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Disputed Legacies The Pakistan Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789385932090, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, October 2019
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm
Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, "Disputed Legacies" examines the situations that arise when secular law comes into conflict with traditional practice and belief and how this directly affe...
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£37,50
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Landscapes of Fear Understanding Impunity in India
ISBN: PB: 9789383074938, ISBN: HB: 9789383074204, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2018
600 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
"Landscapes of Fear" tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest democracy condones systematic violations of some human rights, and questioning how victims of abuse and survivors o...
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£28,00
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£36,00
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Prisoner No. 100 An Account of My Days and Nights in an Indian Prison
ISBN: HB: 9789385932182, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, February 2018
248 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
On February 6, 2003, Anjum Zamarud Habib, a young political activist from Kashmir, was arrested in Delhi, convicted under the Prevention of Terrorism Act, and sentenced to five years in Delhi's notorious Tihar jail. Her crime? Being in the wrong plac...
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£15,00
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All Passion Spent
ISBN: HB: 9789385932199, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2017
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In the mid-nineties, Birjees Dawar Ali returns to Pakistan to seek out a history left unfinished long ago; one from which, nursing heartbreak and betrayal, she had previously fled home to partitioned India. Will she find the family that so generously...
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£15,00
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Of the Nation Born The Bangladesh Papers
ISBN: HB: 9789384757793, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
320 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, "Of the Nation Born" takes Bangladesh as its focus, compiling some of the best writing and research to date on...
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£26,50
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Madness of Waiting
ISBN: HB: 9789381017708, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, September 2013
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Published in 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa's famous novel, "Umrao Jaan Ada", created a sensation when it came out, with its candid fictionalized account of Umrao Jaan, based on a renowned Lucknow courtesan and poetess of the same name. Considered by many...
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£14,50
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