The dissolution of Yugoslavia inspired F.G. Bailey to consider the relations among ethnic groups that had seemed reconciled to living together and then broke into murderous conflicts. For his exploration of the ancient, recurring problem of ethnic strife, Bailey considers the vi…
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study
Exploring the practice of flood control, this work argues that this is a part of a political agenda, implicated in the calculations of capitalism. It also argues for a reconsideration of the debate on the colonial environmental watershed, its hydraulic legacy and questions conte…
The volume explores the idea and practice of flood control and argues that this is a part of a political agenda, deeply implicated in the social, economic, and political calculations of capitalism in general and colonialism in particular. It argues for a comprehensive reconsider…
On the ecological disturbances especially related to floods in Orissa under British rule; a study.
This book is an erudite and elegiac exploration of Hindu nationalism in India today. It offers a revealing account of Hindu militant mobilizations as an authoritarian movement manifest throughout culture, polity, and economy, religion and law, class and caste, on gender, body, l…
