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This remarkable study focuses on the relationship between forms of prostitution, discourses on law making, and law enforcement practices. Across th...

The last decade saw the emergence andassertion of separate Dalitbahajun women's organizations both at the nationaland regional levels. This asserti...

About the Book Post-independence, a generation of Indian women entered career fields such as architecture and design that had previously been close...

About the Book In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the ro...

Water Management is not an engineering matter alone; it involves ecological, socio-political, administrative and legal concerns. Gender is a key fa...

Why Would I Be Married Here? examines marriage migration undertaken by rural bachelors in North India, unable to marry locally, who travel across t...

Takes you through women's lives in feudal Bundelkhand, on dusty roads, through caste prejudice, water shortages, police stations, polling booths, a...

About the Book In this new collection by Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader. Inside their homes, women are...

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

Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized in nationalist discourse than their Hindu counterparts. She ...

Description: In unruly visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation...

1943: As the British Empire draws to a close, the state of Bengal is just emerging from the grip of famine. Exploited mercilessly by feudal landlor...

When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don’t usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand ...

The International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) at Cairo brought about a "paradigm shift" in the way population is conceptualized...

The revelatory collection of essays by journalists explores a range of issues - from the quinacrine sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is t...

About the Book In The Song Seekers , the debut novel by Saswati Sengupta, the monsoon rains wash over the city of Kolkata while four women sit and ...

About the Book At the end of a quarter century of conflict, over 100,000 Sri Lankans have died and thousands of survivors have been victims of sexu...

Moovalur Ramamirtham Ammaiyar spent almost her entire life fighting against the devadasi system in Tamil Nadu, a practice that dedicated young girl...

Making the case for a new kind of visual history, The Goddess and the Nation charts the pictorial life and career of Bharat Mata, \"Mother India,\"...

In this remarkable collection of essays about their mothers, women from Pakistan explore the many meanings of feminism and its varying interpretati...

Following from huge success of Ghose's Tales of Historic Delhi , this is a fun-filled activity book for children from age 5 and up, featuring the p...

About the Book In Suki, Suniti Namjoshi weaves a witty and delightful tapestry from threads of longing, loss, memory, metaphor, and contemplation. ...

Spotted goddesses is an ethnography of caste, gender and Dalit women’s leadership. Situated in transitional feminist discourses, this book is roote...

About the Book This superb collection of essays illuminates the film portrayal of violence, masculinity, and power in a postcolonial context, showi...

This book sets out to examine the gendered expressions of Shia Muslim faith. How do contemporary women construct and experience their religious liv...

In Semiotics of Rape, Rupal Oza follows the social life of rape in rural northwest India to reveal how rape is not only a violation of the body but...

Kastura, ‘the Songbird’, has disappeared. The prime suspect of a burglary in the Himalayan foothills. Twelve-year Johnny Raut has a narrow window t...

Stories abound in Assam’s fields, ponds, rivers, forests, hills and cities. Most of its people wear each other’s clothes, eat each other’s food and...

Life, writings of a prominent Gujarati woman, 19th Century. with critical introd. and notes.

About the Book Whether it is in-vitro fertilization, sperm injection, surrogacy, cryopreservation, or intrauterine insemination, assisted reproduct...

From her home in a small village in the Kutch district of Gujarat, Dalit artist Radhaben Garwa has documented the rural women's movement in Western...

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

Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through readings...

About the Book From an early focus on rape, dowry, and sati --self-immolation--feminist struggles against violence to women in India have now moved...

Based on a number of interviews with women politicians of many generations and women who have entered the three-tier Panchayati Raj institutions si...

About the Book Throughout South Asia, young men and women are pursuing new educational opportunities and getting married later. These changes, Nico...

Often forgotten and seldom written into official record, protest movements and campaigns by indigenous women across the world are a vital part of o...

About the Book As both the bedrock of human survival and an unchallenged part of the "normal" female life, motherhood expects and even compels wome...

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...

It is now widely recognized that gender analysis has both challenged and enriched many of the standard assumptions and concepts that inform economi...

In this personal and passionate account, activist and researcher Sahba Husain documents her deeply engaged and empathetic involvement with the poli...

The Magic Key is a series of folktales retold by India's third president DrZakir Husain. ???For all children,??? he wrote, ???the first books they ...

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...