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and the politics of the religious Right.
the vital cultural processes and other castes such as
through which modern —Dipesh Chakrabarty Kammas, Naidus, Reddys,
North India, as we Rajus, Gounders, Nadars,
experience it today, came 2009 978-81-7824-256-9 ` 595 424pp Paperback Ezhavas, Patidars, Marathas
to be formed. Rights: Restricted and Ramgarhias. In tracing
the modern-day evolution of
With a Foreword by Francesca Health and Population business communities in
Orsini. in South Asia India, this book is the first
social history to document
2010 978-81-7824-304-7 ` 495 530pp Paperback From Earliest Times to the Present and understand India’s new entrepreneurial groups.

Western Science e-book Sumit Guha Damodaran’s book makes a seminal contribution
to understanding the link between diverse
in Modern India The history of human entrepreneurial capital and the development of
Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices populations acquires a new societies....
interest in an epoch when
Pratik Chakrabarti, Deputy Director and human beings are aware of —Nandan Nilekani
Research Officer, Wellcome Unit for the History the burden they are placing
on the ecosystem. Asia has 2009 978-81-7824-258-3 ` 495 366pp Paperback
of Medicine, University of Oxford long contained a major Rights: Restricted
fraction of world population, E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-426-6
How do we understand the and East and South Asia have
transfer and absorption of accounted for most of that Language of the Gods in the
scientific knowledge across fraction. This book focuses World of Men, The
diverse cultures, from one on various aspects of the population of South Asia
society to another? Pratik over the past twenty-five centuries. Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern
Chakrabarti approaches this India
question from the 2009 978-81-7824-282-8 ` 295 200pp Paperback
assumption that knowledge Rights: Restricted Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor
is fundamentally linked with of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Columbia
experience. He analyses Hindu Nationalism e-book University, New York, USA
what was ‘Western’ about
that scientific knowledge, A Reader This book explores the
and what constituted the ‘colonialness’ of Indian remarkable rise and fall of
experience. He shows that the expansion of a Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, Centre d’Etudes et Sanskrit as a vehicle of poetry
European discipline into strange and distant lands de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris and polity. Drawing striking
meant experiencing new phenomena, examining parallels, chronologically as
new facts, developing new hypotheses. In India and beyond, Hindu well as structurally, with the
nationalism came into the rise of Latin literature and the
2010 978-81-7824-292-7 ` 350 340pp Paperback headlines in the 1990s, when Roman empire, and with the
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-436-5 the Ayodhya movement new vernacular literatures and
gained momentum. The first nation-states of late-medieval
Crisis of Secularism in India, part of this reader shows Europe, this book asks
The that some of the nineteenth- whether these very different histories challenge
century Hindu socio-religious current theories of culture and power and suggest
Edited by Anuradha D. Needham, Donald reformers, such as new possibilities for practice.
R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin Dayananda (founder of the
College, Ohio, USA, and Rajeswari Sunder Arya Samaj), prepared the 2009 978-81-7824-275-0 ` 795 704pp Paperback
Rajan, Distinguished Visiting Global Professor, ground for Hindu nationalism by positing a Vedic Rights: Restricted
Department of English, New York University Golden Age. The second part of the reader outlines
every major political issue on which the Hindu Brahmin and Non-Brahmin
nationalist movement has taken a distinct position.
Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present
This very rich collection 2009 978-81-7824-265-1 ` 495 402pp Paperback
of essays from a stellar line E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-420-4 M. S. S. Pandian, Visiting Fellow of the Sarai
of contributors is Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing
remarkable not only India’s New e-book Societies, Delhi
because it updates Indian
debates on secularism. It Capitalists This book historicises the
also evinces a spirit of Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern complex processes by
scrupulous engagement with Nation which the categories
the present by deliberately ‘Brahmin’ and ‘non-Brahmin’
situating itself in the shadow Harish Damodaran, Senior Assistant Editor, The came into being and
of the anti-Muslim violence Hindu Business Line acquired political power
in Gujarat in 2002. Philosophical, historical, and over the past century. In
contemporary at the same time, these essays add a Business in India was traditionally the preserve of the process of unravelling
certain ‘bania’ communities clubbed under the the so-called ‘naturalness’ of
Vaishya order. More recently, India’s commercial these categories, this book
ethos has changed massively with the entry of also offers a new
businessmen from the ranks of Brahmins, Khatris perspective on colonialism in South India.

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Rebels, Wives, e-book amplify women’s voices and reconstruct their This book, which is a blend
experiential worlds. of autobiography and
Saints intellectual history by some
Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial 2007 978-81-7824-182-1 ` 695 416pp Hardback of South Asia’s foremost
Times contemporary historians and
Hindu Myth, Hindu History sociologists, shows how the
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal intervention of scholars of
Nehru University, New Delhi Religion, Art, and Politics South Asian descent has
reconstituted the debate on
Sarkar, known for her writings Heinrich von Stietencron, former Professor postcolonialism, imperialism,
on women, religion, and of Indology and Comparative History of Religion, globalisation, capitalism and
nationhood in the context of University of Tuebingen, Germany national traditions.
colonial Bengal, gives a new
direction to the same themes Translated from the This is an enjoyable book, accessible to a broad
in this book of essays. The German, this is a major public as well as the academic reader….
early colonial universe in India work of classical Indological
centres on woman as both scholarship. Drawing upon —The Book Review
defiled and deified; the nation various sources—folk,
as woman/goddess in a tribal, and the multi-layered Contributors: Shahid Amin, Arjun Appadurai,
country with diverse Sanskritic tradition—it Jackie Assayag, Véronique Benei, Urvashi Butalia,
traditions; male reformers offers important insights Dipesh Chakrabarty, Partha Chatterjee, Vasudha
battling Hindu conservatives; and male-dominant social into the complex cultural Dalmia, Prasenjit Duara, Ramahandra Guha, Akhil
norms threatening principles of femininity. history of Hindu religious Gupta, Sudipta Kaviraj, Purnima Mankekar, Gyan
traditions. It traces Prakash, Sanjay Subrahmanyam
2008 987-81-7824-247-7 ` 695 356pp Hardback continuity and change in
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concludes with a survey of European perceptions
Scandal of the State as well as misconceptions of India from earliest Lost Worlds e-book
times to the late nineteenth century.
Women, Law and Citizenship in Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories
Postcolonial India 2007 978-81-7824-215-6 ` 395 336pp Paperback
Chitra Joshi, Professor, Department of History,
Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan, Reader in English and Affective Communities Indraprastha College, University of Delhi
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
Anticolonial Thought and the Politics This book takes the present
Scandal of the State is an of Friendship context of globalisation and
examination of the the decline of large-scale
relationship between the Leela Gandhi, La Trobe University, Melbourne industry as its entry point
postcolonial democratic into the worlds of labour in
Indian nation-state and Focusing on individuals and the late nineteenth and early
Indian women’s needs and groups who renounced the twentieth centuries. Using a
lives. The author combines privileges of imperialism to wide range of oral and
feminist theory and elect affinity with the victims archival sources as well as
postcolonial studies to show of expansionism, this book popular literature, the
how the state is central to uncovers the utopian- author reconstructs
understanding women’s socialist critiques of empire working-class lives, exploring their everyday worlds
identities, and how women and women’s issues that emerged in Europe, at the workplace and within community life outside,
affect reciprocally the state’s role and function. specifically in Britain, at the as well as their moments of conflict and struggle.
end of the nineteenth
2008 978-81-7824-222-4 ` 350 332pp Paperback century. The author reveals 2006 978-81-7824-169-2 ` 350 376pp Paperback
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Crossing Thresholds vegetarianism, animals rights, spiritualism and Prophets Facing Backward
aestheticism—united against imperialism and forged
Feminist Essays in Social History strong bonds with colonised subjects and cultures. Postmodernism, Science, and Hindu
Nationalism
Edited by Meera Kosambi, sociologist trained in 2006 978-81-7824-164-7 ` 495 254pp Hardback
India, Sweden, and the USA Rights: Restricted Meera Nanda, independent scholar in the USA

This book interrogates At Home in Diaspora This book argues that the secularisation of cultural
official social history—which common sense is the best answer to bigotry in
posits strong male South Asian Scholars and the West contemporary India. It demonstrates how, under
reformers and passive a Hindu nationalist regime, the country took a
women recipients—as well Edited by Jackie Assayag, Senior Research turn towards reactionary forms of modernism,
as retrieves and assesses Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche acquiring cutting-edge technologies—including
women’s own pioneering Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en nuclear weapons —while reviving superstition in
contribution to their Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Véronique Benei, the guise of ‘Vedic sciences’.
proto-feminist efforts. This Department of Anthropology, London School of
book is an attempt to Economics, London

