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Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian his...

This work seeks to determine the roles played by the paramount judiciary in the Indian polity between 1937 and 1964. The discussion starts with an ...

The political discourse in India experienced a fundamental shift when the Sachar Committee Report revealed that despite the national and state gove...

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic sur...

Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Service (ICs) were no...

Oxford India Short Introduction | KASHMIR | Complex Issues of Kashmir About its Past, Present and Future

A political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and philosopher, Partha Chatterjee has consistently provided academia wi...

How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India, this question is addressed ...

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian his...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic sur...

Telecommunications was vital to the imperial project and connecting India—the jewel in the British crown—was a key priority. However, intercolonial...

The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were k...

Light from the fire burning afar mingled with the moonlight in Kurukshetra to create a terrible twilight. Scattered corpses … broken chariots … spo...

A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation o...

This volume is about sustainable development and the complex global negotiations from the environmental capitals of the world. It explores the plig...

India has the largest number of child labourers in the world and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed a...

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...

How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? How do we und...

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...

It has long been recognized that productivity growth and the business cycle are closely interrelated. Yet, until recently, the two phenomena have b...

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

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...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

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...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

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...