Revolving Around India(s)

Revolving Around India(s)
Author: Juan Ignacio Oliva-Cruz
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2020-01-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 152754592X

This book highlights a variety of approaches to the study of contemporary India and offers a transnational, gender and social research perspective on the concepts of Indian tradition, the representation of the Indian diaspora and the emergent political activisms in India. The contributions suggest questions and answers about the various temporal and spatial loci inherent to India and its gender and ethnic differences. The volume analyses different cultural texts, and explores how they refer to equality and interculturality or promote discourses of fear and racism. The multiple viewpoints and analyses found in this volume will broaden and stimulate both upcoming outcomes and studies on the future of India.

Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India

Gandhi's Spinning Wheel and the Making of India
Author: Rebecca Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2010-11-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136978496

Gandhi’s use of the spinning wheel was one of the most significant unifying elements of the nationalist movement in India. Spinning was seen as an economic and political activity that could bring together the diverse population of South Asia, and allow the formerly elite nationalist movement to connect to the broader Indian population. This book looks at the politics of spinning both as a visual symbol and as a symbolic practice. It traces the genealogy of spinning from its early colonial manifestations in Company painting to its appropriation by the anti-colonial movement. This complex of visual imagery and performative ritual had the potential to overcome labour, gender, and religious divisions and thereby produce an accessible and effective symbol for the Gandhian anti-colonial movement. By thoroughly examining all aspects of this symbol’s deployment, this book unpacks the politics of the spinning wheel and provides a model for the analysis of political symbols elsewhere. It also probes the successes of India’s particular anti-colonial movement, making an invaluable contribution to studies in social and cultural history, as well as South Asian Studies.

Indian Navy MR & NMR Steward, Cook & Topass Recruitment Exam

Indian Navy MR & NMR Steward, Cook & Topass Recruitment Exam
Author: Arihant Experts
Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2018-04-20
Genre:
ISBN: 9313168812

Indian Navy is one of the prestigious armed forces of our country which keeps on recruiting the potential candidates into various profiles through various recruitment exams. The present book of the series “Conquer the Sea” is for those who are preparing for Indian Navy Matric Recruit (MR) Online Exam for Steward/Chef/Hygienist and it completely suits the model for the basic preparation of this examination. Revised completely, it comes up with the comprehensive study material based on the latest exam syllabus and pattern. It facilitates chapterwise important study notes, Exam pattern practice questions and both solved and unsolved sample papers for complete practice. With this highly useful book, take your preparation to the next level. TOC Model Solved Paper 2018, Mathematics, Science, General Knowledge, Sample Papers (1-2)

India and the Gulf

India and the Gulf
Author: Harsh V. Pant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1009310844

Draws on the theories and methods of International Relations and Foreign Policy Analysis to study India's contemporary Gulf policy.

India's Futuristic Democracy - Threats of Constitutional Gaps and Digital Era

India's Futuristic Democracy - Threats of Constitutional Gaps and Digital Era
Author: PRAHALAD RAO
Publisher: Blue Rose Publishers
Total Pages: 668
Release: 2022-12-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

India is moving towards becoming an intelligent and industrious nation in the world but unmoving in its installing pillars, political stability and communal conflagration. Every citizen’s welfare is the only way to make the nation great. A nation is built not by one Faith but by all the Faiths together as an integral part of the Nation. On 15th August 2022, we celebrated 75th Year of our Independence that looked decorative than democratic. Former is showmanship and latter is workmanship. Nation’s wealth should make all the sectors healthy. The Constitution defines Constituents or Organs but not the Pillars or the making up the Gaps. The Gaps which our Constitution makers left open was to test the sensibility, prudence and wisdom of the generations to come. The Gaps have the strength to generate orderliness in the democracy. Their ignorance or indifference masked the working of democracy.

Indian Literature in English

Indian Literature in English
Author: Satish Barbuddhe
Publisher: Sarup & Sons
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2007
Genre: Indic literature (English)
ISBN: 9788176258074

Most of the papers presented at various national and international seminars.

