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Contemporary Indian tradition : voices on culture, nature, and the challenge of change. edited by Carla M. Borden

Borden, Carla M Smithsonian Institution c1989

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  • Title:
    Contemporary Indian tradition : voices on culture, nature, and the challenge of change. edited by Carla M. Borden
  • Author: Borden, Carla M;
    Smithsonian Institution
  • Subjects: Ecology -- India;
    Écologie -- Inde;
    India -- Civilization -- 1947-;
    India -- Social conditions -- 1947-;
    Inde -- Civilisation -- 1947-;
    Inde -- Conditions sociales -- 1947-
  • Description: Based on papers from a Smithsonian symposium held June 21-23, 1985, Washington, D.C
    Includes bibliographies and index.
    A changing American image of India : the palimpsest of a civilization / Milton Singer Designs / Carla M. Borden Being and meaning. Difference and division as designs for life / Veena Das Being a Muslim in India : the challenge and the opportunity / C.M. Naim Advaita : meditations on the truth of India / Ramchandra Gandhi Impermanence and eternity in Indian art and myth / Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty "The presence of the past" : artists speak. In search of a new theater / Girish Karnad Among several cultures and times / Gulam Mohammed Sheikh Daruwalla's Asoka poem and Patwardhan's drawings in time / Gieve Patel Classics lost and found / A.K. Ramanujan Transitions and directions : the social world. Toward a cultural policy : dialogues on continuity and change / Rajeev Sethi The changing social role of journalism in India / Aroon Purie (cont.) Transformations in the culture of agriculture / Arjun Appadurai Making new homes in the city : urbanization and the contemporary Indian family / Sylvia Vatuk Organizing self-employed women for self-reliance / Ela R. Bhatt Sex roles and gender relations in north India / David G. Mandelbaum Chipko : a movement to save the Himalayan environment and people / Gerald D. Berreman Transitions and directions : the natural world. Nature and society in modernizing India / Anil Agarwal The greening and cleaning of India : an overview of environmental challenges and prospects / B.B. Vohra Reflections on conservation and preservation in India / S. Dillon Ripley The Indian elephant in a changing world / D.K. Lahiri Choudhury Husbanding India's natural resources : the tradition and the prospects / Madhav Gadgil Building a heritage. Between notion and reality / Balkrishna V. Doshi The relevance of tradition in architecture today / Raj Rewal Transfer versus transformation / Charles Correa
  • Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1989
  • Creation Date: c1989
  • Format: xvii, 412 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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