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Sociology & Anthropology Textbooks
CHECKLIST 2014
CONTENTS Sociology ......................................................................................................................... 1 Anthropology ................................................................................................................ 14
SOCIOLOGY Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir Invisible Stakeholders Seema Shekhawat
NEW
This book demonstrates that gender is a key component of conflict and peace discourse. The marginalization of women in conflict and peace is all pervasive. Kashmir is a mirror image of this global scenario. Kashmiri women aided the militant movement in significant ways though they did not take part in direct combat. They played key roles to sustain and nourish the movement - as protestors, protectors and motivators, and facilitators. Their experiences of participation in the conflict, however, remain subdued by the dominant masculinist discourse. Kashmiri women are excluded from the militancy discourse as contributors as well as from peacemaking discourse as stakeholders. The study interrogates theory and practice of women's participation in conflict and argues that changed gender-roles during conflict do not necessarily revolutionize socially ascribed norms. The book also examines the experiences of women in sustaining conflict to make a case for their due place in negotiating formal peace. ISBN: 9781107041875
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196pp
` 595.00
Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India Soma Chaudhuri
NEW
Mapping Social Exclusion in India Caste, Religion and Borderlands Paramjit S. Judge
NEW
Bringing together a holistic theoretical perspective drawing from sociology, anthropology, and postcolonial history, the author argues that witchcraft accusations among the adivasi worker communities in the tea plantations of West Bengal are a protest against the plantation management. Thus the witchcraft accusations are not as 'exotic and primitive rituals of a backward' adivasi community during times of stress, but rather as a powerful protest organized by a marginalized community against its oppressors. The book also illuminates how witchcraft accusations should be interpreted within the backdrop of labor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity of power, patronage, and social distance.
ISBN: 9789382993452
214pp
` 695.00
Mapping Social Exclusion in India assesses the problem of defining exclusion, the need for its contextualization and establishes a relationship between social exclusion, deprivation and discrimination. It studies the distinctive character of Indian society and system marked with the existence of exclusionary practices and structures on the basis of caste. The usage of the concept of exclusion is more inclusive than any other competing concepts of discrimination or deprivation, though these concepts are interchangeably used to denote it. It is, therefore, important to conceptualize exclusion and, in the process, come across different shades of its interpretations. The social phenomenon of exclusion that mars societies globally is studied by various scholars who put together their diverse research, studies, perceptions and ideas and, most importantly, their years of expertise to focus on a central theme of social exclusion in Indian society. This cohesive volume highlights the causal link between discrimination and exploitation. The contributors study the role of the state as an interventionist force and look into the mobilization strategy as a reaction to exclusion. They take a critical look at the reservation policy and argue that state intervention creates certain new forms of exclusion. ISBN: 9781107056091
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298pp
` 745.00
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia Dancing with the River Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt & Gopa Samanta
NEW
Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India Ashok K. Pankaj & Ajit K. Pandey (editors)
NEW
With this book, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of ‘hybrid environments’. Focusing on chars – the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that exist within the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal – the authors show how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddle the conventional categories of land and water, and how people who live on them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, a study of human habitation in the nebulous space between land and water, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people’s ways of life.
ISBN: 9789382993780
294pp
` 795.00
This book emphasizes the need for adopting an integrated approach to understand the concepts of subalternity, exclusion and social change in India. It also explores the dynamic relations between these three concepts, instead of treating them as unconnected and discrete social facts. The contributors address some important questions of political economy: Why are subalterns, subalterns, and how does a society produce and reproduce them? Are subalterns a historical construction, and, if so, what are those historical forces and how have they produced subalterns? Also, are there any contemporary forces of subaltern reproduction? What are those forces and how do they operate? How do we place the differentially positioned social groups within the larger subaltern category? The essays in this volume capture ideology, knowledge and power as forces of subaltern reproduction in Indian society, and map the dominant trajectories of emancipation and assertion adopted by different subaltern social groups. Contributors show how subalterns are negotiating emancipation amidst continued oppression, subjugation and atrocities. ISBN: 9789382993247
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387pp
` 895.00
Population Ageing in India G. Giridhar, K. M. Sathyanarayana, Sanjay Kumar, K. S. James & Moneer Alam (editors)
NEW Mountainous Sound Spaces Listening to History and Music in the Uttarakhand Himalayas Andrew Alter
NEW
While living longer represents progress in many ways, can the elderly truly lead a comfortable and fruitful life? How do the deep rooted discriminatory practices affect elderly women who tend to live longer than men? What will happen to the very large proportion of selfemployed workers who have neither retirement age nor any pension benefits? Population Ageing in India tries to effectively deal with all these pertinent questions. It builds a knowledge base on population ageing to better understand the implications of the changing population age structure in India. The research focuses on the social, economic, health and psychological aspects of the elderly, and comments on how this can significantly impact policy changes.
