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ARTS,CRAFTS AND TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES

ARTS,CRAFTS AND TRADITIONAL INDUSTRIES

DR. ASIM K. DASGUPTA

This book tells us how hand-made cards, mosaic, fine jewellery, gemstones and many other crafts are created or produced. In addition, Dr. Dasgupta provides an expert guide to the health risks attending each craft.
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous

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Partha Mitter, with Asa Simon Mittman and Peter Dendle Editorial Introduction In 1977, Partha Mitter published his landmark study Much Maligned Monsters.1 Rooted in Postcolonial Studies, a field only just being developed—Edward Said's  ...
What is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to ...

What is Masculinity?: Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to ...

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Historical Dynamics from Antiquity to the Contemporary World J. Arnold, S. Brady ... Mark J. McLelland and Romit Dasgupta, 'Introduction', in McLelland and Dasgupta (eds), Genders, Transgenders, and Sexualities in Japan (London, 2005), ...
Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process

Locating Cultural Change: Theory, Method, Process

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Copyright © Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda, 2011 All rights reserved. ... Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Locating cultural change: theory, method, process/edited by Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda. p. cm.
Application of Calculus

Application of Calculus

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I owe my thanks to Partha Pratim Basu of R. K. Mission, Narendrapur for going through the final proofs of this book and to Utpal Chatterjee of Bangabasi College for his valuable suggestions. I solicit further advice for the improvement of this ...
Socio-Political Dynamics

Socio-Political Dynamics

S.C. Ghose

Thanks to Dr. Asim Dasgupta, the present Finance Minister and an erstwhile serious teacher and researcher for his attaching the conditions. He may earn much more unstinted thanks from a big section of 10,000 college and 2,100 university ...
Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses

Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses

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I acknowledge my debt to the Jadavpur University for allowing me to reproduce a part of my article 'Democratizing Healthcare: The Story of a Social Initiative' published in Partha Pratim Basu, Purusottam Bhattacharya, Debi Chatterjee, ...
Business Maharajas

Business Maharajas

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The next morning they met Dr Asim Dasgupta, the MIT-educated teacher of economics-turnedpolitician and the then state finance minister, who welcomed them with open arms. Ambani laid down his terms: Reliance wanted four downstream ...
Current Affairs Reckoner

Current Affairs Reckoner

Laxmikanth

State finance minister Dr. Asim Dasgupta said a special package has been worked out for families below the poverty line (BPL). He said an outright grant of Rs. 100 crore would be given to make up for the loss of trade during the period of the ...
Public Economics: Theory and Policy: Essays in Honor of ...

Public Economics: Theory and Policy: Essays in Honor of ...

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Implemented under the leadership of Dr Asim Dasgupta, Chairman, Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers, it addressed the distortions and complexities associated with the levy of tax at the first point of sale under the erstwhile ...
The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of ...

The Indian Periodical Press and the Production of ...

S. Kamra

Christopher Bayly (Empire, 335),Uma Dasgupta (36–38), Jitendra Nath Basu ( 218), and Bipan Chandra, among others, have described newspaperliterate village communities, sustainedintheir political interest bythe practice of ...
State, Nation and Democracy: Alternative Global Futures

State, Nation and Democracy: Alternative Global Futures

Partha Pratim Basu

-B. VIVEKANANDAN Europe has been the cradle of welfare states. Germany pioneered it. With a very different motivation of appeasing the organised industrial labour of Germany, and to arrest the growing influence of German socialists, ...
Glossary of Biotechnology Terms, Fourth Edition

Glossary of Biotechnology Terms, Fourth Edition

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In 1994, Dr. Asim Dasgupta discovered a cellular molecule within ordinary baker's yeast that prevents picorna virus reproduction. This advance could lead to the creation of a treatment, in the future, to cure one or more of the aforementioned ...
Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

Genders, Transgenders and Sexualities in Japan

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List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xiii Note on the text xv 1 Introduction 1 MARK MCLELLAND AND ROMIT DASGUPTA 2 Hegemonic gender in Japanese as a foreign language education: Australian perspectives 15 YURIKO NAGATA ...
NIMHANS Journal

NIMHANS Journal

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—Partha Choudhury Perspectives on Relaxation and Meditation: Edited by Mark Blows and Saroja Srinivasan, Published by Spectrum Publications, Melbourne, Australia, 1992; Pp.222: Price: 7? Relaxation and meditation approaches differ in  ...
Terrorism And Low Intensity Conflict In South Asian Region

Terrorism And Low Intensity Conflict In South Asian Region

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Partha Pratim Basu SECTION I The relationship between the media and terrorism may be conceptualised from three perspectives: of the media, the terrorists and the policymakers. The media feeds on the dramatic and the sensational, and ...
The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent

The Ganga: Water Use in the Indian Subcontinent

Pranab Kumar Parua

Some questioned and suspected the role, played by Jyoti Basu and Dr. Asim Dasgupta, his Finance Minister and felt that they had sacrificed the interests of West Bengal and of India at large. What is the truth behind these mixed and diverse ...
Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical ...

