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Indian Migration to the Gulf: Issues, Perspectives and Opportunities
Anisur Rahman, Sameer Babu M, Ansari PA
This book explores issues of rights, issues, and challenges faced by Indian migrant workers in the GCC countries. It focuses on the struggle of mig...
View full detailsIndia Habermas and the Normative Structure of Public Sphere
Muzaffar Ali
This book examines how the contemporary Indian situation poses a strict theoretical challenge to Habermas’s theorization of the public sphere and e...
View full detailsHuman Rights of the Third Gender in India
Sengupta, Lopamudra
This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their la...
View full detailsHealth and Nutrition of Women and Children in Empowered Action Group States of India: Status and Progress
Sandhya R Mahapatro, Udaya S Mishra, Shubh Swain
This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MCH)―part of SDG3―in empowered action group states in India. It lays bare regional disp...
View full detailsGlobalization and Sense-Making Practices: Phenomenologies of the Global, Local & Global
Simi Malhotra, Zahra Rizvi, Shradhha A. Singh
This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how ...
View full detailsGlobalization & Planetary Ethics: New Terrains of Consciousness
Simi Malhotra, Shraddha A. Singh, Zahra Rizvi
This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of cons...
View full detailsExploring Social Movements: Theories, Experiences, and Trends
Biswajit Ghosh
This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument o...
View full detailsEthnicity and Adivasi Identity in Bangladesh
Mahmudul H. Sumon
This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh. It trac...
View full detailsEnvironmental Humanities in Folktales: Theory and Pratice
P. Mary Vidya Porselvi
This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...
View full detailsDynamics of Drug Addiction and Abuse in India
Ranjit Singh Ghuman, Jatinder Singh, Gurinder Kaur
This book analyzes drug addiction and abuse from the perspectives of the state and community in India, with a special focus on North-West regions o...
View full detailsDisability as Diversity in India: Theory,Practice and Liived Experience
Sandhya Limaye, Christopher J.Johnstone, Misa Kayama
This book critically analyses diverse experiences related to disability in India. Drawing upon intersectionality theory, it explores a range of iss...
View full detailsDigital Expressions of the Self ( IE): The Social life of Selfies in India
Avishek Ray, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan, Usha Raman
The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards ...
View full detailsDemocratization of Indian Christianity: Hegemony, Accessibility and Resistance
Ashok kumar Mocherla, James Ponniah
This book highlights the transformative potential of democratic Church and Christian community in India. In the light of both ongoing and, also to ...
View full detailsDeath and Dying In Northeast India
Parjanya Sen, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty
This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative know...
View full detailsDalit Counter-publics and the Classroom: A Sharmila Rege Reader
V Geetha, Uma Chakravarti
This book is an anthology of the collected essays of Sharmila Rege (1964 – 2013) that addresses themes to do with pedagogy and culture. Rege makes ...
View full detailsCultures of Ageing and Ageism in India
Paromita Chakravarti, Kaustav Bakshi
This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxiet...
View full detailsCulture Change in India: Intellectual Traditions, Institutions and Regions
Kameshwar Choudhary, B. K. Nagla
This book studies the different dimensions of culture change in India. It covers important strands of the ancient and modern intellectual tradition...
View full detailsCultural Violence Stigma and the Legacy of the Anti-Sealing Movement
Danita Catherine Burke
This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism can lead to stig...
View full detailsCOVID-19 and India’s Northeast: Psychological and Social Imprints
Indranee Phookan Borooah, Sabiha Alam Choudhury, Bidita Das
This book explores the experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast India across different areas of life and work.
Coronasphere: Narratives and Covid-19 From India and Its Neighbours
Chandan Kumar Sharma, Reshmi Banerjee
This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries. It studies responses to COVID-19 in...
View full detailsContemporary Gender Formations in India: In- Between Conformity, Dissent and Affect
Nadini Dhar
The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape cas...
View full detailsCommunities on the Margin: Disadvantaged Populations in India Society
Nadeem Hasnain
This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives. It discusses so...
View full detailsColonial Anthropology: Technologies and Discourses of Dominance,1886-1936
Subhadra Mitra Channa, Lancy Lobo
This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and...
View full detailsChinese Islam: Models of Interaction with State and Society
Nasr M.Arif, Shaojin Chai
This book explores the fascinating and complex histories of Islam and China. Meticulously researched and captivating, it provides a comprehensive h...
View full detailsChildren and Scars of COVID-19 Pandemic in India: Issues and Challenges
Abhimanyu Datta, Bipin Jojo
This volume discusses the various challenges faced by children in India from different perspectives such as education, psychology, and sociology du...
