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The upside-down tree : India's changing culture /
When he called India a"functioning anarchy," economist Kenneth Galbraith may have been thinking about Uttar Pradesh (UP), in northern India. Some Indians laughingly refer to Uttar Pradesh as a"loser state." Known as a home of deep poverty, incurable corruption and sticky social p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Algora Pub.,
©2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; The Upside Down Tree: The Bi-directionality of Cultural Change in India; Tameez aur Tahazeeb: Lucknow, Home of Manners and Civilization; The International Museum of the Latrine: Sewage and Scavengers; In Search of Flesh-Eating Turtles: Death Rituals and Water Pollution; Eating Baby Sharks: The Failing Fisheries of Goa; Kipling's Vermont: Surviving the Monsoons; The Tower of Babu: Hindi, Hinglish, English; Uda Devi Zindabad? The Assault on History as Illustrated by the History of an Assault; The Mourning of Chains: Muharram (and a Sunni-Shiite Riot) in Lucknow.