Oup India imprint: 245 books
by Dipankar Dasgupta
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
This book deals with Growth Theory, an important subject taught as a part of economic theory. Amongst other topics, it introduces the literature on growth and inequality as well as a major critique of growth economics by Charles Jones. These issues remained unaddressed in an earlier volume by the...
Reengineering India
Work, Capital, and Class in an Offshore Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
The march towards a ‘new India’ began with its entry onto the global stage as a rising economic power, impelled by liberalization policies and the forces of globalization. The success of India’s information technology (IT) industry symbolizes these larger developments, yet we lack a critical...
India and the Interregnum
Interim Government, September 1946–August 1947
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
India’s interim government, in office from 2 September 1946 till August 1947, was a unique coalition of the Indian National Congress, All-India Muslim League, and non-Congress and non-League political figures—all presiding over a British/British-trained state apparatus during a period of political...
The Cultures of History in Early Modern India
Persianization and Mughal Culture in Bengal
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2009
This book examines the nature and function of history-writing in India by focusing on early modern traditions of historiography with particular reference to Bengal. Situating distinctive cultures of history vis-à-vis their relevant political and cultural contexts, it highlights the richness, variety...
India Means Business
How the elephant earned its stripes
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2012
Held to be the fourth largest economy by dint of its purchasing power, India is part of the G-20 major economies with significant influence on regional and global affairs. This book traces the evolution of business in India from the pre-British Raj days to look at the forces that have shaped Indian...
China’s India War
Collision Course on the Roof of the World
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
The Sino-Indian War of 1962 delivered a crushing defeat to India: not only did the country suffer a loss of lives and a heavy blow to its pride, the world began to see India as the provocateur of the war, with China ‘merely defending’ its territory. This perception that China was largely the innocent...
Bangladeshi Migrants in India
Foreigners, Refugees, or Infiltrators?
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
In January 2011, Felani Khatun was shot dead while attempting to cross the border from India to Bangladesh. Her body remained hung on the fence as a warning to those who illegally crossed an international border. Migration to India from the current geographical and political entity called Bangladesh...
by Michael Gottlob
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The writing of history in India has been fraught with controversies. From the storm over textbooks in the 1970s, and the furore over the Babri Masjid in the 1990s, to the flaring up of religious sentiments over 'beef-eating' and the Ram Sethu, this book provides a synoptic view of teaching and writing...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
While a growing private sector and a vibrant civil society can help compensate for the shortcomings of India’s public sector, the state is—and will remain—indispensable in delivering basic governance. In Rethinking Public Institutions in India, distinguished political and economic thinkers critically...
India in the Shadows of Empire
A Legal and Political History (1774–1950)
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2009
This book explains the postcolonial Indian polity by presenting an alternative historical narrative of the British Empire in India and India's struggle for independence. It pursues this narrative along two major trajectories. On the one hand, it focuses on the role of imperial judicial institutions...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
What does innovation mean to and in India? What are the predominant areas of innovation for India, and under what situations do they succeed or fail? This book addresses these all-important questions arising within diverse Indian contexts: informal economy, low-cost settings, large business groups,...
The Making of the Dalit Public in North India
Uttar Pradesh, 1950–Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This book is a detailed commentary on politics and political consciousness, participation, and mobilization among the Dalits in northern India. Based on extensive fieldwork at the village level in eastern Uttar Pradesh, it deals with Dalit social and political history in the state from 1950 to the...
The India–US Partnership
$1 Trillion by 2030
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The story of US - India relations is one of unfulfilled potential. Despite their common commitment to democracy, diversity and free markets, their short and long term objectives have not aligned in a way to create a robust economic and political partnership. These two nations, which will soon be the...
Making the Poor Free?
India’s Unique Identification Number
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, 'UID will help hundreds of people in India, whose pride was hurt for so many years...