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Description 'Yoga is the science of ultimate balance-between dharma (duty, or "right living"), artha (economic well-being), kama (erotic desire) and moksha (enlightenment or liberation)... Sexual satisfaction is thus essential for a full and healthy experience of life. The most visible manifestations of yoga are physical poses or asanas and these were the easiest to depict. Hence the profusion in India's pre-modern sculpture and art of people...

Butterflies and Borages is a small yet stirring poetry collection that talks about beauty, tranquility, and self-acceptance. It is almost everything that the author has seen and felt. With this book, she reaches out to you to make you feel the beauty that she has felt and, promises to make you fall in love with everything that surrounds you and is within you.

This book addresses the recent transformations of popular Hinduism by focusing upon the religious cum artistic practice of Ramkatha, staged narratives of the Ramcharitmanas. It will be of interest to academic audiences in the fields of South Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, as well as Performance Studies and Religious Studies.

This delightful collection of 14 folktales will transport children to Russia, Norway, China, Nepal and many other places around the world.

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examining India's Child Marriage Restraint Act (1929) and the establishment of 'age' as a political category governing intimate life in late colonial India.

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Birth controlled analyses the world of selective reproduction - the politics of who gets to legitimately reproduce the future - through a cross-cultural analysis of three modes of 'controlling' birth: contraception, reproductive violence and repro-genetic technologies. It argues that as fertility rates decline worldwide, the fervour to control fertility, and fertile bodies, does not dissipate, what evolves is the preferred mode of control. Alt...

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The work carried out attempts to understand the relationship between cropping practices adopted in Indian Semi-Arid Watershed and water use, particularly, groundwater withdrawal statistically. After establishing the relationship it suggests optimal groundwater allocation for sustainable use of water. The inter-season and intra-season water allocation has been suggested for optimal use of water in a Semi-Arid Watershed case study.

Phallic symbolism is one of the oldest and most prevalent motifs in religion, culture and art: the earliest known representations go back to prehistoric times. Starting off as a symbol of fertility, the phallus has gone through numerous interpretations in the way it is perceived, and its symbolic significance varies across cultures as well. In the west, the erotic symbolism of the phallus is often emphasized, whereas in India, the most widely ...

Trafficking is a multi-dimensional problem encompassing a whole range of economic, social and cultural issues which are varied and highly complex. Almost every country in the world is affected by trafficking. Poverty and deprivation, secondary status accorded to women in society, prejudice against the girl child, weakening of the family structure, changing public attitude towards sex and morality, urbanization, migration and the growing consum...

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This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of South Asian foreign policy in an effort to understand South Asia's place in the world order.

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This book describes the processes of migration and settlement of indentured Indian women and tries to map their struggles, challenges and agencies. It highlights the fact that even though indentured women faced various kinds of violence and abuse owing to the authoritarian and patriarchal setup of the plantations, over a period of time, they managed to turn the adverse circumstances to their advantage. They struggled to emerge as productive wo...

Learning to Love explores the everyday marriage narratives of the British-Indian diaspora. It unpacks the phenomenon of arranged marriages beyond its pejorative stereotypes by highlighting the diversity of interpersonal and emotional negotiations involved in their practice. Using in-depth ethnographic description, the book shows that far from being a homogeneous tradition, arranged marriages involve a variety of different matchmaking practices...

Moves beyond the stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices.

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Inscribed as World Heritage by UNESCO in 1993, the Qutb groups of monuments contain over 70 heritage buildings, like Jamali Kamali mosque, Balban's tomb, Rajon ki Bain, Muhammad Quli Khan's tomb, and many others. This book offers vivid description and illustration of this priceless collection of monuments.