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CONTENTS
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R E A D I N G S O N T H E E C O N O M Y, P O L I T Y A N D S O C I E T Y
Balakrishnan
Orient BlackSwan After a boom in the early twenty-first

Edited by century, India witnessed a
macroeconomic reversal marked by a
PULAPRE BALAKRISHNAN
Anthropology and Ethnography..................................................................... 1

E-book) slowdown in growth that has lasted a
little longer than the boom. At the
same time, a fresh criterion of
nt: Critical and Subversive Essays governance, namely inclusion, has
emerged and become a priority for the
Economic Growth and its state. Written against the backdrop of
these developments, the essays in this
Distribution in India volume represent a range of
Dalit Studies .....................................................................................................17

est and Livelihood perspectives and methods pertaining
its Distribution in India
to the study of growth and its

Economic Growth and
distribution in India.
The essays in Section I take the long

view of growth in the country. They
The Indian Experience
represent issues of abiding interest and
Economics and Development Studies ........................................................21

provide the canvas upon which the rest
Equality, Quality and Quantity of the articles may be seen as placed.
Section II takes a macro view of the
recent history of the economy. The
essays explore the reasons for the shift
from a regime of high growth and low
inflation to one of low growth and high
inflation, deconstruct the 'dream run'
Education and Psychology .............................................................................36

of the economy over 2003–08, and
evaluate the United Progressive
Alliance government's performance.
Section III comprises essays that study

the economy at the next level down,
covering its agriculture, industry and
services. Another essay reflects upon
Environmental Studies and Geography .....................................................41

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the desirable space for finance in India,
a topic that has assumed some
relevance after the global recession.
ribution in India Continued on back flap

Essays from Economic and Political Weekly
Film, Media and Culture Studies ..................................................................47

Gandhi Studies .................................................................................................59
Gender Studies ................................................................................................62
General Interest ..............................................................................................70
Literature in Translation 71
Biography/Literature/Culture 77
Economics 80
Kurian
Jayawardena
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Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri
Politics 80
R I TI C A L Lankan Plantations takes as its central
Adivasis and the Raj; Socio-economic
theme the plantations of Sri Lanka, from
, 1820–1932
CT their inception in the early nineteenth
ring Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and H I NKI NG I N S O U TH A SI AN H I STO R Y century to almost the present day in the
twenty-first. Drawing on a wealth of
archival material, it offers a detailed and
compelling empirical narrative of the
Myths Series 81
lives and struggles of plantation
workers, who have constituted, for
Class, Patriarchy much of modern Sri Lankan history, the
single largest organised workforce in the
country. In doing so, it explores the
Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity
complex links between power and class,

and Ethnicity on
on Sri Lankan Plantations
gender and ethnic hierarchies both on

the plantations and outside and
Cookbooks and Nutrition 82

crucially situates the labour movement
Sri Lankan Plantations on the plantations within the wider
political and social economy of Sri
Lanka.
Two Centuries of Power and Protest The current volume begins by tracing
the origins of the plantations in then
For Beginners 84
Ceylon, the acquisition of Indian Tamil
workers and the labour practices during
the colonial period. This in turn
contextualises the subsequent
discussion on rising labour and political
consciousness among plantation
workers and their struggles for labour
Nature/Environment/Travel 88
and democratic rights, which the
authors track through the post-
Independence period and into the
twenty-first century. Particular attention
is paid to the role of political parties,
www.orientblackswan.com trade unions and other pressure groups
in supporting or opposing these rights,
Netaji: Collected Works 89

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within a background of class, ethnic,
linguistic and nationalist consciousness
and chauvinism. The book provides an
9 788 125 05 878 6 astute analysis of the strategic alliances
and political manoeuvres made by the
urian: Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity
on Sri Lankan Plantations Continued on back flap
Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian
Health and Disability Studies ........................................................................94

History.............................................................................................................100
Literature and Language ..............................................................................142
Political Science, Public Administration and Public Policy ...................156
Sociology .........................................................................................................179
E-Books ...........................................................................................................200
Author Index ...................................................................................................229

Title Index .......................................................................................................236
Order Form.......................................................................................................249
Banking on Words
FORTHCOMING TITLES
The Failure of Language in the Age of Derivative Finance
Arjun Appadurai, Goddard Professor in Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
In this provocative look at one of the most important events of our time, renowned scholar Arjun Appadurai argues that the
economic collapse of 2008—while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-taking—was,
ultimately, a failure of language. To prove this sophisticated point, he takes us into the world of derivative finance, which has
become the core of contemporary trading and the primary target of blame for the collapse and all our subsequent woes. With
incisive argumentation, he analyses this challengingly technical world, drawing on thinkers such as J. L. Austin, Marcel Mauss, and
Max Weber as theoretical guides to showcase the ways language—and particular failures in it—paved the way for ruin.
Selected Contents: Preface 1. The Logic of Promissory Finance 2. The Entrepreneurial Ethic and the Spirit of Financialism
3. The Ghost in the Financial Machine 4. The Sacred Market 5. Sociality, Uncertainty, and Ritual 6. The Charismatic Derivative
7. The Wealth of Dividuals 8. The Global Ambitions of Finance 9. The End of the Contractual Promise
2016 978-81-250-6075-8 ` 675 (tent.) 176pp (approx.) Hardback Rights: Restricted
Discounted Life
The Price of Global Surrogacy in India
Sharmila Rudrappa, Associate Professor in Sociology and the Center for Women and Gender Studies, University of Texas at Austin
India is the top provider of surrogacy services in the world, with a multi-million dollar surrogacy industry that continues to grow
exponentially, as increasing number of couples from developed nations look for wombs in which to grow their babies. Some
scholars have exulted transnational surrogacy for the possibilities it opens for infertile couples, while others have offered
bioethical cautionary tales, rebuked exploitative intended parents, or lamented the exploitation of surrogate mothers—but very
little is known about the experience of and transaction between surrogate mothers and intended parents outside the lens of the
many agencies that control surrogacy in India. A detailed and moving study, Discounted Life delineates how local labor markets
intertwine with global reproduction industries.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Markets in Life 1 Reproductive Interventions 2 Converting Social Networks into Labor
Markets 3 The Many Meanings of Surrogacy 4 Locating Surrogacy in Child Sharing and Wage Labor 5 Babies as Commodities
6 Fetuses as Persons, Surrogate Mothers as Nonpersons 7. Surrogacy as a Gift Conclusion: Discounted Life
2016 978-81-250-6047-5 ` 695 (tent.) 224pp (approx.) Hardback Rights: Restricted
Economics
A Primer for India
(Second Edition)
G. Omkarnath, Professor of Economics, University of Hyderabad
This volume is tailor-made for foundation courses in undergraduate programmes. Its pedagogic standpoint is based on two
convictions. First, a foundation course need not invoke formal economic theory which is a contested terrain, especially at the
present time. Second, such a course should be grounded on the empirical reality of the economy in which students live.
The distinctive features of the book include:
• Text focuses on the inter-dependent nature of the economic structure of society
• Elucidation of basic economic concepts and measures with relevant data from original sources
• A rigorous attention to the process of economic growth, including the critical role of policy in guiding growth
This is the second edition of the book.
Selected Contents: PART I: THE ECONOMIC STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY 1. Basic Economic Processes 2. The System of
Production 3. The System of Markets 4. The System of Money and Finance Part II: THE PROCESS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH
5. Growth and Demand 6. Industrialisation and Growth 7. Liberalisation and Growth 8. Petty Production and Poverty Part III
ADDENDA 9. Monitoring the Indian Economy 10. Economic Theory: An Orientation
2016 296pp (tent.) ` 350 (approx.) Paperback
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Founts of Knowledge
SERIES: BOOK HISTORY IN INDIA
Edited by Abhijit Gupta, Associate Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University; and Director, Jadavpur University Press, Kolkata, and Swapan
Chakravorty, Kabiguru Rabindranath Tagore Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities, Presidency University; and former Director-General,
National Library of India, Kolkata
Founts of Knowledge is the third in a series titled ‘Book History in India’, which was started in 2004 to showcase the latest
research in what was then a nascent field in India—the history of the book. It continues the trajectory of the first two volumes
(published by Permanent Black) in establishing book history as a major tool of enquiry in the Indian academy, and brings together
the finest scholars and the most recent research in the area.
Contents: Introduction 1. Benares Beginnings: Print Modernity, Book Entrepreneurs, and Cross-Cultural Ventures in a Colonial
Metropolis 2. At Home in Bombay: Housing Konkani Print 3. Six Blind Men and the Elephant: Bhagavata Purana in Colonial Bengal
4. Childspeak: Children’s Periodicals in Hindi in Colonial North India (1920–50) 5. Bangla Literary Journalism at Nationalism’s
‘Moment of Departure’: The Intervention of Bangadarsan 6. On the Wrong End of the Raj: Some Aspects of Censorship in British
India and its Circumvention during the 1920s–1940s: Part 2 7. Educational Texts in Bengal, 1830–1900: Some Problems Relating
to British Imports 8. What Really Happened under a Tree outside Delhi, May 1817
Contributors: Varuni Bhatia, Swapan Chakravorty, Nandini Chandra, Abhijit Gupta, Samarpita Mitra, Rochelle Pinto, Graham
Shaw, Ulrike Stark
2016 978-81-250-6053-6 ` 750 376pp Hardback
India’s Foreign Policy

Coping with the Changing World
Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development, Delhi
India’s Foreign Policy: Coping with the Changing World traces the values and principles that have shaped India’s foreign policy and its
evolution starting from the Aligned Movement, up to the end of the Cold War; decline of multilateralism and the nation state;
and the challenges of globalisation. It also looks at India’s relations with world powers like the United States (US), Russia, China
and Japan, and with its neighbours, particularly Bangladesh and Pakistan. It further analyses and suggests appropriate strategies for
dealing with recent developments that have far-reaching consequences for India in the coming years.
Contents: Introduction 1. India’s Foreign Policy: Underlying Principles, Strategies and Challenges Ahead 2. Dealing with
Neighbours 3. Democracy and Governance in Bangladesh 4. Indo-Bangladesh Economic Relations 5. Indo-US Relations
6. The Indo-US Civilian Nuclear Deal 7. Indo-(Soviet) Russian Relations 8. India and China: An Uneasy but Critically Important
Relationship 9. The United Nations as a Foreign Policy Arena for India and China 10. China’s Tryst with Globalization
11. Perspectives of India and Japan on Disarmament and Security Issues 12. India and the Indian Diaspora: Changing Salience
13. Pakistan and Indo-Pak Relations
2016 978-81-250-6049-9 ` 845 464pp Hardback
Introduction to Experimental Economics, An

Gautam Gupta, Professor, Department of Economics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata.
This volume introduces the student to experimental methodology and details the procedure and protocol to be followed in
conducting experiments in economics. It begins by describing the main areas where experiments are currently used: games
involving strategic decisions where there are typically two players and the decision of one player is contingent upon how she
expects the other player to behave, public goods games with small groups and a group fund designed to test the existence of the
free rider problem through a voluntary contributions mechanism and games involving a choice between two or more lotteries
that seek to explain decision-making under conditions of uncertainty. It also discusses experiments designed to elicit the impact
of community, caste, religion and multiplicity of culture.
Selected Contents: 1. Introduction to Experimental Economics 2. Experiments with Games of Strategic Choices 3.
Experiments with Public Goods 4. Individual Decisions under Uncertainty 5. Various Types of Experiments: Field Experiments,
Experiments with Gender and Religion and Multicultural Experiments, Natural Experiments, Non-Monetised Experiments 6. The
Methodology and Protocol of Experimental Economics 7. Introduction to Programming using z-Tree Bibliography
2016 425 (tent.) 256pp (approx.) Paperback
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Konkaboti
The Extraordinary Journey of a Village Girl
By Troilokyanath Mukhopadhyay.
Translated from the Bengali by Arnab Bhattacharya, author/editor and a translator
The tales of Troilokyonath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919) are excursions into fantasy, where fact confronts the unreal.
Konkaboti, written in Bengali, is Troilokyonath’s first novel (1892). It begins with the childhood years of the eponymous
heroine and Khetu, a boy from her village. In time, their mothers want them to marry, but Konkaboti’s father plans her
wedding with an aged zamindar. The prospect appals her and she falls ill. Konka and Khetu then undergo amazing
experiences leading to their ‘death’. But matters are resolved through a twist in the tail of the narrative. The novel has
satirical references to prevalent social practices such as sati. In an Afterword, the translator puts the novel in perspective.
Contents: Translator’s Preface. A Biographical Note on the Author. A Note on the Translation. Glossary of Non-English
Words/Phrases. Konkaboti. Book I. 1. An Old Yarn. 2. Kusumghati. 3. Tonu Roy. 4. Khetu. 5. Nironjon. 6. Farewell.
7. Konkaboti. 8. The Boy and the Girl. 9. Meni. 10. Bou-didi. 11. A Matrimonial Proposal. 12. Shnareshwor. 13. Trouble
Brewing. 14. About Godadhor. 15. Konkaboti’s Ailment. Book II. 1. The Boat. 2. Underwater. 3. The Royal Robe.
4. The Milkwoman. 5. The Burning Ghat. 6. The Tiger. 7. In the Forest. 8. The In-laws. 9. The Root. 10. The Theft.
11. The Ghost Company. 12. Frog Sahib. 13. Putrid Water. 14. The Master Mosquito. 15. Khorbur. 16. The Ogre. 17. The
Wife of the Stars. 18. The Formidable Sepoy. 19. The Sati on the Pyre. Conclusion: Afterword from the Translator
2016 978-81-250-6052-9 ` 225 250pp Paperback
Learning from Peace

Krishna Kumar was Director National Council of Educational Research and Training, New Delhi.
This volume looks at some of the areas of knowledge acquired at educational institutions. The perspective from which these few areas and the knowledge they
offer are looked at is that of peace education. Sources of knowledge might differ, and different sources of the same knowledge have the capacity to impart a
distinct character. But apart from knowledge itself, the ethos in which different kinds of knowledge are taught and learnt can also lead to considerable conflict
in society because ethos too casts its own imprint on knowledge. Social selection is inevitably involved in shaping an institutional ethos. Thus, different kinds of
schools can lend to the social fabric remarkably divergent ways of seeing and representing things. This range of possibilities is reflected in the issues discussed in
this volume.
Selected contents: Prologue 1. Discussing Conflict with Children 2. Children and History 3. Environment, Science and Social Science 4. Two Worlds 5.
Corporal Punishment 6. A Course in Peace Education 7. Epilogue
2016
Political Culture in Medieval Kerala, The

The Zamorins of Kozhikode
V. V. Haridas, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Calicut
This work concerns an obscure aspect in the history of Kerala between the twelfth century and the onset of modern times, focusing on the Zamorins, rulers
of the kingdom of Kozhikode (or Calicut) after the decline of the Cheras. The power and authority of the rulers as well as the ways in which they sought to
legitimise it are reconsidered in the light of newly available material. The interaction and interdependence among royal functionaries, local chiefs and temple
authorities help us understand the political culture. This study makes use of material contained in the Granthavari or palm leaf manuscripts documenting the
institutions of the Zamorin.
With a Foreword by Kesavan Veluthat
Contents: Preface.1. Introduction. 2. From the Age of Great Men to the Age of Lords. 3. Power at the Centre: Lineage, Kinship and the King. 4. Nodes of Power:
Locality Chiefs and Local Magnates. 5. The Functioning of a Medieval State. 6. Rituals, Symbols and the Status of Royalty. 7. Temples and Royalty. 8. Royalty and
Patronage of Culture. 9. State Festivals. 10. Suicide Squads: Challenge to the Hegemony of the Zamorin. 11. Conclusion. Glossary. Bibliography
2016 ` 825 (tent.) 368pp (approx.) Hardback

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Readings on Dalit Identity

History, Literature and Religion
SERIES: CRITICAL THINKING IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Edited by Swaraj Basu, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Indira Gandhi National Open University, Delhi
Dissent towards the ideology of caste and also the assertion by Dalits for equity and justice has been expressed through writings
Orient BlackSwan over a period of time. Since the 1970s, there have been attempts by scholars across disciplines to shed light on the cultural world
of Dalits by constructing alternative historical and religious traditions, and even today Dalit identity continues to be an important
CT
Readings on
agenda of academic debate. With a multidisciplinary approach, Readings on Dalit Identity brings together a diverse selection of
RITICAL
Dalit Identity
HINKING
writings that looks at how through the reinterpretation of history, literature and religion, the Dalits challenged their ascribed
History, Literature and Religion
status and created a new identity for themselves.

IN
S
Contents: Introduction PART I: HISTORY 1. Contested Past: Anti-Brahmanical and Hindu Nationalist Reconstructions of Indian
OUTH
Prehistory 2. Inventing Caste History: Dalit Mobilisation and Nationalist Past 3. Making of an Identity: Meghwals of Rajasthan
A
SIAN
4. Contested History of Dalits: An Alternative Perspective 5. The Problem of Cultural Memory PART II: LITERATURE 6. Reading
Sharankumar Limbale’s Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature: From Erasure to Assertion 7. Struggle for Identity and Dignity: Dalit
H
ISTORY
Edited by
Literature in Hindi and Joothan 8. Meaning of Work in Dalit Autobiographies 9. The Making of History: Autobiographical Extracts of
Swaraj Basu Shantabai Kamble, Kumud Pawde and Urmila Pawar 10. From Panchamars to Dalit: The Evolution of Tamil Dalit Writing PART III:
A Reader
RELIGION 11. Is Caste System Intrinsic to Hinduism? Demolishing a Myth 12. Popular Religion and Social Mobility in Colonial Bengal:
The Matua Sect and the Namasudras 13. Untouchability, Dalit Consciousness and the Ad-Dharm Movement in Punjab 14. The Time of the Dalit Conversion
2016 ` 895 (tent.) 416pp (approx.) Hardback
Sarasvatichandra Part II
Gunasundari’s Household
By Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi
Translated by Tridip Suhrud, who works at the Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad
Part II details the complex dynamics of a Hindu joint family. Minister of Ratnanagari, Vidya Chatura and Gunasundari were
7 to 1901, Sarasvatichandra
of the life philosophy of
married as children. Intelligent, eager, a young Gunasundari is educated by Vidya Chatura; the two share pleasures of the mind,
Madhavram Tripathi
poetry and literature. But this newfound aesthetic conjugality is disrupted when his relatives come to live with them as
Govardhanram
ndu joint family. Minister

sundari were married as
undari is educated by her
the mind, literature and
c conjugality is disrupted
em. Gunasundari must
dependents. Gunasundari must suddenly manage a household of fourteen people, each with different needs and idiosyncracies.
n individuals, each with
dhanram’s minute, often
terpersonal conicts, his
Govardhanram’s minute, often wry, observations on human nature, the interpersonal conflicts, his sharp characterisations,
a pregnant Gunasundari
ntented are delightful to
Sarasvatichandra descriptions of a pregnant Gunasundari struggling to keep the family ‘joint’ and content make this a delight to read.
Sarasvatichandra Part II
the novel holds up a Gunasundari’s Household

hat time, the joint family,
he princely states, against
the turn of nineteenth
Part II
ically.
no other work has so Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi
Selected Contents: Translator’s Acknowledgement. Translator’s Introduction. Preface I. Preface II. 1. On the Outskirts of
Manoharpuri 2. The Outlaws 3. The Injured Man 4. Gunasundari 5. Gunasundari (Continued) 6. A Night in Manoharpuri
agination of Gujarat as
Translated from the original Gujarati
lated by Tridip Suhrud,
and twentieth century by Tridip Suhrud
7. Forest, Dark Night and Sarasvatichandra 8. Kumud Sundari Leaves Suvarnapur 9. Preparations for the Morning 10. An
Encounter with the Outlaws 11. Smouldering Embers
2016 ` 400 (tent.) 248 pp (approx.) Paperback
Sociology and History

Dialogues Towards Integration
A. M. Shah retired as Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.
Conceived as a series of dialogues between Shah and his fellow social scientists, and indeed between the two disciplines of
Sociology and History, essays in this collection nuance ethnographic fact with a historical dimension in ways that were path-
breaking for their time. The book includes Shah’s well-known study of the Vahivancha Barots—traditional record-keepers of
genealogies and narrators and creators of myths. Shah offers several essays on theory and method in sociology and history,
anchored in review of literature, and empirical material. A significant inclusion is the discussion between Shah and Romila Thapar
on sociological understanding of ancient India, examining the relation between lineage, clan, caste and the state.
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Vahivancha Barots of Gujarat: A Caste of Genealogists and Mythographers with a
Foreword by M. N. Srinivas 2. Social Anthropology and the Study of Historical Societies 3. Myth of the Self-sufficiency of Indian
Village 4. Political System in Eighteenth-century Gujarat 5. Historical Sociology: A Trend Report 6. Studying the Present and the
Past: A Village in Gujarat 7. Towards a Sociological Understanding of Ancient India: A Response to Professor A. M. Shah
8. History and Sociology 9. A Sociological Approach to the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century History of Gujarat 10. The Indian
Sociologist, 1905–14, 1920–22 11. The Indian Journal of Sociology, 1920–21 12. Anthropology in Bombay, 1886–1936
Contributors: A. M. Shah, R. G. Shroff, M. N. Srinivas, Romila Thapar
2016 978-81-250-6013-0 ` 625 272pp Hardback

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State of Being Stateless, The

An Account of South Asia
Edited by Paula Banerjee, Associate Professor, Department of South and South East Asian Studies, University of Calcutta, and President, Mahanirban Calcutta
Research Group, Kolkata, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury, Fellow, Observer Research Foundation, Kolkata, and Atig Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History,
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, and Honorary Researcher, Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata
This volume brings together the lived experiences of diverse stateless groups within a comparative framework, using research
conducted across dissimilar groups in different geographical locations—India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Tibet and
Bhutan. Demonstrating that continued situations of dislocation and/or refugeehood can produce statelessness, the book
elaborates a new way of thinking about this increasingly important field of study, and suggests a way towards framing better and
more inclusive international and national laws to deal with this issue.
With a Foreword by Ranabir Samaddar
Selected Contents: The Grid: The Stateless and the Citizen 1. Words of Law, Worlds of Loss: The Stateless People of
the Indo-Bangladeshi Enclaves 2. The Remains of Partition? The Citizenship Question of Stateless Hindus in India 3.Ordeal of
Citizenship: The Up-Country Tamils in Sri Lanka and India 4. The Chinese of Calcutta: A Case of Statelessness 5. The Stateless
Chakmas in Arunachal Pradesh 6. Elusive Home-Thoughts: The Unstable World of the Lhotsampas in South Asia 7. Ambiguous
Identities: Statelessness of Gorkhas in North-East India
Contributors: Paula Banerjee, Sahana Basavapatna, Subhas Ranjan Chakraborty, Anup Shekhar Chakraborty, Anasua Basu Ray
Chaudhury, Samir Kumar Das, Atig Ghosh, Pravina Gurung, Suhit K. Sen
2015 978-81-250-5968-4 ` 675 304pp Hardback
Thinking Gender, Doing Gender

Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today
[With Indian Institute of Advanced Study]
Edited by Uma Chakravarti, historian and activist in the democratic rights and women’s movements.
Thinking Gender, Doing Gender focuses on pedagogy and classroom practice, theoretical obstacles created by disciplinary
constraints, and practices in the performing arts from a gender perspective. This volume focuses more on doing gender rather
thinking gender: in classrooms, in the making of curricula, in the writing and recall of history, in reading literature and cinema, and
in the practice of culture in theatre and urban spaces.
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Education as Trutiya Ratna: Towards Phule-Ambedkarite Feminist Pedagogical Practice
2. Women, Men and Others in the Class and in the Past: The Challenges of Mainstreaming Gender in History 3. Reading
Gender in School Textbooks: The Tussle Between Tradition and Modernity 4. Chhatra Prabodhan: Tacking Modern Education
to Tradition 5. Random Thoughts: Objectivity, Subjectivity and Writing Myself into Science 6. Feminist Epistemology and Oral
History as Method 7. The ‘Man-made’ Famine and Women’s Responses to Hunger: The Pivotal Dynamics of Food in the Tebhaga
Movement 8. Memory as Ritual, Memory as Renewal: Some Thoughts on Feminist History-writing 9. Devadasi and/or ‘Prostitute’?
Analysing Jogtin Prostitute in Post-colonial Rural Maharashtra 10. ’Mitro Marjani’: Recasting Women and Subversion 11. Gender
and Commodity Aesthetics in Tamilnadu, 1950–70 12. Reimagining Nation and Redefining Regional and Gender Identities in the
Cinema of the 1950s 13. Women in Theatre: Journey from Respectability to Agency 14. Staging Feminist Theatre 15. Building
Blocks: Casting a Woman’s Eye on the Built Environment
Contributors: Purwa Bharadwaj, Dipta Bhog, Uma Chakravarti, Swati Dhyadroy, Vaishali Diwakar, A. Mangai, Disha Mullick, Shubhra Nagalia, Kavita Panjabi,
Sharmila Rege, Kumkum Roy, Mahua Sarkar, Chayanika Shah, S. Anandhi, Lata Singh, Vani Subramaniam, Anagha Tambe, V. Geetha
2016 400pp (approx.) Hardback
Three Essays on the Mahabharata

Exercises in Literary Hermeneutics
Sibaji Bandyopadhyay, former Professor of Cultural Studies, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta (CSSSC), Kolkata.
Three Essays on the Mahabharata investigates what the Mahabharata and the Gita mean today, how that meaning has been constituted, and how it
is exploited to fashion the practice of everyday Indian politics. Treating these hallowed texts as ‘pre-texts’ to gain a more nuanced understanding of
India’s colonial and pre-colonial discourses on the meaning of the Indian ‘essence’, the author underscores that the forty-seventh verse of the second
chapter of the Gita (Gita 2.47—ma phalecu kadacana) is now unanimously accepted as the kernel verse. By situating pre-modern commentaries on 2.47

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with modern commentaries on and translations of the same, the author demonstrates that a series of conceptual shifts
have accompanied the process of consecrating the verse to the highest rank.
With a Foreword by Arindam Chakrabarti
Selected Contents: Introduction. Essay I. Translating Gita 2.47 or Inventing the National Motto. Essay II. Seeing and
Saying: A Reflection on the Mahabharata’s War-reportage. Essay III. A Critique of Non-violence. Bibliography. About the
Author. Index.
2016 978-81-250-6071-0 ` 750 356pp Hardback
Vegetarians Only
Stories of Telugu Muslims
By Skybaaba, writer, poet, activist and freelance journalist.
Edited by A. Suneetha, Senior Fellow and Coordinator, Anveshi Research Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad, Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda,
Assistant Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, EFL University, Hyderabad.
A translation of twelve short stories titled Adhure: Muslim Kadhalu, Vegetarians Only introduces the reader to the life-world
of Telugu Muslims, their dreams, sorrows and predicaments, presenting moving portraits of people battling indigence,
prejudice and isolation with dignity and courage. Negotiations around the burqa and dowry are interwoven with communal
sharing of marriage expenses and work. Unfulfilled love, the desperation and helplessness of penury are attenuated by
promises of migration to the Gulf. These stories also evocatively foreground the friendships and camaraderie between
rural and small-town Telugu Muslims and Dalits and invite us to share the emotional journeys that Skybaaba creates for
each of his characters.
Selected Contents: Of Mofussil Muslim Lives. 1. Jani Begum 2. Petition 3. Vegetarians Only 4. Romance 1424 Hijri 5. The Dying
Flame 6. Homeland 7. The Benefactor 8. The Wedding Feast 9. Sheer Khorma 10. Life in Death 11. Nowhere to Turn 12. Urs
Contributors: R. Akhileshwari, Uma Maheswari Bhrugubanda, Christopher Chekuri, Kiranmayi Indraganti, Rama S. Melkote, A.
Suneetha, D. Vasanta
2016 978-81-250-6074-1 ` 325 152pp Paperback
Violence and the Burden of Memory

Remembrance and Erasure in Sinhala Consciousness
Sasanka Perera, Professor of Sociology, and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, South Asia University, New Delhi
Post-Independence Sri Lanka has been wracked by decades of civil war and political violence, particularly from the late 1970s to
2009. These protracted conflicts have been immensely destructive, resulting in many thousands of deaths and disappearances, both
Post-Independence Sri Lanka has been
Perera
wracked by decades of civil war and
SASANKA PERERA
political violence, particularly from the
of armed personnel (whether of the Sri Lankan state or separatist outfits) and civilians. How is such extraordinary institutional
late 1970s to 2009. These protracted
conflicts have been immensely destructive,
resulting in many thousands of deaths and
disappearances, both of armed personnel
VIOLENCE violence remembered? Violence and the Burden of Memory takes as its theme these forms of remembering and memorialising
(whether of the Sri Lankan state or
separatist outfits) and civilians.
VIOLENCE AND THE BURDEN OF MEMORY
AND THE
How is such extraordinary institutional
large-scale violent death and destruction and the attendant loss, grief and suffering. Sasanka Perera explores how issues of memory
violence remembered? Political conflict
in Sri Lanka and the attendant death and
BURDEN OF
destruction have resulted in the emergence
of public monuments and memorials,
and forgetting are represented in the monuments, public and private rituals and the works of visual artists through sociological
built and maintained by the state or other
MEMORY
public organisations as well as private
ritual and memorial practices, which have
analysis and ethnographic research.

occasionally moved into the public domain.
They have also provoked a great deal of
commentary in the form of visual arts.
Remembrance Violence and the Burden of Memory takes as
and Erasure its theme these forms of remembering and
Selected Contents: The Burden of Memory 2 Celebrating Heroism and Glorifying Death 3. Remembering Death and Mourning
y through memorialising large-scale violent death
ry marked by in Sinhala and destruction and the attendant loss,
olence in recent Consciousness grief and suffering. Sasanka Perera explores
how issues of memory and forgetting are
story.’
the Loss of Innocence 4. Domains of Private Memory 5. Visual Artists Remember; Visual Artists Narrate 6. Towards a Conclusion:
represented in these monuments, public
and private rituals and the works of visual
artists through sociological analysis and
ethnographic research. This, then, is read
Erasure, Lingering Memory and Moving Beyond Memory?
within a wider intellectual discourse on how
memory works, drawn from other global
contexts.
The author skillfully demonstrates how

most public narratives, particularly state
narratives, of Sinhala heroism have focused
on institutional victories and successes,
thereby erasing particular acts of individual
Continued on back flap
2016 978-81-250-6051-2 ` 745 354pp. Hardback

Affliction
LAT
Health, Disease, Poverty
EST ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY

Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology and
Professor of Humanities, Johns Hopkins University
Affliction inaugurates a novel way of understanding the trajectories of
health and disease in the context of poverty. Shifting the focus from
the encounter between patient and practitioner within the space of the
clinic, it privileges the networks of relations, institutions, and knowledge
over which the experience of illness is dispersed. Documenting the
astonishing range of practitioners found in the local markets in the poor
neighbourhoods of Delhi, the book interrogates how the magical and the
technical are knotted together in the therapeutic experience of healers
and patients.
… is a book of scintillating scholarship which will greatly appeal to

social scientists, especially medical anthropologists.
---The Indian Express
Contents: Affliction: An Introduction 1. How the Body Speaks 2. A
Child Learns Illness and Learns Death 3. Mental Illness, Psychiatric
Institutions, and the Singularity of Lives 4. Dangerous Liaisons:
Technology, Kinship, and Wild Spirits 5. The Reluctant Healer and the
Darkness of our Times 6.Medicines, Markets, and Healing 7. Global
Health Discourse and the View from Planet Earth Conclusion: Thoughts
for the Day after Tomorrow
2015 978-81-250-5732-1 ` 750 272pp Hardback Rights: Restricted
Place for Utopia, A

Urban Designs from South Asia
Smriti Srinivas, Professor of Anthropology, University of California,
Davis
A Place for Utopia is firmly rooted in a South Asian context but links
questions and discussions of its urbanism, religion, pasts and futures to
a global milieu and history. The volume blends ethnographic, visual, and
archival methods and uses various ideas of ‘utopia’ for social science
analysis that can productively open up new intellectual spaces, other
histories, and urban policies. It moves across a hundred year period
of South Asian modernity and its challenges from the early twentieth
century to the early twenty-first century.
Artfully weaves together a set of fascinating questions about the place

of the future in the present, challenging us to think critically about how
the body, urban environments, and religious experience are at once
grounded in the reality of everyday life and how they transform this
reality by anticipating the possibility of transcendence.
---Joseph Alter, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Selected Contents: Introduction: Placing Timelines 1. Biocentric
Eutopias in South Asia 2. Ecotopias, Theosophy, and the South Indian
City 3. Utopian Settlements and Californian Vedanta 4. Highways,
Thresholds, and an Indian New Age Conclusion: Designing and Dwelling
in Place

2 LATEST ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Rule by Numbers
Governmentality and Colonial India
U. Kalpagam, Professor, G. B. Pant Social Science Institute, University
of Allahabad
Rule by Numbers examines aspects of the production of statistical
knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas
of ‘governmentality’. The modern state is distinctive for its bureaucratic
organisation, official procedures, and accountability that in the colonial
context of governing at a distance instituted a vast system of recordation
bearing semblance to and yet differing markedly from the Victorian
administrative state.
Resolutely Foucauldian in her approach, U. Kalpagam offers a

refreshing survey of the emergence of modem technologies of
government in colonial India…. This is a valuable introduction to the
subject of govemmentality and biopolitics in colonial India.
—Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Anthropology, Middle Eastern,
South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University
Selected Contents: Introduction: The Colonial State and Statistical
Knowledge 1. Sovereignty and Governmentality 2.The Production
of Space 3. Temporalities, Routines of Rule, and History 4. Colonial
Governmentality and the ‘Economy’ 5. Classification and Society
6. Bio-power and Statistical Causality 7. Colonial Governmentality and
the Public Sphere Conclusion: Modern Freedom and Governmentality
Toda Landscape, The

Explorations in Cultural Ecology
[With Harvard University Press]
Tarun Chhabra practises dentistry in Ootacamund, the heart of Toda
tribal country, and has authored numerous papers on unique aspects of
the culture of the Toda tribe
The Toda Landscape: Explorations in Cultural Ecology represents a major
breakthrough in Toda studies. From his interactions with the Todas from
1990 onwards, the author has collected and analysed ethnographic data
that had eluded even the greatest of Western ethnographers. Through
his first-hand narrative accounts of important Toda rituals, ceremonies
and routines, all accompanied by visual documentation in the form of
photographs and maps, he provides new data that will significantly aid the
preservation of Toda traditional culture.
With a foreword by Anthony R. Walker
Contents: Prologue: My Toda Journey Introducing the Toda People
and their Homeland 1. The Toda Landscape 2. The Toda Clans: Their
Hamlets and Other Sacred Places 3. Toda Dress and Embroidery
4. Journey to Nhyoollnn 5. The Traditional Toda Relationship with
Honey 6. Konawsh: Structure and Occupancy 7. Sacred Peaks 8. Sacred
Waters 9. A Journey to the Afterworld 10. Flowers in my Toda Garden
11. Cornerstone Plants of the Todas 12. Balsams of the Nilgiris Epilogue
2015 978-81-250-6001-7 ` 3,600 624pp Hardback Rights: Restricted

LATEST ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY 3
Tuberculosis in India
A Case of Innovation and Control
Nora Engel, Assistant Professor, Global Health, Department of Health,
Ethics, and Society, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences,
Maastricht University, The Netherlands
India is the country with the highest number of patients with active
tuberculosis (TB). Emerging drug resistance poses a huge threat to the
disease, as does migration, urbanisation, poverty and the complexity
of public and private healthcare. Innovation for TB control is urgently
needed in India, and is often imagined as providing new drugs, diagnostics
and vaccines. In this book, Nora Engel argues that innovations of
services, organisations, strategies and delivery mechanisms are also
crucial for TB. In a unique analysis of how innovation for TB control
is practised, the volume provides extensive coverage of four cases of
innovation in public TB control in India: the involvement of private
sector players, the emerging policy responses to multidrug resistant TB,
the development of new diagnostic technologies and of new treatment
guidelines.
Selected contents: Introduction 1. Tuberculosis in India 2. Innovation
and Control of Providers: New Partners 3. Innovation and Control
of Strategy: New Threats 4. Innovation and Control of Technology:
New Diagnostics 5. Innovation and Control in Service Delivery: New
Protocols 6. Dynamics of Innovation and Control in Coping with
Tuberculosis
2015 978-81-250-5961-5 ` 595 280pp Hardback
Wording the World

Veena Das and Scenes of Inheritance
Edited by Roma Chatterji, Professor of Sociology at the Delhi School
of Economics, University of Delhi
The essays in this book explore the critical possibilities that have been
opened by VeenaDas’s work. Taking off from her writing on pain as a
call for acknowledgment, several essays explore how social sciences
render pain, suffering, and the claims of the other as part of an ethics of
responsibility.
Contents: 1. Conversations, Generations, Genres 2. Ethnography
in the Time of Martyrs 3. Pedagogies of the Clinic 4. Disembodied
Conjugality 5. World, Image and Movement 6. Conceptual Vita 7. The
Child Bears Witness 8. Experiments with Fate 9. Communities and
Recovered Life 10. Sexual Violence, Law and Qualities of Affiliation 11.
On Feelings and Finiteness in Everyday Life 12. ‘Listening to Voices’
13. Punjabi Inscriptions of Kinship and Gender 14. In the Event of an
Anthropological Thought 15. The Ayodhya Dispute 16. The Death of
Nature in the Era of Global Warming 17. Triste Romantik 18. Making
Claims to Tradition 19. The Mirror as Frame 20. Adjacent Thinking 21.
Between Words and Lives An Interview with Veena Das
2015 978-81-250-5733-8 ` 1,295 492pp Hardback Rights: Restricted

4 ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Displaying India’s Heritage in this fishing village on the in Rajasthan 2. Allegiance and Alienation: Border
History, Policy and the Asian Perspective
Continued from front flap
Coromandel Coast. The Dynamics in Kargil 3. Naturalizing the Himalaya-
Fihl Venkatachalapathy
Also from Orient BlackSwan A rare Indian colony of the
Orient BlackSwan Danish empire. A place that
TRANQUEBAR—WHOSE HISTORY? fostered the modern printing
centres on activities which radiated
Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Colony press and Protestant
as-Border in Uttarakhand 4. On the Way to India:

from this important town, instead of
in South India Christianity in the
contributors include leading

seeing this place as an appendix to the
Helle Jørgensen subcontinent. A tourist haunt
national history of Denmark or to the
that was ravaged by the
Christian mission activities from OTHER ORIENTALISMS tsunami in 2004. This is
Germany. Thereby, the authors and India between Florence and Bombay, 1860–1900 Tranquebar, known as
Beyond Tranquebar
editors of this volume peg Tranquebar in
Madhuparna Roychowdhury, Assistant

Filipa Lowndes Vicente Tharangampadi, a charming
Nepali Rituals of Border Crossing 5. The Perils of

its rightful place in the scholarly map.
scholars in their respective

coastal town in present-day Tamil Nadu.
MEMSAHIBS’ WRITINGS
This book will be useful for students and Colonial Narratives on Indian Women Beyond Tranquebar is a collection of
scholars of colonial history, South Asian
studies and anthropology. They will
Ed. Indrani Sen Grappling Across Cultural Borders twenty-four essays by scholars who
bring to relief the many dimensions of
benefit from the diverse strands of in South India
Professor, Department of Ancient Indian History

PATHWAYS OF EMPIRE
Being a Borderland People: On the Lhotshampas

this town. The book takes us to
research a seemingly small place offers. Circulation, ‘Public Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Orissa,
Beyond Tranquebar
fields from Denmark, USA
seventeenth-century Denmark, as the
c. 1780–1914
Ravi Ahuja kingdom strives to find a place in the
Esther Fihl is Professor, Department of thriving colonial enterprise. It then
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, THE WICKED CITY moves to Maratha-ruled Tanjore where
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta gifts can shift the balance of power. It
and Culture, University of Calcutta, Kolkata of Bhutan 6. Developing the Border: The State
research leader of the Tranquebar Sumanta Banerjee takes us to a place where ideas, textiles
and India. The essays are

Initiative of the National Museum of and furniture arrive and depart, from as
Denmark. far away as Serampore in Bengal and
Copenhagen in Denmark—going beyond
A. R. Venkatachalapathy is Professor, geography to contribute to literacy and
and the Political Economy of Development

Madras Institute of Development education in India and alter tastes in
theoretically sophisticated and

Studies, Chennai, India. distant Europe.
This volume examines the place from
See HISTORY
the perspectives of a diverse range of
academic disciplines—social
in Arunachal Pradesh 7. The Micropolitics of

anthropology, art history, sociology of
cover a broad range of

religion, ethnography and history. It
enquires into the lives of natives and
foreigners, i.e. Danish, German and
www.orientblackswan.com British, as they grapple(d) across
borders both physical and cultural, in
` 875 Borders: The Issue of Greater Nagaland (or

Image Courtesy: Detail from A view of
2015 978-81-250-5902-8 400 pp Hardback

the past and the present.
subjects ranging from art,

Tranquebar, Anonymous, oil on
canvas, c. 1683, Google Art Project.
Edited by This collection is unique in that it
Orient BlackSwan
The original is located in Skokloster,
Esther Fihl
Sweden.
Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad Fihl and Venkatachalapathy: Beyond Tranquebar Continued on back flap
A. R. Venkatachalapathy
family, colonialism, religion, Nagalim) 8. Nodes of Control in a South(east)

Asian Borderland 9. Histories of Belonging(s):
Gender, Livelihood and and print culture to education
Narrating Territory, Possession, and Dispossession
and material culture. This volume represents a
Environment significant intervention in the study of early at the India-Bangladesh Border 10. Geographies
How Women Manage Resources colonialism in India as it also addresses the and Identities: Subaltern Partition Stories along
complexities of a post colony and how it is Bengal’s Southern Frontier
Edited by Subhadra Mitra Channa, Professor,
Department of Anthropology, Delhi University, perceived in Denmark.
Contributors: Jason Cons, Rosalind Evans,
and Marilyn Porter, University Professor, Selected Contents: PART I: COMPETING Nicholas Farrelly, Radhika Gupta, Sondra L.
Department of Sociology, Memorial University, St. HISTORIES PART II: NEGOTIATING MORALS Hausner, Annu Jalais, Vibha Joshi, Nayanika
John’s, Canada AND HISTORICAL IDENTITIES PART III: Mathur, Deepak K. Mishra, Anastasia Piliavsky,
CULTURAL OTHERNESS AND COLONIAL Jeevan R. Sharma
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V: EDUCATION AND NETWORKS OF
Pipe Politics, Contested PRINT PART VI: TRANS-LOCAL AND
Development Narratives
INTERCONTINENTAL TRACKS
Waters Walking the Field in Rural West Bengal
Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Contributors: Astrid Nonbo Andersen, Peter
B. Andersen, Esther Fihl, Erik Goebel, Kristian Dipankar Sinha, Professor, Department of
Mumbai Political Science, University of Calcutta
Grønseth, Daniel Henschen, Niklas Thode Jensen,
Lisa Björkman, Assistant Professor of Urban Helle Jørgensen, Rajesh Kochhar, Martin Krieger, See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
and Public Affairs at University of Louisville, and Heike Liebau, Caroline Lillelund, Raja Mylvaganam, AND PUBLIC POLICY
Research Scholar at CETREN (Transregional Mikkel Venborg Pedersen, Indira Viswanathan
Research Network), University of Göttingen Peterson, Stine SimonsenPuri, Simon Rastén, 2014 978-81-250-5625-6 ` 720 240pp Hardback
Louise Sebro, Raja Swamy, Will Sweetman, Karen
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Vallgårda, A.R. Venkatachalapathy Environmental
2015 978-81-250-5957-8 ` 895 304 pp Hardback
2014 978-81-250-5437-5 ` 1020 644pp Hardback Jurisprudence and
Rights: Restricted the Supreme Court
Borderland Lives in Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation
Trouble with Marriage, The Northern South Asia [With Tata Institute of Social Sciences]
Feminists Confront Law and Violence in
Edited by David N. Gellner, Professor of Social
India Geetanjoy Sahu, Assistant Professor, School of
Anthropology, University of Oxford
Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Srimati Basu, Associate Professor, Gender and Mumbai
This volume provides
Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of
valuable new ethnographic
Kentucky See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
insights into life along some
AND PUBLIC POLICY
See GENDER STUDIES of the most contentious
borders in the world. The 2014 978-81-250-5503-7 ` 695 344pp Hardback
2015 978-81-250-5864-9 ` 775 280 pp Hardback
collected essays portray
Rights: Restricted
existence at different points
across India’s northern
Ground Between, The
Anthropologists Engage Philosophy
Beyond Tranquebar frontiers and, in one
Grappling Across Cultural Borders in instance, along borders Edited by Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower
South India within India. India’s borders Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins
with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, University, Michael Jackson, Distinguished
Edited by Esther Fihl, Professor, Department of and Nepal encompass radically different ways of Professor of World Religions, Harvard Divinity
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of life, a whole spectrum of relationships to the state, School, Arthur Kleinman, Esther and Sidney
Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, and and many struggles with urgent identity issues. Rabb Professor of Anthropology, Harvard
A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras Taken together, the essays show how it is possible University, and Bhrigupati Singh, Assistant
Institute of Development Studies, Chennai, India to comprehend Northern South Asia’s various Professor, Anthropology Brown University
This volume is a collection of essays on the Danish nation-state projects without relapsing into
conventional nationalist accounts. The guiding inspiration of this book is the
colony of Tranquebar, known today by the name attraction and distance that mark the relation
of Tharagampadi. The essays draw from Contents: 1. Borders without Borderlands: On between anthropology and philosophy. This
ethnographic, archival and literary research the Social Reproduction of State Demarcation

ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY 5
theme is explored through that, in the long run, lead Christian Europe to Selected Contents: 1. Socio-Anthropological
encounters between recognize the plurality of religions around the Look at Water: The Vagaries of Watershed
individual anthropologists globe. Hindu–Catholic Engagements in Goa offers a Development Projects 2. Shades of Blue: Water
and particular regions of novel perspective on the Portuguese empire and Management in India across Time and Space 3.
philosophy. Several of the Catholic hegemony in Asia that for almost half a The Images of Community: Community-Based
most basic concepts of the millennium—from 1510 to 1961—had its capital in Natural Resource Management 4. Whims of
discipline—including notions Goa. Based on fresh archival studies and extensive Gujarat’s Water Planning Policy: Ailments, Pitfalls
of ethics, politics, ethnography, it reveals the dramatic role of and Success 5. The World of Mathnaa 6. Social
temporality, self and other, religion at the beginning of colonialism and Organisation and Politics of Participation: The
and the nature of human modernity and provides insight into Goa’s intricate Watershed Development Project of Mathnaa 7.
life—are products of a Hindu-Catholic syncretism today. Groundwater Development of Mathnaa: Through
dialogue, both implicit and explicit, between the Lens of Borewells 8. The Landscape of Water:
Selected Contents: 1. Vasco da Gama’s Error:
anthropology and philosophy. These philosophical Community-Based Natural Resource Management
Conquest and Plurality 2. Image Wars: Iconoclasm,
undercurrents in anthropology also speak to the in Mathnaa
Idolatry, and Survival 3. Christian Puranas:
question of what it is to experience our being in a Hermeneutic, Similarity, and Violence 4. Ganv: 2014 978-81-250-5430-6 ` 770 256pp Hardback
world marked by radical difference and otherness. Place, Geneology, and Bodies 5. Demotic Ritual:
Religion and Memory 6. Crossroads of Religions:
Contents: Introduction. Experiments between
Shrines and Urban Mobility Conclusion: Religion
Tibetan Refugees in India
Anthropology and Philosophy: Affinities and
and Religions: Syncretism Reconsidered Education, Culture and Growing Up
Antagonisms, Ajàlá’s Heads: Reflections on
in Exile
Anthropology and Philosophy in a West African 2014 978-81-250-5521-1 ` 800 228pp Hardback
Setting, The Parallel Lives of Philosophy and Rights: Restricted Mallica Mishra, Post-Doctoral Research
Anthropology, The Difficulty of Kindness: Fellow, International Migration Unit, Centre for
Boundaries, Time, and the Ordinary, Ethnography Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
in the Way of Theory, 5. The Search for Wisdom: Marrying in South Asia
Why William James Still Matters, Eavesdropping Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a See SOCIOLOGY
on Bourdieu’s Philosophers, How Concepts Globalising World 2014 978-81-250-5497-9 ` 825 328pp Hardback
Make the World Look Different: Affirmative, and
Edited by Ravinder Kaur, Professor, Department
Negative Genealogies of Thought, Philosophia
and Anthropologia: Reading alongside Benjamin
of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute Tranquebar—Whose
of Technology, Delhi, and Rajni Palriwala,
in Yazd, Derrida in Qum, Arendt in Tehran,
Professor, Delhi School of Economics, University History?
Ritual Disjunctions: Ghosts, Philosophy, and Transnational Cultural Heritage in a
of Delhi, Delhi
Anthropology, Henri Bergson in Highland Yemen, Former Danish Trading Colony in South
Must We Be Bad Epistemologists? Illusions of See SOCIOLOGY
India
Transparency, the Opaque Other, and Interpretive
2014 978-81-250-5355-2 ` 1000 440pp Hardback
Foibles, Action, Expression, and Everyday Life: Helle Jørgensen lectures at the Department of
Recounting, Household Events, References, Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark
Contributors, Index Socio-Cultural Context of This volume explores the
Contributors: João Biehl, Steven C. Caton, Water, The significances of cultural
Vincent Crapanzano, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, Study of a Gujarat Village heritage in the small town
Michael M. J. Fischer, Ghassan Hage, Clara Han, of Tranquebar, a former
Farhat Naz is with the International Water
Michael Jackson, Arthur Kleinman, Michael Puett, Danish trading colony on
Management Institute, New Delhi
Bhrigupati Singh the coast of Tamil Nadu. It
Water as a commodity in a focuses on the negotiations
2014 978-81-250-5500-6 ` 1070 360pp Hardback
continued from front flap
consumer society is critically

Socio-cultural Context of Water: Study of a
of historicity that come into

NAZ
Gujarat Village critically examines water as a
Rights: Restricted
The author discusses and analyses the commodity in universal demand in a
extent to which attempts to revive consumer society. Rural India, facing up to the
institutions for community water challenges of modernity, is viewed through
play between the many

management and Gujarat government the lens of the micro world of Mathnaa, a
studied in this volume, the

measures related to water management have village in Sabarkantha district. This book
been successful. She enables readers to analyses various aspects of water
The Socio-Cultural Context of Water
evaluate the Watershed Development management at a project in this village set in a

Programme, crucial for rural India, and also region noted for its aridity.
offers policy recommendations for a more
rural hinterland being stakeholders in the present

intensive community-based participation in
water management in Gujarat. This work Wells are the main source of irrigation in this
Hindu–Catholic
focuses on the micro realities of water village, rainfall being erratic. Water scarcity
around which communities negotiate their leads to conflict especially because the village
existence, which has wider relevance for the is sharply differentiated along the lines of
development of Tranquebar,
highly hierarchical pan-Indian rural caste, tribe, class and gender. The author
viewed through the micro

hinterland. illustrates local power dynamics in terms of
wealth, land ownership and access to water.
This volume will be useful for students and Those in positions of power try to exploit the
scholars in the fields of water resources, situation for their vested interests. But a
Engagements in Goa
environmental studies, hydrology, significant finding of this volume is that
including the residents, heritage and tourism

development studies, social anthropology, Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe farmers
world of Mathnaa. It
sociology, gender studies and economics. too own borewells and are able to participate
in user-group committees, thus gaining social
mobility.
FARHAT NAZ is with the International Water
The Socio-Cultural
Management Institute, New Delhi
developers, public authorities, researchers, and

continued on back flap
Religion, Colonialism, and Modernity Context of Water analyses various aspects of

Study of a Gujarat Village
water management at a tourists.
Alexander Henn, Associate Professor of
Cover design: Gautam Valluri
project in Mathnaa in
Photo: Banjara women collecting water from a
canal. © Samrat35, Dreamstime.com
FARHAT NAZ
Selected Contents: Studying the Transnational
Naz: The Socio-Cultural Context of Water
Religious Studies at Arizona State University Sabarkantha district of the

Construction of Heritage in Tranquebar
Vasco Da Gama’s state of Gujarat noted for its aridity. This small
1. Heritage Development and the Mental
celebrated passage to India village is sharply differentiated along the lines of
Geographies of Remoteness 2. The (Im)
(1497–99) not only initiated caste, tribe, class and gender. Wells are the main
materialities of Constructing Heritage 3. History
a period of Christian source of irrigation, rainfall being erratic. Water
in a Postcolony, Conclusion: Whose History? The
expansion, in which Jesuit scarcity is an arena of conflict, which leads to the
Emergence of a Heritage Palimpsest
missionaries declared war social actors trying to exploit the situation for
to the alleged ‘idolatry’ of their vested interests depending on their relative 2014 978-81-250-5345-3 ` 1050 368pp Hardback
Hindus. The engagement power positions. The author has explained to what
with the until then largely extent attempts to revive the institutions for
unknown and unexpectedly community water management have been
rich culture of Hinduism successful, illustrating local power dynamics in
was also part of profound modern transformations terms of wealth, land ownership and access to
water.
Unforgotten Squirm 5. Obscene Tendencies: Censorship and Contents: Preface: What is Real Development?
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care the Public Punctum 1. Two Cultures: A Balancing Act between People
and Profit 2. Adivasi Economics 3. Resources:
in India 2013 978-81-250-5126-8 ` 870 296pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted Water Systems 4. Resources: Mining and Metals
Bianca Brijnath, a NHMRC Early Career Fellow 5. Resources: Generating Power 6. Resources:
in the Department of General Practice, Monash Land Labour and Life Forms 7. Development in a
University, Australia Dual Identity Financial System based on Debt 8. Rule of Law
Indian Diaspora and Other Essays
As life expectancy increases 2013 978-81-250-5179-4 ` 925 340pp Hardback
in India, the number of Edited by K. L. Sharma, Vice Chancellor, Jaipur E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5504-4
people living with dementia National University, Jaipur, Rajasthan and Renuka
will also rise. Yet little is Singh, Associate Professor, Centre for the Study Global Issues, Local
known about how people in of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences,
India cope with dementia, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Contexts
how relationships and The Rabi Das of West Bengal
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Ruchira Ganguly-Scrase, Professor of
this question, this book
Anthropology and National Course Director,
offers a rich ethnographic
account of how middle-class families in urban India
Ecology, Economy International Development Studies and Global
Quest for a Socially Informed Connection Studies, Australian Catholic University, Melbourne,
care for their relatives with dementia.
Australia
Felix Padel, Professor, School of Rural
Contents: Introduction 1. Methods and
Management, Indian Institute of Health This book is an
Character Building 2. The Diagnostic Process
Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, Ajay ethnographic study of a
3. Therapeutics and Health Seeking 4. The
Dandekar, Professor, School of Social Sciences, community of leather
Economies of Care 5. Alzheimer’s and the Indian
Central University of Gujarat, and Jeemol Unni, workers (the Rabi Das), and
Appetite 6. Stigma and Loneliness in Care 7. The
Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of their transformations under
Journey to Silence Conclusion: ‘This is the Time
Rural Management (IRMA), Anand global capitalism.
for Romance’
The lived experiences of the
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… this book does a
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courageous job of challenging
of India’s economic
the liberal-capitalist
liberalisation as well as in
Censorium hegemonic articulation of the
the local system of class and cultural relations in
Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass ecological problematic, which
Bengali society. The various chapters in the book
Publicity dominates discourse today,
provide a detailed analysis of the changing nature
with a quiet and much-
William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology, of their conditions of employment, education,
needed socialist inscription,
University of Chicago, USA lifestyle and survival strategies. This edition also
coming from an Adivasi
has a new Preface.
In the world of globalised viewpoint. For really, a
media, provocative images reasonable pause for thought Contents: Part I: BACKGROUND AND
trigger culture wars about where India is and wants to go in years to METHOD, Part II: CULTURE, COMMUNITY
between traditionalists and come is called for, if as a country we seriously still AND CLASS, Part III: LABOUR FORMATION
cosmopolitans, censors and want to bridge the widening gap between our 1. Concentration of Cottage Industries in Nadia
defenders of free privileged reality and multiple other subordinated, District, 2. Distribution of Shoemakers and Units
expression. But are images suppressed, displaced, disturbing realities. in Nadia District, 3. A Note on the Translation of
censored because of what —Biblio Indian Terms
they mean, what they do, or 2013 978-81-250-5052-0 ` 655 284pp Paperback
what they might become? Ecology, Economy is recommended reading for
And must audiences be anyone working on these difficult issues in India
protected because of what they understand, what and elsewhere. Impossible Citizens
they feel, or what they might imagine? Censorium is —Golden Eagle Views Dubai’s Indian Diaspora
an innovative analysis of Indian film censorship.
Neha Vora, Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
William Mazzarella argues that we must go beyond This is a compelling book which should be a Lafayette College, USA
understanding the regulation of Indian cinema as a primer for post-graduates of development studies
violation of free speech, a colonial hangover, a who may still have a doubt that knowledge is best Indian communities have
symptom of repressive moralism, or a struggle produced in the north. existed in the Gulf Emirate
between liberals and conservatives. of Dubai for more than a
Thus a book that supports arguments for bottoms- century. Since the 1970s,
Contents: Introduction: The Censors Fist, up planning wherein communities know what they workers from South Asia
1. Performative Dispensations: The Elementary want, and need entitlements, and to ensure a fair have flooded into the
Forms of Mass Publicity 2. Who the Hell Do share of their contribution to the GDP in the Emirate, enabling Dubai’s
the Censors Think They Are?: Grounds of manner and logistics of implementation chosen by huge construction boom.
the Censor’s Judgment 3. We Are the Law!: themselves. They now comprise its
Censorship Takes to the Streets 4. Quotidian —The Indian Journal of Labour Economics largest non-citizen
Eruptions: Aesthetic Distinction and the Extimate
population. In Impossible

Citizens, the author draws on her ethnographic Multiple Voices and Stories The Sun Never Sets presents
research in Dubai’s Indian-dominated downtown Narratives of Health and Illness the work of a generation of
to explore how Indians live suspended in a state of scholars who have shifted
permanent temporariness. Edited by Arima Mishra, Associate Professor, the orientation of American
Health, Nutrition and Development Initiative, Azim scholarship on South Asia.
Contents: Introduction, Exceptions and Premji University, Bengaluru and Suhita Chopra In its early years, the work
Exceptionality in Dubai 1. A TALE OF TWO Chatterjee, Professor of Sociology, Department centred on literary and
CREEKS Cosmopolitan Productions and of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute cultural analyses, and
Cosmopolitan Erasures in Contemporary Dubai of Technology, Kharagpur, West Bengal focused predominantly on
2. AN INDIAN CITY? Diasporic Subjectivity and
the immigrant professionals
Urban Citizenship in Old Dubai 3 BETWEEN See SOCIOLOGY
who arrived in the United
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Indian Businessmen Unofficial Citizenship and
1960s. Here, the contributors focus on the
Shifting Forms of Belonging 4. EXCEEDING
political economy and long history of South Asian
THE ECONOMIC New Modalities of Belonging People of the Maldive Islands migrations to the U.S.—the lives, work and
among Middle-class Dubai Indians 5. BECOMING (Second Edition) activism of often unacknowledged migrant
INDIAN IN DUBAI Parochialisms and Globalisms
Clarence Maloney served as Associate populations—in ways that not only challenge
in Privatized Education Conclusion, Reassessing
Professor of Anthropology in several universities preconceptions about the South Asian presence in
Gulf Studies, Citizenship, Democracy, and the Political
in USA and Bangladesh. Most recently, he served the United States, but illuminate continuities
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The author reconstructs the Contents: Introduction Part I. Overlapping

Light of Knowledge, The cultural history of the Empires Part II. From Imperialism to Free-Market
Literacy Activism and the Politics people based on his long Fundamentalism: Changing Forms of Migration
of Writing in South India experience not only in the and Work Part III. Geographies of Migration
Maldives, but also in South Settlement and Self
Francis Cody, Associate Professor in the
India and Sri Lanka. The 2013 978-81-250-5236-4 ` 1170 408pp Hardback
Department of Anthropology and the Asian
Maldivian peoples’ myths, Rights: Restricted
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origins, language, customs,
The Light of Knowledge religion, political, and
focuses on the Arivoli economic systems make up Aging and the Indian
Iyakkam (Enlightenment this fascinating look at an Diaspora
Movement) which is old culture, now being stirred by the inevitable Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad
considered to be among the forces of modernity.
most successful mass literacy Sarah Lamb, Associate Professor of
With Forewords by President Mohammed Nasheed Anthropology, Brandeis University, USA
movements in recent
and Xavier Romero-Frias
history. Led by activists from The proliferation of old age
the All India People’s Science Contents: 1. The Land and its Resources homes and increasing
Network and the 2. Origin Myths and Legends 3. The earliest numbers of elderly living
Progressive Writers’ Maldivians 4. The Budhist Period and the Divehi alone are remarkable new
Association, the Arivoli Iyakkam worked in Language 5. In the midst of the Indian Ocean phenomena in India. These
conjunction with district-level administration to 6. Consumptions Skills and Arts 7. The Political trends are related to
encourage active citizenship among the most System 8. Islam and Social Control 9. The old extensive overseas
oppressed people in rural Tamil Nadu. Francis Religion 10. The Texture of Society 11. Kinship migration, the transnational
Cody’s ethnographic study of this social movement and Family 12. Behaviour 13. New Stresses in an dispersal of families amidst
and related government programmes highlights the old Nation global labour markets and
paradoxes inherent in such movements that seek to the rise of the new Indian
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Contents: Introduction: Of Light Literacy and India’s emerging old age homes and into the
Knowledge in the Tamil Countryside 1. On Being a
Sun Never Sets, The households of elders living alone in India and with
South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. children living abroad.
“Thumbprint”: Time and Space in Arivoli Activism
2. Feminizing Enlightenment: The Social and
Power
Contents: 1. Introduction: The Remaking of
Reciprocal Agency 3. Labors of Objectification: Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Comparative Aging 2. The Production of Tradition, Modernity
Words and Worlds of Pedagogy 4. Search for a Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of and a New Middle Class 3. The Rise of Old Age
Method: The Media of Enlightenment 5. Subject Technology, USA, Miabi Chatterji is the Co- Homes in India 4. Becoming an Elder-Abode
to Citizenship: Petitions and the Performativity Director of Grants at the RESIST Foundation, Member 5. Tea and the Forest: Making a Western
of Signature Epilogue: Reflections on a Time of Sujani Reddy, Five College Assistant Professor Institution Indian 6. Living Alone as a Way of Life
Charismatic Enlightenment of Asian Pacific American Studies, Department 7. Moving Abroad 8. Changing Families and the
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From Village Elder to British North-East India Textbook Producing Bollywood

Judge A Handbook of Anthropology Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film
Industry
Asoka Kumar Sen, currently an independent Edited by T. B. Subba, Professor and Head,
researcher of tribal history Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor of
University, Shillong Anthropology, New York University, USA
See HISTORY
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Good Women do not Inherit brings together nineteen
Land essays on North East India.
Red Tape
Politics of Land and Gender in India Carefully crafted with the
most up-to-date and
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and
[With Social Science Press] Poverty in India
competent review of
Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of literature on the region, it is Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology,
Development Studies, University of East divided into four sections, Director of the Center for India and South Asia at
Anglia, UK viz., prehistoric archaeology, colonial ethnography, the University of California, Los Angeles
physical anthropology and socio-cultural
See GENDER STUDIES See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
anthropology.
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conducted for a century and a half in North-East
Islam in South Asia

India ... Tulsi and the Cross, The
A Short History —Robbins Burling, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
and Linguistics, University of Michigan, USA in Goa
Jamal Malik, Professor of Religious Studies, [With RCS Publishers]
University of Erfurt, Germany
This handbook … will prove to be a valuable Rosa Maria Perez, Professor of Anthropology
See HISTORY resource ... for teachers and students of at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and a Visiting
anthropology [and] also ... sociology, history, Professor, Brown University, USA
2012 978-81-250-4658-5 ` 950 536pp Paperback
geography, and economics of the region.
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The existing research,
—A. C. Bhagabati, Former Professor of Anthropology essentially historical, tends
Muslim Becoming and Former Vice-Chancellor, Rajiv Gandhi University,
Arunachal Pradesh, India
to consider Goa as
Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan Catholic, Portuguese-
Abridged Contents: PART I: PREHISTORIC speaking and framed by
Naveeda Khan, Assistant Professor of Portuguese cultural
NORTH-EAST INDIA PART II: COLONIAL
Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University references. The author
NORTH-EAST INDIA PART III: PHYSICAL
In Muslim Becoming, ANTHROPOLOGY OF NORTH-EAST offers an ethnographic
Naveeda Khan challenges INDIA PART IV: SOCIAL-CULTURAL approach to the
the claim that Pakistan’s ANTHROPOLOGY IN NORTH-EAST INDIA understanding of the
relation to Islam is colonial encounter and of
Contributors: Anungla Aier, A. N. M. Irshad colonialism. Her ethnographical research shows
fragmented and
Ali, Abdullah Ali Ashraf, Gulrukh Begum, that Goa is, and was, dominantly Hindu and the
problematic. Offering a
S. B. Chakrabarti, Sapu Changkija, Sarit Choudhuri, perception of Goan society as essentially
radically different
Bapukan Choudhury, Jonali Devi, R. K. Kar, fragmented is a colonial imposition.
interpretation, Khan
R. Khongsdier, D. K. Limbu, Quinbala R. Marak,
contends that Pakistan 2012 978-81-923046-0-1 ` 650 208pp Hardback
P. K. Misra, B. R. Rizvi, Sankar Kumar Roy, Jayanta
inherited an aspirational,
Kumar Sarkar, Sarthak Sengupta, H. C. Sharma,
always-becoming Islam, one with an open future
and a tendency toward experimentation.
T. Shyamacharan Singh, T. B. Subba, Jelle J. P. Women of Honour
Wouters Gender and Agency among Dalit Women
Contents: 1. Scenes of Muslim Aspiration 2012 978-81-250-4555-7 ` 675 452pp Paperback in the Central Himalayas
2. A Possible Genealogy of Muslim Aspiration
3. Inheriting Iqbal 4. The Singularity of Aspiration Karin M. Polit, Lecturer, South Asia Institute
5. Skepticism in Public Culture 6. Skepticism and Other Orientalisms and, Institute for Ethnology, University of
Spiritual Diagnostics Epilogue India Between Florence and Bombay, Heidelberg, Germany
2012 978-81-250-4662-2 ` 895 276pp Hardback 1860–1900 In Women of Honour, Karin Polit gives an
Rights: Restricted Filipa Lowndes Vicente, currently a researcher ethnographic account of how relationships are
at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of shaped among the Dalit people of Chamoli,
Lisbon (ICS-UL) Uttarakhand. Questioning the assumption that
Indian women are mute and powerless, she argues
See HISTORY that the people of Chamoli—women and men—see
2012 978-81-250-4758-2 ` 1150 400pp Hardback themselves as part of an agentive unity.

Contents: 1. Introduction Christians, on a scale recalling violence in the Voice and Memory
2. Children, Bodies, 1830s–60s. The role of the first missionaries in
Indigenous Imagination and Expression
Personhood 3. Engagement Orissa, who targeted this district in particular, is
and Marriage 4. Taking on analysed to throw light on recent events. Edited by G. N. Devy, founder, Bhasha Research
Responsibility 5. Wombs, and Publication Centre, Baroda, Geoffrey V.
With a Foreword by Hugh Brody and a Foreword to
Spirits and Male Offspring 6. Davis, Professor of Anglophone Post-colonial
the first edition by Veena Das.
Coming of Age 7. Reflections Literature, Universities of Aachen and Duisberg-
on Agency and Performance Essen, Germany, and K. K. Chakravarty,
The book rescues significant facts from the Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the
junkbin of historical memory and could reset many Arts, New Delhi
of our relationships with our own development
history. Each episode quoted and qualified in the This is a companion volume
2012 978-81-250-4267-9 ` 950 380pp Hardback book provokes [us] to rethink. to Indigeneity: Culture and
—Down to Earth Representation.
Adivasis and the Raj Selected Contents: 1. A Case Study of Colonialism. Abridged Contents:
Socio-economic Transition of the Hos, 2. Conquest: The Ghumsur Wars. Introduction 1.Understanding
1820–1932 3. Suppressing Human Sacrifice: The Meriah Agency. Indigenous Struggles 2.
4. Human Sacrifice as a Kond and Hindu Ritual 5. Endangered Indigenous
SERIES: CRITICAL THINKING IN SOUTH ASIAN Traditions of the Urhobo
The Colonial Sacrifice of ‘Enlightened Government’
HISTORY
6. ‘Soldiers of Christ’ 7. Merchants of Knowledge: People of the Niger Delta
Anthropologists in a Social Structure 8. In the Name 3. From the Postcolonial to
Sanjukta Das Gupta, Associate Professor,
of Development 9. Questioning the Sacrifice: A the Globalized Language:
Department of History, University of Calcutta
Postscript Revitalization in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Éire/
See HISTORY Ireland 4. Coatlicue’s Dramatization of Mexican
2011 978-81-250-4189-4 ` 730 504pp Paperback Indigenous History 5. Contemporary Yoruba
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Funeral 6. Multilingualism in Modern South African
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Adivasis in Colonial India Past: Contemporary South African Literature(s)
Survival, Resistance and Negotiation Violence and Belonging 8. Gender Violence in Postcolonial Aboriginal
Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the North- Communities 9. The Place of the Folk Tale in
Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Associate Professor of a Changing Society 10. In Search of Wisdom:
West Frontier Province of Pakistan
History, University of Delhi Transformations in Indigenous and Postcolonial
Are Knudsen, Research Director, Chr. Michelson Discourses 11. The Ethnopoetics of Irular Ballads
See HISTORY
Institute, Bergen, Norway 12. The Folklore of Garhwal 13. Ngu~gu~’s Indigenous
2011 978-81-250-4094-1 ` 950 384pp Hardback Language Novels: Women and the National
Violence and Belonging
examines the meanings of Cause 14. Colonial Narrative and Indigenous
Dalit Personal Narratives lethal conflict in a little- Consciousness: Raja Rao’s Kanthapura and Ignazio
Reading Caste, Nation and Identity studied tribal society in Silone’s Fontamara 15. A Green Postcolonial
Pakistan’s unruly North-West Reading of Kocharethi and Mother Forest 16. Carib
Raj Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Palimpsests in Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems
Frontier Province and offers a
English, University of Delhi 17. Indigenous Hatred and Fear: Edwidge Danticat’s
new perspective on its causes.
Based on an in-depth study of The Dew Breaker 18. Voice and Memory in the
See DALIT STUDIES
local conflicts, the book Museum 19. Indigenous Voices in Australian
2011 978-81-250-4250-1 ` 455 308pp Paperback Universities 20. Education in a Second Language:
challenges stereotyped images
2010 978-81-250-3863-4 ` 715 308pp Hardback Struggles and Achievements of Betta Kurumbar
of a region and people miscast
as extremist and militant. The book is the first Children 21. Mahasweta Devi and the Tribal 22.
Sacrificing People ethnographic study of this region since renowned Narrating Tribal Entity: Mavelimantam, Kocharethi,
Ooralikkudi 23. Reading Maracle’s Sundogs:
Invasions of a Tribal Landscape anthropologist Fredrik Barth’s pioneering study
in 1954. Indigenous Subalternity and Resistance
Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in 24. Can the Bollywood Film Speak to the
Oxford and Delhi universities Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Belonging Subaltern? 25. Sound in the Aboriginal Australian
to the Palas Valley 3. The Textured Landscape Films of Rolf de Heer 26. Living and Learning in a
Sacrificing People is an 4. Land of Contention 5. Being, Longing and Belonging New Language and Culture
updated edition of Padel’s 6. Condemned and Confined 7. Magic and Honour
classic case study of 2011 978-81-250-4222-8 ` 785 368pp Paperback
8. Contesting the Boundaries 9. Brooding over
colonialism, originally titled the Big Trees 10. Thresholds and Transitions
The Sacrifice of Human Being:
British Rule and the Konds of 2011 978-81-250-4201-3 ` 620 252pp Paperback
Art of Not Being Governed,
Orissa. The journey of the Rights: Restricted The
book is from colonial An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast
intrusion to developmental Asia
destruction. It puts into
James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political
perspective communal
Science, Professor of Anthropology, and
murders and ethnic cleansing in the district of
Co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program,
Kandhamal in 2007–8, mostly in attacks against
Yale University

Recognised as an eminent Out of This Earth Sundarbans, The
authority on Southeast Asian, East India Adivasis and the Aluminium Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals
peasant and agrarian studies,
Cartel [With Social Science Press]
the author here tells the story
of the peoples of Zomia and Felix Padel, anthropologist trained at Oxford and Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Reader, Department of
their unlikely odyssey in Delhi Universities, and Samarendra Das, Oriya History, West Bengal State University, Barasat
search of self-determination. writer, filmmaker and activist
See HISTORY
He redefines our views on
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demographics and even our
uncovers the reality behind
fundamental ideas about what
aluminium production,
constitutes civilization.
exposing the powerful Against Stigma
Contents: 1. Hills, Valleys, and States: An international cartel that Studies in Caste, Race and Justice since
Introduction to Zomia 2. State Space: Zones of controls it. Padel and Das Durban
Governance and Appropriation 3. Concentrating expose the links between
the massive meltdown of SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN
Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice
4. Civilization and the Unruly 5. Keeping the State at a Iceland’s banks, and the HISTORY
Distance: The Peopling of the Hills promotion of dams and Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor, Department
6. State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and smelters; between the mafia-style looting of of Anthropology, William Paterson University, New
Agriculture of Escape 61/2. Orality, Writing and Texts Russia’s assets and the rise to power of a Jersey, and Paul Greenough, Professor of History,
7. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Construction Case 8. succession of aluminium barons, and reveal why Community and Behavioral Health, University of Iowa,
Prophets of Renewal 9. Conclusion the US set limits on aluminium production and Iowa City
started to outsource it to poorer countries.
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2009 978-81-250-3600-5 ` 1005 504pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5246-3
Everyday Life in a Prison [This book] reminds us that adivasi culture sees
Confinement, Surveillance, Resistance nature as more than just matter; they always see
it as a matter of spirit.... [It] is a revolutionary Burden of Refuge, The
Mahuya Bandyopadhyay, Lecturer, Department tract. It enables our understanding and excites our The Partition Experiences of the Sindhis
of Sociology, Miranda House, University of Delhi imagination. of Gujarat
See SOCIOLOGY —Economic and Political Weekly
Rita Kothari, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad,
2010 978-81-250-3833-7 ` 1060 354pp Hardback and Head, Katha Academic Centre
The survival and health of tribal society has come
to be inseparable from the survival and health of the See HISTORY
Health, Illness and Medicine world. Here is a case study in the struggle for health 2009 978-81-250-3673-9 ` 455 240pp Paperback
Ethnographic Readings and survival.
Edited by Arima Mishra, Assistant Professor, —Hugh Brody, Anthropologist and Filmmaker Craft Matters
Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
Selected Contents: PART I: SUSTAINABLE
Artisans, Development and the Indian Nation
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES LIFESTYLES IN AN AGE OF ALUMINIUM PART Soumhya Venkatesan, Lecturer in Social
II: NIYAM RAJA MEETS THE WORLD-WIDE Anthropology, University of Manchester
2010 978-81-250-3978-5 ` 840 332pp Hardback
WEB: ALUMINIUM’S SOCIAL STRUCTURE PART
III: ‘ALUMINIUM FOR DEFENCE AND PROSPERITY’ Based on long-term
Hundred Tamil Folk and PART IV: COMPANY RULE AND THE SYSTEM OF ethnographic fieldwork
ENDEMIC EXPLOITATION PART V MOVEMENTS among the Labbai Muslim
Tribal Tales, A FOR LIFE mat weavers of Pattamadai
Translated by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, town in South India, this
2010 978-81-250-4164-1 ` 840 752pp Paperback anthropological study
Professor of English, Pondicherry University 2010 978-81-250-3867-2 ` 1040 752pp Hardback
explores the ways in which
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE the famous pattu pai or
2010 978-81-250-3920-4 ` 455 324pp Hardback Subjugated Nomads high-quality silk-like mats of
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4690-5 The Lambadas Under the Rule of the Pattamadai became classified
Nizams as traditional craft objects,
and what this classification has meant to the
Idea of Gujarat, The Bhangya Bhukya, Associate Professor, Department weavers who are now simultaneously national
History, Ethnography and Text of History, Osmania University, Hyderabad heroes and (paradoxically) marginalised and
Edited by Edward Simpson, Senior Lecturer suspect Muslims.
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in Social Anthropology, School of Oriental and
2010 978-81-250-3961-7 ` 725 320pp Hardback
African Studies, London, and Aparna Kapadia, Soumhya Venkatesan’s book is a well written
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5299-9
Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Oxford account of a craft community, its history and
current status, through changing socio-political and
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economic changes. It is a book worth reading.
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—Business World

Contents: Introduction; Research Involvement; Rebuilding Buddhism describes Fatalism and Development
Structure of the Book 1. Crafting the Subject: the experiences and Nepal’s Struggle for Modernization
Craft Producers, Craft Objects and Craft achievements of Nepalis who
2. People, Place, Life 3. In the House 4. The Work have adopted Theravada Dor Bahadur Bista, Anthropologist, former
of Weaving 5. Uneasy Balances 6. Production and Buddhism. This form was Nepalese Consul-General in Tibet, and former
Representation 7. Talking about Mats 8. Selling introduced into Nepal from Professor, Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Gifts: Mats in the Market 9. Technological Matters Burma and Sri Lanka in the
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10. Conclusion 1930s, and its adherents have
struggled for recognition and 2008 978-81-250-3460-5 ` 225 200pp Paperback
2009 978-81-250-3682-1 ` 840 316pp Hardback
acceptance. With its emphasis
on individualising meditation
G. N. Devy Reader, The and on gender equality, Theravada Buddhism
In the Presence of Sai Baba
contrasts with ritualised Tantric Buddhism. The book
Body, City and Memory in a Global
G. N. Devy, literary scholar and cultural activist
explores the impact of the Theravada movement on Religious Movement
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Buddhist society in Nepal. Smriti Srinivas, Associate Professor of
2009 978-81-250-3693-7 ` 920 548pp Hardback 2009 978-81-87358-39-8 ` 795 396pp Hardback Anthropology, University of California, Davis, USA
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The Sai Baba movement,
Indigeneity centred on the Indian guru
Culture and Representation Rethinking Gandhi and Sathya Sai Baba (1926–2011)
attracted a global following
Edited by G. N. Devy, founder of Bhasha Research
Nonviolent Relationality from Japan to South Africa.
and Publication Centre, Baroda, Geoffrey V. Global Perspectives The book is based on
Davis, Professor of Anglophone Post-colonial Edited by Debjani Ganguly, Head, and John ethnographic research
Literature, Universities of Aachen and Duisberg- Docker, Adjunct Professor, Humanities Research carried out in India, Kenya,
Essen, and K. K. Chakravarty, Secretary, Indira Centre, Australian National University, Canberra and the United States of
Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi America. It traverses the
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Rebuilding Buddhism Madras, the author here Susan Visvanathan, Professor of Sociology,
The Theravada Movement in Twentieth- discusses the changing Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
notions of crime and
Century Nepal
[With Social Science Press] criminality over a period of This collection of essays by
time, and shows how the Susan Visvanathan looks at
Sarah Levine, Associate Professor, Sanskrit and colonial administration’s traditional prejudice dialogue as a way of dealing
India Studies, Harvard University, and David N. against gypsies combined with realpolitik and a with difference, even
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the work of all three are woven strands of Reflections on Adivasi Silence
resistance, issues of suffering, and questions of
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looks at the problems of
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Lives physical environment, the
Colonialism and the Transformation of
Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Community terror and indignity of the
Matriliny in Kerala and Malabar, c. 1850–
Making in South India stigma of being considered
‘criminal’ tribes, and their 1940
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K. C. Zachariah
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the ways in which acts of
terror impact on the lives of
virtually everyone in the
world today. Such acts have Between Ethnography and Fiction
assumed many different Verrier Elwin and the Tribal Question in
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experience, this collection brings together a set of
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Autobiography of an Archive
Landscapes of Urban Memory A Scholar’s Passage to India
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Imagination, and Cosmology 1. ‘Terror against Tech City Nicholas B. Dirks is Chancellor, University of
Terror’: 9/11 or ‘Kano War’ in the Nigerian California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor
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People, Parks and Wildlife
Ireland 6. The Sign of Kanaimà, the Space of and lectures, Nicholas B.
Towards Coexistence
Guayana, and Demonology of Development Dirks recounts his early
7. Imaginary Violence and the Terrible Mother: The Vasant Saberwal, Mahesh Rangarajan and study of kingship in India,
Imagery of Balinese Witchcraft Afterword: The Taste Ashish Kothari the rise of the caste system,
of Death the emergence of English imperial interest in
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perspectives. publications in Hindi and
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Small Voice of History, The Plain Speaking Selected Contents: 1. Savage Attack: Adivasis
Collected Essays A Sudra’s Story and Insurgency in India 1. We Shall Fight Them
on the Beach: Counterinsurgency, Colonisation
Ranajit Guha, founding father of Subaltern A. N. Sattanathan, Chairman, first Tamil Nadu and the Andaman Islanders, 1771–1863 2.
Studies Backward Classes Commission ‘Natural Boundaries’: Negotiating Land Rights and
Edited by Partha Chatterjee, Director, Centre Edited by Uttara Natarajan, Senior Lecturer in Establishing Rule on the East India Company’s
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta English, Goldsmiths College, London North-Eastern Frontier 1790s–1820s 3. From
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Ulama of Firangi Mahall and Islamic
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Madras Presidency: A Study of Causation as
Colonial Legitimation 6. Events, Incidents and
India 2005 978-81-7824-119-7 ` 395 260pp Paperback Accidents: Re-Thinking Indigenous Resistance in
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Violence in Urban India of an Adivasi Working Class in Western Orissa 8.
Pratik Chakrabarti, Deputy Director and Identity Politics, ‘Mumbai’ and the Postcolonial
Research Officer, Wellcome Unit for the History Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala:
City Neoliberalism, Political Disillusionment, and the
of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Thomas Blom Hansen Indigenist Challenge 9. Thoughts on Religious
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E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-436-5 Anthropologist Among the Marxists 10. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Maoist Movement
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Ramachandra Guha
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Sangeeta Dasgupta, Amit Desai, Atlury Murali,
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Vishvajit Pandya, Raphaël Rousseleau, Satadru Sen,
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Professor of English, Suvir Kaul, Professor,
both at the Department of English, University of 2014 978-81-87358-69-5 ` 725 306pp Hardback
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Matti Bunzl,
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Associate Professor, English, all at the University
PRESS in Modern India, The
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Edited by C. J. Fuller, Emeritus Professor of
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Savage Attack Anthropology, London School of Economics and
Tribal Insurgency in India Political Science, and Véronique Benei, Visiting
2007 978-81-7824-203-3 ` 550 510pp Paperback
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South Asian Scholars and the West
In this volume, the authors
Edited by Jackie Assayag, Senior Research ask whether there is anything Good Women do not Inherit
Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
particularly adivasi about the Land
forms of resistance that have Politics of Land and Gender in India
Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Véronique Benei, been labelled as adivasi [With Orient BlackSwan]
Department of Anthropology, London School of movements. What does it
Economics mean to speak about adivasi Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of
as opposed to peasant Development Studies, University of East
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resistance? Can one Anglia, UK
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explore how and why particular forms of resistance Rights: Restricted
are depicted as adivasi issues at particular points in
time. Interpretations that have depicted adivasis as a
united and highly politicised group of people have
romanticised and demonised tribal society and
history, thus denying the individuals and communities
involved any real agency.

Religious Division and Social individualising meditation and on gender equality,
With fascinating case Theravada Buddhism contrasts with ritualised
Conflict studies and detailed Tantric Buddhism. The book explores the impact
The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism ethnographic material, of the Theravada movement on Buddhist society in
in Rural India Shalini Grover enriches our Nepal.
(Second Impression) understanding of how poor
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urban women in Delhi Rights: Restricted
Peggy Froerer, Lecturer in Anthropology, School
negotiate their married
of Social Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
lives, move in and out of
This is an ethnographic relationships, and mobilise Reflections on Cambridge
account of the emergence support from their kin or
Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropological
of Hindu nationalism in a from women-led informal
Science, University of Cambridge, and Life Fellow,
tribal community in courts. Using her data to argue robustly against
King’s College, Cambridge, UK
Chhattisgarh, central India, the many unfounded presumptions about gender
attributed to the politics, love, marriages, intimacy and married The traditions and creativity
involvement of the women’s relationships with their families of origin, of Cambridge University
Rashtriya Swayamsevak she makes important interventions into wider have survived 800 years. In
Sangh (RSS), a militant debates about gender, marriage and kinship. celebration, this first
Hindu nationalist historical and
—Patricia Jeffery, University of Edinburgh
organisation, in local affairs. anthropological account
With a Foreword by Patricia Uberoi. explores the culture, the
... It deserves a wide audience since it cautions customs, and the politics of
Contents: 1. Mapping the Debate on Marriage this famous institution. As
against the facile assumption that the Hindutva 2. Revisiting Arranged Marriages: Marital Roles,
movement is merely an urban phenomenon and Professor there for nearly
Conflict and Kinship Support 3. Courtships and Love forty years, the author sets
that it will soon disappear due to its electoral Marriages 4. Secondary Unions and Other Conjugal
defeat. forth on an attempt to understand how this
Arrangements 5. Informal Dispute Settlement: The ancient university developed and changed, and
—The Hindu Mahila Panchayats 6. Towards the Democratization how it continues to influence those who pass
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Enigma of the Kerala Rights: Restricted Rights: Restricted
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A Failed Promise of Literacy Sundarbans, The Resistance and the State
Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals Nepalese Experiences (Revised Edition)
Swapna Mukhopadhyay, former Professor of [With Orient BlackSwan]
Economics, Institute of Economic Growth, and Edited by David N. Gellner, Professor of Social
former Director, Institute of Social Studies Trust, Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Reader, Anthropology, University of Oxford and Fellow of
New Delhi Department of History, West Bengal State All Souls, University of Oxford
University, Barasat
See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Resistance and the State uses
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Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict Rebuilding Buddhism description of conflicts over
The Theravada Movement in Twentieth- the interpretation of
Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of Century Nepal history, and various
Political Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, [With Orient BlackSwan] perspectives on the Maoist
New Delhi, and Helmut Reifeld, India
Sarah Levine, Associate Professor, Sanskrit and insurgency in large parts of
representative, Konrad Adenauer Foundation,
India Studies, Harvard University, and David N. rural Nepal since 1996. The
New Delhi
Gellner, Professor of Social Anthropology and contributors study the complex relationship
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Fellow of All Souls, University of Oxford between a modernising state, and the people it
AND PUBLIC POLICY professes to represent and benefit.
Rebuilding Buddhism
2011 978-81-87358-47-3 ` 325 334pp Paperback
describes the experiences
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and achievements of Nepalis
understanding of Nepal’s current situation.
who have adopted
Marriage, Love, Caste and Theravada Buddhism. This —European Bulletin of Himalayan Research
form was introduced into
Kinship Support Nepal from Burma and Sri
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Lanka in the 1930s, and its
Shalini Grover, author of several papers on adherents have struggled for
marriage and kinship and former Sir Ratan Tata recognition and acceptance.
Fellow in Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, With its emphasis on
University of Delhi

Unbecoming Modern After Elwin ethnographic account shows that Durga Puja in the
Colonialism, Modernity, Colonial Encounters with Tribal Life countryside was a very different event from the
modern version of the puja, one that symbolized
Modernities
Prosenjit Das Gupta legitimacy and counter posed generous
Edited by Saurabh Dube and Ishita Banerjee- redistribution against the ruthless collection of
From the middle of the
Dube, both Professors of History, Centre for revenues. The offerings and sacrifices that were
1970s to as recently as
Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico integral to the traditional pujas provided
January 2006, the author
communion for the landholding families as well as
See HISTORY has been travelling to
their dependents in the community.
remote tribal areas of
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and interactions with the
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When Marriages Go Astray
These experiences are
Choices Made, Choices Challenged
juxtaposed with the writings Lina Fruzzetti is the Royce Family Professor
CHRONICLE BOOKS of Verrier Elwin who lived and travelled in these in Teaching Excellence and Professor of
areas and wrote a corpus of classic anthropological Anthropology at Brown University
works.
Damayanti and Nala This book is an account of
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The Many Lives of a Story
religious marriages and
Edited by Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell Essays on North Indian Folk presents detailed case
Professor of South Asian Studies, Syracuse
Traditions studies from Bishnupur, a
University, New York town in West Bengal. In this
Susan S. Wadley study Lina Fruzzetti looks
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how can we understand
Behind Mud Walls
Rites of Spring Seventy-five Years in a North Indian Village
society’s concern with marriages deemed to have
Gajan in Village Bengal gone astray? How do women cope with their
William Wiser and Charlotte Wiser families’ rejection of their choices? This work
Ralph W. Nicholas, Emeritus Professor of addresses women’s dilemma in selecting one’s
2004 978-81-8028-012-2 ` 550 420pp Hardback
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Ralph W. Nicholas Tulsi and the Cross, The
The rituals and narratives of Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter
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gajan dominate the spring in Goa
season in the villages of [With Orient BlackSwan]
Bengal. It is a ritual of the
Rosa Maria Perez, Professor of Anthropology
common people created
at ISCTE-Lisbon University Institute and a Visiting
from indigenous sources
Professor, Brown University, USA
and laden with symbols of
fertilisation and RCS PUBLISHERS The existing research,
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Anthropology and the Social Sciences, University offers an ethnographic
of Chicago approach to the
Wife, Mother, Widow understanding of the
Exploring Women’s Lives in Northern Durga Puja is the most colonial encounter and of
India visible annual event in West colonialism. Her ethnographical research shows
Bengal. Among the many that Goa is, and was, dominantly Hindu and the
Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell Professor of features of the puja that are perception of Goan society as essentially
South Asian Studies, Syracuse University, New peculiar to Bengal is the fragmented is a colonial imposition.
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India’s First Democratic Understanding Caste philosophy and gender
DALIT STUDIES
studies apart from English
Revolution From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond
literature, to bring to the
Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the (Second Edition)
reader the remarkably
Bahujan in Goa Gail Omvedt, former Chair Professor, different personal narratives
Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and of both Dalit men and
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN Development, Indira Gandhi National Open women.
HISTORY II University, New Delhi, India
Contents:
This book analyses how 1. Autobiographical
Parag D. Parobo, Assistant Professor, dalit politics and the dalit Practices: Examples from
Department of History, Goa University vision require going beyond the West 2. The Public Self:
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English in the Dalit Context oppressed and exploited Towards a Definition of Dalit Autobiography
sections within the graded 5. The Marginal Self: Dalit Men’s Autobiographies
Edited by Alladi Uma, former Professor,
hierarchies of caste. It 6. Beyond the Margin: Dalit Women’s
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tenets of Buddhism and radical bhakti, in the 2010 978-81-250-3863-4 ` 715 308pp Hardback
and D. Murali Manohar, Head and Associate
anti-patriarchal stands of early feminists, in the
Professor, Department of English, University
pervasive radicalism of the dalit activists. This
of Hyderabad
edition has a new and comprehensive Index. Dalit Assertion in Society,
Contents: Introduction 1. The Two Great Literature and History
2014 978-81-250-5519-8 ` 695 192pp Hardback Traditions of India and the Construction of Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of
Hinduism 2. Before ‘Hinduism’: The Buddhist Political Sociology at Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Vision 3. Before Hinduism: The Devotional Visions New Delhi, and Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay,
Towards Social Change of Bhakti 4. Hinduism as Brahman Exploitation: Associate Professor, IGNOU
Essays on Dalit Literature Jotiba Phule 5. Hinduism as Patriarchy: Ramabai,
Tarabai and the Early Feminists 6. Hinduism as This rich and extraordinary
Shankar Prasad Singha, Professor and volume brings together
Aryan Conquest: The Dalit Radicals of the 1920s 7.
Coordinator, DRS-Sap, Department of English contributions from scholars
Hinduism as Counter-Revolution: B. R. Ambedkar
and Indranil Acharya, Associate Professor, across the humanities and
8. Hinduism as Delhi Rule: Periyar and the National
Department of English, Vidyasagar University, social sciences to provide an
Question 9. Independent India: Brahmanic Socialism,
Midnapore, West Bengal inclusive analysis of the
Brahmanic Globalisation 10. Hinduism as Feudal
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Backwardness: The Dalit Panthers 11. The Logic of identity of the Dalits in
Dalit Politics 12. The Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party history, literature and society.
2014 978-81-250-5344-6 ` 670 200pp Hardback CONCLUSION: Sita’s Curse, Shambuk’s Silence Contents: PART I. DALITS
2012 978-81-250-4573-1 ` 275 140pp Paperback AND SOCIETY 1. Resolving
Social Inclusion in Dalit Identity: Vankars, Chamars, Valmikis 2. At
the Intersection of Caste, Class and Patriarchy:
Independent India Women of Honour Exploring Dalit Women’s Oppression 3. Social
Dimensions and Approaches Gender and Agency among Dalit Women Democracy in Indian Villages: The Experience of
T. K. Oommen, Emeritus Professor, Jawaharlal in the Central Himalayas Dalits in Southern Tamil Nadu 4. The Category
Nehru University, New Delhi and former Karin M. Polit, Lecturer, South Asia Institute ‘Rural’ Revisited: A Dalit Perspective from a Village
President, International Sociological Association and at the Institute for Ethnology, University of in Maharashtra 5. The Story of a Dalit Family from
Heidelberg, Germany a Sleepy North Bihar Village 6. Caste System in
See SOCIOLOGY India: Dr Ambedkar’s Perspective 7. Laws and
2014 978-81-250-5629-4 ` 725 356pp Hardback See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Homestead Land for Rural Landless Labourers
2012 978-81-250-4267-9 ` 950 380pp Hardback and Marginalised Communities in Bihar: A Micro-
perspective PART II: DALITS AND LITERATURE
Survival and Other Stories 8. Dalit Literature: A Perspective from Below 9.
Bangla Dalit Fiction in Translation Dalit Personal Narratives Transcending Orbits of Dalit Women’s Minor
Edited by Sankar Prasad Singha, Professor, Reading Caste, Nation and Identity Literature 10. Premchand and Dalit Literature:
and Indranil Acharya, Assistant Professor, Representation of Dalits in the Literature of
Raj Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of
Department of English, Vidyasagar University, Premchand PART III: DALITS IN HISTORY 11.
English, University of Delhi
Midnapore, West Bengal Rajwars in Revolt, 1857–58: Saga of Heroism
This pioneering book primarily examines Dalit and Sacrifices of Little-known People 12. Caste
See GENERAL INTEREST autobiographies. These narratives symbolise how and the Writing of History PART IV: CASTES
2012 978-81-250-4510-6 ` 325 220pp Paperback Dalits are breaking down the age-old barrier of AMONG INDIAN MINORITIES 13. Can there
silence. Focusing on multiple marginalities be a Category called Dalit Muslims? 14. Islam and
pertaining to caste, nation and identity, the author Caste Inequalities among Indian Muslims 15. Social
has followed an inter-disciplinary approach across Exclusion, Resistance and Deras: Exploring the
disciplines such as history, sociology, law, religion, Myth of Casteless Sikh Society in Punjab

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Contributors: Imtiaz Ahmad, Prathama Banerjee, Grip of Change, The
A. K. Biswas, Ritambhara Hebbar, P. G. Jogdand,
Debjani Ganguly has chosen an intellectually
Raj Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Jyotsna Macwan, Smita Written and translated by P. Sivakami, member
ambitious project, one that demands both archival
Patil, A. Ramaiah, Ronki Ram, Suguna Ramanathan, of the Indian Administrative Service.
and interpretational skills…. This is an important
Ashok Singh, Yoginder Sikand, Padma Velaskar,
move. See GENERAL INTEREST
Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
—Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard University
2006 978-81-250-3020-1 ` 370 208pp Paperback
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2008 978-81-250-3430-8 ` 510 300pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted
Untouchable Spring Towards an Aesthetic
Dishonoured by History of Dalit Literature
G. Kalyana Rao History, Controversies and Considerations
‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial
Translated by Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar, Policy Sharankumar Limbale, one of Maharashtra’s
both at the Department of English, University of pre-eminent Dalit writer-activists
Hyderabad Meena Radhakrishna teaches at the
Translated by Alok Mukherjee, York University,
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of
See GENERAL INTEREST Toronto, Canada
Economics, University of Delhi
2010 978-81-250-3945-7 ` 425 292pp Paperback This book is the first critical
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
work by an eminent Dalit
2008 978-81-250-3403-2 ` 565 240pp Paperback writer to appear in English.
Poisoned Bread 2001 978-81-250-2090-5 ` 550 206pp Hardback It is a provocative and
Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5331-6 thoughtful account of the
Literature (Revised Edition) debates among Dalit writers
Edited by Arjun Dangle, an important name in Prisons We Broke, The on how Dalit literature
the politics and literature of Maharashtra should be read.
Baby Kamble
See GENERAL INTEREST Translated from the Marathi by Maya Pandit
2009 978-81-250-3754-5 ` 570 392pp Paperback See GENERAL INTEREST
2004 978-81-250-2656-3 ` 375 188pp Hardback
2008 978-81-250-3390-5 ` 350 192pp Paperback
Scar, The
K. A. Gunasekaran, teacher, folk-artist, Government Brahmana
dramatist and researcher
Aravind Malagatti, well-known Kannada writer
See GENERAL INTEREST Translated by Dharani Devi Malagatti, recipient PERMANENT BLACK
of the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award (2004)
2009 978-81-250-3705-7 ` 260 120pp Paperback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5088-9 See GENERAL INTEREST Reconsidering
2007 978-81-250-3216-8 ` 325 148pp Paperback Untouchability
Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds Chamars and Dalit History in North India
Postcolonial Perspectives
Dalit Visions Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Assistant Professor of
Debjani Ganguly, Head, Humanities Research History, University of Delaware
Gail Omvedt, former Chair Professor,
Centre, Research School of Humanities, Australian
Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and See HISTORY
National University
Development, Indira Gandhi National Open
This book attempts to University, New Delhi, India 2014 978-81-7824-394-8 ` 495 292pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted
come to terms with the
This book explores and 2012 978-81-7824-355-9 ` 695 292pp Hardback
presence of caste in late Rights: Restricted
critiques the sensibility
modern India by asking two
which equates Indian
questions: How do we read
caste today? Why is it no
tradition with Hinduism,
and Hinduism with
Flaming Feet and Other
longer enough to brand
Brahmanism, which Essays, The
caste as pre-modern and
considers the Vedas as the The Dalit Movement in India
backward? The author
foundational texts of Indian
argues that caste is less an D. R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator
culture and discovers within
essence responsible for and cultural critic
the Aryan heritage the
India’s ‘backwardness’ as an
essence of Indian civilisation. This book gives us Nagaraj’s
assemblage of a variety of secular and non-secular
It shows that even secular minds remain vision of caste in relation to
practices and affects that generate everyday life in
imprisoned within this Brahmanical vision, and the Dalit politics. It theorises the
India, while being in a constant state of flux.
language of secular discourse is often steeped in a caste system as a mosaic of
Hindu ethos. It looks at alternative traditions, contestations centred
This is a very learned work, familiar with many nurtured within dalit movements, which have around dignity, religiosity,
fields, interdisciplinary in relaxed attentive ways. questioned this way of looking at Indian society and entitlement. Examining
—John Docker, Australian National University and its history. moments of untouchable
defiance, Nagaraj argues out
2006 978-81-250-2895-6 ` 345 120pp Paperback

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a politics of cultural affirmation within his
redefinition of Dalit identity. More significantly, he
Dr Ambedkar and SOCIAL SCIENCE PRESS
argues against self-pity and rage in artistic Untouchability
imagination, and for re-creating the banished Analysing and Fighting Caste Dalit Women
worlds of gods and goddesses. Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, CERI (Centre Honour and Patriarchy in South India
2012 978-81-7824-358-0 ` 395 276pp Paperback d’Etudes et Recherches Internationales), Sciences Clarinda Still, a Postdoctoral Researcher
Rights: Restricted Po, Paris (Contemporary South Asian Studies Programme)
2010 978-81-7824-276-7 ` 595 276pp Hardback
This book focuses on the at the School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies,
Rights: Restricted
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-422-8 three key areas that are University of Oxford
central to a full One of the only
understanding of India’s
Caste, Conflict, and Ideology pioneering Dalit: Ambedkar
ethnographic studies of
Dalit women, this book
Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste as social theorist; Ambedkar gives a rich account of
Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western as statesman and politician; individual Dalit women’s
India and Ambedkar as an lives and documents a rise
opponent of caste Hinduism in patriarchy in the
Rosalind O’Hanlon, Professor of Indian History
and advocate of Buddhism community. The author
and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies,
as a method of release from argues that as Dalits’
University of Oxford
Hindu social oppression. In economic and political
This is the first Indian each case, Jaffrelot argues, Ambedkar was the first position improves, ‘honour’
reprint, with a new preface to forge new political, symbolic, and emotively becomes crucial to social
by the author, of a classic powerful strategies for Dalits. These not only status. One of the ways Dalits accrue honour is by
work which was first proved effective in Ambedkar’s own lifetime; they altering patterns of women’s work, education and
published in 1985. This resonate powerfully even today. marriage and by adopting dominant caste gender
study concentrates on the practices. But Dalits are not simply becoming more
2006 978-81-7824-156-2 ` 350 218pp Paperback
first leader of the Rights: Restricted like the upper castes; they are simultaneously
movement against asserting a distinct, politicised Dalit identity, formed
untouchability, Mahatma in direct opposition to the dominant castes. They
Jotirao Phule. It shows him Plain Speaking are developing their own ‘politics of culture’. Key
as its first ideologist, A Sudra’s Story to both, the author argues, is the ‘respectability’ of
working out a unique brand of radical humanism. It women. This has significant effects on gender
A. N. Sattanathan, Chairman, First Tamil Nadu
analyses his contribution to one of the most equality in the Dalit community.
Backward Classes Commission
important and neglected social developments in
Edited by Uttara Natarajan, Senior Lecturer in Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Contextualising
western India in this period—the formation of a
English, Goldsmiths College, London Dalit ‘Shame’ 3. Dalit Women and the Politics
new regional identity.
The annotated memoirs and of Culture 4. Dalit Women’s Everyday Life,
2011 978-81-7824-313-9 ` 495 346pp Paperback
lectures of Sattanathan, Work, Kinship and Shame 5. Honour and
Rights: Restricted
presented here with a critical Shame in the Madigapalli: Leela’s Elopement,
introduction, constitute a Possession and Marriage 6. Women’s Education,
Caste Question, The literary-historical document Marriage, Honour and the New Dalit Housewife
Dalits and the Politics of Modern India of the caste struggle. This 7. Alcohol, Violence and Women’s ‘Suffering’:
autobiographical fragment is a ‘Adulterer, Tramp or Thief, A Husband is a
Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Husband, 8. Kalyani: ‘Development’, ‘Civilization’
record of non-Brahmin
Barnard College, USA and ‘Women’s Empowerment’ 9. ‘Culture’,
low-caste life in rural South
Focusing on western India in India, where the presence of ‘Civilization’ and Citizenship
the colonial and postcolonial poverty and caste prejudice is 2015 978-81-87358-54-1 ` 625 267 pp Hardback
periods, this innovative powerful, though understated.
work shines a light on South
Asian historiography and on
2006 978-81-7824-181-4 ` 395 245pp Hardback Tamil Brahmans
ongoing caste discrimina- The Making of a Middle-Class Caste
tion, to show how persons Subaltern Studies XII
Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History C. J. Fuller, emeritus professor of anthropology
without rights came to at the London School of Economics, Haripriya
possess them and how Edited by Shail Mayaram, M. S. S. Pandian and
Narasimhan, assistant professor of social
Dalit struggles led to the Ajay Skaria
anthropology and sociology at the Indian Institute
transformation of such 2005 978-81-7824-115-9 ` 695 350pp Hardback of Technology, Hyderabad
terms of colonial liberalism 2005 978-81-7824-214-9 ` 550 350pp Paperback
as rights, equality, and personhood. In the twenty-first century, Indians have acquired a
new kind of global visibility, one of rapid economic
2011 978-81-7824-321-4 ` 495 414pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted
advancement and, in the information technology
2010 978-81-7824-286-6 ` 750 414pp Hardback industry, spectacular prowess. In this book, the
Rights: Restricted authors examine one particularly striking group
who have taken part in this development: Tamil

