A Frayed History

Author : Meena Menon,Uzramma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199091492

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A Frayed History by Meena Menon,Uzramma Pdf

Once the envy of the world for its quality and variety, Indian cotton today is mired in uncertainty and despair. Though India is the largest producer of cotton, its farmers are trapped in debt, and thousands choose to kill themselves than face an ignominious fate. Handloom weavers, once proud standard-bearers of the country's artisanal heritage, are barely able to scrape together a living. To make matters worse, there is the back-breaking competition with artificial fibres. Meena Menon and Uzramma take us through the fascinating history of cotton in India, examining its illustrious origins, its blood-stained colonial heritage, and the events that led to its current crisis. Amid the bleakness, the authors suggest a silver lining: reviving indigenous cotton—and the handloom industry that spun its fame. Through painstaking research, Menon and Uzramma show that with the right combination of friendly policies and championing the Indian cotton brand, it is possible to restore the fabric's past glory. This is an important book not just for lovers of cotton but anyone concerned with the struggles of Indian agriculture in a brutal, fast-changing market.

Author : David Gange
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780008225124

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The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange Pdf

COLLECTIVE WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE ‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam Nicolson

Author : Sumanas Koulagi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000835335

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Development as Swaraj by Sumanas Koulagi Pdf

This book offers an in-depth insight into the Indian concept of swaraj--self-rule--both in theory and practice and posits it within the larger context of development. It opens by discussing the limitations of prevailing sustainable development paradigm as well as other heterodox development paradigms in achieving a sustainable and equitable future. Further, it constructs development theory around the idea of swaraj, based on the writings of M K Gandhi and J C Kumarappa. The swaraj development vision weaves in the morality of the greatest good of all, political decentralisation, and economic self-sufficiency as important elements to achieve an exploitation-free social order that ensures more control for individuals over their lives. It reveals sustainability and equality as inherent features of such a non-violent social order. The book then provides an introduction to the khadi--handspun and handwoven textile--sector, which is taken as a case study to demonstrate the swaraj development approach. The use of this sector helps readers to get a snapshot of the efforts that have been made since the time of Gandhi and Kumarappa towards the attainment of swaraj. Importantly, the khadi section highlights the method of translating theory into practice based on the unique three-pronged approach of the swaraj development paradigm. By showcasing how to establish swaraj within the khadi sector, the author offers insights into how it can be replicated for attaining a sustainable and equitable world. The book will appeal to scholars and researchers in the fields of Gandhian studies and development studies.

Author : Miguel Ángel Gardetti,Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811659676

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Handloom Sustainability and Culture by Miguel Ángel Gardetti,Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu Pdf

This first of the three volume series highlights the intricate relationship in the handloom industry between its culture and the various areas of sustainability. While there have been major disruptions in this age old industry, this volume presents the luxury and the entrepreneurship aspects to keep the industry moving ahead. The book contains seventeen chapters written by leading experts in the areas and discusses means to revive some of the cultures that are on the verge of closing/shutting down.

Author : Rajeshwari Dutt,Nico Slate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000988390

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India in the World by Rajeshwari Dutt,Nico Slate Pdf

If we look back at world history in the past five hundred years, it is evident that Indian ideas, peoples, and goods helped drive world connections. From the quest to reach the Indies that drove Iberian rulers to fund costly expeditions that ultimately connected the Old World with the Americas to Gandhi’s creed of non-violence that created transnational resistance movements, India has been crucial to world history. In what ways have the movement of goods, people, and ideas from India served to connect the world? Conversely, how has India’s global history shaped the many boundaries and inequalities that have divided the world despite—and at times because of—the transnational connections often lumped together under the aegis of globalization? Through its emphasis on both linkages and boundaries, India in the World examines the range of connections between India and the world in a truly global perspective.

Author : Sharmistha Mukherjee,Sriparna Sarkar
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Population Health And Regional Development : Challenges And Issues by Sharmistha Mukherjee,Sriparna Sarkar Pdf

This book is a compilation of papers from the field of population, Geography, health care studies , regional development ,GIS Remote Sensing , highlighting development and socio -economic issues. The objective of this book was to bring in gender health social segregation and public policy under one umbrella. The papers raise questions , provide with argument regarding the overall demographic and social challenges existing in India. There is an attempt to look into the changes in society pertaining to women education and women empowerment public health and mental health. Keeping population studies in the center the paper revolves around various socio -economic situation with latest data.

