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Keshab Chandra Sen (1838–84) was one of the most powerful and controversial figures in nineteenth-century Bengal. A religious leader and social ref...

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian his...

This work seeks to determine the roles played by the paramount judiciary in the Indian polity between 1937 and 1964. The discussion starts with an ...

The political discourse in India experienced a fundamental shift when the Sachar Committee Report revealed that despite the national and state gove...

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic sur...

Colonialism is a dehumanizing experience for all those at the mercy of its power structures. The officers of the Indian Civil Service (ICs) were no...

Oxford India Short Introduction | KASHMIR | Complex Issues of Kashmir About its Past, Present and Future

A political scientist, historian, cultural analyst, social anthropologist, and philosopher, Partha Chatterjee has consistently provided academia wi...

How do people respond to a state that is violent towards its own citizens? In State, Violence, and Legitimacy in India, this question is addressed ...

A comprehensive and analytical assessment of the history of the Indian subcontinent until 1750 CE, History of Precolonial India situates Indian his...

Moving away from a dominant cultural equation of love, desire and intimacy with marriage, Beyond Desire offers a radical view that reinstates the b...

Historians have generally focused on the ‘extraordinary’ forms of protest while speaking of the lives of oppressed social groups, but the basic sur...

Telecommunications was vital to the imperial project and connecting India—the jewel in the British crown—was a key priority. However, intercolonial...

The Portuguese encounter with the peoples of South Asia and Brazil set foundational precedents for European imperialism. Jesuit missionaries were k...

Light from the fire burning afar mingled with the moonlight in Kurukshetra to create a terrible twilight. Scattered corpses … broken chariots … spo...

A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation o...

This volume is about sustainable development and the complex global negotiations from the environmental capitals of the world. It explores the plig...

India has the largest number of child labourers in the world and has been the subject of intense media and political campaigns in the North aimed a...

This is a collection of fourteen short stories by paramita satpathy. These stories are full of characters that conceal their true persona under a v...

How have cinema and popular religion shaped each other? Is the display of devotion in a cinema hall the same as devotion in a temple? How do we und...

Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituen...

Combining theoretical and empirical issues and drawing its conclusions from rigorous methodologies and latest data, this volume covers a wide range...

It has long been recognized that productivity growth and the business cycle are closely interrelated. Yet, until recently, the two phenomena have b...

To sustain India's growth graph in the medium and long-run requires commensurate increase in the supply of alternative forms of energy-electricity,...