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Pbk. Contents 1 Refugees IDPs and the Stateless 2 The Refugees and Stateless in the North East 3 Conflict Violence-Induced Displacement 4 Resource Politics Climate Change Environmental Degradation and Displacement 5 LawsPolitics Relating to Forced Migration 6 Sources and Research on Forced Migration 7 From The Field to the NewsroomForced Migration in North East India A Media Reader is a comprehensive ready reference and toolkit for journalists researchers and people in general - who are interested in the media and North East IndiaThe region though geographically isolated and economically underdeveloped has a distinctive cultural socio-economic and political identity Viewed from within it represents an incredible diversity comprising over 200 indigenous communitiesAs the states in North East India have borders with several countries China Myanmar Bhutan Nepal and Bangladesh since vivisection of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 the region has faced waves of population influx from across the borders at various times Forced migration and displacement due to repeated ethnic violence have led to hundreds of villages being burnt and thousands of people killed The figure of internally displaced persons in the region has surpassed the half a million mark according to a recent estimateBesides ethnic conflicts natural calamities such as floods and erosion as well as construction activities or eviction in the reserve forest areas have added to the misery of the displaced persons in North East India many of whom are languishing in the temporary camps for decadesHowever the issue often does not get due coverage in the media and many journalists feel that the resources tools and skills to cover this issue at their disposal are inadequate The Media Reader is an effort to bridge this gap 228 pp.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Kashi is not an ordinary city. It is the heartbeat of India's civilizational ethos-where Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, and Islamic traditions converged. It traced how Muslim weavers, saints like Kabir and Ravidas, and cultural figures like Premchand and Bismillah Khan shaped a plural soul, now under threat from communalism and commodification.This book seeks to present a people's account of Kashi-its layered history, its spiritual depth, and the lives of those who sustain it quietly and courageously. It is an exploration of the values of inclusion, equality, and shared humanity embedded in the teachings of Mahadev and reflected in the city's collective memory.The critique unmasks the exclusions hidden beneath Kashi's sacred image; it explains how Kashi turns into an Invisible City: sanitation workers suffocated in sewers, widows abandoned in crumbling ashrams.It reveals how Dalits, Muslims, widows, sanitation workers, and weavers sustain the city but remain silenced in dominant narratives. It highlights Widows, Dalit women, Musahar mothers-triply burdened by caste, class, and gender -endure and nurture life against impossible odds. Their struggles echo the feminisation of poverty across the Global South.It also portrays how the market transforms heritage into spectacle, commodifying faith while displacing artisans.Lenin Raghuvanshi, a distinguished Ayurvedic physician, has dedicated his life to advocating the rights of bonded and child labourers, as well as other marginalised individuals. The architect behind the Odisha State Employment Mission, and the pioneer of 'Employonomics', Chandra Mishra is a visionary dedicated to 'Right to Work' and result oriented Employment Policy. Shruti Nagvanshi, a steadfast advocate for justice and dignity for the last three decades, and co-founder of People's Vigilance Committee on Human Rights (PVCHR), India, and Managing Trustee of Jan Mitra Nyas, Varanasi, has won many national and international awards for her work in promoting social justice and defending rights of the marginalised, vulnerable Dalit women and children. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Sickle and the Crescent: Communists, Muslim League and India's Partition makes an in-depth study of the role played by the communists in India during India's Partition in 1947.While Indian National Congress and Muslim League are primarily blamed for vivisection of the country, the communists' support to the Muslim League between 1942 and 1947 only accelerated the birth of the two nations: India and Pakistan.The Communists, following the Soviet model of the Nationality Theory, declared that India was only a family of nations, where places like Punjab, Hyderabad and Bengal being nations had the right of self-determination to the extent of right to secede - a theory only corroborated League's demand for a separate state of Pakistan.With the end in view of expanding party base in an opportune political scenario, it makes an interesting read to examine how the Communist Party of India, a class-based representative had joined hands with the Muslim League having roots in religious sentiments.The discourse is the outcome of relentless research made in the archival sources including the intelligence documents which unearth the communists' participation in the Muslim League sponsored Direct Action Day in August 1946 which, as a sequel of communal bloodbath, rendered hundreds dead and thousands homeless only in the city of Calcutta itself.The Sickle and the Crescent: Communists, Muslim League and India's Partition offers a new approach to India's Partition and aims to evoke a fresh debate and rethinking.Sunanda Sanyal obtained his MA both from the University of Calcutta, India and the University of Leeds, the United Kingdom and took up teaching as his profession. Sunanda taught at Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, West Bengal besides being a postgraduate faculty in both Calcutta and Burdwan Universities. A devoted educationist, Sanyal initiated revolutionary changes when he was a member, education commission. Sunanda Sanyal, a quiet, determined writer and president of the Ganamukti Parishad, a non-political organisation of eminent people, which works towards 'cleansing politics', has written extensively on the contemporary political scenario in West Bengal, India. Sunanda, a forced migrant from the erstwhile East Pakistan, in search of his 'homeland', has undertaken this research project on Partition. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. What intellectual exchanges occurred between British and Indian women writers during the colonial period? Why does recovering these conversations fundamentally challenge our understanding of empire, nationalism, and gendered subalternity? And what methodological interventions does archival recovery demand of postcolonial scholarship? Purna Banerjee's archival investigation began with a revealing discovery: deteriorating issues of The Indian Ladies Magazine in Kolkata's National Library-never catalogued, never preserved, never analysed. What emerged from these crumbling pages rewrites the historiography of colonial modernity. Drawing on travel narratives, New Woman novels, and periodical correspondence, Banerjee documents a transnational 'female counter-public sphere' where women engaged in complex intellectual exchanges. From Mary Frere's subversive retellings of Indian folklore to Victoria Cross's provocative Anna Lombard, from Pandita Ramabai's strategic Christian conversion to Krishnabhabini Das's critical ethnography-these writers negotiated what Simon Gikandi terms the 'complicity/resistance dialectic', simultaneously inhabiting and critiquing colonial and nationalist patriarchies. Theorising through Habermas, Bhabha, and Spivak, Banerjee demonstrates how women constructed hybrid identities that resist metropolitan/peripheral binaries. Their fragmented narratives-spanning the 1835 Minute on Indian Education to the 1929 Sarda Act-reveal collaborative activism shaping social reform, educational policy, and women's rights across national boundaries. This study makes crucial interventions in postcolonial literary studies, subaltern historiography, and transnational feminism. By radically reorganising the colonial archive, Banerjee recovers the intellectual labour that traditional scholarship has systematically marginalised, offering new methodologies for reading women's agency in the empire. Purna Banerjee is the 2022 recipient of the prestigious Constance Fulmer Award in Mentorship, conferred by the British Women Writers Association (BWWA), USA. She has published on Victorian novels, nineteenth-century travel literatures, periodicals, twentieth-century displaced women's narratives from Indo-Bangladesh border and contemporary social-media-driven protest movements. Feminist, postcolonial, and subaltern theories are the lenses through which she critiques all cultural and literary texts. Purna returned home to Kolkata (India) and joined Presidency University, as an Associate Professor of English. For the previous two decades she lived and taught in the USA (Associate Professor of English, the Co-Director of Gender Studies, Millikin University, 2005 to 2013 & again in 2015). She received her MA degree (1999) from the University of Rochester (NY, USA) and her PhD (2005) from Texas Christian University (TX, USA). This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…