'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

With reference to India.

Even those that grip the cross aren't safe.They say we battle not against flesh and blood, but what happens when flesh and blood get involved and the human willpower is compromised by demonic forces? Meet Eli Smith, a former occult member turned pastor and demon hunter who barely escaped with his own life, but tragically, his wife and daughter were brutally murdered fifteen years ago.Since then, Eli's been on a mission helping families, businesses, and churches infested by the evil supernatural realm. But his former occult group resurfaced, taking strongholds in Sea Forest and Day-Port City, pledging to cause genocide on the Christian body.They are led by the iron hand of Benny Augustin, the dark priest who spills false doctrine to control the ones he scattered and unmercifully slaughtering the believers for the glory of Satan. May God watch over us all during these testing times.Welcome to The Inimical. The name itself explains it all.

In the years since independence, the Indian subcontinent has witnessed an alarming rise in violence against marginalized communities, with an increasing number of groups pushed to the margins of the democratic order. Against this background of violence, injustice and the abuse of rights, this book explores the critical, ‘insurgent’ possibilities of constitutionalism as a means of revitalising the concepts of non-discrimination and liberty, and of reimagining democratic citizenship. The book argues that the breaking down of discrimination in constitutional interpretation and the narrowing of the field of liberty in law deepen discriminatory ideologies and practices. Instead, it offers an intersectional approach to jurisprudence as a means of enabling the law to address the problem of discrimination along multiple, intersecting axes. The argument is developed in the context of the various grounds of discrimination mentioned in the constitution — caste, tribe, religious minorities, women, sexual minorities, and disability. The study draws on a rich body of materials, including official reports, case law and historical records, and uses insights from social theory, anthropology, literary and historical studies and constitutional jurisprudence to offer a new reading of non-discrimination. This book will be useful to those interested in law, sociology, gender studies, politics, constitutionalism, disability studies, human rights, social exclusion, etc.

Bringing together some of the most important essays on Bharatanatyam written over the last two hundred years, this reader opens a window to the history, aesthetics, and personal journeys that have shaped this vital and ever-shifting art.