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Brahmans—a formerly Rebels from the Mud Houses Viramma
traditional, rural, high-caste Dalits and the Making of the Maoist Life of a Dalit
elite who have transformed Revolution in Bihar
themselves into a new Translated by Josiane Racine, Researcher, Popular
middle-class caste in India, George J. Kunnath, Research Fellow, Culture in South India, and Jean-Luc Racine,
the United States, and Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, Senior Fellow, Centre for Indian Studies, Ecole des
elsewhere. University of London Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Contents: Introduction Rebels from the Mud Houses 2005 978-81-87358-19-0 ` 325 321pp Paperback
examines Dalit mobilization Rights: Restricted
1. The Village: Caste,
Land, and Emigration to and the transformation of
the City 2. Education and rural power relations in the
Employment in the Colonial Period 3. Education context of intense agrarian
and Employment after Independence 4. The violence involving Maoist
Changing Position of Women 5. Urban Ways guerrillas and upper caste
of Life 6. Religion, Music, and Dance 7. Tamil militias backed by state
Brahmans as a Middle Class Caste. forces in Bihar in the 1980s.
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… The distinctive aspect
of this book is that it makes
a necessary organic connection between the
category of Dalit and peasant particularly in the
context of caste configuration and class relation as
unfolding in Bihar.
—Gopal Guru, Professor, Centre for Political Studies,
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi
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Edited by Ash Narain Roy, Director, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi,
and George Mathew, Chairman, Institute of Social Sciences, Delhi
Bringing together fourteen essays critical in contemporary development
discourse, this volume addresses the broad themes of development as
freedom, equality and human ascent within the framework of democracy
and decentralised governance.
Abridged contents: Introduction 1. The Need for Impatience 2.
A Synopsis of the Idea of Development 3. Reconceptualising Social
Development 4. Technology, Freedom and Development: Towards
Conceptual Clarifications 5. Development as Growth of GNP: The
Trojan Horse of Development Discourse 6. A Post-capitalist Paradigm:
The Common Good of Humanity and the ‘Progressive Governments’ of
Latin America 7. Amartya Sen in Beijing 8. Universal Primary Education,
the Obstacles in Rural Areas: A Comparison 9. Poverty Alleviation: The
Indian Food Security Oriented Approach 10. Metropolitan City Finance
in India: Options for a New Fiscal Architecture 11. Politics of a Public
Space Refusing to be Public Enough: A Case of Innovation in Governance
from Kerala 12. Towards Sustainable Innovation: The Plantation Sector
in Kerala 13. State, Markets, and the Changing Household Demand for
Education in Kerala 14. Family Planning and the History of Gender in
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Economic Growth and its Distribution in

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R E A D I N G S O N T H E E C O N O M Y, P O L I T Y A N D S O C I E T Y
: ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND SOCIETY

Balakrishnan
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After a boom in the early twenty-first
century, India witnessed a
Edited by
macroeconomic reversal marked by a
PULAPRE BALAKRISHNAN
Edited by Pulapre Balakrishnan, Professor, Centre for Development
slowdown in growth that has lasted a
little longer than the boom. At the
Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
same time, a fresh criterion of
ive Essays governance, namely inclusion, has
This volume represent a range of perspectives and methods pertaining to the

emerged and become a priority for the
Economic Growth and its state. Written against the backdrop of
study of growth and its distribution in India. The essays in Section I represent
these developments, the essays in this
Distribution in India volume represent a range of

issues of abiding interest and provide the canvas upon which the rest of the
perspectives and methods pertaining
articles may be seen as placed. Section II takes a macro view of the economy.
its Distribution in India
to the study of growth and its

Economic Growth and
distribution in India.
Section III reflects upon the three major sectors of the economy and the
The essays in Section I take the long
view of growth in desirable space for finance in India, Section IV assess the extent to which
the country. They
represent issues of abiding interest and
provide the canvasrecent
upon which growth
the rest has been inclusive, approaching the issue from various angles.
uantity of the articles may be seen as placed.
Selected Contents: SECTION I THE LONG VIEW OF GROWTH

Section II takes a macro view of the
recent history of the economy. The
IN INDIA SECTION II RECENT GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL
essays explore the reasons for the shift
from a regime of high growth and low
CHANGE SECTION III THE SECTORS SECTION IV INCLUSION
inflation to one of low growth and high
inflation, deconstruct the 'dream run'
Contributors: Archana Aggarwal, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Hans P.

of the economy over 2003–08, and
evaluate the United Progressive
Binswanger-Mkhize, Ramesh Chand, Sudip Chaudhuri, Errol D’Souza,
Alliance government's performance.
Bhupat
Section III comprises M.
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study
the economy at the next level down,
Ankita Gandhi,
covering its agriculture, industry and Maitreesh Ghatak, Parikshit Ghosh, Probal P. Ghosh,
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Neeraj Hatekar,
services. Another essay reflects upon
the desirable space for finance in India, Indira Hirway, Aditya Mohan Jadhav, Atul Kohli, Ashok
Kotwal,
a topic that has assumed some Santosh Mehrotra, John W. Mellor, Sripad Motiram, R. Nagaraj,
relevance after the global recession.
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FDI in India
Manoj Pant, Professor, Centre for International Trade and
Development, School of International Studies, JNU, Deepika
Srivastava, Probationer, Indian Economics Service, and former
Assistant Professor, Lady Shriram College, Delhi University
The volume begins with explaining what transnational corporations
(TNCs) are, and describes their emergence in developing countries
and the subsequent changes in the nature of foreign investment across
the world. It presents the history of foreign direct investment (FDI) in
developed and developing nations, particularly in Asia. In looking at the
Indian case, the book highlights the changes in industrial productivity
after liberalisation and also presents a comparison of the performance of
domestic- and foreign-owned firms.
Contents: 1. Overview 2. FDI Policies in Asia 3. India’s Foreign
Investment Policy 4. India’s Foreign Investment Policy after 1995 5. A
Comparison of Domestic and Foreign Firms 6. Export Orientation of
FDI in India’s Manufacturing Sector 7. FDI and Spillovers 8. Trade and
FDI 9. Conclusion and Policy Recommendation Annexure A Sector
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scholars who have done extensive work on regional disparities on the
following themes such as natural resource endowments and groundwater
irrigation; backwardness within regions and districts; market integration
and development of commodity markets; non-farm employment;
inclusion of dalits and adivasis in the business economy and social
movements and regions. It goes beyond studying regional disparities
and constructs regional typologies in order to formulate policy. This is
because it has become clear that ‘one-size-fits-all’ policies do not work.
The emergence of new regions requires appropriate policy changes to
accommodate diverse needs and aspirations.
With the Foreword by Shri Birender Singh, Minister of Rural Development,

Panchayati Raj and Drinking Water and Sanitation, Government of India
Contents: 1. Rural Development: Emerging Regional Perspectives

2. The Relevance of Groundwater Typology in India’s Rural
Development 3. New Trends in Inter-regional Inequalities in India
4. The Political Economy of Agricultural Markets: Insights from within
and across Regions 5. Rural Non-farm Employment in India: Trends,
Patterns and Regional Dimensions 6. Regional Patterns in Dalit and
Adivasi Participation in India’s Business Economy 7. Regional Dimensions
of Social Movement in India 8. Status of Rural Development: An Update
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Science, Technology and Development in

India
Encountering Values
Edited by Rajeswari Raina, Principal Scientist, National Institute of
Science, Technology and Development Studies, New Delhi
There are multiple development problems in India that demand S&T
solutions. Sound science is crucial for development policy formulation.
Though many debates on technologies and development outcomes
assume they are value-neutral, the S&T and development policy realms
and the dynamic historically-conditioned interface between them are
value-laden and normative. This book argues that to ensure ethical
development outcomes, it is important to acknowledge these values
and enable public engagement and dialogues to get them right. The
essays in this volume—organised into four sections based on the values
that inform the relationship between S&T and development policy—
discuss and analyse how these values and norms govern India’s S&T and
development choices.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Values Matter SECTION I: MORES
AND MORAL COMMUNITIES SECTION II: TECHNICAL FIXES FOR
COMPLEX PROBLEMS SECTION III: WE CAN AND THEREFORE
WE OUGHT TO SECTION IV: KNOWLEDGE, EVIDENCE AND
DEVELOPMENT BURDENS
Contributors: Tista Bagchi, Prajit Basu, Sujatha Byravan, Ramaswamy
R. Iyer, Gautam I. Menon, Tara S. Nair, D. Raghunandan, Dhruv Raina,
Rajeswari S. Raina, Sudhir Chella Rajan, Usha Ramanathan, Rahul
Siddharthan, A. R. Vasavi, P. S. Vijay Shankar
2015 978-81-250-5855-7 ` 675 312pp Hardback
Building a Just World Kerala Modernity elaborated in the book, drawing

Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Transition attention to the new pattern,
Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey described as corporate
Edited by Manoranjan Mohanty, Distinguished Edited by Satheese Chandra Bose, Assistant feudalism in the context of the
Professor, Council for Social Development, Professor, Department of Political Science, developing countries. The
Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, Government Sanskrit College, Pattambi, Shiju process, as analysed, turns out
Delhi and former Professor, University of Delhi, Sam Varughese, Assistant Professor, Centre to be one which favours capital
Vinod C. Khanna, Emeritus Fellow, Institute for Studies in Science, Technology and Innovation against labour, thus flouting the
of Chinese Studies and former Ambassador, Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central norms of a developmental state
and Biswajit Dhar, Professor of Economics, University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar where growth dividends are
Jawaharlal Nehru University and former Director- shared amongst them.
With a foreword by Gopal Guru
General, Research and Information System for
Selected Contents: Introduction PART I:
Developing Countries, both in New Delhi. See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
STATE, MARKETS AND DEVELOPMENT
AND PUBLIC POLICY
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PART II: TRADE REGIMES, PART III:
AND PUBLIC POLICY 2015 978-81-250-5722-2 ` 700 256pp Hardback FINANCIALISATION AND DEVELOPMENT,
PART IV: LABOUR MARKET FLEXIBILITY
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Development on Trial Contributors: Amiya Bagchi, Debdas Banerji,
Shrinking Space for the Periphery Aditya Bhattacharjea, Anjan Chakrabarti, C. P.
Chandrashekhar, Byasdeb Dasgupta, Anup Dhar,
Edited by Sunanda Sen, former Professor,
Theotonio Dos Santos, Garry Dymski, Jayati,
Centre for Economic Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
Ghosh, Atulan Guha, Rachel Kurian, Surajit
University, New Delhi, and Anjan Chakrabarti,
Mazumdar, Ronaldo Munck, Prabhat Patnaik,
Professor, Department of Economics, University
Sunanda Sen
of Calcutta, Kolkata
2014 978-81-250-5130-5 ` 975 320pp Hardback
The volume draws attention to the changing links
between state policies and corporate structures as
the developing economies move towards re-
regulation. The contradictions between the state and
the market as spelt out in liberal theory are

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Globalization and Money Contents: The Road to Universal Health Socio-Cultural Context
A Global South Perspective Coverage: An Overview SECTION I:
LANDSCAPE SECTION II: ACCESSIBILITY, of Water, The
Supriya Singh, Professor of the sociology of AFFORDABILITY AND QUALITY SECTION III: Study of a Gujarat Village
communication at RMIT University, Australia EMERGING CHALLENGES Farhat Naz is with the International Water
This book is about how Contributors: Rev. Mathew Abraham, Bilal Management Institute, New Delhi
men and women, Avan, Giridhara R. Babu, Debasis Barik, Sambit See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
particularly the poor and Basu, Sanghita Bhattacharyya, Anil Cherian, Samik
the unbanked in the global Chowdhury, Abhijit Das, Sonalde Desai, Ambrish
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their families. Money as a Mandira Kala, Poonam Madan, M. R. Madhavan, Ecology, Economy
medium of relationships Aashna Mehta, Sailesh Mohan, Raveesha R. Mugali, Quest for a Socially Informed Connection
across cultures is at the Vikram Patel, D. Prabhakaran, Jacob Puliyel, Imrana
centre of this inclusive story Qadeer, Krishna D. Rao, Prema Ramachandran, A. Felix Padel, Professor, School of Rural
of globalization. It includes Venkat Raman, Sudha Ramani, Sakthivel Selvaraj, Management, Indian Institute of Health
interconnected markets and half the world that is Gautam Sen Rahul Shidhaye, Vikram Jit Singh Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, Ajay
unbanked, particularly women. Chhatwal, Vivek V. Singh, Aradhana Srivastava, Dandekar, Professor, School of Social Sciences,
Santhosh Mathew Thomas, Rev. Tomi Thomas, Central University of Gujarat and Jeemol Unni,
Contents: 1. Money: Historical, Social, and Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of
Anuvinda Varkey
Cultural Dimensions 2. Globalization and Rural Management (IRMA), Anand
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Personal 9. Rethinking Money, Technology, and
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Priya Sangameswaran, Assistant Professor,
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Rights: Restricted Y. V. Reddy, former Governor of the Reserve
Neoliberalism and Water tells
us the story of the reforms in Bank of India, and Chairman, Fourteenth Finance
India Infrastructure Report the water sector in Commission
Maharashtra in the first
2013|14 decade of the twenty-first
This volume addresses
The Road to Universal Health Coverage three concerns of economic
century. This story is thought for a developing
IDFC Foundation complicated by neoliberalism, economy: public policy after
which works in conjuction the global financial crisis, the
Twelfth in the series, India with other processes, and by
Infrastructure Report role of the financial sector
IDFC Foundation
ay has little or no access to good quality healthcare at
the specific nature of water as

risingly, on several of the basic health indicators India
n the world. The health crisis is aggravated by a rising
on-infectious diseases. The public health system is in
in development, and the

f appallingly low public investments; inadequate and
INDIA
evere shortage of human resources; and inadequacies
2013|14 looks at the

led public health systems have forced people to turn to
a resource. This book would

costly and unregulated, with services often being
edical practitioners. As a result, people seeking
e agonising choice between poor quality public INFRASTRUCTURE
REPORT 2013 14 lessons learnt from world
ependable private services. Preventive and primary
ginalised, with the focus having shifted to curative
challenges for ensuring

INDIA INFRASTRUCTURE REPORT 2013 14
ance of clinical medicine, and extremely high
be useful for students and scholars of development

estigations. Health expenditures can be prohibitively
on and the urban poor being the worst sufferers. India
ing challenge of providing Universal Health Coverage The Road to Universal Health Coverage
economies. Novel in
l people receive good quality healthcare without facing
y.
nfrastructure Report 2013 14 looks at the challenges

cessibility, affordability and quality of comprehensive
ores strategies to overcome the impediments along the availability, accessibility, and environment studies, sociology, anthropology, approach, it critically
ss, it also discusses whether initiatives taken to reduce
lth expenditure has yielded desirable results, how to
affordability and quality of

e private sector in healthcare delivery, role played by
and geography. It would also be of interest to

al healthcare, imperatives of engaging with the
mpact of preventive care at low cost. The Report draws
me of the emerging issues in the health sector such as
examines India’s
municable diseases and mental health, human resource
health concerns of informal sector workers, and steps
comprehensive healthcare
within the UHC framework.
policymakers, think-tanks and NGOs working on

e effort led by the IDFC Foundation, this Report brings
ful perceptions of academics, researchers and
development strategies and suggests a ‘redefining’

mproving healthcare practices. It will be an extremely
makers, academics, researchers and corporates
to all, and explores issues of water and liberalisation/globalisation. of the role of the financial sector in accelerating
Cover Design: Utsav
strategies to overcome
2013 14
the impediments along the Contents: 1. Introduction: Reforms in the Water development. This collection will inspire debates,
road to UHC. In this Sector and Discourses of Water and Development and encourage fresh perspectives on attaining the
process, it also discusses whether initiatives taken 2. The Village Community and the Entrepreneurial desired growth rate in India
to reduce the burden of people’s health City: Piped Water, 24 * 7 Water, and Visions Contents: Introduction PART I: ECONOMIC
expenditure has yielded desirable results, how to of Development 3. Mediated Decentralisation: POLICY 1. Revisiting Central Bank Governance
leverage the strengths of the private sector in Discourses of Self-sufficiency, Depoliticisation, and 2.Management of Public Debt: Evolving Tasks
healthcare delivery, role played by the non-state Expertise 4. Commercialisation, Commodification, 3. New Thinking on Economic Policies and
entities in rural healthcare, imperatives of engaging and Pricing 5. Water and the Public-Private Debate Thoughts on the Indian Economy 4. Financialisation
with the community, and the high impact of 6. Neoliberalism and the Re-forming of the Water and Macroeconomic Policies 5. Differences
preventive care at low cost. The report draws the Sector Disconnects and Divergences in New Public Policy
readers’ attention to some of the emerging issues 6. New Challenges for Public Policy 7. India: New
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in the health sector such as rising burden of Strategies for Economic Development PART II:
non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and mental FINANCE 8. Financial Intermediation: Asking
health, human resource crisis in health sector and New Questions 9. New Approach to Public
health concerns of informal sector workers, and Sector Banking 10. Future of the Financial System:
steps required to attend to them within the UHC Emerging Issues 11. Inequalities Shared Societies
framework. and the Financial System 12. Society Economic

ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES 25
Policies and the Financial Sector 13. Trust in India Rural Development 4. Audit Selection Through Risk Assessment in
Banking PART III: THE GLOBAL ECONOMY Indirect Taxes 5. Dispute Resolution in Indirect
14. Developing Economies: New Realities Report 2012–13 Taxes 6. Dispute Resolution Under Direct
15. Revisiting Capital Account Management IDFC Rural Development Network Tax Laws 7. Large Taxpayer Units in India
16. Experiences with and Lessons from Capital 8. Computerisation in Central Board of Direct
Account Management 17. India EU and the World This Report provides a Taxes 9. Computerisation in Central Board of
Economy 18. Global Economic Developments comprehensive current Excise and Customs 10. Taxpayer Information
and India picture of rural India. It Services 11. Effectiveness of State-level Tax
brings together a review Administration with Reference to Value-Added
2013 978-81-250-5051-3 ` 695 296pp Hardback
and analysis of the evolving Tax Appendix: Advancements in Tax Administration—
rural economy and its Dialogue between, Administrators and Stakeholders
Higher Education in India implications on social
Contributors: Fernanda Andrade, Anwesha
In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity relations, contours of
regional inequality, social Das, Arindam Das-Gupta, Sunil Jain, Nagendra
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND and economic deprivation, Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, Y. G. Parande, Gautam Ray,
SOCIETY inequalities in access to Parthasarathi Shome, Rajiva Ranjan Singh
education, health care and physical infrastructure, 2013 978-81-250-5180-0 ` 1100 440pp Hardback
Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, Professor at
to name a few. It also reviews all major central
the National University of Educational Planning and
government rural programmes and schemes and,
Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi.
in particular, provides an in-depth analysis of Ahmedabad
This volume puts in MGNREGA. Shock City of Twentieth-Century India
perspective the challenges 2013 978-81-250-5392-7 ` 875 334pp Paperback Howard Spodek, Professor of History at Temple
in higher education today, Also in Hindi University, USA
and the need for reforms
under rapidly changing See HISTORY
national and global Indian Tax Administration 2012 978-81-250-4661-5 ` 1005 348pp Hardback
socio-economic, political A Dialogue Rights: Restricted
and technological
Edited by Parthasarathi Shome, Adviser to the
circumstances. It covers
vital grounds like
Finance Minister, Government of India Decentralisation and Local
inclusiveness and the impact Born out of a first-of-its- Governments
of reservation on education, the problems of kind series of discussions The Indian Experience
mediocrity and shortage of funds. It will provoke, between tax officials and
educate, stimulate and inform the lay reader and practitioners, this volume SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
specialist alike. identifies and addresses SOCIETY
challenges facing India as it
Contents: Introduction Jandhyala B. G. Tilak Edited by T. R. Raghunandan, former Joint
contemplates tax reforms. It
Part I: Democracy, Equality and Universality Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj
gives detailed analyses of
Part II: Equality to Inclusion in Higher Education
the organisational structure; See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Part III: Excellence in Higher Education Section
risk assessment and AND PUBLIC POLICY
IV: Case Studies on Higher Education Section V:
management in audit
Public Expenditure on Education Section VI: State, 2012 978-81-250-4883-1 ` 695 448pp Paperback
selection; dispute resolution, and computerisation
Markets and Globalisation Section VII: Towards
of both Direct and Indirect tax administration.
Reforming Higher Education
A Dialogue is an invaluable contribution to tax
Economics Textbook
Contributors: D. Ajit, M. Anandakrishnan,
research. It is an indispensable read for tax
A Primer for India
Rakesh Basant, André Béteille, Anindita
consultants, chartered accountants, policymakers, G. Omkarnath, Professor, Department of
Chakrabarti, Karuna Chanana, Saumen
students of taxation and all of us—taxpayers, Economics and Centre for Study of Social
Chattopadhyay, D. P. Chaudhri, Suma Chitnis,
inquisitive about the future. Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, University of
Errol D’Souza, V. M. Dandekar, Satish Deshpande,
Hyderabad
Jayati Ghosh, Rama Joglekar, Thomas Joseph, ‘[This book] traverses new territory as it analyses
D. T. Lakdawala, R. Gopinathan Nair, Deepak the functioning of different tax administrations This volume is tailor-made
Nayyar, Samuel Paul, Potluri Rao, Lloyd I. Rudolph, across continents and suggests the ideal model for a foundation course in
Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Gitanjali Sen, and tax reforms for Indian tax administration to undergraduate programmes.
A. M. Shah, K. R. Shah, Amrik Singh, Chitra consider.… An original, well researched work on Its pedagogic standpoint is
Sivakumar, K. Sundaram, Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, Shiv tax administration policy … [it] sets the ball rolling based on two convictions.
Visvanathan, Thomas E. Weisskopf, Glynn for a dialogue on the 21st century look of the First, a foundation course
L. Wood Indian tax administration.’ need not invoke formal
—Taxsutra economic theory which is a
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5849-6 contested terrain, especially
With a Foreword by Vijay Kelkar
at the present time. Second,
Contents: Introduction 1. Organisational such a course should be
Structure of Direct Tax Administration grounded on the empirical reality of the economy
2. Administrative Structure in the Reform of in which students live.
Indirect Taxes 3. Risk Management in Audit
Contents: PART I: THE ECONOMIC
Selection in the Income Tax Department
STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY 1. Basic Economic

Processes 2. The System of Production 3. The History, Historians and Kerala’s Gulf Connection,
System of Markets 4. The System of Money and
Finance PART II: THE PROCESS OF Development Policy 1998–2011
ECONOMIC GROWTH 5. Growth and Demand A Necessary Dialogue Economic and Social Impact of Migration
6. Industrialisation and Growth 7. Liberalisation Edited by C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth K. C. Zachariah, Honorary Professor, Centre for
and Growth 8. Petty Production and Poverty Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
PART III: ADDENDA 9. Monitoring the Indian St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, S. Irudaya Rajan, Chair Professor, Ministry of
Economy 10. Economic Theory Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist in the Overseas Indian Affairs (MOIA), Research Unit
2012 978-81-250-4632-5 ` 350 296pp Paperback Development Research Group, World Bank, on International Migration at the Centre for
Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Policy, Fellow of St John’s College, University of
Environment, Technology Cambridge, and Michael Woolcock, Lead Social
This book is a study of
migration from Kerala to the
and Development Development Specialist, Development Research
Gulf countries and the
Critical and Subversive Essays Group, World Bank
remittances they send back
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND See HISTORY home. It also looks at its
SOCIETY impact on employment,
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Rights: Restricted unemployment, education,
Edited by Rohan D’Souza, Assistant Professor, health, housing, household
Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal possessions, and more. The
Nehru University, New Delhi India after the Global Crisis authors have compared
statistics available for more than 10 years. In
See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY Shankar Acharya, Honorary Professor and
addition, it also discusses the social costs of
Board Member, Indian Council for Research on
2012 978-81-250-4506-9 ` 495 404pp Paperback migration on women and the elderly left behind
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5169-5 International Economic Relations (ICRIER)
which have been rarely analysed in the Indian
In this book, renowned context.
Financial Crisis and Global economist Shankar Acharya
Contents: Introduction 1. International
assesses India’s resilience in
Imbalances the face of the global
Migration 2. Remittances 3. Internal Migration
A Development Perspective 4. Employment and Unemployment 5. Experiences
financial crisis but then
of Return Migrants 6. Gender Dimensions
Yilmaz Akyuz, Chief Economist of the South shows how the global crisis
7. Conclusions
Centre, Geneva and our domestic policy
failures have taken a toll on 2012 978-81-250-4935-7 ` 895 280pp Hardback
This book is a collection of India’s economic
papers written for the performance.
South Centre during Limits to Scarcity, The
2009-2011 on the global Contesting the Politics of Allocation
… a delightful collection of highly readable and
crisis triggered by analytically sharp essays on the global financial Lyla Mehta, sociologist and Research Fellow,
speculative lending and crisis.... Institute of Development Studies, University of
investment in the United —Montek Singh Ahluwalia Sussex, UK
States and Europe—its
actual and potential effects See SOCIOLOGY
on developing and emerging Acharya has provided us with a comprehensive
picture of the existing economic scenario in the 2012 978-81-250-4399-7 ` 840 300pp Hardback
economies, the immediate Rights: Restricted
international policy response needed in order to country….This book is a must on the bookshelves
contain the damage and to restore stability and of economists and policy makers.
growth, and global systemic reforms that need to —The Sunday Tribune MGNREGA Sameeksha
be introduced with a view to reducing the An Anthology of Research Studies on the Mahatma
likelihood of such crises and managing them better The book is a must for any student of the Indian Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee
if and when they occur. Economy. Act, 2005 Ministry of Rural Development,
Contents: Introduction 1. Policy Response to —Lavish Bhandari, Business Standard Government of India
the Global Financial Crisis 2. Global Economic See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Prospects 3. Export Dependence, Sustainability of … this collection of Acharya’s articles is a AND PUBLIC POLICY
Growth and Adjustment in China 4. The Subprime delight to read…. [H]is logic and use of facts are
Boom-Bust Cycle and Capital Flows to Developing impeccably sound. 2012 978-81-250-4725-4 510 128pp Paperback
Also in Hindi
Countries 5. Why IMF and the International —Omkar Goswami, Biblio
Monetary System Need More than Cosmetic
Reform Abridged Contents: PART I: GLOBAL CRISIS
AFTERMATH PART II: ECONOMIC GROWTH
2012 978-81-250-4793-3 ` 850 216pp Hardback PART III: REFORM AND ECONOMIC POLICIES
Rights: Restricted PART IV: EMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN
DEVELOPMENT PART V: BUDGET AND
FISCAL POLICIES PART VI: EXTERNAL SECTOR
POLICIES PART VII: GENERAL
2012 978-81-250-4509-0 ` 615 240pp Hardback

Village Society Observations SECTION III: SECTORAL Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Macroeconomic
HISTORIES 10. Growth Crisis in Agriculture: Issues and Perspectives 3. Reforming Global
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY Severity and Options at National and State Levels Regulation to Enhance Global Economic Stability
AND SOCIETY 11. Industrial Policy and Performance since 1980: 4. International Institutions 5. International
Which Way Now? 12. Sectoral Linkages and Financial Innovations 6. Concluding Comments
Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for
Growth Prospects: Reflections on the Indian
the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru 2011 978-81-250-4320-1 ` 715 240pp Hardback
Economy 13. Capital Flows into India: Implications Rights: Restricted
University, New Delhi
for Its Economic Growth 14. Sources of India’s
See SOCIOLOGY Export Growth in Pre- and Post-Reform Periods
SECTION IV: REGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION Global Crisis, Recession and
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15. Regional Sources of Growth Acceleration in Uneven Recovery
India 16. Economic Growth and Regional Inequality
in India 17. Economic Performance of States in Y. V. Reddy, former Governor, Reserve Bank
Women and Work Post-Reforms Period 18. Sources of Economic of India, and Professor Emeritus, University of
Growth: Regional Dimensions of Reforms Hyderabad
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
SECTION V: POLITICAL ECONOMY
SOCIETY Global Crisis, Recession and
19. Predatory Growth 20. Notes on the Political
Uneven Recovery provides a
Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor, Economy of India’s Tortuous Transition
thinker and experienced
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai 21. Economic Growth, Social Development and
policymaker’s understanding
See SOCIOLOGY Interest Groups
of the genesis, anatomy and
2012 978-81-250-4777-3 ` 645 408pp Paperback Contributors: Montek S. Ahluwalia, Pulapre impact of the financial crisis,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5357-6 Balakrishnan, Pranab Bardhan, Amit Bhaduri, and of the lessons it offered.
Kaushik Bhattacharya, Shashanka Bhide, Ramesh It contains perspective and
Chand, Ravindra H. Dholakia, Ambrish Dongre, analysis that Dr Y. V. Reddy
Dubai Neeraj Hatekar, Atul Kohli, Tanushree Mazumdar, has not published before,
Gilded Cage Rakesh Mohan, R. Nagaraj, Deepak Nayyar, presented in lucid style and
Gaurav Nayyar, Arvind Panagariya, L. M. Pandey, non-technical language.
Syed Ali, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Long
Island University, New York, USA M. Parameswaran, S. S. Raju, D. V. S. Sastry,
Jessica Seddon Wallack, C. S. C. Sekhar, Kunal This book ... is a must to our understanding
See SOCIOLOGY Sen, Richard T. Shand, Balwant Singh, N. K. of events and policies to face global financial
2011 978-81-250-4168-9 ` 435 256pp Paperback Unnikrishnan, C. Veeramani turbulence.
Rights: Restricted 2011 978-81-250-4271-6 ` 445 468pp Paperback —José Antonio, Ocampo, Columbia University
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5336-1
Economic Reforms and Dr Reddy’s [book] fills an important gap.... He
Growth in India Global Crisis has lived at the heart of the financial system and
The Way Forward understands its strengths and weaknesses.... His
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND The Stiglitz Commission Report analysis of the problems of the global financial
SOCIETY architecture is particularly acute.
Joseph Stiglitz, Professor of Economics,
Edited by Pulapre Balakrishnan, Columbia University, New York, and the recipient —Sir Howard Davies, Institut d’Etudes Politiques
Director, Centre for Development Studies, of a John Bates Clark Medal and a Nobel Prize,
Thiruvananthapuram with members of a UN Commission of Financial A masterly book to be read and savoured; A
Contents: Introduction Experts tour de force.
SECTION I: OVERVIEW The Stiglitz Commission —Jagdish Bhagwati, Columbia University
1. Economic Growth in Report sees the recent Selected Contents: PART I: THE GLOBAL
Independent India: financial crisis as the latest FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS AFTERMATH
Lumbering Elephant or and most damaging of PART II: FINANCIAL SECTOR: RETROSPECT
Running Tiger? 2. Growth several concurrent crises— AND PROSPECTS PART III: PUBLIC POLICY:
Record of the Indian of food, water, energy, and CHALLENGES AND RESPONSES PART IV:
Economy, 1950–2008: A sustainability—that are GLOBAL FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE: THE
Story of Sustained Savings tightly interrelated. From DEBATES PART V: INDIA: PERFORMANCE AND
and Investment 3. Politics of short-term mitigations to PROSPECTS
Economic Growth in India, deep structural changes,
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Growth in India, 1980–2005: The 1990s and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5048-3
lasting reform of the global economic and financial
Beyond 5. Growth and Reforms during 1980s and architecture, the analysis and recommendations
1990s 6. Why Did the Elephant Start to Trot? recorded here establish a bold agenda for policy Microeconomic Textbook
India’s Growth Acceleration Re-examined change, both broad in scope and profound in its
SECTION II: IDENTIFYING GROWTH REGIMES ambitions.
Theory Old and New
7. Structural Breaks in India’s Growth: Revisiting A Student’s Guide
the Debate with a Longer Perspective 8. Structural John M. Gowdy, Rittenhouse Teaching Professor
The book is worth reading if you [want] ... to
Breaks in Indian Macroeconomic Data of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of
understand the economic crisis and a possible way
9. Understanding Economic Growth in India: Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
out of it.
A Prerequisite, Some Observations Further New York
—The Pioneer

Manage: Urbanisation and Planning Since 1947 Stages of Capital
[W]hen [a new 3. Inadequate Provision: Urban Governance and Law, Culture, and Market Governance in
microeconomics] emerges Basic Services 4. Living Illegally: Slum-Dwellers
Late Colonial India
… as a dominant and and the State 5. A Filthy Occupation: Attempts
consistent paradigm, to Eliminate Scavenging 6. Ahmedabad: From Ritu Birla, Associate Professor of History,
students who have read this “Enlightened Self-Interest” to Ghettos and University of Toronto, Canada
book would be the first to Inequality 7. New Approaches: Participation,
appreciate the thinking See HISTORY
Partnerships and the Urban Poor 8. Conclusion:
about economic policy that Globalisation and the Averted Gaze 2011 978-81-250-4146-7 ` 675 358pp Paperback
will be central to those Rights: Restricted
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times. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5248-7
—Errol D’ Souza, Professor of China after 1978
Economics, IIM Ahmedabad Privatizing Water Craters on the Moon
Governance Failure and the World’s Economic and Political Weekly
The most valuable aspect/contribution of this Urban Water Crisis
book is its coverage of modern behavioural and The breathtakingly rapid
experimental economics…. Karen Bakker, Associate Professor and Director, economic growth witnessed
Program on Water Governance, University of after 1978 in the People’s
—Parikshit Ghosh, Associate Professor British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Republic of China has
Delhi School of Economics attracted worldwide
Contents: PART I: THE WALRASIAN SYSTEM ... Privatizing Water bravely attention. But the condition
1. The Neoclassical Theory of the Consumer and provocatively takes on of more than 350 million
2. The Neoclassical Theory of Production the state and private models workers is abysmal,
3. General Equilibrium in a Barter Economy for governing urban water especially that of the
4. Introducing Prices: Perfect Competition and and proposes a radical and migrants among them.
Pareto Efficiency 5. Market Failure and the Second deeply illuminating The stagnation of peasant incomes had fuelled a
Fundamental Theorem of Welfare Economics rethinking of keywords such huge, historically unprecedented migration into the
PART II: MODERN WELFARE ECONOMICS as public, community, and cities—over the past 25 years, some 150–200
6. The Theoretical Critique of Walrasian Welfare the market.... A tour de million persons, including women, migrated from
Economics 7. The Behavioral Critique of Walrasian force. the countryside to the urban areas in search of
Welfare Economics 8. Cost-Benefit Analysis Old —Michael Watts, jobs.
and New 9. The Future of Economic Theory and University of California, Berkeley Contents: 1. Inequality and Its Enemies in
Policy Revolutionary and Reform China 2. Property
2011 978-81-250-4278-5 ` 350 204pp Paperback Written by one of the world’s leading specialists Rights and the Social Costs of Transition and
Rights: Restricted in water governance issues, Privatizing Water Development in China 3. Double Movement in
deepens, challenges, and combines the debates on China 4. China’s Reforms: The Wuxi Story
urban water supply, sustainable development and 5. Rural Industrialisation Spatial Inequality in China,
Politics of Sanitation in equitable access to water and public services.... 1978-2006 6. Globalisation Meets Its Match:
India, The —Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University
Lessons from China’s Economic Transformation
Cities, Services and the State The Netherlands
7. Light and Shadow of an Inarticulate Age:
Reflections on China’s Reform 8. China’s Rural
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN Reform: Crisis and Ongoing Debate 9. A House
Selected Contents: Defining ‘Privatization’: A
HISTORY Note on Terminology; Introduction: Privatization and Divided: China after 30 years of ‘Reforms’
Susan E. Chaplin, Researcher in Melbourne, the Urban Water Crisis PART I: DEVELOPMENT, 10. Socialism, Capitalism, and Class Struggle:
Australia URBANIZATION, AND THE GOVERNANCE The Political Economy of Modern China 11. The
OF THIRST 1. Governance Failure: Reframing the Twilight of ‘Chimerica’? China and the Collapse
This book examines the Urban Water Supply Crisis 2. Material Emblems of the American Model 12. China and India:
circumstances that have of Citizenship: Creating Public Water 3.Watering Convergence in Economic Growth and Social
forced millions of people to the Thirsty Poor: The Water Privatization Debate Tensions?
live in illegal settlements 4. Citizens without a City: The Techno-Politics
that lack adequate Contributors: Chris Bramall, Nirmal Kumar
of Urban Water Governance PART II: BEYOND
sanitation. The author Chandra, Guilhem Fabre, Ching Kwan Lee, Minqli
PRIVATIZATION: DEBATING ALTERNATIVES
argues that environmental Li, Dic Lo, Manoranjan Mohanty, Pun Ngai, Carl
5. Protesting Privatization: Transnational Struggles
problems confronting Indian Riskin, Mark Selden, Shaoguang Wang, Dale Jiajun
over the Human Right to Water 6. Commons
cities today are the result of Wen, Robert Weil, Yu Zhang
versus Commodities: The Ambiguous Merits
the legacy of the colonial 7. Politics and Biopolitics: Debating Ecological 2010 978-81-250-3953-2 ` 350 326pp Paperback
city and the nature of the Governance Conclusion: Beyond Privatization E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5396-5
post-colonial state which includes segregated
2011 978-81-250-4321-8 ` 895 320pp Hardback
cities, marginalised local governments and a failure
Rights: Restricted
to manage urban growth and provide sufficient
housing.
Contents: 1. Colonial City Legacy: Growth,
Slums and Local Government 2. A Failure to

Historical Demography and WTO and India, The World Bank in India, The
Agrarian Regimes Issues and Negotiating Strategies Undermining Sovereignty, Distorting
Understanding Southern Indian Fertility, Development
Edited by Alokesh Barua, Professor of
1881–1981 Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Edited by Michele Kelley, a New York-based
Delhi, and Robert M. Stern, Professor of political organiser and activist, and Deepika
Ravindran Gopinath, Professor, Modern Indian
Economics and Public Policy at the University of D’Souza, Executive Director, Human Rights Law
Economic History, Department of History and
Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA Network, and a founding member, Secretariat of
Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia
This book addresses the the Independent People’s Tribunal on the World
See HISTORY complex issues pertaining to Bank Group in India
2010 978-81-250-3862-7 ` 840 265pp Hardback WTO agreements and In this volume, the editors
negotiations, and provides a and contributors contend
rigorous analysis of the that the current financial
India and the Global Financial impact of WTO-induced crisis has demonstrated the
Crisis reforms on the Indian inability of international
Managing Money and Finance economy. It also outlines financial institutions to
what India’s strategic maintain a stable global
Y. V. Reddy, former Governor, Reserve Bank thinking ought to be in economic order. This
of India, and Professor Emeritus, University of future multilateral collection of essays by a
Hyderabad negotiations under the WTO, keeping in view range of eminent scholars
Ever since the financial crisis their long-term economic goals. across disciplines tackles the
erupted in the US, there has problems of contemporary
Abridged Contents: Introduction SECTION
been an interest in India’s development policy and contributes to the ongoing
I: A DEVELOPING COUNTRIES PERSPECTIVE
management of a financial debate. The essays originate from testimonies
SECTION II: NEGOTIATING OPTIONS AND
sector that has facilitated given at the Independent People’s Tribunal on the
STRATEGIES SECTION III: MARKET ACCESS:
growth. This collection of World Bank held in New Delhi.
AGRICULTURE, MANUFACTURES AND
essays provides insights into TEXTILES SECTION IV: TRADE FACILITATION Abridged Contents: PART I: THE WORLD
the making of public policies AND GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT BANK’S ROLE AND FUNCTIONING PART
across a spectrum of areas SECTION V: TRIPS AND GATS SECTION VI: II: POVERTY AND EMPLOYMENT PART III:
and gives a close view of the GROWTH, POVERTY AND INEQUALITY UNDERMINING INDIA’S SOVEREIGNTY AND
dynamics that are played out DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES PART IV: INDIA’S
behind the scenes. Contributors: Manmohan Agarwal, Pritam
AGRARIAN AND FOOD SECURITY CRISES
Banerjee, Rashmi Banga, Alokesh Barua,
PART V: CORPORATE GREED AND COMMON
Jagdish Bhagwati, Debashis Chakraborty, Pavel
... provides a comprehensive account of the GOODS PART VII: THE WORLD BANK AND
Chakraborty, Ramesh Chand, Sandwip Kumar Das,
events that led to the global financial crisis ... and THE ENVIRONMENT
Alan V. Deardorff, Ananya Ghosh Dastidar, Ashok
an Indian approach to meeting the challenges of
Guha, Arvind Panagariya, Manoj Pant, Amit Shovon Contributors: R. M. Alvino, Vinay Baindur,
contagion from the turmoil.
Ray, Aparna Sawhney, Jessica Seddon Wallack, Prashant Bhushan, Praful Bidwai, C. P.
—Arvind Panagariya
Dipankar Sengupta, T. N. Srinivasan, Robert M. Chandrasekhar, Saumen Chattopadhyay, Ashok
Abridged Contents: Introduction PART I: Stern, Phunchok Stobdan, Samar Verma Chowdhary, Nikhil Dey, Shripad Dharmadhikary,
INDIAN ECONOMY: REVIEW AND PROSPECTS Madhumita Dutta, Bhaskar Goswami, Tony
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PART II: FINANCIAL-SECTOR REFORMS PART Herbert, Afsar Jafri, Nityanand Jayaraman,
III: BANKING-SECTOR REFORMS PART IV. Praveen Jha, J. John, Kalpana Kannabiran, Aasha
MONETARY POLICY IN A GLOBALISING Water and Development Kapur Mehta, Arvind Kejrival, Michele Kelley,
WORLD PART V: ORGANISATION AND Forging Green Communities for Kanchi Kohli, Smitu Kothari, Arun Kumar, Benny
COMMUNICATION POLICIES OF THE RBI Watersheds Kuruvilla, Harsh Mander, Manju Menon, Kalyani
PART VI: MANAGING CAPITAL ACCOUNT Menon-Sen, Biraj Patnaik, Prabhat Patnaik, Utsa
LIBERALISATION PART VII: GLOBAL FINANCIAL Arun de Souza, Lecturer, Department of Patnaik, Vanessa Peters, Imrana Qadeer, Vidya
IMBALANCES AND CRISIS Epilogue: The Global Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai Rangan, Sundari Ravindran, Bijoya Roy, Anil
Financial Crisis and India See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY Sadgopal, N. Suman Sahai, Devinder Sharma,
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Aseem Shrivastava, Ranjan Solomon, Sreekumar
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Memoirs of an Economic Advisor
Amulya Reddy
K. S. Krishnaswamy, former Deputy Governor, Citizen Scientist
Liberalization’s Children Reserve Bank of India
Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship Edited by S. Ravi Rajan, Provost of College
in Globalizing India See GENERAL INTEREST Eight and tenured faculty member, Department
2010 978-81-250-3964-8 ` 495 200pp Hardback of Environmental Studies, University of California,
Ritty A. Lukose, Associate Professor, Gallatin
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5167-1 Santa Cruz, USA
School of Individualized Study, New York University
Amulya Reddy is an iconic name in the world of
See SOCIOLOGY
energy policy and development alternatives. His
2010 978-81-250-4007-1 ` 565 300pp Hardback work has inspired generations of scholars, policy
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continues to remain CLASS: THE DEVELOPMENT DILEMMA PART
important. This book II: WOMEN IN REAL LIFE, UTOPIAS AND Financial Crisis
selects some of his most FICTIONS PART III: MUSIC AND ART: PAST Essays from Economic and Political Weekly
salient contributions into AND PRESENT PART IV: POPULAR INDIAN The volume puts together a
one easily accessible reader. CINEMA: IDEOLOGY, CULTURE AND BUSINESS collection of essays on a
Contents: Editor’s Contributors: Barnita Bagchi, Partha Sarathi number of aspects of the
Preface: Amulya Reddy, An Banerjee, Shyam Benegal, Shantanu Bhattacharyya, global economic and
Autobiography PART I: ON Sampa Chaudhuri, Indra Nath Chaudhuri, financial crisis that were
TECHNOLOGY CHOICE Arunabha Ghosh, Rajesh Kochhar, Srimati Lal, first published in the
AND DEVELOPMENT Mrinal Pandey, Partha Ray, Manoj Kumar Sanyal Economic and Political Weekly
ALTERNATIVES 1. The in early 2009.
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Nature of Western Technology: Why does it Contents: 1. Steering
Inevitably Produce Alienation, Unemployment Out of the Crisis 2. The
and Environmental Damage? 2. The Shaping of Diasporas and Development Economic Crisis and Contemporary Capitalism
Science and Technology in Developing Countries 3. The World Crisis: Reforms to Prevent a
Edited by Barbara J. Merz, Director, Philanthropy
3. Technology, Development and the Environment: Recurrence 4. Causes, Curses and Myths 5. Must
Program, Global Equity Initiative, Harvard
A Re-appraisal 4. Problems in the Generation and Banks Be Publicly Owned? 6. The First Network
University, USA, Lincoln C. Chen, Founding
Diffusion of Appropriate Technologies 5. Lessons Crisis of the 21st Century: A Regulatory Post-
Director, Global Equity Initiative, and Peter F.
from ASTRA’s Experience of Technologies for Mortem 7. Those Who Forget the Regulatory
Geithner, Advisor, Global Equity Initiative and
Rural Development 6. Has the World Bank Successes of the Past Are Condemned to Failure
Ash Institute, Harvard University, USA
Greened? PART II: ON ENERGY 7. Development, 8. Regulating the US Financial System to Avoid
Energy and the Environment in India: Some Critical This book aims to deepen Another Meltdown 9. India amidst the Global
Issues 8. Integrated Energy Planning: The Defendus the understanding of the Crisis 10. The Impact of the Crisis on the Indian
Methodology 9. Goals, Strategies and Policies promise and pitfalls of Economy 11. The Fate of India Unincorporated
for Rural Energy 10. The Design of Rural Energy diaspora engagement and 12. Preventing and Responding to the Crisis
Centres 11. The California Energy Crisis and Its how it may help to bridge of 2018 13. Understanding the Financial Crisis
Lessons for Power Sector Reform in India the distances between 14. Profound Structural Flaws in the US Financial
12. Nuclear Power: Is it Necessary or Economical? societies in an unequal System That Helped Cause the Financial Crisis
2009 978-81-250-3713-2 ` 930 384pp Hardback world. Diasporas and 15. Anatomy of the Financial Crisis: Between Keynes
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5338-5 Development examines the and Schumpeter 16 When the Facts Change: How
positive—and sometimes Can the Financial Crisis Change Minds? 17. A
negative—impacts of Crisis of Distribution 18. The World Crisis, Capital
Craft Matters diaspora engagement through examination of and Labour: The 1930s and Today 19. What Is
Artisans, Development and the Indian policies and philanthropic modalities as well as Driving Global Deflation and How Best to Fight It
Nation specific regional examples of diaspora activity. 20. The Global Meltdown: Financialisation, Dollar
Soumhya Venkatesan, Lecturer in Social Contents: 1. Overview: Diasporas and Hegemony and the Sub-prime Market Collapse
Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK Development 2. Focusing on the State: 2009 978-81-250-3699-9 ` 350 368pp Paperback
Government Responses to Diaspora Giving and
Implications for Equity 3. What Can Remittances
2009 978-81-250-3682-1 ` 840 316pp Hardback and Other Migrant Flows Do for Equitable Ageing and Development
Development? 4. The Janus Face of Diasporas Edited by Rob Vos, Director, Development Policy
5. Diaspora Philanthropy to Asia 6. African
Culture, Society and Diasporas 7. Diaspora Engagement in the
and Analysis Division, Department of Economic
and Social Affairs, UN, José Antonio Ocampo,
Development in India Caribbean 8. Central American Diasporas and Professor, Professional Practice of International
Essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi Hometown Associations and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York,
Edited by Manoj Kumar Sanyal, economist and Contributors: Lincoln C. Chen, David de and Ana Luiza Cortez, Chief, Secretariat of the
former Senior (ICSSR) Fellow, Jawaharlal Nehru Ferranti, Peter F. Geithner, Devesh Kapur, Barbara Committee for Development Policy, Department
University, New Delhi, and Arunabha Ghosh, J. Merz, Adil Najam, Anthony J. Ody, Mojúbàolú of Economic and Social Affairs, UN
a connoisseur of films and literature based in Olúfúnké Okome, Manuel Orozco, Mark Sidel Providing a wealth of
Kolkata statistical and quantitative
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This volume collects Rights: Restricted evidence and compiled by
writings by authors across leading economists working
at the forefront of this area,
disciplines on issues that Enclosed Waters this book argues that these
have engaged eminent
Property Rights, Technology and Ecology challenges are not
economic historian Amiya
in the Management of Water Resources in insurmountable, but
Kumar Bagchi. The eleven
essays define and develop
Palakkad, Kerala societies everywhere need
the concepts of tradition, to put in place the required
Jyothi Krishnan works as an independent
modernity, post modernism, policies to confront them
researcher on issues related to natural resource
liberty and humanism in the effectively.
management and local governance
Indian context. 2008 978-81-250-3526-8 ` 620 272pp Paperback
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Eliminating Human Poverty on whether neo-liberal Empire’s Law
Macroeconomic and Social Policies for reforms in developing The American Imperial Project and the
nations have aggravated
Equitable Growth ‘War to Remake the World’
inequality, poverty and food
Santosh Mehrotra, human development insecurity, hindered Edited by Amy Bartholomew, Associate
economist with the United Nations, and Enrique empowerment of women, Professor, Department of Law, Carleton
Delamonica, economist and political scientist, worsened agrarian distress, University, Ottawa, Canada
who is a consultant for UNICEF and UNDP and facilitated the rise of See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
multinational oligopolies
This book focuses on the AND PUBLIC POLICY
giving inferior status to
provision of basic social 2007 978-81-250-3247-2 ` 545 391pp Paperback
domestic industries in the host countries. The data
services, in particular, Rights: Restricted
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access to education, health
and water supplies strategy. 2008 978-81-250-3549-7 ` 895 360pp Hardback
The authors address the Flat World, Big Gaps
issue of how these basic
social services can be
Uneven Economic Edited by K. S. Jomo, Assistant Secretary
General, Economic Development, Department
financed and delivered more Development of Economic and Social Affairs, UN, and Jacques
effectively to achieve the Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Baudot, Director, Division for Social Policy and
internationally agreed Professional Practice of International and Public Development, UN
Millennium Development Affairs, Columbia University, New York, and
Goals. Their analysis presents the results of the The book provides a
Rob Vos, Director of the Development Policy
broad-ranging research they led at UNICEF and rigorous empirical analysis of
and Analysis Division, Department of Economic
the UNDP, investigating the record on basic social how economic liberalisation
and Social Affairs, UN
services of some thirty developing countries. has affected inequality,
In this volume, leading poverty and development in
2008 978-81-250-3386-8 ` 785 448pp Paperback
economists and recent decades. Avoiding
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examine the causes and book provides a balanced
Industrial Development implications of international account of recent trends, the
effects of globalisation and
for the 21st Century economic divergences. This
liberalisation, and the
volume reviews economic
Edited by David O’Connor, Chief of the Policy growth and structural comparative experiences of countries that have
Integration and Analysis Branch, Department for change patterns since the pursued different economic policies and trajectories.
Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN, and 1960s, before critically 2007 978-81-250-3067-6 ` 985 448pp Paperback
Monica Kjöllerström, Sustainable Development reviewing the respective Rights: Restricted
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Industrial development has
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mostly been central to the
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process of structural
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Empire in the Age See other titles in this series in GENERAL INTEREST
arising from globalisation, of Globalisation 2007 978-81-250-3197-0

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technological change and US Hegemony and Neoliberal Order

new international trade
Ray Kiely, Senior Lecturer, Development Studies,
rules and emerging global
School of Oriental and African Studies, University
Hyderabad
environmental challenges. The Social Context of Industrialisation
of London
2008 978-81-250-3398-1 ` 840 448pp Paperback C. V. Subba Rao, Department of Economics,
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Post-reform Development Rights: Restricted history of the Indian
in Asia princely state of Hyderabad
Essays for Amiya Kumar Bagchi through the late colonial era
up to 1948. The study
Edited by Manoj Kumar Sanyal, independent brings to life a region and its
researcher and economist, Mandira Sanyal, people, and while doing so,
independent researcher, and Shahina Amin, it grapples with the social
Associate Professor of Economics, University of paradigms and their bearing
Iowa, USA on the region under
This festschrift volume for Professor Bagchi dwells discussion.
on issues often raised in the development debate 2007 978-81-250-3260-1 ` 695 240pp Hardback

Policy Matters the response of households and their ability to Incorporating Groundwater
Economic and Social Policies to Sustain access services and exploit opportunities in the
contemporary competitive world. Irrigation
Equitable Development Technology Dynamics and Conjunctive
2007 978-81-250-2777-5 ` 1240 808pp Hardback
Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, Water Management in the Nepal Terai
Professional Practice of International and Public
SERIES: WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY WATER
Affairs, Columbia University, New York, Towards Full and Decent RESOURCES
K. S. Jomo, Assistant Secretary General Employment
for Economic Development, Department of Suman Rimal Gautam, agricultural engineer who
Economics and Social Affairs (DESA), UN, and Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Professor, has worked with the government and international
Sarbuland Khan, former Director, Economic Professional Practice of International and Public non-governmental organisations in Nepal
and Social Council Support and Coordination, Affairs, Columbia University, New York, and
DESA, UN K. S. Jomo, Assistant Secretary General for Groundwater development
Economic Development in the United Nations for irrigation using deep as
In 2000, UN member states Department of Economics and Social Affairs well as shallow tubewells
pledged to halve world has been a key focus in rural
poverty by 2015, among The contributors to this development strategies in
other Millennium volume state that the terai of Nepal for nearly
Development Goals. But employment is the key link three decades. This volume
progress has been elusive. in ensuring that economic focuses on the little
The contributions in this growth contributes to researched subject of how
volume address disparate poverty reduction, with groundwater is used alone
problems in achieving the management of or in conjunction with other
UN Development Agenda. technological change playing sources of water for irrigation and what
The unifying theme is one of a crucial role. Although transformations in governance and production
economic and social financial liberalisation has these technology choices relate with.
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Globalisation and the Challenge Imperial Nature Edited by José Antonio Ocampo, Professor,
of Engagement The World Bank and Struggles for Social Professional Practice of International and Public
Justice in the Age of Globalization Affairs, Columbia University, New York, Jan
Edited by Melissa Leach and Ian Scoones, Kregel, former Chief of the Policy Analysis and
Professorial Fellows, Institute of Development Michael Goldman, Associate Professor of
Development Branch, Financing for Development
Studies, Sussex, UK, and Bryan Wynne, Sociology, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities,
Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
Lancaster University, UK USA
UN, and Stephany Griffith-Jones, Professorial
See SOCIOLOGY See SOCIOLOGY Fellow, Institute of Development Studies,
University of Sussex, UK
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Inequalities K. N. Raj on Economic Development
development since the
Human Development in Rural India Edited by Ashoka Mody, Visiting Professor, historic Monterrey
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, USA Consensus of the
Abusaleh Shariff, Chief Economist, National
International Conference on
Council of Applied Economic Research, New The essays in this book Financing for Development
Delhi, and Maithreyi Krishnaraj, honorary reflect Professor K. N. Raj’s in 2002. The book highlights
Senior Fellow, Research Centre for Women abiding interest in economic new concerns in ensuring
Studies, SNDT University, Mumbai growth as a fundamental that the international monetary and financial
mechanism for lifting the system serves economic growth and development
States, Markets and
poor and the disadvantaged. better throughout the world, especially in the
Inequalities fills a major gap
These essays, many of them developing countries.
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groups. It also analyses the
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Kerala Democratising Micro-Hydel Issues in Development Economics
The Paradoxes of Public Action and Structures Gautam Gupta
Development Systems and Agents in Adaptive Technology in
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the Hills of Nepal
Edited by Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor,
Amreeta Regmi Power Play
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, A Study of the Enron Project
Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada 2004 978-81-250-2677-8 ` 400 332pp Paperback
Abhay Mehta
See SOCIOLOGY Famine of 1896–1897 in Bengal,
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Debdas Banerjee
Politics of Policy Global Environmental Challenges 1999 978-81-250-1697-7 ` 350 247pp Paperback
The Case of Biotechnology in India Transitions to a Sustainable World
James Gustave Speth In Pursuit of Lakshmi
Ian Scoones, Fellow, Institute of Development
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Lloyd I. Rudolph and S. Hoeber Rudolph
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biotechnology in India. The
Silent Invaders
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experimentation with GM 2004 978-81-250-2599-3 ` 375 352pp Paperback
Creating Capabilities
cotton and a debate about The Human Development Approach
the role biotechnology Colonial Economy in the Great
Martha C. Nussbaum, Ernst Freund
should play in economic development. Depression, A Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
Madras (1929–1937) at the University of Chicago, USA
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Martha Nussbaum argues
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that our dominant theories
Cambridge Economic History of of development have given
India, The Global Political Economy
Understanding the International Economic Order us policies that ignore our
Volume 1: c.1200–c.1750 (New Edition) most basic human needs for
Robert Gilpin
Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib dignity and self-respect. For
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Cambridge Economic History of Control assess human development:
India, The Water Users Associations and Irrigation the Capabilities Approach.
Volume 2: c.1757–2003 (New Edition) Management Reform in Two Large-Scale Systems She and her colleagues begin with the simplest of
in India questions: What is each person actually able to do
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Power in North Gujarat Transformation in Karnataka, South India
Anjal Prakash Esha Shah A remarkably lucid and scintillating account of
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roles that individuals play at different stages. It also focuses on the
changes that take place in individuals as they progress through the human
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education sector. It also

N, PLURALISM AND MARGINALITY interconnected themes and the debates
ves which have shaped the contours of the
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New Perspectives educational policy of contemporary
education in India since the as a Means to National Self-determination:

y Kumar India.
in the
includes the recommendations of the National
The essays critique the existing anti-
History of Indian Education
DUCATION IN MODERN INDIA, 1757–2012

imperialist, postmodern and nationalist
New Perspectives in the
osh History of Indian Education historiographies of Indian education,
mid-nineteenth century. The

and bring forth the shortcomings of
A Comparative Study of Gandhian India and

these approaches. Basing themselves
Knowledge Commission, the Yashpal Committee

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IGION
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Report, and the enactment of the Right of Children to

leaders.
The empirically rich essays focus on the
on the initiatives to promote

initiatives to promote education among
University Reforms, 1899–1905 9. Transformations

the socially and educationally backward
Free and Compulsory Education (the RTE Act).

Dalit communities and the status of
Dalit institutions. The authors argue
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education in fostering social mobility
of Schooling in Colonial Punjab, 1854–1900

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The authors argue forcefully about the centrality Verónica Oelsner, Laura Dudley Jenkins, Mahima Medium 4. The Decade after 1835 5. Education in
of education in fostering social mobility and Manchanda, Preeti, Parimala V. Rao; Eleanor the Presidencies: Bombay, Madras and the North-
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traditional society undergoing a transition to History of Education in Commission Years 100 11. Towards a Control of
modernity. Modern India, The Higher Education 12. The Age of Curzon 1899–1905
1757–2012 (Fourth Edition) 13. National Education till 1912 14. Government
Contents: Introduction: Perspectives Old and of India Resolution on Indian Education 15. The
New PART 1: FORMS OF DISCRIMINATION Suresh Chandra Ghosh held the Chair of History Calcutta University Commission 16. Education under
IN EDUCATION 1. Dalit Initiatives in Education, of Education at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Dyarchy 17. Education under Provincial Autonomy
1880–1992 2. A College of One’s Own: An Delhi, till 2002 18. Towards a National Policy on Education 19.
International Perspective on the Value of The Critical Years 20. A Post-Mortem till 1999 21.

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Education in the New Millennium 22. A Journey School Education, Pluralism Foundations of Tilak’s
Towards Literacy 23. The Winds of Change 24. A
Retrospection Since 1999 25. A Summing Up and Marginality Nationalism
Comparative Perspectives Discrimination, Education, Hindutva
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Edited by Christine Sleeter, Professor Emerita, Parimala V. Rao, Assistant Professor, Zakir
College of Education and Professional Studies, Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal
Light of Knowledge, The California State University, Monterey Bay, Nehru University, New Delhi
Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing USA, Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay, Associate
in South India See HISTORY
Professor, Department of History, Indira Gandhi
Francis Cody, Associate Professor, Department of National Open University, New Delhi, Arvind 2011 978-81-250-4268-6 ` 565 372pp Paperback
K. Mishra, Professor of Social Psychology, Zakir 2010 978-81-250-3919-8 ` 1005 372pp Hardback
Anthropology and the Asian Institute, University of
Toronto. Husain Centre for Educational Studies, School of
Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Delhi, and Sanjay Kumar, independent scholar-
Children with
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activist and Secretary, Deshkal Society, New Delhi Communication Disorders
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This book offers a view of
school education that is Prathibha Karanth, pioneer in the field of
Pedagogy for Religion informed by analyses of the speech-language pathology in India
Missionary Education and the Fashioning of material, political, and
This book is an introduction
Hindus and Muslims in Bengal ideological underpinnings of
to the wide range of
inequality. It brings together
communication disorders
Parna Sengupta, Associate Director of Stanford international perspectives
that are seen in children, so
Introductory Studies, Stanford University, USA on education, pluralism and
as to be able to recognise
marginality, with a focus on
See HISTORY them, implement preventive
India.
and remedial steps where
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[This book] is not only a highly relevant appropriate professional
resource to those engaging with school education help when needed. With a
Play in different capacities, but is also a must-read for Foreword by M. N. Hegde,
Experiential Methodologies in anyone who might think India’s public education Professor of Speech-
Developmental and Therapeutic Settings system is a grand success story. Language Pathology at the California State
—The Hindu University in Fresno.
Edited by Shubhada Maitra, Associate Professor
and Chairperson, Centre for Health and Mental Contents: PART I: SPEECH DISORDERS
… [this] book is an extremely valuable
Health, School of Social Work, Tata Institute 1. Articulation Disorders 2. Voice Disorders
resource.… [that] the exposition of all the
of Social Sciences, and Shekhar Seshadri, 3. Fluency Disorders PART II: LANGUAGE
problems is with a view to finding a solution goes
Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent DISORDERS 4. Specific Language Impairment
to the credit of the book and its authors and
Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru 5. Semantic Pragmatic Deficits or Pragmatic
editors.
Language Impairments 6. Learning Disabilities
Play is increasingly being —Seminar
PART III: OTHER COMMUNICATION
used as a tool while working DISORDERS 7. Hearing Impairment 8. Mental
Abridged Contents: Introduction PART
with children from Retardation 9. Cerebral Palsy 10. Autism Spectrum
I: MARGINAL COMMUNITIES, SOCIAL
traumatic and disadvantaged Disorders 11. Other Neuropsychiatric Disorders
EXCLUSION AND SCHOOLING PART II:
backgrounds. This volume
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covers the use of various
AND THE CHILD PART III: PLURALISM,
types of play like puppetry,
CITIZENSHIP AND SCHOOL EDUCATION
theatre, art, etc., to help
PART IV: DEVELOPING TEACHING AND Education, Unemployment
such children. It is divided
into two parts: Part I covers
LEARNING METHODS: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT and Masculinities in India
key concepts underlying Contributors: Imtiaz Ahmad, Rafiul Ahmed, [With Orient BlackSwan]
play and play therapy. Part II of the book focuses Madhumita Bandyopadhyay, Russell Bishop, Lynn Edited by Craig Jeffrey, Professor in Geography
on use of play and art methods while working with Davies, R. Govinda, Dave Hill, Dhir Jhingran, and International Studies, University of
children in both clinical and developmental M. Murali Krishna, Sanjay Kumar, Angela W. Little, Washington, Patricia Jeffrey, Professor of
settings. Manabi Majumdar, Arvind K. Mishra, Jos Mooij, Sociology, and Roger Jeffrey, Professor of
Raymond M. Nichol, George J. Sefa Dei, Subhash Sociology of South Asia, both at the University of
Selected Contents: PART I: GROUNDS FOR
Sharma, Christine E. Sleeter, Crain Soudien, Edinburgh
PLAY, CONCEPTS UNDERLYING PLAY AND
Vedrana Spajic-Vrkas, Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay
PLAY THERAPY, RESEARCH AND RESEARCH See SOCIOLOGY
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Language Education in the TENSIONS BETWEEN MULTIPLE REALITIES

... It is a “must read” for all who work in the PART 5: NEGOTIATING POLICIES OF
Primary Years field of language policy and planning, politicians, IMPLEMENTATION
Frances Christie, Emeritus Professor of NGOs and practitioners in schools and
2009 978-81-250-3654-8 ` 625 342pp Paperback
Language and Literacy Education, University of classrooms.
Melbourne and Honorary Professor of Education, —Naz Rassool, Professor,
University of Sydney, Australia Faculty of Economics and Social Science,
Linguistic Imperialism
Language Education in the The University of Reading, UK Continued
Primary Years gives a 2010 978-81-250-4116-0 ` 750 376pp Paperback Robert Phillipson, Professor Emeritus,
coherent and structured Rights: Restricted Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
account of language and
learning and of language See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
pedagogy, using functional
Gift of English, The 2009 978-81-250-3748-4 ` 495 296pp Paperback
grammar. The author English Education and the Formation of
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the classroom, the Alok Mukherjee, Department of South Asian
grammatical differences in and Indian Cultures, York University, Toronto
Multilingual Education for
speech and writing, visual Social Justice
literacy, the impact of This provocative work Globalising the Local
technology on language learning, etc. deconstructs the popular
belief that English was Edited by Ajit K. Mohanty, Professor of
Contents: Teaching Literature; Some Issues in imposed on India by the Psychology, Minati Panda, Associate Professor
Planning and Assessment; Glossary British. Through English of the Social Psychology of Education, both at
2010 978-81-250-4022-4 ` 575 248pp Paperback education, British colonial the Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
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perpetuate colonial rule, and Phillipson, Professor Emeritus, Copenhagen
‘high caste’ Hindus saw the Business School, Denmark, and Tove Skutnabb-
Macaulay possibility of Hindu revival. Kangas, Guest Researcher, Department of
The Tragedy of Power After India’s independence, Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde,
Robert E. Sullivan, Associate Professor, English education, as a field and an institutional Denmark
Department of History, University of Notre practice, continued to be ‘brahmanical’. With Dalits
Dame, Indiana, USA demanding English, it is now the site of a new The book resonates with
contest of alternative hegemonies. the contemporary Indian
See HISTORY
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2010 978-81-250-4043-9 ` 975 624pp Paperback particularly as a medium of
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Imagining Multilingual fiercely contested terrain.
Multilingual Education Schools The scales are disastrously
Languages in Education and Glocalization tilting to suit the elite design
Works of language as [a] tool of
From the Periphery to the Centre Edited by Ofelia García, Professor at Teachers domination.
College, Columbia University, Tove Skutnabb- —The Hindu
Edited by Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, scholar Kangas, Guest Researcher, Department of
of minority education, linguistic human rights, Languages and Culture, University of Roskilde, Selected Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION
linguistic genocide, subtractive spread of English Denmark, and María E. Torres-Guzmán, PART II: MULTILINGUAL EDUCATION:
and the relationship between biodiversity and Associate Professor, Teachers College, Columbia APPROACHES AND CONSTRAINTS PART
linguistic diversity, and Kathleen Heugh, applied University, New York III: GLOBAL AND LOCAL TENSIONS AND
linguist, University of South Australia PROMISES IN MLE PART IV: MLE IN THEORY
This book brings together AND PRACTICE—DIVERSITY IN INDIGENOUS
Is it just a coincidence visions and realities of EXPERIENCE PART V: MLE IN THEORY AND
that sites of linguistic multilingual schools PRACTICE—DIVERSITY IN SOUTH ASIAN
diversity are largely throughout the world in TRIBAL EXPERIENCE PART VI: ANALYSING
populated by the order to examine the PROSPECTS FOR MLE TO INCREASE SOCIAL
underprivileged? Neglect pedagogical, socio- JUSTICE
and oppression of the educational and socio-
political issues that impact Contributors: Rama Kant Agnihotri, Carol
multiplicity of voices from
on their development and Benson, Jim Cummins, Ofelia García, Kathleen
the margins of society has a
success. Written by Heugh, David Hough, Dhir Jhingran, Ram Bahadur
LONG history. Those who
well-known scholars, the book affirms the Thapa Magar, Teresa McCarty, Ajit K. Mohanty,
are fortunate to read this
desirability of multilingualism as a societal resource Mahendra Kumar Mishra, Andrea Bear Nicholas,
book will appreciate how
and as a right of individuals. Iina Nurmela, Susanne Jacobsen Pérez , Robert
listening to these voices may ensure a better
Phillipson, Ulla Aikio-Puoskari, Gumidyal Ramesh,
future for all of us. Selected Contents: PART 1: INTRODUCTION N. Upender Reddy, Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, Shelley
PART 2: PEDAGOGIES, VALUES AND K. Taylor, Amrit Yonjan-Tamang
—Rama Kant Agnihotri
SCHOOLS PART 3: EXTENDING FORMAL
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INSTRUCTIONAL SPACES PART 4:
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Secret of Childhood, The imperialism and unequal power relations on Negotiating Empowerment
ethnicity, cultural competence and identities. Studies in English Language Education
Maria Montessori, eminent educationist
2008 978-81-250-3461-2 ` 1295 820pp Paperback
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Premakumari Dheram, Professor, School of
There are laws of growth in
English Language Education in English and Foreign
the character and
Languages University, Hyderabad
disposition of the child as
marked as those in their
Bilingualism or Not
The essays offer an
The Education of Minorities
physical life; adults often fail international perspective on
to appreciate these laws and Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, guest researcher, language use and pedagogy,
force their own ideas on Department of Languages and Culture, University relating to both theory and
the child. A childhood full of of Roskilde, Denmark application, in various
repression results in an countries including
adulthood full of complexes. People from linguistic
Bangladesh, India, Pakistan,
By finding the secret of minorities often have to
Sri Lanka, Hong Kong,
childhood, the child truly become multilingual in
Switzerland and the United
becomes the ‘Father of the Man’ and achieves order to cope in the larger
States of America. The
psychological development as a well-adjusted adult. society, while majority
volume highlights issues
representatives may
2009 978-81-250-3828-3 ` 495 200pp Hardback
such as identity construction, self-esteem,
voluntarily become bilingual.
2009 978-81-250-3827-6 ` 295 200pp Paperback economic and intellectual empowerment, and the
The book analyses the
role of the individual and state in the context of
problems migrants and
English as a second language.
What is Worth Teaching? indigenous peoples face in a
monolingual educational 2007 978-81-250-3231-1 ` 495 240pp Paperback
(Fourth Edition)
situation, often having to forgo the use of their
Krishna Kumar, Professor, Central Institute of
Education, University of Delhi
mother language. It also analyses controversies
about their education, and places them in the
Multilingualism in India
wider political context. Edited by Debi Prasanna Pattanayak, linguist
This collection of essays is
and educationist
the third revised edition of 2007 978-81-250-3268-7 ` 715 404pp Paperback
Dr Krishna Kumar’s UGC Rights: Restricted This edited volume of eight
national lectures. It updates essays discusses sociology,
several issues in the context
of recent concerns such as
Global Issues in Languages, psychology, pedagogy and
demographic aspects of
globalisation and external Education and Development multilingualism. They bring
funding for education. Some Perspectives from Postcolonial Countries out some of the salient
of the issues discussed problems of literacy in a
Naz Rassool, Institute of Education, University of
are—the textbook culture, multilingual country like
Reading, UK
learning by rote, failure of India and give a language
village primary schools, the This book examines the planning perspective. This
merits of Gandhian ideas of education, and the role that language-in- book will appeal to
interpretation of history. education policy, sociolinguists, cognitive psychologists, social
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historically, has played in scientists and educators.
shaping possibilities for
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development, within Rights: Restricted
Linguistic Genocide in countries in the Sub-Saharan
Education or Worldwide and South Asian regions.
School, Society, Nation
This discussion takes
Diversity and Human Rights? account also of the complex Popular Essays in Education
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, guest researcher, ways in which language,
Edited by Rajni Kumar, educationist and
Department of Languages and Culture, University education and development are linked to the
Founder-Principal of Springdales School, New
of Roskilde, Denmark changing global labour market. Key questions are
Delhi, Anil Sethi, Department of History, and
raised regarding the impact of international policy
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas Shalini Sikka, Department of English, both at the
imperatives on development possibilities.
shows how most indigenous University of Delhi
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genocide. She brings problems and challenges of
together a unique set of Jung for Beginners contemporary Indian
theoretical concerns and education. The volume
Jon Platania
research areas: linguistic discusses child-oriented
Illustrated by Joe Lee
human rights; minority and ideas regarding curricula,
multilingual education; See GENERAL INTEREST books and the learning
language ecology and processes. The contributors
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threatened languages; the speak about issues as varied
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Education and the Disprivileged
Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India
SOCIAL SCIENCE
non-disabled, and the rich/poor. Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya PRESS
India’s Economic Future
Lacan for Beginners
Beyond Methods Education, Technology, Energy and
Macrostrategies for Language Teaching Philip Hill Environment
Illustrated by David Leach
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See GENERAL INTEREST Fellow, Centre for International Governance
Linguistics and Teacher of English to Speakers of
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Development and Education
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teacher educators. 2000 978-81-250-1571-0 ` 455 226pp Paperback
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Practical Geography
LAT
Textbook
A Systematic Approach
EST ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY

(Third Edition)
Ashis Sarkar, Professor, PG Department of Geography,

Chandernagore College, West Bengal
This volume explains the techniques of surveying and cartography, using
mathematical and statistical methods. Divided into five units—map
making, statistical analysis, map interpretation, field techniques and
advanced techniques of surveying—this book lays special emphasis on
the methodology of surveying and cartography.
• A few important features of this book are:
• Map making (scale, map projection and surveying)
• Data analysis and representation
• Interpretation of different kinds of maps—geological map, weather
map, topographical map, aerial photographs and satellite imageries
• Field techniques
Selected Contents: UNIT I: MAP MAKING UNIT II: STATISTICAL
ANALYSIS UNIT III: MAP INTERPRETATION UNIT IV: FIELD
TECHNIQUES UNIT V: ADVANCED TOOLS ANALYSIS
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Fundamentals of Geographical Textbook
Thought
Sudeepta Adhikari, Professor, Department of Geography, Patna
University
Fundamentals of Geographical Thought identifies the basic philosophies
of geography, from the ancient through the medieval to the modern/
post-modern, which guided the development of different schools of
geography in India, Germany, France, Great Britain, the USA, Russia and/
or former Soviet Union, and in others. It also highlights the philosophical
and methodological conflicts that took place during the various periods
of conceptual development of the discipline, and measures the impacts
of Darwinism on both the philosophy and the scientific character of
geography.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Ancient Classical Geography 3. Medieval
Geography and Renaissance 4. Foundation of Scientific Geography 5.
Classical Period of Modern Geography 6. Impact of Darwinism and
the New Scientific Geography 7. Modern Geography of Germany 8.
Development of Professional Geography in France 9. Modern British
Geography 10. Professional Geography in the Former Soviet Union
and Contemporary Russia 11. New Geography in the United States
12. Geography in Modern India 13. Environmental Determinism and
Possibilism 14. Recent Trends in Geography (Quantitative Revolution)
15. Modern Concepts in Human Geography (Critical Revolution) 16.
Concept of Landscape and Region 17. Geography: A New Synthesis
18. Applied Geography 19. Scientific Method in Geography 20. Post-
modernism, Deconstruction and Spatiality
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Nature without Borders Abridged Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Nature Nature, Environment and
and Characteristics of Geographical Data 3.
Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial Geographical Data: Univariate Methods 4. Society
Museum and Library, M. D. Madhusudan, Senior Techniques of Bivariate Analysis 5. Techniques Conservation, Governance and
Scientist and Trustee, Nature Conservation of Directional Analysis 6. Time Series Analysis Transformation in India
Foundation, Mysore, and Ghazala Shahabuddin, 7. Spatial Analysis of Geographical Data 8.
Edited by T. B. Subba, Professor and Head,
independent researcher Multivariate Analysis in Geography 9. Cartographic
Department of Anthropology, North Eastern Hill
Presentation and GIS Visualisation 10. Research in
See HISTORY University, Shillong, and Nicolas Lainé, doctoral
Geography
student, Social Anthropology, School of Advanced
2014 978-81-250-5614-0 ` 595 280pp Hardback
2013 978-81-250-5266-1 ` 295 400pp Paperback Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris
Politics of Climate Change Environment, Technology

This contributory volume
examines the
and the Global Crisis, The and Development interrelationship between
Mortgaging Our Future nature and society in South
Critical and Subversive Essays
Asia focussing on four
Praful Bidwai is a Social Sciences researcher and
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND points: perception of natural
activist on issues of human rights, environment,
SOCIETY resources during the colonial
global justice and peace
rule, conservation of nature,
First published in hardback Edited by Rohan D’Souza, Assistant Professor, role of governments in
in November 2011, this Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal administering environment,
unique book has a dual Nehru University, New Delhi. and transformation of nature
focus: impacts of climate This volume brings together as a result of development or industrial projects.
change, and the politics of writings across the social
the international climate sciences that aim to answer … it offers fresh information and insights about
negotiations; and second, questions related to the environmental and social change …
lndia as an example of an concepts of environment,
‘emerging economy’ major —Amita Baviskar, Sociologist, Institute of Economic
technology and
polluter, which can Growth, Delhi
development.
potentially both aid or Selected Contents: PART I: CONSERVATION
obstruct the fight against climate change. Selected Contents:
OF NATURE Introduction 1. Megalithic Landscapes,
SECTION I: STORIES
Contents: Introduction 1. The Doomsday Clock Cultures and Identity in North-East India
FOR OUR TIME:
2. Himalayan Trouble 3. Through Twists and Turns 2. Transforming Rural Livelihoods through
TECHNOLOGY AS THE ANTI-HERO
4. Rooted in Incoherence 5. Too Little Too Late Ecodevelopment in the Nanda Devi Biosphere
SECTION II: DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS
6. Domestic Imperatives 7. No Heroes Only Reserve PART II: NATURE’S GOVERNANCE
BECOME POLITICAL QUESTIONS SECTION
Villains … and Too Many Victims 8. Alternative Introduction 5. Women, Self-Governance and Local
III: REWIRING TECHNOLOGY TO DEBATE
Visions 9. False Promise 10. India 11. The Political Representation in Bastar, Chhattisgarh
JUSTICE AND EQUITY SECTION IV:
Renewables Revolution is Here! 12. Can the 6. Forest Conservation, Public Goods and
RETHINKING AGRICULTURE AS ECOLOGICAL
Climate Impasse Be Broken? Incentives in the Central Himalayas PART III:
RELATIONSHIPS SECTION V: LIVELIHOODS
TRANSFORMATION OF NATURE Introduction
2013 978-81-250-5124-4 ` 675 404pp Paperback VERSUS LIFESTYLES SECTION VI: SPACE
8. The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor and
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Some Issues of Environmental Governance 9. The
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QUESTIONS
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Contributors: Sarah Benabou, Samuel Berthet,
Joël Cabalion, Emilie Crémin, Salomé Deboos,
Geography E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5169-5
M. A. Iqbal, Loraine Kennedy, David Kong Hug,
Techniques and Presentations Sanjeeva Kumar, Nicolas Lainé, Frédéric Landy,
Ashis Sarkar teaches in the PG Department of
Feeding the Forgotten Poor Jacque Pouchepadass, Raphael Rousseleau , Carine
Geography, Chandernagore College.
Perspectives of an Agriculturist Sébi, Joëlle Smadja
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This volume offers a
General of the International Crops Research E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5427-6
comprehensive discussion
Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
on Quantitative Geography
and the methods that See GENERAL INTEREST Unruly Hills
geographers use to study Nature and Nation in India’s Northeast
2012 978-81-250-4558-8 ` 475 144pp Paperback
spatial phenomena. [With Social Science Press]
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5016-2
Beginning with a brief
Bengt G. Karlsson, Associate Professor in Social
overview, the author has
Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden
explored in detail the range
of methods that are used to Unruly Hills examines the intersection of
study the discipline. Lucidly environmental and ethnic politics in the Indian
written, this book is certainly an asset to the state of Meghalaya. Based on extensive fieldwork,
community of students, scholars, teachers and the author traces the entanglements of forest
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with local demands for unchanging entity, steeped in tradition and perspective that colonial science can be
indigenous sovereignty and economically stagnant. The author deconstructs understood predominantly as a handmaiden of
rebellious aspirations for these preconceived notions through which rural imperialism. Instead, it argues that the myriad
ethnic homelands. Massive India is perceived and establishes how a ‘colonial’ sciences had ideological and
extractions of limestone, community, far from being static and autonomous, interventionist traditions distinct from each other
controversies over uranium is fluid and changing. and from the colonial bureaucracy and that these
deposits, and the Supreme tensions better explain environmental politics and
Selected Contents: 1. Watershed Development
Court ban on logging apply policy dilemmas in the post-colonial era.
and Green Communities: An Introduction
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2. Nostalgic Pasts and Modernist Visions
explored. Rights: Restricted
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Contents: Introduction 1. Imaginations and Communitarian Projects
Nature and Nation 2. Elusive Forests 3. Shifting 5. Electoral Factions and Everyday Networks Indian Cities in Transition
Land Rights 4. Mining Matters 5. Indigenous 6. Community as a Development Spectacle
Governance 6. Political Ecology at the Frontier 7. Community as an Ongoing Construction Edited by Annapurna Shaw, Professor,
Regional Development Group, Indian Institute of
Management Calcutta
Mumbai Enclosed Waters See SOCIOLOGY
Political Economy of Crime and Space Property Rights, Technology and Ecology 2007 978-81-250-3205-2 ` 1115 544pp Hardback
in the Management of Water Resources in
Abdul Shaban, Assistant Professor, Department Palakkad, Kerala
of Geography, Centre of Development Studies, Politics of Nature
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai Jyothi Krishnan, independent researcher on How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
issues related to natural resource management and
Bruno Latour, Professor, Institut d’etudes
local governance
… the book has enough Politiques de Paris
material to sustain the This book looks into the
Latour suggests that science
interest of even a lay leader social and ecological factors
and technology need not be
who wants to know and that have given rise to the
unrelated to general society.
understand what is persistent problem of water
He feels that such an idea,
happening in Mumbai today scarcity in the paddy-
assumed to be
as the city veers towards a growing regions of Chittur
commonsensical, is not so
neoliberal Shanghai avatar. taluk in Palakkad district,
and says that there is a need
Kerala. It views water
—The Hindu to look beyond assumptions
scarcity as an outcome of
about the gap between
the existing unsustainable
society and science. In the
and inequitable mode of
Selected Contents: 1. Spatial Statistics and process, he presents a
water resources
Crime Mapping 2. Crime Theories and Space 3. conceptual context for political ecology.
management and distribution.
Social Geography of the City 4. Crime, Space and 2007 978-81-250-3081-2 ` 785 320pp Paperback
Urban Renewal 5. Crimes against Life 6. Property Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Water and Paddy Rights: Restricted
Crimes 7. White Collar Crimes 8. Crimes 3. Water for Irrigation 4. Property Regimes and
against Women 9. Communal Conflagration Rights to the Use of Land and Water 5. Pockets
and Riots 10. Political Economy of Crime and of Scarcity 6. Floating Ownership Claims 7. An Interstate Disputes over
Punishment Outline for a Water Reform Krishna Waters
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Radha D’Souza, Faculty of Law, University of
Water and Development Modernizing Nature Waikato, New Zealand
Forging Green Communities for Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development,
1800–1950 This book is the first ever
Watersheds attempt to put river water
Arun de Souza, Lecturer, Department of S. Ravi Rajan, Associate Professor, conflicts in the larger
Sociology, St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai Environmental Studies, University of California, context of India’s federal
Santa Cruz Constitution and to
This book shows how critically examine the
watershed development Modernizing Nature
connections between the
projects intervene in contributes to the debate
Constitution and
people’s lives and the ways regarding the origins,
imperialism in the post-
in which an entire institutionalisation and
Independence era. The
community gets politics of the sciences and
book urges us to consider
reconstructed around the systems of knowledge
why law, science and technology, and space are as
implementation of a new underlying colonial
important as constitutive elements for capitalism
resource. It challenges the frameworks of
as they are for the foundational processes of
popular view that rural environmental management.
imperialism.
communities are an It departs from the widely
prevalent scholarly

Nature in the Global South Introduction to Textbook
D’Souza provides a rich and intricate pasture Environmental Projects in South and South-East Development and
for browsing and brooding.... This is work that Asia Regional Planning, An
can assist the reconstitution of the debate around Paul Greenough and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing Jayasri Ray Chaudhuri
development.
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[The book] makes crucial contributions to the
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of environmental struggles, assembling an impressive
The Life and Legend of Jim Corbett
array of acclaimed scholars.
Nature’s Government Jerry A. Jaleel
—Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference
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Water Distribution, Technology and Agrarian A Critical Analysis of Humanity’s Fundamental
2005 978-81-250-2277-0 ` 655 346pp Paperback Choices
Change in a South Indian Canal Irrigation
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Introduction to Textbook
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Global Environmental Challenges Saroj K. Pal 1998 978-81-250-1534-5 ` 225 164pp Paperback
Transitions to a Sustainable World
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James Gustave Speth
2004 978-81-250-2740-9 ` 655 316pp Paperback Social Designs
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Annapurna Shaw Esha Shah PERMANENT BLACK
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Water, Works and Wages Elephants and Kings
People, Parks and Wildlife The Everyday Politics of Irrigation Management An Environmental History
Towards Coexistence Reform in the Philippines
Thomas R. Trautmann, Emeritus Professor,
Vasant Saberwal, Mahesh Rangarajan and Joost Oorthuizen
Ashish Kothari
University of Michigan
2003 978-81-250-2510-8 ` 400 372pp Paperback
Eco-Economy
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Earth Policy Reader, The Building an Economy for the Earth
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Feisal Alkazi, et al. From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period
Control
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Management in Two Large-scale Systems in E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5328-6 Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation
India Water for Pabolee Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of Modern
Vishal Narain Stories about People and Development in the Indian History at the University of Delhi and
Himalayas K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of
2003 978-81-250-2498-9 ` 275 265pp Paperback
Robert C. Alter Anthropology, and Forestry and Environmental
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Tracking the Biodiversity Ideal in India,
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Unquiet Woods, The dominant conservation paradigm and surveys While highlighting major figures, such as Jim
Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance alternative approaches to conservation, emerging Corbett and M. Krishnan, he also puts the
in India and elsewhere. spotlight on less-known conservationists,
in the Himalaya
landscapes and species. The focus of this book is
(Twentieth Anniversary Edition) 2010 978-81-7824-264-4 ` 595 288pp Hardback
on key landmarks in the history of Indian
Ramachandra Guha, eminent essayist and wildlife—both its conservation and decline.
columnist Bird’s Eye View, A 2006 978-81-7824-140-1 ` 295 152pp Paperback
The Collected Essays and Shorter Writings E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-416-7
See HISTORY
of Salim Ali
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2010 978-81-7824-277-4 ` 495 280pp Hardback Salim Ali, India’s greatest ornithologist, and a Trunk Full of Tales, A
prolific writer Seventy Years with the Indian Elephant
Birds in Books Edited by Tara Gandhi, former student of Salim D. K. Lahiri Choudhury, PhD in English
Three Hundred Years of South Asian Ali, and an MSc in Ornithology Literature, University of Leeds, UK
Ornithology, A Bibliography See GENERAL INTEREST Children learn about the
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Vol. 1: 445pp; Vol. 2: 460pp and the bees. The author’s
‘Birds in Books as the title wisdom in this area came
implies, is a bibliography from hearing about the
spanning 300 years of South Footloose in the Himalaya private lives of elephants, of
Asian Ornithology and lists which his family owned
Bill Aitken
over 1,700 books, including seventeen. Lahiri
field guides, monographs, See GENERAL INTEREST Choudhury’s experience
checklists and other printed includes tracking elephants
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include India, Bangladesh, penetrating remote areas in
Nepal, Myanmar, Maldives, pursuit of declared man-killing rogues, and learning
Bhutan, Afghanistan, Making Conservation Work to read the language of the jungle.
Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Tibet
Edited by Ghazala Shahabuddin, Fellow, 2006 978-81-7824-166-1 ` 495 272pp Hardback
making this book truly comprehensive and a
Council for Social Development, Delhi, and
brilliant example of one man’s obsession with the
Mahesh Rangarajan, an environmentalist Battles Over Nature
written word.’
—Bikram Grewal, Sanctuary Asia Wildlife today is competing Science and the Politics of Conservation
with some of India’s most Edited by Vasant Saberwal and Mahesh
‘This book is a work of enormous dedication Rangarajan
underprivileged people for
by a true bibliophile, and the wealth of detail is
survival. This apart, 2005 978-81-7824-141-8 ` 395 460pp Paperback
astonishing.... this bibliography can truly be said to
commercial and industrial
be unique.’ Saving Wild Tigers, 1900–2000
pressures from far outside
—Tony Gaston, The International Journal of Avian The Essential Writings
park boundaries
Science
reverberate within these Valmik Thapar
2010 978-81-7824-294-1 ` 795 868pp Hardback fragile ecological oases, 2005 978-81-7824-150-0 ` 295 415pp+36 pictures
making them vulnerable in a Paperback
way they never have been
Conservation at the before. This book brings Zoo in the Garden
Crossroads together the thoughts of many new scholars on Edward Hamilton Aitken
Science, Society, and the Future of India’s this urgent issue—is this a battle in which either
2005 978-81-7824-121-0 ` 395 280pp Hardback
Wildlife nature or humans will survive? Must it be a battle?
2007 978-81-7824-197-5 ` 595 312pp Hardback
Archaeological Geography of the
Ghazala Shahabuddin, Fellow, Council for
Ganga Plain
Social Development, New Delhi
The Lower and the Middle Ganga
The overexploitation of India’s Wildlife History Dilip K. Chakrabarti
India’s forests and wetlands An Introduction
2001 978-81-7824-016-9 ` 1095 410pp Hardback
is eating away at vital Mahesh Rangarajan, environmental historian
ecological processes. Rapid
and unplanned economic This book introduces us to
development threatens to the long history of India’s
fragment and devour the wildlife, culminating in the
wildlife habitats that remain. present crisis. Drawing on
Using the Sariska Tiger memoirs, archives and
Reserve as one of its major official records, Mahesh
anchors, this book analyses Rangarajan brings new
the historical, socio-political, and biological insights to bear upon
contexts of nature conservation in India in an age-old encounters
effort to identify the malaise underlying India’s between human beings and
the natural world in India.

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PRESS at the Crossroads of Asia
Explanation of Natural Events and
Edited by Marie Lecomte-Tilouine, Senior
Researcher in Social Anthropology, CNRS, France
Human Action
Unruly Hills Aruna Mazumdar
Nature and Nation in India’s Northeast This book explores how
[With Orient BlackSwan] 2005 978-81-8028-024-5 ` 550 172pp Hardback
ethnic groups living in the
Himalayan regions
Bengt G. Karlsson, Associate Professor in Social
understand nature and
Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden
culture. Part I addresses the
Unruly Hills examines the opposition between nature
intersection of and culture in Asia’s major
environmental and ethnic religious traditions. Part II
politics in the Indian state of brings together specialists of
Meghalaya. Based on different representative
extensive fieldwork, the groups living in the
author traces the heterogeneous Himalayan
entanglements of forest region. They examine how these indigenous
management, mining and groups perceive their world. The book takes into
territorial conflicts with local account how these various perceptions of the
demands for indigenous Himalayan peoples are shaped by a globalised
sovereignty and rebellious world. The volume thus provides new ways of
aspirations for ethnic homelands. Massive viewing the relationship between humans and their
extractions of limestone, controversies over environment.
uranium deposits, and the Supreme Court ban on
Contents: Introduction PART I: HINDUISM,
logging apply to the cases specifically explored.
BUDDHISM, ISLAM AND SHAMANISM 1. At the
Contents: Introduction 1. Nature and Nation Articulation of Nature and Artifice 2.Nature and
2. Elusive Forests 3. Shifting Land Rights 4. Mining Culture in Tibetan Philosophy 3. Allah, Saints and
Matters 5. Indigenous Governance 6. Political Men in Islam 4. Variations in Shamanist Siberia
Ecology at the Frontier PART II: HIMALAYAN CASE STUDIES 5. To be
more Natural than Others 6. Subjectivity and
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Governance in the Himalayan Environment
7. Political Aspects of the Territorial Cult
among the Mewahang Rai 8. ‘Wilderness of the
Civilization’ 9. Love and Vengeance in Indus
Kohistan 10. Conceptions on Tibetan Relics
11. Plant Growth Processes and Animal Health in
Northwest Yunnan 12. Terrace Cultivation and
Mental Landscapes in Southern Yunnan 13. The
Sacred Confluence, between Nature and Culture
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Cinema of Enchantment
LAT
Perso-Arabic Genealogies of the Hindi Masala Film
EST FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES

Anjali Gera Roy, Professor, Department of Humanities & Social
Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, West Bengal
In establishing popular Hindi cinema’s aesthetic and thematic difference
from mainstream Euro-American cinema, film scholars have largely
focused on its Hindu Sanskritic sources and proposed a theory for
interpreting and understanding Indian cinema drawn from Hindu
philosophical and religious practices such as dharma and darshana
and Hindu cultural epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata. While
acknowledging the contribution of these dominant narrative and
performance traditions in shaping Hindi cinema, this book explores
alternative aesthetic, cultural, narrative, and ontological influences of the
subcontinent that have influenced storytelling in Hindi films, particularly
the Perso-Arabic legacy of the qissa, dastan and the lost art of dastangoi.
Contents: Introduction: Bhakti or Ashiqi? 2. The Urdu Sha’ir [Poet],
Sha’iri [Poetry] and the Ganga-Jamuni Tehzeeb [Ganga-Jamuni Culture]
3. Qissa-i-Laila Majnun, Ishq and Romance in Hindi Cinema 4. Shehzadas,
Houris, Divs and Djinns 5. Ajeeb Dastan Hai Yeh [It is a Strange Tale
Indeed]: Storytelling in Hindi Cinema 6. Waqt ki Har Sheh Ghulam
[Everything is Subject to Destiny]: Time in Hindi Cinema 7. Filmistan:
The Land of Films 8. The Cinema of Enchantment 9. Towards an
Alternative Aesthetic of the Hindi Masala Film
2015 978-81-250-5966-0 ` 650 260pp Hardback
Genealogies of the Asian Present

Situating Inter-Asia Cultural Studies
Edited by Tejaswini Niranjana, Senior Fellow, Centre for the Study
of Culture and Society, Bangalore, and Wang Xiaoming, Professor of
Cultural Studies at Shanghai University
The Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (IACS) project—an intellectual
movement allied with diverse social movements—began to take shape
in the 1990s through conversations among scholar-activists drawn from
different Asian contexts. The present volume showcases the conceptual
framework of the IACS project by consolidating insights from past
thinkers, marking the continuity of concerns and their relationship to
critical modern knowledge, and creating the pre-conditions for research
in Inter-Asia cultural matters. The archive section of the volume contains
foundational texts from specific national contexts.
Abridged Contents: INTRODUCTION PART I FROM THE ARCHIVE
PART II THE QUESTION OF KNOWLEDGE PART III THE QUESTION
OF CULTURE PART IV NATIONALISM AND MODERNITY PART
V CULTURE AND ECONOMY PART VI GENDER AND CULTURE
PART VII UNDERSTANDING POPULAR CULTURAL PRACTICE
Contributors: Melani Budianta, Partha Chatterjee, Chua Beng Huat,
M. K. Gandhi, He Xuefeng, Kim Hyun Mee, Kim Soyoung, Kuan-Hsing
Chen, Meaghan Morris, Naifei Ding, Ashis Nandy, Tejaswini Niranjana,
M. Madhava Prasad, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, S. V. Srinivas, Sun Ge, Saadia
Toor, Wang Xiaoming, Lisa Yoneyama, Yan Hairong, Zhang Shi Zhao,
Zhang Tai-yan
2015 978-81-250-5854-0 ` 1,050 564pp Hardback

48 LATEST FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
Writing and Editing News

SERIES: STUDIES IN JOURNALISM
K. V. Krishnaswamy, former Deputy Editor, The Hindu, Chennai, and

Associate Professor, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai.
The frenzied pace at which news is generated today makes it a challenge
to produce error-free content. This book addresses this challenge; it
describes the basics of news writing, reporting and editing. It details the
different formats of news writing, news list preparation, news budgeting
and evaluation, headline and lead writing, and design. It argues for the
continuing importance of editing as a skill and the values of maintaining
objectivity and ethics in reporting. Drawing on the author’s long career,
this book provides illustrations, commentaries and an appendix of
carefully-chosen exercises in writing and editing news.
Selected Contents: 1. What is News?: Changing Definition in the
Digital Age 2. Writing the News: The No-frills Language 3. Reporting the
News: Multitasking, Changing Tools and Rising Demands 4. Broadcast
Journalism: In the Age of 24X7 TV and FM Radio 5. Editing the News:
The Vital Last Filter, and Timeless Values 6. Media Ethics: Professional
Code and Gender Issues 7. The Future and the Past: Can Indian Media
Buck the Trend? Appendices: Examples, Exercises and Recommended
Reading
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Bombay Before Bollywood Orient: The Arabian Nights in Early Indian Cinema emergence of this phenomenon against the
Film City Fantasies 3. Distant Voices, Magic Knives: Lal-e-Yaman and backdrop of demands for the linguistic
the Transition to Sound in Bombay Cinema 4. Not reorganisation of the states soon after
Rosie Thomas, Professor of Film, Faculty Quite (Pearl) White: Fearless Nadia, Queen of the independence. Insisting on the centrality of both
of Media, Arts and Design, University of Stunts 5. Zimbo and Son Meet the Girl with a Gun cinematic and political aspects in interpreting the
Westminster, UK 6. Still Magic: An Aladdin’s Cave of 1950s B-Movie cine-political event, the argument also details the
Fantasy Part Two: Introduction to Part Two 7. formal and narrative innovations that produced a
This book offers a fresh, alternative look at
Where the Money Flows, the Camera Rolls 8. cinematic form suited to enacting the fantasies of
the history of Bombay cinema. Eschewing
Indian Cinema: Pleasures and Popularity 9. Sanctity political representation in a context of a deficit of
the conventional focus on India’s social and
and Scandal: The Mythologisation of Mother India popular sovereignty in the new, postcolonial
mythological films, it foregrounds the subaltern
10. Mother India Maligned: The Saga of Sanjay Dutt nation.
genres of fantasy, costume and stunt films popular
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immediately after independence. It explores the Rights: Restricted A major theoretical break in the area of “star
influence of this ‘other’ cinema on the big-budget studies” in the Indian context.… Madhav Prasad’s
study takes … insights [from pioneering works
masala films of the 1970s and 1980s, before Cine-politics in the area] beyond the linguistic/cultural limits
‘Bollywood’ erupted onto the world stage in the
Film Stars and Political Existence in South and extends them to the context of south India.
mid-1990s. The book reminds us that a significant
India … a path-breaking effort in “Indian” film theory
stream of Bombay cinema has always revelled in
cultural hybridity, engaging with global popular M. Madhava Prasad, Professor, Department of [in] its sensitivity and openness to the nuances of
culture and transcultural flows of cosmopolitan Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages the local or linguistic, taking into full account the
modernity and postmodernity. University, Hyderabad location of cinema (and the state)within the power
and ideological architecture of the nation state.
Cine-politics explores the
… [This] book, a marvel created after more unique link established —Economic and Political Weekly
than 30-year-long research, records [the between cinema and politics
author’s] insight into the alternative history of in south India since the .. the book traces the South India film industry
Bombay cinema, provides a condensed history of 1950s. Taking up the cases from the roots—the studio culture to the different
subaltern Bollywood…. Indubitably, it succeeds in of three major stars—M. G. genres to the star-centric films of the later
reestablishing Bollywood’s link with its forgotten Ramachandran, N. T. Rama years—to lay the background for the study and
past. Rao and Rajkumar—the understanding of the star politician.
Contents: 1. Bombay before bollywood Part author locates the ---The Hindu
One: Introduction to Part One 2. Thieves of the
FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES 49
Contents: 1. Cine-politics: On the Political Figurations in Indian Film National Conscience. 4. Reconfiguring the Nation:
Significance of Cinema in South India 2. MGR and The Thoughts of O. V. Vijayan. 5. Critiquing the
the Roots of Cine-politics 3. NTR: The Accidental Edited by Meheli Sen, Assistant Professor, Contemporary: Suraiya and Ninan. Conclusion
Politician? 4. Rajkumar, the Uncrowned King Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South
Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) and 2014 978-81-250-5513-6 ` 725 292pp Hardback
5. The Cine-political Event: Structure and Cause
6. Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty: the Cinema Studies Program, Rutgers University,
Enthusiasm in Indian Political Life USA, and Anustup Basu, Associate Professor, Public-Interest Journalism
Department of English, University of Illinois, A Guide for Students
2014 978-81-250-5356-9 ` 765 224pp Hardback Urbana-Champaign, USA
This volume brings together
Covering and Explaining a series of essays that Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Associate Professor,
Conflict in Civil Society investigate figures, Asian College of Journalism, Chennai
representational modes that
SERIES: STUDIES IN JOURNALISM In the context of increasing
can be read as figural, and in
corporatisation of the media,
Edited by Nalini Rajan, Professor, Asian College some instances, the limits of
this volume shows why
of Journalism, Chennai figurability in Indian cinema.
public-interest journalism is
Cinematic traditions in India
This volume is a collection crucial to a healthy
have always relied on
of essays that highlights democracy. It also
eclectic ways of figurations
issues of ethics specifically introduces aspiring
that combine signs of desire
in journalism of conflict. journalists to the main
and abomination. That is, incarnations often
The media takes an active methods of the craft. Those
emerge at critical interfaces between good/ bad,
interest in reporting cases methods are sorely needed
Indian/ western, self/other, virtue/vice, myth /
of conflict as political unrest in the contemporary news
reality and so on. Such figures are products of
has a direct and immediate media, and will be an asset
discontinuous assembling processes that cut
impact on people’s lives. In for those interested in public-interest writing or
through dyadic arrangements and pass the same
the first part, this volume broadcasting. The author begins by setting the
character/ body/ identity via different, often
presents four such reportages; one each from context in English-speaking countries. Pressures on
contradictory, moral economies and sign systems.
Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and Khairlanji (India). the media to reduce public-interest work stem
Devoted to reportage, these case studies raise an Selected Contents: PART I: POLITICAL AND from governments, from the increasingly
important question: How far can a reporter TYPOLOGICAL FIGURES PART II: GENERIC corporatised and cartelised news media, and from
prescribe and opine in her reportage? The authors MUTATIONS PART III: STAR FIGURES PART IV: journalists’ own professional techniques.
explain, by their own example, the need for a FIGURING (OUT) NEW BOLLYWOOD Furthermore, media organisations in the public and
journalist to be aware of this question during live the private sector often cut staff to save money or
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reportage. The second part of this volume is a Rights: Restricted increase profits, but that makes the news media
critical look at the contemporary media scene in progressively more dependent on official and
India. The authors draw our attention to the corporate sources and press releases. One
vibrant civil society that shook the administration
Out of Line consequence is that the news media severely
when allegations of corruption cropped up. Cartoons, Caricature and Contemporary reduce their coverage of significant public issues,
India such as global warming, mass poverty, policy
Contents: PART I: COVERING CONFLICT IN failures, corporate illegalities and corruption.
CIVIL SOCIETY PART II: EXPLAINING CONFLICT Christel Devadawson, Professor, Department
IN CIVIL SOCIETY PART III: CIVIL SOCIETY IN of English, University of Delhi Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The
SOCIAL MEDIA Current Condition and the Commercial Context
Out of Line offers an engaging
Out of Line offers an engaging and
of the News Media 2. A Summary of the
and thoughtful look at the
Also from Orient BlackSwan thoughtful look at the career of
Devadawson
graphic satire in India, focusing on
Contributors: Atul Aneja, Subarno Chattarji, Contemporary Indian News-Media Context 3.

