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The Indian ladies' magazine, 1901-1938 : from Raj and Swaraj
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ISBN: 1611462215 1611462223 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania : Lehigh University Press,

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The politics of heritage from Madras to Chennai
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ISBN: 1282103350 9786612103353 0253002656 9780253002655 9780253352231 0253352231 9781282103351 6612103353 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press


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Weathering the World
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ISBN: 0857452002 9780857452009 0857451995 9780857451996 9780857451996 Year: 2011 Publisher: New York Oxford

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The Asian tsunami in December 2004 was reported on exhaustively all around the world. But this is the first full-length examination of the disaster. Providing an in-depth ethnography of the tsunami and its effects on a fishing village on the coast of Tamil Nadu, India, the author shows how disaster survivors have dealt with the tsunami and worked to regain their confidence in the environment on which they depend for their livelihood. The book testifies to a remarkable local recovery process and demonstrates the survivors' commitment to restoring a sense of certainty and future possibilities ev


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The Light of knowledge
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ISBN: 9780801469022 9780801452024 0801452023 9780801479182 0801479185 1322522332 0801469023 9780801469015 0801469015 Year: 2013 Volume: *1 Publisher: Ithaca Cornell University Press

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Since the early 1990s hundreds of thousands of Tamil villagers in southern India have participated in literacy lessons, science demonstrations, and other events designed to transform them into active citizens with access to state power. These efforts to spread enlightenment among the oppressed are part of a movement known as the Arivoli Iyakkam (the Enlightenment Movement), considered to be among the most successful mass literacy movements in recent history. In The Light of Knowledge, Francis Cody’s ethnography of the Arivoli Iyakkam highlights the paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to emancipate people through literacy when literacy is a power-laden social practice in its own right.The Light of Knowledge is set primarily in the rural district of Pudukkottai in Tamil Nadu, and it is about activism among laboring women from marginalized castes who have been particularly active as learners and volunteers in the movement. In their endeavors to remake the Tamil countryside through literacy activism, workers in the movement found that their own understanding of the politics of writing and Enlightenment was often transformed as they encountered vastly different notions of language and imaginations of social order. Indeed, while activists of the movement successfully mobilized large numbers of rural women, they did so through logics that often pushed against the very Enlightenment rationality they hoped to foster. Offering a rare behind-the-scenes look at an increasingly important area of social and political activism, The Light of Knowledge brings tools of linguistic anthropology to engage with critical social theories of the postcolonial state.


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Religion and conflict attribution
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ISBN: 9789004270817 9789004270862 9004270868 9004270817 Year: 2014 Publisher: Boston Brill

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Religion can play a dual role with regard to conflict. It can promote either violence or peace. Religion and Conflict Attribution seeks to clarify the causes of religious conflict as perceived by Christian, Muslim and Hindu college students in Tamil Nadu, India. These students in varying degrees attribute conflict to force-driven causes, namely to coercive power as a means of achieving the economic, political or socio-cultural goals of religious groups. The study reveals how force-driven religious conflict is influenced by prescriptive beliefs like religious practice and mystical experience, and descriptive beliefs such as the interpretation of religious plurality and religiocentrism. It also elaborates on the practical consequences of the salient findings for the educational process.


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The big four snakes of India : venom composition, pharmacological properties and treatment of envenomation
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ISBN: 9811628963 9811628955 Year: 2021 Publisher: Singapore : Springer,


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Clinical Biomechanics and its Implications on Diabetic Foot
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ISBN: 9811536813 9811536805 Year: 2020 Publisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer,

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This book presents essential information on biomechanical features of the diabetic foot, which could help to minimize the risk of future diabetic foot problems. India has recently been classified as the ‘diabetic capital’ of the world. Type 2 diabetes mellitus has become a serious concern for Indian society, where the prevalence rate is increasing exponentially. Similarly, the comorbidities and foot complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus are worsening day by day. Of all complications, diabetes peripheral neuropathy is the most common, and leads to foot deformities, pain, altered sensation, loss of foot arch, etc. The ultimate fate can even be gangrene and amputation. Accordingly, foot complications of diabetes represent a pressing medical issue. Sharing insights into diabetic foot syndrome, its causative factors, prevention and management, this book offers a valuable resource for medical and paramedical students, researchers, podiatrists, surgeons, and physicians alike. .


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The paradox of India's North-South divide
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ISBN: 9351502368 9789351502364 9789351501411 9351501418 9351505138 Year: 2015 Publisher: Los Angeles

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