Gyanendra Pandey
Much has been written about the extraordinary violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices - the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book ...
Matthew Reynolds, A.J.D. Pask, William Hoppitt, Kai Sonder et al.
Abstract To accelerate genetic gains in breeding, physiological trait (PT) characterization of candidate parents can help make more strategic crosses, increasing the probability of accumulating favorable alleles compared to crossing relatively uncharacterized lines. In this study, crosses were desig...
Om Prakash Gupta, Ajeet Singh, Vanita Pandey, R Sendhil et al.
Addressing global hidden hunger, particularly in women of childbearing age and children under five, presents a significant challenge, with a focus on iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) deficiency. Wheat, a staple crop in the developing world, is crucial for addressing this issue through biofortification effort...
Nazneen Ahmed
AbstractThis article aims to unsettle the now accepted correlation of novel/nation within postcolonial studies by demonstrating that poetry can be a "national" form in societies with limited literacy such as East Pakistan/Bangladesh, due to its capacity for oral dissemination. Drawing my examples fr...
Gyanendra Pandey
Much has been written about the "extraordinary" violence of recent history, its brutality, and the impossibility of describing it. Routine Violence focuses on the violence of much more routine political practices—the drawing up of political categories and the writing of national histories. The book ...
N. Gerald Barrier
Abstract The events surrounding the 1947 partition and the attack on Sikhs in the Golden Temple and Delhi continue to affect Sikhs today. Memory of the specifics and related issues plays a major role in politics both in India and within the diaspora. This paper explores the literature on the events ...
Mahesh Kumar Khanal, Pratiksha Bhandari, Raja Ram Dhungana, Yadav Gurung et al.
AIMS/INTRODUCTION: The global burden of diabetes mellitus is rising substantially, with a further increase in cardiovascular and kidney disease burden. These public health problems are highly prevalent in low- and middle-income countries, including Nepal. However, there is limited evidence on cardia...
Sankaran Krishna
Saleem Sinai, the protagonist of Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children, was the bastard offspring of a one-shot encounter between a departing Britisher, William Methwold (last of a line of angrezi robber barons), and Vanita, wife of a poor Maharashtrian accordionist--a proletarian Mumbaikar given to ...
Chelva Kanaganayakam
Reviewed by: Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory Chelva Kanaganayakam Jill Didur . Unsettling Partition: Literature, Gender, Memory. University of Toronto Press. x, 201. $50.00 As Gyanendra Pandey so forcefully reminds us in Remembering Partition (2001), the partition of India, which oc...
Katherine Prior, Douglas M. Peers, Maren Pearson, Greg Bailey et al.
Gyanendra Pandey, The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India (Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. xvi + 297. £12.95. Dirk H. A. Kolff, Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: the Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1850 (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990), p...
Reeta Chowdhari Tremblay, Vernon Hewitt, Gerald Studdert‐Kennedy, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu et al.
Resistance and Control in Pakistan by Akbar S. Ahmed, foreword by Francis Robinson (London and New York, Routledge, 1991, pp.xxiii + 207, £12.99). Pakistan's Foreign Policy: An Historical Analysis by S. M. Burke and Lawrence Ziring (Oxford University Press, 1990 2nd edn., pp.xii +, £18). The Sikhs o...
Michael Lessnoff, D. K. Fieldhouse, Charles E. Lindblom, Christopher Hood et al.
Abstract Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy: Autonomy vs. Control by Robert A. Dahl (New Haven and London, Yale UP, 1982, pp xi, 299, £14.50) The Colonial Office, War, and Development Policy: Organisation and the Planning of a Metropolitan Initiative, 1939–1945 by J. M. Lee and Martin Petter (London, M...