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Transforming Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Stewardship for Leading Change
by James E. Kee JD, MPA Kathryn E. Newcomer PhDIn the public and nonprofit arenas, leaders face the unique challenge of protecting the public interest while implementing organizational change initiatives. To succeed, these leaders must build organizations that are "change-centric," carefully weigh and prepare for the risks of change, and develop a change-oriented leadership style that authors Kee and Newcomer call transformational stewardship.A comprehensive approach to leading change, Transforming Public and Nonprofit Organizations: Stewardship for Leading Change provides public and nonprofit leaders and students of leadership, management, and organizational change with theoretical knowledge and practical tools for accomplishing change goals while protecting the broader public interest. This insightful and useful guide offers:An introduction to the change-oriented leadership concept, transformational stewardshipAn easy-to-follow model for initiating change in the public interestCase studies, practical tips, and resources for additional learningAn organizational assessment instrument to gauge readiness for major changeA 360-degree assessment instrument to identify individual leadership strengths and areas for improvement
Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity
by Steven SnyderAll Leaders Face Adversity. Exceptional Leaders Thrive in It. Leadership is often a struggle, and yet strong taboos keep us from talking openly and honestly about our difficulties for fear of looking weak and seeming to lack confidence. But Steven Snyder shows that this discussion is vital—adversity is precisely what unlocks our greatest potential. Using real-life stories drawn from his extensive research studying 151 diverse episodes of leadership struggle—as well as from his experiences working with Bill Gates in the early years of Microsoft and as a CEO and executive coach—Snyder shows how to navigate intense challenges to achieve personal growth and organizational success. He details strategies for embracing struggle and offers a host of unique tools and hands-on practices to help you implement them. By mastering the art of struggle, you’ll be better equipped to meet life’s challenges and focus on what matters most. “Leadership and the Art of Struggle provides you with the opportunity to learn from Snyder’s remarkable wisdom. It is a living guide that you can return to time and time again as new situations arise.” —From the foreword by Bill George, former CEO, Medtronic; Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School; and author of the bestselling True North “The leadership book of the year…one of the most intelligent, revealing, and practical books on the subject I have ever read. It confronts a vital truth: that challenge is the crucible for greatness and that these adversities introduce us to ourselves.” —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling The Leadership Challenge “Steven Snyder covers all the bases from channeling your energy to managing conflict, including a great segment about overcoming your leadership blind spots...This encouraging book is a must-read!” —Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Great Leaders Grow “Leadership and the Art of the Struggle gives you clear and compelling advice on transforming pitfalls into possibilities.” —Jodee Kozlak, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, Target
The Business Analyst as Strategist: Translating Business Strategies into Valuable Solutions
by Kathleen B. Hass PMPAn organization's ability to achieve strategic goals through programs and supporting projects depends on its ability to establish a future vision, set strategic goals, select the most valuable projects, and then execute flawlessly. Organizational strategic alignmentis achieved by converting strategic plans and goals into a valuable portfolio of programs and supporting projects. Strategic project leaders and project teams execute the project plans to meet objectives and deliver project outcomes, adding value to the organization. As the role of the business analyst evolves and matures, senior business analysts will emerge as the key individuals in the organization who have the depth of businessacumen and technological proficiency to serve as both business and technology experts. In this capacity, business analysts will become involved in an array of activities designed to devise a strategy to reach the organization's future business vision by achieving strategic goals. As the business analyst elevates into a leadership role as the business and technology strategist, he or she serves the executive team by facilitating, informing, and enabling the most favorable business decisions during the strategic planning and enterprise analysis phases of the business solution life cycle (BSLC). This book examines the emerging critical role of the business analyst during these first two phases of the BSLC.