View full detailsBuddhism Taoism Confucianism and Shintoism: The Unpublished Writings of K. Satchidananda Murty
Ashok Vohra, Kotta Ramesh
K Satchidananda Murty (1924–2011) was a vociferous writer and an iconoclast. In recognition of his contribution in the field of Philosophy, he was ...
View full detailsAnna- Daan Food charity in India: Preaching and practice
K.V. Raju, S. Manasi
Eating together unites people and has a significant impact on their physical, social, and emotional development. This book looks at practices and t...
View full detailsAfrican Clusters in India
Koyal Verma
Aesthetics Across Cultures: Intertextuality, Intermediality and Interculturality
Rosy Singh
This book critically examines the "mutual illuminations" between literature, religion, architecture, films, performative arts, paintings, woodworks...
View full detailsAbortion Rights Reproductive Justice and the State: International Perspectives
Keertana Kannabira Tella
This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional c...
View full details"Making the"" Woman"": Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th Century India": Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th Century India
Sutapa Dutta, Shivangini Tandon
The book examines the representation of women, their agency and subjectivity and gender relations in 18th- and 19th-century India. The chapters in ...
View full detailsWho Am I: The Eternal Quest of Human Existence
Rajiv K. Tayal
Mystery behind God, nature and purpose of human existence, destiny and free will, death and immortality, actions and consequences, grief and happin...
View full detailsThe Republic
Plato
The Republic is a Socratic dialogue, written by Plato around 380 BC regarding the definition of justice, the order and character of the just city-s...
View full detailsTake Charge of Your Life: Vedantic Perspectives on Transactional Analysis
Indranil Mitra
The social psychology of Transactional Analysis (TA), whose foundations were laid by Dr. Eric Berne in the USA in the 1950s and 1960s, now covers a...
View full detailsSocial Work for UGC-NET/JRF: Previous Years' Solved Papers
Atlantic Research Division
The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) on various subjects every year, in June and December. There are thr...
View full detailsSocial and Community Development Practice
Manohar Pawar
Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at ...
View full detailsRural Sociology by Rajendra Kumar Sharma
Rajendra Kumar Sharma
The book has been written to serve as a textbook for students of M.A. Sociology in various Universities in the paper on Rural Sociology. While the ...
View full detailsMichel Foucault: Deconstructing Power, Knowledge and Cultural Narrative
B. Tirupati Rao
Michel Foucault holds a central place in the academic landscape, particularly in literature, history, sociology and cultural studies. His groundbre...
View full detailsMethods for Community Participation: A Complete Guide for Practitioners
Somesh Kumar
In an era where sustainable and inclusive development is more critical than ever, the role of active people’s participation has become the cornerst...
View full detailsIndian Society, Institutions And Change
Rajendra K. Sharma
The book highlights the nature and features of Indian Society and the charges that has taken place in various social institutions during different ...
View full detailsIndian Philosophy In Modern Times
M.B. Chande
Indian Philosophy in Modern Times offers a holistic analysis of various philosophical thoughts that developed and flourished in the subcontinent, s...
View full detailsHindu Mythology Vedic And Puranic
W.J. Wilkins
The book gives a full and trustworthy account of the mythology of the Hindus. The materials collected over a number of years have been arranged in ...
View full detailsDr. S. Radhakrishnan: His Life and Philosophy
Chaganti Nagaraja Rao
This motivational book explores avenues from the life and works of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and provides enough insights into life and philoso...
View full detailsCovid-19 And The New Generation: Effects On Todds And Teens In India And Worldwide
Gwendolyn Chabrier
What is going on today in the post-Covid world? Those who paid and are still paying the highest price are, above all, the minors, as well as the we...
View full detailsBerojagari Unmulan Evam Manarega
Dr.Ravi Prakash Yadav, Dr.Nishit Ranjan
भारत में शहर से कई गुणा अधिक लोग आज भी गाँव में रहते हैं । वहीं से रोजगार पाते हैं, वहीं से विकास के नए नए किस्से गढ़ते हैं । 21वीं सदी के आधुनिक डि...
View full detailsLogic for Justice
Wilhelm, Isaac
An introductory textbook, Logic for Justice covers, in full detail, the language and semantics of both propositional logic and first-order logic. I...
View full detailsLanguage Society and Power
Annabelle Mooney
Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the wa...
View full detailsDiscourse and Power
Zima, Peter V.
Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom? is both an introduction to discourse research and an application o...
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