The Experience of Non-violent Action from Gandhi to the PresentEdited by Adam Roberts and Timothy Garton Ash
Rs 1592
Civil Resistance and Power Politics covers most of the leading cases, including the actions master-minded by Gandhi, the US civil rights struggle in the 1960s, the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the ‘people power’ revolt in the Philippines in the 1980s, the campaigns against apartheid in South Africa, the various movements contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Bloc in 1989-91, and, in this century, the ‘colour revolutions’ in Georgia and Ukraine.
The chapters, written by leading experts, are richly descriptive and analytically rigorous.
Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought, Second EditionBy Ken Morrison
Rs 792
This Second Edition is a thoroughly revised, expanded version of the bestselling student text in classical social theory.
Author Kenneth Morrison provides an authoritative, accessible undergraduate guide to the three pivotal figures in the classical tradition. Readable and stimulating, the Second Edition of Marx, Durkheim, Weber: Formations of Modern Social Thought explains the key ideas of these thinkers and situates them in their historical and philosophical contexts.
State and Society: Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Nepal
By Kristian Stokke & Mohan Das Manandhar Rs 350
This book is a collection of five articles. One of the articles is a contribution by Krishna Bhattachan, a Nepali social scientist, and it explores the exclusion/inclusion discourse in the context of constitution making and state restructuring processes underway in Nepal.
Among the other articles, one by Krishna Hachhethu explains the relationship between the Nepali state and different social groups based on the experiences of the Gurung and Madheshi study populations. Another article, by Jagannath Adhikari studies the relationship of people with land and its implications for excluded groups.
The final write-up in the collection, by Jyotsna Tamang, is a study on domestic violence.
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Phone: 4227711
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