- An innovative history of medicine, science and environment in modern India that places toxicity, and its management, as a central theme in colonial science and governance - Covers the 1830s to the postcolonial period to show how the imperatives behind science and its authority and social utility changed over time - Combines social, scientific and environmental history to demo...(展开全部)

Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of “entrepreneurial citizenship” in India over the past sev...(展开全部)

Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that arise as designers, engineers, and businesspeople frame development and governance as opportunities to innovate. Irani documents the rise of “entrepreneurial citizenship” in India over the past sev...(展开全部)

While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to transcend the temporal bifurcation of that world history into 'pre-modern' and 'modern', as well as question its geographical split into two irreconcilable trajectories: the European and the non-European. The book examines shared ex...(展开全部)

威廉．達爾林普(William Dalrymple) 蘇格蘭人，於佛斯海灣﹝Firth of Forth﹞的海邊長大。劍橋大學畢業後，曾為《獨立報》﹝Independent﹞專欄作家。年方二十二歲，便出版了暢銷又備受好評的《在薩那都》﹝In Xanadu﹞，此書於一九九○年獲得《約克郡郵報》﹝Yorksire Post﹞的最佳處女作品獎，以及蘇格蘭藝術協會春季圖書獎；並曾入圍John Llewelyn Rhys紀念獎。一九八九年他遷居德里，在當地居住四年，位本書蒐集資料並為《星期天通訊》﹝Sunday Correspondent﹞、《觀察者》﹝Spectator﹞、《觀察家》﹝Observer﹞以及《週日時報》﹝Sunday Times﹞等報紙撰稿。曾獲《週日時報》年度英國青年作家獎。 威廉．達爾林普與藝術家奧莉維亞．弗來瑟﹝Olivia Frase...(展开全部)

From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, "No Aging in India" captures the reader with its interplay of story and analysis. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic work, Lawrence Cohen links a detailed investigation of mind and body in old age in four neighborhoods of the India...(展开全部)

Peter van der Veer is director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. His books include Imperial Encounters: Religion and Modernity in India and Britain (Princeton) and Religious Nationalism: Hindus and Muslims in India.

Interest in the science, technology and medicine of India under British rule has grown in recent years and has played an ever-increasing part in the reinterpretation of modern South Asian history. Spanning the period from the establishment of East India Company rule through to Independence, David Arnold's wide-ranging and analytical survey demonstrates the importance of examini...(展开全部)

In this book, Jaś Elsner presents a fresh perspective on the rich visual culture of ancient South Asia, connecting the stupa’s artistic innovations with advancements in Buddhist philosophy and practice. He offers new insights into early Buddhist art in South India, as well as a new understanding of the relationship between early Buddhism and its material culture. The photograph...(展开全部)

Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities and anticolonial solidarity. In their view, India and China shared both an illustrious past of cultural and religious exchange and a present experience of colonial aggression. These writers imagined India as an alternative to Western imperialism—a Pan-Asian ...(展开全部)