Partition's Legacies

Partition's Legacies
Title Partition's Legacies PDF eBook
Author Joya Chatterji
Publisher State University of New York Press
Pages 359
Release 2021-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 143848335X

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Partition's Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji's finest and most influential essays. "Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations," she writes in the preface, and these are also the major themes of this book. Chatterji's first book, Bengal Divided, shifted the focus from Muslim fanaticism as the driving force of Partition towards "secular" nationalism and Hindu aggression. Her Spoils of Partition rejected the idea of Partition as a breaking apart, showing it to be a process in the remaking of society and state. Her third book, Bengal Diaspora, cowritten with Claire Alexander and Annu Jalais, challenged the idea of migration and resettlement as exceptional situations. Partition's Legacies can be seen as continuous with Chatterji's earlier work as well as a distillation and expansion of it. Chatterji is known for the elegance of her prose as much as for the sharpness of her insights into Indian history, and Partition's Legacies will enthrall everyone interested in modern India's apocalyptic past. "What emerges from the essays," David Washbrook writes in the introduction, "is often quite startling. The demarcation of Partition followed no master plan or even coherent strategy but was made up of myriad ad hoc decisions taken on the ground, often by obscure actors. Refugee policy, immigrant rights, and even definitions of national citizenship ... were produced by no deus ex machina but out of day-to-day struggles on the streets and in the courts."

Partitions and Their Afterlives

Partitions and Their Afterlives
Title Partitions and Their Afterlives PDF eBook
Author Radhika Mohanram
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 273
Release 2019-06-28
Genre History
ISBN 1783488409

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How can we theorise partitions differently? How are new identities, moralities, polities and life constructed post-partition? How are gender and sexuality recalibrated after partition? How can violence be theorised? What is the relationship between identity in the diaspora and identity after partition? What is the relationship between the movement of capital and national borders that is the mark of partition? Partitions and their Afterlives engages with political partitions and how their aftermath affects the contemporary life of nations and their citizens. Using a comparative perspective, the essays seek to stretch our understanding of these conflicts and to show how elements of our day-to-day lives have been shaped by them. In juxtaposing the various partitions in a single volume the book contributes to debates on citizenship, collective memory, nation-building, and borders and boundaries. Such a focus also reveals how local communities as well as nations use their knowledge of the past and history. This ground-breaking multi-disciplinary and multi-region volume will analyse the various convergences and departures between the different partitions and draw out lessons for the present. In so doing, this work will also examine methodological challenges and the imperatives for scholars working on individual countries.

Cold War Legacies

Cold War Legacies
Title Cold War Legacies PDF eBook
Author John Beck
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 320
Release 2016-08-16
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1474409490

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From futures research, pattern recognition algorithms, nuclear waste disposal and surveillance technologies, to smart weapons systems, contemporary fiction and art, this book shows that we are now living in a world imagined and engineered during the Cold War. Drawing on theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Luce Irigaray, Friedrich Kittler, Michel Serres, Peter Sloterdijk, Carl Schmitt, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Virilio this collection makes connections between Cold War material and conceptual technologies, as they relate to the arts, society and culture.

Analytic And Combinatorial Number Theory: The Legacy Of Ramanujan - Contributions In Honor Of Bruce C. Berndt

Analytic And Combinatorial Number Theory: The Legacy Of Ramanujan - Contributions In Honor Of Bruce C. Berndt
Title Analytic And Combinatorial Number Theory: The Legacy Of Ramanujan - Contributions In Honor Of Bruce C. Berndt PDF eBook
Author George E Andrews
Publisher World Scientific
Pages 704
Release 2024-08-19
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 9811277389

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This volume reflects the contributions stemming from the conference Analytic and Combinatorial Number Theory: The Legacy of Ramanujan which took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on June 6-9, 2019. The conference included 26 plenary talks, 71 contributed talks, and 170 participants. As was the case for the conference, this book is in honor of Bruce C Berndt and in celebration of his mathematics and his 80th birthday.Along with a number of papers previously appearing in Special Issues of the International Journal of Number Theory, the book collects together a few more papers, a biography of Bruce by Atul Dixit and Ae Ja Yee, a preface by George Andrews, a gallery of photos from the conference, a number of speeches from the conference banquet, the conference poster, a list of Bruce's publications at the time this volume was created, and a list of the talks from the conference.

The Mathematical Legacy of Richard P. Stanley

The Mathematical Legacy of Richard P. Stanley
Title The Mathematical Legacy of Richard P. Stanley PDF eBook
Author Patricia Hersh
Publisher American Mathematical Soc.
Pages 369
Release 2016-12-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1470427249

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Richard Stanley's work in combinatorics revolutionized and reshaped the subject. His lectures, papers, and books inspired a generation of researchers. In this volume, these researchers explain how Stanley's vision and insights influenced and guided their own perspectives on the subject. As a valuable bonus, this book contains a collection of Stanley's short comments on each of his papers. This book may serve as an introduction to several different threads of ongoing research in combinatorics as well as giving historical perspective.

The Coxeter Legacy

The Coxeter Legacy
Title The Coxeter Legacy PDF eBook
Author Harold Scott Macdonald Coxeter
Publisher American Mathematical Soc.
Pages 344
Release
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 9780821887608

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This collection of essays on the legacy of mathematican Donald Coxeter is a mixture of surveys, updates, history, storytelling and personal memories covering both applied and abstract maths. Subjects include: polytopes, Coxeter groups, equivelar polyhedra, Ceva's theorum, and Coxeter and the artists.

The Legacy of Alladi Ramakrishnan in the Mathematical Sciences

The Legacy of Alladi Ramakrishnan in the Mathematical Sciences
Title The Legacy of Alladi Ramakrishnan in the Mathematical Sciences PDF eBook
Author Krishnaswami Alladi
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 571
Release 2010-08-26
Genre Mathematics
ISBN 1441962638

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In the spirit of Alladi Ramakrishnan’s profound interest and contributions to three fields of science — Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics — this volume contains invited surveys and research articles from prominent members of these communities who also knew Ramakrishnan personally and greatly respected his influence in these areas of science. Historical photos, telegrams, and biographical narratives of Alladi Ramakrishnan’s illustrious career of special interest are included as well.