ISBN: 9781107073326
252pp
` 795.00
This book provides a perspective on cultural practice in the Himalayas that engages directly with the sonic world of musical production, thus emphasizing how the invisible world of sound is critical to shaping imagined histories, creating mythologized heroes and amplifying the stories of mountains and people. Together, Garhwal and Kumaun comprise the present-day Indian state of Uttarakhand, a state with unique histories associated with Hindu mythology, immigrant communities from western India, Gorkha conquest, British colonialism and modern-day India. The book situates the reader within the history and geography of Garhwal and provides general information on a selection of instruments and sound structures. The reader is introduced to Garhwal’s aristocratic and colonial past as well as to the region’s folklore. The music of bagpipes echoes a colonial past by blending British regimental histories with contemporary folk traditions. Drum and trumpet ensembles echo the martial traditions of Rajputs and Mughals and confirm migratory histories between the mountains and the plains. Flutes echo the supernatural world of sprites and gods and become a potent symbol of dangerous love. The book also uses a variety of theoretical models to explore the ways in which music is described and explained in academic literature and mystic traditions. The nature of sound as well as its relationship to language is re-examined in the context of the Himalayas. It provides the reader with a framework for understanding how music is created and how repertoire is organized. It moves the reader between the worlds of epic performance and contemporary practice giving a sense for disparate sites of musical production and performance. ISBN: 9789382993322 5
180pp
` 595.00
Rural Politics in India Political Stratification and Governance in West Bengal Dayabati Roy
NEW
Empire Calling Administering Colonial Australasia and India Anna Johnston, Ralph Crane & C. Vijayasree (editors)
This book discusses the forms and dynamics of political processes in rural India with a special emphasis on West Bengal, the nation’s fourthmost populous state. West Bengal’s political distinction stems from its long legacy of a Left-led coalition government for more than thirty years and its land reform initiatives. The book closely looks at how people from different castes, religions, and genders represent themselves in local governments, political parties, and in the social movements in West Bengal. At the same time it addresses some important questions: Is there any new pattern of politics emerging at the margins? How does this pattern of politics correspond with the current discourse of governance? Using ethnographic techniques, it claims to chart new territories by not only examining how rural people see the state, but also conceiving the context by comparing the available theoretical frameworks put forward to explain the political dynamics of rural India.
ISBN: 9781107042353
289pp
` 695.00
The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the men and women who served the British Empire in Australasia and India, and those who were subject to their administration. As these essays demonstrate, administrative arrangements involve complex crosscultural relationships in colonial spaces, often through radically unequal and racially based power relations. Colonial administration involves diverse domains of practice - the Civil Service, schools and universities, missions, domestic realms, justice systems - and many forms of activities, including managing and organising; financing and accounting; monitoring and measuring; ordering and supplying; writing and implementing policies. In the two parts of this book, the authors from India, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain - examine the ways colonial administrations accumulated and managed information and knowledge about the places and peoples under their jurisdiction. The administration of colonial spaces was neither a simple nor a unilinear project, and the essays in this book will contribute to key debates about imperial history. ISBN: 9789382264767
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192pp
` 595.00
The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC S.D. Muni (editor)
With the dawn of the twenty-first century, South Asian region has undergone radical transformation. It has witnessed a strong democratic sweep. Most of the South Asian economies have registered impressive growth trajectories. Some of its countries have also emerged as the hub of global terrorism. The international community has become far more involved in South Asian affairs due to the nuclearisation of the region. SAARC cannot but keep pace with the changing regional dynamics. It has moved ahead on its economic agenda and expanded its reach not only by adding new members (Afghanistan) but also by opening itself to the participation of many other countries, including China, Iran and the US, as Observers. The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC is an attempt to look at the changing dynamics of South Asia and to learn whether SAARC will take regional cooperation and integration in their various dimensions closer to reality. S.D.Muni, the editor of this volume has compiled essays contributed by eminent academics and analysts, not only from most of the SAARC countries, but also from those joined as Observers. Besides looking at the trade and economic dimension of SAARC, these essays discuss the security, political and cultural aspects of regional cooperation among the South Asian countries. ISBN: 9788175967458
Changing India Bourgeois Revolution on the Subcontinent Second Edition Robert W. Stern
322pp
` 495.00
The revised edition of Robert Stern’s book brings India’s story up-todate. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and yet central to the author’s argument remains his belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of India’s social systems and its resilience in the face of change. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensive introduction to modern India. While paradoxes abound in an India which is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why it remains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developing world.
