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Anthropology and Ethnography......................................................................1
Sociology............................................................................................................19
E-Books..............................................................................................................54
Author Index.. ......................................................................................................61
Title Index............................................................................................................64
Order Form.........................................................................................................69

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Banking on Words LATEST ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance

Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor in Media, Culture andContinued from front flap Appadurai
‘In Banking on Words, Professor Appadurai applies the tools of Orient BlackSwan Renowned scholar Arjun
anthropology and points out that the modern world of financial argues that the economic
Arjun Appadurai 2008, while indeed spurre
Communication, New York Universityeconomy, and makes the critical link ignorance, weak regulatio
BANKING ON WORDS irresponsible risk-taking,
between the numerical force of money a failure of language. To p
derivatives, and for that matter all modern contracts, operate in a The Failure of Language in the point, he takes us into the
“marketplace of promises”. Each promise leverages on an earlier one and Age of Derivative Finance derivative finance, which
core of contemporary trad
and the linguistic force of what we say invites us to look at the rich stock of narratives, scripts and stories that primary target of blame f

Iwne wtihll diso wpitrhoit.vocative look at one of the most important events of our time,creates and legitimizes this market. This book would be useful for Through his incisive anal
business analysts and economists who seek to understand the Appadurai draws on think
underpinnings of our modern, financialized world.’ J. L. Austin, Marcel Maus
AJIT BALAKRISHNAN Weber as theoretical guid
Banking on Words will be of the ways language—and p
failures in it—paved the w
renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the economic collapseconsiderable interest to scholars and He also
regulFaoutniodenr, R, ediff.com t highlights the import
students of cultural and social spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak
derivatives in contem
of 2008—while indeedanthropology, economics, and language isolating them as the
innovation that mark
aannddlingiruirsteicss.ponsible risk-taking—was, u‘Dlrtaiwmingaotnethlye w, raitinfgasiolfuDruerkhoeimf ,lManaugssuaandgWee.beTr, Aoppadurai produced.
he takes us into the world of derivativedelves into the linguistic origins of promissory finance to shed fascinating t shows that derivative
pARrJoUNvAePPtAhDUisRAsI ios tphehGiosdtdiacrdated point, new light on the financial crisis of 2007–08. An invigoratory RAJIV LALL essentially written co
fPirnofaesnsocreof,Mwediha,iCcuhltuhrea, asndbecome the the future prices of as
Communication at New York University corereoadf—ceroudnitteeanmd cprisop.r’ ary trading and the are, crucially, a promi
our subsequent woes.Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer t pinpoints one crucial
panrdiamseaniroryfetllaowrogfethte Ionsftitbutleafmor e for the collapse and all IDFC Bank BANKING ON WORDS derivatives (seen espe
WPubliitchKnionwlcedigsei.ve argumentation, he analyzes this challengingly technical the housing market)—
world, drawing on thinkers such as J. L. Austin, Marcel Mauss, and‘Building on the twin traditions of Mauss/Austin, Appadurai has created function as complicat
a modern classic, a timely gift to the radical critique of economics. that are used to specu
to showcase the ways language—andBanking on Words keeps its word, its promise of a classical analysis of probability of others n
Max Weber as theoretical guides the economic collapse of 2008.’ their promises—and d
particular failures in it—paved the way for ruin. SHIV VISVANATHAN, Professor and Vice Dean this feature spread lik
Centre for the Study of Science, Society and Sustainability through the market.
Jindal School of Government and Public Policy
With his characteristic cla
Sonipet, Haryana Appadurai explains one o
complicated aspects of ou
Selected contents: Preface 1. The Logic of Promissory Finance 2. The
Contin
Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of Financialism 3. The Ghost in the

Financial Machine 4. The Sacred MarOkriegitnal5P.ricSe:oUcSi$a6l7i.t50y, Uncertainty, and
Ritual 6. The Charismatic Derivative S7p.ecTialhInedianWPriecea: `lt6h95/o- f Dividuals 8. The

Global Ambitions of Finance 9. The End of the Contractual Promise
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Doing Style

Youth and Mass Mediation in South India

Nakassis Orient BlackSwan In Doing Style, CConostnanstitneaVn. Ntaiknasesis V. Nakassis, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the
Universityexplores the world of youth and moasfs
Chicago
media in South India. Through

ethnographic descriptions of college

life in urban TaImnil DNaoduin, NgakSatssyisle, Constantine V. Nakassis explores the world of youth
and mass mediaexamines what Tamil youth call
in South India. Through ethnographic descriptions of
“style”: the display of ostentatious
college life inbrand fashion, speaking in
urban Tamil Nadu, Nakassis examines what Tamil youth
cosmopolitan English, or acting out

bombastic filmchaerlolis‘ms,taymleo’n:g aotchetrs such as displaying ostentatious brand fashion, speaking
kinds of acts. in cosmopolitan English, or acting out bombastic film heroism. As
Nakassis shows,As Nakassis shows, acts of “doing
DOING Style acts of ‘doing style’ express the ambivalent desires and
style” express the ambivalent desires

and anxieties oaf tnhexseieyotuitehswhooflivtehese youth who live in the shadows of global modernity.

in the shadows of global modernity.

This ambivalenTcehisisrefalemctedbiinvtahelence is reflected in the conflicted ways that youth take
up style andconflicted ways that youth do style.
SDOtIyNGle the media which bear it. Among youth, what appear are
Among youth, what appear are not

authentic but fankoe btraanduetdhgaermnetnitcs, but fake brand garments, not fluent English but English-
peppered Tamil,not fluent English but English-
not imitation of film heroes but ironical and playful
peppered Tamil, and not imitations of
citations.film heroes but ironical and playful

citations.

Doing Style alsoSexeplloerecs tthee d contents: Introduction 1. Doing Style 2. Brand and
Brandedness 3.connections among youth peer groups
Brandedness and the Production of Surfeit 4. Style
and the sites where such stylish objects
and the Thresholdare produced: textile workshops,
of English 5. Bringing the Distant Voice Close
music-television channels, and the

Tamil film indu6st.r yC. Noaklalsesigs eshoHwseroes and Film Stars 7. Status through the Screen 8. Media’s
how these connections deeply

Entanglementsom condition the production and

Youth and Mass Mediation in South India circulation of these media. They
inscribe youth style on these media,

materializing as fashionable garments,

Continued on back flap

Constantine V. Nakassis

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Metabolic Living

Food, Fat, and the Absorption of Illness in India

Harris Solomon, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology and
Global Health at Duke University

Public health officials estimate that India is among the global leaders of
metabolic disease, specifically obesity and diabetes. In Metabolic Living,
Harris Solomon shows how illness and social life interrelate in this
context. The book examines how people in Mumbai experience the
permeability of food, fat, the body, and the city. Solomon illustrates how
this permeability takes shape as the lived predicaments of metabolic
disease.

Selected contents: Introduction 1. The Thin-Fat Indian 2. The Taste
No Chef Can Give 3. Readying the Home 4. Lines of Therapy 5. Gut
Attachments Conclusion Metabolic Mumbai

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Affliction Body Speaks 2. A Child Learns Illness and Learns period of South Asian modernity and its challenges
Death 3. Mental Illness, Psychiatric Institutions, from the early twentieth century to the early
Health, Disease, Poverty and the Singularity of Lives 4. Dangerous Liaisons: twenty-first century.
Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 5. The
Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Reluctant Healer and the Darkness of our Times Artfully weaves together a set of fascinating
Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johns 6.Medicines, Markets, and Healing 7. Global questions about the place of the future in the
Hopkins University Health Discourse and the View from Planet present, challenging us to think critically about
Earth Conclusion: Thoughts for the Day after how the body, urban environments, and religious
Affliction inaugurates a novel Tomorrow experience are at once grounded in the reality of
way of understanding the everyday life and how they transform this reality
trajectories of health and 2015 978-81-250-5732-1 ` 850 272pp Hardback by anticipating the possibility of transcendence.
disease in the context of Rights: Restricted
poverty. Shifting the focus ---Joseph Alter, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
from the encounter Place for Utopia, A
between patient and Selected Contents: Introduction: Placing
practitioner within the Urban Designs from South Asia Timelines 1. Biocentric Eutopias in South Asia
space of the clinic, it 2. Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian City
privileges the networks of Smriti Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, 3. Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta
relations, institutions, and University of California, Davis 4. Highways, Thresholds, and an Indian New Age
knowledge over which the experience of illness is Conclusion: Designing and Dwelling in Place
dispersed. Documenting the astonishing range of A Place for Utopia is firmly
practitioners found in the local markets in the rooted in a South Asian 2015 978-81-250-5955-4 ` 795 224pp Hardback
poor neighbourhoods of Delhi, the book context but links questions Rights: Restricted
interrogates how the magical and the technical are and discussions of its
knotted together in the therapeutic experience of urbanism, religion, pasts and Rule by Numbers
healers and patients. futures to a global milieu
and history. The volume Governmentality and Colonial India
… is a book of scintillating scholarship which blends ethnographic, visual,
will greatly appeal to social scientists, especially and archival methods and U. Kalpagam, Professor, G. B. Pant Social
medical anthropologists. uses various ideas of ‘utopia’ Science Institute, University of Allahabad
---The Indian Express for social science analysis
that can productively open Rule by Numbers examines aspects of the
Contents: Affliction: An Introduction 1. How the up new intellectual spaces, other histories, and production of statistical knowledge as part of
urban policies. It moves across a hundred year colonial governance in India using Foucault’s

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ideas of ‘governmentality’. [The book] is an exceptionally richly detailed Wording the World
The modern state is and illustrated collection and will no doubt be of
distinctive for its value as a resource for many years to come. Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
bureaucratic organisation,
official procedures, and —Deborah Sutton, The Book Review, May 2016 Roma Chatterji, Professor of Sociology at the
accountability that in the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
colonial context of Contents: Prologue: My Toda Journey
governing at a distance Introducing the Toda People and their Homeland The essays in this book
instituted a vast system of 1. The Toda Landscape 2. The Toda Clans: explore the critical
recordation bearing Their Hamlets and Other Sacred Places 3. Toda possibilities that have
semblance to and yet Dress and Embroidery 4. Journey to Nhyoollnn been opened by Veena
differing markedly from the Victorian 5. The Traditional Toda Relationship with Honey Das’s work. Taking off
administrative state. 6. Konawsh: Structure and Occupancy 7. Sacred from her writing on pain
Peaks 8. Sacred Waters 9. A Journey to the as a call for
Resolutely Foucauldian in her approach, U. Afterworld 10. Flowers in my Toda Garden acknowledgment, several
Kalpagam offers a refreshing survey of the 11. Cornerstone Plants of the Todas 12. Balsams essays explore how social
emergence of modem technologies of government of the Nilgiris Epilogue sciences render pain,
in colonial India…. This is a valuable introduction suffering, and the claims
to the subject of govemmentality and biopolitics in 2015 978-81-250-6001-7 ` 4000 624pp Hardback of the other as part of an ethics of responsibility.
colonial India. Rights: Restricted
Contents: 1. Conversations, Generations,
—Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Anthropology, Tuberculosis in India Genres 2. Ethnography in the Time of Martyrs
Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, 3. Pedagogies of the Clinic 4. Disembodied
A Case of Innovation and Control Conjugality 5. World, Image and Movement
Columbia University 6. Conceptual Vita 7. The Child Bears Witness
Nora Engel, Assistant Professor, Global Health, 8. Experiments with Fate 9. Communities and
Selected Contents: Introduction: The Colonial Department of Health, Ethics, and Society, Faculty Recovered Life 10. Sexual Violence, Law and
State and Statistical Knowledge 1. Sovereignty Qualities of Affiliation 11. On Feelings and
and Governmentality 2.The Production of Space of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht Finiteness in Everyday Life 12. ‘Listening to Voices’
3. Temporalities, Routines of Rule, and History 13. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender
4. Colonial Governmentality and the ‘Economy’ University, The Netherlands 14. In the Event of an Anthropological Thought
5.Classification and Society 6. Bio-power and 15. The Ayodhya Dispute 16. The Death of Nature
Statistical Causality 7. Colonial Governmentality India is the country with the in the Era of Global Warming 17. Triste Romantik
and the Public Sphere Conclusion: Modern 18. Making Claims to Tradition 19. The Mirror as
Freedom and Governmentality highest number of patients Frame 20. Adjacent Thinking 21. Between Words
and Lives An Interview with Veena Das
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(TB). Emerging drug Rights: Restricted
Toda Landscape, e-book
The resistance poses a huge

Explorations in Cultural Ecology threat to the disease, as
[With Harvard University Press]
does migration, urbanisation,
Tarun Chhabra practises dentistry in
Ootacamund, the heart of Toda tribal country, and poverty and the complexity
has authored numerous papers on unique aspects
of the culture of the Toda tribe of public and private

The Toda Landscape: healthcare. Innovation for Beyond Tranquebar
Explorations in Cultural Ecology
represents a major TB control is urgently Grappling Across Cultural Borders in
breakthrough in Toda South India
studies. From his needed in India, and is often imagined as providing
interactions with the Todas
from 1990 onwards, the new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines. In this book,
author has collected and
analysed ethnographic data Nora Engel argues that innovations of services, Edited by Esther Fihl, Professor, Department of
that had eluded even the Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of
greatest of Western organisations, strategies and delivery mechanisms
ethnographers. Through his first-hand narrative Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and A. R.
accounts of important Toda rituals, ceremonies are also crucial for TB. In a unique analysis of how Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras Institute
and routines, all accompanied by visual of Development Studies, Chennai, India
documentation in the form of photographs and innovation for TB control is practised, the volume
maps, he provides new data that will significantly
aid the preservation of Toda traditional culture. provides extensive coverage of four cases of

With a foreword by Anthony R. Walker innovation in public TB control in India: the

involvement of private sector players, the This volume is a collection of

emerging policy responses to multidrug resistantContinuedfromfrontflap Fihl l Venkatachalapathy Beyond Tranquebar essays on the Danish colonyArareIndiancolonyofthe
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Danish empire. A place that
TRANQUEBAR—WHOSE HISTORY? Beyond Tranquebar fostered the modern printing
Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Colony
in South India Grappling Across Cultural Borders
Helle Jørgensen in South India
TB, the development of new diagnosticcentresonactivitieswhichradiated of Tranquebar, known todaypressandProtestant
from this important town, instead of Edited by
seeing this place as an appendix to the Esther Fihl Christianity in the
national history of Denmark or to the A. R. Venkatachalapathy subcontinent. A tourist haunt
Christian mission activities from OTHER ORIENTALISMS that was ravaged by the
tsunami in 2004. This is
Germany. Thereby, the authors and
India between Florence and Bombay, 1860–1900 Tranquebar, known as
technologies and of new treatment guidelines.editorsofthisvolumepegTranquebarin
its rightful place in the scholarly map. by the name of Tharagampadi.Tharangampadi,acharming
This book will be useful for students and
scholars of colonial history, South Asian Filipa Lowndes Vicente coastal town in present-day Tamil Nadu.
Beyond Tranquebar is a collection of
MEMSAHIBS’ WRITINGS
Colonial Narratives on Indian Women

studies and anthropology. They will Ed. Indrani Sen twenty-four essays by scholars who

benefit from the diverse strands of PATHWAYS OF EMPIRE bring to relief the many dimensions of draw from

research a seemingly small place offers. Circulation, ‘Public Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Orissa, The essaysthis town. The book takes us to

Selected contents: IntroductionEsther Fihl is Professor, Department of c. 1780–1914 seventeenth-century Denmark, as the
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, kingdom strives to find a place in the
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and 1. TuberculosisRaviAhuja thriving colonial enterprise. It then
research leader of the Tranquebar THE WICKED CITY moves to Maratha-ruled Tanjore where

Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta ethnographic, archival andgiftscanshiftthebalanceofpower.It
Sumanta Banerjee
Initiative of the National Museum of takes us to a place where ideas, textiles
and furniture arrive and depart, from as
in India 2. Innovation and Control of Providers:Denmark. far away as Serampore in Bengal and
A. R. Venkatachalapathy is Professor, Copenhagen in Denmark—going beyond
Madras Institute of Development
Studies, Chennai, India. literary research in this fishinggeographytocontributetoliteracyand

New Partners 3. Innovation and Control of education in India and alter tastes in
distant Europe.

This volume examines the place from
the perspectives of a diverse range of

Strategy: New Threats 4. Innovation and Controlwww.orientblackswan.com village on the Coromandelacademicdisciplines—social

anthropology, art history, sociology of
religion, ethnography and history. It
enquires into the lives of natives and
foreigners, i.e. Danish, German and

Image Courtesy: Detail from A view of British, as they grapple(d) across

Tranquebar, Anonymous, oil on Coast. The contributorsbordersbothphysicalandcultural,in

of Technology: New Diagnostics 5. Innovationcanvas,c.1683,GoogleArtProject. the past and the present.
The original is located in Skokloster, This collection is unique in that it
Sweden.

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Orient BlackSwan include leading scholars inContinuedonbackflap
Fihl and Venkatachalapathy: Beyond Tranquebar

and Control in Service Delivery: New Protocols their respective fields from

6. Dynamics of Innovation and Control in Coping Denmark, USA and India. The essays are

with Tuberculosis theoretically sophisticated and cover a broad range

2015 978-81-250-5961-5 ` 595 280pp Hardback of subjects ranging from art, family, colonialism,

religion, and print culture to education and

material culture. This volume represents a

significant intervention in the study of early

colonialism in India as it also addresses the

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complexities of a post colony and how it is Contributors: Jason Cons, Rosalind Evans, Ground Between, The
perceived in Denmark. Nicholas Farrelly, Radhika Gupta, Sondra L.
Hausner, Annu Jalais, Vibha Joshi, Nayanika Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Selected Contents: PART I: COMPETING Mathur, Deepak K. Mishra, Anastasia Piliavsky,
HISTORIES PART II: NEGOTIATING MORALS Jeevan R. Sharma Edited by Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower
AND HISTORICAL IDENTITIES PART III: Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins
CULTURAL OTHERNESS AND COLONIAL 2014 978-81-250-5423-8 ` 1050 320pp Hardback  University, Michael Jackson, Distinguished
INTERACTIONS PART IV: CIRCULATIONS Rights: Restricted Professor of World Religions, Harvard Divinity
OF FAITH AND KNOWLEDGE PART School, Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney
V: EDUCATION AND NETWORKS OF Environmental Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
PRINT PART VI: TRANS-LOCAL AND Jurisprudence and the University, and Bhrigupati Singh, Assistant
INTERCONTINENTAL TRACKS Supreme Court Professor, Anthropology Brown University

Contributors: Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Peter Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation The guiding inspiration of
B. Andersen, Esther Fihl, Erik Goebel, Kristian this book is the attraction
Grønseth, Daniel Henschen, Niklas Thode Jensen, [With Tata Institute of Social Sciences] and distance that mark the
Helle Jørgensen, Rajesh Kochhar, Martin Krieger, relation between
Heike Liebau, Caroline Lillelund, Raja Mylvaganam, Geetanjoy Sahu, Assistant Professor, School of anthropology and
Mikkel Venborg Pedersen, Indira Viswanathan Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, philosophy. This theme is
Peterson, Stine SimonsenPuri, Simon Rastén, explored through
Louise Sebro, Raja Swamy, Will Sweetman, Karen Mumbai encounters between
Vallgårda, A.R. Venkatachalapathy individual anthropologists
Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation The Supreme Court of India and particular regions of
2014 978-81-250-5437-5 ` 1150 644pp Hardback philosophy. Several of the
has earned itself a most basic concepts of the discipline—including
Borderland Lives in notions of ethics, politics, temporality, self and
Northern South Asia Environmental reputation as a ‘green court’ other, and the nature of human life—are
CinoMmapJhluiacraatrsinhigtrstahpe Srtoury odf ‘Reenforcmse’ because of its regular and products of a dialogue, both implicit and explicit,
Edited by David N. Gellner, Professor of Social active intervention in cases between anthropology and philosophy. These
Anthropology, University of Oxford and the philosophical undercurrents in anthropology also
Supreme Court speak to the question of what it is to experience
This volume provides our being in a world marked by radical difference
valuable new ethnographic Geetanjoy Sahu and otherness.
insights into life along some
of the most contentious involving environmental Contents: Introduction Experiments between
borders in the world. The Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and
collected essays portray issues. It has called both Antagonisms 1. Ajàlá’s Heads: Reflections on
existence at different points Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African
across India’s northern state and private agencies to Setting 2. The Parallel Lives of Philosophy
frontiers and, in one and Anthropology 3. The Difficulty of
instance, along borders task on environmentally Kindness: Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary
within India. India’s borders 4. Ethnography in the Way of Theory 5. The
with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, Tata Institute of destructive actions and has Search for Wisdom: Why William James
and Nepal encompass radically different ways of Social Sciences Still Matters 6. Eavesdropping on Bourdieu’s
life, a whole spectrum of relationships to the state, Philosophers 7. How Concepts Make the
and many struggles with urgent identity issues. assertively tried to ensure World Look Different: Affirmative and Negative
Taken together, the essays show how it is possible Genealogies of Thought 8. Philosophia and
to comprehend Northern South Asia’s various implementation of its judgments. But how ‘green’ Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin
nation-state projects without relapsing into in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran
conventional nationalist accounts. is it really and what does it even mean to be green 9. Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and
Anthropology 10. Henri Bergson in Highland
Contents: 1. Borders without Borderlands: On in the Indian context? Environmental Jurisprudence Yemen 11. Must We Be Bad Epistemologists?
the Social Reproduction of State Demarcation Illusions of Transparency, the Opaque Other,
in Rajasthan 2. Allegiance and Alienation: Border and the Supreme Court sheds light on these and Interpretive Foibles 12. Action, Expression,
Dynamics in Kargil 3. Naturalizing the Himalaya- and Everyday Life: Recounting Household Events
as-Border in Uttarakhand 4. On the Way to India: questions by offering the first comprehensive References, Contributors, Index
Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing 5. The Perils of
Being a Borderland People: On the Lhotshampas empirical analysis of cases pertaining to Contributors: João Biehl, Steven C. Caton,
of Bhutan 6. Developing the Border: The State Vincent Crapanzano, Veena Das, Didier Fassin,
and the Political Economy of Development environmental litigation that appeared before the Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage, Clara Han,
in Arunachal Pradesh 7. The Micropolitics of Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett,
Borders: The Issue of Greater Nagaland (or Supreme Court between 1980 and 2010. In doing Bhrigupati Singh
Nagalim) 8. Nodes of Control in a South(east)
Asian Borderland 9. Histories of Belonging(s): so, it examines a whole range of judicial attitudes, 2014 978-81-250-5500-6 ` 1150 360pp Hardback 
Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession Rights: Restricted
at the India-Bangladesh Border 10. Geographies concerns, pressures and trends with respect to
and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along
Bengal’s Southern Frontier  environmental jurisprudence, as well as the impact

of infrastructure development and social concerns

on environmental issues.

This book is exceptionally well-written and
provides quality insights into the dynamics of
environmental jurisprudence in the country.…
It is indeed gratifying as well as sobering that a
work of this quality should come from a non-legal
scholar, as the author calls himself. Perhaps legal
scholarship will do well to try to match up to the
standards the book sets.

—Journal of the Indian Law Institute 56 (4),
October–December 2014

Contents: Introduction; 1. How Green is the
Supreme Court of India? 2. Understanding the
Judicial Decision Making Process on Environmental
Litigation 3. The Impact of Environmental
Judgments at the Implementation Level;
Conclusion, Appendix: Environmental Orders/
Judgments from 1980 to 2010

With a Foreword by Sanjay Parikh

2014 978-81-250-5503-7 ` 750 344pp Hardback

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Hindu–Catholic STUDIES ON INDIGENEITY
Engagements in Goa
Indigeneity e-book
Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity
Culture and Representation
Alexander Henn, Associate Professor of
Religious Studies at Arizona State University Edited by G. N. Devy, founder of Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, Geoffrey
V. Davis, Professor of Anglophone Post-colonial Literature, universities of Aachen and Duisberg-
Vasco Da Gama’s Essen, and K. K. Chakravarty, Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
celebrated passage to India
(1497–99) not only initiated This collection analyses the history and contemporary
a period of Christian situation of indigenous peoples from different parts of the
expansion, in which Jesuit world. The authors examine issues ranging from the loss
missionaries declared war of languages and literary/cultural traditions, representation
on the alleged ‘idolatry’ of of indigenous peoples by ‘mainstream’ society, and the
Hindus. The engagement deprivations faced by them.
with the until then largely
unknown and unexpectedly … gives a voice to the voiceless by making their stories, their
rich culture of Hinduism narratives and languages, public knowledge.
was also part of profound modern transformations
that, in the long run, lead Christian Europe to —Birte Heidemann,
recognize the plurality of religions around the Chemnitz Technical University, Germany
globe. Hindu–Catholic Engagements in Goa offers a
novel perspective on the Portuguese empire and Selected Contents: Introduction PART I: CULTURE
Catholic hegemony in Asia that for almost half a AND EXPRESSION PART II: REPRESENTATION AND
millennium—from 1510 to 1961—had its capital in INTERPRETATION
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Selected Contents: 1. Vasco da Gama’s Error: Indigenous Imagination and Expression
Conquest and Plurality 2. Image Wars: Iconoclasm,
Idolatry, and Survival 3. Christian Puranas: Edited by G. N. Devy, founder, Bhasha Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, Geoffrey V. Davis,
Hermeneutic, Similarity, and Violence 4. Ganv: Professor of Anglophone Post-colonial Literature, Universities of Aachen and Duisberg-Essen, Germany,
Place, Geneology, and Bodies 5. Demotic Ritual: and K. K. Chakravarty, Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi
Religion and Memory 6. Crossroads of Religions:
Shrines and Urban Mobility Conclusion: Religion This is a companion volume to Indigeneity: Culture and
and Religions: Syncretism Reconsidered Representation.

2014 978-81-250-5521-1 ` 895 228pp Hardback Abridged Contents: Introduction 1.Understanding Indigenous
Rights: Restricted Struggles 2. Endangered Indigenous Traditions of the Urhobo
People of the Niger Delta 3. From the Postcolonial to the
Marrying in South Asia Globalized Language: Revitalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand and
Éire/Ireland 4. Coatlicue’s Dramatization of Mexican Indigenous
Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a History 5. Contemporary Yoruba Funeral 6. Multilingualism in
Globalising World Modern South African Poetry 7. Cultural Identity and Rewriting
the Past: Contemporary South African Literature(s) 8. Gender
Edited by Ravinder Kaur, Professor, Department Violence in Postcolonial Aboriginal Communities 9. The Place
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of the Folk Tale in a Changing Society 10. In Search of Wisdom:
of Technology, Delhi, and Rajni Palriwala, Transformations in Indigenous and Postcolonial Discourses
Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University 11. The Ethnopoetics of Irular Ballads 12. The Folklore of Garhwal
of Delhi, Delhi 13.  gu~gu~’s Indigenous Language Novels: Women and the National
Cause 14. Colonial Narrative and Indigenous Consciousness:
See sociology Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Ignazio Silone’s Fontamara 15. A Green Postcolonial Reading of Kocharethi
and Mother Forest 16. Carib Palimpsests in Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems 17. Indigenous Hatred
2014 978-81-250-5355-2 ` 1095 440pp Hardback and Fear: Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker 18. Voice and Memory in the Museum 19. Indigenous
Voices in Australian Universities 20. Education in a Second Language: Struggles and Achievements of
Socio-Cultural Context of Betta Kurumbar Children 21. Mahasweta Devi and the Tribal 22. Narrating Tribal Entity: Mavelimantam,
Water, The Kocharethi, Ooralikkudi 23. Reading Maracle’s Sundogs: Indigenous Subalternity and Resistance 24. Can
the Bollywood Film Speak to the Subaltern? 25. Sound in the Aboriginal Australian Films of Rolf de Heer
Study of a Gujarat Village 26. Living and Learning in a New Language and Culture

Farhat Naz is with the International Water 2011 978-81-250-4222-8 ` 850 368pp Paperback
Management Institute, New Delhi

Water as a commodity in a consumer society is
critically studied in this volume, the rural hinterland
being viewed through the micro

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world of Mathnaa. It analyses This volume explores the traditionalists and

NAZ The Socio-Cultural Context of Water variousSocio-cultural Context of Water: Study of a aspects of water significances of cultural cosmopolitans, censors and
a project heritage in the small town defenders of free
Gujarat Village critically examines water as a of Tranquebar, a former expression. But are images
commodity in universal demand in a Danish trading colony on censored because of what
consumer society. Rural India, facing up to the the coast of Tamil Nadu. It they mean, what they do,
challenges of modernity, is viewed through focuses on the negotiations or what they might
of historicity that come into become? And must
managementthe lens of the micro world of Mathnaa, a at in

village in Sabarkantha district. This book
analyses various aspects of water
management at a project in this village set in a
region noted for its aridity.

