Author: Chloe Perkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481470914
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Discover what it’s like to grow up in India in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Namaskār! My name is Nisha, and I'm a kid just like you living in India. India is a country filled with colorful festivals, majestic temples, and an extraordinary history! Have you ever wondered what India is like? Come along with me to find out! Each book in our Living in… series is narrated by a kid growing up in their home country and is filled with fresh, modern illustrations as well as loads of history, geography, and cultural goodies that fit perfectly into Common Core standards. Join kids from all over the world on a globe-trotting adventure with the Living in… series—sure to be a hit with children, parents, educators, and librarians alike!
Living in . . . India
Author: Chloe Perkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481470914
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Discover what it’s like to grow up in India in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Namaskār! My name is Nisha, and I'm a kid just like you living in India. India is a country filled with colorful festivals, majestic temples, and an extraordinary history! Have you ever wondered what India is like? Come along with me to find out! Each book in our Living in… series is narrated by a kid growing up in their home country and is filled with fresh, modern illustrations as well as loads of history, geography, and cultural goodies that fit perfectly into Common Core standards. Join kids from all over the world on a globe-trotting adventure with the Living in… series—sure to be a hit with children, parents, educators, and librarians alike!
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481470914
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Discover what it’s like to grow up in India in this fascinating, nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read, part of a series all about kids just like you in countries around the world! Namaskār! My name is Nisha, and I'm a kid just like you living in India. India is a country filled with colorful festivals, majestic temples, and an extraordinary history! Have you ever wondered what India is like? Come along with me to find out! Each book in our Living in… series is narrated by a kid growing up in their home country and is filled with fresh, modern illustrations as well as loads of history, geography, and cultural goodies that fit perfectly into Common Core standards. Join kids from all over the world on a globe-trotting adventure with the Living in… series—sure to be a hit with children, parents, educators, and librarians alike!
Living Class in Urban India
Author: Sara Dickey
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813583942
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813583942
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Many Americans still envision India as rigidly caste-bound, locked in traditions that inhibit social mobility. In reality, class mobility has long been an ideal, and today globalization is radically transforming how India’s citizens perceive class. Living Class in Urban India examines a nation in flux, bombarded with media images of middle-class consumers, while navigating the currents of late capitalism and the surges of inequality they can produce. Anthropologist Sara Dickey puts a human face on the issue of class in India, introducing four people who live in the “second-tier” city of Madurai: an auto-rickshaw driver, a graphic designer, a teacher of high-status English, and a domestic worker. Drawing from over thirty years of fieldwork, she considers how class is determined by both subjective perceptions and objective conditions, documenting Madurai residents’ palpable day-to-day experiences of class while also tracking their long-term impacts. By analyzing the intertwined symbolic and economic importance of phenomena like wedding ceremonies, religious practices, philanthropy, and loan arrangements, Dickey’s study reveals the material consequences of local class identities. Simultaneously, this gracefully written book highlights the poignant drive for dignity in the face of moralizing class stereotypes. Through extensive interviews, Dickey scrutinizes the idioms and commonplaces used by residents to justify class inequality and, occasionally, to subvert it. Along the way, Living Class in Urban India reveals the myriad ways that class status is interpreted and performed, embedded in everything from cell phone usage to religious worship.
Living Brand India
Author: Dr. Sushant Sharma
Publisher: Author's Ink Publications
ISBN: 9392665466
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The world is expecting India to lead it in near future, but does India have a noose to bind the world together? Just as our heritage and culture helped him and many other NRIs run successful businesses, he has found a path which can be adopted for individual success and through which India can become the ‘Modern Golden Bird.' Dr. (Vaidya) Santosh Sharma hails from a tiny village in the rejuvenating mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, India. While living in Kalka, he pursued his studies and gained his initial life experiences in Chandigarh, and as society demanded, he started working late 20th century at a nearby private firm. In 1997, at the age of 38, his soul forced him to break the traditional norms and make a landmark decision to shift his base to Europe along with his family. There on, he started the tough journey of rediscovering and sharing the story of India, and its heritage and culture with Eastern Europe by opening a small Indian shop, Szep Kis India (Little Beautiful India) with his wife, Mrs. Kamlesh Sharma, in Budapest. Today, Szep Kis India is the oldest and biggest Indian store in Hungary and even offers exotic products from other countries. Dr. Sushant Sharma is a young medical doctor who hails from the rolling hills of the lesser Himalayas. His passion for writing led to the creation of the psychological crime thriller, Projekt Nowhere , published with Garuda Prakashan. With his love for India, its heritage and culture, and to propagate the same among the young generation, he collaborated with Dr. (Vaidya) Santosh Sharma to pen down the exemplary story of an entrepreneur who built his business in Europe based on Indian roots.