ISBN: 9780521540810
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320pp
` 295.00
Foundations of Modern Society Rajiva Wijesinha
This book introduces students to ideas, events and personalities that have created the present-day world. This book thus attempts to set them out in a way that challenges young-adult minds. It is hoped that this book will enthuse them to explore the reasons for and the results of important historical developments.
ISBN: 9788175962446
The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur The Cheitharon Kumpapa Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt
75pp
` 145.00
The Cheitharon Kumpapa is a court account of the state, which claims to record events from the founding of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE. This dynasty continued until the abolition of the monarchy after the merger of the state with India in 1949. The document is thus probably the oldest chronicle in the region, written on handmade Meetei (Manipuri) paper made from tree bark in locally made ink with a quill or bamboo pen. All in all it comprises more than 1,000 leaves. This volume contains a copy of the original text of the Cheitharon Kumpapa, authorized by the Palace, and the English translation from the original composed in archaic Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatory notes and a glossary complement this interesting source of information.
ISBN: 9780415344302
238pp ROUTLEDGE
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` 950.00
The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur The Cheitharon Kumpapa Vol. 2, 1764-1843 CE Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt
The Cheitharon Kumpapa is the court chronicle of the kings of the state of Manipur, a small, formerly independent state situated on the northeastern border of India with Myanmar. The Cheitharon Kumpapa records events from the founding of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE until the abolition of the monarchy and subsequent merger of the state with India in 1949. The document is probably the oldest chronicle of the region, written on handmade Meetei (Manipuri) paper made from bark of trees, in locally made ink, with a quill or a bamboo pen. All in all it comprises more than a thousand leaves. The Cheitharon Kumpapa Volume 1 (2005, ISBN 978-04-1534-430-5) covered the period between 33–1763 CE. This volume continues the translation of the chronicle up until 1843 CE. It also includes a facsimile of the original text in Meetei Mayek, the archaic Manipuri script, with a glossary for Manipuri and other loan words. Researchers on East and South Asia in the fields of social anthropology, history, archaeology, human geography and linguistics will find this volume interesting. ISBN: 9788175966383
297pp
` 795.00
The Court Chronicle of The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur is a three-volume series on the court history of the Manipur state. It records events from the the Kings of Manipur The Cheitharon Kumpapa Vol. 3, 1843–1892 CE Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt
foundation of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE. This dynasty continued until the abolition of the monarchy and subsequent merger of the state with India in 1949. The Cheitharon Kumpapa Vol. 1 chronicles the history of Manipur from 33 to 1763 CE, and Vol. 2 from 1764 to 1843 CE. This third and final volume continues the discussion until 1891 when the legitimate kingship came to an end as a result of conflict with the British. The three volumes contain an English translation of the work along with a copy of the original Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatory notes and a glossary of frequently-used Manipuri terms complement the text. The book will be of interest to researchers on East and South Asia in the fields of history, social anthropology and linguistics.
