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Margins of Faith
Dalit and Tribal Christianity in India
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This volume documents the ethnographies of regionally distinct Dalit and tribal Christian communities, raising new arguments pertaining to the autonomy and distinct identity of these communities in adverse social set-ups.
Stressing upon the plurality of identities, the essays reject the idea...
On World Religions
Diversity, Not Dissension
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
‘… Swamiji attended the World Parliament of Religions at Chicago in 1893 as a true representative of his country and religion…Through his speeches at Chicago, and his subsequent work in America and England, [he] showed the universal relevance and significance of India’s ancient philosophy...
Construction of Evil in North East India
Myth, Narrative and Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Construction of Evil in North East India is an illuminating study on the concept of evil and its representations in literature, political theory and social and cultural movements. It encompasses a wide array of themes in the construction of 'evil' ranging from discourses about the belief in evil to...
Readings in Indian Sociology
Volume IX: Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Culture and Society, shows us that the questions of the nation state must have precise emblems, or facts, by which it is studied. These motifs may be leisure, propaganda, film, theatre, cartoons, ideologies of race and caste, as well as the continuing production of a variety of materials, which inform...
India Policy Forum 2006-07
Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2007
India Policy Forum is a journal which is jointly promoted by the National Council for Applied Economic Research, New Delhi and the Brookings Institution in Washington D.C., with the objective of presenting high-quality empirical research on the major economic policy issues that confront contemporary...
State and Civil Society under Siege
Hindutva, Security and Militarism in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
A comprehensive analysis on the rise, assertion and dominance of the New Hindu Right forces in civil society
From its forgettable electoral performance of 1984 to its historical victory in 2014, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) story has been fodder for many political and academic debates. In...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2012
Public Hinduisms critically analyses the way in which Hinduism is produced and represented as an established feature of modern public landscapes. It examines the mediation, representation and construction of multiple forms of Hinduism in a variety of social and political contexts, and in the process...
Negotiating Peace in Deeply Divided Societies
A Set of Simulations
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2009
This first-of-its-kind book approaches peacemaking in a unique way. It makes an innovative application of simulation—as training exercises for peacemaking—and puts readers in the role of key actors during conflict and conflict resolution processes, giving them a nuanced understanding of the risk,...
Grass-Roots Democracy in India and China
The Right To Participate
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2007
Both India and China have experienced economic changes and growing social consciousness which have generated new challenges for local institutions. This volume closely studies the resultant grass-roots political experiences in these countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the...
Leadership in the Indian Army
Biographies of Twelve Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2005
Spanning over 60 years of military leadership in India, this unique book brings to life the human side of twelve exceptional military leaders. Unlike traditional biographies of combat leaders which focus primarily on military operations or regimental histories, the author concentrates on personal...
Forever Incomplete
The Story of Nepal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
Forever Incomplete is the story of the Kingdom of Nepal. It will take the reader through various periods in her long history-from the birth and unification of the country, attempts at expansion, and clashes with neighbouring powers to the demarcation of its present-day borders. The story also covers...
The Garrison State
Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005
Following the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal recruiting ground for the Indian Army. This book examines the processes by which the politics and political economy of colonial Punjab was militarised by the...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
During the past three decades, two terms, “postmodernism” and “globalization” have entered not only academic discourse, but everyday discussions outside the groves of academia. This book contains essays assembled with a conviction that both postmodernism and globalization have the potential...
Markets and Malthus
Population, Gender and Health in Neo-liberal Times
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2010
Markets and Malthus: Population, Gender, and Health in Neo-liberal Times explores the ideas and institutions that were framed at the 1994 United Nations population conference in Cairo and traces their trajectories sixteen years down the line. Why were Third World feminists profoundly critical of the...