Make Me a Man!

Make Me a Man!
Title Make Me a Man! PDF eBook
Author Sikata Banerjee
Publisher State University of New York Press
Total Pages 194
Release 2012-02-01
Genre Social Science
ISBN 079148369X

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Looks at the ideals of masculine Hinduism—and the corresponding feminine ideals—that have built the Indian nation, and explores their consequences.

Man in India

Man in India
Title Man in India PDF eBook
Author Sarat Chandra Roy (Rai Bahadur)
Publisher
Total Pages 96
Release 1921
Genre Anthropology
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Beast and Man in India

Beast and Man in India
Title Beast and Man in India PDF eBook
Author John Lockwood Kipling
Publisher
Total Pages 388
Release 1921
Genre Animal welfare
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Neither Man Nor Woman

Neither Man Nor Woman
Title Neither Man Nor Woman PDF eBook
Author Serena Nanda
Publisher Cengage Learning
Total Pages 230
Release 1999
Genre Social Science
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This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how Hijras can be used in the study of gender categories and human sexual variation.

Notes of a Mediocre Man

Notes of a Mediocre Man
Title Notes of a Mediocre Man PDF eBook
Author Bipin Aurora
Publisher Guernica Editions Incorporated
Total Pages 0
Release 2017
Genre East Indians
ISBN 9781771831413

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Two brothers come to school and do nothing but tell stories. A young woman works at the Indian Consulate in a major American city. A man goes to a singles dance. An unnamed narrator offers his "notes" on modern-day America. An old Jewish man in a nursing home tells the tale of his daughter. A retired man in India tries to collect his pension. A woman tells the story of her husband's death in partition India. A man goes from interview to interview, hoping for employment. Some stories are fable-like, others more realistic. However, all stories deal, in one way or another, with small, "mediocre" people -- people trying to fit into a world of bigness, applause, success.

Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love

Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love
Title Amazing Story of the Man Who Cycled from India to Europe for Love PDF eBook
Author Per J Andersson
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Total Pages 304
Release 2017-02-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1786070340

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WINNER OF THE MARCO POLO OUTSTANDING GENERAL TRAVEL THEMED BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS The story begins in a public square in New Delhi. On a cold December evening a young European woman of noble descent appears before an Indian street artist known locally as PK and asks him to paint her portrait – it is an encounter that will change their lives irrevocably. PK was not born in the city. He grew up in a small remote village on the edge of the jungle in East India, and his childhood as an untouchable was one of crushing hardship. He was forced to sit outside the classroom during school, would watch classmates wash themselves if they came into contact with him, and had stones thrown at him when he approached the village temple. According to the priests, PK dirtied everything that was pure and holy. But had PK not been an untouchable, his life would have turned out very differently. This is the remarkable true story of how love and courage led PK to overcome extreme poverty, caste prejudice and adversity – as well as a 7,000-mile, adventure-filled journey across continents and cultures – to be with the woman he loved.

The Man Who Saved India

The Man Who Saved India
Title The Man Who Saved India PDF eBook
Author Hindol Sengupta
Publisher Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages 304
Release 2018-08-31
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 9353052009

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There is perhaps no political figure in modern history who did more to secure and protect the Indian nation than Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel. But, ironically, seventy years after Patel brought together piece by piece the map of India by fusing the princely states with British India to create a new democratic, independent nation, little is understood or appreciated about Patel's enormous contribution to the making of India. Caricatured in political debate, all the nuances of Patel's difficult life and the daring choices he made are often lost, or worse, used as mere polemic. If Mahatma Gandhi was the spiritual core of India's freedom struggle and Jawaharlal Nehru its romantic idealism, it was Sardar Patel who brought in the vital pragmatism which held together the national movement and the first ideas of independent India. A naturally stoic man, Patel, unlike Gandhi or Nehru, wrote no personal history. He famously argued that its was better to create history than write it. This is why even his deepest misgivings and quarrels have been easily buried. But every warning that Patel left for India - from the dangers of allowing groups to create private militias to his thoughtful criticism on India's approach to Kashmir, Pakistan and China - are all dangerously relevant today. It is impossible to read about Patel, who died in 1950, and not feel that had he lived on, India might have been a different country. It is also impossible to ignore Patel and understand not only what the idea of India is but also what it could have been, and might be in the future. The Man Who Saved India is a sweeping, magisterial retelling of Sardar Patel's story. With fiercely detailed and pugnacious anecdotes, multiple award-winning, best-selling writer Hindol Sengupta brings alive Patel's determined life of struggle and his furious commitment to keep India safe. This book brings alive all the arguments, quarrels and clashes between some of the most determined people in Indian history and their battle to carve out an independent nation. Through ravages of a failing body broken by decades of abuse in and outside prison, Patel stands out in this book as the man who, even on his death bed, worked to save India. Hindol Sengupta's The Man Who Saved India is destined to define Patel's legacy for future generations.