Social Science

स्त्री का इतिहास सदियों से उत्पीड़न, हिंसा, उपेक्षा और अन्याय की त्रासद गाथा रहा है। इसके बावजूद स्त्री ने अपनी करुणा, ममता और प्रेम से इस दुनिया को रहने लायक बनाया है और हर समय में 'जिन्दगी' को कुछ जीने योग्य करने में सहायता की है। 'स्त्री' ही वह ...

First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philoso...

About the Book Written during a period of tumult and gestation in India's history, the essays in this book provide an intellectual's serious commentary on nascent nationhood. What makes this collection interesting is not just its historical value,...

Theodor Adorno was no stranger to controversy. In The Jargon of Authenticity he gives full expression to his hostility to the language employed by certain existentialist thinkers such as Martin Heidegger. With his customary alertness to the uses a...

This book is based on the doctoral dissertation of the author. After analysing all the important theories of justice, the author erects his own on their grave. This work is a document of a humanistic sense of justice which leans more towards the i...

The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes and founders. Dalits have mostly been viewed as passive subjects. This book inverts the dominant nati...

In this, his most famous work, Marcel Mauss presented to the world a book which revolutionized our understanding of some of the basic structures of society. By identifying the complex web of exchange and obligation involved in the act of giving, M...

This second edition of Certificate Physical and Human Geography has been carefully crafted to meet the needs of students preparing for competitive examinations conducted by the UPSC, State Public Service Commissions, and other examining bodies, as...

Following the publication of the seminal Fear of Freedom, Erich Fromm applied his unique vision to a critique of contemporary capitalism in The Sane Society. Where the former dealt with man's historic inability to come to terms with his sense of i...

That a diverse country like India has succeeded for over half a century as a thriving democracy raises many questions about the relationship between cultural diversity and social and economic inequality; the robustness of some institutions and the...

Most of us have been victims of frauds and related crimes at some point or the other in our lives. We may not have answers to pertinent questions such as: Who is responsible for the fraud committed? Why do people commit white collar crimes? What m...

About the Book Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring For thousands of years humanity has engaged in creative expression, allowing us to relate to other people, contribute to shared culture, build an identity, and give meaning to ou...

यह पुस्तक भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों की एम.ए (राजशास्त्र) एवं एम.ए (समाजशास्त्र) परीक्षाओं में राजनैतिक समाजशास्त्र विषयक प्रश्न पत्र के लिये पाठ्य पुस्तक के रूप में लिखी गई है। पुस्तक में विषय के विवेचन में विश्लेषणात्मक प्रणाली अपनाई गई है। सब कहीं ...

A consistent best-seller, the wide-ranging and authoritative Dictionary of Sociology was first published in 1994 and contains more than 2,500 entries on the terminology, methods, concepts and thinkers in the field, as well as from the related fiel...

Economic Reforms and Social Exclusion ;is an analytical study that focuses on the socially marginalized and excluded groups in India since the onset of liberalization. It examines how liberal economic reforms have impacted socio-economic categorie...

About the Book Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed with power and the market. The continuing farm crisis represents not only failure of economic and d...

About the Book Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. They were an omnipresent and all-powerful force in communicating the messages of ancient Egyptian culture for over three thousand years. This ancient form of expression was used as art, as ...

Thoroughly revised and expanded, this bestselling student text provides an authoritative, accessible guide to the three pivotal figures in the classical tradition. Readable and stimulating, and including a glossary of concepts containing over 150 ...

The second edition with a new introduction and two new essays brings together Andre Beteille's central concerns as a teacher and scholar of sociology and will an important contribution towards enhancing our understanding of the social framework in...

'Writing was my truth, my god, my everything. I could not leave it for anything.' With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to how writing is as important to him as breathing. How I Became a Writer: An Autobiography of a Dalit is the translatio...

About the Book Taking the instability of all identities as its point of departure, this collection of essays probes the enigmas of identity politics. How does 'identitarian' politics, trying to homogenize identities around some cultural or ethnic ...

Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understoo...

From Zeus and Europa, to Diana, Pan, and Prometheus, the myths of ancient Greece and Rome seem to exert a timeless power over us. But what do those myths represent, and why are they so enduringly fascinating? Why do they seem to be such a potent w...

A political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and philosopher, Partha Chatterjee has consistently provided academia with novel conceptual tools for analysing the present. This collection brings together scholars from a...

John-Ghatak-Tarkovsky: Citizens, Filmmakers, Hackers

यह पुस्तक मध्य प्रदेश, उत्तर प्रदेश एवं राजस्थान के समस्त विश्वविद्यालयों में बी॰ए॰ (समाजशास्त्र) विषय पर भारत में सामाजिक परिवर्तन, सामाजिक परिवर्तन के सिद्धान्त और भारत में सामाजिक परिवर्तन एवं सामाजिक समस्यायें आदि शीर्षकों से दिये गये प्रश्न-प...