ISBN: 9789382264552
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668pp
` 995.00
Collaborative Learning This book presents novel approaches to collaborative learning by drawing on research and practical experiences from China, South Asia, in Practice Examples from Natural Resource Management in Asia Ronnie Vernooy (editor)
and Southeast Asia. The case studies show how local communities learn from challenges in managing natural resources through joint efforts with researchers and other actors. They demonstrate the merits of learning strategies that use a variety of methods that are grounded in the local context that involves facilitators monitored from the outset. It creates a strong environment of collaboration and dynamic process management. The book shows that learning strategies that are both innovative and collaborative can lead to sounder rural development. Collaborative Learning in Practice: Examples from Natural Resource Management in Asia will be of interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in development studies, practitioners and development professionals, particularly in the fields of capacity building and participatory action methodologies; as well as programme managers and decision-makers in donor organizations and development agencies worldwide. ISBN: 9788175967120
Human Development and Social Power Perspectives from South Asia Ananya Mukherjee Reed
193pp
` 595.00
Since it emerged as a major policy paradigm almost two decades ago, the human development approach has gained increasing degrees of legitimacy within national and international policy circles. However, severe challenges continue to hinder the progress of human development - challenges that appear to render the standard repertoire of policy instruments rather ineffective. This book focuses on one such challenge: that of the pervasive unevenness of human development across categories such as ethnicity and religion. While human development inequalities across class (and to some extent, gender) are well recognised, the other dimensions are less so. How significant are they? How can they be addressed? To explore this question, the book proposes a reformulation of the concept of human development using three key notions: structural inequality; difference and agency. This framework is then used to explore human development and post-colonial South Asia, which, with its plethora of complex social cleavages, offers an important context for the problematic. The explorations suggest that human development differentials emanate from larger patterns of politicisation of difference, embedded in historically engendered structures of social power. If so, then who are likely to be the most critical agents for transforming these structures? How should we understand the relationship between human development and social power? ISBN: 9780415775526
192pp ROUTLEDGE
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` 795.00
Women in Prison An Insight into Captivity and Crime Suvarna Cherukuri
Women in Prison takes a look at the multiple specificities that bring women into the prison system. Drawing on empirical sources and original research, and relying primarily on interviews of women inmates, this book explores the contexts of female crime and punishment in India and looks at gendered disciplinary mechanisms that are used to control women inmates. The work invokes not only a sense of history in understanding women’s crimes and imprisonment, but also engages in a critical dialogue in terms of gender, caste, culture and sexuality. Unique in its analysis of the lives of women prisoners within social and legal contexts, the book is a major contribution to international literature on women’s offences and their experience of imprisonment.
ISBN: 9788175965478
Fragments of Inequality Social, Spatial and Evolutionary Analyses of Income Distribution Sanjoy Chakravorty
157pp
` 295.00
Fragments of Inequality uses an interdisciplinary framework to answer the most fundamental questions on inequality and income distribution: What explains the level of income inequality in a given nation? Why do income inequality levels vary so greatly worldwide? What causes the level of income inequality to change? What explains the diversity of trends in income inequality change? In this novel work, Sanjoy Chakravorty argues that social fragmentation and spatial fragmentation are the principal sources of income inequality and shows how these factors change and thereby effect changes in distributional patterns. But as Chakravorty demonstrates, intellectual approaches to the analysis of inequality are also quite fragmented economists, sociologists, geographers and other social scientists tend to operate within their disciplinary boundaries and therefore provide incomplete explanations for this critically important, multidimensional issue. ISBN: 9780415952965
276pp ROUTLEDGE
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` 695.00
The Untouchables Subordination, Poverty and the State in Modern India Oliver Mendelsohn & Marika Vicziany
In a compelling account of the lives of those at the bottom of Indian society, the authors explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure a readership from across the disciplines.
ISBN: 9788175960749
Empowering Society An Analysis of Business, Government and Social Development Approaches to Empowerment Usha Jumani
307pp
` 495.00
Empowerment is an integral element of a democratic system. The maturity of a democracy is directly related to the level of empowerment its citizens and institutions experience. The term ‘empowerment’ is used in different contexts and this book addresses this problem through a comparative analysis of three major organisational systems business, government and social development. The book presents a new conceptual framework for understanding the process of empowerment. It combines case studies specially for this volume, with secondary data and the author’s first hand experience of working with development organisations.