Everyday Project Management
by Jeff Davidson"Everyday Project Management is a practical guide for anyone new or needing to learn more about project management. Unlike many other books, it does not rely on arcane concepts and terms, and simply tells it like it is."—Todd C. Williams, President of eCameron, Inc., and author of Filling Execution Gaps and Rescue the Problem ProjectEveryday Project Management provides the direction you need to apply project management's time-tested tools for keeping things on time and under budget. It introduces the wide variety of tasks you will have to tackle, including assembling a team, mapping out a plan, monitoring progress, keeping your team motivated, and using appropriate planning tools, such as project management software or wall charts. In addition, you'll gain a clearer picture of the project manager's role in the conception, planning, execution, control, and completion of a project.Each chapter offers essential bite-sized nuggets of wisdom that will help you succeed, outlining the kinds of challenges you'll encounter, the interpersonal issues that will arise, and ways to stay on time and on budget in pursuit of the desired quality outcome. You'll learn how Gantt charts can keep your project on schedule, how the critical path method can be used to conserve resources, and how to juggle multiple projects, bosses, and reporting structures. Whether you are managing one project or many, this quick and easy guide to the tasks, tools, and skills of project management will carry you from project launch to project completion. Most importantly, you will learn why having a work-life balance is vital to project managers who seek long and prosperous careers.
The Transformative Politics of Music Education (ISME Series in Music Education)
by Gert Biesta Heidi Westerlund Tuulikki LaesThis book introduces a unique approach to the interconnections between music education and politics. By taking a broader, more diverse, and explicitly ethico-political philosophical and theoretical stance, the book challenges institutional and structural conditions that may be resistant to change and expands the understanding of the professional responsibility of music educators in the 21st century to meet a variety of societal and ecological challenges.Emerging from a collaboration between international music education scholars and prominent contemporary educational theorist Gert Biesta, this book connects contemporary educational theories with music education to unlock its transformational capacity. In eight chapters, the contributors show how music education can move towards ways of being and doing that are attuned to social justice and to the broader social and ecological responsibility of music professionals. Strengthening the interdisciplinary connections between music education and education, philosophy, sociology, policy, systems thinking, and more, the volume offers a renewed vision of the scope and boundaries of both music teacher education and professional work in music more widely.Connecting the decades-long work of internationally established music educator scholars and ideas from large-scale research projects with a shared interest in transformative theorisation, this book fills a knowledge gap and reframes the philosophy of music education as a vibrantly multidisciplinary, theory-generating field. Relevant to researchers and students across music teacher education and performance studies, this book speaks to both conservatoires and university contexts across Europe and North America, helping us unlock the transformative capacity of music education.
Young Children in Digital Society: Now and into the Future
by Susan Edwards Leon StrakerMoving the conversation about young children and digital technologies away beyond “good” or “bad”, Susan Edwards and Leon Straker present an innovative perspective to educators, researchers, and communities on how to support young children to learn and thrive safely in a digital society.This book marks a turning point in research concerning young children and technologies. Instead of focussing on the impacts of technology on children in ways that generate conflicting information, advice, and opinions, this book centres on understanding how children live, learn, and play in digital society, and how the adults in their lives can actively create opportunities that support them to participate safely so that they can thrive. Based on a groundbreaking research project in partnership with industry, this text showcases the development of well-designed end-user content and materials, such as videos, infographics, and books, that best support young children and their adults living, learning, and playing in digital society. It includes practical examples for early childhood educators and broader communities, such as ways to promote physical activity with digital technologies, support children with online safety, facilitate peer relationships using technologies, and engage in digital play for learning. For a closer look into the additional resources and support available, visit https://youngchildrendigitalsociety.com.au/. A refreshing perspective on young children and digital technology, this book is set to become a foundational text for early childhood educators, policy makers, and communities.
Alternative Currencies: A Critical Approach (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)
by Louis LarueA wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, local currencies, carbon currencies, and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend. These currencies are at the heart of a larger movement that questions the present state of money and argues that new currencies might help to build resilient economies and “warmer” social relations.This book focuses on radical alternative proposals as well as on small-scale experiments, and makes use of the analytical tools of philosophy and of economics, with one main question in mind: can alternative currencies constitute desirable alternatives to the present monetary system? Overall, the book will raise serious doubts regarding the capacity of such currencies to deliver on their promises. In part, it will show that several arguments in favour of alternative currencies are lacking in consistency and clarity, and are thus in need of thorough revision. More fundamentally, it will argue that these currencies rarely succeed in fulfilling their objectives and that their fulfilment would entail significant conflicts with justice and economic efficiency.This book is addressed to researchers in economics, politics, and philosophy of money, especially those working on alternative monetary systems.
Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism (Routledge Focus on Literature)
by Clenora Hudson (Weems)Elevating Humanity via Africana Womanism is a short, but powerful book, advocating synergy via unity/collectivity as a panacea for all societal ills. It discusses the Africana Womanism theory - an authentic family centered concept for all women of African descent - as a grid upon which to erect the private and public personae of all positive Africana people. Within the context of our cultural and historical matrix, it opens with defining the paradigm, while promoting the importance of prioritizing race, class and gender, the triple plight of Black women. A workable strategy for ensuring equality for all, it closes on a note of love and spirituality, while embracing the special connection between Africana men and women, the 2-sided human coin.This introduction logically and convincingly speaks truth to power about who we, Black women are, beginning, in Part One, with naming and defining ourselves, with the foreknowledge of the seminal role of our male counterparts. It identifies the 18 descriptors of the true Africana woman and her male counterpart. Part Two offers fruitful commentary, via sharing some of the many contributions we have given to society, which could enhance self-esteem among our people, many of whom have come to not love themselves and even their own, due to inadequate historical documentation.
Keramat, Sacred Relics and Forbidden Idols in Singapore (Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series)
by William L. GibsonKeramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore’s history as a multi‑ethnic maritime trading center. They offered sanctified spaces not only for Muslims but also for the entire community in which they emerged. Maintained by self‑appointed caretakers, the stories of keramat often interweave fact with folklore that mirror the history and sensibilities of the community.While once an abundant part of the social landscape of Singapore, many keramat were destroyed during the post‑independence rush to develop. These keramat now face a second vanishing with memories of them fading as caretakers and community members age and pass away. In parallel, many modern Muslims consider keramat as a form of shirk, or polytheism, and tacitly consent to their destruction. This book concludes by critically examining the often‑tense relationship between keramat and authority, both secular and religious, from colonial to modern times. The dilemmas of grappling with puritanical norms and grassroots elaborations in varying modes of preservation are investigated using case studies from Singapore and the wider region.A vital resource for scholars, this work contributes to a people’s history of Singapore, one that both deepens and problematizes official historical accounts.
Exclusion in Smart Cities: Assessment and Strategy for Strengthening Resilience (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design)
by Izabela Jonek-Kowalska Radosław WolniakSmart Cities are fascinating, but they also have a dark side that little is said or written about. One issue is the possibility of generating various types of exclusion. For this reason, this book will develop principles for assessing the inclusiveness of Smart Cities and outline strategies for strengthening urban resistance to exclusion.The book will consider the essence, scale and types of exclusion and include analysis of inclusiveness in practice in the assessment and activities of Smart Cities. The research assesses Smart City literature, with particular emphasis on criticism of the Smart City concept and exclusion generated in smart urban structures, critically analyses the principles and indicators used in international inclusive Smart City rankings, highlights case studies on best practices for preventing exclusions in Smart Cities, and uses trend analysis to assess the scale and intensity of exclusion threats.This book can be used as a compendium of knowledge about exclusions in Smart Cities by both researchers and students, as well as all urban stakeholders, in particular city decision-makers.
Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times (Teaching with Gender)
by Jessie A. Bustillos MoralesQuestioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times showcases contemporary thinking on pressing aspects of gender equalities, such as patriarchal culture, sexual harassment, trans rights, queer pedagogies, and sex education in various educational settings and international contexts. This book illustrates how education is an important physical, material and ideological site for understanding and challenging stubborn gender inequalities. Questioning Gender Politics positions itself within existing theorisations and research outlining how gender issues and sexist power cultures have in many cases changed from plain to more insidious inequalities. The notion of education is also expanded to include a broader understanding of how gender issues impinge on education. The range of work explored in this volume includes contributions on modern conceptualisations of gender, feminism and education, transnormativities, queer theory, intersectional pedagogy, postheteronormativity in education, and more. Questioning Gender Politics: Contextualising Educational Disparities in Uncertain Times will be of great value to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Gender and Education, as well as seasoned educators.
