Sociology and Anthropology

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are p...

Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in...

Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and ide...

The last few decades have seen a huge increase in attention paid to the trafficking of human beings, often referred to as modern-day slavery. Inter...

A groundbreaking book that reveals, for the first time, the crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control needs to know

Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration into Modern Day Slavery by Wendy Stickle, Shelby Hickman, and Christine White examines the legal, so...

Anurima Banerji is an associate professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA.

In recent years India has seen remarkable growth in the GDP. Despite this, the country continues to face high levels of indebtedness and poverty, a...

A majority of people living in rural areas and urban slums worldwide have minimal access to healthcare. Without information about what to give a ch...

Politics of precarity presents an analysis of contemporary labour politics that emerges with information and Privatisation of crucial social sector...

A bold, honest and unflinching look at the way we talk and think about rape Thanks to Title IX cases, #MeToo, and #Times Up, the issue of rape see...

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically po...

The Paradox of Populism: The Indira Gandhi Years studies the changing dynamics of politics brought about by the eclipse of Congress hegemony, cause...

Adivasis have principally been studied in the context of rebellion, environmental history and the politics of identity. However, preoccupations wit...

Post India’s economic liberalization in the 1990s, the village ceased to be central to ongoing sociological concerns. As a result, the period saw a...

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...

The connections between race and sexuality are constant in our lives, yet they are not often linked together in productive, analytical ways. This ...

Friendship as Social Justice Activism brings together academics and activists to have essential conversations about friendship, love and desire as ...

Psychology of Sex and Gender is an engaging and empirical text that not only introduces students to foundational (i.e., historical/contextual) unde...

Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab–Israeli War and ...

Iraqi poet Salah Al Hamdani has lived a remarkable life. The author of some forty books in French and Arabic, he began life as a child laborer, wit...

Does the burgeoning Indian Information Technology (IT) sector represent a deviation from the historical arc of caste inequality or has it become ye...

The Refugee Woman examines the Partition of 1947 by engaging with the cultural imagination of the ‘refugee woman’ in West Bengal, particularly in t...

This book takes into account the confluence of different factors in studying pressures on, and prospects for, the mobility of Arab Muslim women. Sa...

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A Theory of Imperialism [Paperback] Utsa Patnaik

Written by a collection of experts in the field, this important new text provides a critical and constructive analysis of the ways in which service...

Most Indians are familiar with the sights and sounds of a wedding procession led by musicians clad in brightly coloured uniforms. With their sounds...

Sexuality and Citizenship [Paperback] Richardson, Diane

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India has been a major recipient of international aid since its independence on account of its developmental gaps and wide income disparity; yet it...

Adolescence is a turbulent period to live through and a time of importance and concern to parents, teachers and social workers. Marking the transit...

This is a compelling introduction to the importance of the body for contemporary identities and social relationships. Drawing on studies of sex and...

In 2008 it was believed that HIV/AIDS was without doubt the worst epidemic to hit humankind since the Black Death. The first case was identified in...

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 ...

An idyllic Naga village surrounded by misty hills, Hoyat is located in the No Man’s Land between India and Burma. When Atanu reaches here to begin ...

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 ...

The Pornography Industry: What Everyone Needs to Know addresses key issues and concerns about a controversial and very hot topic. Written for a cur...

David Bornstein's How to Change the World is the first book to study a remarkable and growing group of individuals around the world—what Bornstein ...

This work is a well-researched study of the last decades of the networks in the Global Justice Movement (GJM) and World Social Forums. Itoffers a n...

The earliest cases of farmers’ suicides in India were reported in 1998 among cotton cultivators in Andhra Pradesh. Soon after, similar reports emer...

Contemporary social activism in India manifests itself in disparate ways. While displacement of tribals in one location in India could trigger prot...

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

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in this very short introduction robert segal introduces the array of approaches used to understand the study of myth. these approaches hail from di...

Discover why and how schools must become places where thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted As educators, parents, and citizens, we mu...

Not too long ago, India woke up to the heart-rending horror of the ‘Nirbhaya’ rape case. While the brutal violence against the victim sent shockwav...