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Keywords for India

Author : Rukmini Bhaya Nair,Peter Ronald deSouza
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781350039254

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Keywords for India by Rukmini Bhaya Nair,Peter Ronald deSouza Pdf

What terms are currently up for debate in Indian society? How have their meanings changed over time? This book highlights key words for modern India in everyday usage as well as in scholarly contexts. Encompassing over 250 key words across a wide range of topics, including aesthetics and ceremony, gender, technology and economics, past memories and future imaginaries, these entries introduce some of the basic concepts that inform the 'cultural unconscious' of the Indian subcontinent in order to translate them into critical tools for literary, political, cultural and cognitive studies. Inspired by Raymond Williams' pioneering exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords, Keywords for India brings together more than 200 leading sub-continental scholars to form a polyphonic collective. Their sustained engagement with an incredibly diverse set of words enables a fearless interrogation of the panoply, the multitude, the shape-shifter that is 'India'. Through its close investigation and unpacking of words, this book investigates the various intellectual possibilities on offer within the Indian subcontinent at the beginning of a fraught new millennium desperately in need of fresh vocabularies. In this sense, Keywords for India presents the world with many emancipatory memes from India.

Keywords for Modern India

Author : Craig Jeffrey,John Harriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199665631

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Keywords for Modern India by Craig Jeffrey,John Harriss Pdf

What have English terms such as 'civil society', 'democracy', 'development' or 'nationalism' come to mean in an Indian context and how have their meanings and uses changed over time? Why are they the subjects of so much debate - in their everyday uses as well as amongst scholars? How did a concept such as 'Hinduism' come to be framed, and what does it mean now? What is 'caste'? Does it have quite the same meaning now as in the past? Why is the idea of 'faction' so significant in modern India? Why has the idea of 'empowerment' come to be used so extensively? These are the sorts of questions that are addressed in this book. Keywords for Modern India is modelled after the classic exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords - words that are 'strong, important and persuasive' - by Raymond Williams. The book, like Williams' Keywords, is not a dictionary or an encyclopaedia. Williams said that his was 'an inquiry into a vocabulary', and Keywords for Modern India presents just such an inquiry into the vocabulary deployed in writing in and about India in the English language - which has long been and is becoming ever more a critically important language in India's culture and society. Exploring the changing uses and contested meanings of common but significant words is a powerful and illuminating way of understanding contemporary India, for scholars and for students, and for general readers.

Keywords for Modern India

Author : Craig Jeffrey,John Harriss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191643927

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Keywords for Modern India by Craig Jeffrey,John Harriss Pdf

What have English terms such as 'civil society', 'democracy', 'development' or 'nationalism' come to mean in an Indian context and how have their meanings and uses changed over time? Why are they the subjects of so much debate - in their everyday uses as well as amongst scholars? How did a concept such as 'Hinduism' come to be framed, and what does it mean now? What is 'caste'? Does it have quite the same meaning now as in the past? Why is the idea of 'faction' so significant in modern India? Why has the idea of 'empowerment' come to be used so extensively? These are the sorts of questions that are addressed in this book. Keywords for Modern India is modelled after the classic exploration of English culture and society through the study of keywords - words that are 'strong, important and persuasive' - by Raymond Williams. The book, like Williams' Keywords, is not a dictionary or an encyclopaedia. Williams said that his was 'an inquiry into a vocabulary', and Keywords for Modern India presents just such an inquiry into the vocabulary deployed in writing in and about India in the English language - which has long been and is becoming ever more a critically important language in India's culture and society. Exploring the changing uses and contested meanings of common but significant words is a powerful and illuminating way of understanding contemporary India, for scholars and for students, and for general readers.

The British Raj: Keywords

Author : Pramod K. Nayar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351972413

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The British Raj: Keywords by Pramod K. Nayar Pdf

For two hundred years India was the jewel in the British imperial crown. During the course of governing India – the Raj – a number of words came to have particular meanings in the imperial lexicon. This book documents the words and terms that the British used to describe, define, understand and judge the subcontinent. It offers insight into the cultures of the Raj through a sampling of its various terms, concepts and nomenclature, and utilizes critical commentaries on specific domains to illuminate not only the linguistic meaning of a word but its cultural and political nuances. This fascinating book also provides literary and cultural texts from the colonial canon where these Anglo-Indian colloquialisms, terms and official jargon occurred. It enables us to glean a sense of the Empire’s linguistic and cultural tensions, negotiations and adaptations. The work will interest students and researchers of history, language and literature, colonialism, cultural studies, imperialism and the British Raj, and South Asian studies.

Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition

Author : Bruce Burgett,Glenn Hendler
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780814708019

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Keywords for American Cultural Studies, Second Edition by Bruce Burgett,Glenn Hendler Pdf

The latest vocabulary of key terms in American Studies Since its initial publication, scholars and students alike have turned to Keywords for American Cultural Studies as an invaluable resource for understanding key terms and debates in the fields of American studies and cultural studies. As scholarship has continued to evolve, this revised and expanded second edition offers indispensable meditations on new and developing concepts used in American studies, cultural studies, and beyond. It is equally useful for college students who are trying to understand what their teachers are talking about, for general readers who want to know what’s new in scholarly research, and for professors who just want to keep up. Designed as a print-digital hybrid publication, Keywords collects more than 90 essays30 of which are new to this edition—from interdisciplinary scholars, each on a single term such as “America,” “culture,” “law,” and “religion.” Alongside “community,” “prison,” "queer," “region,” and many others, these words are the nodal points in many of today’s most dynamic and vexed discussions of political and social life, both inside and outside of the academy. The Keywords website, which features 33 essays, provides pedagogical tools that engage the entirety of the book, both in print and online. The publication brings together essays by scholars working in literary studies and political economy, cultural anthropology and ethnic studies, African American history and performance studies, gender studies and political theory. Some entries are explicitly argumentative; others are more descriptive. All are clear, challenging, and critically engaged. As a whole, Keywords for American Cultural Studies provides an accessible A-to-Z survey of prevailing academic buzzwords and a flexible tool for carving out new areas of inquiry.

Companion to Indian Democracy

Author : Peter Ronald deSouza,Mohd. Sanjeer Alam,Hilal Ahmed
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000461589

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Companion to Indian Democracy by Peter Ronald deSouza,Mohd. Sanjeer Alam,Hilal Ahmed Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the contemporary experiences of democracy in India. It explores the modes by which democracy as an idea, and as a practice, is interpreted, enforced, and lived in India’s current political climate. The book employs ‘case studies’ as a methodological vantage point to evolve an innovative conceptual framework for the study of democracy in India. The chapters unpack a diverse range of themes such as democracy and Dalits; agriculture, new sociality and communal violence in rural areas; changing nature of political communication in India; role of anti-nuclear movements in democracies; issues of subaltern citizen’s voice, impaired governance and the development paradigm; free speech and segregation in the public sphere; and, the surveillance state and Indian democracy. These thematic explorations are arranged in an engaging sequence to offer a multifaceted narrative of Indian democracy especially in relation to the recent debates on citizenship and constitutionalism. A key critical intervention on contemporary politics in South Asia, this book will be essential reading for scholars and researchers of political studies, political science, political sociology, comparative government and politics, sociology, social anthropology, public administration, public policy, and South Asia studies. It will also be of immense interest to policymakers, journalists, think tanks, bureaucrats, and organizations working in the area.

Keywords for Today

Author : The Keywords Project,Colin MacCabe,Holly Yanacek
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190636593

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Keywords for Today by The Keywords Project,Colin MacCabe,Holly Yanacek Pdf

Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From nature to cultural appropriation and from market to terror, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. This book sketches these histories in ways that illuminate the political bent and values of our current society. Written by The Keywords Project, an independent group of scholars who have spent more than a decade on this work, Keywords for Today updates and extends Raymond Williams's classic work, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. It updates some 40 of Williams's original entries and adds 86 new entries, ranging from access to youth. The book is both a history of English, documenting important semantic change in the language, and a handbook of current political and ideological debate. Whether it is demonstrating the only recently-acquired religious meaning of fundamentalism or the complicated linguistic history of queer, Keywords for Today will intrigue and enlighten.

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies

Author : Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783089246

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Keywords for Travel Writing Studies by Charles Forsdick,Zoë Kinsley,Kathryn Walchester Pdf

Keywords for Travel Writing Studies draws on the notion of the ‘keyword’ as initially elaborated by Raymond Williams in his seminal 1976 text Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society to present 100 concepts central to the study of travel writing as a literary form. Each entry in the volume is around 1,000 words, the style more essayistic than encyclopaedic, with contributors reflecting on their chosen keyword from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The emphasis on travelogues and other cultural representations of mobility drawn from a range of national and linguistic traditions ensures that the volume has a comparative dimension; the aim is to give an overview of each term in its historical and theoretical complexity, providing readers with a clear sense of how the selected words are essential to a critical understanding of travel writing. Each entry is complemented by an annotated bibliography of five essential items suggesting further reading.

Keywords: Nature

Author : Nadia Tazi
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015062893089

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Keywords: Nature by Nadia Tazi Pdf

At the eve of the twenty-first century, the Western perception of nature has grown closer to the traditional perspectives of the East. These essays offer an opportunity to rethink the implications of this reversal.

What is Responsible for India’s Sharp Disinflation?

Author : Sajjid Chinoy,Pankaj Kumar,Ms.Prachi Mishra
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475533453

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What is Responsible for India’s Sharp Disinflation? by Sajjid Chinoy,Pankaj Kumar,Ms.Prachi Mishra Pdf

We analyze the dramatic decline in India’s inflation over the last two years using an augmented Phillips Curve approach and quantify the role of different factors. Our results suggest that, contrary to popular perception, the direct role of lower oil prices in India’s disinflation was relatively modest given the limited pass-through into domestic prices. Instead, we find that inflation is a highly persistent process in India, reflecting very adaptive expectations and the backward looking nature of wage and support price-setting. As a consequence, we find that a moderation of expectations, both backward and forward, and a rationalization of Minimum Support Prices (MSPs), explain the bulk of the disinflation over the last two years.