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This is first-rate. . . . It is society based on rank. The central thesis examines
quite unique in the way it ‘Everywhere is Becoming the contradictions of Indian democracy through
combines valuable criticisms the Same’? the lens of Tocqueville.
of postmodern science with
a close study of how these Regulating IT-Work between India and Selected Contents: Introduction PART I
ideas influence actual Germany 1. Tocqueville in India 2. Society v. State 3. Society
political developments in a as Caste, Caste as Society 4. The Unassuming
developing country. series: german writings on india and south asia Revolution 5. The State as an Autonomous
ActorPART IITHE FOUR CORNERS OF INDIA
—Martha Nussbaum, Nicole Mayer-Ahuja, Professor of Sociology at 6 Tocqueville Travels to Bihar 7. Turmoil in
University of Chicago University of Hamburg a Forward State 8. Tamil Nadu: A Nation in
the Making 9. Kerala: A Society that is ‘Civil’
2006 978-81-7824-153-1 ` 350 325pp Paperback ‘The world is flat’–this 10. A Mid-Journey SessionPART IIIPOLITICS,
Rights: Restricted popular account of current POWER AND POLITY 11. Yet They Vote 12. Is
developments celebrates India a Nation? 13. The Empire of Democracy
Subaltern Studies XII transnationally operating 14. Democracy and Discrimination 15. Religions
companies as great and Secularism 16. The Highest Good
Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History ‘equalisers’. Such tendencies
Shail Mayaram of homogenisation come up 2015 978-93-83166-02-2 ` 625 260pp Hardback 
against limits, however. Rights: Restricted
2005 978-81-7824-115-9 ` 695 350pp Hardback Focusing on Indo-German
2005 978-81-7824-214-9 ` 550 350pp Paperback project work in software Scholars and Prophets
programming, this study
Violence in Urban India analyses the complex interrelations between the Sociology of India from France 19th–20th
business models of transnationally operating Centuries
Identity Politics, ‘Mumbai’ and the Postcolonial companies and localised standards of regulating
City reproduction. They result in marked differences series: french writings on india and south asia
Thomas Blom Hansen between the ways in which labour power is utilised
in the companies’ Indian and German subsidiaries. Roland Lardinois, Research Fellow, French
2005 978-81-7824-120-3 ` 295 282pp Paperback The world is not ‘flat’ – instead, transnational National Centre for Scientific Research; Member,
corporate activities draw upon the combined and Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud (UMR
Caste and Democratic Politics in uneven development of world regions and reinforce 8564), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales,
India difference rather than reducing it. Paris; Centre de Sciences Humaines, New Delhi

Edited by Ghanshyam Shah Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Concepts: This is the first book in the
Regulatory Scenarios and Pathways of Series. It deals with the
2004 978-81-7824-095-4 ` 450 448pp Paperback Transnationalisation 3. The Spatial Binding of historical genesis of the long
Rights: Restricted Labour Power 4. The Contractual Binding of and rich scholarship on India
2002 978-81-7824-024-4 ` 695 410pp Hardback Labour Power 5. Remuneration 6. Working Time in France since the
Rights: Restricted 7. Qualifications: Requirements and Profiles 8. In beginning of nineteenth
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-419-8 Lieu of a Summary: Corporate Utilisation of century, with particular
Labour Power and Capitalist Development reference to the work of
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim Louis Dumont. It considers
2015  978-93-83N166-01-5  ` 725  565pp  Hardback the works of scholars and
Islam, the USA, and the Global War Against the essayists, poets, or
Terror Tocqueville in India esotericists who published
Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of on India and shows that Dumont has been
Government at Columbia University Jean Alphonse Bernard worked in the French influenced by both groups.
Treasury Department.
2004 978-81-7824-111-1 ` 395 312pp Paperback … Scholars and Prophets is a work of immense
Rights: Restricted This is the French view on erudition guided by a strong sense of purpose ...
Indian democracy. India is a The study is a targeted attempt to uncover the
India’s Silent Revolution hierarchical society, yet origins of Dumont’s analysis of the caste system in
deeply committed to his Homo hierarchicus.
The Rise of the Low Castes in North Indian equality. The reference
Politics throughout the book is — Rosane Rocher, University of Pennsylvania,
Christophe Jaffrelot, director of the Centre Alexis de Tocqueville Philadelphia, Journal of the American Oriental Society
d’Etudes et Recherches Internationales (CERI), part of (author of Democracy in
the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris America). The author This book, which deals with the representations
travels to today’s Bihar, of India in France, serves as a landmark model of
2003 978-81-7824-080-0 ` 595 530pp Paperback Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and historical sociology of human and social sciences.
Rights: Restricted Kerala to examine the
enduring dialogue between State and Society and —GisèleSapiro, Centre national de la Recherché
Subaltern Studies XI looks at the contradictions that persist between a scientifique, Paris, Transeo Review
Community, Gender and Violence centralising modern State and an old and complex
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Anthropologist Among the
Marxists and Other Essays, An

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Land of Edinburgh, UK, and Roger Jeffrey, Professor of
Behind the Backlash Sociology of South Asia, University of Edinburgh, UK
Politics of Land and Gender in India
Muslim Americans after 9/11 Education is widely imputed
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Lori Peek, Assistant Professor of Sociology and transform the prospects of
Co-director of the Center for Disaster and Risk Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of the poor. But in the context
Analysis at Colorado State University Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK of widespread
unemployment in rural
As America tried to absorb See anthropology and ethnography north India, it is better
the shock of the 9/11 understood as a
attacks, Muslim Americans 2012 978-81-87358-65-7 ` 325 368pp Paperback contradictory resource,
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backlash violence. Letting the Rights: Restricted but also drawing them more tightly into systems of
voices of 140 ordinary inequality. This book reevaluates debates on
Muslim American men and Enigma of the Kerala education, modernity and social change in
women describe their Woman, The contemporary development studies and
experiences, this path- anthropology.
breaking book presents A Failed Promise of Literacy
moving accounts of prejudice 2010 978-81-87358-58-9 ` 695 256pp Hardback
and exclusion. Muslims speak of being subjected to Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, former Rights: Restricted
harassment before the attacks, and recount the Professor of Economics, Institute of Economic
discrimination they encountered afterwards. Peek Growth, and former Director, Institute of Social Literature and Nationalist
also explains the struggles of young Muslim adults to Studies Trust, New Delhi Ideology
solidify their community and define their identity
during a time of national crisis. See anthropology and ethnography Writing Histories of Modern Indian
Languages
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Rights: Restricted Edited by Hans Harder, Professor, Modern
Everyday State and Society South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia
in Modern India, The Lived Islam in South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany

(Second Impression) Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict The book argues that in
many parts of India, literary
Edited by C. J. Fuller, Emeritus Professor of Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of histories play an important
Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New role in creating a cultural
Political Science, and Véronique Benei, Visiting Delhi, and Helmut Reifeld, India representative, ethos. They are closely
Senior Fellow in Anthropology, London School of Konrad Adenauer Foundation, New Delhi linked with nationalism in
Economics and Political Science general and various regional
Lived Islam in South Asia ‘sub-nationalisms’ in
… a topical, interesting explores the everyday particular. The contributors
and significant volume … religious lives of Muslims in to this volume look at a
the essays make a significant South Asia. The book great variety of aspects of
contribution. argues that Islam cannot be the historiography of modern regional languages of
understood through the India. The approach excludes classical languages of
—T. N. Madan, Honorary works of theologians alone, India, except Tamil.
Professor, Institute of for whom it is a formal,
uniform and rigid system of 2010 978-81-87358-33-6 ` 695 400pp Hardback
Economic Growth, University beliefs and practices. Rights: Restricted
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is practised by millions of Muslims in South Asia, Religious Division and Social
The seven chapters … has an empirical validity and is a dynamic process Conflict
along with the extremely of adjustment and accommodation as well as
lucid introduction by the editors, elevate our conflict with other religions, with which it coexists. The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in
understanding of the Indian state and society to a Rural India
higher conceptual plane. Abridged Contents: Preface; Introduction PART I:
CONCEPTS AND INTERPRETATIONS PART II: Peggy Froerer, Lecturer in Anthropology,
—Dipankar Gupta, Former Professor of Sociology, LIVED ISLAM AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT School of Social Sciences, Brunel University,
JNU, and Senior Fellow, Nehru Memorial Museum and PART III: CONFLICT AND ACCOMMODATION London, UK
PART IV: THE PRESENCE OF SUFISM
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Rebuilding Buddhism Peeyush Bajpai, Laveesh Bhandari and Aali Sinha Explanation of Natural Events and
2005 978-81-87358-16-9 ` 1495 185pp Hardback Human Action
The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-
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Sarah Levine, Associate Professor, Sanskrit and 2002 978-81-87358-13-8 ` 510 250pp Hardback
India Studies, Harvard University, and David N. Daniel Thorner and Alice Thorner
Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology and Religion and Personal Law in 2005 978-81-8028-021-4 ` 595 264pp Hardback
Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford Secular India
Behind Mud Walls
See anthropology and ethnography A Call to Judgement
Gerald James Larson Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village
2008 978-81-87358-41-1 ` 360 392pp Paperback William Wiser and Charlotte Wiser
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Nepalese Experiences (Revised Edition) Poverty, Nutrition, Health and Education Kings and Untouchables
R. Sudarshan and K. S. Prabhu
Edited by David N. Gellner, Professor of Social A Study of the Caste System in Western India
Anthropology, University of Oxford, and a Fellow 2002 978-81-87358-10-7 ` 690 337pp Hardback Rosa Maria Perez
of All Souls, Oxford
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Wife, Mother, Widow Kinship in Bengali Culture
2008 978-81-87358-41-1 ` 360 392pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted Exploring Women’s Lives in Northern India Ronald B. Inden and Ralph W. Nicholas
2004 978-81-8028-018-4 ` 375 260pp Hardback
Political Theologies Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell Professor of
South Asian Studies, Syracuse University, USA Play of the Gods, The
Public Religions in a Post-Secular World See anthropology and ethnography
2008 978-81-8028-034-4 ` 600 200pp Hardback Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the
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USA, and University of Amsterdam, and
Lawrence E. Sullivan, Professor of World Prosenjit Das Gupta Fundamental Unity of India, The
Religions, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA See anthropology and ethnography
2007 978-81-8028-028-3 ` 425 192pp Hardback Radha Kumud Mookerji
This book opens an inquiry 2003 978-81-8028-005-4 ` 295 160pp Hardback
concerning the engagement Essays on North Indian Folk
of religion with politics. The Traditions UNIVERSITIES PRESS
seventeen papers examine
interrelationships between Susan S. Wadley Political Sociology
the political, economic and 2005 978-81-8028-016-0 ` 650 272pp Hardback
cultural characteristics of A New Grammar of Politics
the ‘age of globalization’ and Ali Ashraf and L. N. Sharma
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structures of governance 2004 978-81-7371-016-2 ` 325 230pp Paperback
developed by religious traditions while considering
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Adivasi Question, The Community and Behavioral Health, University of critique of diffusionism to the social dimension
Iowa, Iowa City in the production and consumption of art and
Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood ornamentation.
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society an archaeological perspective, it presents Sri Lanka
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Shanti Sadiq Ali, former Executive Secretary Irvine Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
of the Indian Council for Africa and Member of the
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Studies in Caste, Race and Justice since variety of subjects: from the agrarian transition Guest Professor of Contemporary South Asian
Durban of protohistoric times to periodization of Sri History, Humboldt University, Berlin
Lanka’s historical trajectory to hypotheses on
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Professor, Department of Anthropology, the specificity of the Sri Lankan tradition in a the state and society of South Asian countries,
William Paterson University, New Jersey, matrix of Monsoon Asian cultures; from the especially in the field of primary education. Taking
and Paul Greenough, Professor of History, categorisation of the Sri Lankan social formation into consideration the complexity of societies of
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political implications arising out of the educational literature of the Indian national movement. plague in the pilgrimage centres of Puri and
policy of the state for the process of nation The book is not a straightforward biography; Pandharpur. It also examines indigenous initiatives
building. it attempts to place the subject of the study in associated with the Indian drug industry and the
the political and social context of modern Indian Unani medical system and their interactions with
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5330-9 history but provides personal glimpses of the man the colonial health establishment and modern
and his humanity. medicine.
Engendering Individuals
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J. Devika, Research Associate at the Centre for
Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala Gujarat Carnage, The History of the Social
Determinants of Health
This book explores how, in early modern Asghar Ali Engineer
Malayalee society, the emerging notion of the Global Histories, Contemporary Debates
individual (as distinct from an identity based on jati, This book is a compilation of articles, editorial,
region etc.) was linked to the vision of a society investigative reports, surveys, memoranda and series: new perspectives in south asian history
based on gender differences. The book explores other significant material on the Gujarat carnage.
how social reform, notions of the individual, The final report of the Human Rights Commission Edited by Harold J. Cook, Director,
and the creation of a ‘gendered’ individual came (that took a direct interest for the first time, of Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
together in early modern Kerala. its own accord, in communal violence) is included Medicine, University College London,
in it. This compilation helps preserve the lessons Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5329-3 learnt in one of the most horrifying and ominous Toronto, Canada, Anne Hardy, Deputy Director,
periods in India’s modern history. Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Fundamentals of Sociology Medicine, University College London
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5390-3
P. Gisbert, former Professor and Head of the This is the first volume of its kind to bring
Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Health Policy in Britain’s historical studies to the investigation of the social
Mumbai Model Colony determinants of health from a global perspective. It
brings together eminent historians of international
See page 37 for further details. Ceylon (1900–1948) health to explore an important and topical
subject. The contributors summarise a large body
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5045-2 series: new perspectives in south asian history of recent historical literature in order to make
it useful for policy analysts. It includes a wide
Gendered Citizenship Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome range of international examples. It also includes
Unit for the History of Medicine, University of two chapters on different methods of taking oral
Historical and Conceptual Explorations Oxford histories, which is a central concern for anyone
who is interested in examining the recent past.
Anupama Roy, Professor at the Centre for ‘Written in a compelling and lucid style, the book
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Delhi colonial Ceylon and to the history of medicine.…
Jones analyses colonial medicine through a Hundred Tamil Folk and
This revised edition of Gendered Citizenship (first nuanced reading of the medieval services in Sri Tribal Tales, A
published in 2005) examines the gendering of Lanka.’
citizenship. In the context of resistance against Translated by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan,
the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that —Daily News Professor of English, Pondicherry University
emerged in late colonial India was based on a
gendered notion of the community—both national E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5243-2 See page 10 for further details.
and political.
Health, Medicine and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4690-5
This book will be valuable for advanced students, Empire
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history, sociology and gender studies. It would Perspectives on Colonial India
also be helpful to those studying social exclusion Jadunath Sarkar
and the general reader interested in debates over series: new perspectives in south asian history
gender and citizenship. This book has grown out of the prestigious Sir
Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department William Myer Lectures of Madras University,
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Delhi, and Mark Harrison, Director, Wellcome a lucid survey of the growth of Indian life and
George Joseph Unit for the History of Medicine, University of thought from the Vedic age to our own times with
Oxford a detailed study of contributions of the Aryans, the
The Life and Times of a Kerala Christian Buddhists, the Muhammadans and the English to
Nationalist This collection of essays weaves together several the growth of Indian civilisations.
themes related to the social history of health and
George Gheverghese Joseph holds joint medicine in colonial India. The book gives us a bird’s eye-view of the
appointments at the University of Manchester and successive factors which have contributed to the
Exeter, United Kingdom, and at the University of Its focus ranges from analysing Europe’s composite development of present-day India.
Toronto, Canada relationship with India’s indigenous medical
systems, to case studies of two mental E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5322-4  Rights: Restricted
This book looks at the life of George Joseph asylums, the location of the leprosy asylum, the
(1887–1938), a South Indian Christian nationalist technological aspects and social implications of
whose contributions to the Indian freedom the colonial vaccination policy, and to colonial
struggle have been generally neglected in the interventions related specifically to cholera and

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Lives
Indigeneity The Paradoxes of Public Action and
Development Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Community
Culture and Representation Making in South India
Edited by Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor,
Edited by G. N. Devy, founder of Bhasha Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Staples, Lecturer in Social Anthropology,
Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada Brunel University, London
Geoffrey V. Davis, Professor of Anglophone
Post-colonial Literature, universities of Aachen See page 44 for further details. James Staples explores how this apparently
and Duisberg-Essen, and K. K. Chakravarty, powerless group appropriates, embodies and
Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5316-3 redefines dominant ideas about caste, religion,
Arts, New Delhi the human body and Indian ways of knowing and
Language, Ideology and being-in-the-world. They do so against the various
See page 5 for further details. Power backdrops of colonialism, missionary endeavour,
vernacular Christianity and Hinduism, medical
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4872-5 Language-learning among the Muslims of practices, development and the State.
Pakistan and North India
Intimate Other, The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5306-4
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor
Love Divine in Indic Religions of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National People of the Maldive Islands
Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University,
Edited by Anna King, Senior lecturer in religious Islamabad Clarence Maloney, currently Visiting Professor
studies at University College Winchester and of Anthropology, Institute of Bangladesh Studies,
Convenor of the Spalding Symposia on Indian See page 41 for further details. Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
Religions and John Brockington, Professor
of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5315-6 This book is an engagingly told cultural historical
Secretary General of the International Association narrative of the island nation of the Maldive
of Sanskrit Studies Medical Pluralism in Islands from the earliest references in Indian and
Contemporary India European classics.
The Intimate Other explores the theme of the
devotional element in Indic Religions not only Edited by V. Sujatha, Associate Professor, Centre See page 7 for further details.
in Hinduism in which bhakti has become the for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
dominant form, but also in Buddhism, Jainism, University, New Delhi and Leena Abraham, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5134-3
Sikhism and Islam. The essays by scholars of Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in the
international repute, show the strength of this Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social Politics and Poetics of
devotion to the divine as a living and powerful Sciences, Mumbai Water, The
source of value, aesthetic imagination, creativity
and well-being. They also analyse the sometimes See page 33 for further details. The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western
divergent interests of scholar and devotee, India
problematising devotion and exposing its E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5342-2
historical development as complex, contested Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies,
and ‘political’. Memories and Movements Sussex

