined by the state and what World Transformed by Tech should be left to the market and civil society. In the future, the question will be how far our lives should be directed and controlled by powerful digital systems - and on what terms? Author: Jamie Susskind Jamie Susskind argues that rapid and relentless innovation in a range of technologies - from artificial intelligence to virtual reality - Publisher: Oxford Uni Press will transform the way we live together. Calling for a fundamental change in the way we think about politics, he describes a world in Year: 2018 which certain technologies and platforms, and those who control them, come to hold great power over us. Some will gather data about our lives, causing us to avoid conduct perceived as shameful, sinful, or wrong. Others will filter our perception of the world, Call Number: 303.483 choosing what we know, shaping what we think, affecting how we feel, and guiding how we act. Still others will force us to behave certain ways, like self-driving cars that refuse to drive over the speed limit.
SUS Those who control these technologies - usually big tech firms and the state - will increasingly control us. They will set the limits of 17538 our liberty, decreeing what we may do and what is forbidden. Their algorithms will resolve vital questions of social justice, allocating social goods and sorting us into hierarchies of status and esteem. They will decide the future of democracy, causing it to flourish or Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya decay.
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19 The Oxford Handbook of Public The field of cultural heritage is no longer solely dependent on the expertise of art and architectural historians, archaeologists, conservators, curators, and site and museum administrators. It has dramatically expanded across disciplinary boundaries and social Heritage Theory and Practice contexts, with even the basic definition of what constitutes cultural heritage being widened far beyond the traditional categories of architecture, artifacts, archives, and art. Heritage now includes vernacular architecture, intangible cultural practices, knowledge, and Author: Angela M. Labrador and Neil language, performances and rituals, as well as cultural landscapes. Heritage has also become increasingly entangled with the broader social, political, and economic contexts in which heritage is created, managed, transmitted, protected, or even destroyed. Heritage Asher Silberman, Eds protection now encompasses a growing set of methodological approaches whose objectives are not necessarily focused upon the Publisher: Oxford Uni Press maintenance of material fabric, which has traditionally been cultural heritage's primary concern. The Oxford Handbook of Public Year: 2018 Heritage Theory and Practice charts some of the major sites of convergence between the humanities and the social sciences, where new disciplinary perspectives are being brought to bear on heritage. These convergences have the potential to provide the interdisciplinary expertise needed not only to critique but also to achieve the intertwined intellectual, political, and socioeconomic Call Number: 363.69 goals of cultural heritage in the twenty-first century. This volume highlights the potential contributions of development studies, LAB political science, anthropology, management studies, human geography, ecology, psychology, sociology, cognitive studies, and 17539 education to heritage studies.
Official URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-public-heritage-theory-and-practice- Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya 9780190676315?cc=nz&lang=en&#
20 A Corner of a Foreign Field: The A Corner of a Foreign Field seamlessly interweaves biography with history, the lives of famous or forgotten cricketers with wider processes of social change. C. K. Nayudu and Sachin Tendulkar naturally figure in this book but so, too, in unexpected ways, do B. Indian History of a British Sport R. Ambedkar, Mahatma Gandhi and M. A. Jinnah. The Indian careers of those great British cricketers, Lord Harris and D. R. Jardine, provide a window into the operations of Empire. The remarkable life of India‘s first great slow bowler, Palwankar Baloo, provides an Author: Ramachandra Guha arresting new perspective on the struggle against caste discrimination. Later chapters explore the competition between Hindu and Muslim cricketers in colonial India and the destructive passions now provoked when India plays Pakistan. Publisher: Penguin Random House For this new edition, Ramachandra Guha has added a fresh introduction as well as a long new chapter, bringing the story up to date to India cover, among other things, the advent of the Indian Premier League and the Indian team‘s victory in the World Cup of 2011, these Year: 2014 linked to social and economic transformations in contemporary India. Call Number: 796.3580954 A pioneering work, essential for anyone interested in either of those vast themes, cricket and India, a Corner of a Foreign Field is also a beautifully written meditation on the ramifications of sport in society at large. GUH 17540 Related URL: https://www.amazon.in/Corner-Foreign-Field-History-British/dp/0143427687
Recommended by: Prof. Sundar Sarukkai
NEW ARRIVALS 15 April 2019
