Arts & Humanities

This new edition of An Introduction to Political Theory examines a fairly wide range of issues on political theory as identified at the beginning of the new millennium. It elaborates the nature and significance of political theory, conc  read more

The handbook provides students of sociology in India with an understanding of key theoretical, thematic, and historical issues in the discipline. Leading authorities in each area explain:

• the sta  read more

Book Summary of Penguin History Of Early India: From The Origins To Ad 1300

1. The Crises of Imperial Societies Christophe Charle 2. Thinking the State with Bourdieu and Foucault U. Kalpagam 3. Bourdieu’s Theory of the Symbolic: Traditions and Innovations Sheena Jain 4. The Field of Indian K  read more

This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense political contestation. It bears upon anthropological understandings of marriageability, urban morali  read more

Until the 1970s gender had been invisible in analyses of social space and place in the androcentric discipline of geography. While recent contributions to feminist geography have challenged this, in India the engagement of geographers with gender, by b  read more

The Revolt of 1857 in India has so far largely been viewed as an event that was of interest to British and Indian scholars investigating the various consequences of British colonial rule in India. What has remained out of the focus of study during the   read more

This selection of six contemporary plays explores a wide range of issues — familial, social, mythological, political — with women centre stage. The plays are distinct from each other in structure, theme and style, but are bound together by   read more

This book is an analysis of the Amar Chitra Katha genre, historical comic-books that capture and promote a middle class masculine identity, as culture became the new site for right-wing hegemonic politics in India over the la  read more

This book studies the impact of the communal violence of the early 1990s on the individual lives of the Muslim weavers of Banaras, with considerable focus on gender, identity and inter-community relations.

Based on extensive fieldwork and archival records, this book traces the emergence and flourishing of madrasas and the myriad ways in which they impact upon local Muslim communities, especially in West Bengal. It also addresses issues of identity, &lsqu  read more

This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new social formations and aspirations, modes of consumption and ways of being  read more

This volume will mark a new trend in dealing with women’s varied experiences of life: individual introductions situate the narrator in a context – and then her voice takes over, with no intervention from the editors (except to provide footn  read more

In this Seventh Edition this have attempted to bring readers up-to-date, an ongoing challenge in our rapidly changing discipline. psychology, like other areas of Knowledge, has its classic theories and studies which from the basis for the much current   read more