Sociology and Anthropology

“Applied Psychology: A Global Perspective is an exceptional book in many ways. First, it is a pioneering work in covering the global issues as comp...

जनसंख्या का मुद्दा किसी भी देश की राजनीति और विकास के लिए चिंता का प्रमुख विषय है। विशेष रूप से भारत में विभिन्न धर्मों की और अन्य सामाजिक स्तरीकरण...

Calcutta has one of the largest Anglo-Indian populations in the world. This is a community with members who occupy a wide range of socio-economic p...

IDENTIFIES THE NATURE OF WELL-BEING THROUGH ANALYSIS OF IN-DEPTH INTERVIEWS WITH INDIANS ON WHAT GOOD LIFE MEANS TO THEM This book explains well-be...

Social media and the digital revolution have fundamentally changed the meaning of “social” and “work.” Social work, like all other professions, wil...

This new textbook traces the evolution and development of sociology as a field of study in India and enumertes the key sociological aspects of the ...

#MeToo, since its inception, has been a sensation. But did the movement die an inconsequential death? Contrary to popular belief, India has strong ...

This book discusses regional and global discourses on the rights of children, especially girls. It focuses on social and government initiatives to ...

Children were practically considered the private property of parents, and their status never seen fit for public discussion, till the middle of the...

Calcutta has one of the largest Anglo-Indian populations in the world. This is a community with members who occupy a wide range of socio-economic p...

About the Book How can differences be understood in social theory through comparisons, and how should social theory relate to regional studies to d...

An ideal textbook for exploring the themes and developments of working with children, young people and families from an truly interdisciplinary per...

About the Book The specificities of domestic work in relation to the workplace alongside the intersections of gender, class, and caste indicate a c...

About the Book In recent decades, the states in the northeast of India have been home to a number of protracted violent conflicts. And while the ro...

About the Book Seeking to explore the plight of female healthcare practitioners in the country, Sara Rizvi Jafree's Women, Healthcare, and Violence...

Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women’s rights in independent India. Au...

Women in Science and Technology: Confronting Inequalities comprehensively explores women’s status in the Science and Technology (S&T) domain by...

About the Book This book is a compilation of papers examining women's role in rural production systems in India. The book is divided into six secti...

Witches, Tea Plantations and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India

About the Book The post-liberalization era of the Indian economy has given birth to a burgeoning middle class who has gained increasing prominence ...

About the Book -Very few novels can traverse themes of politics, economics, personal/human emotion and love, and religion and spirituality, and nav...

About the Book Farmer suicides are the most brutal and unforgiving indictment of the neglect of agriculture by the state and the politics, obsessed...

A superb overview of cultural studies written by a world class authority this book explores where cultural studies has come from, the methodologica...

About the Book People have disagreed since time immemorial. They have argued or agreed to disagree, or eventually arrived at an agreement. But we l...

About the Book In a speech given in December 1925, Vladimir Nabokov declared that 'everything in the world plays', including 'love, nature, the art...

About the Book Applying values and ethics to social work practice is taught widely across the qualifying degree programme, on both Masters and BA c...

A bridge to the world of mathematics for readers who want to gain a good foundation in basic mathematical skills for research and other activities...

This volume presents a comprehensive study of the urbanization of Bengal from ancient to postcolonial times. It analyses the notion of urban space,...

About the Book Today, no one really thinks of Britain as a land of camps. Camps seem to happen "elsewhere", from Greece, to Palestine, to the globa...

Description: In unruly visions Gayatri Gopinath brings queer studies to bear on investigations of diaspora and visuality, tracing the interrelation...

About the Book India is passing through a phase where a major share of its population is in its prime and of working age. Many have spoken of the '...

About the Book "An outstanding achievement... Graeme Turner writes with power and persuasion, and brilliantly explores what it is about celebrity t...

About the Book The book is a study of literature in India in the context of recent discussions on modernity and its theoretical extensions such as ...

West Bengal is now home to about 5.3 million tribal people; they form five per cent of the total tribal population of India. In the state itself, t...

About the Book Brooke Larson's interpretive analysis of the history of Andean peasants reveals the challenges of nation making in the republics of ...

About the Book Transnational Commercial Surrogacy and the (Un)Making of Kin in India seeks to explore the multiple relationships that emerge, are c...

About the Book In 2008, the Mus e des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist...

About the Book The cultural imagination of contemporary India is experiencing rapid change, especially among the middle classes. New communication ...

About the Book Containing over 600 entries on the essential topics of Globalization, this collection offers the definitive reference resource for s...