Author : Kara Terzis
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-07
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781492631743

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Frayed by Kara Terzis Pdf

Dear Kesley, My therapist tells me I should write you a letter. Like flushing all my thoughts and feelings out of my system and onto paper. I tell her it's a stupid idea. But here I am, writing a letter to a dead girl. Where do I start? Where did our story begin? From the moment you were born...or died? I'll start with the moment I found out the truth about you. Your lies and my pain. Because it always begins and ends with you. And that end began when Rafe Lawrence came back to town... Ava Hale will do anything to find her sister's killer...although she'll wish she hadn't. Because the harder Ava looks, the more secrets she uncovers about Kesley, and the more she begins to think that the girl she called sister was a liar. A sneak. A stranger. And Kesley's murderer could be much closer than she thought... A debut novel from Wattpad award-winner Kara Terzis, Frayed is a psychological whodunit that will keep you guessing!

Author : Luisa Elena Delgado,Pura Fernández,Jo Labanyi
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826503794

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Engaging the Emotions in Spanish Culture and History by Luisa Elena Delgado,Pura Fernández,Jo Labanyi Pdf

Rather than being properties of the individual self, emotions are socially produced and deployed in specific cultural contexts, as this collection documents with unusual richness. All the essays show emotions to be a form of thought and knowledge, and a major component of social life—including in the nineteenth century, which attempted to relegate them to a feminine intimate sphere. The collection ranges across topics such as eighteenth-century sensibility, nineteenth-century concerns with the transmission of emotions, early twentieth-century cinematic affect, and the contemporary mobilization of political emotions including those regarding nonstate national identities. The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms—political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media—with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications.

Author : Debra Michlewitz
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1539988708

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Frayed Lives by Debra Michlewitz Pdf

The only artifact from my family's world before the onset of World War II is a pair of "raveled, stained, scored, and torn" napkins. These frayed "white napkins with blue borders" were "given to my mother by her mother on the platform of a train station in 1939." My parents traveled from that platform in Nowy Dwor Mazowiecki, Poland, to Bialystok to Siberia to Uzbekistan, saving their lives and losing everything else. Sally and Morris Michlewitz grew up in the newly independent Poland during the interwar period. They experienced the building of a newly defined nation. They witnessed the destruction and conquest of that nation in September 1939. Sally survived the Blitz in Warsaw. Morris, as a Polish infantryman, survived the failed defense of the city. During the next decade, they saw the world falling apart in small and large ways. The narrative ends in Brooklyn, New York in 1975. Frayed Lives paints the panorama of a family record which stretches across thousands of miles. It retells family history and connects it to the stories of other people surviving those times and places. It frames these stories with the history of record presented by scholars. It carefully depicts the desperation of refugees of war.

Author : Ármin Vámbéry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Asia, Central
ISBN : HARVARD:32044011456977

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History of Bokhara from the Earliest Period Down to the Present by Ármin Vámbéry Pdf

Author : Abubakari Ahmed,Alexandros Gasparatos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-02
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000431209

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Political Ecology of Industrial Crops by Abubakari Ahmed,Alexandros Gasparatos Pdf

This book employs a political ecology lens to unravel how industrial crops catalyse ecological, agrarian, socioeconomic, and institutional transformation. Using the conceptual tools and perspectives of political ecology, namely multi-scalar analysis and attention to marginalisation, social difference, and discourses and narratives, this volume provides a critical and comprehensive assessment of the transformative power of industrial cropping systems. It presents a truly international overview by drawing on a range of case studies from the global South, including soybeans in South America, cashew nuts in Guinea Bissau, cotton in India, maize in China, jatropha in Ghana, sugarcane in Peru and Eswatini, and oil palm in Ghana and Peru. The unique case studies are put into perspective with chapters introducing the key concepts of political ecology and critical dimensions of industrial cropping systems related to large-scale land acquisitions, land grabbing, and marginal land. The individual chapters employ different approaches all rooted in political ecology, thus offering a rich overview of how the field engages with such cropping systems. Overall, this volume contains valuable propositions for improving current policies and practices in industrial crop settings in both developed and developing countries. Through its comprehensive and interdisciplinary outlook, this volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of political ecology, agrarian studies, development studies, and ecological economics.

