Outlaw In India

Author : Roy Moxham
Publisher : Random House
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781407080130

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Outlaw by Roy Moxham Pdf

In June 1992, author Roy Moxham did a very strange thing: he wrote to a bandit in an Indian jail. Phoolan Devi was the controversial and charismatic 'Bandit Queen' hailed as a modern-day Robin Hood in the villages surrounding Delhi. In revenge for her own gang rape, her followers killed 20 high-caste Indians, which led to her surrender and imprisonment. Struck by her story and appalled by her plight, Roy Moxham helped Phoolan Devi obtain justice, offered her encouragement when she became an MP in India on her release, and travelled with her for several years before she was finally gunned down in 2001. Based on the diaries that documented their extraordinary friendship, Moxham offers a fascinating portrait of a remarkable woman and reveals the hidden face of India.

Author : Philip Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 1553801784

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Alfred, Hollie the dog, and the crew of Seaweed the gull explore India, where they experience the wrath of the Indian navy and befriend a ten-year-old "untouchable".

Author : Philip Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Explorers
ISBN : 1553801776

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Outlaw in India by Philip Roy Pdf

Alfred, Hollie the dog, and the crew of Seaweed the gull explore India, where they experience the wrath of the Indian navy and befriend a ten-year-old "untouchable."

Author : Roy Moxham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : India
ISBN : 184604183X

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Outlaw by Roy Moxham Pdf

In June 1992, author Roy Moxham did a very strange thing: he wrote to a bandit in an Indian jail. Phoolan Devi was the controversial and charismatic 'Bandit Queen' hailed as a modern-day Robin Hood in the villages surrounding Delhi. In revenge for her own gang rape, her followers killed 20 high-caste Indians, which led to her surrender and imprisonment. Struck by her story and appalled by her plight, Roy Moxham helped Phoolan Devi obtain justice, offered her encouragement when she became an MP in India on her release, and travelled with her for several years before she was finally gunned down in 2001. Based on the diaries that documented their extraordinary friendship, Moxham offers a fascinating portrait of a remarkable woman and reveals the hidden face of India.

Author : Ian Urbina
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780451492951

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The Outlaw Ocean by Ian Urbina Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A riveting, adrenaline-fueled tour of a vast, lawless, and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to rampant criminality and exploitation. Traffickers and smugglers, pirates and mercenaries, wreck thieves and repo men, vigilante conservationists and elusive poachers, seabound abortion providers, clandestine oil-dumpers, shackled slaves and cast-adrift stowaways—drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Ian Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world. Through their stories of astonishing courage and brutality, survival and tragedy, he uncovers a globe-spanning network of crime and exploitation that emanates from the fishing, oil, and shipping industries, and on which the world's economies rely. Both a gripping adventure story and a stunning exposé, this unique work of reportage brings fully into view for the first time the disturbing reality of a floating world that connects us all, a place where anyone can do anything because no one is watching.

Author : Philip Roy
Publisher : Submarine Outlaw
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1553800583

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Submarine Outlaw by Philip Roy Pdf

Fiction. Young Adult Novel. What happens when a fearless young explorer teams up with a junkyard genius and builds a submarine? Going to sea with an unusual crew, a strangely intelligent seagull with attitude and a dog that nobody wanted, Alfred unwittingly becomes the "Submarine Outlaw" and discovers that the sea is a busy place. Escaping from the coastguard when he is mistaken for a Russian spy sub, rescuing a family on a sailboat in a storm, and running from thieves who are after the gold coins he has raised from the floor of the Louisburg harbor, Alfred learns that a modern explorer must keep his wits about him as he sails on the high seas, or beneath them. First prize winner in the Atlantic Writers Competition.

Author : Brenda E. F. Beck,Peter J. Claus,Praphulladatta Goswami,Jawaharlal Handoo
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226040837

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Folktales of India by Brenda E. F. Beck,Peter J. Claus,Praphulladatta Goswami,Jawaharlal Handoo Pdf

Presents approximately one hundred Indian folktales, translated from fourteen languages.

Author : Art T. Burton
Publisher : Eakin Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1681791560

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Cherokee Bill by Art T. Burton Pdf

Once upon a time in the late nineteenth century, there was an outlaw that captured the imagination of the American public like no other. He can be compared to John Dillinger or Pretty Boy Floyd of the 1930s. Like both of these men, he garnered national press for his exploits; the well-known New York Times had a running commentary on his actions and deeds. This outlaw's name was Crawford Goldsby, better known as Cherokee Bill.Cherokee Bill was every bit as colorful and outrageous as any criminal of the western frontier, perhaps even more so. There were a few things about him that made him truly unique for a famous desperado of the purple sage. First and foremost, he was an African American living in the Indian Territory. He was also Native American, Bill was a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, as a freedman, from his mother's lineage.Compare Cherokee Bill to Billy the Kid, (Billy Antrim), of New Mexico Territory fame. Although both outlaws received national media attention for their crimes while they were living, Billy the Kid was remembered and immortalized in books and films in the twentieth century; this did not occur for Cherokee Bill. Art Burton's newest book will help change that.

