Oup India imprint: 245 books
There and Back
Twelve of the Great Routes of Human History
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Though travelling is lauded as a means of enriching our lives, the emphasis is generally on the destination rather than the journey. Yet, throughout human history, routes have ferried not just people but books, scrolls, and art, in addition to armies, ambassadorial entourages, slaves, brides, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Never a shrinking violet, Hoshang Merchant came out of the closet early in his youth. A bard, a teacher, and a lover who has lived many lives, he is the quintessential gay who once cross-dressed, and yet defies categorization. In Secret Writings, he recounts his extraordinary life and splendid experiences...
Contested Secessions
Rights, Self-determination, Democracy, and Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011
This book approaches contested secession and the more Western concept of consensual secession from a political theory perspective. In particular, it focuses on the Kashmir issue as a form of contested secession and examines whether the Kashmiri people have a ‘right’ to secede.
On the Far Side of Memory
Short Stories of Lalithambika Antharjanam
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Housewife by day, daring writer at night, seated on the bare floor, this thinker of gender engaged with the thriving social and community reform movements of early-mid twentieth century Malayali society. The first prominent voice who spoke on behalf of women, the first startling insights that represented...
Human Rights in a Posthuman World
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
This major work, a sequel to the acclaimed The Future of Human Rights, brings together reflections on human rights theory in the contemporary human condition delineated by the discourses concerning 'development', 'terror', and the emergent 'posthuman'. While acknowledging the precarious place of human...
From Lineage to State
Social Formations in the Mid-First Millennium B.C. in the Ganga Valley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1999
This book is a concise collection of lectures which discuss the nature of early Indian society during the mid-first millennium BC and relate it to the ancient Indian historical tradition in its earliest forms. It also looks at the particular character of social formations, their genesis, and continuity...
Debates in Indian Philosophy
Classical, Colonial, and Contemporary
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2007
This volume traces the impact of colonialism and Western philosophy on the dialogical structure of Indian thought and highlights the general tendency in contemporary Indian philosophy to avoid direct dialogue as opposed to the rich and elaborate debates that formed the pivot of the classical Indian...
by Gurpreet Mahajan
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
Social scientists explain events by identifying reasons and causes. Occasionally they weave a series of events into a historical narrative. What is entailed in each kind of explanation? What form of explanation is adequate for the social sciences? In this lucid book, Gurpreet Mahajan surveys each...
by U.R. Ananthamurthy
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Ajji, can I have some water? … Just a few drops will do, Ajji. With the searing sky above and the blistering earth below, like cactus the people of this parched terrain are determined to stay alive. Emaciated children scurry along, dejected farmers pawn their ploughs, weary women sleep on empty...
Guardians of God
Inside the Religious Mind of the Pakistani Taliban
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
This book is an account of the emergence and key events related to the origin and expansion of Pakistani Taliban since 2001, with a focus on the role of religion in their actions, policies and worldviews. The author brings to light rare insight into the ideological basis of Pakistani Taliban, drawing...
Culture and Psyche
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2008
In these essays renowned psychoanalyst Sudhir Kakar uses diverse sources, including case studies, Indian myths and legends, and fiction, to analyse various facets of Indian identity. He explores the Indian psyche through a cultural and psychoanalytical investigation of ideas concerning identity and...
Hindu Law
Beyond Tradition and Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2008
This book presents a study on a postmodernist analysis of classical Hindu law, which has become neglected due to the modernist assumptions about the increasing irrelevance of ‘religious’ legal systems. The book is split into three parts. The first part focuses on the historical and conceptual...
by Upendra Baxi
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2007
This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance'...
Ethics for our Times
Essays in Gandhian Perspective: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Mahatma Gandhi holds an eminent position in the history of ethics and its application to contemporary concerns. This book brings together in one harmonious whole three systems of thoughts on ethics Indian, Western and Gandhian. It shows how Gandhi, drawing from the other two traditions, made a creative contribution of his own in making ethics richer and more relevant than ever before.