The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy

The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy
Author: Harsh V. Pant
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2020-05-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000074358

The Routledge Handbook of Indian Defence Policy brings together the most eminent scholarship in South Asia on India’s defence policy and contemporary military history. It maps India’s political and military profile in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, and analyses its emergence as a global player. This edition of the handbook: Canvasses over 60 years of Indian defence policy, its relation to India’s rising global economic profile, as well as foreign policy shifts; Discusses several key debates that have shaped defence strategies through the years: military doctrine and policy, internal and external security challenges, terrorism and insurgencies; Explores the origins of the modern armed forces in India; evolution of the army, navy and air forces; investments in professional military education, intelligence and net-centric warfare, reforms in paramilitary forces and the Indian police; Comments on India’s contemporary strategic interests, focusing on the rise of China, nuclearisation of India and Pakistan’s security establishments, and developments in space security and missile defence. Taking stock of India’s defence planning architecture over the past decade, this accessibly written handbook will be an indispensable resource for scholars and researchers of security and defence studies, international relations and political science, as well as for government thinktanks and policymakers.

India's Fragile Borderlands

India's Fragile Borderlands
Author: Archana Upadhyay
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2009-05-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0857713566

There is a danger in the West of viewing terrorism exclusively through the prism of 9/11. This ground-breaking examination of terrorism in North East India demonstrates how grave a mistake this is. The nature of terrorism is the subject of ever-increasing scrutiny and there are many lessons to be learned from India's borderlands. Terrorism, fostered at first by post-colonial resentments, took root in the region because of an increased sense of cultural identity and perceived discrimination and exclusion by the Indian state. This book examines the long term effects of terrorism on the population of North East India - where the best-known conflict is the Naga tribe's ongoing campaign for a greater Nagaland - as well as its international consequences. "India's Fragile Borderlands" offers a comprehensive study of the nature, origins and history of terrorism in India's North East within an international perspective. Sharing borders with China, Bangladesh, Nepal, Myanmar (Burma) and Bhutan, the region abounds in nationalist, separatist and even religious organizations that have used terrorism as a strategy to achieve their aims. Archana Upadhyay explores the complex and specific ideologies of these groups while highlighting the cross-border links and connections with organized crime that funds the violence in the region. This important new book includes many insights into the nature of terrorism in India's northeastern frontiers and will be invaluable for students of politics, history and International Relations.

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi
Author: Jeffrey N. Dupée
Publisher: University Press of America
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780761839491

Traveling India in the Age of Gandhi is a study of "armchair" travel writers who journeyed to India during what has often been termed the "Age of Gandhi," placed between 1914-1948. Most of the travel writers surveyed understood this era to be a unique time in world history--in India and elsewhere on the globe. The lingering trauma of World War I, the rise of radical state ideologies in Russia, Italy, Japan, and Germany, world-wide depression in the 1930s along with a host of other unsettling political, cultural, and technological realities revealed a world of bewildering complexity and uncertainty. For many of the travel writers surveyed in this work, India was the main drama in a shifting global landscape. Moreover, many viewed it as the ultimate travel experience, a journey that tested one's capacity to fully engage the earth's most compelling forms of human diversity and suffering. Although a few notable figures are included, most of the authors in the study constitute a breed of largely forgotten travel writers. This work is an attempt to extract the core of their observations, impressions, and conclusions concerning what they saw and experienced, particularly concerning Indian aspirations for independence and India as the world's most exotic human landscape.

India in Space: Between Utility and Geopolitics

India in Space: Between Utility and Geopolitics
Author: Marco Aliberti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 380
Release: 2018-01-17
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319716522

This book presents the renewing strategic vision and progressive diversification of the Indian space programme at the nexus socio-economic development, commerce and geopolitics. It disentangles India ́s evolving rationales for engaging in space from a wide range of perspectives and provides novel and in-depth assessment of the domestic, regional and international factors influencing the pace and directions of the country’s space programme. The study hence includes an extensive analysis of India’s path forward, including a reflection on the long-term evolution of its civil, military and commercial space efforts, as well as considerations on the toolbox India has at its disposal, on the prospected adaptation of the space ecosystem, and on the implications these evolutions may generate both domestically and internationally. A central part of this final analysis is more specifically devoted to elaborating on the prospects and opportunities for European stakeholders, with the goal of identifying possible domains of closer and mutually beneficial Europe-India space cooperation and sorting out possible elements for a comprehensive European long-term strategy towards India.