Sociology and Anthropology

Annihilation of Caste is a powerful and uncompromising critique of India's caste system, written by one of the most influential social reformers in Indian history, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar. Originally published in 1936, this groundbreaking work challenge...

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His fines...

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 ...

Homi Bhabha is one of that small group occupying the front ranks of cultural theoretical thought. Any serious discussion of post-colonial/postmodern scholarship is inconceivable without referencing Mr. Bhabha.' -- Toni Morrison Rethinking question...

One of the most talked-about scholarly works of the past fifty years, Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble is as celebrated as it is controversial. Arguing that traditional feminism is wrong to look to a natural, 'essential' notion of the female, or in...

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,...

In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gender need to return to the most material dimension of sex and sexuality: the body. Butler offers a brilliant reworking of the body, examining how the ...

There would be no need for sociology if everyone understood the social frameworks within which we operate. That we do have a connection to the larger picture is largely thanks to the pioneering thinker Émile Durkheim. He recognized that, if anythi...

The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with ...

Bertrand Russell’s recipe for good living - this is popular philosophy, or even self-help, as it should be written.

Max Weber's best-known and most controversial work, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, first published in 1904, remains to this day a powerful and fascinating read. Weber's highly accessible style is just one of many reasons for hi...

Love is a force of destiny whose power reaches from heaven to hell.' So Jung advises while reflecting on 'The Love Problem of a Student', an essay contained in this volume. But it is not just love that Jung speaks of in this book. Taking as its th...

About the Book Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has distinguished herself as one of the foremost scholars of contemporary literary and postcolonial theory and feminist thought. Known for her translation of Derrida's On Grammatology and her groundbreakin...

Injustice is in fact the denial of the “due” to the deserving. It is the justice that only negates injustice and the endorsement of this negation by the society as a whole, is social justice. In Durkheim’s terms, it is the collective consciousness...

“Consciousness does not determine life, but life determines consciousness.” The German Ideology by Karl Marx is a cornerstone of Marxist philosophy, offering a profound exploration of historical materialism and the foundations of societal structur...

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...

The unifying motif of Bimal Krishna Matilal's work is the study of rational traditions in Indian philosophical thought. With his ability to span the divide between the Indian and Western intellectual traditions, he brought contemporary techniques ...

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 ...

No judgement of taste is innocent - we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. First p...

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...

Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers and social workers. Marking the transition from the world of childhood to adult life, the adolescent faces many challenges and opportunitie...

Public health is a term much used in the media, by health professionals, and by activists. At the national or the local level there are ministries or departments of public health, whilst international agencies such as the World Health Organisation...

Is our sexuality a product of our genes, or of society, culture, and politics? How have views of sexual norms changed over time? And how have feminism, religion, and HIV/AIDS affected our attitudes to sex? This Very Short Introduction examines the...

This is the first analysis of Gandhi's dressing style in terms of communication theory and an exploration of the subliminal messages that were subtly communicated to a large audience. Peter Gonsalves chooses three famous theorists from the field o...

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...

समाजशास्त्र के सिद्धान्तों पर यह पुस्तक समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में समाजशास्त्र विषय में Principles of Sociology, Elements of Sociology, Essentials of Sociology, Introduction to Sociology, Fundamentals of Sociology आदि पाठ्यक्रमों के अनुसार ल...

यह पुस्तक समस्त भारतीय विश्वविद्यालयों में बी.ए. त्रिवर्षीय डिग्री कोर्स में समाजशास्त्रा विषय में सामाजिक परिवर्तन एवं सामाजिक नियंत्राण आदि शीर्षकों से दिये गए प्रश्न-पत्रों वेफ पाठ्यक्रमों का सरल भाषा में प्रामाणिक एवं सम्पूर्ण विवरण उपस्थित कर...

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...

While Marx and Engels wrote detailed critiques of capitalism they could only suggest the bare outlines of what socialism as the order of society supplanting capitalism could be like. Lenin built on these ideas and the experience of the working-cla...

'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...

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Our self-image as moral, well-behaved creatures is dogged by scepticism, relativism, hypocrisy, and nihilism, and by the fear that in a Godless world science has unmasked us as creatures fated ...

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...

“I believe that we should have a sense of history. In a sense, an autobiography is history. It has in it traces of geography as well. Each new place, the sights they offer, the people we meet and the moments we spend with them, do not leave us tha...

* The author is one of foremost political philosophers in Europe. * This book brilliantly confronts the theory of justice in a new and challenging way. * The author is one of foremost political philosophers in Europe. * This book brilliantly confr...

The book Indian Women Across Generations brings forth the life and predicament of women, including in its narration the discriminations and denials to them in the past as well as in the present in particular areas of activities. It attempts to chr...

During the First World War the pioneer anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski found himself stranded on the Trobriand Islands, off the eastern coast of New Guinea. By living among the people he studied there, speaking their language and participating...

bVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is a form of psychological therapy. It is not a unitary approach, but instead has evolved through a range of approaches that share a common underpinning m...

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 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 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...

About the Book Interest in citizenship has never been higher. Politicians of all stripes stress its importance, as do church leaders, captains of industry and every kind of campaigning group--from those supporting global causes, such as tackling w...

Dangerous outcast traces prostitution in Bengal from precolonial times through the arrival of the British, examining how the profession was reordered to suit British desires. Drawing on nineteenth-century popular and folk culture, Sumanta Banerjee...

Communalism And Sexual Violenc

This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tripura and its agrarian relations from monarchy in the nineteenth century to democracy in the twentiet...

This book comprises the collected essays of Sharmila Rege (1964 – 2013), which span a range of themes, including critical perspectives on women’s movements, Dalit standpoint feminism, and the relationship between Women’s Studies and other discipli...

About the Book: Qualitative Research: 3rd Edition This hugely successful textbook has been fully updated andrevised to make it even more accessible and comprehensive. Newchapters have been added on a range of key topics, includinggrounded theory, ...

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and ...

India the shapeless; India the formless; India the soul; India the spirit. India has found numerous expressions; India has found numerous faces. But the soul of India—the identity, the personality— remains the same; unaltered by time, untransforme...

This collection of seminal essays provides a useful and stimulating introduction to the debates surrounding identity politics in modern India. Through the selected articles, each of which discusses different aspects of the central debate, the volu...

This is a paperback of a 1979 hardback which broke new ground in social investigation. There have, since, been other books on the experience of fieldwork, but this remains a much cited work. The eighteen essays in the volume describe the experienc...

This collection of 21 essays analyses the relationship between legal and social systems in India, including the functioning of the legal system in tandem with other social subsystems; the legal profession; law and religious identity; law and disad...

The Naxalites take their name from an uprising of workers in the tea gardens of the north Bengal countryside, near Naxalbari, in early 1967. Since then 'Naxalite' and 'Naxalism' have become synonymous in India with communist revolutionary 'terrori...

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 ...

The main purpose of development is to spread freedom and its thousand charms to the unfree citizens. The author explains how in a world of unprecedented increase in overall opulence, millions of people living in the Third World are still unfree. E...