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did you know that the latest delimitation of electoral constituencies in india was carried out after a hiatus of three decades? and that the next d...

Children have been guaranteed an equal right to life, yet millions of them continue to die due to preventable causes. Their deaths are widely perce...

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

India and South Africa, two states that bookended the process of twentieth-century decolonization, punched above their weight in global politics in...

The growing strategic partnership between India and Japan is one of the most important geopolitical developments of the twenty-first century. This ...

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...

Inlays of Subjectivity is an incisive exposition of the theme of subjectivity and selfhood in modern Indian literature. Scholarship in Indian liter...

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

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Pauperism and pauperization are two of the most persistent and widespread phenomena in India. While a fierce debate rages on the line separating th...

Considered ‘the most articulate and persuasive spokesman’ for the developing world in the twentieth century, renowned economist Mahbub ul Haq (1934...

Construction of large dams has been a significant factor in post-Independence developmental politics in India. This volume traces the ideological f...

The US–India nuclear deal, popularly known as the 123 Agreement, announced by George W. Bush and Manmohan Singh on 18 July 2005, was a defining mom...

Immiserizing growth occurs when growth fails to benefit or harms, those at the bottom. It is not a new concept, appearing in some of the towering f...

This book explores the political economy of women’s work in India and its relationship to the Indian state. The author argues that the withdrawal o...

In an epoch when environmental issues make the headlines, this is a work that goes beyond the everyday. Ecologies as diverse as the Himalayas and t...

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

Unpaid work, across the world, is an area that has generally been neglected by economists as well as development actors. Yet the amount of unpaid w...

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

Focusing on India between the early nineteenth century and the First World War, Colonial Terror explores the centrality of the torture of Indian bo...

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 ...

Sociology in India enjoys a special epistemological location as the country is at once traditional and modern, rural and urban, and rich and poor. ...