Dance Matters. by Chakravorty, Pallabi

Table of Contents: “…; 3 Folk Culture in Front of Serious Challenge: A Case Study on the Tribes of North Bengal; 4 The Problematics of Tradition and Talent in Indian Classical Dance; 5 Dance as Healing: Kolkata Sanved; II Globalization of Indian Dance; 6 The Ownership of Indian Classical Dancing and Its Performance on the Global Stage.…”
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21st Century Perspectives on Indian Writing in English A Time to Turn. by Lahiri, Debasish

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- POETRY -- Modernism via Byculla -- Indian English Poetry -- Recreating Local Geographies -- A Diasporic Pendulum -- FICTION AND ESSAY -- Chiaroscuro in Fiction -- Sans Borders -- Jhumpa Lahiri's Heteroglossia in a Cosmopolitan Perspective -- The Realism of Non-fiction -- Rushdie's Quichotte -- Landscape, Territory, and Survival in Tide Country -- Visual Rhetoric of Untouchability -- DRAMA -- From Calcutta to Kolkata -- Gender and Social Critique in Vijay Tendulkar's His Fifth Woman -- Beyond the Given -- INTERVIEWS…”
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The mission home

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A Beginner's guide to image shape feature extraction techniques by Chaki, Jyotismita

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Algorithms, architectures and information systems security

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Sound of Silence.

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Interrogating motherhood by Bagchi, Jasodhara

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Theatre and space

Table of Contents: “…-- The Odeon of Pericles: a tale of the first Athenian Music Hall, the Second Persian Invasion of Greece, theatre space in fifth century BCE Athens, and the artifacts of an empire -- The eyeline of Orestes: exploring the dramaturgy of civic spaced in the Greek theatre -- "It told us what to do": the amthropomorphizing of theatre buildings in contemporary practice -- Wartime collaboration: theatrical space and power in conquered Los Angeles -- Setting their sites on satire: the Algonquin round table's non-theatrical spaces of creative genesis -- Struggling to stage: the contentious issue of theatre space in Kolkata -- "For the children": Doyle and Debbie at the station inn; or, the politics of space in "The Gulch" -- (Un)limited: virtual performance spaces and digital identity -- Theatre symposium 24 closing remarks: Sunday, April 12, 2015.…”
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Kidney Transplants and Scams : India's Troublesome Legacy. by Kumar, Ramesh

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Foreword; Flashback; A Word from My Heart; Preface; My Blackened Face; Introduction; Cures and Costs; Pushing for an Organ Transplant Law; Kidney Transplant in India; Kidney Scams in India; India becomes the World's Kidney Bazaar; Maximum City Mumbai Kidney Trade Epicentre; Kidney Racket in Tamil Nadu; Blood Donors, Drug Mafia, Dowry Kidneys in Kolkata; The Kidney King and the Great Escape; Kidney Scandal In Karnataka; Tribals as Kidney Donors in Kerala; Horrifying Kidney Racket in Punjab; West Coast to the East; In the Heartland of MP, Bihar, UP; Kidney Scams in Delhi…”
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Tok jhal misti

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God as Political Philosopher : Buddha's Challenge to Brahminism. by Ilaiah, K. (Kancha), 1952-

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Being Middle-class in India : a Way of Life. by Donner, Henrike

Table of Contents: “…5 Globalization, neoliberalism and middle-class cultural politics in Kolkata6 The social transformation of the medical profession in urban Kerala: Doctors, social mobility and the middle classes; 7 Kitty-parties and middle-class femininity in New Delhi; 8 Zara hatke ('somewhat different'): The new middle classes and the changing forms of Hindi cinema; Index.…”
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The Japanese wife = JapaniBodhuj

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Dui dhuranir golpo = in-between days

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Gendering caste : through a feminist lens by Chakravarti, Uma

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Not The Other Avant-Garde : the Transnational Foundations Of Avant-Garde Performance.

Table of Contents: “…Questioning the Progressive Bengali Theater of Kolkata / Sudipto Chatterjee -- From Liminality to Ideology: The Politics of Embodiment in Prewar Avant-garde Theater in Japan / Peter Eckersall -- Angura: Japan's Nostalgic Avant-Garde / David G. …”
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Quiet flows the river Chitra

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Records, Recoveries, Remnants and Inter-Asian Interconnections : Decoding Cultural Heritage

