India's Foreign Policy: Coping with Changing World

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Political Science, Public Administration and Public Policy .......................1

E-Books .............................................................................................................34
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Indias Foreign Policy
FORTHCOMING IN POLITICAL SCIENCE

Coping with the Changing World
Muchkund Dubey, President, Council for Social Development, Delhi
Indias Foreign Policy: Coping with the Changing World traces the values and principles that have shaped Indias 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 Indias 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. Indias 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. Chinas 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
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
Readings on of Dalits by constructing alternative historical and religious traditions, and even today Dalit identity continues to be an important
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Dalit Identity agenda of academic debate. With a multidisciplinary approach, Readings on Dalit Identity brings together a diverse selection of
RITICAL
HINKING
History, Literature and Religion

writings that looks at how through the reinterpretation of history, literature and religion, the Dalits challenged their ascribed status
and created a new identity for themselves.
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Contents: Introduction PART I: HISTORY PART II: LITERATURE PART III: RELIGION
OUTH
A
SIAN
H
ISTORY
Edited by
Swaraj Basu
A Reader
2016 ` 895 (tent.) 416pp (approx.) Hardback
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 locationsIndia, 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
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IV FORTHCOMING TITLES
Banking on Words
OTHER FORTHCOMING
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 2008while indeed spurred on by greed, ignorance, weak regulation, and irresponsible risk-takingwas,
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 languageand particular failures in itpaved 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 mothersbut 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 Indiathe 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: Childrens Periodicals in Hindi in Colonial North India (192050) 5. Bangla Literary Journalism at Nationalisms
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 1920s1940s: Part 2 7. Educational Texts in Bengal, 18301900: 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
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
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 (18471919) are excursions into fantasy, where fact confronts the unreal.
Konkaboti, written in Bengali, is Troilokyonaths 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 Konkabotis 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: Translators 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. Konkabotis 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

VI FORTHCOMING TITLES
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
Sarasvatichandra Part II
Gunasundaris 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
married as children. Intelligent, eager, a young Gunasundari is educated by Vidya Chatura; the two share pleasures of the mind,
poetry and literature. But this newfound aesthetic conjugality is disrupted when his relatives come to live with them as
dependents. Gunasundari must suddenly manage a household of fourteen people, each with different needs and idiosyncracies.
Govardhanrams minute, often wry, observations on human nature, the interpersonal conflicts, his sharp characterisations,
6DUDVYDWLFKDQGUD descriptions of a pregnant Gunasundari struggling to keep the family joint and content make this a delight to read.
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Selected Contents: Translators Acknowledgement. Translators Introduction. Preface I. Preface II. 1. On the Outskirts of
Translated from the original Gujarati
by Tridip Suhrud Manoharpuri 2. The Outlaws 3. The Injured Man 4. Gunasundari 5. Gunasundari (Continued) 6. A Night in Manoharpuri
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 Shahs well-known study of
the Vahivancha Barotstraditional record-keepers of genealogies and narrators and creators of myths. Shah offers several essays on theory and method

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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, 190514, 192022 11. The Indian Journal of Sociology, 192021 12. Anthropology in Bombay, 18861936
Contributors: A. M. Shah, R. G. Shroff, M. N. Srinivas, Romila Thapar
2016 978-81-250-6013-0 ` 625 272pp Hardback
Thinking Gender, Doing Gender

Feminist Scholarship and Practice Today
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Edited by Uma Chakravarti, historian and activist in the democratic rights and womens 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 Womens 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, 195070 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 Womans 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 Indias 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 2.47ma
phalecu kadacana) is now unanimously accepted as the kernel verse. By situating pre-modern commentaries on 2.47 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 Mahabharatas War-reportage. Essay III. A Critique of Non-violence. Bibliography. About the
Author. Index.
2016 978-81-250-6071-0 ` 750 356pp Hardback

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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 Womens 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
SASANKA PERERA
of armed personnel (whether of the Sri Lankan state or separatist outfits) and civilians. How is such extraordinary institutional
VIOLENCE violence remembered? Violence and the Burden of Memory takes as its theme these forms of remembering and memorialising
AND THE large-scale violent death and destruction and the attendant loss, grief and suffering. Sasanka Perera explores how issues of memory
BURDEN OF and forgetting are represented in the monuments, public and private rituals and the works of visual artists through sociological
MEMORY analysis and ethnographic research.
Remembrance
and Erasure
in Sinhala
Consciousness Selected Contents: The Burden of Memory 2 Celebrating Heroism and Glorifying Death 3. Remembering Death and Mourning
the Loss of Innocence 4. Domains of Private Memory 5. Visual Artists Remember; Visual Artists Narrate 6. Towards a Conclusion:
Erasure, Lingering Memory and Moving Beyond Memory?
2016 978-81-250-6051-2 ` 745 354pp. Hardback

After the Bomb
LAT
Reflections of Indias Nuclear Journey
EST POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY

Achin Vanaik, formerly Professor, Department of Political Science,
University of Delhi
Unless we open our eyes to the follies of nuclear deterrence, it is only

a matter of time until nuclear weapons are used again. In this enlightening
book, Achin Vanaik presents a powerful refutation of the fallacies of
dominant strategic thinking in India.
Jean Dreze
Honorary Professor, Delhi School of Economics, Delhi
[This] book is a powerful and reasoned indictment of Indias nuclear

ambitions. Vanaik is Indias voice of conscience; few in India have
written and spoken against nuclear weapons for so long and so
consistently.
Pervez Hoodbhoy
Pakistani nuclear physicist and UNESCO awardee of the Kalinga Prize for
popularisation of science
Contents: Introduction: Dangers Old and New 1. Unravelling the
Self-Image of the Nuclear Elite of India 2. Deterrence Dilemmas and the
Problem of Stability in South Asia 3. On the Issue of Nuclear Terrorism
4. Meeting and Crossing of Minds: Two Nuclear Strategists from the US
and India 5. Do as India Says, Not as it Does, The Rajiv Gandhi Action
Plan Updated 6. Regional and Global Nuclear Disarmament: Going
beyond the NPT Conclusion: Pursuing Restraint and Disarmament
2015 978-81-250-5853-3 ` 575 232 pp Hardback Rights: Restricted
Building a Just World

Essays in Honour of Muchkund Dubey
Edited by Manoranjan Mohanty, Distinguished Professor, Council
for Social Development, Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies,
Delhi and former Professor, University of Delhi, Vinod C. Khanna,
Emeritus Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies and former Ambassador,
and Biswajit Dhar, Professor of Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru
University.
specialists will find interesting suggestions in the volume on how to

seek a better [world] order, given the formidable obstacles placed by the
powerful.
---The Asian Age
With a foreword by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
Abridged Contents: PART 1: JUST WORLD ORDER PART II: PEACE,
SECURITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE PART III: SOCIAL SECTOR
PART IV: THE MOVEMENT FOR A JUST WORLD GOES ON
Contributors: Amit Bhaduri, Pushpa M. Bhargava, Praful Bidwai,
Biswajit Dhar, Dharam Ghai, Branislav Gosovic, T. Haque, Chandra
Hardy, Vinod C. Khanna, Anuradha M. Chenoy, Hari Mohan Mathur,
Kamal Mitra Chenoy, Manoranjan Mohanty, Deepak Nayyar, Rubens
Ricupero, Douglas Roche, Shyam Saran, K. B. Saxena, Rehman Sobhan,
Ajit Singh, Ann Zammit
2015 978-81-250-5906-6 ` 925 432pp Hardback

2 LATEST POLITICAL SCIENCE,, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
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 KeralaTravancore, Cochin and Malabaruntil 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
Keralas modernity. Kerala Modernity conceives the contemporaneous
modernity in Kerala as a phase of critical intervention and reflection.
Contents: Introduction Situating an Unbound Region: Reflections on
Kerala Modernity 1. The Routes of Pepper: Colonial Discourses around
the Spice Trade in Malabar 2. Colonial Intellectuals, Public Sphere and the
Promises of Modernity: Reading Parangodeeparinayam 3. (Re)construction
of the Social for Making a Modern Kerala: Reflections on Narayana
Gurus Social Philosophy 4. Port Building and Urban Modernity: Cochin,
192045 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 Keralas Public Space 8. Attukal Pongala: Myth and
Modernity in a Ritualistic Space 9. The Pipe Dreams of Development:
Institutionalising Drinking Water Supply in Kerala 10. Archaeology and the
New Imaginations of the Past: Understanding the Muziris Heritage Project
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Pipe Politics, Contested Waters

Embedded Infrastructures of Millennial Mumbai
Lisa Bjrkman, Assistant Professor of Urban and Public Affairs at
Orient BlackSwan
University of Louisville, and Research Scholar at CETREN (Transregional
Research Network), University of Gttingen
In Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, Lisa Bjrkman shows how an elite
dream to transform Mumbai into a world class business center has
wreaked havoc on the citys water pipes. In rich ethnographic detail, the
book explores how the everyday work of getting water animates and
inhabits a penumbra of infrastructural activityof business, brokerage,
secondary markets, and socio-political networkswhose workings are
reconfiguring and rescaling political authority in the city.
Historically informed, ethnographically rich and theoretically

sophisticated
Sanjay Srivastava, Professor of Sociology,
Centre for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Selected Contents: Introduction: Embedded Infrastructures 1. We
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters Got Stuck in between: Unmapping the Distribution Network 2. The
Embedded Infrastructures of Slum and Building Industry: Marketizing Urban Development 3. You
Millennial Mumbai Cant Stop Development: Hydraulic Shambles 4. It Was Like That
from the Beginning: Becoming a Slum 5. Plumbers: Brokering Water
Knowledge 6. Good Doesnt Mean Youre Honest: Corruption 7. If
Lisa Bjrkman
Water Comes Its Because of Politics: Power, Authority, and Hydraulic
Spectacle Conclusion: Pipe Politics
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Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity

on Sri Lankan Plantations
Two Centuries of Power and Protest
SERIES: CRITICAL THINKING IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
Kumari Jayawardena, former Associate Professor, Political Science,

CT R I T I C A L
H I N K I N G I N SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY

Orient BlackSwan
University of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Rachel Kurian, International Labour

Economist, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague Class, Patriarchy
This volume takes as its central theme the plantations of Sri Lanka,
from their inception in the early nineteenth century to the present day
and Ethnicity on
in the twenty-first. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, it offers
a compelling empirical narrative of the lives and struggles of plantation
Sri Lankan Plantations
workers, who have constituted, for much of modern Sri Lankan history, Two Centuries of Power and Protest
the single largest organised workforce in the country. In doing so, it
explores the complex links between power and class, gender and ethnic
hierarchies both on the plantations and outside, and crucially situates the
labour movement on the plantations within the wider political and social
economy of Sri Lanka.
Selected Contents: Introduction PART I: SLAVERY AND THE
PLANTER RAJ PART II: OUTSIDERS CHALLENGE THE PLANTER
RAJ PART III: FRANCHISE, NATIONAL POLITICS AND MILITANT
UNIONISM PART IV: POLITICS OF CITIZENSHIP AND ETHNICITY
PART V: DEMOCRATIC STRUGGLES AND SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE
TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Kumari Jayawardena and Rachel Kurian
2015 978-81-250-5878-6 ` 825 364pp Hardback
Development, Decentralisation and

Democracy
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
Kerala: A Brief Foray | M. A. Oommen: A Profile
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4 LATEST POLITICAL SCIENCE,, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Economic Growth and its Distribution in

