Member Announcements
Book Announcement: Cell Phone Nation by Robin Jeffrey and Assa Doron
The book has been published this year in India by Hachette, but in the UK (Hurst Edition) and US (The Harvard Edition) under the title 'The Great Indian Phone Book: how cheap mobile phones change business, politics and daily life (2013)
The book will be launched at Habitat Centre, New Delhi on the 18th Feb, at 6.30 pm, the invitation with the list of panelist to discuss the future of mobile communication is attached.
Book Announcement: Coming May 2013 From Yale University Press
Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
By Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta
Yale Agrarian Studies Series
With this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid environments.” Focusing on chars—the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal—the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people's ways of life.
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/book.asp?isbn=9780300188301
Book Announcement: Contesting Colonial Authority
ed. Contesting Colonial Authority: Medicine and Indigenous Responses in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-century India
Publisher: Lexington Books (Rowman& Littlefield Publishing Group), Lanham: MD,USA Release date: April 2012
Description: Poonam Bala’s Contesting Colonial Authority explores the interplay of conformity and defiance amongst the plural medical tradition in colonial India. The contributors reveal how Indian elites, nationalists, and the rest of the Indian population participated in the move to revisit and frame a new social character of Indian Medicine. Viewed in the light of the cultural, nationalistic, social, literary and scientific essentials, Contesting Colonial Authority highlights various indigenous interpretations and mechanisms through which Indian sciences and medicine were projected against the cultural background of a rich medical tradition.
Contributions by Poonam Bala; Cristiana Bastos; Madhulika Banerjee; Shrimoy Roy Chaudhury; Shamshad Khan; Sean Lang; Atsuko Naono; Neshat Quaiser and Arabinda Samanta
(Other Information: book available for a pre-publication order)