Publisher: Author's Ink Publications
ISBN: 9392665466
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The world is expecting India to lead it in near future, but does India have a noose to bind the world together? Just as our heritage and culture helped him and many other NRIs run successful businesses, he has found a path which can be adopted for individual success and through which India can become the ‘Modern Golden Bird.' Dr. (Vaidya) Santosh Sharma hails from a tiny village in the rejuvenating mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh, India. While living in Kalka, he pursued his studies and gained his initial life experiences in Chandigarh, and as society demanded, he started working late 20th century at a nearby private firm. In 1997, at the age of 38, his soul forced him to break the traditional norms and make a landmark decision to shift his base to Europe along with his family. There on, he started the tough journey of rediscovering and sharing the story of India, and its heritage and culture with Eastern Europe by opening a small Indian shop, Szep Kis India (Little Beautiful India) with his wife, Mrs. Kamlesh Sharma, in Budapest. Today, Szep Kis India is the oldest and biggest Indian store in Hungary and even offers exotic products from other countries. Dr. Sushant Sharma is a young medical doctor who hails from the rolling hills of the lesser Himalayas. His passion for writing led to the creation of the psychological crime thriller, Projekt Nowhere , published with Garuda Prakashan. With his love for India, its heritage and culture, and to propagate the same among the young generation, he collaborated with Dr. (Vaidya) Santosh Sharma to pen down the exemplary story of an entrepreneur who built his business in Europe based on Indian roots.
India's Living Constitution
Author: Zoya Hasan
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843311364
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
India became independent in 1947 and, after nearly three years of debate in the Constituent Assembly, adopted a Constitution that came into effect on 26 January 1950. This Constitution has lasted until the present, with its basic structure unaltered, a remarkable achievement given that the generally accepted prerequisites for democratic stability did not exist, and do not exist even today. Half a century of constitutional democracy is something that political scientists and legal scholars need to analyze and explain. This volume examines the career of constitutional-political ideas (implicitly of Western origin) in the text of the Indian Constitution or implicit within it, as well as in actual political practice in the country over the past half-century.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1843311364
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
India became independent in 1947 and, after nearly three years of debate in the Constituent Assembly, adopted a Constitution that came into effect on 26 January 1950. This Constitution has lasted until the present, with its basic structure unaltered, a remarkable achievement given that the generally accepted prerequisites for democratic stability did not exist, and do not exist even today. Half a century of constitutional democracy is something that political scientists and legal scholars need to analyze and explain. This volume examines the career of constitutional-political ideas (implicitly of Western origin) in the text of the Indian Constitution or implicit within it, as well as in actual political practice in the country over the past half-century.
Living in . . . India
Author: Chloe Perkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481470906
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Nisha, a young girl who lives in India, describes the history, geography, food, schools, and cities of the country.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481470906
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Nisha, a young girl who lives in India, describes the history, geography, food, schools, and cities of the country.
