Sociology and Anthropology

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...

About the Book Since the 1980s, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu has faced multiple forms of resistance. ...

About the Book Explores how people's awareness of violence toward the young has evolved from a time when Americans were shocked to discover that th...

About the Book There are two ways of looking at democracy. One is the view of the state, policymakers, and so on, which shows the dissemination and...

About the Book Modern Indian studies have become a site for new, creative, and thought-provoking debates extending over a broad canvas of crucial i...

About the Book Key Concepts in Family Studie′s individual entries introduce, explain and contextualize the key topics within the study of the famil...

About the Book Since the publication of her landmark book In a Different Voice, Carol Gilligan has transformed the way we think about women and men...

About the Book This work is distinctive in looking at jazz both as a music and as a culture within the wider American context and in opening up the...

About the Book Jalsa takes the reader through the journeys of women performers in India from the salon to the studio. It attempts to give insight i...

About the Book Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) was a world-renowned philosopher, speaker, educationist, and writer. This edited volume seeks to cont...

About the Book An infamous espionage case took the country by storm in 1994 and destroyed the lives and careers of many people. It has finally been...

About the Book This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive ea...

About the Book Is everything personal also private? The modern world is neatly compartmentalized into the private and the public, and the personal ...

About the Book Mineral elements are found in foods and drink of all different types, from drinking water through to mothers' milk. The search for m...

About the Book Multiculturalism is controversial in the liberal state and has frequently been declared dead, even in countries that have never had ...

Study of the evolution of the leading stringed instrument in Hindustani classical music. Careful study of musicians, social organization, patronage...

Introductory Sociology (Indian Reprint)

About the Book This revised edition of Tischler's INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY continues a tradition of providing a proven and comprehensive textbook ...

About the Book The revised and updated second edition of Introduction to Cities explores why cities are such a vital part of the human experience a...

About the Book The number of internally displaced people far outnumbers estimated refugees who have fled their countries. The majority of displaced...

About the Book A comprehensive analysis of the diverse experiences of migration in contemporary India. This volume addresses the impact of migratio...

About the Book One of the most globally recognised sub-disciplines of social psychology is the field of intergroup relations, which has a strong re...

About the Book Interdependency and Care over the Lifecourse draws upon theories of time and space to consider how informal care is woven into the f...

About the Book A lively and clear introduction to social enterprise, including nearly forty interviews with the most influential and experienced so...

About the Book Industrial Work and Life: An Anthropological Reader is a comprehensive anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western...

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

This book explores the critical linkages between indigeneity, marginality, and the state in Bangladesh. Indigeneity is progressively gaining curren...

This book studies the social formation of India through the lens of religion, state, ethnicity, and governance. It provides a nuanced understanding...

About the Book The Indian diaspora is increasingly engaging with the homeland by forming a range of migrant organizations ― organizations constit...

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...

Did you know that vaccines save 3 million lives annually?  This potent group of weapons has notably annihilated smallpox, pushed polio to the verge...

About the Book India is ready for football's strongest comeback. ′India's Football Dream′ is a modern day guidebook to Indian Football that extensi...

India Migration Report 2024: Indians in Canada is one of the first volumes to comprehensively examine and analyse the different facets of Indian mi...

“This is, quite simply, the best book about India today” - Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and author of The Post-American WorldFo...

About the Book In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to ...

About the Book In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. H...

About the Book Deborah Schiffrin looks at two important tasks of language--presenting 'who' we are talking about (the referent) and 'what happened'...

About the Book Elsewhere Texts, edited by Gayatri Chakraborty Spivak and Hosam Aboul-Ela, presents radical new engagements with non-European litera...

About the Book In the early twentieth century, Adivasi villages typically comprised small wooden huts amid a thickly forested landscape. Today, Adi...

About the Book Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of ...

About the Book No school district can be all charismatic leaders and super-teachers. It can't start from scratch, and it can't fire all its teacher...

Impaired Bodies, Gendered Lives: Everyday Realities of Disabled Women explores the intersections of gender and disability. Situating disabled women...

About the Book The majority of immigrants settle in cities when they arrive, and few can deny the dynamic influence migration has on cities. Howeve...

About the Book Immigrant Families aims to capture the richness, complexity, and diversity that characterize contemporary immigrant families in the ...

About the Book Humans on the Run is an attempt to preserve memories of several microscopic journeys embarked upon by humans, in time and space, oft...