Jones & Bartlett Learning's Pocket Guide for Medical Assisting
by Judy Kronenberger Julie LedbetterJones & Bartlett Learning's Pocket Guide for Medical Assisting provides the essential information you need to make the transition from the classroom to the clinic as smooth and as stress-free as possible. The streamlined, quick-reference format allows you to easily find key information to carry out clinical, administrative, and laboratory duties. It keeps all the essential information at hand and organized for easy review and is the ideal procedure manual every medical assistant needs for the practice setting. Color-coded tabs to clearly identify sections"Warning" boxes describe situations that may pose an increased risk to you or your patient "Charting Examples" present realistic samples of the information required for legal documentationVital reference material includes commonly prescribed medications, normal lab values, pain assessment tools, HIPAA resources, key English-to-Spanish health care phrases, a basic medical terminology refresher, commonly used abbreviations, Celsius-Fahrenheit conversions, metric equivalents, and more © 2024 | 266 pages
Managing Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives
by Naim Kapucu Alpaslan Özerdem Abdul-Akeem SadiqAs the scale, frequency, and intensity of crises faced by the world have dramatically increased over the last decade, there is a critical need for a careful stocktaking on the knowledge of managing disasters. Managing Emergencies and Crises: Global Perspectives, Second Edition clearly and comprehensively explores the most important concepts of emergency and crisis management (such as mitigation, protection, prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, vulnerability and risk assessment) and illustrates them with cases involving disasters and emergencies worldwide. Substantially revised, the Second Edition has been reorganized and includes two new and timely chapters on terrorism and emergency management and public health emergencies and crises. It also provides an emphasis on management and leadership and cross-sector governance from interdisciplinary and global perspectives. Two new chapters: Terrorism and Emergency Management and Public Health Emergencies and Crises. Wide range of scholarly perspectives are presented to guide readers' understanding of various concepts in the emergency and crisis management field. Rich and diverse case studies illustrate how various stakeholders, including emergency program managers, respond in crisis and emergency management situation. Navigate eBook Access (included with the print text) provides online or offline access to the digital textbook. Upper level undergraduate and graduate level courses in Disaster Preparedness, Preparedness Training, Emergency Management Training (EMT), Preparedness and Emergency Response, Preparedness and Planning Also appropriate for researchers, practitioners and leaders involved in crisis response. © 2023 | 325 pages
Living Well with Psychosis: Practical Strategies for Improving Your Daily Life (The Guilford Living Well Series)
by Aaron P. BrinenFor people with psychosis, recovery is a winding path, not a straight line. And the best person to steer your recovery is you. Leading psychologist Aaron P. Brinen busts myths and helps you build the life you want in this empowering book. Dr. Brinen provides step-by-step guidance for becoming a strong self-advocate, navigating treatment options, managing symptoms that cause distress, and coping with stigma. Learn crucial ways to connect with others, pursue your goals at school or work, and keep your body healthy. The brief chapters are warm and compassionate, with downloadable practical tools designed to boost your energy and motivation for getting out into the world. This is a book you can read cover to cover--or dip into any time you need extra support to live well and feel good.
Clinician's Guide to Validity Assessment and Management in Neuropsychology (Evidence-Based Practice in Neuropsychology Series)
by Ryan W. Schroeder Phillip K. MartinThis unique hands-on guide walks neuropsychologists through the process of validity assessment and management in real-world clinical settings. Emphasizing the medical necessity of evaluating validity, the authors provide detailed examples, procedural tips, and downloadable practical tools. Step-by-step guidelines are presented for managing potentially complicated referrals, using the clinical interview to gain awareness of possible concerns, choosing and administering performance and symptom validity tests, and providing feedback and treatment recommendations when invalidity is identified. Clinician–patient relationship issues are sensitively addressed. The book concludes with a chapter-length case example.