India
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
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND SOCIETY Edited by
Orient BlackSwan
PULAPRE BALAKRISHNAN
Edited by Pulapre Balakrishnan, Professor, Centre for Development
Studies, Thiruvananthapuram
This volume represent a range of perspectives and methods pertaining to the
study of growth and its distribution in India. The essays in Section I represent
Economic Growth and its
issues of abiding interest and provide the canvas upon which the rest of the Distribution in India
articles may be seen as placed. Section II takes a macro view of the economy.
Section III reflects upon the three major sectors of the economy and the
desirable space for finance in India, Section IV assess the extent to which
recent growth has been inclusive, approaching the issue from various angles.
Selected Contents: SECTION I THE LONG VIEW OF GROWTH
IN INDIA SECTION II RECENT GROWTH AND STRUCTURAL
CHANGE SECTION III THE SECTORS SECTION IV INCLUSION
Contributors: Archana Aggarwal, Pulapre Balakrishnan, Hans P.
Binswanger-Mkhize, Ramesh Chand, Sudip Chaudhuri, Errol DSouza,
Bhupat M. Desai, Ambrish Dongre, Amaresh Dubey, Mukesh Eswaran,
Ankita Gandhi, Maitreesh Ghatak, Parikshit Ghosh, Probal P. Ghosh,
Neeraj Hatekar, Indira Hirway, Aditya Mohan Jadhav, Atul Kohli, Ashok
Kotwal, Santosh Mehrotra, John W. Mellor, Sripad Motiram, R. Nagaraj,
Deepak Nayyar, Shinoj Parappurathu, Jajati Parida, Kirit S. Parikh, R.
H. Patil, Bharat Ramaswami, V. Nagi Reddy, Sandip Sarkar, Vijay Paul
Essays from Economic and Political Weekly
Sharma, Ashish Singh, Balwant Singh Mehta, Sharmistha Sinha, Prabhakar
Tamboli, Sukhadeo Thorat, C. Veeramani, Wilima Wadhwa
2015 978-81-250-5901-1 ` 745 516 pp Paperbackk
India Rural Development Report 2013|14

IDFC Rural Development Network
This Report explores certain facets of rural transformations in their

regional contexts. It brings together existing research by eminent
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 Indias 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 Indias Business Economy 7. Regional Dimensions
of Social Movement in India 8. Status of Rural Development: An Update
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Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and

Womens 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 womens place in the larger social order. This is raising
profound questions regarding womens social roles and rights eliciting
disparate, conflicting images concerning what constitutes womens 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: Womens Rights and Islamic Concerns with
Ijtihad over Those Rights 2. Legal Reforms and State Policies Affecting
Womens Rights 3. Mainstream and Popular Perceptions of Womens
Rights in Pakistan 4. Progressive Womens NGOs Interpretations of
Womens Rights 5. Orthodox Islamist Interpretations of Womens Rights
6. The Tehrik-e-Taliban in Swat 7. Moving Onwards
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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 Foucaults 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
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6 POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY
Cine-politics Independence India, and the Development Narratives
Film Stars and Political Existence limits of popular struggles Walking the Field in Rural West Bengal
in South India Combating
C The and legislative/
orruption
Dipankar Sinha, Professor, Department of
Indian
Case
administrative measures to
M. Madhava Prasad, Professor, Department of combat it. Focusing on Political Science, University of Calcutta
Cultural Studies, English and Foreign Languages peoples participation, it
Development is a contested
University, Hyderabad traces the emergence of
concept involving manifold
anti-corruption movements
Cine-politics explores the
local-level controversies
to the JP Movement of the
unique link established Yogesh Atal and negotiations. Departing
Sunil K. Choudhary
1970s, and culminates with
between cinema and politics from predominant academic
the protests led by Anna
in south India since the approaches, this book
Hazare and Baba Ramdev and the rise of the
1950s. Taking up the cases presents a narrative-based
Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party.
of three major starsM. G.

field view of development,
drawing on the authors

Ramachandran, N. T. Rama Contents: Introduction: Articulating the Concern
Rao and Rajkumarthe for Corruption PART I: CORRUPTION: A

fieldwork in rural West
author locates the SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE PART II: THE Bengal in the mid-1990s and
emergence of this CORRUPTION SYNDROME IN INDIA PART III: 2000s. The chapters narrativise the themes of
phenomenon against the backdrop of demands for THE EXPRESSION OF PUBLIC ANGER rural backwardness; NGO efforts at building civil
the linguistic reorganisation of the states soon society in villages; the potentials and limitations of
2014 978-81-250-5233-3 ` 750 312pp Hardback
after independence. Insisting on the centrality of people-centred development endeavours; the
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5603-4
both cinematic and political aspects in interpreting occasional failure of well-intentioned development
the cine-political event, the argument also details programmes; the travails of village womens
the formal and narrative innovations that produced Covering and Explaining self-help groups; the predicaments of research
teams in the field; and the everyday, subversive
a cinematic form suited to enacting the fantasies of Conflict in Civil Society chatter through which villagers exercise critical
political representation in a context of a deficit of
popular sovereignty in the new, postcolonial SERIES: STUDIES IN JOURNALISM citizenship vis--vis the development process.
nation. Evoking the field as an animated space of
Edited by Nalini Rajan, Professor, Asian College contestation and engagement, this book offers an
of Journalism, Chennai intimate understanding of development as lived,
A major theoretical break in the area of star
studies in the Indian context. Madhav Prasads This volume is a collection negotiated and told by ordinary rural people at the
study takes insights [from pioneering works in of essays that highlights grassroots.
the area] beyond the linguistic/cultural limits and issues of ethics specifically Contents: Introduction: Winding Roads,
extends them to the context of south India. a in journalism of conflict. Meandering Rivers 1. Why a Backward Village
path-breaking effort in Indian film theory [in] its The media takes an active Stays Backward 2. Village as Laboratory: Watching
sensitivity and openness to the nuances of the local interest in reporting cases an NGO-isation Experiment 3. One-Man Show,
or linguistic, taking into full account the location of conflict as political unrest After All? Re-imaging Peoples Participation
of cinema (and the state) within the power and has a direct and immediate 4.Failed Intervention as a Milestone 5. Dreams
ideological architecture of the nation state. impact on peoples lives. In Die Hard: Self-Help Groups of Poor Women
the first part, this volume 6. What Is This Thing Called Safe Drinking Water?
Economic and Political Weekly presents four such The Challenges of Awareness Campaigns
Contents: 1. Cine-politics: On the Political reportages; one each from 7. Chat-behind-the-Back: Villagers as Critical
Significance of Cinema in South India 2. MGR and Libya, Pakistan, Turkey and Khairlanji (India). Citizens Conclusion: Beyond the Add
the Roots of Cine-politics 3. NTR: The Accidental Devoted to reportage, these case studies raise an Development and Stir Approach
Politician? 4. Rajkumar, the Uncrowned King 5. important question: How far can a reporter
prescribe and opine in her reportage? The authors 2014 978-81-250-5625-6 ` 720 240pp Hardback
The Cine-political Event: Structure and Cause 6.
Fan Bhakti and Subaltern Sovereignty: Enthusiasm explain, by their own example, the need for a
in Indian Political Life journalist to be aware of this question during live Fall and Rise of Telangana,
reportage. The second part of this volume is a
2014 978-81-250-5356-9 ` 765 224pp Hardback critical look at the contemporary media scene in The
India. The authors draw our attention to the Gautam Pingle, Dean of Research,
vibrant civil society that shook the administration
Combating Corruption when allegations of corruption cropped up.
Administrative Staff College of India (ASCI),
The Indian Case Hyderabad
Contents: PART I: COVERING CONFLICT IN Written by a well-known
Yogesh Atal, Professor Emeritus, Madhya CIVIL SOCIETY PART II: EXPLAINING CONFLICT
policy analyst The Fall and
Orient BlackSwan
Pradesh Institute of Social Science Research, IN CIVIL SOCIETY PART III: CIVIL SOCIETY IN
Sunil K. Choudhary, teacher, Political Science THE FALL AND RISE OF Rise of Telangana chronicles
SOCIAL MEDIA
TELANGANA the Telangana movement.
T
in ShyamLal College (Evening), University of Delhi

F
The stimulus for penning

TELANGANA
With the exposure of major scams like 2G Contributors: Atul Aneja, Subarno Chattarji,
this book, according to the
spectrum, Commonwealth Games and Adarsh, Pavan Arvind Dahat, Arnav Das Sharma,
author, was the aftermath of
public anger against corruption boiled over as Mahalakshmi Jayaram, Anjali Kamat, Sridivya
the event of 9 December
witnessed in the massive protests of 201112.This Mukpalkar, Sukumar Muralidharan, Nalini Rajan,
2009 when the Government
volume provides a perspective for viewing the Usha Raman, Arvind Sivaramakrishnan, Nirupama GAUTAM PINGLE
of India announced its
increasing levels of corruption in the higher Subramanian
intention of forming the
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POLITICAL SCIENCE, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC POLICY 7
Telangana State. The volume provides a historical
perspective to the Telangana cause, apart from OUR HIGHLIGHTS
charting the events and processes in the formation
of the yet-to-be-born state.
Traversing Bihar
Contents: Introduction 1. State on the Edge The Politics of Development and Social Justice
2. Telangana and the Republic 3. Hyderabad: Then [With Tata Institute of Social Sciences]
and Now 4. Linguistic States: Nehru and States
Edited by Manish K. Jha, Professor and Chairperson, Centre for Community Organisation and
Reorganisation 5. The Electoral Situation in the
Development Practice, School of Social Work, Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, and
Two States 6. Caste Politics and the Merger
Pushpendra, Professor, Centre for Community Organisation and Development Practice, School
7. The Telangana Tragedy 8. Caste War, Naxalism
of Social Work, TISS, Mumbai
and Telangana Votebank 9. The Ongoing
Movement and the Promises Made 10. The Contents: Introduction PART I: THE POLITICS OF
Rayalaseema Region 11. Tribal Land Rights and the DEVELOPMENT 1. The Challenge of Land Reforms and Social
Demand for a Separate State 12. The One Man Transformation in Bihar 2. Agrarian Relations in a Village in
Girglani Commission 13. Muslims and Telangana:
A Roundabout Journey 14. Irrigation in Telangana: Bihar 3. The Rhetoric of Development in Contemporary Bihar
4. River Valley Projects of North Bihar and Indo-Nepalese
The Rise and Fall of Tanks 15. A Summary Aspirations 5. Social Inclusion: Perspectives from Top-down
Submission to Srikrishna Commission 16. The and Bottom-up Approaches in Rural and Urban Bihar
Findings of the Srikrishna Commission PART II: POLITICS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE 6. Transformation of
17. The Srikrishna Commission: The Truth about Subject into Political Subject: Maale in South Bihar Plains
Its Secret Chapter 18. The Srikrishna Commission 7. Naxalism, Caste-based Militia and Human Security: Lessons
Report: The Judgment 19. Polling the Impossible

from Bihar 8. Inter-subjectivity to Consensus? Engendering
20. Telanganas Cousins: In India and Abroad Rural Local Governance in Bihar 9. Power and Influence of
21. Trifurcation and a New Governance Model
State-level Leadership in Contemporary India: Nitish Kumar and
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the Politics of Bihar 10. Politics in Bihar: Is there a Shift from
2014 978-81-250-5474-0 ` 395 344pp Paperback Caste to Development? 11. Muslim Communities and the
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AND FOLK NARRATIVES 12. Crossing the Borders: Bhagait
Folk Ballad Tradition of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Nepal, 13. Purnea: Landscape of Cul de Sac
Pathways to Power
The Domestic Politics of South Asia Contributors: Manjula Bharthy, Dipankar Bhattacharya, Sadan Jha, Manish K. Jha, Ashutosh
Kumar, Sanjay Kumar, D. K. Mishra, Badri Narayan, Anamika Priyadarshini, Pushpendra, Gaurang
Edited by Arjun Guneratne, Professor and Sahay, Mohammed Sajjad, Meera Tiwari
Chair, Department of Anthropology, Macalester
College, Minnesota, USA, and Anita M. Weiss, 2014 978-81-250-5567-9 ` 925 368pp Hardback
Professor and Head, Department of International
Studies, University of Oregon, USA Critical Studies in Politics
This volume introduces the Exploring Sites, Selves, Power
domestic politics of South [With Indian Institute of Advanced Study]
Asia in broad comparative
perspective, revealing the Edited by Nivedita Menon, Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and Political Theory,
interplay between politics, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, Aditya Nigam, Senior
cultural values, human Fellow, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, and Sanjay Palshikar, Professor,
security, and historical Department of Political Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad
luck. While these are Given the tumultuous nature of contemporary Indian politics
important correlations and the range of social and cultural processes which affect it
everywhere, nowhere are this collection opens up the debate about the direction
they more compelling than which the discipline should take today.
in South Asia where such dynamic interchanges
loom large on a daily basis. Identity politicsnot Economic and Political Weekly
just of religion but also of caste, ethnicity,
Selected Contents: PART I: EXPLORING SELFHOOD
regionalism, and social classinfuses all aspects
PART II: SPATIALITY AND POWER PART III: STATE
of social and political life in the sub-continent.
AND GOVERNMENTALITY PART IV: RECONFIGURING
Recognising this complex interplay, this volume
CATEGORIES OF THOUGHT
moves beyond conventional views of South Asian
politics as it explicitly weaves the connections Contributors: Ambar Ahmad, Hilal Ahmed, Jyoti Bhosale,
between history, culture, and social values into Rajarshi Dasgupta, Navprit Kaur, Sunalini Kumar, Nivedita
its examination of political life. Menon, Aditya Nigam, Sanjay Palshikar, Hidam Premananda,
G. Amarjit Sharma, Aarti Sethi, Mohinder Singh, Janaki
Contents: Introduction: Situating Domestic
Srinivasan,Tarangini Sriraman
Politics in South Asia 1. The Colonial Legacy
2. India 3. Pakistan 4. Sri Lanka 5. Nepal
6. Bangladesh
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Contributors: Arjun Guneratne, Christophe