Mathnaa in SabarkanthaWells are the main source of irrigation in this

village, rainfall being erratic. Water scarcity
leads to conflict especially because the village
is sharply di erentiated along the lines of

districtcaste, tribe, class and gender. The author of the state of

illustrates local power dynamics in terms of
wealth, land ownership and access to water.
Those in positions of power try to exploit the
situation for their vested interests. But a
significant finding of this volume is that

TChoentSeoxct ioof-CWualttuerral Gujarat noted for its aridity.ScheduledCasteandScheduledTribefarmers

Study of a Gujarat Village too own borewells and are able to participate
in user-group committees, thus gaining social
mobility.
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FARHAT NAZ of caste, tribe, class and play between the many audiences be protected

gender. Wells are the main stakeholders in the present because of what they

source of irrigation, rainfall being erratic. Water development of Tranquebar, understand, what they feel,

scarcity is an arena of conflict, which leads to the including the residents, heritage and tourism or what they might imagine? Censorium is an

social actors trying to exploit the situation for their developers, public authorities, researchers, and innovative analysis of Indian film censorship.

vested interests depending on their relative power tourists. William Mazzarella argues that we must go

positions. The author has explained to what extent Selected Contents: Studying the Transnational beyond understanding the regulation of Indian
attempts to revive the institutions for community Construction of Heritage in Tranquebar cinema as a violation of free speech, a colonial
water management have been successful, illustrating hangover, a symptom of repressive moralism, or
local power dynamics in terms of wealth, land 1. Heritage Development and the Mental a struggle between liberals and conservatives.
ownership and access to water.
Geographies of Remoteness 2. The (Im) Contents: Introduction: The Censors Fist,

materialities of Constructing Heritage 3. History

This book could be beneficial to readers, in a Postcolony, Conclusion: Whose History? The 1. Performative Dispensations: The Elementary
researchers and academicians because it gives Emergence of a Heritage Palimpsest Forms of Mass Publicity 2. Who the Hell Do
basic information as well as innovative ideas on 2014 978-81-250-5345-3 ` 1150 368pp Hardback the Censors Think They Are?: Grounds of
water management, structural aspect of caste/class the Censor’s Judgment 3. We Are the Law!:
that influences it and the technique of sustainability Unforgotten Censorship Takes to the Streets 4. Quotidian
in water management techniques. Eruptions: Aesthetic Distinction and the Extimate
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care Squirm 5. Obscene Tendencies: Censorship and

—Social Action 66, April/June 2016 in India the Public Punctum

Selected Contents:  1. Socio-Anthropological Bianca Brijnath, a NHMRC Early Career Fellow 2013 978-81-250-5126-8 ` 950 296pp Hardback
Look at Water: The Vagaries of Watershed in the Department of General Practice, Monash Rights: Restricted
Development Projects 2. Shades of Blue: Water University, Australia
Management in India across Time and Space 3. The Dual Identity
Images of Community: Community-Based Natural As life expectancy increases
Resource Management 4. Whims of Gujarat’s in India, the number of Indian Diaspora and Other Essays
Water Planning Policy: Ailments, Pitfalls and Success people living with dementia
5. The World of Mathnaa 6. Social Organisation will also rise. Yet little is Edited by K. L. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Jaipur
and Politics of Participation: The Watershed known about how people in National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan and Renuka
Development Project of Mathnaa 7. Groundwater India cope with dementia, Singh, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study
Development of Mathnaa: Through the Lens of how relationships and of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences,
Borewells 8. The Landscape of Water: Community- identities change through Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Based Natural Resource Management in Mathnaa illness and loss. In
addressing this question, See sociology
2014 978-81-250-5430-6 ` 850 256pp Hardback this book offers a rich
ethnographic account of how middle-class families 2013 978-81-250-5272-2 ` 875 340pp Hardback
Tibetan Refugees in urban India care for their relatives with
in India dementia. Ecology, Economy e-book

Education, Culture and Growing Up Contents: Introduction 1. Methods and Quest for a Socially Informed Connection
in Exile Character Building 2. The Diagnostic Process
3. Therapeutics and Health Seeking 4. The Felix Padel, Professor, School of Rural
Mallica Mishra, Post-Doctoral Research Economies of Care 5. Alzheimer’s and the Indian Management, Indian Institute of Health
Fellow, International Migration Unit, Centre for Appetite 6. Stigma and Loneliness in Care 7. The Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, Ajay
Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Journey to Silence Conclusion: ‘This is the Time Dandekar, Professor, School of Social Sciences,
for Romance’ Central University of Gujarat, and Jeemol Unni,
See sociology Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of
2014 978-81-250-5509-9 ` 850 240pp Hardback  Rural Management (IRMA), Anand
2014 978-81-250-5497-9 ` 895 328pp Hardback Rights: Restricted
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5604-1 ‘It inspires’, ‘it disturbs
Censorium the reader positively’, ‘it
Tranquebar—Whose History? motivates’ and ‘it creates a
Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass quest for real development’
Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Publicity is how I would like to sum
Former Danish Trading Colony in South up this commendable work.
India William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology, An integrated approach to
University of Chicago, USA development is well
Helle Jørgensen lectures at the Department of established in this book with
Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark In the world of globalised media, provocative a powerful message that
images trigger culture wars between society, ecology and

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economy cannot be understood in isolation from embedded within the Light of Knowledge, The
each other. The book is a powerhouse of broader context of India’s
information to social activists, environmentalists economic liberalisation as Literacy Activism and the Politics
and a “must read” for those having a dream for a well as in the local system of Writing in South India
holistic society. of class and cultural
relations in Bengali society. Francis Cody, Associate Professor in the
—Social Action 64 (1), January–March 2014 The various chapters in the Department of Anthropology and the Asian
book provide a detailed Institute, University of Toronto, Canada
… this book does a courageous job of analysis of the changing
challenging the liberal-capitalist hegemonic nature of their conditions of The Light of Knowledge
articulation of the ecological problematic, which employment, education, focuses on the Arivoli
dominates discourse today, with a quiet and lifestyle and survival strategies. This edition also Iyakkam (Enlightenment
much-needed socialist inscription, coming from an has a new Preface. Movement) which is
Adivasi viewpoint. For really, a reasonable pause considered to be among the
for thought about where India is and wants to Contents: Part I: BACKGROUND AND most successful mass literacy
go in years to come is called for, if as a country METHOD, Part II: CULTURE, COMMUNITY movements in recent
we seriously still want to bridge the widening gap AND CLASS, Part III: LABOUR FORMATION history. Led by activists from
between our privileged reality and multiple other 1. Concentration of Cottage Industries in Nadia the All India People’s Science
subordinated, suppressed, displaced, disturbing District, 2. Distribution of Shoemakers and Units Network and the
realities. in Nadia District, 3. A Note on the Translation of Progressive Writers’
Indian Terms Association, the Arivoli Iyakkam worked in
—Biblio conjunction with district-level administration to
2013 978-81-250-5052-0 ` 695 284pp Paperback encourage active citizenship among the most
Ecology, Economy is recommended reading for oppressed people in rural Tamil Nadu. Francis
anyone working on these difficult issues in India Impossible Citizens Cody’s ethnographic study of this social movement
and elsewhere. and related government programmes highlights the
—Golden Eagle Views Dubai’s Indian Diaspora paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to
emancipate people through literacy, when literacy is
This is a compelling book which should be a Neha Vora, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, a power-laden social practice in its own right.
primer for post-graduates of development studies Lafayette College, USA
who may still have a doubt that knowledge is best Contents: Introduction: Of Light Literacy and
produced in the north. Indian communities have Knowledge in the Tamil Countryside 1. On Being a
existed in the Gulf Emirate “Thumbprint”: Time and Space in Arivoli Activism
Thus a book that supports arguments for bottoms- of Dubai for more than a 2. Feminizing Enlightenment: The Social and
up planning wherein communities know what they century. Since the 1970s, Reciprocal Agency 3. Labors of Objectification:
want, and need entitlements, and to ensure a fair workers from South Asia Words and Worlds of Pedagogy 4. Search for a
share of their contribution to the GDP in the have flooded into the Method: The Media of Enlightenment 5. Subject
manner and logistics of implementation chosen by Emirate, enabling Dubai’s to Citizenship: Petitions and the Performativity
themselves. huge construction boom. of Signature Epilogue: Reflections on a Time of
They now comprise its Charismatic Enlightenment
—The Indian Journal of Labour Economics largest non-citizen
population. In Impossible 2013 978-81-250-5235-7 ` 925 272pp Hardback
Contents: Preface: What is Real Development? Citizens, the author draws on her ethnographic Rights: Restricted
1. Two Cultures: A Balancing Act between People research in Dubai’s Indian-dominated downtown
and Profit 2. Adivasi Economics 3. Resources: to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of Multiple Voices and Stories
Water Systems 4. Resources: Mining and Metals permanent temporariness.
5. Resources: Generating Power 6. Resources: Narratives of Health and Illness
Land Labour and Life Forms 7. Development in a Contents: Introduction, Exceptions and
Financial System based on Debt 8. Rule of Law Exceptionality in Dubai 1. A TALE OF TWO Edited by Arima Mishra, Associate Professor,
CREEKS Cosmopolitan Productions and Health, Nutrition and Development Initiative, Azim
2013 978-81-250-5179-4 ` 995 340pp Hardback Cosmopolitan Erasures in Contemporary Dubai Premji University, Bengaluru and Suhita Chopra
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5504-4 2. AN INDIAN CITY? Diasporic Subjectivity and Chatterjee, Professor of Sociology, Department
Urban Citizenship in Old Dubai 3 BETWEEN of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute
Global Issues, Local GLOBAL CITY AND GOLDEN FRONTIER of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal
Contexts Indian Businessmen Unofficial Citizenship and
Shifting Forms of Belonging 4. EXCEEDING See sociology
The Rabi Das of West Bengal THE ECONOMIC New Modalities of Belonging
(Revised Edition) among Middle-class Dubai Indians 5. BECOMING 2013 978-81-250-5379-8 ` 950 336pp Hardback
INDIAN IN DUBAI Parochialisms and Globalisms
Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Professor of in Privatized Education Conclusion, Reassessing People of the e-book
Anthropology and National Course Director, Gulf Studies, Citizenship, Democracy, and the Political Maldive Islands
International Development Studies and Global
Studies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, 2013 978-81-250-5177-0 ` 875 264pp Hardback (Second Edition)
Australia Rights: Restricted
Clarence Maloney served as Associate
This book is an ethnographic study of a community Professor of Anthropology in several universities
of leather workers (the Rabi Das), and their
transformations under global capitalism. in USA and Bangladesh. Most recently, he served
The lived experiences of the Rabi Das are
in Afghanistan as Capacity Building Specialist in

two water and irrigation projects.

The author reconstructs the cultural history of the

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people based on his long Aging and the Indian Good Women do not Inherit
experience not only in the Diaspora Land
Maldives, but also in South
India and Sri Lanka. The Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad Politics of Land and Gender in India
Maldivian peoples’ myths,
origins, language, customs, Sarah Lamb, Associate Professor of [With Social Science Press]
religion, political, and Anthropology, Brandeis University, USA
economic systems make up Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of
this fascinating look at an The proliferation of old age Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
old culture, now being homes and increasing
stirred by the inevitable forces of modernity. numbers of elderly living The book unfolds the lives
alone are remarkable new and anxieties of Santhal
With Forewords by President Mohammed Nasheed phenomena in India. These women in two villages of
and Xavier Romero-Frias trends are related to Dumka district, Jharkhand.
extensive overseas Based on rich ethnographic
Contents: 1. The Land and its Resources 2. Origin migration, the transnational material, this sensitive
Myths and Legends 3. The earliest Maldivians 4. The dispersal of families amidst book lays bare the reality of
Budhist Period and the Divehi Language 5. In the global labour markets and being an adivasi—and
midst of the Indian Ocean 6. Consumptions Skills the rise of the new Indian beyond that an adivasi
and Arts 7. The Political System 8. Islam and Social middle class. Sarah Lamb’s moving and insightful woman—in the modern
Control 9. The old Religion 10. The Texture account, with a focus on Kolkata, takes us inside globalised world.
of Society 11. Kinship and Family 12. Behaviour India’s emerging old age homes and into the
13. New Stresses in an old Nation households of elders living alone in India and with ... Rao’s book is a good development
children living abroad. anthropology with deep ethnographic insights about
2013 978-81-250-5019-3 ` 1695 488pp Hardback gender empowerment...the Santals...[are] a distinct
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5134-3 Contents: 1. Introduction: The Remaking of Aging part of the peasantry in a depeasantizing world!
2. The Production of Tradition, Modernity and a
Sun Never Sets, The New Middle Class 3. The Rise of Old Age Homes in —Anjan Ghosh, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
India 4. Becoming an Elder-Abode Member 5. Tea Kolkata
South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power and the Forest: Making a Western Institution Indian
6. Living Alone as a Way of Life 7. Moving Abroad Contents: 1. Introduction 2. A Personal Journey
Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Comparative 8. Changing Families and the State 3. Faces of Poverty: The Villages Profiled
Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4. Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian Movements in
USA, Miabi Chatterji is the Co-Director of Grants 2012 978-81-250-4514-4 ` 1025 356pp Hardback History 5. Land as a Productive Resource
at the RESIST Foundation, Sujani Reddy, Five Rights: Restricted 6. Locating Identities 7. Women’s Claims to Land
College Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific American 8. Custom and Courts: Bargaining with Modernity
Studies, Department of American Studies at Amherst From Village Elder to British 9 Development Interventions: Can One Size Fit
College, USA, Manu Vimalassery, Visiting Assistant Judge All? 10. Conclusions
Professor in American Studies, Williams College,
USA and Vijay Prashad is Edward Said Chair at the Asoka Kumar Sen, currently an independent 2012 978-81-87358-65-7 ` 325 368pp Paperback
American University of Beirut. researcher of tribal history Rights: Restricted
2009 978-81-87358-24-4 ` 795 368pp Hardback
The Sun Never Sets presents This volume examines the Rights: Restricted
the work of a generation of definition and redefinition of
scholars who have shifted the custom/ law in the context Islam in South Asia
orientation of American of the adivasis of Jharkhand
scholarship on South Asia. In during pre-colonial and A Short History
its early years, the work colonial times. As a seminal
centred on literary and historical account, this book Jamal Malik, Professor of Religious Studies at the
cultural analyses, and focused questions the contemporary University of Erfurt, Germany
predominantly on the assertion of indigenous
immigrant professionals who identity that draws Islam in South Asia aims to
arrived in the United States boun-daries between the synthesise the long history
after changes in immigration laws in the 1960s. Here, adivasi as a custom-governed and law-governed of Islam as an intrinsic part
the contributors focus on the political economy and people. of Indian society seeing the
long history of South Asian migrations to the U.S.— vantage point of such a
the lives, work and activism of often unacknowledged Contents: Introduction 1. Defining Custom complex history as a series
migrant populations—in ways that not only challenge 2. Society and Economy: Memory and British of cultural encounters that
preconceptions about the South Asian presence in Mediation 3. Craft and Craftsmen: Legacy and were mutually energising.
the United States, but illuminate continuities between Intervention in Judicial Structure 4. British Courts
British imperialism and U.S.-led globalisation. and the Making of Customary Law 5. Towards Contents: Introduction
Codification of Tribal Customs 6. The Social PART I: EARLY MUSLIM
Contents: Introduction Part I. Overlapping Kaleidoscope Conclusion EXPANSION, CULTURAL ENCOUNTER AND
Empires Part II. From Imperialism to Free-Market ITS CONSTITUENCIES 1. Muslim Expansion.
Fundamentalism: Changing Forms of Migration 2012 978-81-250-4557-1 ` 895 248pp Hardback Trade, Military and the Quest for Political
and Work Part III. Geographies of Migration Authority in South Asia Excursus: Historiography
Settlement and Self and Sources 2. Muslim Space and Divines
PART II: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSLIM
2013 978-81-250-5236-4 ` 1250 408pp Hardback EMPIRE CULTURES: BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND
Rights: Restricted ISLAMICATE 3 . Slaves, Sultans and Dynasties
Excursus: Shi’ities and Sunnites 4. Muslim
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heterogeneity: Margins becoming centres of ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH-EAST PRODUCTION PART III: DISCOURSES AND
Muslim Power Excursus: Caste 5. Cultural INDIA PART IV: SOCIAL-CULTURAL PRACTICES OF AUDIENCE-MAKING
Integration Towards a Politics of Universal ANTHROPOLOGY IN NORTH-EAST INDIA
Dominion. The Mughals Excursus: Conversion 2012 978-81-250-4707-0 ` 850 440pp Paperback
and Mission 6. From Universal Dominion to Contributors: Anungla Aier, A. N. M. Irshad Rights: Restricted
Principalities PART III: TERRITORIAL STATES Ali, Abdullah Ali Ashraf, Gulrukh Begum,
AND COLONIAL RULE, ACCOMMODATION S. B. Chakrabarti, Sapu Changkija, Sarit Choudhuri, Red Tape
AND DIFFERENTIATION OF MUSLIM Bapukan Choudhury, Jonali Devi, R. K. Kar,
CULTURES 7. Regional States, National Markets R. Khongsdier, D. K. Limbu, Quinbala R. Marak, Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and
and European Expansion Excursus: Islamic P. K. Misra, B. R. Rizvi, Sankar Kumar Roy, Jayanta Poverty in India
Endowments 8. Cultural encounter, Reciprocities, Kumar Sarkar, Sarthak Sengupta, H. C. Sharma, T.
and Muslim responses 9. From Appropriation to Shyamacharan Singh, T. B. Subba, Jelle J. P. Wouters Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology,
Collision and Colonial Stabilisation Excursus: The Director of the Center for India and South Asia,
Language Issue—Urdu 10. Institutionalisation of 2012 978-81-250-4555-7 ` 750 452pp Paperback University of California, Los Angeles
Muslim Communities and the quest for a new
Islamicity Excursus: Communalism PART IV: Other Orientalisms Red Tape presents a major
NEGOTIATING MUSLIM PLURALISM AND new theory of the state
SINGULARITY 12. The Muslim Public Divided India Between Florence and Bombay, developed by the renowned
13. The Integration of nation-state and secession 1860–1900 anthropologist Akhil Gupta.
Excursus: Islamic Fundamentalism 14. From the Seeking to understand the
pulpit to the parade ground Excursus: The social Filipa Lowndes Vicente, currently a researcher chronic and widespread
Structure of Muslims in India 15. Indian Muslims or at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of poverty in India, the world’s
Muslim Indians? Lisbon (ICS-UL) fourth largest economy,
Gupta conceives of the
2012 978-81-250-4658-5 ` 1025 536pp Paperback Florence became a centre relation between the state
Rights: Restricted of Indian studies during the in India and the poor as one of structural violence.
second half of the Every year this violence kills between two and
North-East India Textbook nineteenth century. During three million people, especially women and girls,
this period, the city saw a and lower-caste and indigenous peoples.
A Handbook of Anthropology flurry of orientalist activity
including the organisation of Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Poverty
Edited by T. B. Subba, Professor and Head, international conferences as Biopolitics 2. The State and the Politics of Poverty
Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill and exhibitions and the PART II: CORRUPTION 3. Corruption, Politics, and
establishment of museums the Imagined State 4. Narratives of Corruption PART
University, Shillong and journals. Other Orientalisms analyses the III: INSCRIPTION 5. “Let the Train Run on Paper”:
circulation of people, ideas, information, images Bureaucratic Writing as State Practice 6. Literacy,
With contributions from and objects between Florence and Bombay, and Bureaucratic Domination, and Democracy PART IV:
senior and young the different forms of knowledge about India GOVERNMENTALITY 7. Population and Neoliberal
anthropologists, this volume resulting from these processes. Governmentality Epilogue
brings together nineteen
essays on North East India. Contents: Introduction: The Histories of a 2012 978-81-250-4720-9 ` 1150 384pp Hardback
Carefully crafted with the Photograph (Bombay, 1885) 1. Florence as a Centre Rights: Restricted
most up-to-date and for Oriental Studies 2. Orientalism and Colonial
competent review of Knowledge: Gubernatis in India 3. Travelling Tulsi and the Cross, The
literature on the region, it is Objects: India Exhibited in Florence Conclusion
divided into four sections, Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
viz., prehistoric archaeology, colonial ethnography, 2012 978-81-250-4758-2 ` 1250 400pp Hardback in Goa
physical anthropology and socio-cultural
anthropology. Producing Bollywood [With RCS Publishers]

... a splendid collection of articles that cover Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film Rosa Maria Perez, Professor of Anthropology
the full range of anthropology, as it has been Industry at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and a Visiting
conducted for a century and a half in North-East Professor, Brown University, USA
India ... Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor of
Anthropology at New York University, USA The existing research,
—Robbins Burling, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology essentially historical, tends
and Linguistics, University of Michigan, USA Producing Bollywood offers an to consider Goa as Catholic,
unprecedented look inside Portuguese-speaking and
This handbook … will prove to be a valuable the social and professional framed by Portuguese
resource ... for teachers and students of worlds of the Mumbai-based cultural references. The
anthropology [and] also ... sociology, history, Hindi film industry and author offers an
geography, and economics of the region. explains how it became ethnographic approach to
‘Bollywood’, the global film the understanding of the
—A. C. Bhagabati, Former Professor of Anthropology phenomenon and potent colonial encounter and of
and Former Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University, symbol of India as a rising colonialism. Her
economic powerhouse. ethnographical research
Arunachal Pradesh, India shows that Goa is, and was, dominantly Hindu and
Abridged Contents: PART I: THE SOCIAL the perception of Goan society as essentially
Abridged Contents: PART I: PREHISTORIC STATUS OF FILMS AND FILMMAKERS PART fragmented is a colonial imposition.
NORTH-EAST INDIA PART II: COLONIAL II: THE PRACTICES AND PROCESSES OF FILM
NORTH-EAST INDIA PART III: PHYSICAL 2012 978-81-923046-0-1 ` 650 208pp Hardback

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Heidelberg, Germany The folk and tribal tales
were collected from
In Women of Honour, Karin Art of Not Being Governed, narrators in villages, tea
Polit gives an ethnographic The estates, forest settlements
account of how and semi-urban
relationships are shaped An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast communities from eighteen
among the Dalit people of Asia districts of Tamil Nadu and
Chamoli, Uttarakhand. Puducherry. At a point of
Questioning the assumption James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political time when print literacy is
that Indian women are mute Science, Professor of Anthropology, and slowly submerging oratures (oral literatures), this
and powerless, she argues Co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program, book hopes to document in translation and also
that the people of Yale University make available to readers this body of literature as
Chamoli—women and closely as possible to its original form.
men—see themselves as part of an agentive unity. Recognised as an eminent
authority on Southeast 2010 978-81-250-3920-4 ` 495 324pp Hardback
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Children, Bodies, Asian, peasant and agrarian E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4690-5
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on Responsibility 5. Wombs, Spirits and Male tells the story of the Idea of Gujarat, The
Offspring 6. Coming of Age 7. Reflections on peoples of Zomia and their
Agency and Performance unlikely odyssey in search of History, Ethnography and Text
self-determination. He
2012 978-81-250-4267-9 ` 1025 380pp Hardback redefines our views on Edited by Edward Simpson, senior lecturer
Asian politics, history, in social anthropology, School of Oriental and
Sacrificing People e-book demographics and even our African Studies, University of London, and
fundamental ideas about what constitutes Aparna Kapadia, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow,
Invasions of a Tribal Landscape civilization. University of Oxford, UK

Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in Contents: 1. Hills, Valleys, and States: An The Idea of Gujarat critically
Oxford and Delhi universities Introduction to Zomia 2. State Space: Zones of examines the processes that
Governance and Appropriation 3. Concentrating went into the formation of
Sacrificing People is an Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice the region and in the
updated edition of Padel’s 4. Civilization and the Unruly 5. Keeping the State process unsettles a series of
classic case study of at a Distance: The Peopling of the Hills 6. State conventional wisdoms about
colonialism, originally titled Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and the land and its inhabitants.
The Sacrifice of Human Being: Agriculture of Escape 61/2. Orality, Writing and The book provides a broad
British Rule and the Konds of Texts 7. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Construction introduction to the idea of
Orissa. The journey of the Case 8. Prophets of Renewal 9. Conclusion Gujarat, the scope of its
book is from colonial history, the nature of its
intrusion to developmental 2010 978-81-250-3921-1 ` 1195 462pp Hardback politics, and the dynamics of its society.
destruction. It puts into Rights: Restricted
perspective communal Contents: Introduction: The Parable of the Jakhs
murders and ethnic cleansing in the district of Everyday Life in a Prison 1. Caste in the Judicial Courts of Gujarat,
Kandhamal in 2007–8, mostly in attacks against 1800–60 2. Alexander Forbes and the Making
Christians, on a scale recalling violence in the Confinement, Surveillance, Resistance of a Regional History 3. Making Sense of the
1830s–60s. The role of the first missionaries in History of Kutch 4. The Lives of Bahuchara Mata
Orissa, who targeted this district in particular, is Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Lecturer, Department 5. Reflections on Caste in Gujarat 6. The Politics
analysed to throw light on recent events. of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi of Land in Post-colonial Gujarat 7. From Gandhi
to Modi: Ahmedabad, 1915–2007 8. A Potted
With a Foreword by Hugh Brody and a Foreword to See sociology History of Neighbours and Neighbourliness in
the first edition by Veena Das. Ahmedabad 9. Voices from Sindh in Gujarat 10.
2010 978-81-250-3833-7 ` 1195 354pp Hardback Textiles and Dress among the Rabari of Kutch
11. The Swaminarayan Movement and Religious
The book rescues significant facts from the Health, Illness and Medicine Subjectivity
junkbin of historical memory and could reset many
of our relationships with our own development Ethnographic Readings 2010 978-81-250-4113-9 ` 850 284pp Hardback
history. Each episode quoted and qualified in the
book provokes [us] to rethink. Edited by Arima Mishra, Assistant Professor,
Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
—Down to Earth
See sociology
Selected Contents: 1. A Case Study of
Colonialism. 2. Conquest: The Ghumsur Wars. 2010 978-81-250-3978-5 ` 925 332pp Hardback
3. Suppressing Human Sacrifice: The Meriah
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Out of This Earth their lives. The period Burden of Refuge, The
covered is from the early
East India Adivasis and the Aluminium eighteenth century to The Partition Experiences of the Sindhis
Cartel 1948—when the Nizams of Gujarat
ruled.
Felix Padel, anthropologist trained at Oxford and Rita Kothari, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad,
Delhi Universities, and Samarendra Das, Oriya Selected Contents: and Head, Katha Academic Centre
writer, filmmaker and activist Introduction 1. The Twilight
World of the Caravan: This book is about Partition
This penetrating Regulated Market Economy and the resettlement and
anthropological study and the Caravanners fragmentation of the Sindhi
uncovers the reality behind 2. Policing Cattle, Policing Hindus of India. It traces the
aluminium production, Nomads: Colonial Rationality and Cowherds trajectory of the Sindhi
exposing the powerful 3. ‘Delinquent Subjects’: Dacoity and the Creation Hindus from Sindh to
international cartel that of a Surveillance Society 4. Modern Forms of Land India—their journey from
controls it. Padel and Das Relations: Exploitation and Revolt 5. Articulating Sufi syncreticism to a
expose the links between Cultural Differences, Contesting Power: The monolithic Hindu identity—
the massive meltdown of Consolidation of the Lambadas as a Social and specifically with respect to
Iceland’s banks, and the Political Entity Conclusion Gujarat.
promotion of dams and
smelters; between the mafia-style looting of 2010 978-81-250-3961-7 ` 795 320pp Hardback 2009 978-81-250-3673-9 ` 495 240pp Paperback
Russia’s assets and the rise to power of a E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5299-9
succession of aluminium barons, and reveal why Craft Matters
the US set limits on aluminium production and Sundarbans, The
started to outsource it to poorer countries. Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation
Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
[This book] reminds us that adivasi culture sees Soumhya Venkatesan, Lecturer in Social
nature as more than just matter; they always see [With Social Science Press] Anthropology, University of Manchester
it as a matter of spirit.... [It] is a revolutionary
tract. It enables our understanding and excites our Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Reader, Based on long-term
imagination. Department of History, West Bengal State ethnographic fieldwork
University, Barasat among the Labbai Muslim
—Economic and Political Weekly mat weavers of Pattamadai
The lower deltaic Bengal, town in South India, this
The survival and health of tribal society has the Sundarbans, has always anthropological study
come to be inseparable from the survival and had a life of its own, unique explores the ways in which
health of the world. Here is a case study in the in its distinctive natural the famous pattu pai or
struggle for health and survival. aspect and social high-quality silk-like mats of
development. Most of the Pattamadai became classified
—Hugh Brody, Anthropologist and Filmmaker area used to be once as traditional craft objects,
covered with dense, and what this classification has meant to the
Selected Contents: PART I: SUSTAINABLE impenetrable jungle even as weavers who are now simultaneously national
LIFESTYLES IN AN AGE OF ALUMINIUM PART patches of cultivation sprang heroes and (paradoxically) marginalised and
II: NIYAM RAJA MEETS THE WORLD-WIDE intermittently into life and suspect Muslims.
WEB: ALUMINIUM’S SOCIAL STRUCTURE then disappeared. The book
PART III: ‘ALUMINIUM FOR DEFENCE AND discusses the struggle that ensued between man Soumhya Venkatesan’s book is a well written
PROSPERITY’ PART IV: COMPANY RULE AND and nature, as portrayed in the punthi literature account of a craft community, its history and
THE SYSTEM OF ENDEMIC EXPLOITATION that thrived in lower deltaic Bengal between the current status, through changing socio-political and
PART V MOVEMENTS FOR LIFE seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. economic changes. It is a book worth reading.