1 Gandhi: The Years That Changed the The second and concluding volume of the magisterial biography that began with the acclaimed, Gandhi Before India: the definitive portrait of the life and work of one of the most abidingly influential–and controversial–men in world history. World, 1914-1948 This volume opens with Mohandas Gandhi‘s arrival in Bombay in January 1915 and takes us through his epic struggles over the next Author: Ramachandra Guha three decades: to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India‘s Hindu and Muslim populations, to end the pernicious Hindu practice of untouchability, and to develop India‘s economic and moral self-reliance. We see how in each of Publisher: Penguin Random House these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence–strikes, marches, fasts–that successfully challenged British authority, India religious orthodoxy, social customs, and would influence non-violent, revolutionary movements throughout the world. In Year: 2018 reconstructing Gandhi‘s life and work, Ramachandra Guha has drawn on sixty different archival collections, the most significant among them, a previously unavailable collection of papers belonging to Gandhi himself. Using this wealth of material, Guha creates a portrait of Gandhi and of those closest to him–family, friends, political and social leaders–that illuminates the complexity inside his Call Number: 923.254 thinking, his motives, his actions and their outcomes as he engaged with every important aspect of social and public life in the India GUH of his time. 17541 Official URL: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/196463/gandhi-the-years-that-changed-the-world-1914-1948-by- ramachandra-guha/9780385532310/
Recommended by: Prof. Sundar Sarukkai
2 The Rise and Fall of the Emerald In this seminal book about the Indian tiger, Raghu Chundawat, a renowned conservation biologist, shares his findings from the only long-term ecological research project on tigers undertaken in India till date. Tigers Chundawat closely studied the Panna tigers and their prey, from 1996 to 2006—meticulously recording their space use, movements, feeding and reproductive behaviours—in the dry tropical forests of Madhya Pradesh. With support from the national park Author: Raghu Chundawat management, he oversaw a spectacular revival of Panna‘s tiger population. However, by 2002-03, the fortunes of Panna‘s tigers, and Chundawat‘s research, nosedived when the park management changed. Publisher: Spiking Tiger Monitoring privileges and access to the park were curtailed, and subsequently, poaching and poisoning of tigers spiked. When Year: 2018 Chundawat blew the whistle on the alarming decline, he faced immense backlash from the state wildlife authorities. Despite the systemic opposition, Chundawat continued the fight to save Panna‘s tigers, collecting data and petitioning the government to Call Number: 333.9597560954 intervene. In this immensely informative work, Chundawat presents not just his research, but also an insider‘s account of the politics and CHU administrative apathy plaguing Indian wildlife conservation. He discusses the larger threats to Indian wildlife—and the possible 17542 solutions. Filled with stunning photographs, The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers is a must-read for all wildlife enthusiasts and researchers across the world.
Official URL: https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-emerald-tigers/ Recommended by: Prof. Anindya Sinha
3 Five-year-old Visier Meyasetsu Sanyü and his fellow villagers from Khonoma fled for their lives from the Indian Army into the A Naga Odyssey jungles of Nagaland in 1956. He and his family survived privations and starvation there for over two years, though many others did not. Visier emerged from the jungle into a turbulent new Nagaland, altered by civil war and oppression. Violence and fear followed Author: Richard Broome & Visier him through his student days in a military school in Bhubaneshwar, where he and other Naga boys were beaten and taken into Meyasetsu SanyU custody, and his undergraduate years in Darjeeling, adjacent to the theatre of the 1971 war over Bangladesh. When even his dreams of a peaceful life in the University of Nagaland were threatened by fratricide, he finally sought refuge in Australia. During his two Publisher: Spiking Tiger decades there, he faced the loss of home and tradition, but also found healing in his work with refugees—and a second home. Year: 2018 This powerful story tracks Visier‘s fascinating journey: from a barefoot village schoolboy to a professor, from indigenous religion to Christianity, and from small-town life to appearances before the United Nations. In this fascinating book, his kaleidoscopic sixty- Call Number: 325.210994 year-long odyssey to find peace, tranquillity, and forgiveness for others is vividly told against the rich tapestry of the Naga quest to be free. BRO 17543 Official URL: https://www.speakingtigerbooks.com/books/a-naga-odyssey/
Recommended by: Dr. Jeebanlata Salam
4 The Elementary Education System in Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Elementary-Education-System-in-India-Exploring-Institutional-Structures/Sharma- India: Exploring Institutional Ramachandran/p/book/9780203151532 Structures, Processes and Dynamics
Author: Rashmi Sharma & Vimala Ramachandran Publisher: Routledge Year: 2018
Call Number: 372.954 SHA 17544
Recommended by: Prof. Malavika Kapur
5 Indian Women-Revisited
Author: Devaki Jain Publisher: Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Year: 2014
Call Number: 305.420954 JAI 17545
Recommended by: Prof. Malavika Kapur
6 War, Aggression and Self-Defence Official URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/war-aggression-and-selfdefence/267F637971002C839A8AB472DD0CDB8B
Author: Yoram Dinstein Publisher: Cambridge Uni Press Year: 2017
Call Number: 341.6 DIN 17546
Recommended by: Dr. Mayilvaganan M