Jaffrelot, Pratyoush Onta, Seira Tamang, Anita M.
ON THE INDIAN STATE Weiss
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Revisiting 1956 Rights: Restricted
B. R. Ambedkar and States Reorganisation
Sudha Pai, Professor, Centre for Political Studies, and Rector (Pro-Vice Chancellor), Jawaharlal Power and Contestation
Nehru University, New Delhi, and Avinash Kumar, Assistant Professor, Centre for Informal India since 1989
Sector and Labour Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi With a new Epilogue
(Re-issue)
Revisiting 1956 is a two-part volume discussing and
republishing Ambedkars writings on the reorganisation of
Nivedita Menon, Professor, Centre for
Indian states. The first part of the volume is a monograph
Comparative Politics and Political Theory,
by the authors and besides commenting on Ambedkars
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, and
views, it also provides a historical context of his views. It also
Aditya Nigam, Professor, Centre for the Study
traces the evolution of Ambedkars ideas through the early
of Developing Societies, New Delhi.
part of the 1950s and notes that the issues he discusses are
very much relevant today. The second part is a compendium This book traces the
of Ambedkars works that have been cited and referred post-1989 tectonic shifts in
to in the first part. Ambedkars ideas regarding the subject REVISITING 1956 Indian society, economy
began appearing around 1938 until his death in 1956. In B. R. Ambedkar and and polity, which marked
analysing this wealth of information, the authors show us the States Reorganisation the unraveling of the
leaders thoughts as they evolved with time, with political Nehruvian consensus
developments and policy decisions. . Sudha Pai around a modern, secular
Avinash Kumar
nation with a self-reliant
Contents: PART I: TRACING AMBEDKARS THOUGHTS SUKHADEO THORAT
With a Foreword by
economy. In this period of

ON STATES REORGANISATION | Introduction | Preparing
rapid transformation, caste
the Ground | Lessons from Andhra State | Offering Solutions |
and religion have come to
In Lieu of a Conclusion | PART II: SPEECHES AND WRITINGS, 193856: COMPENDIUM | On Separate
play major roles in national politics, global
Karnatak Province | Maharashtra as a Linguistic Province | Need for Checks and Balances | On the
economic integration created conflict between the
Andhra State Bill | Thoughts on Linguistic States | On the States Reorganisation Bill, 1956 | Ambedkars
state and dispossessed people, even as the
Recipe for Maharashtra | States and Minorities
processes of globalization enabled new spaces for
With a foreword by Sukhadeo Thorat political assertion, such as around sexuality. The
epilogue to this edition makes the narrative
2014 978-81-250-5514-3 ` 700 256pp Hardback up-to-date by extensively analysing issues
animating India today. It offers insightful
Indian Parliament, The perspectives on the 2009 and 2014 general
elections, the civil society-led anti-corruption
A Critical Appraisal
movement of 201113, as well as the massive
Edited by Sudha Pai, Rector and Professor, Centre for Political Studies, and Avinash Kumar, protests against sexual violence and the need for
Assistant Professor, Centre for Informal Sector and Labour Studies, both at School of Social legal reform.
Sciences, JNU, New Delhi
2014 978-81-250-5619-5 ` 750 228pp Paperback
Contents: Introduction 1. Measuring the Effectiveness of the Rights: Restricted
Indian Parliament 2. The Anti-Defection Law: Intent and Outcome
3. Understanding Private Members Bills in the Indian Parliament
4. Bicameralism in India: The Centre and the States
Orient BlackSwan
Political Culture and
5. Performing Ethno-Linguistic Representation: A Study of Economy in Eighteenth
Indian Parliamentary Ceremony and Ritual 6. Accountability and
Parliamentary Oversight Committees 7. Can the DRSCs Step into
Century Bengal
the Institutional Void of Indias Parliamentary Democracy? Networks of Exchange, Consumption
8. Strengthening Legislative Capabilities of the Indian Parliament: and Communication
The National Advisory Council 9. Delegation of Legislation in
INDIAN
THE Tilottama Mukherjee teaches in the Department
India: Constitutional Imperatives and the Economy of Politics
of History, Jadavpur University, Kolkata
10. Crime, (Politics), and Non-Punishment 11. Criminality in the
Lok Sabha: An Examination of MP Participation and MP Attributes The historiography of
12. Delusions of Grandeur: How Corruption in the Indian Media
Undermines the Working of Parliamentary Democracy in India
PARLIAMENT
A Critical Appraisal
eighteenth-century India has
been polarised. Historians
13. The Rival Representative Claims of the Parliament and Civil EDITED BY have spoken of either a
Society in India SUDHA PAI AND AVINASH KUMAR
general decline or
Contributors: Balveer Arora, Raghab P. Dash, Paranjoy degeneration in the
Guha Thakurta, Niraja Gopal Jayal, Bhanu Joshi, K. K. Kailash, aftermath of the decay of the
Harsimran Kalra, Avinash Kumar, M. R. Madhavan, Amitabh Mukhopadhyay, Sudha Pai, Valerian Mughal Empire, or at the
Rodrigues, Kaushiki Sanyal, Jaivir Singh, K. C. Sivaramakrishnan, Carole Spary and Devesh K. Tiwari other end of the spectrum,
focused on the realignments
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and reorientation occurring
in large parts of the erstwhile Mughal Empire. In this

volume, the author has examined the nature of the Sarukkai, K. Satyanarayana, Ghanshyam Shah, D. votaries, a regrettable shortcoming Ravis pages
commercial economy that emerged in the latter half L. Sheth, M. N. Srinivas, Anand Teltumbde, Susie will certainly redress/overcome. This book would
of the eighteenth century in Bengal. She has looked Tharu, SukhadeoThorat, Carol Upadhya, Geetha V. inspire serious aspirants to the Indian
at the period that saw the transition from Mughal Administrative Service and the general reader.
2014 978-81-250-5501-3 ` 595 436pp Paperback
rule to Company state. The evidence examined
suggests that Bengal economy was decentralised Selected Contents:1. A Book-reading
in the sense of not being regulated by a single Silver Lining Experiment 2. A Model of Self-governance,
agencybut not fragmented, and there was an Insights into Gujarat 3. Making a Dent in the Mindsets 4. Crossing the
extraordinary movement of commodities and Caste Divide 5. Unto the Classroom 6. A Role
people. Jayanti S. Ravi, IAS, a civil servant of the Gujarat Model from a Remote Village 7. Literacy and a
cadre Rich Legacy 8. Oases of Excellence 9. Towards
Contents: Introduction. 1. Markets: The Empowerment 10. The Sahyog Saga 11. Seeds of
Eighteenth-century Economic Terrain A success story of national
pride and achievement, Development
2. Consumption in an Urban Milieu 3. Pilgrimage
Complex: Economy and Religion 4. The Silver Lining is told most With a Foreword by Sam Pitroda
Connecting Network: Transport Systems in a engagingly by a civil servant
whose experiences in 2014 978-81-250-5472-6 ` 225 95pp Paperback
Mobile Society 5. The Nizamat State: Multiple
Roles in the Changing Contours of Politics Gujarat deserve to be
6. Trade: The Early Company State and the widely known. Jayanti Ravi is When the Saints Go
not only an observer but an
Phase of Transition 7. Communication, Labour,
active participant in this Marching In
Ecology: The Early Company State in the Phase of The Curious Ambivalence of Religious
Transition 8. Conclusion theatre of higher education
where motives and methods Sadhus in Indian Politics
2014 978-81-250-5267-8 ` 900 448pp Hardback meet several lives to enrich them amid numerous Rajesh Pradhan, writer in the fields of urban
challenges and privations. True learning, argues planning and political science
Problem of Caste, The Ravi, begins when we learn to read the world
When the Saints go Marching In documents the role
rather than the word, instances of which she cites
Edited by Satish Deshpande, Professor, and celebrates in these pages. Above all, non- played by sadhus in Indian national politics. Sadhus
Department of Sociology, Delhi School of formal education has had very few committed came together in 1992, to oversee the
Economics
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND ENVIRONMENT AND JURISPRUDENCE

SOCIETY
Environmental Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court

Caste is one of the oldest Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation
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
[With Tata Institute of Social Sciences]

Orient BlackSwan
Edited by
SATISH DESHPANDE
traditional India, and it also

The Problem of Caste claims significant space in
Geetanjoy Sahu, Assistant Professor, School of Habitat Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
work on the modern period.
Mumbai
As such, it has been
extensively and intensively The Supreme Court of India has earned itself a reputation as
studied, both as an empirical a green court because of its regular and active intervention
Litigation, Interpretation, Implementation
phenomenon and as a Essays from Economic and Political Weekly

in cases involving environmental issues. It has called both
civilisational idea. This state and private agencies to task on environmentally
Environmental
Complicating the Story of Reforms
volume brings together essays by well-known destructive actions and has assertively tried to ensure
Jurisprudence
in Maharashtra
sociologists, political scientists and historians implementation of its judgments. But how green is it really
and the
which highlight contemporary concerns on caste, and what does it even mean to be green in the Indian
Supreme Court
while also giving space to long-established Geetanjoy Sahu context? Environmental Jurisprudence and the Supreme Court
perspectives in order to offer the reader a sense of sheds light on these questions by offering the first
the shifts that have occurred. comprehensive empirical analysis of cases pertaining to
environmental litigation that appeared before the Supreme
Contents: PART I: DISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES
Court between 1980 and 2010. In doing so, it examines a
PART II: CASTE AND CLASS PART III: CASTE
whole range of judicial attitudes, concerns, pressures and
AND POLITICS PART IV: CASTE, STATE AND
trends with respect to environmental jurisprudence, as well
LAW PART V: CASTE AND GENDER PART VI:
as the impact of infrastructure development and social
CONTEMPORARY EXPLORATIONS
Tata Institute of concerns on environmental issues.
Contributors: K. Balagopal, Andr Bteille, Anand
Social Sciences
Contents: Introduction; 1. How Green is the Supreme