E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5320-0 Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, The book studies the relationship between large
Gujarat dams and water scarcity in Kutch. It argues
Journeys and Dwellings that water scarcity is not merely natural, but
Rita Kothari, Associate Professor, Humanities is embedded in the social and power relations
Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of shaping water access, use and practices. Scarcity
Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar is portrayed as natural rather than human induced
Edited by Helene Basu, Professor, Westfaelische and this ‘naturalisation of scarcity’ is beneficial to
Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany. See page 31 for further details. those who are powerful.

This collection makes a significant and innovative E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5310-1 This is a significant book in the light of the growing
contribution to the emerging field of Indian Ocean water crisis in India, and the world.
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travelling actors, cultures and faiths as well as
processes of cultural re-localisation, mixture and Conservation, Governance and Power, Knowledge, Medicine
assimilation. Studying the diversity of ways of Transformation in India
life in the Indian Ocean World, primarily from Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home and in
South Asian sites, the contributors adopt an Edited by T. B. Subba, Professor and Head, the World
interdisciplinary approach by combining historical Department of Anthropology, North Eastern Hill
and anthropological methods. University, Shillong, and Nicolas Lainé, doctoral Madhulika Banerjee, Department of Political
student, Social Anthropology, School of Advanced Science, University of Delhi
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5319-4 Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
See page 33 for further details. See page 39 for further details.

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Primal Land, The Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic Sixty Years in the Service of
views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, the Nation
Pratibha Ray, winner of many awards, including family planning, etc.
the Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995 and An Illustrated History of IIT Kharagpur
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Translated by Bikram K. Das, former Professor, Through its lavishly illustrated pages, this book
English and Foreign Languages University, Roots and Shadows discusses events, landmarks and people who have
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Shashi Deshpande
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inhabiting a mountainous portion of Orissa. The In Indu’s ancestral home that she had escaped
novel includes faint glimmers of political awakening from so many years ago, nothing seems to have Society and History of
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exploitation; even though the only incorruptible tyrant, is dead and the family is on the threshold of
outsider who works for the betterment of the great change. And the key to their future now lies A Select Bibliography of the English and
Bondas, a women schoolteacher, is suspended, in Indu’s hands. This novel provides a penetrative European Language Sources
there is hope for the Bondas yet. insight into the joint family revealing its strengths
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5225-8 Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, School of
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Problem of Caste, The
Sacrificing People This book consolidates scholarship on Gujarat in
Edited by Satish Deshpande, Professor, English and other European languages, notably,
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of Invasions of a Tribal Landscape Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese.
Economics The titles considered spread across the disciplinary
Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in boundaries of history, political and development
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, Oxford and Delhi universities studies, literature and the liberal arts, sociology,
POLITY AND SOCIETY cultural and social anthropology. In these respects,
See page 10 for further details. the book is a comprehensive introduction to
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Sand and Other Stories
Refiguring Unani Tibb Structure of Hindu Society,
Ashokamitran, distinguished contemporary The
Plural Healing in Late Colonial India Tamil writer and winner of the Sahitya Akademi
award (1996)Translated by N. Kalyan Raman, Nirmal Kumar Bose, former Director,
series: new perspectives in south asian history a senior telecom professional, and Gomathi Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
Narayanan
Guy Attewell, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust The lucid and scholarly translation from the
Centre for the History of Medicine, University This book is a translated collection of three novellas. original Bangla Hindu Samajer Goran has
College London The stories are about women trapped by an almost been done by Andre Beteille. Prof. Beteille’s
absolute lack of resources (financial, intellectual introduction analyses the qualities of Bose’s mind
See page 43 for further details. and emotional). The exploitation of these women and work, especially as illustrated in this book,
and their daily struggle against it are exposed in all and his preface to this revised edition enriches
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5 their terrifying ordinariness. The stories have all this valuable study. The author has undertaken
the identifiable characteristics of Ashokamitran’s an ambitious task in which he has attempted to
Rethinking Democracy writing—irony, interiority, sensitivity. identify the organising principles of Hindu society,
the factors which ensured its continuity for
Rajni Kothari, professor, scholar and activist E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5044-5 centuries, and the forces by which it is ultimately
weakened. This book brings together, within a
In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core Situating Social History single framework, approaches which are ordinarily
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in the past four decades. While revisiting his Orissa,1800–1997 and social historians.
writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even
contests some of his earlier formulations on Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department of History, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5086-5
democracy, state and civil society, developing Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University
a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual Subjugated Nomads
experience and activist experience. The book examines the shaping of popular culture
of Orissa over the last two hundred years. It The Lambadas Under the Rule of the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4773-5 brings together six articles, which delineate Nizams
different aspects of the social and cultural history
Rethinking Issues in Islam of Orissa—health and disease, caste, class, gender, Bhangya Bhukya, Associate Professor,
popular perceptions and literary constructions. Also Department of History, Osmania University,
Asghar Ali Engineer was Chairperson, Centre included are two field notes that focus on certain Hyderabad
for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and vital issues of contemporary relevance in Korapat.
Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai See page 11 for further details.
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The book considers some of the stereotypes E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5299-9
regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and
re-examines them in the light of verses from the

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remarkable paradoxes that co-exist in what is Indian Politics
Taking Traditional arguably the most diverse society in the world.
Knowledge to the Market Manjari Katju, Reader, Department of Political
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4272-3 Science, University of Hyderabad
The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and
Unani Industry, 1980–2000 Understanding Indian This book provides a detailed historical account
series: new perspectives in south asian history Society of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), one of the
leading organisations in the Hindutva movement.
Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of Past and Present, Essays for A. M. Shah It focuses on the VHP’s transformation from a
Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of loosely knit body of Hindus aimed at preserving
Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam Edited by B. S. Baviskar, Senior Fellow, Institute and promoting Hindu dharma, into a mass
of Social Sciences, New Delhi, and Tulsi Patel, organisation actively involved in mobilising the
See page 41 for further details. Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi urban middle classes, service professionals and
religious leaders for the creation and promotion of
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5343-9 See page 36 for further details. a strong Hindu nation.

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Explorations in Cultural Economy Urbanising Cholera When the Kurinji Blooms

Tarun Chhabra practises dentistry in The Social Determinants of Its Rajam Krishnan
Ootacamund. Re-emergence
Translated from the Tamil Kurinjithen, Rajam
See page 3 for further details. series: new perspectives in south asian history Krishnan’s lyrical and erudite novel is a family saga
of three generations of Badagas in the Nilgiris. As
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-6026-0 Rajib Dasgupta, Associate Professor at the the winds of social change and modernity invade
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, their protected lives, the innocence and harmony
Tibetan Refugees in India Jawaharlal Nehru University is replaced by conflict and tragedy that precede a
new beginning.
Mallica Mishra, Associate Faculty (PGDMS- See page 34 for further details.
Development Studies), at the Entrepreneurial E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5039-1
Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5096-4
Women and Work
See page 30 for further details. Vaisnava Iconography in the
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R. Champalakshmi society
Trafficking in Women and
Children in India This volume looks at iconography as an index Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor
of socio-religious change at both the micro and of Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Institute of Social Sciences the macro levels. The study is confined to the Mumbai
Vaishnava sect in the Tamil-speaking region of
See page 44 for further details. South India and to the time-span of 300 B.C. to See page 35 for further details.
A.D. 1300. However, it is broad in its sweep of
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and concepts, as well as of their impact on social
Understanding Biodiversity groups and religious systems. The basic Vaishnava Women of the Mahabharata,
concepts and beliefs, the major and minor forms The
Life Sustainability and Equity and avatars of Vishnu, the principal and secondary
goddesses and deities of the Vaishnava pantheon The Question of Truth
Ashish Kothari as well as syncretic forms are all examined in
depth in the course of tracing the development of Chaturvedi Badrinath, philosopher and
This tract is an impassioned plea to development the iconography. member of the IAS between 1957 and 1989
planners to overhaul wildlife, agricultural and
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biodiversity and sustain the planet. It looks at the
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the commercial-industrial forces.
series: readings on the economy, polity and Women Survivors of
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society
Understanding Genesis and Crowth of a State Support
Contemporary India Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for System
the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
Critical Perspectives University, New Delhi Anjali Dave, Professor, School of Social Work,
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Edited by Achin Vanaik, Professor, Department See page 27 for further details.
of Political Science, University of Delhi, and Rajeev See page 26 for further details.
Bhargava, Director, Centre for the Study of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5170-1
Developing Societies, New Delhi E-ISBN: 978-81-250-6077-2

