Saffronising Education Acche Din

Author : Prof. Ravi Meena
Publisher : OnlineGatha
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789385818349

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Saffronising Education-Acche Din by Prof. Ravi Meena Pdf

What began with the trashing and pulping of a book on gods and renewed litigation against an Indologist has now taken a more distinct shape in terms of the approach to education itself, most of which seems to project an obscurantist and insular India even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is busy forging bonds outside the country. The manner in which the previous National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government went about rectifying the “errors” in National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) textbooks, with the aim of purging them of alleged Marxist and Macaulayan influence, left no one in doubt that school textbooks would once again be a target of the present government in the name of correcting historical wrongs.

Author : Benjamin B. Olshin
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789004352728

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Lost Knowledge by Benjamin B. Olshin Pdf

Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories investigates early texts that speak of sophisticated technologies millennia ago that became obscured over time or were destroyed with the civilizations that had created them.

Author : Govinda Pānasare
Publisher : Leftword Books
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9380118139

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Who was Shivaji? by Govinda Pānasare Pdf

Hindutva icon or secular nationalist? Feudal potentate or peasants\' king? Protector of cows and brahmans or shudra ruler? Medieval marauder or builder of an empire?//Who was Shivaji?//This punchy, readable book provides a new perspective on a popular hero of indian history. After this, Shivaji will never be the same again.//Govind Pansare was one of Maharashtra\'s most prominent public intellectuals. And among the bravest. He was felled by an assassin. But his rationalist view of human history is impossible to kill. This book is testimony to the power of ideas.

Author : Satu P. Limaye
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Hinduism and state
ISBN : 0971941661

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Religious Radicalism and Security in South Asia by Satu P. Limaye Pdf

Author : Subodh Mathur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1637542305

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India's Path to Prosperity 2022-2047 by Subodh Mathur Pdf

Key question: What do we have to do to make India a prosperous country by 2047, when we will celebrate 100 years of political independence? That's only 25 years away. In this fast-changing world, it is unrealistic to have a concrete 25-year plan. Instead, the book lays out the key issues that must be resolved in the next 10-15 years (Phase 1). This will lay the foundations of prosperity. After that, India can move quickly in the remaining years (Phase 2) on its path to prosperity, taking advantage of opportunities as they arise. These fundamental issues are complex, and their workable solutions have yet to be agreed upon. For example, in India, the average marginal and small farmers are poor. What will their children and grandchildren do? They can never become well-off on the small piece of land the family has. Plus, they go to lousy schools, and tend to be undernourished. So, their skill levels are low. Will they still be poor in 2047? If yes, how will India be prosperous? Hence, the book does not provide detailed solutions - just broadly defined options, where possible. The idea is to set off national discussions about the key issues. The book has no mathematics or jargon; it has plenty of charts. It is written at the reading level of Standard 9-10 students.

Author : N.S. Inamdar
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789351777731

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Shahenshah by N.S. Inamdar Pdf

Aurangzeb must rebel against his father, and compete with his brothers, especially Darashikoh who is Emperor Shah Jahan's favoured son, to become the shahenshah of India and sit on the Peacock Throne. In politics, after all, trust and betrayal are two edges of the same sword. Meanwhile, in his zenankhana, the begums, constantly worrying about inheritance and bloodlines, grow jittery at the arrival of Hira, a mere concubine, who seems to have all of Aurangzeb's heart. Shahenshah: The Life of Aurangzeb unravels the inner life of the formidable emperor, and the twists of fate and duty that come with a crown. An all-time favourite of Marathi literature, this is the most popular of N.S. Inamdar's sixteen hugely successful historical novels. This effortless translation tells an intricate, affecting story of a deeply misunderstood Mughal.

Author : Walter Andersen,Shridhar D. Damle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781787382886

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Messengers of Hindu Nationalism by Walter Andersen,Shridhar D. Damle Pdf

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) is a Hindu nationalist volunteer organization. It is also the parent of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Prime Minister Modi was himself a career RSS office-holder, or pracharak. This book explores how the RSS and its affiliates have benefitted from India's economic development and concurrent social dislocation, with rapid modernization creating a sense of rootlessness, disrupting traditional hierarchies, and attracting many upwardly mobile groups to the organization. India seems more willing than ever to accept the RSS's narrative of Hindu nationalism--one that seeks to assimilate Hindus into a common identity representing true 'Indianness'. Yet the RSS has also come to resemble 'the Congress system', with a socially diverse membership containing a distinct left, right and center. The organization's most significant dilemma is how to reconcile the assault from its far right on cultural issues like cow protection with condemnations of globalization from the left flank. Andersen and Damle offer an essential account of the RSS's rapid rise in recent decades, tracing how it has evolved in response to economic liberalization and assessing its long-term impact on Indian politics and society.

Author : BIBEKANANDA RAY
Publisher : Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9788123026619

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Conscience of The Race by BIBEKANANDA RAY Pdf

The book is a detailed and wonderful study on the Offbeat cinema in India. The author through the title says that the offbeat genre, more than the mainstream, truly reflects the conscience of the Indian people.

Author : Sunil Khilnani
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789385990953

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Incarnations by Sunil Khilnani Pdf

For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans—some famous, some unjustly forgotten—bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times to our own.