Chakravarti, Uma Chakravarti, Prem Chowdhry,
Court of India? 2. Understanding the Judicial Decision Making Process on Environmental Litigation
I. P. Desai, Ashwini Deshpande, Satish Deshpande,
3. The Impact of Environmental Judgments at the Implementation Level; Conclusion, Appendix:
Marc Galanter, Meena Gopal, Dipankar Gupta,
Environmental Orders/Judgments from 1980 to 2010
Gopal Guru, KanchaIlaiah, J. Jeyaranjan, Surinder S.
Jodhka, Mary E. John, Irawati Karve, Rajan Krishnan, With a Foreword by Sanjay Parikh
Rajni Kothari, Baldev Raj Nayar, Katherine S.
Newman, Aditya Nigam, Gail Omvedt, Sudha Pai,
M. S. S. Pandian, Rekha Pappu, M. Madhava Prasad,
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Rekha Raj, Mohan Ram, SharmilaRege, Kumkum
Roy, Anandhi S., Padmanabh Samarendra, Sundar
Babri-mosque demolition Development Textbook
researchers in departments and institutes teaching
and propelled the BJP into mass communication.
national prominence. Then Communication
Contexts for the Twenty-first Century Abridged Contents: 1. Development
they splintered among
Communication: A Brief Outline 2. The World
themselves and with the BJP, Dipankar Sinha, Professor and Head, of Development Communication: Shifting
and preferred reticence to Department of Political Science, University of Horizons 3. The Inner Struggle: Changing Track
the spotlight. The author Calcutta Challenging Goals 4. Media and Mediation:
presents a unique insight
This volume looks at the Towards Participatory Engagement 5. New
into the mind of these
origins, theoretical Technology and the Inclusive Society 6. ICT-led
ascetics, by drawing our
underpinnings and major Premier Interventions: Under Critical Lens
attention to inconsistencies,
debates in the discipline of 7. Premier Organic Interventions: Critical
worldliness and their human
Development Review 8. Experiencing India: Problems in Search
aspirations. And in this, this volume breaks the myth
Communication. While of Development Communication Conclusion:
of the monolithic image of the sadhu that traditional
arguing for its place among Pro-People and Pro-Active CommunicationThe
narratives have scripted.
the social sciences, the Agenda Ahead
Contents: Introduction 1. Commonplace Fixtures author critically scrutinises 2013 978-81-250-5102-2 ` 325 240pp Paperback
of Daily Life 2. Sadhus and Religious Nationalism both the concepts of
3. The Re-emergence and Splintering of Religious development and
Nationalism 4. On Becoming Sadhus and the communication. This book highlights the Gendered Citizenship
Political Awakening of Sadhus 5. The Splintering discipline and its applications in India. The author Historical and Conceptual Explorations
6. Conclusions and Political Implications has provided case studies of various development (Second Edition)
Bibliography Appendix communication initiatives undertaken in West Anupama Roy, Professor at the Centre for
Bengal, Jharkhand, Andhra, Maharashtra and Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New
2014 978-81-250-5269-2 ` 770 324pp Hardback Pondicherry to illustrate these. Delhi
This volume will be invaluable for students and Through successive
historical periods,
becoming a citizen has
involved a gradual extension
SOCIETY AND JURISPRUDENCE of equal membership to
more and more persons
and groups. In the context
Shifting Scales of Justice, The of resistance against colonial
The Supreme Court in the Judicial Nineties rule, the language of
Edited by Mayur Suresh, PhD scholar and Sessional Lecturer at the School of Law, Birkbeck citizenship that emerged in
College, University of London, and Siddharth Narrain, legal researcher and lawyer, Alternative late-colonial India was based
Law Forum (ALF), Bangalore on a gendered notion of the communityboth
national and political. This revised edition of
The Supreme Court has in the past two decades sought to Gendered Citizenship (first published in 2005)
manage Indias forests and define their use, has determined examines the gendering of citizenship. Pulling in
the fuel used by urban transport vehicles, taken over Orient BlackSwan arguments on how the Indian Constitution
appointments to the higher judiciary, and has even claimed transformed the idea of citizenship, it traces the
The
the power to declare constitutional amendments invalid. SHIFTING SCALES forms in which idioms of citizenship endure in
How did the Supreme Court come to consider itself of
JUSTICE contemporary times. It will be valuable for
competent to virtually take over the administration of such students and scholars of political science, history,
The Supreme Court in Neo-liberal India
a diverse set of areas? This is the question the essays in this sociology and gender studies, and those studying
volume address by examining the links between the judiciary social exclusion, as well as the general reader
and politics of the country. interested in debates over gender and citizenship.
Contents: Introduction 1. Embedded Judiciary or the Contents: 1. Making Citizenship Familiar
Judicial State of Exception? 2. In the Name of the People: 2. Anticolonial Nationalisms the Womens
The Expansion of Judicial Power 3. Environment and the Question and Citizenship 3. The Domestic
Will to Rule: Supreme Court and Public Interest Litigation Domesticity and Women Citizens in Late Colonial
in the 1990s 4. Fundamental Rights and Public Interest Edited by
Mayur Suresh and Siddharth Narrain India 4. The Womanly Vote and Women
Litigation in India: Overreaching or Underachieving? 5. Social Citizens: Debates on Womens Franchise in Late
Justice and the Supreme Court 6. Swallowing a Bitter PIL? Colonial India 5. The Nation and Its Constitution:
Brief Reflections on Progressive Strategies for Public Interest The Text and Context of Citizenship 6. New
Litigation in India 7. A Meandering Jurisprudence of the Court: The Evolving Case Law Related to Citizenship: Citizenship in an Age of Globalisation
Water 8. The Judicial Nineties: Of Politics, Power and Dissent.
2013 978-81-250-5284-5 ` 470 308pp Paperback
With a Preface by Upendra Baxi E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5325-5
Contributors: Philippe Cullet, Varun Gauri, Madhav Khosla, Sudhir Krishnaswami, Nivedita
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2014 978-81-250-5432-0 ` 725 228pp Hardback

India Rural Development First published in hardback Sagari R. Ramdas, Mahesh Rangarajan, Nitya Rao,
in November 2011, this P. Trinadha Rao, M. Gopinath Reddy, Jyothis
Report 201213 unique book has a dual Sathyapalan, Pankaj Sekhsaria, E. Selvarajan, Oliver
IDFC Rural Development Network focus: impacts of climate Springate-Baginski, Ashok K. Upadhyay, Judy
change, and the politics of Witehead
This Report provides a the international climate 2012 978-81-250-4716-2 ` 695 420pp Paperback
comprehensive current negotiations; and second,
picture of rural India. It lndia as an example of an
brings together a review and emerging economy major Afghanistan
analysis of the evolving rural polluter, which can How the West Lost Its Way
economy and its implications potentially both aid or
on social relations, contours Tim Bird, lecturer, Defence Studies Department,
obstruct the fight against climate change.
of regional inequality, social Kings College London and Alex Marshall,
and economic deprivation, Contents: Introduction 1. The Doomsday Clock lecturer, History Department, Glasgow
inequalities in access to 2. Himalayan Trouble 3. Through Twists and Turns University, UK
education, health care and 4. Rooted in Incoherence 5. Too Little Too Late
In this compelling book, Tim
physical infrastructure, to name a few. It also 6. Domestic Imperatives 7. No Heroes Only
Bird and Alex Marshall ask
reviews all major central government rural Villains and Too Many Victims 8. Alternative
how and why the
programmes and schemes and, in particular, Visions 9. False Promise 10. India 11. The
international community has
provides an in-depth analysis of MGNREGA. Renewables Revolution is Here! 12. Can the
so signally failed to achieve
Climate Impasse Be Broken?
2013 978-81-250-5392-7 ` 875 334pp Paperback its objectives in Afghanistan.
Also in Hindi 2013 978-81-250-5124-4 ` 675 404pp Paperback They trace the story from
Rights: Restricted the hurried post-9/11
2012 978-81-250-4503-8 ` 1010 392pp Hardback decision to invade onwards,
Memory, Identity, Power Rights: Restricted
explaining how ambitious
Politics in the Junglemahals, 18901950 development plans failed to
(Second Edition) Adivasi Question, The bear fruit and how, despite all promises, life has
Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Mahanirban Issues of Land, Forest and Livelihood become worse rather than better for many Afghan
Calcutta Research Group, Kolkata, India citizens.
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
A full-length study of the SOCIETY
Contents: Introduction 1. The Great Enigma:
Junglemahals, this book Afghanistan in Historical Context 2. 9/11 and the
reveals the crucial role that Edited by Indra Munshi, retired as Professor of Response, 1125 September 2001 3. Boots on
memory plays in shaping the Sociology, University of Bombay the ground: From the arrival of the CIA to the
politics and identity of a emergency Loya Jirga, 26 September 2001June
The volume drawn from the writings of almost
collectivity. Based on a 2002 4. Taking the Eye off the Ball? The Roots of
four decades, discuss the questions of community
variety of texts located in Taliban Revival in Afghanistan, 200205 5. Return
rights and ownership, management of forests, the
distinct formsofficial, to the Forgotten War, 200608 6. The Pakistan
states rehabilitation policies and the Forest Rights
legal, oral, popularit Problem 7. Silver Bullets and the Search for an
Act and its implications. It presents diverse
shows, by marking in a Exit, 200911 Conclusion
perspectives in the form of
hypothetical theme, how case studies specific to 2012 978-81-250-4490-1 ` 730 312pp Paperback
these texts can form a historiography, telling of different regions and Rights: Restricted
struggles of a people to construct their identity. provides valuable analytical
This revised edition has a new Preface and insights.
Postscript by the author. Decentralisation and Local
Contents: 1. Sources or Texts? 2. Reflections
Abridged Contents: Governments
PART I: REGULATIONS The Indian Experience
in Another Mirror 3. Popular Memory and the AND RESISTANCE,
Politics of Identity 4. Administrative Memory ADIVASI COMMUNITIES SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
5. Festivals and Rites: The Public Script of IN THE COLONIAL SOCIETY
Domination and Power Postscript People Peace CONTEXT PART II: LOSS
and the War: Junglemahal 2012 OF LAND, LOSS OF NERVE PART III: FOREST Edited by T. R. Raghunandan, former Joint
DEGRADATION AND FOREST COMMUNITIES Secretary, Ministry of Panchayati Raj; currently
2013 978-81-250-5054-4 ` 525 328pp Paperback
PART IV: CONSERVATION VS COMMUNITY a freelance consultant for anti-corruption
RIGHTS PART V: DISPLACEMENT AND movements and an advocate of decentralised
Politics of Climate Change REHABILITATION: ROLE OF THE STATE PART governance
and the Global Crisis, The VI: FOREST RIGHTS ACT: A STEP FORWARD This volume maps the
Mortgaging Our Future PART VII: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT: BY trajectory that
WHOM AND FOR WHOM decentralisation of
Praful Bidwai is a Social Sciences researcher and government has taken in the
activist on issues of human rights, environment, Contributors: Mathew Areparampil,
K. Balagopal, Amita Baviskar, Sohel Firdos, decades following
global justice and peace Independence and discusses
Madhav Gadgil, Ramachandra Guha, Asmita Kabra,
Govind Kelkar, K. Anil Kumar, Sanjeeva Kumar, the constitutional changes
Brian Lobo, Renu Modi, B. B. Mohanty, Neela and policy decisions that
Mukherjee, Indra Munshi, B. Nagnath, Dev Nathan, make governance more
accountable to and

accessible for the common man. It presents a set life from a newly qualified This book attempts to
of twenty-five readings that look at the impact the doctor who volunteers to investigate and explain why a
73rd and 74th Constitutional Amendments had on work with leprosy patients in global campaign against a
local governments. Spanning four decades the suburbs of his home crippling infectious disease,
(19662012), the essays cover the various facets town, Seoul, in the Republic which one would expect to
of implementing and strengthening local self- of Korea, to the headquarters be universally hailed as a great
governments. of WHO in Geneva, humanitarian effort, has
Switzerland. Desmond generated so much criticism,
Abridged Contents: Introduction 1. Political
Averys account not only controversy and at times
Role of Panchayati Raj 2. Decentralised Planning
makes for compelling reading obstruction. To find an
An Overview of Experience and Prospects
about an eventful life, it also answer to this question the
3. Perspectives: Panchayats versus Multinationals
gives insights into public health and policy making. book takes an intensive look at the individuals
Case of Du Pont 4. Women in Panchayati Raj
involved in the origin and development of the
Grass Roots Democracy in Malgudi 5. Panchayati Contents: Introduction: This Great Doctor
campaign at the global level and later compares their
RajThe Way Forward 6. Experiment with PART I: 19451979KOREA 1. Our Longing is
views to those of the campaigns most articulate
Direct DemocracyTime for Reappraisal 7. Law for Reunion 2. An Adventure of Friendship
opponents, a group of Indian scientists and clinicians.
of Two-Child Norm in PanchayatsImplications, 3. St Lazarus 4. Chuncheon PART II: 19792003
Consequences and Experiences 8. Expanding the THE PACIFIC AND THE WORLD HEALTH Contents: Introduction 1. A Possible Guide for
Resource Base of PanchayatsAugmenting Own ORGANIZATION 1. Honolulu, Pago-Pago the Perplexed 2. The 1983 Polio Conference at
Revenues 9. Women in Power?Gender, Caste 2. WHO, SuvaWhat a Change! the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO)
and the Politics of Local Urban Governance 3. ManilaAn Astute and Capable Manager 3. A Polio Eradication Champion Arises 4. The
10. Limits of a Devolution Index 4. Geneva 5. Want to be Reassigned? PART III: Declaration of Talloires 5. The Dahlem Eradication
20032006DIRECTOR-GENERAL 1. Transition Conference 6. The Case of India 7. Polio: The
2012 978-81-250-4883-1 ` 695 448pp Paperback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5847-2 2. Shock and SHOC 3. Progress 4. Social and Problem of the Endgame Strategy Postscript
Other Determinants 5. Celebrity and Travel
2012 978-81-250-4656-1 ` 675 168pp Hardback
6. Revolt and Leisure 7. The Boss Has Collapsed
Hill Politics in Textbook 2012 978-81-250-4617-2 ` 645 300pp Hardback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5095-7
Northeast India E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4871-8

