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Paperback, spine discolored and a bit creased, minor traces of use, else in good condition. Text in English. Please see description or ask for photos.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page: "Change the world # / For J-- / With warm regards / Aparna / Sept 18." The book is square and unmarked; spine and wraps uncreased; Mylar protected. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Etat : New. A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF A HOUSEWIFE'S QUEST FOR INTELLECTUAL GROWTH AND HER ABILITY TO RESIST TWENTIETH-CENTURY ORTHODOXIES IN MADRAS VIA WRITING AND READING. In this intimate, yet simultaneously anthropological, exploration of the life of her maternal grandmother Pankajam (1911-2007), Kalpana Karunakaran achieves the remarkable: capturing the singularity of an exceptional woman, even as it situates her in a social universe shaped by the conventions of Tamil Brahmin orthodoxy. Karunakaran conveys with clarity how the 'utterly ordinary' life of a 'woman of no consequence' (as Pankajam writes of herself), lived out largely within the confines of family and kin, was quite far from ordinary. The book draws extensively upon letters, glimpses of Pankajam's life narrated through her thinly-disguised semi-autobiographical short stories that allowed her to 'say the unsayable' about love, intimacy and conjugality, and her autobiography, which she began writing in 1949 and kept writing till her last piece in 1995. What comes together is a riveting portrait of heartbreak and violence, yearning and delight, a housewife's quest for intellectual growth and her talent for friendships across cultures and continents. In the final reckoning, A Woman of No Consequence is about the chequered trajectories of a newly-born nation as seen through the lens of its daughters?restless women forcing home and nation to reckon with their stubborn striving for self-actualisation.

Soft cover. Etat : New. WINNER OF THE 2024 ASIAN LAW & SOCIETY ASSOCIATION DISTINGUISHED BOOK AWARD For more than a century before World War II, traders, merchants, financiers, and laborers steadily moved between places on the Indian Ocean, trading goods, supplying credit, and seeking work. This all changed with the war and as India, Burma, Ceylon, and Malaya wrested independence from the British empire. Set against the tumult of the post-war period, Boats in a Storm centers on the legal struggles of migrants to retain their traditional rhythms and patterns of life, illustrating how they experienced citizenship and decolonization. Even as nascent citizenship regimes and divergent political trajectories of decolonization papered over migrations between South and Southeast Asia, migrants continued to recount cross-border histories in encounters with the law. These accounts, often obscured by national and international political developments, unsettle the notion that static national identities and loyalties had emerged, fully formed and unblemished by migrant pasts, in the aftermath of empires. Drawing on archival materials from India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, London, and Singapore, Kalyani Ramnath shows how decolonization was ultimately marked not only by shipwrecked empires and nation-states assembled and ordered from the debris of imperial collapse, but also by these forgotten stories of wartime displacements, their unintended consequences, and long afterlives.

Hardcover. Etat : New. CHRONICLES THE TRANSFORMATION OF A DRAVIDIAN SOCIO-CULTURAL MOVEMENT INTO AN ELECTORALLY VIABLE POLITICAL PARTY IN TAMIL NADU. The transformation of the Dravidian socio-cultural movement into an electorally viable political party-the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, or DMK-is one of the most fascinating stories in modern India. It is also one that is critical to an understanding of South Indian politics as a whole. Although the movement and the party have both been widely studied, the interplay between the two has been largely neglected, with scholars tending to focus on outcomes. Vignesh Rajahmani's innovative, detailed study of the Dravidian Movement explores the strategic leadership of DMK and non-DMK figures like Periyar E.V. Ramasamy, C.N. Annadurai, M. Karunanidhi and K. Kamaraj. It illustrates their synthesis of anti-caste ideology, socio-economic and educational mobility, and inclusive Dravidian-Tamil identity, and considers why that vision resonated with marginalised communities. Tracing the early DMK years, from the party's social justice campaigns to its landmark electoral victory in 1967, Rajahmani highlights the challenges of navigating ideological commitments within the constraints of political pragmatism, while also making politics accessible to the common person. He explains how iterations on the initial ideology and political offering can reinvigorate such movements, keeping their politics agile, and importantly, incentivising inclusive policymaking. An investigation into how the DMK shaped Tamil Nadu's counter-hegemonic political identity, which has proven electorally resilient in spite of majoritarian onslaughts, The Dravidian Pathway is a timely contribution to the public and scholarly understanding of Tamil Nadu's politics.