Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Narratives of agency self-making in China, India, and Japan /

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Monumental Matters : The Power, Subjectivity, and Space of India's Mughal Architecture / by Kavuri-Bauer, Santhi, 1968-

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Self, no self? : perspectives from analytical, phenomenological, and Indian traditions /

Table of Contents: “…Krueger -- The experiential self : objections and clarifications / Dan Zahavi -- Nirvana and ownerless consciousness / Miri Albahari -- Self and subjectivity : a middle way approach / Georges Dreyfus -- Self-no-self? …”
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Building Green : Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai / by Rademacher, Anne

Table of Contents: “…City ascending, city imploding -- The integrated subject -- Ecology in practice : environmental architecture as good design -- Rectifying failure : imagining the new city and the power to create it -- More than human nature and the open space predicament -- Consciousness and Indian-ness : making design "good" -- A vocation in waiting : ecology in practice -- Soldiering sustainability.…”
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Stages of life Indian theatre autobiographies / by Hansen, Kathryn

Table of Contents: “…Pioneers to professionals: a retrospective of the Parsi theatre -- Theatrical memoirs and the archives of autobiography -- Narayan Prasad Betab, The deeds of Betab -- Radheshyam Kathavachak, My theatre days -- Jayshankar Sundari, Some blossoms, some tears -- Fida Husain, Fifty years in the Parsi theatre -- Self and subjectivity in autobiographical criticism -- Voices and silences: reading the texts.…”
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Bollywood and globalization Indian popular cinema, nation, and diaspora /

Table of Contents: “…/ Anjali Gera Roy -- Bollywood Babes: Body and Female Desire in the Bombay Films since the Nineties and Darr, Mohra and Aitraaz: a Tropic Discourse / Purna Chowdhury -- Globalization and the Cultural Imaginary: Constructions of Subjectivity, Freedom & Enjoyment in Popular Indian Cinema / Gautam Basu Thakur -- Rang De Basanti: The Solvent Brown and Other Imperial Colors / Manisha Basu -- Between Yaars: The Queering of Dosti in Contemporary Bollywood Films / Dinah Holtzman -- Imagined Subjects: Law, Gender and Citizenship in Indian Cinema / Nandini Bhattacharya -- "It's All About Loving Your Parents": Liberalization, Hindutva and Bollywood's New Fathers / Meheli Sen.…”
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Citizenship and its discontents an Indian history / by Jayal, Niraja Gopal

Table of Contents: “…The subject-citizen: a colonial anomaly -- Legal citizenship and the long shadow of the partition -- Aspirational citizenship: migrants and emigrants -- Pedagogies of duty, protestations of rights -- The unsocial compact -- Social citizenship in neo-liberal times -- Genealogies of mediated citizenship -- Passages from backwardness to citizenship -- The future of the civic community.…”
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The Audacious Raconteur : Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India / by Prasad, Leela

Table of Contents: “…Ramaswami Raju -- The Subjective Scientific Method : M.N. Venkataswami -- The Irony of the "Native Scholar" : S.M. …”
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The light of knowledge : literacy activism and the politics of writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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The Light of Knowledge Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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Being Janana Language and Sexuality in Contemporary India. by Nagar, Ila

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on translation, pronouns, and names; 1 Introduction: entering the world of jananas; 2 Janana stories: living as a janana; 3 Jananas and hijras: perpetual conflict and attraction; 4 The janana community of practice: how the janana world works; 5 Negotiating identity through varying gender marking; 6 To feel like a woman: violence and the formation of the janana subject; 7 Janana subalterns; Epilogue; Appendix 1: rules of gender agreement in Hindi; Glossary; Index…”
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Everyday Sustainability : Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling / by Sen, Debarati, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: domesticating fair trade through cultural entrepreneurship -- "Tadpoles in water" versus "police of our fields:" competing subjectivities and women's political agency and fair trade -- Conclusion.…”
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Networks, Labour and Migration among Indian Muslim Artisans / by Chambers, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Internal migration in India: imaginaries, subjectivities and precarity -- 9. Labour migration between India and the Gulf: regimes, imaginaries and continuities -- 10. …”
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Linguistic foundations of identity : readings in language, literature and contemporary cultures /

Table of Contents: “…English and Postcolonial Subjectivity in Indian Literature…”
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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf / by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Conventions, terminology, and transliteration -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The subject -- The sources -- Overview -- Empire -- British India's informal empire and spheres of influence in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- The origins of the residency system, 1613-1763 -- The politicization and expansion of the residency system, 1764-1947 -- The residency system and Britain's Indian empire -- Imperialism and the strategy of informal empire -- The Indian political service (IPS), 1764-1947 -- Early British involvement in the Gulf, 1616-1822 -- Britain's political residency in the Gulf, 1822-1971 -- Britain's native agency in Bahrain, c. 1816-1900 -- Agents of empire -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in Asia -- British India's native agency system in the Gulf -- British motives for employing native agents -- Robinson's theory of collaboration -- The Indian origins of the native agency system -- The politicization of the native agency system in India and the Gulf -- Early native agents in the Gulf -- The establishment of the native agency system in the Gulf -- Advantages for the British -- Disadvantages for the British -- Advantages and disadvantages for the native agents -- The operation of British India's native agency in Bahrain -- The agency building -- The agency's finances and organization -- The agent's intelligence-gathering duties, c.1816-1900 -- The agent's judicial duties, 1861-1900 -- The agents' political duties, 1872-1900 -- The agents' social duties -- British India's native agents in Bahrain -- The banias, c.1816-34 -- The Safar family agents -- Mirza Muhammad Cali Safar, 1834-42 -- Hajji Jasim (Hajji Abu'l Qasim), 1842-62 -- Hajji Ibrahim bin Muhsin bin Rajab, 1862-4 -- Years of abeyance, 1865-71 -- Hajji Cabd al-Nabi Khan Safar, 1872-84 -- Hajji Ahmad Khan Safar, 1884-91 -- Temporary agents, 1891-3 -- Agha Muhammad Rahim Safar, 1893-1900 -- Hajji Cabbas bin Muhammad bin Fadhil, 1900 -- The native agency staff after 1900 -- Challenges to the agents, 1834-97 -- The decline of British India's native agency system in Bahrain and the Gulf -- The rift in agent-ruler relations, 1895-1900 -- The agent's conflict between trade and politics, 1897-9 -- The argument for a political agency, 1897-9 -- The transition to a political agency, 1899-1900 -- The Arabian frontier of the Indian empire -- Appendix A a British India's residency system in Asia and Africa -- British India's residency system, 1880s -- Gulf residency organization -- Gulf residency staff -- Gulf residency budget -- Graded officers serving in political residencies, 1877 -- British military establishments in the Gulf -- Appendix B rulers and residents -- Rulers of Bahrain -- Residents in Bushire -- Agents for the lower Gulf (qishm island) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Bushire) -- Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”
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Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India : A Study of Social Justice, Identity and Agency in Assam / by Hussain, Saba

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Islamicate societies a case study of Egypt and Muslim India, modernization, colonial rule, and the aftermath / by Kassim, Husain, 1939-

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The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek world / by Mairs, Rachel

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Child marriage in an international frame : a feminist review from India / by John, Mary E., 1956-

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