(Third Edition) Politics in India
(Second Edition)
S. K. Chaube, Retired Professor, Department of MGNREGA Sameeksha
Political Science, University of Delhi An Anthology of Research Studies on Rajni Kothari, a noted intellectual and political
scientist who radically changed the contours of the
This book traces the
the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural
discipline of political science in India
political evolution of the Employment Guarantee Act, 2005
northeast, excluding Sikkim, This pioneering study first
Ministry of Rural Development, Government of
from the first half of the published in 1970 has looked
India
eighteenth century when at India as a vibrant and
British administration was The MGNREGA, the politically sustainable polity.
formally set up in Assam to flagship rural employment From the theoretical,
the twenty-first century. Scheme of the Government historical, socio-cultural, and
The author has revised the of India, was launched in comparative matrices of
text by adding a new February 2006. It is perhaps Indian polity, this book ranges
Postscript and updated the largest and the most through strategies, concerns,
tables to bring the story of the northeast into the ambitious social security and issues that strengthen and
twenty-first century. and public works support Indias tried and
programme in the world. tested political institutions and the agencies that
Contents: Introduction 1. A Specialised This anthology is a synthesis promote the countrys national integration.
Government 2. Perspectives of a New Personality of over a hundred studies
3. The Fourth Dimension of Culture 4. Genesis of Prakash Sarangis introduction situates the work
on MGNREGA, its impact and implementation. It
Hill Politics 5. The Transfer of Power 6. The Sixth and highlights the significance of the book as an
provides a readable summary of these studies and
Schedule 7. The Hill State 8. Meghalaya 9. Naga important landmark in the evolution of political
popularly expressed concerns.
Politics 10. Mizo Politics 11. The Metamorphosis of science in independent India.
2012 978-81-250-4725-4 ` 510 128pp Paperback
a Frontier 12. Tripura and Manipur 13. Importance Contents: Introduction 1. Theoretical
of Northeast India 14. Whither Northeast India Also in Hindi
Considerations 2. Historical Antecedents
15. Basis of Autonomy 3. Approach to Modernization 4. Institutional
2012 978-81-250-4550-2 ` 295 320pp Paperback Polio Eradication and Its Strategy 5. Party System and Coalition-Making
Discontents 6. Social Infrastructure 7. Political Culture and
Socialization 8. Political Institutionalization and
Lee Jong-wook A Historians Journey Through an
National Integration 9. Political Economy of
A Life in Health and Politics International Public Health (Un)civil War
Development 10. Coping with the International
Desmond Avery, the former editor of the SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN Environment 11. Future Perspectives
Bulletin of the World Health Organization HISTORY
With an Introduction by Prakash C. Sarangi
This book is a biography of the sixth Director- William Muraskin, Professor, Department of 2012 978-81-250-4281-5 ` 450 504pp Paperback
General of the World Health Organization, the first Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5037-7
Korean to hold this post. It charts the course of his New York Also in Hindi

Red Tape the Mercy of the Beast: Post9/11 Discourses historical analysis of the study of
Bureaucracy, Structural Violence on Torture in the United States 3. Torture in the rural India, changes in rural
TV Show 24: Circulation of Meanings social life, and the forces shaping
and Poverty in India
4. Jurisprudence on Torture and Interrogations life in villages today. The articles,
Akhil Gupta, Professor of Anthropology, in India 5.Contemporary States of Exception: drawn from writings over four
Director of the Center for India and South Asia, Extraordinary Laws and Interrogation in India decades (1972 to 2010), cover
University of California, Los Angeles 6. Conclusion: Unravelling the Exception: Torture various features of village
in Liberal Democracies society like caste and
Red Tape presents a major
community, land and labour,
new theory of the state 2012 978-81-250-4556-4 ` 950 304pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted migration, discrimination and
developed by the renowned
use of common property
anthropologist Akhil Gupta.
resources.
Seeking to understand the Understanding Caste
chronic and widespread From Buddha to Ambedkar and Beyond Th[is]e volume on rural society, which carries
poverty in India, the worlds
(Second Edition) a selection of essays published over the past four
fourth largest economy,
decades in the Economic and Political Weekly is a
Gupta conceives of the Gail Omvedt, former Chair Professor,
welcome stimulus for us to reflect on the nature
relation between the state Dr Ambedkar Chair for Social Change and
of research that has been doneand can be
in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Development, Indira Gandhi National Open
doneon rural society.
Every year this violence kills between two and University, New Delhi, India
three million people, especially women and girls, Economic and Political Weekly
This book analyses how dalit politics and the dalit
and lower-caste and indigenous peoples.
vision require going beyond even the term dalit Selected Contents: SECTION I: VILLAGE
Contents: PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Poverty and how it has contributed to being symbolic SOCIETY: METHODS AND PERSPECTIVES
as Biopolitics 2. The State and the Politics of of the most oppressed and SECTION II: SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
Poverty PART II: CORRUPTION 3. Corruption, exploited sections within LIFE SECTION III: SOCIAL, ECONOMIC
Politics, and the Imagined State 4. Narratives of the graded hierarchies of AND POLITICAL PROCESSES SECTION IV:
Corruption PART III: INSCRIPTION 5. Let the caste. It traces the invasive PERSPECTIVES ON CHANGE
Train Run on Paper: Bureaucratic Writing as State trends of resistance and 2012 978-81-250-4603-5 ` 325 262pp Paperback
Practice 6. Literacy, Bureaucratic Domination, revolt in the tenets of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5170-1
and Democracy PART IV: GOVERNMENTALITY Buddhism and radical bhakti,
7. Population and Neoliberal Governmentality in the anti-patriarchal stands
Epilogue of early feminists, in the Who Wants Democracy?
pervasive radicalism of the (Second Edition)
2012 978-81-250-4720-9 ` 1060 384pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted dalit activists. This edition Javeed Alam, former chairman of the Indian
has a new and comprehensive Index. Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR)
Transnational Torture Contents: Introduction 1. The Two Great The book defines two
Law, Violence, and State Power Traditions of India and the Construction of important shifts in the polity
Hinduism 2. Before Hinduism: The Buddhist
in the United States and India since the implementation of
Vision 3. Before Hinduism: The Devotional Visions the Mandal Commission
Jinee Lokaneeta, Assistant Professor, of Bhakti 4. Hinduism as Brahman Exploitation: recommendations in 1989.
Department of Political Science, Drew University, Jotiba Phule 5. Hinduism as Patriarchy: Ramabai, Through a study of voting
New Jersey, USA Tarabai and the Early Feminists 6. Hinduism patterns, it shows how even as
as Aryan Conquest: The Dalit Radicals of the the elite are moving away from
This book focuses on the
1920s 7. Hinduism as Counter-Revolution: B. the processes that shape
legal and political discourses
R. Ambedkar 8. Hinduism as Delhi Rule: Periyar democracy, the poor and the
on torture in India and the
and the National Question 9. Independent India: disprivileged are springing to its defence.
United States. Analyzing
Brahmanic Socialism, Brahmanic Globalisation
about one hundred Contents: 1. Democracy and the People 2. The
10. Hinduism as Feudal Backwardness: The Dalit
landmark Supreme Court Vulnerable Populations and Democracy 3. Identity
Panthers 11. The Logic of Dalit Politics 12. The
cases on torture in India Formation among Oppressed Castes 4. Muslims:
Rise of the Bahujan Samaj Party CONCLUSION:
and the United States, The Joker in the Democratic Pack 5. Democracy
Sitas Curse, Shambuks Silence
memos and popular imagery and Its Impact on Citizenship 6. Democracy and
of torture, it compellingly 2012 978-81-250-4573-1 ` 275 140pp Paperback
the Making of the Indian Nation 7. Elite Counter-
demonstrates that even reaction and the Turn to the Right 8. Civil Society
before recent debates on the use of torture in the Village Society and Democracy 9. Conclusion
war on terror, the laws of interrogation were
much more ambivalent about the infliction of SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND 2012 978-81-250-4551-9 ` 225 188pp Paperback
excess pain and suffering than most political and SOCIETY
legal theorists have acknowledged.
Edited by Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre
Contents: Introduction: Do the Ghosts of for the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
Leviathan Linger On? Law, Violence and Torture University, New Delhi
in Liberal Democracies 1. Laws Struggle
with Violence: Ambivalence in the Routine This volume presents a set of readings which primarily
Jurisprudence of Interrogations in the United focus on the social, political and cultural aspects of village
States 2. Being Helplessly Civilized Leaves Us at life. A comprehensive introduction provides a detailed

Women and Work Communalism and the
... students of modern Indian economic history
SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND will find the essence of Professor Bipan Chandras Intelligentsia in Bihar,
SOCIETY evolving approach through certain perspective 18701930
shifts. Shaping Caste, Community and
Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor
of Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Sabyasachi Bhattacharya, Former Chairman, Indian Nationhood
Mumbai Council of Historical Research, Delhi
Hitendra Patel, Department of History,
The volume analyses issues Rabindra Bharati University, Kolkata
... a fine collection of essays, some of which are
surrounding womens rights This volume gives an
vintage Bipan Chandra and rooted in his extensive
to gainful employment when account of the rise of Hindu
understanding of the Indian national movement....
they did not have it; to communalism in Bihar in the
recognition of their Romila Thapar, Emeritus Professor, Department of late nineteenth and early
substantial and even massive History, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi twentieth centuries, and its
contribution to the national relationship with the
Selected Contents: 1 The Long-term Dynamics:
economy and families nationalist ideology, through
Gandhiji and the Indian National Movement
survival which has been the activities of the
2. Jawaharlal Nehru in Historical Perspective
denied to them so long; to intelligentsia. Hitendra Patel
3. Gandhiji, Secularism and Communalism 4. Pre-
adequate rewards for their discusses two popular
Gandhian Roots of Gandhian-Era Politics 5. The
labour which they do not enjoy; and, to a share of movements: one for the use
Making of the Indian Nation 6. Colonialism and
resources, benefits and decisions regarding of Hindi, replacing Urdu, in education and the law
Modernisation 7. Karl Marx, His Theories of Asian
development to which they are entitled as citizens courts from the 1860s, and the other for cow
Societies and Colonial Rule 8. Transformation
of a country which guarantees to them equality in protection. The growth of the Hindi press and
from a Colonial to an Independent Economy:
all spheres of life. anti-Bengali sentiments are outlined. Patel also
A Case Study of India
Abridged Contents: PART I: analyses intra-community discourses on lower-
2012 978-81-250-4571-7 ` 895 564pp Hardback caste inclusion, revealing divisions within the Hindu
CONCEPTUALISING WORK, MAPPING
COMPLEXITY PART II: IMPARTING VISIBILITY, fold.
INTERROGATING DATA SYSTEMS PART Writings of Richard Falk, The Contents: Introduction: Nationalism and
III: FORMS OF LABOUR, CONDITIONS OF Towards Humane Global Governance Communalism in Modern Bihar 1. Rise and
WORK: SECTORAL PERSPECTIVES PART IV: Growth of the Intelligentsia in Bihar 2. The
Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International
CRITIQUING POLICIES: IMPLICATIONS AND Intelligentsia of Bihar: Anti-Bengali Campaign
Law, Princeton University, USA
CONSEQUENCES FOR WORK and the Hindi Movement 3. The Hindi Press and
Contributors: Bina Agarwal, Srilatha Batliwala, the Creation of Communal Stereotypes 4. The
Publishing Richard Falk in
Deepita Chakravarty, Ishita Chakravarty, Prem Intelligentsia and the Search for a New Order for
India for the first time is an
Chowdhry, Forum Against Oppression of Women, National Regeneration 5. The Intelligentsia, Their
intellectual event itself.
Meena Gopal, Indira Hirway, Devaki Jain, J. Socio-political Forums and Communalism 6. Cow
Falks work in international
Jeyaranjan, Uma Kothari, Maithreyi Krishnaraj, Protection 7. Conclusion
relations and his role as a
Joan P. Mencher, Maria Mies, Millie Nihila, Ujvala public intellectual have been 2011 978-81-250-4206-8 ` 840 264pp Hardback
Rajadhyaksha, K. Saradamoni, Miriam Sharma, crucial influences on at least
Swati Smita, Padmini Swaminathan two generations of
researchers, policy makers
Dalit Personal Narratives
2012 978-81-250-4777-3 ` 645 408pp Paperback Reading Caste, Nation and Identity
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5357-6 and political movements.
Ashis Nandy Raj Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of
English, University of Delhi
Writings of Bipan Chandra,
The ... This book will challenge and inspire all This pioneering book
primarily examines Dalit
those interested in the idea of an international
The Making of Modern India: From Marx
community. autobiographies. These
to Gandhi narratives symbolise how
Hillary Charlesworth
Bipan Chandra, Chairman, National Book Trust, Dalits are breaking down
Contents: PART I: THE SHAPING OF the age-old barrier of
New Delhi
INTERNATIONAL LAW: GEOPOLITICAL silence. Focusing on multiple
The 14 essays in this volume AND DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES; PART marginalities pertaining to
present a long-term II: REFORMING THE UN: PROBLEMS AND caste, nation and identity,
perspective of the PROSPECTS; PART III: THE PLANETARY the author has followed an
emergence of nationalism THREATS; PART IV: IN THE AFTERMATH OF inter-disciplinary approach
and the Indian national 9/11: REVISITING GANDHI; PART V: BUILDING across disciplines such as
movement, with special A GLOBAL ETHOS: CULTURAL PLURALITIES, history, sociology, law, religion, philosophy and
emphasis on its Gandhian RELIGIOUS RESURGENCE, POLITICAL gender studies apart from English literature, to
phase, and the nature of SOLIDARITY; PART VI: RE-IMAGINING AND bring to the reader the remarkably different
Indian capitalism and its RE-MAKING A NEW WORLD ORDER: RIGHTS, personal narratives of both Dalit men and women.
relationship with JUSTICE AND DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE
imperialism and the national movement. It has an Contents: 1. Autobiographical Practices:
With a Foreword by B. S. Chimni Examples from the West 2. The Public Self:
introduction by Aditya Mukherjee.
2012 978-81-250-4307-2 ` 1150 560pp Hardback Indian Upper Caste Mens Autobiographies

