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The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

The Art of a Corporation is a comprehensive study of artworks that were commissioned and collected by the East India Company from the early seventeenth to the midnineteenth centuries. These items range from oil paintings on canvas and marble statuary to sandstone Buddhas and metal figurines of Hindu deities. The book takes a chronological approach and focuses on provenance to show that objects are valuable primary resources for understanding the East India Company’s history. The artworks illustrate how one of the longest-surviving multinational corporations in the Western world changed over its three-century history and provide a powerful visual account of its perpetually reinvented image. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of art history colonial art colonial studies British history economic history business history South Asian history post-colonial studies and cultural studies. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4. 0 International license. | The Art of a Corporation The East India Company as Patron and Collector 1600-1860

GBP 120.00
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Gender and History Ireland 1852–1922

Gender and History Ireland 1852–1922

This book provides an overview of Irish gender history from the end of the Great Famine in 1852 until the foundation of the Irish Free State in 1922. It builds on the work that scholars of women’s history pioneered and brings together internationally regarded experts to offer a synthesis of the current historiography and existing debates within the field. The authors place emphasis on highlighting new and exciting sources methodologies and suggested areas for future research. They address a variety of critical themes such as the family reproduction and sexuality the medical and prison systems masculinities and femininities institutions charity the missions migration ‘elite women’ and the involvement of women in the Irish nationalist/revolutionary period. Envisioned to be both thematic and chronological the book provides insight into the comparative transnational and connected histories of Ireland India and the British empire. An important contribution to the study of Irish gender history the volume offers opportunities for students and researchers to learn from the methods and historiography of Irish studies. It will be useful for scholars and teachers of history gender studies colonialism post-colonialism European history Irish history Irish studies and political history. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. | Gender and History Ireland 1852–1922

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Technology Policy and Inclusion An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

Technology Policy and Inclusion An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

Technology Policy and Inclusion looks at the intersections between public policy and technology in India. It explores the barriers in instituting effective governance and development and examines how these can be mitigated through technological interventions in developing countries. Increased digitisation of the economy has added to the development challenges in India and issues such as exclusion and social inequality. This volume stresses the need for governments to leverage technology to bring more vulnerable and marginalised groups into the fold of financial and social inclusion. It also focuses on the importance of regulation for a responsible integration of technologies and minimising risks. The book includes examples and case studies from different areas including management of the COVID-19 pandemic through digital means real estate digital infrastructure digital census e-markets for farmers and government interventions that use technology to deliver financial services in remote areas of the country. It also outlines various solutions for fostering equity and socio-economic development. Part of the Innovations Practice and the Future of Public Policy in India series this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of public policy political science development studies and sociology as well as policy professionals and technocrats. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Technology Policy and Inclusion An Intersection of Ideas for Public Policy

GBP 35.99
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Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role as a counterhegemonic tool for satire commentary and expression of identity especially for the disempowered or marginalised. The title brings together essays and perspectives on stand-up and satire from different cultural and political contexts across the world which raise pertinent issues regarding its role in contemporary times especially with the increased presence of OTT platforms and internet penetration that allows for easy access to this art form. It examines the theoretical understanding of the different aspects of the humour aesthetics and politics of stand-up comedy as well as the exploration of race gender politics and conflicts urban culture and LGBTQ+ identities in countries such as Indonesia Finland France Iran Italy Morocco India and the USA. It also asks the question whether along with contesting and destabilising existing discursive frameworks and identities a stand-up comic can open up a space for envisaging a new social cultural and political order? This book will appeal to people interested in performance studies media popular culture digital culture sociology digital sociology and anthropology and English literature. Chapter 9 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4. 0 license. Funded by the University of Helsinki. | Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy Speaking Truth to Power

GBP 34.99
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State of the Young Child in India

State of the Young Child in India

This Report is one of the first comprehensive studies on young children in India. It focuses on children under 6 years of age and presents key aspects of their well-being and development. With the highest number of neonatal infant and under-5 deaths in the world there is an urgent need to address issues that continue to affect the young child in India. This volume:Introduces two young child indices aggregating selected indicators to separately track child outcomes and child circumstances. Provides an account of the current situation of the young child in terms of physical and cognitive development access to care disadvantaged children and major issues that have led to the continued neglect of this age group. Explores the policy and legal framework fiscal space and the role and obligations of key stakeholders including the state private sector civil society media and the family. Highlights key recommendations and action points that can help to improve the ecosystem for early childhood care and development. Drawing on specially commissioned technical background papers supplemented by extensive field experience of Mobile Creches in childcare this Report will be of interest to practitioners policymakers and influencers think tanks and researchers of public policy development studies human rights sociology and social anthropology as well as general readers. The Open Access version of this book available at http://www. tandfebooks. com/doi/view/10. 4324/9781003026488 has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. . | State of the Young Child in India

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The Last Mile Turning Public Policy Upside Down

The Last Mile Turning Public Policy Upside Down

The Last Mile explores the gaps and dichotomy between drafted policies and their implementation and the last mile challenges which often make public services inaccessible to the poorest and most vulnerable sections of society. It provides an in-depth overview of the dynamics between communities research and consultation and the implementation of policies for development. Rich in empirical data and case studies from different government programmes and reports this book examines the implementation of government service programmes for poverty reduction women’s empowerment and income generation for the poor among others from a people’s perspective. It highlights the need for policies and institutions to align their methods to community needs. Offering guidelines for redesigning as well as solutions to counter challenges related to lack of trust and effective communication human resource management capacity development redressal mechanisms and facilitating the last mile connection the author delineates effective ways for integrating new technologies in policy implementation. The book also addresses legacy issues in institutions and re-orienting policy for better governance transparency and building trust. Part of the Innovations Practice and the Future of Public Policy in India series this book by a senior practitioner will be an essential resource for students and researchers of development studies sociology public policy and governance economics and South Asian studies. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Last Mile Turning Public Policy Upside Down

