In the Kacch

In the Kacch
Author: Kevin McGrath
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-01-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0786496533

This personal narrative about life in a remote desert region of western India tells of how love of place and love of person find their equilibrium in a world far removed from modernity. Yet this small, distant land of kingship and pastoral life is rapidly being eroded by the new India of commerce and industrialization. The author describes how an ancient society is transformed by the culture of consumption where the lyrical beauty of balance, exchange and loyalty is translated into a single market economy. The people and places of post-Partition Kacch, where even the land and value systems of a lately independent India now appear in a nostalgic light, are described in detail. This is a record of private emotion and physical terrain, of traditions and of profound social practice.

The Sikhs

The Sikhs
Author: Owen Cole
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1998-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1836242263

This fully revised and up-to-date edition has taken into account the comments of many academics. All major aspects of the religion are covered: its history and development, the Sikh scriptures, worship, ceremonies and festivals, religious thought, daily life and ethics.

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality
Author: Corinna Sabrina Guerzoni
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2022-04-07
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1800714408

Reproductive Governance and Bodily Materiality explores the growing centrality and power of the medical professional and lay practices within the field of human reproduction as they entangle with political economic processes, providing examples from multiple countries.

U.S. Policy Toward South Asia

U.S. Policy Toward South Asia
Author: Shivaji Ganguly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-03-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000009718

For over 40 years the United States has vacillated between interventionism and withdrawal while struggling to formulate a coherent policy toward South Asia. The author has written an analysis of how Washington determines its South Asia policy. Situating case studies of US policy in four major South Asian crises in the broader context of Washington

Mesozoic Stratigraphy of India

Mesozoic Stratigraphy of India
Author: Santanu Banerjee
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 727
Release: 2021-08-02
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030713709

This book envisages a multi-proxy approach using stable isotopes, geochemical proxies, magnetic susceptibility and associated biotic events for paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental interpretations of the Mesozoic sedimentary record of India. Mesozoic rocks of India record abnormal sea level rise, greenhouse climate, intensified volcanism, hypoxia in seawater, extensive black shale deposition, and hydrocarbon occurrence. The Mesozoic has also witnessed mass extinction events, evolution of dinosaurs, and breakdown of the supercontinent Pangea and the formation of Gondwana. Although the Mesozoic geology of India has witnessed significant progress in the last century, literature survey reveals a huge gap in knowledge regarding sequence stratigraphy, chemostratigraphy and key geological events. A synthesis of sedimentological, paleontological and chemical data is included to presenting a comprehensive understanding of the Indian Mesozoic record to students, researchers and professionals.