Social Sciences and Education

Triple talaq or talaq-e-bidat, is one of the most debated issues in the Muslim world. From antiquity, the Muslim faith has been plagued by the port...

Beat the odds with a bold strategy from McKinsey;Company "Every once in a while, a genuinely fresh approach to business strategy appears"—legendary...

The Indian diaspora in Australia and New Zealand represents a successful ethnic community making significant contributions to their host societies ...

Examining the relationship between sedition and liberal democracies, particularly in India, this book looks at the biography of sedition laws, its ...

Three decades of being a banker afforded Samit Ghosh a ringside view of the biggest vulnerability of India’s financial sector its failure to ensure...

In December 1572 the Mughal emperor Akbar arrived in the port city of Khambayat. Having been raised in distant Kabul, Akbar, in his thirty years, h...

With the demolition of the Babri Masjid and subsequent riots of the late 1980s and 1990s in Uttar Pradesh, the period that followed appeared relati...

In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and t...

From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservatio...

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in...

How do today's most successful tech companies-Amazon, Google, Facebook, Netflix, Tesla-design, develop, and deploy the products that have earned th...

Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi and the Anglican miss...

This volume asks a fundamental question: What is education? While there can be no one answer, the contributors provide a clear understanding of the...

Productivity underpins business success and national well-being and thus it is crucial to understand the factors that influence productivity growth...

Environmental law is the law concerned with environmental problems. It is a vast area of law that operates from the local to the global, involving ...

What is depression? What is bipolar disorder? How are they diagnosed and how are they treated? Can a small child be diagnosed with depression and t...

Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us suscepti...

India is a country of increasing domestic complexity and mounting international importance. As she rises to prominence, this Oxford India Short Int...

The European Union is rarely out of the news and, as it deals with the consequences of the Brexit vote and struggles to emerge from the eurozone cr...

Perception is one of the oldest and most deeply investigated topics in the field of psychology, and it is also raises some profound philosophical q...

Botticelli, Holbein, Leonardo, Dürer, Michelangelo: the names are familiar, as are the works, such as the Last Supper fresco, or the monumental mar...

India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influen...

Consciousness, 'the last great mystery for science', remains a hot topic. How can a physical brain create our experience of the world? What creates...

Writing in 2007, French social philosopher André Gorz (1923–2007) was remarkably prophetic, foretelling the international economic meltdown of 2008...

Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing thei...

What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming...

Light from the fire burning afar mingled with the moonlight in Kurukshetra to create a terrible twilight. Scattered corpses … broken chariots … spo...

You hardly look like a Chamar! All dressed up like a Nawab, did you hope to gain entry into our courtyard? Out you go!' I left immediately. It was ...

Suragi, the flower Ananthamurthy loved, gives out more fragrance as it fadesU.R. Ananthamurthy’s oeuvre stands out in glittering letters in the his...

With the 86th amendment to the Constitution in 2002, India created a new vision and framework for providing elementary education for all children a...

Considered ‘the most articulate and persuasive spokesman’ for the developing world in the twentieth century, renowned economist Mahbub ul Haq (1934...

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations is a miracle. Why?In an era of growing cultural pessimism, many thoughtful individuals believe that diff...

Caught in the web of global economic fluctuations, Bombay experienced a cataclysmic financial crisis in the 1860s. Before the crash the city’s econ...

Resource exploitation in the form of land-grabbing has become a major debate worldwide. Based on extensive field research conducted at the India-Pa...

A sex worker, as we know her today, is defined by her work. She is socially useful reproductive labour: a gendered proletariat.Through a political–...

Much seems to be going wrong with democracy at present. The global advance of democracy is stalled and, what is worse, cynicism about democracy is ...

Economic reforms implemented by the South Asian countries in the 1980s and 1990s had positive impacts on growth, and the region's share of world GD...

The Birth of an Indian Profession is the first comprehensive history of engineers in modern India. Charting the development of the engineering prof...

The story of anti-colonial nationalism in India as told in mainstream literary and historical writings presents privileged caste Hindus as heroes a...

Wisdom that's been inspiring, motivating, and guiding teachers for two decades The Courage to Teach speaks to the joys and pains that teachers of e...

Science communication, once the exclusive preserve of a scientific elite, has not been immune to the growing influence of mass media over society. ...

Iterations of Law: Legal Histories from India advances new perspectives on legal history from South Asia. While earlier historians looked at the re...

This book is an attempt to provide a synthetic overview of Mahatma Gandhi - his person, philosophy and practices. The objective is to draw a system...

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 Ind...

Research Shows Organizations That Focus on Employee Experience Far Outperform Those That Don't Recently a new type of organization has emerged, one...

The book is a study of the current state of nationalist imagination in three states in India: Assam, West Bengal, and Delhi. It analyses the percep...

Moving beyond the existing scholarship on language politics in north India which mainly focuses on Hindi–Urdu debates, language politics and public...

Globalization, as commonly understood, limits policy choices of a nation by creating structural and institutional constraints. This leads to an imp...