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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...

Sociology in India enjoys a special epistemological location as the country is at once traditional and modern, rural and urban, and rich and poor. ...

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

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 ...

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...

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituen...

Combining theoretical and empirical issues and drawing its conclusions from rigorous methodologies and latest data, this volume covers a wide range...

Few expressions of globalisation are as visible, widespread, and pervasive as the worldwide proliferation of internationally traded consumer Goods....

To sustain India's growth graph in the medium and long-run requires commensurate increase in the supply of alternative forms of energy-electricity,...

Resource exploitation in the form of land-grabbing has become a major debate worldwide. Based on extensive field research conducted at the India-Pa...

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...

As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, i...

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...

To sustain India's growth graph in the medium and long-run requires commensurate increase in the supply of alternative forms of energy-electricity,...

Charting a renewed course for Africa, this work looks at the immediate challenges resulting from the global changes and the priority medium-term po...

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

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...