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Sites and Practices: an
exercise in cultural pedagogy
Edited by Madhusree
Dutta, Smriti Nevatia |
Published by Majlis,
2006 |
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A
compilation of selected lectures and practical classes from a
series of pedagogical workshops on Multi-disciplinary art and
culture practices. In response to the homogenizing
majoritarianism in education and popular history, which has
prevailed in the country since mid ‘90s, these series of
workshops were schemed for college students towards an exposure
to plurality and multiplicity in Sites and Practices. |
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One Hundred Years One Hundred
Voices
The mill workers of Girangaon: an Oral history
By Meena Menon and
Neera Adarkar |
Published by Seagull Books, 2004 |
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This book comprises
a hundred testimonies by the inhabitants of Girangaon (the
textile industry district), which are a window into the history,
culture and political economy of a former colonial port city now
recasting itself as a global metropolis. While following the
major threads of national and international events, it tries to
render the history of central Bombay through the narratives and
perceptions of the people, in the process casting new light on
the processes of history as they were experienced by the working
classes.
Nominated for Crossword book award 2005
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Law and Gender Inequality
By Flavia Agnes,
Published by Oxford
University Press, 1999 |
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The book maps the
issue of gender and law reform upon a broad canvas of history
and politics and explores strategies which could safeguard
women’s rights within India’s sphere of complex social and
political boundaries. Written in a lucid style, this book
provides an invaluable analysis of the current trends of the
debate on the Uniform Civil Code, located within a highly
charged and communally vitiated political scenario and goes on
to expose the communal undertones of some recent well published
judicial pronouncements.
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The Nation, The State and
Indian Identity
Ed. Madhusree Dutta,
Flavia Agnes, Neera Adarkar
Published by Samya publication, Calcutta, 1996 |
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The
communal politics of the post-Babri Masjid demolition era had
managed to stir up a public euphoria around the lowest kind of
identity conflict. The politics of `identity' had started
permeating into the accepted democratic foray like academics,
independent media and social movements. In response to this
development, Majlis organised a seminar titled, The Nation, The
State and Indian identity: a Post Ayodhya Perspective, in 1994.
A part of the seminar proceedings was edited and published
later.
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State, Gender and the Rhetoric
of Law Reform
By
Flavia Agnes,
Published by
SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1995 |
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The book
traces the process of law reform for empowerment of women in the
independent India. It lays bare the hiatus between the letter
and the spirit of the law, between the ostensible and the real
motives of the legislators, between the pro-women language of
the enactment and the anti-woman practices of the courts.
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