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【どこにでもある「インドカレー店」からみる移民社会】いまや日本のいたるところで見かけるようになった、格安インドカレー店。
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കേരളത്തിലെ സാമൂഹികചരിത്രത്തിലെ സുപ്രധാന ഏടാണ് വിമോചനസമരം. അത് ദേശീയതലത്തിലും പ്രാദേശികതലത്തിലും നിരവധി പ്രത്യാഘാതങ്ങള്‍ സൃഷ്ടിച്ചു. നവോത്ഥാനത്തിന്റെയും സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യ സമരത്തിന്റെയും ചരിത്രഭൂമികയില്‍ ജാത്യാഭിമാനം മരണാസന്നമായിരുന്നു. പക്ഷേ, മരിച്ചില്ല, ജാതിക്കു മരണമില്ല. പുരോഗമനശക്തികളുടെ ഉയിര്‍പ്പിന്റെയും വാഴ്‌വിന്റെയും കാലത്ത് ജാതി പതുങ്ങിക്കിടന്നു. വിമോചനസമരം അതിനെ ഉണര്‍ത്തിയെടുത്തു. ജാതി പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങള്‍ക്ക് മൃതസഞ്ജീവനിയാകാന്‍ കഴിഞ്ഞു എന്നതാണ് വിമോചനസമരത്തിന്റെ ഫലശ്രുതി.

കേരളത്തിന്റെ സാമൂഹിക രാഷ്ട്രീയ ചരിത്രത്തിൽ മുഴങ്ങിക്കേട്ട മുദ്രാവാക്യങ്ങൾ, അവരൂപപ്പെട്ട സന്ദർഭങ്ങൾ എന്നിവ വിശദീകരിക്കുന്ന മലയാളത്തിലെ ആദ്യത്തെ പുസ്തകം.

കേരളത്തിന്റെയും രാഷ്ട്രീയ സാമൂഹിക ചരിത്രപഠനത്തില്‍ ഒഴിവാക്കാനാകാത്ത ഗ്രന്ഥം. ഒപ്പംതന്നെ രാജ്യം മറ്റൊരു അടിയന്തരാവസ്ഥയുടെ വക്കിലാണെന്ന മട്ടിലുള്ള സമകാലീന രാഷ്ട്രീയ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തെക്കുറിച്ചുള്ള വിലയിരുത്തലും നടത്തുന്നു.

5,000 years of history—from the Bhagavad Gita to Bollywood—fill this masterful portrait of the world's most populous nation and a rising global power.

In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.

Who are we Indians? Where did we come from? To tell us the story of our ancestry, journalist Tony Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past–when a band of Homo sapiens first made their way from Africa into the Indian subcontinent. These were the First Indians. Citing recent DNA evidence, he traces the subsequent large migrations of modern humans into India–of a people related to early farmers of Iran who mixed with the First Indians at the latest between 5400 BCE and 3700 BCE and of the ‘Arya’ between 2000 BCE and 1500 BCE, among others.

The narrative focuses on the imaginative and institutional structures that have successfully sustained and transformed India, first under British colonial rule and then, after 1947, as an independent country. Woven into the larger political narrative is an account of India's social and economic development and its rich cultural life. The final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last 20 years, from 1990 through to the Congress electoral victory of 2009, and the rise of the Indian high-tech industry in a country still troubled by poverty and political unrest.

This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis.

Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world - practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping malls - that we take its presence, and its meaning, for granted. But how did the current yoga boom happen? And is it really rooted in ancient Indian practices, as many of its adherents claim? In this groundbreaking book, Mark Singleton calls into question many commonly held beliefs about the nature and origins of postural yoga (asana) and suggests a radically new way of understanding the meaning of yoga as it is practiced by millions today.

Learn something new with each episode of Did You Know. This is a podcast where each episode is a short knowledge nugget that will give you five lesser-known or surprising facts on one topic.

For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, religions, technology, astronomy, music, dance, literature, mathematics and mythology blazed a trail across the world, along a Golden Road that stretched from the Red Sea to the Pacific. William Dalrymple draws from a lifetime of scholarship to highlight India’s oft-forgotten position as the heart of ancient Eurasia. For the first time, he gives a name to this spread of Indian ideas that transformed the world.

In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport. As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away.

Precariously positioned between China and India, Burma's population has suffered dictatorship, natural disaster, and the dark legacies of colonial rule. But when decades of military dictatorship finally ended and internationally beloved Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi emerged from long years of house arrest, hopes soared. As historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U saw the cracks forming. In this insider's diagnosis of a country at a breaking point, he dissects all of the elements that came together to challenge the incipient democracy.

For Amartya Sen, “home” has been many places, including Dhaka, in modern Bangladesh, where he grew up; Calcutta, where he studied economics; and Cambridge, where he engaged with the greatest minds of the 20th century. In Home in the World, these “homes” collectively form an unparalleled and truthful vision of 20th- and 21st-century life.

The English East India Company was the mother of the modern multinational. Its trading empire encircled the globe, importing Asian luxuries such as spices, textiles, and teas. But it also conquered much of India with its private army and broke open China's markets with opium. The Company's practices shocked its contemporaries and still reverberate today.

The history of India is long and complicated. It dates back to thousands of years before Christ, according to historical analysts, and it involves wars, peoples, different spiritual movements, claims of independence, merging of empires, and various cultural aspects.

From the first agricultural settlement more than 7,000 years ago to the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great and the vast Maurya Empire, ancient India tells a story interweaved with captivating legends and cultural legacy.

Upanishads came to be regarded as the teachings forming the concluding section of the Vedic corpus.

In megacities like Mumbai, where half the population live in slums, the extraordinary riches of India’s new dynasties echo the Vanderbilts and Rockefellers of yesterday. James Crabtree’s The Billionaire Raj takes listeners on a personal journey to meet these reclusive billionaires, fugitive tycoons, and shadowy political power brokers. Crabtree dramatizes the battle between crony capitalists and economic reformers, revealing a tense struggle between equality and privilege playing out against a combustible backdrop of aspiration, class, and caste.