CEH v12 Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide with 750 Practice Test Questions (Sybex Study Guide)
by Ric MessierThe latest version of the official study guide for the in-demand CEH certification, now with 750 Practice Test Questions Information security and personal privacy remains a growing concern for businesses in every sector. And even as the number of certifications increases, the Certified Ethical Hacker, Version 12 (CEH v12) maintains its place as one of the most sought-after and in-demand credentials in the industry. In CEH v12 Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide with 750 Practice Test Questions, you’ll find a comprehensive overview of the CEH certification requirements. Concise and easy-to-follow instructions are combined with intuitive organization that allows you to learn each exam objective in your own time and at your own pace. The Study Guide now contains more end of chapter review questions and more online practice tests. This combines the value from the previous two-book set including a practice test book into a more valuable Study Guide. The book offers thorough and robust coverage of every relevant topic, as well as challenging chapter review questions, even more end of chapter review questions to validate your knowledge, and Exam Essentials, a key feature that identifies important areas for study. There are also twice as many online practice tests included. You’ll learn about common attack practices, like reconnaissance and scanning, intrusion detection, DoS attacks, buffer overflows, wireless attacks, mobile attacks, Internet of Things vulnerabilities, and more. It also provides: Practical, hands-on exercises that reinforce vital, real-world job skills and exam competencies Essential guidance for a certification that meets the requirements of the Department of Defense 8570 Directive for Information Assurance positions Complimentary access to the Sybex online learning center, complete with chapter review questions, full-length practice exams, hundreds of electronic flashcards, and a glossary of key terms The CEH v12 Certified Ethical Hacker Study Guide with 750 Practice Test Questions is your go-to official resource to prep for the challenging CEH v12 exam and a new career in information security and privacy.
Virgin Millionaire: The Step-by-Step Guide to Your First Million and Beyond
by Ben NashDo you dream of being the first to reach the millionaire milestone? Do you have big money ambitions? Are you committed to being so successful with investing that you not only set up yourself, but future generations as well? Virgin Millionaire is here to help you create a step-by-step game plan for true money and investing success. The goal? To live your ideal lifestyle WITHOUT sacrificing all your waking hours to work. If you want to become the first millionaire (or multimillionaire) in your family — and guarantee your long-term financial security — this book shares expert advice to get you there. Virgin Millionaire combines the psychology behind wealth and money-habit building with simple strategies and frameworks to give you the why, what and how. You’ll learn about the five Smart Money Stages every person moves through on their journey to financial independence. With the Smart Money Stages, you’ll determine where you’re at now and get clear, actionable strategies for growing your wealth so you can progress through each stage faster. Discover the tactics that will help you focus, optimise and accelerate your money for ultimate impact. Virgin Millionaire will show you how to: Set up the building blocks for serious money success Automate your money management to save time and drive better results Cut your tax bill to get ahead faster Buy your dream home, without a crippling mortgage Do it all without making drastic lifestyle sacrifices today With this book, you’ll see why author Ben Nash is Australia’s most-followed financial adviser — and the founder of Australia’s most-awarded financial advice company. Don’t settle for anything short of achieving your full financial potential. Virgin Millionaire will show you how to realise your inner millionaire.“Jargon-free and straight to the point. This book is a must-read for anyone serious about unlocking their inner millionaire.” — Victoria Devine, founder and author of She’s on the Money
Learning Kubernetes Security: A practical guide for secure and scalable containerized environments