This reader examines the peculiarities of Indian
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PERMANENT BLACK Homeless on Google Earth so fundamental that the language of Indian Islam
became quite different from what was in vogue in
Caste and Democratic Mukul Kesavan contexts outside.
Politics in India
See page 45 for further details. E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4
Edited by Ghanshyam Shah
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-431-0 Lost Worlds
The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the
perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social India’s New Capitalists Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories
system. But this has not happened over the
sixty-odd years since Indian independence, and Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern Chitra Joshi, Professor, Department of History,
shows little sign of happening in the near future. Nation Indraprastha College, University of Delhi
Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is
possible without a thorough understanding of the Harish Damodaran, Senior Assistant Editor, See page 50 for further details.
complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to The Hindu Business Line
bring about such an understanding. This volume E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-430-3
offers state-of-the-art essays on the subject of See page 49 for further details.
caste and politics in contemporary India. It covers Rebels, Wives, Saints
all the important grounds that students and E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-426-6
scholars need in order to get to grips with the Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial
idea, ideology, and ground realities of India’s caste Indispensable Vivekananda, Times
system. The
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-419-8 An Anthology for our Times Nehru University, New Delhi

Flaming Feet and Other Edited by Amiya P. Sen, Reader in History, See page 50 for further details.
Essays, The Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia
Islamia, Delhi E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-407-5
The Dalit Movement in India
A hundred years after Swami Vivekananda’s Sexuality, Obscenity,
D. R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator oratory, essays, and philosophical writings offered Community
and cultural critic substantial modifications and refinements to
modern Hinduism, he remains a key figure in any Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in
See page 14 for further details. proper understanding of the religion of India’s Colonial India
largest majority. The present anthology, which
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-422-8  Rights restricted showcases those aspects of Vivekananda that Charu Gupta has a SOAS PhD in History and is
seem ‘indispensable’ even today, consists of two a Reader in History at Delhi University
Hindu Nationalism halves: an Introduction by the editor, followed by
selections from the core of the Swami’s oeuvre. The cultural imagination of Hindu India is the
A Reader subject of this book. The book explores moral
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-408-2 and sexual worries among an aspiring section of
Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, Centre d’Etudes Hindu middle-class caste reformers. This group
et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris Languages of Belonging epitomised male fears over women’s autonomy.
It fused a coercive regulation of women with a
See page 49 for further details. Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of larger project of replenishing Hindu patriarchy. This
Kashmir involved redefining literature, entertainment, and
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-420-4 the domestic arena in order to forge a ‘respectable’,
Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor ‘civilised’ and singular Hindu cultural and political
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation of History, College of William and Mary, identity. Semi-pornographic works, advertisements
Williamsburg, VA, USA for aphrodisiacs, and popular culture are examined
Community, Religion, and Cultural to reveal the complex and contested terrain of
Nationalism See page 48 for further details. Hindi literature and Hindu identity.

Tanika Sarkar, Professor, Centre for Historical E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-402-0 E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-410-5
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Languages of Political Islam Small Voice of History, The
This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing in India, The
critique of many of the dominant concepts by Collected Essays
which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus c. 1200–1800
more specifically, think and live today. Historians, Ranajit Guha, founding father of Subaltern
sociologists, political scientists and serious readers Muzaffar Alam, Professor, Departments of Studies, edited by Partha Chatterjee, Director,
who wish to understand how the immediate past South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
has shaped India’s life will value this incisive work History, University of Chicago
of a major historian. See page 15 for further details.
This book shows the ways in which political
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-424-2 Islam, from its establishment in medieval north E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-415-0
India, adapted itself to a variety of Indian contexts
and became deeply Indianised. Through a close
reading of a variety of texts—ranging from
normative treatises and Sufi biographies to Persian
court poetry—Muzaffar Alam shows that the
vocabularies in use went through certain changes

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Trajectories of the Indian Night and Other Stories
State, The
Abdullah Hussein
Politics and Ideas
This collection includes three long short
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia stories—Night, The Little Brook and The Sea—all
University, New York, USA examining, in one way or the other, the limits of
human endurance. In language that abounds in rich,
See page 47 for further details. sensuous imagery, Abdullah Hussein confronts a
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-414-3 peculiarly contemporary dilemma: the quest for
meaning and identity by the individual living in the
Western Science in Modern shadow of exile and guilt, and the futile struggle
India against the overwhelming forces of alienation.

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Pratik Chakrabarti, Deputy Director and
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of Medicine, University of Oxford

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Abraham, Leena 33, 56 Chatterji, Miabi 8 Greenough, Paul 11, 38, 54 AUTHOR INDEX
Addlakha, Renu 38 Chatterji, Roma 3, 27 Grover, Shalini 16
Ahmad, Imtiaz 16, 36, 52–3 Chaudhuri, Maitrayee 45 Guha, Mechthild 14
Alam, Muzaffar 59 Chhabra, Tarun 3, 58 Guha, Ramachandra 14–5, 46, 51
Ali, Shanti Sadiq 54 Cody, Francis 7 Guha, Ranajit 15, 59
Ali, Syed 35 Cook, Harold J. 55 Guha, Sumit 49
Allen, Carolyn 45 Guneratne, Arjun 29
Appadurai, Arjun 1 Dalmia, Vasudha 48 Gupta, Akhil 9
Arunima, G. 13 Damodaran, Harish 49, 59 Gupta, Charu 59
Asghar Ali Engineer 45, 55, 57 Dandekar, Ajay 6, 54
Ashokamitran 57 Das, Bikram K. 57 Hansen, Thomas Blom 15, 51
Ashraf, Ali 53 Das Gupta, Prosenjit 18, 53 Harder, Hans 52
Assayag, Jackie 15, 50 Dasgupta, Rajib 34, 58 Hardy, Anne 55
Attewell, Guy 43, 57 Das, Samarendra 11, 37 Harrison, Mark 55
Das, Veena 2, 4, 27 Hebbar, Ritambhara 25
Badrinath, Chaturvedi 41, 58 Dave, Anjali 26, 58 Henderson, Ralph H. 26
Bajpai, Peeyush 53 Davis, Geoffrey V. 5, 39, 56 Henn, Alexander 5
Bald, Vivek 8 Day, Richard J. F. 40 Hess, Linda 46
Bandaranayake, Senake 54 Delamonica, Enrique 40 Hoare, Quintin 46
Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya 10, 25, 36 Deshpande, Prachi 46 Howard, Judith 45
Banerjee, Ashis 45 Deshpande, Satish 15, 27, 48, 57 Hussein, Abdullah 60
Banerjee-Dube, Ishita 17 Deshpande, Shashi 57 IIT Kharagpur 57
Banerjee, Madhulika 39, 56 Desikachar, S. V. 46 Inden, Ronald B. 53
Bannerji, Himani 35 Devika, J. 41, 55 Institute of Social Sciences, New Delhi 35, 44, 58
Basu, Helene 56 Devlieger, Patrick 38
Basu, Srimati 26 Devy, G. N. 5, 11, 13, 39, 44, 56 Jackson, Michael 4
Bates, Crispin 16, 45 Dhanagare, D. N. 30 Jaffrelot, Christophe 49, 51, 59
Baviskar, B. S. 36, 58 Dhanraj, Deepa 22 Janardhan, V. 21
Bellamy, Carla 14 Dhar, Sheila 48 Jayaram, N. 28
Benei, Véronique 15–6, 50, 52 Dheram, Premakumari 42 Jeffrey, Craig 48, 52
Bernard, Jean Alphonse 51 Dirks, Nicholas B. 13 Jeffrey, Patricia 48, 52
Bernstorff, Dagmar 45 Docker, John 12 Jeffrey, Roger 48, 52
Bhandari, Laveesh 53 Drèze, Jean 23 Jeganathan, Pradeep 51
Bhan, Gautam 20 Dube, Saurabh 17 Jha, Manish K. 29
Bhargava, Rajeev 58 Jodhka, Surinder S. 27, 58
Bhattacharya, Sanjoy 37, 55 Economic and Political Weekly 40 Jones, Margaret 55
Bhowmik, Sharit K. 33 Engel, Nora 3 Jørgensen, Helle 6
Bhukya, Bhangya 11, 57 Joseph, George Gheverghese 45, 55
Bista, Dor Bahadur 12, 40 Esty, Jed 15 Joshi, Chitra 50, 59
Blume, Stuart 38 Fihl, Esther 3
Bode, Maarten 12, 41, 58 Fillingham, Lydia Alix 45 Kalpagam, U. 2
Bose, Nirmal Kumar 57 Froerer, Peggy 16, 52 Kapadia, Aparna 10, 37
Brass, Paul R. 45 Fruzzetti, Lina 18 Karve, Irawati 43
Brijnath, Bianca 6 Fuller, C. J. 16, 52 Katju, Manjari 58
Brockington, John 56 Fuller, Steve 45 Kaul, Suvir 15
Bunzl, Matti 15 Kaur, Ravinder 5, 24, 28
Burton, Antoinette 15 Gandhi, Leela 50 Kaviraj, Sudipta 47, 60
Ganguly, Debjani 12, 40 Kesavan, Mukul 46, 59
Canagarajah, Suresh 42 Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira 7, 31 King, Anna 56
Cederlof, Gunnel 14 Ganti, Tejaswini 9 Kleinman, Arthur 4
Chakrabarti, Bhaskar 21 García, Ofelia 38 Kosambi, Meera 45–7, 50
Chakrabarti, Pratik 15, 49, 60 Gellner, David N. 4, 12, 17, 27, 40, 53 Kothari, Ashish 58
Chakraborty, Chandrima 15 George, Susan 42 Kothari, Rajni 36, 57
Chakravarti, Uma 24 Ghosh, Arunabha 38 Kothari, Rita 11, 31, 38, 56
Chakravarty, K. K. 5, 39, 56 Ghosh, G. C. 13, 45 Krishnan, Rajam 58
Chandra, Mallampalli 43 Gisbert, P. 37, 55 Krishnaraj, Maithreyi 45
Chatterjee, Partha 13, 15, 51, 59 Gopinath, Ravindran 37 Kumar, Anup 33
Chatterjee, Suhita Chopra 7, 31 Gordon, W. Terrence 45 Kumar, Krishna 54