Computational Methods for Electromagnetic and Optical ...

John M. Jarem

John M. Jarem, Partha P. Banerjee. 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42. 43 44 45 46 P.P. Banerjee, H.-L. Yu, D. Gregory, and N. Kukhtarev, Phase conjugation, edge detection and image broadcasting using two-beam coupling in photorefractive ...
Praci Bhasavijnan: Indian Journal of Linguistics

Praci Bhasavijnan: Indian Journal of Linguistics

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Romance of Indian Journalism by Jitendra Nath Basu Rs 75-00 3. Ananda Coomaraswamy by Kalyan Kr. Dasgupta Rs. 60 00 4. A Linguistic Study of Personal names and Surnames in Bengali by Dr. Bhabataran Dutta. Rs. 80-00 5. Liberty ...
Disasters

Disasters

Dr. Asim K. Dasgupta

This was the discovery of Dr Richard Leakey and his team. They discovered a two-million-yearold humanoid skull, which was from Homo habilis. In 1974, 'Lucy' , a 3.5-million-year-old hominid skeleton was discovered by Dr Donald Johanson  ...
Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations

Salaam Bollywood: Representations and Interpretations

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Roy, Rajdeep. 2011. 'Bollywood and the Mumbai Underworld: Reading Satya in Retrospect', in Partha Pratim Basu and Ipshita Chanda (eds), Locating Cultural Change:Theory, Method, Process, pp. 98–119. New Delhi: Sage. Simmel, Georg.
Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion ...

Unforgetting Chaitanya: Vaishnavism and Cultures of Devotion ...

Varuni Bhatia

In Calcutta, Delhi and Syracuse, I benefitted greatly from companionship and intellectual engagement with Prasanta Chakravarty, Debraj Bhattacharya, Tapati Chowdhuri, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Aryak Guha, Bodhisattva Kar, Kamalika Mukherjee, ...
India's Foreign Policy

India's Foreign Policy

Anjali Ghosh

... subsidies to their farmers, as do most of the developing nations. However, the rich countries insist that the developing nations. India's Economic Diplomacy and the Print Media: WTO's Aborted Cancun Conference (2003) Partha Pratim Basu.
American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian ...

American Karma: Race, Culture, and Identity in the Indian ...

Sunil Bhatia

Unruly Immigrants, by Monisha Dasgupta, is one of the first detailed ethnographic studies of organizations supporting South Asian immigrants who face problems of gender discrimination, homophobia, domestic violence, poverty, and racism.
Press And Foreign Policy In India

Press And Foreign Policy In India

Partha Pratim Basu

This Book Seeks To Explore The Performance Of India`S Newspaper Press In Relation To Its Foreign Policy.
US Policy Towards the Muslim World: Focus on Post 9/11 Period

US Policy Towards the Muslim World: Focus on Post 9/11 Period

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For a detailed account, see Bhattacharya, Sanjukta Banerji “Islam, Nationalism and Democracy”, in Partha Pratim Basu, Purusottam Bhattacharya, Rochona Das et al., eds., State, Nation and Democracy: Alternative Global Futures, New Delhi:  ...
Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us

Monsters in the Classroom: Essays on Teaching What Scares Us

Adam Golub

19. selections from Edward said, Orientalism (new York: Pantheon, 1978); Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture (new York: Routledge, 1994); Partha Mitter with Asa simon Mittman and Peter Dendle, “Postcolonial Monsters: A Conversation ...
Centenary volume, 1955

Centenary volume, 1955

Presidency College (Calcutta, India)

... in these fixtures more or less regularly in the last few years may be mentioned Sailajaranjan Ray, K. L. Ray, Niren De, P. B. Datta, P. Sen, Nirmal Chattopadhyay, Dhruba Das, Siddharta Ray, A. Dasgupta and Amal Chattopadhyay.

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