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Women and Partition A Reader
ISBN: PB: 9788189013363, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2021
400 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
Urvashi Butalia's work on the subject of Partition, the 1947 division of the Indian subcontinent, is internationally known. Her book "The Other Side of Silence" has been translated into more than ten languages and won several awards. In this new coll...
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£26,50
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Waiting A Collection of Stories
ISBN: HB: 9789385932540, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, January 2020
152 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are trapped in a state of continuous limbo, waiting for change; young girls struggle for the "purity" that religion deman...
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£15,00
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Women, Peace and Security in Northeast India
ISBN: HB: 9789385932304, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
220 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the role of women's movements in responding to conflict and violence tend to be marginalized both by the media and by schola...
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Watercolours A Story from Auschwitz
ISBN: PB: 9789385932038, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
300 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm
A Czechoslovakian Jew who was imprisoned at Auschwitz, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt (1923-2009) was saved by her artistic abilities. Gottliebova painted the walls of the children's barracks with images of the Disney film "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves...
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£14,50
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When the River Sleeps
ISBN: PB: 9789383074891, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, July 2015
264 pp., 19.5x12.7 cm
A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams, a place from which he will be able to wrest a stone that will give him untold power. His is a dangerous quest – not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses, and demon...
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£16,00
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We Also Made History Women in the Ambedkarite Movement
ISBN: PB: 9789383074747, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
372 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 8 halftones
Originally published in Marathi in 1989, this contemporary classic details the history of women's participation in Dr. B. R. Ambedkar's Dalit movement for the first time. Focusing on the involvement of women in various Dalit struggles since the early...
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£24,00
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Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
ISBN: HB: 9789381017142, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2014
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 78 halftones
Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been closed to them. These educated professionals emerged as a pronounced political force – becoming important patrons of art, a...
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£30,00
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Women Changing India
ISBN: HB: 9788189884970, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, April 2013
200 pp., 30x25.4 cm, 150 colour illus.
India is changing. And at the heart of this change are its women. The change is widespread and varied, individual and collective, reflecting the full spectrum of women's lives, whether in politics or in economics, in business, or within their daily d...
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£34,00
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