Author : Nanditha Kirshna
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9788184758658

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Book of Vishnu by Nanditha Kirshna Pdf

Vishnu, the Supreme Being, is the preserver, the protector of the good and the guardian of dharma. Seated on Adi Shesha, the many-hooded serpent, in the primeval waters, he watches over his devotees and rewards the pious. And whenever dharma is in danger, he incarnates himself on earth to rid it of evil. Beginning with an investigation of the possible non-Vedic, Dravidian origins of Vishnu, this book describes his form, aspects and attributes, and his avatars or incarnations: Matsya, the fish; Kurma, the tortoise; Varaha, the boar; Narasimha, the man-lion; Vamana, the dwarf; Parashurama; Rama; Krishna; and Kalki, the final destroyer. Combining the skill of a storyteller with the insight of a scholar, Nanditha Krishna has brought to glorious life perhaps the most powerful and revered god in the Hindu pantheon.

Author : Shashi Tharoor
Publisher : Rupa Publications
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9388292170

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The Paradoxical Prime Minister by Shashi Tharoor Pdf

Author : Edward Anderson,Arkotong Longkumer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000733464

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Neo-Hindutva by Edward Anderson,Arkotong Longkumer Pdf

Neo-Hindutva explores the recent proliferation and evolution of Hindu nationalism – the assertive majoritarian, right-wing ideology that is transforming contemporary India. This volume develops and expands on the idea of ‘neo-Hindutva’ –– Hindu nationalist ideology which is evolving and shifting in new, surprising, and significant ways, requiring a reassessment and reframing of prevailing understandings. The contributors identify and explain the ways in which Hindu nationalism increasingly permeates into new spaces: organisational, territorial, conceptual, rhetorical. The scope of the chapters reflect the diversity of contemporary Hindutva – both in India and beyond – which appears simultaneously brazen but concealed, nebulous and mainstreamed, militant yet normalised. They cover a wide range of topics and places in which one can locate new forms of Hindu nationalism: courts of law, the Northeast, the diaspora, Adivasi (tribal) communities, a powerful yoga guru, and the Internet. The volume also includes an in-depth interview with Christophe Jaffrelot and a postscript by Deepa Reddy. Helping readers to make sense of contemporary Hindutva, Neo-Hindutva is ideal for scholars of India, Hinduism, Nationalism, and Asian Studies more generally. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary South Asia.

Author : Pradeep K. Chhibber,Rahul Verma
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190623906

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Ideology and Identity by Pradeep K. Chhibber,Rahul Verma Pdf

Indian party politics, commonly viewed as chaotic, clientelistic, and corrupt, is nevertheless a model for deepening democracy and accommodating diversity. Historically, though, observers have argued that Indian politics is non-ideological in nature. In contrast, Pradeep Chhibber and Rahul Verma contend that the Western European paradigm of "ideology" is not applicable to many contemporary multiethnic countries. In these more diverse states, the most important ideological debates center on statism-the extent to which the state should dominate and regulate society-and recognition-whether and how the state should accommodate various marginalized groups and protect minority rights from majorities. Using survey data from the Indian National Election Studies and evidence from the Constituent Assembly debates, they show how education, the media, and religious practice transmit the competing ideas that lie at the heart of ideological debates in India.

Author : Christoph Kohl,Barbara Christophe,Heike Liebau,Achim Saupe
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030554743

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The Politics of Authenticity and Populist Discourses by Christoph Kohl,Barbara Christophe,Heike Liebau,Achim Saupe Pdf

This edited volume breaks new ground and opens up new perspectives by capturing the role played by claims to authenticity in populist discourses in Brazil, India and Ukraine. By conceiving of both triumphant populism and increasing demands for authenticity as expressions of crisis, the volume seeks to satisfy the need to take a closer look at yearnings for orientation in a globalised world that is often associated with rapid social change and the disappearance of old certainties. Starting from the assumption that media play a crucial role for populist discourses of authenticity, the volume moves beyond conventional and social media by expanding its focus to media in formal education, notably school textbooks and curricula. These two particular media formats lastingly shape younger generations and thus the future. The proposed volume adopts global perspectives from three postcolonial countries that are often beyond the scope of studies dealing with populist discourses and media entanglements – insights that contribute new aspects to international scholarly debates.

Author : Limor Shifman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262317702

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Memes in Digital Culture by Limor Shifman Pdf

Taking “Gangnam Style” seriously: what Internet memes can tell us about digital culture. In December 2012, the exuberant video “Gangnam Style” became the first YouTube clip to be viewed more than one billion times. Thousands of its viewers responded by creating and posting their own variations of the video—“Mitt Romney Style,” “NASA Johnson Style,” “Egyptian Style,” and many others. “Gangnam Style” (and its attendant parodies, imitations, and derivations) is one of the most famous examples of an Internet meme: a piece of digital content that spreads quickly around the web in various iterations and becomes a shared cultural experience. In this book, Limor Shifman investigates Internet memes and what they tell us about digital culture. Shifman discusses a series of well-known Internet memes—including “Leave Britney Alone,” the pepper-spraying cop, LOLCats, Scumbag Steve, and Occupy Wall Street's “We Are the 99 Percent.” She offers a novel definition of Internet memes: digital content units with common characteristics, created with awareness of each other, and circulated, imitated, and transformed via the Internet by many users. She differentiates memes from virals; analyzes what makes memes and virals successful; describes popular meme genres; discusses memes as new modes of political participation in democratic and nondemocratic regimes; and examines memes as agents of globalization. Memes, Shifman argues, encapsulate some of the most fundamental aspects of the Internet in general and of the participatory Web 2.0 culture in particular. Internet memes may be entertaining, but in this book Limor Shifman makes a compelling argument for taking them seriously.