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Examining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at the biography of sedition laws, its contradictory position against free speech, and democratic ethics. Recent sedition cases registered in India show that the law in its wide and diverse deployment was used against agitators in a community-based pro-reservation movement, group of university students for their alleged 'anti-national' statements, anti-liquoractivists, and anti-nuclear movement, to name a few. Set against its contemporary use, this book has used sedition as a lens to probe the fate of political speech in liberal democracy.

This is the first comprehensive study of the life and work of Master Tara Singh (1885-1967), Akali leader, freedom fighter, and arguably the foremost leader of the Sikhs. Master Tara Singh''s vision of the ''Indian National State'' was fundamentally different from that of Jawaharlal Nehru and the Indian National Congress. The partition of British Punjab and the formation of Punjabi Suba are the lasting legacies of his determined efforts to protect Sikh interests. Employing new and a broad variety of sources in English and Punjabi, J.S. Grewal weaves a comprehensive biography of Master Tara Singh. Divided into two parts, the first deals with Master Tara Singh''s anti-British activity in colonial India, while the second traces the political and religious trajectories of the movements led by him in pursuit of a unilingual Punjab state. Lending unity to the two parts is Master Tara Singh''s politics based on Sikh identity as a source of confrontation with thecolonial state and the Congress government. Revealing new facts, ideas, and perspectives on Master Tara Singh, this book throws fresh light on the freedom struggle, the Akali movement, the politics of partition, and the working of the Congress governments in the states and at the Centre during atumultuous and transformative period of Indian history.

Inspired from Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, this work is in the form of letters from an old philosopher to a young student, guiding, instructing, and passing on wisdom gathered from the experiences of life. They cover a comprehensive introduction to philosophy, wisdom, and the art of thinking, as well as discuss a range of themes and issues such as love, education, friendship, violence, ignorance, mediocrity, and happiness.

Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi-Urdu debates, Language Politics and Public Sphere in North India examines the formation of Maithili movement in the context of expansion of Hindi as the 'national' language. It revisits the dynamic hierarchy through which a distinction is produced between 'major' and 'minor' languages.

This book is a multidisciplinary, clinical, highly illustrated, handy reference for medical practitioners and family physicians, usually the first consult for common proctological disorders like haemorrhoids, anal fissure, anal abscess, fistula, pruritus ani, constipation, and anal complaints of the children, adults, elderly and those in ante- or post-partum periods.

In Pursuit of Proof brings forth a hitherto unattempted history of making, claiming, and verifying identification documents in the urban margins of India and Delhi in particular. The book summons to life past and contemporary processes of bureaucratic recognition and administrative verification of subjects by locating them in the everyday material worlds of especially the poor. It is an intricate and layered exposition of a state whose welfare capacities ofgoverning are drawn from popular practices of knowledge around documenting and proving identities.

Offering a timely challenge to popular conceptions of Darjeeling, the 'queen of the hills', this collection of essays provocatively rethinks Darjeeling's place in the postcolonial imagination. Combining the best of the social sciences and humanities, Darjeeling Reconsidered sheds fresh light on the region's past and offers critical insight into the issues facing its people today. Doing so, it frames Darjeeling as a crucial site for South Asian and PostcolonialStudies.

How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In this book this question is answered by studying responses to police violence in Delhi and to army violence in the context of a secessionist movement in Assam. Evidence from both the field-sites indicates towards acceptance of the state, though it may be slow and flickering, based on own rationalities of the subjects or contextual.

This dictionary contains more than 50,000 up-to-date entries and related phrases and idioms; words with irregular forms and more than 200 illustrations. Like our other Bilingual Dictionaries, this has been specially compiled for learners of English, teachers, translators and general readers.

This dictionary contains more than 25,000 headwords and derivatives along with related phrases and idioms. Like our other Bilingual Dictionaries, this has been specially compiled for learners of English, students, professionals and general readers.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

In Supreme Court Advocates-on-Record Association v. Union of India, the Supreme Court of India, by majority, struck down the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC), established to appoint judges to the Supreme Court of India and High Courts. Unsurprisingly, the NJAC judgment has been the subject of a deeply polarized debate in the public sphere and academia. The essays in this volume analyse the NJAC judgment, and provide a rich context to it, interms of philosophical, comparative, and constitutional issues that underpin it. The work traces the history of judicial appointments in India; analyses constitutional principles behind selecting judges and their application in the NJAC Case; and comparatively examines the judicial appointments process in sixselect countries-UK, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Canada, and Nepal-enquiring into what makes a good judge and an effective appointments process.

A collection of short stories by the celebrated Tamil writer, Bama. In each of these stories, she documents the emerging influences on the lives and consciousness of people.

This volume provides a holistic narrative that explains the politics of health care access in terms of distribution, utilization, and outcomes as well as the context in which health inequalities are reproduced which is critical not only to scholarly understanding of health care but to informing the development of health care policy in India at a critical juncture.

This book is an epistolary account of the lives of three remarkable individuals. They were Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican missionary, Charles Freer Andrews. The study explores two closely related themes, their friendship and their principles for attaining Indian freedom. The freedom they worked for was not merely political though in an unequal world that necessarily had to be an ultimate goal.

This anthology brings together Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's works on the theme of Democracy. The editors of this volume have assembled Ambedkar's original writings including his memorandums, speeches, lectures, and talks from 1919-1956 to understand his contribution to Indian political thought and history.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. This volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru during September-October1960.

These volumes represent the collective analysis and in-depth explorations of scholars and researchers in the key areas of sociological and social anthropological research in India during the past decade.

In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the Congress party swept the polls in 1984. It reached its zenith with Rajiv Gandhi at the helm. However, due to shifts in Indian polity, economy, and society, this period marked the end of the Congress epoch. It was only a couple of decades later that the Congress was able to emerge as a dominant party again.

This collection includes Jim Corbett's unpublished writings on man-eaters, nature, and his beloved Kumaon, personal letters, articles written for newspapers and gazettes by his contemporaries, and letters exchanged between Corbett and his publisher showcasing the development of his bestselling books-all from the archives of the Oxford University Press.