by Raul LapazGet practical, hands-on experience in Kubernetes security—from mastering the fundamentals to implementing advanced techniques to safeguard your Kubernetes deployments against malicious threatsKey FeaturesUnderstand Kubernetes security fundamentals through real-world examples of threat actor tacticsNavigate the complexities of securing container orchestration with practical, expert insightsDeploy multiple Kubernetes components, plugins, and third-party tools to proactively defend against cyberattacksPurchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBookBook DescriptionWith readily available services, support, and tools, Kubernetes has become a foundation for digital transformation and cloud-native development, but it brings significant security challenges such as breaches and supply chain attacks. This updated edition equips you with defense strategies to protect your applications and infrastructure while understanding the attacker mindset, including tactics like container escapes and exploiting vulnerabilities to compromise clusters. The author distills his 25+ years of experience to guide you through Kubernetes components, architecture, and networking, addressing authentication, authorization, image scanning, resource monitoring, and traffic sniffing. You’ll implement security controls using third-party plugins (krew) and tools like Falco, Tetragon, and Cilium. You’ll also secure core components, such as the kube-apiserver, CoreDNS, and kubelet, while hardening images, managing security contexts, and applying PodSecurityPolicy. Through practical examples, the book teaches advanced techniques like redirecting traffic from misconfigured clusters to rogue pods and enhances your support incident response with effective cluster monitoring and log analysis. By the end of the book, you'll have a solid grasp of container security as well as the skills to defend your clusters against evolving threats.What you will learnImplement Kubernetes security best practices, from threat detection to network protectionBuild strong security layers and controls using core Kubernetes componentsApply theory through hands-on labs to secure Kubernetes systems step by stepUse security plugins and open-source tools to help mitigate container-based threatsSet up monitoring and logging to quickly detect and respond to cybersecurity threatsAnalyze attacker tactics to build stronger cluster defense strategiesWho this book is forThis book is for DevOps and Platform teams managing Kubernetes environments. As security is a shared responsibility, it also addresses on-premises and cloud security professionals, as well as beginner and advanced incident responders. No expert knowledge is required; a basic tech background is all you need as this book covers Kubernetes fundamentals and security principles, delivering practical insights for anyone looking to stay current with modern tech and strengthen their security skills.
A Pocket Style Manual
by Diana HackerA Pocket Style Manual gives you quick answers and expert advice for writing assignments in any course or work setting, including coverage of grammar, style, citing sources, and writing responsibly with AI.
Empires between Islam and Christianity, 1500-1800 (SUNY series in Hindu Studies)
by Sanjay SubrahmanyamA wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography.Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of "connected histories" to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imperial competition involving the Iberians, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the British, and other actors. Rather than understand these imperial entities separately, Sanjay Subrahmanyam reads their archives and texts together to show unexpected connections and refractions. He further proposes, in this set of closely argued studies, that these empires often borrowed from each other, or built their projects with knowledge of other competing visions of empire. The emphasis on connections is also crucial for an understanding of how a variety of genres of imperial and global history writing developed in the early modern world. The book moves creatively between political, economic, intellectual, and cultural themes to suggest a fresh geographical conception for the epoch.
Christianity and Politics in Tribal India: Baptist Missionaries and Naga Nationalism
by G. Kanato ChophyChronicles the astonishing and counterintuitive spread of Christianity among a group of previously isolated tribes in a remote and hilly part of Northeastern India.Through an ethnohistorical study of the Nagas-a congeries of tribes inhabiting the Indo-Myanmar frontier-this book explores an unusually interesting region of India that is all too often seen as peripheral. G. Kanato Chophy provides a distinct vantage point for understanding the Nagas in relation to colonialism, missionary encounters, identity politics, and cultural change, all seamlessly woven around American Baptist mission history in this region. The book also analyses India's cacophonous postindependence democracy in order to delineate multifaith issues, multiculturalism, and ethnicity-based political movements.Within the West, episodic memories of the "Great Awakening," a significant landmark in the history of Protestantism, have faded into archival records. But among the Nagas of the Indo-Myanmar highlands, Baptist Christianity persists as the dominant religion, influencing the daily lives of nearly three million people. Focusing variously on evangelical faith, missionary zeal, ethnic identities, political struggle, and complex culture wars, Christianity and Politics in Tribal India is an original and major study of how Protestant missions changed the history and destiny of a tribal community in one of the unlikeliest regions of South Asia.
