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The atlas also emphasizes on the socio-economic and natural profile of the country through various thematic maps.

As well as the State Public Service Commissions, and various other examining bodies in India.

The book comprehensively appraises the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti, which led one of the most remarkable women's movements in colonial India. The Assam Mahila Samiti was perhaps the largest democratic women's association in India. Central to the Samiti story is its founding secretary, Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother, and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer and a polemical columnist.

India is undergoing massive urbanization. The future form of Indian cities in terms of urban planning and design is most urgent. A study of the key historical moments from the point of view of urban development is thus important. With case studies from the time cities originated in the Indian subcontinent and hand-drawn illustrations of these cities till the ones in recent times, the author discusses the last two hundred years of urban development in India with emphasis on the overall structure of the city, its nature of public places, institutions, and housing.

The book is a collection of set pieces that are inter-linked, not in any direct way, but through thematic elements. At the heart of it, it is a metaphysical work with contemplations on life, death, and the nature of existence. The non-linear, fragmentary form of this work is very different from what Hijab Imtiaz Ali's contemporaries were writing, and suggests that Ali was at the forefront of Urdu Modernist literature.

This book is about how and why Bollywood found it worthwhile to explore the reality of the millennial women who are thriving in India - small part of the demographics but very influential. Advertising discovered women as choosy consumers and influencers. The Hindi film Heroine is a brand and a brand ambassador. The market met contemporary women who are independent, with freer attitudes to relationships, including pre-marital sex. Rom coms of the new millenniumreflect this new found freedom, defying patriarchy that still defines our society.

Python Programming is designed as a textbook to fulfil the requirements of the first-level course in Python programming. It is suited for undergraduate degree students of computer science engineering, information technology as well as computer applications. The book aims to introduce the students to the fundamentals of computing and the concepts of Python programming language, and enable them to apply these concepts for solving real-worldproblems.

Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is pejoratively labelled as the centre of "Muslim votebank"politics in contemporary Uttar Pradesh. The book highlights the importance of locality and emotions in shaping Muslim identities, politics, and belonging in Rampur. The book shows that we need to move beyond such homogeneous categories of nation and region, in order to comprehend local dynamics that allow a better and closer understanding of the historical re-negotiations of politics and identities by Muslims in South Asia.This is the first comprehensive English-language monograph on the local history and politics of Rampur princely state, based on Persian, Pashto, Urdu, Hindi, and English archives and oral histories of Rampuris. The bookprovides insights into the various facets of the political, economic, religious, literary, socio-cultural, and affective history of Rampur and Rampuris in India and Pakistan.

This work is a translation of one of Premchand's plays, Karbala, published in 1924. It is based on an event in Islamic history, the battle of Karbala, in which the younger grandson of Prophet Muhammad, Hussain, was martyred along with his family at the hands of the sinful caliph Yazid bin Muawiya. Premchand's retelling of the historic episode was daring at a time when communal sentiments where running high.

Written in different languages, modes and forms, the stories in this collection deal with identity, domesticity, religion, desires, love, rebellion, culture, society, rebellion, and freedom. Stories, in the collection, discreetly question the old values, gender relations and debunk the stereotyped identity of Muslim womanhood.

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