Manisha Basu

This book examines the late twentieth-century rise of the urban, right-wing Hindu nationalist ideology known as metropolitan Hindutva. This ideology, the book assesses, aspires to be a pan-Indian, urban form that is home to the emerging, digitally enabled, technocratic middle classes of the nation. Through close analyses of the writings of a range of self-styled public intellectuals, from Arun Shourie and Swapan Dasgupta to Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi, this book maps this new avatar of Hindutva. Finally, in analyzing the language of metropolitan Hindutva, it arrives at an emerging idea of India as part of what Amitav Ghosh has called a contemporary Anglophone empire. This is the first extended scholarly effort to theorize a politics of language in relation to the dangers of such an imperializing Hindutva.

This collection investigates modern imperialist practices and their management of hunger through its punctuated distribution amongst asymmetrically related marginal populations. Drawing on relevant ma

Basu (materials science and engineering, the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore) and Kalin (tribology and technical diagnostics, U. of Ljubljana, Sl

Basu and Balani (both materials science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology) describe new ceramic compositions or ceramics with refined microstructure and properties for various engineerin

Advanced Biomaterials provides a broad introduction to the field, encompassing fundamentals, processing, and applications. With contributions from leading experts from around the world, it covers a

This book addresses the controversial call for international labor standards, seeking to productively further this debate by considering the economic implications and history of these standards. A res

This book addresses the controversial call for international labor standards, seeking to productively further this debate by considering the economic implications and history of these standards. A res

Ranging from authoritative seminal pieces to striking contemporary papers, the readings in this volume explore the complex intersections between politics and economics from the perspectives of both di