With a Foreword by Arundhati Roy. 2010 978-81-87358-35-0 ` 550  212pp  Hardback Rights: —Business World
Restricted
2010 978-81-250-4164-1 ` 895 752pp Paperback Contents: Introduction; Research Involvement;
2010 978-81-250-3867-2 ` 1040 752pp  Hardback Against Stigma Structure of the Book 1. Crafting the Subject: Craft
Producers, Craft Objects and Craft 2. People, Place,
Subjugated e-book Studies in Caste, Race and Justice since Life 3. In the House 4. The Work of Weaving 5.
Durban Uneasy Balances 6. Production and Representation
Nomads 7. Talking about Mats 8. Selling Gifts: Mats in the
The Lambadas Under the Rule of the series: new perspectives in south asian Market 9. Technological Matters 10. Conclusion
Nizams
history 2009 978-81-250-3682-1 ` 895 316pp Hardback
Bhangya Bhukya, Associate Professor,
Department of History, Osmania University, Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor, G. N. Devy Reader, The
Department of Anthropology, William Paterson
Hyderabad University, New Jersey, and Paul Greenough, G. N. Devy, Founder, Bhasha Research and
Professor of History, Community and Behavioral Publication Centre, Baroda
This book deals with the transition of the Lambada Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City
community of the Hyderabad state during colonial The reader brings together four essays of Devy,
rule. The author shows how colonial power See sociology ‘After Amnesia’, ‘Of Many Heroes’, ‘The Being of
interacted with subaltern communities, who Bhasha’ and ‘Countering Violence’. These
confronted a force that had adversely transformed 2009 978-81-250-3600-5 ` 1095 504pp Hardback philosophical essays discuss the significance of
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dialects and vanishing Gandhi as an activist-thinker In the Presence of Sai Baba
languages in the making of whose trans-cultural ethics
civilisation, the place of translates across a range of Body, City and Memory in a Global
silence and insanity in the political sites. The volume Religious Movement
making of meaning, and of also gives us vignettes of
language itself in the future Gandhi’s vegetarianism and Smriti Srinivas, Associate Professor of
of knowledge. The four his experiments in Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA
essays together present a communal living. It explores
comprehensive theory of the nature of Gandhi’s The Sai Baba movement,
knowledge in postcolonial thought, practice and legacy. centred on the Indian guru
times. Sathya Sai Baba (1926–
2011) attracted a global
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Foreword 2009 978-81-250-3388-2 ` 1025 372pp Hardback following from Japan to
3. After Amnesia: Tradition and Change in India Rights: Restricted South Africa. The book is
Literary Criticism 4. ‘Of Many Heroes’: An Indian based on ethnographic
Essay in Literary Historiography 5. The Being of Scripting Lives research carried out in
Bhasha: Knowledge, Society and Aphasia India, Kenya, and the United
6. Countering Violence Narratives of Dominant Women in Kerala States of America. It
traverses the terrain
2009 978-81-250-3693-7 ` 995 548pp Hardback Edited by Sharmila Shreekumar, Associate between social theories for the study of religion
Professor, Department of Humanities and Social and cities and the radical, creative and unexpected
Rebuilding Buddhism Sciences, IIT Bombay modernity of contemporary religious movements.

The Theravada Movement in Twentieth- See sociology 2008 978-81-250-3481-0 ` 750 424pp Paperback
Century Nepal Rights: Restricted
2009 978-81-250-3680-7 ` 995 324pp Paperback
[With Social Science Press] Taking Traditional
Dishonoured e-book Knowledge to the Market
Sarah Levine, Associate Professor, Sanskrit and
India Studies, Harvard University, and David N. by History The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and
Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology and ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy Unani Industry, 1980–2000
Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford
Meena Radhakrishna, Department of Sociology, Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of
Rebuilding Buddhism Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of
describes the experiences Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
and achievements of Nepalis This path-breaking study
who have adopted traces the history and See sociology
Theravada Buddhism. This implications of the Criminal
form was introduced into Tribes Act. Focusing on the 2008 978-81-250-3315-8 ` 765 272pp Hardback
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adherents have struggled Madras, the author here
for recognition and discusses the changing Friendship, Interiority and
acceptance. With its notions of crime and Mysticism
emphasis on individualising meditation and on criminality over a period of
gender equality, Theravada Buddhism contrasts time, and shows how the Essays in Dialogue
with ritualised Tantric Buddhism. The book colonial administration’s traditional prejudice
explores the impact of the Theravada movement against gypsies combined with realpolitik and a Susan Visvanathan, Professor of Sociology,
on Buddhist society in Nepal. need for wage workers resulted in the category Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
‘hereditary criminal’.
2009 978-81-87358-39-8 ` 795 396pp Hardback This collection of essays by
Rights: Restricted 2008 978-81-250-3403-2 ` 595 240pp Paperback Susan Visvanathan looks at
2001 978-81-250-2090-5 ` 550 206pp Hardback dialogue as a way of dealing
Rethinking Gandhi and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5331-6 with difference, even
Nonviolent Relationality enmity, crossing boundaries,
Fatalism and Development and making meaning. In this
Global Perspectives context, the author looks at
Nepal’s Struggle for Modernization the writings of Hannah
Edited by Debjani Ganguly, Head, and John Arendt, Martin Buber and
Docker, Adjunct Professor, Humanities Dor Bahadur Bista, Anthropologist, former Simone Weil, all of whom
Research Centre, Australian National University, Nepalese Consul-General in Tibet, and former are Jewish and have
Canberra Professor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal experienced the Holocaust. In the work of all
three are woven strands of resistance, issues of
Conceived, debated and written at the beginning See sociology suffering, and questions of meaning in an
of a troubled millennium, this work brings increasingly inhuman world.
together a group of scholars to rethink Gandhi’s 2008 978-81-250-3460-5 ` 250 200pp Paperback
legacy and non-violent ethics and his relevance in 2007 978-81-250-3221-2 ` 820 268pp Hardback
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Terror and Violence along with tribals, in the areas of health, PERMANENT BLACK
microfinance and preservation of cultural forms.
Imagination and the Unimaginable
2006 978-81-250-3021-8 ` 450 199pp Paperback Autobiography of an Archive
Edited by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J.
Stewart, Department of Anthropology, University Syrian Christians of Kerala, The A Scholar’s Passage to India
of Pittsburgh, USA, and Neil L. Whitehead, Demographic and Socio-economic
Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies, Transition in the Twentieth Century Nicholas B. Dirks is Chancellor, University of
University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor
K. C. Zachariah of history and anthropology.
This volume offers See sociology
anthropological insights In this volume history’s turn
into the ways in which acts 2006 978-81-250-3009-6 ` 775 320pp Hardback from high politics and
of terror impact on the formal intellectual history
lives of virtually everyone Between Ethnography and Fiction towards ordinary lives and
in the world today. Such Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in cultural rhythms is vividly
acts have assumed many India reflected in a scholar’s
different forms and intellectual journey to India.
provoked varied responses. Edited by T. B. Subba and Sujit Som In this collection of essays
By stressing the 2004 978-81-250-2812-3 ` 750 272pp Hardback and lectures, Nicholas B.
imagination, and its role in Dirks recounts his early
amplifying the effects of experience, this Making of Navi Mumbai, The study of kingship in India,
collection brings together a set of analyses for the rise of the caste system,
understanding a major global problem. Annapurna Shaw the emergence of English imperial interest in
2004 978-81-250-2600-6 ` 350 312pp Paperback controlling markets and India’s political regimes,
Selected Contents: Introduction: Terror, the and the development of a crisis in sovereignty that
Imagination, and Cosmology 1. ‘Terror against Anthropology of Textbook led to an extraordinary nationalist struggle. He
Terror’: 9/11 or ‘Kano War’ in the Nigerian North-East India, The shares his personal encounters with archives that
Electronic Press? 2. Unspeakable Crimes: Athenian A Textbook provided the sources and boundaries for research
Greek Perceptions of Local and International on these subjects, ultimately revealing the limits of
Terrorism 3. The Indian State, its Sikh Citizens, colonial knowledge and single disciplinary
and Terror 4. Between Victims and Assailants, perspectives.
Victims and Friends: Sociality and the Imagination
in Indo-Fijian Narratives of Rural Violence during Edited by T. B. Subba and G. C. Ghosh 2015 978-81-7824-458-7 ` 895  400 pp  Hardback
the May 2000 Fiji Coup 5. Narratives of Violence
and Perils of Peace-Making in North–South 2003 978-81-250-2335-7 ` 345 386pp Paperback Indian Ideology , The
Cross-Border Contexts, Ireland 6. The Sign of
Kanaimà, the Space of Guayana, and Demonology There Comes Papa Three Responses to Perry Anderson
of Development 7. Imaginary Violence and Colonialism and the Transformation of
the Terrible Mother: The Imagery of Balinese Matriliny in Kerala and Malabar, c. 1850– Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology
Witchcraft Afterword: The Taste of Death 1940 and South Asian Studies, Columbia University,
New York, and Honorary Professor, Centre
Contributors: Misty L. Bastian, Elizabeth G. Arunima for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Sudipta
Kirtsoglou, Joyce Pettigrew, Michele Stephen, 2003 978-81-250-2514-6 ` 450 242pp Hardback Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual
Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Susanna History at Columbia University, Nivedita Menon,
Trnka, Neil L. Whitehead Situating Social History Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and
Orissa, 1800–1997 Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
2007 978-81-250-3243-4 ` 490 260pp Paperback series: new perspectives in south asian history New Delhi, Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor
Rights: Restricted of Politics at the New School for Social Research,
Biswamoy Pati New York
Nomad Called Thief, A 2001 978-81-250-2007-3 ` 600 196pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5238-8 Within the large array of
Reflections on Adivasi Silence responses to Marxist
Anthropological Journeys historian Perry Anderson
G. N. Devy, founder, Bhasha Research and Reflections on Fieldwork that appeared, three stand
Publication Centre, Baroda out for the care and
Edited by Meenakshi Thapan comprehensiveness with
This collection of essays 1998 978-81-250-1221-4 ` 495 332pp Hardback which they show the levels
looks at the problems of of ignorance, arrogance,
adivasis, the threat to their and misconstruction on
physical environment, the which the Andersonian
terror and indignity of the variety of political analysis is
stigma of being considered based. Collectively, these
‘criminal’ tribes, and their three ripostes represent a systematic critique of
induction into the the intellectual foundations of The Indian Ideology.
communal violence in Confronting Anderson’s claim to originality,
Gujarat. The author also Nivedita Menon exposes his failure to engage with
discusses the simple feminist, Marxist, and Dalit scholarship, arguing
sophistication of adivasi knowledge systems, that a British colonial ideology is at work in such
language and literature, as also the initiatives taken,

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analyses. Partha Chatterjee studies key historical Unfinished Gestures become entangled with
episodes to counter the ‘Great Men’ view of nature-devotion. Important
history, suggesting that misplaced concepts from Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in new insights are offered into
Western intellectual history can obfuscate political South India the motivations of colonial
understanding. Tracing their origins to the and national governments
nineteenth-century worldview of Hegel and James Davesh Soneji, Associate Professor of South when controlling or
Mill, Sudipta Kaviraj contends that reductive Asian Religions, McGill University managing nature. Fresh
Orientalist tropes such as those deployed by perspectives emerge on
Anderson frequently mar European analyses of Unfinished Gestures presents varieties of regional political
non-European contexts. the social and cultural conflict that invoke
history of courtesans in nationalist sentiment
2015  978-81-7824-454-9  ` 495  176 pp  Hardback South India who are through claims on nature. Thereby, this volume also
generally called devadasis, offers new ways of thinking about nationalism.
Danube, Ganges, and Other focusing on their
Life Streams encounters with colonial 2012 978-81-7824-363-4 ` 595 400pp Paperback
modernity in the nineteenth Rights: Restricted
Mechthild Guha, an anthropologist studying and early twentieth
Africa centuries. Adroitly Flaming Feet and e-book
combining ethnographic Other Essays, The
Of this short but deeply fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji
thoughtful memoir provides a comprehensive portrait of these The Dalit Movement
Mechthild Guha says,‘It marginalised women and unsettles received ideas
had never occurred to me about relations among them, the aesthetic roots of D. R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator
that it would be possible their performances, and the political efficacy of and cultural critic
to pack the memory of social reform in their communities.
seventy years into a few This book gives us Nagaraj’s
pages. Nevertheless, out 2014 978-81-7824-355-5 ` 495 328pp Paperback vision of caste in relation to
of an eventful and varied Rights: Restricted Dalit politics. It theorises the
life, I have tried to select 2012 978-81-7824-354-2 ` 750 328pp Hardback caste system as a mosaic of
those aspects which not Rights: Restricted contestations centred
only speak of me but also around dignity, religiosity,
the many people and places that make up my Unquiet Woods, The and entitlement. Examining
memories.’ A lover of nature, cats, and solitude, moments of untouchable
Mechthild Guha’s sensitivity, humanity, and curiosity Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance defiance, Nagaraj argues out
also make her an insightful observer. Among the in the Himalaya a politics of cultural
many fine things about her account is her refusal to (Twentieth Anniversary Edition) affirmation within his redefinition of Dalit identity.
defer to reputation: in her observations and More significantly, he argues against self-pity and
assessments there is always the assumption that Ramachandra Guha, eminent essayist and rage in artistic imagination, and for re-creating the
social status is irrelevant, and she relates well only columnist banished worlds of gods and goddesses.
to those she likes as human beings.
Twenty years ago there 2012 978-81-7824-358-0 ` 395 276pp Paperback
2014 978-81-7824-379-5 ` 395 126pp Hardback appeared on the subject of Rights: Restricted
environmental movements in 2010 978-81-7824-276-7 ` 595 276pp Hardback
Language, Emotion, and India an unknown author’s Rights: Restricted
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Woods. Fairly quickly, the
The Making of a Mother Tongue book came to be recognised Powerful Ephemeral, The
as not just another study of
Lisa Mitchell, Assistant Professor of dissenting peasants but as Everyday Healing in an Ambiguously Islamic
Anthropology and History, Department of South something of a classic that Place
Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania, USA had opened up a whole new
field—environmental history in South Asia. Carla Bellamy, Assistant Professor of South
In the 1950s and 1960s, a Asian Religion, Baruch College
wave of suicides in the 2013 978-81-7824-378-8 ` 495 280pp Paperback
name of language swept 2010 978-81-7824-277-4 ` 495 280pp Hardback In this accessible and
through south India. This groundbreaking ethnography,
book asks why such Ecological Nationalisms Carla Bellamy traces the
emotional attachments to long-term healing processes
language appeared and Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South of Muslim and Hindu
answers by tracing shifts in Asia devotees of a complex of
local perceptions and dargahs in northwestern
experiences of language in Gunnel Cederlof, Associate Professor of India. Drawing on pilgrims’
general, and Telugu in History, Uppsala University, Sweden, and narratives, ritual and
particular, during the preceding century. K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology everyday practices, archival
and International Studies, and Director, National documents, and popular
Resource Centre for South Asian Studies, publications in Hindi and Urdu, Bellamy considers
University of Washington, Seattle, USA questions about the nature of religion in general and
Indian religion in particular.
2014 978-81-7824-390-0 ` 495 302pp Paperback Collectively, the work in this book takes
Rights: Restricted environmental scholarship into novel territory by 2012 978-81-7824-346-7 ` 795 312pp Hardback
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Masculinity, Asceticism, Small Voice of e-book anthropology, Asian and African studies,
Hinduism History, The environmental studies, literature and religion to
re-evaluate the field.
Past and Present Imaginings of India Collected Essays
2007 978-81-7824-203-3 ` 550 510pp Paperback
Chandrima Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, Ranajit Guha, founding father of Subaltern Rights: Restricted
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McMaster University, Canada Rights: Restricted
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This book analyses the links for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta At Home in Diaspora
between religion,
masculinity, and asceticism Ranajit Guha’s writings have South Asian Scholars and the West
in Indian political and had a major impact on
cultural history. Through an scholarship in post-colonial Edited by Jackie Assayag, Senior Research
examination of nationalist studies in literature, Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche
discourse in the writings of anthropology, history, Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Bankimchandra cultural studies, and art Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Véronique Benei,
Chattopadhyay, history. These writings have Department of Anthropology, London School of
Rabindranath Tagore, been put together and Economics
Mahatma Gandhi, Raja Rao, introduced by Partha
V. D. Savarkar, M.S. Golwalkar, and many others, Chatterjee, whose See sociology
Chakraborty reveals how ideas about masculinity association with Guha as a
and Hindu asceticism came to be reworked for founder-member of the Subaltern Studies editorial 2006 978-81-7824-167-8 ` 250 220pp Paperback
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Karuna Mantena, Assistant Professor of Political English, Goldsmiths College, London
Science, Yale University Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices
The annotated memoirs and
This book challenges the Pratik Chakrabarti, Deputy Director and lectures of Sattanathan,
idea that the Victorian Research Officer, Wellcome Unit for the History presented here with a
empire was primarily of Medicine, University of Oxford critical introduction,
legitimated by liberal constitute a literary-
notions of progress and See sociology historical document of the
civilisation. In fact, as the caste struggle. This
British Empire gained its 2010 978-81-7824-292-7 ` 350 340pp Paperback autobiographical fragment is
farthest reach, its ideology E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-436-5 a record of non-Brahmin
was being dramatically low-caste life in rural South
transformed by a self- Postcolonial Studies and India, where the presence
conscious rejection of the Beyond of poverty and caste
liberal model. Mantena shows that the work of the prejudice is powerful, though understated.
Victorian legal scholar Henry Maine was at the Edited by Ania Loomba, Catherine Bryson
centre of these momentous changes. Professor of English, Suvir Kaul, Professor, 2006 978-81-7824-181-4 ` 395 245pp Hardback
both at the Department of English, University of
2010 978-81-7824-287-3 ` 695 296pp Hardback Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Matti Bunzl, Ulama of Firangi Mahall and Islamic
Rights: Restricted Associate Professor, History, Antoinette Culture in South Asia, The
Burton, Professor, History, and Jed Esty,
Anthropology in the East Associate Professor, English, all at the University Francis Robinson
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Founders of Indian Sociology and 2005 978-81-7824-119-7 ` 395 260pp Paperback
Anthropology This interdisciplinary
volume is designed to Violence in Urban India
Edited by Patricia Uberoi, Professor of Sociology, expand the agenda of
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, and also postcolonial studies, Identity Politics, ‘Mumbai’ and the Postcolonial
Honorary Director, Institute of Chinese Studies, assess the field’s past and City
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, present foci, and Thomas Blom Hansen
and Nandini Sundar, Professor, Department affect its future evolution.
of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics, Satish The essays here address 2005 978-81-7824-120-3 ` 295 282pp Paperback
Deshpande, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study questions about the field’s
of Developing Societies, Delhi definition, relevance and Anthropologist Among the Marxists
relationship to issues of and Other Essays, An
See sociology modernity, transnationalism and globalisation.
The book links contributions from history, Ramachandra Guha
2010 978-81-7824-300-9 ` 595 580pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted 2001 978-81-7824-001-5 ` 350 278pp Paperback

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SOCIAL SCIENCE Everyday State and Society ... It deserves a wide audience since it cautions
PRESS in Modern India, The against the facile assumption that the Hindutva
movement is merely an urban phenomenon and that
Savage Attack Edited by C. J. Fuller, Emeritus Professor of it will soon disappear due to its electoral defeat.
Anthropology, London School of Economics and
Tribal Insurgency in India Political Science, and Véronique Benei, Visiting —The Hindu
Senior Fellow in Anthropology, London School of
Edited by Crispin Bates, Professor, Modern and Economics and Political Science 2012 978-81-87358-51-0 ` 295 316pp Paperback
South Asian History, School of History, Classics
and Archaeology and Director, Centre for South See sociology Enigma of the Kerala
Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, and Alpa Woman, The
Shah, Reader, Department of Anthropology, 2012 978-81-87358-57-2 ` 350 231pp Paperback
London School of Economics and Political Science Rights: Restricted A Failed Promise of Literacy

In this volume, the authors Good Women do not Inherit Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, former
ask whether there is Land Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic
anything particularly adivasi Growth, and former Director, Institute of Social
about the forms of Politics of Land and Gender in India Studies Trust, New Delhi
resistance that have been
labelled as adivasi [With Orient BlackSwan] This book consists of
movements. What does it multi-disciplinary research
mean to speak about adivasi Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of carried out on various
as opposed to peasant Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK aspects of gender relations
resistance? Can one in Kerala by scholars from a
differentiate adivasi resistance from that of other The book unfolds the lives range of social science
lower castes such as the dalits? The authors move and anxieties of Santhal disciplines under the Gender
beyond stereotypes of tribal rebellion to argue women in two villages of Network, a regional
that it is important to explore how and why Dumka district, Jharkhand. network of researchers
particular forms of resistance are depicted as Based on rich ethnographic investigating the
adivasi issues at particular points in time. material, this sensitive book phenomenon of gender
Interpretations that have depicted adivasis as a lays bare the reality of being under varied social and economic settings. The first
united and highly politicised group of people have an adivasi woman, in all its section is devoted to case studies of women from
romanticised and demonised tribal society and nuances, in the modern the area of research and the second to photographs
history, thus denying the individuals and globalised world. of Kerala women in various social settings with
communities involved any real agency. detailed anthropological captions. The two sections
Contents: 1. Introduction complement each other in supporting the main
Selected Contents: 1. Savage Attack: Adivasis 2. A Personal Journey 3. Faces of Poverty: The theme of the book. The book has a rich body of
and Insurgency in India 1. We Shall Fight Them on Villages Profiled 4. Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian data which provides comparative figures relating to
the Beach: Counterinsurgency, Colonisation and Movements in History 5. Land as a Productive development indices for Kerala in relation to some
the Andaman Islanders, 1771–1863 2. ‘Natural Resource 6. Locating Identities 7. Women’s Claims other states as well as India as a whole.
Boundaries’: Negotiating Land Rights and Establishing to Land 8. Custom and Courts: Bargaining with
Rule on the East India Company’s North-Eastern Modernity 9 Development Interventions: Can One 2011 978-81-87358-44-2 ` 295 203pp Paperback
Frontier 1790s–1820s 3. From ‘Natural Philosophy’ Size Fit All? 10. Conclusions Rights: Restricted
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(Orissa) 4. Locating Adivasi Identity in Colonial India: Rights: Restricted
The Oraons and the Tana Bhagats in Chhotanagpur, 2009 978-81-87358-24-4 ` 795 368pp Hardback Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict
1914–1919 5. Tribal Armed Rebellion of 1922–1924 Rights: Restricted
in the Madras Presidency: A Study of Causation Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of
as Colonial Legitimation 6. Events, Incidents and Religious Division and Social Political Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Accidents: Re-Thinking Indigenous Resistance in Conflict Delhi, and Helmut Reifeld, India representative,
the Andaman Islands 7. The Making and Unmaking Konrad Adenauer Foundation, New Delhi
of an Adivasi Working Class in Western Orissa The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism
8. Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala: in Rural India See sociology
Neoliberalism, Political Disillusionment, and the (Second Impression)
Indigenist Challenge 9. Thoughts on Religious 2011 978-81-87358-47-3 ` 325 334pp Paperback
Experience and ‘Politics’ in Adivasi India: An Peggy Froerer, Lecturer in Anthropology, School Rights: Restricted
Anthropologist Attempts a Rereading of History of Social Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
10. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Maoist Movement Marriage, Love, Caste and
in Jharkhand, India. This is an ethnographic Kinship Support
account of the emergence
Contributors: Crispin Bates, Gunnel Cederlöf, of Hindu nationalism in a Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor in India
Sangeeta Dasgupta, Amit Desai, Atlury Murali, tribal community in
Vishvajit Pandya, Raphaël Rousseleau, Satadru Sen, Chhattisgarh, central India, Shalini Grover, author of several papers on
Alpa Shah, Luisa Steur, Christian Strümpell attributed to the marriage and kinship and former Sir Ratan Tata
involvement of the Fellow in Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth,
2014 978-81-87358-69-5 ` 725 306pp Hardback Rashtriya Swayamsevak University of Delhi
Sangh (RSS), a militant
Hindu nationalist With fascinating case studies and detailed
organisation, in local affairs. ethnographic material, Shalini Grover enriches

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our understanding of how Rebuilding Buddhism describes . . . an excellent contribution to our
poor urban women in Delhi the experiences and understanding of Nepal’s current situation.
negotiate their married achievements of Nepalis who
lives, move in and out of have adopted Theravada —European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
relationships, and mobilise Buddhism. This form was
support from their kin or introduced into Nepal from 2008 978-81-87358-41-1 ` 360 392pp Paperback
from women-led informal Burma and Sri Lanka in the Rights: Restricted
courts. Using her data to 1930s, and its adherents have
argue robustly against the struggled for recognition and Unbecoming Modern
many unfounded acceptance. With its
presumptions about gender emphasis on individualising Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial
politics, love, marriages, intimacy and married meditation and on gender equality, Theravada Modernities
women’s relationships with their families of origin, Buddhism contrasts with ritualised Tantric
she makes important interventions into wider Buddhism. The book explores the impact of the Edited by Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee-
debates about gender, marriage and kinship. Theravada movement on Buddhist society in Nepal. Dube, both Professors of History, Centre for
Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico
—Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh 2009 978-81-87358-39-8 ` 795 396pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted In this volume, well-known
With a Foreword by Patricia Uberoi. scholars from India and
Reflections on Cambridge Latin America discuss the
Contents: 1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage concepts of modernity and
2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages: Marital Roles, Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropological colonialism, and describe
Conflict and Kinship Support 3. Courtships and Science, University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow, how the two relate to each
Love Marriages 4. Secondary Unions and Other King’s College, Cambridge, UK other. This volume explores
Conjugal Arrangements 5. Informal Dispute the vital impact of the
Settlement: The Mahila Panchayats 6. Towards the The traditions and creativity colonial pasts of India,
Democratization of Marriage and Relationships: of Cambridge University have Mexico, China and the even
Conclusion survived 800 years. In the Unites States on the
celebration, this first processes through which these countries have
2011 978-81-87358-56-5 ` 595 256pp Hardback historical and anthropological become modern.
Rights: Restricted account explores the culture,
the customs, and the politics 2006 978-81-87358-23-7 ` 675 266pp Hardback
Sundarbans, The of this famous institution. As Rights: Restricted
Professor there for nearly
Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals forty years, the author sets CHRONICLE BOOKS
forth on an attempt to
[With Orient BlackSwan] understand how this ancient university developed Damayanti and Nala
and changed, and how it continues to influence those
Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Reader, who pass through its portals. The Many Lives of a Story
Department of History, West Bengal State
University, Barasat 2009 978-81-87358-48-0 ` 450 243pp Hardback Edited by Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell
Rights: Restricted Professor of South Asian Studies, Syracuse
The lower deltaic Bengal, University, USA
the Sundarbans, has always Resistance and the State
had a life of its own, unique This volume of essays, with
in its distinctive natural Nepalese Experiences (Revised Edition) papers by anthropologists,
aspect and social Sanskritists, scholars of
development. Most of the Edited by David N. Gellner, Professor of Social religion, historians, literary
area used to be once Anthropology, University of Oxford and Fellow of scholars and folklorists,
covered with dense, All Souls, University of Oxford explores the many ‘tellings’
impenetrable jungle even as of the story of Damayanti
patches of cultivation sprang Resistance and the State uses and Nala, giving us new
intermittently into life and case studies to explore understandings of this
then disappeared. The book healthcare programmes, well-known story.
discusses the struggle that ensued between man forestry, political parties
and nature, as portrayed in the punthi literature and ethnic revivalism. This Contents: 1. ‘Nala: The
that thrived in lower deltaic Bengal between the book gives a graphic Life of a Story’ 2. ‘The Story of Nala’ 3. ‘An
seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. description of conflicts over Indo-Persian Retelling of Nala and Damayanti’
the interpretation of 4. ‘Nal and Damayanti’s Reversals of Fortune:
2010 978-81-87358-35-0 ` 550 212pp Hardback history, and various Perspectives on When a Woman Should Know
Rights: Restricted perspectives on the Maoist Better’ 5. ‘Damayanti’s String: Epic Threads in
insurgency in large parts of Women’s Ritual Stories’ 6. ‘Pandvani Heroines,
Rebuilding Buddhism rural Nepal since 1996. The Chhattisgarhi Daughters’ 7. ‘Raja Nal’s Purana and
contributors study the complex relationship the Jat Kingdoms of Braj’ 8. ‘The Performative
The Theravada Movement in Twentieth- between a modernising state, and the people it Context of Nala in Late Medieval Kerala’ 9. ‘Nala’s
Century Nepal professes to represent and benefit. Weakness and Damayanti’s Powers: Jain Tellings

[With Orient BlackSwan]

Sarah Levine, Associate Professor, Sanskrit and
India Studies, Harvard University, and David N.
Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology and
Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford

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18  ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY his experiences, impressions communion for the landholding families as well as
and interactions with the their dependents in the community.
of the Great Love Story’ 10. ‘Leaving Damayanti people in these places.
Again (and Again): Jain Retellings of the Nala Story’ These experiences are 2013 978-81-923046-1-8 ` 675 240pp Hardback
‘Nala Unhinged: Pukalentippulavar’s Nalavenpa’ juxtaposed with the writings
of Verrier Elwin who lived When Marriages Go Astray
Contributors: Muzaffar Alam, Joyce Burkhalter and travelled in these areas
Flueckiger, Rich Freeman, Phyllis Granoff, Ann and wrote a corpus of Choices Made, Choices Challenged
Grodzins Gold, Lindsey Harlan; M. Whitney classic anthropological
Kelting, Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, works. Lina Fruzzetti is the Royce Family Professor
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Susan S. Wadley in Teaching Excellence and Professor of
Anthropology at Brown University
2011 978-81-8028-037-5 ` 750 352pp Hardback
This book is an account of
Rites of Spring 2007 978-81-8028-028-3 ` 425 192pp Hardback inter-caste and inter-
religious marriages and
Gajan in Village Bengal Essays on North Indian Folk presents detailed case
Traditions studies from Bishnupur, a
Ralph W. Nicholas, Emeritus Professor of town in West Bengal. In this
Anthropology and the Social Sciences, University Susan S. Wadley study Lina Fruzzetti looks
of Chicago, USA 2005 978-81-8028-016-0 ` 650 272pp Hardback into a rarely studied aspect
of female agency in India:
With an essay by David Curley, Associate Behind Mud Walls how can we understand
Professor, Department of Liberal Studies, Western Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village society’s concern with marriages deemed to have
Washington University, Bellingham, USA gone astray? How do women cope with their
William Wiser and Charlotte Wiser families’ rejection of their choices? This work
The rituals and narratives of 2004 978-81-8028-012-2 ` 550 420pp Hardback addresses women’s dilemma in selecting one’s
gajan dominate the spring Rights: Restricted marriage partner in a society still bound by the
season in the villages of tradition of arranging marriages for their children.
Bengal. It is a ritual of the Fruits of Worship
common people created Practical Religion in Bengal 2013 978-81-923046-2-5 ` 650 200pp Hardback
from indigenous sources
and laden with symbols of Ralph W. Nicholas Tulsi and the Cross, The
fertilisation and 2003 978-81-8028-006-1 ` 475 256pp Hardback
reproduction. Rites of Spring Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
analyses the meanings of in Goa
these narratives and their
social and historical contexts. [With Orient BlackSwan]