3. The Private Self: Indian Upper Caste Womens Parimala Rao argues, was Indian Diaspora in the
Autobiographies 4. Caste, Culture and Politics: aimed to oppose reform
Towards a Definition of Dalit Autobiography within Hindu society. United States
5. The Marginal Self: Dalit Mens Autobiographies Brain Drain or Gain?
6. Beyond the Margin: Dalit Womens an eye-opener for Anjali Sahay, Assistant Professor of Political
Autobiographies those who have heralded Science and International Relations, Gannon
2011 978-81-250-4250-1 ` 455 308pp Paperback Tilak as a militant and University, Erie, Pennsylvania
2010 978-81-250-3863-4 ` 715 308pp Hardback populist leader. Rao has
successfully uncovered Indian Diaspora in the United
the limitations of early States takes a different
Demography and nationalist discourses. approach from the
Democracy The Hindu conventional way of looking
at international migration
Essays on Nationalism, Gender and
Contents: Introduction: Encountering the Myth from India. The author
Ideology 1. Situating Tilak 2. Moneylender as the God of states that home countries
Himani Bannerji, Professor of Sociology, York Peasants 3. Educated Women as Rakmabais and not only benefit in the form
University, Ontario, Canada Ramabais 4. Education, Caste and Identity of remittances, investments
5. Inventing the Enemy 6. The Swadeshi Movement and savings but also by
This volume explores the 7. Gender, Caste and Education, 19101920 8. networking and bringing in
complexities of modern-day Tilaks Nationalism and Hindutva 9. Conclusion ideas and technology. By achieving success and
nationalisms from the visibility in host countries, the diaspora community
perspective of Marxist 2011 978-81-250-4268-6 ` 565 372pp Paperback
2010 978-81-250-3919-8 ` 1005 372pp Hardback further influences economic and political benefits
anti-colonial feminism. for their home countries.
Focusing on ethnic
nationalism and the From Hindi to Urdu Contents: PART I: THEORETICAL AND
racialised nature of A Social and Political History HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 1. Introduction
imperialism of our time, the 2. Alternate Theoretical Approaches to Brain
volume draws on examples Tariq Rahman, HEC Distinguished National Drain 3. Indo-US Relations: Political, Economic and
from India, Israel, United States and its allies. Professor of Sociolinguistic History and Professor Migration Linkages 4. United States: Immigration
Cultural political identities of the Hindu right, Emeritus, National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Laws and the Future of Brain Drain PART II:
Zionism and other religious fundamentalisms are Qaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 5. Indian Diaspora and
discussed in detail. Brain Gain: Remittances, Return and Network
A first of its kind, this book
Approaches 6. Indian Diaspora in the United
Contents: Introduction 1. Making India Hindu traces the political history
States: Soft Power and Brain Gain 7. Cultivation
and Male: Cultural Nationalism and the Emergence and genealogy of Urdu. It
of the Indian Diaspora: From Statistical Analysis
of the Ethnic Citizen in Contemporary India also looks at the domains in
to Policy Formulation 8. Generational Effects of
2. Demography and Democracy: Reflections which the language is used
Indias Brain Drain and Gain: A Conclusion
on Violence against Women in Genocide or by both Hindus and Muslims
Ethnic Cleansing 3. Cultural Nationalism and of northern India. 2011 978-81-250-4266-2 ` 950 264pp Hardback
Woman as the Subject of the Nation 4. Projects Rights: Restricted
of Hegemony: Towards a Critique of Subaltern This is the first major
Studies Resolution of the Womens Question study of the manifold Legislature and the Judiciary,
5. Home and the World: Women and Nationalism engagement of the
in the Novels of Rabindranath Tagore 6. Always linguistic forms known as Urdu with South
The
Towards: Development and Nationalism in Asian society. Professor Rahman has opened up Judicial Pronouncements on Parliament and
Rabindranath Tagore 7. The Tradition of Sociology the social aspects of Urdu as a major subject for State Legislatures
and the Sociology of Tradition: The Terms of our study and this book is one of the most important Rajya Sabha Secretariat
Knowledge and the Knowledge Produced contributions to South Asian studies of recent
years. This pioneering volume
2011 978-81-250-4292-1 ` 785 284pp Hardback
Francis Robinson explains the powers,
Rights: Restricted
privileges and immunities of
Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Names legislatures in India. It also
Foundations of Tilaks 2. Age 3. Origins and Historiography 4. Identity: highlights the role of the
The Islamization of Urdu 5. Urdu as an Islamic
Nationalism Language 6. Urdu as the Language of Love 7. The
judiciary in articulating a
constitutional position on
Discrimination, Education, Hindutva British and Hindustani 8. Urdu in the Princely the legislatures autonomy,
Parimala V. Rao, Assistant Professor, Zakir States 9. Urdu as the Language of Employment along with a detailed
Husain Centre for Educational Studies, Jawaharlal 10. Urdu in Education 11. Urdu in Print discussion of important
Nehru University 12. Urdu on the Radio 13. Urdu on the Screen cases dealt by the high
14. Conclusion courts and the Supreme Court.
In the context of reform activities in nineteenth
century Maharashtra, the book addresses the 2011 978-81-250-4248-8 ` 975 476pp Hardback With a Foreword by Upendra Baxi
Rights: Restricted
origin of the concept of Hindutva and locates it in
2011 978-81-250-4191-7 ` 1650 552pp Hardback
the nationalist attempt to control rebellion within
Also in Hindi
the society by inventing an enemy. The
construction of Hindutva by Bal Gangadhar Tilak,

Contents: 1. Amar Ujala and Dainik Jagran in the which includes segregated cities, marginalised local
Living Faith, A Pahari Public Sphere 2. Imagining Uttarakhand: governments and a failure to manage urban growth
My Quest for Peace, Harmony and Social Politics of the Elites and Grass-roots Activism and provide sufficient housing.
Change (19201994) 3. Claiming the Public Space:
An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer Contents: 1. Colonial City Legacy: Growth,
Transformation of a Student Agitation into a Jan
Slums and Local Government 2. A Failure to
Andolan 4. Uttarakhand Emerges as a Populist
Asghar Ali Engineer was Chairperson, Centre Manage: Urbanisation and Planning Since 1947
Demand 5. Protest at Its Apogee and the Co-
for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and 3. Inadequate Provision: Urban Governance and
optation of the Jan Andolan 6. Conclusion: Jan
Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai Basic Services 4. Living Illegally: Slum-Dwellers
Andolan-Press Interaction and Collapse of the
and the State 5. A Filthy Occupation: Attempts
With a Foreword by Mushirul Hasan Public Space Epilogue: Uttarakhand after Statehood
to Eliminate Scavenging 6. Ahmedabad: From
(20002010)
Enlightened Self-Interest to Ghettos and
A striking quality about 2011 978-81-250-4200-6 ` 1005 356pp Hardback Inequality 7. New Approaches: Participation,
Engineer is his rationality Partnerships and the Urban Poor 8. Conclusion:
and his calm approach to Globalisation and the Averted Gaze
whatever comes his way. New World of Indigenous
[This book is] a perceptive Resistance 2011 978-81-250-4203-7 ` 1005
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5248-7
344pp Hardback
commentary on society Noam Chomsky and Voices from North,
written with unassuming South and Central America
scholarliness. Privatizing Water
Frontline Edited by Lois Meyer, Associate Professor, Governance Failure and the Worlds Urban
Department of Language, Literacy & Sociocultural
Water Crisis
Studies, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque,
[T]he values Engineer has always stood for---
USA, and Benjamn Maldonado Alvarado, Karen Bakker, Associate Professor and Director,
foremost among them understanding and harmony
Mexican anthropologist specialising in indigenous Program on Water Governance, University of
between Hindus and Muslims---come not only
education British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
from his scholarship, but from a genuine belief in
religion as a force that unites humanity. For many indigenous
societies, protecting ... Privatizing Water bravely
Economic and Political Weekly
community-based customs and provocatively takes on
Contents: PART I: MY LIFE, MY STRUGGLE has involved the rejection of the state and private models
1. My Growing-up Years 2. Understanding the state-provided education, for governing urban water
Divide: Within and Outside 3. Towards Truth: My raising a series of and proposes a radical and
Struggle Begins... 4. The Bohra Reform Movement interconnected issues deeply illuminating rethinking
5. The Communal Challenge Continues: Amidst regarding autonomy, of keywords such as public,
Politics, Power and the People PART II: BEYOND modernity and cultural community, and the market....
BOUNDARIES: MY TRAVELS ABROAD 6. The sustainability. In this volume, A tour de force.
United Kingdom 7. The Indian Sub-Continent these questions are Michael Watts,
8. Africa 9. Asia 10. The Americas 11. Middle-East approached from multiple perspectives by means University of California, Berkeley
and Central Asia 12. Europe 13. Australia PART III: of an innovative exchange between linguist and
THE JOURNEY SO FAR... Looking Back, Looking human rights advocate Noam Chomsky, and more
Ahead than twenty scholars, activists and educators from Written by one of the worlds leading specialists
across the Americas. in water governance issues, Privatizing Water
2012 978-81-250-4572-4 ` 445 360pp Paperback deepens, challenges, and combines the debates on
2011 978-81-250-4197-9 ` 650 360pp Hardback 2011 978-81-250-4325-6 ` 725 416pp Paperback urban water supply, sustainable development and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5314-9 Rights: Restricted equitable access to water and public services....
Rutgerd Boelens, Wageningen University
Making of a Small State, The Politics of Sanitation in The Netherlands
Populist Social Mobilisation and the Hindi
Press in the Uttarakhand Movement
India, The Selected Contents: Defining Privatization: A
Cities, Services and the State Note on Terminology; Introduction: Privatization and
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY the Urban Water Crisis PART I: DEVELOPMENT,
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN
URBANIZATION, AND THE GOVERNANCE
Anup Kumar, Assistant Professor of HISTORY
OF THIRST 1. Governance Failure: Reframing the
Communication in the School of Communication,
Susan E. Chaplin, Researcher in Melbourne, Urban Water Supply Crisis 2. Material Emblems
Cleveland State University, USA
Australia of Citizenship: Creating Public Water 3.Watering
The Making of a Small State is the Thirsty Poor: The Water Privatization Debate
an insightful narrative of the This book examines the 4. Citizens without a City: The Techno-Politics
movement for Uttarakhand circumstances that have of Urban Water Governance PART II: BEYOND
and the role played by the forced millions of people to PRIVATIZATION: DEBATING ALTERNATIVES
Hindi language newspapers live in illegal settlements that 5. Protesting Privatization: Transnational Struggles
in its creation in 2000. The lack adequate sanitation. The over the Human Right to Water 6. Commons
author demonstrates that author argues that environ- versus Commodities: The Ambiguous Merits
the movement had a wider mental problems confronting 7. Politics and Biopolitics: Debating Ecological
social basis as it was starting Indian cities today are the Governance Conclusion: Beyond Privatization
to gain community access to result of the legacy of the
colonial city and the nature 2011 978-81-250-4321-8 ` 895 320pp Hardback
and control over jal (water), Rights: Restricted
jungle (forest) and zameen (land). of the post-colonial state

