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

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

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

This book is the first in-depth study of the Śaiva oeuvre of the celebrated polymath Appaya Dīkṣita (1520-1593). Jonathan Duquette documents the ri...

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

Part of the prestigious Themes in Indian History series, this book deals with notions, ideas, and concepts of crime and justice from the eighteenth...

Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime excha...

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...

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

The present monograph is a study of the Indian armed forces during the Second World War. This monograph is a corrective to the cultural studies app...

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

What haunts the city? Why is there so much pessimism in our urban lives? And how does this physical and psychological insecurity of relentless comp...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

Horticultural Statistics at a Glance 2015 is the premier publication of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, which serves as an authe...

This book is a philosophical analysis of ordinary concepts like human action and consciousness, along with an exploration of their representation i...

Few expressions of globalisation are as visible, widespread, and pervasive as the worldwide proliferation of internationally traded consumer Goods....

Resource exploitation in the form of land-grabbing has become a major debate worldwide. Based on extensive field research conducted at the India-Pa...

The emergence of a decentralized, fragmented, and low-cost Internet opened up possibilities for persons with disabilities to lead an independent an...

As the constitutional body that conducts elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has emerged as a trusted institution within the shared s...

East of India, South of China is an incisive analysis of the ebbs and flows of the geopolitical fortunes of India and China—the two Asian giants—in...

Identification vs profiling; state welfare vs state surveillance; privacy vs transparency—Aadhaar has bitterly polarized India since its launch in ...

First in the series on Education and Society in South Asia, this volume focuses on the educational thought of a world-renowned teacher, thinker and...

As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, i...

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...

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...

Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever yo...

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