Does graphic satire intensify dissent, WORD, IMAGE, TEXT newspaper cartoons in prominent
or does it unwittingly speak the voice Studies in Literary and Visual Culture English-language dailies during the
of power? Is the tradition of pictorial Shormishtha Panja, Shirshendu Chakrabarti post-independence period. The book
career of graphic satire in

protest a worthy resource for the and Christel Devadawson (eds) explores the tradition of graphic
cultural historian? Refusing easy dissent as a form of national
DIGITAL COOL
Pavan Arvind Dahat, Arnav Das Sharma, Professionalism and Media Culture 4. Professional
answers, Out of Line journeys into the 'lifewriting' — the autobiographical
Life in the Age of New Media
implicit paradoxes at the heart of this Pramod K. Nayar recording of self, memory and
extraordinary genre. The book will be experience — that brings to light the
India, focusing on newspaper

useful to students and scholars of PICTURING THE NATION trials and travails of democracy in the
cultural history, visual culture, Iconographies of Modern India young nation-state.
Mahalakshmi Jayaram, Anjali Kamat, Sridivya Journalism and Systematic Subordination 5. Citizen
journalism, and cultural studies. Richard Davis (ed.)
Cartoons, Caricature and
It will also be of interest to the Thus, Shankar's passionate yet

FREEDOM AND BEEFSTEAKS
cartoons in prominent
general reader. thoughtful reconstruction of
Contemporary India
Colonial Calcutta Culture

Jawaharlal Nehru in 'Man of the Week'
Rosinka Chaudhuri
Mukpalkar, Sukumar Muralidharan, Nalini Rajan, Journalism 6. Alternative Models of the Media 7.
offers a critical medium through which
Christel R. Devadawson is Professor, to understand the hopes and anxieties
Department of English, University of the new republic. R. K. Laxman's
English-language dailies during

of Delhi. much-loved mascot, the Common
Man, helps us understand the
Usha Raman, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Nirupama Existing Alternatives to the Mainstream Media
complexities of the Nehruvian legacy,
while Abu Abraham's 'Private View'
seeks to keep the public conscience
the post-independence
alive through the difficult months of
Emergency. O. V. Vijayan's grim
Subramanian Instructional Material–Examples and Exercises

graphic world explores a tragic
universe in which justice and equity
period. Through a detailed

never reach the poor and the
marginalised. Finally, Jug Suraiya and
his collaborators explore the
paradoxes of democracy in a more
self-confident, post-liberalisation India,
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where global issues of multinational
capital, environmentalism and warfare
take centre stage.
Cover image: Original cartoon by Chari Devadawson: Out of Line
Cover design: Utsav Continued on back flap
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Shankar Pillai, R. K. Laxman,
Abu Abraham, O. V. Vijayan and the collaborative
Censorium
Cultural History of Early team of Jug Suraiya and Ajit Ninan, Christel
Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass
South Asia Devadawson interprets the genre of graphic
Publicity
A Reader dissent as a form of national ‘lifewriting’—the William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology,
autobiographical recording of self, memory and University of Chicago
Edited by Shonaleeka Kaul, Associate Professor, experience—that brings to light the trials and
Department of History, University of Delhi travails of democracy in the young nation-state. See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
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Contents: Introduction. 1. Romancing the
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Republic: Shankar, Nehru and the Man of the
Week. 2. Uncommon Citizens: Laxman and the
Common Man. 3. Abu and the Keeping of the

50 FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
Development Textbook ‘Medieval’ in Film, The Sun Never Sets, The

Communication Representing a Contested Time on Indian South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S.
Contexts for the Twenty-first Century Screen (1920s–1960s) Power
Dipankar Sinha, Professor and Head, Urvi Mukhopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Vivek Bald, Associate Professor of Comparative
Department of Political Science, University of Department of History, West Bengal State Media Studies, Massachusetts Institute of
Calcutta University Technology, USA, Miabi Chatterji is the Co-
Director of Grants at the RESIST Foundation,
This volume looks at the Wars and nationalism,
Sujani Reddy, Five College Assistant Professor
origins, theoretical colonisation and
of Asian Pacific American Studies, Department
underpinnings and major decolonisation, economic
of American Studies at Amherst College, USA,
debates in the discipline of depression, and more
Manu Vimalassery, Visiting Assistant Professor
Development recently globalisation, have
in American Studies, Williams College, USA
Communication. While affected perceptions of
and Vijay Prashad is Edward Said Chair at the
arguing for its place among contemporary as well as
American University of Beirut.
the social sciences, the past worlds. Cinema—a
author critically scrutinises popular medium directed to See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
both the concepts of the broadest possible
2013 978-81-250-5236-4 ` 1170 408pp Hardback
‘development’ and audience—has reacted to, Rights: Restricted
‘communication’. This book highlights the and in turn shaped the social, economic and
discipline and its applications in India. The author political conditions of the times. This book
has provided case studies of various development investigates how the cinematic medium negotiated Towards Social Change
communication initiatives undertaken in West the dominant ideas of history in order to Essays on Dalit Literature
Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra, Maharashtra and construct a range of historical imageries. Focusing
Edited by Sankar Prasad Singha, Professor and
Pondicherry to illustrate these. on the ‘medieval’ era, it studies the influences of
Coordinator, DRS-Sap, Department of English,
various nationalist imaginations of the past,
This volume will be invaluable for students and and Indranil Acharya, Associate Professor,
unmistakably present after the emergence of a
researchers in departments and institutes teaching Department of English, Vidyasagar University,
mass-based nationalist movement in the 1920s and
mass communication. Midnapore, West Bengal
1930s. Also of interest are posters of and images
from the films discussed, as well as an extensive See DALIT STUDIES
Abridged Contents: 1. Development
filmography and a detailed bibliography.
Communication: A Brief Outline 2. ‘The World’ 2013 978-81-250-5344-6 ` 670 200pp Hardback
of Development Communication: Shifting Contents: Introduction Film and the Medieval/ Rights: Restricted
Horizons 3. The Inner Struggle: Changing Track the Medieval in Film 1. The Construction of a
Challenging Goals 4. Media and Mediation:
Towards Participatory Engagement 5. New
‘Medieval’ Past and Its Uses in Colonial India 2. Appropriately Indian
‘Re-visioning’ the Medieval Past: The Silent Era of
Technology and the Inclusive Society 6. ICT-led
Gender and Culture in a New
Indian Film 3. ‘Re-visioning’ the Medieval Past: The
Premier Interventions: Under Critical Lens Coming of the Talkies 4. The ‘Medieval’ in a Time
Transnational Class
7. Premier ‘Organic’ Interventions: Critical of Communal: Polarisation 1940–46 5. Contesting Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of
Review 8. Experiencing India: Problems in Search Visions of the ‘Medieval’ in Independent India 1947 Sociology, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
of Development Communication Conclusion: to the 1960s Conclusion The ‘Medieval’ in Post-
Pro-People and Pro-Active Communication—The Nehruvian India Filmography See SOCIOLOGY
Agenda Ahead 2012 978-81-250-4513-7 ` 675 252pp Paperback
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Radical Rabindranath Bollywood in the Age of

Ideas and Institutions in Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore’s
Medieval India Fiction and Films New Media
Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries The Geo-televisual Aesthetic
Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor and Former
Radhika Seshan, Associate Professor, Head, Department of English and Former Dean, Anustup Basu, Assistant Professor, University of
Department of History, University of Pune Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta, Sudeshna Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Chakravarti, Professor, Department of English,
See HISTORY This study of popular Indian
University of Calcutta and Mary Mathew,
cinema in an age of
2013 978-81-250-5175-6 ` 870 240pp Hardback Professor, Department of English, North Carolina
globalization, new media,
2013 978-81-250-5174-9 ` 500 240pp Paperback Central University.
and metropolitan Hindu
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE fundamentalism focuses on
the period from 1991 to
2013 978-81-250-5028-5 ` 770 389pp Hardback
2004. Popular Hindi cinema
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took a certain spectacular
turn from the early nineties
as a signature ‘Bollywood
style’ evolved in the wake of
liberalization and the inauguration of a global
media ecology in India.
Contents: PART I Introduction 1. Cinematic

‘Assemblages’ 2. The Geo-televisual and Hindi Film Contents: Introduction: Mediated Lives and Before the Divide
in the Age of Information; PART II: Informatics, Cool Technologies 1. ‘Only Connect’ I: Mobile Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture
Sovereignty and the Cinematic City 3. Allegories of Communications 2. Game for Anything: Digital
Power/Information 4. The Music of Intolerable Love Play 3. ‘Only Connect’ II: New Socialities Edited by Francesca Orsini, Reader, Literatures
PART III: Myth and Repetition 5. Technopolis and the 4. Geography Lessons: Digitized Spaces 5. Inactive of North India at the School of Oriental and
Ramayana 6. Repetitions with Difference Epilogue to Interactive: Reality Media 6. Genetic Muses: African Studies, University of London
Posthuman Arts Conclusion: Cool Lives and
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Future Tense Freedom and Beef Steaks Change – Conflict and

Lawrence Grossberg, Morris Davis Colonial Calcutta Culture
Distinguished Professor of Communication Studies Convergence
and Cultural Studies at the University of North Rosinka Chaudhuri, Fellow in Cultural Studies, Austral-Asian Scenarios
Carolina, USA Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Edited by Ian vanden Driesen, Senior Honorary
Cultural Studies in the Future See HISTORY Research Fellow, Business School, University
Tense offers a vision of a 2012 978-81-250-4764-3 ` 785 228pp Hardback of Western Australia, and Cynthia vanden
contemporary cultural Driesen, specialist in postcolonial literatures and
studies that embraces Australian literature
complexity, rigorous Middle-Class Moralities
Everyday Struggles over Belonging and The papers cover subjects
interdisciplinary practice and
Prestige in India ranging from Sri Lankan
experimental collaborations
cricket to diplomacy on the
in an effort to better explain Minna Saavala, Adjunct Professor, University of world scene; from literary
the present in the service of Helsinki ‘blogging’ to trade
the imagination of other
See SOCIOLOGY performance; from
futures and the struggles for
Bollywood audiences to
social transformation. 2012 978-81-250-4463-5 ` 455 236pp Paperback
aboriginal rights in Australia
2010 978-81-250-3789-7 ` 675 236pp Hardback
and the development of
... It is required reading for anyone interested Australian studies in Spain;
not only in the future of cultural studies but in Mysore Modern from a nineteenth-century
contemporary culture and its political meanings. Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule Shakespeare production in Sri Lanka to a
—Stuart Hall Janaki Nair, Professor, Centre for Historical performance of Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers in Sydney.
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University They cover the phenomenon of change as it
Contents: Introduction: We All Want to Change manifests itself in a range of disciplines and
the World 1. The Heart of Cultural Studies See HISTORY highlight shared commonalities as well as
2. Constructing the Conjuncture: Struggling 2012 978-81-250-4507-6 ` 895 372pp Hardback contrasted experiences and perspectives.
over Modernity 3.Considering Value: Rescuing Rights: Restricted
Economies from Economists 4. Contextualizing Abridged Contents: Introduction SECTION
1A: CHANGE: THE AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT
Culture: Mediation, Signification, and Significance Producing Bollywood SECTION 1B: WHITHER AUSTRALIA? SECTION
5. Complicating Power: The “And” of Politics,
Inside the Contemporary Hindi Film 1C: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE SECTION 2:
and . . . 6. In Search of Modernities
Industry CHANGE IN THE SRI LANKAN CONTEXT:
2012 978-81-250-4504-5 ` 630 368pp Paperback SOME REFLECTIONS SECTION 3: CHANGES
Tejaswini Ganti, Associate Professor of
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Anthropology at New York University, USA
4: THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE SECTION
Producing Bollywood offers an
Digital Cool unprecedented look inside
5: CULTURAL CHANGE: EUROPEAN AND
Life in the Age of New Media CANADIAN PERSPECTIVES
the social and professional
worlds of the Mumbai-based 2011 978-81-250-4219-8 ` 775 396pp Hardback
Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of
English, University of Hyderabad Hindi film industry and
This book examines life in

explains how it became Companion to Translation
‘Bollywood’, the global film
the age of New Media. From phenomenon and potent Studies, A
Facebook to internet dating, symbol of India as a rising Edited by Piotr Kuhiwczak, Associate Professor,
from ‘condensed’ networked economic powerhouse. Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural
cities to mobile phones,
Abridged Contents: PART I: THE SOCIAL Studies, University of Warwick, UK, and Karin
from iPads to iPhones,
STATUS OF FILMS AND FILMMAKERS PART II: Littau, Senior Lecturer, Department of Literature,
transgenic art to robotics,
THE PRACTICES AND PROCESSES OF FILM Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UK
Twitter and cyberspace
avatars to Wikis—it traces PRODUCTION PART III: DISCOURSES AND See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
how human lives are not PRACTICES OF AUDIENCE-MAKING
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only heavily mediated by 2012 978-81-250-4707-0 ` 785 440pp Paperback Rights: Restricted
‘Cool’ technologies, but how the technologies Rights: Restricted
themselves are mediated by human lives.

New World of Indigenous States of Sentiment and Director, Institute of Heritage Management
Exploring the Cultures of Emotion and Research, Delhi
Resistance
Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, Pramod K. Nayar, Department of English, See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
South and Central America University of Hyderabad 2011 978-81-250-4222-8 ` 785 368pp Paperback
Edited by Lois Meyer, Associate Professor in the

Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural States of Sentiment Writer’s Feast, The
Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, represents a fascinating
Food and the Cultures of Representation
USA, and Benjamín Maldonado Alvarado, merger of cultural studies
Mexican anthropologist specialising in indigenous with philosophy, psychology, Edited by Supriya Chaudhuri, Professor and
education and trauma studies through Co-ordinator, Centre of Advanced Study, and
the overarching category of Rimi B. Chatterjee, faculty, both at the
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE affect.... [A]ppealing and Department of English, Jadavpur University,
2011 978-81-250-4325-6 ` 725 416pp Paperback creative, Nayar’s text Kolkata
Rights: Restricted connects with readers ... [It]
offers a way to critically … this volume fills a large
consider the effects of a gap in our critical
Poetics and Politics of Sufism continuous barrage of mediated and emotionally- engagement with literary
and Bhakti in South Asia charged content. texts. The Writer’s Feast is a
Love, Loss and Liberation feast not only for the
—Kristen Rudisill, Department of Popular Culture,
academic analyst, but will
Edited by Kavita Panjabi, Professor, Department Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
please the palate of all who
of Comparative Literature, Jadavpur University have a taste for an informed
With a Foreword by Shiv Visvanathan.
This book offers a literary, engagement with cultural
performative, cultural and phenomena. … [A]n
… an invitation to a new multi-disciplinary social
linguistic analysis of Sufism excellent volume of critical
science crafted with humour, a sense of paradox,
and Bhakti in South Asia. engagements.
ready to be vulnerable as it plays out new ideas
Central to this book are the and new speculations about the world of ideas —Aniket Jaaware, University of Pune
methodological approaches
of comparative literary ….
There is a lot of food for thought here and [the
studies, by means of which —Shiv Visvanathan, from his Foreword
book] open[s] up the reader to both the pleasures
it attempts to bridge the and profundity of food (the two not being mutually
disciplinary divides of In [this book], Pramod Nayar “extends the exclusive)…. [It] negotiates the culinary terrain
academia, and root the framework of cultural studies to a new site, through a variety of texts and an equally rich set of
literary and philosophical study of Sufi and Bhakti emotion … [and] attempts to see how media perspectives.
traditions in performance arts as well as social organises emotion and then examines the —The Book Review
processes both within and across cultures. consumption of emotion and its consequences”.
Abridged Contents: Introduction: Food and
Contents: Introduction PART I: LITERATURE —DNA the Cultures of Representation PART I: EATING
1. The Erotic to the Divine: Kabir’s Notion of Love CULTURES PART II: GENDERING FOOD
and Femininity 2. Ask Not the Caste of the One PART III: MIGRANCY, DIASPORA AND THE
The book covers interesting ground on the
Who is Wise: Exploring Articulations of ‘Religious’ COSMOPOLITAN GOURMET PART IV: THE
culture of emotion.... It fills an important need in
Identity in Malik Muhammad Jayasi’s Padmavat BODY AND ITS LIMITS
understanding the way emotions are represented
3. Sectarian Texts and Syncretic Conventions:
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Hindus and Muslims in the Narratives of Medieval
individuals and societies.
Karnataka 4. The Celebrations of Guru Nanak’s
—The Book Review
Career in Classical Urdu Literature 5. The Sufi and Celluloid Deities
the Vedanta: A Case of Reverse Reception Contents: Introduction: Emotion Cultures
The Visual Culture of Cinema and Politics
6. The Ethos of the Fakir: Of Affective Belonging and Cultural Emotion Studies 1. Smile: Cultures
and Institutional Partitions Across South Asia
in South India
of Well-being 2. Scars: Cultures of Suffering
PART II: PERFORMANCE AND CINEMA 7. 3. Shudders: Cultures of Aversion 4.Yearning: Preminda Jacob, Associate Professor of Art
Reflections on the Early Khayal 8. The Voices Cultures of Hope History and Theory, Department of Visual Arts,
of Bhaktas and Courtesans: Gender, Love and University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
2011 978-81-250-4199-3 ` 785 316pp Hardback
Renunciation in Thumri and Bhakti Poetry 9.
Dancing the Scared and the Secular 10. The Baul Towering billboards featuring
Workplace: Towards a Review of the Icon 11. Voice and Memory photorealistic portraits of
popular cinema stars and
Madly in Love: On a Trail of Songs of Separation Indigenous Imagination and Expression
12. Viraha: A Trajectory in the Nehruvian Era political leaders dominated
G. N. Devy, Director and Founder of Bhasha the cityscape of Chennai
Contributors: Purushottam Agrawal, Raziuddin Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, and throughout the second half of
Aquil, Abhishek Basu, Moushumi Bhowmik, Pallabi Adivasi Academy, Tejgadh, Gujarat, Geoffrey the twentieth century.
Chakravorty, Ipshita Chanda, Amlan Das Gupta, V. Davis, Chair, Association of Commonwealth Studying the manufacture and
Swapan Majumdar, Kavita Panjabi, Vidya Rao, Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), reception of these
Kumkum Sangari, T. S. Satyanath Aachen, Germany, and K. K. Chakravarty, billboards—known locally as
2011 978-81-250-4297-6 ` 475 312pp Paperback
Chancellor of the National University of banners and cutouts—within
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industry and political parties in Tamil Nadu, Preminda Filmsong 11. Queer as Desis: Secret Politics gender relations, hegemonic
Jacob reveals the broader significance of these of Gender and Sexuality in Bollywood Films in patriarchy, female
fragments of visual culture beyond their immediate Diasporic Urban Ethnoscapes 12. Bollwood Gets friendships and soft porn.
function as pretty pieces of advertising. Funky: American Hip-Hop, Basement Bhangra, and These diverse concerns are
the Racial Politics of Music held together by a key focal
Contents: Introduction: Of Painters, Politicians,
point: the paradox of
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Artists and Their Methods 2. Cooperation and
Kerala’s cultural politics.
Conflict in Chennai’s Visual Culture: Financiers,
Artists, and Their Audiences 3. Tamil Cinema: Hundred Tamil Folk and Selected Contents:
History, Celebrities, Genres 4. Cine Signs: PART I: INTRODUCTION
Semiotics of Chennai’s Cinema Banners 5. The Tribal Tales, A 1. Becoming Women:
Coalescence of Tamil Nationalism and the Cinema Translated by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, Unwrapping Femininity in Malayalam Cinema
Industry 6. The Political Cutout: Celebrity and Professor of English, Pondicherry University PART II: HISTORICAL MAPPINGS OF GENDER
Cult in Tamil Nadu 7. Darshan and Cinematic 2. Gender Equations in Malayalam Cinema 3.
Spectatorship Conclusion: The Future of Chennai’s See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Film, Female and the New Wave in Kerala
Visual Culture 2010 978-81-250-3920-4 ` 455 324pp Hardback 4. Engendering Popular Cinema in Malayalam
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in Malayalam Cinema 6. Women of a Different
Mourning the Nation Republic 7. Malayalam Middle Cinema and the
Indian Cinema in the Wake of Partition Category of Woman PART: IV CONTEMPORARY
Global Bollywood CROSSINGS: FOILED PROMISES 8. The
Travels of Hindi Song and Dance Bhaskar Sarkar, Associate Professor, Film and
Media Studies, University of California, Santa ‘Laughter-Films’ and the Reconfiguration of
Edited by Sangita Gopal, Assistant Professor of Barbara, USA Masculinities 9. Women’s Friendships in Malayalam
English, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA, and Cinema 10. The Real-Reel Dichotomy of Rape 11.
Sujata Moorti, Professor, Women’s and Gender The political truncation of Soft Porn and the Anxieties of the Family
Studies, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA 1947 led to a social
2010 978-81-250-3865-8 ` 785 252pp Hardback
cataclysm in which about a
Global Bollywood describes E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5852-6
million perished and some
the many roots and routes twelve million became
of the Bollywood song and homeless. Combining film Against Stigma
dance spectacle. Examining studies, trauma theory and Studies in Caste, Race and Justice since
the reception of Bollywood South Asian cultural history, Durban
music in places as diverse as Bhaskar Sarkar follows the
Indonesia and Israel, the shifting traces of this event SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN
essays offer a stimulating in Indian cinema of the next HISTORY
redefinition of globalisation, six decades.
highlighting the cultural Balmurli Natrajan, Assistant Professor,
influence of Hindi film Selected Contents: Introduction: National Department of Anthropology, William Paterson
music from its origins early in the twentieth Cinema’s Hermeneutic of Mourning PART I: A University, New Jersey, and Paul Greenough,
century till today. RESONANT SILENCE 1. Cinema’s Project of Professor of History, Community and Behavioral
Nationhood 2. Runes of Laceration 3. Bengali Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City
Cinema: A Spectral Subnationality PART II: THE
A sophisticated and altogether groundbreaking See SOCIOLOGY
RETURN OF THE REPRESSED 4. Dispersed
study.
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and Dance PART I: HOME TERRAINS 1. Tapping Coda: The Critical Enchantment of Mourning Cinema and Censorship
the Mass Market: The Commercial Life of Hindi The Politics of Control in India
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Evolution of Bollywood Film Song 3. From Bombay Someswar Bhowmik, Research Scientist with
to Bollywood: Tracking Cinematic Musical Tours Educational Multimedia Research Centre,
4. Bollwood and Beyond: The Transnational Women in Malayalam St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata
Economy of Film Production in Ramoji Film City, Cinema This ‘narrative
Hyderabad 5. The Music of Intolerable Love: Naturalising Gender Hierarchies historiography’ traces the
Political Conjugality in Mani Ratnam’s Dil Se PART
evolution of censorship
II: ECCENTRIC ORBITS 6. Intimate Neighbours: Edited by Meena T. Pillai, Reader, Institute of
discourses in post-colonial
Bolllywood, Dangdut Music, and Globalising English, and Director, Centre for Comparative
India, delineates the
Modernities in Indonesia 7. The Ubiquitous Literature, University of Kerala
theoretical bases of
Nonpresence of India: Peripheral Visions from
In its focus on woman–cinema interface, as censorship claims and
Egyptian Popular Culture 8. Appropriating the
depicted in a century of Malayalam cinema, this contentions, and uncovers
Uncodable: Hindi Song and Dance Sequences in
book addresses a wide range of themes crucial for its many socio-political
Israeli State Promotional Commercials PART III:
a nuanced understanding of Malayalam film dimensions and
PLANETARY CONSCIOUSNESS 9. Dancing to
culture—gender stereotyping, marriage and family, complexities. The author
an Indian Beat: “Dola” Goes My Diasporic Heart
the aftermaths of matriliny, caste and disagrees with the popular notion of censorship as
10. Food and Cassettes: Encounters with Indian

moral restraint. Rather, he reveals that its true History through the Lens directions and territories
import lies in the propagation of political agendas. Perspectives on South Indian Films for cultural studies. It
explores theory’s past,
Contents: Preface 1. Mapping the Field 2. Theodore Baskaran, a prolific writer and film present and most especially
Politics of Film Censorship 3. A Medium under historian its future role in cultural
Siege 4. The ‘Past’ delivers the ‘Present’ 5. The
studies. It introduces
First Movements, 1950–1964 6. The Second Theodore Baskaran weaves
students to the thinkers and
Movements, 1964–1976 7. The Third Movements, the magic and matter of
theories currently
1977–1991 8. The Fourth Movements, 1991–2006 South Indian films into a rich
influencing new work in
9. A Medium in Chains? tapestry of readable essays.
cultural studies: Giorgio
They cover such topics as
Agamben, Alain Badiou,
Bhowmik’s account of the newly independent early cinema in the south,
Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michael Hardt and
India and its relation to cinema captures the trade unionism in the South
Antonio Negri, Friedrich Kittler, Ernesto Laclau,
contradictions of the moment between Nehru’s Indian film industry, and the
Emmanuel Levinas, Slavoj Žižek.
notion of the role of cinema as a vehicle of need for historicising
modernism and Gandhi’s unabashed refusal of southern cinema. Baskaran Selected Contents: PART I: NEW ADVENTURES
anything worthwhile in cinema and that the film also investigates how Tamil IN THEORY PART II: NEW THEORISTS PART III:
industry should commit itself to ‘reducing this cinema is struggling to free NEW TRANSFORMATIONS PART IV: NEW
poison’. itself from the legacy of company drama and the ADVENTURES IN CULTURAL STUDIES
—www.india-seminar.com persistence of stage features.
Contributors: Neil Badmington, Caroline
2009 978-81-250-3665-4 ` 670 396pp Paperback Contents: 1. Documenting Cinema in South India: Bassett, Clare Birchall, Paul Bowman, Dave
Problems Faced by Film Historians 2. Cinema as Boothroyd, Jeremy Gilbert, Gary Hall, Julian
a Source Material for History: Possibilities and Murphet, Brett Neilson, Gregory J. Seigworth,
Essential Mystery, The Problems 3. Persistence of Conventions: Company Imre Szeman, Jeremy Valentine, Geoffrey
Major Filmmakers of Indian Art Cinema Drama and Tamil Cinema 4. Cinema House as Winthrop-Young, J. Macgregor Wise, Joanna
(Second Edition) Public Space: The Advent of Filmic Entertainment Zylinska
in South India 5. Adaptations from Literature:
John W. Hood, scholar of Indian art cinema 2009 978-81-250-3511-4 ` 620 332pp Paperback
Tamil Cinema 6. K. Ramnoth: The Forgotten
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substantially revised and Indian Film Industry Texts Histories Geographies
updated edition takes a 2009 978-81-250-3520-6 ` 325 140pp Paperback
Reading Indian Literature
critical look at the major E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4681-3 P. P. Raveendran, Professor of English, School
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of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
The film directors who
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Girish Kasaravalli, Govind Nihalani, Ritwik Ghatak Literature, universities of Aachen and Duisberg- Studies in Literary and Visual Culture
and Buddhadeb Dasgupta. Essen, and K. K. Chakravarty, Secretary, Indira
Edited by Shormishtha Panja, Professor,
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Shirshendu Chakrabarti, Professor, and
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G. N. Devy Reader, The John W. Hood, scholar of Indian art cinema
G. N. Devy, founder of Bhasha Research and
This book thoroughly
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Senior Lecturers, Cultural Studies, Middlesex spectrum of excellence and
University, UK mediocrity that comprise
This book is both an introductory reference work Ray’s work, Hood concludes
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Gender and Cultural Identity The book critiques current Translated by S. Thillainayagam, Professor,
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Nietzsche for Beginners Our Films, Their Films relationships among the state, the film industry,
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An Introduction to Structuralism and Post-
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Ronit Ricci, lecturer, Australian National Freedom Janaki Bakhle, Assistant Professor, Department
University of History, Columbia University, New York
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Political Science, and Véronique Benei, Visiting the twenty-first century India.
Senior Fellow in Anthropology, London School of
Economics and Political Science 2006 978-81-8028-027-6 ` 575 252pp Hardback
See SOCIOLOGY Play of the Gods, The

2012 978-81-87358-57-2 ` 350 231pp Paperback Locality, Ideology, Structure, and Time in the
Rights: Restricted Festivals of a Bengali Town
Ákos Östör
2004 978-81-8028-013-9 ` 525 272pp Hardback

Beloved Bapu portrayal of their struggles and triumphs, their together these reflections, in their tentativeness,
political and spiritual journey. openness and counter-factual agreement.
GANDHI STUDIES
The Gandhi-Mirabehn Correspondence
Selected Contents: 1. Gandhi and Kallenbach’s 2010 978-81-250-4038-5 ` 510 163pp Hardback
Tridip Suhrud, Director, Sabarmati Ashram
Preservation and Memorial Trust, Gandhi Ashram, Meeting 2. The Upper House and the Lower
House 3. Tolstoy Farm 4. ‘The people you want to
Sabarmati, Ahmedabad, Thomas Weber,
serve may be your death-traps’ 5. ‘The remedy lies
My Life is My Message
Honorary Associate, School of Social Sciences and Sadhana (1869–1905)
Research Associate, Center for Dialogue, not in Palestine’ 6. Kallenbach’s Role in the Third
Wave of the Satyagraha 7. World War I—Gandhi
Satyagraha (1915–1930)
La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia Satyapath (1930–1940)
and Kallenbach Part 8. Between Gandhi and Zion
Beloved Bapu offers readers 9. ‘The Jews’ Svarpan (1940–1948)
an unprecedented insight Narayan Desai, Chancellor, Gujarat Vidyapeeth
2012 978-81-250-4699-8 ` 785 204pp Hardback
into the relationship Translated by Tridip Suhrud, Professor,
between Gandhi and Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and
Madeleine Slade or M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj Communication Technology, Ahmedabad
BELOVED BAPU
The Gandhi-Mirabehn Mirabehn, his foremost A Critical Edition
Correspondence Western woman disciple This English translation of
Edited and Introduced by
Tridip Suhrud and Thomas Weber and faithful companion for Annonated, translated and edited by Suresh Narayan Desai’s epic
twenty-three years. Gandhi Sharma, historian and anthropologist, and Tridip four-volume biography in
and Mira were often Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute Gujarati, Maru Jivan Ej Mari
together but corresponded extensively when they of Information and Communication Technology, Vani—hailed as one of the
were not. The current volume brings together this Ahmedabad finest insights into the life of
correspondence, interweaving Gandhi’s letters to On board the Kildonan Gandhi—brings alive
Mira with her own responses to him and putting Castle, on his return from Gandhi’s quest as one
them in conversation. It thereby reveals the depth England to South Africa, indivisible whole, in which
and complexity of their close but fraught M. K. Gandhi wrote Hind ‘the political’ is not outside
relationship and also provides fascinating glimpses Swarajya in Gujarati the realm of ‘the spiritual’.
of their perspectives, opinions and struggles with between13 and 22 With a Foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
life, health, work, people and satyagraha. November 1909. This
centenary edition of 2009 978-81-250-3706-4 ` 4000 Paperback
Vol. I: 620pp; Vol. II: 722pp; Vol. III: 491pp; Vol. IV: 564pp
…a significant addition to the repertoire of Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj is both
Gandhi Studies and would be valued both for the a celebration of the text as
light it throws on the nature of an intense and also its biography. This critical edition restores the Notes from Gandhigram
complex relationship between two extraordinary sanctity of the 1910 first edition and brings it in Challenges to Gandhian Praxis
individuals and for the little known facets of conversation with the subsequent editions of 1921
Gandhi’s life and personality that it reveals. and 1939. It also compares the Gujarati original Samir Banerjee, honorary consultant,
with the English rendering. For the first time, this Gandhigram Trust
---The Hindu
edition brings together three texts (Gujarati, Hindi This book focuses on the
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Madeleine and English) and also includes the original Preface institutions and individuals
Slade Comes to Gandhi 2. Worker or Disciple? and Foreword of Gandhi. This is the only bilingual that have adopted the
3. A ‘Catch-22’ Relationship 4. Civil Disobedience edition of Hind Swaraj. Gandhian approach as a
and Prison 5. Freedom and Europe 6. A New 2010 978-81-250-3918-1 ` 550 212pp Hardback means of social
Ashram and New Problems 7. The Growing E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5312-5 transformation. The
Distance 8. The Final Years Concluding Remarks relevance of Gandhian
thought is examined
2014 978-81-250-5615-7 ` 950 552pp Hardback Speaking of Gandhi’s Death through a critical analysis of
Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza, Director, the experience of the
Soulmates Indian Institute of Advance Study, Shimla, and Gandhigram Trust, a
The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani sixty-year-old organisation based in the Dindigul
Hermann Kallenbach Institute of Information and Communication district of Tamil Nadu. Retaining objectivity, but
Technology, Ahmedabad without being judgemental, the study validates the
Shimon Lev, researcher and writer in Israel
enduring relevance of Gandhi in converting a
In March 1948, a group of vision into a social engagement, creating a vibrant
This volume is the first
Gandhi’s closest associates community with a culture of concern, humility and
full-length, comprehensive
led by Pandit Nehru— care.
study of the unique
Vinoba Bhave, J. B. Kripalani,
relationship Mahatma
Maulana Azad and Selected Contents: 1. Introduction
Gandhi shared with
Jayaprakash Narayan, among 2. Gandhigram 3. The Gandhigram Trust
Hermann Kallenbach, a
others—met at Sevagram to 4. Social Welfare 5. Education 6. Rural Economics
Jewish architect of German
reflect and deliberate on 7. Lessons from Praxis 8. Challenges in the Future
origin in South Africa. The
Gandhi’s assassination. Sixty 2009 978-81-250-3688-3 ` 840 264pp Paperback
story is told chronologically
years later, in an evocative E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5307-1
and covers the important
response to that
milestones in Gandhi’s
introspection, a group of scholars and writers
evolution as a mass leader during the Indian
gathered at the Sabarmati Ashram to once again
struggle in the country. It is a detailed and sensitive
reflect on Gandhi’s death. This book brings

60 GANDHI STUDIES
Rethinking Gandhi and author also shows how twelve appendices consisting of hitherto
Gandhi, following these unpublished letters and related material.
Nonviolent Relationality writers, created another
Global Perspectives 2007 978-81-250-3379-0 ` 550 320pp Paperback
notion of ‘nation’ and 2007 978-81-250-3049-2 ` 850 320pp Hardback
Edited by Debjani Ganguly, Head, and John ‘reform’, and analyses the
moral dimensions of these
Docker, Adjunct Professor, Humanities Research
concepts.
In the Tracks of the
Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
Mahatma
Conceived, debated and The Making of a Documentary
written at the beginning
of a troubled millennium, A. K. Chettiar
this work brings together Edited by A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor,
a group of scholars to 2009 978-81-250-3043-0 ` 730 280pp Hardback Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai,
rethink Gandhi’s legacy and and translated by S. Thillainayagam, Professor,
Department of English, Manonmaniam Sundaranar
non-violent ethics and his Gandhi’s Khadi University, Tirunelveli
relevance in the new world A History of Contention and Conciliation
order. The contributors In 1937, a 26-year-old Indian
approach Gandhi as an Rahul Ramagundam, activist, advocate and
aboard a ship sailing from
activist-thinker whose trans- academic
New York to Dublin
cultural ethics translates across a range of political decided to make a
The book is a study of khadi,
sites. The volume also gives us vignettes of documentary on the life of
the fabric that successfully
Gandhi’s vegetarianism and his experiments in Mahatma Gandhi. Over the
transcended its commodity
communal living. It explores the nature of Gandhi’s next few years, he travelled
status to become a political
thought, practice and legacy. some 100,000 miles
symbol. Acquiring emblematic
2009 978-81-250-3388-2 ` 950 372pp Hardback status during India’s freedom collecting 50,000 feet of film
Rights: Restricted struggle due to Gandhi’s footage. In 1940, he edited
efforts, khadi heralded real this into a 12,000 feet
freedom to millions of poor documentary. In the Tracks of the Mahatma is the
Shanti Sena, The and marginalised Indians. story of the making of this documentary in the
Philosophy, History and Action Recreating a parallel history words of the man who achieved this stupendous
Thomas Weber, faculty of politics and peace of the khadi movement alongside that of India’s task, A. K. Chettiar.
studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia freedom struggle, the author argues that khadi’s core 2006 978-81-250-3142-0 ` 565 172pp Hardback
semiotic lay in its being a commodity of resistance E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4677-6
With recent large-scale against colonial exploitation.
communal clashes in India,
some of the older Contents: 1. Memories
Gandhians have been heard of a Moral Movement
to voice the opinion that 2. Morality of the Movement, 1915–22
the time has come to 3. Mobilising a Movement
reactivate the Shanti Sena, 4. Ideology of Innocence PERMANENT BLACK
Mahatma Gandhi’s Peace 5. Clothing the Congress 6. A “Clear Clash of
Ideas” 7. Authentic Khadi: Agency, Activism,
Army, that did impressive
Agendas 8. Quest for Freedom of the Lowest,
Indian Secularism
work in promoting
1933–45 9. Epilogue
A Social and Intellectual History
communal harmony
1890–1950
between the late 1950s and mid-1970s. Relying on 2008 978-81-250-3583-1 ` 525 312pp Paperback
interviews with key participants, and archival Shabnum Tejani, Lecturer in History, School of
material, this book contributes to the study of this Oriental and African Studies, University of London
unique experiment in practical nonviolence. Harilal Gandhi
A Life See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
2009 978-81-250-3683-8 ` 785 304pp Hardback AND PUBLIC POLICY
Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal (1899–1980),
2011 978-81-7824-312-2 ` 395 320pp Paperback
former Director, Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya,
Writing Life Ahmedabad
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Three Gujarati Thinkers Translated by Tridip Suhrud, Professor,
Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Gandhi is Gone. Who Will
Institute of Information and Communication Communication Technology, Ahmedabad Guide Us Now?
Technology, Ahmedabad Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal’s Nehru, Prasad, Azad, Vinoba, Kripalani, JP,
Writing Life looks at the lives and work of three book on Harilal Gandhi is and Others Introspect, Sevagram, March
nineteenth-century thinkers of Gujarat— the only full-length 1948
Narmadashankar Lal Shankar, Manibhai Nabhubhai biography available on him.
It reconstructs a life from Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Former Governor of
and Govardhanram Tripathi. Poets, essayists and West Bengal
novelists, these three writers deeply influenced the letters, family records and
intellectual life of Gujarat. Moreover, the book archives of the Sabarmati As India became free on 15 August 1947, Mahatma
shows how the idea of ‘social reform’ is deeply Ashram, and old files of Gandhi planned a discussion in Sevagram on 2
linked in their work to the idea of the ‘nation’. The newspapers. In addition, February 1948, on the future equations of his
Tridip Suhrud has included political and non-political associates, but 30

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January 1948 intervened. Gandhi’s Prisoner?
Thanks primarily to The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal
Rajendra Prasad and Vinoba
Bhave, the proposed Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Associate Professor,
conference did take place, Department of History, University of the Western
after a slight deferment, in Cape, Cape Town
March 1948. Without the
This biography explores
Mahatma, the meeting
major aspects of the
acquired a new theme:
Mahatma and his family that
‘Gandhi is Gone. Who Will
no biographer or historian
Guide Us Now?’ The
has hitherto touched upon.
record of discussions at the
In part this is because no
conference were typed out for limited circulation
one has until now had
amongst the participants. Published here for the
access to the mass of
first time sixty years on, the discussions of that
unpublished papers, the
conference remain amazingly pertinent, stimulating
hundreds of letters, the
and challenging today.
interviews with family and friends, and the now
2009 978-81-7824-254-5 ` 195 200pp Paperback obscure newspapers and related materials on
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-427-3 which this biography is based.
Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper ... an exemplary work of biography that

C. Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics illuminates, in richly nuanced ways, the personal
lives and political dilemmas of its two chief
Vasanthi Srinivasan, Reader in Political Science, protagonists.
University of Hyderabad —Ramachandra Guha
Hailed by Mahatma Gandhi 2007 978-81-7824-193-7 ` 450 420pp Paperback
as his conscience keeper, Rights: Restricted
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari
(1878–1972; better known
as Rajaji) epitomised the
practical wisdom, religious
tolerance and statesmanship
that Gandhi brought to the
nationalist movement.
Vasanthi Srinivasan presents
Rajaji’s vision as that of a
theocentric liberal.
Examining his political ideas and actions alongside
his literary works, as well as in relation to Nehru
and Periyar, she shows how Rajaji steered clear of
ideological dogma and charted an ethic of
responsibility.
... full of insights, oblique and explicit, about our

current political predicament.
—Ramachandra Guha and Sunil Khilnani
Dr Srinivasan’s study is a tour-de-force….

—Peter Emberley
2009 978-81-7824-246-0 ` 695 290pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-413-6

Gender, Livelihood and Environment
EST GENDER STUDIES
How Women Manage Resources

Edited by Subhadra Mitra Channa, Professor, Department of
Anthropology, Delhi University, and Marilyn Porter, University Professor,
Department of Sociology, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada
This volume brings together contributions from different parts of
the world to show the multiple ways in which women manage their
resources, while simultaneously providing for their families. The essays,
based on research in diverse societies, deal with issues of knowledge
management, social control and hierarchy, and the values placed on
women’s work. The essays focus on development that incorporates
LAT
ideas of justice and human rights, with a gendered perspective, and

provide important lessons for environmental management.
Contents: 1. Men as Nature and Women as Culture: Women’s Work
in a Pastoral Community on the Himalayan Border 2. Farming the Edges:
Women’s Natural Resource Management on Small Farms in Eastern
Kentucky 3. A Feminist Look at Women, Fishing and Coastal Communities
in Tanzania 4. Fish-for-sex: The Cruel Fuel for HIV/AIDS in African Fishing
Communities? 5. Mobile Practices and Gender Contracts in Fishery-
Related Areas 6. Women’s Collective Action and Sustainable Water
Management: SEWA’s Water Campaign in Gujarat 7. Conceptual and
Theoretical Perspectives on Global Apartheid, Environmental Injustice, and
Women’s Activism for Sustainable Well-Being
With a Foreword by Joan P. Mencher
Contributors: Subhadra Mitra Channa, Siri Gerrard, Faye V. Harrison, Ann
Kingsolver, Geraldine K. Matolla, Smita Mishra-Panda, Marilyn Porter
2015 978-81-250-5983-7 ` 650 236pp Hardback
Trouble with Marriage, The

Feminists Confront Law and Violence in India
Srimati Basu, Associate Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies and
Anthropology, University of Kentucky
The Trouble with Marriage considers the legacies of legal reforms around
marriage and gendered violence in India in the 1980s which were
strongly influenced by demands of the women’s movement: lawyer-free
Family Courts, the criminal prosecution of domestic violence, rape law
reform, and the promotion of alternate dispute resolution as a mode
of better gendered access. Looking backward to legislative debates, and
forward to everyday life in legal sites of marital trouble, such as Family
Court, police cells for women, and mediation organisations, it presents a
portrait of contemporary marriage and of legal culture.
[It] is an influential treatise on legal pluralism in India.… [T]his well-

written book contributes a wealth of information to feminist scholarship
and legal studies.
—Biblio
Contents: 1. Introduction: Law, Marriage, and Feminist Reform
2. Construction Zones: Marriage Law in Formation 3. Beyond
Equivalence: on Reading and Speaking Law 4. Justice without Lawyers?
Living the Family Court Experiment 5. In Sanity and in Wealth:
Diagnosing Conjugality and Kinship 6. Sexual Property: Rape and
Marriage Conjoined 7. Strategizing Spaces: Negotiating the Violence out
of Domestic Violence Claims 8. The Trouble Is Marriage: Conclusions
and Worries

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Women Survivors of Violence

Genesis and Growth of a State Support System
Anjali Dave, Professor, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social
Sciences, Mumbai
Women Survivors of Violence is a first-person account of the evolution of
the Special Cells. In the mid-1980s, the author, an assistant lecturer at
the TISS, Mumbai, initiated a ‘field action project’—working on the issue
of violence against women from within the police system. The result
was the introduction of Special Cells in police stations. This narrative
traces the 29-year-old journey of this institution, and provides a deeply
personal account of the effectiveness of a multi-agency coordinated
response to VAW, in the form of a partnership between an academic
institute, the police system, and the violated woman.
With a Foreword by Armaity Desai
Selected Contents: 1. Evolution of Thought on Violence Against
Women 2. The Special Cell: Setting the Stage 3. Taking Root: Eliciting
Police and State Response 4. Leveraging the Academic Institution: Role
of the TISS 5. TISS’ Vision of a Just Society 6. Back to the Present: The
Way Forward 7. Pulling it Together: Reflections and Learning. Timeline
of the Special Cell. Appendices
2015 978-81-250-5915-8 ` 525 224pp Hardback
Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and

Women’s Rights in Pakistan
Anita M. Weiss, Professor and Head of the Department, International
Studies, University of Oregon, USA
Throughout the world, and especially in South Asia, myriad
constituencies are grappling with rethinking and renegotiating the
contours of society, particularly women’s place in the larger social order.
This is raising profound questions regarding women’s social roles and
rights eliciting disparate, conflicting images concerning what constitutes
women’s rights, who is to define these rights, where responsibility lies
for ensuring rights, and the role states should play in articulating and
clarifying what is acceptable and unacceptable within local contexts.
Contents: 1. Introduction: Women’s Rights and Islamic Concerns with
Ijtihad over Those Rights 2. Legal Reforms and State Policies Affecting
Women’s Rights 3. Mainstream and Popular Perceptions of Women’s
Rights in Pakistan 4. Progressive Women’s NGOs’ Interpretations of
Women’s Rights 5. Orthodox Islamist Interpretations of Women’s
Rights 6. The Tehrik-e-Taliban in Swat 7. Moving Onwards
2015 978-81-250-5773-4 ` 595 204 pp Hardback Rights: Restricted

64 GENDER STUDIES
Sarasvatichandra Part I Appropriately Indian Gendering Colonial India

Buddhidhan’s Administration Gender and Culture in a New Reforms, Print Caste and Communalism
Transnational Class
By Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi SERIES: CRITICAL THINKING IN SOUTH ASIAN
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of HISTORY
Translated by Tridip Suhrud, who works at the
Sociology, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
Sabarmati Ashram Preservation and Memorial Edited by Charu Gupta, Associate Professor,
Trust, Ahmedabad. See SOCIOLOGY Department of History, University of Delhi
See LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION 2012 978-81-250-4513-7 ` 675 252pp Paperback See HISTORY
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Globalization and Money Gender, Sex and the City

Urdu Rekhtıˉ Poetry, 1780–1870 Good Women do not Inherit
A Global South Perspective
Ruth Vanita, Professor, Liberal Studies,
Land
Supriya Singh is Professor of the sociology of University of Montana, Missoula Politics of Land and Gender in India
communication at RMIT University, Australia [With Social Science Press]
This book examines how
See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Urdu poetry written in the Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of
2014 978-81-250-5112-1 ` 850 248pp Hardback late eighteenth and early Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
Rights: Restricted nineteenth centuries The book unfolds the lives
contributes to shaping and anxieties of Santhal
urban Indian modernity,
Street Corner Secrets especially ideas of gender,
women in two villages of
Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of Dumka district, Jharkhand.
sexuality, and pleasure. It Based on rich ethnographic
Mumbai focuses on rekhtıˉ, poetry material, this sensitive
Svati P. Shah, Associate Professor in the with a female speaker and book lays bare the reality of
Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies about women’s lives. being an adivasi—and
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst beyond that an adivasi
… [T]he translations, excellent as they are, push woman—in the modern
See SOCIOLOGY
the reader toward tasting the “original”. globalised world.
2014 978-81-250-5628-7 ` 785 296pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted —Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, University Professor in
the Humanities, Columbia University ... Rao’s book is a good development
anthropology with deep ethnographic insights
Unforgotten Professor Vanita’s seminal work on rekhtıˉ opens
about gender empowerment...the Santals...[are] a
Love and the Culture of Dementia Care in distinct part of the peasantry in a depeasantizing
up a parallel world of late eighteenth- and early
world!
India nineteenth-century Indo-Islamic culture … without
which our knowledge of that society, and the —Anjan Ghosh, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
Bianca Brijnath, a NHMRC Early Career Fellow
significance of its representative literature, would Kolkata
in the Department of General Practice, Monash
remain wholly inadequate.
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. A Personal Journey
University, Australia
—Musharraf Ali Farooqi, novelist and translator 3. Faces of Poverty: The Villages Profiled
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY 4. Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian Movements in
… this [book] is likely to be one of those books History 5. Land as a Productive Resource
2014 978-81-250-5509-9 ` 750 240pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted with a very long shelf life ... 6. Locating Identities 7. Women’s Claims to Land
8. Custom and Courts: Bargaining with Modernity
—Leela Gandhi, Professor in English and South Asian 9 Development Interventions: Can One Size Fit
Gendered Citizenship Studies, University of Chicago All? 10. Conclusions
Historical and Conceptual Explorations
Contents: Introduction 1. Women in the City: 2012 978-81-87358-65-7 ` 325 368pp Paperback
Anupama Roy, Professor, Centre for Political Fashioning the Self 2. Eloquent Parrots: Gender Rights: Restricted
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. and Language 3. Servants, Vendors, Artisans: 2009 978-81-87358-24-4 ` 795 368pp Hardback
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The City’s Many Voices 4. Neither Straight
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Nor Crooked: Love and Friendship in the City
AND PUBLIC POLICY
5. Playfully Speaking: Transforming Literary Grief to Bury, A
2013 978-81-250-5284-5 ` 470 308pp Paperback Convention 6. ‘I’m a Real Sweetheart’: Masculinity Memories of Love, Work & Loss
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5325-5 and Male-Male Desire 7. Styling Urban Glamour:
Courtesan and Poet 8. Camping it Up: Jan Sahib Vasanth Kannabiran, feminist poet and writer
and His School 9. A Poetics of Play: Hybridity, See GENERAL INTEREST
Difference, Modernity Conclusion: The Eternal
City: Pasts and Futures 2012 978-81-250-4305-8 ` 775 400pp Hardback
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Magic Web and Other Contents: PART I: For the Record
INTRODUCTION PART II: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive
Stories, The KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE
Ashapurna Debi on the Widow and Her in India
TERMS 1. Wooing and
World Marriage 2. The Svayamvara Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor of
3. The Raksasa Form of Feminist Studies, University of California,
Ashapurna Debi (1909–1995) was one of the
Marriage 4. The Gandharva Santa Cruz, USA
most prolific creative writers in Indian literature,
Form of Marriage
known for her incisive chronicles of the Bengali See HISTORY
5. Other Aspects of Marital
middle class. She was awarded the Padmashree in
Union 6. The Co-Wife 2010 978-81-250-4025-5 ` 620 228pp Paperback
1976 and the Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1977.
PART III: WOMEN Rights: Restricted
Translated by Jharna Sanyal, Professor of
HEROES 1. Kunti 2. Gandhari 3. Damayanti
English, University of Calcutta
4. Savitri 5. Amba PART IV: DRAUPADI 1.
See GENERAL INTEREST Marriage 2. The Sabha 3. The Forest 4. The Court
Liberalization’s Children
of Virata 5. Prior of War 6. After the War PART
Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship
2012 978-81-250-4708-7 ` 565 244pp Paperback
V: SPEAKING OF TRUTH 1. Sakuntala in Globalizing India
2. Gandhari 3. Draupadi 4. Kunti 5. Lamentation Ritty A. Lukose, Associate Professor, Gallatin
Memsahibs’ Writings PART VI: EPILOGUE 1. Landscape and Rivers School of Individualized Study, New York
Colonial Narratives on Indian Women 2. Sexuality 3. Women Heroes Today University
Indrani Sen, Associate Professor at the 2011 978-81-250-4279-2 ` 725 240pp Hardback See SOCIOLOGY
Department of English at Sri Venkateswara Rights: Restricted
2010 978-81-250-4007-1 ` 565 300pp Hardback
College, University of Delhi
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See HISTORY
Working the Night Shift
Women in India’s Call Center Industry
2012 978-81-250-4552-6 ` 425 344pp Paperback Westward Traveller, The
Reena Patel, feminist scholar and Foreign Service
officer with the US Department of State Durgabati Ghose accompanied her husband
Women of Honour on a trip to Europe in 1932 and wrote about her
Gender and Agency among Dalit Women Working the Night Shift is the experience in Paschimjatriki
first in-depth study of the Translated by Somdatta Mandal, Professor
in the Central Himalayas
call center industry that is and Chairperson, Department of English and
Karin M. Polit, Lecturer, South Asia Institute written from the point of other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati,
and at the Institute for Ethnology, University of view of women workers. It Santiniketan
Heidelberg, Germany is a timely account which
illustrates the ironic and, at See GENERAL INTEREST
times, unsettling 2010 978-81-250-3991-4 ` 275 128pp Paperback
2012 978-81-250-4267-9 ` 950 380pp Hardback experiences of women who
enter the spaces and places
made accessible through call Women in Malayalam
Old Playhouse and Other center work. Cinema
Poems, The Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Off-Shoring Naturalising Gender Hierarchies
(Second Edition) Customer Service: A New Global Order Edited by Meena T. Pillai, Reader, Institute of
Kamala Das 3. Mobility–Morality Narratives 4. Traveling at English, and Director, Centre for Comparative
With an Introduction by V. C. Harris, Professor Night 5. Fast Money, Family Survival, and the Literature, University of Kerala
of English, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi Consumer Class 6. On the Home Front 7. Social
Mobility: Other Openings and Constrictions See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
University, Kottayam
8. Conclusion 2010 978-81-250-3865-8 ` 785 252pp Hardback
2011 978-81-250-4265-5 ` 470 204pp Paperback
2011 978-81-250-4324-9 ` 375 76pp Hardback
First Promise, The
Exploring Medieval India (Second Edition)
Strıˉ
Feminine Power in the Mahaˉbhaˉrata Sixteenth to Eighteenth Ashapurna Debi, well-known author who wrote
Kevin McGrath, Associate of the Department

Centuries in Bangla
Vol. I: Culture, Gender, Regional Patterns Translated by Indira Chowdhury, former
of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
USA Edited by Meena Bhargava, Associate Professor,
Department of History, Indraprastha College, See GENERAL INTEREST
Strıˉ is a study of bronze-age femininity as
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portrayed in the Mahaˉbhaˉrata. It focuses on the
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marriage systems and patterns of courtship as well
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Scripting Lives Engendering the Early Samidha

Narratives of Dominant Women in Kerala Household Sadhana Amte, writer and activist
Edited by Sharmila Shreekumar, Associate Brahmanical Precepts in the Early Translated by Shobha Pawar, lecturer,
Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Grhyasutras, Middle of the First Millennium S. P. College, Pune
Sciences, IIT Bombay B.C.E.
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discourses around tourism, Venkateswara College, University of Delhi E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5953-0
AIDS and sexual violence
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and argues that present-day
Kerala maps two opposing 2008 978-81-250-3232-8 ` 950 408pp Hardback Women of the Mahabharata,
worlds. It imagines itself as a The
perfected utopia and,
simultaneously, as a
Gender and Cultural Identity The Question of Truth
dystopian society on the in Colonial Orissa Chaturvedi Badrinath, philosopher and
edge of collapse. The book member of the IAS between 1957 and 1989
Sachidananda Mohanty, Professor and Head
analyses personal narratives
of the Department of English, University of The twelve women of the
to trace how women of relative privilege configure
Hyderabad Mahabharata who are the
their selves.
focus of this work are those
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See HISTORY who have been reduced to
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Umrao Jan Ada not known at all. They teach
us the profound truths
(Revised Edition) In Amma’s Healing Room about human life. Given
Mirza Mohammed Hadi Ruswa, renowned Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India Badri’s ability to combine
Urdu prose writer Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, Associate respect and love, to write
Translated by Khushwant Singh and Professor, Department of Religion, Emory with scholarship and
M. A. Husaini University, Atlanta, USA humanism, the work is an ode to femininity.
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In Amma’s Healing Room is a
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of the life and thought of a
female Muslim spiritual Dreams, Questions, Struggles
Wives, Widows and leader, who lives and South Asian Women in Britain
Concubines practices in Hyderabad. Amrit Wilson, British writer and political activist
The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Referred to as Amma, she
meets a diverse clientele This book testifies to a
Mytheli Sreenivas, Assistant Professor of that includes men as well as multiplicity of struggles,
History and Women’s Studies, Ohio State women, and people of individual and collective,
University, USA various religious and social through which South Asian
backgrounds. The resulting study is a work of women, across divisions of
The book examines how
insight and compassion that challenges widely held class, community, age and
the family became the
views of religion and gender in India. religion, are seeking to take
centre of intense debates
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at the role of the British
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Nadu. Emerging ideas about
of the market, and of the
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were inextricably linked to
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caste politics, the colonial Women, Music, and Migration between over the last thirty years; and discusses how South
economy and nationalist India and Trinidad Asian masculinities have been reconfigured by
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agitation. This book Tejaswini Niranjana, well-known translator and
received the Joseph W. a scholar of popular culture and music in Jamaica 2007 978-81-250-3196-3 ` 490 200pp Paperback
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Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Situating
See HISTORY En-gendering Individuals
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J. Devika, Research Associate, Centre for
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Defining Women’s Rights to Family Property
4. Nationalizing Marriage: Indian and Dravidian Prisons We Broke, The This book explores how, in early modern
Malayalee society, the emerging notion of the
Politics of Conjugality 5. Marrying for Love:
Emotion and Desire in Women’s Print Culture Baby Kamble individual (as distinct from an identity based on jati,
6. Conclusion: Families and History Translated by Maya Pandit region, etc.) was linked to the vision of a society
based on gender differences. The process of
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of engendering. The book Reading the East India Ideals, Images and Real Lives
explores how social reform, Women in Literature and History
notions of the individual, Company, 1720–1840
Alice Thorner and Maithreyi Krishnaraj
and the creation of a Colonial Currencies of Gender
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Betty Joseph, Department of English, Rice
together in early modern University, Houston, USA Crossing the Sacred Line
Kerala. Women’s Search for Political Power
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Reproductive Health in India
History, Politics, Controversies
Reframing Masculinities Sarah Hodges, Lecturer, Department of History,
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PERMANENT BLACK
Edited by Radhika Chopra, Department of
Sociology, University of Delhi See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES Media and Modernity
Masculinity studies are a 2006 978-81-250-2939-7 ` 820 273pp Hardback Communications, Women, and the State
growing area. They have so in India
far focused on men in Trafficking in Women and Robin Jeffrey, Visiting Research Professor,
Western societies and on
gay masculinity. This book
Children in India Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore
looks at the Indian context Institute of Social Sciences See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
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this book have studied men Research on Trafficking in
across India who work Women and Children in India Women Writing Gender
towards achieving a more (ARTWAC) that involved the Marathi Fiction Before Independence
gender-equal society. United Nations Development
Edited by Meera Kosambi, sociologist trained
Fund for Women, the
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National Human Rights
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of Social Sciences. Through a
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Towards Freedom human rights perspective, the first section of this
Critical Essays on Ghare Baire book analyses the data generated by ARTWAC and
gives detailed recommendations for better judicial Behind the Veil
Edited by Sharmila Purkayastha, Shampa Roy interventions, law enforcement and community Resistance, Women, and the Everyday in
and Saswati Sengupta, Department of English, participation in anti-trafficking strategies. The second Colonial South Asia
Miranda House, University of Delhi section contains a rich collection of case studies,
giving an on-the-ground picture of how exploiters Edited by Anindita Ghosh, Lecturer in Modern
have little or no respect for the rights of trafficking History, University of Manchester, UK
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India, 1858–1900 Gender, Politics and Islam
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Women and Social Reform
Indrani Sen, Reader, Department of English,
Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi Howard in Modern India
2004 978-81-250-2742-3 ` 545 360pp Paperback
(in Two Volumes)
See HISTORY
Edited by Sumit Sarkar, well-known historian of
2007 978-81-250-3346-2 ` 455 224pp Paperback Silent Invaders modern India, and Tanika Sarkar, Professor of
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Miriam Jacobs and Barbara Dinham
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Written and translated by P. Sivakami, member There Comes Papa
of the Indian Administrative Service Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny
in Kerala and Malabar, c. 1850–1940
G. Arunima
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Rebels, Wives, Saints Many Lives of a Rajput recruit from a variety of

Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial backgrounds. According to
Queen, The Everyday Nationalism, Hindu
Times Heroic Pasts in India, c.1500–1900 nationalism’s success is due
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal Ramya Sreenivasan, Assistant Professor, to its ability to become
Nehru University, New Delhi Department of History, State University of meaningful in people’s daily
New York lives, and inventing traditions
See HISTORY
by using Hindu texts,
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Scandal of the State Sexuality, Obscenity, Community … a vivid portrait of the everyday lives of Hindu
Women, Law and Citizenship in Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public in nationalist women … Everyday Nationalism is an
Postcolonial India Colonial India important contribution to scholarship in women›s
Charu Gupta
studies, South Asian studies, and anthropology.
Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan, Reader in English and
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK 2005 978-81-7824-118-0 ` 395 400pp Paperback —Amrita Basu, Amherst College
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examination of the Viramma
relationship between the Life of a Dalit Good Women do not Inherit
postcolonial democratic
Indian nation-state and
Translated by Josiane Racine, Land
Researcher,Popular Culture in South India, and Politics of Land and Gender in India
Indian women’s needs and
Jean-Luc Racine, Senior Fellow, Centre for [With Orient BlackSwan]
lives. The author combines
Indian Studies,Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
feminist theory and Nitya Rao, Senior Lecturer, School of
Sociales, Paris
postcolonial studies to show Development Studies, University of East Anglia, UK
how the state is central to 2005 978-81-87358-19-0 ` 325 321pp Paperback
understanding women’s Rights: Restricted The book unfolds the lives
identities, and how women and anxieties of Santhal
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation women in two villages of
and women’s issues affect reciprocally the state’s
Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism Dumka district, Jharkhand.
role and function.
Tanika Sarkar Based on rich ethnographic
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E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-424-2 an adivasi woman, in all its
Cinematic ImagiNation, The nuances, in the modern
Indian Popular Films as Social History globalised world.
Jyotika Virdi teaches Communication, Film, Contents: 1. Introduction

and Media Studies at the University of Windsor, 2. A Personal Journey 3. Faces of Poverty: The
Canada SOCIAL SCIENCE Villages Profiled 4. Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian
Movements in History 5. Land as a Productive
See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES PRESS Resource 6. Locating Identities 7. Women’s Claims
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Honour and Patriarchy in South India
Crossing Thresholds Clarinda Still, Postdoctoral Researcher
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This book interrogates official See DALIT STUDIES Enigma of the Kerala
social history—which posits 2015 978-81-87358-54-1 ` 625 267 pp Hardback Woman, The
strong male reformers and A Failed Promise of Literacy
passive women recipients—as
well as retrieves and assesses Everyday Nationalism Edited by Swapna Mukhopadhyay, former
women’s own pioneering Women of the Hindu Right in India professor of Economics, Institute of Economic
contribution to their Growth, University of Delhi, and Director,
Kalyani Devaki Menon teaches religious studies
proto-feminist efforts. This Institute of Social Science Trust, New Delhi
at DePaul University, Chicago
book is an attempt to amplify
See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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Marriage, Love, Caste and Human Security in South Asia Wife, Mother, Widow
Gender, Energy, Migration and Globalisation Exploring Women’s Lives in Northern
Kinship Support
Lived Experiences of the Urban Poor Edited by P. R. Chari and Sonika Gupta India
in India 2002 978-81-87358-09-1 ` 630 200pp Hardback Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell Professor of
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South Asian Studies, Syracuse University, USA
Shalini Grover, author of several papers on
marriage and kinship and former Sir Ratan Tata Children’s Lifeworlds The essays in this volume,
Fellow in Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth, Gender, Welfare and Labour in the Developing based on forty years of
University of Delhi World research in Karimpur in
Olga Nieuwenhuys western Uttar Pradesh,
1999 978-81-87358-01-5 ` 510 228pp Hardback study the impact of
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Many Worlds of Sarala Devi, of women in rural north
India.
The
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and
Damayanti and Nala
Tagores and Sartorial Styles, The Many Lives of a Story
The Edited by Susan S. Wadley, Ford Maxwell
A Photo Essay Professor of South Asian Studies, Syracuse
University, New York
Translated by Sukhendu Ray, noted translator
with various translations to his credit See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Introduced by Bharati Ray, Honorary Professor,
2011 978-81-8028-037-5 ` 750 352pp Hardback
Department of History, University of Calcutta
and Malavika Karlekar, Editor, Indian Journal of
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Kaanduri and Other Stories
EST GENERAL INTEREST
Dash Benhur, retired Reader in Political Science, and a well-known and

prolific writer of short stories in Odia, Translated by Bikram Keshari
Das, retired Professor of English, a lexicographer, volume editor of
English textbooks, and an award-winning translator of Odia fiction
The tales in Kaanduri and Other Stories, selected from the writings
of Dash Benhur reveal his wide range. Small surprises and poignant
discoveries about relationships account for the appeal of these stories,
occasionally marked by humour, which convey the flavour of life among
generally the middle and lower classes of Odisha.
Contents: 1. Do Not Come Down, Oh Rain! 2. The Apartment
LAT
3. Arrogance 4. The Blankets Are Really Warm! 5. The Book Review 6.

Clouds 7. Freedom Fifty Saloon 8. God’s Creation 9. Gold
10. Gurudakshina 11. The Harmonium 12. Kaanduri 13. Rebati
14. Responsibility 15. Sukanti’s House 16. The Bicycle 17. The Noose 18.
The Picture 19. The Rickshaw-wallah
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Sarasvatichandra Part I
Buddhidhan’s Administration
By Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi
Translated by Tridip Suhrud, who works at the Sabarmati Ashram

Preservation and Memorial Trust, Ahmedabad.
It was this novel that shaped [the] intellectual consciousness of Gujarat

and laid the foundation of modern Gujarati literature….
---The Times of India
The book is a must read, considering its cultural influences and impact
which shaped the modern Gujarati middle class, before the arrival of
Mahatma Gandhi.
---DNA
Selected Contents: Translator’s Acknowledgement. Translator’s
Introduction. Preface I. Preface II. An Offering. 1. The Guest of
Suvarnapur 2. Buddhidhan’s Family 3. Buddhidhan 4. Buddhidhan
(Continued) 5. Buddhidhan (Conclusion) 6. Intrigues in Rajeshwar 7.
Pleasure Garden 8. At the Counsellor’s House 9. The Consequences of
Intoxication 10. Instruments of Intrigue and the Warcraft of Karbharis
11. In Readiness for Court 12. King, Palace, and Administration 13. On
the Way 14. Destiny Fulfilled 15. Sarasvatichandra 16. Buddhidhan and
Saubhagya Devi 17. Pramaddhan and Kumud Sundari 18. The Karbhari
and his Administration 19. Night Life: The Rising Curtain and the Ordeal
by Fire 20. Leave Taking 21. Walking Away
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LITERATURE IN … With deft strokes and Arnab Bhattacharya does a commendable job in
TRANSLATION sharply observed translating the stories.
descriptions, Lakshmi —The Book Review
Kannan creates characters
Arya and Other Stories who are trying to negotiate Contents: 1. Birbala 2. Lullu 3. Nayanchand’s
the slippery slope of Business 4. The Pearl Necklace 5. Smile on Madan
Written and translated by Chandrika Balan,
modern life while Ghosh’s Face 6. A Story by Damarudhar
an award-winning writer of prose in Malayalam
simultaneously following 7. Another Story by Damarudhar
and English. Introduced by K. Satchidanandan,
a major poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and age-old social mores and 2014 978-81-250-5234-0 ` 500 288pp Paperback
English religious rituals.… critical of
the secondary status
Arya and Other Stories is a accorded to women in Tamil society, Lakshmi
collection of twelve selected Kannan also showcases its liberal outlook in Tales of Athiranippadam
stories translated into English. certain instances. This balanced approach to her
All of them have women as chosen field reveals Lakshmi Kannan’s mastery S. K. Pottekkat, one of the pre-eminent
protagonists and reflect social
over the fictional idiom. Malayalam writers of the twentieth century.
reality. The inner strength—
Shakthi—of the woman, Translated by Sreedevi K. Nair, Professor,
—The Book Review
problems of the career Department of English, NSS College for Women,
women, the harm done by Contents: Short Stories 1. Genesis 2. Islanders Thiruvananthapuram, and Radhika P. Menon,
visual media, feminine 3. The Coming of Devi 4. Phantoms of Truth Associate Professor, Department of English,
creativity, the complex 5. Cryptic Chords 6. Urvashi 7. Parijata 8. An
Fatima Mata National College, Kollam
feminine psyche, ecology are Evening With You 9. Rhythms 10. Kasturi, the
some of the prominent Musk Deer 11. A Place in the Sun 12. Mangal’s Translated from the Malayalam
themes. The stories are filled with humour and are Requiem 13. A Key Issue LONG STORIES Oru Desathinte Katha, Tales of
sharp critiques of the values and mores of our 14. India Gate 15. Sable Shadows Athiranippādam is the
patriarchal society. This collection provides a deep fictionalised autobiography of S.
2014 978-81-250-5380-4 ` 425 228pp Paperback
insight into social situations and relationships in K. Pottekkatt. Sreedharan, the
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contemporary India—in this instance, Kerala. protagonist, offers us a glimpse
of the author’s personal reality
The stories are valuable for their incisive insights Of Ghosts and Other Perils enmeshed with the unsung saga
of the little corner of the earth,
into human behaviour, male and female alike; and Troilokyonath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919), Athiranippādam, where he was
it is to the writer’s credit that many of them leave one of the foremost writers of fiction in raised. The narrative uses an
us smiling at the weaknesses rather than fuming at nineteenth-century Bengal interesting mix of street gossip,
the lapses of mankind.
Translated by Arnab Bhattacharya translator fairy tale and recorded history, and filters it through a
—Sahitya Akademi’s Bi-Monthly Journal and critic based in Kolkata perspective that is at once involved and detached. This
volume was first published in 1971 in Malayalam, and won
Contents: Introduction The Power of the This collection of seven the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1973 and the Jnanpith
Paradox: Chandrika Balan’s Short Stories in the short stories originally Award in 1980.
Context of Women’s Writing in Kerala 1. Arya written in Bengali by
2. Bonsai 3. Devigramam 4. Peoples’ Court Troilokyanath Selected Contents: Introduction Translator’s Note
5. An Optical Illusion 6. Sponsors Please 7. The Mukhopadhyay is a world The Reservoir 1. A Registered Letter 2. Speak the
(Postmodern) Story of Jyoti Viswanath 8. The where the laws of nature do Truth 3. The Quill and the Gold 4. Murmurs
Relevance of Graham Greene in the Life of a Bride not always operate. In
9.The Fifth One 10. The Story of a Poem 11. A 2013 978-81-250-5127-5 ` 775 456pp Paperback
‘Birbala’, a young man
Companion for the Twilight Hour 12. Website appears to lose his identity
2014 978-81-250-5680-5 ` 355 144pp Paperback in a dream but wins the Varanasi
hand of the girl he had had a
vision of. ‘Lullu’ is a ghost M. T. Vasudevan Nair, best known among his
Genesis who steals a Muslim man’s generation of storytellers in Malayalam.
Select Stories wife from Delhi and hides her in a chamber below Translated by N. Gopalakrishnan, a well-
a lake, but Amir, her husband, with the help of a known writer and translator, and recipient of the
Lakshmi Kannan, poet, novelist, short story Kendriya Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007
writer and her own translator. She is bilingual and weaver-singer, an astrologer, an exorcist, and
writes in English and in Tamil sundry other ghosts rescues her by making Lullu Varanasi, in his trademark
become a slave to opium. ‘Nayanchand’s Business’ austere writing style, is
is a tale of a bull under orders of his ex-owner M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s latest
… Kannan’s stories are well crafted. Relying on about to wreak havoc in the palace of Yama as he novel. Non-linear and set
the telling detail and nuance. They unfold with a makes the god of the netherworld and his assistant through the protagonist’s
precision dictated by the denouement and are Chitragupta run in panic to escape being gored. reminiscences, the novel
shorn of excess. A single line serves to conjure an Troilokyanath’s fictional prose is also replete with narrates the journey of an
entire world.… This collection is valuable material social criticism sometimes tinged with satire aged man, Sudhakaran,
though with a light touch. These tales of fantasy through the city of Varanasi,
for those studying the process of translation.
will enthral the young as well as the jaded old as and simultaneously
—Deccan Herald the translation masterfully retains the flavour of chronicles his life through his
the original.
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thoughts. As a commentary on the human Magic Web and Other 6. Yatra 7. The Same Jungle Again 8. Not without
condition, the novel explores the idea of lust and Reason 9. Morass
desire pervading through mankind, finding its Stories, The
Ashapurna Debi on the Widow and Her 2012 978-81-250-4512-0 ` 275 136pp Paperback
essence embodied in the culture of the historic city.
Translated by Sahitya Akademi Award winner, N. World
Gopalakrishnan, this work masterfully retains the
Ashapurna Debi (1909–1995) was one of the
Survival and Other Stories
flavour of the original Malayalam.
most prolific creative writers in Indian literature, Bangla Dalit Fiction in Translation
Abridged Contents: Translator’s Introduction, known for her incisive chronicles of the Bengali Edited by Sankar Prasad Singha, Professor,
Varanasi (Six parts) middle class. She was awarded the Padmashree in and Indranil Acharya, Assistant Professor,
1976 and the Bharatiya Jnanpith in 1977. Department of English, Vidyasagar University,
2013 978-81-250-5178-7 ` 295 200pp Paperback
Translated by Jharna Sanyal, Professor of Midnapore, West Bengal
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5439-9
English, University of Calcutta
A mason’s refusal to yield
This is a collection of eighteen of Ashapurna
Bahadur Shah and the Debi’s short stories on the lives of widows.
despite being tortured by
‘upper-caste’ people for
Festival of Flower-sellers Through these stories, we are introduced to claiming equality with them;
ritual-oriented drudges and gossip-mongering a zamindar being forced to
Mirza Farhatullah Beg, a renowned research
women, and to unbecoming women who refuse drag a plough for taunting
scholar and distinguished writer and humorist
to hear the voice of everyday morality and silence another for his ‘low’
Translated by Mohammed Zakir, former
the promptings of received values. One finds in ancestry; a penniless family’s
Professor of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
the stories the rational, sensible, modern, urban fight for survival with a
This book is an account of gentleman all but merely the camouflaged victims cobra coiled up in a hole full
the phoolwalon ki sair, or the of patriarchy. of grains. Evocative of the
festival of flower-sellers, its indignities heaped on the Dalits, this book is a
Contents: Introduction 1. Addiction 2. Bibi
history, how it began and its collection of eighteen such stories—a sensitive
Begum’s Shiva Temple 3. Expiation 4. Insensible
observance. It is an retelling that retains the rhythms and idioms of the
5. Of Kith and Kin 6. One Death and Another
interesting and vivid account original Bengali narratives.
7. Playing with Fire 8. Prejudice 9. Raju’s Mother
of this annual secular
10. Reflection 11. The Chatterbox 12. The Contents: Introduction 1. The Deceived
celebration that in fact is
Deceiver 13. The Egotists 14. The Invitation 2. Footprint of an Elephant 3. Reincarnation of
still observed in Delhi.
15. The Magic Web 16. The Runaway Parashuram 4. The Sky of Drought 5. Bazaar
17. Trangression 18. Water and Fire 6. On Water and on Shore 7. On Firm Ground
2012 978-81-250-4618-9 ` 275 100pp Paperback 2012 978-81-250-4708-7 ` 565 244pp Paperback 8. The Other Jew 9. Farmer Gopal’s Caste and
Creed 10. Munnali 11. Shabori 12. The Son of a
Peasant 13. The Story of the Grey-eyed Oil-fry
Boatman of the Padma, The Not Without Reason and Seller 14. Survival 15. Dhani Bauri Gets ‘Salvation’
Manik Bandyopadhyay (1908–1956), a Bengali Other Stories 15. Mukunda and an Extraordinary Love Affair
novelist and considered one of the leading lights of 16. Friendship 17. Fisherman
Rajee Seth, an acclaimed Hindi writer of fiction,
modern Bengali fiction 2012 978-81-250-4510-6 ` 325 220pp Paperback
poetry and criticism
Translated by Ratan K. Chattopadhyay
Translated by Raji Narasimhan, a well-known
An English translation of translator Understanding Islam
Manik Bandopadhyay’s
Rajee Seth’s writings are Nazir Ahmad, leading Urdu writer, and a social
popular novel Padma Nadir
critically lauded for being a and religious reformer
Majhi (1936), this is an
qualitative bridge between Translated by Mohammed Zakir, retired
immaculately painted
the classicist and modernist Professor of Urdu, Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi
document of the fishing
style of writing in Hindi. A
community in a remote This volume is a translation
warm humanism marks this
sleepy village of Bangladesh of Ijtihad (Striving) written in
collection of nine stories by
nurtured by the Padma, the Urdu by Nazir Ahmad. The
her, some of which are
lifeline of the country. It original work grew out of a
vibrantly feminist. In Raji
deals with the impact of the response to the question,
Narasimhan’s precise and
fiercely beautiful Padma on the lives of the riparian ‘Why am I a Muslim?’ which
vivid translations from their
people. The reality of communal life on the one had obsessed the author.
Hindi originals, the stories truly come alive.
hand and the desires and aspirations of individual Written in the form of a
life on the other—all in conformity with the pace dialogue between a student
of the river—are sketched beautifully in this [Rajee Seth] usually picks up seemingly simple
and a teacher, this book is a
sensitive translation. subjects and through them addresses larger social
valuable introduction and
issues. She has done this once again in [this] ...
guide to the essence of one of the world’s major
collection.... It’s the realistic touches that make
2012 978-81-250-4934-0 ` 325 176pp Paperback religions. Mohammed Zakir’s translation retains
these everyday stories a delight to read. Of
the flavour of the original.
course, the brilliant translation also helps.
Contents: 1. Islamic Beliefs 2. Knowing God
—The Hindu
3. Oneness of the Creator 4. Polytheism:
Contents: 1. Meeting 2. My Option 3. Amma’s Attributing Partners to God 5. Existence of God
Gold 4. Outsiders 5. Wait, Intezaar Hussain 6. Conveniences in Islam and Inconveniences in

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Other Religions 7. Oneness of God is the Essence Old Playhouse and Other Panchlight and Other
of Religion 8. Sense of Good and Bad is Natural
9. Prophethood 10. Truthfulness of the Prophet Poems, The Stories
of Islam 11. Miracles and Prophecies 12. The Real (Second Edition) Phanishwar Nath Renu, a stalwart in the Nayi
Aim of the Revelation of the Qur’an 13. An Advice Kahani (New Story) movement
to the Maulvis of Today 14. Asceticism 15. Other Kamala Das
Translated by Rakhshanda Jalil, Media and
Religions and the Doctrines of Islam 16. Reforming With an Introduction by V. C. Harris, Professor
Cultural Coordinator, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
the Conditions of Muslims 17. Religion and This of English, School of Letters, Mahatma Gandhi
World Are Not Inconsistent University, Kottayam The diversity of the stories in
this collection is representative
2012 978-81-250-4669-1 ` 565 232pp Paperback See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
of the works of Renu
2011 978-81-250-4324-9 ` 375 76pp Hardback (1921−77). One of the
Nandanvan and Other foremost writers in Hindi,
Renu’s world is rural Bihar. The
Stories Silent Storm characters in his stories are the
Written and translated by Lakshmi Kannan, Syed Saleem, popular contemporary Telugu landless and the marginalised.
poet, novelist and short story writer writer who has published short stories, poetry and He writes in the context of a
novels crumbling social order, the
Translated by P. Jayalakshmi, former Associate universality of his work coming
The crafting of the stories
Professor, Department of English, Nizam College, from his ability to look deep into the human heart.
as well as the turn of phrase
that evokes the abstractions Osmania University, Hyderabad 2010 978-81-250-3841-2 ` 325 152pp Paperback
vividly in tangible forms is Silent Storm interweaves the
finely nuanced and delicately stories of Nagamani, an Selections from
poised. This collection is
valuable in that it brings to
illiterate and poor woman
and Kumar, a well placed
Galpaguchchha
us contemporary bhasha (Three Volumes)
white collar employee of a
literature translated into bank, both of whom Translated from the Bengali by Ratan K.
English, bridging seemingly contract the HIV virus, and Chattopadhyay
effortlessly, the gap between what they do with their
the cultures of the two languages. lives thence. This book is a This three-volume English translation is a
translation of the Telugu collection of sixty-one of Tagore’s short stories
—The Book Review broadly grouped under the themes of parting of
novel Kaalutuna Poolathota,
which won the Sahitya ways, the relationship between men and women,
[The author’s] universe ranges from Kolkata Akademi Award in 2010. The Hindi translation, and the power within the woman, respectively.
to London to America to Bangalore, wherever Nayee Imarat ke Khandahar, won the National Also available as a box set:
the Tamil diaspora has spread. [She] brings the Human Rights Commission of India award for its 978-81-250-4047-7 ` 1025
sensibility of a poet to her stories where the contribution to the cause of AIDS.
resolution sometimes is encapsulated in a single
word or metaphor....one may say that this book is 2011 978-81-250-4205-1 ` 375 176pp Paperback Volume 1:
“like the lotus softly fragrant and soul-delighting, Kabuliwalla and Other Stories
rising clear ... above the crowds”. Last Musha’irah of Delhi, The Includes memorable stories
—Deccan Herald (Reissue) like ‘The Peddler from
Mirza Farhatullah Baig, distinguished humorist Kabul’, ‘Broken Nest’,
Powerful messages, descriptive and evocative ‘Punishment’, and ‘The
Translated by Akhtar Qamber, Professor,
prose, arresting dialogues and soliloquies, Postmaster’.
Isabella Thoburn College, Lucknow, and Miranda
incredibly strong and never-say-die characters ...
House, Delhi
dot the Lakshmi landscape of the book. The writer
has translated her stories into excellent English Drawing upon living
and has captured the idioms and finer nuances of memory, manuscripts and
the Tamil world with admirable precision. other documents, Mirza
Farhatullah Baig Dehalvi
—The Hindu
wrote Delhi ki Akhri Shama, 2010 978-81-250-4096-5 ` 375 295pp Paperback
Contents: SHORT STORIES: 1. Nandanvan a fictional account of what
2. Ejamaanar 3. Please, Dear God 4. Muniyakka purports to be the last great
5. Nagapushpam 6. Zeroing In 7. Savvyasachi musha’irah held in Delhi
Square 8. The Maze 9. Just Think About It under the patronage of
10. Simone de Beauvoir and the Manes 11. A Bahadur Shah ‘Zafar’, the
Word with you, Father 12. A Guava with a Red last Mughal emperor. The
Heart 13. A Political Colour 14. Because 15. A Sky present volume is the first-ever English translation
All Around 16. Maria NOVELLA: Another Hour, of Farhatullah Baig’s classic, accompanied by a long
Another Hue introduction, textual and other annotations, and
extensive glossary.
2011 978-81-250-4323-2 ` 425 280pp Paperback
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Volume II: Westward Traveller, The First Promise, The

Manihara and Other Stories (Second Edition)
Durgabati Ghose accompanied her husband
on a trip to Europe in 1932 and wrote about her Ashapurna Debi, well-known author who wrote
The ever-popular
experience in Paschimjatriki in Bengali
‘Ramkanai’s Folly’, ‘The
Translated by Somdatta Mandal, Professor Translated by Indira Chowdhury, former
Ghat’s Story’, ‘Woman
and Chairperson, Department of English and Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
Bereft of Jewels’,
other Modern European Languages, Visva-Bharati,
‘Grandfather’, and ‘The Ashapurna tells the story of
Santiniketan
Matronly Boy’, among other the struggles and efforts of
stories, are included in this women in nineteenth-
volume. An interesting fact about century colonial Bengal in a
this travelogue is that even deceptively easy and
within its set pattern, it conversational style. Indira
offers nuggets of history…. Chowdhury’s confident
2010 978-81-250-4097-2 ` 375 312pp Paperback To translate this depiction translation, with its
of Europe in colonial times conscious choice of Indian
through the eyes of a
Volume III: modernizing Bengali woman
English equivalents over
British and American
Streer Patra and Other has been a “labour of love” colloquialisms, carries
for translator Somdatta
Stories Mandal. Simple and lucid in style, the work … is
across the language divide the flavour of
Ashapurna’s unique idiomatic style. This edition
This volume is studded with faithful to the intention of the narrative. includes the translator’s reflections on the process
gems such as ‘Hungry —Scholars without Borders of translation itself.
Stones’, ‘The Wife’s Letter’,
‘The Story of a Muslim With a Foreword by Ashis Nandy 2009 978-81-250-3790-3 ` 595 600pp Paperback
Woman’, ‘Hidden Treasure’ 2010 978-81-250-3991-4 ` 275 128pp Paperback
and ‘At Dead of Night’. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5851-9 Let’s Go Home and Other
Stories
Writings of M. T. Vasudevan Meenakshi Mukherjee, former Professor of
Nair, The English, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
2010 978-81-250-4098-9 ` 375 295pp Paperback M. T. Vasudevan Nair, renowned Malayalam See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
author and winner of the Jnanpith award for 2009 978-81-250-3745-3 ` 135 136pp Paperback
literature (1995)
Untouchable Spring Translated by Gita Krishnankutty, independent
G. Kalyana Rao scholar and experienced translator of Malayalam Nazir Ahmad in his Own
Translated by Alladi Uma and M. Sridhar, both at and French, who has won many literary awards, Words and Mine
the Department of English, University of Hyderabad and V. Abdulla, winner of Yatra Award (1995)
and Sevarathna Award (1996) for translation Mirza Farhatullah Beg, distinguished humorist
Untouchable Spring, a memory Translated by Mohammed Zakir, former
text, is a family/community This hardback omnibus Professor of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
saga, a novel and a historical edition collects three of
M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s Mirza Farhatullah Beg takes
document rolled into one.
previously published the reader through the
Using the oral story-telling
works—Mist and The Soul bylanes of old Delhi from
tradition, Rao has brought to
of Darkness, Kaalam, and Churiwalan, through Hauz
the fore not just the social
Kuttiedathi and Other Kazi and Khari Baoli to Gali
and cultural life of
Stories. The volume Batashan Wali to the home of
generations of Dalits, but
features an introduction his tutor—a doyen of Urdu
their art forms. Through the
to M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s prose and one of the pioneers
stories of successive
work by P. P. Raveendran, of modern fiction in Urdu. In
generations, we are taken on a journey to their
an eminent academic and a scholar of Malayalam a narrative that is as funny as
heart—from those who were exploited to those
literature. Mist and The Soul of Darkness are it is respectful, there emerges
who discover their humanity through defiance.
translations of M. T. Vasudevan Nair’s highly an eloquent and evocative
2010 978-81-250-3945-7 ` 425 292pp Paperback acclaimed novellas, Manhu and Irutinde Atmavu. portrait that honestly captures the relationship
between an erudite tutor and his loving and impudent
2010 978-81-250-3963-1 ` 675 572pp Hardback pupil. Rich in historical detail, the work also records
eyewitness anecdotal accounts of the Mutiny of 1857
and paints a vivid picture of a fading world.
2009 978-81-250-3777-4 ` 275 96pp Paperback
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Poisoned Bread the palaces of wealthy nawabs, the hideouts of cruelty practised by caste
Translations from Modern Marathi Dalit vagabonds, to the luxurious abodes of the city’s Hindu society on dalits. We
courtesans. It captures the culture and decadence encounter all the tropes of
Literature (Revised Edition)
of a lifestyle that has now vanished for ever. This (male) dalit life: his isolation
Edited by Arjun Dangle, an important name in translation preserves the full flavour of the original in school where even
the politics and literature of Maharashtra narrative. drinking water is an ordeal;
life in the village where
When published in 1992, 2009 978-81-250-3750-7 ` 295 188pp Paperback
dalits perform the filthiest
Poisoned Bread was the first
tasks but are denied access
anthology of dalit literature.
The writers—more than
Prisons We Broke, The to common wells and lakes,
where they cannot step into
eighty of them—presented Baby Kamble
shops and therefore have their purchases thrown
here in English translations, Translated by Maya Pandit
at to them, to name a few.
are nearly all of the most
This book provides a graphic 2007 978-81-250-3216-8 ` 325 148pp Paperback
prominent figures in Marathi
insight into the oppressive
dalit literature, who have
caste and patriarchal tenets
contributed to this unique
literary phenomenon. This
of Indian society, but Mahabharata, The
nowhere does the writing An Inquiry in the Human Condition
new edition includes an
descend to self-pity. With
essay by Gail Omvedt, a distinguished scholar Chaturvedi Badrinath, philosopher and
verve and colour the
activist working on new social movements. member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS)
narrative brings to life,
2009 978-81-250-3754-5 ` 570 392pp Paperback among other things, the This book is a scholarly
festivals, rituals, marriages, treatise on the subject of
snot-nosed children, hard
Scar, The lives and hardy women of
Indian philosophy and
written by one of its
K. A. Gunasekaran, teacher, folk-artist, the Mahar community. It is the first autobiography best-known proponents.
dramatist and researcher by a Dalit woman in Marathi, probably even the Badrinath shows that the
first of its kind in any Indian language. concerns of the
‘The book exposes the pain
2008 978-81-250-3390-5 ` 350 192pp Paperback
Mahabharata are the
of living as a parayar in a
concerns of everyday
casteist setup, narrated by a
life––of dharma, artha,
very resilient boy who is
determined not to be
Samidha kama and moksha. This
book dispels several false claims about what is
cowed down by the Sadhana Amte, writer and activist
today known as ‘Hinduism’ to show us how
challenges in his path…. [I]t Translated by Shobha Pawar, lecturer,
individual liberty and knowledge, freedom, equality,
is most strikingly different S. P. College, Pune
and the celebration of love, friendship and
because of the style of
A fairy-tale romance and a relationships are integral to the philosophy of the
narration…. Another aspect
blueprint for anyone who Mahabharata. Badrinath received the Sahitya
of the book that makes it
wants to venture into social Akademi award in 2010 for this book.
engaging is [the] way the writer has built up
service, this autobiography of
selected events from his life that triggered his 2007 978-81-250-3238-0 ` 605 704pp Paperback
Sadhanatai Amte—a woman 2006 978-81-250-2846-8 ` 1350 683pp Hardback
passage from joyous, confident youth into early
who chose to marry a
adulthood and awareness.’
frenzied man and a dreamer,
— The Indian Express
Baba Amte—is also a tale of Mirage
2009 978-81-250-3705-7 ` 260 120pp Paperback her willing surrender in love Kokilam Subbiah, former Professor of Tamil
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5088-9 without the slightest loss of Language and Literature, University of Chicago,
her identity. It is a document USA
Umrao Jan Ada of the dreams they dreamt
Set in the tea plantations of
for humankind and their struggle to put life into them.
(Revised Edition) Sri Lanka, Mirage traces the
These memoirs present the portrait of a woman
lives of Valli and her family,
Mirza Mohammed Hadi Ruswa, renowned beside a man; a perfect consort who has the ability to
migrants from a village in
Urdu prose writer tame the living storm, Baba Amte.
Tamil Nadu in search of a
Translated by Khushwant Singh and M. A.
2008 978-81-250-3404-9 ` 395 296pp Paperback better livelihood. The novel
Husaini E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5953-0 depicts the lives of
Umrao Jan Ada was first indentured labourers
published in 1899. Based on Government Brahmana working in these plantations
the life of a courtesan of and explores the social
Lucknow—a woman of Aravind Malagatti, well-known Kannada writer structure and the norms of
great charm with a Translated by Dharani Devi Malagatti, recipient plantation life—an arena
reputation as a very fine of the Karnataka Sahitya Akademi award (2004) defined by economic and sexual exploitation.
poet and singer—the novel Through Valli’s world, we gain insight into the
Government Brahmana is the English translation of
recreates the gracious complex social relationships—between husband
the Kannada autobiography of Aravind Malagatti. It
ambience of old Lucknow and wife, parent and child, worker and supervisor,
reflects on specific instances from Malagatti’s
and takes the reader on a friend and neighbour—in these remote plantations.
childhood and student days that illustrate the
fascinating journey through 2007 978-81-250-3070-6 ` 375 200pp Paperback

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Moon Mountain Kuttiedathi and Other up a job at the cost of her

own education. Attempts at
Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay, renowned Stories getting a job prove futile
Bengali novelist and writer and Siddartha’s sense of
M. T. Vasudevan Nair, renowned Malayalam
Translated by Pradeep Kumar Sinha frustration deepens. The
author and winner of the Jnanpith Award for
literature (1995) apparent immutability of the
Set in India and Africa in the
Translated by V. Abdulla situation leads to constant
early twentieth century,
bickering and fights in the
Moon Mountain is a classic of
Kuttiedathi and Other Stories family. The bleakness of the
the Bengali ‘kumar-sahitya’
is a collection of ten short narrative is relieved by a
genre or young-adult
stories. This collection streak of romanticism and
literature that smoothly
brings together some of the an idealistic vision of a world once inhabited by
blends narrative elements of
most well-known stories of Siddhartha.
the thriller, the fantasy and
M. T. Vasudevan Nair, fairly
the travelogue into an 2004 978-81-250-1902-2 ` 260 112pp Paperback
representative of his literary
action-packed adventure
works. Written over a
story. The language of
Pradeep Sinha’s translation is fast-paced and
broad span of time from Enemy Within, The
1962 to 2000, the stories
contemporary without compromising in the least Bani Basu, prolific Bengali writer
collected here reflect the
either the charm of the old world it narrates or Translated by Jayanti Datta
built-in variety of his fictional concerns and the
the flavour of the Bangla original.
changing tones of his narration. This translation from the
2007 978-81-250-3069-0 ` 295 200pp Paperback Bangla Antarghat is the story
2004 978-81-250-2597-9 ` 325 204pp Paperback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4625-7 of a group of young friends
Yuganta who had committed
themselves idealistically and
The End of an Epoch (Reissue) Mole! politically to the Naxalite
Irawati Karve, renowned sociologist and writer, Ashokamitran, distinguished contemporary movement that rocked
who wrote in both English and Marathi Tamil writer and winner of the Sahitya Akademi Bengal in the 1960s. Moving
Award (1996) seamlessly from the past to
Yuganta studies the
Translated by N. Kalyan Raman, senior telecom the present, Basu’s narrative
principal, mythical-heroic
professional is compelling and breathless,
figures of the Mahabharata
as the novel’s edgy, nervous rhythms reconstruct
from historical, The fictional events and call up the turbulent history of a difficult
anthropological and secular narrated in Mole! take place period.
perspectives. The usually within a period of seven
venerated characters of this months, nearly all of them 2002 978-81-250-1668-7 ` 375 180pp Paperback
ancient Indian epic are here in the American Midwest.
subjected to a rational The narrator, a culturally Great Feast, The
enquiry that places them in rooted writer from
context, unravels their Mannu Bhandari, eminent Hindi author
Chennai, is transplanted
hopes and fears, and imbues them with wholly Translated by Ruth Vanita, co-founder of
amidst a motley group of
human motives, thereby making their stories Manushi: A Journal about Women and Society,
fellow-writers from distant
relevant and revelatory to contemporary readers. author, academic and activist
parts of the world, all of
2007 978-81-250-3228-1 ` 375 224pp Paperback them as dangerously A bold exposé of the
dislocated as him. Deprived of the language that contemporary Indian
Grip of Change, The has brought them fulfilment and distinction, these political scene that has cast
writers struggle to retain their place of precarious aside morality and ethics
Written and translated by P. Sivakami, member honour in a strange, unfamiliar and sometimes and unfailingly betrayed
of the Indian Administrative Service. hostile environment. And in the background looms public trust for vested
the endearing, if exasperating, landscape of interests and private ends.
The Grip of Change is the
twentieth-century America. The novel opens with the
English translation of
Sivakami’s Pazhaiyana 2004 978-81-250-2682-2 ` 325 161pp Paperback
death of Bisesar—an
Kazhithalum. The first Tamil unknown village youth—in
novel by a Dalit woman, this itself an insignificant event.
book goes beyond
Pratidwandi But with an important by-election around the
condemning caste fanatics. corner, the feasting begins as opposing political
Sunil Gangopadhyay, renowned Bengali writer
Sivakami is critical of the parties like vultures seize upon the unfortunate
Translated by Enakshi Chatterjee
Dalit movement and Dalit event to extract political capital out of it, thereby
patriarchy, and yet does not Pratidwandi, meaning ‘adversary’, is the English providing sharp insights into the exercise of power
become a ‘caste traitor’ translation of the Bangla original by Sunil and patronage.
because of her participation in the search for Gangopadhyay. The story is about a family living in
2002 978-81-250-1484-3 ` 325 144pp Paperback
solutions. The novel becomes an expression of Calcutta during the 1960s. Siddhartha, the central
Dalit youth—eager and working for change. character, was able to complete his graduation,
because his sister, Sutapa, was persuaded to take
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Sand and Other Stories fighting to keep her dreams alive in the face of Toda Landscape, The
mounting debts. Explorations in Cultural Ecology
Ashokamitran, distinguished contemporary
Tamil writer and winner of the Sahitya Akademi
2001 978-81-250-1670-0 ` 275 130pp Paperback [With Harvard University Press]
award (1996) Tarun Chhabra practises dentistry in
Translated by N. Kalyan Raman, a senior Primal Land, The Ootacamund, the heart of Toda tribal country,
telecom professional, and Gomathi Narayanan and has authored numerous papers on unique
Pratibha Ray, winner of many awards, including
This book is a translated aspects of the culture of the Toda tribe
the Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995 and
collection of three novellas, Jnanpith Award for her novel Yajnaseni See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
spanning three decades of Translated by Bikram K. Das, former Professor,
Ashokamitran’s work. The 2015 978-81-250-6001-7 ` 3,600 624 pp
English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Hardback Rights: Restricted
stories are about women
trapped by an almost The Primal Land is the story
of the Bonda tribe inhabiting
absolute lack of resources
a mountainous portion of
Bombay before Bollywood
(financial, intellectual and
emotional). The exploitation Orissa. The novel includes Film City Fantasies
of these women and their faint glimmers of political
Rosie Thomas, Professor of Film, Faculty
daily struggle against it are awakening among the
of Media, Arts and Design, University of
exposed in all their terrifying ordinariness. The semi-literate Bondas
Westminster, UK
stories have all the identifiable characteristics of about their exploitation;
Ashokamitran’s writing—irony, interiority, even though the only See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
sensitivity. incorruptible outsider who
2014 978-81-250-5362-0 ` 950 344pp Hardback
works for the betterment of Rights: Restricted
2002 978-81-250-2268-8 ` 325 133pp Paperback the Bondas, a woman schoolteacher, is suspended,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5044-5
there is hope for the Bondas yet.
2001 978-81-250-1896-4 ` 475 308pp Paperback
Cine-politics
Son of the Moment E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5225-8
Film Stars and Political Existence in South India
Nazir Ahmad, pioneer of modern fiction in Urdu M. Madhava Prasad, Professor, Department of
Translated by Mohammed Zakir, retired Shock Therapy Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages
Professor of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi University, Hyderabad
Subodh Ghose, well-known Bengali writer
In the charged atmosphere See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
of the Mutiny (1857), an Subodh Ghose’s stories are
2014 978-81-250-5356-9 ` 765 344pp Hardback
English officer, Noble Sahib, marked by a strong,
and a Muslim gentleman, vigorous narrative style
Ibn-ul-Vaqt, are brought and a lively universe of Duty, Destiny and Glory
together under remarkable people and places drawn The Life of C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar
circumstances. Noble Sahib from the writer’s formidable
range of life experiences. A. Raghu, Associate Professor, Department of
persuades Ibn-ul-Vaqt to
This collection of English, Thangal Kunju Musaliar College of Arts
remove the estrangement
translations into English and Science, Kollam, Kerala
between the English and his
community by adopting the presents a number of his This volume is a
English lifestyle and, thus,
better-known stories. Related Titles from Orient BlackSwan
biographical account of C.
C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, famously
RAGHU
known as C.P., was born in 1879 to a

and academic worlds. And this marriage that was a celebrated union
LEE JONG-WOOK
glory—with its accompanying very of two leading Tamil Brahmin families.
A Life in Health and Politics
human failings—has been told with an He became one of India’s greatest
Desmond Avery
elegance that is too charming to miss.
draw his tradition-bound compatriots to a more P. Ramaswami Aiyar,

constitutional lawyers, a passionate
2001 978-81-250-1968-8 ` 260 228pp Paperback

GEORGE JOSEPH general secretary of the Indian
Duty, Destiny and Glory will interest National Congress, a loyal dewan of
The Life and Times of a Kerala Christian Nationalist
students of biography, modern Indian the princely state of Travancore and
George Gheverghese Joseph
history and political science, as well as vice-chancellor of two different
progressive way of life. The consequences that

the general reader.
fondly known as ‘C.P.’.

A BEACON ACROSS ASIA universities simultaneously. In the
The Life of C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar
A Biography of Subhas Chandra Bose midst of a lecturing tour at universities

S. K. Bose, A. Weth and S. A. Ayer in London and Oxford in 1966, C.P.
breathed his last.
DUTY, DESTINY AND GLORY
A. RAGHU is Associate Professor,

HARILAL GANDHI
follow are not what they had envisioned.

