Oup India imprint: 245 books
Swaminarayan Hinduism
Tradition, Adaptation, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Towards the end of the eighteenth century, a lone pilgrim reached Gujarat and joined a small ashram in Loj. In time, his followers not only accepted him as the leader of the ashram but also as the manifestation of deity and called him Swaminarayan. His followers increased rapidly and today Swaminarayan...
by Koneru Ramakrishna Rao
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
When asked about his message to the world, the Mahatma famously said, ‘My life is my message.’ In him there was no room for contradiction between thought and action. His life in its totality is a series of experiments to convert dharma, moral principles, into karma, practices in action. Gandhi...
by Romila Thapar
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
This classic provides a comprehensive account of the hstory of the Mauryas with a special emphasis on the reign and activities of Aśoka. It examines the sources, socio-economic conditions, administration, Dhamma, foreign relations, and the decline of the Mauryas. This edition comes with a new Pre-word which updates research on the subject.
The Right to Information Act 2005
A Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The Indian state till recently denied information about its functioning and decision-making to its citizens, ironically, using laws made during the colonial period. Apart from being an anomaly in a democratic set-up, it created an adverse impact on the quality of governance, accountability, and transparency....
The Grammar of Caste
Economic Discrimination in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2011
Is the caste system disappearing? Are traditional hierarchies being replaced by competing equalities? Do globalization and liberalization automatically result in diminishing disparities? Are modern labour markets intrinsically meritocratic and efficient? Challenging the dominant discourse and demolishing...
Forging a Region
Sultans, Traders, and Pilgrims in Gujarat, 1200–1500
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2010
Gujarat lies at the confluence of communities, commerce, and cultures. As the modern Indian state of Gujarat marks its fiftieth year in 2010, this book charts its coalescence into a distinct political and linguistic unit roughly five hundred years ago. From the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries,...
International Relations Theory and South Asia (OIP)
Volume I: Security, Political Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Drawing upon international relations theory, this volume conceptualizes possible solutions to the various conflicts in South Asia. It analyses the bilateral conflicts between India and Pakistan and other multilateral problems specific to this region. Bringing together scholarship from several South...
This is How We Dance Now!
Performance in the Age of Bollywood and Reality Shows
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This book is the first scholarly study of Indian dance reality shows and the attendant celebrity culture. It presents an ethnographic and behind-the-scenes study of the lives of reality show dancers and choreographers in obscure and well-known corners of Mumbai and Kolkata. The dancers’ classes,...
Beyond Hybridity and Fundamentalism
Emerging Muslim Identity in Globalized India
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
The question of identity and especially its formation among youth, has received significant academic attention as our worlds become intricately and unpredictably connected through satellite televisions, mobile telephones, Internet and social networking platforms. Marking a distinct addition to such...
by Balmiki Prasad Singh
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2008
The rise of terrorism and fundamentalism in recent times has brought about phenomenal changes in global politics. These unprecedented challenges call for a new, bold, and imaginative statecraft from world leaders. Underlining the need to transcend age old peace mechanism and reconstruct our language...
Behind the Mask
The Cultural Definition of the Legal Subject in Colonial Bengal (1715–1911)
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2006
This book investigates the deeper area of class antagonism between the privileged and underprivileged classes as they faced the colonial state and its different ideas of legality and sovereignty in colonial Bengal. It examines the ambiguity in the bhadralok—the educated middle class— response...
Kashmir’s Contested Pasts
Narratives, Geographies, and the Historical Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri...
by Nagappa Gowda K.
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011
The Bhagavadgita has lent itself to several readings to defend or contest various views on life, morality, and metaphysics. This book explores the the role of the Bhagavadgita in the formation of nationalist discourse. It examines the ways in which the Gita became the central terrain of nationalist...
by Kaushik Roy
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Accustomed to conducting low-intensity warfare before 1914, the Indian Army learnt to engage in high-intensity conventional warfare during the course of World War I, thereby exhibiting a steep learning curve. Being the bulwark of the British Empire in South Asia, the ‘brown warriors’ of the Raj...