ISBN: 9788175963177
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263pp
` 395.00
India Migration Report 2009 Past, Present and the Future Outlook Binod Khadria (editor)
India has the distinction of being recognized as an important country of origin of migrants in many receiving countries of the world. India also receives a large number of immigrants, mostly originating from its neighboring countries in Asia and some from other countires as well. However, despite having significant stakes in international migration of human resources the issue of mobility has largely remained a neglected area in the academic and policy circles in India. Hardly any regular and comprehensive institutional mechanism for collecting, maintaining and disseminating systematic information on international migration exists in India excepting a few individual initiatives here and there. It is only in the closing decades of the 20th century that migration has started drawing greater attention of stakeholders in policy sphere, in academia and the civil society in India. In this context, publication of this first India Migration Report aims to make a small beginning towards bridging a vital gap. The 2009 Report provides an overview of migration from India to the major destination countries as well as immigration to India. The focus of the report is to put together issues and concerns of significance in the contemporary contexts of migration – both continuing and emerging - and bring out a systematic, regular and futuristic source of information and analysis on international mobility of people involving India. ISBN: 9788190978002
India Migration Report 2010-2011 The Americas Binod Khadria (editor)
160pp
` 995.00
India Migration Report 2010–2011: The Americas discusses historical and contemporary migration between India and the American continents. For more than half-a-century, India has been one of the largest source countries of migrants to the US and Canada. A majority of Indian diaspora population in the US and Canada is highly educated and affluent. They hold important positions in the economic and sociopolitical set-up of these two countries. In contrast, the Indians in South America and the Caribbean are not so highly-skilled, educated or affluent. A significant proportion of them had migrated much earlier as low-skilled workers for plantations in the colonies. This report is an attempt to examine Indian migration to the two American continents following diverse trajectories. Besides providing an overview of migration from India, the report also traces immigration of foreigners and return migration of Indians from the American continents to India. The focus of India Migration Report 2010–2011 is on putting together available information on issues involving various migration patterns and analyzing the major factors and policies that shape them. ISBN: 9781107681033
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166pp
` 995.00
ANTHROPOLOGY Gender in South Asia Social Imagination and Constructed Realities Subhadra Mitra Channa
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersection with other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvas in terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and takes material from ancient texts and modern media, literature and ethnographic materials forming a historical discourse. The author critically looks at several pervasive and popular theories such as nature/ culture, public/ private and gender seen as performative and fluid rather than essentialized and fixed. There is also an appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and the cross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestations across time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that shows how gender can only be understood in its social and historical context and as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of both collective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive and narrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to both academic and non-academic readers. The book would be of interest to academics, researchers and graduate students of South Asian History, Anthropology and Sociology ISBN: 9781107043619
A New Anthropology of Islam John Bowen
238pp
` 795.00
In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a full range of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways that emphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning to judging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in the societies in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Asia, Africa and Western Europe, to explore each major domain of Islamic religious and social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in social anthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A New Anthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in the study of Islam and for those following new developments in the discipline of anthropology. ISBN: 9781107615755
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230pp
` 395.00
Fighting Eviction Katkari Land Rights and Research-in Action Daniel Buckles, Rajeev Khedkar, with Bansi Ghevde & Dnyaneshwar Patil
The book engages readers in a process of reflection on what it means to do research ‘with’ people rather than ‘on’ people, by recounting a collaborative inquiry with the Katkari, formerly called ‘Criminal Tribe’ and so-called ‘Primitive Tribal Group’ in Maharashtra, India. The book is designed to help readers learn about participatory action research progressively and with a strong narrative grounded in issues facing Adivasi populations in South Asia and the real-life dilemmas of engaged research. As such it is accessible to both graduate and undergraduate students in many disciplines. This includes all of the standard social science departments teaching methods and promoting field-based research.
ISBN: 9789382264538
Disquieting Gifts Humanitarianism in New Delhi Erica Bornstein
258pp
` 595.00
This book takes a close look at people working on humanitarian projects in New Delhi and addresses several issues - why they engage in philanthropic work, what 'humanitarianism' means to them, and the ethical and political tangles they encounter. There are many studies focusing on the outcomes of humanitarian work, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first place receive less attention. In this book, the author investigates specific cases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal different perceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance to kin, how the impulse to give to others in distress is tempered by its regulation, suspicions about recipient suitability, and why the figure of the orphan is so valuable in humanitarian discourse. The book would be of interest to students and academics in Sociology, Anthropology, Development Studies and Human Rights. ISBN: 9789382264637
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232pp
` 795.00
The Rational Believer Choices and Decisions in the Madrasas of Pakistan Masooda Bano
Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizing Muslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces of Islamabad's Red Mosque and its madrasa complex, whose Imam and students staged an armed resistance against the state for its support of the 'war on terror', reinforced concerns about madrasas' role in regional and global jihad. By 2006 madrasas registered with Pakistan's five regulatory boards for religious schools enrolled over one million male and 200,000 female students. In The Rational Believer, Masooda Bano draws on rich interview, ethnographic, and survey data, as well as fieldwork conducted in madrasas throughout the country to explore the network of Pakistani madrasas. She maps the choices and decisions confronted by students, teachers, parents, and clerics and explains why available choices make participation in jihad appear at times a viable course of action. Bano's work shows that beliefs are rational and that religious believers look to maximize utility in ways not captured by classical rational choice. She applies analytical tools from the New Institutional Economics to explain apparent contradictions in the madrasa system for example, how thousands of young Pakistani women demand the national adoption of traditional sharia law, despite its highly restrictive limits on female agency, and do so from their location in Islamic schools for girls that were founded only a generation ago. ISBN: 9789382264880
Life on the Ganga Boatmen and the Ritual Economy of Banaras Assa Doron
272pp
` 795.00
This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional social organization and used their privileged position on the river to contest upper-caste and state domination. The author examines the evolution of the boatmen community, drawing on a variety of sources to illuminate the cultural politics of social and economic inequality in contemporary India. Life on the Ganga: Boatmen and the Ritual Economy of Banaras offers insight into recent debates about the cultural and historical forms of social practice and resistance at the juncture between tradition and the global economy, and will therefore appeal not only to anthropologists, but to anyone working in the field of development studies, globalization, religion, politics and cultural studies.