2008 978-81-8028-035-1 ` 650 248pp Paperback Rosa Maria Perez, Professor of Anthropology
at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and a Visiting
Wife, Mother, Widow RCS PUBLISHERS Professor, Brown University, USA

Exploring Women’s Lives in Northern India Night of the Gods The existing research,
essentially historical, tends
Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell Professor of Durga Puja and the Legitimation of Power to consider Goa as
South Asian Studies, Syracuse University, USA in Rural Bengal Catholic, Portuguese-
speaking and framed by
The essays in this volume, Ralph W. Nicholas, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese cultural
based on forty years of Anthropology and the Social Sciences, University references. The author
research in Karimpur in of Chicago offers an ethnographic
western Uttar Pradesh, approach to the
study the impact of Durga Puja is the most understanding of the
increased rural prosperity, visible annual event in West colonial encounter and of
gains in education, and Bengal. Among the many colonialism. Her ethnographical research shows
urban influences on the lives features of the puja that are that Goa is, and was, dominantly Hindu and the
of women in rural north peculiar to Bengal is the perception of Goan society as essentially
India. notion that autumn is the fragmented is a colonial imposition.
night of the gods when
2008 978-81-8028-034-4 ` 600 200pp Hardback worship is ‘untimely’, that 2012 978-81-923046-0-1 ` 650 208pp Hardback
spring is the proper time for
After Elwin the observance. This
ethnographic account shows
Encounters with Tribal Life that Durga Puja in the countryside was a very
different event from the modern version of the
Prosenjit Das Gupta puja, one that symbolized legitimacy and counter
posed generous redistribution against the ruthless
From the middle of the 1970s to as recently as collection of revenues. The offerings and sacrifices
January 2006, the author has been travelling to that were integral to the traditional pujas provided
remote tribal areas of central India and recording

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LATEST SOCIOLOGY Afterlife of Sai Baba, The

Competing Visions of a Global Saint

KarlineContinued from front flap McLain, chair and assoc‘Firaomteethpnorgroapfhey tsosarochriveo, frfomretexlitgtoifoilmu,sMcsLtaiun dskiilelfusllyawteaves McLain Nearly a century after
image of Sai Baba, the
Bucknell University, Pennsylvaniaat one of South Asia’s most populartogether the most comprehensive study we have to date of Sai Baba of Orient BlackSwan with a white beard fro
Shirdi, convincingly situating the “original” Sai Baba within the modern in Maharashtra, is ins
The Afterlife of recognizable to most S
spiritual gurus. religious history of India, right where he belongs.’ (and many Westerners
SAI BABA faiths. During his lifet
Nearly a century after his death, the image of SCaHiRBISTaIbANa,NtOhVEeTZsKeEr, Aesnsoceiatoe Plrdofessor accepted all followers
This book will be of great interest to village in Maharashtra, India, isSouth Asia Program and Comparative Religion Program Competing Visions of a Global Saint him, regardless of the
beard from Shirdi University of Washington or gender, and preach
man with the whitestudents and scholars of religious Karline McLain of spiritual enlightenm
astnuddsieoiscn,imosloetdgayia.nsttuldyiesr, aencthorogponloigsyable to most South Asians (and many Westerners) as tolerance. These days,
Muslims, and others. During his lifetime Sai‘The first comprehensive academic book on the hugely influential Indian thousands of Indians
a guru for all faiths-Hindus, holy man, Shirdi Sai Baba, fills an important void in the scholarship.’ The Afterlife of SAI BABA make the pilgrimage t
year, and Sai Baba tem
KARLIBNEaMbaCLaAIcNcisepprotfeessdor oafll followers who came to him, regardless of religious orHUGH URBAN, Professor up in unlikely places a
Department of Comparative Studies such as Munich, Seatt
religious studies at Bucknell
Univecrsaitys,tPeennbsyalvcakniga.round, and preached a path of spiritual enlighteTnhme Oehino SttataenUndiversity Tracing his rise from v
global phenomenon, K
mutual tolerance. These days, tens of thousands of Indians and foreigners uses a wide range of so
graphies and memoirs
make the pilgrimage to Shirdi each year, and Sai Baba temples have films, posters and pho
rituals and sermons, f
sprung up in unlikely places around the world, such as Munich, Seattle, interviews—to investi
ways that Sai Baba ha
and Austin. stood in South Asia an
the reasons behind his
Selected contents: Introduction 1. Shirdi Is for Everyone: The Shri amongst Hindus in pa

Saibaba Sansthan Trust’s Plea to Pilgrims 2. Shirdi Is My Pandharpur: Das Shining a spotlight on
forceful devotional mo
Ganu’s Plea to Brahmins and Non-Brahmins 3. Shirdi Is the Future of avoids fundamental po
emphasizes unity, serv
Religion in India: NarasimhaswamOSpriie’gsciniaaPllIpnlerdiicaaen: to HindusUS $ 45.00 4. Shirdi Is for Unity The Afterlife of Sai Bab
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Arjuna Pandava

The Double Hero in the Epic Mahabharata

Why should Arjuna, a late KBroenzve Aigne heMro cGrath, Associate of the Department of South Asian Studies at

Harvard University, USin the epic MahaÄbhaÄrata, be worshipped

today and receive popular devotion, not

just in India but throughout the world?

Why shouldMahaÄbhaÄrata scholar Kevin McGrath Arjuna, a late Bronze Age hero in the epic Mahabharata,

addresses this question through an popular
be worshippedexamination of Arjuna's presence in the today and receive devotion, not just in India

Pune Critical Edition of the epic. According
to him, the heroic Arjuna, btheupterftehctroughout the world? Mahabharata scholar Kevin McGrath
warrior, acquired such significance
because of his dual natureadhederxiestss ses this question through an examination of Arjuna’s presence
in the Punesimultaneously in two worlds, the human
ARJUNA PANDAVA Critical Edition of the epic. According to him, the heroic
and the super-natural. This duality is
Arjuna,intrinsic to the nature and character of
the perfect warrior, acquired such significance because of his
Arjuna, as well as to the narrative of the
epic itself.
dual nature—he exists simultaneously in two worlds, the human and the
supernatural.Through his text-based analysis of the
As the first study of the late Bronze Age period in which
mortal-immortal Arjuna's significance, the
the Mahabharataauthor explores what charaterises this
is set, McGrath also provides us with an understanding
category of `hero', figures who are neither
of how kinshipdeities nor simple mortal beings, but who
systems worked during that time, and how political
make up a unique group of beings by
alliancesthemselves. He also draws connections
functioned. The volume’s well-tested and innovative concepts
between the myth of poetry and its

and methodspotential for ritual and cult. The book is a of analysis will change contemporary understandings of epic

commentary on the poetic thought

heroes and heroines.processes that formed the basis of the

early tradition of composition in

preliterate poetry. As the first study of the

Selectedlate Bronze Age period in which the contents: Introduction 1. Youth 2. Warrior 3. Initiation

MahaÄbhaÄrata is set, McGrath also
4. Postwarprovides us with an understanding of how 5. Naranarayanau 6. Narada 7. Epic and Cult Appendix on
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1 250 6309 4 kinship systems worked during that time,
Achillesand how political alliances functioned. Note on Epic Preliteracy

With its well-tested and innovative
concepts and methods of analysis that will

Continued on back flap

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Discounted Life Discounted Life

The Price of Global Surrogacy in India The Global Price of Surrogacy in India

Sharmila Rudrappa, Associate Professor in Sociology and the Center Sharmila Rudrappa
for Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin

India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-
million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow exponentially,
as increasing number of couples from developed nations look for wombs
in which to grow their babies. Some scholars have exulted transnational
surrogacy for the possibilities it opens for infertile couples, while others
have offered bioethical cautionary tales, rebuked exploitative intended
parents, or lamented the exploitation of surrogate mothers—but
very little is known about the experience of and transaction between
surrogate mothers and intended parents outside the lens of the many
agencies that control surrogacy in India. A detailed and moving study,
Discounted Life delineates how local labor markets intertwine with global
reproduction industries.

Selected contents: Introduction: Markets in Life 1. Reproductive
Interventions 2. Converting Social Networks into Labor Markets 3. The
Many Meanings of Surrogacy 4. Locating Surrogacy in Child Sharing and
Wage Labor 5. Babies as Commodities 6. Fetuses as Persons, Surrogate
Mothers as Nonpersons 7. Surrogacy as a Gift Conclusion: Discounted
Life

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In the Public’s Interest

Evictions, Citizenship and Inequality in Contemporary Delhi

Gautam Bhan, senior consultant, Indian Institute of Human
Settlements, Bengaluru

… Gautam Bhan illuminates the profound injustice that lies at the
heart of modern Delhi where land matters more than lives, where the
poor are made homeless in the name of public interest, and where law is
mistaken for justice.

—Amita Baviskar, Sociologist, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi

Contents: Introduction: ‘How did we get here?’ 1. Planned Illegalities:
The Production of Housing in Delhi, 1947–2010 2. Planned Development
and/as Crisis 3. Unmaking Citizens: Spatial Illegality, Urban Citizenship
and the Challenges for Inclusive Politics 4. ‘You can’t just walk into
a Court’: Notes on the Judicialisation of Resistance 5. Concluding
Provocations: Inquiries from the South References Acknowledgements
Index

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Industrial Relations in India

Towards a New Socio-Political Approach

V. Janardhan, Assistant Professor, DepartmenAtlsoofrfomSOoricenitoBllaockgSwya,n University
Janardhan Industrial Relations in India Industrial Relations refers to the
of HyderabadStudents and scholars of sociology,CHAKRABARTI PARTICIPATION at the CROSSROADSINDUSTRY, LABOUR AND SOCIETY Industrial relationships that people enter in
Sharit K. Bhowmik Relations in produce material goods and serv
economics and law, and organisations India an inegalitarian society such as I
unequal relationship between ca
working on labour issues will find this K. Bhowmik WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT Towards a New Socio-Political Approach labour leads to inequality in the
Women in India’s Call Center Industry The struggle for equality often e
With a foreword by Sharitbook very useful. V. JANARDHAN itself in various forms—for exam
With a foreword by Sharit K. Bhowmik unionisation.
V. Janardhan is Assistant Professor, the sociology and politics ofRteehnaePatrelelations
details the highlyWOMEN AND WORK This volume focuses on the socio
This volume focuses onDepartment of Sociology, University of and (Ed.) Padmini Swaminathan statist politics of the relations between
bHyedtewrabeade. n management and the workforce, management and workforce, and
the highly statist and legalist Ind
and legalist Industrial Relations ‘system’ in India. It discusses the role of Relations ‘system’ in India. It dis
the role of dominant institutions
dominant institutions, such as the managements, unions, and law and managements, unions, and law a
jurisprudence in the way this sys
jurisprudence in the way the system evolved. Drawing on a broad corpus evolved. Drawing on a broad cor
literature on capital-labour relati
of literature on capital-labour relations, and detailed analyses of case detailed analyses of case law on
retrenchment and closures, the v
law on retrenchment and closures, the volume argues for building and argues for building and strength
labour unions, and an independ
strengthening labour unions, and an independent politics of the working politics of the working class in In

class in India. At a time when a comprehensive
Industrial Relations theory is yet
Contents: 1. Introducing Industrial Relations 2. Review of Theory formulated, this book advocates
3. Law in Industrial Relations 4. Jurisprudence on Retrenchment and new socio-political approach, as
the widely prevalent techno-man
Closure 5. Bilateral Industrial Relations 6. Concluding Commentary view. It fills a lacuna in the extan
literature, which is either excessi
ISBN 978-81-250-6233-2 theoretical—thereby glossing ov
realities such as conflict—or root
Cover image: CSIRO, ‘Manually Western examples, with no refer
decontaminating cotton before processing at the Indian context.
an Indian spinning mill’, 2010 (CC BY 3.0;
Wikimedia Commons) 9 788125 062332
Cover design: Qualcom Designs
Janardhan: Industrial Relations in India

CMYK 2016 978-81-250-6233-2 ` 695 224pp Hardback

Participation at the Crossroads

Decentralisation and Water Politics in West Bengal

There is a trend theBwhoraldsovkeratormCakehakrabarti, Associate Professor, Public Policy and
Management,governments more accountable and
IIM Calcutta, Kolkata
responsive to local people through
decentralisation of authority. Such an
PARTICIPATION
Participation ateffort is aimed at overcoming inefficient the Crossroads discusses decentralised governance and
at the
allocation of natural resources by
CROSSROADS
the politics ofcentrally administered agencies. The water management in India, with specific focus on West

objective is to encourage participation of
people in the decisBione-mnagkainlg. pWrocehssialet the initial years of Left Front rule saw enthusiastic
participationthe grassroots level. In India, the 73rd
by the village poor, today, when the water crisis has
constitutional amendment of 1992
reached a peak,decentralised agriculture, irrigation and
relatively few people in villages take part in government-
management of drinking water to the
sponsored initiatives.Panchayats. In West Bengal, the
Decentralisation and Water Politics This leads to the core question: Why do more
in West Bengal Panchayats were revitalised much before

people not participate?the constitutional amendment, soon after Why are small cultivators and agricultural

the Left Front government came to
power. labourers, who are most profoundly affected by decisions regarding

BHASKAR CHAKRABARTI While the initial phwasae otfeLreftmFroannt raulgeement, even less inclined to participate in the decision-
making process?saw enthusiastic participation by the
Through his case studies, the author shows how the
village poor, when the water crisis
unavailabilityreached a peak during the last years of
of water is causing small cultivators to turn away from
Left Front rule, relatively few people in

agriculture; thevillages took part in government- reasons behind the low turnout of small cultivators and

sponsored initiatives. This leads to the
core question: Whyadgormicoruelpteuoprleanloltabourers at village meetings; and how political interference
at various levelsparticipate? Why are small cultivators
With a Foreword by in the decentralisation process creates problems in local
G S and agricultural labourers, who are most
participationprofoundly affected by decisions
and decision-making, finally leading to a skewed distribution
regarding water management, even less
in the supplyinclined to be involved in decision-
of water.
making?

8-7

Selected Contents:Participation at the Crossroads discusses 1. Introduction 2. The Study Area and Fieldwork

decentralised governance and the politics
of water managemEenxt ipneInrdiiae, wnicthe 3. Panchayati Raj: Political Context and Local Control of

Water 4. Conflict within the Ruling Party for Control of Water 5. Local

Control of Water by the Opposition 6. Water Conflict between the

Ruling Party and the Opposition 7. Conclusion

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Rupture, Loss and Living

Minority Women Speak About Post-conflict Life

K. Lalita, a feminist scholar and activist, currently associated with
Yugantar, and Anveshi—Research Centre for Women’s Studies
in Hyderabad, Deepa Dhanraj, a Bangalore-based documentary
filmmaker, feminist researcher and writer

This remarkable book is Oral History at its best; informed by a
framework of investigation that is rigorously analytic even as it is
touchingly human.

— Akeel Bilgrami

This volume puts together the oral narratives of women survivors
of collective violence that took place in Hyderabad, Mumbai and
Gujarat in the recent past. Spanning three decades of events, these
voices represent different classes, and rural and urban locations.
This book challenges existing assumptions on minority women’s
engagement with public and private institutions in a post-conflict
context. The narratives presented here foreground a critique of power
and contemporary society rooted in these women’s experiences of
violence and survival. 

Selected contents: Introduction PART I: I BEGAN TO SEE THE
WORLD FOR WHAT IT IS PART II: LOSS AND TRAUMA PART III:
NEGOTIATING SURVIVAL AND LIVELIHOODS PART IV: CLAIMING
ACCOUNTABILITY, SEEKING JUSTICE

2016 978-81-250-6415-2 `1,025 448pp Hardback

Sexual States
Governance and the Struggle to Decriminalize Homosexuality
in India
uality, Puri S E X U A L S T A T E S Orient BlackSwan
gulation Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code
sistently SEXUAL STATES
ments, is one among a large and complex
tion of Governance and the Struggle to Jyoti Puri,system of laws, policies, and practices Professor of Sociology, Simmons College, Boston,
Decriminalize Homosexuality in India
the aimed at mitigating the perceived
of English Jyoti Puri Massachusettsthreat of homosexuality. This statute
nsylvania
endangers a range of people, including
BTI lives
se of how religious minorities, who are
n and
inorities In Sexualtroublingly considered prone to same- States, Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalise
s is a
ng sex behavior.
a Director
ernational In Sexual States, Jyoti Purhi toramcksothseexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is

ckswan.com fundamentallyefforts to decriminalize homosexuality tied to the creation of and the enduring existence of the
250 6236 3
and understand how Section 377 is
062363
state. Sincegoverned. Through extensive 2001, activists have attempted to rewrite section 377 of the

fieldwork among state institutions, she

Indian Penalfinds that the law and state agencies Code, which in addition to outlawing homosexual behaviour

such as the police are pre-occupied

is often usedwith managing sexuality and the to prosecute a range of activities and groups that are

threat it supposedly poses to the social

considered perverse.order. This book also draws on

encounters with sexuality rights

activists to highlight the approaches

Selectedand strategies that have evolved over contents: 1. Governing Sexuality, Constituting States

the course of their struggle.

Sexual States also discuss2es. thEengendering Social Problems, Exposing Sexuality’s Effects on

Biopoliticalshutting down of dance bars, States 3. Sexual Lives of Juridical Governance 4. “Half

modifications in rape laws, and efforts

Truths”:to curtail migration from Bangladesh Racializations, Habitual Criminals, and the Police 5. Opposing

to provide an overall framework

Law, Contestingwithin which to understand the links Governance 6. State versus Sexuality: Decriminalizing

between sexuality and states. By

and Recriminalizinghighlighting the heterogeneous sexual Homosexuality in the Postliberalized Context

states in the Indian context, Puri

Epilogue: Afterlivesshows that a regulation of sexuality

is tied to the continued existence and

legitimacy of states.

This book will be of interest to
scholars and students of sexuality and
gender studies, sociology,

Continued on back flap

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Social Policy JEAN DRÈZE READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND SOCIETY Orient BlackSwan The reach of social p
expanded significant
series: essays on economy, polity and society Edited by Facilities such as sch
Continued from front flap anganwadis (child ca
JEAN DRÈZE become an accepted
Edited by Jean Drèze, Visiting Professor at the Department of village; health centre
EcoSWnoicotihamlaPnoiilcnictsyrow,diRullcbtaieonanncbihyndJieiasUpneDnnsriièbvzleee, rsity, Jharkhand Social Policy accessible and better
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reaching larger num
Thesaonrcdieodleaovgceyl,hoepcmooneonfmtssitcous,dcpieoisal.itlicpaloscileinccye in India has significantly expanded in recent before. Some of these
years. Facilities such as schools and anganwadis have become an accepted the form of enforceab
norJmeanfDorrèzeeisvVeisrityingvPirlolafegsseor.atBtheetter equipped health centres are closer to entitlements.
peoUDpnelpievaer’rtsmsitehyn.toofmEceonso.mNics,uRtarncihtiion programmes, public works and social security
pensions are reaching vastly larger numbers of people than they used Yet the performance
to. Yet the performance of these social programmes is far from ideal, programmes is far fro
and some of them are controversial. The essays included in this volume Indian states still hav
illustrate the value of careful research on these areas. in putting in place ef
Contents: Section 1: Health Section 2: Education Section 3: Food policies that directly
Security Section 4: Employment Guarantee Section 5: Social Security interests, demands a
Pensions and Cash Transfers Section 6: Inequality and Social Exclusion unprivileged.
Contributors: P. Balasubramanian, Abhijit Banerjee, Christopher B.
Barrett, Shrayana Bhattacharya, Saloni Chopra, Diane Coffey, Jishnu Social Policy is a colle
Das, Upasak Das, Monica Das Gupta, Angus Deaton, Jean Drèze, Esther previously published
Duflo, Geeta Gandhi Kingdon, Rachel Glennerster, Ramachandra Guha, and Political Weekly, o
Aashish Gupta, Jeffrey Hammer, Payal Hathi, Soumya Kapoor Mehta, related issues. The 2
D. D. Karopady, Ravinder Kaur, Daniel Keniston, Reetika Khera, www.orientblackswan.com been clustered aroun
Nidhi Khurana, Ashwini Kulkarni, Joel Lee, Yanyan Liu, Maria Mini Jos,ISBN 978 81 250 6284 4 themes: 'health', 'edu
EPWRinku Murgai, TaramaniCover image: Photograph by Reetika Khera. Naorem, SudhOarieNnt BalarckaSywaannan, Nandini Nayak, 9 788125 062844 security', 'employme
Jessica Pudussery,Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad Vimala RamachandraDnrè,ze:KSorciual sPohlicny a Ranaware, Martin 'pensions and cash tr
Ravallion, T. K. Sundari Ravindran, Marc Shotland, Dipa Sinha, Vandana 'inequality and socia
Sipahimalani-Rao, Dean Spears, Nikhil Srivastav, Sukhadeo Thorat, the first time, wide-r
Dominique van de Walle, Sangita Vyas, Thomas E. Weisskopf these critical issues b
2016 978-81-250-6284-4 ` 795 496pp Paperback scholars are brought
single volume. The w
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invaluable to researc

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Essays from Economic and Political Weekly

Sociology and History

Dialogues Towards Integration

A. M. Shah retired as Professor, Department of Sociology, University
of Delhi, New Delhi.

Conceived as a series of dialogues between Shah and his fellow social
scientists, and indeed between the two disciplines of Sociology and
History, essays in this collection nuance ethnographic fact with a
historical dimension in ways that were path-breaking for their time.
The book includes Shah´s well-known study of the Vahivancha Barots—
traditional record-keepers of genealogies and narrators and creators
of myths. Shah offers several essays on theory and method in sociology
and history, anchored in review of literature, and empirical material. A
significant inclusion is the discussion between Shah and Romila Thapar
on sociological understanding of ancient India, examining the relation
between lineage, clan, caste and the state.

Contents: Introduction 1. The Vahivancha Barots of Gujarat: A Caste of
Genealogists and Mythographers A. M. Shah and R. G. Shroff Foreword M.
N. Srinivas 2. Social Anthropology and the Study of Historical Societies 3.
Myth of the Self-sufficiency of Indian Village M. N. Srinivas and A. M. Shah
4. Political System in Eighteenth-century Gujarat 5. Historical Sociology:
A Trend Report 6. Studying the Present and the Past: A Village in Gujarat
7. Towards a Sociological Understanding of Ancient India: A Response
to Professor A. M. Shah Romila Thapar 8. History and Sociology 9. A
Sociological Approach to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History
of Gujarat 10. The Indian Sociologist, 1905–14, 1920–22 11. The Indian
Journal of Sociology, 1920–21 12. Anthropology in Bombay, 1886–1936

2016 978-81-250-6013-0 ` 625 272pp Hardback

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Thinking Gender, Doing Gender
Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today
Continued from front flap CONTRIBUTORS Thinking In the 1980s, g
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disciplinary constraints, and these issues, as
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Class and in the Past 3. Reading gender: in clas
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and in the prac
made’ Famine and Women’s Responses to Hunger 8. Memory as Ritual, urban spaces.
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Theatre 15. Building Blocks

Contributors: Purwa Bharadwaj, Dipta Bhog, Uma Chakravarti, Swati
CoDverhdyesaigdn:rSoilikya,MVohaapiastrhaali Diwakar, A. MangCahia,krDavairtsi:hThainkMing uGelnlidcerk, D,oiSnghGuenbdehr ra Nagalia,
Kavita Panjabi, Sharmila Rege, Kumkum Roy, Mahua Sarkar, Chayanika
Shah, S. Anandhi, Lata Singh, Vani Subramaniam, Anagha Tambe, V. Geetha

2016 978-81-250-6239-4 ` 795 364pp Hardback

KAUR TOO MANY MEN, TOO FEW WOMEN Too Many Men, Too Few Women

Social Consequences of the Gender Imbalance in India and China

Edited byThe gender balance in Asia is  Ravinder Kaur, Professor of Sociology, Indian Institute of

significantly shaped by the male­biased 

Technology (IIT) Delhisex ratios of two of its most populous 

countries, China and India. The rapid 

TOO MANY fertility declines in the two countries, 
MEN
The genderresulting from Chinaʹs one­child policy  balance in Asia is significantly shaped by the male-biased
TOO FEW sex ratiosand Indiaʹs two­child norm, combined 
WOMEN of two of its most populous countries, China and India. Too
with the advent of sex determination 
Social Consequences of
Gender Imbalance in Many Men,technologies, has contributed to the birth  Too Few Women is the first book to focus specifically on the

India and China of fewer girls. As a result, both countries 
now have an excess of msaloesc ainad la consequences of the skewed sex ratio in both India and China.
Edited by shortage of females. Well-known sociologists, economists and demographers come together

RAVINDER KAUR to exploreThere is increasing concern over the  the social consequences of a skewed sex ratio from varied

likely adverse consequences of such 
perspectives:highly masculine populations. Most  the position of women in communities with fewer women;
the likely increasework on adverse sex ratios has dealt with 
in incidents of crime and violence; the impact on
the identification, patterns and causes of 

cultural practicessuch skewed ratios; Too Many Men, Too  such as dowry and bride price, as well as on domestic

Few Women is the first book to focus 
violence; andspecifically on the social consequences of  possible policy and reform measures that governments can
undertakethe skewed sex ratio in both India and 
to correct the gender imbalance.
China. Well­known sociologists, 
economists and demographers come 

Selectedtogether to explore the social impact of a  contents: Introduction PART I: Exploring Consequences PART

skewed sex ratio from varied 
perspectives: the positionII o:f Swoomceina linC  hallenges of the Marriage Squeeze PART III: Interrogating Policy
Responsescommunities with fewer women; the 

likely increase in incidents of crime and 
violence; the impact on cultural practices 

Contributors:such as dowry and bride price, as well as  Neerja Ahlawat, Sunita Bose, Monica Das Gupta,

on domestic violence; and possible policy 
Avrahamand reform measures that governments  Ebenstein, Lisa Eklund, Marcus W. Feldman, Patricia Jeffery,
Xiaoyi Jin,can undertake to correct the gender 
Ravinder Kaur, Mattias Larsen, Shuzhuo Li, Yan Li, Lige Liu,
imbalance.

Paro Mishra, Rajni Palriwala, Shahid Perwez, Jonathan E. Sharygin, Scott J.

South, Katherine Trent, Shang Zijuan

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Towards a New Sociology in India

Edited by Mahuya Bandyopadhyay and Ritambhara Hebbar,

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reworking of tradi
4. Reflections on Defence and Security Analyses in India 5. Studying methodology in th
unconventional sit
Laboratories: A Sociological Inquiry of Research Practices in Genetics
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Writings of James Manor, The

Politics and State–Society Relations in India

Orient BlackSwan For close to half a century,WJamietshMaanorforeword by Niraja Gopal Jayal

T WHE RITINGS has made crucial contributions to the study
Of James Manor
Politics and State-Society of contemporary Indian poTlitichs.iHsedis efinitive collection of essays, divided into five sections, depicts
Relations in India
With a Foreword by Niraja Gopal Jayal renowned worldwide as an authority on

THE WRITINGS of James Manor the subject, and his lucid anJad macceesssiblMe anor´s wide range of interests. The first section is a commentary
style has made him one of the most widely

read and influential on theanalysts of India’s emergence of a consolidated democracy in India, and discusses
two majordemocracy. James Manor’s writings have
themes–political awakening and political decay–which,
profoundly influenced our understanding of
togetherthe Indian polity, its institutions, leaders,
with political regeneration, forms the three key processes
and its regional dynamics.

at work in Indian politics over the past forty years. He devotes three
sectionsThe Writings of James Manor: Politics and
to the nature of political parties, the trends of regional politics,
State-Society Relations in India is a
and how,definitive collection of essays which depicts
at all these levels, political actors manage the challenges of
Manor’s range of interests. They are
governance.divided into five sections. The first is a
He addresses the regional dynamics of politics through
commentary on the emergence of a

the lensconsolidated democracy in India, and of political leadership in the fourth section, and in the last,

discusses two major themes—political

commentsawakening and political decay—which, on the more recent phase of Indian politics.

together with political regeneration, forms

the three key processes at work in Indian

politics over the past forty Cyeaors.ntents: Part I An Emergent Democracy—Attended by Awakening,

If one aspect of the managDemeenct oafy and Regeneration Part II Political Parties Part III Managing Political
democratic affairs is linked to the Indian
and Socialvoters and their shifting political choices, Forces Part IV Chief Ministers’ Struggles at the State Level
Part V Politicsthe other is where political leaders step in;
and Society in the New Millennium
and Manor is equally interested in both.
He devotes three sections to the nature of

political parties, the trends of regional

politics, and how, at all these levels,

political actors manage the challenges of

governance. He addresses the regional

dynamics of politics through the lens of

political leadership in the fourth section.

