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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...

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...

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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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...

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

This book is a philosophical analysis of ordinary concepts like human action and consciousness, along with an exploration of their representation i...

The emergence of a decentralized, fragmented, and low-cost Internet opened up possibilities for persons with disabilities to lead an independent an...

As the constitutional body that conducts elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has emerged as a trusted institution within the shared s...

East of India, South of China is an incisive analysis of the ebbs and flows of the geopolitical fortunes of India and China—the two Asian giants—in...

The growing strategic partnership between India and Japan is one of the most important geopolitical developments of the twenty-first century. This ...

This is a collection of fourteen short stories by paramita satpathy. These stories are full of characters that conceal their true persona under a v...

Inlays of Subjectivity is an incisive exposition of the theme of subjectivity and selfhood in modern Indian literature. Scholarship in Indian liter...

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Pauperism and pauperization are two of the most persistent and widespread phenomena in India. While a fierce debate rages on the line separating th...

Considered ‘the most articulate and persuasive spokesman’ for the developing world in the twentieth century, renowned economist Mahbub ul Haq (1934...

Construction of large dams has been a significant factor in post-Independence developmental politics in India. This volume traces the ideological f...

The US–India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was a defining mom...

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing in some of the towering f...

This book explores the political economy of women’s work in India and its relationship to the Indian state. The author argues that the withdrawal o...

In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and t...

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Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid w...