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\"Golconde is an astonishing architectural accomplishment. With technical finesse and extraordinary craft, it offers a living testament to the original modernist credo architecture as the manifest union of technology, aesthetics, and social reform. Here exists an undiluted view of a wholly triumphant tropical Modernism, built during the tumultuous years of the second world war.\"-- Publisher's webpage.

Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation's suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.

This essay traces the parallel, but unrelated, evolution of two sets of reactions to traditional idealist history of science in a world-historical context. While the scholars who fostered the postcolonial approach, in dealing with modern science in the non-West, espoused an idealist vision, they nevertheless stressed its political and ideological underpinnings and engaged with the question of its putative Western roots. The postidealist history of science developed its own vision with respect to the question of the global spread of modern science, paying little heed to postcolonial debates. It then proposes a historiographical approach developed in large part by historians of South Asian politics, economics, and science that, without compromising the preoccupations of each of the two groups, could help construct a mutually comprehensible and connected framework for the understanding of the global workings of the sciences.

India with its rapid growth has witnessed new heights with its innovative and technical practices. It has changed the way we share and gather information before, our traditional education system has now updated with the digital world. Being digital natives it becomes important to update or upgrade oneself with digital literacy. Digital literacy has emerged as a crucial skill for individuals to navigate and thrive in this digital age. This research paper has focused on the significance of digital literacy for Modern India and discuss how they are acquiring and utilizing these skills. The study has given a digital literacy framework to get the better understanding on digital literacy skills. The questionnaire was used as data collection tool and the questions were designed as per the three different dimensions of the framework. The framework provides three interconnected and dynamic dimensions including Digital Literacy and Skills, Digital Tools & Applications and Digital Health & Wellbeing. Through a comprehensive literature review and analysis of collected primary as well as secondary data, the study concluded the key factors influencing digital literacy among Indians, including awareness and access to technology, their understanding and challenges related to it. The findings reveal that while there have been advancements in digital literacy skills; there is still some problems and challenges that should be remove and improve it so that  it can provide equitable access and quality information to all. The paper concludes by emphasizing the urgent need for policy interventions and targeted initiatives to promote digital literacy among Indian natives, ensuring their future success in the globalized and technology-driven world. The digital literacy should be improved by providing the content in their local languages, launch of training programs for them and the awareness programs of cyber crimes and frauds for their digital well-being will make Indian more confident and self-reliant. Індія, яка стрімко розвивається, досягла нових висот завдяки своїм інноваційним та технічним практикам. Це змінило методи збору інформації та обміну нею, а наша традиційна система освіти тепер адаптувалась до цифрового світу. Оскільки ми є «цифровими аборигенами», нам стає важливо оновлювати або вдосконалювати свою цифрову грамотність. Цифрова грамотність стала вирішальною навичкою для людей, щоб орієнтуватися і процвітати в цифрову епоху. Дослідження зосереджено на визначенні значення цифрової грамотності для сучасної Індії та обговоренні шляхів набуття та використання таких навичок. Крім цього представлено рамку цифрової грамотності для кращого розуміння навичок цифрової грамотності. Анкета була використана як інструмент збору даних, а запитання були розроблені відповідно до трьох взаємопов'язаних та динамічних вимірів рамки: цифрової грамотності та навичок, цифрових інструментів та додатків, а також цифрового здоров’я та благополуччя. Завдяки всебічному огляду літератури та аналізу зібраних первинних і вторинних даних було визначено ключові фактори, що впливають на цифрову грамотність серед індійців, зокрема обізнаність і доступ до технологій, їхнє розуміння та виклики, пов’язані з ними. Висновки показують, що, незважаючи на певний прогрес у розвитку навичок цифрової грамотності, все ще існують певні проблеми та виклики, які необхідно усунути та вдосконалити, щоб забезпечити рівний доступ та якісну інформацію для всіх. У висновку підкреслюється нагальна потреба в політичних втручаннях і цілеспрямованих ініціативах для просування цифрової грамотності серед корінних жителів Індії, що забезпечить їхній майбутній успіх у глобалізованому і технологічно розвиненому світі. Цифрову грамотність слід підвищувати шляхом надання контенту їхніми місцевими мовами, запуску навчальних програм для них, а також програм підвищення обізнаності про кіберзлочини та шахрайство, адже їхній цифровий добробут зробить індійців більш впевненими та самодостатніми.

\"This book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi era. Although the country remains one of the few democracies in the developing world, many of the policies instigated by these earlier regimes have been swept away to make room for dramatic alterations in the political, economic, and social landscape. Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji, two leading political scientists of South Asia, chart these developments with particular reference to social and political mobilization, the rise of the BJP and its challenge to Nehruvian secularism, and the changes to foreign policy that, in combination with its meteoric economic development, have ensured India a significant place on the world stage. The book is intended for students and anyone interested in understanding this diverse, energetic, and youthful democracy\"-- Provided by publisher.

In the wake of the establishment of the Portuguese in the region, slavery was fundamentally constitutive of early modern society on the west coast of India. While indigenous hierarchies and existing systems of slavery shaped Portuguese slavery, over time, indigenous society too was transformed by the extensive reliance on enslaved labor facilitated by European trafficking networks. Centering slavery in the study of South Asian history underscores the importance of considering the difference between elite projects of enforcing boundaries, both spatial and social, and the ways in which enslaved people negotiated these projects. Thus, instead of taking for granted the classificatory labels of race, caste, and blackness imposed upon enslaved peoples by elite institutions, a social history of slavery elucidates instead the evolution of these mechanisms for policing identity, and the centrality of the expropriation of labor in identity formation.

\"This new edition of Yasmin Khan's reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: 'A riveting book on this terrible story'--The Economist; 'Unsparing. Provocative and painful'--The Times (London); 'Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan's empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it'--Owen Bennett Jones, BBC\"--Provided by publisher.

This essay uses the seminal figure of Jawaharlal Nehru to interrogate the nature and representation of science in modern India. The problem posed by Nehruvian science—the conflict between (yet simultaneity of) science as both universal phenomenon and local effect—lies at the heart of current debates about what science means for the non-West. The problematic of Nehruvian science can be accessed through Nehru's own speeches and writings, but also through the wider project of science with which he identified—critiquing colonialism, forging India's place in the modern world, marrying intellectual endeavor with practical nation building. The essay makes a case for looking at Nehruvian science as a way of structuring the problem of postcolonial science, particularly in relation to understanding the authority of science and its evaluation in terms of its capacity to deliver socioeconomic change.