Radical, Religious, and 5. Peering into the Abyss of the Future Noam 8. Contesting the Boundaries 9. Brooding over
Chomsky 6. Re-imagining India Bhikhu Parekh 7. The the Big Trees 10. Thresholds and Transitions
Violent Future of the Indian Past Romila Thapar 8. The Idea
The New Economics of Terrorism 2011 978-81-250-4201-3 ` 620 252pp Paperback
of India as an Ideal: Can Our Dreams Come True? Rights: Restricted
Eli Berman, Professor of Economics, University I. G. Patel 9. The Nation-State in the Global Age
of California, San Diego, and Research Director, Anthony Giddens 10. Crises Today and the Future
International Security Studies, University of of Capitalism Joseph Stiglitz Art of Not Being Governed,
California Institute on Global Conflict and 2011 978-81-250-4196-2 ` 510 280pp Paperback The
Cooperation 2010 978-81-250-4068-2 ` 795 280pp Hardback An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast
Berman uses the economics Asia
of organizations to argue Unruly Hills James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political
that terrorists are rational Nature and Nation in Indias Northeast Science, Professor of Anthropology, and
altruists seeking to help [With Social Science Press] Co-director of the Agrarian Studies Program,
their own communities. Yale University
There are less than a dozen Bengt G. Karlsson, Associate Professor in Social
lethal terrorist organizations Anthropology, Stockholm University, Sweden Recognised as an eminent
capable of sustained Unruly Hills examines the authority on Southeast Asian,
violence that threatens intersection of peasant and agrarian studies,
governments and makes life environmental and ethnic the author here tells the story
unsafe for millions. The politics in the Indian state of of the peoples of Zomia and
book seeks to find what is special about these Meghalaya. Based on their unlikely odyssey in
organizations, and why most of their members are extensive fieldwork, the search of self-determination.
religious radicals. author traces the He redefines our views on
entanglements of forest Asian politics, history,
Selected Contents: 1. Why Are Religious demographics and even our
Terrorists So Lethal? 2. The Defection Constraints management, mining and
territorial conflicts with local fundamental ideas about what
3. Sects, Prohibitions and Mutual Aid: The constitutes civilization.
Organizational Secrets of Religious Radicals demands for indigenous
4. Sect, Subsidy, and Sacrifice 5. The Hamas sovereignty and rebellious Contents: 1. Hills, Valleys, and States: An
Model: Why Religious Radicals Are Such Effective aspirations for ethnic homelands. Massive Introduction to Zomia 2. State Space: Zones of
Terrorists 6. Why Suicide Attacks? extractions of limestone, controversies over Governance and Appropriation 3. Concentrating
uranium deposits, and the Supreme Court ban on Manpower and Grain: Slavery and Irrigated Rice
2011 978-81-250-4166-5 ` 675 314pp Paperback logging apply to the cases specifically explored. 4. Civilization and the Unruly 5. Keeping the State at a
Rights: Restricted
Contents: Introduction 1. Nature and Nation Distance: The Peopling of the Hills
2. Elusive Forests 3. Shifting Land Rights 4. Mining 6. State Evasion, State Prevention: The Culture and
Re-imagining India and Matters 5. Indigenous Governance 6. Political Agriculture of Escape 61/2. Orality, Writing and Texts
7. Ethnogenesis: A Radical Construction Case 8.
Other Essays Ecology at the Frontier
Prophets of Renewal 9. Conclusion
Lectures at the Institute of Social Sciences, 2011 978-81-87358-59-6 ` 695 350pp Hardback
2010 978-81-250-3921-1 ` 1060 462pp Hardback
New Delhi Rights: Restricted
This volume brings together
Violence and Belonging
Land, Love and Lethal Conflict in the
a collection of writings that
North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan Bridging Partition
originated from annual
Peoples Initiatives for Peace between India
lectures by economists, Are Knudsen, Research Director, Chr. Michelson and Pakistan
political and legal thinkers, Institute, Bergen, Norway
sociologists, linguists and Edited by the late Smitu Kothari, one of Indias
historians. The essays are Violence and Belonging leading scholar-activists, director of Lokayan,
bound by a common examines the meanings of New Delhi, and co-editor of the Lokayan Bulletin,
threadconcern for lethal conflict in a little- Zia Mian, a physicist from Pakistan at Princeton
humanity. This volume studied tribal society in Universitys Program on Science and Global
explores the need for basic Pakistans unruly North-West Security, Kamla Bhasin, scholar, activist and
education, poverty, the Human Development Frontier Province and offers a writer based in Delhi, A. H. Nayyar, a physicist
Index, self-employment vis--vis wage employment, new perspective on its causes. formerly with Quaid-i-Azam University, and
the function of multiculturalism in preserving the Based on an in-depth study of Mohammad Tahseen, founding member and
solidarity of a nation, the rise of Hindutva and its local conflicts, the book Executive Director of South Asia Partnership-
ideological implications, and other issues. challenges stereotyped images Pakistan
of a region and people miscast
With a Foreword by Ashis Nandy. as extremist and militant. The book is the first A citizens diplomacy movement has emerged
ethnographic study of this region since renowned in an unprecedented effort to build national and
Selected Contents: Preface. 1. Beyond
anthropologist Fredrik Barths pioneering study cross-border networks for peace and cooperation
Liberalisation: Social Opportunity and Human
in 1954. between India and Pakistan. In this book, leading
Capability Amartya Sen 2. Human Development
scholars, activists and writers from the two
Paradigm for South Asia Mahbub ul Haq Selected Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Belonging countries reflect on the political and personal impact
3. Towards Creating a Poverty-Free World to the Palas Valley 3. The Textured Landscape of crossing the border, and exploring the possibilities
Muhammad Yunus 4. Post-Apartheid South Africa: 4. Land of Contention 5. Being, Longing and Belonging and limits of this new movement in its quest to chart
Truth, Reconciliation and Justice Albie Sachs 6. Condemned and Confined 7. Magic and Honour a path to peace between the two countries.
Idea of Gujarat, The Liberalizations Children
This is a thought
History, Ethnography and Text Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship
provoking collection of
essays by prominent social Edited by Edward Simpson, senior lecturer in Globalizing India
activists, scientists, in social anthropology, School of Oriental and Ritty A. Lukose, Associate Professor, Gallatin
journalists, scholars and African Studies, University of London, and School of Individualized Study, New York
military men from both Aparna Kapadia, Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow, University
sides who declared peace University of Oxford, UK
on their respective This book explores how youth and gender have
The Idea of Gujarat critically examines the become crucial sites for contested cultural politics
neighbours a few decades
processes that went into the formation of the of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a
ago.
region and in the process unsettles a series of contrast between midnights children, who were
Daily Times, Lahore
conventional wisdoms about the land and its rooted in post-independence Nehruvian
Abridged Contents: PART I: TAKING THE inhabitants. The book provides a broad developmentalism, and liberalizations children,
LEAD PART II: PERSONAL/HISTORICAL introduction to the idea of who are global in outlook and unapologetically
JOURNEYS PART III: WOMEN, EDUCATION Gujarat, the scope of its consumerist. Through a
AND LABOUR PART IV: CULTURE PART V: history, the nature of its careful analysis of consumer
LESSONS, LIMITS AND THE WAY FORWARD politics, and the dynamics of citizenship, Ritty A. Lukose
its society. argues that the breakdown
Contributors: Karamat Ali, Shehryar Ahmad,
Contents: Introduction: of the Nehruvian vision
Sumanta Banerjee, Kamla Bhasin, Amrita Chhachhi,
The Parable of the Jakhs connects with ongoing
Nirupama Dutt, Madeeha Gauhar, Mubashir Hasan,
1. Caste in the Judicial struggles over the meanings
Pervez Hoodbhoy, Asma Jehangir, Sheema Kirmani,
Courts of Gujarat, 180060 of public life and the
Sanat Mohanty, Kuldip Nayar, Sandeep Pandey,
2. Alexander Forbes and cultural politics of
Narendra Panjwani, Anand Patwardhan, Balraj Puri,
the Making of a Regional belonging.
Lalita Ramdas, Laxminarayan Ramdas, I. A. Rehman,
Beena Sarwar, Achin Vanaik, Jamila Verghese History 3. Making Sense of the History of Kutch Selected Contents: 1. Locating Kerala, between
4. The Lives of Bahuchara Mata 5. Reflections Development and Globalization 2. Fashioning
2010 978-81-250-3830-6 ` 730 360pp Paperback
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4672-1
on Caste in Gujarat 6. The Politics of Land in Gender and Consumption 3. Romancing the
Post-colonial Gujarat 7. From Gandhi to Modi: Public 4. Politics, Privatization and Citizenship
Ahmedabad, 19152007 8. A Potted History of 5. Education, Caste, and the Secular Epilogue:
Caste in Indian Politics Neighbours and Neighbourliness in Ahmedabad Consumer Citizenship in the Era of Globalization
(Second Edition) 9. Voices from Sindh in Gujarat 10. Textiles
2010 978-81-250-4007-1 ` 565 300pp Hardback
and Dress among the Rabari of Kutch 11. The
Edited by Rajni Kothari, noted intellectual and Rights: Restricted
Swaminarayan Movement and Religious Subjectivity
founder of the Centre for the Study of Developing
Societies (CSDS), with a prologue by James 2010 978-81-250-4113-9 ` 785 284pp Hardback
Manor, Emeka Anyaoku Professor at the Institute
M. K. Gandhis Hind Swaraj
of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
A Critical Edition
Left Politics in Bengal
Time Travels among Bhadralok Marxists Annonated, translated and edited by Suresh
Rejecting the prevailing
Sharma, historian and anthropologist, and Tridip
dichotomy between
Monobina Gupta, a veteran journalist Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani Institute
traditional society and
of Information and Communication Technology,
modern polity, this book
Guptas book is rich in Ahmedabad
examines their interaction
in the given community and detailing the emotional On board the Kildonan
territorial settings. A critical turbulence of the renegades Castle, on his return from
introduction by Rajni and revisionists, including England to South Africa,
Kothari provides the their search for an alternative M. K. Gandhi wrote Hind
analytical framework. The Left space. The chapter on Swarajya in Gujarati
nine studies that follow in Lalgarh is particularly between13 and 22
the book investigate individual caste movements, instructive for its insights November 1909. This
their structures and their induction into the into the way the Maoists centenary edition of
political process, and the macro dimensions of the replicate the CPMs wariness Gandhis Hind Swaraj is both
political involvement of caste. This second edition of movements from below. a celebration of the text as
has an extended prologue by eminent political Culture and Society also its biography. This critical edition restores the
scientist James Manor. sanctity of the 1910 first edition and brings it in
Contents: 1. Oh! Calcutta: A Thousand Desires
2010 978-81-250-4013-2 ` 465 424pp Paperback conversation with the subsequent editions of 1921
2. The Romance of Power 3. The Summer of 1996:
and 1939. It also compares the Gujarati original
Coalition-making at the Centre 4. The Forked
with the English rendering. For the first time, this
Tongue 5. Techniques of Control 6. Violence: A
edition brings together three texts (Gujarati, Hindi
Metaphor of Transition 7. Hochhe Ta Ki? (What
and English) and also includes the original Preface
the hell is going on?) 8. Songs of Resistance
and Foreword of Gandhi. This is the only bilingual
9. From the Margins, A Postcard of Democracy
edition of Hind Swaraj.
10. Time-Travels Among Bhadralok Marxists
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Mumbai South Asian Cultures of the Understanding
Political Economy of Crime and Space Bomb Contemporary India
Abdul Shaban, Assistant Professor, Department Atomic Publics and the State in India and Critical Perspectives
of Geography, Centre of Development Studies, Pakistan
Edited by Achin Vanaik, Professor, Department
Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Deonar, Mumbai
Edited by Itty Abraham, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Delhi, and
and former Director of the South Asia Institute, Rajeev Bhargava, Director, Centre for the
the book has enough material to sustain the University of Texas, Austin, USA Study of Developing Societies, New Delhi
interest of even a lay leader who wants to know
and understand what is happening in Mumbai today India and Pakistan became This reader examines the
as the city veers towards a neoliberal Shanghai independent nations early in peculiarities of Indian
avatar. the worlds atomic age. What democracythe character of
The Hindu explains the fascination of its political institutions and
Indian and Pakistani elites with patterns of governanceand
Selected Contents: 1. nuclear weapons? What the remarkable paradoxes
Spatial Statistics and Crime accounts for the absence of a that co-exist in what is
Mapping 2. Crime Theories mass antinuclear movement arguably the most diverse
and Space 3. Social Geogr- in either country? In these society in the world.
aphy of the City 4. Crime, provocative essays, scholars Abridged Contents: A
Space and Urban Renewal 5. from India, Pakistan, the US Collective Vision; Introduction
Crimes against Life 6. and Europe argue that it is crucial to understand PART I: STATE AND
Property Crimes 7. White nuclear power in South Asia beyond the narrow CONSTITUTION: INDIAN PECULIARITIES PART
Collar Crimes 8. Crimes confines of strategic studies. II: MATTERS OF GOVERNANCE: THEORY AND
against Women 9. Communal PRACTICE PART III: NATIONAL RE-IMAGININGS:
Conflagration and Riots 10. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction: Nuclear CLASHES OF IDENTITY PART IV: NEW
Political Economy of Crime and Punishment Power and Atomic Publics 2. Fevered with Dreams EXPLORATIONS: SERVING THE OPPRESSED
of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to PART V: WHITHER THE INDIAN POLITY?
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Pakistan 3. Indias Nuclear Enclave and the Practice
of Secrecy 4. The Social Life of a Bomb: India and Contributors: Ashok Acharya, Navnita C.
Public Administration in the the Ontology of an Overpopulated Society Behera, Rajeev Bhargava, Neera Chandhoke, P.
5. Pride and Proliferation: Pakistans Nuclear K. Datta, Gopal Guru, Kyoung-Hee Koh, Veena
Globalisation Era Psyche after A.Q. Khan 6. The Politics of Death: Kukreja, Manoranjan Mohanty, Nivedita Menon, M.
The New Public Management Perspective The Antinuclear Imaginary in India 7. Pakistans P. Singh, Satyajit Singh, N. Sukumar, Achin Vanaik
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This book explores the Strategic Community Vishva Hindu Parishad
transformative effect of
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and practice of public Ammara Durrani, Karsten Frey, Reminder Kaur, (Second Edition)
administration in the Saukaran Krishna, Zia Mian, Haider Nizamani, Manjari Katju, Reader, Department of Political
twenty-first century. M.V. Ramana, Srirupa Roy Science, University of Hyderabad
Detailing the influence of 2010 978-81-250-4056-9 ` 545 232pp Paperback
New Public Management on This book provides a detailed
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public administration with historical account of the
its dominant neo-liberal Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP),
orientation, the book offers Through War and Famine one of the leading
a comprehensive understanding of the historical Bengal, 193945 organisations in the Hindutva
processes that shaped the discipline of public movement. It focuses on the
Srimanjari, Department of History, Miranda
administration, its ramifications in the present VHPs transformation from a
House, University of Delhi
form, and its current challenges. loosely knit body of Hindus
World War II and the famine aimed at preserving and
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Conceptual of 1943 in Bengal are the promoting Hindu dharma,
Framework of New Public Management two windows through which into a mass organisation
3. International Perspective on Managerial Reforms this book explores the actively involved in mobilising the urban middle
4. Appraising New Public Management 5. Towards history of Bengal between classes, service professionals and religious leaders for
Good Governance 6. The Road Ahead 1939 and 1945. The social the creation and promotion of a strong Hindu nation.
2010 978-81-250-3843-6 ` 375 288pp Paperback base of the different sections
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. The Early Years
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4674-5 of the people determined the
3. Transition to Mass Activism 4. A Non-Electoral
impact of the War and the
Actor in Indian Politics 5. Demolishing the Babri
famine on them. The author
Masjid 6. Post-Demolition Consolidation
delves into how the War
7. Conversions and Reconversions 8. Conclusion
transformed the relationship between the imperial
With four appendices, glossary, bibliography and index
state, its subjects and their political representatives.
2010 978-81-250-4034-7 ` 400 206pp Paperback
2010 978-81-250-3548-0 ` 785 288pp Hardback
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Dictionary of Public ethics translates across a to millions of poor and
range of political sites. The marginalised Indians.
Administration, A volume also gives us Recreating a parallel history
S. R. Maheshwari, former Professor of Political vignettes of Gandhis of the khadi movement
Science and Public Administration, Indian Institute vegetarianism and his alongside that of Indias
of Public Administration, New Delhi experiments in communal freedom struggle, the
living. It explores the nature author argues that khadis
This is the paperback of Gandhis thought, core semiotic lay in its being
edition of A Dictionary of practice and legacy. a commodity of resistance
Public Administration. This is against colonial exploitation.
the first work of its kind in
India and perhaps in the Contents: 1. Memories of
2009 978-81-250-3388-2 ` 950 372pp Hardback
Third World. It covers the Rights: Restricted a Moral Movement 2. Morality of the Movement,
terms, concepts, theories 191522 3. Mobilising a Movement 4. Ideology of
and paradigms of public Innocence 5. Clothing the Congress 6. A Clear
administration, defined and Writings of Rajni Kothari, Clash of Ideas 7. Authentic Khadi: Agency,
explained concisely and The Activism, Agendas 8. Quest for Freedom of the
clearly. The dictionary deals Lowest, 193345 9. Epilogue
Rajni Kothari, noted political scientist and
with the theory of Public 2008 978-81-250-3583-1 ` 525 312pp Paperback
intellectual
Administration in all its sub-fields, like
administrative law and public policy. This volume brings together
three landmark books
Gramsci is Dead
2009 978-81-250-3779-8 ` 565 560pp Paperback
Politics in India, Caste in Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social
Indian Politics, and Rethinking Movements
Engaging with the World Democracy. The foreword is Richard J. F. Day, Assistant Professor of
Critical Reflections on Indias Foreign a fitting tribute by Sociology, Queens University, Kingston, Canada
Policy distinguished political
psychologist and sociologist Gramsci and the concept of
Edited by Rajen Harshe, Professor of hegemony cast a long shadow
of science, Ashis Nandy
International Relations, Department of Political over radical political theory.
Science, University of Hyderabad, and K. M. Yet how far has this theory
Seethi, Reader, School of International Relations, got us? The book draws
Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam 2009 978-81-250-3755-2 ` 1170 1048pp Hardback together a variety of different
This volume represents a strands in political theory to
weave an innovative new
rare and comprehensive Fatalism and Development approach to politics today.
exercise in critically Nepals Struggle for Modernization
analysing diverse aspects of From Hegels concept of
Indias engagement with the Dor Bahadur Bista, Anthropologist, former recognition, through theories
world after the cold war. It Nepalese Consul-General in Tibet, and former of hegemony and affinity to
contains twenty-four papers Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu Hardt and Negris reflections on Empire, Day maps
by some of the prominent academias theoretical concerns onto todays politics
A bold and incisive analysis of of the street.
academicians and diplomats
Nepals society and its
on major areas as well as 2008 978-81-250-3246-5 ` 525 262pp Paperback
attempts to develop and
some of the dominant Rights: Restricted
respond to change. Dor
concerns of Indias foreign
Bahadur Bista travelled all
policy. It situates Indias role in the context of the
Third World.
over Nepal in the company of History of Human Rights,
the anthropologist Christoph
2009 978-81-250-3674-6 ` 510 504pp Paperback von Furer-Haimendorf, which
The
2005 978-81-250-2825-3 ` 985 504pp Hardback helped him acquire an insight From Ancient Times to the Globalization
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5341-5 that enables him to make an Era
objective and frank comment Micheline R. Ishay, Director of the Human
Rethinking Gandhi and on his country. Rights Programme, Graduate School of
International Studies, University of Denver, USA
Nonviolent Relationality 2008 978-81-250-3460-5 ` 225 200pp Paperback
Global Perspectives Micheline Ishay recounts the
Edited by Debjani Ganguly, Head, and John Gandhis Khadi dramatic struggle for human
A History of Contention and Conciliation rights across the ages. The
Docker, Adjunct Professor, Humanities Research
book brilliantly synthesises
Centre, Australian National University, Canberra Rahul Ramagundam, activist, advocate and historical and intellectual
Conceived, debated and written at the beginning academic developments from the
of a troubled millennium, this work brings The book is a study of khadi, the fabric that Mesopotamian code of
together a group of scholars to rethink Gandhis successfully transcended its commodity status to Hammurabi to todays era
legacy and non-violent ethics and his relevance in become a political symbol. Acquiring emblematic of globalisation. Ishay
the new world order. The contributors approach status during Indias freedom struggle due to illustrates how the concept
Gandhi as an activist-thinker whose trans-cultural Gandhis efforts, khadi heralded real freedom of human rights evolved