Continued on back flap

2016 978-81-250-6250-9 ` 795 384pp Hardback

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Immunising the Children of the World

Ralph H. Henderson, AB, MD, MPH, MPP, Harvard University, is a

Ralpfho Hr. mHenedrersAons, AsBis, MtaDn, MtPSHu,  rgeon General of the US PAulsobfrloimcOHrieentaBllatchkSwSanervice and a HENDERSON IMMUNISING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD IMMUNISING In Immunising the Childre
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OF THE WORLD WHO’s contributions to t
Orgatnhizeatiosnt. ory of WHO’s contributions to DthECeOLgOlNoISbAaTIlOeN,ffDoEVrEtLsOPtMoENeTnAsNuDrDeISEASE to ensure worldwide imm
the Expanded ProgramA Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka RALPH H. HENDERSON served with the Expande
worldwide immunisation. He served with Kalinga Tudor Silva on Immunization (EPI) duri
years as Programme Man
Immunization (EPI) during its formative years as UPNrFoOgRGrOaTmTEmN e Manager Director from 1977 to 198
before becoming a WHOLove and the Culture of Dementia Care in India becoming a WHO Assist
and then Director from 1977 to 1989 Bianca Brijnath General from 1990 to 199

Assistant Director-General from 1990 to 1999. Written in the form of Written in the form of a p
memoir, the author descr
a professional memoir, the author describes the technical details and technical details and poli
behind these efforts. The
political intrigues behind these efforts. The book begins by describing his describing his service wi
for Disease Control and P
service with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in (CDC) in West Africa.  It 
an account of an attempt
West Africa. It concludes with an account of an attempt to establish for WHO the ‘Health Leader
young professionals prog
WHO the ‘Health Leadership Service’, a young professionals programme modelled on the Epidem
Service of the CDC. His s
modelled on the Epidemic Intelligence Service of the CDC. His story is supplemented with poste
photographs, and detaile
supplemented with posters, photographs, and detailed charts and figures figures that bring to life a
public health triumph.
that bring to life a largely ignored public health triumph.
Engaging and informativ
Selected contents: 1. The Adventures Begin! 2. The Origins of the be of interest to students
Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) 3. Introduction to the researchers of public hea
sociology.
World Health Organization (WHO) 4. The Cold Chain 5. Management

Nuts and Bolts 6. Creating the Coalition 7. ‘Bellagio’ II-IV 8. Transitions

Cover design: Qualcom Designs  Henderson: Immunising the Children of the World

CMYK 2016 978-81-250-6419-0 ` 550 118pp Hardback

Trouble with Marriage, The students engaged in gender studies especially those Conjoined 7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the
interested in gender violence, family and law. It is Violence out of Domestic Violence Claims 8. The
Feminists Confront Law and Violence in also immensely useful for scholars working on legal Trouble Is Marriage: Conclusions and Worries
India pluralism.
2015 978-81-250-5864-9 ` 850 280pp Hardback
Srimati Basu, Associate Professor, Gender and —Sociological Bulletin 65 (1): 135–56, Rights: Restricted Affliction
Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of January–April 2016
Kentucky Women Survivors e-book
The stunning ethnographic account of how
The Trouble with women speak and how their silence is interpreted of Violence
Marriage considers the legacies invites us to take courtroom performance seriously Genesis and Growth of a State Support
of legal reforms around as constitutive of law’s power…. The complex System
marriage and gendered forms of translation entailed in how people speak
violence in India in the 1980s in court, how their silence is interpreted and Anjali Dave, Professor, School of Social Work,
which were strongly how written record is constituted is brilliantly Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
influenced by demands of the described....The value of this ethnography lies in its
women’s movement: deft navigation between different sets of laws, sites Women Survivors of Violence is
lawyer-free Family Courts, the and frameworks to show how law can pleasure, a first-person account of the
criminal prosecution of disgust and humiliate. evolution of the Special Cells.
domestic violence, rape law reform, and the In the mid-1980s, the author,
promotion of alternate dispute resolution as a —Pratiksha Baxi, The Book Review XL (7), July 2016 an assistant lecturer at the
mode of better gendered access. Looking backward TISS, Mumbai, initiated a
to legislative debates, and forward to everyday life [It] is an influential treatise on legal pluralism in ‘field action project’—
in legal sites of marital trouble, such as Family India.… [T]his well-written book contributes a working on the issue of
Court, police cells for women, and mediation wealth of information to feminist scholarship and violence against women from
organisations, it presents a portrait of legal studies. within the police system. The
contemporary marriage and of legal culture. result was the introduction
—Biblio of Special Cells in police stations. This narrative
The significance of this book lies in its bringing traces the 29-year-old journey of this institution,
forth the complicated relationship that law shares Contents: 1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and and provides a deeply personal account of the
within its various forms and with women often Feminist Reform 2. Construction Zones: Marriage effectiveness of a multi-agency coordinated
reinforcing discrimination and patriarchy but also Law in Formation 3. Beyond Equivalence: on response to VAW, in the form of a partnership
at times granting women agency even through its Reading and Speaking Law 4. Justice without between an academic institute, the police system,
parochialism…. This book is a useful reader for Lawyers? Living the Family Court Experiment 5. In and the violated woman.
Sanity and in Wealth: Diagnosing Conjugality and
Kinship 6. Sexual Property: Rape and Marriage With a Foreword by Armaity Desai

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Selected Contents: 1. Evolution of Thought READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY
on Violence Against Women 2. The Special Cell: AND SOCIETY
Setting the Stage 3. Taking Root: Eliciting Police
and State Response 4. Leveraging the Academic Problem of Caste, The e-book
Institution: Role of the TISS 5. TISS’ Vision of a Just
Society 6. Back to the Present: The Way Forward Edited by Satish Deshpande, Professor, Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Economics
7. Pulling it Together: Reflections and Learning.
Timeline of the Special Cell. Appendices series: readings on the economy, polity and society

2015 978-81-250-5915-8 ` 525 224pp Hardback

Affliction Caste is one of the oldest themes in the literature on traditional
India, and it also claims significant space in work on the modern
Health, Disease, PovertyContinued from front flap READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND SOCIETY period. As such, it has been extensively and intensively studied,Caste is one of the oldest concerns of
Other Titles in the Series Deshpande Orient BlackSwan the social sciences in India that

class, while the third highlights the PUBLISHED Edited by continues to be relevant even today.

interplay between caste and politics. Economic Reforms and Growth in India SATISH DESHPANDE both as an empirical phenomenon and as a civilisational idea. ThisThis book tracks how scholars from
different disciplines have responded to
The fourth section covers old and new

Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor ofchallenges in law and policy. Emergent
Ed. Pulapre Balakrishnan the caste question in independent India
Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays
volume bringsand highlights recent shifts in together essays by well-known sociologists,
Ed. Rohan D’Souza perspective.
Village Society
research areas are represented in political scientists and historians which highlight contemporaryThe general perception about caste is
section five, and section six showcases The Problem of Caste that it is an outdated concept that was
slowly but inevitably dying out until it
Anthropology and Professor of Humanities, Johnspost-Mandal innovations in caste Essays from Economic and Political Weekly
studies. Ed. Surinder S. Jodhka concerns on caste, while also giving space to long-establishedwas revived by colonial policies and
The Problem of Caste promoted by vested interests and
Hopkins UniversityThis transdisciplinary volume brings The Adivasi Question: Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood electoral politics after Independence.
together sociologists, anthropologists, Ed. Indra Munshi
perspectives in order to offer the reader a sense of the shifts thatHowever, this hegemonic perception
political scientists, historians, Women and Work changed irrevocably in the 1990s after
the controversial reservations for the
economists and others. It will be Ed. Padmini Swaminathan
Decentralisation and Local Governments: The Indian Experience have occurred.Other Backward Classes recommended
essential reading for students and by the Mandal Commission. Mandal
triggered a new awakening by revealing
See anthropology and ethnographyscholars across these disciplines. that only a privileged upper caste
Ed. T. R. Raghunandan minority believed in the declining

Satish Deshpande is Professor, Higher Education in India: In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity Contents: PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES PART II:significance of caste—for the vast
majority of Indians caste continued to
Department of Sociology, Delhi School be a crucial determinant of life
opportunities.
2015 978-81-250-5732-1 ` 850 272pp Hardback of Economics, University of Delhi.
Ed. Jandhyala B. G. Tilak CASTE AND CLASS PART III: CASTE AND POLITICS PARTThis volume collects significant
writings spanning seven decades, three
Rights: Restricted
IV: CASTE, STATE AND LAW PART V: CASTE AND GENDERgenerations and several disciplines.
Place for Utopia, A www.orientblackswan.com The introduction contextualises
Urban Designs from South AsiaCover image: Courtesy of The Hindu Photo Archives ISBN 978 81 250 5501 3 established perspectives in relation to
Orient BlackSwan EPW emergent concerns, and is followed by
9 788125 055013
PART VI: CONTEMPORARY EXPLORATIONSforty essays organised into six sections.
Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad Deshpande: The Problem of Caste The first section offers a sample of
disciplinary responses ranging from
Smriti Srinivas, Professor of anthropology at sociology to law. The second explores
the relationship between caste and
University of California, Davis
Contributors:Continuedonbackflap K. Balagopal, André Béteille, Anand Chakravarti,
Uma Chakravarti, Prem Chowdhry, I. P. Desai, Ashwini

Deshpande, Satish Deshpande, Marc Galanter, Meena Gopal,

See anthropology and ethnography Dipankar Gupta, Gopal Guru, KanchaIlaiah, J. Jeyaranjan, Surinder S. Jodhka, Mary E. John, Irawati

2015 978-81-250-5955-4 ` 795  224 pp  Hardback Karve, Rajan Krishnan, Rajni Kothari, Baldev Raj Nayar, Katherine S. Newman, Aditya Nigam, Gail
Rights: Restricted
Omvedt, Sudha Pai, M. S. S. Pandian, Rekha Pappu, M. Madhava Prasad, Rekha Raj, Mohan Ram,

SharmilaRege, Kumkum Roy, Anandhi S., Padmanabh Samarendra, Sundar Sarukkai, K. Satyanarayana,

Wording the World Ghanshyam Shah, D. L. Sheth, M. N. Srinivas, Anand Teltumbde, Susie Tharu, SukhadeoThorat, Carol

Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance Upadhya, Geetha V.

Roma Chatterji, Professor of Sociology at the 2014 978-81-250-5501-3 ` 595 436pp Paperback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5763-5
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Village Society e-book
See anthropology and ethnography
series: readings on the economy, polity and society
2015 978-81-250-5733-8 ` 1395 492pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi
Borderland Lives in
Northern South Asia This volume presents a set of readings which primarily focus on the
social, political and cultural aspects of village life. A comprehensive
Edited by David N. Gellner, Professor of Social introduction provides a detailed historical analysis of the study of
Anthropology at the University of Oxford rural India, changes in rural social life, and the forces shaping life in
villages today. The articles, drawn from writings over four decades
See anthropology and ethnography (1972 to 2010), cover various features of village society like caste
and community, land and labour, migration, discrimination and use
2014 978-81-250-5423-8 ` 1050 320pp Hardback  of common property resources.
Rights: Restricted
Th[is]e volume on rural society, which carries a selection of
Durable Slum, The essays published over the past four decades in the Economic and
Political Weekly is a welcome stimulus for us to reflect on the
Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in nature of research that has been done—and can be done—on
Globalizing Mumbai rural society.

Liza Weinstein, Assistant Professor of —Economic and Political Weekly
Sociology at Northeastern University, Boston,
USA Selected Contents: SECTION I: VILLAGE SOCIETY: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES SECTION
II: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL LIFE SECTION III: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL
Directly opposite Mumbai’s newest and most PROCESSES SECTION IV: PERSPECTIVES ON CHANGE
expensive commercial developments, lies Dharavi,
where as many as one million squatters live in 2012  978-81-250- 4603-5  ` 325 262pp Paperback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5170-1
makeshift housing on 535 acres of prime urban
land. As property prices are booming and cities

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28  SOCIOLOGY This volume commemorates This volume is a collection
the career and of essays on the changing
are now vying to be ‘world contributions of eminent notion of marriage across
class’, governments across sociologist Satish Saberwal. nations and sexualities in
India, and throughout the It features fifteen essays South Asia. The volume
world, are facing new written by some of looks at this issue through
pressure to clear Saberwal’s eminent the lens of sociology,
settlements like these. But Edited by N. Jayaram IDEAS students, colleagues and anthropology, economics,
Dharavi and its residents INSTITUTIONS demography, development
have endured for a century, PROCESSES studies, queer theory and
holding on to what has admirers. The first of its gender studies, and literary
become some of Mumbai’s Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal four parts takes a and historical research. With the globalising world
most valuable land.Liza as the backdrop, it documents historical notions
Weinstein draws on a decade of work, including biographical approach and on marriage and simultaneously juxtaposes these
more than a year of firsthand research in Dharavi, includes an extensive notions alongside changing perceptions, for
to explain how, despite innumerable threats, the interview with the scholar himself. The second instance, of widowhood and same-sex marriage.
slum has persisted for so long, achieving a considers disciplinary and methodological issues in
precarious stability. the study of sociology in India. The third is … the book urges us to engage with the
devoted to historical perspectives. The fourth and analytical. In that vein, the essays, most fruits of
Selected Contents: Introduction: A Mansion in final section focuses on case studies of different empirically well-grounded research, look at the
the Slum 1. Becoming Asia’s Largest Slum 2.State institutions and processes in contemporary India. hitherto neglected themes of … love, desire,
Interventions and Fragmented Sovereignties Each contributor to this eclectic collection draws choice, support intimacy and sexuality in marriage.
3. From Labor to Land: An Emerging Political from Saberwal’s own interdisciplinary work on In short, they examine the ideology and character of
Economy 4. Political Entrepreneurship and crisis, conflict, social mobility and rules and norms conjugality in South Asian Societies … an important
Enduring Fragmentations 5.The Right to Stay Put 6. of institutions to generate insightful new addition to the emerging literature on marriage and
Conclusion: Precarious Stability perspectives on a diversity of subjects. gender in South Asia.

2014 978-81-250-5508-2 ` 750 232pp Hardback  Selected Contents: I Introduction: The Scholar —The Book Review
Rights: South Asia and His Work 1. A Gentleman among Scholars;
A Scholar among Gentlemen 2. Satish Saberwal: Selected Contents: PART I: DIVERSITIES IN
Globalization and Money A Memoir 3. For a Sociology of India: Satish MODELS AND PRACTICES PART II: BEHIND
Saberwal in Conversation with Nandini Sundar and DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS PART III: ECONOMICS
A Global South Perspective Amita Baviskar II Disciplinary Ruminations 4. The OF MARRIAGE PART IV: MAKING A MARRIAGE
Challenge of Global Modernity for Sociology in PART V: LOVE AND CONJUGALITY IN
Supriya Singh, Professor of the sociology of India 5. Overcoming Relativism: The Question AND BEYOND MARRIAGE PART VI: LEGAL
communication at RMIT University, Australia of the Appraisal of Traditions Revisited 6. Dalit INTERVENTIONS AND ACTIVISMS
Movement in Mainstream Sociology III Studies
This book is about how in History 7. Chiefdoms and Early Kingdoms in Contributors: Janaki Abraham, Sajeda Amin,
men and women, the Mahabharata 8. Consultation for a Code: Lester Andrist, Manjistha Banerji, Srimati Basu,
particularly the poor and Nineteenth-Century Consultation on the Sonam Chuki, Maitreyi Das, Sonalde Desai, Priti
the unbanked in the global Proposed Commercial Laws 9. Reading, Writing, Dhanda, Quy Toan Do, Shalini Grover, Makiko
South, use money in ways Region: The Early Malayalam Novel and the Habazaki, Sriya Iyer, Shahreen Joshi, Ravinder
that empower them and Problem of Identity 10. Towards an Environmental Kaur, Pushpesh Kumar, Katherine Lemons,
their families. Money as a History of the Indus Water Treaty IV Institutions Johanna Lessinger, Sidharthan Maunaguru, Amali
medium of relationships and Processes 11. Alternative School Education Philips, Priti Ramamurthy, Anwar Shaheen, Ashley
across cultures is at the and the Standardisation of Right to Education Tellis, Sylvia Vatuk
centre of this inclusive story Debate 12. Post Festum: The Bifurcation of the
of globalisation. It includes Karnataka State Farmers’ Association in the Wake 2014 978-81-250-5355-2 ` 1095 440pp Hardback
interconnected markets and half the world that is of the Inter-Continental Caravan 13. Primitive
unbanked, particularly women. Rebels? Deprivation, Caste Inequality and the Modern Spirit of Asia, The
Maoist Conflict in India 14. ‘Paying Back to
Contents: 1. Money: Historical, Social, and Society’: The Bamcef—An Idea and its Network The Spiritual and the Secular in China and
Cultural Dimensions 2. Globalization and 15. The Anthropocene and the Conundrums of India
Technologies 3. Half the World Is Unbanked Environmentalism
4. Women, Money, and Globalization 5. Banking: Peter van der Veer, Director of the Max
Connecting Markets and Intimate Lives Contributors: G. Arunima, Amita Baviskar, Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and
6. Electronic Money: Information and Timeliness Rohan D’Souza, Ashwini Deshpande, Gopal Guru, Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen, Germany, and a
7. Mobile Money: The Power of Immediacy Sasheej Hegde, N. Jayaram, T. N. Madan, Stig Toft Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in
8. Migrant Money: Intertwining the Global and the Madsen, M. N. Panini, Sujata Patel, Gail Pearson, the Netherlands
Personal 9. Rethinking Money, Technology, and M. Rajivlochan, Nandini Sundar, Romila Thapar,
Globalization Susan Visvanathan The Modern Spirit of Asia challenges the notion that
modernity in China and India are derivative
2014 978-81-250-5112-1 ` 925 248pp Hardback  2014 978-81-250-5685-0 ` 875 304pp Hardback imitations of the West, arguing that these societies
Rights: Restricted have transformed their ancient traditions in unique
Marrying in South Asia and distinctive ways. Peter van der Veer begins
Ideas, Institutions, Processes with nineteenth-century imperial history, exploring
Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices how Western concepts of spirituality, secularity,
Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal in a Globalising World religion, and magic were used to translate the
traditions of India and China. He traces how
Edited by N. Jayaram, Professor, Centre for Edited by Ravinder Kaur, Professor, Department
Research Methodology, Tata Institute of Social of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute
Sciences, Mumbai of Technology, Delhi, and Rajni Palriwala,
Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University
of Delhi, Delhi

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modern Western notions of This volume introduces the 11. Refugees, Foreigners, Outsiders and North-
religion and magic were domestic politics of South East India: Need for Differing Approaches for
incorporated into the Asia in broad comparative Social Inclusion
respective nation-building perspective, revealing the
projects of Chinese and interplay between politics, 2014 978-81-250-5629-4 ` 795 356pp Hardback
Indian nationalist cultural values, human
intellectuals, yet how security, and historical luck. Street Corner Secrets
modernity in China and While these are important
India is by no means correlations everywhere, Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of
uniform. nowhere are they more Mumbai
compelling than in South
Contents: Introduction 1. Spirituality in Modern Asia where such dynamic interchanges loom large Svati P. Shah, Associate Professor in the
Society 2. The Making of Oriental Religion on a daily basis. Identity politics—not just of Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies
3. Conversion to Indian and Chinese Modernities religion but also of caste, ethnicity, regionalism, at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
4. Secularism’s Magic 5. “Smash Temples, Build and social class—infuses all aspects of social and
Schools”: Comparing secularism in India and China political life in the sub-continent. Recognising this Street Corner Secrets
6. The Spiritual Body 7. Muslims in India and China complex interplay, this volume moves beyond challenges widespread
8. Conclusion conventional views of South Asian politics as it notions of sex work in India
explicitly weaves the connections between history, by examining solicitation in
2014 978-81-250-5424-5 ` 995 296pp Hardback  culture, and social values into its examination of three spaces within the city
Rights: Restricted political life. of Mumbai where sexual
commerce may be solicited
Neoliberalism and Water Contents: Introduction: Situating Domestic alongside other income-
Politics in South Asia 1. The Colonial Legacy generating activities. These
Complicating the Story of ‘Reforms’ 2. India 3. Pakistan 4. Sri Lanka 5. Nepal spaces—brothels, streets,
in Maharashtra 6. Bangladesh and public day-wage labour
markets (nakas)—are seldom placed within the
Priya Sangameswaran, Assistant Professor, Contributors: Arjun Guneratne, Christophe same analytic frame. Focusing on women who had
Development Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Jaffrelot, Pratyoush Onta, Seira Tamang, Anita migrated to Mumbai from rural, economically
M. Weiss underdeveloped areas within India, the author
Sciences, Kolkata argues that selling sexual services is one of a
2014 978-81-250-5457-3 ` 1150   432pp  Hardback  number of ways women working as labourers may
Neoliberalism and Water tells Rights: South Asia earn a living, demonstrating that sex work, like day
labour, is a part of India’s vast informal economy.
us the story of the reforms in
This work could be seen as taking further the
the water sector in project “ethnography of the particular”, which
by focusing on the nuanced everyday life of
Maharashtra in the first Social Inclusion in the women gives a more complex and layered
Independent India understanding of subjectivity of women thus
decade of the twenty-first engaged.…
Dimensions and Approaches
century. This story is —The Book Review XL (7), July 2016

complicated by neoliberalism, Contents: 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration:
Making Ends Meet 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from
which works in conjuction the Construction Workers’ Naka 3. Sex Work and
the Street 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real
with other processes, and by T. K. Oommen, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal Estate Conclusion Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces
Nehru University, New Delhi and former
the specific nature of water as 2014 978-81-250-5628-7 ` 850 296pp Hardback
President, International Sociological Association Rights: Restricted
a resource. This book would
Traversing Bihar
be useful for students and scholars of development This volume studies the
The Politics of Development and Social
and environment studies, sociology, anthropology, various manifestations ofInclusionisadesiredvalueimplicitinthe Justice

and geography. It would alsoContinuedfromfrontflap be of interest to OOMMEN SOCIAL INCLUSION IN concept of citizenship. However, the in India, and [With Tata Institute of Social Sciences]
This volume will be indispensable for INDEPENDENT INDIA
social exclusionrealisation of inclusion is often thwarted by Edited by Manish K. Jha, Professor and
policymakers, think-tanks and NGOs working onstudentsandscholarsofsocialscience, DIMENSIONS AND APPROACHES entrenched forces of exclusion. Here lies Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation
particularly sociology, social anthropology, the need for conscious policy engagement and Development Practice, School of Social
political science, social work and public with social inclusion. Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),
policy. It will also be of interest for efforts made by the state toThenatureandtypesofexclusionvary Mumbai, and Pushpendra, Professor, Centre
policymakers and administrators, as well as from society to society, as well as within for Community Organisation and Development
societies in different phases of their Practice, School of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai
issues of water and liberalisation/globalisation.generalreaderswhowanttounderstand evolution. Social Inclusion in Independent
the challenges in the way of securing social India is a comprehensive study of various It examines This volume depicts and interprets Bihar’s internal
and economic justice for the vulnerable SOCIAL INCLUSION IN contradictions and struggles. The volume examines
sections of Indian society. INDEPENDENT INDIA address them.manifestations of social exclusion in India, and analyses crucial political, social, and
and efforts made by the state to address
T. K. Oommen is Emeritus Professor at them. It examines different dimensions of Follow us on Twitter @orientblackswan
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi the problem with conviction and analytical
rigour.
Contents: 1. Introduction: Reforms in the WaterandformerPresident,International
Sociological Association. different dimensions of theTheintroductionexplainsthecentraltheme
of the volume by discussing the roots of the
Sector and Discourses of Water and Development concept of social inclusion in the idea of
citizenship. It is followed by an overview of conviction and

problem withthe historical context in which the larger
question of social exclusion/inclusion needs
to be located. The next eight chapters
analyse social exclusion and inclusive
policies with reference to nine excluded rigour.
2. The Village Community and the Entrepreneurial
analyticalsocial categories in India—Dalits, Adivasis,
backward classes, religious and linguistic
minorities, women, refugees/migrants, the
poor, and the disabled. In the conclusion,
the author makes a case for a category-wise

policy of social inclusion in India.

City: Piped Water, 24 * 7Coverimage:rajkumar1220 Water, and Visions Contents: IntroductionContinuedonbackflap
(CC BY 2.0, Flickr) T. K. OOMMEN

of Development 3. Mediated Decentralisation:Coverdesign:QualcomDesigns
Oommen: Social Inclusion in Independent India

Discourses of Self-CMYKsufficiency, Depoliticisation, and 1. Exclusion/Inclusion in
Colonial India: Ideological
Expertise 4. Commercialisation, Commodification, Predilections and Conceptual Confusions

and Pricing 5. Water and the Public-Private Debate 2. Dalits: Congenital Victims of Attributed Low

6. Neoliberalism and the Re-forming of the Water Ritual Status in Caste Hierarchy 3. Adivasis:
Denial of Territorial Autonomy and Cultural
Sector Marginalisation 4. Other Backward Classes:

2014 978-81-250-5491-7 ` 895 340pp Hardback Partial Exclusion Leading to Status Incongruence

Pathways to Power 5. Religious Minorities: Inclusion Which
Undermines Identity and Exclusion Which Imperils
The Domestic Politics of South Asia Equity 6. Linguistic Minorities: Marginalisation
in the Process of Building the ‘Nation-State’
Edited by Arjun Guneratne, Professor and 7. Inclusion of Women: Distinctive Physiology
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Macalester or Persisting Patriarchy? 8. Towards a Category-
College, Minnesota, USA, and Anita M. Weiss, wise Approach to the Inclusion of the Excluded
Professor and Head, Department of International 9. The Poor: Inclusion through the Shifting Poverty
Studies, University of Oregon, USA Line? 10. The Disabled: Inclusion sans Dignity?

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developmental concerns of helps to protect and preserve their traditions as Writings of D. N.

JHAthe state over the past two well as engage with the modern world. The bookikarFor a curious onlooker, Bihar is a perfect
PUSHPENDRA example of a house full of paradoxes. It is a
TraBviehrasring ‘‘dsdeoeccvaieadlloejspu.msTteihcneet’’pahanardsaddigommionfated lw‘omiotohkdsienartntrittyhyie’nigdnitleoedmaucmchaaitesiovtenhaaatnbtdahletahncecoesmtormaf t‘utenrgaiitedysitgiiotranhp’apaslneds DTDhishecoaMunirsssaeingsgainTrrIenadd,iitaTinohnS:oeDcieobloagteys and1state that has a rich cultural heritage from the
Traversing Bihar civilisation past, but until recently, it evoked an
image of ‘uncultured’, ‘primordial’ and ‘rustic’
in the civilisation present.

Traversing Bihar depicts and interprets the
internal contradictions and struggles of Bihar’s
society, politics and economy. The volume
examines and analyses crucial political, social
and developmental concerns of the state over
the past two decades. The paradigm of ‘social
justice’ and ‘development’ has dominated the
political discourse in Bihar since the 1990s.
However, a chasm rather than harmony
between these two continues to polarise the
masses and Bihar’s politics.

