Sociology and Anthropology

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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Communalism And Sexual Violenc

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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...

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 ...