7 Complementary, Alternative, and Integrative Health: A Multicultural Perspective provides a critical analysis of non-allopathic Complementary, Alternative, and healing practices, including their uses, limitations, and scientific basis. The evidence-based discussion explores complementary, Integrative Health: A Multicultural alternative, and integrative health (CAIH) across various cultural and ethnic groups both in the U.S. and internationally, to give you a Perspective greater understanding of the different modalities—including a literature-backed examination of proven methods and questionable practices within a cross-cultural framework. Each chapter highlights the scientific analysis of the practices relevant to each group, and guides you toward independent analysis of the risks and benefits of the practices discussed. Emphasizing the student as a future Author: Helda Pinzon-Perez & Miguel health professional, this book includes case studies, examples, questions, and discussion problems that underscore the role of health A.P educators in educating consumers about CAIH practices. Publisher: Jossey-Bass Year: 2016 Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Complementary-Alternative-Integrative-Health-Multicultural-ebook/dp/B01H9EES66
Call Number: 610 PIN 17547
Recommended by: Prof. Sangeetha Menon
8 In The Story of N, Hugh S. Gorman analyzes the notion of sustainability from a fresh perspective—the integration of human The Story of N: A Social History of the activities with the biogeochemical cycling of nitrogen—and provides a supportive alternative to studying sustainability through the Nitrogen Cycle and the Challenge of lens of climate change and the cycling of carbon. It is the first book to examine the social processes by which industrial societies Sustainability learned to bypass a fundamental ecological limit and, later, began addressing the resulting concerns by establishing limits of their own
Author: Hugh S. Gorman The book is organized into three parts. Part I, ―The Knowledge of Nature,‖ explores the emergence of the nitrogen cycle Publisher: Rutgers University Press before humans arrived on the scene and the changes that occurred as stationary agricultural societies took root. Part II, ―Learning to Year: 2013 Bypass an Ecological Limit,‖ examines the role of science and market capitalism in accelerating the pace of innovation, eventually allowing humans to bypass the activity of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. Part III, ―Learning to Establish Human-Defined Limits,‖ covers the twentieth-century response to the nitrogen-related concerns that emerged as more nitrogenous compounds flowed into the Call Number: 547.64 environment. A concluding chapter, ―The Challenge of Sustainability,‖ places the entire story in the context of constructing an GOR ecological economy in which innovations that contribute to sustainable practices are rewarded. 17548 Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Story-Nitrogen-Challenge-Sustainability-Technology/dp/0813554381
Recommended by: Miss. Neesha Dutt
9 The Beautiful Country and the Middle From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to China, to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For the Present more than two centuries, American and Chinese statesmen, merchants, missionaries, and adventurers, men and women, have profoundly influenced the fate of these nations. While we tend to think of America's ties with China as starting in 1972 with the visit of President Richard Nixon to China, the patterns―rapturous enchantment followed by angry disillusionment―were set in motion Author: John Pomfret hundreds of years earlier. Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. Year: 2016 Drawing on personal letters, diaries, memoirs, government documents, and contemporary news reports, John Pomfret reconstructs the surprising, tragic, and marvelous ways Americans and Chinese have engaged with one another through the centuries. A fascinating and thrilling account, The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom is also an indispensable book for understanding the Call Number: 327.73051 most important―and often the most perplexing―relationship between any two countries in the world. POR 17549 Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Country-Middle-Kingdom-America/dp/0805092501
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10 Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The Politics of Museum Display contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers Author: Ivan Karp
Publisher: Smithsonian Books Related URL: https://www.amazon.in/Exhibiting-Cultures-Poetics-Politics- Year: 1991 Display/dp/1560980214/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
Call Number: 069.5 KAR 17550 Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
11 Museums and Communities: The Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history Politics of Public Culture of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.
Author: Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Museums-Communities-Politics-Public-Culture/dp/156098189X Kreamer & Steven Levine Eds. Publisher: Smithsonian Books Year: 1992
Call Number: 069.5 KAR 17551
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12 The Age of Aspiration: Power, Wealth, Nearly four decades ago, Dilip Hiro‘s Inside India Today, banned by Indira Gandhi‘s government, was acclaimed by The Guardian as simply ―the best book on India.‖ Now Hiro returns to his native country to chronicle the impact of the dramatic economic and Conflict in Globalizing India liberalization that began in 1991, which ushered India into the era of globalization.