Between 1990 and 2005, Bihar, under its chief

The the politicalministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri discourse in evolved to deal with the issue. D. N. Dhanagare, National Fellow, Indian
POLITICS of DEVELOPMENT Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
Devi, had witnessed a social churning called Contents:1. An Introduction 2. Tibetan Refugees
and SOCIAL JUSTICE the politics of social justice. The state ushered in India: Context and Experiences 3. Policies on The volume is a collection of
in a process of de-elitisation of politics with far- Education of Tibetan Refugees 4. Educational 11 of D. N. Dhanagare’s
edited by reaching consequences. However, Yadav’s Experiences 5. Tibetan Youth: Education, landmark essays. Divided into
MANISH K. JHA and PUSHPENDRA Identities, Aspirations and Opportunities in Exile four parts, the essays address
regime increasingly became narrow based in 1990s. However, 6. Conclusion important issues such as civil

Bihar sinceterms of caste and class composition. Besides, it

was in-orderly and failed to combine change
and development.
In 2005, the people voted for a second change

a chasm ratherand brought Nitish Kumar-led JDU-BJP than harmony

coalition to power. It restored the state—the
police, the quiescent bureaucracy, rules and
regulations. It gave a perceptible impression
that concerted efforts were being made to

between these two continuesimprovetheclimateofdevelopmentinthe

state.
Continued on back flap

to polarise the masses and

Bihar’s politics. The 13

chapters examine issues such as decentralized

governance, Leadership, social exclusion, flood society, state and democracy,

response, land rights to name a few. 2014 978-81-250-5497-9 ` 895 328pp Hardback

Contents: Introduction PART I THE POLITICS OF E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5604-1 globalisation, transnational
DEVELOPMENT 1. The Challenge of Land Reforms companies and their role in
Writings of A. M. Shah, The the economy.
and Social Transformation in Bihar 2. Agrarian
The Household and Family in India Contents: Introduction:
Relations in a Village in Bihar 3. The Rhetoric of
Debates and Discourses in Indian Sociology PART
Development in Contemporary Bihar 4. River A. M. Shah retired as Professor of Sociology, I: SOCIOLOGY UNDER THE GLOBAL REGIME
Valley Projects of North Bihar and Indo-Nepalese Department of Sociology, University of Delhi PART II: STATE AND CIVIL SOCIETY PART
Aspirations 5. Social Inclusion: Perspectives
This volume brings together III: DISCOURSE ON ‘REVOLUTION’ PART IV:
from Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches in CONTROVERSIES IN INDIAN SOCIOLOGY

Rural and Urban Bihar II POLITICS OF SOCIALContinuedfromfrontflap the seminal contributions ofThisvolumebringstogethertheseminal With a Foreword by Partha Nath Mukherji
Shah brings to bear his rootedness in meticulous fieldwork, looking at practice Orient BlackSwan contributions of Professor A. M. Shah to
2014 978-81-250-5455-9 ` 950 416pp Hardback
rather than at norms and factoring in historical change. . . . In the confused T WHE RITINGS distinguished sociologistthestudyofthefamilyandhouseholdin
Of A. M. Shah India. The Household Dimension of the Dual Identity
debates of the mid-twentieth century on family typology, he brought clarity The Household and Family in India begins with a micro-study
Family in India of households in a Gujarat village, going on Indian Diaspora and Other Essays
JUSTICE 6. Transformation of Subject into PoliticalThecollectionwillbevaluabletostudents to discuss broader theoretical issues
of family and kinship, and to sociologists, Edited by K. L. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Jaipur
and incisiveness, helping to free the field from the overbearing Indological THE WRITINGS of A. M. Shah Professor A. M. Shah to theattendingthesociologicalstudyofthe National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan and Renuka
overhang. . . . Indian family. Shah challenges through Singh, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study
painstaking observation and analysis the of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences,
Kamala Ganesh, Professor of Sociology, University of Mumbai entrenched stereotypes surrounding the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
This
'traditional' Indian joint family and its fate collection of essays examines the concept of
social anthropologists and demographers A. M. Shah’s contribution represents a tour de force in the study of household diaspora, considering its cultural, economic,
study of the family andinamodernisingsociety.Usingrigorous, geographical, political and social dimensions, and
South Bihar Plains 7. Naxalism,moregenerally.Itwillalsobeusefulto empirically grounded conceptual focuses on the Indian diaspora. It also examines
policy makers, NGOs and institutions vocabularies, the book tracks the issues of displacement and resettlement, and of
involved in the collection of statistical data formation and organisation of the the creation of a distinctly socio-religious Indian
on the family. household as it actually exists in practice community.
Subject: Maale in and family in India. . . . he has sharply delineated structure, process and change
in the domestic group with exemplary clarity and scholarship. . . . household in India. Theamongdifferentlyplacedsocialgroupsand An invaluable resource for
at various points in time. students of modern Indian
Ravindra K. Jain, Former Professor and Dean, School of Social Sciences history, politics and
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi The Family in India: Critical Essays sociology, this book should
addresses a wide range of theoretical, appeal to all those
Caste-based Militia and HumanA. M. Shah retired as Professor, A. M. Shah is unarguably a pioneer in the study of family and household in India. interested in understanding
Department of Sociology, University of Household Dimension of themethodologicalandpolicyissues,including the ramifications of the
Delhi, in 1996. Security: Lessons. . . It is his insistence on keeping theory empirically grounded that makes him a chapters on inter-household relations, the Indian diaspora. This
meticulous and exacting researcher—a model that new generations of scholars changing structure of lineage organisation, collection will be of help to
would do well to emulate. caste endogamy and spouse selection, and researchers enquiring into
Ravinder Kaur, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian family policy. multicultural ties, and policy makers concerned
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Family in India, widelyFinally,inthreemorerecentessays,Shah
from Bihar 8. Inter-subjectivity to Consensus?A. M. Shah has been one of the leaders in sociological research on India for explores the effects of changes in the
most of the last 50 years. . . . It is of immense value to have available once family on the elderly, explains the
again his path-breaking study of the household dimension of the Hindu family. relevance of census data for studies of the
His writing is marked by commendable precision and is pregnant with fresh
insights. . . . recognised as a turning pointhousehold,andcommentsonthecurrent
T. N. Madan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth state of family studies in India from the
perspective of his many decades of
Engendering Rural Local Governance in BiharUniversityofDelhi,andAdjunctFellow engagement with the field.
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi
Shah explodes resilient myths in the study of the Indian family. . . . [He] further in our understanding of theContinuedonbackflap
flags newer issues concerning the social reality of the household vis-à-vis the

poverty line, the elderly in the family, household headship and a range of

9. Power and Influence of State-level Leadership inconjugalandotherfamilyemotions.
Tulsi Patel, Professor, Department of Sociology
University of Delhi

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Caste to Development? 11. Muslim Communities Indian family when it first

and the Politics of Social Justice: Bihar, 1990–2010 appeared in 1973, remains an indispensable text in

PART III TEXT AND FOLK NARRATIVES the field today. The Family in India: Critical Essays,

12. Crossing the Borders: Bhagait Folk Ballad first published in 1998, covers a wide range of

Tradition of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal, theoretical, methodological, substantive and policy

13. Purnea: Landscape of Cul de Sac issues relating to the family. Finally, three more

Contributors: Anamika Priyadarshini, Ashutosh recent contributions by Professor Shah are
Kumar, Badri Narayan, D. K. Mishra, Dipankar
reproduced here, including a 2005 essay in which
Bhattacharya, Gaurang Sahay, Manish K. Jha,
he reviews the state of family studies in India from
Manjula Bharthy, Meera Tiwari, Mohammed Sajjad,
the perspective of his many decades of close
Pushpendra, Sadan Jha, Sanjay Kumar
engagement with the field.

2014 978-81-250-5567-9 ` 995 368pp Hardback Contents: Introduction, BOOK ONE: The
Household Dimension of the Family in India: A
Tibetan Refugees e-book Field Study in a Gujarat Village and a Review of
Other Studies, Foreword by M. N. Srinivas PART
in India I: THE HOUSEHOLD IN A GUJARAT VILLAGE
Education, Culture and Growing Up in PART II: THE STUDY OF THE HOUSEHOLD
Exile AND RELATED DIMENSIONS OF THE FAMILY
IN INDIA Annotated Bibliography, BOOK TWO:
Mallica Mishra, Post-Doctoral Research The Family in India: Critical Essays, BOOK THREE:
Fellow, International Migration Unit,Centre for Essays on the Elderly and Family Studies

Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala With a Foreword by Patricia Uberoi with international relations.

This volume looks at the lives 2014 978-81-250-5340-8 ` 950 536pp Hardback Abridged Contents: Introduction
of Tibetan refugees in India Section I: Theoretical and Methodological
and the policies of the Imaginaries Section II: Diasporic Realities and
governments (Indian and Mediations Section III: Other Essays
Tibetan) regarding their
education in India. Education 2013 978-81-250-5272-2 ` 875 340pp Hardback
for the Tibetan community,
recognised as one of the most
‘successful’ refugee
communities in the world, is
an important ingredient that

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Global Issues, Local Contexts Dubai’s Indian Diaspora these texts can form a historiography, telling of
struggles of a people to construct their identity.
The Rabi Das of West Bengal Neha Vora, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, This revised edition has a new Preface and
(Revised Edition) Lafayette College, USA Postscript by the author.

Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Professor of See anthropology and ethnography Contents: 1. Sources or Texts? 2. Reflections
Anthropology and National Course Director, in Another Mirror 3. Popular Memory and the
International Development Studies and Global 2013 978-81-250-5177-0 ` 875 264pp Hardback Politics of Identity 4. Administrative Memory
Studies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Rights: Restricted 5. Festivals and Rites: The Public Script of
Australia Domination and Power Postscript People Peace
Memories and e-book and the War: Junglemahal 2012
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Movements 2013  978-81-250-5054-4  ` 595 328pp Paperback
2013 978-81-250-5052-0 ` 695 284pp Paperback Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch,
Gujarat Multiple Voices and Stories
Higher Education in India
Rita Kothari, Associate Professor, Humanities Narratives of Health and Illness
In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity and Social Sciences Department, IIT, Gandhinagar,
Edited by Arima Mishra, Associate Professor,
Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, Professor at Gujarat. Health, Nutrition and Development Initiative, Azim
the National University of Educational Planning and Premji University, Bengaluru and Suhita Chopra
Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi. The Banni grasslands Chatterjee, Professor of Sociology, Department
situated in northern Kutch of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute
This volume puts in in Gujarat, lie on the of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
perspective the challenges Indo-Pak border. Its unique,
in higher education today, layered society is home to In the field of medical
and the need for reforms diverse communities; while sociology/anthropology,
under rapidly changing Muslim pastoralists form the narratives of patients are
national and global majority here, it is also widely used as an approach
socio-economic, political home to Dalit Hindus, and a to understand social reality
and technological community that is neither and lived experiences.
circumstances. It covers Hindu nor Muslim. An Inspired by the ‘possibilities
vital grounds like ethnographic account of the Banni society, this of narratives’, Multiple Voices
inclusiveness and the impact book shows how Banni’s people navigate and Stories is a collection of
of reservation on education, the problems of borders—not only territorial ones but others that essays on the narratives of
mediocrity and shortage of funds. It will provoke, define social identity—on a day-to-day basis. health which goes beyond
educate, stimulate and inform the lay reader and the patients and their immediate families to include
specialist alike. With a Foreword by Urvashi Butalia midwives, traditional healers, complementary and
alternative medical practitioners, and health
Contents: Introduction Jandhyala B. G. Tilak Contents: Introduction 1. The state of Banni, the workers, to name a few. Bringing together essays
Part I: Democracy, Equality and Universality State in Banni 2. Experiencing the Border in Banni by well-known scholars, this volume is an
Part II: Equality to Inclusion in Higher Education indispensable read for students and scholars of
Part III: Excellence in Higher Education Section 3. Asli Shafaqat: The ‘Essence’ of Being Sindhi medical sociology/ anthropology, sociology/
IV: Case Studies on Higher Education Section V: anthropology of health and illness, public health,
Public Expenditure on Education Section VI: State, and Muslim 4. Kami Log: The Meghwal Story of narrative theory, social work and nursing studies.
Markets and Globalisation Section VII: Towards
Reforming Higher Education Untouchability Aspiration and Entrepreneurship Abridged Contents: Introduction Section I:
Voices from the Margin: Health Providers and
Contributors: D. Ajit, M. Anandakrishnan, 5. Beyond the Otaak: The Women of Banni Healers Section II: “Doing” Health: Stories of
Rakesh Basant, André Béteille, Anindita 6. ‘Miskin Jee Ker Sunando?’ (Who Will Listen to Health and Illness Section III: Narrative Approach
Chakrabarti, Karuna Chanana, Saumen the Poor?): The Story of the Wadhas Epilogue to Mental Health: Two Contrasting Case Studies
Chattopadhyay, D. P. Chaudhri, Suma Chitnis, Appendix. Facing a catastrophic illness: Lessons
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L. Wood Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Clarence Maloney served as Associate
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2013 978-81-250-5131-2 ` 745 552pp Paperback in USA and Bangladesh. Most recently, he served
A full-length study of the in Afghanistan as Capacity Building Specialist in
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Adivasi e-book Appropriately Indian Exclusion, Social Capital and
Citizenship
Question, The Gender and Culture in a New
Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood Transnational Class Contested Transitions in South Africa and
India
series: readings on the economy, polity and Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of
Sociology, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA Edited by Tina Uys, Professor, Department of
society Sociology, University of Johannesburg, and Sujata
Appropriately Indian is an Patel, Professor, Department of Sociology,
Indra Munshi, retired as Professor of Sociology, ethnographic analysis of University of Hyderabad
University of Bombay information technology
professionals at the This volume breaks new
The volume drawn from the symbolic helm of globalising ground by providing
writings of almost four India. Comprising a small analyses of citizenship, social
decades, discuss the but prestigious segment of exclusion and/or social
questions of community India’s labour force, these capital within South Africa
rights and ownership, transn-ational knowledge and India. The analyses are
management of forests, the workers dominate the grounded in empirical
state’s rehabilitation policies country’s economic and illustrations using case
and the Forest Rights Act cultural scene, as do their notions of what it studies that cover a wide
and its implications. It means to be Indian. range of issues and
presents diverse contexts. These case studies
perspectives in the form of Contents: Introduction: On Background are important in their own right as they provide
case studies specific to different regions and 1. Privilege: Situating India’s Transnational Class fresh information and insights into the transitions
provides valuable analytical insights. 2. Global/Indian: Cultural Politics in the IT in India and South Africa.
Workplace 3. Merit: Ideologies of Achievement in
Abridged Contents: PART I: REGULATIONS the Knowledge Economy 4. Individuals: Narratives The book is useful, particularly for the students
AND RESISTANCE, ADIVASI COMMUNITIES of Embedded Selves 5. Family: Gendered “Balance” of social science, to know more on exclusion and
IN THE COLONIAL CONTEXT PART II: LOSS and the Everyday Production of the Nation citizenship in South Africa and India.
OF LAND, LOSS OF NERVE PART III: FOREST 6. Religion: When the Private is Transnational
DEGRADATION AND FOREST COMMUNITIES Conclusion: Apolitical Politics —Social Action 64 (2), April–June 2014
PART IV: CONSERVATION VS COMMUNITY
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REHABILITATION: ROLE OF THE STATE PART Rights: Restricted Comparing the Contested Transitions of
VI: FOREST RIGHTS ACT: A STEP FORWARD South Africa and India PART I: CONTESTING
PART VII: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: BY Digital Cool MEANINGS OF SOCIAL EXCLUSIONS PART II:
WHOM AND FOR WHOM STATE, CITIZENSHIP AND RIGHTS PART III:
Life in the Age of New Media NETWORKS, SOCIAL CAPITAL AND POLITICS
Contributors: Mathew Areparampil, K.
Balagopal, Amita Baviskar, Sohel Firdos, Madhav Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of Contributors: Simon Bekker, Andries
Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Asmita Kabra, English, University of Hyderabad Bezuidenhout, Bhangya Bhukya, Jan Breman,
Govind Kelkar, K. Anil Kumar, Sanjeeva Kumar, Sakhela Buhlungu, Anurekha Chari, Jos
Brian Lobo, Renu Modi, B. B. Mohanty, Neela This book examines life in Chathukulam, Ashwin Desai, Bronwyn
Mukherjee, Indra Munshi, B. Nagnath, Dev Nathan, the age of New Media. From Dworzanowski-Venter, Mridul Eapen, Ilse
Sagari R. Ramdas, Mahesh Rangarajan, Nitya Rao, Facebook to internet dating, Eigelaar-Meets, Natasha Erlank, Gary Eva, Mahesh
P. Trinadha Rao, M. Gopinath Reddy, Jyothis from ‘condensed’ networked Gavaskar, Janis Grobbelaar, Liela Groenewald,
Sathyapalan, Pankaj Sekhsaria, E. Selvarajan, Oliver cities to mobile phones, Vishal Jadhav, Surinder S. Jodhka, Praveena
Springate-Baginski, Ashok K. Upadhyay, Judy from iPads to iPhones, Kodoth, Elli Kriel, Lephophotho Mashike, Zahraa
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Twitter and cyberspace Sujata Patel, Charles Puttergill, Pragna Rugunanan,
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Aging and the Indian ‘Cool’ technologies, but how the technologies Vahed, Cecilia Van Zyl-Schalekamp, A. R. Vasavi,
Diaspora themselves are mediated by human lives. Wessel Visser

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Cool Technologies 1. ‘Only Connect’ I: Mobile
Sarah Lamb, Associate Professor of Communications 2. Game for Anything: Digital From Village Elder to British
Anthropology, Brandeis University, USA Play 3. ‘Only Connect’ II: New Socialities Judge
4. Geography Lessons: Digitized Spaces 5. Inactive
See anthropology and ethnography to Interactive: Reality Media 6. Genetic Muses: Asoka Kumar Sen, currently an independent
Posthuman Arts Conclusion: Cool Lives and researcher of tribal history
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is an insightful narrative of
Good Women do not Inherit the movement for III: AWAY FROM THE STATE: INITIATIVES
Land Uttarakhand and the role OF PRACTITIONERS AND PROTAGONISTS
played by the Hindi language 6. Competing for Medical Space: Traditional
Politics of Land and Gender in India newspapers in its creation Practitioners in the Transmission and Promotion
in 2000. The author of Siddha Medicine 7. Medicine as Culture:
[With Social Science Press] demonstrates that the Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai
movement had a wider PART IV: COMPETING INDIGENITIES:
Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of social basis as it was starting MAINSTREAM VERSUS MARGINAL IN
Development Studies, University of East Anglia, to gain community access to MEDICINE AND HEALING 8. Strengthening
UK and control over jal (water), jungle (forest) and Childbirth Care: Can the Maternity Services
zameen (land). Open Up to Indigenous Traditions of Midwifery?
See anthropology and ethnography 9. Global Standards and Local Medical Worlds:
Contents: 1. Amar Ujala and Dainik Jagran in the The Case of Childbirth Practices 10. Recovering
2012 978-81-87358-65-7 ` 325 368pp Paperback Pahari Public Sphere 2. Imagining Uttarakhand: from Psychosocial Traumas: The Place of Dargahs
Rights: Restricted Politics of the Elites and Grass-roots Activism in Maharashtra 11. Local Health Practitioners in
2009 978-81-87358-24-4 ` 795 368pp Hardback (1920–1994) 3. Claiming the Public Space: India: Resilience, Revitalisation and Reintegration
Rights: Restricted Transformation of a Student Agitation into a Jan 12. Commercialising Traditional Medicine:
Andolan 4. Uttarakhand Emerges as a Populist Ayurvedic Manufacturing in Kerala
Industry, Labour Textbook Demand 5. Protest at Its Apogee and the Co-
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Sharit K. Bhowmik, Professor, School of Public Space Epilogue: Uttarakhand after Statehood
Management and Labour Studies, Tata Institute of (2000–2010) Middle-Class Moralities

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Prestige in India
In this textbook, the role of Medical Pluralism e-book
industrialisation in social Minna Saavala, Adjunct Professor, University of
change is studied in the in Contemporary India Helsinki
background of the rise of
factory production and a Edited by V. Sujatha, Associate Professor, Centre Minna Saavala examines the
market economy, growing for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru creation of middle-class
urbanisation, the altered University, New Delhi and Leena Abraham, identities, practices and the
functions of kinship and the Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in the politics of the everyday in a
family, a shift in the degrees dialogue that involves other
of domination of gender and Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social social categories and an
caste, and enhanced state imaginary West. Drawing
intervention. The author depicts the social Sciences, Mumbai upon ethnographic and
organisation of industry with its interplay of interview material,
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scientific management and human relations. studies these processes in
the spheres of family relations, leisure, food,
[An] extremely useful compilation of various This volume questions the housing and religion.
issues that affect the working class and that received view of indigenous
collectively result in imbalanced and insecure systems of medicine as Contents: 1. Paradoxes of Control:
employment relations, thereby giving rise to cultural vestiges of a Reproduction, Morality and Marriage 2. Middle-
skewed industrial relations and industrial sociology traditional past. It explores class Forms of Relatedness 3. Imagined Worlds:
in contemporary times. the reasons behind the People and Images on the Move 4. Making a
enduring presence of health Difference, Claiming Belonging: Morality and the
—Institute for Human Development care traditions such as Middle-class Urge to Consume 5. Religious Zeal:
ayurveda, siddha and unani. Creating a middle-class Hindu Identity
Contents: Introduction 1. Industrialisation and Going beyond simple 6. Domesticating Earthly Success
Social Change 2. Social Organisation of Industry binaries like traditional–
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in India 6. Informal Employment 7. Globalisation systems for the future of medical knowledge, and
and Reorganisation of Work 8. International the commercialisation and globalisation of Modern Migrations
Labour Standards and Decent Work indigenous medicines.
Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and
2012  978-81-250-4762-9 ` 325 224pp Paperback Contents: PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND London
SOCIETY: ANCIENT MEDICINE IN THE
Making of a Small State, The CONTEMPORARY SET-UP 1. Contrasting Maritsa V. Poros, Assistant Professor of
Approaches to Health and Disease: Ayurveda Sociology, The City College of New York, The
Populist Social Mobilisation and the Hindi and Biomedicine 2. Ayurveda in the Twenty- Graduate Center, City University of New York
Press in the Uttarakhand Movement first Century: Logic, Practice and Ethics 3. The
Patient as Knower: Principle and Practice in This book reveals the inner workings of Gujarati
series: new perspectives in south asian Siddha Medicine PART II: MEDICINE, STATE networks and how these networks relate to
AND SOCIETY 4. AYUSH and Public Health: migration flows. It examines the kinds of ties
history Democratic Pluralism and the Quality of Health prevalent in the different niches that Gujaratis
Services 5. Tension, Placation, Complaint: Unani occupy in the economies of New York and
Anup Kumar, Assistant Professor of and Post-Colonial Medical Communalism PART
Communication in the School of Communication,
Cleveland State University, USA

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Joël Cabalion, Emilie Crémin, Salomé Deboos, Sharma, Christine E. Sleeter, Crain Soudien,
London, from shopkeepers M. A. Iqbal, Loraine Kennedy, David Kong Hug, Vedrana Spajic-Vrkas, Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
to diamond dealers and Sanjeeva Kumar, Nicolas Lainé, Frédéric Landy,
doctors. Jacque Pouchepadass, Raphael Rousseleau , Carine 2012 978-81-250-4531-1 ` 1150 500pp Hardback
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of international migration E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5427-6
studies.... From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond
School Education, Pluralism
—Achyut Yagnik, Founder, and Marginality Gail Omvedt, former Chair Professor,
Setu: Centre for Social Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and
Knowledge and Action Comparative Perspectives Development, Indira Gandhi National Open
University, New Delhi, India
Contents: Preface 1. Gujarati Indian Networks in Edited by Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita,
New York and London 2. From Arab Dhows to College of Education and Professional Studies, This book analyses how
Jet Planes 3. Linking Local Labor Markets California State University, Monterey Bay, dalit politics and the dalit
4. Networks, Niches and Inequalities 5. Migrant USA, Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Associate vision require going beyond
Networks as Webs of Relations and Flows Professor, Department of History, Indira Gandhi even the term ‘dalit’ and
6. Immigration in a New Century National Open University, New Delhi, Arvind how it has contributed to
K. Mishra, Professor of Social Psychology, Zakir being symbolic of the most
2012 978-81-250-4489-5 ` 850 244pp Hardback Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of oppressed and exploited
Rights: Restricted Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New sections within the graded
Delhi, and Sanjay Kumar, independent scholar- hierarchies of caste. It
Nature, e-book activist and Secretary, Deshkal Society, New Delhi traces the invasive trends of
resistance and revolt in the
Environment and Society This book offers a view of tenets of Buddhism and radical bhakti, in the
Conservation, Governance and school education that is anti-patriarchal stands of early feminists, in the
Transformation in India informed by analyses of the pervasive radicalism of the dalit activists. This
material, political, and edition has a new and comprehensive Index.
Edited by T. B. Subba, Professor and Head, ideological underpinnings of
Department of Anthropology, North Eastern Hill inequality. It brings together Contents: Introduction 1. The Two Great
University, Shillong, and Nicolas Lainé, doctoral international perspectives Traditions of India and the Construction of
student, Social Anthropology, School of Advanced on education, pluralism and Hinduism 2. Before ‘Hinduism’: The Buddhist
marginality, with a focus on Vision 3. Before Hinduism: The Devotional Visions
Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris India. of Bhakti 4. Hinduism as Brahman Exploitation:
Jotiba Phule 5. Hinduism as Patriarchy: Ramabai,
This contributory volume [This book] is not only a highly relevant Tarabai and the Early Feminists 6. Hinduism
examines the resource to those engaging with school education as Aryan Conquest: The Dalit Radicals of the
interrelationship between in different capacities, but is also a must-read for 1920s 7. Hinduism as Counter-Revolution: B. R.
nature and society in South anyone who might think India’s public education Ambedkar 8. Hinduism as Delhi Rule: Periyar
Asia focussing on four system is a grand success story. and the National Question 9. Independent India:
points: perception of natural Brahmanic Socialism, Brahmanic Globalisation
resources during the colonial —The Hindu 10. Hinduism as Feudal Backwardness: The Dalit
rule, conservation of nature, Panthers 11. The Logic of Dalit Politics 12. The
role of governments in … [this] book is an extremely valuable Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party CONCLUSION:
administering environment, resource.… [that] the exposition of all the Sita’s Curse, Shambuk’s Silence
and transformation of nature problems is with a view to finding a solution goes
as a result of development or industrial projects. to the credit of the book and its authors and 2012 978-81-250-4573-1 ` 295 140pp Paperback
editors.
… it offers fresh information and insights about Urbanising e-book
environmental and social change … —Seminar Cholera

—Amita Baviskar, Sociologist, Institute of Economic Abridged Contents: Introduction PART The Social Determinants of Its
Growth, Delhi I: MARGINAL COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL Re-emergence
EXCLUSION AND SCHOOLING PART II:
Selected Contents: PART I: CONSERVATION HEGEMONIES, FORMAL SCHOOLING SYSTEM series: new perspectives in south asian history
OF NATURE Introduction 1. Megalithic Landscapes, AND THE CHILD PART III: PLURALISM,
Cultures and Identity in North-East India CITIZENSHIP AND SCHOOL EDUCATION Rajib Dasgupta, Associate Professor at the
2. Transforming Rural Livelihoods through PART IV: DEVELOPING TEACHING AND Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health,
Ecodevelopment in the Nanda Devi Biosphere LEARNING METHODS: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT
Reserve PART II: NATURE’S GOVERNANCE Jawaharlal Nehru University
Introduction 5. Women, Self-Governance and Local Contributors: Imtiaz Ahmad, Rafiul Ahmed,
Political Representation in Bastar, Chhattisgarh Madhumita Bandyopadhyay, Russell Bishop, Lynn Urbanising Cholera is a revival of the eco-social
6. Forest Conservation, Public Goods and Davies, R. Govinda, Dave Hill, Dhir Jhingran, approach in examining the social determinants
Incentives in the Central Himalayas PART III: M. Murali Krishna, Sanjay Kumar, Angela W. Little, of cholera and deals with different aspects of the
TRANSFORMATION OF NATURE Introduction Manabi Majumdar, Arvind K. Mishra, Jos Mooij, problem. There is a dearth of books giving a social
8. The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor and epidemiological account of cholera with a focus on
Some Issues of Environmental Governance 9. The the urban poor.
Gosikhurd Dam Project and the Transformation of
Rural Social Space in Vidarbha, Maharashtra

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Contents: 1. Cholera: An Demography and Democracy At last, a comprehensive expose of the
Emerging Urban Health Issue economic and sexual exploitation that erected this
2. Urban Basic Services in Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology utopia of greed. Syed Ali has seen the future in
Delhi: Evolution and Crises
3. Time Trends of Cholera: Himani Bannerji, Professor of Sociology, York Dubai and it doesn’t work.
The Rise and Fall of Vibrio University, Ontario, Canada
Strains 4. Cholera in Delhi,
1965–2000 5. Vulnerability This volume explores the —Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums
to Cholera: A Spatial complexities of modern-day
Epidemiological Analysis nationalisms from the Contents: 1. The Roots of Dubai 2. Becoming
6. Making Sense of “Behaviours” 7. Cholera and perspective of Marxist a Global Brand 3. Iron Chains 4. Living in ‘Fly-By’
Urbanisation: An Ecosocial View anti-colonial feminism. Dubai 5. Guests in Their Own Homes 6. Strangers
Focusing on ethnic in Their Own Land 7. This is the Future
2012 978-81-250-4660-8 ` 1395 368pp Hardback nationalism and the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5096-4 racialised nature of 2011 978-81-250-4168-9 ` 435 256pp Paperback
imperialism of our time, the Rights: Restricted
Women and Work e-book volume draws on examples
from India, Israel, United States and its allies. Re-imagining India and
series: readings on the economy, polity and Cultural political identities of the Hindu right, Other Essays
Zionism and other religious fundamentalisms are
society discussed in detail. Lectures at the Institute of Social Sciences,
New Delhi
Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor of Contents: Introduction 1. Making India Hindu
Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Male: Cultural Nationalism and the Emergence This volume brings
of the Ethnic Citizen in Contemporary India together a collection of
The volume analyses issues 2. Demography and Democracy: Reflections writings that originated
surrounding women’s rights on Violence against Women in Genocide or from annual lectures by
to gainful employment when Ethnic Cleansing 3. Cultural Nationalism and economists, political and
they did not have it; to Woman as the Subject of the Nation 4. Projects legal thinkers, sociologists,
recognition of their of Hegemony: Towards a Critique of Subaltern linguists and historians. The
substantial and even massive Studies’ ‘Resolution of the Women’s Question’ essays are bound by a
contribution to the national 5. Home and the World: Women and Nationalism common thread—concern
economy and families’ in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore 6. Always for humanity. This volume
survival which has been Towards: Development and Nationalism in explores the need for basic
denied to them so long; to Rabindranath Tagore 7. The Tradition of Sociology education, poverty, the Human Development
adequate rewards for their labour which they do and the Sociology of Tradition: The Terms of our Index, self-employment vis-à-vis wage
not enjoy; and, to a share of resources, benefits and Knowledge and the Knowledge Produced employment, the function of multiculturalism in
decisions regarding development to which they are preserving the solidarity of a nation, the rise of
entitled as citizens of a country which guarantees to 2011 978-810-250-4292-1 ` 785 284pp Hardback  Hindutva and its ideological implications, and
them equality in all spheres of life. Rights: Restricted other issues.

