Sociology and Anthropology

What is knowledge, and ignorance? How is it decided? Do power and power relations influence this process? Does the spread of knowledge lead to more...

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race, ...

This book explores issues of rights, issues, and challenges faced by Indian migrant workers in the GCC countries. It focuses on the struggle of mig...

This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their la...

This book tracks the progress of maternal and child health (MCH)―part of SDG3―in empowered action group states in India. It lays bare regional disp...

This book presents a critical analysis of sense-making practices through an exploration of acoustic, creative, and artistic spaces. It studies how ...

This volume is a critical investigation into the contemporary phenomenon of the dissensus of the globe and the planet, and the new terrains of cons...

This book introduces the readers to the dynamics of various kinds of social movements. It examines how social movements have become an instrument o...

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh. It trac...

This work throws light on the areas of space and time, nature and culture, spirit and matter in the folktales that nurture systemic thinking. It id...

This book analyzes drug addiction and abuse from the perspectives of the state and community in India, with a special focus on North-West regions o...

This book critically analyses diverse experiences related to disability in India. Drawing upon intersectionality theory, it explores a range of iss...

The book examines the social and cultural role of selfies in India. It looks at how the selfie, unlike the photograph, which was a gesture towards ...

This book formulates a new pedagogy of death with regard to Northeast India and shows how this pedagogy offers an understanding of alternative know...

This book is an anthology of the collected essays of Sharmila Rege (1964 – 2013) that addresses themes to do with pedagogy and culture. Rege makes ...

This book examines the discourses on ageing and ageism in Indian culture, politics, art and society. It explores its representations and the anxiet...

This book studies the different dimensions of culture change in India. It covers important strands of the ancient and modern intellectual tradition...

This book injects nuance into the debate about the moral legitimacy of environmental and animal activism and explores how activism can lead to stig...

This book explores the experiences of managing the COVID-19 pandemic in Northeast India across different areas of life and work.

This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries. It studies responses to COVID-19 in...

The volume discusses critical issues surrounding the developments in gender movements in the last two decades in India following the Delhi rape cas...

This book probes into the marginalized communities of the Indian society through historical and contemporary societal perspectives. It discusses so...

This book examines the process of domination of a civilization and the creation of a vast empire by the British in India in the late nineteenth and...

This volume discusses the various challenges faced by children in India from different perspectives such as education, psychology, and sociology du...

Eating together unites people and has a significant impact on their physical, social, and emotional development. This book looks at practices and t...

This book critically examines the "mutual illuminations" between literature, religion, architecture, films, performative arts, paintings, woodworks...

This book looks at the trajectories of reproduction and abortion rights in diverse socio-cultural contexts in various countries, and the regional c...

The book examines the representation of women, their agency and subjectivity and gender relations in 18th- and 19th-century India. The chapters in ...

The University Grants Commission (UGC) conducts National Eligibility Test (NET) on various subjects every year, in June and December. There are thr...

Social and Community Development Practice makes a persuasive case for employing a social development approach to community development practice at ...

The book has been written to serve as a textbook for students of M.A. Sociology in various Universities in the paper on Rural Sociology. While the ...

In an era where sustainable and inclusive development is more critical than ever, the role of active people’s participation has become the cornerst...

The book highlights the nature and features of Indian Society and the charges that has taken place in various social institutions during different ...

What is going on today in the post-Covid world? Those who paid and are still paying the highest price are, above all, the minors, as well as the we...

भारत में शहर से कई गुणा अधिक लोग आज भी गाँव में रहते हैं । वहीं से रोजगार पाते हैं, वहीं से विकास के नए नए किस्से गढ़ते हैं । 21वीं सदी के आधुनिक डि...

Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the wa...

Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom? is both an introduction to discourse research and an application o...

This thoroughly updated fourth edition of Critical Theory Today offers an accessible introduction to contemporary critical theory, providing in-dep...

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

This new edition provides a scholarly and readable introduction to all the key qualitative and quantitative research methodologies and methods, ena...

About the Book: Qualitative Research: 3rd Edition This hugely successful textbook has been fully updated andrevised to make it even more accessible...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

How should case studies be selected? Is case study methodology fundamentally different to that of other methods? What, in fact, is a case? Case Stu...

A Critical Introduction to Social Research is the new, updated and improved edition of A Short Introduction to Social Research. This book introduce...

Resource extraction and conflicts over natural resources are a global phenomenon, including in India. Indigenous tribes, like the Ho community in J...

This book explores identity-mediated dynamics of food and nutrition entitlement in urban India analysing concerns around equity, access to food and...