R. Umamaheshwari
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R. Umamaheshwari
R. Umamaheshwari is currently Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. She has been, for the most part of her career, an independent journalist-academic. She has a Ph.D. in History – on the social history of the Tamil Jaina community in Tamilnadu – from the Centre for Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has also been Fellow for short terms at the School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University and IIT-Madras, besides being a recipient of a few journalism and academic fellowships.
- When Godavari ComesINR 595
The book cruises through the length and breadth of Godavari (as much as possible), between years 2006 and 2013, into the villages to be submerged by the Indira Sagar Polavaram National multi-purpos...
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Amitav Ghosh
Amitav Ghosh was born in Calcutta and grew up in India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. He studied in Delhi, Oxford and Alexandria and is the author of The Circle of Reason, The Shadow Lines, In An Antiq
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Bertram Schefold
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Ira Raja
Ira Raja is Lecturer in English at the University of Delhi in India. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Commonwealth Literature. She has co-edited with John Thieme, an anthology of South Asi
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Someswar Bhowmik
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Dilrukshi Fonseka
Dilrukshi Fonseka has been Programme Coordinator at the Berghof Foundation for Conflict Studies, Sri Lanka. She works for capacity-building in peace negotiations, transitional justice and reconcili
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Ranabir Samaddar
Ranabir Samaddar is a leading social scientist and director of the Calcutta Research Group. He is known for his work on issues of migration, peace and human rights, belongs to the school of cr
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D.N. Jha
Dwijendra Narayan Jha (1940-2021), popularly known as D.N. Jha, was educated at the Presidency College, Calcutta, and Patna University where he taught history for more than a decade. He was profess