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AGRARIAN POWER AND AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY
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AGRARIAN POWER AND AGRICUTURAL PRODUCTIVITY IN SOUTH ASIA |
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Edited by Lord Meghnad Desai, Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Ashok Rudra |
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© Oxford University Press, India 1984 |
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WARRIOR OF THE SUN
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WARRIOR OF THE SUN |
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A Play for the Stage |
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Based on the Mahabharat |
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© Farrukh Dhondy 2008 |
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SIZE: 167 KB; 86 pages |
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RAJ KAHINI - KING TALES OF RAJASTHAN
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RAJ KAHINI (KING TALES OF RAJASTHAN) |
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By Abanindranath Tagore |
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Translated by Debashish Banerji |
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© Debashish Banerji 2008 |
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SIZE: 361 KB; 86 pages |
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I DIED....LONG BEFORE
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‘I DIED...LONG BEFORE’ |
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© Sujoy Ghosh 2008 |
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This is a powerful short story on female infanticide. It is the story of an adopted girl who has a successful career and life. She discovers that when she was born her real father had tried to have her killed simply for being a girl. She was then adopted. She tracks down her real father and confronts him… |
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SIZE: 157 KB; 53 pages |
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THE INCIPIENT TANTRISM OF BOROBUDUR
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THE INCIPIENT TANTRISM OF BOROBUDUR |
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by Debashish Banerji |
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© Debashish Banerji 2008 |
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Ever since its discovery by Raffles in 1814, Borobudur has been an object of mystery. Its imposing size and the magnificence of its conception and carving aside, the uniqueness both of its structural design and its iconography among religious monuments, not only in its temporal and spatial proximity, but anywhere in the Indic world, has heightened its aspect of enigma, inviting conjecture on its intention. Who made Borobudur, what was it used for and why was it made the way it was made – these and similar questions arise immediately in connection with the monument. Though more than 150 years have passed since its discovery, none of these questions have been definitively answered, though some important preliminary headway has been made, in establishing the period of its construction and in conclusively identifying the textual sources of the carving. |
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SIZE: 354 KB; 28 pages |
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NALOKE
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NALOKE |
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By Abanindranath Tagore |
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Translated by Debashish Banerji |
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© Debashish Banerji 2008 |
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Naloke is a classic tale by Abanindranath Tagore – translated by Debashish Banerji. Abanindranath Tagore was a member of the famous Tagore family, and nephew of the poet Rabindranath Tagore. His grandfather and his elder brother Gaganendranath Tagore were also artists. He learned art when studying at Sanskrit college in the 1880s. The publication of Rabanindrath Tagore's Gitanjali in English brought the Tagore family international renown, which helped to make Abanindranath's artistic projects better known in the west. |
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SIZE: 169 KB; 48 pages |
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THE PRIMITIVE CURSE
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‘THE PRIMITIVE CURSE’ |
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© Naval Langa 2008 |
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This is a short story with a very poignant message - the man, Kingo, invents a weapon and acquires strength. He uses it over weak, mainly women. He dislikes the words spoken against him. So at the birth of every child, he cut its tongue and keeps all the tongues in his custody. But one young woman revolts and steals her tongue. Kingo fears. He dislikes a free woman. The woman with a tongue ignites fire of revolt in another woman, too. Kingo orders death for both the women. He kills the woman with a tongue. The tongue-less but pregnant woman runs out of the kingdom of slavery. She wants her child to be free and having a tongue, too. |
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THE BENGAL RENAISSANCE
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THE BENGAL RENAISSANCE AND THE BENGAL SCHOOL OF ART: REVIVIALISM OR MODERNITY? |
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by Debashish Banerji |
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© Debashish Banerji 2008 |
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Even during the period of its formation, the question of whether the Bengal School of Art was a revivalistic school was hotly debated. To reconsider today whether the Bengal School was revivalistic, we have to consider if there is any consensus on what is the Bengal School. Is it definable in terms of a style or theoretical principles? Is it just an atelier, consisting of a master and his students? Is it isolated in space and time or is it a continuing tradition or a transhistorical potential? |
