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Beyond Biryani: The Making of a Globalised Hyderabad
Hyderabad—the city of nawabs, the Charminar and biryani? Or a city plugged into the neural network of global technology? Hyderabad is both of those cities all at once, and there is much more to it than meets the eye. Beyond Biryani maps the journey from what was at best a proto-colonial city under a quasi-Mughal princely state till the 1940s to the modern and vibrant metropolis that Hyderabad is today. In the pages of this book, we see the beginnings of that transformation: the Britishers who steered the city in the direction of developing a scientific temper and the nawabs who championed the cause. And we discover the workings and patterns of the change: from the Chloroform Commissions to...
Hallyu Namaste: Korean Waves on the Indian Shores
The current phenomenon of Hallyu wave lashing the world shores with its cornucopia of cultural products is truly a cultural “dynamite” that has impacted a massive revisioning of all the accepted ideas of popular culture that existed prior to its entrance on the stage of world imagination. Its influence ranging from novel culinary habits to new ways of looking at gender has garnered the attention of researchers to closely look into the various nuances of the new popular culture.
Encountering Craft
This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as ‘craft.’ It fosters an understanding of how methodology, across disciplines, contributes to analytical frameworks within which the subject matter of craft is defined and constructed. The contributions are written by scholars whose work focuses on different craft practices across geographies. Each chapter contains detailed case study material along with theoretical analysis of the research challenges confronted. They provide valuable insight into how methodologies emerge in response to particular research conditions and contexts, addressing issues of decolonization, representation, institutionalization, and power. Informed by anthropology, art history and design, this volume facilitates interdisciplinary discussion and touches on some of the most critical issues related to craft research today.
Rediscovering Gandhi
One characteristic of this book is that it takes a holistic approach and tries to see how the different aspects of Gandhi’s life have interacted with one another. One more aim of the book is to see if we may extract anything out of him now, seventy years after his demise, when we are squarely to face the problems before us of building peace and solving poverty. For these purposes Gandhi’s politics, socioeconomics, and his fight against communalism constitute the themes of the three key chapters. They are preceded by one on his motivation and his religion. The final one is on his international activities. A brief “Summing Up” follows. The author shows his respect to Gandhi’s compassion, farsightedness, even genius, here and there, but does not hesitate to point out his mistakes. This is the result of the author’s decadelong dialogue with many Indians, Gandhi’s writings, and works on him.
India and Japan, in Search of Global Roles
Contributed papers presented at a conference organized by Japan Foundation, New Delhi in March 2005.
India and ASEAN
Papers presented at a three day international seminar held at Tirupati in October 2003.
Panchsheel
Contributed articles presented at a seminar organised by Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies.
Arise, Asia!
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