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This book is the first in-depth study of the Śaiva oeuvre of the celebrated polymath Appaya Dīkṣita (1520-1593). Jonathan Duquette documents the ri...

Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency—Aadhaar has bitterly polarized India since its launch in ...

Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, this book deals with notions, ideas, and concepts of crime and justice from the eighteenth...

Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime excha...

First in the series on Education and Society in South Asia, this volume focuses on the educational thought of a world-renowned teacher, thinker and...

did you know that the latest delimitation of electoral constituencies in india was carried out after a hiatus of three decades? and that the next d...

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in...

The present monograph is a study of the Indian armed forces during the Second World War. This monograph is a corrective to the cultural studies app...

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless comp...

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The book is a comprehensive exposition of the law and regulation of public offering of corporate securities. It explains an otherwise elaborate and...

India is being widely seen as an emerging economic and political power on the global scene. Despite having the largest population of chronically po...

Liberalisation officially began in 1991, but the seed for it was sown in the late 1950s by proponents of free markets. The debates over the opening...

Since India attained independence, its foreign policy discourse has imagined its South Asian neighbourhood through the politics of realism. This im...

In the Shade of the Golden Palace explores the work of the prolific Bengali poet Alaol (fl.1651-71), who translated five narrative poems and one ve...

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Political talk show host, Priya Sahgal, profiles sixteen emerging political leaders (under the age of fifty-five) who will dominate India’s politic...

India and Civilizational Futures is the second volume to emerge from the deliberations of the Backwaters Collective on Metaphysics and Politics, a ...

India has been a major recipient of international aid since its independence on account of its developmental gaps and wide income disparity; yet it...

Present-day militaries are often microcosms of the societies that maintain them. Unsurprising then that the armed forces have to come to terms with...

Redolent of the briny air of the sea and the lore of the seashore, Ocean Rimmed World captures the struggles and changing fortunes of the Parathava...

Weaving together a hitherto unattempted history of making and verifying identification documents, In Pursuit of Proof tells stories from the ground...

The natural environment is intimately interlinked with economic processes, each affecting the other in different ways. With the rise of new forms o...

Horticultural Statistics at a Glance 2015 is the premier publication of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, which serves as an authe...