Author: Dilip Hiro Hiro describes how India has been reengineered not only in its economy but also in its politics and cultural mores. Places such as Gurgaon and Noida on the outskirts of Delhi have been transformed from nondescript towns into forests of expensive high-rise Publisher: The New Press residential and commercial properties. Businessmen in Bollywood movies, once portrayed as villains, are now often the heroes. The Year: 2015 marginal, right-wing Hindu militants of the past now rule the nominally secular nation, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi as their avatar, one whose electoral victory was funded by big business. Call Number: 330.954 Hiro provides a gripping account of the role played by Indians who have settled in the United States and Britain since 1991 in HIR boosting India‘s GDP. But he also highlights the negatives: the exponential growth in sleaze in the public and private sectors, the 17552 impoverishment of farmers, and the rise in urban slums. A masterful panorama, The Age of Aspiration covers the whole social spectrum of Indians at home and abroad.
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Age-Aspiration-Wealth-Conflict-Globalizing/dp/1620971305
13 In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view Implosions/Explosions: Towards a required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and Study of Planetary Urbanization contemporary texts on the "urbanization question", this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre's hypothesis. It assembles a series of analytical and cartographic interventions that supersede Author: Neil J Brenner inherited spatial ontologies (urban/rural, town/country, city/non-city, society/nature) in order to investigate the uneven implosions and explosions of capitalist urbanization across places, regions, territories, continents and oceans up to the planetary scale. Publisher: Jovis Verlag GMbH Year: 2014 Related URL: https://www.amazon.com/Implosions-Explosions-Towards-Planetary-Urbanization/dp/3868593179
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14 Delhi's Meatscapes: Muslim Butchers Tracing the journey of meat from the farm to the meat shop and other workspaces of the butcher within the multi-sited margins in Delhi, the current volume intimately follows the lives of Qureshi butchers and other meat sector workers in this transforming mega- in a Transforming Mega City city. The author addresses the tensions that meat throws up in a bristling society whose stakes are now more than ever intense. She shows how meat is also a rising sector in the Indian economy, and fetches precious foreign exchange. Qureshi butchers stand at the Author: Zarin Ahmad crossroads of class, caste, stigma, religion, market, urban ecological policies, and a never-ceasing political debate around these issues. Publisher: Oxford University Press Delhi's Meatscapes brings together rare archival documents, vernacular sources, and ethnographic insights gleaned from several Year: 2018 years of immersion in the city's meatscapes and is the first of its kind for urban anthropologists, economists, political scientists, policy planners and readers who wish to take a hard look at their own (non-) meat choices. Call Number: 338.476649029095456 Official URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/delhis-meatscapes-9780199477807?cc=in&lang=en&# AHM 17554
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15 Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective Conflicts and Collective Violence in violence in the form of civilian "riots" in South Asia, using selected instances in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India. He situates these South Asia riots in the larger political, economic, and religious contexts in which they took place and also examines the strategic actions and motivations of their principal agents. In applying a wide range of social theory to the problems of ethnic and religious violence, Tambiah pays close attention to the history and culture of the region. Author: Stanley J. Tambiah Publisher: University of California On one level this provocative book is a scrupulously detailed anthropological and historical study, but on another it is an attempt to Press understand the social and political changes needed for a more humane order, not just in South Asia, but throughout the world. Year: 1996 Official URL: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520206427/leveling-crowds
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16 Some Trouble with Cows: Making Fascinating in its combination of personal stories and analytical insights, Some Trouble with Cows will help students of conflict understand how a seemingly irrational and archaic riot becomes a means for renegotiating the distribution of power and rights in a Sense of Social Conflict small community. Author: Beth Roy Publisher: University of California Using first-person accounts of Hindus and Muslims in a remote Bangladeshi village, Beth Roy evocatively describes and analyzes a large-scale riot that profoundly altered life in the area in the 1950s. She provides a rare glimpse into the hearts and minds of the Press participants and their families, while touching on a range of broader issues that are vital to the sociology of communities in conflict: Year: 1994 the changing meaning of community; the impact of the state on local society; the nature of memory; and the force of neighborly enmity in reshaping power relationships during periods of change. Call Number: 303.623095492 Roy's findings illustrate important theoretical issues in psychology and sociology, and her conclusions will greatly interest students ROY of ethnic/race relations, conflict resolution, the sociology of violence, agrarian society, and South Asia. 17556 Official URL: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520083424/some-trouble-with-cows Recommended by: Ms. Hrudaya Chandana