'Caste is Race in Ancient Times, Race is Caste in Modern Times, Untouchability is an Aryan Construct. They said God has not created Untouchables.' Kancha Ilaiah Shepherd goes on to say, 'Many people from the Brahmin-Baniya castes have written ab...

This book charts the flow of India's grassroots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in...

Japan is an icon of the modern world, and yet it remains an enigma to many, who see it as a confusing montage of the alien and the familiar, the ancient and modern. The aim of this Very Short Introduction is to explode the myths and explore the re...

Social & Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction is a book that helps its readers in understanding the basics of anthropology. It helps them find out more about the nature of work that anthropologists do. Social & Cultural Anthro...

About the Book: Statistics For Research: With a Guide to SPSS:3rd Edition This fully updated edition of Statistics for Research explainsstatistical concepts in a straightforward and accessible way usingpractical examples from a variety of discipli...

First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actio...

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are becoming problematic. Both internationally and wit...

This new textbook traces the evolution and development of sociology as a field of study in India and enumertes the key sociological aspects of the Indian society. This new textbook enumerates a sociological perspective by tracing the development a...

From the beginning of time, humans have been driven by both a fear of the unknown and a curiosity to know. We have always yearned to know what lies ahead, whether threat or safety, scarcity or abundance. Throughout human history, our forebears tri...

About the Book Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship, this volume questions the linearity of considering trade as the sole determinant of creation of set...

About the Book An interdisciplinary text that offers a comprehensive understanding of social movements, their cause, course and effects in modern-day India. Contemporary India is experiencing widespread changes and developments in its society, po...

Life as a Dalit looks at caste society from the point of view of the Dalits, focusing on their worldview, emotions, and critical appraisal of their own position and of the higher groups. It is a volume based on the critical perspectives provided b...

With a new foreword by Charles Lemert'Its greatness...lies in ceaseless and varied use of the money form to unearth and conceptually reveal incommensurabilities of all kinds, in social reality fully as much as in thought itself.' - Fredric Jameson...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of liter...

The book is a collection of very interesting and readable pieces of narrations/short stories earlier published by the author in different reputed newspapers. Most of these pieces have India’s local backdrop as their themes which revolve around com...

Career counseling, planning and guiding is a very important and contemporary topic. Many books, articles and studies dealing with related issues are available from qualified and well-experienced persons. There are several career counseling institu...

There is often a demand for a short, sharp definition of racism, for example as captured in the popular formula Power + Prejudice= Racism. But in reality, racism is a complex, multidimensional phenomenon that cannot be captured by such definitions...

The Oxford India Short Introductions are concise, stimulating, and accessible guides to different aspects of India. Combining authoritative analysis, new ideas, and diverse perspectives, they discuss subjects which are topical yet enduring, as als...

This is the definitive collection of essays by renowned Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas. Methodologically rigorous and elegantly written, Srinivas' work spans spans a wide range of topics, from important fieldwork to new research methods to semi...

India is the second most populous nation in the world, but the dynamics of Indian daily life are not understood by many in the West. This work examines various aspects of Indian families: how they are organized, how property is distributed in marr...

This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshe...

Drawing from some of the most influential studies conducted on Indian cities--Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata--Urban Studies deals with the sociological study of the Indian city and Urbanism. It includes conceptual pieces ...

Political Economy of Caste in India presents the caste mode of production as an important analytical tool to understand the socio-economic and political dynamics of India. The book looks at caste from the economic base and also links it with the s...

In this path-breaking study, a first in many ways, Anandita Pan argues that dalit women are an intersectional category, simultaneously affected by caste and gender. The use of intersectionality permits observation of the ways in which different fo...

This textbook offers a lucid and comprehensive understanding of social work. Providing a broad overview of the field and profession of social work, the book stresses the link between professional education and practice. It presents both a histori...

About the Book Guilty Males and Proud Females is the first complete study on the Bengali gajan festival dedicated to Dharmaraj, a village god in the Rarh region of Bengal. The gajan is the dramatic representation of an hierogamy--the marriage of a...

A bridge to the world of mathematics for readers who want to gain a good foundation in basic mathematical skills for research and other activities.  This book aims to help students of social sciences, liberal arts, and humanities to develop the a...

This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology - a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and surveys 2.5 million years. From deserts to jungles,...

A flamboyantly eclectic anthology that explodes the myths about the lines which divide us - the heterosexual from the homosexual, the normative from the 'alternative', the phobic from the obsessive, the moral from the titillating, the academic fro...

How should case studies be selected? Is case study methodology fundamentally different to that of other methods? What, in fact, is a case? Case Study Research: What, Why and How? is an authoritative and nuanced exploration of the many faces of cas...

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One of the most important works of modern anthropology. Written against the backdrop of the student uprisings of the late 1960s, the book took seriously the revolutionary fervour of the times, but instead of seeking to destroy the rituals and symb...