The Unquiet Woods: Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya, Paperback - Ramachandra Guha

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An extraordinary history of resistance and the fight for Indian independence from Ramachandra Guha.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Ra...

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From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s):...

From one of India's finest writers, thinkers and commentators, a memoir of a love affair with cricket.

This sensitive picture of the constant and circumspect struggle waged by peasants materially and ideologically against their oppressors shows that ...

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Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the munda...

Climate change is increasingly acknowledged as a security issue. But how exactly is 'security' understood? McDonald identifies different accounts o...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): William R. CattonNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 1982Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 27Cover type: ...

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Dorothy, a baby, was rescued. Both her parents died in a blazing fire. The orphan peasant raised by a family. One day Dorothy marries Mr Wendell. M...

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On September 30, 2006, gunfire echoed through thin air on Cho Oyu Mountain. Climbers preparing to summit watched in horror as Chinese guards fired ...

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The pre-Gangesa Navya-Nyaya treatise Upadhidarpana (UD) deals with the upadhi, a key concept in the Navya-Nyaya theory of inference. This volume is...

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A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means

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