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Globalization and Deregulation makes a contribution to the literature on economic change by exploring the institutional transition from state-led i...

This book is a study of the shifts in historical context of ritual observances from Vedic to Puranic traditions. It looks into the representations ...

This book is a philosophical analysis of ordinary concepts like human action and consciousness, along with an exploration of their representation i...

Despite India's rapid response to economic liberalization and impressive growth indicators since the 1990s, child malnutrition in the country has r...

During the Balkan Wars of 1912-13, concerned Muslims around India mobilized to dispatch three medical teams to treat wounded Ottoman soldiers. Amon...

Volatility in capital flows has increased significantly in recent years, particularly since the global financial crisis of 2008, making capital flo...

Theories of economic growth focused on physical capital and its diffusion till the 1950s. Since then, increasing attention has been paid to the rol...

What started as subprime mortgage crisis in the US in 2007 snowballed into global recession soon after. Still running its course, it has transforme...

Television plays a very important role in constructing and presenting images of Indian modernity. Channeling Cultures brings together scholars from...

Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad five of the largest Indian megacities are the economic and commercial engines for modern India. T...

Synthesizing both qualitative and quantitative data on youth, gender, reproductive health and rights and population, from a variety of sources, thi...

Ashapurna Devi, one of the foremost Indian women writers, was born in colonial Bengal in 1909. She lived until 1995, witnessing the transitions and...

Goans have long been a mobile community and helped to shape the contours of empires and the modern world. But the story of their migrations has not...

The volume traces the evolution of global finance over the last half century and contextualizes the heightened uncertainty on account of speculatio...

Combining theoretical and empirical issues and drawing its conclusions from rigorous methodologies and latest data, this volume covers a wide range...

The wife of Field Marshal Sir George Nugent (1757-1849), Lady Nugent could travel extensively and meticulously observed the ways the British imagin...

Rakhshanda Jalil interweaves primary sources and personal collections of Urdu prose and poetry to trace the evolution of this movement from its hea...

In this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining t...

In this Very Short Introduction, Robert Eaglestone provides a clear and engaging exploration of the major themes, patterns, and debates of contempo...

There is no denying that thinking comes naturally to human beings. But what are thoughts? How is thought realized in the brain? Does thinking occur...

In this Very Short Introduction, Prof Lord John Krebs provides a brief history of human food, from our remote ancestors 3 million years ago to the ...

Rhetoric is often seen as a synonym for shallow, deceptive language, and therefore as something negative. But if we view rhetoric in more neutral t...

To consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or ab...

Happiness is an everyday term in our lives, and most of us strive to be happy. But defining happiness can be difficult. In this Very Short Introduc...

There has been an explosion of interest in entrepreneurs in the popular media, as well as in business, policy, and education. But what do entrepren...

Integration with the global economy has opened India to cross-border flows of not merely goods and services, but also financial capital. India is n...

Astrobiology is the study of the origin and development of life on this and other planets. What fascinates people about astrobiology is that it see...

Medical law is concerned with our bodies, and what happens to them during and after our lives. When things go wrong with our bodies, we want to kno...

An efficient and competent bureaucracy is indispensable to any modern state. This short introduction identifies the importance of civil services in...

This book examines the underlying assumptions and implications of how we conceptualise and investigate poverty. The empirical entry point for such ...

Ashis Nandy has occupied a distinct and unrivaled place in the intellectual life of India over the course of the last three decades. He is unquesti...

This book discusses the period from 1000 BC to the end of the sixth century AD. Divided into five thematic sections, the first section discusses qu...

The Agrarian System of Mughal India: 1556-1707 (Oxford India Perennials Series) is a comprehensive guide about agricultural practices in the Mughal...

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...

This book is a satirical social commentary on contemporary India and it employs, via parody, the literature of one's childhood as a means to explor...

Ahmed Ali (1910-1994), multitalented, bilingual writer, poet, scholar, translator, critic, and anthologist, is one of the stalwarts in the South As...

South Asia has acquired a strategic role and importance in the rapidly evolving global and political scenario. The present series analyses foreign ...

This book explores the globalization and liberalization that has occurred in Indian television over the two decades starting from 1990. In India, t...

The end of the Cold War era marked a watershed in India's strategic history as it began to shift its strategic worldview from that of a relatively ...

The pastoral tribal community of the Jad Bhotiyas inhabit the Uttarkashi region of the Himalayas. For survival, they were engaged in trade across t...

The global financial crisis, which began in August 2007 and continues with no end in sight, has thrown macroeconomics into turmoil. This book chall...

Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, this book deals with notions, ideas, and concepts of crime and justice from the eighteenth...

An important feminist thinker, writer, and activist, Prema Kantak's contributions to Indian feminist thought and the nationalist movement have been...

In this collection of essays, noted scholars who have worked with Kakar celebrate the three streams of psychoanalysis, culture and religion and the...

Policy targets and political preferences are summarised in documents such as party manifestos. This book describes how these can be analysed quanti...

The Postcolonial Mind: Urdu Culture, Islam and Modernity in Muhammad Hasan Askari

With exquisite color photographs melding into one another to create a rare visual continuity, this volume celebrates the history, culture and spiri...

Part of the Towards Freedom series, this volume brings together primary sources and archival documents for the period 1 January 1947 to 2 June 1947...