Author : Andrew Flachs
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816539635

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Cultivating Knowledge by Andrew Flachs Pdf

A single seed is more than just the promise of a plant. In rural south India, seeds represent diverging paths toward a sustainable livelihood. Development programs and global agribusiness promote genetically modified seeds and organic certification as a path toward more sustainable cotton production, but these solutions mask a complex web of economic, social, political, and ecological issues that may have consequences as dire as death. In Cultivating Knowledge anthropologist Andrew Flachs shows how rural farmers come to plant genetically modified or certified organic cotton, sometimes during moments of agrarian crisis. Interweaving ethnographic detail, discussions of ecological knowledge, and deep history, Flachs uncovers the unintended consequences of new technologies, which offer great benefits to some—but at others’ expense. Flachs shows that farmers do not make simple cost-benefit analyses when evaluating new technologies and options. Their evaluation of development is a complex and shifting calculation of social meaning, performance, economics, and personal aspiration. Only by understanding this complicated nexus can we begin to understand sustainable agriculture. By comparing the experiences of farmers engaged with these mutually exclusive visions for the future of agriculture, Cultivating Knowledge investigates the human responses to global agrarian change. It illuminates the local impact of global changes: the slow, persistent dangers of pesticides, inequalities in rural life, the aspirations of people who grow fibers sent around the world, the place of ecological knowledge in modern agriculture, and even the complex threat of suicide. It all begins with a seed.

Author : Tirthankar Roy,Anand V. Swamy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226799148

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Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy by Tirthankar Roy,Anand V. Swamy Pdf

An essential history of India's economic growth since 1947, including the legal reforms that have shaped the country in the shadow of colonial rule. Economists have long lamented how the inefficiency of India's legal system undermines the country’s economic capacity. How has this come to be? The prevailing explanation is that the postcolonial legal system is understaffed and under-resourced, making adjudication and contract enforcement slow and costly. Taking this as given, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy examines the contents and historical antecedents of these laws, including how they have stifled economic development. Economists Roy and Swamy argue that legal evolution in independent India has been shaped by three factors: the desire to reduce inequality and poverty; the suspicion that market activity, both domestic and international, can be detrimental to these goals; and the strengthening of Indian democracy over time, giving voice to a growing fraction of society, including the poor. Weaving the story of India's heralded economic transformation with its social and political history, Roy and Swamy show how inadequate legal infrastructure has been a key impediment to the country's economic growth during the last century. A stirring and authoritative history of a nation rife with contradictions, Law and the Economy in a Young Democracy is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand India's current crossroads—and the factors that may keep its dreams unrealized.

Author : Carol Dean Jones
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644031063

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Frayed Edges by Carol Dean Jones Pdf

Cozy up with Sarah and her friends for more murder, quilting, and community When sixty-eight-year-old Sarah Miller moves into the Cunningham Village retirement community, she is mourning the loss of her husband and the place that has been home for forty-two years. But Sarah is a survivor. As she reaches out into the retirement community that is to become home, she finds friends, activities, new hobbies, and a love interest. In the twelfth installment, excitement grows as the Tuesday Night Quilters plan an antique quilt show. But things go terribly wrong. Sarah and Sophie again throw themselves into the middle of the investigation, but this time Sarah finds herself in real danger. As always, Sarah and her retirement village cohorts offer fun, mystery, and lots of quilting. The twelfth in a series! Follow your favorite characters from story to story In the newest adventure, Sarah and Sophie find themselves at an antique quilt show before things go terribly wrong Includes complete instructions for the cover quilt featured in the story

Author : Dan Mayur
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781664136984

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Global Nomad by Dan Mayur Pdf

Global Nomad provides fascinating glimpses of Dan Mayur’s peripatetic life. In a lifetime of exploring the globe, he has traveled to over seventy countries visiting some of them multiple times. He is Indian by birth, American by education, and global nomad by choice. “The world is a mirror,” he says, “it reflects you. If you are good, it is good to you.” This book is an entertaining and informative rumination of a few of his selected travels covering parts of India, Australia, Bali, Cambodia, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Russia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina. In the delightful narration of his experiences he creates vivid word pictures in the reader’s mind with his trademark lucid language using sensitivity, wit, humor, and an unmistakable philosophic undertone. Global Nomad will appeal to a wide audience of students, teachers, and travelers, indeed anybody with the slightest curiosity about our beautiful world.