Abridged Contents: PART I: Dubai With a Foreword by Ashis Nandy.
CONCEPTUALISING WORK, MAPPING
COMPLEXITY PART II: IMPARTING VISIBILITY, Gilded Cage Selected Contents: Preface. 1. Beyond
INTERROGATING DATA SYSTEMS PART Liberalisation: Social Opportunity and Human
III: FORMS OF LABOUR, CONDITIONS OF Syed Ali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Long Capability Amartya Sen 2. Human Development
WORK: SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES PART IV: Island University, Brookville, New York Paradigm for South Asia Mahbub ul Haq
CRITIQUING POLICIES: IMPLICATIONS AND 3. Towards Creating a Poverty-Free World
CONSEQUENCES FOR WORK In less than two decades, Muhammad Yunus 4. Post-Apartheid South Africa:
Dubai has transformed itself Truth, Reconciliation and Justice Albie Sachs
Contributors: Bina Agarwal, Srilatha Batliwala, from an obscure Gulf 5. Peering into the Abyss of the Future Noam
Deepita Chakravarty, Ishita Chakravarty, Prem emirate into a global centre Chomsky 6. Re-imagining India Bhikhu Parekh 7. The
Chowdhry, Forum Against Oppression of Women, for business, tourism and Future of the Indian Past Romila Thapar 8. The Idea
Meena Gopal, Indira Hirway, Devaki Jain, J. luxury living. This book of India as an Ideal: Can Our Dreams Come True?
Jeyaranjan, Uma Kothari, Maithreyi Krishnaraj, delves beneath this dazzling I. G. Patel 9. The Nation-State in the Global Age
Joan P. Mencher, Maria Mies, Millie Nihila, Ujvala surface to analyse how— Anthony Giddens 10. Crises Today and the Future
Rajadhyaksha, K. Saradamoni, Miriam Sharma, and at what cost—Dubai of Capitalism Joseph Stiglitz
Swati Smita, Padmini Swaminathan has achieved such success.
The author brings alive a 2011 978-81-250-4196-2 ` 550 280pp Paperback
2012 978-81-250-4777-3 ` 645 408pp Paperback society rigidly divided 2010 978-81-250-4068-2 ` 850 280pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5357-6 between expatriate Westerners living self-
indulgent lifestyles on short-term work visas, Sacrificing People
Adivasis in Colonial India native Emirians who are largely passive observers
and beneficiaries of what Dubai has become, and Invasions of a Tribal Landscape
Survival, Resistance and Negotiation workers from the developing world who provide
the manual labour and domestic service needed to Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in
Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Associate Professor of keep the emirate running, often at great personal Oxford and Delhi Universities
History, University of Delhi cost.
See anthropology and ethnography
See anthropology and ethnography
2011 978-81-250-4189-4 ` 795 504pp Paperback
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Understanding e-book made accessible through call center work. Contents: PART I. DALITS
AND SOCIETY 1. Resolving
Indian Society Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Off-Shoring Dalit Identity: Vankars,
Past and Present, Essays for A. M. Shah Customer Service: A New Global Order Chamars, Valmikis 2. At the
3. Mobility–Morality Narratives 4. Traveling at Intersection of Caste, Class
Edited by B. S. Baviskar, Senior Fellow, Institute Night 5. Fast Money, Family Survival, and the and Patriarchy: Exploring
of Social Sciences, New Delhi, and Tulsi Patel, Consumer Class 6. On the Home Front 7. Social Dalit Women’s Oppression
Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi Mobility: Other Openings and Constrictions 3. Social Democracy in
8. Conclusion Indian Villages: The
This volume brings together Experience of Dalits in
a collection of writings by 2011 978-81-250-4265-5 ` 495 204pp Paperback Southern Tamil Nadu
eminent scholars across 4. The Category ‘Rural’ Revisited: A Dalit
disciplines that capture the Art of Not Being Governed, Perspective from a Village in Maharashtra 5. The
dynamic character of Indian The Story of a Dalit Family from a Sleepy North Bihar
society. The fifteen essays Village 6. Caste System in India: Dr Ambedkar’s
focus on four vital areas— An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Perspective 7. Laws and Homestead Land for Rural
gender relations, religion, Asia Landless Labourers and Marginalised Communities
developmental concerns in Bihar: A Micro-perspective PART II: DALITS
and social change, and the James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political AND LITERATURE 8. Dalit Literature: A
future of the discipline of Science, Professor of Anthropology, and co-director Perspective from Below 9. Transcending Orbits of
sociology. of the Agrarian Studies Program, Yale University Dalit Women’s Minor Literature 10. Premchand
and Dalit Literature: Representation of Dalits in
Selected Contents: PART I: GENDER ISSUES See anthropology and ethnography the Literature of Premchand PART III: DALITS IN
1. Assertive Voices: The Other Side of Burqa HISTORY 11. Rajwars in Revolt, 1857–58: Saga of
2. Heart Beating with Fear and Eyes Filled with 2010 978-81-250-3921-1 ` 1195 462pp Hardback Heroism and Sacrifices of Little-known People
Rosy Dreams: Experiences of Poor Muslim Rights: Restricted 12. Caste and the Writing of History PART IV:
Women in Rural Bangladesh 3. Towards a CASTES AMONG INDIAN MINORITIES 13. Can
Conceptual Understanding of Female Infanticide Caste in Indian Politics there be a Category called Dalit Muslims? 14. Islam
in Modern India PART II: SOCIOLOGY OF and Caste Inequalities among Indian Muslims
RELIGION: BELIEF, PERCEPTIONS AND (Second Edition) 15. Social Exclusion, Resistance and Deras:
PRACTICES 4. Popular Perceptions of the Exploring the Myth of Casteless Sikh Society in
Role of Catholic Priests 5. Religious Cover for Edited by Rajni Kothari, noted intellectual and Punjab
Political Power: Narratives from People and the founder of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Vernacular Press on the 2002 Riots in Gujarat Societies (CSDS), with a prologue by James Contributors: Imtiaz Ahmad, Prathama Banerjee,
6. This-Wordly Hinduism: A Case Study PART Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Professor at the Institute A. K. Biswas, Ritambhara Hebbar, P. G. Jogdand,
III: DEVELOPMENT AND MODERNISATION of Commonwealth Studies, University of London Raj Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Jyotsna Macwan, Smita
7. Grandmothers Hold the Key to Social Change Patil, A. Ramaiah, Ronki Ram, Suguna Ramanathan,
8. Cooperatives and Industrialisation in Rural Rejecting the prevailing Ashok Singh, Yoginder Sikand, Padma Velaskar,
Areas: The Indian Experience 9. Patidars as dichotomy between Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
Metaphor of Indian Diaspora 10. The Socio- traditional society and
Cultural Context of Informed Consent in Medical modern polity, this book 2010 978-81-250-4054-5 ` 995 328pp Hardback
Practice PART IV: DISCIPLINARY CONCERNS examines their interaction
11. Empirical Meaning and Imputed Meaning in in the given community and Everyday Life in a Prison
the Study of Kinship 12. Gendering Sociological territorial settings. A critical
Practice: A Case Study of Teaching in the introduction by Rajni Confinement, Surveillance, Resistance
University 13. Why Are Children’s Voices Largely Kothari provides the
Unheard in Household Ethnographies? Epilogue: A. analytical framework. The Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Lecturer, Department
M. Shah—Man and His Work nine studies that follow in of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi
the book investigate individual caste movements,
2011 978-81-250-4264-8 ` 550 388pp Paperback their structures and their induction into the Based on intensive
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5295-1 political process, and the macro dimensions of the fieldwork in a central prison
political involvement of caste. This second edition in Kolkata, this book
Working the Night Shift has an extended prologue by eminent political reflects a close
scientist James Manor. understanding of lives and
Women in India’s Call Center Industry practices within prison
2010 978-81-250-4013-2 ` 495 424pp Paperback walls. The author portrays
Reena Patel, feminist scholar and Foreign Service the prison as an
officer with the US Department of State Dalit Assertion in Society, organisation having a
Literature and History particular configuration of
Working the Night Shift is the practices, which lends it a
first in-depth study of the Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of distinctive character.
call center industry that is Political Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University,
written from the point of New Delhi, and Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Contents: PART I: PRISON LIFE: THE
view of women workers. It Associate Professor, IGNOU ETHNOGRAPHIC CONTEXT 1. Mapping the
is a timely account which Prison: Spaces, People and Research Issues
illustrates the ironic and, at This rich and extraordinary volume brings 2. Under Constant Surveillance: Fieldwork in a
times, unsettling together contributions from scholars across the Prison PART II: THE EVERYDAY IN A PRISON
experiences of women who humanities and social sciences to provide an 3. Prison Rules: Structures and Interpretations
enter the spaces and places inclusive analysis of the identity of the Dalits in
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A Personal Encounter with Biomedicine
4. Everyday Prison Lives: Meaning and Subversive 3. Deconstructing ‘Self-care’ in Biomedical and Out of This Earth
Practices PART III: BEYOND PRISON WALLS Public Health Discourses 4. Secondary Gains from
5. Reform and Everyday Practice: Some Issues of Cross-Cultural Health Encounters: Stories from East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Cartel
Prison Governance 6. ‘Jibon Kahini’: Narrative a Somali Clinic in the United States 5. The Fit
Renderings of Pre-prison Lives PART IV: between Traditional Fertility and Sterilisation: A Felix Padel, anthropologist trained
CONCLUSION 7. Interactional Spaces, Prison Life Study of Negotiations in Rural India 6. Situating at Oxford and Delhi Universities and
and ‘Para’ Life Declining Sex Ratio: Evidence from North India Samarendra Das, Oriya writer, filmmaker and
7. Lay Perceptions of Tuberculosis: A Study in activist
2010 978-81-250-3833-7 ` 1195 354pp Hardback Delhi 8. Narrator and Narrative: Understanding
Scientific Realism of Chronic Diseases in the Field See anthropology and ethnography
Fundamentals Textbook 9. Community-Based Organisations in Policy and
of Sociology e-book Practice: Sex Workers, HIV/ AIDS and the Social 2010 978-81-250-4164-1 ` 895 752pp Paperback
Construction of Solutions 10. A Paradigm for 2010 978-81-250-3867-2 ` 1040 752pp Hardback
P. Gisbert, former Professor and Head of the Well-Being: The Social Construction of Health in
Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Rural Sri Lanka 11. The Role of Family in Organ Social Determinants of
Transplantation Health
Mumbai
2010 978-81-250-3978-5 ` 925 332pp Hardback Assessing Theory, Policy and Practice
Fundamentals of Sociology is
especially detailed in dealing Historical Demography and Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University,
with the economic system Agrarian Regimes Toronto, Canada, Caroline Overy and Sharon
and industry, population and Messenger, both Senior Research Assistants,
food supply. Due Understanding Southern Indian Fertility, Wellcome Trust [now UCL] Centre for the
importance is given to 1881–1981 History of Medicine, UCL (University College
forces such as London)
industrialisation and the Ravindran Gopinath, Professor, Modern Indian
Green Revolution that have Economic History, Department of History and Social Determinants of
helped to shape modern Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia Health brings together
Indian society. essays which raise issues of
Overlapping the border health equity, as well as
Select Contents: PART I: THE ROOTS OF between history and discusses the many
SOCIAL LIFE 1. Sociology and the Social Sciences demography, this book challenges, within both
2. Social Groups and Social Institutions 3. The reconstructs demographic global and national
Nature of Society PART II: SOCIALIZATION change in some districts of contexts. The book
AND THE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE 4. southern India from 1881 to highlights the need to
The Family 5. The State 6. The Economic System 1981. The book provides a surmount political and
PART III: THE FORMS OF SOCIAL CONTROL detailed annual series of economic difficulties, the
7. Custom and Law 8. Morality and Religion 9. The corrected vital statistics for requirement to mobilise
Educational System PART IV: THE AGENCIES OF a full century based on allies in government and civil society, and a
SOCIAL CHANGE 10. Heredity and Environment hitherto underutilised plethora of social conditions which will require
11. The Race Problem 12. Culture and Civilization registration data, and uses conventional methods careful study and negotiation before policies are
13. Social Stratification 14. Industry and Social of history and demography to analyse the drawn up and implemented.
Change PART V: THE MARCH OF SOCIAL demographic dynamics.
CHANGE 15. Natural and Social Selection Contributors: Rama Baru, Cristiana Bastos,
16. Population 17. Social Evolution and Progress Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Making Sense of Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Catherine Campbell, Anne-
Colonial Artefacts Database and Correction Emanuelle Birn, Rajib Dasgupta, Andrew Gibbs,
2010 978-81-250-3959-4 ` 310 402pp Paperback Procedures 3. Contexts of Demographic Change Judith Green, Ross Gribbin, Sarah Hodgson,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5045-2 4. Demographic Trends 5. Determinants of Amarjit Kaur, Kelley Lee, Michael Lewis, Anne
Fertility Change in Southern India 6. Conclusion Marie Moulin, Iroshi Nishiura, Diana Obregón,
Health, Illness and Medicine Francesca Perlman, Susan B. Rifkin, Ricardo
2010 978-81-250-3862-7 ` 925 265pp Hardback Sabates, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Ritu Sadana,
Ethnographic Readings Kalinga Tudor Silva, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan,
Idea of Gujarat, The Akihito Suzuki, Simon Szreter, Togo Tsukahara,
Edited by Arima Mishra, Assistant Professor, Kohei Wakimura
Department of Sociology, University of Delhi History, Ethnography and Text
2010 978-81-250-3982-2 ` 1040 432pp Hardback
Health, Illness and Medicine Edited by Edward Simpson, senior lecturer
attempts to understand the in social anthropology, School of Oriental and Towards a Critical Medical
existing and future potential African Studies, University of London, and Practice
of the sociology of medicine Aparna Kapadia, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow,
in the Indian context and University of Oxford, UK Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical
beyond. The book is unique Culture Today
in that it brings together See anthropology and ethnography
research studies that are Edited by Anand Zachariah, Professor of
theoretically informed and 2010 978-81-250-4113-9 ` 850 284pp Hardback Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore,
ethnographically grounded. R. Srivatsan, Senior Fellow, Anveshi Research
Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad, and
Contents: Introduction Susie Tharu, former Professor and Coordinator,
1. Medical Pluralism in India: The Interface of School of Critical Humanities, English and Foreign
Complementary and Alternative Therapies Languages University, Hyderabad

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38  SOCIOLOGY conundrums of a globalized discourse and national Disability and Society
problematics of racism and casteism.
Towards a Critical Medical A Reader
Practice is the outcome of a Abridged Contents: PART I: CASTE AND
dialogue between a RACE PART II: DURBAN 2001 AND AFTER Edited by Renu Addlakha, Senior Fellow, Centre
self-critical medicine and the PART III: WHAT’S IN A CATEGORY PART IV: for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi,
new social sciences that ACTORS, MOMENTS. HISTORIES Stuart Blume, Professor Emeritus, Department
offers original perspectives of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
on the crisis. A set of Contributors: Shyam Babu, Gerald Berreman, Amsterdam, Patrick Devlieger, Senior Lecturer,
historical studies provides William Darity, Virginia R. Domingirez, V. Geeta, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of
fresh insights into the Paul Greenough, Gopal Guru, Kancha Ilaiah, Katya Leuven, Belgium, Osamu Nagase, Associate
dilemmas that surround Gibel Mevorach, Balmurli Natrajan, Gail Omvedt, Professor, Graduate School of Economics,
cholera, kalaazar, post- Deepa S. Reddy, Katrina M. Sauders, Gary Tarta University of Tokyo, and Myriam Winance,
traumatic stress disorder, ischemic heart disease, Kov, Sukhdeo Thorat research scholar at INSERM (the French National
and undernutrition in contemporary India. Research Institute for Health and Medicine)
Another group of papers argue that the public 2009 978-81-250-3600-5 ` 1095 504pp Hardback
health focus on large-scale preventive programmes E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5246-3 In the 1980s and 1990s,
has resulted in the underdevelopment of primary disabled scholars in the
care in the curative mode. Doctors trained in a Burden of Refuge, The west began to develop a
tertiary setting are ill-equipped to provide radical critique of
appropriate medical care in any other context. The Partition Experiences of the Sindhis of biomedical conceptions of
The constant everyday work of translating Gujarat disability that focused
knowledge and experience to address a local exclusively on the individual
situation and doing justice to the individual patient Rita Kothari, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, body and its limitations.
remains largely invisible and undervalued in and Head, Katha Academic Centre They also exposed the
modern medicine. Theorising this practice, be it in failure of the social sciences
teaching or in research, will open up new See anthropology and ethnography to critically address what
directions in health care and medical education. this medical under-standing of disability meant, and
2009 978-81-250-3673-9 ` 495 240pp Paperback what it excluded from consideration. Out of their
Abridged Contents: Introduction: The work emerged what is generally called the ‘social
Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today SECTION I: Culture, Society and model’ of disability. This book introduces readers
GENEALOGIES OF MEDICINE IN INDIA Development in India in Asian countries to the recent disability literature
SECTION II: HEALTH IN THE TIME OF of the West.
DEVELOPMENT: PRIMARY HEALTH Essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi
CARE, NUTRITION AND POPULATION Abridged Contents: Disability and Rehabilitation
CONTROL SECTION III: TERTIARY CARE Edited by Manoj Kumar Sanyal, economist and in Europe and North America; Disability and
MEDICINE, EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE, former Senior (ICSSR) Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Rehabilitation in Asia PART I: DISABILITY IN
PHARMACEUTICALS AND COST SECTION University, New Delhi, and Arunabha Ghosh, MEDICINE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY PART II:
IV: THINKING WITH THE PATIENT SECTION a connoisseur of films and literature based in LIFE WITH A DISABILITY PART III: SOCIAL
V: RESOURCES OF PRACTICE: CALIBRATING Kolkata LIFE WITH A DISABILITY: INTEGRATION
MEDICINE TO THE NEEDS OF PATIENTS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION PART IV:
This volume collects writings by authors across TECHNOLOGY AND REHABILITATION
2010 978-81-250-4091-0 ` 775 373pp Hardback disciplines on issues that have engaged eminent PART V: POLITICAL LIFE WITH A DISABILITY:
economic historian Amiya Kumar Bagchi. The DISABILITY POLITICS AND POLICY
Against Stigma e-book eleven essays define and develop the concepts of
tradition, modernity, post modernism, liberty and 2009 978-81-250-3686-9 ` 950 476pp Paperback
Studies in Caste, Race and Justice since humanism in the Indian context.
Durban Imagining Multilingual
Abridged Contents: Schools
series: new perspectives in south asian history PART I: LANGUAGE,
CULTURE AND THE Languages in Education and Glocalization
Edited by Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor, INDIAN MIDDLE CLASS:
Department of Anthropology, William Paterson THE DEVELOPMENT Edited by Ofelia García, Professor at Teachers
University, New Jersey, and Paul Greenough, DILEMMA PART II: College, Columbia University, Tove Skutnabb-
Professor of History, Community and Behavioral WOMEN IN REAL LIFE, Kangas, Guest Researcher, Department of
UTOPIAS AND FICTIONS Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde,
Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City PART III: MUSIC AND Denmark, and María E. Torres-Guzmán,
ART: PAST AND PRESENT Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia
Against Stigma carries fifteen PART IV: POPULAR University, New York
essays that build upon the INDIAN CINEMA:
energies generated in IDEOLOGY, CULTURE AND BUSINESS This book brings together
scholarship as a result of the visions and realities of
landmark 2001 World Contributors: Barnita Bagchi, Partha Sarathi multilingual schools
Conference Against Racism, Banerjee, Shyam Benegal, Shantanu Bhattacharyya, throughout the world in
Racial Discrimination, Sampa Chaudhuri, Indra Nath Chaudhuri, order to examine the
Xenophobia and Related Arunabha Ghosh, Rajesh Kochhar, Srimati Lal, pedagogical, socio-
Intolerance at Durban, Mrinal Pandey, Partha Ray, Manoj Kumar Sanyal educational and socio-
South Africa. The political issues that impact
contributors, who represent a multiplicity of 2009 978-81-250-3707-1 ` 625 192pp Hardback on their development and
disciplines and intellectual orientations, explore
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success. Written by well-known scholars, the Race, Class and ‘White Subalternity’ in Selected Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION
book affirms the desirability of multilingualism as a Colonial India PART II: MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION:
societal resource and as a right of individuals. APPROACHES AND CONSTRAINTS PART
Harald Fischer Tiné, Professor of History, ETH III: GLOBAL AND LOCAL TENSIONS AND
Selected Contents: PART 1: INTRODUCTION Zürich (Swiss Federal institute of Technology, PROMISES IN MLE PART IV: MLE IN THEORY
PART 2: PEDAGOGIES, VALUES AND SCHOOLS Zurich) AND PRACTICE—DIVERSITY IN INDIGENOUS
PART 3: EXTENDING FORMAL INSTRUCTIONAL EXPERIENCE PART V: MLE IN THEORY AND
SPACES PART 4: TENSIONS BETWEEN MULTIPLE In examining the history of PRACTICE—DIVERSITY IN SOUTH ASIAN
REALITIES PART 5: NEGOTIATING POLICIES OF white non-elite groups such TRIBAL EXPERIENCE PART VI: ANALYSING
IMPLEMENTATION as European sailors, vagrants, PROSPECTS FOR MLE TO INCREASE SOCIAL
criminals and prostitutes, JUSTICE
2009 978-81-250-3654-8 ` 695 342pp Paperback and elite efforts to either
‘reclaim’ or hide them from Contributors: Rama Kant Agnihotri, Carol
Indigeneity the ‘native gaze’, this book Benson, Jim Cummins, Ofelia García, Kathleen
challenges received ways of Heugh, David Hough, Dhir Jhingran, Ram Bahadur
Culture and Representation interpreting colonial rule. Thapa Magar, Teresa McCarty, Ajit K. Mohanty,
The study makes a strong Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Andrea Bear Nicholas,
Edited by G. N. Devy, Founder, Bhasha Research case for understanding Iina Nurmela, Susanne Jacobsen Pérez , Robert
and Publication Centre, Vadodara, Geoffrey V. colonial power relations not in terms of a fixed Phillipson, Ulla Aikio-Puoskari, Gumidyal Ramesh,
Davis, Professor of Anglophone Post-colonial ‘white-over-black’ contestation but rather as a N. Upender Reddy, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Shelley
Literature, Universities of Aachen and Duisberg- situational, contextual and dynamic system. K. Taylor, Amrit Yonjan-Tamang
Essen, and K. K. Chakravarty, Secretary, Indira
Gandhi National Centre for the Arts Selected Contents: 1. Difficult Differences: 2009 978-81-250-3698-2 ` 1100 408pp Paperback
British Rule in India between Material Constraints Rights: Restricted
See anthropology and ethnography and Imperial Ideologies 2. Flotsam and Jetsam
of the Empire? European Seamen and Spaces of Power, e-book
2009 978-81-250-3664-7 ` 1095 405pp Paperback Disease and Disorder in Colonial Calcutta
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4872-5 3. Class Prejudice, European ‘Loaferism’ and Knowledge, Medicine
the Workhouse System in Colonial India 4. Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home and in
Linguistic Imperialism ‘White Women Degrading Themselves to the the World
Continued Lowest Depths’: European Prostitutes and
Double Transgression 5. Hierarchies of Crime Madhulika Banerjee, Department of Political
Robert Phillipson, Professor Emeritus, and Punishment: European Convicts and the Science, University of Delhi
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Racial Dividend 6. Reclaiming Savages in ‘Darkest
England’ and ‘Darkest India’: The Salvation Army as The breadth of the canvas
This book brings together Transnational Agent of the Civilising Mission and the range of questions
writings by Robert posed … will encourage
Phillipson. Among the 2009 978-81-250-3701-9 ` 975 452pp Hardback researchers to engage with
central concerns of the this neglected aspect of
book are English in Multilingual Education for Indian social and political
globalisation and the Social Justice reality.
neoliberal empire, how the
project of establishing Globalising the Local —Economic and Political
English as a ‘world’ language Weekly
came about, and the balance Edited by Ajit K. Mohanty, Professor of
between English and other Psychology, Minati Panda, Associate Professor This book draws insights
languages in higher education. of the Social Psychology of Education, both at from the various disciplines that have analysed
the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies, different aspects of Ayurveda; yet its principal focus
Selected Contents: Linguistic Imperialism—An Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Robert is on making sense of some of the big changes that
Introductory Encyclopaedia Entry 1. The Study Phillipson, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen have marked the transformation of Ayurveda in the
of Continued Linguistic Imperialism, 2. English in Business School, Denmark, and Tove Skutnabb- twentieth century.
the New World Order: Variations on a Theme Kangas, Guest Researcher, Department of
of Linguistic Imperialism and ‘World’ English Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde, Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The
3. Language Policy and Linguistic Imperialism Denmark Archaeology of a Pharmaceutical 2. Policy
4. Linguistic Imperialism: A Conspiracy, or a and Practice of the Post-Colonial State
Conspiracy of Silence? 5. English, no Longer a The book resonates with 3. Response and Resistance from Civil Society
Foreign Language in Europe? 6. The Linguistic the contemporary Indian 4. Commercialisation and the Forms of
Imperialism of Neoliberal Empire 7. Lingua franca scene, where language, Commodification 5. Standardisation and Logic
or Lingua Frankensteinia? English in European particularly as a medium of of Pharmaceuticalisation 6. Globalisation and the
Integration and Globalisation 8. English in Higher learning, has become a Trend towards Herbalisation Conclusions
Education, Panacea or Pandemic? fiercely contested terrain.
The scales are disastrously 2009 978-81-250-3528-2 ` 1095 360pp Hardback
2009 978-81-250-3748-4 ` 550 296pp Paperback tilting to suit the elite design E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5293-7
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40  SOCIOLOGY Providing a wealth of Eliminating Human Poverty
statistical and quantitative
Rebuilding Buddhism evidence and compiled by Macroeconomic and Social Policies for
leading economists working Equitable Growth
The Theravada Movement in Twentieth- at the forefront of this area,
Century Nepal this book argues that these Santosh Mehrotra, human development
challenges are not economist with the United Nations, and Enrique
[With Social Science Press] insurmountable, but Delamonica, economist and political scientist,
societies everywhere need who is a consultant for UNICEF and UNDP
Sarah Levine, Associate Professor, Sanskrit and to put in place the required
India Studies, Harvard University, and David N. policies to confront them This book focuses on the
Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology and effectively. provision of basic social
Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford services, in particular, access
2008 978-81-250-3526-8 ` 695 272pp Paperback to education, health and water
See anthropology and ethnography Rights: Restricted supplies strategy. The authors
address the issue of how
2009 978-81-87358-39-8 ` 795 396pp Hardback Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds these basic social services can
Rights: Restricted be financed and delivered
Postcolonial Perspectives more effectively to achieve
Scripting Lives the internationally agreed
Debjani Ganguly, Head, Humanities Research Millennium Development
Narratives of Dominant Women in Kerala Centre, Research School of Humanities, Australian Goals. Their analysis presents the results of the
National University broad-ranging research they led at UNICEF and the
Edited by Sharmila Shreekumar, Associate UNDP, investigating the record on basic social
Professor, Department of Humanities and Social This book attempts to services of some thirty developing countries.
Sciences, IIT Bombay come to terms with the
presence of caste in late 2008 978-81-250-3386-8 ` 850 448pp Paperback
The book examines diverse modern India by asking two Rights: Restricted
discourses around tourism, questions: How do we read
AIDS and sexual violence caste today? Why is it no Fatalism and Development
and argues that present-day longer enough to brand
Kerala maps two opposing caste as pre-modern and Nepal’s Struggle for Modernization
worlds. It imagines itself as a backward? The author
perfected utopia and, argues that caste is less an Dor Bahadur Bista, Anthropologist, former
simultaneously, as a essence responsible for Nepalese Consul-General in Tibet, and former
dystopian society on the India’s ‘backwardness’ as an Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu
edge of collapse. The book assemblage of a variety of secular and non-secular
analyses personal narratives practices and affects that generate everyday life in A bold and incisive analysis
to trace how women of relative privilege configure India, while being in a constant state of flux. of Nepal’s society and its
their selves. attempts to develop and
This is a very learned work, familiar with many respond to change. Dor
2009 978-81-250-3680-7 ` 995 324pp Paperback fields, interdisciplinary in relaxed attentive ways. Bahadur Bista travelled all
over Nepal in the company
1857 —John Docker, Australian National University of the anthropologist
Christoph von Furer-
Essays from Economic and Political Weekly Debjani Ganguly has chosen an intellectually Haimendorf, which helped
ambitious project, one that demands both archival him acquire an insight that
This volume marks the and interpretational skills…. This is an important enables him to make an
sesquicentennial of the move. objective and frank comment on his country.
events of 1857, in which
multi-pronged, widespread —Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University 2008 978-81-250-3460-5 ` 250 200pp Paperback
and in many instances,
organised resistance broke 2008 978-81-250-3430-8 ` 575 300pp Paperback Gramsci is Dead
out against the British across Rights: Restricted
north India. The Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social
contributions in this volume Dishonoured by History Movements
look at several aspects of
1857, and analyse the events ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy Richard J. F. Day, Assistant Professor of
not merely in terms of the Sociology, Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada
immediate effects, but in terms of the repercussions Meena Radhakrishna, Department of Sociology,
that they had politically, socially, and militarily. Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi Gramsci and the concept of
hegemony cast a long shadow
2008 978-0-00106-485-0 ` 295 372pp Paperback See anthropology and ethnography over radical political theory.
Yet how far has this theory got
Ageing and Development 2008 978-81-250-3403-2 ` 595 240pp Paperback us? The book draws together a
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5331-6 variety of different strands in
Edited by Rob Vos, Director, Development Policy political theory to weave an
and Analysis Division, Department of Economic innovative new approach to
and Social Affairs, UN, José Antonio Ocampo, politics today. From Hegel’s
Professor, Professional Practice of International concept of recognition,
and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, through theories of hegemony
and Ana Luiza Cortez, Chief, Secretariat of the
Committee for Development Policy, Department
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ethnicity, cultural competence and identities.
and affinity to Hardt and Negri’s reflections on Bilingualism or Not
Empire, Day maps academia’s theoretical concerns 2008 978-81-250-3461-2 ` 1395 820pp Paperback
onto today’s politics of the street. Rights: Restricted The Education of Minorities

