Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India 9780822385196

An inside look at the creation of several ad campaigns in the major Bombay ad agency and what they say about Indian nati

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Shoveling Smoke: Advertising and Globalization in Contemporary India
9780822385196

This was the first ethnography of gay life in contemporary India. It talked about the early age of the internet in the c

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This book analyzes how the urban disadvantaged in the city of New Delhi learn English. Using qualitative methods the aut

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Wonderful characters and great world-building, in Humphreys' special brand of addictive storytelling' Diana Ga

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A delightfully offbeat murder mystery amid West Indian hi-jinks of an extraordinarily wacky nature Banker-Detective Mark

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This book is a ground-breaking intervention on Dalit politics in India. Challenging received ideas, it uses a comparativ

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This volume examines whether or not the rivalry between India and China that began in the 1950s will intensify or dissip

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In this account of an anthropologist's journey into Indian psychiatry wards, among women with mental illnesses and

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