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62  AUTHOR INDEX Overy, Caroline 37 Sen, Amiya P. 59
Sen, Asoka Kumar 8, 32
Kumar, Rajni 44 Padel, Felix 6, 10, 11, 35, 37, 54, 57 Sen, Geeti 45
Kumar, Sanjay 34 Palriwala, Rajni 5, 28 Sennett, Richard 43
Panda, Minati 39 Sethi, Anil 44
Lainé, Nicolas 34, 56 Pandian, M. S. S. 49 Shah, Alpa 16
Lalita, K. 22 Patel, Reena 36 Shah, A. M. 23, 30, 36, 45, 47, 58
Lamb, Sarah 8, 32 Patel, Sujata 32 Shah, Ghanshyam 51, 59
Lardinois, Roland 51 Patel, Tulsi 36, 58 Shah, Svati P. 29
Larson, Gerald James 53 Pati, Biswamoy 13, 35, 45, 55, 57 Sharma, Jayeeta 47
Leach, Melissa 43 Pattanayak, Debi Prasanna 44 Sharma, K. L. 6, 30
Levine, Sarah 12, 17, 40, 53 Peek, Lori 52 Sharma, L. N. 53
Loomba, Ania 15 Perez, Rosa Maria 9, 18, 53 Sharma, Shailja 42
Philip, Kavita 54 Sharma, S. L. 45
MacFarlane, Alan 17 Phillipson, Robert 39 Shaw, Annapurna 13, 42
Machel, Graca 45 Polit, Karin M. 10 Shobhi, Prithvi Datta Chandra 47
Malik, Jamal 8 Pollock, Sheldon 49 Shreekumar, Sharmila 12, 40
Maloney, Clarence 7, 31, 56 Poros, Maritsa V. 33 Sikka, Shalini 44
Mamdani, Mahmood 51 Powell, Jim 45 Simpson, Edward 10, 37, 57
Manor, James 25 Prabhu, K. S. 53 Singh, Bhrigupati 4
Mantena, Karuna 15 Prakash, Amit 45 Singh, Renuka 6, 30
Mathew, E. T. 45 Prashad, Vijay 8 Singh, Supriya 28
Mayaram, Shail 51 Puri, Jyoti 22 Sinha, Aali 53
Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole 51 Pushpendra 29 Sivaramakrishnan, K. 14
Mazumdar, Aruna 53 Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 38–9, 41
Mazzarella, William 6 Radhakrishna, Meena 12, 40, 54 Sleeter, Christine 34
McGrath, Kevin 19 Radhakrishnan, Smitha 32 Smith, Geoffrey Nowell 46
McLain, Karline 19 Rahman, Tariq 41, 44, 56 Solomon, Harris 2
Mehrotra, Santosh 40 Rai, Alok 45 Soneji, Davesh 14
Mehta, Lyla 44, 56 Rajan, Gita 42 Srinivas, M. N. 45
Messenger, Sharon 37 Rajan, S. Irudaya 45 Srinivas, Smriti 2, 12, 27, 41
Metcalf, Barbara D. 47 Ramanathan, Vaidehi 44 Srivatsan, R. 37
Michaels, Axel 45 Raman, N. Kalyan 57 Staples, James 56
Mishra, Arima 7, 10, 31, 37 Rao, Anupama 47 Stewart, Pamela J. 13, 43
Mishra, Arvind K. 34 Rao, Nitya 8, 16, 33, 52 Stietencron, Heinrich von 50
Mishra, Mallica 6, 30, 58 Rashid, Ahmed 45 Strathern, Andrew 13, 43
Mitchell, Lisa 14, 46 Rassool, Naz 42 Subba, T. B. 9, 13, 34, 45, 56
Mohanty, Ajit K. 39 Ray, Pratibha 57 Sudarshan, R. 53
Mookerji, Radha Kumud 53 Reddy, Sujani 8 Sujatha, V. 33, 56
More, J. B. P. 45 Reifeld, Helmut 16, 52–3 Sullivan, Lawrence E. 43, 53
Mukherjee, Meenakshi 42 Ricci, Ronit 48 Sundar, Nandini 15, 48
Mukhopadhyay, Swapna 16, 52 Robinson, Francis 15 Sundar Rajan, Rajeshwari 50
Munshi, Indra 32, 54 Roy, Anupama 55 Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari 49
Rudrappa, Sharmila 20 Swaminathan, Padmini 35, 58
Nagaraj, D. R. 14, 47, 59
Nagase, Osamu 38 Saavala, Minna 33 Tejani, Shabnum 48
Nakassis, Constantine V. 1 Sahu, Geetanjoy 4 Thapan, Meenakshi 13, 45
Nanda, Meera 50 Saliba, Therese 45 Tharamangalam, Joseph 44, 56
Narayanan, Gomathi 57 Samaddar, Ranabir 31 Tharu, Susie 37
Natarajan, Uttara 15 Sangameswaran, Priya 29 Thorner, Alice 45, 53
Natrajan, Balmurli 11, 38, 54 Sanyal, Manoj Kumar 38 Thorner, Daniel 53
Nayar, Pramod K. 32 Sarkar, Jadunath 55 Tilak, Jandhyala B. G. 31
Naz, Farhat 5 Sarkar, Sumit 46 Tiné, Harald Fischer 39
Needham, Anuradha D. 49 Sarkar, Sutapa Chatterjee 11, 17 Torres-Guzmán, María E. 38
Nicholas, Ralph W. 18, 53 Sarkar, Tanika 46, 50, 59 Trivedi, Harish 42
Sattanathan, A. N. 15
Oesterheld, Joachim 54 Scoones, Ian 43 Uberoi, Patricia 15, 48
Omvedt, Gail 34, 43 Scott, James C. 10, 36 Unni, Jeemol 6, 54
Oommen, T. K. 29, 45
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Vimalassery, Manu 8
Upadhyay 34 Visvanathan, Susan 12, 42 Whitehead, Neil L. 13, 43
Upadhyay, Shashi Bhushan 34, 36 Vora, Neha 7, 31 Wilson, Amrit 41
Uys, Tina 32 Winance, Myriam 38
Vries, Hent de 43, 53 Wiser, Charlotte 18, 53
Vanaik, Achin 45, 58 Wadley, Susan S. 17–8, 53 Wiser, William 18, 53
van der Veer, Peter 28 Weinstein, Liza 27 Wynne, Bryan 43
Venkatachalapathy, A. R. 3 Weiss, Anita M. 29
Venkatesan, Soumhya 11 Welck, Hubertus Von 45 Zachariah, Anand 37
Vicente, Filipa Lowndes 9 Zachariah, K. C. 13, 44–5
Vijayaraghavan, Sujatha 10, 55 Zutshi, Chitralekha 48, 59
Vijayasree, C. 42