Department of English, Thangal Kunju
Born in 1879 in an
A Life Inheriting an immense fortune through
Musaliar College of Arts and Science, his mother, and an iron resolve to
Kollam, Kerala. Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal
pursue academic excellence from his
Tridip Suhrud (ed. and trans.)
father, C.P. was the ‘prize boy’ at
school and college, and he quickly
affluent Tamil Brahmin

rose to become a top lawyer at the
Madras bar. He also became the
youngest advocate-general of Madras.
2002 978-81-250-2255-8 ` 395 272pp Paperback

BIOGRAPHY/
His undying zeal took him to the
governor’s executive council, the
family, C.P. was a star

viceroy’s executive council and the
League of Nations. And as he advised
the maharaja of Travancore through
political intrigues, he grew unpopular
Cover image: C. R. Pattabhiraman
and narrowly escaped an
Cover design: Utsav Bhattacharya
pupil at school and

assassination attempt.
LITERATURE/CULTURE
This biographer presents C.P.’s life
Anaro and Other Stories

through the diligent execution of his
duties; an obedient son, a nurturing
college and soon became

senior lawyer, a lieutenant in the
www.orientblackswan.com Besantine Congress faction, an
administrator dedicated to nation-
building and social reform, and an
academic in relentless pursuit of
one of India’s finest

intellectual excellence. We are shown
a man who inherits the will to prove the
Raghu: Duty, Destiny and Glory stars wrong and script his own destiny,
Manjul Bhagat, author of four collections of

establishing a legacy in legal, political
Selected Works of C.
constitutional lawyers. He
short stories and four novels in Hindi
then became politically active and was the general
This collection of Manjul
Rajagopalachari secretary of the Indian National Congress and later
Bhagat’s stories, translated Vol. III, 1923–25 Dewan of the princely state of Travancore. His
from Hindi by the author Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru academic accomplishments made him vice-chancellor
herself, deals with the Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), Teen of two different universities simultaneously. When
experiences of women, Murti House, New Delhi, N. Balakrishnan, he was touring the universities in London and
children and men wrestling former Deputy Director, NMML and Deepa Oxford in 1966, C.P. passed away. The book is a
with life. ‘Anaro’, winner of Bhatnagar, Head, Research and Publications frank narrative of these facts and the controversies
the Yashpal Award, is the Division and NMML Archives that surround the man—his westernised outlook to
story authoritatively life and his various passions. It also attempts to
sketched in brave strokes of See HISTORY explain why he grew unpopular and narrowly
a bold woman, who keeps 2015 978-81-250-5980-6 ` 1,250 568 pp escaped an assassination attempt.
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Contents: Preface 1. The Phoenix Dynasty 15. Communal Riots: Chairman, Commissions of Grief to Bury, A
2. Spectacular Beginnings 3. Lawyer Extraordinaire Enquiry PART IV 16. The Bank Nationalisation Case Memories of Love, Work & Loss
4. Natty Suits and Nationalism 5. Madras, 17. The Communal Riots Enquiry 18. Challenges to
Montagu, Montford 6. Pitchforked into the GoM the Constitution 19. The Keshavananda Bharati Case Vasanth Kannabiran, feminist poet and writer
7. Conferences and Councils 8. Travancorean Epic 20. End of Judicial Tenure
This volume is a series of
9. Travancorean Thriller 10. The Assassination
2014 978-81-250-5531-0 ` 670 312pp Hardback conversations with women
that Never Was 11. Retirement (?!) 12. A Strange
about marriage and
Death 13. Rather Far from Sainthood, but ...
widowhood. The women
Appendix I The C.P. Family Tree Appendix II C.P.’s History of the Bengali speak here with frankness
Handwriting People and candour about their
2014 978-81-250-5569-3 ` 525 216pp Hardback From Earliest Times to the Fall of the Sena often quite unconventional
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5932-5 Dynasty relationships with their
(Second Edition) husbands, and of coming to
Figurations in Indian Film Niharranjan Ray, a renowned historian, well
terms with the loss of a
life-long partner.
Edited by Meheli Sen, Assistant Professor, known for his works on History of Art and
Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Buddhism Contents: PART I: CHOOSING THE RUGGED
Asian Languages and Literatures (AMESALL) and Translated by John W. Hood. He has extensively PATH: CHARTING THE POLITICAL ECONOMY
the Cinema Studies Program, Rutgers University, studied and written about Indian—especially OF GENDER 1. Neera Desai 2. K. Saradamoni
USA, and Anustup Basu, Associate Professor, Bengali—culture and has translated a variety of 3. Rameswari Varma PART II: MADE FOR EACH
Department of English, University of Illinois, Bengali poetry and fiction into English. OTHER: WELDING HUMAN RIGHTS INTO
Urbana-Champaign, USA DEVELOPMENT 4. Kathy Sreedhar 5. Koely Roy
See HISTORY 6. Ela Bhatt PART III: PORTRAITS OF MARRIAGE:
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Rights: Restricted 9. Abburi Chaya Devi PART IV: HOME AND
THE WORLD: THE WALLS OF FREEDOM
Feeding the Forgotten Poor 10. Sutapa Chakrabarty 11. Rukmini Parthasarathy
Judiciary I Served, The Perspectives of an Agriculturist 12. Jayalakshmi Narayan Epilogue: Half a Century
Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy (1910–99) was Judge William Dar, the first Asian and Filipino Director with Kannabiran
in the Supreme Court of India. On retirement General of the International Crops Research 2012 978-81-250-4305-8 ` 775 400pp Hardback
from the Supreme Court in 1975, Justice Reddy Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and
served as Vice-Chancellor of Osmania University Arun Tiwari, CEO of Indo-US Healthcare Pvt.
Ltd., and also teaches in the School of Management Lee Jong-wook
The volume is an account of Studies at the University of Hyderabad A Life in Health and Politics
an eminent jurist’s long and
Reddy
wan The Judiciary I Served is an account of an

eminent jurist’s long and distinguished
career in the law, from his early days as a
oss barrister to his retirement from the
distinguished career in the

Supreme Court of India.
As a judge of the Supreme Court, Justice

This book is an Desmond Avery, the former editor of the
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy heard and
autobiography in which
and Social Change
law, from his early days as a

decided on several landmark cases which
had profound and lasting implications for
The Judiciary I Served
the country, covering such issues as the

aret Spear fundamental right to property and the
personal reminiscences
constitutional rights of minority educa-
barrister to his retirement

tional institutions. The Bank Nationalisation
case, the Keshavananda Bharati case and the
St. Xavier’s case are some of the proceed-
This book is a biography of
serve as a vehicle for voicing
ings about which he writes in his book.
The Judiciary from the Supreme Court of

Justice Reddy’s years as a judge gave him a
broad experience of different contempo-
rary issues and personalities. In this book the sixth Director-General
I Served India. As a judge of the
he provides an absorbing account of how
repeated challenges, minor and major,
concern for the disprivileged.
were faced by both state and central
governments, and how upright judges
of the World Health
P. Jaganmohan Reddy It critically examines the
struggled against such pressures in order to
eddy courtesy of Gautam Pingle

eddy, courtesy of Gautam Pingle
Supreme Court, Justice
With a Prologue by Gautam Pingle
uphold the proper functioning of the law.
The Prologue to this volume, by his son

and academic Gautam Pingle, charts the Organization, the first
Pingle Jaganmohan Reddy

life and times of Justice Reddy. Personal
political, economic and
Korean to hold this post. It
and heartwarming, the Prologue shows
how probity, impartiality and firmness
were features that marked the illustrious
heard and decided on several

career of this distinguished judge.
environmental issues to
charts the course of his life
landmark cases which had which contemporary
from a newly qualified
profound and lasting implications for the country, agriculture is closely tied—
doctor who volunteers to
covering such issues as the fundamental right to tariffs and farm subsidies,
work with leprosy patients
property and the constitutional rights of minority water pollution, biofuels, the prospects and
in the suburbs of his home
educational institutions. The Bank Nationalisation problems of genetically modified organisms, the
town, Seoul, in the Republic
case, the Keshavananda Bharati case and the St. growing backlash against mechanised agriculture and
of Korea, to the headquarters of WHO in Geneva,
Xavier’s case are some of the proceedings about increasing support for sustainable practices.
Switzerland. Desmond Avery’s account not only
which he writes in his book. makes for compelling reading about an eventful life,
DVD included.
With a Prologue by Gautam Pingle it also gives insights into public health and policy
Contents: 1. Soil and Roots 2. Stems, Leaves making.
Contents: Foreword to the First Edition by and Fruits 3. Skin of the Earth 4. Innovate, Grow,
B. S. Murty, Preface to the First Edition, PART I Prosper Contents: Introduction: ‘This Great Doctor’
1. Becoming a Lawyer 2. Judicial Service 3. Divisional PART I: 1945–1979—KOREA 1. ‘Our Longing is
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PART III 8. Andhra Pradesh High Court 9. Chandra ORGANIZATION 1. Honolulu, Pago-Pago
Reddy, Chief Justice 10. Chief Justice Chandra 2. WHO, Suva—‘What a Change!’
Reddy’s Transfer 11. Appointment as Chief Justice 3. Manila—‘An Astute and Capable Manager’
12. After Becoming Chief Justice 13. Chief Justiceship: 4. Geneva 5. ‘Want to be Reassigned?’ PART III:
Problems and Incidents 14. To the Supreme Court 2003–2006—DIRECTOR-GENERAL 1. Transition
2. Shock and SHOC 3. Progress 4. Social and

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Other Determinants 5. Celebrity and Travel Sixty Years in the Service Left Politics in Bengal
6. Revolt and Leisure 7. ‘The Boss Has Collapsed’ Time Travels among Bhadralok Marxists
of the Nation
2012 978-81-250-4617-2 ` 645 300pp Hardback An Illustrated History of IIT Kharagpur
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IIT Kharagpur, the oldest of See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
the IITs, celebrated its AND PUBLIC POLICY
Living Faith, A sixtieth anniversary in 2011.
My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social 2010 978-81-250-4024-8 ` 375 287pp Paperback
This commemorative
Change volume, through its lavishly
An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer illustrated pages in full
M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj
colour, discusses the events, A Critical Edition
Asghar Ali Engineer was Chairperson, Centre
for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and landmarks, and people who Annotated, translated and edited by Suresh
Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai have made the institute what Sharma, historian and anthropologist, and Tridip
it is today. From the many Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of
With a Foreword by Mushirul academic achievements of Information and Communication Technology
Hasan the institute, to daily life and fun and frolic within its
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Birds Fly Away to Build New Nests: IIT Kharagpur
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—Frontline Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
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Managing Money and Finance of the Reserve Bank of India
Contents: PART I: MY LIFE, MY STRUGGLE
1. My Growing-up Years 2. Understanding the Y. V. Reddy, former Governor, Reserve Bank K. S. Krishnaswamy was a
Divide: Within and Outside 3. Towards Truth: My of India, and Professor Emeritus, University of leading light in the Reserve
Struggle Begins... 4. The Bohra Reform Movement Hyderabad Bank of India and the
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THE JOURNEY SO FAR... Looking Back, Looking School of Economics, he
Ahead began his career at a time when the road was
India Remembered rocky for newly independent India. His ringside
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5314-9 Percival Spear, English historian, and
sustained a majority in the bureaucracy and the
Margaret Spear, staff of the Director-General
lasting ties he formed with many he came in
of Information in India (later Department of
Invincibility, Challenges Information and Broadcasting)
contact with are compelling on their own.
and Leadership Edited by Narayani Gupta, Professor, Jamia Selected Contents: Preamble 1. Early Years
Millia Islamia 2. Delhi: The First Planning Commission
K. V. Krishna Rao
3. With the Reserve Bank of India 4. An Academic
See HISTORY
See HISTORY Interlude 5. Some Aspects of Industrial Finance
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In Quest of Indian Folktales Thomas Kuhn Indian Economics Service, and former Assistant
Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William A Philosophical History for Our Times Professor, Lady Shriram College, Delhi University
Crooke Steve Fuller See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Sadhana Naithani, Assistant Professor of 2005 978-81-250-2813-0 ` 675 504pp Paperback 2015 978-81-250-5774-1 ` 695 320pp Hardback
Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Rights: Restricted
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Hinduism: Past and Present Economic Policies and
Axel Michaels India’s Reform Agenda
2009 978-81-250-3450-6 ` 895 344pp Hardback
2004 978-81-250-2776-8 ` 490 448pp Paperback
New Thinking
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Y. V. Reddy former Governor of the Reserve
Bank of India, and Chairman, Fourteenth Finance
India Wins Freedom History of Fine Arts in India and the
Commission
(Reissue) West, A
Edith Tomory See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
M. A. K. Azad
See HISTORY
Ramayana, The
2009 978-81-250-0514-8 ` 350
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Lakshmi Lal
Indian Tax Administration
A Dialogue
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My Life is My Message E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4487-1 Edited by Parthasarathi Shome, is Adviser to
the Finance Minister, Government of India.
Sadhana (1869–1905) Human Landscape, The
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2009 978-81-250-3706-4 ` 4000 Paperback Sacred Writings of the Sikhs, The Achin Vanaik, formerly Professor, Department
Vol. I: 620pp; Vol. II: 722pp; Vol. III: 491pp; Vol. IV: 564pp Trilochan Singh of Political Science, University of Delhi
2000 978-81-250-1790-5 ` 625 288pp Paperback
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A Life Vedic People, The AND PUBLIC POLICY
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Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4671-4 Combating Corruption
Communication Technology, Ahmedabad The Indian Case
Debacle to Revival
See GANDHI STUDIES Y. B. Chavan as Defence Minister, 1962–65 Yogesh Atal, Professor Emeritus of Madhya
R. D. Pradhan Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research, and
2007 978-81-250-3379-0 ` 550 320pp Paperback Sunil K. Choudhary teaches Political Science in
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Hymns of Guru Nanak J. P., His Biography See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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The
People’s History of the World, A ECONOMICS Gautam Pingle, Dean of Research,
Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI),
Chris Harman, historian and activist
FDI in India Hyderabad
2005 978-81-250-2843-7 ` 620 736pp Paperback
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Integration of the Indian Greek Myths Persian Myths
States Lucilla Burn, Keeper of Antiquities, Fitzwilliam Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, curator of ancient
Museum, Cambridge, UK Iranian coins in the British Museum and editor of
V. P. Menon was Secretary, States Ministry after
Iran, published by the British Institute of Persian
Independence Here retold in all their dramatic power are some
Studies
of the most exciting and influential of all Greek
See HISTORY
myths: the epic struggle of the Trojan War, the The traditional tales and
2014 978-81-250-5451-1 ` 995 534pp Paperback wanderings of Odysseus, the tragic destiny of stories of ancient Iran
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4290-7 Oedipus, and the heroic adventures of Heracles, describe confrontations
Theseus, Perseus and Jason. between good and evil, the
Silver Lining The author introduces the victories of the gods, and
Insights into Gujarat complex pantheon of exploits of heroes and
Olympian gods and fabulous supernatural
Jayanti S. Ravi, IAS, a civil servant of the Gujarat goddesses, describing their creatures, such as the
cadre attitudes, genealogies and magical bird Simurgh and
often comic relationships. the div or demons.
Drawing upon various
AND PUBLIC POLICY Selected Contents:
sources like the holy book of the Zoroastrian
Introduction 1. The Labours
2014 978-81-250-5472-6 ` 225 95pp Paperback religion, the Avesta, stories about Ahura Mazda,
of Hearakles 2. Theseus
and earlier pagan myths, Curtis retells for modern
of Athens 3. The Trojan War 4.The Story of
readers the stirring legends of ancient Iran, which
‘When the Saints Go Odysseus 5. Jason, Medea, and the Golden Fleece
have inspired centuries of manuscript illustrations.
Marching In’ 6. Perseus and Medusa 7. Oedipus and the Theban
The Curious Ambivalence of Religious cycle 8. The Imaginative Legacy Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The Gods
and the Creation of the Ancient Iranian World
Sadhus in Indian Politics 2010 978-81-250-3947-1 ` 225 80pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted 2. Demons, Fabulous Creatures and Heroes
Rajesh Pradhan, writer in the fields of urban 3. The Book of Kings: Firdowsi’s Shahnameh
planning and political science 4. Fabulous Mythological Creatures of the
Hindu Myths Shahnameh 5. Stories of Zoroaster, Cyrus and
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Alexander 6. Continuation of an Ancient Tradition
AND PUBLIC POLICY A. L. Dallapiccolla, Honorary Professor,
7. Fairy Tales and Passion Plays
University of Edinburgh, UK
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2010 978-81-250-3949-5 ` 225 80pp Paperback
Retold in colourful and Rights: Restricted
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Myths touches upon the key
MYTHS SERIES narrative themes of Roman Myths
creation, preservation,
Jane F. Gardner, Emeritus Professor of Ancient
destruction, delusion and
Chinese Myths the bestowal of grace. They
History, Department of Classics, University of
Reading, UK
Anne Birrell, University of Cambridge, UK also portray the main
deities of the Hindu Writers such as Livy, Virgil
Anne Birrell introduces a pantheon—Shiva, Vishnu and Ovid presented myths
splendid selection especially and Devi—and their as if they were actual
for the general reader. relationships with anti-gods, nymphs and ascetics. histories of the origins and
Lucidly retold using English Drawn from a variety of sources, the myths range early days of Rome. The
equivalents for the Chinese from the early centuries AD to the sixteenth stories of Aeneas, Romulus
names, these lively mythic century, conveying their enduring appeal and the and Remus and the ‘Seven
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episodes and vivid of the founding of the city;
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Rome’s destiny—her
organised by themes and new Beginning 2. Preservation 3. Destruction
divinely fore-ordained rise
motifs which set them in 4. Veiling and Unveiling 5. The Power of
to power—is stressed in all of them. Gardner
the context of mythology the world over, these Delusion 6. Anugraha, the Bestowal of Grace
retells some of the best-known stories, and a few
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4. Mythic Heroes and Heroines 5. Gender in Myth 4. Legendary Ladies 5. Some Gods Old and New
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Illustrated by Nigel Paige world made of? What is
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man? What is knowledge?
deals with the various aspects This is not a cookbook. It What is good and evil? this
of baking in this book. contains food for thought and guide traces the
Thangam Philip transforms the recipes of power over development of these
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country that released a film.
birth of the therapy, traces her rise to stardom,
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nineteenth century to 1998
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study of media, unified art
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Mariana Solanet Philosopher, psychoanalyst,
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez is ago and, as human beings,
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powerful literary symbol. presence nor shirk our
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Sartre was a member of the This unique combination of A concise, accessible
French underground during text and illustration introduction to the great
World War II, a novelist, a introduces the faith and linguist who shaped the
playwright and a major culture of Muslims from the study of language for the
influence in French political seventh century to the twentieth century, Saussure
and intellectual life. Sartre present. This book is a basic for Beginners puts the
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yet many of his ideas are the most important since that in recent years the
little known, or even Freud, yet Lacan spoke and body has been radically
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PERMANENT BLACK of Critical Humanities, Central Institute of English

and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad
Godaan (The Gift of a Cow)
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Renuka Devi Choudhurani (1910–1985)
Some of the recipes in this
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Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of An Anthology of Writings by Bankim Jawaharlal Nehru and
Democracy Chandra Chattopadhyay Sarojini Naidu. All of them
Amiya P. Sen, Professor of Modern Indian have provided nourishment
Leela Gandhi, Professor of English and
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See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE the first time, these
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Introduction and Critical Notes by Brian A. The Autobiography of Dharmanand might normally be served in a Bengali meal:
Hatcher Kosambi starters, fritters, vegetables, lentils, rice, fish, meat,
chutneys, dessert. Renuka Devi’s eloquent
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autobiographical introduction is also included here.
scholar and reformer in India, Sweden and the USA
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an emotional plea on behalf
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early age Dharmanand set
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India’s Environmental
the re-imagining of Hindu of austere self-training History
law and custom. He made across the length and A Reader
his case through a two-part breadth of Britain’s Indian Empire, halting to Volume 1
publication, Hindu Widow educate himself at places connected with From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period
Marriage, a tour de force of Buddhism. Meera Kosambi’s Introduction Volume 2
logic, erudition, and contextualises the life, career, and achievement of Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation
humanitarian rhetoric. In this new translation, one of modern India’s greatest scholar-savants.
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Birds in Books Making Conservation Work In Burmese Prisons
Three Hundred Years of South Asian Correspondence, May 1923–July 1926
Edited by Ghazala Shahabuddin, Fellow,
Ornithology: A Bibliography Council for Social Development, Delhi, and Prison letters, despite being
Aasheesh Pittie Mahesh Rangarajan, an environmentalist subjected to the scrutiny of
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The Collected Essays and Shorter Writings certainly underscore the
Valmik Thapar
of Salim Ali (Two Volumes) truth of the poetic assertion:
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Salim Ali, India’s greatest ornithologist, and a Paperback
prolific writer make, nor iron bars a cage.’
Edited by Tara Gandhi, student of Salim Ali Zoo in the Garden They make this volume one of the most moving in
the 12-volume set of Netaji’s Collected Works.
Edward Hamilton Aitken
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together by his former
student Tara Gandhi, Salim Ali for Schools Chalo Delhi
presents a fascinating array A Children’s Biography Writings and Speeches 1943–1945
of topics as diverse as the Zai Whitaker
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
Indian landscapes and 2003 978-81-7824-058-9 ` 195 100pp Hardback arrived in Southeast Asia on
birdlife that were his 6 May 1943 to lead the Indian
passion. Sikkim independence movement. On
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Bill Aitken NETAJI: COLLECTED Collected Works brings
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Away from over-used WORKS writings as the leader of the Azad Hind movement
tourist trails and trekking from June 1943 to August 1945—speeches that
routes, Bill Aitken wanders Subhas Chandra Bose electrified massive audiences of civilians and soldiers,
through the Himalaya. His Series editors: Sisir Kumar Bose (1920–2000), united Indians of all religions, and inspired them to
inclination is to enter Founder, Netaji Research Bureau, and Sugata join the march towards Delhi.
disused colonial dak Bose, Gardiner Professor of History, Harvard
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temples, meander in wild
glades above the treeline India’s Spokesman Abroad
carpeted with wild flowers, Letters, Articles, Speeches and Statements Azad Hind
filling his water bottle from 1933–1937 Writings and Speeches, 1941–1943
mountain springs and waterfalls. Having left his
The years 1933 to 1937 The letters in this volume
native Scotland in his twenties to circumnavigate
witnessed the cover perhaps the most
the world, Aitken reached the Himalaya and
transformation of Subhas difficult, daring and
stopped, enraptured. For Aitken, travel in the
Chandra Bose from a radical controversial phase in the life
Himalaya is as much about the spirit as about of India’s foremost anti-
landscapes, leeches, and aching knees. This sets leader into a statesman. This
colonial revolutionary. His
him on a lively trail of holy men, both saintly and volume brings together the
writings of this period cover a
fraudulent, across all the pilgrim centres of the letters, articles, and
broad range of topics,
Himalaya. He travels in bulging buses to Rishikesh speeches from a fascinating,
including the nature and
and Badrinath, Kedarnath and Gangotri. though somewhat unusual
course of the Second World
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topics and themes are touched upon and explored crisis, plans for a final armed assault against British rule
in his works of this period—imperialism, in India, dismay at and criticism of Germany’s invasion
nationalism, fascism, communism, psychology, of the Soviet Union, and reflections on the future
philosophy, spirituality, urban planning, travel, problems of reconstruction in free India.
Gandhi, Ireland, love, and more.
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Alternative Leadership, The GENERAL HISTORY/ most significant writings,

Meera Kosambi shows the
Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters
1939–1941 BIOGRAPHY/CULTURE manifold dimensions of
Dharmanand’s personality,
This volume brings together and the profoundly moral
the writings and speeches of
Danube, Ganges, and Other character of his intellectual
a crucial phase in Subhas Life Streams journeys. Her Introduction
Chandra Bose’s political life also contextualises the life,
Mechthild Guha, an anthropologist studying
immediately prior to his career, and achievement of
Africa
emergence as the Netaji of one of modern India’s
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the Second World War as a conflict between rival select those aspects which not only speak of me
imperialisms, and the need for Hindu–Muslim unity but also the many people and places that make Raga’n Josh
and Congress–Muslim League understanding. up my memories.’ A lover of nature, cats, and Stories from a Musical Life
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solitude, Mechthild Guha’s sensitivity, humanity, Sheila Dhar, musician
and curiosity also make her an insightful observer.
Among the many fine things about her account An accomplished singer, the
Congress President is her refusal to defer to reputation: in her world Sheila Dhar inhabited
Speeches, Articles, and Letters, January observations and assessments there is always the included renowned north
1938–May 1939 assumption that social status is irrelevant, and Indian classical musicians.
she relates well only to those she likes as human No writer has ever
This volume brings together beings. conveyed the ethos of this
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denizens with such wit,
to April 1939. The pieces irreverence, perceptiveness
deal with socialism, national Imperialists, Nationalists, and empathy. The present
planning, science, Hindu– book provides, for the first
Muslim relations, the role of Democrats time within the covers of a single volume, her
women, and European The Collected Essays collected shorter writings, including all her
politics. Among the 120 Written by Sarvepalli Gopal, well-respected
memorable stories and essays.
letters here are sets of Indian historian of his time, and edited by Srinath
correspondence with Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy
Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in Defence …contains some of the most thoughtful, most
Gandhi, Tagore, Jinnah and Nehru.
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Chandra Bose’s many-sided Assessments of D. D. Kosambi
personality was his love for
Emilie Schenkl, his Austrian
Edited by Meera Kosambi, a sociologist and Concise History of Modern
D. D. Kosambi’s daughter
wife. Bose met Schenkl in Architecture in India, A
June 1934 in Vienna, See HISTORY
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during his forced European
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exile, secretly married her in In lucid language that speaks
December 1937, and had a to laymen and architects
daughter, Anita, in November Dharmanand Kosambi alike, Jon Lang provides a
1942. This volume illuminates the human and The Essential Writings history of Indian
emotional aspects of his many-splendoured life. architecture in the
Edited and translated bv Meera Kosambi, former
2004 978-81-7824-102-9 ` 250 230pp Paperback Professor and Director, Research Centre for twentieth century in this
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Mumbai tangled developments from
the founding of the Indian
The life and writings of Dharmanand Kosambi Institute of Architects
(1876–1947), pioneering scholar of Pali and during the 1920s, to the present diversity of
Buddhist Studies, comprise the substance of this architectural directions. Over 150 photographs
book. By translating and marshalling his

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outlined in the text.
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Ramachandra Guha, eminent writer and India, The
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Heinrich von Stietencron, Professor of has been fashioned by
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An Anthology for our Times SOCIAL SCIENCE Introduced by Bharati Ray, Honorary Professor,
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PRESS and Malavika Karlekar, Editor, Indian Journal of
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Swami Vivekananda’s LITERATURE IN on the Tagores. The
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figure in any proper touched Sarala Devi’s life. She
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OTHERS Literary craftsmanship is Communication Technology, Gandhinagar, and

documentary film maker
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Konkani Saraswat
Cookbook, The
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Asha S. Philar
The Konkani Saraswat
Cookbook, with its base
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India, celebrates a unique
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Department of Health, Ethics, and Society, Faculty SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN
of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht
HISTORY Lee Jong-wook
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Languages and Literatures, Department of
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Medical Pluralism in
scholars on the factors responsible for regional problems. It builds on
the making of modern Maharashtra. It Global Development Studies
Queen’s University previous academic attempts to rethink
will be a valuable source for students Indian regions and the production of
and scholars of the society, economy Rethinking Western India their set boundaries. The essays show
and polity of Western India, as well as
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astutely reminds us that the circumspect lens of regionalism
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Contemporary India
opens up enormous vistas of time and subject…[and] reaffirms The volume pays close attention to
Languages and Literatures,
Rethinking Western India
the value of regional analysis.” local and regional dynamics of western

CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Associate Professor
India, but sets these into a

Department of Comparative Religion, India, but shows them in a larger
Comenius University, Bratislava, South Asia and Comparative Religion Programs context. It also investigates how these
Slovak Republic. The Jackson School of International Studies dynamics have come to be shaped and
Daniel Jasper is Associate Professor of University of Washington understood as regional. The opening
Kalinga Tudor Silva,

Sociology, Moravian College, essays not only contextualise
larger context which

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. Maharashtrian texts as coherent
wholes, but also the meanings
contained within these texts, thereby
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social”.
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ontribution to a growing body of research. historic feat of eliminating malaria. social”—the interface of actions that
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ay of malaria within its environment, Silva However, history reminds us that
H ISTORY different levels, and of different
Department of Sociology,
policy tailored to specific contexts.’ malaria can strike back with full force
ONES,Research Fellow and Deputy Director following spectacular successes in characters—is attempted by the next
dynamics have come to

Centre for Global Health Histories set of essays. The concluding essays
“eradicating” the disease. It is
Department of History, University of York emphasise how local dynamics are as
important to understand the political
much a part of forces ostensibly
University, New Delhi, and Leena Abraham,

and social factors that paved the way
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knowledge, and practices and cultural
The primary focus of the

EKERE, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology adaptation to fevers and how they saw
a rapid decline with the arrival of
This volume looks at the

Princeton University
Western medicine.
Sciences, Mumbai
The politics of the devastating malaria
essays is to inquire into the relations and

epidemic of 1934–35 that shaped Sri
Lanka’s transition from a colony to a
dynamic interplay between

postcolonial state and the 1967
resurgence of malaria challenging the
developmental push of the postcolonial
processes that make up what is usually framed as

state form the crux of the discussion.
See SOCIOLOGY
The book also examines the manner in
malaria and its social,

which the civil war triggered yet
another outbreak of malaria.
www.orientblackswan.com The author looks at colonial records,
regional or Maharashtrian problems. The first set

ISBN 978 81 250 5429 0 government statistics, oral history,
political and environmental

ethnographies and newspaper articles
through the lenses of postcolonial
2012 978-81-250-4501-4 ` 895 408pp Hardback

9 788125 054290
of essays of this volume address ‘the semantics of

elopment and Disease Kalinga Tudor Silva Continued on back flap
milieu in Sri Lanka over an E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5342-2

80-year period from 1930 to the social’. The essays in the second section,
2010. The volume begins with an ethno-historical focusing on ‘the mechanics of the social’, address
account of the accumulated body of indigenous the interface of actions that articulate societal Play
knowledge and practices and cultural adaptation relationships at different levels, and of different Experiential Methodologies in
to fevers and how it saw a rapid decline with the characters. The final set of essays emphasise how Developmental and Therapeutic Settings
arrival of western medicine. Then it analyses the Maharashtrian dynamics are as much a part of
forces ostensibly ‘beyond Maharashtra’, as they are Edited by Shubhada Maitra, Associate Professor
consequences of the devastating malaria epidemic
products of dynamics within Maharashtra. and Chairperson, Centre for Health and Mental
of 1934–35, which, affecting mainly the Sinhala
Health, School of Social Work, Tata Institute
South, in some ways shaped Sri Lanka’s transition Contents: Introduction 1. The World of of Social Sciences, and Shekhar Seshadri,
from a colony to a postcolonial developmental Two Dhangar Ovis 2. Bidar in the Marathi Professor, Department of Child and Adolescent
state. The book also examines the manner in World: Saints, Kings, and Powers across the Psychiatry, NIMHANS, Bengaluru
which civil war (1983–2009) triggered yet another Centuries 3. A Socio-Textual Ecology of the
outbreak of a malaria epidemic. Rgvedadaśagrantha 4. Gender and the Freedom See EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY
Contents: Introduction 1. Mapping of Fevers in Struggle in Maharashtra: Contextualising Prema 2012 978-81-250-4759-9 ` 510 264pp Paperback
British Ceylon 2. An Ethno-history of Malaria in Kantak’s Novel Agniyaan 5. Bhagwangadavarun
Mala Mumbai Disate Aahe: How Caste Survives
Nuwarakalaviya 3. Mixing Politics with Quinine:
The 1934–35 Malaria Epidemic in Sri Lanka 4. amidst Democratic Politics 6. Of Relics and Living Polio Eradication and Its
Development and the Resurgence of Malaria in Traditions: Creating Heritage in Maharashtra 7. Discontents
Sri Lanka 5. War-Induced Malaria Outbreak in A City of Yesterday in the World of Tomorrow: A Historian’s Journey Through an
Northern Sri Lanka 1990 to 2002 6. Conclusion Urban Solapur and Declining Industry—Its Impact International Public Health (Un)civil War
and Reflections on Women 8. The Changing Environment of
Political Protest in Mumbai 9. Trade Network in SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN
2014 978-81-250-5429-0 ` 870 272pp Hardback Indapur Pargana under the Marathas 10. The Kolis HISTORY
of Mumbai: The Vanishing People 11. Ambiguity in
William Muraskin, Professor, Department of
India Infrastructure Report University Autonomy: The University of Bombay
Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of
in its City in the Late Nineteenth Century 12. Mal
2013|14 Khara Tol Poora: Aspiration and Reality in the
New York
The Road to Universal Health Coverage Monetary Environments of Eighteenth-Century This book attempts to investigate and explain why
IDFC Foundation Maharashtra 13. Politics of Maharashtra and Its a global campaign against a crippling infectious
Environments disease, which one would expect to be universally
See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES hailed as a great humanitarian effort, has generated
Contributors: Jayant Bhalchandra Bapat,
2014 978-81-250-5610-2 ` 690 348pp Paperback so much criticism, controversy and at times
Shailendra Bhandare, Dušan Deák, Rajeshwari
obstruction. To find an answer to this question the
Deshpande, Anne Feldhaus, Cezary Galewicz,
book takes an intensive look at the individuals
Daniel Jasper, Meera Kosambi, Rajneesh Krishna,
involved in the origin and development of the
campaign at the global level and later compares

HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES 95
their views to those of the successful effort from an Global Eradication of
campaign’s most articulate insider’s view. The author
opponents, a group of describes the selfless and Smallpox, The
Indian scientists and tireless work of people SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
clinicians. from different cultures,
Edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader,
races, nationalities and
Contents: Introduction York University, Toronto, Canada, and Sharon
religions, who worked
1. A Possible Guide for Messenger, Senior Research Assistant, Wellcome
together to achieve a
the Perplexed 2. The Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
common goal that many
1983 Polio Conference at University of Oxford, UK
thought was impossible.
the Pan American Health The book contextualises the
Organization (PAHO) global programme and the
3. A Polio Eradication Champion Arises 4. The Arita chronicles the saga
of smallpox eradication ... in a narrative that is many factors contributing to
Declaration of Talloires 5. The Dahlem Eradication the certification of smallpox
Conference 6. The Case of India 7. Polio: The not just intelligible to the laity and the scientific
community alike but even edges on to becoming a eradication worldwide in
Problem of the Endgame Strategy Postscript 1980. This book is an
thriller providing an intense action-packed account
2012 978-81-250-4656-1 ` 675 168pp Hardback of the duel between man and the smallpox virus. important research and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5095-7 training resource, which will
—The Book Review be useful to historians,
public health specialists and
Urbanising Cholera Selected Contents: 1. Smallpox in a Tropical
medical professionals.
The Social Determinants of Its Rain Forest in West Africa 2. Spring 1966: WHO
Re-emergence Executive Board Debates 3. Smallpox: The Target Contents: Introduction
Disease for Eradication 4. Initial Phase of Launching 1. The Global Eradication of Smallpox: Historical
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY the Intensified Smallpox Eradication Programme Perspective and Future Prospects 2. A Miracle
5. USA Bilateral Programme for Smallpox Happened There: The West and Central Africa
Rajib Dasgupta, Associate Professor at the
Eradication and Measles Control in West and Smallpox Eradication Programme and Its Impact
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health,
Central Africa 6. Harbingers of the Intensified 3. The Eradication of Samllpox from India 4. The
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Programme 7. Was the Smallpox Vaccine Good Last Challenge: The Horn of Africa 5. Innovation
Urbanising Cholera is a revival Enough to Start the Programme? 8. Evolution in as an Integral Part of Smallpox Eradication: A
of the eco-social approach Thinking 9. The Final Battle in Bangladesh: Fieldworker’s Perspective
in examining the social Victory in Asia 10. Fight in the Horn of Africa 6. Successful Eradication of Smallpox and the
determinants of cholera and 11. Smallpox in Ethiopia 12. Somalia: The Beginning Prospect of Disease Eradication Efforts in the
deals with different aspects of the Last Outbreaks in the Horn of Africa Twenty-First Century.
of the problem. There is a 13. Mysterious Source of Infection 14. Emergency Contributors: Isao Arita, Sanjoy Bhattacharya,
dearth of books giving a Countermeasures Against the Smallpox Epidemic Joel G. Breman, Larry Brilliant, Corrie White
social epidemiological in Somalia 15. End Game in Ethiopia, Again: Was Conrad, D.A. Henderson, Miyuki Nakana, Cirode
account of cholera with a it Really Smallpox Free? 16. Is This the Last Case Quadron, Alan Schnur
focus on the urban poor. of Smallpox Globally? 17. Target Zero and Variola
2010 978-81-250-3981-5 ` 1005 206pp Paperback
Virus Stocks 18. Human Monkeypox: Does it Rights: Restricted
Contents: 1. Cholera: An Emerging Urban Health
Frustrate Smallpox Eradication Efforts? 19. Has E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5283-8
Issue 2. Urban Basic Services in Delhi: Evolution and
Smallpox Really Gone? How Do We Know?
Crises 3. Time Trends of Cholera: The Rise and Fall
20. Strategies and Tactics of Certification, 1973
of Vibrio Strains 4. Cholera in Delhi, 1965–2000
to 1979 21. Certification of Global Smallpox-free Health, Illness and Medicine
5. Vulnerability to Cholera: A Spatial Epidemiological Ethnographic Readings
Status in the Horn of Africa 22. Post-eradication
Analysis 6. Making Sense of “Behaviours” 7. Cholera
Era: The First Three Decades and Future
and Urbanisation: An Ecosocial View Edited by Arima Mishra, Assistant Professor,
Perspectives 23. Research Topics in the Post-
Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
2012 978-81-250-4660-8 ` 1295 368pp Hardback eradication Era Epilogue
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5096-4 Health, Illness and Medicine attempts to understand
2011 978-81-250-4095-8 ` 765 220pp Hardback
the existing and future potential of the sociology
Smallpox Eradication Saga, Children with
of medicine in the Indian context and beyond. The
book is unique in that it brings together research
The Communication Disorders studies that are theoretically informed and
An Insider’s View ethnographically grounded.
(Revised Paperback Edition)
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Contents: Introduction
Prathibha Karanth, pioneer in the field of
1. Medical Pluralism in India:
Isao Arita, a central figure in the eradication of speech-language pathology in India
The Interface of
smallpox
See EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY Complementary and
Edited by Alan Schnur, WHO, and Masanobu
Alternative Therapies with
Sugimoto, formerly at the National Institute 2010 978-81-250-3866-5 ` 425 208pp Paperback
Allopathy 2. Intervertebral
of Health, Japan, and Harvard Medical School,
Disc Prolapse: A Personal
Boston, USA
Encounter with Biomedicine
The global eradication of the dreaded smallpox is a 3. Deconstructing ‘Self-care’
public health achievement of the twentieth in Biomedical and Public
century. Isao Arita relates the story behind this Health Discourses

96 HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES
4. Secondary Gains from Cross-Cultural Health Towards a Critical Medical University of Tokyo, and Myriam Winance,
Encounters: Stories from a Somali Clinic in the research scholar at INSERM (the French National
United States 5. The Fit between Traditional Practice Research Institute for Health and Medicine)
Fertility and Sterilisation: A Study of Negotiations Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical
Culture Today In the 1980s and 1990s,
in Rural India 6. Situating Declining Sex Ratio:
disabled scholars in the
Evidence from North India 7. Lay Perceptions of
Edited by Anand Zachariah, Professor of west began to develop a
Tuberculosis: A Study in Delhi 8. Narrator and
Medicine, Christian Medical College, Vellore, radical critique of
Narrative: Understanding Scientific Realism of
R. Srivatsan, Senior Fellow, Anveshi Research biomedical conceptions of
Chronic Diseases in the Field 9. Community-Based
Centre for Women’s Studies, Hyderabad, and disability that focused
Organisations in Policy and Practice: Sex Workers,
Susie Tharu, former Professor and Coordinator, exclusively on the individual
HIV/ AIDS and the Social Construction of
School of Critical Humanities, English and Foreign body and its limitations.
Solutions 10. A Paradigm for Well-Being: The
Languages University, Hyderabad They also exposed the
Social Construction of Health in Rural Sri Lanka
failure of the social sciences
11. The Role of Family in Organ Transplantation Towards a Critical Medical
to critically address what
Practice is the outcome of a
2010 978-81-250-3978-5 ` 840 332pp Hardback this medical understanding of disability meant, and
dialogue between a
what it excluded from consideration. Out of their
self-critical medicine and the
work emerged what is generally called the ‘social
Social Determinants of new social sciences that
model’ of disability. This book introduces readers
Health offers original perspectives
on the crisis. A set of
in Asian countries to the recent disability literature
Assessing Theory, Policy and Practice of the West.
historical studies provides
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY fresh insights into the Abridged Contents: Disability and Rehabilitation
dilemmas that surround in Europe and North America; Disability and
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University, cholera, kalaazar, post- Rehabilitation in Asia PART I: DISABILITY IN
Toronto, Canada, Caroline Overy and Sharon traumatic stress disorder, ischemic heart disease, MEDICINE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY PART II:
Messenger, both Senior Research Assistants, and undernutrition in contemporary India. LIFE WITH A DISABILITY PART III: SOCIAL
Wellcome Trust [now UCL] Centre for the Another group of papers argue that the public LIFE WITH A DISABILITY: INTEGRATION
History of Medicine, UCL (University College health focus on large-scale preventive programmes AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION PART IV:
London) has resulted in the underdevelopment of primary TECHNOLOGY AND REHABILITATION
Social Determinants of Health care in the curative mode. Doctors trained in a PART V: POLITICAL LIFE WITH A DISABILITY:
brings together essays tertiary setting are ill-equipped to provide DISABILITY POLITICS AND POLICY
which raise issues of health appropriate medical care in any other context.
2009 978-81-250-3686-9 ` 895 475pp Paperback
equity, as well as discusses The constant everyday work of translating
the many challenges, within knowledge and experience to address a local
both global and national situation and doing justice to the individual patient From Western Medicine to
remains largely invisible and undervalued in
contexts. The book
modern medicine. Theorising this practice, be it in
Global Medicine
highlights the need to The Hospitals beyond the West
surmount political and teaching or in research, will open up new
economic difficulties, the directions in health care and medical education. SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
requirement to mobilise Abridged Contents: Introduction: The Edited by Mark Harrison, Professor of the
allies in government and Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today SECTION I: History of Medicine and Director, Margaret
civil society, and a plethora of social conditions GENEALOGIES OF MEDICINE IN INDIA Jones, Research Officer, and Helen Sweet,
which will require careful study and negotiation SECTION II: HEALTH IN THE TIME OF Research Associate, all at the Wellcome Unit for
before policies are drawn up and implemented. DEVELOPMENT: PRIMARY HEALTH the History of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK
Contributors: Rama Baru, Cristiana Bastos, CARE, NUTRITION AND POPULATION
This book provides the first
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Catherine Campbell, Anne- CONTROL SECTION III: TERTIARY CARE
book-length account of the
Emanuelle Birn, Rajib Dasgupta, Andrew Gibbs, MEDICINE, EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE,
hospital’s emergence in
Judith Green, Ross Gribbin, Sarah Hodgson, PHARMACEUTICALS AND COST SECTION
Asia, Africa and other
Amarjit Kaur, Kelley Lee, Michael Lewis, Anne IV: THINKING WITH THE PATIENT SECTION
non-Western contexts. The
Marie Moulin, Iroshi Nishiura, Diana Obregón, V: RESOURCES OF PRACTICE: CALIBRATING
essays examine the various
Francesca Perlman, Susan B. Rifkin, Ricardo MEDICINE TO THE NEEDS OF PATIENTS
facets of hospital medicine
Sabates, Rachel Sabates-Wheeler, Ritu Sadana, 2010 978-81-250-4091-0 ` 710 392pp Hardback from the eighteenth century
Kalinga Tudor Silva, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, onwards, including
Akihito Suzuki, Simon Szreter, Togo Tsukahara, interaction with indigenous
Kohei Wakimura Disability and Society traditions of healing and
A Reader with economic and political issues during the
2010 978-81-250-3982-2 ` 1040 432pp Hardback
Edited by Renu Addlakha, Senior Fellow, Centre colonial and post-colonial periods.
for Women’s Development Studies, New Delhi, 2009 978-81-250-3702-6 ` 1005 500pp Hardback
Stuart Blume, Professor Emeritus, Department E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5242-5
of Sociology and Anthropology, University of
Amsterdam, Patrick Devlieger, Senior Lecturer,
Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of
Leuven, Belgium, Osamu Nagase, Associate
Professor, Graduate School of Economics,

History of the Social 1815 through to the Power, Knowledge, Medicine
post-colonial period. Jones Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home and in
Determinants of Health examines government,
Global Histories, Contemporary Debates the World
mission and philanthropic
initiatives in the provision of SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
medical services. She
Edited by Harold J. Cook, Director, suggests that while the Madhulika Banerjee, Department of Political
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of hospital system was the Science, University of Delhi
Medicine, University College London, Sanjoy driving force behind the
Bhattacharya, Reader, York University, establishment of free health The breadth of the canvas
Toronto, Canada, Anne Hardy, Deputy Director, care as a right of citizenship, and the range of questions
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of it also devoured the limited resources available for posed ... will encourage
Medicine, University College London health care as a whole. researchers to engage with
this neglected aspect of
Selected Contents: Selected Contents: PART I: THE ORIGINS AND Indian social and political
Introduction 1. Australia EXPANSION OF THE WESTERN HOSPITAL reality.
and Oceania 2. Asian SECTOR UP TO 1931 1. Government and
Intra-Household Survival Philanthropy: The Establishment of an Infrastructure —Economic and Political
Logics: The ‘Shun Te’ and 2. The Needs of Production and Hospital Expansion Weekly
‘Shui Ta’ Options 3. The 3. Medical Education and the Evolution of a
This book draws insights
History of the Social Ceylonese Medical Profession 4. Care and Cure:
from the various disciplines
Determinants of Health in The Development of General Hospitals 5. Specialist
that have analysed different aspects of Ayurveda;
Africa 4. The History of the Hospitals 6. ‘Scientific’ Nursing for Ceylon, 1870–
yet its principal focus is on making sense of
Social Determinants of 1931 PART II: HOSPITALS AND THE MEDICAL
some of the big changes that have marked the
Health in Europe: A PROFESSIONS IN LATE COLONIAL AND POST-
transformation of Ayurveda in the twentieth
Swedish Example 5. The Black Report: COLONIAL CEYLON 7. “A Truly National Health
century.
Reinterpreting History 6. Sex, Race and Social Service”: Hospitals for a New Nation 8. Medical
Role: History and the Social Determinants of Education, 1931–1960: Crises and Renewal 9. “A Selected Contents: Introduction 1. The
Health 7. Social Determinants of Health: Impact of Retarded Though Obedient Follower”: The Nursing Archaeology of a Pharmaceutical 2. Policy
War on Population Health in the Lebanon Profession after 1931 and Practice of the Post-Colonial State
(1975–1992 and 2006) 8. Health Determinants in 3. Response and Resistance from Civil Society
2009 978-81-250-3679-1 ` 930 468pp Hardback
Urban Areas: Combined Effects of Social, Spatial E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5241-8 4. Commercialisation and the Forms of
and Temporal Dimensions 9. Milking the Welfare Commodification 5. Standardisation and Logic
State: Social Policies and Uruguay’s Infant Mortality of Pharmaceuticalisation 6. Globalisation and the
Stagnation 10. Discussion Paper on Lawrence and Modern Medicine and Trend towards Herbalisation Conclusions
Birn 11. A Utopia as Future: Health and Economic, International Aid 2009 978-81-250-3528-2 ` 1005 360pp Hardback
Political Development 12. Political and Economic Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998 E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5293-7
Determinants of Health: The Case of India 13. The
Right of Registration 14. The Witness Seminar SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Technique in Modern Medical History 15. State of Vaccination
Researching Defended Subjects with the Free Susan Heydon, Lecturer, Social Pharmacy, The Fight against Smallpox in Colonial
University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
Association Narrative Interview Burma
Contributors: Alison Bashford, Virginia Berridge, This history of Khunde
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Patrice Hospital provides a detailed
Bourdelais, Harold J. Cook, Paul Greenough, Anne case study about both an Atsuko Naono, Associate Fellow, Department of
Hardy, Wendy Hollway, Tony Jefferson, Stephen ongoing encounter between History, University of Warwick, UK
Kunitz, Roderick Lawrence, Socrates Litsios, Abla sherpas’ beliefs and
practices about sickness and This book makes an
Mehio-Sibai, Randall Packard, Imrama Qadeer, important contribution to
Kasturi Sen, Jan Sundin, Simon Szreter, Tilli their use of ‘modern’
medicine and the our understanding of the
Tansey, Sam Willner history of colonial medicine
implementation of an aid
2009 978-81-250-3508-4 ` 1115 380pp Hardback project that is situated practised on the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5428-3 against the background of subcontinent and its
changing ideas and practices in international aid. periphery, Burma.
Researched in both London
Hospital System and Health Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Khunde and Burma, it examines how
Care, The Hospital, Sir Edmund Hillary and Giving Aid a colonial medical
Sri Lanka, 1815–1960 2. Khunde Hospital and the Sherpa of Khumbu establishment attempted to
3. Khunde Hospital as a Western Medicine Project cope with the neglect from being on the periphery
4. Khunde Hospital as an Aid Project Conclusion of British India.
Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome
Unit for the History of Medicine, University of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5309-5
Oxford, UK
This book breaks new ground in its exploration of
the development of the hospital system in Sri
Lanka from the beginning of British rule in

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Taking Traditional Refiguring Unani Tibb medicine and Western

Plural Healing in Late Colonial India medical ideas through
Knowledge to the Market colonial rule. Analysing local
The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY responses to global
Unani Industry, 1980–2000 enforcements in a specific
Guy Attewell, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust
yet massive terrain—namely
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Centre for the History of Medicine, University
colonial Punjab—the author
College London
Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of explores the processes by
Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of This book explores a variety which this region’s
Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam of sites of unani practice Ayurvedic practitioners and
spanning popular and publicists set about
The author explores the reordering ideas and
institutional domains as a
paradox at the heart of the mobilising networks in response to the claims of
means of understanding the
ayurvedic and unani Western medicine and its implicit validation of
changing trajectories of tibb
medicine manufacturing colonial rule.
(which means ‘medicine’ in
industry—to present itself
Arabic) in India throughout 2006 978-81-250-2946-5 ` 985 296pp Hardback
as modern and traditional,
the twentieth century. The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5240-1
common and professional at
study also looks at and
the same time.
understands tibb in relation
Selected Contents: to ayurveda, biomedicine, homeopathy, ‘folk’ and Reproductive Health in India
1. The Anatomy of the religious healing, apart from emphasising a History, Politics, Controversies
Study: Object, Method and comparative approach that focuses on south and
Process 2. The Kitchen, the Government and the central India.
Market: The Commoditisation of Indian Medicines Sarah Hodges, Lecturer, Department of History,
2007 978-81-250-3017-1 ` 875 332pp Hardback
3. Manufacturers, Products and Markets: Popular E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5 University of Warwick, UK
Culture, Medicine, Biomedical Enclaving, and
This book brings together
Humoral Clinical Medicine 4. Reworking Ayurvedic
and Unani Medicines through Modern Science Expunging Variola historians to tackle the
The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in complex questions of
and Technology: The Gap between Humoral
reproduction in modern
and Modern Pharmacology 5. Indian Medicine, India, 1947–1977
India. The essays interrogate
Authenticity and Identity: The Construction of
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY the very idea that
an Indian Modernity 6. The Representation of
reproduction is simply a
Indian Indigenous Medical Products in Advertising: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer, Wellcome lynchpin for effecting other
Tradition, Modernity and Nature Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, social and economic
2008 978-81-250-3315-8 ` 765 272pp Hardback University College London transformations. Instead,
Rights: Restricted these histories map out and
This wide-ranging study,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5343-9 ask questions of the institutions, discourses and
based on extensive archival
research in India, Britain, practices by which women’s reproductive health
Peculiar People, Amazing Switzerland and the USA, came to hold meaning and play strategic roles in
the multiple and at times competing agendas such
Lives assesses the many
complexities in the as social reform, the medical sciences, cultural
Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Community nationalism and colonial public health.
formulation and
Making in South India implementation of the 2006 978-81-250-2939-7 ` 820 273pp Hardback
James Staples, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, smallpox eradication
Brunel University, London programme in the Indian
Fractured States
subcontinent. The book
This book sets out to Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy
emphasises the crucial role played by field workers
challenge the perception in British India 1800–1947
in implementing and often reinterpreting the health
that people affected by strategies proposed by Geneva and New Delhi. SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
leprosy are victims of a Edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Michael
scourge. The experiences of 2006 978-81-250-3018-8 ` 930 344pp Hardback
Worboys, and Mark Harrison
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5244-9
those living in Bethany—a
2005 978-81-250-2866-6 ` 895 276pp Hardback
leprosy community in south E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5249-4
India—tell more nuanced Old Potions, New Bottles
stories about contracting Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial
leprosy in the early Punjab, 1850–1945
twenty-first century. In this
ethnographic portrait of people in Bethany, Staples SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
explores how they embody and redefine ideas
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Research Fellow,
about religion, the human body and Indian ways of
Harvard Center for Population and Development
knowing and being-in-the-world.
Studies, Cambridge, USA
2007 978-81-250-2986-1 ` 895 304pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5306-4 This book is a study of how indigenous medical
learning and practices were recast and
reformulated with the coming of Western

Health Policy in Britain’s Model SOCIAL SCIENCE
Colony
Ceylon (1900–1948) PRESS
Margaret Jones 4 Victoria Terrace

2004 978-81-250-2759-1 ` 820 326pp Hardback Memoirs of a Surgeon
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5243-2
Subir K. Chatterjee, renowned paediatric
Western Medicine and Public surgeon
Health in Colonial Bombay 4 Victoria Terrace is an
1845–1895 extremely perceptive
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY description of medical
Mridula Ramanna colleges and hospitals, and
of politics, enduring
2002 978-81-250-2302-9 ` 895 284pp Hardback friendships and knowledge
sharing in the medical
profession. It also narrates
moving stories of dedicated,
brilliant doctors who
PERMANENT BLACK become victims of their
own profession, and of miraculous surgery that
saves precious lives. The book also reflects on the
Health and Population in ethical dilemmas inherent in the medical
South Asia profession, particularly in paediatric surgery.
From Earliest Times to the Present
… His book is a remarkable account of a life
Sumit Guha outstanding for its achievements from trainee
The history of human surgeon struggling with the Fellowship of the
populations acquires a new English College of Surgeons to … becoming a
interest in an epoch when major figure in world paediatric surgery.
human beings are aware of —James A. S. Dickson, FRCS Ed. & Eng. FRCPCH,
the burden they are placing Emeritus Consultant Paediatric Surgeon, Sheffield
on the ecosystem. Asia has Children’s Hospital, and Honorary Member, The British
long contained a major Association of Paediatric Surgeons
fraction of world
population, and East and 2011 978-81-87358-63-3 ` 625 288pp Hardback
South Asia have accounted
for most of that fraction. Reforming India’s Social Sector
This book focuses on various aspects of the Poverty, Nutrition, Health and Education
population of South Asia over the past twenty-five Edited by K. Seeta Prabhu and R. Sudarshan,
centuries. Adviser, Access to Justice, Oslo Governance Centre,
Oslo

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R I TI C A L Lankan Plantations takes as it
various actors in this struggle. This
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theme the plantations of Sri L
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volume offers readers a truly integrated Transition of the Hos, 1820–1932
CT their inception in the early ni
history labour movement on Sri H I NKI NG I N SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Charu Gupta, Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and century to almost the present
Lankan plantations. It balances an
Kumari Jayawardena, former Associate Professor, Political Science,

Communalism twenty-first. Drawing on a we
empirically rich narrative with a
archival material, it offers a d
nuanced analysis of the class, ethnic,
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Rachel Kurian, International Labour

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compelling empirical narrativ

linguistic and political consciousness
lives and struggles of plantati
that has informed and opposed the
Economist, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague

workers, who have constitute
struggles of plantation labour on the Class, Patriarchy much of modern Sri Lankan h
island.
single largest organised workf
country. In doing so, it explor
This volume takes as its central theme the plantations of Sri Lanka,

This book will be of interest to students
complex links between power
and scholars of history, labour and Ethnicity on

gender and ethnic hierarchies
from their inception in the early nineteenth century to the present day
economics and political science.
the plantations and outside an
crucially situates the labour m
in the
Kumari twenty-first.
Jayawardena is former Drawing on a wealth of archival material, it offers Sri Lankan Plantations on the plantations within the
political and social economy
a compelling
of Colombo, empirical narrative of the lives and struggles of plantation
Associate Professor, Political Science,
Lanka.
University Sri Lanka.
workers, who have constituted, for much of modern Sri Lankan history,
Rachel Kurian is International Labour
Two Centuries of Power and Protest The current volume begins by
Economist, Institute of Social Studies, the origins of the plantations
the single largest organised workforce in the country. In doing so, it
The Hague. Ceylon, the acquisition of Ind
workers and the labour practi
explores the complex links between power and class, gender and ethnic the colonial period. This in tu
contextualises the subsequen
hierarchies both on the plantations and outside, and crucially situates the discussion on rising labour an
consciousness among plantat
labour movement on the plantations within the wider political and social workers and their struggles fo
and democratic rights, which
economy of Sri Lanka. authors track through the pos
Independence period and into
twenty-first century. Particula
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trade unions and other pressu
PLANTER RAJ PART II: OUTSIDERS CHALLENGE THE PLANTER

in supporting or opposing the
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Conquest and Community

The Afterlife of Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan
Shahid Amin, former Professor, Department of History, University of
Delhi, Delhi
Conquest and Community tells the story of the Indo-Turkic warrior saint
Ghazi Miyan and his influential cult in the Gangetic plains. A purported
nephew of Mahmud of Ghazni, Ghazi Miyan was supposedly martyred in
holy war against Hindu kings near Bahraich in modern-day Uttar Pradesh
in 1034 CE. His cult continues to draw pilgrims of varying castes, both
Muslim and Hindu, from all over northern India to his shrine in Bahraich.
The legendary exploits of Ghazi Miyan, the conqueror saint, and the
cults of remembrance that surround his name in northern India contain
layer upon layer of significance that only a master historian like Shahid
Amin can reveal to us….
—Partha Chatterjee
Columbia University, New York and Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
…Deeply researched and wonderfully written, [this volume] shows

us how composite religious culture is created and peaceful threads knit
over the rupture of violence. A fascinating book with wide implications
for our own troubled time.
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Contents: PART I A LIFE PART II LORE PART III SHRINE PART IV
COUNTER-HISTORIES PART V A LONG AFTERLIFE

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Displaying India’s Heritage

Madhuparna Roychowdhury, Assistant Professor, Department of
Ancient Indian History and Culture, University of Calcutta, Kolkata
This volume describes the history of museum-making in the Indian
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the territorial and cultural bases of nationhood were negotiated.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Museums in History 1. The Culture
of History 2. Indian Museum: The First Hundred Years 3. Archaeology
and Museum Making in Colonial India 4. Archaeology in the Indian
Museum 5. History Men and Museum Makers: Bengal in the Early-
Twentieth Century 6. ‘Locality, Province and the Nation’: The Museum
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A History of Modern India

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Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Director, New Zealand India Research
Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
The book addresses important historiographical questions by taking
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and the nationalist movement. The newly added concluding chapter
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In the Club
Associational Life in Colonial South Asia
Benjamin B. Cohen, Associate Professor in the Department of
History at the University of Utah
Clubs in India are often regarded as antiquarian institutions left over
from a bygone era with little to teach us about the past or present. Yet,
In the Club presents a different picture of India’s clubland. This book
offers a comprehensive examination of social clubs across India. It argues
that clubs have been key contributors to India’s colonial associational life
and civil society, and remain important nodes in public culture today.
Selected contents: Introduction 1. Club Rules 2. Around the Club 3.
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Club 6. Women and the Club 7. Postcolonial Clubbing
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India’s First Democratic Revolution

Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa
Parag D. Parobo, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Goa

University
… a landmark contribution to our understanding of the politics of

Goa...
—Gopal Guru, Professor,
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Parag Parobo’s book opens a new location from which to view the
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Abridged contents: Introduction 1. Caste in the Modern World,
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Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari

Vol. III, 1923–25
Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial Museum
and Library (NMML), Teen Murti House, New Delhi, N. Balakrishnan,
former Deputy Director, NMML and Deepa Bhatnagar, Head,
Research and Publications Division and NMML Archives.
Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari, Vol. III, 1923–25 is the third in a
series of ten volumes being published in association with the Nehru
Memorial Museum and Library on the writings of Rajaji, covering
the period between 1907 and 1972. This volume begins with Rajaji’s
efforts to educate the people on the significance of the Council-
boycott resolution passed at the Gaya Congress in December 1922.
The entries here portray Rajaji’s endeavour to spread the message of
the constructive programme, and the setting up of Gandhi Ashram
at Tiruchengodu, Tamil Nadu, in February 1925 and his subsequent
withdrawal from public life. The documents in this volume also reflect
Rajaji’s views on a wide range of subjects, including the treatment of
political prisoners in Indian jails and the position of Indians in Kenya and
South Africa.
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Beyond Tranquebar in the past. It connects cultural production with to the Vishnudharmottara10. The Jataka as Popular
Grappling Across Cultural Borders in ordinary life, to explore the various roles which Tradition 11.The Functions and Social Location
literature and visual arts played in the lives of their of the Kavya12. Bards and Bardic Tradition in
South India
communities. Here, art is investigated as objects of Early Tamil Poetry 13. Who Needs Folklore? The
Edited by Esther Fihl, Professor, Department of aesthetic enjoyment, but also as creations of Relevance of Oral Tradition to South Asian Studies
Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of rhetorical or philosophical moment, as well as of
Contributors: Uma Chakravarti, Ananda K.
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Coomaraswamy, Vidya Dehejia, Devangana Desai,
Venkatachalapathy, Professor, Madras Institute voices on South Asia history, archaeology and
K. Kailasapathy, Shonaleeka Kaul, J. M. Kenoyer,
of Development Studies, Chennai, India literature, the volume acquaints its readership
Stella Kramrisch, Jaya Mehta, Erwin Numayer,
with fundamental contributions to the region’s
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY A. K. Ramanujan, Himanshu Prabha Ray, Upinder
art history.
Singh
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Cultural History of Early has a definitive and clearly articulated purpose….
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The wide-ranging field it covers and the vividness Early Medieval Indian
of the conceptual concerns it encapsulates make
A Reader it an important source of reference for students, Society
researchers and lay enthusiasts…. It is not likely to A Study in Feudalisation
Edited by Shonaleeka Kaul, Associate Professor,
Department of History, University of Delhi be replaced for a long time. R. S. Sharma, former Emeritus Professor of
---Frontline History, Patna University
This volume presents a
wide-ranging survey of the Contents: Introduction: Producers and Consumers The early medieval is the
diverse art forms of early of Culture 1. A Figure of Speech or a Figure of focus of R. S. Sharma’s
South Asia. In doing so, it Thought 2. Rock Paintings of the Mesolithic Period analysis. In this book, Sharma
departs from the dominant 3. Ornament Styles of the Indus Valley Tradition highlights the feudalisation of
tendency of treating the arts 4. Texts on Stone: Understanding Asoka’s the socio-economic
as static ‘heritage of the past’ Epigraph-Monuments 5. Social Background of structure of India in early
with just exhibition value, Ancient Indian Terracottas 6. On Modes of Visual medieval times and attributes
and instead perceives them Narration in Early Buddhist Art 7. Archaeology of the rise of land grants to the
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meaning and communication 8. Ellora: Understanding the Creation of a Past of trade. Sharma’s compelling
9. Theory and Practice of Painting: Introduction
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style and breadth and depth of vision make this Nature without Borders New Perspectives in the
book accessible to professional historians and
sociologists as well as to those interested in the Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial History of Indian Education
medieval roots of many of our social and cultural Museum and Library, M. D. Madhusudan, Senior
Edited by Parimala V. Rao, Assistant Professor,
ideologies and institutions. Scientist and Trustee, Nature Conservation
Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
Foundation, Mysore, and Ghazala Shahabuddin,
With a Prologue by Jaya Tyagi Jawaharlal Nehru University
independent researcher
Selected Contents: Introduction 1.Transition This volume revaluates
This book explores the
some of the major
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policy and the attitude of nationalist In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity modern education in India since the
Edited by Jandhyala B. G. Tilak mid-nineteenth century. It offers
interventions in the
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Period of Social Crisis 3. The Nature of Indian

SCHOOL EDUCATION, PLURALISM AND MARGINALITY interconnected themes and the debates
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of biodiversity can coexist New Perspectives

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History of Indian Education development of modern

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History of Indian Education

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of modern education in India. Suresh Chandra Ghosh historiographies of Indian education,
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THE LIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE these approaches. Basing themselves
Edited by on archival sources, they overturn
l000) 5. Aspects of Royal Land Charter (Ra-jasá-

PARIMALA V. RAO is Assistant Professor Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India
the existing myths created by these
at the Zakir Husain Centre for Francis Cody
Parimala V. Rao
interests through a series of
Educational Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru historiographies and shed new light
Nature
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the Nehru Memorial Museum and Missionary Education and the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims missionaries and Indian nationalist
leaders.
sana) and Property Inheritance 6. Changes in

Library, New Delhi. in Bengal
Parna Sengupta The empirically rich essays focus on the
without different essays. While

initiatives to promote education among
the socially and educationally backward
Borders The empirically rich essays

Dalit communities and the status of
Social Structure 7. Dimensions of Peasant Protest

Dalit institutions. The authors argue
forcefully about the centrality of
wildlife conservation in
education in fostering social mobility
and change. The essays on women’s
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8. Economic and Social Basis of Tantrism 9. The

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fragments of habitats and
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educationally backward
guarding them against
Dalit communities and the status of Dalit
human encroachment, such an approach is limited
Integration of the Indian in value, given that formally designated Protected
institutions. The authors argue forcefully about the
centrality of education in fostering social mobility
States Areas occupy a very small proportion of territory
and change. The essays on women’s education
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V. P. Menon was Secretary, States Ministry after discuss how intensely controversial it was to
human boundaries and cannot be contained within
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ates.
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ry readers. It gives us a brief
Integration of the
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process of carving out states
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a was after Independence is
Indian States
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ontinues unresolved as the
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(whether urban or rural), and different social and COMMUNITIES AND FASHIONING IDENTITIES
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ts into the period that saw the
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political constituencies ranging from local farming THROUGH EDUCATION 1. Dalit Initiatives
rating the princely states with
Independence in 1947.
The author, V. P. Menon, or fishing communities to the educated middle in Education, 1880–1992 2. A College of One’s
l and Jawaharlal Nehru
ial Museum and Library, New Delhi
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Ministry to convince the rulers of the princely they all are on a very pragmatic approach, be it in Late-Nineteenth-Century India 4. Contested
states to join the Union. Menon has provided a about the conservation ecology of wolves or the Domains: Reconstructing Education and Religious
factual account of the proposals, negotiations and fight for an urban forest in Delhi. Identity in Sikh Schools in the Punjab PART II:
finally, the integration of these states with newly ---The Hindu EDUCATION, POLITICS AND THE NATION
independent India. 5. Compulsory Education and the Political
Contents: Nature without Borders: An Leadership in Colonial India 1840–1947
With an Introduction by Asha Sarangi Introduction 1. Trawling the Shorelines: Fished 6. Education, Missionaries and the Indian Nation,
Out and Squandered 2. Restoring the Ganga for c.1880–1920 7. Re-Defining Work and Education
Contents: 1. Setting the Stage 2. Spokes in the
its Fauna and Fisheries 3. Sarus Cranes, Cultivators as a Means to National Self-determination: A
Wheel 3. The Parting Gift 4. Prelude to Chaos
and Conservation 4. Citizen Action and Lake Comparative Study of Gandhian India and Perónist
5. Stopping the Gap 6. Junagadh 7. The Orissa and
Restoration in Bengaluru 5. The Fight for an Urban Argentina 8. Genesis of Curzon’s University
Chhattisgarh States 9. Saurashtra 10. The Deccan
Forest: The Delhi Ridge 6. Black Sheep and Grey Reforms, 1899–1905 9. Transformations of
and Gujarat States 11. Vindhya Pradesh
Wolves: Pastoralism in the Deccan 7. Conservation Schooling in Colonial Punjab, 1854–1900
12. Madhya Bharat 13. Patiala and East Punjab
without Fences: Project Snow Leopard 8. Restoring
States Union 14. Rajasthan 15. Travancore-Cochin Contributors: Hayden Bellenoit, Radha Gayathri,
Nature: Wildlife Conservation in Landscapes
16. Mysore 17. A Miscellany of States Suresh Chandra Ghosh, Simone Holzwarth and
Fragmented by Plantation Crops in India
18. Hyderabad I 19. Hyderabad II 20. Hyderabad III Verónica Oelsner, Laura Dudley Jenkins, Mahima
21. Jammu and Kashmir State 22. Baroda Contributors: Ravi Agarwal, Rohan Arthur, Manchanda, Preeti, Parimala V. Rao; Eleanor Zelliot
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of the States Forces into the Indian Army Krishnaswamy, M. Ananda Kumar, Aaron Savio
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27. The Cost of Integration 28. Retrospect and Mudappa, Harini Nagendra, Mahesh Rangarajan,
Prospect Ghazala Shahabuddin, T. R. Shankar Raman, Ramesh
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Sivaraman, S. Subramanya, K. S. Gopi Sundar
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New Perspectives in South Asian History 1

The aim of this series has been to publish monographs and other writings on early modern, modern and contemporary history that cover new areas of
research, such as the history of medicine and environmental history.
Series Editors: Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison, Michael Worboys, Clive Dewey, Paul Greenough, Biswamoy Pati, Douglas M. Peers, Peter Robb, and
Tan Tai Yong
Social Determinants of Health: History of the Social Determinants of Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting
Assessing Theory, Policy and Practice Health: Global Histories, Contemporary Indigenous Medicine in Colonial Punjab
Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Sharon Messenger and Caroline Debates 1850–1945
Overy Edited by Harold J. Cook, Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Anne Kavita Sivaramakrishnan
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The Global Eradication of Smallpox E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5428-3
Sanjoy Bhattacharya and Sharon Messenger Reproductive Health in India: History,
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Empire 2006 978-81-250-2939-7 ` 895 273pp Hardback
From Western Medicine to Global
Harold J. Cook
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2008 978-81-250-3366-0 ` 950 580pp Paperback
Edited by Mark Harrison, Margaret Jones and Helen Health and Vaccination Policy in British
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2009 978-81-250-3702-6 ` 1005 500pp Hardback Market: The Modern Image of the Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Mark Harrison and Michael
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Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Maarten Bode 2005 978-81-250-2866-6 ` 820 276pp Hardback
Class and ‘White Subalternity’ in Colonial
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Susan Heydon Science and National Consciousness in
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Eradication of Smallpox in India, Michael Lewis
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Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the
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Pathways of Empire: Circulation, ‘Public the Transcolonial World
Situating Social History: Orissa,
Works’ and Social Space in Colonial Durba Ghosh and Dane Kennedy
1800–1997
Orissa, c. 1780–1914 2006 978-81-250-2982-3 ` 1005 420pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5245-6 Biswamoy Pati
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New Perspectives in South Asian History II

India’s First Democratic Revolution Polio Eradication and Its Discontents
Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa A Historian’s Journey Through an International Public Health
(Un)civil War
Parag D. Parobo
William Muraskin
Abridged contents: Introduction 1. Caste in the
Modern World, 1850–1961 2. Colonial State: Local and In this volume, Muraskin asks the key question: why did
Micro Context 3. Bandodkar’s Charisma and Post- the World Health Assembly choose the eradication of
Colonial Goa, 1963–1973 4. Empowering through Land polio as a global goal in 1988? He unravels the official
and Tenancy Reforms 5. The Political Economy of Social ‘heroic story’ of the fight against polio and highlights the
Transformation | Conclusion potential long-term economic burden on developing
countries because of vaccine choices made at the global
level.
2015 978-81-250-5926-4 ` 875 296pp Hardback


The Changing Contexts of Culture, Society, and Religion Urbanising Cholera
The Social Determinants of Its Re-emergence
Dušan Deák and Daniel Jasper
Rajib Dasgupta
The essays in this volume pay close attention to local and
Urbanising Cholera is a revival of the eco-social approach in
N EW
P ERSPECTIVES in
Deák and Jasper
regional dynamics of western India, but sets these into a

Orient BlackSwan
oteworthy collection of papers by scholars, young and S OUTH While investigating the cultural, social
blished, that examines Maharashtra as a region. Its many and political dynamics in Maharashtra,
Rethinking Western India looks into
A SIAN
s—historical, political, literary and cultural—are examined
a critical eye for the hidden and multiple meanings.” H ISTORY the relations and processes that make
examining the social determinants of cholera and deals

JAYANT LELE, Professor Emeritus up what are usually thought to be
Global Development Studies regional problems. It builds on
previous academic attempts to rethink
larger context which investigates how these dynamics

Queen’s University
Indian regions and the production of
Rethinking Western India their set boundaries. The essays show
hinking Western India brilliantly knits together diverse times
how the regional must be understood
The Changing Contexts of Culture, in contexts that supersede the region
with different aspects of the problem. Taking a public

subjects arranged around the enduring logic of region…[It] and geographical determinism.
ely reminds us that the circumspect lens of regionalism Society and Religion
s up enormous vistas of time and subject…[and] reaffirms The volume pays close attention to
have come to be shaped and understood as regional. The

alue of regional analysis.” local and regional dynamics of western

CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Associate Professor India, but shows them in a larger
South Asia and Comparative Religion Programs context. It also investigates how these
The Jackson School of International Studies dynamics have come to be shaped and
health perspective, the study gives a social epidemiological

University of Washington understood as regional. The opening
essays not only contextualise
Maharashtrian texts as coherent
primary focus of the essays is to inquire into the relations

wholes, but also the meanings
contained within these texts, thereby
addressing “the semantics of the
social”.
account of cholera with a focus on the urban poor.

A focus on “the mechanics of the
social”—the interface of actions that
and processes that make up what is usually framed as

articulate societal relationships at
different levels, and of different
characters—is attempted by the next
set of essays. The concluding essays
emphasise how local dynamics are as
much a part of forces ostensibly
“beyond Maharashtra”, as they are
regional or Maharashtrian problems..

products of dynamics within
Maharashtra. There is, therefore, a
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Decolonisation, Development The Making of a Small State

and Disease Populist Mobilisation and the Hindi Press in the Uttarakhand
A Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka Movement
Kalinga Tudor Silva Anup Kumar
N EW The volume begins with an ethno-historical account of This volume traces the roots of the political imagination of
the accumulated body of indigenous knowledge and Uttarakhand in the series of socio-ecological protests, such
P ERSPECTIVES in
Silva
Orient BlackSwan
Silva’s stimulating and lucid account of malaria in Sri Lanka makes a S OUTH Sri Lanka has reportedly achieved the
ignificant and important contribution to a growing body of research. historic feat of eliminating malaria.
While exploring the interplay of malaria within its environment, Silva
A SIAN
However, history reminds us that
onfirms the need to make policy tailored to specific contexts.’ H ISTORY malaria can strike back with full force
as dhandaks (peasant protests) and Chipko. The study

MARGARET JONES, Research Fellow and Deputy Director following spectacular successes in
practices and cultural adaptation to fevers and how it saw

Centre for Global Health Histories “eradicating” the disease. It is
Department of History, University of York important to understand the political
and social factors that paved the way
Silva lays bare the many linkages between history of malaria and the
Decolonisation, Development for resurgence of this disease in the
olitical and economic history of Sri Lanka through colonialism, past.
Decolonisation, Development
and Disease
suggests that the new regional movements are

ndependence and war. This work will be of keen interest to
a rapid decline with the arrival of western medicine. Then

istorians, sociologists, and anthropologists of medicine, of disease, Decolonisation, Development and
nd of South Asia.’ A Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka Disease looks at the relationship
JOHN R. MCNEILL, School of Foreign Service and between malaria and its social,
History Department, Georgetown University political and environmental milieu in
Sri Lanka over an 80-year period from
and Disease
1930 to 2010. The volume begins with
manifestations of political and economic deprivation. They

The present work promises to be an important landmark event in our
an ethno-historical account of the
it analyses the consequences of the devastating malaria

nowledge of public health and issues of decolonisation in Sri Lanka,
nd in other regions where malaria and related illnesses are—or have accumulated body of indigenous
een—endemic.’ knowledge, and practices and cultural
GANANATH OBEYESEKERE, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology adaptation to fevers and how they saw
Princeton University a rapid decline with the arrival of
Western medicine.
epidemic of 1934–35, which, affecting mainly the Sinhala highlight developmental regionalism and the demand to
The politics of the devastating malaria
epidemic of 1934–35 that shaped Sri
Lanka’s transition from a colony to a
postcolonial state and the 1967
resurgence of malaria challenging the
restore community’s control over jal, jungle and zameen.

developmental push of the postcolonial
South, in some ways shaped Sri Lanka’s transition from a

state form the crux of the discussion.
The book also examines the manner in
which the civil war triggered yet
another outbreak of malaria.
www.orientblackswan.com The author looks at colonial records,
colony to a postcolonial developmental state.

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ethnographies and newspaper articles
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2014 978-81-250-5429-0 ` 870 272pp Hardback
The Politics of Sanitation in India

Tranquebar—Whose History? Cities, Services and the State
Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Susan E. Chaplin
Colony in South India
This volume examines how the environmental problems
Helle Jørgensen confronting Indian cities have arisen and subsequently
This volume explores the significances of cultural heritage forced millions of people to live in illegal settlements that
in the small town of Tranquebar, a former Danish trading lack adequate sanitation, and other basic urban services.
colony on the coast of Tamil Nadu. It focuses on the These issues are explored by studying the history of
negotiations of historicity that come into play between colonial and post-independence urban development and
the many stakeholders in the present development of management in Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and
Tranquebar, including the residents, heritage and tourism Mumbai, and analysing why they have failed to provide
developers, public authorities, researchers, and tourists. equitable access to sanitation services for all residents.
2014 978-81-250-5345-3 ` 1050 368pp Hardback

HISTORY 107
Political Culture and Selected Works of C. Days of the Beloved, The
Economy in Eighteenth Rajagopalachari Harriet Ronken Lynton, former member
Century Bengal Vol. II, 1921–22 of the faculty of the Harvard Business School
Networks of Exchange, Consumption and and author of several books and case books on
Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML,
Organizational Behavior. Mohini Rajan belonged
Communication N. Balakrishnan, Deputy Director, NMML and
to a Hyderabadi family. Granddaughter of the man
Deepa Bhatnagar, in-charge of the Research and
Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the who was Kotwal to Osman Ali Khan Nizam VII,
Publications Division, NMML
Department of History, Jadavpur University, she was familiar with many of the families who
Kolkata Selected Works of C. appear in this book and interviewed their surviving
Rajagopalachari, Vol. 2, members.
The historiography of
1921–22, is part of a series of
eighteenth-century India has Hyderabadis still remember
ten volumes that gather
been polarised. Historians the reign of Mahbub Ali
together the writings of Rajaji
have spoken of either a Pasha as a golden age in the
over the period 1907–72.
general decline or history of their city.
The second volume covers a
degeneration in the aftermath Mahbub, beloved of his
brief but significant phase in
of the decay of the Mughal people, who ruled
Rajaji’s political life during
Empire, or at the other end
9 788 125 05 613 3
Hyderabad at the turn of

1921–22, beginning with his
of the spectrum, focused on the twentieth century,
arrest for participating in the
the realignments and became a legend in his
non-cooperation movement in December 1921
reorientation occurring in lifetime for his generosity
and imprisonment in Vellore Central Jail. Rajaji’s
large parts of the erstwhile Mughal Empire. In this and benevolent concern for
jail diary is published here with detailed
volume, the author has examined the nature of the his subjects. Weaving together memories, stories
annotations for the first time. By the time Rajaji
commercial economy that emerged in the latter and anecdotes, historical facts and archival source
was released from jail in March 1922, Mahatma
half of the eighteenth century in Bengal. She has material, The Days of the Beloved paints a loving
Gandhi, by then his close associate, had been
looked at the period that saw the transition from picture of life at various levels in this elegant city,
arrested and remanded to Yeravda Jail. The mantle
Mughal rule to Company state. The evidence and of Mahbub Ali Pasha himself, who like a
of bringing out the nationalist weekly Young India
examined suggests that Bengal economy was fairy-tale prince, mixed with the common people,
fell on Rajaji’s shoulders. Through the columns of
decentralised—in the sense of not being regulated sharing their joys and sorrows.
Young India, Rajaji kept alive Gandhiji’s message of
by a single agency— but not fragmented, and there
non-violence and his emphasis on the importance 2013 978-81-250-4657-8 ` 550 310pp Paperback
was an extraordinary movement of commodities E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5168-8
of khaddar and the spinning wheel. Besides his
and people.
various editorials and articles in Young India, the
Contents: Introduction. 1. Markets: The present volume also contains letters, speeches and History of Education in
Eighteenth-century Economic Terrain other writings of Rajaji during these years. The
2. Consumption in an Urban Milieu 3. Pilgrimage volume ends with his spirited defence of the Modern India, The
Complex: Economy and Religion 4. The non-cooperation programme opposing council 1757–2012 (Fourth Edition)
Connecting Network: Transport Systems in a entry at the 37th Session of the Indian National Suresh Chandra Ghosh held the Chair
Mobile Society 5. The Nizamat State: Multiple Congress at Gaya in December 1922. Overall, the of History of Education at Jawaharlal Nehru
Roles in the Changing Contours of Politics collection offers a close commentary on the University, New Delhi, till 2002.
6. Trade: The Early Company State and the non-cooperation movement and its aftermath.
Phase of Transition 7. Communication, Labour, This volume presents an
2014 978-81-250-5613-3 ` 1225 528pp Hardback
Ecology: The Early Company State in the Phase of overview of the education
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5913-4
Transition 8. Conclusion system in India from its
colonial beginnings through
2014 978-81-250-5267-8 ` 900 448pp Hardback
Tranquebar—Whose Independence till the
History? present day. The fourth
Revisiting 1956 Transnational Cultural Heritage in a edition includes the latest
B. R. Ambedkar and States Reorganisation Former Danish Trading Colony in South
discussions and debates
around the major changes
Sudha Pai, Professor at the Centre for Political India planned for and already
Studies, and Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor), implemented in the
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and education sector. It also includes the
HISTORY
Avinash Kumar, Assistant Professor at the recommendations of the National Knowledge
Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, Helle Jørgensen lectures at the Department of Commission, the Yashpal Committee Report, and
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru Culture and Society, Aarhus University, Denmark the enactment of the Right of Children to Free and
University, New Delhi Compulsory Education (the RTE Act).
See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The East India
AND PUBLIC POLICY
2014 978-81-250-5345-3 ` 1050 368pp Hardback
Company’s Role in the Development of Education
2014 978-81-250-5514-3 ` 700 256pp Hardback in India 3. Towards Education in the English
Medium 4. The Decade after 1835 5. Education in
the Presidencies: Bombay Madras and the North-

108 HISTORY
Western Provinces 6. Missionaries and Enlightened Ideas and Cultivating Urdu 3. Muslim Pasts: Writing The
Indians 7. The Age of Dalhousie 1848–1856 History of India and The History of Islam 4. Locating
8. Expansion of Education till 1882 9. The Hunter Institutions in Urdu: Deccani Hindustani and Urdu 5. Secular
Commission 10. Developments in the Post-Hunter Medieval India Projects and Student Politics: “Vande Mataram” in
Commission Years 100 11. Towards a Control Eighth to Eighteenth Centuries Hyderabad Conclusion: From National to Minority
of Higher Education 12. The Age of Curzon Subjects
1899–1905 13. National Education till 1912 Radhika Seshan, Associate Professor,
Department of History, University of Pune. 2013 978-81-250-5018-6 ` 885 248pp Hardback
14. Government of India Resolution on Indian Rights: Restricted
Education 15. The Calcutta University Commission While the predominant
16. Education under Dyarchy mindset about the medieval
17. Education under Provincial Autonomy in India owes its origins
Memories and Movements
18. Towards a National Policy on Education mostly to colonial Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch,
19. The Critical Years 20. A Post-Mortem till 1999 historiographers, this Gujarat
21. Education in the New Millennium volume goes beyond that Rita Kothari Associate Professor in the
22. A Journey Towards Literacy 23. The Winds prism to examine in Humanities and Social Sciences Department, IIT,
of Change 24. A Retrospection Since 1999 considerable detail the Gandhinagar, Gujarat
25. A Summing Up changes in the systems of
2013 978-81-250-5262-3 ` 375 416pp Paperback state and society during the See SOCIOLOGY
medieval period and the 2013 978-81-250-5049-0 ` 895 200pp Hardback
ideas that they were built around. It also examines
History of the Bengali the state of flux in the country with the rise and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5310-1
People fall of kings and empires, changes in the nature of

From Earliest Times to the Fall of the Sena trade, and emergence of new classes, castes and Selected Works of
Dynasty centres of power. It also analyses these changes in C. Rajagopalachari
(Second Edition) the south of India and looks at the trajectory that Vol. I, 1907–21
the region followed.
Niharranjan Ray was a renowned historian, Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, NMML,
well known for his works on History of Art and Contents: Introduction 1. Sources for the Study of N. Balakrishnan, Deputy Director, NMML and
Buddhism Medieval India 2. The State 3. Modern Perceptions Deepa Bhatnagar, in-charge of the Research and
Translated by John W. Hood. He has extensively of the Medieval State 4. Kingship 5. Administrative Publications Division, NMML.
studied and written about Indian—especially Systems 6. Society and Social Change: Social
Stratification Social Mobility Religion 7. Economy The Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari is a series of
Bengali—culture and has translated a variety of
8. The Transition out of the Medieval ten volumes published in association with the Nehru
Bengali poetry and fiction into English.
Memorial Museum and Library on the writings of
2013 978-81-250-5175-6 ` 870 240pp Hardback C. Rajagopalachari, the last Governor General of
The History of the Bengali People is the translation
2013 978-81-250-5174-9 ` 500 240pp Paperback
into English of Niharranjan Ray’s seminal work India covering the period between 1907 and 1972. In
Bangalir Itihas. It offers a comprehensive the words of his grandson Rajmohan Gandhi, he was
understanding of the Language of Secular Islam, a ‘prophetic political figure’
who predicted in 1916, the
development of the society
and culture of Bengal from
The success of Gandhi’s
Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India satyagraha in India. The first
ancient times to the
beginning of Muslim rule in Kavita Datla, Assistant Professor of History at volume covers the period
India. Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA between 1907 and 1921
when Rajaji became involved
With Forewords by Sir This book explores the in the freedom movement in
Jadunath Sarkar and thought and work of Muslim the country. It is a collection
Sumit Sarkar intellectuals involved in of articles and letters written
promoting Urdu as India’s by Rajaji to prominent
national language in the leaders like Gandhi, Gokhale, Vijiaraghavachariar,
Contents: 1. The Argument 2. The Origins
early twentieth century. It etc., and to newspapers like The Hindu, Madras Mail
3. The Land 4. Economic Life 5. Land Systems
examines the ways in which and Commonweal. It also comprises telegrams,
6. Caste Patterns 7. Class Patterns 8. Villages and
educators, administrators speeches, and pamphlets giving us an insight into his
Towns 9. Administrative Patterns 10. The Dynastic
and intellectuals in thoughts in the course of his activities as one of the
Round 11. Everyday Life 12. Religious Thought and
Hyderabad were involved in most prominent leaders of the Indian national
Practice 13. Language Literature and Learning
imagining a secular Indian movement in the Madras Presidency.
14. The Fine Arts and Music 15. Some Implications
nation. The author explores negotiations over
2013 978-81-250-5053-7 ` 620 660pp Paperback language, education, and religion at Osmania With an Introduction by Rajmohan Gandhi
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5042-1 University, the first university in India to use a 2013 978-81-250-5017-9 ` 1225 472pp Hardback
modern Indian language (Urdu) as its medium of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5912-7
instruction, and sheds light on questions of colonial
displacement and national belonging.
Contents: Introduction 1. Muslims and Secular
Education: The Beginnings of Osmania University
2. Reforming a Language: Creating Textbooks and

HISTORY 109
Writings of Pamela Price, Abridged Contents: PART I: THE politics of West Bengal, the new Indian province
GANDHIAN ERA, 1915–1950 1. PART II: THE that was created as a result of the Partition.
The WESTERNIZING CITY, 1950–1980 5. PART III:
State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern Contents: Introduction 1. Arrival of Freedom:
CREATIVITY AND CHAOS, 1969–
South India Celebrations, Anxieties and Realities 2. The
2012 978-81-250-4661-5 ` 1005 348pp Hardback Discontents of Freedom 3. Congress Raj in a
Honour, Authority, and Morality Rights: Restricted ‘Problem Province’ 4. The Communists: From
Pamela Gwynne Price, Professor Emerita, Insurgency to Electoral Politics 5. The Fractured
Department of South Asian History, University of Concise History of Textbook
Opposition 6. A ‘Great Adventure’: Election of
Oslo, Norway. 1952. Conclusion
Modern Europe, A
This collection of essays Liberty, Equality, Solidarity 2012 978-81-250-4706-3 ` 565 272pp Paperback
represents more than thirty Rights: Restricted
years of the author’s David S. Mason, Professor Emeritus, Butler
University, Indianapolis, USA
involvement with political Engines of Change
culture in south India. In the
Highlighting the key events, The Railroads That Made India
ten essays in the volume,
ideas, and individuals that
the author discusses Ian J. Kerr, retired Professor of History and
have shaped modern
political activities and ideas Senior Scholar, Department of History, University
Europe, this fresh and lively
in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka Manitoba, Canada
textbook written in an
and Andhra Pradesh. There
accessible and student- This book provides the non-
are studies on non-
friendly style provides a specialist with an
Brahmanism, Tamil nationalism, authority in village
succinct history of the introduction to the history
society, and conflicts over status and
continent from 1789 to the of India’s railways, and to
representations of morality. The writings focus on
present. Drawing on the the many ways the railways
conceptions, symbols, and values which express
enduring theme of shaped the making of
south Indian understandings of honour, authority,
revolution, David Mason explores the causes and modern India. Engines of
and self-respect.
consequences of revolution—political, economic, Change is a brief, readable,
Contents: Introduction 1. Raja-dharma in and scientific; the development of human rights; contextualized introduction
Nineteenth-Century South India 2. Acting in Public and issues of European identity and integration. to India’s railway past. The
Versus Forming a Public 3. Kin Clan and Power railway history of India is
Contents: Introduction: Revolutionary Europe
in Colonial South India 4. Kingly Models in Indian placed in a broad setting to illustrate the many
1. The Old Regime and the Enlightenment 2. The
Political Behaviour 5. Revolution and Rank in ways in which the railways made India, and the
French Revolution and Napoleon 3. The Industrial
Tamil Nationalism 6. Relating to Leadership in the ways in which wider forces, notably colonialism,
Revolution and the Birth of Capitalism 4. 1848: The
Tamil Nationalist Movement 7. Examining Political shaped the railways India got.
Peoples’ Spring 5. Marx, Marxism, and Socialism 6.
Language 8. Ideological Elements in Political
Darwinism and Social Darwinism 7. The Unifications Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Pioneering
Instability in Karnataka 9. Honour and Morality in
of Italy and Germany 8. The Age of Imperialism Decades, ca. 1853 to ca. 1870 3. Construction,
Contemporary Rural India 10. ‘Vernacularisation’
and the Scramble for Africa 9. World War 10. The 1850–2003 4. 1870–1905, Overview 5. Taking
Voter Autonomy and Tensions in Political
Russian Revolution and Communism 11. World Stock, ca. 1905 6. “Nationalizing” the Railroads,
Conceptions (with Dusi Srinivas)
War II and the Holocaust 12. Europe Divided, 1905–1947 7. Partition and a Railroad Network
2013 978-81-250-5114-5 ` 870 348pp Hardback the Cold War, and Decolonization 13. 1989: The Sundered 8. To Serve the Nation: Railroads in
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5507-5 Collapse of Communism and End of the Cold War Independent India, 1947–2010
14. The European Union: Europe United and Free?
2012 978-81-250-4562-5 ` 730 236pp Paperback
Conclusion: Europe in the Twenty-first Century
Ahmedabad Rights: Restricted
Shock City of Twentieth-Century India 2012 978-81-250-4533-5 ` 275 248pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted
Howard Spodek, Professor of History at Temple Freedom and Beef Steaks
University, USA Colonial Calcutta Culture
Decolonization in South Asia
In the twentieth century, Meanings of Freedom in Post- Rosinka Chaudhuri, Fellow in Cultural Studies,
Ahmedabad was India’s independence West Bengal, 1947–52 Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
‘shock city’. It was the place
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Professor of Asian This book explores, through
where many of the nation’s
History, Victoria University of Wellington, New a variety of chapters,
most important
Zealand pathbreaking debates to do
developments occurred first
with the literary, with
and with the greatest
This book explores the identity, and with cultural
intensity—from Gandhi’s
meanings and complexities authenticity in nineteenth-
political and labour
of India’s experience of century Bengal. The seven
organising, through the
transition from colonial to essays collected in the
growth of textile, chemical,
the post-colonial period. It volume cover a range of
and pharmaceutical industries, to globalisation and
focuses on the first five issues: from the ideology of
the sectarian violence that marked the turn of the
years—from independence meat-eating as it manifested
new century. Howard Spodek describes the
on 15th August 1947 to the itself in Gandhi and Young Bengal to the evolution
movements that swept the city, telling their story
first general election in of the modern Indian drawing room, from the
through the careers of the men and women who
January 1952—in the problems of modernist readings of both Milton
led them.

110 HISTORY
and Madhusudan Datta to an investigation into Mediation 3. Craft and Craftsmen: Legacy and That is the Siyapa of the Self-Willed Women: A
how the teleological time of history is configured Intervention in Judicial Structure 4. British Courts Brief Commentary and Translation 3. Shiv Sharma
in individual works by three poets in Calcutta in and the Making of Customary Law 5. Towards Mahopdeshak: Women’s Education: A Brief
the early nineteenth century in unsettling and Codification of Tribal Customs 6. The Social Commentary and Translation
contradictory ways, the chapters in this book open Kaleidoscope Conclusion
Contributors: Prem Chowdhry, Nonica Datta,
up a new way of looking at a cultural history.
2012 978-81-250-4557-1 ` 840 248pp Hardback Pradip Kumar Datta, J. Devika, Charu Gupta, Andrea
Major, Anshu Malhotra, Gail Minault, Anupama Rao,
… The highly intelligent essays [in this book] Tanika Sarkar, Lata Singh, Mrinalini Sinha
show a profound and imaginative understanding of Gender, Sex and the City
the mental world of [the nineteenth-century] and Urdu Rekhtıˉ Poetry, 1780–1870 2012 978-81-250-4472-7 ` 1005 404pp Hardback
make it very vivid for us … We become aware of Ruth Vanita, Professor, Liberal Studies,
our origins as modern Indians. University of Montana, Missoula Hill Politics in Northeast India
—Tapan Raychaudhuri, Emeritus Fellow, St. Antony’s (Third Edition)
See GENDER STUDIES
College, Oxford S. K. Chaube retired as Professor, Department
2012 978-81-250-4553-3 ` 950 344pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted of Political Science, University of Delhi
This book opens up for critical study the
neglected phase of early-modern literary culture See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
in Bengal. In particular, it takes seriously—perhaps Gendering Colonial India AND PUBLIC POLICY
for the first time—the literary productions of Reforms, Print Caste and Communalism 2012 978-81-250-4550-2 ` 295 320pp Paperback
the racially mixed Indo-European civil society of
Calcutta of the time. ...
History, Historians and
—Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Edited by Charu Gupta, Associate Professor,
Columbia University, and Honorary Professor, Centre Department of History, University of Delhi Development Policy
A Necessary Dialogue
This volume brings out
various regional Edited by C. A. Bayly, Vere Harmsworth
Contents: Introduction 1. ‘Young India: A Bengal
complexities and lively Professor of Imperial and Naval History, Fellow of
Eclogue’; or Meat-eating, Race, and Reform in a
public debates on social St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge,
Colonial Poem 2. An Ideology of Indianness: The
reforms for women and Vijayendra Rao, Lead Economist in the
Construction of Colonial/Communal Stereotypes
their impact on issues like Development Research Group, World Bank,
in the Poems of Henry Derozio 3. The Politics
sati, widow remarriage, Simon Szreter, Professor of History and Public
of Naming: India’s First Modern Literary Society,
domesticity, sexuality and Policy, Fellow of St John’s College, University of
Calcutta, 1825 4. Three Poets in Search of History:
education. Simultaneously, Cambridge, and Michael Woolcock, Lead Social
Calcutta, 1752-1859 5. Modernity at Home: A
the essays engage with Development Specialist, Development Research
Possible Genealogy of the Indian Drawing Room
concerns around Group, World Bank
6. Refashioning Milton: Madhusudan and the
Modernist Discourse of Reading 7. The Flute, masculinity, inter-caste intimacies and communal
If history matters for
Gerontion, and Subalternist: Misreadings of Tagore identities. This book has contributions from
understanding key
well-known feminist historians.
2012 978-81-250-4764-3 ` 785 228pp Hardback development outcomes
Contents: Introduction 1. Giving Masculinity then surely historians
a History: Some Contributions From the should be active
From Village Elder to British Historiography of Colonial India 2. Contested contributors to the debates
Judge Sacrifice: Sati, Sovereignty and Social Reform in informing these
Colonial India 3. Wicked Widows: Law and Faith understandings. This volume
Asoka Kumar Sen, currently an independent in Nineteenth-Century Public Sphere Debates integrates, for the first time,
researcher of tribal history 4. Educated Muslim Women: Real and Ideal contributions from ten
5. Re-Inscribing ‘Womanliness’: Gendered Spaces leading historians and seven
This volume examines the
and Public Debates in Early Modern Keralam policy advisors around the central development
definition and redefinition of
6. Print and Bazaari Literature: Jhagrras/Kissas and issues of social protection, public health, public
custom/ law in the context
Gendered Reform in Early Twentieth Century education and natural resource management.
of the adivasis of Jharkhand
during pre-colonial and Punjab 7. Theatre and Gender in Colonial
Abridged Contents: PART I: OVERVIEW
colonial times. As a seminal India: Foregrounding Actresses’ Question
OF KEY ISSUES PART II: HISTORICAL
historical account, this book 8. Fluctuating Fortunes of Wives: Creeping Rigidity
CONTRIBUTIONS TO CONTEMPORARY
questions the contemporary in Inter-Caste Marriages in the Colonial Period
DEVELOPMENT POLICY ISSUES
assertion of indigenous 9. Caste, Colonialism and the Reform of Gender:
Perspective from Western India 10. Women, 2012 978-81-250-4695-0 ` 840 288pp Paperback
identity that draws
Abductions and Religious Identities in Colonial Rights: Restricted
boundaries between the
adivasi as a custom-governed and law-governed Bengal 11. Memory and History: A Daughter’s
people. Testimony 12. Archives and Sexuality: Vignettes
from Colonial North India PRIMARY TEXTS
Contents: Introduction 1. Defining Custom 1. Sarojini: Womanliness: A Brief Commentary
2. Society and Economy: Memory and British and Translation 2. Bhai Sadhu Singh: Witches:

HISTORY 111
History of Assam, Textbook
and Mission 6. From Universal Dominion to entirely by the dominant
Principalities PART III: TERRITORIAL STATES narratives of colonial/
The AND COLONIAL RULE, ACCOMMODATION national modernity or were
From Yandabo to Partition, 1826–1947 AND DIFFERENTIATION OF MUSLIM relatively untouched by
Priyam Goswami, Professor, Department of CULTURES 7. Regional States, National Markets them.
History, Gauhati University, Guwahati and European Expansion Excursus: Islamic
Contents: Introduction:
Endowments 8. Cultural encounter, Reciprocities,
This text covers an Reconceptualizing the
and Muslim responses 9. From Appropriation to
important period in the Modern, the Region, and
Collision and Colonial Stabilisation Excursus: The
history of modern Princely Rule 1. Tipu
Language Issue—Urdu 10. Institutionalisation of
Northeast India, from the Sultan’s War Colors and
Muslim Communities and the quest for a new
Treaty of Yandabo in 1826 the Battle for Perspective 2.
Islamicity Excursus: Communalism PART IV:
that marked the beginning An Illusion of Permanence: Visualizing Legitimacy in
NEGOTIATING MUSLIM PLURALISM AND
of British expansion in the Mysore 3. Srirangapatna: Capital City to Topography
SINGULARITY 12. The Muslim Public Divided
region, till Partition in 1947. of Conquest 4. The Museumized Cityscape of Mysore
13. The Integration of nation-state and secession
Besides analysing the 5. K. Venkatappa and the Fashioning of a Mysore
Excursus: Islamic Fundamentalism 14. From the
important social, cultural Modern in Art 6. The Illicit in the Modern: Banning
pulpit to the parade ground Excursus: The social
and economic changes the Devadasi 7. The Licit in the Modern: Protecting
Structure of Muslims in India 15. Indian Muslims or
during the period, it focuses on the growth of the Child Wife 8. Giving the State a Nation: Revisiting
Muslim Indians?
political consciousness in the region and the Karnataka’s Reunification
2012 978-81-250-4658-5 ` 950 536pp Paperback
impact of the pan-Indian national movement on 2012 978-81-250-4507-6 ` 895 372pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted
the society and politics of the northeast. Rights: Restricted
Contents: Introduction 1. Decline of the Ahoms

and the Emergence of the British 2. Foundation of
Memsahibs’ Writings Other Orientalisms
Colonial Narratives on Indian Women
the Company’s Rule 3. The Company’s Expansion India Between Florence and Bombay,
in the Brahmaputra Valley 4. Consolidation of Edited by Indrani Sen, Associate Professor at 1860–1900
Power 5. Expansion to the South: Cachar and the the Department of English at Sri Venkateswara
Central Hills 6. Manipur and the Frontier Tribes College, University of Delhi Filipa Lowndes Vicente, currently a researcher
7. Economic Transformation of Assam 8. Social at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Transformation of Assam 9. Growth of Political The white women of colonial Lisbon (ICS-UL)
Awareness 10. Assam and the National Movement India wrote extensively. They
maintained journals and Florence became a centre
(1905–34) 11. Struggle for Independence of Indian studies during the
(1935–47) diaries, wrote letters home,
authored novels and penned second half of the
2012 978-81-250-4653-0 ` 240 308pp Paperback their memoirs, focusing on nineteenth century. During
their relations with ‘native’ this period, the city saw a
flurry of orientalist activity
Islam in South Asia women. This anthology,
including the organisation of
covering the period
A Short History international conferences
1820s–1920s, captures the
Jamal Malik, Professor of Religious Studies at the rich diversity of these and exhibitions and the
University of Erfurt, Germany interactions. A comprehensive and incisive establishment of museums
introduction by Indrani Sen provides the historical and journals. Other Orientalisms analyses the
Islam in South Asia aims to circulation of people, ideas, information, images
perspective.
synthesise the long history and objects between Florence and Bombay, and
of Islam as an intrinsic part Contents: Introduction 1. Nautch Girls the different forms of knowledge about India
of Indian society seeing the 2. Religions, Regions, Class and Caste 3. Female resulting from these processes.
vantage point of such a Attire 4. Princely Women 5. Wet-nurses and
complex history as a series Ayahs 6. Purdah 7. Social Evils and Social Reform Contents: Introduction: The Histories of a
of cultural encounters that 8. Health in the Zenana 9. Female Education Photograph (Bombay, 1885) 1. Florence as a
were mutually energising. 10. Faithful Indian Wife 11. Indian Woman—White Centre for Oriental Studies 2. Orientalism and
Man 12. Purdah Parties 13. The New Indian Colonial Knowledge: Gubernatis in India
Contents: Introduction 3. Travelling Objects: India Exhibited in Florence
Woman 14. The Indian & lsquo;Gaze’
PART I: EARLY MUSLIM Conclusion
EXPANSION, CULTURAL ENCOUNTER AND 2012 978-81-250-4552-6 ` 425 344pp Paperback
2012 978-81-250-4758-2 ` 1150 400pp Hardback
ITS CONSTITUENCIES 1. Muslim Expansion.
Trade, Military and the Quest for Political Mysore Modern
Authority in South Asia Excursus: Historiography
Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule Pedagogy for Religion
and Sources 2. Muslim Space and Divines Missionary Education and the Fashioning
PART II: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF MUSLIM Janaki Nair, Professor at the Centre for of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal
EMPIRE CULTURES: BETWEEN ISLAMIC AND Historical Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
ISLAMICATE 3 . Slaves, Sultans and Dynasties Parna Sengupta, Associate Director of Stanford
Excursus: Shi’ities and Sunnites 4. Muslim Mysore Modern reconceptualises Indian modernity Introductory Studies at Stanford University, USA
heterogeneity: Margins becoming centres of through critical engagement with some important
themes taken from the history of the Princely Offering a new approach to the study of religion
Muslim Power Excursus: Caste 5. Cultural and empire, this innovative book challenges a
Integration Towards a Politics of Universal State of Mysore. In this work, Janaki Nair argues
that the Princely Indian states were usually widespread myth of modernity—that Western
Dominion. The Mughals Excursus: Conversion rule has had a secularizing effect on the non-
regarded as spaces that were either defined

112 HISTORY
West. Sengupta reveals 4. Aspects of Administration 5. The Ur and the of Gandhian-Era Politics 5. The Making of the Indian
instead the paradox that the Nadu 6. The Brahmadeyam and the Nagaram Nation 6. Colonialism and Modernisation 7. Karl
pursuit and adaptation of 7. Social Parameters: Stratification and Ideology Marx, His Theories of Asian Societies and Colonial
modern vernacular 8. Conclusion: Towards a Model Rule 8. Transformation from a Colonial to an
education, mainly imported Independent Economy: A Case Study of India
2012 978-81-250-4651-6 ` 395 308pp Paperback
to the colonies by
2012 978-81-250-4571-7 ` 895 564pp Hardback
Protestant missionaries,
opened up new ways for Soulmates
Indians to reformulate ideas The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and Writings of Richard Falk, The
of community along Hermann Kallenbach Towards Humane Global Governance
religious lines.
Shimon Lev, researcher and writer in Israel Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International
Contents: Introduction: Pedagogical Frames and Law at Princeton University, USA
Colonial Difference 1. The Molding of Native See GANDHI STUDIES
Character 2. A Curriculum for Religion 3. An See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
2012 978-81-250-4699-8 ` 785 204pp Hardback
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Object Lesson in Colonial Pedagogy 4. The
Schoolteacher as Modern Father 5. Teaching 2012 978-81-250-4307-2 ` 1150 560pp Hardback
Gender in the Colony 6. Mission Schools and Who Wants Democracy?
Qur’an Schools Conclusion: Pedagogy for (Second Edition)
Tolerance
Adivasis and the Raj
Javeed Alam, former chairman of the Indian Socio-economic Transition of the Hos,
2012 978-81-250-4505-2 ` 840 224pp Hardback Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
1820–1932
Rights: Restricted
AND PUBLIC POLICY
Polio Eradication and Its 2012 978-81-250-4551-9 ` 225 188pp Paperback
Sanjukta Das Gupta, Associate Professor,
Discontents Department of History, University of Calcutta
A Historian’s Journey Through an
International Public Health (Un)civil War
Writings of Bipan Chandra, This book focuses on the
colonial history of adivasis,
The focusing specifically on the
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY The Making of Modern India: From Marx Hos of Chota Nagpur, and
William Muraskin, Professor, Department of to Gandhi discusses the issue of their
Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of identity against the
Bipan Chandra was Chairman, National Book
New York background of changing
Trust, New Delhi
colonial policy towards them.
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES The 14 essays in this volume
Selected Contents:
2012 978-81-250-4656-1 ` 675 168pp Hardback present a long-term
Introduction 1. Village
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5095-7 perspective of the
Organisation in the Early Nineteenth Century
emergence of nationalism
2. The Articulation of Political Authority: The
and the Indian national
Political Structure of Early movement, with special
State-system in Pre-colonial Singhbhum 3. British
Medieval South India, The emphasis on its Gandhian
Intrusion and Administrative Reorganisation,
1820–1857 4. Hos as Tenants: The Question of
(Second Edition) phase, and the nature of
Rent in British India 5. The Forests and the Hos:
Indian capitalism and its
Kesavan Veluthat, Professor in the Department Commercialisation and Deprivation 6. Agrarian
relationship with imperialism
of History, University of Delhi Change, Scarcity and Emigration 7. Outsider
and the national movement.
Intrusion into Ho Village Society 8. Towards a
This book was a major It has an introduction by Aditya Mukherjee.
New Identity Conclusion
intervention in Indian
historiography when it was ... students of modern Indian economic history 2011 978-81-250-4198-6 ` 895 384pp Hardback
first published in 1993. The will find the essence of Professor Bipan Chandra’s
author has examined the evolving approach through certain perspective Adivasis in Colonial India
power structure of the four shifts. Survival, Resistance and Negotiation
monarchies of south India
under the Pallava, Paˉ ya, —Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Former Chairman, Indian Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Associate Professor of
Ceˉra and Coˉla kingdoms Council of Historical Research, Delhi History, University of Delhi
from the seventh through
... a fine collection of essays, some of which are This volume provides a
thirteenth centuries of the
vintage Bipan Chandra and rooted in his extensive holistic view of the world of
Common Era. He has added a new introduction in
understanding of the Indian national movement.... adivasis under the British in
this revised edition where he has examined when
the nineteenth and twentieth
the process of formation of a ‘state’ becomes —Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor, Department of centuries. It unravels the
visible in south India and the factors that caused History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi ways in which the adivasi
these changes.
Selected Contents: 1 The Long-term Dynamics: society negotiated with itself
Contents: 1. The Self-Image of Royalty 2. The Gandhiji and the Indian National Movement 2. and interacted with the shifts
King and ‘His Men’ 3. The Role of the Chiefs Jawaharlal Nehru in Historical Perspective 3. Gandhiji, and changes that were taking
Secularism and Communalism 4. Pre-Gandhian Roots place during this period.