Metabolic Living
Author: Harris Solomon
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374447
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822374447
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
The popular narrative of "globesity" posits that the adoption of Western diets is intensifying obesity and diabetes in the Global South and that disordered metabolisms are the embodied consequence of globalization and excess. In Metabolic Living Harris Solomon recasts these narratives by examining how people in Mumbai, India, experience the porosity between food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon contends that obesity and diabetes pose a problem of absorption between body and environment. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Mumbai's home kitchens, metabolic disorder clinics, food companies, markets, and social services, he details the absorption of everything from snack foods and mangoes to insulin, stress, and pollutants. As these substances pass between the city and the body and blur the two domains, the onset and treatment of metabolic illness raise questions about who has the power to decide what goes into bodies and when food means life. Evoking metabolism as a condition of contemporary urban life and a vital political analytic, Solomon illuminates the lived predicaments of obesity and diabetes, and reorients our understanding of chronic illness in India and beyond.
Living and Working in India
Author: Kris Rao
Publisher: How To Books
ISBN: 1848032803
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
As well as being a fascinating country, with a rich and varied culture, India is emerging as a major world economy. More and more people are going there to live and work. The purpose of this book is to ease the transition between western and Indian cultures. If you are going to India to do business or for long-term employment, or are being relocated there by your company, this book will tell you all you need to know to help you and your family settle quickly into your new environment - and to ensure that it is the experience of a lifetime.Beginning with an overview of the history of India, its geographical divisions, political system, religions, languages and ethnic and cultural divisions, this comprehensive guide goes on to provide detailed information on: how to get a work permit and find a job; Indian work practices, employment rights and benefits; taxes and pensions; the Indian health care system; how to set up a business and set up a company; how to buy or rent a property; what the cost of living is like; how to open a bank account and obtain a credit card; expatriate and Indian lifestyles; entertainment and leisure in India; Indian customs and habits food - the regional variations and local delicacies; and raising and educating your children.
Publisher: How To Books
ISBN: 1848032803
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
As well as being a fascinating country, with a rich and varied culture, India is emerging as a major world economy. More and more people are going there to live and work. The purpose of this book is to ease the transition between western and Indian cultures. If you are going to India to do business or for long-term employment, or are being relocated there by your company, this book will tell you all you need to know to help you and your family settle quickly into your new environment - and to ensure that it is the experience of a lifetime.Beginning with an overview of the history of India, its geographical divisions, political system, religions, languages and ethnic and cultural divisions, this comprehensive guide goes on to provide detailed information on: how to get a work permit and find a job; Indian work practices, employment rights and benefits; taxes and pensions; the Indian health care system; how to set up a business and set up a company; how to buy or rent a property; what the cost of living is like; how to open a bank account and obtain a credit card; expatriate and Indian lifestyles; entertainment and leisure in India; Indian customs and habits food - the regional variations and local delicacies; and raising and educating your children.
Living Texts from India
Author: Richard Keith Barz
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447029674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
English, Arabic, French, Hindi, Persian, and Urdu.
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447029674
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
English, Arabic, French, Hindi, Persian, and Urdu.
The Living India, Its Romance and Realities
Author: George Fletcher MacMunn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Inequality and Locational Determinants of the Distribution of Living Standards in India
Author: Sriram Balasubramanian
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1513570668
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Using 2011-12 consumption micro-data, we find that nearly one-third of the variation in living standards in India can be explained by location alone. Consumption levels and locational inequality are positively related. In effect, from an individual’s perspective, living standards are higher in richer, but more unequal, locations in India. The central factor behind these findings is the large difference in average consumption levels between rural and urban India and continued divergence in per-capita incomes between rich and poor states. Our results provide a possible explanation for the persistence of economic migration from rural to urban areas within a fast-growing emerging economy. While individuals cannot easily alter specific characteristics like their caste or religion, they have some freedom to change their location to enjoy better living standards.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1513570668
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Using 2011-12 consumption micro-data, we find that nearly one-third of the variation in living standards in India can be explained by location alone. Consumption levels and locational inequality are positively related. In effect, from an individual’s perspective, living standards are higher in richer, but more unequal, locations in India. The central factor behind these findings is the large difference in average consumption levels between rural and urban India and continued divergence in per-capita incomes between rich and poor states. Our results provide a possible explanation for the persistence of economic migration from rural to urban areas within a fast-growing emerging economy. While individuals cannot easily alter specific characteristics like their caste or religion, they have some freedom to change their location to enjoy better living standards.