Sociology and Anthropology

Jagannath Prasad Das was an IAS officer from Odissa who held several prestigious positions in the state and the central governments. He was the col...

Pauperism and pauperization are two of the most persistent and widespread phenomena in India. While a fierce debate rages on the line separating th...

In today’s world, social inequalities are diverse, intricate, and are magnified by different kinds of discrimination. Inequalities in education, em...

Dangerous Marginality focuses on villages festivals invoking the Matangi, an outcaste clan goddess in Andhra Pradesh. It explores the ambiguous cat...

What is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight ...

What have English terms such as 'civil society', 'democracy', 'development' or 'nationalism' come to mean in an Indian context and how have their m...

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

Hindu College Delhi: A People's Movement

Inner Recesses Outer Spaces

Throughout her distinguished career, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has sought to locate and confront shifting forms of social and cultural oppression....

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

Goans have long been a mobile community and helped to shape the contours of empires and the modern world. But the story of their migrations has not...

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Beyond the Private World explores the status of Indian women, through the ages, in the framework of the private-public dichotomy, as reflected in t...

India's eastern-most state of Arunachal Pradesh, moulded out of the mountainous regions of Assam, is incomparable to any other place in the world d...

The pastoral tribal community of the Jad Bhotiyas inhabit the Uttarkashi region of the Himalayas. For survival, they were engaged in trade across t...

About the Book: The Sexual Life of English: Languages of Caste and Desire in Colonial india The Village Indian Part Odyssey of the Persian Gulf and...

While we joke that men are from Mars and women are fromVenus,our gender differences can't compare to those of otheranimals. Forinstance: the male g...

Using humor and a contemporary voice, HUMAN SEXUALITY: FROM CELLS TO SOCIETY, International Edition engages readers to acquire a greater knowledge ...

Multiculturalism appears to be in terminal crisis. It has been blamed for undermining national identity, diluting social cohesion, creating ethnic ...

This book explores fascinating aspects of India's diversified cultural base-monuments, art tradition, religion, philosophy, performing arts, and li...

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

The Raj summers in Mussoorie, amateur dramatics of the Mussoorie Theatre Group and more are woven together with long years of research in this pict...

This book makes a detailed study of the functioning of India’s democracy on the one hand and the way India relates to the world on the other. It ex...

The book looks at the impact of popular culture on everyday life in India. It examines the linkages between popular media, gender relations and fam...

Life course epidemiology considers how adult health is affected by a variety of factors and influences over the entire life-course. This book provi...

This collection of 20 chapters written by leading evolutionary biologists from around the globe provides a fascinating insight into the patterns an...

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 femin...

Ever Since Eve Tempted Adam With Her Apple, Women HaveBeen Regarded As A Corrupting And Destructive Influence. The Very Idea ThatWomen Can Be Used ...

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

Writings by Gujarati women, fiction, personal accounts, with critical introduction.

A girl from north-east India is murdered in Delhi. The main suspect is her 'Indian' boyfriend, but there isn't enough evidence to prove his guilt. ...

The second edition of this highly praised human sexuality text continues to be a product of author Janell Carroll's partnership with her students t...

This is the definitive collection of essays by renowned Indian sociologist M. N. Srinivas. Methodologically rigorous and elegantly written, Sriniva...

Two renowned sex therapists show people how to get the love they want Sex therapists Dr. Gail Wyatt and Dr. Lewis Wyatt have helped thousands of p...

Social & Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction is a book that helps its readers in understanding the basics of anthropology. It help...

A critical analysis of scientific research on sexual orientation, its methodological and ontological assumptions and its ethical implications. The ...

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...

What do Bill Gates, Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan, Mary Kay Ash, and Walt Disney all have in common? Uncompromising vision, a willingness to take risks, ...

Integrating multicultural and multi-ethnic perspectives throughout the text, this work aims to broaden student understanding of the range of cultur...

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

Pornography in a Free Society deals with what has been called the "civil war over smut." The past two decades have been high seasons for pornograph...

Upon its original publication in 1993, Letters from Lexington reaffirmed Noam Chomsky's status as one of the most incisive critics of the American ...

Surveillance Education explores the pervasive use of digital surveillance technologies in schools and assesses its pernicious effects on students. ...

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual w...

Examining the social response to the mounting impacts of climate change, Feeling Climate Change illuminates what the pathways from emotions to soci...

Kim offers an accessible, interdisciplinary textbook using systems theory as a framework to stimulate discussion about how the social sciences deve...