HISTORY 113
Abridged Contents: Introduction: Situating Colonialism, Modernity, and Foundations of Tilak’s
the Adivasi in Colonial India PART I: ‘MODERN
SCIENCE’, CLASSIFICATION STRATEGIES, Literature Nationalism
QUESTIONS OF IDENTITY AND PATRIARCHY A View from India Discrimination, Education, Hindutva
PART II: ASSERTION AND RESISTANCE PART Edited by Satya P. Mohanty, Professor of English, Parimala V. Rao, Assistant Professor, Zakir
III: MEDICAL COLONIALISM AND THE ADIVASI Cornell University, USA Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal
HEALING SYSTEMS Nehru University
Contributors: Meena Bhargava, Vinita Damodaran, In the context of reform
Sanjukta Das Gupta, David Hardiman, Felix Padel, 2011 978-81-250-4275 4 ` 895 272pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted activities in nineteenth
Biswamoy Pati, Archana Prasad, Meena Radhakrishna, century Maharashtra, the
Satadru Sen, Shashank S. Sinha, Uwe Skoda, Nitin book addresses the origin
Varma Communalism and the of the concept of ‘Hindutva’
2011 978-81-250-4094-1 ` 950 384pp Hardback Intelligentsia in Bihar, and locates it in the
nationalist attempt to
1870–1930 control rebellion within the
Before the Divide Shaping Caste, Community and society by ‘inventing an
Hindi and Urdu Literary Culture Nationhood enemy’. The construction of
Edited by Francesca Orsini, Reader, Literatures Hindutva by Bal Gangadhar
Hitendra Patel, Department of History,
of North India at the School of Oriental and African Tilak, Parimala Rao argues,
Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
Studies, University of London was aimed to oppose reform within Hindu society.
This volume gives an
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE account of the rise of Hindu … an eye-opener for those who have heralded
2011 978-81-250-4263-1 ` 510 320pp Paperback communalism in Bihar in the Tilak as a militant and populist leader…. Rao has
2009 978-81-250-3829-0 ` 1005 320pp Hardback late nineteenth and early successfully uncovered the limitations of early
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5339-2 twentieth centuries, and its nationalist discourses….
relationship with the —The Hindu
nationalist ideology, through
Call of the Sea, The the activities of the Contents: Introduction: Encountering the Myth
Kachchhi Traders in Muscat and Zanzibar, c. intelligentsia. Hitendra Patel 1. Situating Tilak 2. Moneylender as the God of
1800–1880 discusses two popular Peasants 3. Educated Women as Rakmabais and
movements: one for the use Ramabais 4. Education, Caste and Identity
Chhaya Goswami, independent scholar based in
of Hindi, replacing Urdu, in education and the law 5. Inventing the Enemy 6. The Swadeshi Movement
Mumbai
courts from the 1860s, and the other for ‘cow 7. Gender, Caste and Education, 1910–1920 8.
The Call of the Sea examines protection’. The growth of the Hindi press and Tilak’s Nationalism and Hindutva 9. Conclusion
the significant role played by anti-Bengali sentiments are outlined. Patel also 2011 978-81-250-4268-6 ` 565 372pp Paperback
Kachchhi traders in analyses intra-community discourses on lower- 2010 978-81-250-3919-8 ` 1005 372pp Hardback
connecting Muscat and caste inclusion, revealing divisions within the Hindu
Zanzibar to the thriving fold.
emporiums of Bombay and From Hindi to Urdu
Mandvi. It provides an insight Contents: Introduction: Nationalism and A Social and Political History
into the business environment Communalism in Modern Bihar 1. Rise and
Growth of the Intelligentsia in Bihar 2. The Tariq Rahman, HEC Distinguished National
and sophisticated sea-trade Professor of Sociolinguistic History and Professor
network in the western Intelligentsia of Bihar: Anti-Bengali Campaign
and the Hindi Movement 3. The Hindi Press and Emeritus, National Institute of Pakistan Studies,
Indian Ocean that existed in Qaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad
the nineteenth century. the Creation of Communal Stereotypes 4. The
Intelligentsia and the Search for a New Order for A first of its kind, this book
‘National’ Regeneration 5. The Intelligentsia, Their traces the political history
.. a fascinating and detailed Socio-political Forums and Communalism 6. Cow and genealogy of Urdu. It
account of the trading world of Kachchhi merchants Protection 7. Conclusion also looks at the domains in
in the nineteenth century.
2011 978-81-250-4206-8 ` 840 264pp Hardback which the language is used
—Marriam Dossal
by both Hindus and Muslims
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Kachchhi: The of northern India.
Land and its People 2 Kachchhis in the Trading
Dalit Personal Narratives
World of Muscat 3. Kachchhi Entrepreneurs and the Reading Caste, Nation and Identity
This is the first major
Zanzibar Trade 4. The Trading Firm of Jairam Shivji 5. Raj Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of study of the manifold
The Slave Trade and the Role of Kachchhis Conclusion English, University of Delhi engagement of the
2011 978-81-250-4204-4 ` 925 360pp Hardback linguistic forms known as “Urdu” with South
See DALIT STUDIES
Asian society. Professor Rahman has opened up
2011 978-81-250-4250-1 ` 455 308pp Paperback the social aspects of Urdu as a major subject for
2010 978-81-250-3863-4 ` 715 308pp Hardback study and this book is one of the most important
contributions to South Asian studies of recent
years.
—Francis Robinson

114 HISTORY
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Names government. K. V. Krishna Smallpox Eradication Saga,
2. Age 3. Origins and Historiography 4. Identity: Rao has used his wide-
The Islamization of Urdu 5. Urdu as an Islamic ranging experience to give The
Language 6. Urdu as the Language of Love 7. The the reader an overview of An Insider’s View
British and Hindustani 8. Urdu in the Princely the development and rise of SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
States 9. Urdu as the Language of Employment some civilisations and
10. Urdu in Education 11. Urdu in Print Isao Arita, a central figure in the eradication of
empires in the course of
12. Urdu on the Radio 13. Urdu on the Screen smallpox
human history, and to
14. Conclusion Edited by Alan Schnur, WHO, and Masanobu
examine the reasons for
Sugimoto, formerly at the National Institute of
their downfall.
2011 978-81-250-4248-8 ` 975 476pp Hardback Health, Japan, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Rights: Restricted Abridged Contents:
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES
PART I: EMPIRES AND CIVILIZATIONS PART II:
India by Design WORLD WARS AND MAJOR WARS PART III: 2011 978-81-250-4095-8 ` 765 220pp Hardback
Colonial History and Cultural Display GREATEST OF THE GREAT LEADERS PART IV:
Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of Art

ROLE OF LEADERSHIP Society and History of
History, the University of California, Los Angeles
2011 978-81-250-4187-0 ` 950
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5498-6
452pp Hardback Gujarat since 1800
A Select Bibliography of the English and
.. a gathering of rare gifts European Language Sources
and talents. This remarkable Other Landscapes
Introduced and annotated by Edward Simpson,
work is deeply engaged in Colonialism and the Predicament of
senior lecturer in social anthropology, School of
the mechanics and Authority in Nineteenth-Century South
Oriental and Anthropological Studies, University
mediations of imperial India of London
authority and its visual
Deborah Sutton, lecturer in the Department of Drawing together well-
signs.
History, Lancaster University known sources as well as
—Homi K. Bhabha, Harvard rare and under-exploited
Other Landscapes investigates
University research material, this book
the ordering and disordering
of colonial authority in brings together around
Saloni Mathur offers a South India during the 6,500 detailed
brilliantly original disentangling of the anxious nineteenth century. The bibliographical references to
and involuted attempts to manage India as an colonisation of the Nilgiri books, chapters, periodical
‘aesthetic’ project. Her account is rich in archival hills required a landscape to literature, dissertations,
research, theoretically elegant, and exceptionally be constituted within the project-reports, etc. on
engrossing. With remarkable clarity, it opens colonial bureaucratic order, Gujarat published since
colonial rule’s “cultural techniques” to a new set which was marked out by 1800. The titles considered spread across the
of illuminating questions. ethnographic, agricultural disciplinary boundaries of history, political and
and arboreal typologies. It was against this scheme development studies, literature and the liberal arts,
—Christopher Pinney, University College London
of people, property and resources that colonial sociology, cultural and social anthropology.
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Patterns, Indian Styles 1. The Indian Village in consolidated. However, this imagined landscape E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5300-2
Victorian Space: The Department Store and the over which legislation was passed could neither
Cult of the Craftsman 2. “To Visit the Queen”: match nor capture the complexities of the many
On Display at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition lives inhabiting the hills. In the spaces between Stages of Capital
of 1886 3. The Discrepant Portraiture of Empire: legislation and the everyday, colonial authority was Law, Culture, and Market Governance in
Oil Painting in a Global Field 4. Collecting Colonial forced constantly to transgress its own norms and Late Colonial India
Postcards: Gender and the Visual Archive 5. A principles. Violence, inefficiency, corruption and
Ritu Birla, Associate Professor of History,
Parable of Postcolonial Return: Museums and loss of profit seeped through the margins of
University of Toronto, Canada
the Discourse of Restitution Epilogue: Historical colonial governance.
Afterimages Stages of Capital brings
2011 978-81-250-4202-0 ` 895 256pp Hardback
2011 978-81-250-4293-8 ` 655 224pp Hardback Rights: Restricted research on non-Western
Rights: Restricted capitalisms into
conversation with
Sacrificing People postcolonial studies to
Invincibility, Challenges and Invasions of a Tribal Landscape illuminate the historical
Leadership Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in roots of India’s market
Oxford and Delhi universities society. Between 1870 and
K. V. Krishna Rao, retired general of the Indian 1930, the British regime in
Army and former Governor in the northeastern See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
India implemented laws
states and Jammu & Kashmir 2011 978-81-250-4189-4 ` 730 504pp Paperback directed at ‘free’ circulation
2010 978-81-250-3868-9 ` 950 504pp Hardback of capital, including measures to regulate
Invincibility, Challenges and Leadership is a product of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5302-6
a thorough study and understanding of history, companies, income tax, and pension funds.
combined with the author’s extensive personal and This book is the winner of the 2010 Albion Book Prize
professional experience in the army and of the North American Conference on British Studies.

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Selected Contents: Introduction PART I: A Exploring Medieval India, For the Record
NON-NEGOTIABLE SOVEREIGNTY? 1. The On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in
Proper Swindle: Commercial and Financial Sixteenth to Eighteenth
India
Legislation of the 1880s 2. Capitalism’s Idolatry: Centuries
The Law of Charitable Trusts, Mortmain, and Volume I: Culture, Gender, Regional Patterns Anjali Arondekar, Associate Professor, Feminist
the Firm as Family, c. 1870–1920 3. For General Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
Public Utility: Sovereignty, Philanthropy, and Edited by Meena Bhargava, Associate Professor,
Department of History, Indraprastha College, Arondekar examines the
Market Governance, 1890–1920. PART II:
University of Delhi spectacularisation of
NEGOTIATING SUBJECTS. 4. Hedging Bets:
sexuality in anthropology,
Speculation, Gambling and Market Ethics, This volume comprises law, literature, and
1890–1930. 5. Economic Agents, Cultural Subjects: essential readings by eminent pornography from
Gender; the Joint Family and the Making of historians on India’s society 1843–1920. By turning to
Capitalist Subjects, 1900–1940 Conclusion: Colonial and culture during the Mughal materials and/or locations
Modernity and the Social Worlds of Capital rule in the Indian that are familiar to most
2011 978-81-250-4146-7 ` 675 358pp Paperback subcontinent. scholars of queer and
Rights: Restricted subaltern studies,
Abridged Contents:
PART I: CULTURE: DIVERSE Arondekar considers
Strıˉ FORMS PART II: GENDER sexuality at the centre of the colonial archive,
Feminine Power in the Mahaˉbhaˉrata AND MEDIEVALISM rather than at its margins.
PART III: PATTERNS OF Contents: Introduction: Without a Trace
Kevin McGrath, Associate of the Department TRANSITION PART IV: REGION, REGIONAL
of Sanskrit and Indian Studies, Harvard University, 1. A Secret Report: Richard Burton’s Colonial
FORMATIONS AND THE MUGHAL EMPIRE Anthropology 2. Subject to Sex: The Case of
USA
Contributors: Muzaffar Alam, Catherine B. Asher, Colonial India 3. Archival Attachments: On Colonial
See GENDER STUDIES C. A. Bayly, Stephen P. Blake, Ellison Banks Findly, Pornography 4. In the Wake of 1857: Rudyard
2011 978-81-250-4279-2 ` 725 240pp Hardback Michael H. Fisher, Jos Gommans, Monica Juneja, Kipling’s Mutiny Papers Coda: Passing Returns
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Uddin Malik, Carla Petievich, Peter Robb, Dilbagh Rights: Restricted
Singh, Burton Stein, Norman P. Ziegler, Ishtiyaq
Ancient Indian Textbook
Ahmad Zilli
Social History Global Eradication of
2010 978-81-250-4103-0 ` 475 590pp Paperback
Some Interpretations (Second Edition) Smallpox, The
Romila Thapar, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Nehru University
Exploring Medieval India,
Sixteenth to Eighteenth Edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader,
This is a revised edition of a York University, Toronto, Canada, and Sharon
seminal work by India’s most Centuries Messenger, Senior Research Assistant, Wellcome
eminent historian, containing Volume II: Politics, Economy, Religion Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
a new Introduction and four Edited by Meena Bhargava, Associate Professor, University College London
new essays. Department of History, Indraprastha College, See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES
Contents: 1. University of Delhi
2010 978-81-250-3981-5 ` 1005 206pp Paperback
Interpretations of Ancient This volume comprises Rights: Restricted
Social History 2. Society essential readings by eminent E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5283-8
and Law in the Hindu and historians on the
Buddhist Traditions 3. Ethics, consolidation and
Religion and Social Protest legitimisation of empire,
Historical Demography and
in the First Millennium B.C. in Northern India 4. commercial and religious Agrarian Regimes
Renunciation: The Making of a Counter-culture 5. trends, and social movements Understanding Southern Indian Fertility,
Daˉna and Daksinaˉ as Forms of Exchange 6. Social during the Mughal rule in the 1881–1981
Mobility in Ancient India with Special Reference Indian subcontinent.
to Elite Groups 7. The Image of the Barbarian in Ravindran Gopinath, Professor, Modern Indian
Early India 8. The Historian and Archaeological Abridged Contents: Economic History, Department of History and
Data 9. The Study of Society in Ancient India 10. PART I: LEGITIMACY, Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia
Puranic Lineages and Archaeological Cultures AUTHORITY, CONSOLIDATION PART II:
AGRARIAN AND COMMERCIAL TRENDS PART Overlapping the border
11. The Tradition of Historical Writing in Early
III: RELIGION, MOVEMENTS, DISPUTES between history and
India 12. Origin Myths and the Early Indian
demography, this book
Historical Tradition 13. Genealogy as a Source of
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Crises and Creativities History of Jaipur, A Bhattacharya, Reader, York University,

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c.1939–52
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distinctive creative response centuries in the Kachhwa
From the Late Nineteenth to the Early
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Indian history Using the two world wars
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Clouds (September 1939–July 1942) 2. The largely based on the being Euro- or West-
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Edited by Mark Harrison, Professor, History of Conquest of India 4. The Structure of Government History through the Lens
Medicine, and Director, Wellcome Unit for the and the Economic Policies of the British Perspectives on South Indian Films
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In Quest of Indian Folktales Selected Contents: Out of the East
Pandit Ram Gharib Chaube and William 1. Difficult Differences: Spices and the Medieval Imagination
British Rule in India
Crooke
between Material Paul Freedman, Chester D. Tripp Professor of
Sadhana Naithani, Assistant Professor of Constraints and Imperial History, Yale University, USA
Language, Literature and Cultural Studies, Ideologies 2. Flotsam and
This engaging book explores
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi Jetsam of the Empire?
the demand for spices: Why
European Seamen and
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE were they so popular, and
Spaces of Disease and
why so expensive? Paul
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Freedman surveys the
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history, geography,
European ‘Loaferism’ and the Workhouse System
economics, and culinary
in Colonial India 4. ‘White Women Degrading
India Wins Freedom Themselves to the Lowest Depths’: European
tastes of the Middle Ages to
uncover the surprisingly
M. A. K. Azad Prostitutes and Double Transgression
varied ways that spices
5. Hierarchies of Crime and Punishment: European
One of the makers of were put to use—in
Convicts and the Racial Dividend 6. Reclaiming
modern India tells the story elaborate medieval cuisine, in the treatment of
Savages in ‘Darkest England’ and ‘Darkest India’:
of the partition of India as disease, for the promotion of well-being, and to
The Salvation Army as Transnational Agent of the
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Civilising Mission
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text of this autobiographical
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Modern Medicine and
under seal, in the National International Aid Selected Contents: Introduction: Spices: A Global
Commodity 1. Spices and Medieval Cuisine 2.
Library, Calcutta, and in the Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998
Medicine: Spices as Drugs 3. The odors of paradise,
National Archives, New
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Delhi, for thirty years. What we now have is the
Profit 6. “That Dammed Pepper”: Spices and Moral
complete text, released in September 1988. Not Susan Heydon, Lecturer, Social Pharmacy, Danger 7. Searching for the Realms of Spices 8.
only have all the words and phrases of the original University of Otago, New Zealand Finding the Realms of Spices: Portugal and Spain
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Conference 10. General Elections 11. The British Sadhana (1869–1905) Circulation, Public Works and Social Space
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Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and For the first time, theories of
Communication Technology, Ahmedabad ‘produced social space’ are
Low and Licentious concretised in order to open
See GANDHI STUDIES a new perspective on India’s
Europeans social history of circulation
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Race, Class and ‘White Subalternity’ in
Vol. I: 620pp; Vol. II: 722pp; Vol. III: 491pp; Vol. IV: 564pp and infrastructure. This book
Colonial India moves beyond the
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Notes from Gandhigram of earlier writings on the
Harald Fischer Tiné, Professor of History, ETH Challenges to Gandhian Praxis history of transport,
Zürich (Swiss Federal institute of Technology, particularly the prevalent and
Samir Banerjee, honorary consultant,
Zurich) narrow focus on railways.
Gandhigram Trust
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Power, Knowledge, Medicine together and re-examines material uncovered by of the Police 3. Subalterns of the Calcutta Police
Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home over one hundred years of archaeological 4. Arrival of the Bengali Sleuth 5. The Web of
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and in the World
Criminology and Penology Concluding Reflections
Selected Contents: Introduction SECTION
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Madhulika Banerjee, Department of Political Monastery 2. Abbata Vihaˉra 3. Pañcaˉyatana
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TWO: THE BUILDING TYPES 5. Shrines and
Wives, Widows and
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Three Gujarati Thinkers
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Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian Wicked City, The 1857
Crime and Punishment in Colonial Calcutta Essays from Economic and Political Weekly
This book is an abridged
version by Sarkar himself of Sumanta Banerjee, acclaimed writer and former This volume marks the
his unrivalled five-volume journalist sesquicentennial of the events
History of Aurangzib. This of 1857, in which multi-
The Wicked City unravels a
history is virtually the pronged, widespread and in
fascinating panorama of crime
history of India over sixty many instances, organised
in the colonial metropolis
years. Aurangzib’s career resistance broke out against
over the nineteenth and early
prior to his accession has the British across north India.
twentieth centuries. New
been compressed while The contributions in this
types of crimes like
significant events during his volume look at several
counterfeiting emerged in the
reign have been dealt with aspects of 1857, and analyse
early nineteenth century,
in detail. This concise the events not merely in
while the technology used in
edition will be a valuable resource for students and terms of the immediate
old forms of crime became
scholars of medieval Indian history. effects, but in terms of the repercussions that they
increasingly more
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procession of colourful characters emerged and
Sinhalese Monastic thrived in all their diabolic grandeur. What clearly
Biography as History
emerges in this book is the symbiotic relationship
Architecture between urban crimes and the new laws and modes Indian Perspectives
The Viharas of Anuraˉdhapura of punishment, fashioned by the colonial rulers to
Edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy, Professor of
Senake Bandaranayake, Professor Emeritus of control those crimes.
History, and Yogesh Sharma, Associate Professor
Archaeology, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka Selected Contents: Introduction PART I: of History, both at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
HATCHING THE PLOT: EXPLORING THE Delhi
Anuradhapura was the
major centre of Sinhalese SOCIAL HISTORY OF CRIME 1. The Trailblazers 2.
The lives of individuals in
Buddhism and the principal Calcutta’s White Underworld 3. Journeys through the
authority have traditionally
city of Sri Lanka from the Lower Depths 4. Killers: Violent and Silent 5. House-
been the subject matter of
3rd century BC to the 10th breakers, Thieves and Pilferers
history. The essays in this
century AD. The focus of 6. Swindlers and Forgers 7. Embezzlers and Gamblers
book examine biographies
this volume is the remains 8. Smugglers, Drug-pushers and Poisoners 9.
and autobiographies of people
of the Buddhist monasteries Underworld Heroines and their Children 10. The
from different social strata
in and around the city, Contest over Public Space PART II: SMASHING
and seek to show how
devising a framework to THE PLOT: PUNISHING, DISCIPLINING AND
personal accounts of
study monastic architecture and attempting to ORDERING 1. The Beginnings 2. Rise and Growth
individual lives contribute to
interpret the Sinhalese tradition. The book brings our understanding of the

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historical moment. While some essays attempt to Gender and Cultural Identity Kashmir
understand the ‘biographies’ of cities, institutions and Insurgency and After
organisations, others undertake a deconstruction of in Colonial Orissa
hagiographical texts. Sachidananda Mohanty, Professor and Head Balraj Puri, noted journalist, writer, human rights
of the Department of English, University of activist and Padma Bhushan awardee
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‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial Policy history of Orissa primarily E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5317-0
through literary sources. It
Meena Radhakrishna, Department of Sociology, focuses on issues such as
Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi feudalism and colonial
Language, Ideology and
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY modernity, language politics Power
and the rhetoric of Language-learning among the Muslims of
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progress, westernisation, Pakistan and North India
nativity and border crossing.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5331-6 Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor
It brings the archival
material to centrestage and of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National
Engendering the Early employs theatrical tools from the fields of gender, institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad
Household translation and culture studies.
Brahmanical Precepts in the Early 2008 978-81-250-3431-5 ` 455 192pp Paperback See SOCIOLOGY
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Jaya Tyagi, Reader, Department of History, From Ancient Times to the Globalization
Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi Era Matters of Exchange
Commerce, Medicine and Science in
This book is a socio- Micheline R. Ishay, Director of the Human
Rights Programme, Graduate School of
the Age of Empire
historical study of the
Grhyasutras, which are International Studies, University of Denver SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
texts that detail rituals for
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Harold J. Cook, Director, Wellcome Trust
the household. Compiled
after the Vedas and the
AND PUBLIC POLICY Centre for the History of Medicine, University
Brahmanas, they represent 2008 978-81-250-3361-5 ` 765 480pp Hardback College London
how Brahmanical ideology Rights: Restricted
Harold Cook scrutinises a
came to be consolidated wealth of historical
and how varna and gender Journeys and Dwellings documents relating to the
hierarchies got solidified. It study of medicine and
Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia
is a well-researched account natural history in the
of the patriarchal biases of Brahmanism and sheds Edited by Helene Basu, Professor, Westfaelische Netherlands, Europe, Brazil,
light on how norms laid down in early Grhyasutras Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany South Africa and Asia during
continue, though in varied forms, till date. this era. He concludes that
This collection makes a
Contents: 1. The Emergence of the Grha significant and innovative engaging in commerce
as a Sacred ‘Space’ 2. The ‘Sacred’ Activity of contribution to the changed the thinking of
Procreation: Marriage,Conception and Birth Rites emerging field of Indian Dutch citizens, leading to a
3. Gender Segregation in the Household: Early Ocean studies. New new emphasis on such values as objectivity,
Socialisation of Boys and the Separation of Girls perspectives come into view accumulation, and description. The preference for
from ‘Formal Learning’ 4. The Grha as a Viable that highlight movement and accurate information that accompanied the rise of
Unit for Production, Distribution and Transmission exchange across borders, commerce also laid the groundwork for the
of Resources 5. Creating Social Hierarchies and travelling actors, cultures rise of science globally, wherever the Dutch
Channeling Linkages through Rituals 6. Conclusion and faiths as well as engaged in trade.
processes of cultural 2008 978-81-250-3366-0 ` 950 580pp Paperback
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re-localisation, mixture and Rights: Restricted
assimilation. Studying the diversity of ways of life in
Gandhi’s Khadi the Indian Ocean World, primarily from South
Mobilizing India
A History of Contention and Conciliation Asian sites, the contributors adopt an
interdisciplinary approach by combining historical Women, Music, and Migration between
Rahul Ramagundam, activist, advocate and and anthropological methods. India and Trinidad
academic
2008 978-81-250-3141-3 ` 795 420pp Hardback Tejaswini Niranjana, well-known translator and
See GANDHI STUDIES E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5319-4 scholar of popular culture
2008 978-81-250-3583-1 ` 525 312pp Paperback The book argues the importance of comparative
research across the global South. The discussion
proceeds on the assumption that South-South
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of terms such as impact on marginalized tribal and dalit 27 Down
colonialism, nation, communities, uprisings in regions beyond the New Departures in Indian Railway Studies
modernity, citizenship, north Indian Gangetic heartland and the alternative
identity, and subjectivity, polity that was posited, without success, during SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
and adds new dimensions to the Uprising of 1857.
Edited by Ian J. Kerr, Research Associate,
their usage even in specific 2008 978-81-250-3310-3 ` 510 360pp Paperback Department of History, School of Oriental and
national contexts. The 2007 978-81-250-3269-4 ` 950 360pp Hardback African Studies, University of London
attempt is to change the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5431-3
frame of reference so that This volume is a collection
the ‘West’ does not of essays on the Indian
become the sole norm Taking Traditional Railways that explore
against which we measure each other. The book Knowledge to the Market linkages and continuities
explores the intertwining of gender issues with The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and between colonial and
music and migration against this background. Unani Industry, 1980–2000 post-colonial times. The
book carries eight
Selected Contents: 1. “The Indian in Me”: SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY contributions on various
Studying the Subaltern Diaspora 2. “Left to the
Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of aspects of Indian society,
Imagination”: Indian Nationalism and Female
Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of culture, history and social
Sexuality 3. “Take a Little Chutney, Add a Touch
Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam work. It covers a wide
of Kaiso”: The Body in the Voice 4. Jumping out
range of topics that will interest both specialist and
of Time: The “Indian” in Calypso 5. “Suku Suku
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES lay readers, and also includes much valuable
What Shall I Do?”: Hindi Cinema and the Politics
memorabilia and documents.
of Music Afterword: A Semi-line 2008 978-81-250-3315-8 ` 765 272pp Hardback
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2008 978-81-250-3359-2 ` 545 272pp Paperback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5343-9 E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5247-0
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Writing History in the Colonial City and the

Modernizing Nature
Forestry and Imperial Eco-Development, Soviet Union Challenge of Modernity, The
1800–1950 Making the Past Work Urban Hegemonies and Civic
[With Social Science Press] Contestations in Bombay (1900–1925)
S. Ravi Rajan, Associate Professor,
Arup Banerji, Department of History, University
Environmental Studies, University of California, SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Santa Cruz, USA of Delhi
Sandip Hazareesingh, Lecturer, at the Open
The history of the Soviet
See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY University’s Ferguson Centre for African and Asian
Union has been charted in
Studies
2008 978-81-250-3389-9 ` 675 308pp Paperback several studies over the
Rights: Restricted decades. However, these This book attempts to break
depictions have failed to new theoretical ground in
New Mansions for Music draw attention to the the study of colonial urban
Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism political and academic historical processes. The
[With Social Science Press] environment within which author opens a new line of
these histories were inquiry into the early
Lakshmi Subramanian, Professor, Department composed. This book seeks twentieth-century history of
of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New to identify the significant Bombay. The city of Bombay
Delhi hallmarks of the production and its people are made the
of Soviet history by Soviet as well as Western primary actors in the
historians. It traces the shift in official policy unfolding events of
2008 978-81-87358-34-3 ` 425 190pp Hardback triggered by the Russian Revolution of 1917 and 1900–1925, while
Rights: Restricted the publication of history textbooks for schools. historiographically dominant personalities such as
Gandhi are shown as highly dependent on the
Contents: Preface Introduction: Inherited
Rethinking 1857 Traditions of Historical Scholarship 1: The
political energies generated by urban life.
Histories of History in the Soviet Union 2: The 2007 978-81-250-3237-3 ` 895 260pp Hardback
Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman,
Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi Impact of Glasnost on the Writing of History 3:
Histories of the Communist Party as Histories
Rethinking 1857, marking of the Soviet Union Chapter 4: Depictions and
the one hundred and fiftieth Revisions: The Russian Revolution in History
anniversary of the Uprising, 5: The Historical Archive 6: History in Russian
explores the possibilities Schools
and limits of recent thinking
2008 978-81-87358-37-4 ` 695 300pp Hardback
on it. This anthology
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includes fifteen essays
divided into four thematic
groups on the questioning
of the conventional
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Fall of the Mughal Empire, Hyderabad Drawing upon a wide range
The Social Context of Industrialisation of literary and non-literary
The sources, the author
(Four Volumes: Available as a box set) C. V. Subba Rao, Department of Economics, explores the tensions and
Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian University of Delhi contradictions inherent in
women’s representations,
The four volumes together See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
studying them against the
comprise a detailed study of 2007 978-81-250-3260-1 ` 695 240pp Hardback larger canvas of social
the causes and the result of history. The book focuses
the events between the on the representations of
death of Aurangzeb (1707) Refiguring Unani Tibb white and Indian women, in
and the conquest of Delhi Plural Healing in Late Colonial India addition to women of mixed
(1803). This fourth edition SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY races, in fiction as well as in colonial newspapers
includes extensive and journals.
footnotes, listing the best Guy Attewell, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust
Centre for the History of Medicine, University 2007 978-81-250-3346-2 ` 455 224pp Paperback
sources available on the
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subject, scholarly College London
acknowledgement of other historians’ views, and a
detailed identification in present-day India of the Writers in Retrospect
villages and towns mentioned in the book. 2007 978-81-250-3017-1 ` 875 332pp Hardback The Rise of American Literary History,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5
Contents: Volume I: 1739–54 Volume II: 1754–71 1875–1910
Volume III: 1771–88 Volume IV: 1789–1803 Claudia Stokes, Assistant Professor of English,
Towards Freedom Trinity University, San Antonio
2007 978-81-250-3245-8 ` 2000 1340pp
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Critical Essays on Ghare Baire
Edited by Sharmila Purkayastha, Shampa Roy
and Saswati Sengupta, Department of English, 2007 978-81-250-3161-1 ` 950 256pp Hardback
Harilal Gandhi Miranda House, University of Delhi Rights: Restricted
A Life
Chandulal Bhagubhai Dalal (1899–1980), Yuganta
former Director, Gandhi Smarak Sanghrahalaya 2007 978-81-250-3187-1 ` 455 224pp Paperback The End of an Epoch (Reissue)
Translated by Tridip Suhrud, Professor,
Dhirubhai Ambani institute of information and Irawati Karve, renowned sociologist and writer,
Communication Technology, Ahmedabad
Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, who wrote in both English and Marathi
The See GENERAL INTEREST
See GANDHI STUDIES
Edited by Pramod K. Nayar, Department of 2007 978-81-250-3228-1 ` 375 224pp Paperback
2007 978-81-250-3379-0 ` 550 320pp Paperback
English, University of Hyderabad
History of Textbook
Bahadur Shah Zafar, the Christians and Public Life
poet-king, was catapulted
Medieval India into the limelight when in Colonial South India
Satish Chandra, eminent historian
‘mutineers’ from Meerut 1863–1937
arrived in Delhi on 11 May Contending with Marginality
History of Medieval India is a 1857. After the ‘mutiny’, the
comprehensive overview of last of the great Mughals Edited by Mallampalli Chandra, Assistant
the history of the Indian went on trial on 27 January Professor of History, Westmont College, California
subcontinent from the 1858 for aiding and abetting This book tells the story of
eighth and the eighteenth the ‘mutineers’. The 21-day how Catholic and Protestant
century. This book studies trial saw the British produce Indians have attempted to
this interesting period in dozens of witnesses and locate themselves within the
Indian history when the land documents to demonstrate Zafar’s complicity. evolving Indian nation. The
underwent drastic changes, He was found guilty and exiled to Burma, where book first explains how the
deeply influenced by the he died years later. The current edition Indian judiciary’s ‘official
invading armies, religious reproduces the text, documents and witness knowledge’ isolated
movements and the accounts of the trial. Christians from Indian
vicissitudes of the changing political, economic and notions of family, caste and
2007 978-81-250-3270-0 ` 730 392pp Paperback
cultural scene. nation. It then describes
how different varieties and classes of Christians
2007 978-81-250-3226-7
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Woman and Empire adopted, resisted and reshaped both imperial and
Representations in the Writings of British nationalist perceptions of their identity.
India, 1858–1900
2006 978-0-415-32321-5 ` 750 305pp Hardback
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Indrani Sen, Reader, Department of English,

Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi

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Decentring Empire This is an account of how Fractured States

Britain, India and the Transcolonial World the activities of the British Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Policy
East India Company shaped in British India 1800–1947
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY colonial ideologies of class
and gender. Joseph uses
Edited by Durba Ghosh, Assistant Professor of Edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York
novels, memories,
History, Cornell University, and Dane Kennedy, University, Toronto, Canada, Mark Harrison,
portraiture and guidebooks
Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History of
to prove that while it was
International Affairs, George Washington Medicine, University of Oxford and Reader, History
British men in seats of
University, Washington, D.C. of Medicine, Modern History Faculty, Oxford, and
power who controlled
Michael Worboys, Director, Centre for the
Moving beyond the standard these ideologies, in many
History of Science, Technology and Medicine and
model of a bilateral circuit instances British women and
the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
between imperial centre and Indians also left their mark. University of Manchester
colonial periphery, this book 2006 978-81-250-3005-8 ` 510 240pp Paperback 2005 978-81-250-2866-6 ` 895 276pp Hardback
highlights the web of Rights: Restricted E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5249-4
transcolonial and
transnational networks that Making of Southern Karnataka, The
spread across and beyond the Reproductive Health in India Society, Polity and Culture in the Early Medieval
empire, operating both on its History, Politics, Controversies Period, AD 400–1030
behalf and against its interests.
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Malini Adiga, University Grants Commission Post-
It suggests that these Doctoral Fellow, Department of History, Mangalore
networks worked in effect to decentre empire, Sarah Hodges, Lecturer, Department of History, University
shaping the multidimensional contours of the University of Warwick, UK
2005 978-81-250-2912-0 ` 1005 464pp Hardback
global modernity we contend with today.
2006 978-81-250-2982-3 ` 1005 420pp Hardback Nature’s Government
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5245-6 of the World
View from Below, The Richard Drayton, Associate Professor of History,
Expunging Variola Indigenous Society, Temples and the Early University of Virginia
The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in Colonial State in Tamil Nadu, 1700–1835 With a special introduction by Mahesh Rangarajan
India, 1947–1977 Kanakalatha Mukund, former Fellow, Centre 2005 978-81-250-2277-0 ` 655 346pp Paperback
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Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer, Wellcome How did the British colonial People’s History of the World, A
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, administration view the Chris Harman, historian and activist
University College London Tamil natives? How did the
2005 978-81-250-2843-7 ` 620 736pp Paperback
natives, in turn, view the
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2006 978-81-250-3018-8 ` 930 344pp Hardback Kanakalatha Mukund Thomas Kuhn
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5244-9 considers the ‘attitudes’ and A Philosophical History for Our Times
‘responses’ as dialogic, Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of
whereby the colonial state
Old Potions, New Bottles and indigenous society are
Warwick, UK
Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial locked in a fierce but subtle 2005 978-81-250-2813-0 ` 675 504pp Paperback
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Punjab, 1850–1945 combat for attention and
dominance in the Madras region. The Tamil Civilising Natures
institution upon which Mukund focuses her study Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial
Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Research Fellow, for the most part is the temple. South India
Harvard Center for Population and Development 2006 978-81-250-2800-0 ` 655 223pp Hardback
Studies SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Kavita Philip, Associate Professor, Department of

See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES Cambridge Economic History of Women’s Studies, University of California, Irvine, USA
2006 978-81-250-2946-5 ` 985 296pp Hardback India, The
2004 978-81-250-2586-3 ` 820 316pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5240-1 Volume 1: c.1200–c.1750 (New Edition) Rights: Restricted
Edited by Tapan Raychaudhuri and Irfan Habib E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5468-9
Reading the East India 2005 978-81-250-2730-0 ` 615 572pp Paperback Famine of 1896–1897 in Bengal, The
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Colonial Currencies of Gender Cambridge Economic History of Malabika Chakrabarti, formerly at Rabindra
India, The, Bharati University, Kolkata, post-doctoral researcher
Betty Joseph, Department of English, Rice and freelance writer
Volume 2: c.1757–2003 (New Edition)
University, Houston, USA
Edited by Dharma Kumar 2004 978-81-250-2389-0 ` 795 552pp Hardback
2005 978-81-250-2731-7 ` 835 1115pp Paperback

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From Plassey Textbook Ayodhya Pre- and Protohistoric Andhra
to Partition Archaeology after Demolition Pradesh up to 500 BC
A History of Modern India SERIES: TRACTS FOR THE TIMES SERIES: COMPREHENSIVE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Professor of Asian D. Mandal, Department of Ancient History, Culture ANDHRA PRADESH
History, Victoria University of Wellington, New and Archaeology, University of Allahabad M. L. K. Murty, Professor and Head, Centre for
Zealand
2003 978-81-250-2344-9 ` 210 88pp Paperback Regional Studies, and Head, Folk Culture Studies,
2004 978-81-250-2596-2 ` 395 544pp Paperback E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5434-4 University of Hyderabad
Also in Hindi
2003 978-81-250-2475-0 ` 450 200pp Hardback
Colonial Economy in the Great
Health Policy in Britain’s Model Depression, A There Comes Papa
Colony Madras (1929–1937) Colonialism and the Transformation of Matriliny
Ceylon (1900–1948) in Kerala and Malabar, c. 1850–1940
K. A. Manikumar, Professor of History,
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Manomaniam Sundaranar University, Tirunelveli G. Arunima, senior lecturer at Lady Shriram
Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome Unit 2003 978-81-250-2456-9 ` 595 240pp Hardback College, New Delhi
for the History of Medicine, University of Oxford 2003 978-81-250-2514-6 ` 450 242pp Hardback
Community, Empire and Migration
Written in a compelling and lucid style, the book is
South Asians in Diaspora Between History and Legend
a path-breaking contribution to the history of colonial Edited by Crispin Bates Status and Power in Bundelkhand
Ceylon and to the history of medicine.… Jones 2003 978-81-250-2482-8 ` 660 334pp Paperback Ravindra K. Jain, anthropologist and senior
analyses colonial medicine through a nuanced reading Rights: Restricted professor, Centre for the Study of Social Systems,
of the medieval services in Sri Lanka. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
—Daily News Dressing the Colonised Body 2002 978-81-250-2194-0 ` 550 166pp Hardback
Politics, Clothing and Identity in Colonial
2004 978-81-250-2759-1 ` 820 326pp Hardback
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5243-2 Nira Wickramasinghe, former Fellow at the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century India
School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland and Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Jawaharlal
Hinduism Visiting Professor at the Ecole des Hautes en Sciences Nehru University, New Delhi
Past and Present Sociales, Paris
Axel Michaels, Professor of Classical Indology, 2002 978-81-250-2192-6 ` 650 352pp Hardback
2003 978-81-250-2479-8 ` 475 157pp Hardback
South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
Western Medicine and Public
2004 978-81-250-2776-8 ` 490 448pp Paperback Inventing Global Ecology Health in Colonial Bombay
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1845–1895
1945–1947
History of Fine Arts in India and the SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
West, A Mridula Ramanna, Department of History, SIES
Michael Lewis, Assistant Professor, Department of
Edith Tomory, former Head of the Department of College, Mumbai University
History, Salisbury University, Maryland, USA
Fine Arts, Stella Maris College, Chennai
2003 978-81-250-2377-7 ` 950 384pp Hardback
2004 978-81-250-0702-9 ` 640 552pp Paperback [The] book is well written and enormously detailed.
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E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5891-5 [It] adds a great deal to our knowledge of medical
Nature in the Global South practice in colonial India, and it will no doubt interest
Science and National historians of medicine, disease, technology, and
Environmental Projects in South and South-East
Consciousness in Bengal Asia culture.
1870–1930 —Technology and Culture
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY 2002 978-81-250-2302-9 ` 895 284pp Hardback
Paul Greenough, Professor, Departments of
John Bosco Lourdusamy, Assistant Professor,
History and Community and Behavioural Health, Situating Social History
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian
University of Iowa, and Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Orissa, 1800–1997
Institute of Technology, Chennai
Professor of Anthropology, University of California,
Santa Cruz SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
This well-researched book makes one recognise Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department of History, Sri
the untiring efforts put in … to improve the lives of Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
[The book] makes crucial contributions to the
people by encouraging scientific understanding.
emerging interdisciplinary field of the cultural politics 2001 978-81-250-2007-3 ` 600 196pp Hardback
—The Sunday Express of environmental struggles, assembling an impressive E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5238-8
array of acclaimed scholars.
2004 978-81-250-2674-7 ` 710 272pp Hardback From Autocracy to Integration
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5301-9 —Race, Nature, and the Politics of Difference Political Developments in Hyderabad State,
2003 978-81-250-2652-5 ` 785 440pp Paperback 1938–1948
Textbook of Textbook Rights: Restricted Lucien D. Benichou
Historiography, A
500 BC to AD 2000 2000 978-81-250-1847-6 ` 550 324pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5469-6
E. Sreedharan
2004 978-81-250-2657-0 ` 475 585pp Paperback
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Ideals, Images and Real Lives humanitarian crises, their management, and their Caste in Modern India
Women in Literature and History unintended outcomes. A Reader (Two Volume Set)
Alice Thorner and Maithreyi Krishnaraj 2015 978-81-7824-451-8 ` 595 368pp Paperback
2014 978-81-7824-380-1 ` 795 368pp Hardback
Sumit Sarkar has been Professor of History
2000 978-81-250-0843-9 ` 350 367pp Hardback at the University of Delhi and Tanika Sarkar,
Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru
Sourcebook of Indian Civilization, Ashoka in Ancient India University.
A
Niharranjan Ray, B. D. Chattopadhyay, Nayanjot Lahiri, Winner of the Infosys Prize Caste is the key category in
B. D. V. R. Mani and Ranabir Chakravarti 2013 in the Humanities—Archaeology, Professor contemporary Indian social
in the Department of History, University of Delhi thinking. This anthology
2000 978-81-250-1871-1 ` 1020 678pp Hardback
picks out some of the best
Ashoka was the third
Vedic People, The essays on the subject in
emperor of the Maurya
Their History and Geography order to explore specific
dynasty and also one the
aspects of modern caste:
Rajesh Kochhar finest rulers in World-
how the issue of caste was
history. A dedicated
2000 978-81-250-1080-7 ` 565 273pp Paperback understood in colonial
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4671-4 Buddhist, he is idolised for
times, how it was re-
his altruistic hegemony. In
created under conditions of
Colonialism in Action fact, the candour and
Trade, Development and Dependence in Late modernity, and how various castes came to relate
emotion of his messages on
Colonial India to one another and to themselves in new ways.
stone show him less as a
The essays also engage in debates that were first
Debdas Banerjee political figure than as a
raised in these fields. Dumont’s notions about
self-reflective individual.
1999 978-81-250-1697-7 ` 350 247pp Paperback purity and power are questioned, while fresh
Recovering Ashoka’s life and times from legend,
perspectives are offered on jajmani. These two
Essays on Colonialism Nayanjot Lahiri crafts a wonderful biography in
volumes provide the most essential and thought-
Ashoka in Ancient India of this most extraordinary
Bipan Chandra provoking pieces on the subject.
emperor, who ruled over almost all of the Indian
1999 978-81-250-1610-6 ` 510 374pp Paperback Subcontinent. Digging into history, she provides 2015 978-81-7824-398-6 ` 1495 1008pp Paperback
him with contextual flesh, teasing out his 2013 978-81-7824-369-6 ` 1900 1008pp Hardback
psychology and personality from his edicts and
archaeological data about life in India over the last Common Cause, The
few centuries BCE. This is the most historically
Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of
PERMANENT BLACK rich and readable book on the life and times of
Ashoka, The Great.
Democracy
2015 978-81-7824-388-7 ` 895 414 pp Hardback Leela Gandhi, Professor of English and
1971 Humanities at Brown University
Global History of the Creation of
Bangladesh, A Autobiography of an Archive Europeans and Americans
A Scholar’s Passage to India tend to hold the opinion
that democracy is a
Srinath Raghavan,Senior Fellow, Centre for Nicholas B. Dirks is Chancellor, University of uniquely Western
Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor inheritance. In The
Defence Studies, King’s College, London of history and anthropology. Common Cause, Leela
Gandhi recovers stories of
In Autobiography of an
Raghavan brilliantly an alternative version. Using
Archive history’s turn from
provides the definitive ethics as a lens, she
high politics and formal
account of how high-level describes a transnational
intellectual history towards
diplomacy involving the history of democracy in the
ordinary lives and cultural
superpowers, India, first half of the twentieth
rhythms is vividly reflected
Pakistan, and China shaped century. She identifies a shared culture of
in a scholar’s intellectual
its outcome. perfectionism across imperialism, fascism, and
journey to India. In this
liberalism—an ethic that excluded the ordinary
collection of essays and
— Stephen P. Cohen, author and unexceptional. But she also illuminates an ethic
lectures, Nicholas B. Dirks
of The Future of Pakistan of moral imperfectionism, a set of anticolonial and
recounts his early study of
antifascist practices devoted to ordinariness and
The author contends that, kingship in India, the rise of
abnegation that ranged from doomed mutinies in
far from being a predestined event, the creation the caste system, the emergence of English
the Indian military to Mahatma Gandhi’s spiritual
of Bangladesh was the product of conjuncture imperial interest in controlling markets and India’s
discipline.
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original history uses the example of 1971 to the limits of colonial knowledge and single
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Elephants and Kings how India’s antiquity was unexpectedly unearthed. Partial Recall
An Environmental History It will interest every serious reader of history and Essays on Literature and Literary History
anyone who likes to read an utterly fascinating
Thomas R. Trautmann, Emeritus Professor, story. Arvind Krishna Mehrotra has published four
University of Michigan collections of poetry, two volumes of translations,
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and edited several books, including An Illustrated
Elephants are majestic
History of Indian Literature in English.
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used for royal sacrifice, Fictions and Histories
spectacular hunts, public
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Distinguished
displays, and their ivory—all
Professor of History at UCLA
Past Before Us, The
aspects driving them Historical Traditions of Early North India
toward extinction. The In the title essay of this
kings of India, however, Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor of History
enthralling collection, Sanjay
Thomas Trautmann shows, at Jawaharlal University, New Delhi.
Subrahmanyam sets a
found a use for elephants provocative ball rolling: ‘At It has so often been said
that actually helped preserve their habitat and the heart of the matter’, he that Indian civilisation lacks
numbers in the wild-war. In Elephants and Kings, says, ‘is the notion that ... historical writing—and
Trautmann shows Indian kings capturing wild say about AD 500, the therefore a sense of
elephants and training them, one by one, through concept of “Indian history—that this notion
millennia. Taking a wide-angle view of human– civilization” had already passes for a truism. In the
elephant relations, he throws into relief the been perfected. present book Romila
structure of India’s environmental history and the Demolishing some of the Thapar shows an
reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its myths which sustain the notion of ‘the wonder intellectually dynamic
forests. that was India’, he shows us a region that was ancient world profuse with
always more a crossroads, a rendezvous for ideas about the past, an
Written with uncommon flair and elegance, this
concepts, cultures, and worldviews. arena replete with societies constructing,
is a monumental work of environmental history
Subrahmanyam’s book is itself a meeting point for reconstructing, and contesting various visions of
using Indian antiquity as its entry point.
a dazzling variety of ideas—Indian history and worlds before their own. The Vedic corpus, the
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imperialists, secularism and Hindu nationalism, tradition, the Buddhist and Jaina canons, the
travel writing, and the central conceits in
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hagiographical and biographical literature, the
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How the Indus Civilization was Discovered
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Charles Masson, who first widely admired historians of modern India. Province of the Book, The
described Harappa; the Scholars, Scribes and Scribblers in Colonial
Focusing on three huge
archaeological pioneer Tamilnadu
areas—economy,
Alexander Cunningham,
environment and culture—
Harappa’s first excavator; A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor at the
Professor Sumit Sarkar
discerning diggers such as Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai
offers his magisterial
Daya Ram Sahni, Rakhaldas
perspective on these. It explores the wonderful
Banerji, and Madho Sarup
Scientific discourses, laws, world of scholarly and
Vats who uncovered Harappa and Mohenjodaro;
forest administration, subaltern publishing—
the Italian linguist-turned-explorer Luigi Pio
peasants and adivasis, especially popular fiction
Tessitori, who unearthed Kalibangan but never
irrigation, and conflicts over and street literature—in its
lived to tell the tale of his exploits; government
land-use are examined, as heyday. The book also
officials of all kinds who, as self-taught
are agrarian relations, looks closely at reading
archaeologists, stumbled upon significant clues in
commercialisation, indebtedness and famine. practices, modes of reading,
their work arenas; and, presiding over the whole
Trade, finance, and industry are other major focus and the nature, numbers,
process, a Cambridge classicist brought by Lord
areas that are looked into. and composition of book
Curzon to India as Director General of the
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readers. Its epilogue traces
Archaeological Survey of India—John Marshall—
the broad contours of
who finally pieced into place a maze of enigmatic
Tamil publishing from the time of Independence to
data on the long forgotten Indus civilisation. The
the present and speculates on the future of the
book comprises a powerful narrative history of
Tamil book.
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Rebels, Wives, Saints The present book gathers Reconsidering

Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial together thirty pieces from
scattered and relatively Untouchability
Times Chamars and Dalit History in North India
inaccessible sources. It is
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal remarkable equally for the Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Assistant Professor of
Nehru University, New Delhi quality of the writing within History, University of Delaware
it, reminiscent of the virtues
Sarkar, known for her Rawat undertakes a
that made Gopal’s
writings on women, religion, comprehensive
reputation. They range from
and nationhood in the reconsideration of the
analyses of imperialists such
context of colonial Bengal, history, identity, and politics
as Curzon and Churchill, to
gives a new direction to the of this important Dalit group.
nationalists such as Nehru, Gandhi, Ambedkar, and
same themes in this book of Using Dalit vernacular
Patel, to novelist-democrats such as E.M. Forster
essays. The early colonial literature, local-level archival
and Rabindranath Tagore. The Suez Crisis,
universe in India centres on sources, and interviews in
cricketers and cricket-writing, secularism and
woman as both defiled and Dalit neighbourhoods, he
Hindutva, women and Indian law, and the English
deified; the nation as reveals a previously
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woman/goddess in a unrecognised Dalit movement
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At the Edges of Empire Anthropology and History, Department of South
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of India See SOCIOLOGY
Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor
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Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity
chronological period, from the development of The bilingual relationship
new understandings of Brahman community and
in South India
between English and the
intellectual identity in early modern India, to the Indian vernaculars has long Davesh Soneji, Associate Professor of South
modern conflict over the Babri Masjid at Ayodhya. been crucial to the Asian Religions, McGill University
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South India who are
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Democrats between ‘high’ and ‘low’
focusing on their
The Collected Essays languages. This book looks at
encounters with colonial
the relationship between linguistic hierarchies, textual
Written by Sarvepalli Gopal, well-respected modernity in the nineteenth
practices and power in colonial Western India.
Indian historian of his time, and edited by Srinath and early twentieth
Whereas most studies of colonialism focus on India’s
Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy centuries. Adroitly
‘high’ literary culture, this work looks at how local
Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in Defence combining ethnographic
intellectuals explored their ‘middling’ position through
Studies at King’s College London fieldwork with historical research, Davesh Soneji
initiatives to establish newspapers and influential
provides a comprehensive portrait of these
channels of communication.
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their performances, and the political efficacy of comparative history of the Mughal, Ottoman, Creative Pasts
social reform in their communities. Safavid, and other early modern empires. Historical Memory and Identity in Western
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Prachi Deshpande, Assistant Professor of
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The ‘Maratha period’ of the
Unsettling the Past Atomic State seventeenth and eighteenth
Unknown Aspects and Scholarly Big Science in Twentieth-Century India centuries, when an
Assessments of D. D. Kosambi independent Maratha state
Jahnavi Phalkey, Lecturer in History of Science successfully resisted the
Edited by Meera Kosambi, a sociologist and Technology at King’s College London Mughals, is a defining era in
Indian history. The book
This book contains relatively unknown writings by ‘Big science’ in India is
examines this period for
Kosambi, including several obscure but important located via three transitions:
various political projects in
essays and an unpublished children’s story. Also of nuclear physics from
the country at large,
made available here for the first time are some table-top experiments to
including anticolonial Hindu
wonderful letters that Kosambi wrote to, among electronic equipment
nationalism and the non-Brahman movement, as
others, the scientist Homi Bhabha and the writer- systems; of India from
well as popular debates throughout the nineteenth
historian Robert Graves. These reveal Kosambi’s imperial rule to
and twentieth centuries over the meaning of
mastery of the epistolary art. Other sections Independence; and of
tradition, culture, colonialism, and modernity.
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research to universities, industrial philanthropy, Dharmanand Kosambi
leading scientists, and laboratories: C. V. Raman, The Essential Writings
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Meghnad Saha, Homi Bhabha, Shanti Swarup
Bhatnagar, and Jawaharlal Nehru are among her Edited and translated bv Meera Kosambi, former
Writing the Mughal World book’s major protagonists; and Calcutta, Bombay, Professor and Director, Research Centre for
Studies in Political Culture and Bangalore the institutional centres. Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University,
Mumbai
Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor 2013 978-81-7824-376-4 ` 795 354pp Hardback
in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the See GENERAL INTEREST
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California, Los Angeles Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Columbia
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In this book, two leading
Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
historians of early modern
South Asia present nine
History
When Siraj, the ruler of
A Reader
jointly authored essays on Bengal, overran the British
the Mughal empire, framed
Volume 1:
settlement of Calcutta in
by a long Introduction 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period
which reflects on the European prisoners Volume 2:
imperial, nationalist, and overnight in a cramped Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation
other conflicted prison. Of the group, 123 Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of Modern
trajectories of history- died of suffocation. While Indian History at the University of Delhi and
writing on the Mughals. this episode was never K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of
Using materials from a large variety of independently confirmed, Anthropology, and Forestry and Environmental
languages—including Dutch, Portuguese, English, the story of “the black hole Studies, at Yale University.
Persian, Urdu, and Tamil—they show how this of Calcutta” was widely circulated and seen by the
Indo-Islamic dynasty developed a sophisticated British public as an atrocity committed by savage This reader brings together
system of government and facilitated an era of colonial subjects. This book follows the ever- some of the best and most
profound artistic and architectural achievement, changing representations of this historical event interesting writing on India’s
setting the groundwork for South Asia’s future and founding myth of the British Empire in India, ecological pasts. It looks at a
trajectory. Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, this from the eighteenth century to the present. variety of the country’s
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middle of the nineteenth century. Volume 2 shows Ecological Nationalisms India and Central Asia
how colonial rule resulted in ecological change on Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South A Reader
a new scale altogether.
Asia
Edited by Xinru Liu
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Gunnel Cederlof, Associate Professor of
In recent decades, research
History, Uppsala University, Sweden, and
on the lives of nomadic
Unquiet Woods, The K. Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology
people on the steppe,
Ecological Change and Peasant Resistance and International Studies, and Director, National
archaeological excavations of
in the Himalaya Resource Centre for South Asian Studies,
urban settlements on oases
(Twentieth Anniversary Edition) University of Washington, Seattle, USA
along the Amu and Sir rivers,
Ramachandra Guha, eminent essayist and Collectively, the work in this book takes and the discovery of more
columnist environmental scholarship into novel territory by Hellenistic remains have
exploring how questions of national identity made scholars look at this
Twenty years ago there become entangled with nature-devotion. region from a different
appeared on the subject of Important new insights are perspective. Looking
environmental movements offered into the motivations towards Central Asia from the Indian subcontinent
in India an unknown of colonial and national shows that the dynamics in Central Asia were often
author’s first book: The governments when the momentum for fundamental changes in history
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be recognised as not just emerge on varieties of
another study of dissenting regional political conflict
peasants but as something that invoke nationalist Islam in South Asia
of a classic that had opened sentiment through claims on In Practice
up a whole new field—environmental history in nature. Thereby, this
South Asia. Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emeritus of
volume also offers new ways of thinking about
History, University of California, Davis
2013 978-81-7824-378-8 ` 395 280pp Paperback nationalism.
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United States and India Essential Writings, 1985–2005 languages—highlight a wide
Nico Slate, Assistant Professor of History, variety of genres, many
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political Science, rarely found in standard
Carnegie Mellon University
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta accounts of Islamic practice,
A hidden history connects from oral narratives to elite
India and the United States, guidance manuals, from
some of the most significant
the world’s two largest devotional songs to secular judicial decisions
and best-known writings of
democracies. From the late arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters
Partha Chatterjee. It
nineteenth century through to a discussion among college women affiliated
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the 1960s, activists worked with an “Islamist” organisation.
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nationalism. The volume Listening to the Loom
also contains Chatterjee’s provocative and
as Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Swami Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence
theoretically innovative essays analysing the
Vivekananda, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du
phenomenon of democracy in a post-colonial D. R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator
Bois, and Martin Luther King, Jr., emerge as never
country like India. and cultural critic
before seen.
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scattered sources. In the present volume, Nagaraj’s operates within oppressive Empire’s Garden
ear for the sound and sense of things structures, making any Assam and the Making of India
quintessentially Indian is everywhere apparent. simple valorisation and
theorisation of gendered Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History,
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impossible.
In the mid-nineteenth
Marshalling the Past Contributors: Padma century, the British created
Anagol, Clare Anderson, a landscape of tea
Ancient India and its Modern Histories
Geraldine Forbes, Anindita plantations in the north-
Nayanjot Lahiri, Professor, Department of Ghosh, Siobhan Lambert- eastern Indian region of
History, University of Delhi Hurley, Nita Verma Prasad, Assam. Claiming that local
Tanika Sarkar peasants were indolent, the
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Indian history are the core
from central India. In the
of this fascinating collection
twentieth century, these migrants were joined by
of essays. Scholarly, Caste, Conflict, and Ideology others who came voluntarily to seek their
perceptive, and entertaining,
Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste livelihoods. In Empire’s Garden, Jayeeta Sharma
Marshalling the Past offers
Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western explains how the settlement of more than one
readings of ancient India and
India million migrants in Assam irrevocably changed the
its modern histories that
region’s social landscape.
will confirm Nayanjot Rosalind O’Hanlon, Professor of Indian History
Lahiri’s reputation as one of and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, 2011 978-81-7824-343-6 ` 750 348pp Hardback
the most readable historians of her generation. University of Oxford
2012 978-81-7824-348-1 ` 895 462pp Hardback See DALIT STUDIES Indian Army and the Making
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Rajit K. Mazumder, lecturer in history,
An Anthology of Writings by Bankim St. Stephen’s College, Delhi
Chandra Chattopadhyay Caste Question, The
Dalits and the Politics of Modern India The British Indian army was
Amiya P. Sen, Professor of Modern Indian the mightiest pillar of the
History, Department of History and Culture, Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, empire. It protected the
Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Barnard College, USA state from internal danger
This collection of Bankim’s and external aggression, and
See DALIT STUDIES
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novelist-intellectual’s work army was made up of Indian
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philosophy. Bankim the largest recruitment into
anticipates contemporary Changing Homelands this army was from Punjab. Rajit Mazumder
scholarship in claiming that Hindu Politics and the Partition of India investigates the social, economic and political
Hinduism is the common consequences of the creation and existence of this
Neeti Nair, Assistant Professor of History, native army. He argues that Punjab’s military
name given to a variety of
University of Virginia, Charlottesville significance resulted in a uniquely interdependent
religious thoughts and practices; and yet,
paradoxically, his writings also argue for a common Changing Homelands offers a relationship between the colonial state and
Hindu heritage, as well as a unified religious and startling new perspective on dominant elements within Punjab.
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colonial India. In this highly
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Resistance, Women, and the Everyday Nair rejects the idea that 1890–1950
in Colonial South Asia essential differences Shabnum Tejani, Lecturer in History, School of
between the Hindu and Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Edited by Anindita Ghosh, Lecturer in Modern
Muslim communities made
History, University of Manchester, UK
political settlement See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
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this book offers a picture of resistance. It tries to
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highlight the complex ways in which power
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Islam Translated Nivedan Stages of Life

Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic The Autobiography of Dharmanand Indian Theatre Autobiographies
Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia Kosambi
Kathryn Hansen, leading scholar of South Asian
Ronit Ricci, lecturer, Australian National University Edited by Meera Kosambi, sociologist trained in theatre history, especially the Hindi and Urdu
India, Sweden and the USA traditions of North India
See GENERAL HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, POLITICS AND The life-stories of a quartet of nineteenth-century
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CULTURE Indian actors and poet-playwrights are here
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famous, Jayshankar Sundari, was a female
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Languages of Belonging impersonator. Fida Husain Narsi also played
Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of women’s parts, until gaining
Kashmir Partitions of Memory, The great fame for his role as a
Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor of History, The Afterlife of the Division of India Hindu saint. Two others,
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA Narayan Prasad Betab and
Edited by Suvir Kaul, Department of English,
Radheshyam Kathavachak,
‘This is an outstanding book. University of Pennsylvania, USA
wrote landmark dramas that
Based on massive archival The essays in this book ushered in the mythological
research in Delhi, Jammu suggest ways in which the genre. These men were
and Srinagar and the tangled skein of Partition schooled in large Parsi-run
unearthing of rare Kashmiri might be unravelled. Two of theatrical companies. Their
literary sources, it skilfully them deal with culture and memoirs, replete with
uncovers the religious history in what is now a anecdote and humor, offer
sensibilities that underlay part of Pakistan. Other an unparalleled window onto a vanished world.
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understanding the formation of identities in South Dalit claim, at the prospect of Partition, to a Anecdotal Histories
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in Indian political and University, Tempe of imaginary all-time India Elevens he provides
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Vitthal, also called Vithoba, is
an examination of cricket was forged. Equally, we learn much that is
the most popular Hindu god
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Swadeshi Movement in roots in innovations within social change is written. The editors of the present
South Asian philosophy work argue the need to understand the history of
Bengal, The from the fourteenth to the social reforms from a much wider array of
1903–1908 seventeenth centuries. This perspectives: for example, the connections
Sumit Sarkar, eminent historian of modern India project paved the way for between specific social abuses on the one hand,
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War and Peace in Modern Karuna Mantena, Assistant Professor of Political
research and the thick India Science, Yale University
description that A Strategic History of the Nehru Years
This book challenges the
characterized this book, or
Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for idea that the Victorian
the lucidity of its exposition and the persuasive
Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in empire was primarily
power of its overall argument … [T]his book,
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which should have enjoyed a steady and buoyant
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republication by Permanent Black is truly a cause documents to illuminate farthest reach, its ideology
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light of the preceding ones. The book follows
trajectories in an early
Nehru as he wrestles with a string of major Architecture in India, A
modern global context. It Jon Lang, Professor, University of New South
conflicts—assessing the utility of force, weighing
draws on the lives and Wales, Sydney, Australia
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who rose to become
Unifying Hinduism New Delhi
generals in the armies of the
Philosophy and Identity in Indian The word ‘reforms’ Afghan ruler Muizz al-Din
Intellectual History conjures up the names of a Ghuri. Their transformation
few great individuals: always into rulers of a kingdom of
SERIES: SOUTH ASIA ACROSS THE DISCIPLINES
Hindu, always upper-caste great political influence in
Andrew J. Nicholson, Assistant Professor, and educated, always from North India was a slow and
Department of Asian and Asian American Studies, cities, and always—apart discontinuous process that
Stony Brook University from one or two occurred through the
Andrew J. Nicholson introduces a different memorable exceptions— thirteenth century. In this book, the author charts
perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is men. These are the icons the history of the structures that sustained and
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ideologies that gave meaning to the idea of the Nationalization of Hindu colonial dominance in India.
Delhi Sultanate. Mir asks how qisse, a genre
Traditions, The of epics and romances,
2010 978-81-7824-306-1 ` 525 440pp Paperback Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth- flourished in Punjab despite
Century Banaras British efforts to marginalise
History in the Vernacular Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi and Modern the Punjabi language. She
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political South Asian Studies, University of California, explores linguistic practices,
Science, and Raziuddin Aquil, Fellow in History, Berkeley, USA print and performance, and
both at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, the symbolic content of
This book studies how a qisse. This study reframes
Calcutta
dominant strand of inquiry into cultural
This book explores the Hinduism in North formations towards a place-centred poetics of
status of regional and India—the tradition which belonging.
vernacular histories in uses and misuses the slogan
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historians. Looking closely nineteenth century. It uses
at vernacular contexts and the life and writings of Western Science in Modern
Bharatendu Harischandra
traditions of historical
(often called the Father of
India
production, the essays in
Modern Hindi) as its focal
Metropolitan Methods, Colonial Practices
this book question the
assumption that there was point for an analysis of some of the vital cultural Pratik Chakrabarti, Deputy Director and
no history writing in India processes through which modern North India, as Research Officer, Wellcome Unit for the History
before colonialism. They suggest that careful and we experience it today, came to be formed. of Medicine, University of Oxford
appropriate techniques of reading reveal distinctly
With a Foreword by Francesca Orsini. How do we understand the
indigenous historical narratives.
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Ranajit Guha, founding father of Subaltern
assumption that knowledge
Studies
Shonaleeka Kaul, faculty in the Department of is fundamentally linked with
Edited by Partha Chatterjee, Director, Centre
History, University of Delhi experience. He analyses
what was ‘Western’ about
Shonaleeka Kaul examines
Ranajit Guha’s writings have that scientific knowledge,
Sanskrit kavyas over about a
had a major impact on and what constituted the ‘colonialness’ of Indian
thousand years to see what
scholarship in post-colonial experience. He shows that the expansion of a
India’s early historic cities
studies in literature, European discipline into strange and distant lands
were like as living, lived-in,
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founder-member of the Subaltern Studies editorial Bengal Renaissance
Sanskrit literature. The Identity and Creativity from
board is complemented by his own stature as a
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Vernacular This book shows that the Bengal Renaissance was
Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian Social Space of Language, characterised by a certain collective cognitive
Freedom The identity, which had its roots in the work of the
Vernacular Culture in British Colonial British Orientalists, and which took form amidst a
Edited by Shobna Nijhawan, Assistant Professor,
Punjab small but remarkable community of highly creative
Department of Languages, Literatures and
individuals in nineteenth-century Bengal.
Linguistics, York University, Toronto, Canada
Farina Mir, Assistant Professor of History,
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See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
2010 978-81-7824-260-6 ` 795 536pp Hardback This cultural history examines a body of popular
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Empire of Books, An History, Bhakti, and Public the discipline of architectural history both within
The Naval Kishore Press and the Diffusion India and in the West.
of the Printed Word in Colonial India
Memory 2008 978-81-7824-228-6 ` 795 666pp Paperback
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Ulrike Stark, Senior Assistant Professor,
Christian Lee Novetzke, Associate Professor,
Department of Modern South Asian Studies, South
Asia Institute, Heidelberg University
University of Washington Brahmin and Non-Brahmin
Namdev is a central figure Genealogies of the Tamil Political Present
The history of the book and
in the cultural history of M. S. S. Pandian, Visiting Fellow of the Sarai
the commercialisation of
India, especially within the Programme, Centre for the Study of Developing
print in the nineteenth
field of bhakti. Christian Lee Societies, Delhi
century remain largely
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Namdev from the sixteenth
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(est. 1858)—then the
foremost publishing house
examining the practices that Chalo Delhi
in the subcontinent—
situate Namdev’s memory Writings and Speeches 1943–1945
in multiple historical publics.
represents something of a SERIES: NETAJI COLLECTED WORKS
Novetzke vividly illustrates how religious
breakthrough. It analyses an Indian publisher’s
communities in India preserve their pasts and, in Edited by Sisir Kumar Bose and Sugata Bose
engagement in the field of cultural production with
turn, create their own historical narratives.
a detail and rigour hitherto unknown. See GENERAL INTEREST
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Gandhi is Gone. Who will In Burmese Prisons
Guide Us Now? Correspondence May 1923–July 1926 Languages of Political Islam
Nehru, Prasad, Azad, Vinoba, Kripalani, JP,
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in India, The
and Others Introspect, Sevagram, March c. 1200–1800
1948 Edited by Sisir Kumar Bose and Sugata Bose
Muzaffar Alam, Professor, departments of South
Gopalkrishna Gandhi, former Governor of See GENERAL INTEREST Asian Languages and Civilizations, and History,
West Bengal University of Chicago
2009 978-81-7824-250-7 ` 350 380pp Paperback
See GANDHI STUDIES This book shows the ways
in which political Islam, from
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World of Men, The north India, adapted itself to
Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern a variety of Indian contexts
Health and Population in India and became deeply
South Asia Sheldon Pollock, William B. Ransford Professor
Indianised. Through a close
From Earliest Times to the Present reading of a variety of
of Sanskrit and South Asian Studies, Columbia
texts—ranging from
Sumit Guha, S. Purandara Das Chair in South University
normative treatises and Sufi
Asian History at Brown University, Providence, See SOCIOLOGY biographies to Persian court
RI, USA poetry—Muzaffar Alam
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Hindu Nationalism Edited by Monica Juneja, Professor, Department E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4
A Reader of History, University of Delhi
Christophe Jaffrelot, Director of Centre This book brings together
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Paris historical ideas about India’s
See SOCIOLOGY past that has emerged
through the study of its
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Moveable Type Two Men and Music Hindu Rulers, Muslim

Book History in India Nationalism in the Making of an Indian Subjects
Classical Tradition Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir
Edited by Abhijit Gupta, Reader, Department
of English, Jadavpur University, and Swapan Janaki Bakhle, Assistant Professor, Department Mridu Rai, faculty in the Department of History,
Chakravorty, Professor, Department of English, of History, Columbia University, New York Yale University, USA
Jadavpur University
In this critical study of the development of North The state of Jammu and
Book history is an emerging Indian classical music, Bakhle examines the role Kashmir comprises a very
discipline in India. Moveable of colonialism in the making of a tradition. At the large majority of Muslims
Type brings together a end of the nineteenth century, V. N. Bhatkhande who are subject to the laws
wider variety of the best and V. D. Paluskar worked to give Indian classical of a predominantly Hindu
recent work on the subject, music its distinctive shape, form, and identity, and and increasingly ‘Hinduised’
combining compilation of to put it in the service of Hindu proselytising. This India. How did religion and
primary data with rigorous book reveals how art can be successfully wielded politics become so
historical analysis. as a modernising tool. inextricably enmeshed in
Contributions range from a
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magisterial history of
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Muslims against Hindu rule?
to reflections on the social
This book is a brilliant historical study of this
construction of texts. Azad Hind central issue in the troubled politics of South Asia’s
2008 978-81-7824-217-0 ` 595 272pp Hardback
Writings and Speeches, 1941–1943 most picturesque, and most volatile, province.
Subhas Chandra Bose ‘… a brilliant work of historical scholarship that
National Flag for India, A Edited by Sisir Kumar Bose, Founder, Netaji will become indispensable reading.…’
Research Bureau, and Sugata Bose, Gardiner —Sugata Bose
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Gandhi’s Prisoner? India in the Indian Ocean Arena,
Scandal of Empire, The The Life of Gandhi’s Son Manilal 1860–1920
India and the Creation of Imperial Britain Thomas Metcalf, Emeritus Professor of History,
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Associate Professor,
Nicholas B. Dirks, Franz Boas Professor of Department of History, University of the Western University of California, Berkeley
Anthropology and History, Columbia University, Cape, Cape Town, South Africa An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial
New York, USA Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the
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In this fascinating and workings of the British empire in the period
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trenchant account, Dirks Rights: Restricted
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India Company rule helped Hindu Myth, Hindu History trade, investment and
erase the unsavoury origins Religion, Art, and Politics migration. Metcalf argues
of empire and justify the that India itself became a
Heinrich von Stietencron, former Professor nexus of imperial power
British presence in India. The
of Indology and Comparative History of Religion, that made possible British
Scandal of Empire reveals that
University of Tuebingen, Germany conquest, control, and
the exploitation of the
Company was critical to Translated from the German, governance across a wide
Britain’s development. Dirks this is a major work of arc of territory stretching
shows how the empire projected its own scandalous classical Indological from Africa to eastern Asia.
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traces continuity and change Department of South Asian Languages and
in religion and art within the formative period of what Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies,
we know today as Hinduism. The book concludes London, and Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of
with a survey of European perceptions as well as Hindi, University of California, Berkeley
misconceptions of India from earliest times to the late
nineteenth century. See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

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Islam and Healing Monuments, Objects, traditions—including
Loss and Recovery of an Indo-Muslim homosexuality,
Histories vegetarianism, animals
Medical Tradition, 1600–1900 Institutions of Art in Colonial and rights, spiritualism and
Seema Alavi, Professor, Department of History Postcolonial India aestheticism—united against
and Culture, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi imperialism and forged
Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Professor of History,
strong bonds with colonised
Indo-Muslim medicine—or Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
subjects and cultures.
the Unani tradition—
This book traces the
developed in South Asia
framing of an official national
alongside Mughal political
canon of Indian art through
culture. While it healed the
different periods, showing
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disciplines and institutions
of the region. Seema Alavi’s
have been linked with the
book shows the nature and
extent of this Islamic healing
authority of the nation. The At Home in Diaspora
book surveys the practices South Asian Scholars and the West
tradition’s interaction with Indian society and
of archaeology, art history
politics from roughly 1600 to 1900. This book Edited by Jackie Assayag, Senior Research
and museums in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
represents, in fact, the first major effort at telling Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche
India. It looks at processes by which ‘lost pasts’
the story of an Islamic healing tradition and its Scientifique, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
came to be produced in India. Such lost pasts, the
subsequent transformation by locating it within Sciences Sociales, Paris, and Véronique Benei,
author shows, came to be imagined around a
both pre-colonial and colonial time frames. Department of Anthropology, London School of
corpus of monuments, archaeological relics and art
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Last Liberal and Other Rights: Restricted
Essays, The Time Treks
Ramachandra Guha, eminent writer and
The Uncertain Future of Old and New Dr Ambedkar and
biographer Despotisms Untouchability
Ashis Nandy, political psychologist, cultural critic Analysing and Fighting Caste
and futurist
2007 978-81-7824-219-4 ` 395 292pp Paperback Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, CERI (Centre
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-423-5 Using the metaphor of the d’Etudes et Recherches Internationales), Sciences
future—imagined utopias, Po, Paris
Many Lives of a Rajput conceptions of cultural
See DALIT STUDIES
possibilities, social critiques
Queen, The of things to come—Nandy 2006 978-81-7824-156-2 ` 350 218pp Paperback
Heroic Pasts in India, c.1500–1900 redefines the present. His Rights: Restricted
Ramya Sreenivasan, Assistant Professor, effort is to demonstrate
Department of History, University of Buffalo, State that social ethics and a
more humane society can
India’s Wildlife History
University of New York, USA An Introduction
be based on grounds other
This book is centred on the than those framed for the Mahesh Rangarajan, historian of ecological change
legend of Padmini, the past 200 years. Nandy
medieval Rajput queen critiques the Enlightenment in Europe and asks See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY
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been pursued by Alauddin alternative systems of knowledge. E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-416-7
Khalji, Sultan of Delhi.
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about this heroic queen’s Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories
legend in India, ranging from Affective Communities Chitra Joshi, Professor, Department of History,
Sufi mystical romances in Anticolonial Thought and the Politics of Indraprastha College, University of Delhi
the sixteenth century to Friendship
nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. This book takes the present
It explores the manner in which early modern Leela Gandhi, La Trobe University, Melbourne context of globalisation and
regional elites, caste groups and mystical and Focusing on individuals and groups who renounced the decline of large-scale
monastic communities shaped their distinctive the privileges of imperialism to elect affinity with industry as its entry point
versions of past times through the repeated the victims of expansionism, this book uncovers into the worlds of labour in
refashioning of this legend. the utopian-socialist critiques of empire that the late nineteenth and early
emerged in Europe, specifically in Britain, at the twentieth centuries. Using a
2007 978-81-7824-185-2 ` 650 288pp Hardback
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for the first time how those associated with archival sources as well as
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author reconstructs working-class lives, exploring Tropics and the Travelling Gaze, The Castes of Mind
their everyday worlds at the workplace and within India, Landscape and Science, 1800–56 Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
community life outside, as well as their moments of David Arnold, Professor of the History of South Nicholas B. Dirks
conflict and struggle. Asia, Department of History, School of African and
2003 978-81-7824-072-5 ` 395 388pp Paperback
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Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism
Alternative Leadership, The
Textures of Time Speeches, Articles, Statements and Letters
Tanika Sarkar
Writing History in South India, 1600–1800 1939–1941 2003 978-81-7824-067-1 ` 395 280pp Paperback
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Professor of South Asian Languages and Literatures, Edited by Sisir Kumar Bose and Sugata Bose
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA, Reading Subaltern Studies
David Shulman, Professor of Indian Studies, See GENERAL INTEREST Critical History, Contested Meanings, and the
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, and Sanjay 2004 978-81-7824-104-3 ` 250 250pp Paperback Globalization of South Asia
Subrahmanyam, Directeur d’Etudes, EHESS, Paris David Ludden
Beyond Nationalist Frames
This book sets out to Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, History 2003 978-81-7824-070-1 ` 450 450pp Paperback
demonstrate the complex Sumit Sarkar Subaltern Studies XI
forms of historiography
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produced in south India,
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between Indo-Persian and
vernacular historiographies is Congress President 2003 978-81-7824-033-6 ` 495 360pp Paperback
artificial. The authors Speeches, Articles, and Letters, January
demonstrate the existence of 1938–May 1939 Un-Gandhian Gandhi, The
a group of literati (karanams), The Life and Afterlife of the Mahatma
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SOCIAL SCIENCE A remarkable addition to the rich reminiscence
methods of research or issues that are significant
to everyday existence in India.
PRESS literature by Indian nationalist revolutionaries...
2012 978-81-87358-30-5 ` 230 282pp Paperback
— Partha Chatterjee, Professor, Anthropology and Rights: Restricted
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Year of Blood, The South Asian Studies, Columbia University, New York
Essays on the Revolt of 1857
The autobiography stands out for ... combining Cultural History of Modern
Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Editor, Editorial Pages,
and The Telegraph
the personal and the political with a frankness that India
is unusual in political autobiographies...
(Second Impression)
The Revolt of 1857 was a
— Tanika Sarkar, Professor, Modern History,
passionate phase in Indian SERIES: READINGS IN HISTORY
Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
history and the quality of
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Edited by Dilip M. Menon, Mellon Chair in Indian
writing in this book reflects
Studies and Professor of History, University of
this intensity. Violence has
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
rarely been described with
so much realism and
Cultural Encounters in India
The history of modern India
The Local Co-workers of the Tranquebar
subtlety. The imaginative use has been narrated largely in
of primary source materials
Mission, 18th to 19th Centuries
terms of the nationalist
adds clarity to accounts such SERIES: GERMAN WRITINGS ON INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA movement, personalities
as the massacre in Satichaura and what has been seen as
Ghat and the trial of Mangal Pandey. Rudrangshu Heike Liebau, Senior Research Fellow at the the ‘high’ politics of the
Mukherjee places the ‘soldier-peasant’ at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin state. Recent shifts in
forefront of the Revolt. In lucid prose, he is able to This is an English translation history writing have tried to
unravel the motives, strategies and organisation of a German book which bring in subordinated
skills of the mutineers, while exposing the layers of has won the histories of regions and of
complexity that defined the relationship between Geisteswissenschaften groups. This collection tries
the rulers and the subjugated. International award for to push the emerging paradigm further by moving
excellence in scholarship. away from conventional notions of the history and
Selected Contents:1. In Pursuit of a Revolt
The history of social and politics of the nation.
2. The Azimgarh Proclamation and Some
Questions on the Revolt of 1857 in the religious encounter in 18th
Northwestern Provinces 3. ‘Satan Let loose Upon century South India is … The different approach attempted through
Earth’: The Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt narrated through fascinating the book indubitably is a fresh endeavour for a
of 1857 4. The Sipahi and the Sepoy Mutinies biographies and day to day multidisciplinary approach with sociologists, art
5. Two Intellectual Traditions of the Revolt of lives of Indian workers who historians and music theorists working within a
1857: A Study of Popular Resistance 6. Responses worked in the first organised Protestant mission historical paradigm.
to 1857 in the Centenary Year. enterprise in India, the Tranquebar Mission —The Statesman
(1706–1845). The book challenges the notion that
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Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed
ACCIDENTAL HERO?1. 29 March 1857 2. Life from the outside. It also questions the approaches
of a Sepoy 3. The Greased Cartridge 4. Chapati, to mission history concentrating exclusively on Everyday Nationalism
Rumours and Prophesy 5. The Trial 6. Epilogue European mission societies. Women of the Hindu Right in India
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India, The India
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He joined the Congress Indraprastha College for Women, University of Edited by Alpa Shah, Senior Lecturer in
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became more radical as his and Judith Pettigrew, Senior Lecturer, Faculty
Written by well-known
interest shifted to making of Education and Health Sciences, University of
scholars, the essays in this
bombs intended to blow up Limerick, Ireland
book present sub-cultures
British property. The
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understanding medieval
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1920s and 1930s. The introduction to the volume
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India and China in the Department of History, University of Calcutta Writing History in the Soviet
and Malavika Karlekar, Editor, Indian Journal of
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thirteen essays by eminent Sundarbans, The Union has been charted in
Indian and Chinese scholars Folk Deities, Monsters and Mortals several studies over the
as well as young researchers [With Orient BlackSwan] decades. However, these
who look at the Sutapa Chatterjee Sarkar, Reader, depictions have failed to draw
multidimensional interaction Department of History, West Bengal State attention to the political and
between the two countries. University, Barasat academic environment within
This volume casts new light which these histories were
on some of the problems that The lower deltaic Bengal, composed. This book seeks
have confronted the relations the Sundarbans, has always to identify the significant
between India and China as new states and, in doing had a life of its own, unique hallmarks of the production
so, challenges stereotyped images of this relationship. in its distinctive natural of Soviet history by Soviet as
aspect and social well as Western historians. It traces the shift in official
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covered with dense,
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of Historical Scholarship 1: The Histories of History
Ideology patches of cultivation sprang
in the Soviet Union 2: The Impact of Glasnost on the
Writing Histories of Modern Indian intermittently into life and
then disappeared. The book Writing of History 3: Histories of the Communist
Languages Party as Histories of the Soviet Union Chapter 4:
discusses the struggle that ensued between man and
Edited by Hans Harder, Professor, Modern nature, as portrayed in the punthi literature that Depictions and Revisions: The Russian Revolution
South Asian Languages and Literatures, South Asia thrived in lower deltaic Bengal between the in History 5: The Historical Archive 6: History in
Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany seventeenth and nineteenth centuries. Russian Schools
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many parts of India, literary
histories play an important
role in creating a cultural Reflections on Cambridge Delhi
ethos. They are closely Ancient History
linked with nationalism in Alan MacFarlane, Professor of Anthropological
general and various regional Science, University of Cambridge and Life Fellow, SERIES: READINGS IN HISTORY
‘sub-nationalisms’ in King’s College, Cambridge, UK
Upinder Singh, Professor, Department of
particular. The contributors
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great variety of aspects of 2009 978-81-87358-48-0 ` 450 243pp Hardback The readings in this book
the historiography of Rights: Restricted give us glimpses of the lives
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Performance, Pedagogy and Criticism centuries, and how these
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civilisations. This book
Modernities Daniel O’Connor
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Masala Film In India, English has always
Edited by Veena Das, Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
been an issue of political
Anjali Gera Roy, Professor, Department of of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University, Michael
discourse. For the privileged
Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, West Jackson, Distinguished Professor, World Religions,
classes, it is either a
Bengal Harvard Divinity School, Arthur Kleinman, Esther
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other languages. However,
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Dash Benhur, retired Reader in Political Science,
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stories in Odia, Translated by Bikram Keshari
of views expressed by Dalit intellectuals and
Das, retired Professor of English, a lexicographer,
volume editor of English textbooks, and an award-
activists on ‘English’ in all its different senses and Of Ghosts and Other Perils
non-Dalit scholars who have for long been
winning translator of Odia fiction Troilokyonath Mukhopadhyay (1847–1919),
involved with questions of colonial modernity and
See LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION the English language in the Dalit context. one of the foremost writers of fiction in
nineteenth-century Bengal
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Sarasvatichandra Part I from the Regional Languages into English and critic based in Kolkata
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Literature 8. Mother Tongue vs. English Medium of
Rabindranath Tagore
See LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Instruction for Dalits: A Survey 9. Understanding One Hundred Years of Global Reception
the Dalits’ Perspective on English Language
2015 978-81-250-5990-5 ` 595 408 pp Paperback Edited by Imre Bangha, Associate Professor
Education 10. English in Deprived Contexts:
A Case of Dalit Learners 11. Global vs Local:
in Hindi at the University of Oxford, Martin
Writing and Editing News Problematising the Cultural Politics of English Kämpchen, author, biographer, researcher and
12. On Worshipping English, the Dalit Goddess: translator, and Uma Das Gupta, author and
Manu, Missionary, Macaulay and the Market biographer
K. V. Krishnaswamy, former Deputy Editor, The 13. Colonial Modernity, Indian Literary History,
and Modern Dalit Literatures 14. Caste and Rabindranath Tagore: One
Hindu, Chennai, and Associate Professor, Asian
Hundred Years of Global Reception
CONTRIBUTORS
College of Journalism, Chennai. Language: The Debate on English in India

Sol Argüello Scriba
Continued from front flap Kämpchen When Rabindranath Tagore won the
Ahmad Rafiq Awad
Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913 for
Imre Bangha Bangha
his own English translation of
brings together thirty-five essays

retranslated, for he continues to be
Sonia Berjman Das Gupta Gitanjali (Song Offerings), he became
France Bhattacharya
relevant to modern readers. the first non-European to do so, achieving
Liviu Bordaş
immediate fame. Translations in other
Sawitree Charoenpong
One Hundred Years of Global Reception
This volume is an invaluable addition Alexander Cherniak languages of this and other works
Contributors: Sabur Ali, Tapan Basu,

to Tagore Studies and will be a useful followed. Reams were written on his
See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES on how the world reacted to
Sandagomi Coperahewa
guide to students of Literature, Anna Feuer writings and his personality. As a world
Comparative Literature, Translation Shyama Prasad Ganguly citizen, Tagore aimed at bringing the
Studies and Post-colonial Studies. Do Thu Ha ‘East’ and the ‘West’ together for an
Martin Hříbek inclusive humanism. His was assumed to
Thummapudi Bharathi, Rajendra Chenni, M. Dasan,

be the Voice of India—indeed, of Asia and
the Bengali author’s winning the

Viktors Ivbulis
MARTIN KÄMPCHEN, a PhD in German Ana Jelnikar the colonised world. The Nobel Prize gave
Literature from Vienna and Comparative Mirja Juntunen him the authority to speak and the
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Religions from Visva-Bharati, is an Martin Kämpchen intellectual elite of many countries
author, biographer, researcher and Kalyan Kundu listened.
Suuny M. Kapikkad, Raj Kumar, Suresh Kurapati,

translator of Tagore. He lives in Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz
Nobel Prize for Literature in

Santiniketan. Laurent Mignon The editors of Rabindranath Tagore:
Nikolay Nikolaev One Hundred Years of Global Reception
IMRE BANGHA, a PhD in Hindi from Kyoko Niwa had asked Tagore experts worldwide
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan, is Associate Kathleen M. O'Connell to narrate how the Bengali author was
C. Lakshmanan, Anand Mahanand, Maya Pandit,

Professor of Hindi, University of Oxford. José Paz Rodriguez received from 1913 until our time. Their
1913, the first non-European to do

He works on Old Hindi literature and Hannele Pohjanmies thirty-five essays, arranged by region
on the Hungarian reception of Tagore. Mario Prayer or language group, inform us about
Md. Badiur Rahman translations, the impact of Tagore’s
Arya and Other Stories

UMA DAS GUPTA, a DPhil from the Françoise Robin visits, and his subsequent standing in
Vellikkeel Raghavan, K. Satyanarayana, V. B.

University of Oxford, retired in 2004 as Paula Savon the world of letters. Tagore’s reception
so, and Tagore’s subsequent

Sergei Serebriany while often enthusiastic was not always
Professor, Social Sciences Division,
Tan Chung
ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF GLOBAL RECEPTION
Indian Statistical Institute. She is a adulatory, occasionally undergoing
historian and Tagore biographer. M. A. Serhat Unsal dramatic metamorphoses, and diverse
Victor A. van Bijlert political and social milieus and
Elżbieta Walter
Tharakeshwar
cultural movements responded to him
standing in the world of letters.

Wei Liming differently. This nuanced global
Kim Woo Jo reception is for the first time dealt
Written and translated by Chandrika Balan,

www.orientblackswan.com with comprehensively and systematically
in this volume presented as a work of
Back Cover: Tagore in the Plaza Hotel, Buenes
reference. These essays remind us that
His was assumed to be the voice

Aires, November 1924. Source: Sonia Berjman,
Tagore’s works keep being reprinted or
La Victoria de los jardines: el paisaje en Victoria EDITED BY MARTIN KÄMPCHEN AND IMRE BANGHA
Ocampo, Buenes Aires, Paper Editores, 2007,
Courtesy of Archivio General de la Nación, EDITORIAL ADVISER UMA DAS GUPTA
an award-winning writer of prose in Malayalam

Departamento Documentos Fotográficos
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Cover Design: Anuj Malhotra Kämpchen, Bangha and Das Gupta: Rabindranath Tagore Continued on back flap
of India; or indeed of Asia and

and English Introduced by K. Satchidanandan,
the colonised world. The Nobel
a major poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and
English Genesis Prize gave him the authority to speak, and the intellectual
elite of many countries realised the need to listen and to
Select Stories
See GENERAL INTEREST respond. The essays are arranged by region/continent.
Lakshmi Kannan, poet, novelist, short story writer and Tagore’s reception while often enthusiastic was not always
2014 978-81-250-5680-5 ` 355 144pp Paperback
her own translator adulatory, and diverse political and social movements
responded to him differently. This nuanced reception is
English in the Dalit Context See GENERAL INTEREST dealt with in this book.
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Contents: PART I: EAST AND SOUTH ASIA
Department of English, University of Hyderabad, 1. Japan 2. Korea 3. China 4. Vietnam 5. Tibet
K. Suneetha Rani, Professor and Head, Centre
6. Thailand 7. Sri Lanka PART II: MIDDLE EAST
for Women’s Studies, University of Hyderabad,
and D. Murali Manohar, Head and Associate AND AFRICA 8. Arab Countries 9. Egypt 10.
Turkey 11. Jewish Diaspora and the State of

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Israel 12. Goa, Angola and Mozambique PART III: suffering and torture; and an analysis of Narendra as it critiques Tagore’s non-conformism, radical
EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE 13. Russia Jadhav’s memoir Outcaste that travels from ‘bitter outlook and occasional ambivalence as seen in his
14. Romania 15. Bulgaria 16. Yugoslavia and Its memories’ to ‘better dreams’ across three novels and short stories and films based on them.
generations finds Dalits attaining recognition and
Successors 17. Latvia 18. Poland 19. Hungary
success against tremendous odds. As varied as it is [This volume] enables the reader to envision
20. Czechoslovakia and Its Successors PART IV: revealing, this contributory volume will be valuable Tagore with a new perspective that envisions
NORTHERN AND WESTERN EUROPE 21. to students, scholars and researchers of Dalit Tagore and his magnificent persona with a very
Finland 22. Scandinavia (Denmark, Sweden and Studies. humanistic approach. It recognizes Tagore as
Norway) 23. Germany, Austria and Switzerland 24. a radical thinker because of his ability to be a
Netherlands and Belgium 25. Italy 26. France 27. Contents:1. ‘The Petty Done, the Undone conscious human who was able to transcend all
Spain and Latin America 28. Portugal and Galicia Vast’: Dalit Literature in Translation 2. Shattered notional boundaries to embrace its humanness.
Amphora and Translation of Dalit Poetry:
29. United Kingdom PART V: THE AMERICAS 30. —Council for Social Development
Re-configuring the Myth of the origin 3. Dalit
Argentina 31. Brazil 32. Costa Rica 33. Mexico 34. Literature and its Translation: A Critical Enquiry,
United States of America 35. Canada Raj Kumar 4. Enhancing the Epistemology of Dalit They offer a fresh and gendered insight into
Literature: A Comparative Study of Dalit and issues of nationalism at a time when we are
Contributors: Sol Argüello Scriba, Ahmad
Holocaust Literatures 5. Hierarchy of Exploitation witnessing the revival of the most regressive
Rafeeq Awad, Imre Bangha, Sonia Berjman, amongst Indigenous Communities: A Reading of features of nationalist practice and discourse.
France Bhattacharya, Liviu Bordas, Sawitree Anil Gharai’s ‘The Almond Flowers’
Charoenpong, Alexander Cherniak, Sandagomi —Sociological Bulletin
6. Understanding Rajbanshi Cultural Politics:
Coperahewa, Anna Feuer, Shyama Prasad Ganguly, Moving from the Oral to the Literary 7. Classical Contents: Introduction: Reading Rabindranath
Do Thu Ha, Martin Hříbek, Viktor Ivbulis, Ana Realism, Dalit Ontology and the Autobiographical Tagore 1. Nurture Culture: ‘My World Will Burn
Self in Joothan and the Outcaste 8. Living in its Hundred Lamps’: Highlights from a Magnificent
Jelnikar, Mirja Juntunen, Martin Kämpchen, Kalyan
Translation: The Translator’s Dilemma in The Life 2. Rabindranath and Some Prominent
Kundu, Xicoténcatl Martínez Ruiz, Laurent Hungry Tide 9. Politics and Poetics of Writing/ Contemporaries: Patriarchy and Society 3. The
Mignon, Nikolay Nikolaev, Kyoko Niwa, Kathleen Translating Dalit 10. Dalits of Bengal: An Appraisal Lighted Lamp: Radical Definitions of Female
M. O’Connell, José Paz Rodriguez, Hannele of the Two Paradigms on Their Origin 11. An Empowerment 4. Evolving Women: Tagore’s Short
Pohjanmies, Mario Prayer, Md. Badiur Rahman, Odyssey from Bitter Memories to Better Dreams: Stories as Resistance Literature 5. Nation Politics
Francoise Robin, Paula Savon, Sergei Serebriany, Language and Identity-Politics in Narendra Jadhav’s and Gender in Colonial India: Ghare Baire Char
Tan Chung, M. A. Serhat Unsal, Victor A. van Outcaste Bengali Dalit Poetry Past and Present: Adhyay and Gora 6. Gender Politics and Familial
A Critical Study 12. From Alisamma Women’s Relations: Chokher Bali Naukadubi Jogajog Shesher
Bijlert, Elzbieta Walter, Wei Liming, Kim Woo Jo
Collective to Mattipulu: Dalit Women’s Journey Kabita 7. Tagore’s Narratives as Films: The Early
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Aesthetics: Rhetoric of Restraint in Recent Bengali Reading Tagore Texts as Visual Narratives (1960
Dalit Poetry to the Present) 9. Conclusion: Tagore in Our
Towards Social Change Times
Essays on Dalit Literature Contributors: Indranil Acharya,Tajuddin Ahmed,
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New World of Indigenous The chapters in this Society and History

collection analyse the poet’s
Resistance life and relationships, his of Gujarat since 1800
Noam Chomsky and Voices from North, moral, educational, political A Select Bibliography of the English and
South and Central America and dramaturgical European Language Sources
philosophy, and provide
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textual analysis of select
Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, School of
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Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, Oriental and Anthropological Studies, London
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interconnected issues
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regarding autonomy,
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Famous Indian Stories by Sadhana Naithani, Assistant Professor of
dynamic process whereby
Indian writers explores Language, Literature and Cultural Studies,
theory and practice inform
themes that are crucial for the context and study Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
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Applied Linguistics Part II: Language Education
Ashapurna Debi, eminent author who wrote in of the colonial intellectual
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Bangla world and problematises
Contrastive Discourse Analysis Part V: Language
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Policy and Planning
Professor of English, Jadavpur University, Kolkata a postcolonial world.
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CROOKE Colors of Life: Tales 1 to 87; So Wise
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Phillipson. Among the
Edited by G. N. Devy, Founder, Bhasha Research central concerns of the Edited by Rimi B. Chatterjee, Senior Lecturer,
and Publication Centre, Baroda, Geoffrey Davis, book are English in and Nilanjana Gupta, Professor of English,
Professor of Anglophone Postcolonial Literature, globalisation and the Jadavpur University, Kolkata
universities of Aachen and Duisberg-Essen, neoliberal empire, how the
Focusing on India but ranging all over the world,
Germany, and K. K. Chakravarty, Secretary, project of establishing
these essays create a foundation for discussion.
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts English as a ‘world’ language
They cover the philosophy behind the Amar Chitra
came about, and the balance
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY Katha comic books, the writings of Lila Majumdar,
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Rudyard Kipling and his animal kingdom, Winnie the
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Introductory Encyclopaedia Entry 1. The Study literature will fill a need for
Introdution to Stylistics, An of Continued Linguistic Imperialism, 2. English in critical work on literature
Theory and Practice the New World Order: Variations on a Theme for children.
of Linguistic Imperialism and ‘World’ English
Partha Sarathi Misra, senior faculty, Cotton Selected Contents: 1.
3. Language Policy and Linguistic Imperialism
College, Guwahati Introduction 2. Reading the
4. Linguistic Imperialism: A Conspiracy, or a
Child and Translating the
The book is an introductory Conspiracy of Silence? 5. English, no Longer a
Animal in Rudyard Kipling’s
reader in stylistics meant Foreign Language in Europe? 6. The Linguistic
Mowgli Stories 3. Creating
for initiating readers in Imperialism of Neoliberal Empire 7. Lingua franca
Boyhood on the Cusp of
general and students in or Lingua Frankensteinia? English in European
Two Cultures: Dhan Gopal
particular to the basic Integration and Globalisation 8. English in Higher
Mukerji and Rudyard Kipling
theories and practices of Education, Panacea or Pandemic?
4. Frightful Rotters and Little Angels: Writing for
the relatively new discipline.
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stylistics interpretation of
The Great Debate in Children’s Literature 7. Pooh
texts and also propagates an My Life is My Message in Perplexity 8. Two Bengali Transformations
integrated study of language Sadhana (1869–1905)
of Sherlock Holmes 9. Amar Chitra Katha: The
and literature. There is a detailed analysis of a Satyagraha (1915–1930) Making of an ‘Indian’ Comic Book 10. Cheery
number of poems and short stories, meant to serve Satyapath (1930–1940) Children, Growing Girls and Developing Young
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Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and
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and translation with reference to Indian literature. Transfiguration 13. Facing Time: The Evocation New Bearings in English
The central argument has been elaborated with of Time in Visual and Literary Forms of
the support of texts and authors from Indian Autobiography Studies
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T. Sriraman, English and Foreign Languages
Writing Life University, Hyderabad, Bruce Bennett,
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(Revised Edition) Osmania University, Hyderabad, R. Palanivel,
Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani
Mirza Mohammad Hadi Ruswa, renowned Institute of Information and Communication University of Madras, and Mohan Ramanan,
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Christel Devadawson, Reader, all in the
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Nation in Imagination Indrani Sen, Reader, Department of English, Sri
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Venkateswara College, University of Delhi
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the Department of English William Congreve (1670–1729), English English Literary Textbook
playwright and poet
The essays in this volume
Edited by Shirshendu Chakrabarti, Department
Criticism and
examine the swiftly changing
connotations of nation in
of English, University of Delhi Theory
today’s global world. The
Series Editor: Nissim Ezekiel, acclaimed poet, An Introductory History
critic and writer
contributors to the volume M. S. Nagarajan, former Professor and Head,
come from different parts of This is an annotated edition Department of English, University of Madras
the world, and this makes of William Congreve’s play
the collection a truly The Way of the World (1700). The book is a history of
cross-cultural attempt to re- This edition, besides Western literary criticism
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moorings. It thus addresses follows the survey
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manners. The editor has analysed, before critical texts that are
Premakumari Dheram, Professor, School of examining the play, the social and historical prescribed for study in many (English) courses in
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English-Vernacular Divide, Nomad Called Thief, A Fanon for Beginners

The Reflections on Adivasi Silence Deborah Wyrick
Illustrated by Deborah Wyrick
Postcolonial Language Politics and Practice G. N. Devy, Founder, Bhasha Research and
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examines the role of English Plato for Beginners
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Kuttiedathi and Other Stories Bani Basu, prolific Bengali writer
Hymns of Guru Nanak Translated by Jayanti Datta
M. T. Vasudevan Nair, renowned Malayalam author
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elements of faith and
passion are sensitively
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Singh’s paintings which, in colour and inspired Ashokamitran, distinguished contemporary Tamil Philip Hill
drawing, heighten the aesthetic and spiritual writer and winner of the Sahitya Akademi award (1996) Illustrated by David Leach
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Son of the Moment PERMANENT BLACK English Heart, Hindi
Nazir Ahmad, pioneer of modern fiction in Urdu
Translated by Mohammed Zakir, retired Professor
Heartland
of Urdu, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi Partial Recall The Political Life of Literature in India
Essays on Literature and Literary History Rashmi Sadana, Visiting Associate Professor,
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra has published four Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
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collections of poetry, two volumes of translations,
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Anaro and Other Stories History of Indian Literature in English internationally recognised
Manjul Bhagat, author of four collections of short The essays in Partial Recall, authors such as Salman
stories and four novels in Hindi rich in literary detail and Rushdie, Anita Desai and
accessible insight, were Vikram Seth in the context
written over the past thirty of debates within India about
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Mehrotra’s homage to his alongside regionally
Postmodernism for Beginners recognised writers such as
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Kolatkar; a perceptive
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Award for her novel Yajnaseni cosmopolitan in their references, Mehrotra’s
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popular fiction and street Subramania Bharati rousing
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Concise History of Indian This anthology comprises a both at the Department of English, University of
selection of formative Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, Matti Bunzl,
Literature in English, A literary writings in Hindi and Associate Professor, History, Antoinette
Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, well-known poet, Urdu from the second half Burton, Professor, History, and Jed Esty,
critic and translator of the nineteenth century, Associate Professor, English, all at the University
leading up to Indian of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
This book is a history of Independence and the
two hundred years of Indian This interdisciplinary
creation of Pakistan. It
literature in English. It starts volume is designed to
provides a picture of how
by looking at the expand the agenda of
nationalism—as a cultural
introduction of English into postcolonial studies, assess
ideology and political
India’s complex language the field’s past and present
movement—was formed in literature. Unlike
scenario around 1800. It foci, and affect its future
other anthologies, this one focuses on writings in
then takes up the canonical evolution. The essays here
two North Indian vernaculars with a contested
poets, novelists, and address questions about the
relationship: Hindi and Urdu.
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who have made significant contributions to the modernity, transnationalism
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evolution of Indian literature in English. Nationalization of Hindu links contributions from history, anthropology,
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EST POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Reflections of India’s Nuclear Journey

Achin Vanaik, formerly Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Delhi
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Delhi and former Professor, University of Delhi, Vinod C. Khanna,
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Kerala Modernity
Edited by Satheese Chandra Bose, Assistant Professor, Department
of Political Science, Government Sanskrit College, Pattambi, Shiju
Sam Varughese, Assistant Professor, Centre for Studies in Science,
Technology and Innovation Policy, School of Social Sciences, Central
University of Gujarat, Gandhinagar
With a foreword by Gopal Guru
There have been parallel courses of development in the three regions
of Kerala—Travancore, Cochin and Malabar—until they were merged
together on 1 November 1956. This colonial history of the region is
the reason for the varied, and often paradoxical, processes that weave
Kerala’s modernity. Kerala Modernity conceives the contemporaneous
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the Spice Trade in Malabar 2. Colonial Intellectuals, Public Sphere and the
Promises of Modernity: Reading Parangodeeparinayam 3. (Re)construction
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1920–45 5. At the End of the Story: Popular Fiction, Readership and
Modernity in Literary Malayalam 6. Contemporaneity and the Collective:
The Reportage in Amma Ariyan 7. The Politics of Sexuality and Caste:
Looking through Kerala’s Public Space 8. Attukal Pongala: Myth and
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Lisa Björkman, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at
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dream to transform Mumbai into a “world class” business center has
cial Systems
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illegible and
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increasing
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Class, Patriarchy and India Rural Development Combating Corruption

Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Report 2013|14 The Indian Case
Plantations IDFC Rural Development Network Yogesh Atal, Professor Emeritus, Madhya
Two Centuries of Power and Protest Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research,
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Atal
CRITICAL STUDIES IN POLITICS boiled over as witnessed in the massive
that afflicts almost all, and not only the
Exploring Sites, Selves, Power protests of 2011–12.
Combating Corruption
Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam and Sanjay Palshikar
Professor, Political Science, University of

developing, societies.
spectrum, Commonwealth
Combating Corruption: The Indian Case
RED TAPE
As ‘instant history’, Combating Corruption Bureaucracy, Structural Violence provides a perspective for viewing the
is an account of an unprecedented and Poverty in India increasing levels of corruption in the
India’s First Democratic

phase of mass protests in India. Akhil Gupta higher echelons of politics and
The
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‘deviance’ from norms and a systemic
Critical Perspectives
Labour Economist, Institute of Social Studies, The anger against corruption

dysfunctionality, the authors argue that it
Revolution
Achin Vanaik and Rajeev Bhargava (eds.)
Yogesh Atal was Principal Director of can be resisted by effective strategies of
Social and Human Sciences at UNESCO mass mobilisation under charismatic
from 1974 to 1997. He then served as leaders. Focusing on peoples’
participation, it traces the emergence of
Hague boiled over as witnessed in

Director-General of the Indian Institute of
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extensively on development-related JP Movement of the 1970s and culminates
Dayanand Bandodkar and the Rise of the

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social structure. Baba Ramdev and the rise of the Arvind
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See HISTORY Bahujan in Goa

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Delhi. He was a Commonwealth Fellow as exemplified by cases of grand
2011–12.This volume
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Yogesh Atal
Cover Illustration: Manoj Kureel
Cover Design: Daisies and Blue Skies Atal and Choudhary: Combating Corruption Sunil K. Choudhary
viewing the increasing levels
HISTORY II
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Anita M. Weiss, Professor and Head of the for Corruption PART I: CORRUPTION: A
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M. Madhava Prasad, Professor, Department of
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This volume is a collection of essays that redefines
the discipline of political science by bringing into
view objects of study not usually visible to the
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constructions of selfhood citizenship vis-à-vis the development process. of infrastructure development and social concerns
emerges as a central Evoking the field as an animated space of on environmental issues.
preoccupation in the first, contestation and engagement, this book offers an
titled ‘Exploring Selfhood’. intimate understanding of development as lived, The level of research, effort and the quality of
The second section— negotiated and told by ordinary rural people at the critical evaluation of the court and its work is
‘Spatiality and Power’— grassroots. laudable. This book is exceptionally well-written
analyses the idea of spatiality and provides quality insights into the dynamics of
Contents: Introduction: Winding Roads,
and explains its relationship environmental jurisprudence in the country….
Meandering Rivers 1. Why a Backward Village
with power. The third
Stays Backward 2. Village as Laboratory: Watching —Journal of the Indian Law Institute
section titled ‘State and
an NGO-isation Experiment 3. One-Man Show,
Governmentality’ examines
After All? Re-imaging People’s Participation Contents: Introduction; 1. How Green is the
state practices as they
4.‘Failed’ Intervention as a Milestone 5. Dreams Supreme Court of India? 2. Understanding the
render legible various aspects of populations. The
Die Hard: Self-Help Groups of Poor Women Judicial Decision Making Process on Environmental
final section, ‘Reconfiguring Categories of Thought’
6. What Is This Thing Called Safe Drinking Water? Litigation 3. The Impact of Environmental
seeks to unsettle conceptual categories such as
The Challenges of Awareness Campaigns Judgments at the Implementation Level;
‘capitalism’, ‘science’ ‘politics’ and ‘development’.
7. Chat-behind-the-Back: Villagers as Critical Conclusion, Appendix: Environmental Orders/
Citizens Conclusion: Beyond the ‘Add Judgments from 1980 to 2010
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Globalizing Mumbai
Selected Contents: PART I: EXPLORING The
SELFHOOD PART II: SPATIALITY AND POWER Liza Weinstein, Assistant Professor of sociology
Gautam Pingle, Dean of Research,
PART III: STATE AND GOVERNMENTALITY at Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI),
PART IV: RECONFIGURING CATEGORIES OF
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PINGLE
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Post Independence, the state of Andhra Pradesh was created by merging
policy analyst The Fall and

the Telangana region, a part of the princely state of Hyderabad, with the
coastal region of Andhra and Rayalaseema—both parts of the erstwhile Orient BlackSwan
Madras state. With Madras, the major source of income of the state,
Jyoti Bhosale, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Navprit Kaur,

allocated to Tamil Nadu, it was necessary to include the revenue-surplus
Telangana to create a financially viable entity.
Rise of Telangana chronicles

However, there had always been doubts about the long-term feasibility of
THE FALL AND RISE OF

such an arrangement. Jawaharlal Nehru had even considered the provision
of a ‘divorce’ if the ‘marriage’ between the three regions did not turn out to
Sunalini Kumar, Nivedita Menon, Aditya Nigam,

be mutually beneficial.
Environmental AND TELANGANA the Telangana movement.