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SIZE: 126 KB; 25 pages |
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PUBLIC ENTERPRISE REFORMS IN FIJI
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Public Enterprise Reforms in Fiji: |
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How Not to Privatise: the Case of Government Shipyard and Public Slipways |
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Jashwini Jothishna Narayan 2004 |
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Undoubtedly, public enterprise reforms have taken the world by storm. Likewise, Fiji is no exception. This island nation has witnessed economic recession and structural adjustment policies since 1987. Local authors assert that the reasons behind reforms in Fiji involve a combination of internal as well as external factors. |
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SIZE: 2.93 MB; 231 pages |
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AUTHORITY, AUTHORIZATION and AUTHORSHIP
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AUTHORITY, AUTHORIZATION AND AUTHORSHIP IN INDIAN ART |
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by Debashish Banerji |
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© Debashish Banerji 2008 |
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This paper looks at three instances of art belonging to different periods of Indian history and attempts to draw out the role of the artist in the performative matrix of imperial power in each case. How does imperial power use art to authorize itself in each case? In what performances are such uses embedded? What is the nature and degree of the artist’s agency in each case? What are the continuities, changes, innovations in the structural temporality of each case? These are some of the questions raised by this paper in an attempt to reflect on the changing performative space and social persona of the artist in an imperial context and finally focus on the operation of this social agency within the colonial/national interchange of the early 20th c. |
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360 DEGREES BACK TO LIFE
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360 DEGREES BACK TO LIFE: A Litigant’s Humourous Perspective on Divorce |
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By Vandana Shah |
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Size: 1.49 MB; 83 pages |
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© Vandana Shah 2008 |
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THE MAULANA AND THE MAHATMA
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THE MAULANA AND THE MAHATMA |
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by Mahmood Jamal |
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© Mahmood Jamal 2008 |
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The correspondence between Maulana Abdul Bari of Firangi Mahal and Mahatma Gandhi (mainly in English) is extensive and deserving of a much longer piece, perhaps even a book. The purpose of this essay is to put in context the Urdu Letters that Mahatma Gandhi wrote to Maulana Abdul Bari (the author’s grandfather). |
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Size: 1.25 MB; 26 pages |
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THE HISTORY OF INDIAN ART HISTORY
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THE HISTORY OF INDIAN ART HISTORY |
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Interpretation and Interpenetration |
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by Debashish Banerji |
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© Debashish Banerji 2008 |
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To compare Indian art historiography with art historiography in general, we need first to constellate these categories - general art historiography with western art historiography and Indian art historiogaphy with the art historiography of colonized people. |
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SIZE: 299 KB; 26 pages |
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MINISTRY OF MISS-INFORMATION
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‘MINISTRY OF MISS-INFORMATION’ |
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f-mail |
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20 July 2008 |
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© Farrukh Dhondy 2008 |
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f-mail is a weekly title by Farrukh Dhondy. f-mail deals with current issues each week. This week looks at lost information and civil liberties in the U.K.: |
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SIZE: 226 KB; 11 pages |
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THE SAGA OF THE ARYAN RACE - VOL. V
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THE SAGA OF THE ARYAN RACE – VOL V of V: |
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The Aryan King of Iran |
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By Porus Havewala |
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© Porus Havewala 2008 |
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This is a semi-fictional historical novel on the origins of the Aryan people. The Saga deals with the lives of the ancient Indo-Europeans about twenty thousand years ago, who called themselves the Aryans - the Noble Ones. They were the first MazdaYasnis, the Worshippers of Ahura Mazda (Zoroastrians): God in the ancient Aryan tongue of Avestan. |
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Volume V of V carries on with the life of the first Prophet of the Aryans, Asho Zarathushtra, and the spreading of the word of Ahura Mazda. |
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