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Cross-Border Integration of Renewable Energy Systems Experiences Impacts and Drivers

Cross-Border Integration of Renewable Energy Systems Experiences Impacts and Drivers

Cross-border energy trade and integration of renewable energy have become significant for countries and regions to meet demands minimize costs and foster socio-economic and climate stability in the dynamic and unstable energy market. This book explores different models of global energy trade between regions and their benefits and challenges with a special focus on India’s Northeast region. Countries in South and Southeast Asia are endowed with abundant renewable energy resources. This book examines the energy mix of the countries such as India Myanmar Thailand Bangladesh and Bhutan among others and their efforts to achieve more integrated markets and renewable energy integration in the region. It highlights the potential of Northeast India given its rich natural resources and strategic location to harness the potential cross-border energy trade with ASEAN countries. The volume provides analytical perspectives on drivers constraints opportunities and barriers as well as measures that countries could take to address institutional financial policy and governance issues to minimize the total costs of energy security and maximize the social-economic benefits for people in these regions. It identifies the necessary conditions – grid flexibility policy market and regulatory solutions for clean energy trade – and contributes to growth of low-carbon development as well as policy making by focusing on renewable energy integration across borders. This volume will be of interest to students and researchers of energy and climate studies environmental politics trade and economics and international relations. This book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Cross-Border Integration of Renewable Energy Systems Experiences Impacts and Drivers

GBP 35.95
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Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

Chakshudana or rituals of opening the eyes are practiced across multiple South Asian communities by artists sculptors and priests. The ritual offers gods access to the mortal world. This practice applied to the study of material and visual culture offers a distinctive perspective to interrogate the complex engagements with paintings sculptures found objects fragments built environments and ecologies. This volume takes the process of seeing as its focus—to look closely remaining true to the object but also to see widely—from multiple subjective stances and diverse bodily engagements such as walking to dreaming glancing to looking askance hypnotic stares and to see beyond the visible. It examines art history through nuanced considerations of materiality aesthetics and regional specificities. The essays emerge from current research that builds on the contributions of Michael W. Meister W. Norman Brown Distinguished Professor of History of Art and South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania whose works laid the foundations for the study of South Asian visual and material culture. The essays in this book underscore methodological resonances rather than privileging conventional categories of media or chronology exploring artistic media including temples and paintings as well as Bengali-quilted textiles manuscript ‘lozenges ’ and metal repousse. This volume part of the Visual Media and Histories Series will be of interest to students and researchers of history of art religious studies and history as well as the allied disciplines of anthropology and folklore studies. Chapter 2 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Chakshudana or Opening the Eyes Seeing South Asian Art Anew

GBP 130.00
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The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy 1923–1961

The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy 1923–1961

This book provides an authoritative account of the first significant overseas diplomatic missions and forays made by Indian civil servants. It recounts the key events in the formative decades of Indian foreign policy and looks at the prominent figures who were at the centre of this decisive period of change. The book explores the history and evolution of the civil and foreign services in India during the last leg of British rule and the following era of post-independence Nehruvian politics. Rich in archival material it looks at official files correspondences and diaries documenting the terms served by the pioneers of Indian diplomacy Girja Shankar Bajpai K. P. S. Menon and Subimal Dutt in Africa China the USSR and other countries and their relationship with the Indian political leadership. The book also analyses and pieces together the activities strategies worldviews and contributions of the first administrators and diplomats who shaped India’s approach to foreign policy and its relationship with other political powers. An essential read for researchers and academics this book will be a useful resource for students of international relations foreign policy political science and modern Indian history especially those interested in the history of Indian foreign affairs. It will also be of great use to general readers who are interested in the history of politics and diplomacy in India and South Asia. Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | The Indian Civil Service and Indian Foreign Policy 1923–1961

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Politics and Society between Elections Public Opinion in India’s States

Politics and Society between Elections Public Opinion in India’s States

Elections are episodic; governance is routine. This book studies patterns in public opinion on politics and society between elections in India. By using the survey data covering 24 Indian states including the National Capital Region of Delhi (NCR) it will serve as State barometers of public opinion. The surveys seek to understand how politics and governance processes are nested in the social and political relationships between citizens inter se and with government functionaries. The book explores citizen perceptions about the social and political universes they inhabit in periods between elections. It examines social attitudes of citizens friendship ties across social groups gender roles and relationships; opinions on governance ease of public service access the citizen-state interface and trust in political institutions; and political attitudes and identity nationalism freedom of expression and populism. This book explores public perceptions of everyday development and governance outcomes that are shaped by how the government functions between elections: how it relates to citizens on a regular basis; how it provides routine public services to them; and how public order is maintained. An incisive study on public opinion on politics society and governance in India this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science governance public policy and South Asian studies. It will also be of immense interest to bureaucrats policymakers think tanks and organisations working in the areas of development studies politics society and governance. Section 3. 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Politics and Society between Elections Public Opinion in India’s States

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