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TITLE INDEX 1857: Essays from Economic and Political Weekly Burden of Refuge, The: The Partition Experiences Dubai: Gilded Cage 35
40 of the Sindhis of Gujarat 11, 38 Durable Slum, The: Dharavi and the Right to Stay

Adivasi Question, The: Issues of Land, Forest and Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial Put in Globalizing Mumbai 27
Livelihood 32, 54 Perspectives 40 Dynamics of Migration in Kerala: Dimensions,

Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival, Resistance and Caste and Democratic Politics in India 51, 59 Differentials and Consequences 45
Negotiation 35 Caste in Indian Politics (Second Edition) 36
Caste in Modern India: A Reader (Two Volume Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and Identities in South Asia 14
the Politics of Friendship 50 Set) 46
Caste Question, The: Dalits and the Politics of Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed
Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty 2, 27 Connection 6, 54
African Dispersal in the Deccan, The 54 Modern India 47
After Elwin: Encounters with Tribal Life 18, 53 Caste, Religion and Country: A View of Ancient Education and Social Change in South Asia 54
Afterlife of Sai Baba, The: Competing Visions of a Education, Unemployment and Masculinities in
and Medieval India 46
Global Saint 19 Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass India 48, 52
Against Stigma: Studies in Caste, Race and Justice Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic and
Publicity 6
since Durban 11, 38, 54 Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India, Social Policies for Equitable Growth 40
Ageing and Development 40 Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India
Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan 1863–1937: Contending with Marginality 43
Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity 47
Families in India and Abroad 8, 32 En-gendering Individuals 41
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of in Colonial South India 54 Engendering Individuals 55
Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in English-Vernacular Divide, The: Postcolonial
Liberal Imperialism 15
Anthropological Journeys: Reflections on Diaspora 45 Language Politics and Practice 44
Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for Enigma of the Kerala Woman, The: A Failed
Fieldwork 13, 45
Anthropologist Among the Marxists and Other Asghar Ali Engineer 45 Promise of Literacy 16, 52
Continuities and Transformations: Studies in Sri Environmental Jurisprudence and the
Essays, An 15, 51
Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Lankan Archaelogy and History 54 Supreme Court: Litigation, Interpretation,
Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the Implementation 4
Sociology and Anthropology 15, 48 Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions 18, 53
Anthropology of North-East India, The: A Indian Nation 11 Everyday Life in a Prison: Confinement,
Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in Surveillance, Resistance 10, 36
Textbook 13, 45 Everyday State and Society in Modern India, The
Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a Western India 1700–1960 46 16, 52
Crisis of Secularism in India, The 49 ‘Everywhere is Becoming the Same’?: Regulating
New Transnational Class 32 Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social IT-Work between India and Germany 51
Arjuna Pandava: The Double Hero in the Epic Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship:
History 50 Contested Transitions in South Africa and
Mahabharata 19 Culture of the New Capitalism, The 43 India 32
Art of Not Being Governed, The: An Anarchist Culture, Society and Development in India: Essays Exile as Challenge, The: Tibetan Diaspora 45
Explanation of Natural Events and Human Action
History of Upland Southeast Asia 10, 36 for Amiya Kumar Bagchi 38 53
At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and
Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature and History Family in India, The: Critical Essays 45
the West 15, 50 36 Fatalism and Development: Nepal’s Struggle for
Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage
Dalit Visions 43 Modernization 12, 40
to India 13 Damayanti and Nala: The Many Lives of a Story Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today 24
Flaming Feet and Other Essays, The: The Dalit
Banking on Words: The Failure of Language in the 17
Age of Derivative Finance 1 Danube, Ganges, and Other Life Streams 14 Movement 14, 47, 59
Demography and Democracy: Essays on Food for Beginners 42
Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-five Years in a North Foucault for Beginners 45
Indian Village 18, 53 Nationalism, Gender and Ideology 35 Friendship, Interiority and Mysticism: Essays in
Derrida for Beginners 45
Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11 Diasporas and Development 38 Dialogue 12, 42
52 Digital Cool: Life in the Age of New Media 32 From Village Elder to British Judge 8, 32
Disability and Society: A Reader 38 Fruits of Worship: Practical Religion in Bengal 18
Between Ethnography and Fiction: Verrier Elwin Discounted Life: The Price of Global Surrogacy in Fundamentals of Sociology 37, 55
and the Tribal Question in India 13 Fundamental Unity of India, The 53
India 20
Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling Across Cultural Dishonoured by History: ‘Criminal Tribes’ and Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual
Borders in South India 3 Explorations 55
British Colonial Policy 12, 40, 54
Bilingualism or Not: The Education of Minorities Doing Style: Youth and Mass Mediation in South Gender, Politics and Islam 45
41
India 1
Bodies of Song: Kabir Oral Traditions and Dreams, Questions, Struggles: South Asian
Performative Worlds in North India 46
Women in Britain 41
Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia 4, Dual Identity: Indian Diaspora and Other Essays
27
6, 30
Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the
Tamil Political Present 49

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Education and Glocalization 38
Geopolitics of Academic Writing, A 42 Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity,
George Joseph: The Life and Times of a Kerala Immunising the Children of the World 26 and the Making of Kashmir 48, 59
Impact of War on Children, The 45
Christian Nationalist 45, 55 Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora 7, 31 Languages of Political Islam in India, The: c.
Global Issues in Languages, Education and Indian Cities in Transition 42 1200–1800 59
Indian Ideology , The: Three Responses to Perry
Development: Perspectives from Postcolonial Light of Knowledge, The: Literacy Activism and the
Countries 42 Anderson 13 Politics of Writing in South India 7
Global Issues, Local Contexts: The Rabi Das of Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History,
West Bengal (Revised Edition) 7, 31 Linguistic Genocide in Education or Worldwide
Globalization and Money: A Global South 1890–1950 48 Diversity and Human Rights? 41
Perspective 28 India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business and
G. N. Devy Reader, The 11 Linguistic Imperialism Continued 39
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Islam, the USA, and the Industry in a Modern Nation 49, 59 Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation,
Global War Against Terror 51 India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Low
Good Women do not Inherit Land: Politics of Accommodation and Conflict 16, 52
Land and Gender in India 8, 16, 33, 52 Castes in North Indian Politics 51 Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten
Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the India Through the Ages 55
Newest Social Movements 40 Indigeneity: Culture and Representation 5, 39, 56 Histories 50, 59
Grassroots of Democracy, The: Field Studies of Indispensable Vivekananda, The: An Anthology for Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Class and
Indian Elections 47
Ground Between, The: Anthropologists Engage our Times 59 ‘White Subalternity’ in Colonial India 39
Philosophy 4 Industrial Relations in India: Towards a New
Gujarat Carnage, The 45, 55 Making of a Small State, The: Populist Social
Socio-Political Approach 21 Mobilisation and the Hindi Press in the
Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest Industry, Labour and Society 33 Uttarakhand Movement 33
Times to the Present 49 Intersections: Socio-Cultural Trends in
Making of Navi Mumbai, The 13
Health, Illness and Medicine: Ethnographic Maharashtra 45 Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support: Lived
Readings 10, 37 In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City and
Experiences of the Urban Poor in India 16
Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Memory in a Global Religious Movement 12, Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing
Colonial India 55 41
In the Public’s Interest: Evictions, Citizenship and Practices in a Globalising World 5, 28
Health Policy in Britain’s Model Colony: Ceylon Inequality in Contemporary Delhi 20 Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and
(1900–1948) 55 Intimate Other, The: Love Divine in Indic Religions
56 Present Imaginings of India 15
Higher Education in India: In Search of Equality, Islam in South Asia: A Short History 8 Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India 33, 56
Quality and Quantity 31 Islam in South Asia: In Practice 47 Memories and Movements: Borders and
Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the
Hindi Nationalism 45 Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat 31, 56
Hindu–Catholic Engagements in Goa: Religion, Asia 48 Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the

