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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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Off the Beaten Track The Story of My Unconventional Life
ISBN: HB: 9789385932991, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Saeeda Bano was the first woman in India to work as a radio newsreader, and she is still known as the doyenne of Urdu broadcasting. Over her unconventional and courageous life, Bano walked out of a suffocating marriage, witnessed the violence of Part...
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Breaching the Citadel The India Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789384757786, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, March 2019
320 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
"Breaching the Citadel", part of the Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, puts India in focus, showcasing new and pathbreaking research on sexual violence and impunity....
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Mannequin Working Women in India's Glamour Industry
ISBN: HB: 9789385932229, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, November 2018
250 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm
The fashion industry in India is huge, employing more than sixty million people and, at $70 billion, accounting for a sizable chunk of the nation's economic activity. Despite that, it remains a startlingly unprofessional industry – particularly when...
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From Cork to Calcutta My Mother's Story
ISBN: PB: 9789384757632, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
320 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Imelda Connor is a classic Irish lass – a fiery, red-headed beauty, quick to anger, and fiercely protective of her younger siblings. Growing up on a small farm in the rolling hills of County Cork, she thinks she has her life completely mapped out. He...
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Partition The Long Shadow
ISBN: HB: 9789383074778, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2015
272 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 12 halftones
The Partition of British India into the nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 and the further redrawing of the borders in 1971 to create Bangladesh were major, wrenching events whose effects are still felt today in the everyday lives of people in all...
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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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