Oup India: 245 books
Making Space
Sufis and Settlers in Early Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
How could settlement emerge in an early modern 'world on the move'? How did the Sufis imprint their influence on the cultural memory of their communities? Weaving together investigations of architecture, ethnography, local history, and migration, Making Space offers bold new insights into Indian,...
Ghalib
Innovative Meanings and the Ingenious Mind
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Mirza Asadullah Khan (1797–1869), popularly, Ghalib, is the most influential poet of the Urdu language. He is noted for the ghazals he wrote during his lifetime, which have since been interpreted and sung by different people in myriad ways. Ghalib’s popularity has today extended beyond the Indian...
When Mirrors Are Windows
A View of A.K. Ramanujan’s Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In an ocean where myriads of rivers converge, can one sole river lend the ocean its distinct flavour? For someone who is at home with several languages, literary traditions and disciplines, is it possible for one form to criss-cross the landscape of another? In a poet’s world of mirrors, where stream...
Chaturvedi Badrinath
Unity of Life and Other Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Chaturvedi Badrinath (1933‒2010), a recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award, 2009, for his work The Mahābhārata: An Inquiry in the Human Condition, was a passionate scholar of Indian philosophy, strikingly original in his approach. An Indian Administrative Service officer for 31 years, he delivered...
Punjab Reconsidered
History, Culture, and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
What is Punjabiyat? What are the different notions of Punjab? This volume analyses these ideas and explores the different aspects that constitute Punjab as a region conceptually in history, culture, and practice. Each essay examines a different Punjabi culture—language-based and literary; religious...
In the Land of Buried Tongues
Testimonies and Literary Narratives of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
The War of Liberation of Bangladesh in 1971 reopened the barely healed wounds of the Partition of 1947. A third nation was carved out leaving in its wake a trail of violent experiences and memories. Murder, rape, arson, plunder, custodial torture, refugees, and bombings inked the script of a fraternal...
Intimate Class Acts
Friendship and Desire in Indian and Pakistani Women’s Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
The economically privileged Lenny is able to taste the forbidden delights of the adult world because of her ayah. The romantic relationship between Sai, an upper-class Gujarati girl and Gyan, a lower-middle-class Nepali boy, crosses both class and ethnic boundaries. The marriage between Ram, an aristocratic...
Politics of Inclusion
Castes, Minorities, and Affirmative Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Post-Mandal, the demand for reservations by various groups has become a consistent feature of Indian politics. Yet, the focus remains on caste, with little attention paid to the under-representation of religious minorities in India. The book takes up the case of relative disadvantage and interogates...
The Making of Early Kashmir
Landscape and Identity in the Rajatarangini
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2018
What is history? How does a land become a homeland? How are cultural identities formed? The Making of Early Kashmir explores these questions in relation to the birth of Kashmir and the discursive and material practices that shaped it up to the 12th century CE. Reinterpreting the first work of Kashmiri...
by Mrinal Miri
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2014
What, if any, are the core values and ideas of education? Is moral education an independent variety of education or is it something that is intrinsic to most forms of education? Analysing education through the critical lens of philosophy, this volume explores the challenges that the education system...
Locating the Medical
Explorations in South Asian History
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
This volume interrogates the foundational categories that have come to define medical science in modern South Asia. It seeks to probe issues such as what constitutes the ‘medical’, in which context, and who defines it. This is achieved through case studies that range from the nineteenth to twenty-first...
Enslaved Daughters
Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2008
This is the second edition of a remarkable study of a young woman's defiant stand against Hindu orthodoxy and the colonial legal establishment in the late nineteenth century India. It revolves around a suit for 'restitution of conjugal rights' filed against Rukhmabai, who was married at age eleven...
Gandhi
Pan-Islamism, Imperialism and Nationalism in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2001
The Hindu–Muslim conflict was a major problem during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. This book shows how Mahatma Gandhi resolved the conflict and even united the Hindus and the Muslims. It presents a detailed introduction to the Khilafat (Pan-Islamist) movement, a venture that...
by Y.V. Reddy, G.R. Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
Likening fiscal federalism to a game between the Union and the States, and among the States themselves, Indian Fiscal Federalism lays bare the complex rules of play. It examines the pivotal role of Finance Commissions and assesses momentous events since 2014, such as the replacement of the Planning...