Despite several agreements, laws and government orders safeguarding the
THE FALL
interests of the people of Telangana, modern history records a sordid tale of
RISE OF
exploitation, agitation, assurances and broken promises. The author shows
Sanjay Palshikar, Hidam Premananda, G. Amarjit

how the Srikrishna Commission that was formed to look into the matter
and impartially recommend a way forward ‘subverted’ the process and
came forward with a pre-determined solution.
The stimulus for penning

TELANGANA
The author has painstakingly dissected the Telangana problem from its
Jurisprudence and the

inception to the point where a separate state seems to be inevitable. He has
Sharma, Aarti Sethi, Mohinder Singh, Janaki

identified the political reasons for the behaviour of the national leaders in
making promises and later reneging on them, and shows how this betrayal
this book, according to the

has affected the people of the region.
Vocal and hard-hitting, this book will be valuable for students of political
science and general readers interested in the movement.
Srinivasan,Tarangini Sriraman
Supreme Court author, was the aftermath
Gautam Pingle was formerly Dean of Research and Consultancy,
Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad.
2014 978-81-250-5270-8 ` 1070 564pp Hardback Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation

Cover image: The Hindu archive
Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad
of the event of 9 December
2009 when the
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GAUTAM PINGLE
Government of India
Pingle: The Fall and Rise of Telangana
Development Narratives announced its intention of

Walking the Field in Rural West Bengal Geetanjoy Sahu, Assistant Professor, School of
Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, forming the Telangana State. The volume
Dipankar Sinha, Professor, Department of Mumbai provides a historical perspective to the Telangana
Political Science, University of Calcutta cause, apart from charting the events and
The Supreme Court of India processes in the formation of the yet-to-be-born
Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation
Development is a contested has earned itself a state.

concept involving manifold Environmental reputation as a ‘green court’
SINHA
Development is a contested concept

involving abundant local-level Complicating the Story of ‘Reforms’
Jurisprudence
Contents: Introduction 1. State on the Edge
controversies and negotiations. Its
in Maharashtra
local-level controversies
multifarious workings on the ground
DEVELOPMENT because of its regular and

are not always captured by the
Orient BlackSwan academic genre of research reports, with
their classic methodologies of statistical and the
NARRATIVES Supreme Court 2. Telangana and the Republic 3. Hyderabad: Then
MENT ON TRIAL sampling and objective questionnaires.
and negotiations. Departing

Instead, this book offers a narrative-
active intervention in cases

pace for the Periphery
based ‘field view’ of development, with
DEVELOPMENT NARRATIVES
Anjan Chakrabarti (editors)

the aim of gathering an intimate
understanding of development as lived,
Geetanjoy Sahu
and Now 4. Linguistic States: Nehru and State’s
GY, ECONOMY
negotiated and told. Based on the
from predominant academic

ally Informed Connection
involving environmental
author’s fieldwork in rural West Bengal
Dandekar and Jeemol Unni in the mid-1990s and 2000s, the
narratives presented here foreground
ENT, TECHNOLOGY
Reorganisation 5. The Electoral Situation in the

the political, moral and experiential
EVELOPMENT
approaches, this book

dimensions of ordinary rural people’s
issues. It has called both

d Subversive Essays everyday encounters with development.
D’Souza (editor)
Using this novel approach, the chapters
Two States 6. Caste Politics and the Merger

ALISM AND WATER explore the themes of rural
presents a narrative-based
backwardness; NGO efforts at building
state and private agencies to

ry of ‘Reforms’ in Maharashtra
angameswaran civil society in villages; the potentials
and limitations of ‘people-centred’
development endeavours; the failures of
well-intentioned development
‘field view’ of development,

programmes; the travails of village
women’s self-help groups; the
predicaments of research teams in the task on environmentally 7. The Telangana Tragedy 8. Caste War, Naxalism
W a l k i n g t h e Fi e l d i n
and Telangana Votebank 9. The Ongoing
field and the often unpredictable
Rural West Bengal
drawing on the author’s
outcomes of their interventions; and the
destructive actions and has

everyday rural practice of ‘chat-behind- Tata Institute of
the-back’ through which villagers in Social Sciences
es D I PA N K A R S I N H A
fieldwork in rural West
Continued on back flap
assertively tried to ensure Movement and the Promises Made 10. The
Bengal in the mid-1990s and implementation of its judgments. But how ‘green’ Rayalaseema Region 11. Tribal Land Rights and the
2000s. The chapters narrativise the themes of is it really and what does it even mean to be green Demand for a Separate State 12. The One Man
rural backwardness; NGO efforts at building civil in the Indian context? Environmental Jurisprudence Girglani Commission 13. Muslims and Telangana:
society in villages; the potentials and limitations of and the Supreme Court sheds light on these A Roundabout Journey 14. Irrigation in Telangana:
‘people-centred’ development endeavours; the questions by offering the first comprehensive The Rise and Fall of Tanks 15. A Summary
occasional failure of well-intentioned development empirical analysis of cases pertaining to Submission to Srikrishna Commission 16. The
programmes; the travails of village women’s environmental litigation that appeared before the Findings of the Srikrishna Commission
self-help groups; the predicaments of research Supreme Court between 1980 and 2010. In doing 17. The Srikrishna Commission: The Truth about
teams in the field; and the everyday, subversive so, it examines a whole range of judicial attitudes, Its Secret Chapter 18. The Srikrishna Commission
chatter through which villagers exercise critical concerns, pressures and trends with respect to Report: The Judgment 19. Polling the Impossible
environmental jurisprudence, as well as the impact

20. Telangana’s Cousins: In India and Abroad Joshi, K. K. Kailash, Harsimran Kalra, Avinash economy’. In this period of rapid transformation,
21. Trifurcation and a New Governance Model Kumar, M. R. Madhavan, Amitabh Mukhopadhyay, caste and religion have
Sudha Pai, Valerian Rodrigues, Kaushiki Sanyal, come to play major roles in
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the state and dispossessed
Indian Parliament, The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5956-1
people, even as the
A Critical Appraisal processes of globalization
Edited by Sudha Pai, Rector and Professor,
Pathways to Power enabled new spaces for
Centre for Political Studies, School of Social
The Domestic Politics of South Asia political assertion, such as
Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New around sexuality. The
Edited by Arjun Guneratne, Professor and
Delhi, and Avinash Kumar, Assistant Professor, epilogue to this edition makes the narrative
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Macalester
Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, up-to-date by extensively analysing issues
College, Minnesota, USA, and Anita M. Weiss,
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru animating India today. It offers insightful
Professor and Head, Department of International
University, New Delhi perspectives on the 2009 and 2014 general
elections, the civil society-led anti-corruption
This volume examines the This volume introduces the movement of 2011–13, as well as the massive
credibility and legitimacy of domestic politics of South protests against sexual violence and the need for
PAI AND KUMAR
Contributors This volume examines the credibility

Orient BlackSwan and legitimacy of the Indian Parliament,
scrutinising various aspects of its
the Indian Parliament,

b Dash | Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
legal reform.
functioning. Collectively, the essays
Asia in broad comparative

| Bhanu Joshi | K. K. Kailash provide a comprehensive overview of the
contemporary workings of parliamentary
vinash Kumar | M. R. Madhavan democracy in India.
scrutinising various aspects

yay | Sudha Pai | Kaushiki Sanyal
perspective, revealing the

The introduction provides a broad-
Sivaramakrishnan | Carole Spary ranging analysis of the relationship
between the functioning of
2014 978-81-250-5619-5 ` 750 228pp Paperback

wari | Valerian Rodrigues
parliamentary institutions and the rapid
changes witnessed in Indian society,
of its functioning. The interplay between politics,

particularly the onset of coalition politics
and the initiation of economic reforms.
THEA Critical
Rights: Restricted
Part One of the volume examines the
institutional standards of performance of
Parliament. It discusses the need for a
introduction analyses the

INDIAN PARLIAMENT
cultural values, human

more effective law to curb defections; the
important—but almost
THE moribund—procedure of private

members' legislation; whether
bicameralism has served the purpose for
INDIAN relationship between security, and historical luck.

Appraisal
which it was established, and the need

for better enforcement of rules to prevent
Political Culture and

indiscipline and misbehaviour in
Parliament.
parliamentary institutions While these are important

Part Two focuses on different forms of
parliamentary control, as well as the
evolving relationship between the
PARLIAMENT legislature and the executive in a period
and rapid changes witnessed Economy in Eighteenth

of unstable coalition formations. It
correlations everywhere,
examines issues like the lack of
parliamentary accountability and
oversight over the executive; weaknesses
A Critical Appraisal in the functioning of the committee
in Indian society over the

system, and the increasing volume of
EDITED BY
nowhere are they more

Century Bengal
ndian Parliament
S P A
UDHA AI AND KVINASH UMAR
past two decades. Part One compelling than in South

examines the institutional Asia where such dynamic interchanges loom large Networks of Exchange, Consumption and
standards of parliamentary performance. Part Two on a daily basis. Identity politics—not just of Communication
focuses on forms of parliamentary control, as well religion but also of caste, ethnicity, regionalism,
Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the
as the evolving legislature-executive relationship in and social class—infuses all aspects of social and
Department of History, Jadavpur University,
a period of unstable coalition formations. Finally, political life in the sub-continent. Recognising this
Kolkata
Part Three analyses external factors which affect complex interplay, this volume moves beyond
the internal functioning of Parliament, such as the conventional views of South Asian politics as it See HISTORY
role of the media, criminalisation of politics, and explicitly weaves the connections between history,
2014 978-81-250-5267-8 ` 900 448pp Hardback
the influence of civil society organisations and culture, and social values into its examination of
movements. political life.
Contents: Introduction 1. Measuring the
Problem of Caste, The
Contents: Introduction: Situating Domestic
Effectiveness of the Indian Parliament 2. The Anti- Politics in South Asia 1. The Colonial Legacy SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
Defection Law: Intent and Outcome 2. India 3. Pakistan 4. Sri Lanka 5. Nepal SOCIETY
3. Understanding Private Members’ Bills in the 6. Bangladesh
Indian Parliament 4. Bicameralism in India: The Edited by Satish Deshpande, Professor,
Centre and the States 5. Performing Ethno- Contributors: Arjun Guneratne, Christophe Department of Sociology, Delhi School of
Linguistic Representation: A Study of Indian Jaffrelot, Pratyoush Onta, Seira Tamang, Anita M. Economics
Parliamentary Ceremony and Ritual Weiss
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Committees 7. Can the DRSCs Step into Rights: Restricted 2014 978-81-250-5501-3 ` 595 436pp Paperback
the Institutional Void of India’s Parliamentary
Democracy? 8. Strengthening Legislative
Power and Contestation Revisiting 1956
Capabilities of the Indian Parliament: The National
India since 1989 B. R. Ambedkar and States Reorganisation
Advisory Council 9. Delegation of Legislation
in India: Constitutional Imperatives and the With a new Epilogue Sudha Pai, Professor, Centre for Political Studies,
Economy of Politics 10. Crime, (Politics), and Non- (Re-issue) and Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor), Jawaharlal
Punishment 11. Criminality in the Lok Sabha: An Nehru University, New Delhi, and Avinash
Examination of MP Participation and MP Attributes Nivedita Menon, Professor, Centre for Kumar, Assistant Professor, Centre for Informal
12. Delusions of Grandeur: How Corruption in Comparative Politics and Political Theory, Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social
the Indian Media Undermines the Working of Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
Parliamentary Democracy in India 13. The Rival Aditya Nigam, Professor, Centre for the Study
of Developing Societies, New Delhi. Revisiting 1956 is a two-part volume discussing and
Representative Claims of the Parliament and Civil
republishing Ambedkar’s writings on the
Society in India
This book traces the post-1989 tectonic shifts in reorganisation of Indian states. The first part of
Contributors: Balveer Arora, Raghab P. Dash, Indian society, economy and polity, which marked the volume is a monograph by the authors and
Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bhanu the unraveling of the ‘Nehruvian consensus’ besides commenting on Ambedkar’s views, it also
around a ‘modern, secular nation with a self-reliant provides a historical context of his views. It also

traces the evolution of Ambedkar’s ideas through Judicial Nineties: Of Politics, Powerand Dissent. worldliness and their human
the early part of the 1950s aspirations. And in this, this
lackswan In 1938, when he opposed the formation
With a Preface by Upendra Baxi
Kumar
and notes that the issues he volume breaks the myth of

of Karnatak Province along linguistic lines,
N STATES Ambedkar pointed out, ‘… we have been
Pai
living together … only to emphasise the

fact that those who want that this unity
be sundered … must consider this matter
discusses are very much

GANA
the monolithic image of the

in a much more serious way and not on
TE
grounds which are purely sentimental.’
Contributors: Philippe Cullet, Varun Gauri,

B. R. Ambedkar and States Reorganisation
he Hindi Press in the Uttarakhand When the Indian identity was in its
relevant today. The second

embryo, he feared that fostering cultural
Madhav Khosla, Sudhir Krishnaswami, Nivedita sadhu that traditional

identities would result in separate
nationalities. By 1953, after the formation
of Andhra State, he pointed at the lack of
proper thinking that had gone into the
part is a compendium of
REVI SI T I N G 1 9 5 6
merger. In 1956, when the States

Reorganisation Commission submitted its
report, he identified its flaws, and
famously laid down his ‘One state, one
language’ principle.
Menon, Aditya Nigam, Usha Ramanathan, Ujjwal narratives have scripted.
REVISITING 1956 Ambedkar’s works that have The speeches, tracts and articles that
Ambedkar produced on these lines were
Kumar Singh, Arun K. Thiruvengadam
Contents: Introduction
soon forgotten. And now, as new states
are being formed, Ambedkar’s works find
B. R. Ambedkar and
States Reorganisation
been cited and referred to in renewed relevance. When he called the
merger of Telangana and Telugu-speaking
areas of Madras Presidency as ‘artificial’,
2014 978-81-250-5432-0 ` 725 228pp Hardback 1. Commonplace Fixtures

Ambedkar showed remarkable vision that
the first part.

administrators can learn from. In laying
criteria for reorganisation of
states—viability, size, economic feasibility,
of Daily Life 2. Sadhus and

equality, federal balance, and the divisive
issue of language—he has already
addressed concerns that the
Sudha Pai contemporary common man now asks.
Avinash Kumar
With a foreword by Sukhadeo Religious Nationalism 3.
Silver Lining
With a Foreword by SUKHADEO THORAT Continued on back flap
Thorat The Re-emergence and

Insights into Gujarat Splintering of Religious
Contents: PART I TRACING AMBEDKAR’S
Jayanti S. Ravi, IAS, a civil servant of the Gujarat Nationalism 4. On Becoming Sadhus and the
THOUGHTS ON STATES REORGANISATION
cadre Political Awakening of Sadhus 5. The Splintering
| Introduction | Preparing the Ground | Lessons
6. Conclusions and Political Implications
from Andhra State | Offering Solutions | In Lieu A success story of national Bibliography Appendix
of a Conclusion | PART II SPEECHES AND pride and achievement, Silver
WRITINGS, 1938–56: COMPENDIUM | On Lining is told most engagingly 2014 978-81-250-5269-2 ` 770 324pp Hardback
Separate Karnatak Province | Maharashtra as by a civil servant whose
a Linguistic Province | Need for Checks and experiences in Gujarat
Balances | On the Andhra State Bill | Thoughts on deserve to be widely known. Traversing Bihar
Linguistic States | On the States Reorganisation Jayanti Ravi is not only an The Politics of Development and Social
Bill, 1956 | Ambedkar’s Recipe for Maharashtra | observer but an active Justice
States and Minorities participant in this theatre of [With Tata Institute of Social Sciences]
2014 978-81-250-5514-3 ` 700 256pp Hardback higher education where
motives and methods meet several lives to enrich Edited by Manish K. Jha, Professor and
them amid numerous challenges and privations. True Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation
Shifting Scales of Justice, learning, argues Ravi, begins when we learn to read and Development Practice, School of Social
The the world rather than the word, instances of which Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS),
The Supreme Court in the Judicial Nineties she cites and celebrates in these pages. Above all, Mumbai, and Pushpendra, Professor, Centre
non-formal education has had very few committed for Community Organisation and Development
Edited by Mayur Suresh, PhD scholar and votaries, a regrettable shortcoming Ravi’s pages will Practice, School of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai
Sessional Lecturer at the School of Law, Birkbeck certainly redress/overcome. This book would inspire
College, University of London, and Siddharth serious aspirants to the Indian Administrative Service See SOCIOLOGY
Narrain, legal researcher and lawyer, Alternative and the general reader. 2014 978-81-250-5567-9 ` 925 368pp Hardback
Law Forum (ALF), Bangalore
With a Foreword by Sam Pitroda
The Supreme Court has in the
past two decades sought to Selected Contents:1. A Book-reading
Development Textbook
Suresh and Narrain
BlackSwan In the course of the last two decades, the
Communication
Orient BlackSwan Supreme Court has tried to regulate the
d Political Existence in South India
Experiment 2. A Model of Self-governance,

use of India’s forest resources, has passed
manage India’s forests and

orders on the type of fuel to be used by
Exploring Sites, Selves, and Power The urban public transport, has controlled
tya Nigam and Sanjay Palshikar
SHIFTING SCALES appointments to the higher judiciary and
3. Making a Dent in the Mindsets 4. Crossing the Contexts for the Twenty-first Century
Film City Fantasies has even claimed the power to declare
define their use, has

of constitutional amendments invalid.
nking Space for the Periphery

an Chakrabarti
JUSTICE The Shifting Scales of Justice traces the
ideological direction that the Supreme
THE SHIFTING SCALES OF JUSTICE
determined the fuel used by Caste Divide 5. Unto the Classroom 6. A Role
ifting Concepts, Changing Practices Court has charted over the last two
The Supreme Court in Neo-liberal India decades. The book examines the nature
Dipankar Sinha, Professor and Head,

ajni Palriwala and origins of this expansion of its power
and the transformation in the Court’s
urban transport vehicles, Model from a Remote Village 7. Literacy and a

worldview. It focuses on a time when many
feel that the Supreme Court has become
Department of Political Science, University of

more conservative: it dwells on the Court’s
conservative stand made apparent when it
taken over appointments to Rich Legacy 8. Oases of Excellence 9. Towards

compares slum dwellers to pickpockets,
orders the interlinking of rivers in the
Calcutta, Kolkata
name of national progress and reasons that
tribal populations will benefit from mining
the higher judiciary, and has Empowerment 10. The Sahyog Saga 11. Seeds of
of their lands among others.
The essays provide an account of this shift

within a larger narrative that identifies the
Development
precise manner in which these changes
even claimed the power to See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURAL STUDIES
www.orientblackswan.com have taken place. It looks at the emergence
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of judicial sovereignty that appears to be
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declare constitutional
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2014 978-81-250-5472-6 ` 225 95pp Paperback
Shifting Scales of Justice Continued on back flap
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amendments invalid. How did
the Supreme Court come to
consider itself competent to virtually take over the ‘When the Saints Go Gendered Citizenship
administration of such a diverse set of areas? This is Marching In’ Historical and Conceptual Explorations
the question the essays in this volume address by The Curious Ambivalence of Religious (Second Edition)
examining the links between the judiciary and
Sadhus in Indian Politics Anupama Roy, Professor at the Centre for
politics of the country.
Rajesh Pradhan, writer in the fields of urban Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
Contents: Introduction 1. Embedded Judiciary or Delhi
planning and political science
the Judicial State of Exception? 2. In the Name of
the People: The Expansion of Judicial Power ‘When the Saints go Marching In’ documents the role Through successive
3. Environment and the Will to Rule: Supreme played by sadhus in Indian national politics. Sadhus historical periods,
Court and Public Interest Litigation in the 1990s came together in 1992, to oversee the Babri- ‘becoming a citizen’ has
4. Fundamental Rights and Public Interest Litigation mosque demolition and propelled the BJP into involved a gradual extension
in India: Overreaching or Underachieving? 5. Social national prominence. Then they splintered among of equal membership to
Justice and the Supreme Court 6. Swallowing themselves and with the BJP, and preferred more and more persons
a Bitter PIL? Brief Reflections on Progressive reticence to the spotlight. The author presents a and groups. In the context
Strategies for Public Interest Litigation in India unique insight into the mind of these ascetics, by of resistance against colonial
7. A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court: drawing our attention to inconsistencies, rule, the language of
The Evolving Case Law Related to Water 8. The citizenship that emerged in

late-colonial India was based on a gendered notion marking in a hypothetical Afghanistan
of the community—both national and political. theme, how these texts can How the West Lost Its Way
This revised edition of Gendered Citizenship (first form a historiography,
published in 2005) examines the gendering of telling of struggles of a Tim Bird, lecturer, Defence Studies Department,
citizenship. Pulling in arguments on how the Indian people to construct their King’s College London and Alex Marshall,
Constitution transformed the idea of citizenship, it identity. This revised edition lecturer, History Department, Glasgow
traces the forms in which idioms of citizenship has a new Preface and University, UK
endure in contemporary times. It will be valuable Postscript by the author.
In this compelling book, Tim
for students and scholars of political science,
Contents: 1. Sources Bird and Alex Marshall ask
history, sociology and gender studies, and those
or Texts? 2. Reflections how and why the
studying social exclusion, as well as the general
in Another Mirror 3. Popular Memory and the international community has
reader interested in debates over gender and
Politics of Identity 4. Administrative Memory so signally failed to achieve
citizenship.
5. Festivals and Rites: The Public Script of its objectives in Afghanistan.
Domination and Power Postscript People Peace They trace the story from
… it covers an impressive ground stretching and the War: Junglemahal 2012 the hurried post-9/11
from the historical development of concept in decision to invade onwards,
the west to colonial India to global debates and 2013 978-81-250-5054-4 ` 525 328pp Paperback
explaining how ambitious
debates on globalisation and citizenship of the development plans failed to
present day. Politics of Climate Change bear fruit and how, despite all promises, life has
—Social Action become worse rather than better for many Afghan
and the Global Crisis, The citizens.
Contents: 1. Making Citizenship Familiar Mortgaging Our Future
2. Anticolonial Nationalisms the Women’s Contents: Introduction 1. The Great Enigma:
Question and Citizenship 3. The Domestic Praful Bidwai, political columnist and social Afghanistan in Historical Context 2. 9/11 and the
Domesticity and Women Citizens in Late Colonial science researcher Response, 11–25 September 2001 3. ‘Boots on
India 4. The ‘Womanly Vote’ and Women the ground’: From the arrival of the CIA to the
See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY
Citizens: Debates on Women’s Franchise in Late emergency Loya Jirga, 26 September 2001–June
Colonial India 5. The Nation and Its ‘Constitution’: 2013 978-81-250-5124-4 ` 675 404pp Paperback
2002 4. ‘Taking the Eye off the Ball?’ The Roots of
The Text and Context of Citizenship 6. ‘New Rights: Restricted
2012 978-81-250-4503-8 ` 1010 392pp Hardback
Taliban Revival in Afghanistan, 2002–05 5. Return
Citizenship’: Citizenship in an Age of Globalisation to the ‘Forgotten War’, 2006–08 6. The Pakistan
Rights: Restricted
2013 978-81-250-5284-5 ` 470 308pp Paperback Problem 7. Silver Bullets and the Search for an
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Writings of Pamela Price, 2012 978-81-250-4490-1 ` 730 312pp Paperback

India Rural Development The
Rights: Restricted
Report 2012–13 State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern

IDFC Rural Development Network South India Concise History of Modern
See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Honour, Authority, and Morality Europe, A
Liberty, Equality, Solidarity
2013 978-81-250-5392-7 ` 875 334pp Paperback Pamela Gwynne Price, Professor Emerita,
Also in Hindi Department of South Asian History, University of David S. Mason, Professor Emeritus, Butler
Oslo, Norway University, Indianapolis, USA
Language of Secular Islam, See HISTORY See HISTORY

The 2013 978-81-250-5114-5 ` 870 348pp Hardback 2012 978-81-250-4533-5 ` 275 248pp Paperback
Urdu Nationalism and Colonial India E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5507-5 Rights: Restricted
Kavita Datla, Assistant Professor of History at

Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA Adivasi Question, The Decentralisation and Local
Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood Governments
See HISTORY
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND The Indian Experience
2013 978-81-250-5018-6 ` 885 248pp Hardback
SOCIETY
Rights: Restricted SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
Indra Munshi, Former Professor of Sociology, SOCIETY
Memory, Identity, Power University of Bombay

T. R. Raghunandan, former Joint Secretary,
Politics in the Junglemahals, 1890–1950 See SOCIOLOGY Ministry of Panchayati Raj; currently a freelance
(Second Edition) consultant for anti-corruption movements and an
2012 978-81-250-4716-2 ` 695 420pp Paperback
advocate of decentralised governance
Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban
Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India This volume maps the trajectory that
decentralisation of government has taken in the
A full-length study of the Junglemahals, this book decades following Independence and discusses the
reveals the crucial role that memory plays in constitutional changes and policy decisions that
shaping the politics and identity of a collectivity. make governance more accountable to and
Based on a variety of texts located in distinct accessible for the common man. It presents a set
forms—official, legal, oral, popular—it shows, by of twenty-five readings that look at the impact

the 73rd and 74th Politics 10. Mizo Politics 11. The Metamorphosis of strengthen and support India’s tried and tested
Constitutional Amendments a Frontier 12. Tripura and Manipur 13. Importance political institutions and the agencies that promote
had on local governments. of Northeast India 14. Whither Northeast India the country’s national integration.
Spanning four decades 15. Basis of Autonomy
Prakash Sarangi’s introduction situates the work
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cover the various facets of important landmark in the evolution of political
implementing and science in independent India.
strengthening local MGNREGA Sameeksha
self-governments. An Anthology of Research Studies on Contents: Introduction 1. Theoretical
the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Considerations 2. Historical Antecedents
Abridged Contents:
Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 3. Approach to Modernization 4. Institutional
Introduction 1. Political Role of Panchayati Raj Strategy 5. Party System and Coalition-Making
2. Decentralised Planning— An Overview of Ministry of Rural Development, Government of 6. Social Infrastructure 7. Political Culture and
Experience and Prospects India Socialization 8. Political Institutionalization and
3. Perspectives: Panchayats versus Multinationals— National Integration 9. Political Economy of
The MGNREGA, the flagship rural employment
Case of Du Pont 4. Women in Panchayati Raj— Development 10. Coping with the International
Scheme of the Government of India, was launched
Grass Roots Democracy in Malgudi 5. Panchayati Environment 11. Future Perspectives
in February 2006. It is
Raj—The Way Forward 6. Experiment with
perhaps the largest and the With an Introduction by Prakash C. Sarangi
Direct Democracy—Time for Reappraisal 7. Law
most ambitious social
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Resource Base of Panchayats—Augmenting Own Also in Hindi
This anthology is a synthesis
Revenues 9. Women in Power?—Gender, Caste
of over a hundred studies
and the Politics of Local Urban Governance
10. Limits of a ‘Devolution Index’
on MGNREGA, its impact Red Tape
and implementation. It Bureaucracy, Structural Violence
2012 978-81-250-4883-1 ` 695 448pp Paperback provides a readable and Poverty in India
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5847-2 summary of these studies
and popularly expressed concerns. Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology,
Director of the Center for India and South Asia,
Decolonization in South Asia 2012 978-81-250-4725-4 ` 510 128pp Paperback
University of California, Los Angeles
Meanings of Freedom in Post- Also in Hindi
independence West Bengal, 1947–52 Red Tape presents a major
new theory of the state
Sekhar Bandyopadhyay, Professor of Asian Polio Eradication and Its developed by the renowned
History, Victoria University of Wellington, New Discontents anthropologist Akhil Gupta.
Zealand
A Historian’s Journey Through an Seeking to understand the
See HISTORY International Public Health (Un)civil War chronic and widespread
poverty in India, the world’s
2012 978-81-250-4706-3 ` 565 272pp Paperback SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN fourth largest economy,
Rights: Restricted
HISTORY Gupta conceives of the
relation between the state
Hill Politics in Textbook Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of
in India and the poor as one of structural violence.
Every year this violence kills between two and
Northeast India New York
three million people, especially women and girls,
(Third Edition) and lower-caste and indigenous peoples.
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northeast, excluding Sikkim, Corruption PART III: INSCRIPTION 5. “Let the
(Second Edition)
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eighteenth century when Rajni Kothari, a noted intellectual and political Practice 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination,
British administration was scientist who radically changed the contours of the and Democracy PART IV: GOVERNMENTALITY
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published in 1970 has
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looked at India as a vibrant
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and politically sustainable
tables to bring the story of the northeast into the
polity. From the theoretical,
twenty-first century.
historical, socio-cultural,
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3. The Fourth Dimension of Culture 4. Genesis of ranges through strategies,
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Schedule 7. The Hill State 8. Meghalaya 9. Naga

Transnational Torture Village Society Writings of Richard Falk, The

Law, Violence, and State Power Towards Humane Global Governance
in the United States and India
SOCIETY Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International
Jinee Lokaneeta, Assistant Professor, Law, Princeton University, USA
Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for
Department of Political Science, Drew University,
the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
New Jersey, USA Publishing Richard Falk in
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Who Wants Democracy? two generations of
(Second Edition) researchers, policy makers
and the United States,
memos and popular imagery and political movements.
Javeed Alam, former chairman of the Indian
of torture, it compellingly Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) —Ashis Nandy
demonstrates that even
before recent debates on the use of torture in the The book defines two
important shifts in the polity ... This book will challenge and inspire all
war on terror, the laws of interrogation were
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much more ambivalent about the infliction of
the Mandal Commission community.
excess pain and suffering than most political and
recommendations in 1989. —Hillary Charlesworth
legal theorists have acknowledged.
Through a study of voting
Contents: Part I: The Shaping Of International
patterns, it shows how even
… innovative, closely argued and empirically Law: Geopolitical And Democratic Challenges;
as the elite are moving away
rich account of a crucial aspect of the study of Part II: Reforming The Un: Problems And
from the processes that
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shape democracy, the poor
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and the disprivileged are
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springing to its defence.
torture and reopens and enlarges the effort to find Religious Resurgence, Political Solidarity;
conceptual clarity in the study of violence in the Contents: 1. Democracy and the People 2. The Part VI: Re-Imagining And Re-Making A New
social sciences. Vulnerable Populations and Democracy 3. Identity World Order: Rights, Justice And Democratic
---Contributions to Indian Sociology Formation among Oppressed Castes 4. Muslims: Governance
The ‘Joker’ in the Democratic Pack 5. Democracy
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Anjali Sahay, Assistant Professor of Political Pahari Public Sphere 2.
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The New Economics of Terrorism An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Edited by Rajni Kothari, noted intellectual and
Asia founder of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Eli Berman, Professor of Economics, University
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Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Professor at the Institute
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Zia Mian, a physicist from Pakistan at Princeton their structures and their induction into the
book seeks to find what is
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special about these organizations, and why most of
Kamla Bhasin, scholar, activist and writer based political involvement of caste. This second edition
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Abdul Shaban, Assistant Professor, Department
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of Geography, Centre of Development Studies,
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Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai
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Ammara Durrani, Karsten Frey, Reminder Kaur,
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into a mass organisation actively involved in This volume represents a Gandhi’s Khadi
mobilising the urban middle classes, service rare and comprehensive A History of Contention and Conciliation
professionals and religious leaders for the creation exercise in critically
and promotion of a strong analysing diverse aspects of Rahul Ramagundam, activist, advocate and
Hindu nation. India’s engagement with the academic
world after the cold war. It
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Actor in Indian Politics 5. Demolishing the Babri academicians and diplomats
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7. Conversions and Reconversions 8. Conclusion some of the dominant
Gramsci is Dead
With four appendices, glossary, bibliography and index Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social
concerns of India’s foreign
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Movements
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Edited by Alokesh Barua, Professor of
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Rethinking Gandhi and theory. Yet how far has this
theory got us? The book
Development, School of International Studies, Nonviolent Relationality draws together a variety of
Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Robert M. Global Perspectives
different strands in political
Stern, Professor of Economics and Public Policy,
Edited by Debjani Ganguly, Head, and John theory to weave an
University of Michigan, USA
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This is the paperback intellectual History of Human Rights,
edition of A Dictionary of
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This volume brings together The
three landmark books— From Ancient Times to the Globalization
the first work of its kind in Politics in India, Caste in
India and perhaps in the Era
Indian Politics, and Rethinking
Third World. It covers the Democracy. The foreword is Micheline R. Ishay, Director of the Human
terms, concepts, theories a fitting tribute by Rights Programme, Graduate School of
and paradigms of public distinguished political International Studies, University of Denver, USA
administration, defined and psychologist and sociologist
explained concisely and Micheline Ishay recounts the
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Dor Bahadur Bista, Anthropologist, former
Policy of human rights evolved
Nepalese Consul-General in Tibet, and former
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Science, University of Hyderabad, and K. M.
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Industrial Development Empire in the Age of PART IV: RESISTING EMPIRE: ROOM FOR
MANOEUVRE?
for the 21st Century Globalisation
US Hegemony and Neoliberal Order Contributors: Samir Amin, Andrew Arato, Amy
David O’Connor, Chief of the Policy Integration Bartholomew, Nehal Bhuta, Doris E. Buss, David
and Analysis Branch, Department for Economic Ray Kiely, Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, Coates, Sam Gindin, Jürgen Habermas, Denis
and Social Affairs, and Monica Kjöllerström, School of Oriental and African Studies, University Halliday, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Jayan Nayar, Leo Panitch,
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Flat World, Big Gaps
Kiely argues that we can Edited by K. S. Jomo, Assistant Secretary
Kashmir only gain a proper General, Economic Development, Department
Insurgency and After understanding of the of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations
contemporary world order Secretariat, and Jacques Baudot, Director,
Balraj Puri, noted journalist, writer, human rights
by linking globalisation to Division for Social Policy and Development, United
activist and Padma Bhushan awardee
debates on capitalism, Nations Secretariat
This book explains the imperialism and universal human rights. He
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erosion of the basis for
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Globalisation
secular and democratic
politics in the state by
Theory or Capitalist Globalisation? 3. Globalisation New Cosmopolitanisms
narrating the history of its
and Politics I: State Sovereignty, Imperialism and South Asians in the US
Cosmopolitanism 4. Globalisation and Politics II:
alienation from the rest of Gita Rajan, Visiting Professor, Women’s Studies,
International Relations and the Post-9/11 World
the country. The author Hamilton College, and Associate Professor,
5. The Global Economy: US Hegemony from
argues that the politics of Fairfield University, Connecticut, and Shailja
Bretton Woods to Neo-liberalism 6. Globalisation,
secession and the militancy Sharma, Associate Professor, Department of
Culture and Rights: Liberal Internationalism,
of the Kashmiri urge for freedom and democracy English, De Paul University, Chicago
Imperialism and Universalism 7. Conclusions: US
can be best contained by an unhindered extension
Imperialism, Actually Existing Globalisation, and See SOCIOLOGY
of the processes of Indian democracy to the state.
the Question of Alternatives
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Language, Ideology and Power Empire’s Law Policy Matters

Language-learning among the Muslims of Economic and Social Policies to Sustain
The American Imperial Project and the Equitable Development
Pakistan and North India
‘War to Remake the World’
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor Edited by José Antonio Ocampo,
Edited by Amy Bartholomew, Associate Undersecretary General for Economic and Social
of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National
Professor, Department of Law, Carleton Affairs, Department of Economic and Social
Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University,
University, Canada Affairs (DESA), United Nations Secretariat, K. S.
Islamabad
Jomo, Assistant Secretary General for Economic
See SOCIOLOGY Development, DESA, UN Secretariat, and
some of the world’s most
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outstanding theorists to
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provide a uniquely lucid
Coordination, DESA, UN Secretariat
account of the relationship
Dreams, Questions, Struggle between the American See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
South Asian Women in Britain Empire, the Bush doctrine
2007 978-81-250-3064-5 ` 840 368pp Paperback
and the war against Iraq—
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Amrit Wilson, British writer and political activist the ‘war to remake the
world’—and the implications
See GENDER STUDIES
for legality and human rights.
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Rights: Restricted Abridged Contents: PART I: THE AMERICAN
IMPERIAL PROJECT AND THE ‘WAR TO
REMAKE THE WORLD’ PART II: EMPIRE’S LAW:
WAR, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL
LAW PART III: OCCUPATION, DEMOCRACY
AND CONTRADICTIONS OF EMPIRE IN IRAQ

Political Theologies Terror and Violence identity, religion and nuclearisation and its impact
Public Religions in a Post-Secular World Imagination and the Unimaginable on relations between both countries, and a role
[With Social Science Press] that USA might play in resolving disputes.
Edited by Andrew Strathern and Pamela
Edited by Hent de Vries, Professor of J. Stewart, both at the Department of Contents: 1. Introduction PART I. PAKISTAN:
Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, USA, and POLITICS AND KASHMIR 2. Islamic Extremism
USA, and University of Amsterdam, and Neil L. Whitehead, Professor of Anthropology and Regional Conflict in South Asia
Lawrence E. Sullivan, Professor of World and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin- 3. Constitutional and Political Change in Pakistan:
Religions, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Madison, USA The Military-Governance Paradigm 4. The Practice
of Islam in Pakistan and the Influence of Islam
This book opens an inquiry See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY on Pakistani Politics 5. Pakistan’s Relations with
concerning the engagement
2007 978-81-250-3243-4 ` 490 260pp Paperback Azad Kashmir and the Impact on Indo-Pakistani
of religion with politics. The
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seventeen papers examine
KASHMIR 6. Who Speaks for India? The Role
interrelationships between
of Civil Society in Defining Indian Nationalism
the political, economic and Yuganta 7. Hindu Nationalism and the BJP: Transforming
cultural characteristics of The End of an Epoch (Reissue) Religion and Politics in India 8. Hindu
the ‘age of globalization’ and
Irawati Karve, renowned sociologist and writer, Ethnonationalism, Muslim Jihad, and Secularism:
the vision of society and
who wrote in both English and Marathi Muslims in the Political Life of the Republic of
structures of governance
India 9. Jammu and Kashmir in the Indian Union:
developed by religious traditions while considering See GENERAL INTEREST The Politics of Autonomy PART III. INDIA AND
if religion might give people a chance to lead
2007 978-81-250-3228-1 ` 375 224pp Paperback PAKISTAN’S NUCLEAR DOCTRINES AND
better lives.
U.S. CONCERNS 10. The Stability-Instability
2007 978-81-87358-36-7 ` 795 360pp Hardback Paradox, Misperception, and Escalation-Control in
Language and Politics in South Asia 11. Pakistan’s Nuclear Doctrine
Politics of Nature Pakistan 12. Coercive Diplomacy in a Nuclear
Environment: The December 13 Crisis 13. U.S.
How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor Interests in South Asia
Bruno Latour, Professor, Institut d’etudes Contributors: Rajesh M. Basrur, Chandrashekhar
Politiques de Paris Dasgupta, Rafiq Dossani, Ainslie T. Embree,
Islamabad
See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY C. Christine Fair, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., Rifaat
This book is a study of the Hussain, Charles H. Kennedy, Michael Krepon,
2007 978-81- 250-3081-2 ` 785 320pp Paperback links between language, Peter R. Lavoy, Barbara D. Metcalf, Vali Nasr,
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Pakistan. Rahman reviews Vaidyanathan
Reinventing Public the history of all the major
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ethnic and language
Administration movements that have Rights: Restricted
The Indian Experience occurred and still continue
in Pakistan, such as the Science, Agriculture and
Bidyut Chakrabarty, Professor, Department of
Political Science, University of Delhi
Bengali, Sindhi, Pashto and Politics of Policy
Punjabi movements, to The Case of Biotechnology in India
This book outlines the historical processes name a few.
associated with the growth of public Ian Scoones, Fellow, Institute of Development
2006 978-81-250-3077-5 ` 675 340pp Paperback Studies, University of Sussex, UK
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perspectives on
administration theory. The Prospects for Peace in South 2006 978-81-250-2942-7 ` 375 432pp Paperback
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book considers the history Asia
of Indian administration Living in the Nuclear Shadow
from the colonial period to Edited by Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research
Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament
the present and also focuses Scholar, Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), (MIND)
on changes brought about Stanford University, USA, and Henry S. Rowen,
Director Emeritus, APARC 2005 978-81-250-2847-5 ` 125 56pp Paperback
by globalisation,
privatisation and structural Politics and Poetics of Water, The
This book is a collection of
adjustment on governance. This is an up-to-date The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India
thirteen essays by historians
book on public administration theory. and scholars in India and the Lyla Mehta
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Decentralisation and Local Competing Nationalisms in South Power Play
Governance Asia A Study of the Enron Project
Edited by L. C. Jain Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer Abhay Mehta
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Gender, Politics and Islam Crossing the Sacred Line
Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen and Judith Jihad Women’s Search for Political Power
Howard The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia Abhilasha Kumari and Sabina Kidwai
Ahmed Rashid 1998 978-81-250-1435-5 ` 350 240pp Hardback
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Indian Administration Textbook
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A Cross-country Comparative Study Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith
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Yoginder Sikand 1996 978-81-250-0969-6 ` 620 580pp Paperback
International Relations in India 2002 978-81-250-2298-5 ` 685 324pp Hardback
Bringing Theory Back Home In Pursuit of Lakshmi
Edited by Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth Space, Territory and the State The Political Economy of the Indian State
Mallavarapu New Readings in International Politics Lloyd I. Rudolph and S. Hoeber Rudolph
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Alok Rai
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Mallavarapu
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Community, Empire and Migration Administration, A
South Asians in Diaspora S. R. Maheshwari, National Fellow, ICSSR
PERMANENT BLACK
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1971
A Global History of the Creation of
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Illustrated by Deborah Wyrick
Defence Studies at King’s College London
See GENERAL INTEREST Jharkhand
See HISTORY
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Understanding the International Economic Army and Nation
Order
Nation and National Identity in The Military and Indian Democracy since
South Asia Independence
Robert Gilpin
S. L. Sharma and T. K. Oommen
2003 978-81-250-2306-7 ` 730 435pp Paperback Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India
2001 978-81-250-1924-4 ` 395 248pp Paperback and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political
Gujarat Carnage, The Science and International Affairs at Yale University
From Autocracy to Integration
Asghar Ali Engineer
Political Developments in Hyderabad State, Army and Nation draws on
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Lucien D. Benichou data to explore how and
India at the Polls why India has succeeded in
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Parliamentary Elections in the Federal Phase E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5469-6 keeping the military out of
politics, when so many
M. P. Singh and Rekha Saxena
Intersections other countries have failed.
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Meera Kosambi and control strategies, the
Between History and Legend careful ethnic balancing, and
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the political, foreign policy,
Ravindra K. Jain and strategic decisions that
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Wilkinson goes further to ask whether, in a rapidly
changing society, these structures will survive the

current national conflicts over caste and regional Confronting Anderson’s claim to originality, authoritarian discourses within some of the new
representation in New Delhi, as well as India’s Nivedita Menon exposes his failure to engage with social movements, his book alters the way in
external and strategic challenges. feminist, Marxist, and Dalit scholarship, arguing which we look at everyday life in the subcontinent.
that a British colonial ideology is at work in such
analyses. Partha Chatterjee studies key historical 2011 978-81-7824-340-5 ` 795 328pp Hardback
episodes to counter the ‘Great Men’ view of
Common Cause, The history, suggesting that misplaced concepts from
Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of Western intellectual history can obfuscate political Reconsidering Untouchability
Democracy understanding. Tracing their origins to the Chamars and Dalit History in North India
nineteenth-century worldview of Hegel and James
Leela Gandhi, Professor of English and Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Assistant Professor of
Mill, Sudipta Kaviraj contends that reductive
Humanities at Brown University. She is the History, University of Delaware
Orientalist tropes such as those deployed by
founding co-editor of the journal Postcolonial Anderson frequently mar European analyses of See HISTORY
Studies non-European contexts.
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that democracy is a uniquely Rights: Restricted
Western inheritance. In The Invention of Private Life,
Common Cause, Leela The Secularism, Identity, and
Gandhi recovers stories of Literature and Ideas
an alternative version. Using Enchantment
ethics as a lens, she Sudipta Kaviraj, professor of Indian politics and [With Harvard University Press]
describes a transnational intellectual history at Columbia University
Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor
history of democracy in the In The Invention of Private of Philosophy, and Director, South Asian Institute,
first half of the twentieth Life, Sudipta Kaviraj’s essays Columbia University
century. She identifies a show modern Indian
shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism, literature as reflections on
fascism, and liberalism—an ethic that excluded the The essays in this volume show him intervening
modern times, particularly of with great analytical skill as well as sagacity in the
ordinary and unexceptional. But she also illuminates their experiential interior.
an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of debates over secularism and identity politics. Of
The essays here lie at the particular interest is his recent interpretation of
anticolonial and antifascist practices devoted to intersection of three
ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from Gandhi’s moral philosophy. Bilgrami’s brilliant
disciplines: the study of critique of the orthodox Enlightenment view of a
doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma literature, social theory, and
Gandhi’s spiritual discipline. disenchanted world in the light of a reassessment
intellectual history. Kaviraj of the seventeenth-century Radical Enlightenment
2015 978-81-7824-457-0 ` 495 252pp Paperback argues that serious reflections and the tradition of Romanticism will certainly
on modernity’s predicaments and bafflements lie in draw the attention of serious readers around the
literature, proving that he is one of the most insightful
Indian Ideology , The writers on the correlation of literature with politics.
world.
Three Responses to Perry Anderson —Partha Chatterjee
Modernity introduced new literary forms—such as
the novel and the autobiography—to Indian writers. 2014 978-81-7824-385-6 ` 895 412pp Hardback
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology Rights: Restricted
and South Asian Studies, Columbia University, These became reflections on the nature of modernity.
New York, and Honorary Professor, Centre Some of the questions central to modern European
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Sudipta social theory also grew into significant themes within Writing the Mughal World
Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual Indian literary reflection. Studies in Political Culture
History at Columbia University, Nivedita Menon, 2014 978-81-7824-308-5 ` 895 376 pp Hardback
Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor
Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and
in South Asian Languages and Civilizations
Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor Green and Saffron at the University of Chicago, and Sanjay
Hindu Nationalism and Indian Subramanyam, Professor and holder of the
of Politics at the New School for Social Research,
Environmental Politics Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair of Indian History
New York
at the University of California, Los Angeles
Within the large array of Mukul Sharma
See HISTORY
responses to Marxist
This book examines
historian Perry Anderson 2014 978-81-7824-386-3 ` 595 536pp Paperback
contemporary
that appeared, three stand 2011 978-81-7824-309-2 ` 850 536pp Hardback
environmental issues and Rights: Restricted
out for the care and
movements in independent
comprehensiveness with
India on the one hand, and
which they show the levels
the development of Hindu
of ignorance, arrogance,
conservative ideology and
and misconstruction on
politics on the other. It
which the Andersonian
includes the first thorough
variety of political analysis is
investigation of Anna
based. Collectively, these
Hazare’s movement in
three ripostes represent a systematic critique of
Maharashtra. By pinpointing the communal and
the intellectual foundations of The Indian Ideology.

Citizenship and Its Animal Kingdoms Imaginary Institution of
Discontents Hunting, the Environment, and Power in India, The
An Indian History the Indian Princely States Politics and Ideas
Niraja Gopal Jayal Professor at the Centre for Julie E. Hughes, Assistant Professor of History, Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia
the Study of Law and Governance at JNU, New Vassar College, USA University
Delhi This book is about the The writings collected here
Unlike the mature democracies of the West, India hunting of tigers and range over a wide terrain,
began as a true republic of equals with a complex leopards, wild boar and including studies of the
architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive game birds by Indian princes peculiar nature of Indian
to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this a hundred years ago. democracy; the specificities
provocative biography of the defining aspiration of Informed by the analytical of the regimes of Jawaharlal
modern India, Jayal shows how the progressive approaches of Nehru and Indira Gandhi;
civic ideals embodied in the environmental historians, political culture in
constitution have been animal geographers, art Independent India; the
challenged by exclusions historians, and ecological construction of colonial
based on social and anthropologists, this book power; the relationship
economic inequality, and demonstrates that no strict divisions existed between state, society, and discourse in India; the
sometimes also, between human and animal realms in princely structure of nationalist discourse; language and
paradoxically, undermined India. Sovereigns, wild animals, and environments identity formation in Indian contexts; the relation
by its own policies of were interactive participants in the construction of of development with democracy and democratic
inclusion. territory, identity, and history. functioning; and the interface of religion, politics,
2012 978-81-7824-361-0 ` 795 340pp Hardback and modernity in South Asia.
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Empire and Nation
Lineages of Political Society
Essential Writings, 1985–2005 Islam in South Asia
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, In Practice
Studies in Postcolonial Democracy
Columbia University and honorary professor, Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emeritus of
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta History, University of California, Davis
Columbia University, and honorary professor, (Kolkata)
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta See HISTORY
(Kolkata) See HISTORY
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In this book, Partha
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of postcolonial democracy.
As against earlier ideas
Enchantment of Democracy Listening to the Loom
about the nature of Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence
democracy—which grew and India, The
predominantly out of Politics and Ideas D. R. Nagaraj, recognised as among India’s most
notions and practices in the important thinkers in the broad area of cultural
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia politics
West—Chatterjee
University
powerfully argues that the Edited by Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, social
theory now in evidence is The essays in this volume historian
not merely a record of the imperfections and try to approach Indian
immaturity of democracy in the non-Western democracy from different See HISTORY
world. On the contrary, it has devised concepts angles. Kaviraj argues that it 2012 978-81-7824-330-6 ` 750 388pp Hardback
and analytical tools to understand the formation of is wrong to believe that Rights: Restricted
new democratic practices. In doing so, it has also with the rise of modernity,
shown up histories of modern political institutions human societies suffer
which are not part of the genealogy of Western complete disenchantment: Politics as Performance
democracy. modernity creates new A Social History of the Telugu Cinema
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forms of enchantment, and S.V. Srinivas is Senior Fellow at the Centre for
2011 978-81-7824-317-7 ` 750 316pp Hardback democracy is, in fact, part of the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, and co-
the political enchantment of modernity. ordinator of the Culture: Industries and Diversity in
2012 978-81-7824-359-7 ` 395 352pp Paperback Asia (CIDASIA) research programme there.
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Trajectories of the Indian Grassroots of Democracy, The Secularizing Islamists?

State, The Field Studies of Indian Elections Jama‘at-e-Islami and Jama‘at-ud-da‘wa in
Politics and Ideas Edited by A. M. Shah, former Professor of Urban Pakistan
Sociology, University of Delhi Humeira Iqtidar, lecturer in politics, King’s
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia
See SOCIOLOGY College, London
University, New York, USA
2011 978-81-7824-319-1 ` 425 406pp Paperback This book provides a
The author reveals the
variety of historical thorough analysis of two
trajectories taken by Indian
Indian Secularism Islamist parties in Pakistan,
democracy. Indian political
A Social and Intellectual History, 1890–1950 the highly influential
structures, says Kaviraj, are Jama‘at-e-Islami and the
Shabnum Tejani, Lecturer in History, School of
comparable to the pre- more militant Jama‘at-ud-
Oriental and African Studies, University of London
modern empire-states of Da‘wa, widely blamed for
Indian and Islamic history. Shabnum Tejani shows that the study of secularism the November 2008
He shows that there is no in India has been circumscribed by the opposition terrorist attack in Mumbai.
way to examine present-day in which it exists with communalism. Scholars have Basing her findings on
politics except through treated these categories as reified wholes. ethnographic work with the
painstaking reconnections with the vernacular facts Consequently, analyses of secularism have two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar says that
of Indian political history. obscured more than they have revealed. The book these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating
examines how secularism came to be bound up secularization within Muslim societies, even as they
2012 978-81-7824-352-8 ` 395 290pp Paperback with what it meant to legitimately call oneself vehemently oppose secularism.
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Caste, Conflict, and Ideology religion. It argues that the
Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste emergence of the category War and Peace in Modern
Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India of secularism in India had India
less to do with creating an A Strategic History of the Nehru Years
Rosalind O’Hanlon, Professor of Indian History ethics of tolerance than
and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies, with a formulation of Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for
University of Oxford, UK nationalism that provided a Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in
counterpoint to challenges Defence Studies at King’s College London
See DALIT STUDIES
posed by Muslim and Untouchable communities.
2011 978-81-7824-320-7 ` 495 386pp Paperback
Languages of Belonging
Caste Question, The Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Islamism and Democracy in
Dalits and the Politics of Modern India Kashmir India
Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor of
Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and assistant
Barnard College, USA History at the College of William and Mary, USA
professor of politics in the School of Political and
See DALIT STUDIES See HISTORY Social Inquiry at Monash University in Australia
2011 978-81-7824-321-4 ` 495 414pp Paperback 2011 978-81-7824-334-4 ` 495 366pp Paperback Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the
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most influential Islamist
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Hinduism India is the first in-depth
Changing Homelands Past and Present Imaginings of India examination of India’s
Hindu Politics and the Partition of India Jamaat-e-Islami and its
Chandrima Chakraborty, Assistant Professor, offshoot, the Student Islamic
Neeti Nair, Assistant Professor of History, Department of English and Cultural Studies, Movement of India (SIMI). It
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA McMaster University, Canada explores political Islam’s
See HISTORY See HISTORY complex relationship with
democracy and gives us a rare window into one
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Muslim-minority context. Irfan Ahmad deftly traces
Partitions of Memory, The Jamaat-e-Islami’s changing position towards India’s
Empire’s Garden The Afterlife of the Division of India secular democracy and the group’s gradual
Assam and the Making of India ideological shift in the direction of religious
Suvir Kaul, Department of English, University of
Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History, pluralism and tolerance.
Pennsylvania, USA
University of Toronto 2010 978-81-7824-269-9 ` 695 328pp Hardback
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Nationalism in the Languages of Political Islam Assam and India
Vernacular in India, The Fragmented Memories, Cultural Identity,
Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian c. 1200–1800 and the Tai-Ahom Struggle
Freedom Yasmin Saikia, Assistant Professor of History,
Muzaffar Alam, Professor, Departments of
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Edited by Shobna Nijhawan, Assistant Professor, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and
Department of Languages, Literatures and History, University of Chicago, USA
Yasmin Saikia opens a new door to margins of
Linguistics, York University, Canada
See HISTORY national power, memory, and history, where most
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE people live today. Her fresh voice and engaging
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E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4 prose weave together high theory, political
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engagement, textual expertise, ethnographic detail,
personal experience, and a
Nationalization of Hindu National Flag for India, A sweeping command of
history in South Asia from
Traditions, The Arundhati Virmani, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
medieval times to the
Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth- Sciences Sociales, Marseille, France
present.… [Her book] is an
Century Banaras The long and difficult erudite evocation of the
Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi and Modern elaboration of the Indian multiple pasts of Tai-Ahom
South Asian Studies, University of California, national flag, the diverse and people struggling to invent
Berkeley, USA sometimes contrary themselves in contemporary
expectations that built up Assam, modern India, and a
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Continued from front flap Inclusion is a desired value implicit in the
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AND PUBLIC POLICY SOCIAL INCLUSION IN realisation of inclusion is often thwarted by
social exclusion in India, and

This volume will be indispensable for entrenched forces of exclusion. Here lies
students and scholars of social science, the need for conscious policy engagement
particularly sociology, social anthropology,
political science, social work and public INDEPENDENT INDIA with social inclusion.
Tellis, Sylvia Vatuk

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different dimensions of the

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concept of social inclusion in the idea of
citizenship. It is followed by an overview of
the historical context in which the larger
question of social exclusion/inclusion needs
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problem with conviction and

Problem of Caste, The
analyse social exclusion and inclusive
Modern Spirit of Asia, The

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social categories in India—Dalits, Adivasis,
backward classes, religious and linguistic
minorities, women, refugees/migrants, the
analytical rigour. The

poor, and the disabled. In the conclusion,
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India Department of Sociology, Delhi School of CMYK

overview of the historical
Peter van der Veer, Director of the Max Economics context in which the larger
Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and question of social exclusion/inclusion needs to be
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Distinguished Professor at Utrecht University in SOCIETY exclusion and inclusive policies with reference to
the Netherlands nine excluded social categories—Dalits, Adivasis,
backward classes, religious and linguistic
Caste is one of the oldest
The Modern Spirit of Asia minorities, women, refugees/migrants, the poor,
themes in the literature on
R E A D I N G S O N T H E E C O N O M Y, PO L I T Y A N D S O C I E T Y

Deshpande
Other Titles in the Series Orient BlackSwan Caste is one of the oldest concerns of
Edited by the social sciences in India that
challenges the notion that and the disabled. And the concluding chapter
class, while the third highlights the PUBLISHED continues to be relevant even today.
interplay between caste and politics. Economic Reforms and Growth in India
SATISH DESHPANDE This book tracks how scholars from
different disciplines have responded to
traditional India, and it also

Ed. Pulapre Balakrishnan
The fourth section covers old and new the caste question in independent India
challenges in law and policy. Emergent Environment, Technology and Development: Critical and Subversive Essays and highlights recent shifts in
research areas are represented in Ed. Rohan D’Souza perspective.
modernity in China and makes a case for a category-wise policy of social

section five, and section six showcases
post-Mandal innovations in caste Village Society The general perception about caste is
The Problem of Caste

claims significant space in
studies. Ed. Surinder S. Jodhka that it is an outdated concept that was
slowly but inevitably dying out until it
This transdisciplinary volume brings The Adivasi Question: Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood was revived by colonial policies and
The Problem of Caste
India are derivative

together sociologists, anthropologists, Ed. Indra Munshi promoted by vested interests and
inclusion.
political scientists, historians, electoral politics after Independence.
economists and others. It will be Women and Work However, this hegemonic perception
work on the modern period.

Ed. Padmini Swaminathan
essential reading for students and changed irrevocably in the 1990s after
scholars across these disciplines. the controversial reservations for the
Decentralisation and Local Governments: The Indian Experience
Other Backward Classes recommended
imitations of the West,

Ed. T. R. Raghunandan
by the Mandal Commission. Mandal
Satish Deshpande is Professor, Higher Education in India: In Search of Equality, Quality and Quantity triggered a new awakening by revealing
As such, it has been

Department of Sociology, Delhi School Ed. Jandhyala B. G. Tilak that only a privileged upper caste
of Economics, University of Delhi. minority believed in the declining
significance of caste—for the vast
arguing that these societies

majority of Indians caste continued to
be a crucial determinant of life
… on account of its methodological approach

opportunities.
extensively and intensively This volume collects significant

writings spanning seven decades, three
have transformed their

generations and several disciplines.
The introduction contextualises
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established perspectives in relation to
studied, both as an empirical

emergent concerns, and is followed by
forty essays organised into six sections.
The first section offers a sample of
ancient traditions in unique

ISBN 978 81 250 5501 3 disciplinary responses ranging from

sociology to law. The second explores
phenomenon and as a and students of sociology, social anthropology and

the relationship between caste and
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and distinctive ways. Peter

civilisational idea. This political science…. The importance of a work like

van der Veer begins with this is immense in the current juncture in Indian
volume brings together essays by well-known
nineteenth-century imperial polity, when the constitutional framework is being
sociologists, political scientists and historians
history, exploring how Western concepts of challenged from different quarters and by varied
which highlight contemporary concerns on caste,
spirituality, secularity, religion, and magic were vested interests….
while also giving space to long-established
used to translate the traditions of India and China. ---Frontline
perspectives in order to offer the reader a sense of
He traces how modern Western notions of
the shifts that have occurred.
religion and magic were incorporated into the Contents: Introduction 1. Exclusion/Inclusion
respective nation-building projects of Chinese and Contents: PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES in Colonial India: Ideological Predilections and
Indian nationalist intellectuals, yet how modernity PART II: CASTE AND CLASS PART III: CASTE Conceptual Confusions 2. Dalits: Congenital
in China and India is by no means uniform. AND POLITICS PART IV: CASTE, STATE AND Victims of Attributed Low Ritual Status in Caste
LAW PART V: CASTE AND GENDER PART VI: Hierarchy 3. Adivasis: Denial of Territorial
Contents: Introduction 1. Spirituality in Modern Autonomy and Cultural Marginalisation 4. Other
CONTEMPORARY EXPLORATIONS
Society 2. The Making of Oriental Religion 3. Backward Classes: Partial Exclusion Leading
Conversion to Indian and Chinese Modernities Contributors: K. Balagopal, André Béteille, Anand to Status Incongruence 5. Religious Minorities:
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Neoliberalism in the Water Rekha Raj, Mohan Ram, SharmilaRege, Kumkum Disabled: Inclusion sans Dignity? 11. Refugees,
Sector Roy, Anandhi S., Padmanabh Samarendra, Sundar Foreigners, Outsiders and North-East India: Need
Complicating the Story of ‘Reforms’ Sarukkai, K. Satyanarayana, Ghanshyam Shah, D. for Differing Approaches for Social Inclusion
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Street Corner Secrets Contents: Introduction PART I: THE POLITICS Education of Tibetan Refugees 4. Educational
Sex, Work, and Migration in the City of OF DEVELOPMENT 1. The Challenge of Land Experiences 5. Tibetan Youth: Education,
Reforms and Social Transformation in Bihar Identities, Aspirations and Opportunities in
Mumbai
2. Agrarian Relations in a Village in Bihar 3. The Exile 6. Conclusion
Svati P. Shah, Associate Professor in the Rhetoric of Development in Contemporary
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Department of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Bihar 4. River Valley Projects of North Bihar and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5604-1
at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Indo-Nepalese Aspirations 5. Social Inclusion:
Perspectives from Top-down and Bottom-up
Street Corner Secrets
Approaches in Rural and Urban Bihar PART II: Writings of A. M. Shah, The
challenges widespread The Household and Family in India
POLITICS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 6. Transformation
notions of sex work in India
of Subject into Political Subject: Maale in South
by examining solicitation in A. M. Shah retired as Professor of Sociology,
Bihar Plains 7. Naxalism, Caste-based Militia and
three spaces within the city Department of Sociology, University of Delhi
Human Security: Lessons from Bihar 8. Inter-
of Mumbai where sexual
subjectivity to Consensus? Engendering Rural This volume brings together
commerce may be solicited
Local Governance in Bihar 9. Power and Influence
Continued from front flap Shah brings to bear his rootedness in meticulous fieldwork, looking at practice
rather than at norms and factoring in historical change. . . . In the confused
the seminal contributions of
Orient BlackSwan
This volume brings together the seminal
alongside other income-

contributions of Professor A. M. Shah to
debates of the mid-twentieth century on family typology, he brought clarity
the study of the family and household in
and incisiveness, helping to free the field from the overbearing Indological
of State-level Leadership in Contemporary India:

India. The Household Dimension of the
distinguished sociologist
The collection will be valuable to students overhang. . . .
THE WRITINGS of A. M. Shah

Kamala Ganesh, Professor of Sociology, University of Mumbai Family in India begins with a micro-study
of family and kinship, and to sociologists,
of households in a Gujarat village, going on
social anthropologists and demographers
generating activities. These

A. M. Shah’s contribution represents a tour de force in the study of household to discuss broader theoretical issues
more generally. It will also be useful to and family in India. . . . he has sharply delineated structure, process and change attending the sociological study of the
policy makers, NGOs and institutions in the domestic group with exemplary clarity and scholarship. . . .
Nitish Kumar and the Politics of Bihar 10. Politics in

Indian family. Shah challenges through
Professor A. M. Shah to the

involved in the collection of statistical data Ravindra K. Jain, Former Professor and Dean, School of Social Sciences
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi painstaking observation and analysis the
on the family.
entrenched stereotypes surrounding the
spaces—brothels, streets,
A. M. Shah is unarguably a pioneer in the study of family and household in India. 'traditional' Indian joint family and its fate
. . . It is his insistence on keeping theory empirically grounded that makes him a in a modernising society. Using rigorous,
A. M. Shah retired as Professor, meticulous and exacting researcher—a model that new generations of scholars
Bihar: Is there a Shift from Caste to Development?

empirically grounded conceptual
study of the family and

Department of Sociology, University of would do well to emulate.
vocabularies, the book tracks the
Delhi, in 1996. Ravinder Kaur, Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi formation and organisation of the
and public day-wage labour

household as it actually exists in practice
A. M. Shah has been one of the leaders in sociological research on India for among differently placed social groups and
most of the last 50 years. . . . It is of immense value to have available once
11. Muslim Communities and the Politics of Social

at various points in time.
household in India. The

again his path-breaking study of the household dimension of the Hindu family.
His writing is marked by commendable precision and is pregnant with fresh
The Family in India: Critical Essays
insights. . . .
markets (nakas)—are seldom placed within the

T. N. Madan, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Institute of Economic Growth addresses a wide range of theoretical,
University of Delhi, and Adjunct Fellow methodological and policy issues, including
Justice: Bihar, 1990–2010 PART III: TEXT AND

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi chapters on inter-household relations, the
THE WRITINGS Household Dimension of the

changing structure of lineage organisation,
Shah explodes resilient myths in the study of the Indian family. . . . [He] further caste endogamy and spouse selection, and
flags newer issues concerning the social reality of the household vis-à-vis the
same analytic frame. Focusing on women who had

Indian family policy.
poverty line, the elderly in the family, household headship and a range of
conjugal and other family emotions.
FOLK NARRATIVES 12. Crossing the Borders:

Tulsi Patel, Professor, Department of Sociology Finally, in three more recent essays, Shah
Family in India, widely

University of Delhi explores the effects of changes in the
Of A. M. Shah family on the elderly, explains the
migrated to Mumbai from rural, economically

relevance of census data for studies of the
household, and comments on the current
Bhagait Folk Ballad Tradition of Bihar, Uttar

state of family studies in India from the
recognised as a turning point

perspective of his many decades of
The Household and engagement with the field.

ISBN 978 81 250 5340 8
underdeveloped areas within India, the author Cover image: Original painting by K. R. Santhana Krishnan
Reproduced by permission of the artist Orient BlackSwan
9 788125 053408
Family in India
Pradesh and Nepal, 13. Purnea: Landscape of Cul in our understanding of the
Cover design: OSDATA, Hyderabad Shah: The Writings of A. M. Shah Continued on back flap
argues that selling sexual services is one of a

de Sac Indian family when it first
number of ways women working as labourers may
appeared in 1973, remains an indispensable text in
earn a living, demonstrating that sex work, like day Contributors: Anamika Priyadarshini, Ashutosh
the field today. The Family in India: Critical Essays,
labour, is a part of India’s vast informal economy. Kumar, Badri Narayan, D. K. Mishra, Dipankar
first published in 1998, covers a wide range of
Bhattacharya, Gaurang Sahay, Manish K. Jha,
Contents: 1. Day Wage Labor and Migration: theoretical, methodological, substantive and policy
Manjula Bharthy, Meera Tiwari, Mohammed Sajjad,
Making Ends Meet 2. Sex, Work, and Silence from issues relating to the family. Finally, three more
Pushpendra, Sadan Jha, Sanjay Kumar
the Construction Workers’ Naka 3. Sex Work and recent contributions by Professor Shah are
the Street 4. Red-Light Districts, Rescue, and Real 2014 978-81-250-5567-9 ` 925 368pp Hardback reproduced here, including a 2005 essay in which
Estate Conclusion Agency, Livelihoods, and Spaces he reviews the state of family studies in India from
the perspective of his many decades of close
2014 978-81-250-5628-7 ` 785 296pp Hardback Tibetan Refugees in India engagement with the field.
Rights: Restricted Education, Culture and Growing Up in
Exile
… the book raises several methodological
Traversing Bihar Mallica Mishra, Post-Doctoral Research and conceptual issues in the study of family,
The Politics of Development and Social Fellow, International Migration Unit,Centre for particularly, Indian joint family…. Worth reading
Justice Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala by every social scientist who teaches Indian family,
[With Tata Institute of Social Sciences] and even by teachers of family law.
This volume looks at the lives
Edited by Manish K. Jha, Professor and of Tibetan refugees in India and ---Sociological Bulletin
Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation the policies of the governments
With a Foreword by Patricia Uberoi
and Development Practice, School of Social (Indian and Tibetan) regarding
Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), their education in India. Contents: Introduction, BOOK ONE: The
Mumbai, and Pushpendra, Professor, Centre Education for the Tibetan Household Dimension of the Family in India: A
for Community Organisation and Development community, recognised as one Field Study in a Gujarat Village and a Review of
Practice, School of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai of the most ‘successful’ refugee Other Studies, Foreword by M. N. Srinivas
communities in the world, is an PART I: THE HOUSEHOLD IN A GUJARAT
This volume depicts and
important ingredient that helps VILLAGE PART II: THE STUDY OF THE
rom Orient BlackSwan
interprets Bihar’s internal

PUSHPENDRA
For a curious onlooker, Bihar is a perfect

example of a house full of paradoxes. It is a
to protect and preserve their HOUSEHOLD AND RELATED DIMENSIONS OF

STUDIES IN POLITICS state that has a rich cultural heritage from the
ring Sites, Selves, Power civilisation past, but until recently, it evoked an
Traversing
JHA
n, Aditya Nigam and Sanjay Palshikar image of ‘uncultured’, ‘primordial’ and ‘rustic’
contradictions and struggles.

in the civilisation present.
ERED CITIZENSHIP
Traversing Bihar depicts and interprets the
traditions as well as engage with the modern world. THE FAMILY IN INDIA Annotated Bibliography,
and Conceptual Explorations
Bihar
Anupama Roy internal contradictions and struggles of Bihar’s
society, politics and economy. The volume
The volume examines and

L O G Y, E C O N O M Y
examines and analyses crucial political, social
and developmental concerns of the state over
Socially Informed Connection
the past two decades. The paradigm of ‘social
The book looks at the dilemmas that the

jay Dandekar and Jeemol Unni
BOOK TWO: The Family in India: Critical Essays,

justice’ and ‘development’ has dominated the
political discourse in Bihar since the 1990s.
L F C O N N E C T I O N , 1998–2011
analyses crucial political,

Traversing Bihar
However, a chasm rather than harmony

nd Social Impact of Migration
between these two continues to polarise the
chariah and S. Irudaya Rajan
masses and Bihar’s politics.
PHY AND DEMOCRACY

ationalism, Gender and Ideology
Between 1990 and 2005, Bihar, under its chief
ministers Lalu Prasad Yadav and his wife Rabri
community grapples with in trying to achieve a BOOK THREE: Essays on the Elderly and Family
social, and developmental
Himani Bannerji Devi, had witnessed a social churning called
the politics of social justice. The state ushered
in a process of de-elitisation of politics with far-
The
balance of ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ in education Studies
reaching consequences. However, Yadav’s
regime increasingly became narrow based in
concerns of the state over

POLITICS of DEVELOPMENT terms of caste and class composition. Besides, it
was in-orderly and failed to combine change
and SOCIAL JUSTICE and development.
In 2005, the people voted for a second change

and brought Nitish Kumar-led JDU-BJP
and the strategies it has evolved to deal with the
the past two decades. The
gns
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coalition to power. It restored the state—the
police, the quiescent bureaucracy, rules and
issue.
regulations. It gave a perceptible impression
edited by that concerted efforts were being made to
improve the climate of development in the
paradigm of ‘social justice’

MANISH K. JHA and PUSHPENDRA state.
versing Bihar Continued on back flap
and ‘development’ has

dominated the political … [this volume] helps us think through the
discourse in Bihar since 1990s. However, a chasm problematic relation between refugee education,
rather than harmony between these two continues on the one hand, and culture, ethnicity and
to polarise the masses and Bihar’s politics. The 13 opportunity, on the other.
chapters examine issues such as decentralized ---Sociological Bulletin
governance, Leadership, social exclusion, flood Contents:1. An Introduction 2. Tibetan Refugees
response, land rights to name a few. in India: Context and Experiences 3. Policies on

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Writings of D. N. Abridged Contents: Introduction Contents: Introduction 1. The state of Banni, the
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Dhanagare, The Imaginaries Section II: Diasporic Realities and Asli Shafaqat: The ‘Essence’ of Being Sindhi and Muslim
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Discourses in Indian Sociology Aspiration and Entrepreneurship
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5. Beyond the Otaak: The Women of Banni
D. N. Dhanagare, National Fellow, Indian
6. ‘Miskin Jee Ker Sunando?’ (Who Will Listen to the
Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla
Global Issues, Local Poor?): The Story of the Wadhas Epilogue
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---Sociological Bulletin Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, Professor at the National Narratives of Health and Illness
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(NUEPA), New Delhi
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of Social Systems, School of Social Sciences, Memories and Movements health which goes beyond
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch, the patients and their immediate families to include
Gujarat midwives, traditional healers, complementary and
This collection of essays
examines the concept of Rita Kothari, Associate Professor, Humanities and alternative medical practitioners, and health
diaspora, considering its Social Sciences Department, IIT, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. workers, to name a few. Bringing together essays
cultural, economic, by well-known scholars, this volume is an
geographical, political and The Banni grasslands situated in indispensable read for students and scholars of
social dimensions, and northern Kutch in Gujarat, lie medical sociology/ anthropology, sociology/
focuses on the Indian on the Indo-Pak border. Its anthropology of health and illness, public health,
diaspora. It also examines unique, layered society is home narrative theory, social work and nursing studies.
issues of displacement and to diverse communities; while
Muslim pastoralists form the Abridged Contents: Introduction Section I:
resettlement, and of the Voices from the Margin: Health Providers and
creation of a distinctly majority here, it is also home to
Dalit Hindus, and a community Healers Section II: “Doing” Health: Stories of
socio-religious Indian community. Health and Illness Section III: Narrative Approach
that is neither Hindu nor
An invaluable resource for students of modern Muslim. An ethnographic to Mental Health: Two Contrasting Case Studies
Indian history, politics and sociology, this account of the Banni society, Appendix. Facing a catastrophic illness: Lessons
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researchers enquiring into multicultural ties,
and policy makers concerned with international With a Foreword by Urvashi Butalia
relations.

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(Second Edition) Diaspora Citizenship
Clarence Maloney served as Associate Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad Contested Transitions in South Africa and
Professor of Anthropology in several universities India
Sarah Lamb, Associate Professor of
in USA and Bangladesh. Most recently, he served
Anthropology, Brandeis University, USA Edited by Tina Uys, Professor, Department of
in Afghanistan as Capacity Building Specialist in
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Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood
and India. The analyses are
Smitha Radhakrishnan, Associate Professor of
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND grounded in empirical
Sociology, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
SOCIETY illustrations using case
Appropriately Indian is an studies that cover a wide
Indra Munshi, retired as Professor of Sociology, ethnographic analysis of range of issues and
University of Bombay information technology contexts. These case studies
The volume drawn from the professionals at the are important in their own right as they provide
writings of almost four symbolic helm of globalising fresh information and insights into the transitions
decades, discuss the India. Comprising a small in India and South Africa.
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management of forests, the transnational knowledge social contexts, richness of first-hand lived
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SCARCITY, INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS MAINSTREAM VERSUS MARGINAL IN
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Populist Social Mobilisation and the Hindi India: Resilience, Revitalisation and Reintegration
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Cleveland State University, USA Middle-Class Moralities
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Everyday Struggles over Belonging and
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scientific management and human relations.
Medical Pluralism in Minna Saavala examines the
creation of middle-class
[An] extremely useful compilation of various Contemporary India identities, practices and the
issues that affect the working class and that
Edited by V. Sujatha, Associate Professor, Centre politics of the everyday in a
collectively result in imbalanced and insecure
for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru dialogue that involves other
employment relations, thereby giving rise to
University, New Delhi and Leena Abraham, social categories and an
skewed industrial relations and industrial sociology
Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in the imaginary West. Drawing
in contemporary times.
Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social upon ethnographic and
—Institute for Human Development
Sciences, Mumbai interview material,
Contents: Introduction 1. Industrialisation and Middle-Class Moralities
This volume questions the studies these processes in
Social Change 2. Social Organisation of Industry
received view of indigenous the spheres of family relations, leisure, food,
3. Workers’ Participation in Management and Self-
systems of medicine as housing and religion.
Management 4. Trade Unions 5. Labour Movement
cultural vestiges of a
in India 6. Informal Employment 7. Globalisation
traditional past. It explores Contents: 1. Paradoxes of Control:
and Reorganisation of Work 8. International
the reasons behind the Reproduction, Morality and Marriage 2. Middle-
Labour Standards and Decent Work
enduring presence of health class Forms of Relatedness 3. Imagined Worlds:
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ayurveda, siddha and unani. Difference, Claiming Belonging: Morality and the
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Fellow, Institute of Development Studies, medical knowledge, and the commercialisation and 2010 978-81-250-3789-7 ` 675 236pp Hardback
University of Sussex, UK globalisation of indigenous medicines.
Scarcity is made out to be Contents: PART I: KNOWLEDGE AND Modern Migrations

an all-pervasive fact of our SOCIETY: ANCIENT MEDICINE IN THE Gujarati Indian Networks in New York and
lives – be it of housing, CONTEMPORARY SET-UP 1. Contrasting London
food, water or oil. It is Approaches to Health and Disease: Ayurveda
widely used as an and Biomedicine 2. Ayurveda in the Twenty- Maritsa V. Poros, Assistant Professor of
explanation for social first Century: Logic, Practice and Ethics 3. The Sociology, The City College of New York, The
organisation and conflict, Patient as Knower: Principle and Practice in Graduate Center, City University of New York
and the resource crunch Siddha Medicine PART II: MEDICINE, STATE This book reveals the inner
confronting humanity’s AND SOCIETY 4. AYUSH and Public Health: workings of Gujarati
survival on the planet. In Democratic Pluralism and the Quality of Health networks and how these
this volume, theoretical and Services 5. Tension, Placation, Complaint: Unani networks relate to
empirical chapters by leading academics and and Post-Colonial Medical Communalism PART migration flows. It examines
scholar activists examine scarcity debates across III: AWAY FROM THE STATE: INITIATIVES the kinds of ties prevalent in
food, water and energy and their implications for OF PRACTITIONERS AND PROTAGONISTS the different niches that
theory, institutional arrangements, policy 6. Competing for Medical Space: Traditional Gujaratis occupy in the
responses and innovation systems. Practitioners in the Transmission and Promotion economies of New York
of Siddha Medicine 7. Medicine as Culture: and London, from
Abridged Contents: PART I: WHY DOES Indigenous Medicine in Cosmopolitan Mumbai shopkeepers to diamond
SCARCITY MATTER? PART II: ECONOMICS PART IV: COMPETING INDIGENITIES: dealers and doctors.
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Understanding Caste Women and Work
... a significant contribution in the area of From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond
international migration studies.... SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
Gail Omvedt, former Chair Professor, SOCIETY
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Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and
Knowledge and Action Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor
Development, Indira Gandhi National Open
University, New Delhi of Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Contents: Preface 1. Gujarati Indian Networks in
Mumbai
New York and London 2. From Arab Dhows to
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Muslim Becoming HISTORY survival which has been
Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan denied to them so long; to
Rajib Dasgupta, Associate Professor, Centre of adequate rewards for their
Naveeda Khan, Assistant Professor of
Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal labour which they do not enjoy; and, to a share of
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the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru CONSEQUENCES FOR WORK
Department of Anthropology, North Eastern Hill
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student, Social Anthropology, School of Advanced This volume presents a set of Deepita Chakravarty, Ishita Chakravarty, Prem
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California State University, Monterey Bay, migration, discrimination and use of common property
Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Associate Professor of
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History, University of Delhi
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done—on rural society.
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Dalit Personal Narratives Indian Diaspora in the education, poverty, the
Reading Caste, Nation and Identity United States Human Development Index,
Brain Drain or Gain? self-employment vis-à-vis
wage employment, the
English, University of Delhi
Anjali Sahay, Assistant Professor of Political function of multiculturalism
See DALIT STUDIES Science and International Relations, Gannon in preserving the solidarity
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Hindutva and its ideological
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implications, and other
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issues.
approach from the
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Essays on Nationalism, Gender and Ideology at international migration
from India. The author Selected Contents: Preface. 1. Beyond
Himani Bannerji, Professor of Sociology, York
states that home countries Liberalisation: Social Opportunity and Human
University, Ontario, Canada
not only benefit in the form Capability Amartya Sen 2. Human Development
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION of remittances, investments Paradigm for South Asia Mahbub ul Haq
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Dubai for their home countries. Future of the Indian Past Romila Thapar 8. The Idea
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and domestic service needed to keep the emirate India A Select Bibliography of the English and
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economic and sexual exploitation that erected this
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Society Valerie Raoul, Jani de Silva, Sunera Thobani,
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Are Knudsen, Research Director, Chr. P. Gisbert, former Professor and Head of the
schooling practices as a means for the further
Michelson Institute, Bergen, Norway Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College,
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AND THE EXPERIENCE OF IDENTITY PART III:
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Select Contents: PART I: of globalization in India. Towards a Critical Medical
THE ROOTS OF SOCIAL Popular discourses draw a
LIFE 1. Sociology and the contrast between
Practice
Social Sciences 2. Social “midnight’s children”, who
Reflections on the Dilemmas of Medical
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5. The State 6. The consumerist. Through a Critical Humanities, English and Foreign Languages
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CHANGE 15. Natural and Social Selection Gender and Consumption 3. Romancing the
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5. Education, Caste, and the Secular Epilogue: Edited by Achin Vanaik, Profesor, Department
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Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University, Health, University of Iowa, Iowa City
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comparative aspects of caste and race, including Gift of English, The Low and Licentious Europeans
conundrums of a globalized discourse and national English Education and the Formation of Race, Class and ‘White Subalternity’ in
problematics of racism and casteism.
Alternative Hegemonies in India Colonial India
Abridged Contents: PART I: CASTE AND Harald Fischer Tiné, Professor of History, ETH
Alok Mukherjee, Department of South Asian
RACE PART II: DURBAN 2001 AND AFTER Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of) Switzerland
and Indian Cultures, York University, Toronto
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(Revised Edition) Macroeconomic and Social Policies for Body, City and Memory in a Global
Equitable Growth Religious Movement
Krishna Kumar, Professor, Central Institute of
Education, University of Delhi Santosh Mehrotra, human development economist Smriti Srinivas, Associate Professor of
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Flaming Feet and Other prose, women also created Indian Secularism
a parallel reform discourse A Social and Intellectual History,
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Senake Bandaranayake
migrated from the countryside to the urban areas response to them.
in search of jobs. This is a collection of nine articles addressing
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5334-7
theoretical issues, hypotheses, generalisations,
in the study of the material remains of Sri
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5396-5 Lanka’s historical civilisation. They deal with a Crocodile Fever
variety of subjects: from the agrarian transition Wildlife Adventures in New Guinea
of protohistoric times to periodization of Sri
Civilising Natures Lanka’s historical trajectory to hypotheses on R. Whitaker started India’s first snake park and
Race, Resources and Modernity in Colonial unity and differentiation in an attempt to locate now lives at the Crocodile Bank in Chennai, South
South India the specificity of the Sri Lankan tradition in a India, where he is involved in conservation work
matrix of Monsoon Asian cultures; from the and documentary film-making, Z. Whitaker is a
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN teacher and writer
categorisation of the Sri Lankan social formation
HISTORY
to the study of patterns and semiotics of power Crocodile Fever is at once a travelogue, a fascinating
Kavita Philip is currently Associate Professor of and authority in architectural planning; from the adventure story and an authentic record of little-
Women’s Studies at the University of California, critique of diffusionism to the social dimension known information about the wildlife and the
Irvine in the production and consumption of art and people of Papua New Guinea. It records the two
ornamentation. years the authors spent in Papua New Guinea and
Why and how has science so powerfully shaped
both the common sense of individuals and the Continuities and Transformations is a contribution to describes their incredible, moving and sometimes
development of postcolonial states? Philip suggests the study of historical dynamics. Proceeding from hilarious experiences in strange and beautiful
that our ideas of race and resources are key. an archaeological perspective, it presents Sri Lanka places. The text is richly interspersed with vivid
as ‘an island laboratory for studying historical colour as well as black and white photographs,
Civilising Natures tells us how race and nature illustrations and maps.
change.’
are fundamental to understanding colonial
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4626-4
modernities, and along the way, it complicates E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5393-4
our understandings of the relationships between
science and religion, pre-modern and civilised,
Cooking the U.P. Way Cultural History of Early
environment and society.
Niru Gupta
South Asia
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5468-9
Shonaleeka Kaul
This cookbook introduces the reader to the
Combating Corruption culinary delights of Uttar Pradesh—both
Art can also be perceived as apowerful process
of communication and meaning other than being
The Indian Case vegetarian and non-vegetarian. The latter evolved
treated as mere ‘heritage’ of the past. This is one
mainly during the times of the Luckhnavi nawabs,
Yogesh Atal, Professor Emeritus, Madhya of the important issues that author Shonaleeka
reflecting their epicurean lifestyle. The book is
Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research, Kaul sheds light on in Cultural History of Early
well-written and even the most exotic recipe
Sunil K. Choudhary, teacher, Political Science in South Asia. The book provides an all-inclusive look
seems easy enough for beginners. There are
Shyamlal College (Evening), University of Delhi into the diverse forms of arts, wherein arts are
personal glimpses about the recipes and anecdotes
investigated as objects of aesthetic enjoyment,
This volume provides a glimpse into the increasing which liven up the book.
but also as creations of rhetorical or philosophical
levels of corruption in the higher echelons of moment. Maintaining a broad chronological order,
politics and bureaucracy in post-Independence E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5185-5
the book takes into account the earliest specimens
India, and popular struggles and legislative/ of cultural expression like the prehistoric rock
administrative measures to combat it.It traces the
emergence of anti-corruption movements, also
Crisis as Conquest paintings of Bhimbetka; the ornaments of the
Learning from East Asia Harappan culture; the frescoes and rock-cut
discussing the protests led by Anna Hazare and temples of Ajanta and Ellora; the PaliJatakas, and
Baba Ramdev and the rise of the Arvind Kejriwal- Jayati Ghosh, Associate Professor of South Asian folklore.
led Aam Aadmi Party. Economics at the Centre for Economic Studies
and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University and See HISTORY
Identifying the traditional sources of corruption,
C. P. Chandrasekhar, Professor at the Centre E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5601-0
the authors show how the problem manifests
for Economic Studies and Planning,
itself in the social, economic and political contexts
Jawaharlal Nehru University
peculiar to India. Days of the Beloved,The
To what extent does the East Asian experience
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBIC ADMINISTRATION Harriet Ronken Lynton, former member of the
provide us with a viable model of economic
AND PUBLIC POLICY faculty of the Harvard Business School and author
development? This tract seeks to answer this
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5603-4 through a careful analysis of the long-term of several books and case books on Organizational
development of the East Asian economies Behavior, Mohini Rajan, granddaughter of the
and their recent crisis. The tract shows the man who was Kotwal to Osman Ali Khan Nizam
contradictory implications of the process of VII of Hyderabad, was familiar with many of the
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families who appear in this book and interviewed to Ireland and Australia and elsewhere across in Kathakali. It attempts as wide a coverage as
their surviving members the imperial map, and in topic from economic, would be relevant and useful to students, scholars
political, and social to medical, legal, and cultural and enthusiasts of the art for whom it is chiefly
Hyderabadis still remember the reign of Mahbub
concerns. intended. Explanations are simple and where
Ali Pasha as a golden age in the history of their
necessary, clearly illustrated.
city. Mahbub, beloved of his people, who ruled This is history at the cutting edge, an important
Hyderabad at the turn of the twentieth century, contribution to the ongoing debate about empire E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4798-8 Rights: Restricted
became a legend in his generosity and benevolent and its consequences.
concern for his subjects. Weaving together
See HISTORY Differences within
memories, stories and anecdotes, historical facts
and archival source material, this book paints a E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5245-6 Consensus
loving picture of life at various levels in this elegant The Left-Right Divide in the Congress
city, and of Mahbub Ali Pasha himself, who, like a
fairy-tale prince, mixed with the common people,
Delhi City Guide Reba Som
sharing their joys and sorrows.
New Delhi City map and guide The decade 1929–39 saw the steady coalescing of
Cartography Department, Orient BlackSwan the ‘right’ wing point of view within the Congress
See HISTORY
leadership. The book focuses on this left-right
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4652-3
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5168-8 encounter, identifies the composition of the two
groups, studies the social background of the chief
Decentralisation and Local Demon on the Hill, The spokesmen on both sides, distinguishes their
broad points of view on key issues, and analyses
Governments Shanta Rameshwar Rao writes for both their interaction within the overall consensus
The Indian Experience children and adults. She is best known for her framework of the Congress. Meticulously
retelling of myths and legends researched and lucidly written, this study throws
Edited by T. R. Raghunandan, former Joint
Atanu Roy, illustrator, artist and cartoonist has light on the decade that proved critical in
Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj
illustrated over 100 books for children determining the socio-economic direction adopted
by post-independence India under Prime Minister
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND In a dark, gloomy cave, upon a high, steep hill, Jawaharlal Nehru.
SOCIETY lived the wicked demon Bhasmasura. Such was his
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5470-2
The idea of devolving power to local governments magical power, that if he touched anyone’s head,
was part of the larger political debate during the the person turned to ash and fell down dead!
Indian national movement. It had strong advocates
“Who’ll help us,” the people cried.
Digital Cool
like Mahatma Gandhi who felt that the panchayats Life in the Age of New Media
had to be the basis of government in independent A small voice spoke up, “To the demon, Bhasma,
India. This volume maps the trajectory that please let me go. I know what to do, I’m sure I Pramod K. Nayar teaches at the Department of
decentralisation of government has taken in the know.” English, University of Hyderabad
decades following Independence and discusses This book examines life in the age of New
the constitutional changes and policy decisions “Oh Mohini, you foolish child! How can you save
us from Bhasma, the wild?” Media. From Facebook to internet dating, from
that make governance more accountable to and ‘condensed’ networked cities to mobile phones,
accessible for the common man. It presents a set But Mohini shook her head, she listened to no from iPads to iPhones, transgenic art to robotics,
of twenty-five readings that analyze the impact of one. And, off she went—over the mountains and Twitter and cyberspace avatars to Wikis—it traces
the 73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments, hills; till she came to the cave, ghostly and chill. how human lives are not only heavily mediated
which gave autonomy to the institutions of both by ‘Cool’ technologies, but how the technologies
rural and urban governance. Read this story in verse to discover how clever
themselves are mediated by human lives.
Mohini killed Bhasmasura.
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBIC ADMINISTRATION See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
AND PUBLIC POLICY
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4743-8
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4829-9
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5847-2
Dictionary of Bharata Natya,
A Dishonoured by History
Decentring Empire ‘Criminal Tribes’ and British Colonial
Britain, India and the Transcolonial World U. S. K. Rao, an exponent and teacher of Policy
Bharatanatyam for forty years
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY Meena Radhakrishna, Department of Sociology,
The dictionary is a response to a long-felt need Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
Durba Ghosh, Assistant Professor of History
of students, scholars and aficionados of the art
at Cornell University and Dane Kennedy, This path-breaking study traces the history and
for a comprehensive coverage of the terminology
Elmer Louis Kayser Professor of History and implications of the Criminal Tribes Act. Focusing
peculiar to BharataNatya.
International Affairs at George Washington on the itinerant trading community of Koravas
University in Washington, D.C. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5337-8 Rights: Restricted
in colonial Madras, the author shows how the
Decentring Empire brings together thirteen original colonial administration’s traditional prejudice
essays by some of the leading scholars of British Dictionary of Kathakali, A against gypsies combined with realpolitik and a
imperialism, their contributions offered in honour need for wage workers resulted in the category
K. P. S. Menon, well-known author of books on ‘hereditary criminal’.
of Thomas R. Metcalf, the distinguished historian
art and literature
of colonial India. The essays range widely in See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
scope, moving in time from the mid-eighteenth This book, perhaps the first illustrated dictionary
to the mid-twentieth century, in space from India of its kind, is a compilation of the terms used E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5331-6

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Down Melody Lane communities, and the immeasurable damage to Elements of Educational
India’s ecosystems and resource base.
G. N. Joshi Psychology
A dazzling array of the great names of Indian H. R. Bhatia
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5504-4
music comes to life in this book. Lively anecdotes,
Explaining the broad facts and principles of
revealing personal glimpses, reflect G.N. Joshi’s
Educational Psychology, this book forms an
close association with the most famous musicians of Economic Reforms and indispensable text for those preparing for the
India. G.N. Joshi spent most of his working life with
the Gramophone Company of India, after leaving his
Growth in India teaching profession. Several mental activities
and functions and the growth and development
first profession, the law. He also submerged his own SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND of the child are discussed in the context of the
great talents and recognition as a singer in the task SOCIETY educational situation of Indian schools. The
of obtaining for posterity the immortal recordings
sections on intelligence and personality tests have
of the great musicians described in this book. In Edited by Pulapre Balakrishnan,
been written entirely in the light of new findings in
many cases, his recordings are now the only live Director, Centre for Development Studies,
psychology.
contact we have with the great ones’ musical skills. Thiruvananthapuram
Here he also tells, humorously and lovingly, of the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5087-2
This volume investigates the nature of economic
kind of people he found the musicians to be, and growth in India, its pace over time, its relationship
the circumstances, sometimes amusing, sometimes
deeply touching, in which the recordings were
to changes in the policy regime and the role of Engaging with the World
the external sector. This is an important addition Critical Reflections on India’s Foreign
made. to the literature on post-liberalisation economic Policy
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4621-9 growth in India. It will be useful to students and
scholars of economics and management. Edited by Rajen Harshe, Professor of
International Relations, Department of Political
Duty, Destiny and Glory See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES Science, University of Hyderabad, and
The Life of C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5336-1 K. M. Seethi, Reader, School of International
Relations, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam
A. Raghu, Associate Professor of English, Thangal
Kunju Musaliar College of Arts and Science, Education and Social Change This contains twenty-four papers by some of the
Kollam, Kerala prominent academicians and diplomats on major
in South Asia areas as well as some of the dominant concerns of
C. P. Ramaswami Aiyar, famously known as C.P.,
Edited by Krishna Kumar, Professor of India’s foreign policy.
became one of India’s greatest constitutional
lawyers, a passionate general secretary of the Education, University of Delhi and former See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
Indian National Congress, a loyal dewan of the Director of NCERT, and Joachim Oesterheld, AND PUBLIC POLICY
princely state of Travancore and vice-chancellor of Guest Professor of Contemporary South Asian
History, Humboldt University, Berlin E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5341-5
two different universities simultaneously. A. Raghu
presents C.P.’s life through the diligent execution The book focuses on the relationship between
of his duties; an obedient son, a nurturing senior the state and society of South Asian countries, Engendering Individuals
lawyer, a lieutenant in the Besantine Congress especially in the field of primary education. Taking
faction, an administrator dedicated to nation J. Devika, Research Associate at the Centre for
into consideration the complexity of societies of Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
building and social reform, and an academic in South Asian countries, it looks at the social and
relentless pursuit of intellectual excellence. And political implications arising out of the educational This book explores how, in early modern
this glory—with its accompanying very human policy of the state for the process of nation Malayalee society, the emerging notion of the
failings—has been told with an elegance that is too building. individual (as distinct from an identity based on jati,
charming to miss. region etc.) was linked to the vision of a society
See EDUCATION AND PSYCHOLOGY based on gender differences. The book explores
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5330-9 how social reform, notions of the individual,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5932-5 and the creation of a ‘gendered’ individual came
together in early modern Kerala.
Eighteenth Parallel, The
Ecology, Economy E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5329-3
Quest for a Socially Informed Connection Ashokamitran
Felix Padel, Professor, School of Rural Translated from the Tamil by Environment, Technology
Gomathi Narayanan
Management, Indian Institute of Health and Development
Management Research (IIHMR), Jaipur, Ajay Chandrasekhar, adolescent, vulnerable, confused, Critical and Subversive Essays
Dandekar, Professor, School of Social Sciences, is growing up in the momentous period before
Central University of Gujarat, and Jeemol Unni, and after 1947, when Hyderabad is the State of SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITIY AND
Director and Professor of Economics, Institute of Nizam. This political setting reverberates through SOCIETY
Rural Management (IRMA), Anand the novel, closely and ironically interwoven with
Edited by Rohan D’Souza, Assistant Professor,
The volume presents cases of the adverse effects Chandru’s life at home, in the city and at college.
Centre for Studies in Science Policy, Jawaharlal
of resource utilisation—water, metals, power The Eighteenth Parallel, won the Ilakkia Chintanai
and land—on Adivasi communities in particular. Book-of-the-Year Award in 1977, and was selected
It also provides an overview of the paradoxes by the National Book Trust of India for translation This volume brings together writings across the
inherent in ‘development’ projects, emphasising into several Indian languages. social sciences that aim to answer questions
the drastic drop in the standard of living of rural E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5187-9

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related to the concepts of environment, urban reality. Based on actual projects done in concern for the disprivileged. It critically examines
technology and development. Mehrauli, it challenges the way you look at your the political, economic and environmental issues
environment. It suggests a range of possible to which contemporary agriculture is closely tied.
This volume is intended to address the needs
ways to explore and involve students in their
of a rapidly growing interest in interdisciplinary See GENERAL INTEREST
surrounding urban environment.
programmes and will also appeal to development
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5016-2
and policy practitioners and those who wish to E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5328-6
pursue interdisciplinary research questions.
See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY Expunging Variola Fifty Years with the British
The Control and Eradication of Smallpox in S. K. Kirpalani
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5169-5
India, 1947–1977
This is a remarkable document derived from
Environmental SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY meticulously kept diaries by S. K. Kirpalani,
ICS, the second Sindhi to become collector (his
Jurisprudence and the Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Lecturer, Wellcome brother was the first). The author presents a
Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
Supreme Court University College London
compelling portrait, beautifully written, of his life
Litigation, Interpretation and and administrative career—an account that spans
This wide-ranging study, based on extensive the first half of the twentieth century.The early
Implementation chapters vividly recapture his childhood in Sind
archival research in India, Britain, Switzerland and
Geetanjoy Sahu, Assistant Professor at the the USA, assesses the many complexities in the at the beginning of the 1900’s—a way of life that
School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social formulation and implementation of the smallpox vanished not only because of time but also the
Sciences, Mumbai eradication programme in the Indian subcontinent. loss of the Sindhi homeland due to the partition of
India. His description of his years at Oxford brings
The Supreme Court of India has always considered The book emphasises the crucial role played to life an era of golden innocence and striking
environment as one of its top agendas, actively by field workers in implementing and often personalities. As a civil servant, Kirpalani’s forte lay
participating in cases involving environmental reinterpreting the health strategies proposed by in his ability to administer large, complex tasks and
issues. No wonder it has gained the reputation Geneva and New Delhi. bring order to the mass movement of people.
of being the ‘green court’. But how ‘green’ is
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4620-2
the Supreme Court of India really? What is the
judicial decision making process on environmental E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5244-9
litigation? What are the impacts of environmental Financial Foundations of the
judgments at the implementation level? These are
some of the questions Geetanjoy Sahu answers
Fall and Rise of Telangana, British Raj, The
in her book Environmental Jurisprudence and the The Ideas and Interests in the Reconstruction
Supreme Court. of the Indian Public Finance 1858–1872
Gautam Pingle, Dean of Research, (Revised Edition)
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBIC ADMINISTRATION Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI),
AND PUBLIC POLICY Hyderabad Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, former Professor
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5602-7 The Fall and Rise of Telangana chronicles the of Indian Economic History, Jawaharlal Nehru
Telangana movement. The stimulus for penning University, former Vice-Chancellor, Visva-Bharati
this book, according to the author, was the
Epicure Cookbook, The aftermath of the event of 9 December 2009
This revised edition of the book, first published
in 1971, comprises an expanded introduction
Ummi Abdulla, prize-winning cook and food when the Government of India announced its that reviews recent research in this area, and a
writer in national women’s magazines intention of forming the Telangana State. The new imprint of the original text which has been
volume provides a historical perspective to the edited afresh to slightly abbreviate some parts.
In this gamut of cookery, the seeker will find a Telangana cause, apart from charting the events
choice of soups, egg, rice, meat and fish dishes, The theme of this work may be summed up as the
and processes in the formation of the yet-to-be- economic aspects of the theory and practice of
desserts, snacks, pickles and much more. born state. the colonial state. The focus is upon the ideas and
See GENERAL INTEREST See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION interests and contestations which went into the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4368-3 AND PUBLIC POLICY making of the policies of the Raj in the formative
period following 1857, the years which saw the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5495-5 appointment of the first finance minister of India
Exploring an Environment (then called the Finance Member), the introduction
Discovering the Urban Reality Feeding the Forgotten Poor of the budget system and other innovations like
Perspectives of an Agriculturist the paper currency and income tax.
Feisal Alkazi, Priti Jain, Jayashree Oza and
Kaushalaya Ramdas William Dar, Director General of the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5327-9
Feisal Alkazi was the director of Ankur Society International Crops Research Institute for the
for Alternatives in Education, lecturer in Mass Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), and Arun Tiwari, First Spark of Revolution
Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia and CEO of Indo-US Healthcare Pvt. Ltd., and also
teaches in the School of Management Studies at Arun Chandra Guha
is now Chief Coordinator for Creative Learning
for Change. the University of Hyderabad This book narrates the story of the revolutionary
This book is an autobiography in which personal movement in India from 1900–1920. It traces
This book describes a series of exciting ideas
reminiscences serve as a vehicle for voicing the movement and its workers—the most
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representative being Swami Vivekananada; the Freedom and Beef Steaks explores path-breaking The collection of texts in this anthology traces the
most outstanding and active representative leader debates to do with the literary, identity, and evolution of urban policy as an academic discipline
was Jatin Mukeherjee. cultural authenticity in nineteenth-century and places the dynamics of this policy in its socio-
Calcutta—debates arising from the flux of creative political context. The approach is chronological.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4767-4
and critical work in that period. The chapters In this selection of texts, the emphasis is on ‘new
range from an analysis of recurrent problems problems’, ‘new approaches’. These studies, not
Flavours From India in modernist readings of the poems of both easily found in libraries, highlight the key debates
Milton and Bengal’s greatest nineteenth-century and issues of the time.
T. E. Philip, former Principal, Institute of Hotel
poet, Madhusudan Datta, to the changing modes
Management, Catering and Applied Nutrition, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5191-6
of everyday cultural experience in the city as
Bombay
experienced in the shifting representations of the
This book introduces the reader to the subtle drawing rooms of colonial and postcolonial Bengal. From Autocracy to
flavours of traditional dishes from all over India.
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Integration
It consists of over 130 delicious easy-to-prepare Political Developments in Hyderabad State,
recipes that provide a choice of dishes suitable for E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5929-5
1938–1948
a simple meal for the family or an exotic feast for a
special occasion. Lucien D. Benichou
French-Hindi Dictionary
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5326-2 Dictionnaire Francais-Hindi This book tells of the events which led, in
September 1948, to the integration of the princely
S. Sadasivan
Founding of Madras, The state of Hyderabad—the largest and the richest
of the princely states—into the Indian Union. This
The first comprehensive dictionary of its kind
N. S. Ramaswami in French, this a kind of an encyclopedia, giving book centres around the question of the nature
explanations of historical, technical and other and popularity of the annexation of Hyderabad.
Who were the Damarla brothers? For what
words with many synonyms. This is further It also explores the question of whether this was
apparently mysterious reasons did Francis Day
enhanced by detailed elucidations of important the only way in which the transition to popular
urge the East India Company to move the trade
terms relating to geography, history, legends, rule could have taken place. The author attempts
point from Armagon to what is now Chennai?
philosophy, literature and grammar. Hindi to answer these questions through a detailed and
How did the other settlements react to the British
equivalents of French idioms have also been sensitive study of the crucial decade of 1938–48.
entry? This book, written in 1977, when the city
furnished, and words which have no equivalents in E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5469-6
was still called Madras, offers a fascinating picture
Hindi are either transcribed as borrowed words,
of the antecedents to the building of Fort St.
or translated. This Dictionary is an elaborate work
George and what happened after. Drawing freely
on historical material and documentary evidence,
composed of nearly a monumental 50,000 words. From Western Medicine to
it is an account rich with incident, private intrigue,
The functional characteristics maintained in this Global Medicine
compilation will make it useful to the learners The Hospitals beyond the West
and the people who made it history.
of French and Hindi at school, college and post-
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4768-1 graduate levels, as well as to the researchers and SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
teachers of these two languages. It will also be
useful for translators and interpreters in these Edited by Mark Harrison, Professor
Fractured States linguistic fields of studies. of the History of Medicine and Director,
Smallpox, Public Health and Vaccination Margaret Jones, Research Officer, and
Policy in British India 1800–1947 E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4694-3 Helen Sweet, Research Associate, all at the
Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine,
French Studies in History University of Oxford, UK
Edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York Volume 2 This book provides the first book-length account
University, Toronto, Canada, Mark Harrison, of the hospital’s emergence in Asia, Africa and
Director of the Wellcome Unit for the History Maurice Aymard and Harbans Mukhia
other non-Western contexts. The essays examine
of Medicine, University of Oxford and Reader, The first volume of this anthology, The Inheritance the various facets of hospital medicine from the
History of Medicine, Modern History Faculty, dealt with New History’s first phase. This second eighteenth century onwards, including interaction
Oxford, and Michael Worboys, Director, volume, The Departures brings together important with indigenous traditions of healing and with
Centre for the History of Science, Technology and writings from its second phase. Together, the economic and political issues during the colonial
Medicine and the Wellcome Unit for the History two volumes trace the growth of an important and postcolonial periods.
of Medicine, University of Manchester perspective on the study of history.
This work provides a well-rounded history of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5190-9
official smallpox measures and their links with E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5242-5
the development of public health in policies and
programmes in British India. French Studies in Urban Fundamentals of Sociology
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5249-4 Policy
P. Gisbert, former Professor and Head of the
Jean-Pierre Gardin is currently engaged in Department of Sociology, St. Xavier’s College,
Freedom and Beef Steaks research at the CNRS (National Centre for Mumbai
Colonial Calcutta Culture Scientific Research) and teaching at the University
of Paris and Mulkh Raj is an urban economist and Fundamentals of Sociology is especially detailed in
Rosinka Chaudhuri, Fellow in Cultural Studies financial analyst. He is currently the Director of dealing with the economic system and industry,
at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Finance at HUDCO. population and food supply. Due importance is
Calcutta (CSSSC) given to forces such as industrialisation and the

