Ants, Ghosts And Whispering Trees - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ants, Ghosts And Whispering Trees write by Leelawati Mahapatra. This book was released on 2003-04-26. Ants, Ghosts And Whispering Trees available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An anthology of some of the best Oriya short stories written over the last hundred years. Some of the stories are formal experiments in storytelling while others are rooted in real life situations and events, and still others portray the lives of ordinary people caught up in the intricacies of living. Village life dominates the stories, not in a reduced and simplified form, but rather in all its complexity, and even cruelty at times, with its relationships traversed by hierarchy, caste, religion and economic and social differences. The transition that Orissa was going through at that time is also reflected in these stories. A collection which, when read as a whole, bears witness to the transformation and continuity of life, values and the specificity of culture of this eastern coastal state.
Salt of the Earth
Salt of the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Salt of the Earth write by Kalindi Charan Panigrahi. This book was released on 2022-05-09. Salt of the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kalindi Charan Panigrahi was a notable poet and writer in Odia. He is credited for the short but influential movement in Odia literature called the Sabuja Yug which was the age of Romanticism, inspired by Tagore's writings. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1971. Matira Manisha is his most well-known work. It has been translated into English twice before. Mrinal Sen made a film on this book and it received the National Film Award for Best Odia film in 1967. The novel is, quite simply, the tale of two brothers, who have very different attitudes towards the land they inherit from their father. It talks about the breaking apart of the joint family and celebrates a Marxist and Gandhian approach to living.
Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States
Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States write by Waltraud Ernst. This book was released on 2017-07-14. Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the 1980s there has been a continual engagement with the history and the place of western medicine in colonial settings and non-western societies. In relation to South Asia, research on the role of medicine has focussed primarily on regions under direct British administration. This book looks at the ‘princely states’ that made up about two fifths of the subcontinent. Two comparatively large states, Mysore and Travancore – usually considered as ‘progressive’ and ‘enlightened’ – and some of the princely states of Orissa – often described as ‘backward’ and ‘despotic’ – have been selected for analysis. The authors map developments in public health and psychiatry, the emergence of specialised medical institutions, the influence of western medicine on indigenous medical communities and their patients and the interaction between them. Exploring contentious issues currently debated in the existing scholarship on medicine in British India and other colonies, this book covers the ‘indigenisation’ of health services; the inter-relationship of colonial and indigenous paradigms of medical practice; the impact of specific political and administrative events and changes on health policies. The book also analyses British medical policies and the Indian reactions and initiatives they evoked in different Indian states. It offers new insights into the interplay of local adaptations with global exchanges between different national schools of thought in the formation of what is often vaguely, and all too simply, referred to as 'western' or 'colonial' medicine. A pioneering study of health and medicine in the princely states of India, it provides a balanced appraisal of the role of medicine during the colonial era. It will be of interest to students and academics studying South Asian and imperial and commonwealth history; the history of medicine; the sociology of health and healing; and medical anthropology, social policy, public health, and international politics.
Grey Areas
Grey Areas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Grey Areas write by Ira Raja. This book was released on 2010. Grey Areas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Including short stories and poems from a number of regional Indian languages along with a substantial introduction, the anthology focuses on the importance of age in an individual's identity that is complex, fragmented, multiple, and conflictual.
Manoj Das
Manoj Das - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Manoj Das write by Manoj Das. This book was released on 2003. Manoj Das available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
