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Tribe-Class Linkages: The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura
saqib Khan
This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tri...
View full detailsTransitional Selves: Possibilities For Identity in a Plurified World
Marcus Bussey, Meera Chakravorty, Camila Mozzini-Alister
This book engages with the ethics and practices of identity formation in a world experiencing identity stress. It engages with crucial questions su...
View full detailsTowardsm A New Philosophy
Ashok Vohra, Kotta Ramesh
Towards Inclusive Societies: Psychological And Sociological Perspectives
Dharmendra Nath Tiwari
Towards Inclusive Societies: Psychological and Sociological Perspectives focuses on the importance of building inclusive societies and communities ...
View full detailsToilet Adoption in Rural India: Social Norms and Behavioural Changes
Deepa Gupta Saswata Biswas, Indranil De, Gyan Mudra
This book examines sanitation and toilet access across rural India, focusing on psychological, socio-cultural, infrastructural, and normative barri...
View full detailsThe Vernacular: Three Essays on An Ambivalent Concept & Its Uses In South Asia
Hans Harder, Nishant Zaidi, Torsten Tschacher
This book examines the validity of the notion of the ‘vernacular’ and the position of the so-called ‘vernaculars’ in colonial and postcolonial sett...
View full detailsThe Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Teaching
Jaroslaw Przeperski, Rajendra Baikady
This handbook is a comprehensive text on social work education based on the narratives of social work educators, practitioners, and researchers fro...
View full detailsThe Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities
Sebastian Thies, Susanne Goumegou, Georgina Cebey
The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, Africa...
View full detailsThe Routledge Companion to Indian Ethics: Women, Justice,Bioethics and
Purushottama Bilimoria, Amy Rayner
This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preemine...
View full detailsThe Queer and the Vernacular Languages in India: Studies in Contemporary texts and Cultures
Kaustav Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
This book analyses regional expressions of the queer experience in texts available in the Indian vernacular languages. It studies queer autobiograp...
View full detailsThe Poverty of Animals: Towards a Marxist Theory of Animal Welfare
Mehmet Kanatli
The Poet’s Song: ‘Folk’ and its Cultural Politics in South Asia
Priyanka Basu
This book explores the ‘folk’ performance genre of Kobigaan, a dialogic song-theatre form in which performers verse-duel in contemporary West Benga...
View full detailsThe Pandemic in Central Europe: A Case Study
Jolanta Itrich-Drabarek
This book studies the different models adopted by contemporary states in Central Europe in fighting the SARS-CoV-2 virus. With thorough analysis of...
View full detailsThe Middle Class in Neo-Urban India: Space, Class and Distinction
Smriti Singh
This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and chan...
View full detailsThe Limits of Sexuality Education: Love, Sex, and Adolescent Masculinities in Urben India
Ketaki Chowkhani
This book explores different strands of thinking about sexuality education in contemporary urban India. It interrogates the limits of sexuality edu...
View full detailsThe Kantian Subject: New Interpretative Essays
Fernando M.F. Silva, Luigi Caranti
This book presents a critical reconsideration of the Kantian cognitive and practical subject. Special attention is devoted to highlighting the comp...
View full detailsThe Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on People and their Lives: Socio-Political and Economic Aspects
R.C. Sobti, Vipin Sobti, Monika Aggarwal
This book explores the unparalleled adversities and strain that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused on the social and economic lives of people.
The Displaced Rohingyas: A Tale of A Vulnerable Community
SK Tawfique M Haque, Bulbul Siddiqi, Mahumdur Rahman Bhuiyan
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Rohingya refugee crisis in Bangladesh. It analyses the socio-cultural and humanitarian challenge...
View full detailsThe Discourse of Disability: Indian Perspectives
Vivek Singh
This book explores the concept of disability through a social, political, cultural, religious, and economics lens. It challenges the categorization...
View full detailsThe Covid-19 Pandemic: The Deadly Cornonavirus
Tapas Kumar Koley, Monika Dhole
This book presents a comprehensive account of the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the novel coronavirus pandemic, as it happened. This volume exam...
View full detailsThe Call for Recognition: Naturalizing Political Norms
R. Krishnaswamy
This book builds a case for how social norms are neither mere conventions nor are they merely anthropological phenomena, which are relativistic. In...
View full detailsSpheres of Injustice
Albeena Shakil, Gopal Guru
This book presents a comprehensive overview of modern conceptualizations of justice in India. It analyses how these concepts relate to traditional ...
View full detailsSoutheast Asian Islam: Integration and Indigenisation
Nasr M. Arif, Abbas Panakkal
This book explores Muslim communities in Southeast Asia and the integration of Islamic culture with the diverse ethnic cultures of the region, offe...
View full detailsSouth Asian Islam: A Spectrum of Integration and Indigenization
Nasr M Arif, Abbas Panakkal
This volume explores the historical trajectory of the spread of Islam in South Asia and how the engagements of the past have played a crucial role ...
View full detailsSocial Healing
Ananta Kumar Giri
Social Healing draws on a transdisciplinary approach—bringing sociology, philosophy, psychology, and spirituality together—to understand health, so...
