Craig Jeffrey, John Harriss

Keywords for Modern India

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Produktbeschreibung

Keywords for Modern India provides a powerful introduction to modern India's culture, politics and society, through an exploration of the English language vocabulary that is used in writing in and about a country that is becoming ever more in need of understanding as it becomes increasingly significant in world affairs.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 253mm x 181mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780199665631
• ISBN-10: 019966563X
• Artikelnr.: 47870460

Autorenporträt

Craig Jeffrey is Director of the International Graduate School at the University of Oxford. He has conducted academic research on youth, politics, and education in India. His recent books include Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India (2010) and India Today: Economy, Society, Politics (2012 with Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss). He is Professor of Development Geography at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Geography at St. John's College. John Harriss was previously Professor and Director of the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics; and sometime Dean of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is a social anthropologist with long standing interests in the politics and political economy of India, where he has lived and conducted research on many occasions. He is Professor, and founding Director of the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University; Visiting Research Professor, National University of Singapore.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction
2: Keywords for Modern India
3: References and Further Reading
Bibliography