Oup India imprint: 245 books
The Outsiders
Economic Reform and Informal Labour in a Developing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2011
The informal economy is a dynamic, active, and hotly debated domain in the developing world. Unfortunately, it remains one of the most ignored areas in mainstream economic theory and development economics. In this book, Marjit and Kar provide a detailed theoretical overview and analytical understanding...
Integrating Services in South Asia
Trade, Investment, and Mobility
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In this era of globalization, every region and country in the world is pursuing some kind of integration to further its economic, geo-political, and strategic interests. This book explores the prospects for and challenges to services integration in South Asia through an in-depth analysis of services...
Knowledge as Property
Issues in the Moral Grounding of Intellectual Property Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2012
Intellectual Property Rights (IPRs)—the idea of knowledge as property—and its role in human society is being increasingly discussed across nations and borders. Involving legal, political, cultural, and ethical issues, debates on IPRs continue to be complex and wide-ranging. This book analyses...
Managing Water in River Basins
Hydrology, Economics, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
This book provides an in-depth analysis of existing methods of water management and highlights the gaps in the use of water in various river basins. Underlying the futility of 'quick fix' solutions, it puts forward various alternative strategies for water management. Using illustrative case studies,...
Accumulation by Segregation
Muslim Localities in Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
This work explores the processes of creation and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi. Mapping the landscape of discrimination in Delhi’s neighbourhoods, Jamil tries to see how such fractured geographies are created. We come across people whose sense of belonging to each other is...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2017
Much seems to be going wrong with democracy at present. The global advance of democracy is stalled and, what is worse, cynicism about democracy is growing. Recent events in such diverse places as Turkey and the Philippines, the Brexit vote, and the election rhetoric of Donald Trump raise questions...
Writing Labour
Stone Quarry Workers in Delhi
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
In most globalizing economies, workers engaged in the informal sector occupy the lowest rungs of society. This book examines one such group—stone quarry workers located beyond the expanding rim of south Delhi and beneath the radar of effective law and policy. Drawing upon extensive case studies...
So Near, Yet So Far
Badal Sircar’s Third Theatre
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
This is the first-ever, full-length study of Badal Sircar's Third Theatre. Sircar was a very prominent playwright of modern Bengali Theatre. It challenges some of the well-established notions of the Third Theatre. It brings to the fore the lost voices of some members of the Third Theatre. It has some rare photographs of Shatabdi, Sircar's Theatre group.
Ashis Nandy
A Life in Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2018
This volume is an adda of great minds, spanning generations and multiple nationalities. While one discusses creativity and aesthetics through Indian classical music, another recounts the pleasure of a simple walk. Another questions how it would be if Rabindranath Tagore lived in the twenty-first century;...
Yeti
The Ecology of a Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
As it turned out, young Daniel never outgrew the enchantment of the mysterious Yeti, the Abominable Snowman. His search for the enigmatic creature of Himalayan legends spread over many decades: from 1956 until 2015, Daniel C. Taylor visited almost all valley systems in his quest to explain the ‘Yeti’s...
Implications of the Philosophy of Kant
Kāntdarśaner Tātparya
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Immanuel Kant's three Critiques—Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Practical Reason and Critique of Judgment—have been the cornerstone of Western philosophy. While the West has extensively debated on these works, Indian perspectives on them have been few and far between. This book is a singular...
The Cracked Mirror
An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Western constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theorization in Indian social sciences. Problematizing their tenuous relationship, this book presents a passionate plea to create new frameworks for describing contemporary Indian social experiences. Using a dialogic...
International Relations Theory and South Asia (OIP)
Volume II: Security, Political Economy, Domestic Politics, Identities, and Images
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Bringing together scholarship from several South Asian countries, this volume understands conflict resolution and cooperation building in the region. The essays cover three inter-related issues-security; political economy-domestic politics; and the construction of identities and normative frameworks....
The Dravidian Years
Politics and Welfare in Tamil Nadu
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
From Haryana to Gujarat to Maharashtra, numerous Indian states have been witness to protests by backward classes pressing for quotas and reservations. In stark contrast is the exemplary case of Tamil Nadu, which has managed to effectively integrate economic and development agenda for the backward...