2008 978-81-250-3246-5 ` 650 262pp Paperback Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, guest researcher,
Rights: Restricted Department of Languages and Culture, University
of Roskilde, Denmark
In the Presence of Sai Baba Taking Traditional e-book
Knowledge to the Market People from linguistic
Body, City and Memory in a Global minorities often have to
Religious Movement The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and become multilingual in
Unani Industry, 1980–2000 order to cope in the larger
Smriti Srinivas, Associate Professor of society, while majority
Anthropology, University of California, Davis series: new perspectives in south asian history representatives may
voluntarily become bilingual.
See anthropology and ethnography Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of The book analyses the
Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of problems migrants and
2008 978-81-250-3481-0 ` 750 424pp Paperback Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam indigenous peoples face in a
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The author explores the situation, often having to forgo the use of their
Language, e-book paradox at the heart of the mother language. It also analyses controversies
ayurvedic and unani about their education, and places them in the
Ideology and Power medicine manufacturing wider political context.
Language-learning among the Muslims of industry—to present itself
Pakistan and North India as modern and traditional, 2007 978-81-250-3268-7 ` 775 404pp Paperback
common and professional at Rights: Restricted
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor the same time.
of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National Dreams, Questions, Struggles
Selected Contents:
Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University, 1. The Anatomy of the South Asian Women in Britain
Study: Object, Method and
Islamabad Process 2. The Kitchen, the Government and the Amrit Wilson, British writer and political activist
Market: The Commoditisation of Indian Medicines
This is the first book-length 3. Manufacturers, Products and Markets: Popular This book testifies to a
study of the history of Culture, Medicine, Biomedical Enclaving, and multiplicity of struggles,
language teaching and Humoral Clinical Medicine 4. Reworking Ayurvedic individual and collective,
learning among South Asian and Unani Medicines through Modern Science through which South Asian
Muslims. It traces the and Technology: The Gap between Humoral women, across divisions of
history of language-teaching and Modern Pharmacology 5. Indian Medicine, class, community, age and
among the Muslims of north Authenticity and Identity: The Construction of religion, are seeking to take
India and present-day an Indian Modernity 6. The Representation of control of their lives. It
Pakistan, and then relates Indian Indigenous Medical Products in Advertising: looks at the role of the
language-learning (the Tradition, Modernity and Nature British state, of relentless
demand) and teaching (the pressures of the market,
supply) to ideology (or worldview) and power. 2008 978-81-250-3315-8 ` 765 272pp Hardback and of the politics of South Asia on shaping gender
Rights: Restricted relations over the last thirty years; and discusses
2008 978-81-250-3463-6 ` 1295 660pp Paperback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5343-9 how South Asian masculinities have been
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5315-6 reconfigured by multicultural policies and by
politicised religion.
Linguistic Genocide in Women of the e-book
Education or Worldwide Mahabharata, The 2007 978-81-250-3196-3 ` 490 200pp Paperback
Diversity and Human Rights? Rights: Restricted
The Question of Truth
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, guest researcher, En-gendering Individuals
Department of Languages and Culture, University Chaturvedi Badrinath, philosopher and
of Roskilde, Denmark member of the IAS between 1957 and 1989 J. Devika, Research Associate, Centre for
Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas The twelve women of the
shows how most indigenous Mahabharata who are the This book explores how, in
and minority education focus of this work are those early modern Malayalee
contributes to linguistic who have been reduced to society, the emerging notion
genocide. She brings cut-outs and caricatures or of the individual (as distinct
together a unique set of not known at all. They teach from an identity based on
theoretical concerns and us the profound truths jati, region, etc.) was linked
research areas: linguistic about human life. Given to the vision of a society
human rights; minority and Badri’s ability to combine based on gender differences.
multilingual education; respect and love, to write The process of
language ecology and with scholarship and individualising thus also
threatened languages; the humanism, the work is an ode to femininity. became a process of
relationship between biodiversity and linguistic and engendering. The book
cultural diversity; the impact of linguistic 2008 978-81-250-3514-5 ` 575 288pp Paperback
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knowledge. the volume come from
explores how social reform, notions of the different parts of the world,
individual, and the creation of a ‘gendered’ —Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University and this makes the
individual came together in early modern Kerala. collection a truly cross-
2007 978-81-250-3111-6 ` 695 344pp Paperback cultural attempt to
2007 978-81-250-3071-3 ` 820 346pp Hardback Rights: Restricted re-examine nationalism and
understand its complex
Food for Beginners Global Issues in Languages, negotiations in the present.
Education and Development

Susan George 2007 978-81-250-3363-9 ` 1150 296pp Hardback
Illustrated by Nigel Paige Perspectives from Postcolonial Countries
Negotiating Empowerment
This is not a cookbook. It Naz Rassool, Institute of Education, University of
contains food for thought Reading, UK Studies in English Language Education
and the recipes of power
over millions who live under This book examines the Premakumari Dheram, Professor, School of
the constant threat of role that language-in- English Language Education in English and Foreign
famine. Most are food education policy, Languages University, Hyderabad
producing peasants in the historically, has played in
Third World. The baffling shaping possibilities for The essays offer an
question is: Why are so development, within international perspective on
many food producers, countries in the Sub-Saharan language use and pedagogy,
rather than we, their and South Asian regions. relating to both theory and
consumer, the first to go hungry? Food for Beginners This discussion takes application, in various
takes a cold, clear look at the facts and myths of account also of the complex countries including
food production, and provides answers. ways in which language, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan,
education and development are linked to the Sri Lanka, Hong Kong,
2007 978-81-250-3197-0 ` 275 176pp Paperback changing global labour market. Key questions are Switzerland and the United
Rights: Restricted raised regarding the impact of international policy States of America. The
imperatives on development possibilities. volume highlights issues
Friendship, Interiority and such as identity construction, self-esteem,
Mysticism 2007 978-81-250-3267-0 ` 850 312pp Paperback economic and intellectual empowerment, and the
Rights: Restricted role of the individual and state in the context of
Essays in Dialogue English as a second language.
Indian Cities in Transition
Susan Visvanathan, Professor of Sociology, 2007 978-81-250-3231-1 ` 550 240pp Paperback
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Edited by Annapurna Shaw, Professor,
Regional Development Group, Indian Institute of New Cosmopolitanisms
See anthropology and ethnography Management Calcutta
South Asians in the US
2007 978-81-250-3221-2 ` 820 268pp Hardback Urban India has been in
transition for centuries but, Gita Rajan, Visiting Professor, Women’s
Geopolitics of Academic perhaps, never more so Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York,
Writing, A than since the last decade of and Associate Professor, Fairfield University,
the twentieth century when Connecticut, and Shailja Sharma, Associate
Suresh Canagarajah, faculty in the department the economy was opened Professor, Department of English, De Paul
of English, City University of New York wide to international University, Chicago
competition. The objective
The book critiques current of this book is to This book offers an in-depth
scholarly publishing understand the nature of look at the ways in which
practices and principles, change that Indian cities technology, travel and
exposing the inequalities in have been undergoing from globalisation have altered
the way academic a multidisciplinary perspective. traditional patterns of
knowledge is constructed immigration for South
and legitimised. Canagarajah 2007 978-81-250-3205-2 ` 1195 544pp Hardback Asians who live and work in
examines the broad the United States and also
Western conventions Nation in Imagination explains how their popular
governing academic writing cultural practices and
and argues that their Essays on Nationalism, Sub-Nationalisms aesthetic desires are
dominance leads to the marginalisation of the and Narration changing. They are presented as the twenty-first
knowledge of Third World communities. century’s ‘new cosmopolitanisms’: flexible enough
Edited by C. Vijayasree, Osmania University, to adjust to globalisation’s economic, political and
... a bold and intellectually honest attempt to Hyderabad, Meenakshi Mukherjee, Jawaharlal cultural imperatives, yet maintaining elements of
deal with the ethnography of writing focusing Nehru University, New Delhi, Harish Trivedi, their distinct identity.
University of Delhi, and T. Vijay Kumar,
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technology and
Political Theologies development in the context Christians adopted, resisted
of citizenship. It also and reshaped both imperial
Public Religions in a Post-Secular World considers how knowledge is and nationalist perceptions
framed and why justice and of their identity.
[With Social Science Press] democracy are essential in a
time of rapid advances in 2006 978-0-415-32321-5 ` 750 305pp Hardback
Edited by Hent de Vries, Professor of the sciences. Rights: Restricted
Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
USA, and University of Amsterdam, and 2007 978-81-250-2940-3 ` 490 304pp Paperback Culture of the New
Lawrence E. Sullivan, Professor of World Rights: Restricted Capitalism, The
Religions, University of Notre Dame, Indiana,
USA Terror and Violence Richard Sennett, Department of Sociology,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and London
This book opens an inquiry Imagination and the Unimaginable School of Economics
concerning the engagement
of religion with politics. The Edited by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart, This book surveys major
seventeen papers examine both at the Department of Anthropology, University differences between earlier
interrelationships between of Pittsburgh, USA, and Neil L. Whitehead, forms of industrial
the political, economic and Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies, capitalism and the more
cultural characteristics of University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA global, more febrile, ever
the ‘age of globalization’ and more mutable version of
the vision of society and See anthropology and ethnography capitalism that is taking its
structures of governance place. The author shows
developed by religious traditions while considering 2007 978-81-250-3243-4 ` 490 260pp Paperback how these changes affect
if religion might give people a chance to lead Rights: Restricted everyday life—how the
better lives. work ethic is changing; how
Yuganta new beliefs about merit and
2007 978-81-87358-36-7 ` 795 360pp Hardback talent displace old values of craftsmanship and
The End of an Epoch (Reissue) achievement; how ‘the spectre of uselessness’
Refiguring e-book haunts professionals as well as manual workers;
Irawati Karve, renowned sociologist and writer, and how the boundary between consumption and
Unani Tibb who wrote in both English and Marathi politics is dissolving.
Plural Healing in Late Colonial India
Yuganta studies the Contents: 1. Bureaucracy 2. Talent and the
Guy Attewell, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust principal, mythical-heroic Specter of Uselessness 3. Consuming Politics 4.
Centre for the History of Medicine, University figures of the Mahabharata Social Capitalism in Our Time
from historical,
College London anthropological and secular 2006 978-81-250-3066-9 ` 490 224pp Paperback
perspectives. The usually Rights: Restricted
This book explores a variety venerated characters of this
of sites of unani practice ancient Indian epic are here Dalit Visions
spanning popular and subjected to a rational
institutional domains as a enquiry that places them in Gail Omvedt, former Chair Professor,
means of understanding the context, unravels their Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and
changing trajectories of tibb hopes and fears, and imbues them with wholly Development, Indira Gandhi National Open
(which means ‘medicine’ in human motives, thereby making their stories University, New Delhi, India
Arabic) in India throughout relevant and revelatory to contemporary readers.
the twentieth century. The This book explores and
study also looks at and 2007 978-81-250-3228-1 ` 395 224pp Paperback critiques the sensibility
understands tibb in relation which equates Indian
to ayurveda, biomedicine, homeopathy, ‘folk’ and Christians and Public Life in tradition with Hinduism, and
religious healing, apart from emphasising a Colonial South India, Hinduism with Brahmanism,
comparative approach that focuses on south and 1863–1937 which considers the Vedas
central India. as the foundational texts of
Contending with Marginality Indian culture and discovers
2007 978-81-250-3017-1 ` 875 332pp Hardback within the Aryan heritage
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5 Edited by Mallampalli Chandra, Assistant the essence of Indian
Professor of History, Westmont College, California civilisation. It shows that
Science and Citizens even secular minds remain imprisoned within this
This book tells the story of how Catholic and Brahmanical vision, and the language of secular
Globalisation and the Challenge of Protestant Indians have attempted to locate
Engagement themselves within the evolving Indian nation. The
book first explains how the Indian judiciary’s
Edited by Melissa Leach, Ian Scoones, ‘official knowledge’ isolated Christians from Indian
Professorial Fellows, Institute of Development notions of family, caste and nation. It then
Studies, Sussex, UK, and Bryan Wynne, describes how different varieties and classes of
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44  SOCIOLOGY movements that have between boys/girls, the disabled/non-disabled, and
occurred and still continue the rich/poor.
discourse is often steeped in a Hindu ethos. It looks in Pakistan, such as the
at alternative traditions, nurtured within dalit Bengali, Sindhi, Pashto and 2006 978-81-250-2909-0 ` 695 312pp Hardback
movements, which have questioned this way of Punjabi movements, to
looking at Indian society and its history. name a few. Syrian Christians of Kerala,
The
2006 978-81-250-2895-6 ` 375 120pp Paperback 2006 978-81-250-3077-5 ` 675 340pp Paperback
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English-Vernacular Divide, Transition in the Twentieth Century
The Multilingualism in India
K. C. Zachariah, Honorary Fellow, Centre for
Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice Edited by Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, linguist Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
and educationist
Vaidehi Ramanathan, Professor, Department of This book describes the
Linguistics, University of California, Davis, USA This edited volume of eight demographic transition of
essays discusses sociology, the Syrian Christian
The book critically examines psychology, pedagogy and population in Kerala. It goes
the role of English in a demographic aspects of on to examine the growth
postcolonial, multilingual multilingualism. They bring of the Christian population
society such as India. The out some of the salient in Kerala in the context of
book argues that issues of problems of literacy in a its growth in India. The
inequality, subordination and multilingual country like book also explains the
unequal values stem from the India and give a language socio-economic transition
positioning of English vis-à-vis planning perspective. This of the Syrian Christians. The
the regional languages. book will appeal to sociolinguists, cognitive book concludes by drawing
Drawing from her own psychologists, social scientists and educators. attention to projected demographic trends.
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Department of Sociology and Anthropology, research findings of Action
School, Society, Nation Research on Trafficking in
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Popular Essays in Education India (ARTWAC) that
Kerala’s prolonged involved the United Nations
economic stagnation, Edited by Rajni Kumar, educationist and Development Fund for
mounting fiscal deficits, high Founder-Principal of Springdales School, New Women, the National
unemployment and social Delhi, Anil Sethi, Department of History, and Human Rights Commission
and political atrophy stood Shalini Sikka, Department of English, both at the and the Institute of Social
in contradiction to its high University of Delhi Sciences. Through a human rights perspective, the
literacy levels and low infant first section of this book analyses the data
mortality and birth rates. This book is an anthology of generated by ARTWAC and gives detailed
The essays examine the twenty essays on the recommendations for better judicial interventions,
two-faced nature of Kerala’s problems and challenges of law enforcement and community participation in
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Pakistan educational methods that do not discriminate
The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor Lyla Mehta
of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National
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Thomas Kuhn Social Change in Modern India Situating Social History

A Philosophical History for Our Times M. N. Srinivas, is an eminent Social Anthropologist Orissa, 1800–1997
Steve Fuller series: new perspectives in south asian history
2003 978-81-250-0422-6 ` 260 200pp Paperback
2005 978-81-250-2813-0 ` 750 504pp Paperback Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department of History, Sri
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Asia
Gender, Politics and Islam 2001 978-81-250-2007-3 ` 600 196pp Hardback
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Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen, and Judith Howard Edited by Paul R. Brass and Achin Vanaik
Derrida for Beginners
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Jim Powell
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Past and Present The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia Since 1968, in coffeehouses
Axel Michaels Ahmed Rashid, journalist based in Lahore around the world,
intellectuals have been
2004 978-81-250-2776-8 ` 490 448pp Paperback 2002 978-81-250-2228-2 ` 425 304pp Paperback talking about Jacques
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Illustrated by Abbe Ludell ‘differance’ and defining the
J. B. P. More necessary Derridian
A concise, accessible terminology used to
2004 978-81-250-2632-7 ` 645 374pp Hardback introduction to the great communicate its meaning. Jim Powell’s
linguist who shaped the introduction is the most lucid available on Derrida.
Anthropology of Textbook study of language for the
North-East India, The twentieth century, Saussure 2000 978-81-250-1916-9 ` 315 191pp Paperback
for Beginners puts the Rights: Restricted
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focusing on the unifying Lydia Alix Fillingham
2003 978-81-250-2335-7 ` 345 386pp Paperback principles of his teachings Illustrated by Moshe Süsser
and showing how his thoughts on linguistics
Community, Empire and Migration migrated to anthropology. Michel Foucault’s work has
profoundly affected the
South Asians in Diaspora 2002 978-81-250-2232-9 ` 275 122pp Paperback teaching of such diverse
Edited by Crispin Bates Rights: Restricted disciplines as literary
criticism, criminology and
2003 978-81-250-2482-8 ` 660 334pp Paperback Hindi Nationalism gender studies. In Foucault
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Alok Rai, currently teaching in the Humanities discover Foucault’s deeply
Dynamics of Migration in Kerala Department of IIT, Delhi visual sense of scenes such
as ritual public executions.
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Edited by K. C. Zachariah, E. T. Mathew and 2000 978-81-250-1913-8 ` 275 156pp Paperback
S. Irudaya Rajan Human Landscape, The Rights: Restricted

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Alice Thorner and Maithreyi Krishnaraj
Tibetan Diaspora Impact of War on Children, The
Edited by Dagmar Bernstorff and Hubertus Von 2000 978-81-250-0843-9 ` 350 367pp Hardback
Welck Graca Machel
Intersections
2003 978-81-250-2555-9 ` 575 499pp Paperback 2001 978-81-250-2077-6 ` 395 264pp Paperback
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Nationalist Politics of Development and Identity
George Gheverghese Joseph Amit Prakash Anthropological Journeys

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Nation and National Identity in
Gujarat Carnage, The South Asia 1998 978-81-250-1221-4 ` 495 332pp Hardback

Asghar Ali Engineer S.L. Sharma, teaches Sociology at the Chandigarh Family in India, The
University, T.K. Oommen, teaches Sociology at the
2003 978-81-250-2496-5 ` 795 476pp Paperback Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Critical Essays
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5390-3 A.M. Shah, ICSSR National Fellow
2001 978-81-250-1924-4 ` 395 248pp Paperback
Practice of Sociology, The 1998 978-81-250-1306-8 ` 195 173pp Paperback

Maitrayee Chaudhuri teaches Sociology at the
Centre for the Study of Social Systems, School of
Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Delhi

2003 978-81-250-2512-2 ` 750 446pp Hardback

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46  SOCIOLOGY story. Also made available well as popular debates
here for the first time are throughout the nineteenth
Selections from the Prison some wonderful letters and twentieth centuries
Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci that Kosambi wrote to, over the meaning of
among others, the scientist tradition, culture,
Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith Homi Bhabha and the colonialism, and modernity.
writer-historian Robert
1996 978-81-250-0969-6 ` 695 580pp Paperback Graves. These reveal 2013 978-81-7824-375-7 ` 395 320pp Paperback
Kosambi’s mastery of the 2007 978-81-7824-207-1 ` 650 320pp Hardback
Caste, Religion and Country epistolary art. Other Rights: Restricted
sections contain tributes to
A View of Ancient and Medieval India  Kosambi by his friends, and essays by major Homeless on e-book
S. V. Desikachar contemporary scholars on his contributions in Google Earth
diverse fields. The volume gives a new and
1993 978-0-86311-255-3 ` 330 270pp Hardback well-rounded picture of Kosambi’s writings, as Mukul Kesavan
1993 978-0-86311-256-0 ` 250 270pp Paperback well as mature assessments of his scholarship by
some of the best minds of our time. ‘Homeless’ in the title of
PERMANENT BLACK this book means
2014 978-81-7824-384-9 ` 595 402pp Paperback ‘cosmopolitan’. Mukul
Bodies of Song 2012 978-81-7824-365-8 ` 895 402pp Hardback Kesavan, considered by
many to be India’s most
Kabir Oral Traditions and Performative Caste in Modern India articulate and sophisticated
Worlds in North India scholar-journalist in English,
A Reader (Two Volume Set) covers a huge range of
Linda Hess, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies political and cultural
at Stanford University Sumit Sarkar has been Professor of History subjects, local and
at the University of Delhi and Tanika Sarkar, international, in this
Kabir’s work lends itself to topics that range from Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru collection of opinion pieces. These include
the religious-spiritual to the social-political, urging University. Hollywood and Bollywood, Salman Rushdie and
fearless awakening while simultaneously rejecting Martin Amis, Steve Jobs and Julian Assange, Sri
religious identities.Bodies of Song draws on Caste is the key category in Lanka and Israel, wildlife at the Kruger National
ethnographic research as well as on the history of contemporary Indian social Park and beachlife in Goa.
written collections to study the poetry and culture thinking. This anthology
of Kabir—the first scholarly work of its kind. It picks out some of the best Kesavan’s viewpoints can veer from being
focuses on texts—their transmission by singers, essays on the subject in scrupulously rational to extravagantly
the dynamics of textual forms in oral performance, order to explore specific funny. Regardless of the tone he adopts, his
and the connections between texts in oral forms, aspects of modern caste: observations are acute, his analysis of what
written forms, and other media. Professor Hess how the issue of caste was he notices Orwellian. The perspective and
also examines communities of interpretation— understood in colonial worldview that emerges is that of a truly global
including the Kabir Panth (a religious sect), Eklavya times, how it was re- intellectual who is both admirably idiosyncratic
(a secular educational NGO), and urban fans of created under conditions of and secular to the point of being hidebound, a
Kabir. modernity, and how various castes came to relate combination which makes this essay collection
to one another and to themselves in new ways. quite exceptional.
2016 978-81-7824-468-6 ` 895 488pp Hardback The essays also engage in debates that were first
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purity and power are questioned, while fresh E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-431-0
Language, Emotion, and perspectives are offered on jajmani. These two
Politics in South India volumes provide the most essential and thought- Unquiet Woods, The
provoking pieces on the subject.
The Making of a Mother Tongue Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance
2013 978-81-7824-369-6 ` 1900 1008pp Hardback in the Himalaya
Lisa Mitchell, Assistant Professor of Anthropology (Twentieth Anniversary Edition)
and History, Department of South Asia Studies, Creative Pasts
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Ramachandra Guha, eminent essayist and
Historical Memory and Identity in Western columnist
See anthropology and ethnography India 1700–1960
See anthropology and ethnography
2014 978-81-7824-390-0 ` 495 302pp Paperback Prachi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of
Rights: Restricted History, University of California, Berkeley 2013 978-81-7824-378-8 ` 495 280pp Paperback
2010 978-81-7824-293-4  ` 695 302pp Hardback 2010 978-81-7824-277-4 ` 495 280pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted The ‘Maratha period’ of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, when an independent
Unsettling the Past Maratha state successfully resisted the Mughals, is
a defining era in Indian history. The book examines
Unknown Aspects and Scholarly this period for various political projects in the
Assessments of D. D. Kosambi country at large, including anticolonial Hindu
nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as
Edited by Meera Kosambi, a sociologist

This book contains relatively unknown writings
by Kosambi, including several obscure but
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Trajectories of e-book SOCIOLOGY  47

Flaming Feet and Other the Indian State, The transformation of such terms of colonial liberalism
Essays, The Politics and Ideas as rights, equality, and personhood.

The Dalit Movement Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia 2011 978-81-7824-321-4 ` 495 414pp Paperback
University, New York, USA Rights: Restricted
D. R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator 2010 978-81-7824-286-6 ` 750 414pp Hardback
and cultural critic The author reveals the Rights: Restricted
variety of historical
See anthropology and ethnography trajectories taken by Indian Empire’s Garden
democracy. Indian political
2012 978-81-7824-358-0 ` 395 276pp Paperback structures, says Kaviraj, are Assam and the Making of India
Rights: Restricted comparable to the
2010 978-81-7824-276-7 ` 595 276pp Hardback pre-modern empire-states Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History,
Rights: Restricted of Indian and Islamic history. University of Toronto
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-422-8 He shows that there is no
way to examine present-day In the mid-nineteenth
Islam in South Asia politics except through painstaking reconnections century, the British created
with the vernacular facts of Indian political history. a landscape of tea
In Practice plantations in the north-
2012 978-81-7824-352-8 ` 495 290pp Paperback eastern Indian region of
Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emeritus of 2010 978-81-7824-288-0 ` 695 290pp Hardback Assam. Claiming that local
History, University of California, Davis E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-414-3 peasants were indolent, the
British soon began
The thirty-four selections— Women Writing Gender importing indentured labour
translated from Arabic, from central India. In the
Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Marathi Fiction Before Independence twentieth century, these migrants were joined by
Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, others who came voluntarily to seek their
Dakhani, and other Edited by Meera Kosambi, sociologist trained in livelihoods. In Empire’s Garden, Jayeeta Sharma
languages—highlight a wide India, Sweden and the USA explains how the settlement of more than one
variety of genres, many million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed the
rarely found in standard This book tells the several region’s social landscape.
accounts of Islamic practice, stories of how
from oral narratives to elite Maharashtrian women 2011 978-81-7824-343-6 ` 750 348pp Hardback
guidance manuals, from found a ‘voice’ in the late
devotional songs to secular judicial decisions nineteenth century. It shows Grassroots of Democracy,
arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters how they created a literary The
to a discussion among college women affiliated space for themselves,
with an “Islamist” organisation. deploying fiction to depict Field Studies of Indian Elections
worlds other than those
2012 978-81-7824-360-3 ` 545 504pp Paperback available in male writing, as Edited by A. M. Shah, former Professor of
Rights: Restricted well as dreams and Sociology, University of Delhi
2010 978-81-7824-297-2 ` 795 504pp Hardback aspirations unseen in society before they were
Rights: Restricted articulated by their fiction. Having been excluded Originally conceived by
from mainstream prose, women also created a India’s most influential
Listening to the Loom parallel reform discourse which displayed various modern anthropologist
shades of feminism. M.N. Srinivas and his
Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence eminent colleague A.M.
2012 978-81-7824-336-8 ` 795 386pp Hardback Shah, this book contains
D.R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator nineteen essays based on
and cultural critic Caste Question, The field studies of two national
elections in India’s rural,
Edited by Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, social Dalits and the Politics of Modern India tribal, and urban
historian communities, within ten
Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Indian states. Demonstrating the importance of
This book provides Barnard College, USA fieldwork for studying elections (as compared to
Nagaraj’s most important the questionnaire and interview method), this
writings on literature, Focusing on western India in book provides an entirely novel perspective on the
politics, and violence. Some the colonial and postcolonial study of elections—very different from the one
of the thirteen pieces here periods, this innovative usually projected through the interpretation of
are translated from Kannada work shines a light on South statistics. This sociologist’s micro-view contrasts
into English for the first Asian historiography and on with the more standard macro-view provided by
time, while others long ongoing caste discrimina­ political scientists, journalists, and psephologists.
unavailable have been tion, to show how persons
hunted out from scattered without rights came to 2011 978-81-7824-319-1 ` 425 406pp Paperback
sources. In the present possess them and how
volume, Nagaraj’s ear for the sound and sense of Dalit struggles led to the
things quintessentially Indian is everywhere
apparent.

2012 978-81-7824-330-6 ` 750 388pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted

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48  SOCIOLOGY This is an outstanding While the study of
book. Based on massive sociology/anthropology of
Indian Secularism archival research in Delhi, India is not purely a national
Jammu and Srinagar and the phenomenon (significant
A Social and Intellectual History, unearthing of rare Kashmiri scholars and centres for the
1890–1950 literary sources, it skilfully study of India exist outside
uncovers the religious its borders), and while
Shabnum Tejani, Lecturer in History, School of sensibilities that underlay Western theories have
Oriental and African Studies, University of London the formation of Kashmir’s been important factors, this
regional identity in the book demonstrates that
Shabnum Tejani shows that late-nineteenth and local influences—
the study of secularism in early-twentieth century.… theoretical, institutional and national—and local
India has been Languages of Belonging will light up new ways of personalities played a major role in shaping the
circumscribed by the understanding the formation of identities in South field.
opposition in which it exists Asia’s regions.
with communalism. Scholars 2010 978-81-7824-300-9 ` 595 580pp Paperback
have treated these —Sugata Bose, Harvard University Rights: Restricted
categories as reified wholes.
Consequently, analyses of 2011 978-81-7824-334-4 ` 495 366pp Paperback Education, Unemployment
secularism have obscured E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-402-0 and Masculinities in India
more than they have
revealed. The book examines how secularism Raga’n Josh [With Social Science Press]
came to be bound up with what it meant to
legitimately call oneself ‘Indian’ and shows why this Stories from a Musical Life Edited by Craig Jeffrey, Professor in Geography
concept’s genealogy is so imbued with the language and International Studies, University of
of religion. It argues that the emergence of the Sheila Dhar, musician Washington, Patricia Jeffrey, Professor of
category of secularism in India had less to do with Sociology, University of Edinburgh, UK, and
creating an ethics of tolerance than with a An accomplished singer, the Roger Jeffrey, Professor of Sociology of South
formulation of nationalism that provided a world Sheila Dhar inhabited Asia, University of Edinburgh, UK
counterpoint to challenges posed by Muslim and included renowned north
Untouchable communities. Indian classical musicians. Education is widely imputed
No writer has ever with the capacity to
2011 978-81-7824-312-2  ` 495 320pp Paperback conveyed the ethos of this transform the prospects of
world and the quirks of its the poor. But in the context
Islam Translated denizens with such wit, of widespread
irreverence, perceptiveness unemployment in rural
Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic and empathy. The present north India, it is better
Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia book provides, for the first understood as a
time within the covers of a single volume, her contradictory resource,
Ronit Ricci, lecturer, Australian National collected shorter writings, including all her providing marginalised
University memorable stories and essays. youth with certain freedoms
but also drawing them more
In Islam Translated, Ronit …contains some of the most thoughtful, most tightly into systems of inequality. This book
Ricci uses the Book of One perceptive, and certainly the funniest writing about re-evaluates debates on education, modernity and
Thousand Questions—from Indian classical music that I have ever read. social change in contemporary development
its Arabic original to its studies and anthropology.
adaptations into the —Amitav Ghosh
Javanese, Malay, and Tamil 2010 978-81-87358-58-9 ` 695 256pp Hardback
languages—between the …makes very good reading. Nothing of the kind Rights: Restricted
sixteenth and twentieth has been published before.
centuries—as a means to Nationalization of Hindu
consider connections that —Khushwant Singh Traditions, The
linked Muslims across
divides of distance and culture. Examining the 2011 978-81-7824-244-6 ` 295 310pp Paperback Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-
circulation of this Islamic text and its varied Century Banaras
literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of Anthropology in the East
literary translation and religious conversion were Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi and Modern
historically intercon-nected, mutually dependent, Founders of Indian Sociology and South Asian Studies, University of California,
and creatively reformulated within societies Anthropology Berkeley, USA
making the transition to Islam.
Edited by Patricia Uberoi, Professor of This book studies how a dominant strand of
2011 978-81-7824-333-7 ` 750 336pp Hardback Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, Hinduism in North India—the tradition which uses
Rights: Restricted and also Honorary Director, Institute of Chinese and misuses the slogan ‘Hindi–Hindu–Hindustan’—
Studies, Centre for the Study of Developing came into being in the late nineteenth century. It
Languages of e-book Societies, Delhi, Nandini Sundar, Professor, uses the life and writings of Bharatendu
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Harischandra (often called the Father of Modern
Belonging Economics, Satish Deshpande, Senior Fellow, Hindi) as its focal point for an analysis of some of
Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Centre for the Study of Developing Societies,
Kashmir Delhi.

Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor of History,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

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