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  • Individual and Society: Understanding the Sociology of Émile Durkheim

    by N. Jayaram ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This comprehensive volume explores the foundational contributions of the eminent French sociologist Emile Durkheim. It delves into his writings in political sociology and the sociology of education. It discusses the seminal contributions of Emile Durkheim to the development of sociology as a positivist social science. It offers an in-depth analysis of Durkheim's methodological rules for studying ... Read more

    $107.99 USD

  • Facing China

    The Prospect for War and Peace

    Translated by N. Jayaram ...
    by Jean-Pierre Cabestan ...
    Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China specialist based in Hong Kong, provides an overview of “Thucydides’ Trap,” as coined by political scientist Graham Allison to describe the inescapable conflict between Beijing and Washington. Is China’s growing power a threat to the United States? Could it lead to war between the two nations?Economically and militarily stronger, and more nationalist than ever, the ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

  • From Indians in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadians

    The Making of a Girmitiya Diaspora

    by N. Jayaram ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book explores the dynamics of the socio-cultural baggage that Indian indentured migrants took with them to the Caribbean island of Trinidad and how they have since become a vibrant diaspora community, namely the Indo-Trinidadians. It combines social history with first-hand fieldwork data to portray human ingenuity in terms of social reconstitution and community building in a hostile socio ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Caste Matters in Public Policy

    Issues and Perspectives

    Edited by Rahul Choragudi, Sony Pellissery, N. Jayaram ...
    Caste in India, despite its historical resilience, has been undergoing transformation since independence. If caste as a system of rigid stratification has been on the decline, castes as autonomous interest-serving groups have been on ascendance. This book critically engages with the changing notions of caste and its intersection with public policy in India. It discusses key issues such as social ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas

    Experiments and Experiences

    Edited by Vibha Arora, N. Jayaram ...
    Historically treated as an amorphous borderland and marginal to the understanding of democratic politics and governance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Asia, the Himalayan region, in the last 50 years, has become an ‘active political laboratory’ for experiments in democratic structures and institutions. In turn, it has witnessed the evolution of myriad political ideologies, movements ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Understanding Social Dynamics in South Asia

    Essays in Memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee

    Edited by Partha Nath Mukherji, N. Jayaram, Bhola Nath Ghosh ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume includes fourteen essays by eminent sociologists in memory of Ramkrishna Mukherjee (1919–2017), the last of the founding architects of sociology in India. It also includes two interviews with Ramkrishna Mukherjee by senior sociologists. The essays cover a variety of themes and topics close to the works of Ramkrishna Mukherjee: the idea of unitary social science, methodology of social ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

    Cross-National Perspectives

    by Ayelet Harel-Shalev, John Hawkins, Ka Ho Mok, Rick Wolff, Miri Amit, Pamela Blackmon, Josiah A. M. Cobbah, Steven J. Diner, Judith Naomi Friedlander, Gaele Goastellec, John Hattie, Sue Jackson, Ki-Seok Kim, David Kirp, Noga O'Connor, Hwanbo Park, Adel Pasztor, Carol Schmid, Boaz Shulruf, Don Stewart, Charles Tien, Sarah Tumen, Adrian Ziderman ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good ... Read more

    $129.99 USD

  • Democratisation in the Himalayas

    Interests, Conflicts, and Negotiations

    Edited by Vibha Arora, N. Jayaram ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    Democratisation is a formidable task in the Himalayan region owing to its immense cultural heterogeneity. The process of democratisation has accentuated ethnic competition, assertion of identity, and demand for ethnic homelands to protect, safeguard, and promote political and development interests of various groups.This volume discusses competing interests; identity politics that permeates ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Social Dynamics of the Urban

    Studies from India

    Edited by N. Jayaram ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This volume emphasises the sociological view that cities are primarily about people, not places or buildings, and explores the social dynamics of urban space in globalising India. Distinguishing between ‘locale’ and ‘milieu’ and the community–cosmopolitanism dialectic in urban areas, it elucidates the thematic for urban sociology today.The chapters explore the various perspectives and processes in ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Ideas, Institutions, Processes

    Essays in Memory of Satish Saberwal

    Edited by N. Jayaram ...
    • This book commemmorates eminent sociologist Satish Saberwal who pioneered interdisciplinarity in the social sciences in India through a series of 15 collected essays in four different parts.  • The first part takes a biographical approach to Saberwal and includes both reminiscences by his peers as well as an extensive interview with Saberwal. The second part is devoted to the methodology of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Modern India

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Craig Jeffrey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    India is widely recognised as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world's emerging powers, rivalling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the economic, social, political, and cultural changes unfolding in India today. To what extent are people benefiting from the economic boom? Does caste still exist in India? How is India's culture ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • India and the British Empire

    Edited by Douglas M. Peers, Nandini Gooptu ...
    Series series Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
    South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but also helping to reshape the study of imperial history in general. The essays in this collection address a number of these important developments, delineating not only the complicated interplay between ... Read more

    $35.09 USD