ISBN: 9789382264545
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262pp
` 695.00
Patrons of Women Literacy Projects and Gender Development in Rural Nepal Esther Hertzog
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INDEX A
Giridhar, G. .......................................................... 5
A New Anthropology of Islam ............................ 14
Gupta, Dipankar ................................................ 17
Alam, Moneer ...................................................... 5
H
Alter, Andrew ....................................................... 5
Hertzog, Esther ................................................. 17
Anthropology, Politics and the State ................. 20
Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India ............................................ 20
Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age ................... 18
B
Human Development and Social Power ........... 10
Banerjee, Mukulika ........................................... 19
I
Bano, Masooda ................................................. 16
India Migration Report 2009 .............................. 13
Bayly, Susan ..................................................... 18
India Migration Report 2010-2011 ..................... 13
Bornstein, Erica ................................................. 15
J
Bowen, John ..................................................... 14
James, K.S. ......................................................... 5
Buckles, Daniel ................................................. 15
Johnston, Anna ................................................... 6
C
Judge, Paramjit S. ............................................... 3
Chakravorty, Sanjoy .......................................... 11
Jumani, Usha .................................................... 12
Changing India .................................................... 7
K
Channa, Subhadra Mitra ................................... 14
Khadria, Binod .................................................. 13
Chaudhuri, Soma ................................................ 3
Khedkar, Rajeev ................................................ 15
Cherukuri, Suvarna ........................................... 11
Kresse, Kai ........................................................ 18
Collaborative Learning in Practice .................... 10
Kumar, Sanjay ..................................................... 5
Crane, Ralph ....................................................... 6
L
D
Lahiri-Dutt, Kuntala ............................................. 4
Disquieting Gifts ................................................ 15
Life on the Ganga ............................................. 16
Doron, Assa ...................................................... 16
M
E
Mapping Social Exclusion in India ...................... 3
Empire Calling ..................................................... 6
Mendelsohn, Oliver ........................................... 12
Empowering Society ......................................... 12
Monk, Householder and Tantric Priest .............. 19
F
Mountainous Sound Spaces ............................... 5
Fighting Eviction ................................................ 15
Muni, S.D. ........................................................... 7
Foundations of Modern Society .......................... 8
Muslim Portraits ................................................ 19
Fragments of Inequality .................................... 11
My Favourite Levi-Strauss ................................ 17
G
O
Gellner, David N. ............................................... 19
Openshaw, Jeanne ........................................... 21
Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir .............. 2
P
Gender in South Asia ........................................ 14
Pandey, Ajit K. ..................................................... 4
Ghevde, Bansi .................................................. 15
23
Pankaj , Ashok K. ................................................ 4
Spencer, Jonathan ............................................ 20
Parratt, Saroj Nalini Arambam ........................ 8, 9
Stern, Robert W. ................................................. 7
Patil, Dnyaneshwar ........................................... 15
Struggling with History ...................................... 18
Patronage as Politics in South Asia .................. 21
Subalternity, Exclusion and Social Change in India ................................................... 4
Patrons of Women ............................................ 17 Peabody, Norbert .............................................. 20
T
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia ....... 4
The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur .. 8, 9
Piliavsky, Anastasia ........................................... 21
The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC ................ 7
Population Ageing in India .................................. 5
The Rational Believer ........................................ 16
R
The Untouchables ............................................. 12
Reed, Ananya Mukherjee .................................. 10
V
Roy, Dayabati ...................................................... 6
Vernooy, Ronnie ................................................ 10
Rural Politics in India .......................................... 6
Vicziany, Marika ................................................ 12
S Samanta, Gopa ................................................... 4 Sathyanarayana, K.M ......................................... 5 Seeking Bauls of Bengal ................................... 21 Shekhawat, Seema ............................................. 2 Simpson, Edward .............................................. 18
Vijayasree, C. ...................................................... 6
W Wijesinha, Rajiva ................................................ 8 Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of Migrant Laborers in India ................................................. 3 Women in Prison ............................................... 11
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