Sons of Sarasvatī: Late Exemplars of the Indian Intellectual Tradition
by Chinya V. RavishankarPresents rare biographies of traditional Indian scholars during the nineteenth century, a critical moment of transition for the Indian intellectual tradition.Traditional Indian pāṇḍitya (scholarship) has a long and distinguished history but is now practically extinct. Its decline is remarkably recent-traditional pāṇḍitya flourished as recently as 150 years ago. The decline is also paradoxical, having occurred precipitously following a broad and remarkable flowering of the tradition between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The important questions this decline poses are the subject of much ongoing work. The intellectual history of the period is still under construction, and the present book represents a major contribution to the project.A notable impediment has been the lack of critical biographies of significant thinkers in this tradition. The importance of personal and social context for reconstructing intellectual histories is widely understood. In the classical Indian intellectual tradition, however, authors systematically exclude such context, making intellectual biography something of a rarity-very rare in English and sparse even in the regional languages.This book contains translations from the original Kannaḍa of the biographies of Garaḷapurī Śāstri, Śrīkaṇṭha Śāstri, and Kuṇigala Rāmaśāstri of nineteenth-century Mysore, all representing the highest echelons of traditional pāṇḍitya at this critical period of transition. Their fields are literature, grammar, and logic, respectively. The biographies focus on the personal lives of these scholars and their many contexts.These biographies are almost contemporaneous accounts, reflecting firsthand knowledge. The translations are accompanied by copious footnotes as well as appendices drawn from the relevant primary sources.
The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak
by Partha ChatterjeeRejects Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism in favor of a revitalized politics of Indian federalism.Written in the voice of the mythical atheist, naysayer, and general all-purpose heretic of Indian philosophy, The Truths and Lies of Nationalism as Narrated by Charvak presents a completely new way of telling the history of Indian nationalism. Severely criticizing the doctrines of both Hindu nationalism and pluralist secularism, it examines the ongoing debates over Indian civilization and recounts in detail how the present borders of India were defined by British colonial policy, the partition of 1947, and the integration of the princely states and the French and Portuguese territories. The emphasis is not so much on the state machinery inherited from colonial times but on the moral foundation of a new republic based on the solidarity of different but equal formations of the people. After a trenchant critique of the present-day conflicts over religion, caste, class, gender, language, and region in India, the book proposes a new politics of revitalized federalism. Intended for a general readership, and eschewing academic jargon, this book will be of interest to anyone concerned about the future of India.
Fiction as History: The Novel and the City in Modern North India
by Vasudha DalmiaExplains the Hindi novel's role in anticipating and creating the story of middle-class modernity and modernization in North India.Vasudha Dalmia offers a panoramic view of the intellectual and cultural life of North India over a century, from the aftermath of the 1857 uprising to the end of the Nehruvian era. The North's historical cities, rooted in an Indo-Persianate culture, began changing more slowly than the Presidency towns founded by the British. Dalmia takes up eight canonical Hindi novels set in six of these cities-Agra, Allahabad, Banaras, Delhi, Lahore, and Lucknow-to trace a literary history of domestic and political cataclysms. Her exploration of the emerging Hindu middle classes, changing personal and professional ambitions, and new notions of married life provides a vivid sense of urban modernity. She argues that the radical social transformations associated with post-1857 urban restructuring, and the political flux resulting from social reform, Gandhian nationalism, communalism, Partition, and the Cold War shaped the realm of the intimate as much as the public sphere. Love and friendship, notions of privacy, attitudes to women's work, and relationships within households are among the book's major themes.
Himalayan Histories: Economy, Polity, Religious Traditions (SUNY series in Hindu Studies)
by Chetan SinghA rare look at the history of Himalayan peasant society and the relationship between culture and environment in the Himalayas.Himalayan Histories, by one of India's most reputed historians of the Himalaya, is essential for a more complete understanding of Indian history. Because Indian historians have mainly studied riverine belts and life in the plains, sophisticated mountain histories are relatively rare. In this book, Chetan Singh identifies essential aspects of the material, mental, and spiritual world of western Himalayan peasant society. Human enterprise and mountainous terrain long existed in a precarious balance, occasionally disrupted by natural adversity, in this large and difficult region. Small peasant communities lived in scattered environmental niches and tenaciously extracted from their harsh surroundings a rudimentary but sustainable livelihood. These communities were integral constituents of larger political economies that asserted themselves through institutions of hegemonic control, the state being one such institution. This laboriously created life-world was enlivened by myth, folklore, legend, and religious tradition. When colonial rule was established in the region during the nineteenth century, it transformed the peasants' relationship with their natural surroundings. While old political allegiances were weakened, resilient customary hierarchies retained their influence through religio-cultural practices.