Sociology and Anthropology

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...

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

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

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 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...

Evaluating how land ownership relates to workings of global capital and the lives of both women and men, this analysis draws from field research in...

? The creation of widespread public consent for family planning in Kerala, which ensured the non-coercive implementation of birth control in Malaya...

About the Book One of the most dynamic feminist movements in the world, Indian feminisms are seldom given the recognition they deserve, not only fo...

Gender Justice Citizenship Development

About the Book Gender and Governance examines how different governance structures affect gender in five specific locations in South Asia: Swat in P...

At the dawn of creation, girls were as desired as sons. It was a time when girls beat boys in games and races: a time when there was no gender divi...

About the Book Feminist Subversion and Complicity brings together contributions from women in Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and India who...

About the Book South Asia's significant water resources are unevenly distributed, with about a fifth of the population lacking adequate access. Acr...

About the Book Offering vital new perspectives on the role of sexual violence as a weapon of war in Pakistan, Disputed Legacies examines the situat...

Outside of debates surrounding public health statistics, little has been written about the experience of motherhood in India. In Boundaries and Mot...

Breaching the Citadel is part of Zubaan’s Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series. It showcases new and path breaking research on the str...

Part of a new series titled Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia, supported by the International Development Research Centre, Canada, Of the ...

Patriarchy asserts men are superior to women, Feminism clarifies women and men are equal, Queerness questions what constitutes male and female. Qu...

Mainstream feminist discourse has failed to fully engage with commercial sex work. In a series of essays, this book corrects this lacuna. Moving be...

About the Book: Along the Red River: A Memoir This unique autobiography by veteran BBC and Associated Pressjournalist Sabita Goswami documents the ...

The last few decades have witnessed growing theoretical and practical concerns about the intersections between violent conflict and development. Li...

Using old photographs, old and new documents, excerpts from letters, books and informal writings, the author documents the growing involvement of w...

This book, a timely mapping of a shifting political field around gender-based violence in the global south, brings together academics and activists...