Colonialism, and Modernity 5 Jharkhand: Politics of Development and Identity 45 Junglemahals, 1890–1950 (Second Edition) 31
Hinduism: Past and Present 45 Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia Metabolic Living: Food, Fat, and the Absorption of
Hindu Myth, Hindu History: Religion, Art, and
45 Illness in India 2
Politics 50 Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in Middle-Class Moralities: Everyday Struggles over
Hindu Nationalism: A Reader 49, 59
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, South Asia 56 Belonging and Prestige in India 33
Middle Class Values in India and Western Europe
and Cultural Nationalism 59 Kerala: The Paradoxes of Public Action and
Historical Demography and Agrarian Regimes: Development 44, 56 53
Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in
Understanding Southern Indian ertility, Kings and Untouchables: A Study of the Caste
1881–1981 37 System in Western India 53 New York and London 33
History of the Social Determinants of Health: Modern Spirit of Asia, The: The Spiritual and the
Global Histories, Contemporary Debates Kinship in Bengali Culture 53
55 Secular in China and India 28
Homeless on Google Earth 46, 59 Land and Labour in India 53 Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising
Human Landscape, The 45 Language and Politics in Pakistan 44
Hundred Tamil Folk and Tribal Tales, A 10, 55 Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The the Local 39
Multilingualism in India 44
Ideals, Images and Real Lives: Women in Literature Making of a Mother Tongue 14, 46 Multiple Voices and Stories: Narratives of Health
and History 45 Language, Ideology and Power: Language-learning
and Illness 7, 31
Idea of Gujarat, The: History, Ethnography and among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India Muslim Identity, Print Culture and the Dravidian
Text 10, 37 41, 56
Language of the Gods in the World of Men, The: Factor in Tamil Nadu 45
Ideas, Institutions, Processes: Essays in Memory of Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern
Satish Saberwal 28 India 49 Nationalization of Hindu Traditions, The:
Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth-
Century Banaras 48

Nation and National Identity in South Asia 45
Nation in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism, Sub-

Nationalisms and Narration 42
Nature, Environment and Society: Conservation,

Governance and Transformation in India 34,
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66  TITLE INDEX Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Social and Economic Profile of India 53
Twentieth-Century Nepal 12, 17, 40, 53 Social Change in Modern India 45
Negotiating Empowerment: Studies in English Social Determinants of Health: Assessing Theory,
Language Education 42 Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and
Poverty in India 9 Policy and Practice 37
Neoliberalism and Water: Complicating the Story Social Inclusion in Independent India: Dimensions
of ‘Reforms’ in Maharashtra 29 Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Late
Colonial India 43, 57 and Approaches 29
New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the US Social Policy 23
42 Reflections on Cambridge 17 Society and History of Gujarat since 1800: A
Reforming India’s Social Sector: Poverty, Nutrition,
Night and Other Stories 60 Select Bibliography of the English and European
Night of the Gods: Durga Puja and the Health and Education 53 Language Sources 57
Re-imagining India and Other Essays 35 Socio-Cultural Context of Water, The: Study of a
Legitimation of Power in Rural Bengal 18 Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call Gujarat Village 5
Nomad Called Thief, A: Reflections on Adivasi Sociology and History: Dialogues Towards
to Judgement 53 Integration 23
Silence 13, 44 Religious Division and Social Conflict: The Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration
North-East India: A Handbook of Anthropology in the City of Mumbai 29
Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India Structure of Hindu Society, The 57
9 (Second Impression) 16, 52 Subaltern Studies XI: Community, Gender and
Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences Violence 51
Other Orientalisms: India Between Florence and (Revised Edition) 17, 53 Subaltern Studies XII: Muslims, Dalits and the
Bombay, 1860–1900 9 Rethinking Democracy 57 Fabrications of History 51
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas Under the
Out of This Earth: East India Adivasis and the Global Perspectives 12 Rule of the Nizams 11, 57
Aluminium Cartel 11, 37 Rethinking Issues in Islam 57 Sundarbans, The: Folk Deities, Monsters and
Rites of Spring: Gajan in Village Bengal 18 Mortals 11, 17
Participation at the Crossroads: Decentralisation Roots and Shadows 57 Sun Never Sets, The: South Asian Migrants in an
and Water Politics in West Bengal 21 Rule by Numbers: Governmentality and Colonial Age of U.S. Power 8
India 2 Syrian Christians of Kerala, The: Demographic and
Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of Rupture, Loss and Living: Minority Women Speak Socio-economic Transition in the Twentieth
South Asia 29 About Post-conflict Life 22 Century 13, 44

Peculiar People, Amazing Lives: Leprosy, Social Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market: The
Exclusion and Community Making in South 10, 35, 57 Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani
India 56 Industry, 1980–2000 12, 41, 58
Sand and Other Stories 57
People of the Maldive Islands (Second Edition) 7, Saussure for Beginners 45 Terror and Violence: Imagination and the
31, 56 Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India 16 Unimaginable 13, 43
Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship
Place for Utopia, A: Urban Designs from South There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the
Asia 2, 27 in Postcolonial India 50 Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala and
Scholars and Prophets: Sociology of India from Malabar, c. 1850–1940 13
Plain Speaking: A Sudra’s Story 15
Play of the Gods, The: Locality, Ideology, France 19th–20th Centuries 51 The Toda Landscape: Explorations in Cultural
School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Economy 58
Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali
Town 53 Comparative Perspectives 34 Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our
Political Sociology: A New Grammar of Politics School, Society, Nation: Popular Essays in Times 45
53
Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post- Education 44 Tibetan Refugees in India: Education, Culture and
Secular World 43, 53 Science and Citizens: Globalisation and the Growing Up in Exile 6, 30, 58
Politics and Poetics of Water, The: The
Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India Challenge of Engagement 43 Tocqueville in India 51
44, 56 Scripting Lives: Narratives of Dominant Women in Toda Landscape, The: Explorations in Cultural
Postcolonial Studies and Beyond 15
Powerful Ephemeral, The: Everyday Healing in an Kerala 12, 40 Ecology 3
Ambiguously Islamic Place 14 Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Too Many Men, Too Few Women: Social
Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic
Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the World Gramsci 46 Consequences of the Gender Imbalance in
39, 56 Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, India and China 24
Practice of Sociology, The 45 Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Reflections on
Primal Land, The 57 Muslims, and the Hindu Public in Colonial India the Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today 37
Problem of Caste, The 27, 57 59 Towards a New Sociology in India 25
Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle to Trafficking in Women and Children in India 44,
Hindi Film Industry 9 Decriminalize Homosexuality in India 22 58
Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodernism, Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800–1997 13, Trajectories of the Indian State, The: Politics and
Science, and Hindu Nationalism 50 45, 57 Ideas 47, 60
Sixty Years in the Service of the Nation: An
Raga’n Josh: Stories from a Musical Life 48 Illustrated History of IIT Kharagpur 57
Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Small Voice of History, The: Collected Essays 15,
59
Nations in Colonial Times 50, 59

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Modernity in South India 14
Tranquebar—Whose History?: Transnational Wife, Mother, Widow: Exploring Women’s Lives
Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia in Northern India 18, 53
Colony in South India 6 Care in India 6
Women and Work 35, 58
Traversing Bihar: The Politics of Development and Unquiet Woods, The: Ecological Change and Women of Honour: Gender and Agency among
Social Justice 29 Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya (Twentieth
Anniversary Edition) 14, 46 Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas 10
Trouble with Marriage, The: Feminists Confront Women of the Mahabharata, The: The Question
Law and Violence in India 26 Unsettling the Past: Unknown Aspects and
Scholarly Assessments of D. D. Kosambi 46 of Truth 41, 58
Tuberculosis in India: A Case of Innovation and Women Survivors of Violence: Genesis and
Control 3 Urbanising Cholera: The Social Determinants of Its
Re-emergence 34, 58 Growth of a State Support System 26, 58
Tulsi and the Cross, The: Anthropology and the Women Writing Gender: Marathi Fiction Before
Colonial Encounter in Goa 9, 18 Village Society 27, 58
Violence in Urban India: Identity Politics, ‘Mumbai’ Independence 47
Ulama of Firangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of
South Asia, The 15 and the Postcolonial City 15, 51
Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics 58 Inheritance 3, 27
Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, Voice and Memory: Indigenous Imagination and Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call
Colonial Modernities 17
Expression 5 Center Industry 36
Understanding Biodiversity: Life Sustainability and Writings of A. M. Shah, The: The Household and
Equity 58 Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan
Methods, Colonial Practices 15, 49, 60 Family in India 30
Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar Writings of D. N. Dhanagare, The: The Missing
and Beyond 34 When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made,
Choices Challenged 18 Tradition: Debates and Discourses in Indian
Understanding Contemporary India: Critical Sociology 30
Perspectives 58 When the Kurinji Blooms 58 Writings of James Manor, The: Politics and State–
Society Relations in India 25
Understanding Indian Society: Past and Present,
Essays for A. M. Shah 36, 58 Yuganta: The End of an Epoch (Reissue) 43

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