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  • Grassroots Democracy and Governance in India

    Understanding Power, Sociality and Trust

    by Amiya Kumar Das ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book approaches grassroots governance and democracy from a sociological perspective, focusing on the interaction between the community and the State. It explores the interrelationship between state, governance and community and demonstrates the performativity aspects of both political actors and citizens in various elections in India. It also highlights the need to understand the dynamics of ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State

    Perspectives from India’s Northeast

    Edited by Kedilezo Kikhi, Amiya Kumar Das, Piyashi Dutta ...
    Whatever be the definition of 'indigenous' vis-a-vis 'indigeneity', and however concensual it might be, both these terms have been inferred, applied and questioned in multifarious ways. The concept indigeneity in Asia has transformed considerably, over a period of time. With the rise in the indigeneity movement and large-scale migration, citizenship within national borders is challenged, and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Neighbourhoods in Urban India

    In Between Home and the City

    Edited by Sadan Jha, Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das ...
    '…a brilliant exploration of urbanism between the concept city and the lived city.… The volume focuses on urban life lived between home and the world, institutions and experiences, representations and affects…. Its fascinating range of empirically rich and analytically sophisticated excavations of neighbourhoods make the volume a must-have in the bookshelf on South Asian urban studies.'-Gyan ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Investigating Developmentalism

    Notions of Development in the Social Sphere

    Edited by Dev Nath Pathak, Amiya Kumar Das ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Compiling various strands of the dis/enchantment with development discourse in contemporary South Asia, with specific focus on the cases from India, this edited book brings together anthropologists, sociologists, economists, and historians to refresh the understanding of development. It introduces ways of thinking “otherwise” about development discourse and what the contributors term ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Understanding India's New Political Economy

    A Great Transformation?

    Edited by Sanjay Ruparelia, Sanjay Reddy, John Harriss, Stuart Corbridge ...
    A number of large-scale transformations have shaped the economy, polity and society of India over the past quarter century. This book provides a detailed account of three that are of particular importance: the advent of liberal economic reform, the ascendance of Hindu cultural nationalism, and the empowerment of historically subordinate classes through popular democratic mobilizations.Filling a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Civility in Crisis

    Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

    Edited by Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe ...
    This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This concept helps analyse why democratic consolidation translates into limited justice and minimal equality, along with increased exclusion and ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Doing Sociology in India

    Genealogies, Locations, and Practices

    Edited by Sujata Patel ...
    This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’, which took place as a result of colonialism and dominant nationalism. The book affirms the existence ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Marginality in India

    Perspectives of Marginalisation from the Northeast

    Edited by Kedilezo Kikhi, Dharma Rakshit Gautam ...
    The book takes a close look into the definitions and categorizations of marginality, inequality, agency and location in society. It examines the systems of marginalization and othering by exploring perspectives of socially excluded people and communities in Northeast India.The context of Northeast India provides unique perspectives on the debates around marginality due to the existence of multi ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nation, Diaspora, Trans-nation

    Reflections from India

    by Ravindra K. Jain ...
    A premier debate in the present conjuncture of globalization has been the prospect of ‘post nation’ and the obsolescence of patriotism at the horizon of transnationalism. In an ethnographically rich and discursively sharp intervention R. K. Jain articulates the contribution that diaspora studies can make to this debate.In this anthropological narrative both nation and trans-nation are ‘moving ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Adivasis, Migrants and the State in India

    by Jagannath Ambagudia ...
    This book looks at the contested relationship between Adivasis or the indigenous peoples, migrants and the state in India. It delves into the nature and dynamics of competition and resource conflicts between the Adivasis and the migrants. Drawing on the ground experiences of the Dandakaranya Project – when Bengali migrants from erstwhile East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) were rehabilitated in eastern ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Indian Middle Class

    by Surinder S. Jodhka, Aseem Prakash ...
    Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understood as an ‘income/ economic category’, but the term has a broader social and conceptual history, globally as well as in India. To begin with, the middle ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Politics of Belonging in India

    Becoming Adivasi

    Edited by Daniel J. Rycroft, Sangeeta Dasgupta ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    Since the 1990s, the Indigenous movement worldwide has become increasingly relevant to research in India, re-shaping the terms of engagement with Adivasi (Indigenous/tribal) peoples and their pasts. This book responds to the growing need for an inter-disciplinary re-assessment of Tribal studies in postcolonial India and defines a new agenda for Adivasi studies. It considers the existing conceptual ... Read more

    $65.99 USD