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David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world—what Bornstein ...

While Buddhists all over the world were celebrating 2,500 years of Gautama Buddha’s passing in 1956, Ceylon (as Sri Lanka was called then) was sowi...

Based on original material gathered by the author, the book gives an account of various developments associated with the shrine of Data Ganj Bakhsh...

The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between...

The various metanarratives of globalization project hyper-mobile capital as the leading factor for global economic integration, ignoring the role o...

Millions in India have long been obsessed with the vicissitudes of the Nehru–Gandhi family’s fate. Inextricably linked to the ups and downs of thei...

Visions of Development examines the Indian state’s postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975–7. Suto...

‘[T]his is no fiction. I have scars on my body and my soul to prove this.’ Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early ...

Is primitivism a consequence of the natural evolution of some human societies? Or is it a conscious choice by such societies to evade state power? ...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

The textile industry is one of the oldest in the country, going back several centuries. The industry experienced recession from the mid-1960s to th...

This work is a well-researched study of the last decades of the networks in the Global Justice Movement (GJM) and World Social Forums. Itoffers a n...

The story of US - India relations is one of unfulfilled potential. Despite their common commitment to democracy, diversity and free markets, their ...

This volume, part of the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, presents an overarching assessment of the contents, successes and fai...

The modern understanding of India has been structured around a standard set of oppositions—tradition versus modernity, faith versus secularism, bha...

Present-day militaries are often microcosms of the societies that maintain them. Unsurprising then that the armed forces have to come to terms with...

Notwithstanding his contributions to religion, nonviolence, civil rights and civil disobedience, among other areas, Gandhi's most significant contr...

Locating the politics of ethical collective identities in postcolonial South India, this work explores the ways in which different cultural communi...

News today is understood as the most recent information available from places all over the world. It was the telegraph which gave birth to this und...

There has been a significant consolidation of international norms to advance human protection objectives in current global politics. Yet, while civ...

Is there a distinctive ‘India way’ of doing business? This query finds resonance not only among corporate leaders but also in academic studies focu...

International migration remains the orphan child of globalization. Rapid development from the last quarter of the twentieth century has resulted in...

War, the most profitable economic activity in the ancient world, transferred wealth violently from the vanquished to the victor. Invasions, massacr...

This volume explores the relation between Islam and the state in Buddhist-majority Myanmar from both an empirical and a comparative perspective. It...

Are our urban spaces growing thirsty by the day? What implications do unplanned urban expansion and climate change have on judicious accessibility ...

If the nation is an imagined community constructed through discourse, then belonging—the feeling of being part of that nation—can only arise when c...

An engineer by profession, an active Communist Party member, and an influential dramatist and stage director, Badal Sircar (1925–2011) penned sever...

The earliest cases of farmers’ suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in Andhra Pradesh. Soon after, similar reports emer...

The present monograph is a study of the Indian armed forces during the Second World War. This monograph is a corrective to the cultural studies app...

Contemporary social activism in India manifests itself in disparate ways. While displacement of tribals in one location in India could trigger prot...

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As formidable instruments of war, they have changed the destinies of empires. As marauding crop raiders, they are despised. As an endangered specie...

The growing strategic partnership between India and Japan is one of the most important geopolitical developments of the twenty-first century. This ...

The ‘border states’ of India, especially in the Northeast, are now considered crucial to the conduct of India’s foreign policy in the region. There...

As the administrative and commercial capital of British India and as one of the earliest experiments in modern urbanization in the sub-continent, C...

Since its birth as a concept, civilization has been defined by an encounter with the ‘other’. Barbarism, the ever-ready counter concept, has provid...

Does substantial expansion of educational facilities by itself create the required demand for education? Since demand for education depends on many...

The march towards a ‘new India’ began with its entry onto the global stage as a rising economic power, impelled by liberalization policies and the ...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

The political discourse in India experienced a fundamental shift when the Sachar Committee Report revealed that despite the national and state gove...

This volume explains Pakistan's strategy of using Islamist militants, as a rational response to acute state weakness and to Pakistan's founding nar...

Eleven economically backward hill states of India, sharing international boundaries, comprise the ‘Special Category States’. Being geographically i...

Divided We Govern investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coaliti...

In a diverse country like India, the level of economic development in different states differs widely, owing to varied economic structures and hist...

Dadabhai Naoroji (1825–1917), popularly known as the ‘Grand Old Man of India’, was thrice elected president of the Indian National Congress. In 189...

Has the Indian economy realized its oft-stated goal of inclusive growth? Did the rapid progress made after liberalization help improve income level...

India, one of the founding members of the World Bank, is also the Bank’s single largest borrower since its inception. There are natural curiosities...