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Green Revolution that have helped to shape Global Crisis, Recession and All orphaned souls were destined for baptism as
modern Indian society. Christians and the penalty for disobedience was
Uneven Recovery death. Govind is the story of that orphan’s journey
See SOCIOLOGY
Y. V. Reddy, former Governor, Reserve Bank from childhood to young manhood, steered by
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5045-2 of India, and Professor Emeritus, University of his guardian through the tricky waters of family
Hyderabad jealousy and religious opposition, learning to be
a good Portuguese soldier, while discovering his
Fundamentals of Textiles Global Crisis, Recession and Uneven Recovery heritage as a Hindu. In a colony at war with the
and their Care provides a thinker and experienced policymaker’s armies of both Shivaji and the Adilshahi rulers,
understanding of the genesis, anatomy and Govind works out his destiny against the backdrop
S. Dantyagi, Founder Dean, College of Home impact of the financial crisis, and of the lessons it of a fierce, colourful and warlike age.
Science, Hissar offered. It contains perspective and analysis that
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This book takes into account the needs of Dr Y.V. Reddy has not published before, presented
consumers and home science students. It deals in lucid style and non-technical language.
with various aspects of textiles, both natural See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
Gujarat Carnage, The
and synthetic, colours and dyes in fabrics, and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5048-3 Asghar Ali Engineer
properties of soap and laundering. The new topics
added are: scope of textiles, high tenacity viscose This book is a compilation of articles, editorial,
rayon, permanent press in fabrics, and home Global Eradication of investigative reports, surveys, memoranda and
dyeing. Emphasis has been laid on care of textiles, other significant material on the Gujarat carnage.
particularly under Indian conditions. Smallpox, The The final report of the Human Rights Commission
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY (that took a direct interest for the first time, of
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4680-6
its own accord, in communal violence) is included
Edited by Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, in it. This compilation helps preserve the lessons
Gendered Citizenship York University, Toronto, Canada, and learnt in one of the most horrifying and ominous
Historical and Conceptual Explorations Sharon Messenger, Senior Research Assistant, periods in India’s modern history.
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine,
Anupama Roy, Professor at the Centre for E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5390-3
University of Oxford, UK
Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi
The book contextualises the global programme
This revised edition of Gendered Citizenship (first and the many factors contributing to the
Health, Medicine and
published in 2005) examines the gendering of certification of smallpox eradication worldwide Empire
citizenship. In the context of resistance against in 1980. This book is an important research Perspectives on Colonial India
the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that and training resource, which will be useful to
emerged in late colonial India was based on a historians, public health specialists and medical SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
gendered notion of the community—both national professionals. Edited by Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department
and political.
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES of History, Sri Venkateswara College, University of
This book will be valuable for advanced students, Delhi, and Mark Harrison, Director, Wellcome
researchers and scholars of political science, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5283-8 Rights: Restricted Unit for the History of Medicine, University of
history, sociology and gender studies. It would Oxford
also be helpful to those studying social exclusion Going Home This collection of essays weaves together several
and the general reader interested in debates over
Lakshmi Kannan is a poet, novelist and short themes related to the social history of health and
gender and citizenship.
story writer. She is also her own translator. She is medicine in colonial India.
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bilingual and writes in English and in Tamil. Its focus ranges from analysing Europe’s
“I am going home,” the child Gayatri often tells relationship with India’s indigenous medical
George Joseph her friends, and this line becomes the leitmotif of systems, to case studies of two mental
The Life and Times of a Kerala Christian the story around which the lives of Gayatri and asylums, the location of the leprosy asylum, the
Nationalist her friend Rama revolve. Written in two parts technological aspects and social implications of
and stretching over twenty years, the novel vividly the colonial vaccination policy, and to colonial
George Gheverghese Joseph holds joint interventions related specifically to cholera and
appointments at the University of Manchester and encapsulates the futility and angst of modern,
urban reality. plague in the pilgrimage centres of Puri and
Exeter, United Kingdom, and at the University of Pandharpur. It also examines indigenous initiatives
Toronto, Canada E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4687-5 associated with the Indian drug industry and the
This book looks at the life of George Joseph Unani medical system and their interactions with
(1887–1938), a South Indian Christian nationalist Govind the colonial health establishment and modern
whose contributions to the Indian freedom A Novel medicine.
struggle have been generally neglected in the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5324-8
literature of the Indian national movement. H. Ratnakar Rau
The book is not a straightforward biography; When Dom Pedro found the orphaned Govind
it attempts to place the subject of the study in in a cave near the Banastarim Gate, he promised
the political and social context of modern Indian the baby’s dying nurse to raise the child as a
history but provides personal glimpses of the man Hindu. But in 1651, Dom Pedro was captain in
and his humanity. the army of the Portuguese King, in a Goa whose
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Health Policy in Britain’s perspectives and case studies on a few educational History of the Social
institutes like the University of Mysore and IITs to
Model Colony explain these issues. Determinants of Health
Ceylon (1900–1948) Global Histories, Contemporary Debates
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Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome Edited by Harold J. Cook, Director,
Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
Oxford
History of Fine Arts in India Medicine, University College London,
‘Written in a compelling and lucid style, the book
and the West Sanjoy Bhattacharya, Reader, York University,
Toronto, Canada, Anne Hardy, Deputy Director,
is a path-breaking contribution to the history of Edith Tomory, former Head of the Department
Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of
colonial Ceylon and to the history of medicine.… of Fine Arts, Stella Maris College, Chennai
Medicine, University College London
Jones analyses colonial medicine through a
The fruit of over twenty years teaching experience
nuanced reading of the medieval services in Sri This is the first volume of its kind to bring
in India, History of Fine Arts in India and the
Lanka.’ historical studies to the investigation of the social
West (with over five hundred illustrations and
—Daily News determinants of health from a global perspective. It
numerous diagrams), will be of great interest to
brings together eminent historians of international
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health to explore an important and topical
students alike. It includes a simple yet perceptive
subject. The contributors summarise a large body
survey of modern art and its trends, in terms that
High Fibre, Low Calorie Diet are comprehensible and meaningful to students.
of recent historical literature in order to make
and Recipe Book, The The text is well supported by line drawings on
it useful for policy analysts. It includes a wide
range of international examples. It also includes
almost every page, and 64 pages of half-tones.
Rani Rao holds a Ph.D. In Chemistry and two chapters on different methods of taking oral
The glossary, bibliography and Sanskrit guides are
has worked in the NCERT, Indian Institute of histories, which is a central concern for anyone
further aids for students and lovers of fine arts and
Science and the Raman Research Institute. who is interested in examining the recent past.
Asian culture.
Santosh Vaish has an M.Sc. and Ph.D. She has
taught at the International Institute of Health & See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES
See HISTORY
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Food is the key to good health and a balanced
diet is critical in the maintenance of well-being
History of Jaipur, A History through the Lens
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practitioners of food science, naturopathy and c. 1503–1938
yoga, the book explains the science and value of a Theodore Baskaran, a prolific writer and film
Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian
high-fibre, low-calorie diet. Containing over 300 historian
tried and tested recipes, it is an invaluable guide The book meticulously documents the history of
Theodore Baskaran weaves the magic and matter
for all who wish to master the art of cooking food the Kachhwa rulers of Jaipur.
of South Indian films into a rich tapestry of
that is delicious and nutritious. The recipes can be Sarkar ploughed through a profusion of raw readable essays. They cover such topics as early
used for everyday eating, and to help recover from material preserved almost intact for three and a cinema in the south, trade unionism in the South
specific ailments. Dieticians and nutritionists will half centuries in the Kachhwa House to present a Indian film industry, and the need for historicising
also find this book useful. compelling history of the Jaipur dynasty. southern cinema. Baskaran also investigates how
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See HISTORY legacy of company drama and the persistence of
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Higher Education in
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SOCIETY Dynasty (Second Edition)
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak, Professor, National
Care, The
Niharranjan Ray was a renowned historian, Sri Lanka, 1815–1960
University of Educational Planning and well known for his works on History of Art and
Administration (NUEPA), New Delhi Buddhism. Translated by John W. Hood SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
India has a large network of around 634 The History of the Bengali People is the translation Margaret Jones, Research Officer, Wellcome
universities and 33,000 colleges with 817,000 into English of Niharranjan Ray’s seminal Unit for the History of Medicine, University of
teachers spread across the length and breadth work Bangalir Itihas. It offers a comprehensive Oxford, UK
of the country. Despite its massive geographical understanding of the development of the society
reach, higher education in India has had its share This book breaks new ground in its exploration
and culture of Bengal from ancient times to the
of problems. This volume is a collection of essays of the development of the hospital system in Sri
beginning of Muslim rule in India.
which discusses problems like inclusiveness Lanka from the beginning of British rule in 1815
and the impact of reservation on education, See HISTORY through to the post-colonial period.
mediocrity, shortage of funds, dwindling numbers E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5042-1 Jones examines government, mission and
of faculty and the unemployment of the educated philanthropic initiatives in the provision of
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hospital system was the driving force behind the Hymns of Guru Nanak India and the Global
establishment of free health care as a right of
citizenship, it also devoured the limited resources Translated by Khushwant Singh Financial Crisis
available for healthcare as a whole. Managing Money and Finance
The book is a translation of Guru Nanak’s finest
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES devotional poems. Y. V. Reddy, former Governor, Reserve Bank
of India, and Professor Emeritus, University of
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5241-8 See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE Hyderabad
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4362-1
Ever since the financial crisis erupted in the US,
House of Shivaji there has been an interest in India’s management
Jadunath Sarkar Ideas, Words and Things of a financial sector that has facilitated growth.
French Writings–Semiolgy This collection of essays provides insights into
This volume contains writings on the ‘Royal the making of public policies across a spectrum of
Period’ (1626–1700), as distinguished from the Edited by H. S. Gill, Professor of Semiotics at areas and gives a close view of the dynamics that
‘Peshwa Period’ of Maratha history, and added Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi are played out behind the scenes.
a long life of Malik Ambar (from original Persian
This anthology is a collection of the most See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
sources) and biographies of four eminent Marathi
representative writings that have marked the
historical research-pioneers, Rajwade, Sane, Khare E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5020-9
development of the study of semiology in France.
and Parasnis. The materials have come from
The essays trace the continuous line of reflections
Persian manuscripts, newly discovered Rajasthani
despatches, Portuguese documents, French
on the nature of linguistic signs and signals, their India Remembered
integral relations to languages, and to the external (Revised Edition)
books, English factory records, and Marathi works
word and mental processes. The essays reflect
brought to light only in the twentieth century, Percival Spear, English historian, and
the ideological continuity from the dialectics
besides notes observed and heard during scores of Margaret Spear, staff of the Director-General
of the ‘universals’ of the twelfth century to the
visits to Maratha lands since 1907 by the author. of Information in India (later, Department of
semiological discourse of the modern era.
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Information and Broadcasting)
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With an Introduction by Narayani Gupta,
Hundred Tamil Folk and In the Tracks of the
Professor, Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
Tribal Tales Mahatma

This book is ‘one of memories and reflections’
of historian Percival Spear and his wife Margaret.
Translated by Sujatha Vijayaraghavan, The Making of a Documentary Unlike many books of the period that studied the
Professor of English, Pondicherry University political turmoil from the viewpoint of the leaders,
A. K. Chettiar
The folk and tribal tales were collected from India Remembered looks at India during its quest for
Edited by A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Professor, freedom through the eyes of two perceptive people.
narrators in villages, tea estates, forest settlements
Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai,
and semi-urban communities from eighteen See HISTORY
and translated by S. Thillainayagam, Professor,
districts of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
Department of English, Manonmaniam Sundaranar E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5323-1
At a point of time when print literacy is slowly University, Tirunelveli
submerging oratures (oral literatures), this book
In the Tracks of the Mahatma is the story of the India Through the Ages
hopes to document in translation and also make
making of a documentary on the life of Mahatma Jadunath Sarkar
available to readers this body of literature as
Gandhi, in the words of the man who achieved this
closely as possible to its original form. This book has grown out of the prestigious Sir
stupendous task, A. K. Chettiar.
See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE William Myer Lectures of Madras University,
See GANDHI STUDIES delivered by Sir Jadunath Sarkar in 1928. It is
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4690-5
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4677-6 a lucid survey of the growth of Indian life and
thought from the Vedic age to our own times with
Hungry Emperor and The In Worship of Shiva
a detailed study of contributions of the Aryans, the
Buddhists, the Muhammadans and the English to
Clever Barber, The the growth of Indian civilisations.
Shanta Rameshwar Rao and Badri Narayan
Tickoo Champa
Shanta Rameshwar Rao writes for both The book gives us a bird’s eye-view of the
The Hungry Emperor is a story of a rather fussy children and adults. She is best known for her successive factors which have contributed to the
emperor. Read it to find out how he is taught retelling of myths and legends. composite development of present-day India.
never to be fussy again! The Clever Barber is a story E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5322-4 Rights: Restricted
about how a courtier’s wife solves the problem of The classic stories in this choice selection are
a painful lump on the emperor’s head. a few of the best known ones from the living
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traditions of Indian mythology. Evocatively and India Wins Freedom
beautifully retold, these stories are enhanced and
enriched in symbolic meaning and iconography M. A. K. Azad
by the magnificent colour, and black and white One of the makers of modern India tells the story
illustrations by painter Badri Narayan. of the partition of India as never before, with
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4485-7 intimate knowledge and feeling.
See HISTORY
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India’s Silicon Plateau first part examines the institutional standards International Relations in
Development of Information and of parliamentary performance. The second part
focuses on different forms of parliamentary India
Communication Technology in Bangalore Bringing Theory Back Home
control, as well as the evolving relationship
Reginald C. Mascarenhas, Principal Fellow, between the legislature and the executive in a Siddharth Mallavarapu and Kanti Bajpai
Department of Political Science, University of period of unstable coalition formations. The third
Melbourne, Australia part analyses the external factors which affect and This reader is a collection of first-rate theoretical
determine the internal functioning of Parliament. engagements relating to International Relations
This is a study of the progress in India of from across India. The class character of
information and communication technology (ICT). See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION contemporary international law, reassessing
AND PUBLIC POLICY the conceptual foundations of imperialism,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4611-0
mapping human security, evaluating the ‘gaze’ of
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Orientalism and defending the analytical relevance
Indian Cricket Century, An of gender as a lens to examine national security
Sujit Mukherjee
Indigeneity are issues covered in the theoretical ambit of
Culture and Representation this volume. The book also addresses two other
core issues: contesting the Delhi-centricity of
Edited by Ramchandra Guha
Edited by G. N. Devy, founder of Bhasha the discipline and acknowledging the relevance of
An Indian Cricket Century is a collection of the best Research and Publication Centre, Baroda, theory to policy.
essays written by Dr Sujit Mukherjee, over four Geoffrey V. Davis, Professor of Anglophone E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4774-2
decades. The essays range from portraits of great Post-colonial Literature, universities of Aachen
cricketers like Vijay Merchant and Sunil Gavaskar to and Duisberg-Essen, and K. K. Chakravarty,
wonderfully witty recollections of cricket as played Secretary, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Inter-state River Water
in locations like Patna and Philadelphia. This book, Arts, New Delhi Disputes in India
in sum, presents the distilled reflections on our
This collection analyses the history and M. V. V. Raman, a practising lawyer with a
national obsession of our finest writer on the sport.
contemporary situation of indigenous peoples keen desire to bring law as close to the people as
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4797-1 from different parts of the world. possible
The authors examine issues ranging from the Inter-state river water disputes in India have
Indian Naval Revolt of 1946, loss of languages and literary/cultural traditions, become an inflammatory issue in the last few
The representation of indigenous peoples by years. They have become tools for political
‘mainstream’ society, and the deprivations faced one-upmanship and have engendered numerous
Percy S. Gourgey by them. senseless acts of violence. This book offers a
balanced survey of the history of inter-state river
Here is an authentic account of a brief, See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY water disputes in India. It examines the legal
momentous event that preceded India’s
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4872-5 approaches through which river water disputes
Independence fifty years ago. This is a personal have been tackled and suggests concrete steps
account by the author, a junior naval officer at to deal with such disputes in future. A notable
the time, caught by chance at the centre of the Industry and the Region feature of the book is an up-to-date analysis of the
disturbances in Bombay, and it indicates their Theories, Techniques and Applications Cauvery waters dispute.
far reaching implications—the historic trials in
T. Ravi Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4624-0
New Delhi, when Nehru was one of the defence
lawyers of the Indian National Army, Gandhi’s of Economics, Kirori Mal College, University of
Delhi
philosophy of non-violence and the significance Intimate Other, The
of India becoming the first republic of the Industry and the Region introduces readers to the Love Divine in Indic Religions
Commonwealth. basic theories, issues and problems of regional
Edited by Anna King, Senior lecturer in religious
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4623-3 analysis as well as the analytical and empirical
studies at University College Winchester and
methods that may be utilised within a regional
Convenor of the Spalding Symposia on Indian
framework of study. The book analyses policies
Indian Parliament, The that may be applied to resolve critical regional
Religions and John Brockington, Professor
A Critical Appraisal of Sanskrit at the University of Edinburgh and
issues and identifies the different strategies that
Secretary General of the International Association
Sudha Pai, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, can be employed to reduce regional inequalities.
of Sanskrit Studies
School of Social Sciences, and Rector, Jawaharlal E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5321-7
Nehru University, New Delhi, Avinash Kumar, The Intimate Other explores the theme of the
Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Centre devotional element in Indic Religions not only
for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, School of Integration of the Indian in Hinduism in which bhakti has become the
Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New States dominant form, but also in Buddhism, Jainism,
Delhi Sikhism and Islam. The essays by scholars of
V. P. Menon, last Constitutional Advisor to the international repute, show the strength of this
The Indian Parliament examines the credibility, Governor-General of British India devotion to the divine as a living and powerful
legitimacy and functioning of the Indian parliament. source of value, aesthetic imagination, creativity
The introduction provides a thorough analysis This book relates the extremely interesting
and well-being. They also analyse the sometimes
of the relationship between the functioning of and important story of how the political and
divergent interests of scholar and devotee,
parliamentary institutions and the rapid changes administrative consolidation of India was brought
problematising devotion and exposing its historical
witnessed in Indian society, particularly the onset about swiftly and peacefully.
development as complex, contested and ‘political’.
of coalition politics and economic reforms. The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4290-7
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Invincibility, Challenges and Kaalam book includes 16 paintings by the celebrated artist
Bulbul Sharma. The line drawings are derived from
Leadership M. T. Vasudevan Nair, renowned Malayalam the Sanjhi motifs of Vraj.
author and winner of the Jnanpith award for
K. V. Krishna Rao, retired general of the Indian E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4486-4
literature (1995)
Army and former Governor in the north-eastern
states and Jammu & Kashmir Set against the backdrop of a crumbling matrilineal
tarawad system of the Nairs in Kerala with its
Kuttiedathi and Other
Invincibility, Challenges and Leadership is a product
of a thorough study and understanding of history,
petty rivalries and jealousies, its sambandhan Stories
system of contractual marriage, its conflicts and
combined with the author’s extensive personal M. T. Vasudevan Nair, renowned Malayalam
problems, and the changes in land legislation which
and professional experience in the army and author and winner of the Jnanpith award for
sharply erode the feudal order, Kaalam is the
government. K. V. Krishna Rao has used his wide- literature (1995)
story of Sethumadhavan Nair who starts out as
ranging experience to give the reader an overview Translated by V. Abdulla
an ambitious and confident adolescent—but in his
of the development and rise of some civilisations
journey towards adulthood, where material and This collection brings together some of the most
and empires in the course of human history, and to
social success go hand in hand, he is faced with an well-known stories of M. T. Vasudevan Nair.
examine the reasons for their downfall.
overwhelming sense of disillusionment.
See HISTORY See GENERAL INTEREST
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Kashmir
Journeys and Dwellings Insurgency and After Language, Ideology and
Indian Ocean Themes in South Asia
Balraj Puri, noted journalist, writer, human rights
Power
Edited by Helene Basu, Professor, Westfaelische
Language-learning among the Muslims of
activist and Padma Bhushan awardee
Wilhelms-Universitaet, Muenster, Germany. Pakistan and North India
This book explains the nature and historical roots
This collection makes a significant and innovative Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor
of the insurgency in Kashmir. It delves into the
contribution to the emerging field of Indian Ocean of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National
erosion of the basis for secular and democratic
studies. New perspectives come into view that Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University,
politics in the state by narrating the history of its
highlight movement and exchange across borders, Islamabad
alienation from the rest of the country.
travelling actors, cultures and faiths as well as This is the first book-length study of the history of
processes of cultural re-localisation, mixture and language teaching and learning among South Asian
AND PUBLIC POLICY
assimilation. Studying the diversity of ways of Muslims. It traces the history of language-teaching
life in the Indian Ocean World, primarily from E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5317-0 among the Muslims of north India and present-day
South Asian sites, the contributors adopt an Pakistan, and then relates language-learning (the
interdisciplinary approach by combining historical
and anthropological methods.
Kerala demand) and teaching (the supply) to ideology (or
worldview) and power.
The Paradoxes of Public Action and
See HISTORY Development See SOCIOLOGY
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5319-4 Edited by Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5315-6
Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
Jungle Hospital, The Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada
Lee Jong-wook
Saroj Mukherjee is based in Calcutta and is the The essays examine the two-faced nature of A Life in Health and Politics
author of the Hindi original of The Jungle Hospital, Kerala’s public action––its enabling outcome in
Desmond Avery, the former editor of the
a short novel called Anokha Aspatal published by enhancing social outcome and capability, and
Bulletin of the World Health Organization
Lokbharati in Allahabad. its paradoxically negative social, political and
economic impacts. This book is a biography of the sixth Director-
This book is about a little boy of ten, Gagan, who General of the World Health Organization, the
lives in the city of Calcutta with his parents. His See SOCIOLOGY
first Korean to hold this post. It charts the course
grandmother lives in a village by the forest and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5316-3 of his life from a newly qualified doctor who
runs a small hospital for the animals. The jungle volunteers to work with leprosy patients in the
animals instinctively love and trust Amma, and suburbs of his home town, Seoul, in the Republic
limp over to the hospital whenever one of them Krishna of Korea, to the headquarters of WHO in Geneva,
in wounded or unwell. A naughty but affectionate Shanta Rameshwar Rao Switzerland. Desmond Avery’s account not only
monkey, a parrot, a rabbit, a baby deer, a peacock, makes for compelling reading about an eventful
a fox and a cow elephant are some of the patients A retelling of the story of Krishna, drawing from life, it also gives insights into public health and
Gagan meets at his grandmother’s clinic. Gagan the puranas, folk tales and legends. Krishna means policy making.
is enchanted with the animals and Amma’s jungle the dark one; it also means the one who attracts
hospital. A charming story of animals and human us to him. Divine, at the same time endearingly See GENERAL INTEREST
beings, the book will delight children as well as human, Krishna is at once the beloved child,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4871-8
help them understand the need for conserving the stealer of hearts, the loyal friend, the astute
wildlife and forests. statesman, the king, the valiant hero. This retelling
by Shanta Rameshwar Rao is simple enough to Legends of Devi
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5318-7
be understood by young readers, and evocative
Sukumari Bhattacharji
and thought provoking enough for adults. The
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Legends of Devi (Illustrated) Living Faith, A and Foreword of Gandhi. This is the only bilingual
My Quest for Peace, Harmony and edition of Hind Swaraj.
Sukumari Bhattacharji
Social Change See GANDHI STUDIES
Legends of Devi is a captivating narration of the An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5312-5
various legends and folktales that surround the
revered goddesses of India. The goddesses not With a Foreword by Mushirul Hasan
only epitomize the forces of good fighting over Asghar Ali Engineer was Chairperson, Centre Mahabharata, The
evil, but also the source of wordly wellbeing. This for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and
book features symbolically rich and breathtaking Shanta Rameshwar Rao’s Mahabharata tells
Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai
illustrations by Ramananda Bandapadhyay. Line the central story of India’s great Sanskrit epic,
drawings on every page and sixteen colour plates This is an extensive autobiographical account of one of the oldest works of literature in the
enrich the book. Specially commissioned for this Asghar Ali Engineer’s commitment to building an world. Intensely human in their passionate loves
edition, these illustrations constitute a storehouse inclusive society and his interpretation of Islam as and hates, happiness and grief, the people of the
of information on mythological iconography. a modernist. It chronicles the personal, social and Mahabharata have their recognisable counterparts
political events that shaped his life and views, his in all ages and civilisations. The grandeur, beauty
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4363-8 and colour of their story and the variety and depth
struggle against the orthodox Bohra priesthood
and his rise as a leader of social and religious of its message make it a book for all times and all
Lenin and Imperialism reform. occasions.
An Appraisal of Theories and See GENERAL INTEREST E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4365-2
Contemporary Reality
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5314-9
Prabhat Patnaik Mahabharata, The
There are two distinct levels at which Lenin Looking for the Aryans (Illustrated)
theorised about imperialism. At one level he Shanta Rameshwar Rao
outlined certain tendencies in the phase of R. S. Sharma
monopoly capital which generated situations of Who were the Aryans? Where did they come Composed over three thousand years ago, the
actual or potential armed conflict and made for from? Did they always live in India? The Aryan Mahabharata is one of Indias greatest epics. In this
global instability of the international capitalist state problem has been attracting fresh attention in version, the author, in retelling the main narrative,
system. At another level he explored with this academic, social and political arenas. This book retains the grandeur and flavour of the epic. The
theoretical apparatus, the specific, conjuncture identifies the main traits of Aryan culture and colour plates and black and white drawings by
which prevailed on the eve of the First World War follows the spread of their cultural markers. the Indian painter Badri Narayan add a new, rich,
as a means of explaining it. The sixteen papers spectacular dimension to the classic.
in this volume constitute an effort to correctly Using the latest archaeological evidence and the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4484-0
understand and apply Lenin’s theory and provide earliest known Indo-European inscriptions on the
useful material on the significance and interpretation social and economic features of Aryan society, the
of Lenin’s theory of imperialism and on aspects of distinguished historian, R. S. Sharma, throws fresh Mahatma, The—A Novel
the capitalist crisis using empirical data to support light on the current debate on whether or not the
Aryans were the indigenous inhabitants of India. Mukunda Rao
theoretical assumptions. The volume also contains
papers critically appraising recent theoretical This book is essential reading for those interested The Mahatma is an account of Mohandas
writings on the theory of imperialism. in the history of India and its culture. Karamchand Gandhi’s days in riot-hit Noakhali
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5313-2 (now in Bangladesh). It explores the Mahatma’s
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5014-8
struggle to reconcile his ideals of truth and
non-violence with ugly realities of communalism,
Life and Times of Humayun, M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj partition and political opportunism. The narrative
A Critical Edition
The is brought alive with well-rounded cameos of
Annotated, translated and edited by personalities from those turbulent pre-partition
Ishwari Prasad years. Set in rural East Bengal, the novel uses
Suresh Sharma, historian and anthropologist,
and Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani simple imagery and a fresh idiom to convey its
This book traces the history of one of the quixotic
Institute of Information and Communication essence of Gandhian simplicity.
figures who had occupied the Mughal throne in
Hindustan. His character is to be gleaned from his Technology, Ahmedabad E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4683-7
actions, which have been described at full length
On board the Kildonan Castle, on his return from
from his attitude towards the problems in life and
the opinions expressed by him in regard to private
England to South Africa, M. K. Gandhi wrote Hind Malabar Muslim Cookery
Swarajya in Gujarati between 13 and 22 November
and public matters. Born in the purple, he had to Ummi Abdulla, prize-winning cook and food
1909. This centenary edition of Gandhi’s Hind
pass through vicissitudes of no mean order; the writer in national women’s magazines
Swaraj is both a celebration of the text as also
metal of which he was made was subjected more
its biography. This critical edition restores the This book introduces the gourmet to the subtle
than once to crucial tests; he had to put up with
sanctity of the 1910 first edition and brings it in flavours of over a hundred traditional Kerala
treachery, intrigue and ingratitude of the basest
conversation with the subsequent editions of 1921 recipes.
kind but nothing seemed to disturb the equanimity
and 1939. It also compares the Gujarati original
of his temper or indomitable spirit. See GENERAL INTEREST
with the English rendering. For the first time, this
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4769-8 edition brings together three texts (Gujarati, Hindi E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4367-6
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Matched Winners Rita Kothari, Associate Professor, Humanities Modern Cookery

and Social Sciences Department, Indian Institute of For Teaching and the Trade, vol. 2
Sujit Mukherjee Technology (IIT), Gandhinagar
Thangam E. Philip was Principal Emeritus of
This book is a spin-off of a series of articles, many Memories and Movements is an ethnographic the Institute of Management, Catering and Applied
of which have appeared in newspapers. Taking account of present-day Banni society, where the Nutrition, Mumbai
famous pairs of Indian Cricket (e.g., Gavaskar and rhetoric of ‘change and development’ have made
Vishwanath, Bedi and Prasanna, Ashok Mankad and inroads quietly but surely. Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade, vol.
Surinder Amarnath), it sets off one career against 2 is undisputedly one of India`s most popular
another, balancing their test performance against The author also tells the story of the cookery guides, consulted by students and
their domestic record but never pronouncing a entrepreneurial success and resultant social professionals of the food and catering Industry all
verdict on which career was better. Mukherjee’s mobility of a hitherto ‘untouchable’ community. around the country. The book provides a bigger
book is marked by impeccable research and sharp, In presenting a picture of Banni’s complex, tiered picture into the art of cooking, talking not just
critical observation. society, she shows how its people navigate social about the methods, but also the fundamentals,
borders on an everyday basis and transcend aims and objectives as well as the ingredients and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5186-2 territorial borders through memory, song and cooking materials that go into a sumptuous meal.
story. The new edition has a new chapter on tawa, handi
Matsya See SOCIOLOGY and tandoori recipes, to delight the culinary artist
The Magical Fish within you, and so much more.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5310-1
Shanta Rameshwar Rao writes for both See COOKBOOKS AND NUTRITION
children and adults. She is best known for
her retelling of myths and legends. Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5565-5
Suddhasattwa Basu is an illustrator, The

painter and animation filmmaker.
Sarvepalli Gopal
Modern Medicine and
Matsya is a tiny fish in the huge ocean. Manu, a International Aid
This is the text of the Heras Memorial Lectures Khunde Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998
fisherman brings Matsya home and takes care
delivered in Mumbai in December 1977.
of him until Matsya grows into a very big, wise
and beautiful fish. Then, he lets Matsya return to E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4994-4
the ocean. One day, it rains and rains. There is Susan Heydon, Lecturer, Social Pharmacy,
water everywhere. Read this story to find out University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
how Matsya returns to save Manu and his family,
Mirch Masala
and all the people and animals in the world from 100 Indian Recipes Set in the rugged, remote and high-altitude
drowning. environment near the world’s highest mountain,
Surayya Tyabji
this history of Khunde Hospital provides a detailed
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4744-5 This book is a selection of Surayya Tyabji’s classic case study about both an ongoing encounter
recipes that was first published in 1975 and has between the Sherpas’ beliefs and practices about
Medical Pluralism in been a bestselling title since then. sickness and their use of ‘modern’ medicine,
and the implementation of an aid project that is
Contemporary India E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4670-7
situated against a background of changing ideas and
Edited by V. Sujatha, Associate Professor, Centre practices in international aid.
for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru Modern Cookery Students of development studies, international health,
University, New Delhi and Leena Abraham, For Teaching and the Trade, vol. 1 medical history and anthropology will find this book
Associate Professor, Centre for Studies in the not only engaging but rich in field-work data.
Thangam E. Philip was Principal Emeritus of
Sociology of Education, Tata Institute of Social
the Institute of Management, Catering and Applied
Sciences, Mumbai See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES
Nutrition, Mumbai
This volume questions the received view of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5309-5
Modern Cookery, vol. 1 gives an in-depth exposure
indigenous systems of medicine as cultural vestiges
to the various aspects of cooking, such as
of a traditional past. It explores the reasons behind
fundamentals, methods, ingredients, recipes, Moving Image, The
the enduring presence of health care traditions A Study of Indian Cinema
culinary terms etc. with regard to Indian as
such as ayurveda, siddha and unani.
well as Western Cookery. Referred to as the
Kishore Valicha
Going beyond simple binaries like traditional– ‘encyclopedia of cookery’, this book will be your
modern and science–culture, the authors examine ultimate guide to Indian Cuisine and basic and One of the first serious film studies in India, The
the implications of the co-existence of plural intermediate Western cooking, procuring every Moving Image, The is a contemporary analysis of
systems for the future of medical knowledge, detail that you need to know around the kitchen. the central issues contained in Indian films—issues
and the commercialisation and globalisation of It is an expanded version that contains recipes which distinguish this cinema from films of other
indigenous medicines. from all over the world—products of years of countries. The book argues that film in India is a
meticulous research and rigorous field-testing. genuine cultural expression carrying meaning. The
See SOCIOLOGY special and valuable insights on Indian cinema that
See COOKBOOKS AND NUTRITION
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5342-2 this book offers are enhanced by Dr Valicha’s own
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5564-8 fascination with films.
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Borders and Communities in Banni, Kutch,
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Mud Baby, The The nature of British colonialism, colonial policies Notes from Gandhigram
and strategies of economic growth have been Challenges to Gandhian Praxis
Shanta Rameshwar Rao writes for both examined within the parameters of the colonial
children and adults. She is best known for her structure. A unique feature of the book is the Samir Banerjee, honorary consultant,
retelling of myths and legends. description of the ‘Pressure-Compromise- Gandhigram Trust
Taposhi Ghoshal is a freelance illustrator and Pressure Strategy’ employed by the British to
graphic designer working for NGOs and leading Notes from Gandhigram focuses on the institutions
consolidate power. Probable reasons for the
publishing houses. and individuals that have adopted the Gandhian
failure of the nationalist movement to counter
approach as a means of social transformation. It
disruptive colonial forces have been suggested.
Walking by the river in the woods one day, Parvati looks beyond the conceptual and symbolic into the
In effect, Colonialism has been studied as a
decides to make for herself a plaything of mud. concrete to determine whether Gandhi is passé,
distinct structure through its different stages.
As she rolls and shapes the cool, smooth clay, a redundant or insightful. The relevance of Gandhian
Reinterpreting this period that spanned 150 years,
beautiful mud baby emerges… thought is examined through a critical analysis of
the book provides an alternative framework for
the experience of the Gandhigram Trust.
Read this magical story in verse of how Ganesha the study of modern Indian history.
was born. This book places Gandhi squarely in the middle
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5038-4
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4745-2
of the ongoing debates on globalisation, freedom
and the relationship between the individual and
Nature, Environment and society.
My Days with Gandhi Society See GANDHI STUDIES
N. K. Bose, former Director, Anthropological Conservation, Governance and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5307-1
Survey of India Transformation in India
This book deals with the last phase of Gandhi’s life. Edited by T. B. Subba, Professor and Head,
The author was Gandhi’s secretary and companion Department of Anthropology, North Eastern Hill
Old Potions, New Bottles
during those crucial last years. He has drawn on University, Shillong, and Nicolas Lainé, doctoral
Recasting Indigenous Medicine in Colonial
his close relationship with the Mahatma, and on student, Social Anthropology, School of Advanced Punjab, 1850–1945
a wealth of documentary evidence to show how Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Gandhi dealt with the crises he experienced both
This contributory volume examines the Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Research Fellow,
at the personal and political level. An honest and
interrelationship between nature and society in Harvard Center for Population and Development
searching study that throws light on Gandhi’s
South Asia focussing on four points: perception Studies
personality and attitudes, many aspects of which
of natural resources during the colonial rule,
were controversial in nature.
conservation of nature, role of governments in This book is a study of how indigenous
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4664-6 administering environment, and transformation medical learning and practices were recast
of nature as a result of development or industrial and reformulated with the coming of Western
medicine and Western medical ideas through
My Dear Nawab Sahib projects.
colonial rule.
Ronken Lynton See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5427-6
A reconstruction of the life and times of Salar E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5240-1
Jung, the Regent of Mahbub Ali Pasha and the
Nazir Ahmad in His Own
Dewan of Hyderabad for thirty years. Based
Words and Mine Our Films Their Films
on the Salar Jung’s correspondence, and book
explores the richly layered and developing Mirza Farhatullah Beg, distinguished Satyajit Ray
relations between the British and the Hyderabadi humourist This book brings together Satyajit Ray’s major
cultures, the misunderstandings, the tussle for
Translated from Urdu by Mohammed Zakir, writings and talks on film-makers, and presents
power and the conflict of interests. It attempts to
retired Professor of Urdu them in two sections. ‘Our Films’ is devoted
present the truth as Salar jung saw it, evaluated it,
mainly to his own experiences and contains many
reacted to it, as it shaped his inner self. Archival ‘Allah! Allah! What days those were when we had interesting anecdotes, but also has observations
source material and historical fact are sensitively the late Maulvi Nazir Ahmad Sahib with us.…’ to offer on trends in Indian films. ‘Their Films’
interwoven with stories and anecdotes to create With these words, Mirza Farhatullah Beg takes deals with some films abroad that have become
an authoritative and unforgettable portrait of Salar the reader through the bylanes of old Delhi from landmarks in the history of cinema—from the
Jung. What emerges is a revealing casestudy of Churiwalan, through Hauz Kazi and Khari Baoli silent era to the present day and offers glimpses of
British colonial administration with themes that to Gali Batashan Wali to the home of his tutor-a great directors like Renoir, John Ford, Kurosawa
are relevant for today also. doyen of Urdu prose and one of the pioneers and Charlie Chaplin, who are Ray’s personal
of modern fiction in Urdu. In Nazir Ahmad in His favourites.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5308-8 Own Words and Mine, there emerges an eloquent
and evocative portrait that honestly captures the E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4679-0
Nationalism and Colonialism relationship between an erudite tutor and his

loving and impudent pupil. Rich in historical detail,
in Modern India the work also records eye witness anecdotal
Bipan Chandra accounts of the Mutiny of 1857 and paints a vivid
picture of a fading world.
The author discusses in detail the twin phenomena
of colonialism and nationalism that has loomed See LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
large over the historical canvas of modern India. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5921-9

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Patrons, Players and the Picture Ramayana, The Politics and Poetics of
Crowd Balasaheb Pant Water, The
The Phenomenon of Indian Cricket The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western
At the beginning of this century, Balasaheb Pant, Raja
India
Richard Cashman of the State of Aundh in Maharashtra, undertook the
preparation of an illustrated summary of this ancient Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies,
Cricket has steadily emerged as the leading
epic. It was first published in 1916. Sussex
spectator sport in India, dwarfing all other athletic
activities there. Despite all the encouragement E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5015-5 The book studies the relationship between large
given to Indian cricket by schools, government dams and water scarcity in Kutch. It argues
officials and business firms, the standard of play
in that country has never been much superior to
Picturing the Nation that water scarcity is not merely natural, but
is embedded in the social and power relations
neighbouring and poorer Pakistan. Consideration
Iconographies of Modern India
shaping water access, use and practices. Scarcity
is given to the role of commercial firms as cricket Edited by Richard Davis, Religion and Asian is portrayed as natural rather than human induced
patrons after independence. A comparison is made Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, and this ‘naturalisation of scarcity’ is beneficial to
between spectators at different venues, noting that New York those who are powerful.
whereas earlier Indian cricket spectators were
well behaved, they became rowdy in the 1950s and In the past century and a half, Indians have This is a significant book in the light of the growing
occasionally violent later on. depicted their visions of a nation through imagery, water crisis in India, and the world.
and employed a variety of media to do so. The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5303-3
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5460-3 essays in this volume look at chromolithographs,
maps, flags, other official icons, film and television,
Peculiar People, Amazing artworks, architecture, print advertisements and Politics in India
religious and cultural displays. (Second Edition)
Lives
Leprosy, Social Exclusion and Community See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
Rajni Kothari, a noted intellectual and political
Making in South India E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5305-7 scientist who radically changed the contours of the
James Staples, Lecturer in Social Anthropology, discipline of political science in India
Brunel University, London Playing for India This pioneering study first published in 1970
James Staples explores how this apparently has looked at India as a vibrant and politically
Sujit Mukherjee
powerless group appropriates, embodies and sustainable polity. From the theoretical, historical,
redefines dominant ideas about caste, religion, Here is a substantial work which reviews India’s socio-cultural, and comparative matrices of
the human body and Indian ways of knowing and nearly half a century of international cricket, Indian polity, this book ranges through strategies,
being-in-the-world. They do so against the various and places our test cricketers and their deeds concerns, and issues that strengthen and support
backdrops of colonialism, missionary endeavour, in a historical perspective. Abandoning the
India’s tried and tested political institutions and
vernacular Christianity and Hinduism, medical traditional approach of other reviewers, each
the agencies that promote the country’s national
practices, development and the State. chapter is devoted to a particular specialisation of
integration.
cricket. The author evaluates specialists through
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES comparison and analysis, supported by statistics, See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5306-4 and also records whatever lines of succession they AND PUBLIC POLICY
began on, or continued, making the book the first
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5037-7
of its kind on Indian cricket.
People of the Maldive Islands E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5181-7
Clarence Maloney, currently Visiting Professor Politics of Sanitation in
of Anthropology, Institute of Bangladesh Studies,
Polio Eradication and Its India, The
Rajshahi University, Bangladesh Cities, Services and the State
This book is an engagingly told cultural historical
Discontents
A Historian’s Journey Through an SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
narrative of the island nation of the Maldive
Islands from the earliest references in Indian and
International Public Health (Un)civil War Susan E. Chaplin, Researcher in Melbourne,
European classics. Australia
It also narrates the story of the settlement by This book examines how the environmental
people from South India and Sri Lanka, and their problems confronting Indian cities have arisen and
Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of
later conversion to Islam. The second half of the subsequently forced millions of people to live in
New York
book is an anthropological perspective of life as it illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation,
was in the mid-1970s, with chapters on society, This book attempts to investigate and explain why and other basic urban services.
politics, religion and the economy. a global campaign against a crippling infectious
These issues are explored by studying the
disease, which one would expect to be universally
See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY history of colonial and post-independence urban
hailed as a great humanitarian effort, has generated
development and management in Ahmedabad,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5134-3 so much criticism, controversy and at times
Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, and analysing
obstruction.
why these cities have failed to provide equitable
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES access to sanitation services for all residents.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5095-7 See ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
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Poovan Banana and Other her tutor, she escapes from her father’s tyrannical globalisation on the theory and practice of public
ways. She elopes with Shankar to Amba and administration in the twenty-first century.
Stories returns to Manna, just in time with an heir to save
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer, an active the kingdom from British rule. A modern fairy tale
AND PUBLIC POLICY
participant in the freedom movement told with much humour.
Translated from the Malayalam by V. Abdulla E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4674-5
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5463-4
This carefully selected collection of Vaikom
Muhammad Basheer’s short stories are Prisoners of the Nuclear Radical Rabindranath
characterised by a variety in theme and tone. Nation, Family and Gender in Tagore’s
Basheer has written on love and hate, on
Dream Fiction and Films
politicians and pickpockets, on the fancies of Edited by M. V. Ramana and Sanjukta Dasgupta, Professor and Former
childhood and on the disillusionments of adult life C. Rammanohar Reddy Head, Department of English and Former Dean,
with an intense sense of the tragedy of life and at
In this book some of South Asia’s best minds Faculty of Arts, University of Calcutta, Sudeshna
the same time an irrepressible sense of humour.
address questions on the political, scientific, Chakravarti, Professor, Department of English,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4675-2 strategic, economic and environmental aspects University of Calcutta, and Mary Mathew,
of India’s decision to proceed with the nuclear Professor, Department of English, North Carolina
Central University
Power, Knowledge, Medicine weapons programme. The contributors include
Ayurvedic Pharmaceuticals at Home and in Kanti Bajpai, Admiral L. Ramdas, Amartya Sen, The volume breaks new ground as it critiques
Amulya Reddy and Jean Dreze. While much has Tagore’s non-conformism, radical outlook and
the World
been said in India, in defense of the nuclear tests occasional ambivalence as seen in his novels and
Madhulika Banerjee, Department of Political of 1998, there is also a strong body of opinion short stories and films based on them.
Science, University of Delhi which questions India’s decision to become a
nuclear weapon state. The essays in this book are See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
Tracing the birth of Ayurvedic pharmaceuticals
representative of this critique. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5505-1
in colonial times, this book analyses how the
working of post-colonial state, civil society and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5040-7
industry has shaped contemporary Ayurveda. It Ramayana, The (Abridged)
argues that the processes of commercialisation
and standardisation have resulted in
Problem of Caste, The (Black and White)
pharmaceuticalisation of this ancient medical Edited by Satish Deshpande, Professor, Lakshmi Lal
system accounting for both the resilience and Department of Sociology, Delhi School of
shrinkage of Ayurveda as a medical system. Economics Lakshmi Lal recreates the absorbing story and the
lyrical beauty of the original Sanskrit epic—the
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, Valmiki Ramayana. In rich and expressive language,
POLITY AND SOCIETY she narrates the legend of Rama, the Ikshvaku
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5293-7
The Problem of Caste tracks how scholars from prince, who embodies the ideals by which a man, a
different disciplines have responded to the caste warrior and a king must live.
Primal Land, The question in independent India and highlights recent E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4693-6
Pratibha Ray, winner of many awards, including shifts in perspective. The general perception
the Orissa Sahitya Akademi Award in 1995 and about caste is that it is an outdated concept
Jnanpith Award for her novel Yajnaseni that was slowly but inevitably dying out until it Ramayana, The
Translated by Bikram K. Das, former Professor, was revived by colonial policies and promoted Lakshmi Lal, prolific writer on art, music, culture
English and Foreign Languages University, by vested interests and electoral politics after and travel
Hyderabad independence. This volume collects significant
writings spanning seven decades, three generations In this vivid retelling of the ancient Indian epic
The Primal Land is the story of the Bonda tribe Ramayana, the author uses anecdotes, lores and
and several disciplines like political science,
inhabiting a mountainous portion of Orissa. The legends of the epic to narrate the story of Rama,
sociology, anthropology, history and economics.
novel includes faint glimmers of political awakening and brings forth its perennial meaning for the
The introduction contextualises established
among the semi-literate Bondas about their contemporary reader. Badri Narayan’s colour
perspectives in relation to emergent concerns,
exploitation; even though the only incorruptible plates and line drawings add a rich dimension to
and is followed by forty essays organised into six
outsider who works for the betterment of the this version of the great Sanskrit epic.
sections.
Bondas, a women schoolteacher, is suspended,
there is hope for the Bondas yet. See SOCIOLOGY E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4487-1
See GENERAL INTEREST E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5763-5

Recipes of the Jaffna Tamils
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5225-8
Public Administration in the Nesa Eliezer, freelance writer and contributor to
a wide variety of magazines
Princess Promila Globalisation Era
The New Public Management Perspective This compilation of recipes of the Jaffna Tamils is a
Krishna Kumar, Professor of Education at Delhi tribute to their tradition.
University and has served as Dean of the Faculty Uma Medury, Professor of Public
Administration, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU, See GENERAL INTEREST
Princess Promila is the daughter of the King of New Delhi
Manna. She grows up with the Rani as her only E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4673-8
friend. With the help of Shankar, who comes as This book explores the transformative effect of

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Refiguring Unani Tibb Roots and Shadows This book is a translated collection of three
Plural Healing in Late Colonial India novellas. The stories are about women trapped
Shashi Deshpande by an almost absolute lack of resources (financial,
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY intellectual and emotional). The exploitation of
In Indu’s ancestral home that she had escaped
these women and their daily struggle against it
Guy Attewell, Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust from so many years ago, nothing seems to have
are exposed in all their terrifying ordinariness.
Centre for the History of Medicine, University altered. Yet all is different. Akka, the rich family
The stories have all the identifiable characteristics
College London tyrant, is dead and the family is on the threshold of
of Ashokamitran’s writing—irony, interiority,
great change. And the key to their future now lies
The book shows that while tibb has always been a sensitivity.
in Indu’s hands. This novel provides a penetrative
cosmopolitan profession, the late nineteenth and insight into the joint family revealing its strengths See GENERAL INTEREST
twentieth centuries saw a fundamental transition and weaknesses, its props and parasites.
from a principally localised, personalised practice E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5044-5
to one that had to engage and be represented in E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4685-1
a mass, public arena for status, recognition and Sandal Trees and Other
custom. Sacrificing People Stories, The
See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES Invasions of a Tribal Landscape
Kamala Das
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5239-5 Felix Padel, freelance anthropologist trained in
Oxford and Delhi universities Translated from the Malayalam by V. C. Harris
and C. K. Mohamed Ummer
Rethinking 1857 The book puts into perspective the communal
murders and ethnic cleansing that happened in This is the first collection of translations in English
Edited by Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Chairman, the district of Kandhamal where the Konds are of stories originally written in Malayalam by
Indian Council for Historical Research, New Delhi concentrated in 2007–08, when an explosion of Kamala Das under the pen name Madhavi Kutty.
Rethinking 1857, marking the one hundred and orchestrated violence occurred, mostly in the form They amply demonstrate Kamala Das’s special
fiftieth anniversary of the Uprising, explores the of attacks against Christians. It was on a scale recalling contribution to the short story in Malayalam. All
possibilities and limits of recent thinking on it. violence at the time of colonial invasion (1830s–60s), the major attributes of her writing are evident:
This anthology includes fifteen essays divided into when invading forces burnt dozens of Kond villages. her subtlety and power in dealing with human
four thematic groups on the questioning of the The role and words of the first missionaries in Orissa, relationships and intrigues of love, life and death
conventional historiography of 1857, the impact who targeted this district in particular, is analysed to and her earthiness, sensuousness and sensuality.
on marginalized tribal and dalit communities, throw light on recent events.
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uprisings in regions beyond the north Indian See ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY
Gangetic heartland and the alternative polity that
was posited, without success, during the Uprising E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5302-6 Sarojini Naidu
of 1857. Viswanath S. Naravane
See HISTORY Samidha Sarojini Naidu’s interests and passions were
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5431-3 Written by Sadhana Amte many: books, poetry, people, conversation, food,
gardens, folklore, handicrafts and travel. As a poet,
Translated by Shobha Pawar, student and
she had perhaps the finest ear among Indians for
Rethinking Democracy teacher of English Literature, Lecturer at S. P.
the English language. As a public speaker, she
College, Pune
Rajni Kothari, professor, scholar and activist impressed the most sophisticated audiences. As
Samidha, a narrative of and by Sadhanatai Amte, a political worker, her courage and conviction
In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core an exemplary woman who chose to marry a embarrassed her detractors. As a proponent
arguments he has laid down in his various writings frenzied man and a dreamer, Baba Amte—is also of women’s rights, she won over numerous
in the past four decades. While revisiting his a transparent tale of her willing surrender in love chauvinists.
writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even without the slightest loss of her identity. A saga of
contests some of his earlier formulations on E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4678-3
suffering, hopes, tensions, success, and the thrill
democracy, state and civil society, developing of striving together towards their common goal, it
a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual has the power to stir its readers with its salty sea- Scar, The
experience and activist experience. air tang, and the warmth of a fruitful mad pursuit
K. A. Gunasekaran, teacher, folk-artist,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4773-5 of a goal—at once personal and impersonal.
dramatist and researcher
Samidha will serve as the beacon of light for
posterity, and as a model in human relationships. Growing up as a boy from the Parayar caste,
Rethinking Issues in Islam in the milieu of Christian, Hindu and Muslim
See GENDER STUDIES
Asghar Ali Engineer was Chairperson, Centre communities, K. A. Gunasekaran narrates the
for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5953-0 familiar tale of caste oppression and prejudice
Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai prevalent in the villages of Tamil Nadu. As the
narrative unfolds, the reader is shown how the
The book considers some of the stereotypes Sand and Other Stories ‘low’ caste negotiates differently with the three
regarding Islamic and Quranic injunctions and Ashokamitran, distinguished contemporary religious communities. The deep pain of the Paraya
re-examines them in the light of verses from the Tamil writer and winner of the Sahitya Akademi surfaces through the risible anecdotes that ridicule
Quran and the Sharia. Some of these are Islamic award (1996)Translated by N. Kalyan Raman, the grievously unjust practices of the ‘upper’
views on non-muslim communities, tolerance, a senior telecom professional, and Gomathi castes. The book emphasises the fact that Indian
family planning, etc. Narayanan villages are doubly caste-conscious and cruel, and
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that Dalit emancipation rests in better education beginning with his arrest for participating in the Silapadikaram and
for the community. non-cooperation movement in December 1921
and his imprisonment in Vellore Central Jail. Manimekalai
Besides his various editorials and articles in Young Lakshmi Holmstrom
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5088-9 India, this volume also contains letters, speeches
and other writings of Rajaji during these years. This book is a rendering in English of the Tamil
Overall, the collection offers a close commentary epics ‘Silappadikaram’ and ‘Manimekalai’ written
Science and National on the non-cooperation movement and its by renowned Tamil poets. Silappadikaram
Consciousness in Bengal aftermath. is the story of Kovalan and Kannagi and of
1870–1930 how Kannagi avenges the wrong done to her
See HISTORY husband. Manimekalai is meant to be a sequel
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5913-4 to Silappadikaram, being the story of Kovalan’s
daughter’s renunciation. There are strong spiritual
John Bosco Lourdusamy, Assistant Professor,
undertones in the story that give an insight into
Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Selections from Nehru the religious influence of those times.
Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai
Edited by Ganeswar Mishra and Sarat E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4364-5
This book gives a flavour of the Indian response Chandra Satapathy
to modern science by analysing the lives and
careers of four scientifically influential personalities The book presents excerpts from Nehru’s major Simplifications
in Bengal—scientists J. C. Bose and P. C. Ray, works such as An Autobiography, The Discovery of An Introduction to Structuralism and Post-
and institution builders, Mahendralal Sircar and India, Glimpses of World History as well as from his Structuralism
Asutosh Mookerjee. important speeches and statements. The purpose
is to acquaint the reader with the many-faceted Aniket Jaaware
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personalities of Nehru: the private man, the
Simplifications brings to the Indian reader a
historian, the philosopher, the statesman, the lover
comprehensive overview of Western literary
Selected Works of C. of wildlife and adventure etc.
theory of post-1960s. A compendium of the
Rajagopalachari, Vol. I, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4995-1 dominant trends of the period, it introduces
the reader to the thoughts and the ideas of
1907–21 important thinkers like Saussure, Lacan, Foucault
Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial
Shakespeare and the Art of and Derrida, among others. The book also gives
Museum and Library (NMML), N. Balakrishnan, Lying a brief introduction to the post-colonial theory
Deputy Director, NMML, Deepa Bhatnagar, In- and the questions of politics, quoting extensively
Shormishtha Panja, Professor, Department
charge of the Research and Publications Division from several important thinkers. It encapsulates
of English, University of Delhi, and President,
and NMML Archives structuralism, post-structuralism and post-
Shakespeare Society of India
colonialism.
Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878–1972),
Questions of truth and untruth, representation E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5467-2
popularly known as Rajaji, was the first Governor
and deception were pivotal to sixteenth- and
General of independent India (1948–50) and
seventeenth-century thought. This collection
one of the most important leaders of the Indian
of essays from scholars such as Stuart Sillars, Situating Social History
national movement in the Madras Presidency.
Coppelia Kahn, Supriya Chaudhuri, Bijoy Boruah, Orissa,1800–1997
Known as Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘conscience-keeper’,
R. W. Desai, Gert Hofmann, and Shormishtha
he was awarded India’s highest civilian award, the Biswamoy Pati, Reader, Department of History,
Panja explores the many facets of lies, deception,
Bharat Ratna in 1955. Part of a ten-volume series, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University
truth, and half-truth that feature so prominently
volume I looks at the period when Rajaji became
in Shakespeare’s well-known plays such as Hamlet, The book examines the shaping of popular culture
involved in the freedom movement (1907–21).
King Lear, Twelfth Night and A Midsummer Night’s of Orissa over the last two hundred years. It
It is a collection of articles and letters he wrote
Dream and in his poetry. brings together six articles, which delineate
to prominent leaders like Gandhi, Gokhale,
different aspects of the social and cultural history
Vijiaraghavachariar, and in newspapers like The See LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE
of Orissa—health and disease, caste, class, gender,
Hindu, Madras Mail and Commonwealth.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5506-8 popular perceptions and literary constructions.
See HISTORY Also included are two field notes that focus on
certain vital issues of contemporary relevance in
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5912-7 Short History of Aurangzib, Korapat.
A E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5238-8
Selected Works of C. Jadunath Sarkar, eminent historian
Rajagopalachari, Vol. II, This book is an abridged version by Sarkar himself Sixty Years in the Service of
1921–22 of his unrivalled five-volume History of Aurangzib.
the Nation
Mahesh Rangarajan, Director, Nehru Memorial See HISTORY An Illustrated History of IIT Kharagpur
Museum and Library (NMML), N. Balakrishnan,
Deputy Director, NMML, Deepa Bhatnagar, In- E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4682-0 Through its lavishly illustrated pages, this book
charge of the Research and Publications Division discusses events, landmarks and people who have
and NMML Archives made IIT Kharagpur what it is today.
Part of a ten-volume series, volume 2 covers a See GENERAL INTEREST

brief but significant phase in Rajaji’s political life, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4488-8

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Society and History of Studies in Indian History and of Tipu reveals the nuances of his character and
shows that he was a just king who made the
Gujarat since 1800 Culture welfare of his people the primary motive of his
A Select Bibliography of the English and governance. A detailed descriptive analysis of 127
U. N. Ghoshal
European Language Sources relics of Tipu Sultan is also provided.
This book, first published in 1944, does a thorough
Introduced and annotated by Edward Simpson, E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4770-4
examination of Indian history and culture, the
Senior Lecturer, Social Anthropology, School of
beginnings of the historiography in the vedas, the
Oriental and Anthropological Studies, London
early lives or legends of the Buddha, the historical Surya Namaskars—An
traditions of the Puranas, and the two leading royal
This book consolidates scholarship on Gujarat in
English and other European languages, notably, and dynastic chronicles composed by the Bana
Ancient Indian Exercise
Dutch, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. and Kalhana in the seventh and twelfth centuries Apa Pant
The titles considered spread across the disciplinary respectively of the Christian era.
Surya Namaskars examines the contemporary
boundaries of history, political and development E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4766-7 relevance of the ancient yogic exercise of paying
studies, literature and the liberal arts, sociology,
obeisance to the Sun—the source of all energy.
cultural and social anthropology. In these respects,
the book is a comprehensive introduction to Subjugated Nomads The author discusses how this yogic technique can
The Lambadas Under the Rule of the be used to revitalize latent energy within oneself
modern traditions of scholarship on Gujarat.
and harness it to help lead a balanced, fulfilled and
Nizams
See HISTORY rewarding life. The exercises are described step-
Bhangya Bhukya, Associate Professor, by-step along with appropriate illustrations and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5300-2
Department of History, Osmania University, photographs.
Hyderabad
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4691-2
Son of the Moment This book traces the historical transition of the
Nazir Ahmad, pioneer of modern fiction in Urdu Lambada community of Hyderabad State under Taking Traditional
the Nizams during colonial rule. The study
Translated by Mohammed Zakir, retired spans nearly two centuries—from the early Knowledge to the Market
Professor of Urdu, Jamia, Millia Islamia, Delhi eighteenth to about the middle of the twentieth The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and
century. The author shows how this community, Unani Industry, 1980–2000
In the charged atmosphere of the Mutiny (1857), originally caravan traders, confronted the colonial
an English officer, Noble Sahib, and a Muslim SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
or modern state power which had adversely
gentleman, Ibn-ul-Vaqt, are brought together transformed their lives. Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of
under remarkable circumstances. Noble Sahib
See HISTORY Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of
persuades Ibn-ul-Vaqt to remove the estrangement
Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam
between the English and his community by E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5299-9
adopting the English lifestyle and thus, draw The author explores the paradox at the heart of
his tradition-bound compatriots to a more the ayurvedic and unani medicine manufacturing
progressive way of life. The consequences that Sun All Golden And Round industry—to present itself as modern and
follow are not what they had envisioned. traditional, common and professional at the same
Jane Sahi works in a non-formal school in a
village near Bangaloor and Harriet Mayo teaches time.
children with special needs, in England See HEALTH AND DISABILITY STUDIES
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5776-5
The sun is all golden and round, warming the rice E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5343-9
in the fields around. The grandmother is old but
Structure of Hindu Society, strong. Working all day long, pounding the rice
The with a long thin stick on an old grey stone. Then Techniques to Technology
comes the cloud stubborn and grey… Read the A French Historiography of
Nirmal Kumar Bose, former Director, Technology
story to find out what happened. This story told
Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata
in rhyme is based on a Kannada folktale. The Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Pietro
The lucid and scholarly translation from the rhythmic nature of the language used is truly apt Redondi
original Bangla Hindu Samajer Goran has for this story about the cycles of nature.
been done by Andre Beteille. Prof. Beteille’s The importance of the history of technology is
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5465-8
introduction analyses the qualities of Bose’s mind seen when technology is understood not merely
and work, especially as illustrated in this book, as technique but as part of a history of the culture
and his preface to this revised edition enriches Sunset at Srirangapatam and of the social and intellectual development
this valuable study. The author has undertaken of human civilisation. The papers, drawn from
Mohammad Moienuddin fundamental works as well as from articles and
an ambitious task in which he has attempted to
identify the organising principles of Hindu society, This book deals mainly with the historical role papers from journals, sum up the debate on
the factors which ensured its continuity for of the most valourous and fascinating ruler of the nature of the history of technology which
centuries, and the forces by which it is ultimately the eighteenth century, Tipu Sultan. Tipu Sultan evolved in French thought in our century. This
weakened. This book brings together, within a has been portrayed by historians, especially by anthology is among the most representative of
single framework, approaches which are ordinarily the colonial but also by some post-Independence studies in the field of the history of technology in
practised separately by ethnographers, Indologists Indian historians, as a religious bigot, a fanatic, France.
and social historians. a king who oppressed non-Muslims and forcibly E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5041-4
converted them to Islam. But a sensitive reading
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Textbook of Home Science, Three Companions Trafficking in Women and

A Rabindranath Tagore Children in India
(Revised Edition)
The three stories in the collection—’Sunday’, Institute of Social Sciences
Prepared by teachers of Lady Irwin College ‘Last Word’ and ‘Laboratory’—have been newly
This book presents the research findings of Action
translated and published together in a single volume
A Textbook of Home Science is the extensively Research on Trafficking in Women and Children in
in English for the first time. Always known for
revised edition which has been extremely useful India (ARTWAC) that involved the United Nations
his delineation of strong female characters, there
to middle and secondary level students and Development Fund for Women, the National
are none quite as remarkable and independent as
teachers of Home Science. A section on Child Human Rights Commission and the Institute of
the three women in these stories. Exceptional in
Development has been added for the first time in Social Sciences.
their own way, it is they who control and build
this book.
the relationship with the men in the stories. Vibha, See GENDER STUDIES
A student who masters this book will be able to Achira and Sohini – they are the three companions.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4629-5
not only take the exam with ease, but also will be The English translation by Dr Mukherjee recaptures
equipped to handle everyday life with competence Rabindranath’s prose style, including both the
and efficiency. nuances of his story and subtle cerebral wit. Transfer of Power in India,
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4622-6 E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4366-9 The
V. P. Menon, last Constitutional Adviser to the
Thangam Philip Book of Tibetan Refugees in India Governor-General of British India
Baking, The Mallica Mishra, Associate Faculty (PGDMS- The author recounts in detail the events that
Development Studies), at the Entrepreneurial occurred from September 1939 to August 1947,
Thangam E. Philip was Principal, Institute
Development Institute of India, Ahmedabad during the final stages of India’s bid for freedom,
of Hotel Management, Catering and Applied
and how power was actually transferred.
Nutrition, Mumbai This volume focuses on the issue of education
for the Tibetan community and dilemmas that E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4289-1
In this volume, India’s leading cookery expert T.
it grapples with, in trying to achieve a balance
E. Philip deals with the various aspects of baking.
Given in this book are some of the finest recipes
between ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ in education Travels to Europe
and the strategies it has employed to deal with the
to bake delicious cakes, pastries, biscuits, breads Self and Other in Bengali Travel Narratives,
issue. The introduction discusses about refugeeism
and sweets. It has rendered baking easier and 1870–1910
as a complex and problematic global reality and
more enjoyable than ever, with its systematically
the chapters examine the educational options SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
presented recipes and clear details of each and
available to the Tibetan youth. It details the
every ingredient. With the perfect recipe by your Simonti Sen, Department of History,
curriculum and pedagogy in both sets of schools
side, you will come out with nothing but absolutely Bidhannagar College, Kolkata
and the impact it has on the Tibetan youth, their
lip-smacking food!
sense of identity, nationhood, Tibet in their A travelogue is usually a crucial political/aesthetic
See COOKBOOKS AND NUTRITION imagination and their attitude towards the Dalai text. It’s very fabric is structured in space and
Lama and the Tibetan struggle. power— it creates, relates, compares and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5563-1
See SOCIOLOGY contrasts spaces and powers. Bengalis travelling
to Europe in the colonial period felt compelled to
Thangam Philip’s Vegetarian E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5604-1 produce such texts. An analysis of these works
Recipes for Healthy Living from a historian’s angle provides crucial windows
Thangam Philip, former Principal Emeritus of Trading World of the Tamil to the colonised mind striving for self-definition.
the Institute of anagement, Catering and Applied Merchant, The E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5296-8
Nutrition, Mumbai and acknowledged as Indian Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the
hospitality industry’s most eminent doyenne
Coromandel Understanding Biodiversity
In this book, Thangam Philip embarks on a Life Sustainability and Equity
K. Mukund, former Fellow at the Centre for
gastronomic journey through the wonderful and
Economic and Social Studies, Hyderabad Ashish Kothari
diverse world of plants. From roots to leaves,
cereals to spices, and nuts to fruits, she describes The book focuses on the changes in the trading This tract is an impassioned plea to development
their nutritional benefits medicinal properties and world of the Tamil merchants in the southern planners to overhaul wildlife, agricultural and
how to use them in everyday cooking—a subject Coromandel region, with the arrival of European environmental strategies to achieve greater
very close to her heart. Packed with her favourite, trading companies and the concomitant creation biodiversity and sustain the planet. It looks at the
tried-and-tested recipes, this, her last work, is a of European port enclaves and the rapid expansion conservation of wildlife habitats in the context of
testimony to her lifelong interest in vegetarianism of demand for Coromandel cotton textiles. the commercial-industrial forces.
and the role of food in healthy living. The author uses impressive range of original
sources—literary, inscriptional and archival—to E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5257-9
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cover a long period of history (beginning with the
maritime trade in the Sangam period) to argue
that the merchants evolved over the centuries
into a distinct class of merchant capitalists with
a conscious perception of their identity as an
economic and social class.
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Understanding Vaisnava Iconography in the unforgettable journey through the cuisines of India,
China, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Europe, the
Contemporary India Tamil Country Caribbean, Mexico, Iran and Greece.
R. Champalakshmi See GENERAL INTEREST
Edited by Achin Vanaik, Professor, Department
This volume looks at iconography as an index E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4481-9
of Political Science, University of Delhi, and Rajeev
of socio-religious change at both the micro and
Bhargava, Director, Centre for the Study of
the macro levels. The study is confined to the
Developing Societies, New Delhi
Vaishnava sect in the Tamil-speaking region of Village Society
This reader examines the peculiarities of Indian South India and to the time-span of 300 B.C. to SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
democracy—the character of its political A.D. 1300. However, it is broad in its sweep of
SOCIETY
institutions and patterns of governance—and the observation and analysis of the evolution of ideas
remarkable paradoxes that co-exist in what is and concepts, as well as of their impact on social Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for
arguably the most diverse society in the world. groups and religious systems. The basic Vaishnava the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
concepts and beliefs, the major and minor forms University, New Delhi
See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and avatars of Vishnu, the principal and secondary
AND PUBLIC POLICY This volume presents a set of readings which
goddesses and deities of the Vaishnava pantheon
primarily focus on the social, political and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4272-3 as well as syncretic forms are all examined in
cultural aspects of village life. A comprehensive
depth in the course of tracing the development of
introduction provides a detailed historical analysis
the iconography.
Understanding Indian of the study of rural India, changes in rural social
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4993-7 life, and the forces shaping life in villages today.
Society The articles, drawn from writings over four
Past and Present, Essays for A. M. Shah
Varanasi decades (1972 to 2010), cover various features
of village society like caste and community, land
Edited by B. S. Baviskar, Senior Fellow, Institute
of Social Sciences, New Delhi, and Tulsi Patel, M. T. Vasudevan Nair, winner of Sahitya and labour, migration, discrimination and use of
Professor of Sociology, University of Delhi Akademi Award, the Kerala Sahitya Akademi common property resources.
Award and Jnanpith Award
Understanding Indian Society brings together a See SOCIOLOGY
Translated by N. Gopalakrishnan, recipient of
collection of writings by eminent scholars across the Kendriya Sahitya Akademi Award in 2007. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5170-1
disciplines that capture the dynamic character of
Indian society, focusing on four vital areas—gender As a commentary on the human condition,
relations, religion, developmental concerns and the novel explores the idea of lust and desire Vinegar King and Hot Soup
social change, and the future of the discipline of pervading through mankind, finding its essence
Tickoo Champa
sociology. The volume explores a wide range of embodied in the culture of the historic city.
issues as varied as Muslim women’s struggle for Translated by Sahitya Akademi Award winner, N. Vinegar King is a story of a small boy who saves
independence in a patriarchal society, colonial Gopalakrishnan, this work masterfully retains the an emperor’s life with vinegar. Who would have
linkages of female foeticide, religious and flavour of the original Malayalam. thought that vinegar could be so powerful! Hot
communal conflicts, among others. Soup is a tale of a soup-seller who becomes very
rich after a lucky meeting with a stranger. Read
See SOCIOLOGY E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5439-9 and find out how.
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Vedic People, The
Urbanising Cholera Their History and Geography
Vishva Hindu Parishad and
The Social Determinants of Its Re-
emergence
Rajesh Kochhar, Director, National Institute Indian Politics
of Science, Technology and Development Studies
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY (NISTADS), New Delhi Manjari Katju, Reader, Department of Political
Science, University of Hyderabad
Rajib Dasgupta, Associate Professor at the Drawing upon and synthesising data from a wide
Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, variety of fields—linguistics and literature, natural This book provides a detailed historical account
Jawaharlal Nehru University history, archaeology, history of technology, of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), one of the
geomorphology and astronomy—Kochhar leading organisations in the Hindutva movement.
Urbanising Cholera is a revival of the eco-social presents a bold hypotheses by which he seeks to It focuses on the VHP’s transformation from a
approach in examining the social determinants resolve several paradoxes that have plagued the loosely knit body of Hindus aimed at preserving
of cholera and deals with different aspects of the professional historian and archaeologist alike. and promoting Hindu dharma, into a mass
problem. There is a dearth of books giving a social organisation actively involved in mobilising the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4671-4
epidemiological account of cholera with a focus on urban middle classes, service professionals and
the urban poor. religious leaders for the creation and promotion of
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5096-4 Vegetarian Fare a strong Hindu nation.
N. Radha Rao, well-known name amongst See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
culinary specialists in Bengaluru and Kerala AND PUBLIC POLICY
This book focuses on vegetarian main courses, as E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5043-8

well as side dishes. These recipes are guaranteed
to delight every vegetarian, taking them on an

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Westward Traveller, The Women and Work Writings of Pamela Price,

(Translated from the original Bengali
Paschimjatriki) SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND The
SOCIETY State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern
Durgabati Ghose accompanied her husband on a
trip to Europe in 1932, and wrote about her trip
South India Honour, Authority, and
Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor Morality
in a book title Paschimjatriki. of Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
Mumbai Pamela Gwynne Price, Professor Emerita,
Translated by Somdatta Mandal, Professor Department of South Asian History, University of
and current Chairperson, Department of English The volume analyses issues surrounding women’s Oslo, Norway
and Other Modern European Languages, Visva- rights to gainful employment when they did not
Bharati, Santiniketan, India have it; to recognition of their substantial and even In the ten essays in the volume, the author
massive contribution to the national economy and discusses political activities and ideas in Tamil
The Westward Traveller is an enchanting written families’ survival which has been denied to them so Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. There are
record of Durgabati Ghose’s four-month long long; to adequate rewards for their labour which studies on non-Brahmanism, Tamil nationalism,
sojourn across Europe, where she accompanied they do not enjoy; and, to a share of resources, authority in village society, and conflicts over
her husband. Filtered through her upper middle- benefits and decisions regarding development to status and representations of morality. The
class upbringing and perceptions, the narrative is which they are entitled as citizens of a country which writings focus on conceptions, symbols, and values
observant—not only emphasising on a sense of guarantees to them equality in all spheres of life. which express south Indian understandings of
place, space and landscape, but also an aesthetic, honour, authority, and self-respect.
intrinsic appreciation of every destination. The See SOCIOLOGY
writing comes alive in the author’s everyday See HISTORY
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interactions with ordinary people. Translated by
Somdatta Mandal, this work is simple and lucid in E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5507-5
style, and retains the traces of the times in which Women in Malayalam
it was originally written, and is faithful to the Cinema
intention of the narrative. Naturalising Gender Hierarchies
See LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION Meena T. Pillai, Reader, Institute of English and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5851-9 Director, Centre for Comparative Literature, PERMANENT BLACK
University of Kerala, Trivandrum
When the Kurinji Blooms Focusing on women-cinema interface as depicted Architecture in Medieval
in a century of Malayalam cinema, Women in
Rajam Krishnan Malayalam Cinema addresses a plethora of themes India
crucial for understanding the Malayalam film Forms, Contexts, Histories
Translated from the Tamil Kurinjithen, Rajam
Krishnan’s lyrical and erudite novel is a family saga culture—gender stereotyping, marriage and family, Edited by Monica Juneja, Professor, Department
of three generations of Badagas in the Nilgiris. As the aftermaths of matriliny, caste and gender of History, University of Delhi
the winds of social change and modernity invade relations, hegemonic patriarchy, female friendships
and soft porn. This collection discusses the This book brings together an impressive array of
their protected lives, the innocence and harmony
patriarchal dominance in Malayalam cinema and historical ideas about India’s past that has emerged
is replaced by conflict and tragedy that precede a
stereotypical portrayals of a woman as someone through the study of its monuments. Monica Juneja
new beginning.
‘who loves to cook and clean, wash and scrub, makes this anthology a major historiographical
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5039-1 shine and polish for her man’. A first of its kind intervention which traces the colonial emergence
on Malayalam cinema, it has diverse contributions and nationalist development of the discipline of
architectural history both within India and in the
Windows of Opportunity from littérateurs, film critics and screenwriters.
West.
Memoirs of an Economic Advisor See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
See HISTORY
K. S. Krishnaswamy, former Deputy Governor E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5852-6
of the Reserve Bank of India E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-435-8
K. S. Krishnaswamy was a leading light in Women of the Mahabharata,

the Reserve Bank of India and the Planning
The Beyond Nationalist Frames
Commission between the early 1950s and the Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva,
The Question of Truth
late 1970s. He retired as a deputy governor of History
the Reserve Bank. Armed with a doctorate from Chaturvedi Badrinath, philosopher and
Sumit Sarkar
the London School of Economics, he began his member of the IAS between 1957 and 1989
career at a time when the road was rocky for The political context in which the historian of
newly independent India. His ringside view of the The twelve women of the Mahabharata who
India finds himself today, says Sumit Sarkar, is
pulls and pressures within the administration and are the focus of this work are those who have
dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and
outside it, the hopes that sustained a majority in been reduced to cut-outs and caricatures or not
globalised forms of capitalism. Simultaneously, the
the bureaucracy and the lasting ties he formed known at all. They teach us the profound truths
historian’s intellectual context is now dominated
with many he came in contact with are compelling about human life. Given Badri’s ability to combine
by the marginalisation of all varieties of Marxism
on their own. respect and love, to write with scholarship and
and an academic shift to cultural studies and
humanism, the work is an ode to femininity.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5167-1 postmodern critiques. In this scenario, how may
See GENDER STUDIES a thinking historian who retains an unfashionable
commitment to socialist-feminist values, alongside
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Indian conditions of skewed social development, those who are interested in the decline and fall of a strong bureaucratic state, capitalist production,
practice the craft of history? This excellent set India’s first civilisation. Students of ancient Indian industrialization, the secularisation of society, and
of essays collectively constitutes Sumit Sarkar’s history and archaeology will find it an indispensable relative economic prosperity. These and many
answer to this central question. The ‘Hindu Bomb’, source of information. other fascinating issues of democracy’s relationship
the history of relations between communities, with religion, identity, development, inequality, and
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-433-4
the issue of religious propagation and conversion, culture comprise the themes that link the essays in
ideas of nation and woman in Tagore’s fiction, this brilliant and insightful collection.
and the relationship of left-wing historiography Dharmanand Kosambi See POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
to postmodern ideas are some of the themes The Essential Writings
AND PHILOSOPHY
critically analysed in this major collection.
Edited and translated by Meera Kosambi, former E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-444-0
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-418-1 Professor and Director, Research Centre for
Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University,
Caste and Democratic Mumbai Flaming Feet and Other
Politics in India The life and writings of Dharmanand Kosambi Essays, The
(1876–1947), pioneering scholar of Pali and The Dalit Movement in India
Edited by Ghanshyam Shah Buddhist Studies, comprise the substance of this
D. R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator
The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the book. Her Introduction also contextualises the life,
and cultural critic
perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social career, and achievement of one of modern India’s
system. But this has not happened over the greatest scholar-savants. This book theorises the caste system as a mosaic
sixty-odd years since Indian independence, and of contestations centred around dignity, religiosity,
shows little sign of happening in the near future. and entitlement.
Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-405-1
See DALIT STUDIES
possible without a thorough understanding of the
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-422-8 Rights restricted
complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to Discovery of Ancient India,
bring about such an understanding. This volume
offers state-of-the-art essays on the subject of The Footloose in the Himalaya
caste and politics in contemporary India. It covers Early Archaeologists and the Beginnings of
all the important grounds that students and Archaeology Bill Aitken
scholars need in order to get to grips with the Away from over-used tourist trails and trekking
idea, ideology, and ground realities of India’s caste The Discovery of Ancient India breaks colonial
routes, Bill Aitken wanders through the Himalaya.
system. archaeology down into its specific constituents
Having left his native Scotland in his twenties to
and examines the ideas, impulses, tensions, and
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-419-8 circumnavigate the world, Aitken reached the
individual contributions that comprised early
Himalaya and stopped, enraptured. For Aitken,
studies of India’s ancient past. It focuses, at the
travel in the Himalaya is as much about the spirit
Caste in Modern India outset, on the ideas and work of Alexander
as about landscapes, leeches, and aching knees.
A Reader (Two volume set) Cunningham, the first Director General of the
This sets him on a lively trail of holy men, both
Archaeological Survey of India, as well as his
Sumit Sarkar, Professor of History, University saintly and fraudulent, across all the pilgrim centres
assistants. It then looks at a number of related
of Delhi, Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, of the Himalaya.
issues-the different definitions of archaeological
Jawaharlal Nehru University research; the conflict between field archaeologists See GENERAL INTEREST
Caste plays a vital role in molding the common and architectural scholars; the debate over
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-412-9
Indian mindset. The historical literature on caste whether antiquities should be left in situ or
from colonial times to the present is vast. This removed to museums.
anthology provides some of the best essays See HISTORY
Gandhi is Gone. Who Will
answering questions about modern caste like:
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-442-6
Guide Us Now?
how the issue of caste was understood in colonial Nehru, Prasad, Azad, Vinoba, Kripalani, JP,
times, how it was re-created under conditions of and Others Introspect, Sevagram, March
modernity, and how various castes came to relate Enchantment of Democracy 1948
to one another and to themselves in new ways.
Dumont’s notions about purity and power are and India, The Gopalkrishna Gandhi, Former Governor of
questioned, while fresh perspectives are offered Sudipta Kaviraj, professor of Indian politics and West Bengal
on jajmani. These two volumes provide the most intellectual history at Columbia University As India became free on 15 August 1947, Mahatma
essential and thought-provoking pieces on the
The essays try to approach Indian democracy from Gandhi planned a discussion in Sevagram on 2
subject.
different angles. Sudipta Kaviraj argues that it is February 1948, on the future equations of his political
See HISTORY wrong to believe that with the rise of modernity and non-political associates, but 30 January 1948
human societies suffer complete disenchantment: intervened. Thanks primarily to Rajendra Prasad
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-437-2
modernity creates new forms of enchantment, and Vinoba Bhave, the proposed conference did
and democracy is, in fact, part of the political take place, after a slight deferment, in March 1948.
Decline and Fall of The Indus enchantment of modernity. Focusing on Indian Without the Mahatma, the meeting acquired a new
theme: ‘Gandhi is Gone. Who Will Guide Us Now?’
Civilization, The democracy, Kaviraj shows the limits of Marxist
and liberal political analyses. This volume defies See GANDHI STUDIES
Nayanjot Lahiri all the preconditions that theory lays down for
the success of democratic government—namely, E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-427-3
This work constitutes essential reading for all

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Gandhi: In His Time and Hindu Rulers, Muslim and international, in this collection of opinion
pieces. These include Hollywood and Bollywood,
Ours Subjects Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, Steve Jobs and
Islam, Rights, and the History of Kashmir Julian Assange, Sri Lanka and Israel, wildlife at the
David Hardiman
Mridu Rai, faculty in the Department of History, Kruger National Park and beachlife in Goa.
This book examines Gandhi as the creator of a
Yale University, USA Kesavan’s viewpoints can veer from being
radical style of politics. It argues that whereas
politicians garner support by demonising those The state of Jammu and Kashmir comprises a very scrupulously rational to extravagantly funny.
they oppose, Gandhi resisted such a politics. large majority of Muslims who are subject to the Regardless of the tone he adopts, his observations
He asserted that there are always grounds for laws of a predominantly Hindu and increasingly are acute, his analysis of what he notices
a fruitful dialogue between opponents. How did ‘Hinduised’ India. How did religion and politics Orwellian. The perspective and worldview that
Gandhi create this new form of politics? Hardiman become so inextricably enmeshed in defining and emerges is that of a truly global intellectual who
shows its basis within Gandhi’s larger vision of expressing the protest of Kashmir’s Muslims against is both admirably idiosyncratic and secular to the
an alternative society based on respect, non- Hindu rule? This book is a brilliant historical study point of being hidebound, a combination which
violence, and ecological harmony. His politics in of this central issue in the troubled politics of South makes this essay collection quite exceptional.
turn constituted one of the many directions by Asia’s most picturesque, and most volatile, province. E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-431-0
which he activated this peculiarly personal vision.
Gandhi’s influence on new social movements—by See HISTORY
environmentalists, anti-war campaigners, feminists, E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-411-2
human rights activists—are also examined to History
assess his legacy. A Reader: Vol. 1: From Ancient Times to
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-428-0 Community, Religion, and Cultural the Colonial Period
Nationalism Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of Modern
Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper Tanika Sarkar, Professor, Centre for Historical
Indian History at the University of Delhi, K.
C. Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology,
Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
and Forestry and Environmental Studies, at Yale
Vasanthi Srinivasan, Reader in Political Science, This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing University
University of Hyderabad critique of many of the dominant concepts by
India’s Environmental History brings together
Hailed by Mahatma Gandhi as his conscience which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus
some of the best and most interesting writing
keeper, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (1878–1972; more specifically, think and live today. Historians,
on India’s ecological pasts looking at a variety of
better known as Rajaji) epitomised the practical sociologists, political scientists and serious readers
the country’s regions, landscapes, and arenas as
wisdom, religious tolerance and statesmanship who wish to understand how the immediate past
settings for strife or harmony, as topography and
that Gandhi brought to the nationalist movement. has shaped India’s life will value this incisive work
ecological fabric, in the process covering a vast
Vasanthi Srinivasan presents Rajaji’s vision as that of a major historian.
historical terrain.
of a theocentric liberal. Examining his political E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-424-2
ideas and actions alongside his literary works, as The essays here range from prehistoric India
well as in relation to Nehru and Periyar, she shows to the middle of the nineteenth century. They
how Rajaji steered clear of ideological dogma and History in the Vernacular provide insights on forest and water disputes,
charted an ethic of responsibility. contests over urban and rural space, struggles
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political
over water and land, and frictions over natural
See GANDHI STUDIES Science, and Raziuddin Aquil, Fellow in History,
wealth. For all who are interested in the diverse
both at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences,
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-413-6 and detailed findings of the best scholarship on
Calcutta
India’s environment, this book (and its companion
This book explores the status of regional and volume) is essential.
Hindu Nationalism vernacular histories in relation to academic
A Reader See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY
histories by professional historians. Looking closely
Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, Centre d’Etudes at vernacular contexts and traditions of historical E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-439-6
et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris production, the essays in this book question the
assumption that there was no history writing in
In India and beyond, Hindu nationalism came into India before colonialism. They suggest that careful
the headlines in the 1990s, when the Ayodhya and appropriate techniques of reading reveal History
movement gained momentum. The first part of this distinctly indigenous historical narratives. A Reader: Vol. 2: Colonialism, Modernity,
reader shows that some of the nineteenth century and the Nation
Hindu socio-religious reformers, such as Dayananda See HISTORY
(founder of the Arya Samaj), prepared the ground E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-403-7
Mahesh Rangarajan, Professor of Modern
for Hindu nationalism by positing a Vedic Golden Indian History at the University of Delhi, K.
Age. The second part of the reader outlines every Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Anthropology,
major political issue on which the Hindu nationalist Homeless on Google Earth and Forestry and Environmental Studies, at Yale
movement has taken a distinct position. University
Mukul Kesavan
See SOCIOLOGY This reader brings together some of the best
‘Homeless’ in the title of this book means
and most interesting writing on India’s ecological
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-420-4 ‘cosmopolitan’. Mukul Kesavan, considered
pasts. It looks at a variety of the country’s regions,
by many to be India’s most articulate and
landscapes, and arenas as settings for strife or
sophisticated scholar-journalist in English, covers a
harmony, as topography and ecological fabric, in
huge range of political and cultural subjects, local
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shows how colonial rule resulted in ecological India’s Wildlife History Languages of Political Islam
change on a new scale altogether. Forests covering An Introduction
over half a million sq. km were taken over by 1904 in India, The
and managed by foresters. Canal construction on Mahesh Rangarajan, environmental historian c. 1200–1800
a gigantic scale gave British India perhaps more Muzaffar Alam, Professor, Departments of
Drawing on memoirs, archives and official records,
acreage than any other political entity on earth. South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and
Mahesh Rangarajan brings new insights to bear upon
Similar new forces were at work in relation to History, University of Chicago
age-old encounters between human beings and
the animal world, with species being reclassified
the natural world in India. While highlighting major
as vermin to be hunted down or as game to This book shows the ways in which political
figures, such as Jim Corbett and M. Krishnan, he also
be selectively shot. For all who are interested Islam, from its establishment in medieval north
puts the spotlight on less-known conservationists,
in the diverse and detailed findings of the best India, adapted itself to a variety of Indian contexts
landscapes and species. The focus of this book is on
scholarship on India’s environment, this book (and and became deeply Indianised. Through a close
key landmarks in the history of Indian wildlife—both
its companion volume) is essential. reading of a variety of texts—ranging from
its conservation and decline.
normative treatises and Sufi biographies to Persian
See ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES AND GEOGRAPHY court poetry—Muzaffar Alam shows that the
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-439-6 vocabularies in use went through certain changes
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so fundamental that the language of Indian Islam
became quite different from what was in vogue in
India’s Literary History Indispensable Vivekananda, contexts outside.
Essays on the Nineteenth Century
The See HISTORY
Stuart Blackburn (ed.), Senior Lecturer, An Anthology for our Times
Department of South Asian Languages and E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4
Cultures, School of Oriental and African Studies, Edited by Amiya P. Sen, Reader in History,
London, Vasudha Dalmiya (ed.), Professor of Department of History and Culture, Jamia Millia Last Liberal and Other
Hindi, University of California, Berkeley Islamia, Delhi
Essays, The
India’s Literary History is the first major A hundred years after Swami Vivekananda’s
reassessment of literary history in nineteenth- oratory, essays, and philosophical writings offered Ramachandra Guha, eminent writer and
century India for a generation. Its essays emphasise substantial modifications and refinements to biographer
the making of literary history, the process of modern Hinduism, he remains a key figure in any This book is on how a large area of contemporary
canonisation, the reinvention of literary tradition, proper understanding of the religion of India’s India’s cultural and intellectual life has been
and the writing of literary history itself. They largest majority. The present anthology, which fashioned by exceptional individuals who have,
include little-known texts, situating them within showcases those aspects of Vivekananda that in diverse ways, imbibed the spirit of liberalism,
a wider debate about national origins, linguistic seem ‘indispensable’ even today, consists of two secularism, personal integrity and social
identities, and political entitlements. A central halves: an Introduction by the editor, followed by commitment. The author’s heroes and heroines
premise of the book is the arrival of the European selections from the core of the Swami’s oeuvre. include environmentalists and social activists,
literary cultures in India, their contact with teachers and scholars, scientists and writers,
popular performance forms and complex literary politicians and bureaucrats.
cultures creating their own histories. Print culture E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-408-2
and oral tales, drama and gender, library use and See GENERAL INTEREST
publishing history, theatre and audiences, detective
fiction and low-caste novels are among the topics
Languages of Belonging E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-423-5
covered. This book will interest every Indian-

Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of
history enthusiast as well as readers in general. Kashmir Lost Worlds
Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories
See HISTORY
of History, College of William and Mary, Chitra Joshi, Professor, Department of History,
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-429-7 Williamsburg, VA, USA Indraprastha College, University of Delhi
‘Based on massive archival research in Delhi, Jammu This book takes the present context of globalisation
India’s New Capitalists and Srinagar and the unearthing of rare Kashmiri and the decline of large-scale industry as its
Caste, Business and Industry in a Modern literary sources, it skilfully uncovers the religious entry point into the worlds of labour in the late
Nation sensibilities that underlay the formation of Kashmir’s nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a
regional identity in the late-nineteenth and early- wide range of oral and archival sources as well as
Harish Damodaran, Senior Assistant Editor,
twentieth century.… Languages of Belonging will popular literature, the author reconstructs working-
The Hindu Business Line
light up new ways of understanding the formation of class lives, exploring their everyday worlds at the
Business in India was traditionally the preserve identities in South Asia’s regions.’ workplace and within community life outside, as
of certain ‘bania’ communities clubbed under the well as their moments of conflict and struggle.
—Sugata Bose, Harvard University
Vaishya order. In tracing the modern-day evolution
of business communities in India, this book is the See HISTORY See HISTORY
first social history to document and understand E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-430-3
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India’s new entrepreneurial groups.
See SOCIOLOGY
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Media and Modernity come to fly as it does today? And how, in contrast, in this book of essays. The early colonial universe
Communications, Women, and the State was the flag of Pakistan created? These are some in India centres on woman as both defiled and
of the historically important questions answered in deified; the nation as woman/goddess in a country
in India
A National Flag for India. with diverse traditions; male reformers battling
Robin Jeffrey, Visiting Research Professor, Hindu conservatives; and male-dominant social
Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore norms threatening principles of femininity.
AND PUBLIC POLICY
For fifty years, the state of Kerala has been See HISTORY
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-441-9
famed, first as a home of Communists, then
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-407-5
as a perplexing ‘model of development’. But
why Communists? And why development, Nationalism in the
especially in a place where the economy usually Vernacular Sexuality, Obscenity,
underperformed even lowly national averages?
Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian Community
Part of an answer lies in the unusual place of
Freedom Women, Muslims, and the Hindu Public in
women in Kerala and their changing role in the
past 200 years. Another part lies in the other,
Colonial India
Shobna Nijhawan teaches Hindi at York
often under-analysed focus of this book: media University in Canada. Charu Gupta has a SOAS PhD in History and is
and communication. Media and Modernity ponders a Reader in History at Delhi University
these questions, first from the perspective of This anthology comprises a selection of formative
Kerala, often a forerunner of developments literary writings in Hindi and Urdu from the The cultural imagination of Hindu India is the
elsewhere, and then at an all-India level. second half of the nineteenth century, leading subject of this book. The book explores moral
up to Indian Independence and the creation of and sexual worries among an aspiring section of
See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES Pakistan. The texts here are mostly hitherto Hindu middle-class caste reformers. This group
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-404-4 unpublished translations into English. The epitomised male fears over women’s autonomy.
anthology provides a picture of how nationalism— It fused a coercive regulation of women with a
as a cultural ideology and political movement— larger project of replenishing Hindu patriarchy. This
Merchants, Traders, was formed in literature. The combination is involved redefining literature, entertainment, and
Entrepreneurs deliberate: the relationship of Hindi and Urdu the domestic arena in order to forge a ‘respectable’,
Indian Business in the Colonial Era was being consolidated and sealed even as ‘civilised’ and singular Hindu cultural and political
these texts were being written. The anthology identity. Semi-pornographic works, advertisements
Claude Markovits emphasises the shared ground of Hindi and Urdu. for aphrodisiacs, and popular culture are examined
Autobiographical writings in Hindi, prison poetry to reveal the complex and contested terrain of
This book brings together a number of issues
in Urdu, and social reform writings around gender, Hindi literature and Hindu identity.
which deal with the Indian mercantile world in
caste, class, and dalits are also included in this
colonial India, and its relationship with politics E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-410-5
fascinating collection.
and society. Three major themes are taken up:
the relationship between the business world and See FILM, MEDIA AND CULTURE STUDIES
the world of politics, in the late colonial era, with
Small Voice of History, The
special emphasis on the links between business
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-440-2 Collected Essays
interests and political nationalism; the position Ranajit Guha, founding father of Subaltern
of merchants and big businessmen in relation Nivedan Studies, edited by Partha Chatterjee, Director,
to society and the economy; and merchant The Autobiography of Dharmanand Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata
circulations, the way in which specific trading Kosambi
networks extended the range of their operations Ranajit Guha’s writings have had a major impact
during the colonial period, across the entire Edited by Meera Kosambi, sociologist trained in on scholarship in post-colonial studies in literature,
subcontinent as well as the wider world. India, Sweden and the USA anthropology, history, cultural studies, and art
history. These writings have been put together
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-400-6 At an early age Dharmanand set off on an and introduced by Partha Chatterjee, whose
incredible journey of austere self-training across association with Guha as a founder-member of the
the length and breadth of Britain’s Indian Empire,
National Flag for India, A halting to educate himself at places connected
Subaltern Studies editorial board is complemented
by his own stature as a historian and intellectual.
Arundhati Virmani, Reader in History at Delhi with Buddhism. Meera Kosambi’s Introduction
University until 1992, she teaches at the Ecole des contextualises the life, career, and achievement of See HISTORY
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Marseille. one of modern India’s greatest scholar-savants. E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-415-0
Unearthing the complex history of the making See GENERAL INTEREST
of the Indian national flag, Arundhati Virmani E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-406-8 Studying Early India
reveals cultural processes that imposed a set of Archaeology, Texts, and Historical Issues
values and sentiments on an incredibly diverse and
scattered body of people in her book, A National Rebels, Wives, Saints Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya, Professor of
Flag for India. She shows that the Indian Flag was Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
a major resource for the nationalist movement, Times It shows the profound impact of colonialism on
a tool that allowed large social diversities to the study of India’s early past, the new methods
Tanika Sarkar, Professor of History, Jawaharlal
assert the compelling necessity for a new political and premises introduced into India by colonial
culture with secular nationalism as the unifying studies, and the variety of departures from
pole. This viewpoint was contested by the Muslim Sarkar, known for her writings on women, traditional, pre-colonial modes of history-writing.
League, the Sikhs, the Indian princes, and Hindu religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial It goes on to show that post-Independence
nationalists. So how, in the end, did the Indian flag Bengal, gives a new direction to the same themes

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historiography has brought a fresh set of problems history. He shows that there is no way to examine Mulshi Satyagraha won the prestigious
to the fore: such as the integration of archaeology present-day politics except through painstaking G.H. Deshmukh award of the Pune Sahitya
with narratives of early Indian history; of the reconnections with the vernacular facts of Indian Parishad. Vora was then persuaded to write an
trajectories of social change and social formation; political history. English version. This is that version, and it includes
of the historical position of ideology and its shifts; a chapter which links contemporary anti-dam
and of the ways of communicating knowledge of a protests with ideas and activities first expressed in
AND PUBLIC POLICY
past which is now increasingly under non-academic the 1920s.
fundamentalist onslaughts. E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-414-3
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-432-7
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-409-9
View from the Machan, A Writing the Mughal World
Swadeshi Movement in How Science Can Save the Fragile Studies in Political Culture
Predator
Bengal, The Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor
1903–1908 K. Ullas Karanth and Maya Ramaswamy in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the
This book provides a unique insight into wildlife University of Chicago, Sanjay Subrahmanyam,
Sumit Sarkar, eminent historian of modern India
conservation from the perspective of an professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima
‘Very few monographs, if any, have ever rivalled internationally renowned tiger biologist. Karanth Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of
the meticulous research and the thick description opens up the secret world of predators—from California, Los Angeles
that characterized this book, or the lucidity of its wild dogs and leopards to tigers—in Nagarahole. In Writing the Mughal World, two leading historians
exposition and the persuasive power of its overall He talks about hours of walking trails in the jungle, of early modern South Asia present nine jointly
argument …’ setting up camera traps, collecting big cat faeces authored essays on the Mughal empire, framed by
—Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago and examining them: he evokes both the drudgery a long introduction which reflects on the imperial,
and the thrill of being a scientist in the wild. nationalist, and other conflicted trajectories of
See HISTORY
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-434-1 history-writing on the Mughals. Using materials
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-401-3 from a large variety of languages presenting how
this Indo-Islamic dynasty developed a sophisticated
Western Science in Modern system of government and facilitated an era of
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AUTHOR INDEX
Abdulla, V. 74, 76, 147, 152, 211, 216 Bandaranayake, Senake 120, 202 Bhukya, Bhangya 10, 117, 219
Abraham, Itty 167 Bandopadhyay, Bibhutibhushan 76, 151 Bidwai, Praful 42, 162
Abraham, Leena 94, 184, 213 Bandyopadhyay, Mahuya 10, 187 Bilgrami, Akeel 128, 172
Acharya, Indranil 17, 50, 72, 143 Bandyopadhyay, Manik 72, 144 Birchall, Clare 54
Acharya, Shankar 26 Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar 101, 109, 125, 158, 163 Bird, Tim 162
Achaya, K. T. 83 Banerjee, Ashis 80, 194 Birla, Ritu 28, 114, 186
Addlakha, Renu 96, 189 Banerjee, Debdas 33, 126 Birrell, Anne 81
Adhikari, Sudeepta 41 Banerjee-Dube, Ishita 16, 141 Bista, Dor Bahadur 11, 168, 190
Adiga, Malini 124, 193 Banerjee, Madhulika 97, 105, 120, 189, 216 Björkman, Lisa 4, 157
Agarwal, Manmohan 35, 40 Banerjee, Nirmala 33 Blackburn, Stuart 136, 154, 225
Agnihotri, Anita 92, 178 Banerjee, Samir 59, 119, 214 Blackstone, Judith 87
Ahmad, Imtiaz 15, 17, 58, 147, 177, 187, 198–9 Banerjee, Satarupa 82, 200 Blume, Stuart 96, 189
Ahmad, Irfan 174 Banerjee, Sumanta 120 Bode, Maarten 11, 98, 105, 122, 191, 219
Ahmad, Nazir 72, 74, 77, 149, 153, 214, 219, 241 Banerji, Arup 122, 140, 191, 199 Bose, Nirmal Kumar 219
Ahuja, Ravi 105, 119 Bangha, Imre 142 Bose, N. K. 214
Aitken, Bill 45, 89, 223 Bannerji, Himani 165, 186 Bose, Satheese Chandra 23, 157
Aitken, Edward Hamilton 45, 89 Barsky, Robert F. 147 Bose, Subhas Chandra 89, 138
Akyuz, Yilmaz 26 Bartholomew, Amy 31, 169 Bose, Sugata 89, 135–6, 138, 175–6
Alam, Javeed 112, 164 Barua, Alokesh 29, 168 Brass, Paul R. 171, 194
Alam, Muzaffar 129, 135, 172, 175, 225, 227 Basheer, Vaikom Muhammad 216 Brijnath, Bianca 6, 63
Alavi, Seema 137 Baskaran, G. 148 Brockington, John 210
Ali, Salim 45, 89, 230, 244 Baskaran, Theodore 54, 118, 208 Bronner, Yigal 154
Ali, Shanti Sadiq 200 Basu, Anustup 49–50, 78 Brown, Lester 44
Ali, Syed 186 Basu, Bani 76, 152 Brown, Lester R. 44
Alkazi, Feisal 44, 205 Basu, Helene 121, 211 Bruthiaux, Paul 148
Allen, Carolyn 67, 171, 193 Basu, Kaushik 34 Bunzl, Matti 14, 57, 154
Allen, David 56, 86, 152 Basu, Srimati 4, 62 Burn, Lucilla 81
Alter, Robert C. 44 Basu, Suddhasattwa 213 Burton, Antoinette 14, 57, 154
Alvarado, Benjamín Maldonado 52, 146, 165 Basu, T. 178
Amin, Shahid 100 Bates, Crispin 14, 125, 171, 193 Canagarajah, Suresh 55, 191
Amin, Shahina 31 Baudot, Jacques 31, 169 Cartography Department, Orient BlackSwan 203
Amte, Sadhana 66, 75, 150, 217 Baviskar, B. S. 187, 221 Cashman, Richard 215
Aquil, Raziuddin 134, 224 Bayly, C. A. 26, 110 Cavalier, Robert 85, 152
Arita, Isao 95, 114 Beg, Mirza Farhatullah 72, 74, 149, 214 Cavallaro, Dani 86–7
Arnold, David 138 Bellamy, Carla 13 Cederlof, Gunnel 13, 130
Arondekar, Anjali 65, 115 Benei, Véronique 14, 58, 137, 197–8 Chadha, Ravinder 82
Arunima, G. 12, 67, 125 Benhur, Dash 70, 142 Chakrabarti, Anjan 23
Ashokamitran 76, 77, 152, 204, 217 Benichou, Lucien D. 125, 171, 206 Chakrabarti, Dilip K. 45, 138
Ashraf, Ali 199 Bennett, Bruce 150 Chakrabarti, Malabika 33, 124
Assayag, Jackie 14, 137, 197 Berman, Eli 166 Chakrabarti, Pratik 14, 134, 196, 227
Atal, Yogesh 80, 158, 202 Bernard, Jean Alphonse 176, 198 Chakrabarti, Shirshendu 54, 150, 151
Atkinson, Dwight 148 Bhagat, Manjul 77, 153 Chakrabarty, Bidyut 170
Attewell, Guy 98, 105, 123, 192, 217 Bhagubhai, Chandulal 60, 80, 123 Chakraborty, Chandrima 13, 132, 174
Avery, Desmond 78, 94, 211 Bhandari, Laveesh 35, 199 Chakravarti, Sudeshna 50, 143, 216
Aymard, Maurice 206 Bhandari, Mannu 76, 152 Chakravarty, K. K. 9, 11, 52, 54, 146, 149, 189,
Azad, M. A. K. 80, 119, 209 Bhargava, Meena 65, 115 210
Azhagarasan, R. 150 Bhargava, Rajeev 167, 188, 221 Chakravarty, Radha 58, 91, 155
Bhasin, Kamla 166, 201 Chakravorty, Swapan 136
Badrinath, Chaturvedi 66, 75, 151, 191, 222 Bhatia, H. R. 204 Champa, Tickoo 209, 221
Baig, Mirza Farhatullah 73, 147 Bhatnagar, Deepa 77, 103, 107–8, 218 Chandra, Bipan 112, 118, 126, 164, 214, 248
Bajpai, Kanti 171, 210 Bhattacharji, Sukumari 211–2 Chandra, Mallampalli 123, 192
Bajpai, Peeyush 35, 199 Bhattacharya, Arnab 71, 142 Chandran, H. N. 201
Bakhle, Janaki 57, 136 Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi 40, 122, 125, 205, 217, Chandra, Satish 123
Bakker, Karen 28, 165 219 Chandrasekhar, C. P. 202
Balakrishnan, N. 77, 103, 107–8, 218 Bhattacharya, Sanjoy 95–8, 105, 115–6, 118, 124, Channa, Subhadra Mitra 4, 62
Balakrishnan, Pulapre 21, 27, 158, 204 188, 205–8 Chaplin, Susan E. 28, 106, 165, 215
Balan, Chandrika 71, 142 Bhowmik, Sharit K. 184 Chari, P. R. 35, 68, 177

