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Olympe de Gouges, French activist and playwright, has for
centuries been called illiterate, immoral, and insane while being
mentioned almost uniquely for her "Declaration of the Rights of
Woman and the female]" Citizen (1791). However, her plays and
pamphlets imagine in vivid terms the consequences of natural right
and their potential for transforming the autocratic state and
family. She wrote nearly fifty plays, of which about a dozen have
been recovered, and innumerable polemical letters, posters,
brochures, and essays. This book uncovers her radical views of the
self, the family, and the state and accounts for her vision of
increasing female agency and decreasing the entitlements of
aristocratic males. Here, Sherman examines and refutes the calumny
de Gouges's reputation has suffered and proves that this intriguing
historical figure deserves to be read instead of simply being
talked about.
Kenzie turns her fierce love for the ocean into action,
resourcefully cleaning up the beach after her mermaid-tail swimsuit
tangles in floating plastic bags. When Kenzie slips on her mermaid
tale, she becomes Mermaid Kenzie, protector of the deeps. One day
as Kenzie snorkels around a shipwreck, she discovers more plastic
bags than fish. Grabbing her spear and mermaid net, she begins to
clean up the water and the shore--inspiring other kids to help.
Beautifully written in African American Vernacular English, this
poetic picture book includes back matter with information about how
plastic winds up in our oceans and examples of people--some of them
kids, like Kenzie--who have worked to protect the sea. Mermaid
Kenzie celebrates the ways that all of us, no matter how small, can
make a difference.
Muslim Belonging in Secular India surveys the experience of some of
India's most prominent Muslim communities in the early postcolonial
period. Muslims who remained in India after the Partition of 1947
faced distrust and discrimination, and were consequently compelled
to seek new ways of defining their relationship with fellow
citizens of India and its governments. Using the forcible
integration of the princely state of Hyderabad in 1948 as a case
study, Taylor C. Sherman reveals the fragile and contested nature
of Muslim belonging in the decade that followed independence. In
this context, she demonstrates how Muslim claims to citizenship in
Hyderabad contributed to intense debates over the nature of
democracy and secularism in independent India. Drawing on detailed
new archival research, Dr Sherman provides a thorough and
compelling examination of the early governmental policies and
popular strategies that have helped to shape the history of Muslims
in India since 1947.
An iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence
in India Nehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new
interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing
from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor
Sherman reevaluates the role of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first
prime minister, in shaping the nation. She argues that the notion
of Nehru as the architect of independent India, as well as the
ideas, policies, and institutions most strongly associated with his
premiership-nonalignment, secularism, socialism, democracy, the
strong state, and high modernism-have lost their explanatory power.
They have become myths. Sherman examines seminal projects from the
time and also introduces readers to little-known personalities and
fresh case studies, including India's continued engagement with
overseas Indians, the importance of Buddhism in secular India, the
transformations in industry and social life brought about by
bicycles, a riotous and ultimately doomed attempt to prohibit the
consumption of alcohol in Bombay, the early history of election
campaign finance, and the first state-sponsored art exhibitions.
The author also shines a light on underappreciated individuals,
such as Apa Pant, the charismatic diplomat who influenced foreign
policy from Kenya to Tibet, and Urmila Eulie Chowdhury, the
rebellious architect who helped oversee the building of Chandigarh.
Tracing and critiquing developments in this formative period in
Indian history, Nehru's India offers a fresh and definitive
exploration of the nation's early postcolonial era.
Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the
population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a
study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and state
violence and a cultural history of the different ways in which
Indians imbued practices of punishment with their own meanings and
reinterpreted acts of state violence in their own political
campaigns. This work examines state violence from a historical
perspective, expanding the study of punishment beyond the prison by
investigating the interplay between imprisonment, corporal
punishment, collective fines and state violence. It provides a
fresh look at seminal events in the history of mid-twentieth
century India, such as the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, the
non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements, the Quit India
campaign, and the Hindu-Muslim riots of the 1930s and 1940s. The
book extends its analysis into the postcolonial period by
considering the ways in which partition and then the struggle
against a communist insurgency reshaped practices of punishment and
state violence in the first decade after independence. Ultimately,
this research challenges prevailing conceptions of the nature of
the state in colonial and postcolonial India, which have tended to
assume that the state had the ambition and the ability to use the
police, military and bureaucracy to dominate the population at
will. It argues, on the contrary, that the state in
twentieth-century India tended to be self-limiting, vulnerable, and
replete with tensions. Relevant to those interested in contemporary
India and the history of empire and decolonisation, this work
provides a new framework for the study of state violence which will
be invaluable to scholars of South Asian studies; violence, crime
and punishment; and colonial and postcolonial history.
Exploring violent confrontation between the state and the
population in colonial and postcolonial India, this book is both a
study of the many techniques of colonial coercion and state
violence and a cultural history of the different ways in which
Indians imbued practices of punishment with their own meanings and
reinterpreted acts of state violence in their own political
campaigns.
This work examines state violence from a historical perspective,
expanding the study of punishment beyond the prison by
investigating the interplay between imprisonment, corporal
punishment, collective fines and state violence. It provides a
fresh look at seminal events in the history of mid-twentieth
century India, such as the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh, the
non-cooperation and civil disobedience movements, the Quit India
campaign, and the Hindu-Muslim riots of the 1930s and 1940s. The
book extends its analysis into the postcolonial period by
considering the ways in which partition and then the struggle
against a communist insurgency reshaped practices of punishment and
state violence in the first decade after independence. Ultimately,
this research challenges prevailing conceptions of the nature of
the state in colonial and postcolonial India, which have tended to
assume that the state had the ambition and the ability to use the
police, military and bureaucracy to dominate the population at
will. It argues, on the contrary, that the state in
twentieth-century India tended to be self-limiting, vulnerable, and
replete with tensions.
Relevant to those interested in contemporary India and the
history of empire and decolonisation, this work provides a new
framework for the study of state violence which will be invaluable
to scholars of South Asian studies; violence, crime and punishment;
and colonial and postcolonial history.
This book explores the shift from colonial rule to independence in
India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit
meaning and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of
India and Pakistan during the two decades post 1947. While the
study of postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years,
this volume addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and
highly popular field. Firstly, the histories of India and Pakistan
after 1947 have been conceived separately, with many scholars
assuming that the two states developed along divergent paths after
independence. Thus, the dominant historical paradigm has been to
examine either India or Pakistan in relative isolation from one
another. Viewing the two states in the same frame not only allows
the contributors of this volume to explore common themes, but also
facilitates an exploration of the powerful continuities between the
pre- and post-independence periods.
This Article Was Adapted From A Paper Read At A Meeting Of The Club
Of Odd Volumes In Boston, October 1958.
At 49 in 2006, I was diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease. What is in
this book are a series of parodies, satires and stories about
somebody struggling with young onset Parkinson's Disease. At no
time is it depressing, on the contrary, it took Parkinson's to get
me to realize how good my life really was. It also took Parkinson's
to get me to discover a passion for writing. The 100 stories are
listed in chronological order. Therefore, I believe that there is a
vast improvement from the first few parodies through the
Parkinson's stories until the last 30, which are satires that I
wrote for an online satire newspaper. I hope that you enjoy reading
this as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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