Table of Contents: “…A heritage gem sits in the heart of a city, unacknowledged, incognito : the case for recognizing Kolkata Chinatown as a Historic Urban Landscape / Rinkoo Bhowmik.…”
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Architecture and Field/Work.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustration credits -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Field/work practice: Introduction -- Collaborative practices: Hybrid ethnographies and fieldwork approaches in Barabazaar, Kolkata, India -- The erotics of fieldwork in Learning from Las Vegas -- Inside the cave, outside the discipline -- Group pioneering: Robert Smithson and circles early forays to the field -- Field note 1: On inhabiting 8216;thickness -- Field/work and site: Introduction -- Landscape with statues: Recording the public sculpture of Sussex -- Fieldwork in public space assessment: William Holly Whyte and the Street Life Project 19701975 -- Vietnamese field/work: The case of Hanois water urbanism -- Open field: Documentary game -- The critical where of the field: A reflection on fieldwork as a situated process of creative research -- Field note 2: A voyage into oral field/work -- Field/work techniques: Introduction -- Drawing sites : -- Field diaries: Prue Chiles and Carolyn Butterworth -- Contested fields: Perfection and compromise at Caruso St Johns Museum of Childhood -- Editing the field: Video tales from globalised cityscapes -- Blighted -- Field note 3: 8216;Refuge moving between research and practice -- Afterword: Working (through) the field -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Principles of Nanomedicine by Bhattacharjee, Sourav

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Global Perspectives on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking : Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania. by Dalla

Table of Contents: “…Desiring Motherhood, Selling Sex: Women in Kolkata's Commercial Sex Trade8. Urbanization, Gender, Rights, and HIV/AIDS Risk: The Case of Female Commercial Sex Workers in China; 9. …”
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Youth, media and culture in the Asia Pacific region

Table of Contents: “…: commodity fetishism and resistant practice in the Bandung DIY hardcore scene / Sean Martin-Iverson -- Cool consumption: rasta, punk and Bollywood on the streets of Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Kolkata, India / Harriot Beazley and Kabita Chakraborty -- East Asian mobile youth cultures / Damien Spry.…”
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Sold

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Imperialism and Sikh migration : the Komagata Maru incident by Roy, Anjali Gera

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Reconsidering English studies in Indian higher education by Gupta, Suman, 1966-, Allen, Richard, 1946 June 23-, Chattarji, Subarno, Chaudhuri, Supriya

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Intimate labors : cultures, technologies, and the politics of care

Table of Contents: “…Technologies of caring labor : from objects to affect / Ariel Ducey -- The transmission of care : affective economies and Indian call centers / Kalindi Vora -- Foreign and domestic : adoption, immigration, and privatization / Laura Briggs -- Selling genes, selling gender : egg agencies, sperm banks, and the medical market in genetic material / Rene Almeling -- Gender labor : transmen, femmes, and collective work of transgression / Jane Ward -- Traveling cultures of servitude : loyalty and betrayal in New York and Kolkata / Seemin Qayum and Raka Ray -- My reward is not money : deep alliances and the end of life care among Mexicana workers and their wards / Maria de la Luz Ibarra -- Cultures of flirtation : sex and the moral boundaries of Filipina migrant hostesses in Tokyo / Rhacel Parreñas -- Bounded authenticity and the commerce of sex / Elizabeth Bernstein -- Economies of emotion, familiarity, fantasy, and desire : emotional labor in Ho Chi Minh City's sex industry / Kimberly Kay Hoang -- Making home care : law and social policy in the U.S. welfare state / Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein -- Power, intimacy, and contestation : Dorothy Bolden and domestic worker organizing in Atlanta in the 1960s / Premilla Nadasen -- Manicuring intimacies : inequality and resistance in nail salon work / Millian Kang -- But who will care for the children? …”
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Passive revolution in West Bengal : 1977/2011 by Samāddāra, Raṇabīra

Table of Contents: “…-- Claim making in the age of bio-politics -- That was revolt, this is civil war -- Elections in the time of a civil war -- Populism and peace -- Different ways of truth telling -- The idea of a front -- Elections and expanding our representative system -- Spring time in Bengal -- Their civil society, our civil society -- Stocktaking midway through the war -- Transitional challenges -- Governing the multitude/i -- Governing the multitude -- How to prevent a telengana type situation in West Bengal -- The challenge of building a non-corporate path of development -- A suggestion on Bengal's economic woes -- A square leading to many unknown destinations -- Early but inevitable errors in judgement -- A violent history of peace -- Political change is never for utopia -- Knight riders in Kolkata -- Eternal Bengal -- "It does not die" : urban protest in Calcutta, 1987/2007…”
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Asian interventions in global Shakespeare : 'all the world's his stage'

Table of Contents: “…Colonialism and Atlantic Slave-Trade in Yamanote-Jijosha's The Tempest -- 3 'We Will Perform in Measure, Time and Place': Synchronicity, Signification and Cultural Mobility in Tang Shu-wing Theatre Studio's Cantonese-Language Macbeth -- 4 From Cultural Mobility to Cultural Misunderstanding: Japanese Style of Love in Akio Miyazawa's Adaptation in the Cardenio Project, Motorcycle Don Quixote -- 5 Something Rotten in the State of Dankot: Hamlet and the Kingdom of Nepal -- Part II The Asian Cinematic and Digital Sphere: Democratising the 'Global' -- 6 Globalising the City: Kolkata Films and the Millennial Bard -- 7 Shakespeare's Uses in Chinese Media and Trans-Sphere -- 8 Bardolators and Bardoclasts: Shakespeare in Manga/Anime and Cosplay -- 9 Shakespeare on the Internet: Global and South Asian Appropriations -- 10 The Performance Archive and the Digital Construction of Asian Shakespeare -- Part III Historicising the Asian Global: Shakespeare as a World Poet -- 11 Global Shakespeare and the Question of a World Literature -- 12 Beyond Bardolatry: Rabindranath Tagore's Critique of Shakespeare's The Tempest -- Afterword: All the World's His Stage, 2016 -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Shakespeare's Plays and Adaptations.…”
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Appetite and nutritional assessment