230 AUTHOR INDEX
Chatterjee, Enakshi 76, 152 Datta, P. 178 Fischer-Tiné, Harald 105
Chatterjee, Partha 13, 14, 57, 129–30, 134, 138, Davis, Geoffrey V. 9, 11, 52, 54, 146, 149, 189, Fischlowitz-Roberts, Bernie 44
172–3, 176, 197, 224, 226 210 Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter 66, 190
Chatterjee, Rimi B. 52, 147, 149 Davis, Richard 55, 215 Freedman, Paul 119
Chatterjee, Subir K. 99 Day, Richard J. F. 168, 190 Froerer, Peggy 15, 176, 199
Chatterjee, Suhita Chopra 7, 182 Deák, Dušan 94, 106 Fruzzetti, Lina 16
Chatterji, Miabi 7, 50 Debi, Ashapurna 64–5, 72, 74, 148, 240 Fuller, C. J. 14, 19, 34, 58, 198
Chatterji, Roma 3, 179 Delamonica, Enrique 31, 190 Fuller, Steve 80, 124, 193
Chattopadhyaya, Brajadulal 138, 226 Department of Food and Nutrition, Lady Irwin
Chattopadhyay, B. D. 126 College, New Delhi 201 Gandhi, Gopalkrishna 60, 135, 223
Chattopadhyay, Ratan K. 72–3, 144, 147 Desai, Narayan 59, 80, 119, 149 Gandhi, Leela 88, 126, 137, 172, 197
Chaube, S. K. 110, 163 Deshpande, Prachi 129, 194 Gandhi, Tara 45, 89
Chaudhuri, Jayasri Ray 33, 44 Deshpande, Satish 13, 160, 180, 195, 216 Gangopadhyay, Sunil 76, 152
Chaudhuri, Maitrayee 194 Desikachar, S. V. 194 Ganguly, Debjani 11, 18, 60, 168, 190
Chaudhuri, Rosinka 51, 109, 144, 206 de Souza, Arun 29, 43 Ganguly-Scrase, Ruchira 6, 182
Chaudhuri, Sukanta 141, 155 deSouza, Peter Ronald 59 Ganti, Tejaswini 8, 51
Chaudhuri, Supriya 52, 147 Devadawson, Christel 49, 54, 150 García, Ofelia 38, 148, 189
Chen, Lincoln C. 30, 189 Devaki, Kalyani 68, 139 Gardin, Jean-Pierre 206
Chettiar, A. K. 55, 60, 209 Dev, Arjun 118 Gardner, Jane F. 81
Chhabra, Tarun 2, 77 Devika, J. 66, 191, 204 Gautam, Suman Rimal 32
Chopra, Radhika 66, 192 Dev, Indira Arjun 118 Geithner, Peter F. 30, 189
Chopra, Shakuntala 82 Devlieger, Patrick 96, 189 Gellner, David N. 4, 11, 15, 177, 179, 189, 199
Choudhary, Sunil K. 80, 158, 202 Devy, G. N. 9, 11–2, 52, 54, 146–9, 152, 189, George, Renuka 92, 155
Choudhurani, Renuka Devi 88 193, 210, 235 George, Susan 31, 84, 191
Choudhury, D. K. Lahiri 45 Dewey, Clive 105 Gerster, Richard 35, 177
Chowdhury, Indira 65, 74, 148 Dhanagare, D. N. 182 Ghose, Durgabati 65, 74, 147, 222
Christie, Frances 38 Dhar, Biswajit 23, 156 Ghose, Subodh 77, 153
Cody, Francis 7, 37 Dhar, Sheila 13, 90 Ghoshal, Taposhi 214
Cogswell, David 56, 86 Dheram, Premakumari 39, 151, 191 Ghoshal, U. N. 219
Cohen, Benjamin B. 102, 158, 179 Dhere, Ramachandra Chintaman 132 Ghosh, Anindita 67, 131
Collins, Daryl 34 Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma 61, 136 Ghosh, Arunabha 30, 148, 189
Congreve, William 151 Dinham, Barbara 33, 67 Ghosh, Durba 105, 124, 203
Cook, Harold J. 97, 105, 118, 121, 208 Dirks, Nicholas B. 12, 136, 138 Ghosh, G. C. 12, 193
Cortez, Ana Luiza 30, 190 Docker, John 60, 168 Ghosh, Jayati 202
Cuitino, Luis Martinez 84, 152 Dolzer, Rudolf 177 Ghosh, Kali Prasad 91, 139
Curtis, Vesta Sarkhosh 81 Dossani, Rafiq 170 Ghosh, Sumita 44
Drayton, Richard 44, 124 Ghosh, Suresh Chandra 36, 107
Dalal, Chandulal Bhagubhai 60, 80 Drazen, Allan 33 Gibbons, John 152
Dallapiccolla, A. L. 81 Driesen, Cynthia vanden 51, 145 Gill, H. S. 209
Dalmia, Vasudha 134, 136, 154, 175, 196, 225 Driesen, Ian vanden 51, 145 Gilpin, Robert 33, 171
Dalvi, Jaywant 201 D’Souza, Deepika 29 Gisbert, P. 187, 206
Damodaran, Harish 34, 196, 225 D’Souza, Radha 43 Goldman, Michael 32, 192
Dandekar, Ajay 6, 24, 204 D’Souza, Rohan 26, 42, 204 Gooptu, Nandini 34, 176
Dangle, Arjun 18, 75, 149 Dube, Saurabh 16, 141 Gopalakrishnan, N. 71, 144, 221
Dantyagi, S. 207 Gopal, Sangita 53
Dar, William 78, 205 Economic and Political Weekly 28, 30, 120, 190, 201 Gopal, Sarvepalli 90, 128, 213
Das, Bikram K. 70, 77, 142, 153, 216 Eggington, William G. 148 Gopinath, Ravindran 29, 115, 188
Das Gupta, Prosenjit 16, 199 Eliezer, Nesa 83, 216 Gordon, W. Terrence 56, 85–6, 194
Dasgupta, Rajib 95, 106, 185, 221 Engel, Nora 3, 94 Goswami, Chhaya 113
Dasgupta, Sanjukta 9, 50, 112, 143, 216 Engineer, Asghar Ali 79, 165, 171, 178, 193–4, Goswami, Priyam 111
Dasgupta, Subrata 134 207, 212, 217, 231, 239 Gourgey, Percy S. 210
Das Gupta, Uma 142 Esty, Jed 14, 57, 154 Gowdy, John M. 27
Das, Kamala 64, 73, 146, 217 Ezekiel, Nissim 151 Grabe, William 148
Das, Samarendra 10, 116, 188 Greenough, Paul 10, 44, 53, 105, 125, 188, 194,
Das, Sujoy 89 Falk, Richard 112, 164, 249 200
Das, Veena 1, 3, 4, 142, 179, 248 Feldhaus, Anne 132 Griffith-Jones, Stephany 32
Datla, Kavita 108, 162 Fihl, Esther 4, 103 Grossberg, Lawrence 51, 144
Datta, Jayanti 76, 152 Fillingham, Lydia Alix 56, 87, 194 Grossman, Edith 146

AUTHOR INDEX 231
Grover, Shalini 15, 35, 68 Inden, Ronald B. 199 Kelley, S. Ravi 29, 43, 122, 200
Guha, Arun Chandra 205 Institute of Social Sciences 67, 166, 186, 193, 220 Kennedy, Dane 105, 124, 203
Guha, Mechthild 13, 90 Kerr, Ian J. 55, 105, 109, 122, 200
Guha, Ramachandra 13–4, 45, 91, 130, 132, Iqtidar, Humeira 174 Kesavan, Mukul 224
137–8, 175, 194, 197, 225 Jaaware, Aniket 56, 218 Khanna, Meenakshi 139
Guha, Ramchandra 210 Jackson, Michael 4, 142 Khan, Naveeda 8, 185
Guha, Ranajit 14, 57, 134, 226 Jacob, Preminda 52 Khanna, Vinod C. 23, 156
Guha, Sumit 99, 135, 196 Jacobs, Miriam 33, 67 Khan, Sarbuland 32, 169
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati 137 Jaffrelot, Christophe 19, 135, 137, 175–6, 196–7, Kidwai, Sabina 67, 171
Gunasekaran, K. A. 18, 75, 149, 217 224 Kiely, Ray 31, 169
Gundevia, Y. D. 92, 141, 228 Jain, L. C. 171 King, Anna 210
Guneratne, Arjun 160, 180 Jain, Priti 205 Kirpalani, S. K. 205
Gupta, Abhijit 136 Jain, Ravindra K. 125, 171 Kjöllerström, Monica 31, 169
Gupta, Akhil 8, 163 Jaleel, Jerry A. 44 Kleinman, Arthur 4, 142
Gupta, Amit Kumar 118 Jalil, Rakhshanda 73, 147 Knudsen, Are 9, 166, 187
Gupta, Charu 64, 68, 110, 138, 226 Jasper, Daniel 94, 106 Kochhar, Rajesh 80, 126, 221
Gupta, Gautam 33 Jayalakshmi, P. 73, 146 Kosambi, Meera 67, 88, 90, 129, 132, 171, 194–6,
Gupta, Monobina 79, 166 Jayal, Niraja Gopal 173 223, 226
Gupta, Narayani 79 Jayawardena, Kumari 100, 158 Kothari, Ashish 12, 44, 220
Gupta, Nilanjana 149 Jeffrey, Craig 37, 198 Kothari, Rajni 163, 166, 168, 170, 187, 190, 215,
Gupta, Niru 202 Jeffrey, Patricia 37, 198 217, 249
Gupta, Sonika 68, 177 Jeffrey, Robin 56, 67, 226 Kothari, Rita 10, 108, 117, 182, 189, 213
Jeffrey, Roger 37, 198 Kothari, Smitu 166, 201
Habib, Irfan 33, 124 Jeganathan, Pradeep 138, 176, 197 Kregel, Jan 32
Haddad, Hubert 92, 155 Jha, Manish K. 161, 181 Krishna, Arvind 88, 127, 153–4
Hall, Gary 54 Jodhka, Surinder S. 27, 164, 185, 221 Krishnan, Jyothi 30, 43
Hansen, Kathryn 132, 153 Jomo, K. S. 31–2, 169 Krishnankutty, Gita 74, 147
Hansen, Thomas Blom 14, 175, 197 Jones, Margaret 96–7, 99, 105, 118, 125, 206, 208 Krishnan, Rajam 222
Haq, Kaiser 92, 141, 155 Jørgensen, Helle 5, 106–7 Krishnaraj, Maithreyi 32, 67, 126, 194
Harder, Hans 140, 155, 177, 199 Joseph, Betty 66, 124 Krishna Rao, K. V. 79, 114, 211
Hardiman, David 138, 224 Joseph, George Gheverghese 193, 207 Krishnaswamy, K. S. 29, 79, 222
Hardy, Anne 97, 105, 118, 208 Joshi, Chitra 34, 137, 175, 197, 225 Krishnaswamy, K. V. 48, 142
Harman, Chris 80, 124 Joshi, G. N. 204 Kuhiwczak, Piotr 51, 145
Harrison, Mark 96, 98, 105, 118, 124, 206–7 Joshi, Vandana 117, 167 Kumar, Anup 106, 165, 184
Harris, V. C. 64, 73, 217 Josipovic, Zoran 87 Kumaravadivelu, B. 40
Harshe, Rajen 168, 204 Juluri, Vamsee 55, 193 Kumar, Avinash 160, 210
Hazareesingh, Sandip 105, 122 Juneja, Monica 135, 222 Kumar, Dharma 124
Heehs, Peter 91 Kumari, Abhilasha 67, 171
Henn, Alexander 5 Kakani, Ram Kumar 92 Kumar, Krishna 39, 190, 204, 216
Herdegen, Matthias 177 Kalpagam, U. 2, 158 Kumar, Mukesh 92
Heugh, Kathleen 38 Kalyan Raman, N. 76–7, 152, 217 Kumar, Raj 9, 17, 113, 145, 164, 186
Heydon, Susan 97, 105, 119, 213 Kamble, Baby 18, 66, 75, 150 Kumar, Rajni 39, 193
Hill, Philip 40, 56, 86, 152 Kämpchen, Martin 142 Kumar, Sanjay 37, 185
Hoare, Quintin 171, 194 Kannabiran, Vasanth 64, 78 Kumar, Sisir 89, 117, 135–6, 138, 175–6, 201
Hoda, Anawarul 35 Kannan, Lakshmi 71, 73, 142, 145, 207 Kumar, Sunil 133
Hodges, Sarah 67, 98, 105, 124 Kapadia, Aparna 10, 116, 166, 188 Kunnath, George J. 20, 176
Holmstrom, Lakshmi 218 Karanth, K. Ullas 227 Kup, Jarek 56, 85
Hood, John W. 54–5, 78, 108, 208 Karanth, Prathibha 37, 95 Kurian, Rachel 100, 158
Howard, Judith 67, 171, 193 Karlsson, Bengt G. 42, 46, 166, 177
Hughes, Julie E. 173 Karve, Irawati 76, 123, 151, 170, 192 Lahiri, Nayanjot 126–7, 131, 138, 223
Husaini, M. A. 65, 75, 150 Kashyap, Sushma 82 Lainé, Nicolas 42, 185, 214
Hussein, Abdullah 228 Kathuria, Shailaja 92, 141 Lal, Lakshmi 56, 80, 216
Hyatt, Kathryn 55, 85 Katju, Manjari 117, 167, 188, 221 Lamb, Sarah 7, 183
Kaul, Shonaleeka 49, 103, 134, 202 Lang, Jon 90, 133
IDFC Foundation 24, 94 Kaul, Suvir 14, 57, 132, 154, 174 Lardinois, Roland 198
IDFC Rural Development Network 22, 25, 158, Kaur, Ravinder 5, 179 Larsen, Janet 44
162 Kaviraj, Sudipta 172–4, 195, 223, 227 Larson, Gerald James 177, 199
IIT Kharagpur 79, 218, 245 Kelley, Michele 29 Latour, Bruno 43, 170

232 AUTHOR INDEX
Leach, Melissa 32, 192 Mehrotra, Santosh 31, 190 Nagarajan, Hemalatha 152
Lecomte-Tilouine, Marie 46 Mehta, Abhay 33, 171 Nagarajan, M. S. 151
Lectures at the Institute of Social Sciences 166, Mehta, Lyla 26, 170, 184, 193, 215 Nagaraj, D. R. 13, 18, 130, 173, 195, 223
186 Mehta, Monika 56 Nagase, Osamu 96, 189
Lemay, Eric 85 Menon, Dilip M. 139 Nair, Janaki 51, 111
Levine, Sarah 11, 15, 189, 199 Menon, Kalyani Devaki 68 Nair, M. T. Vasudevan 71, 74, 76, 147, 152, 211,
Lev, Shimon 59, 112 Menon, K. P. S. 203 221, 248
Lewis, Michael 44, 105, 125 Menon, Nivedita 158, 160, 190 Nair, Neeti 131, 174
Liebau, Heike 139 Menon, Radhika P. 71, 144 Nair, Sreedevi K. 71, 144
Limbale, Sharankumar 18, 56 Menon, V. P. 81, 104, 210, 220 Naithani, Sadhana 80, 119, 148
Littau, Karin 51, 145 Merz, Barbara J. 30, 189 Nanda, Meera 175, 197
Löfgren, Hans 176, 177 Messenger, Sharon 95–6, 105, 115–6, 188, 207 Nandy, Ashis 57, 137–8, 176
Lokaneeta, Jinee 164 Metcalf, Barbara D. 130, 173, 195 Naono, Atsuko 97, 105, 120
Loomba, Ania 14, 57, 154 Metcalf, Thomas 136 Narain, Vishal 33, 44
Lourdusamy, John Bosco 105, 125, 218 Meyer, Lois 52, 146, 165 Narasimha Murthy, M. G. 148
Lowe, Michelle 87 Michaels, Axel 80, 125, 193 Narasimhan, Raji 72
Ludden, David 138 Ministry of Rural Development, Government of Naravane, Viswanath S. 217
Lukose, Ritty A. 29, 65, 167, 188 India 26, 163 Narayanan, Gomathi 77, 152, 204, 217
Lynton, Harriet Ronken 107, 202, 214 Mir, Farina 134 Narayana Rao, Velcheru 138, 227
Mishra, Arima 7, 10, 95, 182, 188 Narayan, Badri 209
MacFarlane, Alan 15, 140 Mishra, Arvind K. 37, 185 Naregal, Veena 56, 128
Machel, Graca 171, 194 Mishra, Ganeswar 218 Narrain, Siddharth 161
Madhusudan, M. D. 42, 104 Mishra, Mallica 5, 181, 220 Narula, Vinita 82
Maheshwari, S. R. 168, 171 Misra, Partha Sarathi 54, 149 Natarajan, Uttara 14, 19
Maitra, Shubhada 37, 94 Mitchell, Lisa 13, 128, 194 Natrajan, Balmurli 10, 53, 105, 188, 200
Majumdar, Ramendu 201 Mitra, Ashok 35 Nayar, Pramod K. 51–2, 123, 183, 203
Malagatti, Aravind 18, 75, 150 Mody, Ashoka 32 Nayyar, A. H. 166, 201
Malagatti, Dharani Devi 18, 75, 150 Mohanty, Ajit K. 38, 189 Naz, Farhat 5, 24
Malik, Jamal 8, 111 Mohanty, Manoranjan 23, 156 Nicholas B. 12, 126, 136, 138
Mallavarapu, Siddharth 171, 210 Mohanty, Sachidananda 55, 65, 121, 150 Nicholas, Ralph W. 16, 199
Maloney, Clarence 7, 183, 215 Mohanty, Satya P. 113, 145 Nicholson, Andrew J. 133
Mamdani, Mahmood 197 Moienuddin, Mohammad 219 Nieuwenhuys, Olga 68
Mandal, D. 125, 200 Mollinga, Peter P. 44 Nigam, Aditya 158, 160, 190
Mandal, Somdatta 65, 74, 222 Montessori, Maria 39 Nijhawan, Shobna 57, 134, 154, 175, 226
Manikumar, K. A. 33, 125 Mookerji, Radha Kumud 199 Nilakanta Pillai, Karoor 201
Mantena, Karuna 13, 133 Moorti, Sujata 53 Niranjana, Tejaswini 47, 55, 66, 121, 179
Marjit, Sugata 33 Morduch, Jonathan 34 Novetzke, Christian Lee 135
Markovits, Claude 138, 226 More, J. B. P. 193 Nussbaum, Martha C. 33
Marshall, Alex 162 Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament
Mascarenhas, Reginald C. 210 (MIND) 170 Ocampo, José Antonio 30–32, 169, 190
Masica, Colin P. 155 Mukherjee, Alok 18, 38, 118, 189 O’Connor, Daniel 141
Mason, David S. 109, 162 Mukherjee, Meenakshi 55, 74, 149, 151, 191 O’Connor, David 31, 169
Matar, N. I. 86 Mukherjee, Rudrangshu 91, 138–9 Oesterheld, Joachim 204
Mathew, E. T. 193 Mukherjee, Saroj 211 O’Hanlon, Rosalind 19, 128, 131, 174
Mathew, George 21, 158 Mukherjee, Sujit 210, 213, 215 Omkarnath, G. 25
Mathew, Mary 50, 143, 216 Mukherjee, Tilottama 107, 160 Omvedt, Gail 17, 18, 164, 185, 192
Mathur, Pulkit 82 Mukhia, Harbans 206 Oommen, T. K. 17, 171, 180, 194
Mathur, Saloni 114 Mukhopadhyay, Swapna 15, 35, 68, 198 Oorthuizen, Joost 44
Matilal, Bimal Krishna 92 Mukhopadhyay, Troilokyonath 71, 142 Orsini, Francesca 51, 113, 144, 201
Mayaram, Shail 19, 138, 175, 197 Mukhopadhyay, Urvi 50 Osborne, Richard 40, 84, 87
Mayer-Ahuja, Nicole 34, 197 Mukund, K. 220 Östör, Ákos 58, 199
Mazumdar, Aruna 46, 199 Mukund, Kanakalatha 124 Overy, Caroline 96, 105, 116, 188
Mazumdar, Ranjani 57 Mulkh Raj 206 Oza, Jayashree 205
Mazumder, Rajit K. 131 Munshi, Indra 162, 183, 200
Mazzarella, William 6, 49 Murali, D. 17, 142 Padel, Felix 6, 9–10, 24, 114, 116, 186, 188, 204,
McGrath, Kevin 64, 115 Muraskin, William 94, 106, 112, 163, 215 217
Medury, Uma 167, 216 Murty, M. L. K. 125 Pai, Sudha 107, 160, 210
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna 88, 153, 154 Palanivel, R. 150

AUTHOR INDEX 233
Palmer, Donald D. 84, 86, 152 Puri, Balraj 121, 169, 211 Ravi, Jayanti S. 81, 161
Palriwala, Rajni 5, 179 Purkayastha, Sharmila 66, 123, 151 Ravi Kumar, T. 210
Pal, Saroj K. 44 Pushpendra 161, 181 Rawat, Ramnarayan S. 18, 128, 172
Palshikar, Sanjay 158 Ray, Amit Shovon 35
Panda, Minati 38, 189 Qamber, Akhtar 73, 147 Raychaudhuri, Tapan 33, 124
Pandian, M. S. S. 19, 135, 138, 175, 196 Quayum, Mohammad A. 146 Ray, Niharranjan 78, 108, 126, 208
Pandit, Maya 18, 66, 75, 150 Ray, Pratibha 77, 153, 216
Panjabi, Kavita 52, 146 Racine, Jean-Luc 20, 68, 155 Ray, Sandip 58, 92
Panja, Shormishtha 54, 143, 150, 218 Racine, Josiane 20, 68, 155 Ray, Satyajit 54, 56, 58, 80, 92, 214, 230
Pant, Apa 219 Radhakrishna, Meena 11, 18, 121, 190, 203 Ray, Sukhendu 68, 91, 140
Pant, Balasaheb 215 Radhakrishnan, Smitha 50, 63, 183 Reddy, C. Rammanohar 216
Pant, Manoj 22, 80 Raghavan, Srinath 90, 126, 128, 133, 171, 174 Reddy, Pingle Jaganmohan 78
Parobo, Parag D. 17, 102, 158 Raghu, A. 77, 204 Reddy, Sujani 7, 50
Patel, Hitendra 113, 164, 185 Raghunandan, T. R. 25, 162, 203 Reddy, Y. V. 24, 27, 29, 79–80, 207, 209
Patel, Reena 64, 187 Rahman, Sheikh Mujibur 200 Redondi, Pietro 219
Patel, Sujata 183 Rahman, Tariq 113, 121, 145, 150, 152, 165, Regmi, Amreeta 33
Patel, Tulsi 187, 221 169–70, 190, 193, 211 Reifeld, Helmut 15, 58, 177, 198, 199
Pati, Biswamoy 9, 12, 105, 112, 125, 185, 194, Rai, Alok 171, 194 Renu, Phanishwar Nath 73, 147
207, 218 Rai, Mridu 136, 224 Ricci, Ronit 57, 132, 195
Patnaik, Prabhat 212 Raina, Rajeswari 23, 179 Rius 86
Pattanayak, Debi Prasanna 39, 193 Raina, Usha 82 R., Micheline 121, 168
Pawar, Shobha 66, 75, 150, 217 Rajan, Gita 169, 191 Robb, Peter 105
Peek, Lori 91, 198 Rajan, Mohini 107, 202 Robinson, Francis 14
Peers, Douglas M. 105 Rajan, Nalini 49 Rowen, Henry S. 170
Perez, Rosa Maria 8, 16, 178, 199 Rajan, S. Irudaya 26, 193 Roy, Anjali Gera 47, 142
Pervez, M. A. 227 Rajya Sabha Secretariat 165 Roy, Anupama 63, 161, 207
Pettigrew, Judith 139, 176 Ramagundam, Rahul 60, 121, 168 Roy, Ash Narain 21, 158
Phalkey, Jahnavi 129 Ramakrishnan, E. V. 145 Roy, Atanu 203
Philar, Asha S. 93 Ramana, M. V. 216 Roychowdhury, Madhuparna 4, 101
Philip, Kavita 55, 105, 124, 202 Ramanan, Mohan 150 Roy, Shampa 66, 123, 151
Philip, T. E. 206 Ramanathan, Vaidehi 148, 152, 192 Rudolph, Lloyd I. 33, 171
Philip, Thangam E. 83–4, 213, 220 Ramani, S. V. 82, 201 Rudolph, S. Hoeber 33, 171
Phillipson, Robert 38, 149, 189 Raman, M. V. V. 210 Ruswa, Mirza Mohammad Hadi 65, 75, 150
Pillai, Meena T. 53, 65, 222 Ramanna, Mridula 99, 105, 125 Rutherford, Stuart 34
Pingle, Gautam 80, 159, 205 Ramaswami, N. S. 206 Ruthven, Orlanda 34
Pittie, Aasheesh 45, 89 Ramaswamy, Maya 227
Pitts, Jennifer A. 85 Ramaswamy, Vijaya 120, 150, 201 Saavala, Minna 51, 184
Platania, Jon 39, 84 Ramdas, Kaushalaya 205 Saberwal, Vasant 12, 44–5
Polimeni, Carlos 84, 152 Ranganathan, Namita 40 Sadana, Rashmi 153
Polit, Karin M. 8, 17, 64 Rangarajan, Mahesh 12, 42, 44–5, 77, 88–9, Sadasivan, S. 206
Pollock, Sheldon 135, 196 103–4, 107–8, 129, 137, 218, 224, 225 Sahay, Anjali 165, 186
Poros, Maritsa V. 184 Rani, K. Suneetha 17, 142 Sahi, Jane 219
Porter, Marilyn 4, 62 Rao, Anupama 19, 131, 174, 195 Sahu, Geetanjoy 4, 159, 205
Pottekkat, S. K. 71 Rao, C. V. Subba 31, 123 Saikia, Yasmin 175, 197
Powell, Jim 56, 87, 153, 194 Rao, G. Kalyana 18, 74, 147 Saleem, Syed 73, 146
Prabhu, K. S. 177, 199 Rao, Mukunda 212 Saliba, Therese 67, 171, 193
Pradhan, Rajesh 81, 161 Rao, Nitya 8, 14, 64, 68, 189 Samaddar, Ranabir 162, 171, 182
Pradhan, R. D. 80 Rao, N. Radha 83, 221 Sangameswaran, Priya 24, 180
Prakasam, V. 152 Rao, Parimala V. 36, 37, 104, 113, 165 Sanyal, Amal 34
Prakash, Amit 171, 194 Rao, Rani 208 Sanyal, Jharna 64, 72
Prakash, Anjal 33 Rao, Shanta Rameshwar 201, 203, 209, 211–4, Sanyal, Mandira 31
Prasad, H. Y. Sharada 155 241 Sanyal, Manoj Kumar 30–31, 148, 189
Prasad, Ishwari 212 Rao, U. S. K. 203 Sarangi, Prakash 177
Prasad, M. Madhava 48, 77, 158 Rao, Vijayendra 26, 110 Sarkar, Aditi Nath 58, 92
Prashad, Vijay 7, 50 Rashid, Ahmed 171, 194 Sarkar, Ashis 41, 42
Premchand, Dhanpat Rai 88, 154 Rassool, Naz 39, 191 Sarkar, Bhaskar 53, 116
Prepared by teachers of Lady Irwin College 220 Rau, H. Ratnakar 207 Sarkar, Jadunath 117–8, 120, 123, 208–9, 218
Price, Pamela Gwynne 109, 162, 222 Raveendran, P. P. 54, 149 Sarkar, S. 178

234 AUTHOR INDEX
Sarkar, Saral 44 Shome, Parthasarathi 25, 80 Stark, Ulrike 135
Sarkar, Sumit 67, 126–7, 133, 138, 194, 222–3, Shreekumar, Sharmila 11, 65, 189 Stern, Robert M. 29, 168
227 Shukla, Sandhya 193 Stewart, Pamela J. 12, 55, 170, 192
Sarkar, Sutapa Chatterjee 10, 15, 116, 140 Shulman, David 138, 227 Stietencron, Heinrich von 91, 136, 196
Sarkar, T. 178 Sieh, Ron 87 Stiglitz, Joseph 27
Sarkar, Tanika 67–8, 126, 128, 133, 138, 194, Sikka, Shalini 39, 193 Still, Clarinda 19, 68
196, 224, 226 Silva, Kalinga Tudor 94, 106 Stokes, Claudia 123, 151
Sarma, Rani Siva Sankara 88 Simpson, Edward 10, 114, 116, 146, 166, 186, 188 Strathern, Andrew 12, 55, 170, 192
Satapathy, Sarat Chandra 218 Sinay, Sergio 85–6 Subba, T. B. 8, 12, 42, 185, 193, 214
Satchidanandan, K. 142 Singha, Sankar Prasad 17, 50, 72 Subbiah, Kokilam 75, 151
Sattanathan, A. N. 14, 19 Singh, Asha 36 Subrahmanyam, Sanjay 88, 127, 133, 138, 227
Sautet, Marc 56, 85 Singha, Shankar Prasad 17, 143 Subramanian, Dilip 35
Scarfe, A. 80 Singh, Bhrigupati 4, 142 Subramanian, Lakshmi 55, 58, 116, 122, 140
Scarfe, W. 80 Singh, Jaivir 35 Subramanyam, Sanjay 172
Schnur, Alan 95, 114 Singh, Khushwant 65, 75, 80, 150, 152, 209 Sudarshan, R. 99, 176–7, 199
Scoones, Ian 32–3, 170, 192 Singh, M. P. 171 Sugimoto, Masanobu 95, 114
Scott, James C. 9, 166, 187 Singh, Renuka 6, 182 Suhrud, Tridip 59–60, 63, 70, 79–80, 116,
Seely, Clinton B. 155 Singh, Supriya 24, 63, 179 119–20, 123, 142, 147, 149–50, 167, 212
Seeta Prabhu, K. 99 Singh, Trilochan 80 Sujatha, V. 94, 184, 213
Seethi, K. M. 168, 204 Singh, Upinder 91, 138, 140 Sullivan, Lawrence E. 170, 177, 192, 199
Sen, Amiya P. 88, 91, 131, 225 Sinha, Aali 35, 199 Sullivan, Robert E. 38, 116
Sen, Asoka Kumar 8, 110, 183 Sinha, Arunava 92, 178 Sundar, Nandini 13, 195
Sen, Biswarup 58 Sinha, Dipankar 4, 50, 159, 161 Sundar Rajan, Rajeshwari 67, 175, 196
Sen, Geeti 80, 194 Sinha, Pradeep Kumar 76, 151 Suresh, Mayur 161
Sengupta, Parna 37, 111 Sivakami, P. 18, 66, 76, 152 Sutton, Deborah 114, 186
Sengupta, Saswati 66, 123, 144, 151 Sivaramakrishnan, Arvind 49 Suvira 82
Sen, Indrani 64, 66, 105, 111, 123, 144, 151 Sivaramakrishnan, K. 13, 44, 88, 129–30, 224 Swaminathan, Padmini 27, 164, 185, 222
Sen, Meheli 49, 78 Sivaramakrishnan, Kavita 98, 105, 124, 214 Sweet, Helen 96, 105, 118, 206
Sennett, Richard 192 Skaria, Ajay 19, 138, 175 Szreter, Simon 26, 110
Sen, S. 178 Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove 38, 39, 148, 150, 189–91
Sen, Sambudha 154 Slate, Nico 130 Tagore, Rabindranath 220
Sen, Simonti 220 Sleeter, Christine 37, 185 Tahseen, Mohammad 166, 201
Sen, Sunanda 23 Smith, Geoffrey Nowell 171, 194 Tandon, Deepika 144
Seshadri, Shekhar 37, 94 Smith, R. V. 92, 141 Tan Tai Yong 105
Seshan, Radhika 50, 108 Smith, Thomas 92, 141, 229 Tejani, Shabnum 60, 131, 174, 195
Sethi, Anil 39, 193 Solanet, Mariana 85, 152 Thampi, Madhavi 140, 177
Seth, Rajee 72 Som, Reba 203 Thapan, Meenakshi 12, 187, 194
Shaban, Abdul 43, 79, 167, 188 Som, Sujit 12 Thapar, Romila 115, 127
Shahabuddin, Ghazala 42, 45, 89, 104 Soneji, Davesh 13, 128 Thapar, Valmik 45, 89
Shah, Alpa 14, 139, 176 Spear, Margaret 79, 116, 209 Tharamangalam, Joseph 33, 193, 211
Shah, A. M. 174, 181, 187, 194–5, 221, 247–8 Spear, Percival 79, 116, 209 Tharu, Susie 96, 188
Shah, Esha 33, 44 Speth, James Gustave 33, 44 Thillainayagam, S. 55, 60, 209, 233
Shah, Ghanshyam 197, 223 Spodek, Howard 25, 109 Thomas, Rosie 48, 77
Shah, Svati P. 63, 181 Sreedharan, E. 125 Thomas, Saila 82
Shanmugiah, S. 148 Sreenivasan, Ramya 68, 137 Thorner, Alice 35, 67, 126, 178, 194, 199
Shariff, Abusaleh 32 Sreenivas, Mytheli 65, 120 Thorner, Daniel 35, 178, 199
Sharma, Jayeeta 131, 174, 195 Sridharan, E. 176 Tilak, Jandhyala B. G. 25, 182, 208
Sharma, K. L. 6, 182 Sridhar, M. 18, 74, 147 Tiné, Harald Fischer 119, 189
Sharma, L. N. 199 Srimanjari 117, 167 Tirumalesh, K. V. 152
Sharma, Mukul 172 Srinivasan, T. N. 35 Tiwari, Arun 78, 205
Sharma, R. S. 103, 212 Srinivasan, Vasanthi 61, 224 Tomory, Edith 80, 125, 208
Sharma, Shailja 169, 191 Srinivas, M. N. 194 Toropov, Brandon 87, 153
Sharma, S. L. 171, 194 Srinivas, Smriti 1, 11–2, 179, 190, 193 Torres-Guzmán, María E. 38, 148, 189
Sharma, Sunil 154 Srinivas, S. V. 56, 173 Trautmann, Thomas R. 44, 127
Sharma, Suresh 59, 79, 116, 147, 167, 212 Sriraman, T. 150 Tripathi, Govardhanram Madhavram 63, 70, 142
Sharma, Yogesh 120, 150, 201 Srivastava, Deepika 22, 80 Trivedi, Harish 55, 151, 191
Shaw, Annapurna 12, 43–4, 191 Srivatsan, R. 96, 188 Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt 44, 105, 125, 194
Shobhi, Prithvi Datta Chandra 173, 195 Staples, James 12, 98, 192, 215 Tyabji, Surayya 83, 213

AUTHOR INDEX 235
Tyagi, Jaya 65, 121 Vidyasagar, Ishvarchandra 88 Whitaker, Z. 202
Vijayaraghavan, Sujatha 53, 147, 209 Whitaker, Zai 89
Uberoi, Patricia 13, 195 Vijayasree, C. 55, 150–51, 191 Whitehead, Neil L. 55, 170, 192
Uma, Alladi 17, 18, 74, 142, 147 Vijay Kumar, T. 55, 151, 191 Wickramasinghe, Nira 125
Ummer, C. K. Mohamed 217 Vimalassery, Manu 7, 50 Wilkinson, Steven I. 171
Unni, Jeemol 6, 24, 204 Virdi, Jyotika 57, 67 Wilson, Amrit 66, 169, 191
Upadhyay, Shashi Bhushan 17, 37, 147, 185, 187 Virmani, Arundhati 57, 136, 175, 226 Winance, Myriam 96, 189
Uys, Tina 183 Vir, Sheila 82 Wiser, Charlotte 16, 199
Visvanathan, Susan 11, 191 Wiser, William 16, 199
Vaish, Santosh 208 Vogel, Bernhard 177 Woolcock, Michael 26, 110
Valicha, Kishore 213 Vora, Neha 6, 182 Worboys, Michael 98, 105, 124, 206
Vanaik, Achin 80, 156, 167, 171, 188, 194, 221 Vora, Rajendra 227 Wynne, Bryan 32, 192
Vanita, Ruth 63, 76, 110, 144, 152 Vos, Rob 30–31, 190 Wyrick, Deborah 85, 152, 171
Varughese, Shiju Sam 23, 157 Vries, Hent de 170, 177, 192, 199
Vasudevan, Ravi 57 Xinru Liu 130
Veer, Peter van der 180 Wadley, Susan S. 16, 69, 155, 199
Veluthat, Kesavan 112 Wang Xiaoming 47, 179 Zachariah, Anand 96, 188
Venkatachalapathy, A. R. 4, 55, 60, 103, 127, 153, Weber, Thomas 59–60, 120 Zachariah, K. C. 12, 26, 193
209, 233 Weinstein, Liza 159, 179 Zakir, Mohammed 72, 74, 77, 149, 153, 214, 219
Venkatesan, Soumhya 10, 30 Weiss, Anita M. 158, 160, 180 Zia Mian 166, 201
Venkat Rao, D. 88 Whitaker, R. 202 Zutshi, Chitralekha 132, 174, 195, 225
Vicente, Filipa Lowndes 8, 111

4 Victoria Terrace: Memoirs of a Surgeon 99 Archaeological Geography of the Ganga Plain: The Beloved Bapu: The Gandhi-Mirabehn
27 Down: New Departures in Indian Railway Lower and the Middle Ganga 45, 138 Correspondence 59
TITLE INDEX
Studies 55, 105, 122, 200 Architecture in Medieval India: Forms, Contexts, Bengal Renaissance: The Identity and Creativity
1857 120, 190 Histories 135, 222 from Rammohun Roy to Rabindranath Tagore
1971: A Global History of the Creation of Army and Nation: The Military and Indian 134
Bangladesh 171 Democracy since Independence 171 Between History and Legend: Status and Power in
1971: Global History of the Creation of Art for Beginners 87 Bundelkhand 125, 171
Bangladesh, A 126 Art of Not Being Governed, The: An Anarchist Beyond Methods: Macrostrategies for Language
History of Upland Southeast Asia 9, 166, 187 Teaching 40
Adivasi Question, The: Issues of Land, Forest and Art of the Intellect, The: Uncollected English Beyond Nationalist Frames: Relocating
Livelihood 162, 183, 200 Writings of Sudhindranath Datta 155 Postmodernism, Hindutva, History 138, 222
Adivasis and the Raj: Socio-economic Transition of Arya and Other Stories 71, 142 Beyond the World of Apu: The Films of Satyajit
the Hos, 1820–1932 9, 112 Assam and India: Fragmented Memories, Cultural Ray 54
Adivasis in Colonial India: Survival, Resistance and Identity, and the Tai-Ahom Struggle 175, 197 Beyond Tranquebar: Grappling Across Cultural
Negotiation 9, 112, 185 At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and Borders in South India 4, 103
Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought and the West 14, 137, 197 Bilingualism or Not: The Education of Minorities
the Politics of Friendship 137, 197 Atomic State: Big Science in Twentieth-Century 39, 150, 191
Affliction: Health, Disease, Poverty 1, 179 India 129 Biography as History: Indian Perspectives 120, 150,
Afghanistan: How the West Lost Its Way 162 At the Edges of Empire: Essays in the Social and 201
African Dispersal in the Deccan, The 200 Intellectual History of India 128 Bird’s Eye View, A: The Collected Essays and
After Elwin: Encounters with Tribal Life 16, 199 Autobiography of an Archive: A Scholar’s Passage Shorter Writings of Salim Ali 45, 89
After the Bomb: Reflections of India’s Nuclear to India 12, 126 Birds in Books: Three Hundred Years of South
Journey 80, 156 Autobiography of a Revolutionary in British India, Asian Ornithology, A Bibliography 45, 89
After the Iraq War: The Future of the UN and The 91, 139 Black Hole of Empire, The: History of a Global
International Law 177 Awadh in Revolt, 1857–1858: A Study of Popular Practice of Power 129
Against Stigma: Studies in Caste, Race and Justice Resistance 138 Boatman of the Padma, The 72, 144
since Durban 10, 53, 105, 188, 200 Ayodhya: Archaeology after Demolition 125, 200 Body for Beginners, The 86
Ageing and Development 30, 190 Azad Hind: Writings and Speeches, 1941–1943 89, Bollywood in the Age of New Media: The Geo-
Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan 136, 175 televisual Aesthetic 50
Families in India and Abroad 7, 183 Bombay before Bollywood: Film City Fantasies 48,
Agra: Rambles and Recollections of Thomas Smith Bahadur Shah and the Festival of Flower-sellers 77
92, 141 72 Bombay Cinema: An Archive of the City 57
Ahmedabad: Shock City of Twentieth-Century Bangladesh, My Bangladesh: Selected Speeches and Book I Won’t Be Writing and Other Essays, The
India 25, 109 Statements: October 28, 1970 to March 26, 155
Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of 1971 200 Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia 4, 179
Liberal Imperialism 13, 133 Bangla Ranna: An Introduction to Bengali Cuisine Brahmin and Non-Brahmin: Genealogies of the
Alternative Leadership, The: Speeches, Articles, 82, 200 Tamil Political Present 135, 196
Statements and Letters 1939–1941 90, 138 Bankim’s Hinduism: An Anthology of Writings by Bridging Partition: People’s Initiative for Peace
Ambassador of Hindu–Muslim Unity: Jinnah’s Early Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay 88, 131 between India and Pakistan 166, 201
Politics 138 Barisal and Beyond: Essays on Bangla Literature Building a Just World: Essays in Honour of
Amulya Reddy: Citizen Scientist 29, 200 155 Muchkund Dubey 23, 156
Anaro and Other Stories 77, 153 Basic Food Preparation: A Complete Manual Bukowski for Beginners 84, 152
Ancient Indian Social History: Some (Fourth Edition) 82 Burden of Refuge: The Partition Experiences of the
Interpretations (Second Edition) 115 Battles Over Nature: Science and the Politics of Sindhis of Gujarat 10, 117, 189
Animal Kingdoms: Hunting, the Environment, and Conservation 45
Power in the Indian Princely States 173 Beacon Across Asia, A: A Biography of Subhas Call of the Sea, The: Kachchhi Traders in Muscat
Anthropological Journeys: Reflections on Chandra Bose 117, 201 and Zanzibar, c. 1800–1880 113
Fieldwork 12, 194 Becoming a Global Audience: Longing and Cambridge Economic History of India, The :
Anthropologist among the Marxists and Other Belonging in Indian Music Television 55, 193 Volume 1: c.1200–c.1750 (New Edition) 33,
Essays, An 14, 138, 197 Before the Divide: Hindi and Urdu Literary 124
Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Culture 51, 113, 144, 201 Cambridge Economic History of India, The,:
Sociology and Anthropology 13, 195 Behind Mud Walls: Seventy-five Years in a North Volume 2: c.1757–2003 (New Edition) 33, 124
Anthropology of North-East India, The: A Indian Village 16, 199 Casket of Vegetarian Recipes, A 82, 201
Textbook 193 Behind the Backlash: Muslim Americans after 9/11 Caste and Dalit Lifeworlds: Postcolonial
Anthropology of Textbook North-East India, The: 91, 198 Perspectives 18, 190
A Textbook 12 Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women, and the Caste and Democratic Politics in India 197,
Appropriately Indian: Gender and Culture in a Everyday in Colonial South Asia 67, 131 223
New Transnational Class 50, 63, 183 Bekanna and the Musical Mice 201 Caste, Conflict, and Ideology: Mahatma Jotirao

TITLE INDEX 237
Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth- Urban Hegemonies and Civic Contestations in Crocodile Fever: Wildlife Adventures in New
Century Western India 19, 131, 174 Bombay (1900–1925) 122 Guinea 202
Caste in Indian Politics (Second Edition) 166, 187 Colonial Economy in the Great Depression, A: Crossing the Sacred Line: Women’s Search for
Caste in Modern India: A Reader (Two volume Madras (1929–1937) 33, 125 Political Power 67, 171
set) 126, 194, 223 Colonialism in Action: Trade, Development and Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social
Caste Question, The: Dalits and the Politics of Dependence in Late Colonial India 33, 126 History 67, 196
Modern India 19, 131, 174, 195 Colonialism, Modernity, and Literature: A View Cultural Encounters in India: The Local Co-
Caste, Religion and Country: A View of Ancient from India 113, 145 workers of the Tranquebar Mission, 18th to
and Medieval India 194 Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle 19th Centuries 139
Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of for Freedom in the United States and India 130 Cultural History of Early South Asia 49, 103, 202
Modern India 138 Combating Corruption: The Indian Case 80, 158, Cultural History of Medieval India (Second
Celluloid Deities: The Visual Culture of Cinema 202 Impression) 139
and Politics in South India 52 Common Cause, The: Postcolonial Ethics and the Cultural Studies in the Future Tense 51, 144
Censorium: Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Practice of Democracy 88, 126, 172 Culture of the New Capitalism, The 192
Publicity 6, 49 Communalism and the Intelligentsia in Bihar, Culture, Society and Development in India: Essays
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema 56 1870–1930: Shaping Caste, Community and for Amiya Kumar Bagchi 30, 148, 189
Chakra 201 Nationhood 113, 164, 185
Chalo Delhi: Writings and Speeches 1943–1945 Community, Empire and Migration: South Asians in Dalit Assertion in Society, Literature and History
89, 135 Diaspora 125, 171, 193 17, 147, 187
Change – Conflict and Convergence 51, 145 Companion to Translation Studies, A 51, 145 Dalit Personal Narratives: Reading Caste, Nation
Changing Contexts of Culture, Society and Competing Nationalisms in South Asia: Essays for and Identity 9, 17, 113, 145, 164, 186
Religion, The 94 Asghar Ali Engineer 171, 194 Dalit Visions 18, 192
Changing Homelands: Hindu Politics and the Concise History of Indian Literature in English, A Dalit Women: Honour and Patriarchy in South
Partition of India 131, 174 154 India 19, 68
Chathu: The Elephant Boy 201 Concise History of Modern Architecture in India, Damayanti and Nala: The Many Lives of a Story 16,
Che for Beginners 86 A 90, 133 69, 155
Chikka 201 Concise History of Modern Europe, A: Liberty, Danube, Ganges, and Other Life Streams 13, 90
Children of God 201 Equality, Solidarity 109, 162 Days of the Beloved, The 107, 202
Children’s Lifeworlds: Gender, Welfare and Congress President: Speeches, Articles, and Debacle to Revival: Y. B. Chavan as Defence
Labour in the Developing World 68 Letters, January 1938–May 1939 90, 138, 176 Minister, 1962–65 80
Children with Communication Disorders (Revised Conquest and Community: The Afterlife of Decentralisation and Local Governance 171
Paperback Edition) 37, 95 Warrior Saint Ghazi Miyan 100 Decentralisation and Local Governments: The
China after 1978: Craters on the Moon 28, 201 Conservation at the Crossroads: Science, Society, Indian Experience 25, 162, 203
Chinese Myths 81 and the Future of India’s Wildlife 45 Decentring Empire: Britain, India and the
Chomsky Effect, The: A Radical Works Beyond Contemporary India 49, 94, 167, 178, 184, 188, Transcolonial World 105, 124, 203
the Ivory Tower 147 213, 221 Decline and Fall of the Indus Civilisation, The 138,
Chomsky for Beginners 56, 86 Contested Spaces: Citizenship and Belonging in 223
Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India Contemporary Times 187 Decolonisation, Development and Disease: A
1863–1937: Contending with Marginality 123, Contested Terrain, The: Perspectives on Social History of Malaria in Sri Lanka 94, 106
192 Education in India 40 Decolonization in South Asia: Meanings of
Cinema and Censorship: The Politics of Control Continuities and Transformations: Studies in Sri Freedom in Post-independence West Bengal,
in India 53 Lankan Archaelogy and History 202 1947–52 109, 163
Cinema of Enchantment: Perso-Arabic Genealogies Cooking the U.P. Way 202 Defining a Linguistic Area: South Asia 155
of the Hindi Masala Film 47, 142 Covering and Explaining Conflict in Civil Society: Delhi: Ancient History 91, 140
Cinematic ImagiNation, The: Indian Popular Films series: studies in journalism 49 Delhi City Guide: New Delhi City Map and Guide
as Social History 57, 67 Craft Matters: Artisans, Development and the 203
Cine-politics: Film Stars and Political Existence in Indian Nation 10, 30 Delhi that No-one Knows, The 92, 141
South India 48, 77, 158 Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Democratising Micro-Hydel Structures: Systems
Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History Approach 33 and Agents in Adaptive Technology in the Hills
173 Creative Pasts: Historical Memory and Identity in of Nepal 33
Civilising Natures: Race, Resources and Modernity Western India 1700–1960 129, 194 Demography and Democracy: Essays on
in Colonial South India 55, 105, 124 Crises and Creativities: Middle-Class Bhadralok in Nationalism, Gender and Ideology 165, 186
Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Bengal, c.1939–52 118 Demon on the Hill, The 203
Plantations: Two Centuries of Power and Crisis as Conquest: Learning from East Asia 202 Derrida for Beginners 56, 87, 153, 194
Protest 100, 158 Crisis of Secularism in India, The: Edited by Development Communication: Contexts for the
Clear Star, A: C.F. Andrews and India, 1904–1914 Anuradha D. Needham 175, 196 Twenty-first Century 50, 161
141 Critical Studies in Politics: Exploring Sites, Selves, Development, Decentralisation and Democracy
Colonial City and the Challenge of Modernity, The: Power 158 21, 158

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Development, Displacement and Disparity: India in Economic Reforms and Growth in India 27, 204 Environment, Technology and Development:
the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century 33 Economics and Its Stories 34 Critical and Subversive Essays 26, 42, 204
Development Narratives: Walking the Field in Economics: A Primer for India 25 Epicure Cookbook, The 83, 205
Rural West Bengal 4, 159 Eco-Socialism or Eco-Capitalism?: A Critical Essays on Colonialism 126
Development on Trial: Shrinking Space for the Analysis of Humanity’s Fundamental Choices Essays on North Indian Folk Traditions 16, 155,
Periphery 23 44 199
Dharmanand Kosambi: The Essential Writings 90, Education and Social Change in South Asia 204 Essential Mystery, The: Major Filmmakers of Indian
129, 223 Education and the Disprivileged: Nineteenth and Art Cinema (Second Edition) 54
Diasporas and Development 30, 189 Twentieth Century India 40, 125 Everyday Life in a Prison: Confinement,
Dictionary of Bharata Natya, A 203 Education, Unemployment and Masculinities in Surveillance, Resistance 10, 187
Dictionary of Cricket, A 227 India 37, 198 Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right
Dictionary of Kathakali, A 203 Eighteenth Parallel, The 204 in India 68, 139
Dictionary of Public Administration, A 168 Elements of Educational Psychology 204 Everyday State and Society in Modern India, The
Differences within Consensus: The Left-Right Elephants and Kings: An Environmental History 14, 58, 198
Divide in the Congress 203 44, 127 ‘Everywhere is Becoming the Same’?: Regulating
Digital Cool: Life in the Age of New Media 51, Eliminating Human Poverty: Macroeconomic and IT-Work between India and Germany 34, 197
183, 203 Social Policies for Equitable Growth 31, 190 Exclusion, Social Capital and Citizenship:
Directions in Applied Linguistics 148 Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate, The 133 Contested Transitions in South Africa and India
Disability and Society: A Reader 96, 189 Empire and Nation: Essential Writings, 1985–2005 183
Discovery of Ancient India, The: Early 130, 173 Exile as Challenge, The: Tibetan Diaspora 193
Archaeologists and the Beginnings of 138, 223 Empire in the Age of Globalisation: US Hegemony Explanation of Natural Events and Human Action
Dishonoured by History: ‘Criminal Tribes’ and and Neoliberal Order 31, 169 46, 199
British Colonial Policy 11, 18, 121, 190, 203 Empire of Books, An: The Naval Kishore Press and Exploring an Environment: Discovering the Urban
Dispelling the Silence: Stories from the the Diffusion of the Printed Word in Colonial Reality 44, 205
Commonwealth Countries 148 India 135 Exploring Medieval India Sixteenth to Eighteenth
Displaying India’s Heritage History, Policy and the Empire’s Garden: Assam and the Making of India Centuries: Vol. I: Culture, Gender, Regional
Asian Perspective 4, 101 131, 174, 195 Patterns 65, 115
Down Melody Lane 204 Empire’s Law: The American Imperial Project and Exploring Medieval India, Sixteenth to Eighteenth
Dr Ambedkar and Untouchability: Analysing and the ‘War to Remake the World’ 31, 169 Centuries: Vol. II: Politics, Economy, Religion
Fighting Caste 19, 137 Enchantment of Democracy and India, The: Politics 115
Dreams, Questions, Struggle: South Asian Women and Ideas 173, 223 Expunging Variola: The Control and Eradication of
in Britain 66, 169, 191 Enclosed Waters: Property Rights, Technology Smallpox in India, 1947–1977 98, 105, 124, 205
Dressing the Colonised Body: Politics, Clothing and Ecology in the Management of Water Extreme Poetry: The South Asian Movement of
and Identity in Colonial Sri Lanka 125 Resources in Palakkad, Kerala 30, 43 Simultaneous Narration 154
Dual Identity: Indian Diaspora and Other Essays Enemy Within, The 76, 152
6, 182 Engaging with the World: Critical Reflections on Fall and Rise of Telangana, The 80, 159, 205
Dubai: Gilded Cage 27, 186 India’s Foreign Policy 168, 204 Fall of the Mughal Empire, The (Four Volumes:
Durable Slum, The: Dharavi and the Right to Stay En-gendering Individuals 66, 191, 204 Available as a box set) 123
Put in Globalizing Mumbai 159, 179 Engendering the Early Household: Brahmanical Family in India, The: Critical Essays 194
Duty, Destiny and Glory: The Life of C. P. Precepts in the Early Grhyasutras, Middle of Famine of 1896–1897 in Bengal, The: Availability or
Ramaswami Aiyar 77, 204 the First Millennium B.C.E. 65, 121 Entitlement Crisis? 33, 124
Dynamics of Migration in Kerala: Dimensions, Engines of Change: The Railroads That Made India Famous Indian Stories 148
Differentials and Consequences 193 109 Fanon for Beginners 85, 152, 171
English Heart, Hindi Heartland: The Political Life of Fatalism and Development: Nepal’s Struggle for
Early Medieval Indian Society: A Study in Literature in India 153 Modernization 11, 168, 190
Feudalisation 103 English in the Dalit Context 17, 142 FDI in India: History, Policy and the Asian
Early Persian Poetry at the Indian Frontier 154 English Language for Beginners 87 Perspective 22, 80
Earth Policy Reader, The 44 English Literary Criticism and Theory: An Feeding the Forgotten Poor: Perspectives of an
Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth Introductory History 151 Agriculturist 42, 78, 205
44 English-Vernacular Divide, The: Postcolonial Fifty Years with the British 205
Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Language Politics and Practice 152, 192 Figurations in Indian Film 49, 78
Identities in South Asia 13, 130 Enigma of the Kerala Woman, The: A Failed Films of Buddhadeb Dasgupta, The 55
Ecology, Economy: Quest for a Socially Informed Promise of Literacy 15, 35, 68, 198 Financial Crisis and Global Imbalances: A
Connection 6, 24, 204 Environmental Jurisprudence and the Supreme Development Perspective 26
Economic Growth and its Distribution in India 21, Court: Litigation, Interpretation and Financial Foundations of the British Raj, The:
158 Implementation 4, 159, 205 Ideas and Interests in the Reconstruction of
Economic Policies and India’s Reform Agenda: Environment: How Women Manage Resources the Indian Public Finance 1858–1872 (Revised
New Thinking 24, 80 4, 62 Edition) 205

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Finding Forgotten Cities: How the Indus Garcia Lorca for Beginners 84, 152 Greek Myths 81
Civilization was Discovered 127 Garcia Marquez for Beginners 85, 152 Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian
First Promise, The (Second Edition) 65, 74, 148 Gender and Cultural Identity in Colonial Orissa Environmental Politics 172
First Spark of Revolution 205 55, 65, 121, 150 Grief to Bury, A: Memories of Love, Work & Loss
Flaming Feet and Other Essays, The: The Dalit Gendered Citizenship: Historical and Conceptual 64, 78
Movement 13, 18, 195, 223 Explorations 63, 161, 207 Grip of Change, The 18, 66, 76, 152
Flat World, Big Gaps 31, 169 Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print Caste Ground Between, The Anthropologists Engage
Flavours from India 206 and Communalism 64, 110 Philosophy 4, 142
Food for Beginners 31, 84, 191 Gender, Livelihood and Environment: How Gujarat Carnage, The 171, 193, 207
Footloose in the Himalaya 45, 89, 223 Women Manage Resources 62
For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Gender, Politics and Islam 67, 171, 193 Harilal Gandhi: A Life 60, 80, 123
Archive in India 65, 115 Gender, Sex and the City: Urdu Rekhtıˉ Poetry, Health and Population in South Asia: From Earliest
Foucault for Beginners 56, 87, 194 1780–1870 63, 110, 144 Times to the Present 99, 135, 196
Foundations of Human Development: A Life Span Genealogies of the Asian Present: Situating Inter- Health, Illness and Medicine: Ethnographic
Approach Textbook 36 Asia Cultural Studies 47, 179 Readings 10, 95, 188
Foundations of Tilak’s Nationalism: Discrimination, Genesis: Select Stories 71, 142 Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on
Education, Hindutva 37, 113, 165 Geopolitics of Academic Writing, A 55, 191 Colonial India 207
Founding of Madras, The 206 George Joseph: The Life and Times of a Kerala Health Policy in Britain’s Model Colony: Ceylon
Fractured States: Smallpox, Public Health and Christian Nationalist 193, 207 (1900–1948) 99, 105, 125, 208
Vaccination Policy in British India 1800–1947 Gestalt for Beginners 85 Heidegger for Beginners 85
98, 105, 124, 206 Gift of English, The: English Education and the Higher Education in India: In Search of Equality,
Freedom and Beef Steaks: Colonial Calcutta Formation of Alternative Hegemonies in India Quality and Quantity 25, 182, 208
Culture 51, 109, 144, 206 38, 118, 189 High Fibre, Low Calorie Diet and Recipe Book,
French-Hindi Dictionary: Dictionnaire Francais- Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and The 208
Hindi 206 Dance 53 Hill Politics in Northeast India (Third Edition) 110,
French Studies in History Volume 2 206 Global Crisis, Recession and Uneven Recovery 163
French Studies in Urban Policy 206 27, 207 Hindi Nationalism 171, 194
Freud for Beginners 40, 87 Global Crisis: The Way Forward: The Stiglitz Hindu–Catholic Engagements in Goa: Religion,
Friendship, Interiority and Mysticism: Essays in Commission Report 27 Colonialism, and Modernity 5
Dialogue 11, 191 Global Economic and Financial Crisis 30 Hinduism: Past and Present 13, 80, 125, 132,
From Autocracy to Integration: Political Global Environmental Challenges: Transitions to a 193
Developments in Hyderabad State, 1938–1948 Sustainable World 33, 44 Hindu Myth, Hindu History: Religion, Art, and
125, 171, 206 Global Eradication of Smallpox, The 95, 105, 115, Politics 136, 196
From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History 207 Hindu Myths 81
113, 145, 165 Global Issues in Languages, Education and Hindu Nationalism: A Reader 135, 175, 196, 224
From Plassey to Partition and After: A History of Development: Perspectives from Postcolonial Hindu Rulers, Muslim Subjects: Islam, Rights, and
Modern India (Second Edition) 101, 158 Countries 39, 191 the History of Kashmir 136, 224
From Village Elder to British Judge 8, 110, 183 Global Issues, Local Contexts: The Rabi Das of Hindu Widow Marriage 88
From Western Medicine to Global Medicine: The West Bengal (Revised Edition) 6, 182 Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion,
Hospital Beyond the West 96, 105, 118, 206 Globalization and Money: A Global South and Cultural Nationalism 68, 138, 224
Fruits of Worship: Practical Religion in Bengal 16 Perspective 24, 63, 179 Historical Demography and Agrarian Regimes:
Fundamentals of Geographical Thought 41 Globalization and the Millennium Development Understanding Southern Indian Fertility,
Fundamentals of Sociology 187, 206 Goals: Negotiating the Challenge 35 1881–1981 29, 115, 188
Fundamentals of Textiles and their Care 207 Global Political Economy: Understanding the History and the Present 138
Fundamental Unity of India, The 199 International Economic Order 33, 171 History, Bhakti, and Public Memory: Namdev in
G. N. Devy Reader, The 11, 54, 148 Religious and Secular Traditions 135
Gandhi: In His Time and Ours 138, 224 Godaan (The Gift of a Cow) 88, 154 History, Historians and Development Policy: A
Gandhi is Gone. Who will Guide Us Now?: Nehru, Going Home 207 Necessary Dialogue 26, 110
Prasad, Azad, Vinoba, Kripalani, JP, and Others Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: Islam, the USA, and the History in the Vernacular 134, 224
Introspect, Sevagram, March 1948 60, 135, 223 Global War Against Terror 197 History of Assam, The: From Yandabo to Partition,
Gandhi’s Conscience Keeper: C. Rajagopalachari Good Women do not Inherit Land: Politics of 1826–1947 111
and Indian Politics 61, 224 Land and Gender in India 8, 14, 64, 68, 189 History of Cinema for Beginners 56, 85
Gandhi’s Khadi: A History of Contention and Government Brahmana 18, 75, 150 History of Education in Modern India, The:
Conciliation 60, 121, 168 Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the 1757–2012 (Fourth Edition) 36, 107
Gandhi’s Prisoner?: The Life of Gandhi’s Son Newest Social Movements 168, 190 History of Fine Arts in India and the West 80, 125,
Manilal 61, 136 Grassroots of Democracy, The: Field Studies of 208
Ganga and Yamuna: River Goddesses and their Indian Elections 174, 195 History of Human Rights, The: From Ancient
Symbolism in Indian Temples 91 Great Feast, The 76, 152 Times to the Globalization Era 121, 168

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History of India: 1707–1857 116 Dynamics and Conjunctive Water Management India’s Silent Revolution: The Rise of the Low
History of Indian Administration, A 171 in the Nepal Terai 32 Castes in North Indian Politics 176, 197
History of Jaipur, A: c. 1503–1938 118, 208 India Abroad: Diasporic Cultures of Postwar India’s Silicon Plateau: Development of Information
History of Medieval India 123 America and England 193 and Communication Technology in Bangalore
History of Modern India 101, 118, 125, 158 India after the Global Crisis 26 210
History of the Bengali People: From Earliest India and Central Asia: A Reader 130 India’s Spokesman Abroad: Letters, Articles,
Times to the Fall of the Sena Dynasty (Second India and China in the Colonial World 140, 177 Speeches and Statements 1933–1937 89
Edition) 78, 108, 208 India and the Global Financial Crisis: Managing India’s Wildlife History: An Introduction 45, 137,
History of the Social Determinants of Health: Money and Finance 29, 79, 209 225
Global Histories, Contemporary Debates 97, India at the Polls: Parliamentary Elections in the India Through the Ages 209
105, 118, 208 Federal Phase 171 India Wins Freedom 80, 119, 209
History of the World: From the Late Nineteenth India by Design: Colonial History and Cultural Indigeneity: Culture and Representation 11, 54,
to the Early Twenty-First Century 118 Display 114 149, 189, 210
History through the Lens: Perspectives on South India Infrastructure Report 2013|14: The Road to Indispensable Vivekananda, The: An Anthology for
Indian Films 54, 118, 208 Universal Health Coverage 24, 94 our Times 91, 225
Homeless on Google Earth 224 Indian Administration (Sixth Edition) 171 Industrial Development for the 21st Century 31,
Hospital System and Health Care, The: Sri Lanka, Indian Army and the Making of Punjab, The 131 169
1815–1960 97, 105, 118, 208 Indian Cities in Transition 43, 191 Industry and the Region: Theories, Techniques and
House of Shivaji 209 Indian Cricket Century, An 210 Applications 210
Human Landscape, The 80, 194 Indian Diaspora in the United States: Brain Drain Industry, Labour and Society 184
Human Security in South Asia: Gender, Energy, or Gain? 165, 186 In Pursuit of Lakshmi: The Political Economy of the
Migration and Globalisation 35, 68, 177 Indian Ideology, The: Three Responses to Perry Indian State 33, 171
Hundred Tamil Folk and Tribal Tales 53, 147, 209 Anderson 13 In Quest of Indian Folktales 80, 119, 148
Hungry Emperor and The Clever Barber, The 209 Indian Ideology, The: Three Responses to Perry Institutions, Technology and Water Control:
Hyderabad: The Social Context of Industrialisation Anderson 172 Water Users Associations and Irrigation
31, 123 Indian Literary Criticism: Theory and Management in Two Large-scale Systems in 44
Hymns of Guru Nanak 80, 152, 209 Interpretation 147 Institutions, Technology and Water Control:
Indian Naval Revolt of 1946, The 210 Water Users Associations and Irrigation
Ideals, Images and Real Lives: Women in Literature Indian Parliament, The: A Critical Appraisal 160, Management in Two Large-scale Systems in
and History 67, 126, 194 210 India 44
Idea of Gujarat, The: History, Ethnography and Indian Religions: The Spiritual Traditions of South Institutions, Technology and Water Control:
Text 10, 116, 166, 188 Asia, An Anthology 91 Water Users Associations and Irrigation
Ideas and Institutions in Medieval India: Eighth to Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History Management Reform in Two Large-Scale
Eighteenth Centuries 50, 108 1890–1950 60 Systems in India 33
Ideas, Words and Things 209 Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History, Integration of the Indian States 81, 104, 210
Illustrated History of Indian Literature in English, 1890–1950 131, 174, 195 International Finance and Development 32
An 154 Indian Tax Administration: A Dialogue 25, 80 International Relations in India: Bringing Theory
Imaginary Institution of India, The: Politics and India Remembered (Revised Edition) 209 Back Home 171, 210
Ideas 173 India Remembered (Second Edition) 79, 116 International Relations in India: Theorising the
Imagining Multilingual Schools: Languages in India Rural Development Report 2012–13 25, 162 Region and Nation 171
Education and Glocalization 38, 148, 189 India Rural Development Report 2013|14 22, 158 Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Women’s Rights
Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City 134 India’s Economic Future: Education, Technology, in Pakistan 158
Impact of War on Children, The 171, 194 Energy and Environment 40 Intersections: Socio-Cultural Trends in
Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean India’s Environmental History: A Reader: Vol. 1: Maharashtra 171, 194
Arena, 1860–1920 136 From Ancient Times to the Colonial Period 44, Interstate Disputes over Krishna Waters: Law,
Imperialists, Nationalists, Democrats: The 88, 129, 224 Science and Imperialism 43
Collected Essays 90, 128 India’s Environmental History: A Reader: Vol. 2: Inter-state River Water Disputes in India 210
Imperial Nature: The World Bank and Struggles Colonialism, Modernity, and the Nation 44, 88, In the Club: Associational Life in Colonial South
for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization 129, 224 Asia 102, 158, 179
32, 192 India’s First Democratic Revolution: Dayanand In the Presence of Sai Baba: Body, City and
Impossible Citizens: Dubai’s Indian Diaspora 6, 182 Bandodkar and the Rise of the Bahujan in Goa Memory in a Global Religious Movement 11,
In Amma’s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular 17, 102, 158 190
Islam in South India 66, 190 India’s Literary History: Essays on the Nineteenth In the Tracks of the Mahatma: The Making of a
In Burmese Prisons: Correspondence May 1923– Century 136, 154, 225 Documentary 55, 60, 209
July 1926 89, 135 India’s Living Constitution: Ideas, Practices, Intimate Other, The: Love Divine in Indic Religions
Inclusive Growth: K. N. Raj on Economic Controversies 176 210
Development 32 India’s New Capitalists: Caste, Business and Introduction to Development and Regional
Incorporating Groundwater Irrigation: Technology Industry in a Modern Nation 34, 196, 225 Planning, An 33, 44

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Introduction to Development and Regional Land and Labour in India 35, 178, 199 Literature and Nationalist Ideology: Writing
Planning, An: With Special Reference to India Landscapes of Urban Memory: The Sacred and the Histories of Modern Indian Languages 140, 155,
33 Civic in India’s High-Tech City 12, 193 177, 199
Introduction to Settlement Geography 44 Language and Politics in Pakistan 152, 170, 193 Lived Islam in South Asia: Adaptation,
Introduction to Stylistics, An: Theory and Practice Language Education in the Primary Years 38 Accommodation and Conflict 15, 177, 198
54, 149 Language, Emotion, and Politics in South India: The Living Faith, A: My Quest for Peace, Harmony and
Inventing Global Ecology: Tracking the Biodiversity Making of a Mother Tongue 13, 128, 194 Social Change: An Autobiography of Asghar Ali
Ideal in India, 1945–1947 44, 105, 125 Language, Ideology and Power: Language-learning Engineer 79, 165, 212
Invention of Private Life, The: Literature and Ideas among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India Living in the Nuclear Shadow 170
172 121, 150, 169, 190, 211 Locating Indian Literature: Texts, Traditions,
Invincibility, Challenges and Leadership 79, 114, Language in the Law 152 Translations 145
211 Language of Secular Islam, The: Urdu Nationalism Logical and Ethical Issues: An Essay on Indian
In Worship of Shiva 209 and Colonial India 108, 162 Philosophy of Religion 92
Is ‘Indian Civilization’ a Myth?: Fictions and Language of the Gods in the World of Men, The: Looking for the Aryans 212
Histories 127 Sanskrit, Culture, and Power in Premodern Lost Worlds: Indian Labour and its Forgotten
Islam and Healing: Loss and Recovery of an Indo- India 135, 196 Histories 34, 137, 175, 197, 225
Muslim Medical Tradition, 1600–1900 137 Language Politics, Elites, and the Public Sphere: Low and Licentious Europeans: Race, Class and
Islam for Beginners 86 Western India under Colonialism 56, 128 ‘White Subalternity’ in Colonial India 105, 119,
Islam in South Asia: A Short History 8, 111 Languages of Belonging: Islam, Regional Identity, 189
Islam in South Asia: In Practice 130, 173, 195 and the Making of Kashmir 132, 174, 195, 225
Islamism and Democracy in India 174 Languages of Political Islam in India, The: c. Macaulay: The Tragedy of Power 38, 116
Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the 1200–1800 135, 175, 225 Magic Web and Other Stories, The: Ashapurna
Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Last Brahmin, The: Life and Reflections of a Debi on the Widow and Her World 64,
Asia 57, 132, 195 Modern-day Sanskrit Pandit 88 72
Issues in Development Economics 33 Last Liberal and Other Essays, The 91, 137, 175, Mahabharata, The 66, 75, 151, 191, 212, 222
225 Mahabharata, The: An Inquiry in the Human
Jharkhand: Politics of Development and Identity Last Musha’irah of Delhi, The 73, 147 Condition 75, 151
171, 194 Lee Jong-wook: A Life in Health and Politics 78, Mahatma, The: A Novel 212
Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia 94, 211 Making Conservation Work 45, 89
171, 194 Left Politics in Bengal: Time Travels among Making of a Small State, The: Populist Social
Journeys and Dwellings: Indian Ocean Themes in Bhadralok Marxists 79, 166 Mobilisation and the Hindi Press in the
South Asia 121, 211 Legends of Devi 211, 212 Uttarakhand Movement 106, 165, 184
J. P., His Biography (Revised and Abridged) 80 Legislature and the Judiciary, The: Judicial Making of Navi Mumbai, The 12, 44
Judiciary I Served, The 78 Pronouncements on Parliament and State Making of Southern Karnataka, The: Society, Polity
Jung for Beginners 39, 84 Legislatures 165 and Culture in the Early Medieval Period AD
Jungle Hospital, The 211 Lenin and Imperialism: An Appraisal of Theories 400–1030 124, 193
and Contemporary Reality 212 Malabar Muslim Cookery 84, 212
Kaalam 211 Let’s Go Home and Other Stories 74, 149 Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, The: Heroic Pasts
Kaanduri and Other Stories 70, 142 Letters to Emilie Schenkl, 1934–1942: Subhas in India, c.1500–1900 68, 137
Kashmir: Insurgency and After 121, 169, 211 Chandra Bose 90, 138 Many Worlds of Sarala Devi, The: A Diary 68, 91,
Kerala Modernity: Ideas, Spaces and Practices in Liberalization’s Children: Gender, Youth, and 140
Transition 23, 157 Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India 29, Mao for Beginners 86
Kerala’s Gulf Connection, 1998–2011: Economic 65, 167, 188 Marilyn for Beginners 55, 85
and Social Impact of Migration 26 Life and Times of Humayun, The 212 Marriage, Love, Caste and Kinship Support: Lived
Kerala: The Paradoxes of Public Action and Lifting the Veil: Communal Violence and Experiences of the Urban Poor in India 15, 35,
Development 33, 193, 211 Communal Harmony in Contemporary India 68
Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags: A Critique of the 178 Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts,
Hindu Right 178 Light of Knowledge, The: Literacy Activism and the Changing Practices in a Globalising World 5,
Kierkegaard for Beginners 84 Politics of Writing in South India 7, 37 179
Kings and Untouchables: A Study of the Caste Limits to Scarcity, The: Contesting the Politics of Marshalling the Past: Ancient India and its Modern
System in Western India 178, 199 Allocation 26, 184 Histories 131
Kinship in Bengali Culture 199 Lineages of Political Society: Studies in Postcolonial Martial Arts for Beginners 87
Konkani Saraswat Cookbook, The (The 2nd Democracy 173 Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism: Past and
Edition) 93 Linguistic Genocide in Education or Worldwide Present Imaginings of India 13, 132, 174
Krishna 211 Diversity and Human Rights? 39, 150, 190 Mastering Western Texts: Essays on Literature
Kuttiedathi and Other Stories 76, 152, 211 Linguistic Imperialism Continued 38, 149, 189 and Society for A. N. Kaul 154
Listening to the Loom: Essays on Literature, Matched Winners 213
Lacan for Beginners 40, 56, 86, 152 Politics and Violence 130, 173, 195 Matsya: The Magical Fish 213

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Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine and Mourning the Nation: Indian Cinema in the Wake New Bearings in English Studies: A Festschrift for
Science in the Age of Empire 105, 121 of Partition 53, 116 C. T. Indra 150
McLuhan for Beginners 56, 85 Moveable Type: Book History in India 136 New Cosmopolitanisms: South Asians in the US
Media and Modernity: Communications, Women, Moving Image, The: A Study of Indian Cinema 213 169, 191
and the State in India 56, 67, 226 Mud Baby, The: Shanta Rameshwar Rao 214 New Cultural Studies: Adventures in Theory
Medical Pluralism in Contemporary India 94, Multilingual Education for Social Justice: Globalising 54
213 the Local 38, 189 New Mansions for Music: Performance, Pedagogy
‘Medieval’ in Film, The: Representing a Contested Multilingual Education Works: From the Periphery and Criticism 55, 58, 122, 140
Time on Indian Screen (1920s–1960s) 50 to the Centre 38 New Perspectives in South Asian History 1 105
Melodramatic Public, The: Film Form and Multilingualism in India 39, 193 New Perspectives in South Asian History II 106
Spectatorship in Indian Cinema 57 Multiple Voices and Stories: Narratives of Health New Perspectives in the History of Indian
Memories and Movements: Borders and and Illness 7, 182 Education 36, 104
Communities in Banni, Kutch, Gujarat 108, Mumbai: Political Economy of Crime and Space 43, New World of Indigenous Resistance: Noam
182, 213 79, 167, 188 Chomsky and Voices from North, South and
Memory, Identity, Power: Politics in the Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Central America 52, 146, 165
Junglemahals, 1890–1950 (Second Edition) 162, Pakistan 8, 185 Nietzsche for Beginners 56, 85
182 Muslim Identity, Print Culture and the Dravidian Night and Other Stories 228
Memsahibs’ Writings: Colonial Narratives on Factor in Tamil Nadu 193 Night of the Gods: Durga Puja and the
Indian Women 64, 111, 144 My Days with Gandhi 214 Legitimation of Power in Rural Bengal 16
Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs: Indian My Dear Nawab Sahib 214 Nivedan: The Autobiography of Dharmanand
Business in the Colonial Era 226 My Life is My Message Sadhana 59, 80, 119, 149 Kosambi 88, 132, 226
MGNREGA Sameeksha: An Anthology of Research My Life is My Message Satyagraha 59, 80, 119, 149 Nomad Called Thief, A: Reflections on Adivasi
Studies on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural My Life is My Message Satyapath 59, 80, 119, 149 Silence 12, 152, 193
Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 26, 163 My Life is My Message Svarpan 59, 80, 119, 149 North-East India Textbook: A Handbook of
Microeconomic Theory Old and New: A Student’s Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under Anthropology 8
Guide 27 Princely Rule 51, 111 Notes from Gandhigram: Challenges to Gandhian
Middle-Class Moralities: Everyday Struggles over Praxis 59, 119, 214
Belonging and Prestige in India 51, 184 Nandanvan and Other Stories 73, 145 Not Without Reason and Other Stories 72
Middle Class Values in India and Western Europe National Flag for India, A 57, 136, 175, 226 Nutrition: A Lifecycle Approach 82
58, 199 Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India
Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru, The 213 214 Of Ghosts and Other Perils 71, 142
Mirage 75, 151 Nationalism in the Vernacular: Hindi, Urdu, and Of the People: Essays on Indian Popular Culture
Mirch Masala: 100 Indian Recipes 83, 213 the Literature of Indian Freedom 57, 134, 154, 58
Mirza Sheikh I’tesamuddin’s Wonders of Vilayet 175, 226 Old Playhouse and Other Poems, The (Second
92, 141, 155 Nationalization of Hindu Traditions, The: Edition) 64, 73, 146
M. K. Gandhi’s Hind Swaraj: A Critical Edition 59, Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth- Old Potions, New Bottles: Recasting Indigenous
79, 116, 147, 167, 212 Century Banaras 134, 154, 175, 196 Medicine in Colonial Punjab 1850–1945 98,
Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Nation and National Identity in South Asia 171, 105, 124, 214
between India and Trinidad 55, 66, 121 194 On the Waterfront: Water Distribution,
Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade, Nation in Imagination: Essays on Nationalism, Sub- Technology and Agrarian Change in a South
Vol. 1 83, 213 Nationalisms and Narration 55, 151, 191 Indian Canal Irrigation System 44
Modern Cookery: For Teaching and the Trade, Nature, Culture and Religion at the Crossroads of Opium Poppy 92, 155
Vol. 2 83, 213 Asia 46 Original English Film Scripts 58, 92
Modernity of Tradition, The: Political Nature, Environment and Society: Conservation, Origins and Development of the Tablighi-
Development in India 171 Governance and Transformation in India 42, Jama’at (1920–2000), The: A Cross-country
Modernizing Nature: Forestry and Imperial Eco- 185, 214 Comparative Study 171
Development, 1800–1950 43, 122 Nature in the Global South: Environmental Other Landscapes: Colonialism and the
Modern Medicine and International Aid: Khunde Projects in South and South-East Asia 44, 105, Predicament of Authority in Nineteenth-
Hospital, Nepal, 1966–1998 97, 105, 119, 213 125, 194 Century South India 114, 186
Modern Migrations: Gujarati Indian Networks in Nature’s Government: Science, Imperial Britain Other Orientalisms: India Between Florence and
New York and London 184 and the ‘Improvement’ of the World 44, 124 Bombay, 1860–1900 8, 111
Modern Spirit of Asia, The: The Spiritual and the Nature without Borders 42, 104 Our Films Their Films 56, 80, 214
Secular in China and India 180 Nazir Ahmad in His Own Words and Mine 74, Out of Line: Cartoons, Caricature and
Modern Times: India 1880s–1950s 127 149, 214 Contemporary India 49
Mole! 76, 152 Negotiating Empowerment: Studies in English Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval
Monuments, Objects, Histories: Institutions of Art Language Education 39, 151, 191 Imagination 119
in Colonial and Postcolonial India 137 Neoliberalism and Water: Complicating the Story Out of this Earth: East India Adivasis and the
Moon Mountain 76, 151 of ‘Reforms’ in Maharashtra 24, 180 Aluminium Cartel 10, 116, 188

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Outside the Archives 92, 141, 228 Political Culture and Economy in Eighteenth Prophets Facing Backward: Postmodernism,
Century Bengal: Networks of Exchange, Science, and Hindu Nationalism 175, 197
Panchlight and Other Stories 73, 147 Consumption and Communication 107, 160 Prospects for Peace in South Asia 170
Partial Recall: Essays on Literature and Literary Political Economy in Macroeconomics 33 Province of the Book, The: Scholars, Scribes and
History 88, 127, 153 Political Sociology: A New Grammar of Politics Scribblers in Colonial Tamilnadu 127, 153
Partitions of Memory, The: The Afterlife of the 199 Public Administration in the Globalisation Era:
Division of India 57, 132, 174 Political Structure of Early Medieval South India, The New Public Management Perspective 167,
Partners in Development: India and Switzerland The (Second Edition) 112 216
35, 177 Political Theologies: Public Religions in a Post- Public-Interest Journalism: A Guide for Students
Past Before Us, The: Historical Traditions of Early Secular World 170, 177, 192, 199 49
North India 127 Politics and Culture of Globalisation, The: India Pumpkin Flower Fritters and Other Classic
Pathways of Empire: Circulation, Public Works and Australia 177 Recipes from a Bengali Kitchen 88
and Social Space in Colonial Orissa, 1780–1914 Politics and Poetics of Water, The: The
105, 119 Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India 44, Quantitative Geography: Techniques and
Pathways to Power: The Domestic Politics of 170, 193, 215 Presentations 42
South Asia 160, 180 Politics as Performance: A Social History of the
Patrons, Players and the Crowd: The Phenomenon Telugu Cinema 56, 173 Rabindranath Tagore 147
of Indian Cricket 215 Politics in India (Second Edition) 163, 215 Rabindranath Tagore: One Hundred Years of
Peculiar People, Amazing Lives: Leprosy, Social Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis, Global Reception 142
Exclusion and Community Making in South The: Mortgaging Our Future 42, 162 Radical Rabindranath: Nation, Family and Gender
India 12, 98, 192, 215 Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into in Tagore’s Fiction and Films 50, 143, 216
Pedagogy for Religion: Missionary Education and Democracy 43, 170 Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New
the Fashioning of Hindus and Muslims in Bengal Politics of Sanitation in India, The: Cities, Services Economics of Terrorism 166
37, 111 and the State 28, 106, 165, 215 Raga’n Josh: Stories from a Musical Life 13, 90
People of the Maldive Islands 7, 183, 215 Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access Ramayana, The 56, 80, 216
People, Parks and Wildlife: Towards Coexistence to Medicines, The: World Pharmacy and India Reading Children: Essays on Children’s Literature
12, 44 176 149
People’s History of the World, A 80, 124 Poovan Banana and Other Stories 216 Reading Subaltern Studies: Critical History,
Persian Myths 81 Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Contested Meanings, and the Globalization of
Persistence of Poverty in India 34, 176 Live on $2 a Day 34 South Asia 138
Philosophy for Beginners 84 Postcolonial Studies and Beyond 14, 57, 154 Reading the East India Company, 1720–1840:
Physical Geography of India: A Study in Regional Postmodernism for Beginners 56, 87, 153 Colonial Currencies of Gender 66, 124
Earth Sciences 44 Post-reform Development in Asia: Essays for Rebels from the Mud Houses: Dalits and the Making
Picture Ramayana, The 215 Amiya Kumar Bagchi 31 of the Maoist Revolution in Bihar 20, 176
Picturing the Nation: Iconographies of Modern Power and Contestation: India since 1989 160, 190 Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and
India 55, 215 Powerful Ephemeral, The: Everyday Healing in an Nations in Colonial Times 67, 128, 196, 226
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters: Embedded Ambiguously Islamic Place 13 Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in
Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai 4, 157 Power, Knowledge, Medicine: Ayurvedic Twentieth-Century Nepal 11, 15, 189, 199
Place for Utopia, A: Urban Designs from South Pharmaceuticals at Home and in the World 97, Recipes of the Jaffna Tamils 83, 216
Asia 1, 179 105, 120, 189, 216 Reconsidering Untouchability: Chamars and Dalit
Plain Speaking: A Sudra’s Story 14, 19 Power Play: A Study of the Enron Project 33, 171 History in North India 18, 128, 172
Plato for Beginners 85, 152 Practical Geography: A Systematic Approach Red Tape: Bureaucracy, Structural Violence and
Play: Experiential Methodologies in Developmental (Third Edition) 41 Poverty in India 8, 163
and Therapeutic Settings 37, 94 Practice of Sociology, The 194 Refiguring Unani Tibb: Plural Healing in Late
Playing for India 215 Pratidwandi 76, 152 Colonial India 98, 105, 123, 192, 217
Play of the Gods, The: Locality, Ideology, Pre- and Protohistoric Andhra Pradesh up to 500 Reflections on Cambridge 15, 140
Structure, and Time in the Festivals of a Bengali BC 125 Reforming India’s Social Sector: Poverty, Nutrition,
Town 58, 199 Primal Land, The 77, 153, 216 Health and Education 99, 177, 199
Poet and His World, The: Critical Essays on Primary School Child, The: Development and Reframing Masculinities 66, 192
Rabindranath Tagore 146 Education 40 Regulation, Institutions and the Law 35
Poetics and Politics of Sufism and Bhakti in South Princess Promila 216 Re-imagining India and Other Essays 166, 186
Asia: Love, Loss and Liberation 52, 146 Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream 216 Reinventing Public Administration: The Indian
Poisoned Bread 18, 75, 149 Prisons We Broke, The 18, 66, 75, 150 Experience 170
Policy Matters: Economic and Social Policies to Privatizing Water: Governance Failure and the Religion and Personal Law in Secular India: A Call
Sustain Equitable Development 32, 169 World’s Urban Water Crisis 28, 165 to Judgement 177, 199
Polio Eradication and Its Discontents: A Historian’s Problem of Caste, The 160, 180, 216 Religious Division and Social Conflict: The
Journey Through an International Public Health Producing Bollywood: Inside the Contemporary Emergence of Hindu Nationalism in Rural India
(Un)civil War 94, 106, 112, 163, 215 Hindi Film Industry 8, 51 (Second Impression) 15, 176

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Renaissance Reborn: In Search of a Historical Science and National Consciousness in Bengal: Small Voice of History, The: Collected Essays 14,
Paradigm 141 1870–1930 105, 125, 218 57, 134, 226
Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, Science, Technology and Development in India: Social and Economic Profile of India 35, 199
Controversies 67, 98, 105, 124 Encountering Values 23, 179 Social Change in Modern India 194
Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences Scripting Lives: Narratives of Dominant Women in Social Designs: Tank Irrigation Technology and
(Revised Edition) 15, 177, 199 Kerala 11, 65, 189 Agrarian Transformation in Karnataka, South
Rethinking 1857 122, 217 Secret of Childhood, The 39 India 33, 44
Rethinking Democracy 170, 217 Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment 128, 172 Social Determinants of Health: Assessing Theory,
Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality: Secularizing Islamists?: Jama‘at-e-Islami and Jama‘at- Policy and Practice 96, 105, 116, 188
Global Perspectives 11, 60, 168 ud-da‘wa in Urban Pakistan 174 Social Inclusion in Independent India: Dimensions
Rethinking Issues in Islam 217 Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari, Vol. I, and Approaches 17, 180
Rethinking Western India: The Changing Contexts 1907–21 108, 218 Social Movements and Cultural Currents,
of Culture, Society, and Religion 94, 106 Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari, Vol. II, 1789–1945 117, 167
Retreat of Democracy, The: And Other Itinerant 1921–22 107, 218 Social Space of Language, The: Vernacular Culture
Essays on Globalization, Economics, and India Selected Works of C. Rajagopalachari: Vol. III, in British Colonial Punjab 134
34 1923–25 77, 103 Society and History of Gujarat since 1800: A
Revisiting 1956: B. R. Ambedkar and States Selections from Galpaguchchha (Three Volumes): Select Bibliography of the English and European
Reorganisation 107, 160 Volume 1: Kabuliwalla and Other Stories 73, Language Sources 114, 146, 186
Revisiting Abhijñaˉ naśaˉkuntalam: Love, Lineage 147 Socio-Cultural Context of Water, The: Study of a
and Language in Kaˉ lidaˉ sa’s Naˉ taka 144 Selections from Galpaguchchha (Three Volumes): Gujarat Village 24
Rise of a Folk God, The: Vitthal of Pandharpur 132 Volume III: Streer Patra and Other Stories 74, Son of the Moment 77, 153, 219
Rites of Spring: Gajan in Village Bengal 16 147 Soulmates: The Story of Mahatma Gandhi and
Roman Myths 81 Selections from Galpaguchchha (Three Volumes): Hermann Kallenbach 59, 112
Roots and Shadows 217 Volume II: Manihara and Other Stories 74, Sourcebook of Indian Civilization, A: 126
Rule by Numbers: Governmentality and Colonial 147 South Asian Cultures of the Bomb: Atomic Publics
India 2, 158 Selections from Nehru 218 and the State in India and Pakistan 167
Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Space, Territory and the State: New Readings in
Sabotage 92, 178 Gramsci 171, 194 International Politics 171
Sacred Writings of the Sikhs, The 80 Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Speaking of Gandhi’s Death 59
Sacrificing People: Invasions of a Tribal Landscape Muslims and the Hindu Public in Colonial India Stages of Capital: Law, Culture and Market
9, 114, 186, 217 68, 138, 226 Governance in Late Colonial India 28, 114, 186
Salim Ali for Schools: A Children’s Biography 89 Shades of Difference: Selected Writings of Stages of Life: Indian Theatre Autobiographies 132,
Samidha 66, 75, 150, 217 Rabindranath Tagore 58, 91, 155 153
Sandal Trees and Other Stories, The 217 Shakespeare and the Art of Lying 143, 218 Stanislavski for Beginners 56, 86, 152
Sand and Other Stories 77, 152, 217 Shakespeare for Beginners 87, 153 State, Markets and Inequalities: Human
Sarasvatichandra Part I: Buddhidhan’s Shanti Sena, The: Philosophy, History and Action Development in Rural India 32
Administration 63, 70, 142 60, 120 State of Vaccination: The Fight against Smallpox in
Sarojini Naidu 217 Shifting Scales of Justice, The: The Supreme Court Colonial Burma 97, 105, 120
Sartre for Beginners 86, 152 in the Judicial Nineties 161 States of Indian Cricket, The: Anecdotal Histories
Saussure for Beginners 56, 86, 194 Shivaji and His Times (Fifth Edition) 117 132
Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India 14 Shock Therapy 77, 153 States of Sentiment: Exploring the Cultures of
Saving Wild Tigers, 1900–2000: The Essential Short History of Aurangzib, A 120, 218 Emotion 52
Writings 45, 89 Sikkim: A Traveller’s Guide 89 Story of Our Food, The 83
Scandal of Empire, The: India and the Creation of Silapadikaram and Manimekalai 218 Street Corner Secrets: Sex, Work, and Migration
Imperial Britain 136 Silent Invaders: Pesticides, Livelihoods and in the City of Mumbai 63, 181
Scandal of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship Women’s Health 33, 67 Strıˉ: Feminine Power in the Mahaˉ bhaˉ rata 64,
in Postcolonial India 67, 175, 196 Silent Storm 73, 146 115
Scar, The 18, 75, 149, 217 Silver Lining: Insights into Gujarat 81, 161 Structure of Hindu Society, The 219
Scholars and Prophets: Sociology of India from Simplifications: An Introduction to Structuralism Studies in Indian History and Culture 219
France 19th–20th Centuries 198 and Post-Structuralism 56, 218 Studying Early India: Archaeology, Texts and
School Education, Pluralism and Marginality: Sinhalese Monastic Architecture: The Viharas of Historical Issues 138, 226
Comparative Perspectives 37, 185 Anuraˉdhapura 120 Subaltern Studies XI: Community, Gender and
School, Society, Nation: Popular Essays in Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800–1997 12, Violence 138, 176, 197
Education 39, 193 105, 125, 194, 218 Subaltern Studies XII: Muslims, Dalits and the
Science, Agriculture and Politics of Policy: The Sixty Years in the Service of the Nation: An Fabrications of History 19, 138, 175, 197
Case of Biotechnology in India 33, 170 Illustrated History of IIT Kharagpur 79, 218 Subhas Chandra Bose 89, 117, 136, 138, 201
Science and Citizens: Globalisation and the Smallpox Eradication Saga, The: An Insider’s View Subjugated Nomads: The Lambadas under the Rule
Challenge of Engagement 32, 192 95, 114 of the Nizams 10, 117, 219

TITLE INDEX 245
Sun All Golden And Round 219 Time Warps: The Insistent Politics of Silent and Understanding Contemporary India: Critical
Sundarbans, The: Folk Deities, Monsters and Evasive Pasts 138, 176 Perspectives 167, 188, 221
Mortals 10, 15, 116, 140 Tocqueville in India 176, 198 Understanding Indian Society: Past and Present,
Sun Never Sets, The: South Asian Migrants in an Toda Landscape, The: Explorations in Cultural Essays for A. M. Shah 187, 221
Age of U.S. Power 7, 50 Ecology 2, 77 Understanding Islam 72
Sunset at Srirangapatam 219 Touch of Spice, A 84 Under the Shadow of Man-Eaters: The Life and
Survival and Other Stories: Bangla Dalit Fiction in Towards a Critical Medical Practice: Reflections Legend of Jim Corbett 44
Translation 17, 72 on the Dilemmas of Medical Culture Today Uneven Economic Development 31
Surya Namaskars: An Ancient Indian Exercise 219 96, 188 Unfinished Gestures: Devadasis, Memory, and
Swadeshi Movement in Bengal, The: 1903–1908 Towards an Aesthetic of Dalit Literature: History, Modernity in South India 13, 128
133, 227 Controversies and Considerations 18, 56 Unforgotten: Love and the Culture of Dementia
Syrian Christians of Kerala, The: Demographic and Towards Freedom: Critical Essays on Ghare Baire Care in India 6, 63
Socio-economic Transition in the Twentieth 66, 123, 151 Un-Gandhian Gandhi, The: The Life and Afterlife
Century 12, 193 Towards Full and Decent Employment 32 of the Mahatma 138
Towards Social Change: Essays on Dalit Literature Unifying Hinduism: Philosophy and Identity in
Tagores and Sartorial Styles, The: A Photo Essay 17, 50, 143 Indian Intellectual History 133
68, 91, 140 Trade, Finance and Investment in South Asia 35 Unquiet Woods, The: Ecological Change and
Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market: The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant, The: Peasant Resistance in the Himalaya 13, 45, 130,
Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and Unani Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the 194
Industry, 1980–2000 11, 98, 105, 122, 191, 219 Coromandel 220 Unruly Hills: Nature and Nation in India’s
Tales of Athiranippadam 71, 144 Trafficking in Women and Children in India 67, Northeast 42, 46, 166, 177
Tamil Brahmans: The Making of a Middle-Class 193, 220 Unsettling the Past: Unknown Aspects and
Caste 19, 34 Trajectories of the Indian State, The: Politics and Scholarly Assessments of D. D. Kosambi 90,
Techniques to Technology: A French Ideas 174, 195, 227 129, 194
Historiography of Technology 219 Tranquebar: Whose History?: Transnational Untouchable Spring 18, 74, 147
Telecommunications Industry in India: State, Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Urbanising Cholera: The Social Determinants of Its
Business and Labour in a Global Economy 35 Colony in South India 5, 106, 107 Re-emergence 95, 106, 185, 221
Telecommunications Revolution, The: Mobile Transfer of Power in India, The 220
Value Added Services in India 92 Transnational Torture: Law, Violence, and State Vaisnava Iconography in the Tamil Country 221
Terms of Trade and Class Relations: An Essay in Power in the United States and India 164 Varanasi 71, 144, 221
Political Economy 35 Travels to Europe: Self and Other in Bengali Travel Vedic People, The: Their History and Geography
Terror and Violence: Imagination and the Narratives, 1870–1910 220 80, 126, 221
Unimaginable 12, 55, 170, 192 Traversing Bihar: The Politics of Development and Vegetarian Fare 83, 221
Textbook of Historiography, A: 500 BC to AD Social Justice 161, 181 View from Below, The: Indigenous Society,
2000 125 Trial of Bahadur Shah Zafar, The 123 Temples and the Early Colonial State in Tamil
Textbook of Home Science, A (Revised Edition) Tropics and the Travelling Gaze, The: India, Nadu, 1700–1835 124
220 Landscape and Science, 1800–56 138 View from the Machan, A: How Science Can Save
Texts Histories Geographies: Reading Indian Trouble with Marriage, The: Feminists Confront the Fragile Predator 227
Literature 54, 149 Law and Violence in India 4, 62 Village Society 27, 164, 185, 221
Textures of Time: Writing History in South India, Trunk Full of Tales, A: Seventy Years with the Vinegar King and Hot Soup 221
1600–1800 138, 227 Indian Elephant 45 Violence and Belonging: Land, Love and Lethal
Thangam Philip Book of Baking, The 84, 220 Tuberculosis in India: A Case of Innovation and Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province
Thangam Philip’s Vegetarian: Recipes for Healthy Control 3, 94 of Pakistan 9, 166, 187
Living 220 Tulsi and the Cross, The: Anthropology and the Violence in Urban India: Identity Politics, ‘Mumbai’
There Comes Papa: Colonialism and the Colonial Encounter in Goa 8, 16 and the Postcolonial City 14, 175, 197
Transformation of Matriliny in Kerala and Two Men and Music: Nationalism in the Making of Viramma: Life of a Dalit 20, 68, 155
Malabar, c. 1850–1940 12, 67, 125 an Indian Classical Tradition 57, 136 Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics 117, 167,
Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our 188, 221
Times 80, 124, 193 Ulama of Firangi Mahall and Islamic Culture in Voice and Memory: Indigenous Imagination and
Three Companions 220 South Asia, The 14 Expression 9, 52, 146
Three Ways to be Alien: Travails and Encounters Umrao Jan Ada (Revised Edition) 65, 75, 150
in the Early Modern World 88, 133 Unbecoming Modern: Colonialism, Modernity, War and Peace in Modern India: A Strategic
Through War and Famine: Bengal, 1939–45 117, Colonial Modernities 16, 141 History of the Nehru Years 133, 174
167 Understanding Biodiversity: Life Sustainability and Water and Development: Forging Green
Tibetan Refugees in India: Education, Culture and Equity 220 Communities for Watersheds 29, 43
Growing Up in Exile 5, 181, 220 Understanding Caste: From Buddha to Ambedkar Water for Pabolee: Stories about People and
Time Treks: The Uncertain Future of Old and and Beyond 17, 164, 185 Development in the Himalayas 44
New Despotisms 57, 137 Water, The: Study of a Gujarat Village 5

246 TITLE INDEX
Water, Works and Wages: The Everyday Politics Writings of British India (1858–1900) 66, 105, Writing and Editing News 48, 142
of Irrigation Management Reform in the 123, 151 Writing History in the Soviet Union: Making the
Philippines 44 Women and Social Reform in Modern India (in Past Work 122, 140, 191, 199
Way of the World, The 151 two volumes) 67, 133 Writing Life: Three Gujarati Thinkers 60, 120, 150
Western Medicine and Public Health in Colonial Women and Work 27, 164, 185, 222 Writings of A. M. Shah, The: The Household and
Bombay, 1845–1895 99, 105, 125 Women in Malayalam Cinema: Naturalising Family in India 181
Western Science in Modern India: Metropolitan Gender Hierarchies 53, 65, 222 Writings of Bipan Chandra, The: The Making of
Methods, Colonial Practices 14, 134, 196, 227 Women of Honour: Gender and Agency among Modern India: From Marx to Gandhi 112, 164
Westward Traveller, The 65, 74, 147, 222 Dalit Women in the Central Himalayas 8, 17, Writings of D. N. Dhanagare, The: The Missing
What is Worth Teaching? (Fourth Edition) 39, 190 64 Tradition: Debates and Discourses in Indian
When Marriages Go Astray: Choices Made, Women of the Mahabharata, The: The Question of Sociology 182
Choices Challenged 16 Truth 66, 191, 222 Writings of M. T. Vasudevan Nair, The 74, 147
When the Kurinji Blooms 222 Women Survivors of Violence: Genesis and Writings of Pamela Price, The: State, Politics, and
‘When the Saints Go Marching In’: The Curious Growth of a State Support System 63 Cultures in Modern South India 109, 162, 222
Ambivalence of Religious Sadhus in Indian Women Writing Gender: Marathi Fiction Before Writings of Rajni Kothari, The 168, 190
Politics 81, 161 Independence 67, 195 Writings of Richard Falk, The: Towards Humane
Who Wants Democracy? (Second Edition) 112, Word, Image, Text: Studies in Literary and Visual Global Governance 112, 164
164 Culture 54, 150 Writing the Mughal World: Studies in Political
Why Translation Matters 146 Wording the World: Veena Das and Scenes of Culture 129, 172, 227
Wicked City, The: Crime and Punishment in Inheritance 3, 179 WTO Agreement and Indian Agriculture 35
Colonial Calcutta 120 Working the Night Shift: Women in India’s Call WTO and India, The: Issues and Negotiating
Wife, Mother, Widow: Exploring Women’s Lives Center Industry 64, 187 Strategies 29, 168
in Northern India 16, 69, 199 World Bank in India, The: Undermining
Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies of Sovereignty, Distorting Development 29 Year of Blood, The: Essays on the Revolt of 1857
Maoism in India and Nepal 139, 176 World’s First Anti-Dam Movement, The: The 91, 139
Windows of Opportunity: Memoirs of an Mulshi Satyagraha 1920–1924 227 Yuganta: The End of an Epoch 76, 123, 151, 170,
Economic Advisor 29, 79, 222 Writer’s Feast, The: Food and the Cultures of 192
Wives, Widows and Concubines: The Conjugal Representation 52, 147
Family Ideal in Colonial India 65, 120 Writers in Retrospect: The Rise of American Zen for Beginners 87
Woman and Empire: Representations in the Literary History, 1875–1910 123, 151 Zoo in the Garden 45, 89

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