Nuclear South Asia

Author : Rajesh Rajagopalan,Atul Mishra
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317324768

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Nuclear South Asia by Rajesh Rajagopalan,Atul Mishra Pdf

This dictionary provides a comprehensive and ready guide to the key concepts, issues, persons, and technologies related to the nuclear programmes of India and Pakistan and other South Asian states. This will serve as a useful reference especially as the nuclear issue continues to be an important domestic and international policy concern.

Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research

Author : Paul Baker,Jesse Egbert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317532088

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Triangulating Methodological Approaches in Corpus Linguistic Research by Paul Baker,Jesse Egbert Pdf

Contemporary corpus linguists use a wide variety of methods to study discourse patterns. This volume provides a systematic comparison of various methodological approaches in corpus linguistics through a series of parallel empirical studies that use a single corpus dataset to answer the same overarching research question. Ten contributing experts each use a different method to address the same broadly framed research question: In what ways does language use in online Q+A forum responses differ across four world English varieties (India, Philippines, United Kingdom, and United States)? Contributions will be based on analysis of the same 400,000 word corpus from online Q+A forums, and contributors employ methodologies including corpus-based discourse analysis, audience perceptions, Multi-Dimensional analysis, pragmatic analysis, and keyword analysis. In their introductory and concluding chapters, the volume editors compare and contrast the findings from each method and assess the degree to which ‘triangulating’ multiple approaches may provide a more nuanced understanding of a research question, with the aim of identifying a set of complementary approaches which could arguably take into account analytical blind spots. Baker and Egbert also consider the importance of issues such as researcher subjectivity, type of annotation, the limitations and affordances of different corpus tools, the relative strengths of qualitative and quantitative approaches, and the value of considering data or information beyond the corpus. Rather than attempting to find the ‘best’ approach, the focus of the volume is on how different corpus linguistic methodologies may complement one another, and raises suggestions for further methodological studies which use triangulation to enrich corpus-related research.

Digital Transformation and Global Society

Author : Daniel A. Alexandrov,Alexander V. Boukhanovsky,Andrei V. Chugunov,Yury Kabanov,Olessia Koltsova
Publisher : Springer
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319697840

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Digital Transformation and Global Society by Daniel A. Alexandrov,Alexander V. Boukhanovsky,Andrei V. Chugunov,Yury Kabanov,Olessia Koltsova Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Digital Transformation and Global Society, DTGS 2017, held in St. Petersburg, Russia, in June 2017. The 34 revised full papers and three revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on eSociety: social media analysis; eSociety: ICTs in education and science; eSociety: legal, security and usability issues; ePolity: electronic governance and electronic participation; ePolity: politics of cyberspace; eCity: urban planning and smart cities; eHealth: ICTs in public health management; eEconomy and eFinance: finance and knowledge management.

New Keywords

Author : Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781118725412

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New Keywords by Tony Bennett,Lawrence Grossberg,Meaghan Morris Pdf

Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams’ Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams’ classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere. Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists Showcases 142 signed entries – from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West – that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society Builds on and updates Raymond Williams’s classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.

Amazon Keywords for Books

Author : Dale L. Roberts
Publisher : One Jacked Monkey, LLC
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781639250059

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Amazon Keywords for Books by Dale L. Roberts Pdf

Become a Keyword Master and Watch Your Book Sales Grow Have you published your work only to see minimal returns? Are you afraid your book might fade into obscurity if you don’t do something now? As an author, you have one goal – to sell more books, so you reach more readers. Yet you can’t do that if no one can find your book. Then, why can’t readers find your book? To sell more books consistently, you must say the right words at the right place and at the right time. And, here’s the kicker – the answer has been in front of you the whole time. The key to selling more books disguises itself in many ways. Whether 7 backend slots or a book description, the publishing process is incomplete without one main contributing factor – keywords. If you can master keywords, then you can master your book’s success! Dale L. Roberts is here to help you do that! In Amazon Keywords for Books, Dale shows you how to use keywords to sell more books. It’s not difficult to increase the discoverability of your book. But you’ll need a deeper understanding of keywords if you want to sell more books. In this book, you’ll learn: ● The importance & function of keywords ● Different types of keywords & what to use ● How to fill the 7 backend keyword slots in KDP ● Best practices for keyword research on Amazon ● How to leverage search engines to do your work ● Why keyword relevance determines your success ● How Amazon Ads is the best kept secret in keyword research ● And, so much more! Are you ready to learn more and sell more through keyword mastery? Then, Amazon Keywords for Books is for you! Buy it now.