View full detailsSocial City: Urban Experience and Belonging in Surat
Sadan Jha
This book examines urban experience from the vantage point of the global South. Drawing upon narratives coming from three key axes—communities, nei...
View full detailsSites of Learning and Practical knowledge against Normativity: Critical Humanities across cultures
Vivek Dhareshwar
This book examines the relationship between cultural difference and practical knowledge and its implications for the study of humanities and the so...
View full detailsSingular Selves: An Introduction to Singles Studies
Ketaki Chowkhani, Craig Wynne
This book examines, for perhaps the first time, singlehood at the intersections of race, media, language, culture, literature, space, health, and l...
View full detailsRevisiting Inequality: Theoretical and Methodological Advances with Empirical Examples from India
Simantini Mukhopadhyay, Achin Chakraborty
This volume discusses the current state of knowledge on the conceptual understanding of inequality. The book poses a range of empirical puzzles in ...
View full detailsRemaking Cities: Urban Reforms in Ahmedabad and Kanpur, India
Praveen Priyadarshi
This book presents a systematic analysis of the differential implementation of the urban reforms in two Indian cities, Ahmedabad and Kanpur. It ana...
View full detailsReligious Pluralism in India: Ethnographic and Philosophic Evidences, 1886-1936
Subhadra Mitra Channa, Lancy Lobo
This volume explores the inherent pluralism of Hinduism through ethnographic and philosophical evidence as presented in the Journal of Anthropologi...
View full detailsPunching up in Stand-up Comedy: Speaking Truth to Power
Rashi Bhargava, Richa Chilana
Punching Up in Stand-Up Comedy explores the new forms, voices and venues of stand-up comedy in different parts of the world and its potential role ...
View full detailsProximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present
Riccarda Flemmer, Bani Gill, Jacky Kosgei
This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which ex...
View full detailsPractising Interdisciplinarity: Convergences and Contestations
Babu P. Remesh, Ratheesh kumar
This book examines the epistemological, social and political dimensions of practising interdisciplinary approaches to enhance knowledge, pedagogy, ...
View full detailsPhenomenological Ontology of Breathing: The Respiratory Primacy of Being
Petri Berndtson
This book studies the phenomenological ontology of breathing. It investigates breathing and air as a question of phenomenological philosophy and lo...
View full detailsPandemic of Perspectives: Creative Re-imaginings
Rimple Mehta, Sandali Thakur, Debaroti Chakraborty
This volume brings together academics, activists, social work practitioners, poets, and artists from different parts of the world during the Covid-...
View full detailsMyths and Places: New Perspectives in Indian Cultural Geography
Shonaleeka Kaul
This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of Indi...
View full detailsMother Tongue Prestige: The Sociolinguistics of Privilege In Urban Middle-Class Education In India
Jessica Sujata Chandras
This book studies the intersection of language and social privilege in education in India. Drawing on rich ethnographic detail and primary data, it...
View full detailsModernity in India: Issues, Perspectives and Challenges
Renu Vinod
This book presents a sociological interpretation of the emergence of modernity in India via the colonial encounter, and its ramifications for India...
View full detailsMigration and Development in India: The Bihar Experience
Amrita Datta
This book deals with a wide range of issues related to rural-urban migration in the context of neoliberal economic development in India. Focusing o...
View full detailsMedia Technology and Cultures of Memory: Mapping Indian Narratives
Elwin Susan John, Amal P. Mathews
Media Technology and Cultures of Memory studies narrative memories in India through oral, chirographic and digital cultures. It examines oral cultu...
View full detailsLives of Circumcised and Veiled Women: A Global-Indian Interplay of Discourses and Narratives
Debangana Chatterjee
The book unravels the politics of representation and the process of exoticising women’s bodies through the prism of external gaze and knowledge pro...
View full detailsKolkata-The Colonial City in Transition: Reflection in Geographies of Urban India
Sumana Bandyopadhyay
This book explores the spatial characteristics of the city of Kolkata in India and the socio-political and physio-climatological events and process...
View full detailsKnowledge Power and Ignorance: The Indian Context
Bidhan Kanti Das, Gorky Chakraborty, Abhijit Guha
What is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more...
View full detailsKant and the Problem of Politics: Rethinking The Contemporary World
Luigi Caranti, Alessandro Pinzani
This book examines the significance of Kant's political philosophy in the context of contemporary philosophical and political debates.
Kant and the Problem of Morality: Rethinking the Contemporary World
Luigi Caranti, Alessandro Pinzani
This book examines the significance of Kant's moral philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates. It argues that Kant's philosophy can still se...
View full detailsKant and the Problem of Knowledge: Rethinking The Contemporary World
Luigi Caranti, Alessandro Pinzani
This book examines Kant’s contributions to the theory of knowledge and studies how his writings can be applied to address contemporary epistemologi...
View full detailsKala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora: Indian Perspectives
Judith Misrahi-Barak, Ritu Tyagi, H. Kalpana Rao
This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, ...
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