17 Dalit Women: Vanguard of an Through its investigation of the underlying political economy of gender, caste and class in India, this book shows how changing historical geographies are shaping the subjectivities of Dalits across India in ways that are neither fixed nor predictable. It brings Alternative Politics in India together ethnographies from across India to explore caste politics, Dalit feminism and patriarchy, religion, economics and the continued socio-economic and political marginalisation of Dalits. Author: S. Anandhi, Karin Kapadia With contributions from major academics this is an indispensable book for researchers, teachers and students working on new Publisher: Routledge political expressions, gender identities, social inequalities and the continuing use of the notion of ‗caste‘ identity in the oppression of Year: 2017 subalterns in contemporary India. It will be essential reading in the disciplines of politics, gender, social exclusion studies, sociology and social anthropology. Call Number: 305.48440954 Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/Dalit-Women-Vanguard-of-an-Alternative-Politics-in-India/Anandhi- KAP Kapadia/p/book/9781138221062 17557
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
18 The Illegal City explores the relationship between space, law and gendered subjectivity through a close look at an 'illegal' squatter The Illegal City: Space, Law and settlement in Delhi. Since 2000, a series of judicial rulings in India have criminalised squatters as 'illegal' citizens, 'encroachers' and Gender in a Delhi Squatter Settlement 'pickpockets' of urban land, and have led to a spate of slum demolitions across the country. This book argues that in this context, it has become vital to distinguish between illegality and informality since it is those 'illegal' slums which are at the receiving end of a Author: Ayona Datta 'force of law', where law is violently encountered within everyday spaces. This book uses a gendered intersectional lens to explore how a 'violence of law' shapes how 'public' subjectivities of gender, class, religion and caste are encountered and negotiated within Publisher: Routledge the 'private' spaces of home, family and neighbourhood. This book suggests that resettlement is not a condition that squatters desire; Year: 2016 rather something that is seen as the only way out of the 'illegal' city. The wait for resettlement is a temporal space of anxiety and uncertainty, where particular kinds of politics around law, space and gender takes shape, which transform squatters' relations with the Call Number: 307.3364095456 state, urban development, civil society, and with each other. Through their everyday struggles around water, sanitation, social and political organisation and the transformation of their homes and families, this book shows that the desire for the 'legal city' is also the DAT irony and utopia of home, which will remain an incomplete gendered project - both for the state and for squatters. 17558 Official URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Illegal-City-Space-Law-and-Gender-in-a-Delhi-Squatter- Settlement/Datta/p/book/9781409445548 Recommended by: Ms. Sneha Gutgutia
19 Caste, Class, and Capital: The Social For millions of poor people in the developing world, economic growth offers prospects for improved well-being. But what are the political and social conditions conducive to growth-oriented policies in poor democracies? This book addresses this highly and Political Origins of Economic consequential question by focusing on a specific empirical puzzle - policy variation across Indian states in the competition for private Policy in India industrial investment, a phenomenon that came to the fore after the country adopted market reforms in 1991. Through the analysis of investment policies, this book offers a novel explanation, which links social identity, class, and economic policy outcomes. Its main findings highlight a link between pro-business policies and exclusionary political trends in India's high growth phase, and offer a Author: Kanta Murali sobering perspective on the current model of growth in the country. The book adds to our understanding of Indian political economy Publisher: Cambridge University Press as well as to the dynamics of economic development in poor democracies. Year: 2017 Official URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/caste-class-and-capital/9E06E2B3E02ED710FC0AB106D3B1ABCB#fndtn- information Call Number: 330.954 MUR 17559
Recommended by: Prof. Carol Upadhya
20 Psychosocial Interventions for Health This volume provides multifaceted and multidisciplinary insights into the growing field of health studies. Providing inputs from the behavioural sciences as well as social sciences, it discusses the issues of recovery from illness, and growth and wellbeing, as situated and Well-Being in social and eco-cultural contexts, and addresses the modalities of health-related interventions in diverse contexts. The specific themes taken up by the contributors are post-trauma growth, resilience, gender and health, distress and wellness, indigenous healing, Author: Girishwar Misra counselling and psychotherapy, disability-related interventions, self-healing, as well as health issues of special groups like adolescents and the elderly, cancer patients and those suffering from other chronic illnesses. Publisher: Springer Till recently, the medical model has prevailed as the chief form of understanding health and illness. This has led to marginalization of Year: 2018 the context, localization of all health and wellness components within the individual, and to biological reductionism. The contributions to this volume propose corrective measures and provide diverse approaches in a balanced manner. This volume is
useful for researchers and practitioners interested in health studies, including the behavioural sciences, social work, medical anthropology, and public health. Call Number: 616.89 MIS Official URL: https://www.springer.com/in/book/9788132237808 17560
Recommended by: Prof. Malavika Kapur