Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
Beyond Gandhian Economics
Towards a Creative Deconstruction
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Beyond Gandhian Economics is an attempt to establish that Gandhian Economics is not neoclassical in essence and that it goes beyond the defined domain of economics in analyzing social, political and ethical implications of economic actions or policies. What goes by the name of Gandhian Economics are...
by Devaki Jain
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This book is a collection of Devaki Jain’s writings and lectures related to the women’s movement in India and interventions in policy and fact base drawn from that experience. A journey of over six decades, it presents important interventions in the design of national and international development...
India-China Borderlands
Conversations beyond the Centre
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Despite the compelling immediacy of a 4,056 km long border, it is intriguing that when we think of India and China, we typically think of Delhi and Beijing and not locations along the shared border. The book will engage with this interesting puzzle through a critical comparative analysis of India–China...
Taking Social Development Seriously
The Experience of Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2010
This work presents a systematic historical and analytical understanding of Sri Lanka's social development. Instead of merely focussing on economic yardsticks, it studies the country's development in the conceptual framework of social policy, with an emphasis on the way current institutions reflect...
Participatory Citizenship
Identity, Exclusion, Inclusion
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2006
This volume argues that the conventional undestanding of citizenship is inadequate to capture the complex challenges a large majority of India`s marginalised people face in actualising their rights and making their voices heard. It offers instead an extended connotation of citizenship and participation...
Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi
From Caste to Class
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Changing Electoral Politics in Delhi is an in-depth analysis of voting patterns of voters in Delhi. Rapid immigration has changed the social profile of Delhi’s voters who seemed to vote more on class lines than caste as witnessed in many states.
During Partition, the city had witnessed...
Governance, Conflict and Development in South Asia
Perspectives from India, Nepal and Sri Lanka
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This volume examines how various forms of governance have emerged in South Asia after colonialism, and the developmental and conflict-related challenges the region faces. Drawing from the contexts of India, Sri Lanka and Nepal, it highlights the degree of institutionalization of democracy.
The...
Becoming Minority
How Discourses and Policies Produce Minorities in Europe and India
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book will make you revisit the ‘minority question’ as it has been understood, conventionally.
This book subjects to scrutiny some of the well-established social science concepts such as minority, ethnicity, inclusion, exclusion, and self-determination, among others. The purpose of...
A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India
The Margins of the Marginals
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018
**A history of the historyless, and the marginalization of adivasi voices.
A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India** is a path-breaking book that explores the current status of adivasi women in the four states of eastern India with high percentages of adivasis—Bihar,...
Readings in Indian Sociology
Volume III: Sociology of Childhood and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Sociology of Childhood and Youth, is one of the first of its kind that provides sociological articulations on the Indian child and young, along with the accompanying multifaceted discourses on childhood and youth situating it in the historical experience of India. This volume will be welcomed as a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2013
Criminology and criminal justice is in its infancy in India. This book attempts to examine India's crime problem in detail and document if and how its criminal justice system has responded to emerging challenges and opportunities. The objective is to move beyond mere observations and thoughtful opinions,...
Women's Agency and Social Change
Assam and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Women’s Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and women’s subordination therein.
British intervention, 1826–1947, by itself did...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
**This book addresses a gap in the academic and professional literature in the area of criminal justice social work. **
This compilation explores the scope of responsibilities undertaken by social workers in the field of criminal law in India when dealing with clients who are either offenders...
Orientalism, Terrorism, Indigenism
South Asian Readings in Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
This book’s contribution lies in its careful synthesis of concepts and concrete examples on issues of contemporary concern: terrorism, Orientalism, and Dalit Bahujan movements, and their reception in the popular media as well as in academic literature.
Drawing from the latest developments...