Table of Contents: “…Wilson, Emma Goodwin -- The use of composite scores to assess adherence to dietary patterns : the Mediterranean diet case / Angeliki Papadaki and Manolis Linardakis -- Estimation of dietary intakes by digital images : potential and limitation / Da-Hong Wang, Michiko Kogashiwa, Keiki Ogino -- Nutrition and diabetes mellitus type 1 : a brief overview / Abdullah Al-Abdulhadi and Rossana Salerno-Kennedy -- Diabetes mellitus type 1 and eating disorders : a brief overview / Steven Laragh and Rossana Salerno-Kennedy -- Use of mid-upper arm circumference as a measure of nutritional status and its relationship with self reported morbidity among adult Bengalee male slum dwellers of Kolkata, India / Raja Chakraborty, Kaushik Bose, and Samiran Bisai.…”
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The Routledge handbook of planning megacities in the Global South

Table of Contents: “…Contradictions between Global Spaces and Informal Marginal Settlements: The Case of Kolkata -- 14. Megacities and Slums: Learning from Delhi's Experience -- 15. …”
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Women, Religion and the Body in South Asia : Living with Bengali Bauls. by Hanssen, Kristin

Table of Contents: “…Festivals and programs; Women's dress and comportment; The festival called Paus; The festival called Shaktighar in Kolkata.…”
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Accumulation in Post-Colonial Capitalism. by Mitra, Iman Kumar

Table of Contents: “…; Conclusion; References; Part II Caste, Gender, Race: Axes of Accumulation; Life, Labour, Recycling: A Study of/ aste Management Practices in/ ontemporary Kolkata ; Abstract ; Introduction: Waste and/ ecycling in/ he Context of/ rbanization; The Mechanisms of/ aste Disposal in/ olkata; Waste Disposal and/ he Rent Economy.…”
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Health Providers in India : On the Frontlines of Change. by Sheikh, Kabir

Table of Contents: “…The Community Role of Indigenous Healers: An Exploration of Healing Values in MaharashtraChapter 9 Traditional Orthopaedic Practitioners' Place in Contemporary Health: A Case Study from Southern India; Chapter 10: The Critical Role of Family Care Providers in HIV/AIDS: Stories from Rural Maharashtra; PART IV: ADAPTING, TRANSFORMING: PERSONAL EXPERIENCE IN PROFESSIONAL SPACES; Chapter 11: Sexual Harassment of Women Health Workers: Individual and Organisational Responses in Kolkata Hospitals.…”
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Barbed wire

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Reconceptualizing Children's Rights in International Development : Living Rights, Social Justice, Translations. by Hanson, Karl

Table of Contents: “…7 The politics of failure: street children and the circulation of rights discourses in Kolkata (Calcutta), IndiaExisting research on children's rights; Three narrative incidents; Living rights as frictions; Politicizing rights; 8 Malik and his three mothers: AIDS orphans' survival strategies and how children's rights translations hinder them; The dynamics of orphan policy; Local dynamics of orphan support; The politics of NGO intervention; Whose 'best interests?'…”
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Guided wave optics and photonic devices

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Fritz Bennewitz in India : intercultural theatre with Brecht and Shakespeare by Esleben, Joerg, Rohmer, Rolf, John, David Gethin, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Puntila and his Man Matti2 The Early 1980s -- Firsts, Lows, and Highs; Kolkata, 1980: Brecht, The Life of Galileo; New Delhi, 1981: Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream; Bangalore, 1982: Brecht, Mr. …”
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Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys : selected peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys

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Small and medium scale enterprises in India : infirmities and asymmetries in industrial clusters by Roy, Satyaki

Table of Contents: “…A tale of artisanal clusters; Introduction; Footwear cluster in Kolkata; Surgical instruments cluster in Baruipur; Concluding remarks; 5 Foundries in Howrah: impediments in institutions and organizations; Institutions and organizations; Trajectory of growth: past and present; Is the labor responsible?…”
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India's railway history : a research handbook by Hurd, John, 1937-

Table of Contents: “…3.13.2 York, England 3.13.3 Cambridge, England ; 3.13.4 Oxford, England ; 3.13.5 Edinburgh, Scotland ; 3.13.6 New Delhi, India ; 3.13.7 Mumbai (Bombay), India ; 3.13.8 Kolkata (Calcutta), India ; 3.13.9 Washington, D.C., United States ; 3.13.10 New York, New York, United States ; 3.13.11 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA ; 4. …”
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