Politics and Current Affairs

About the Book Over the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their tr...

Celebratory news features about India???s thriving middle-class tell only part of the story of the country???s recent economic rise, frequently glo...

The reproductive and child health policy in India has been in force sice 1995. Coming in the wake of the international conference for population an...

About the Book Landscapes of Fear tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. Considering why the world's largest...

The Fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and of dictatorships in Latin America brought new attention to democratic movements worldwide. Most...

About the Book Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of c...

The essays in this book are an outcome of discussions thattook place in the fourth World Social Forum, held in Mumbai in January 2004. They offer t...

A Foot in the Door is the culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, and brings the voices of Dalit wome...

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity―perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunit...

Nepal, because it was never directly colonized, is seen as something of an outlier on the subcontinent, but the country could not remain totally im...