Politics and Current Affairs

Jawaharlal Nehru: A Communicator and Democratic Leader explores multiple facets of Nehru’s experiments in communication as a speaker, writer and formulator of policy as a part of the Congress. In all this, we find, he is affectionately influenced ...

Ghulam Husain Khan Tabataba’i’s Siyaru’l-muta’akhkhirin is divided into three unequal parts. The first part traces the history of the Mughal Empire from the death of Aurangzeb in 1707 to the latter part of Muhammad Shah’s reign, around 1740. The s...

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The indigenous population represent an important component of Indian and Himalayan civilizations. This book reviews the social, cultural and political processes that have shaped indigenous societies in India, Nepal and China in recent years. The e...

This volume focuses on little kingdoms, a concept developed by anthropologists and historians to characterize a specific type of local rulership in South Asia. It emphasizes the role of Hermann Kulke, whose work on the little kingdoms of Odisha to...

This book discusses various socio-economic and political processes that evolved over centuries in the vast coastal fringes of India and out of the circuits of the Indian Ocean, ultimately giving these littoral zones the distinctive consciousness a...

Local politics and participatory planning in Kerala analyses how micro-level politics impacts and influences local governance and examines the dynamics of its interaction with honesty. Written within the theoretical framework of field and habitus,...

This book puts into perspective the dynamics of India’s relations with Central Asia as also the role of major powers in the region in the backdrop of globalization, disintegration of the Soviet Union and the emergence of the US as a pre-eminent po...

This book binds together essays that, in spite of adopting diverse methodologies and different perspectives, study Bihar’s development, cultural changes, violence, governance, etc. , over a long durée and across a vast region with blurred or even ...

Variations in ceramics are culturally significant. These are an expression of the functions that they are meant to perform, the identity of a community and a reflection of time. It is therefore of great interest to archaeologists and anthropologis...

Medicine and Integration of Frontier Tribes: The British and After in Arunachal Pradesh traces the use of medicine as an instrument of diplomacy in British frontier policy and as a medium of integration in the post-Independence era in the state of...

Nationhood, Social Justice and Unequal Transformations: Essays for K.R.Narayanan is a commemorative volume consisting of lectures delivered at the Centre for Research and Education for Social Transformation, Kozhikode during the past fifteen years...

This volume looks back at the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 through contemporary accounts and scholarly reflections. Organized into five parts, the collection contains passages from Gandhi’s own recollection of the Satyagraha; excerpts from the acc...

The precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Issue from a novel perspective. Through what magic, queries this volume, the Indian democratic state is even surviving as a...

The region and people of Kashmir have been at the centre of processes that transformed South Asia after the two World Wars and the collapse of colonialism. Kashmir: Before the Accession and After examines the hitherto neglected areas of life in Ka...

From the Oxus to the Indus explores the political and cultural history of the Indo-Iranian borderlands during the reign of the Bactrian and the Indo-Greek rulers known as Yavanas in the subcontinent. This was a region sans frontière and shows unre...

Interrogating Politics and Society: Twentieth-Century Indian Subcontinent broadly addresses three themes relevant to South Asian history: communalism, nationalism and the social underworld. Focusing on communal riots and patterns of communal mobil...

This volume explores the changing meanings that maritime India acquired during the early modern period owing to the frequent efforts of the Mughals and the Portuguese from two different fronts to control its vast resourceful enclaves and profit-yi...

This book revisits historiography on nationalism by moving beyond the binary of elite and subaltern nationalism and focusing on the complex nature of popular nationalism. It also underscores the protests of the subordinate police, an area which ha...

West Asia and the World explores West Asia’s changing political and socio-economic architecture post the 2011 Arab Uprisings. The chapters presented here investigate the influence exerted by regional and extra-regional actors and explore their pow...