Author : Graham Seal
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857287922

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Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History by Graham Seal Pdf

This book is an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire to the present, showing how both real and mythic figures have influenced social, political, economic and cultural outcomes in many times and places. The book also looks at the contemporary continuations of the outlaw hero mythology, not only in popular culture and everyday life, but also in the current outbreak of global terrorism. The book also presents a more general argument related to the importance of understanding folk and popular mythologies in historical contexts. Outlaw heroes have a strong purchase in high and popular culture, appearing in film, books, plays, music, drama, art, even ballet. To simply ignore and discard such powerful expressions without understanding their origins, persistence and especially their ongoing cultural consequences, is to refuse the opportunity to comprehend some profoundly important aspects of human behaviour. These issues are pursued through discussion of the processes through which real and mythical outlaw heroes are romanticised, sentimentalised, sanitised, commodified and mythologised. The result is a new position in the continuing controversy over the existence the 'social bandit' that highlights the central role of mythology in the creation and perpetuation of outlaw heroes.

Author : Chayanika Shah,Raj Merchant,Shals Mahajan,Smriti Nevatia
Publisher : Zubaan
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789384757854

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No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy by Chayanika Shah,Raj Merchant,Shals Mahajan,Smriti Nevatia Pdf

The constructed “naturalness” of a world made up of two sexes, two genders, and heterosexual desire as the only legitimate desire has been continuously questioned and challenged by those marginalised by these norms. This forces us to ask some important questions: How is gender really understood and constructed in the world that we inhabit? How does it operate through the various socio-political-cultural structures around us? And, most crucially, how is it lived? No Outlaws in the Gender Galaxy answers these questions with a research study that attempts to understand gender through the lives of queer persons assigned gender female at birth. The lived realities of the respondents, echoing in the book through their voices, help to interrogate gender as well as provide clues to how it can be envisioned or revisioned to be egalitarian. This book explores how gender plays out in public and private institutions like the family, educational institutions, work and public spaces. Looking at each of these independently, it elaborates the specific ways in which binary gender norms are woven into each arena and it also explores the multiple ways in which interlocking systems of heteronormativity, casteism, class and ableism are enmeshed within patriarchy to create exclusion, marginalisation, pathologisation and violence. This book illustrates the multiplicity of ways in which people live gender and testifies that even if there are gender laws, in a just world there can be no gender outlaws. Published by Zubaan.

Author : Charles Augustus Kincaid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1905
Category : Kathiawar Peninsula (India)
ISBN : WISC:89079263497

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The Outlaws of Kathiawar, and Other Studies by Charles Augustus Kincaid Pdf

Author : Philip Roy
Publisher : Submarine Outlaw
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1553802470

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Seas of South Africa by Philip Roy Pdf

Alfred and his crew clash with the pirates that plagues Africa's eastern shores. He escapes overland to Johannesburg, with a reckless young inventor from Soweto, witnessing the beauty and ugliness of post-Apartheid South Africa. Inspired by the life of Nelson Mandela, Alfred is ready to become an active environmentalist.

Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-04-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 0822330482

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The Scandal of the State by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan Pdf

Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.

Author : Asha Kasbekar Ph.D.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781851096411

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Pop Culture India! by Asha Kasbekar Ph.D. Pdf

The over-the-top musicals of Bollywood may be the most familiar aspect of Indian popular culture, but there are many more, all explored in this fascinating volume. Pop Culture India! Media, Arts, and Lifestyle follows the rise of modern India's pop culture world, especially since the 1980s, when relaxed censorship and economic liberalization led to an explosion in movies, music, mass media, consumerism, spiritual practices, and more. It is a captivating introduction to a diverse nation whose appetite for entertainment has led to some surprising twists and turns in recent history. How did a popular Indian television series spark a change in government and the rise of Hindu nationalism? Are some Bollywood film companies laundering money for organized crime, or even al Qaeda? What accounts for the overwhelming popularity of that quaint vestige of colonialism, cricket? The answers, and many more intriguing insights, await the reader in Pop Culture India!

Author : William Langewiesche
Publisher : North Point Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781429954594

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The Outlaw Sea by William Langewiesche Pdf

The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it is a place that remains radically free. With typically understated lyricism, William Langewiesche explores this ocean world and the enterprises--licit and illicit--that flourish in the privacy afforded by its horizons. But its efficiencies are accompanied by global problems--shipwrecks and pollution, the hard lives and deaths of the crews of the gargantuan ships, and the growth of two pathogens: a modern and sophisticated strain of piracy and its close cousin, the maritime form of the new stateless terrorism. This is the outlaw sea that Langewiesche brings startlingly into view. The ocean is our world, he reminds us, and it is wild.