from one era to another through texts, cultural Pakistan, and then relates 5. The Global Economy: US Hegemony from
traditions, and creative expression. language-learning (the Bretton Woods to Neo-liberalism 6. Globalisation,
demand) and teaching (the Culture and Rights: Liberal Internationalism,
2008 978-81-250-3361-5 ` 765 480pp Hardback
Rights: Restricted supply) to ideology (or Imperialism and Universalism 7. Conclusions: US
worldview) and power. Imperialism, Actually Existing Globalisation, and
the Question of Alternatives
Industrial Development 2007 978-81-250-3195-6 ` 510 220pp Paperback
for the 21st Century Rights: Restricted
Edited by David OConnor, Chief of the Policy

Integration and Analysis Branch, Department for Empires Law
Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), UN, and 2008 978-81-250-3463-6 ` 1195 660pp Paperback The American Imperial Project and the
Monica Kjllerstrm, Sustainable Development E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5315-6 War to Remake the World
Affairs Officer, DESA, UN
Edited by Amy Bartholomew, Associate
Industrial development has Dreams, Questions, Struggle Professor, Department of Law, Carleton
mostly been central to the South Asian Women in Britain University, Canada
process of structural
transformation, which Amrit Wilson, British writer and political activist This book brings together
characterises economic some of the worlds most
This book testifies to a
development. This book outstanding theorists to
multiplicity of struggles,
examines the new challenges provide a uniquely lucid
individual and collective,
and opportunities arising from account of the relationship
through which South Asian
globalisation, technological between the American
women, across divisions of
change and new international Empire, the Bush doctrine
class, community, age and
trade rules and emerging global and the war against Iraq
religion, are seeking to take
environmental challenges. the war to remake the
control of their lives. It looks
worldand the implications
2008 978-81-250-3398-1 ` 840 448pp Paperback at the role of the British state,
for legality and human rights.
Rights: Restricted of relentless pressures of the
market, and of the politics of Abridged Contents: PART I: THE AMERICAN
South Asia on shaping gender relations over the last IMPERIAL PROJECT AND THE WAR TO
Kashmir thirty years; and discusses how South Asian REMAKE THE WORLD PART II: EMPIRES LAW:
Insurgency and After masculinities have been reconfigured by multicultural WAR, HUMAN RIGHTS AND INTERNATIONAL
Balraj Puri, noted journalist, writer, human rights policies and by politicised religion. LAW PART III: OCCUPATION, DEMOCRACY
activist and Padma Bhushan awardee 2007 978-81-250-3196-3 ` 490 200pp Paperback AND CONTRADICTIONS OF EMPIRE IN IRAQ
Rights: Restricted PART IV: RESISTING EMPIRE: ROOM FOR
This book explains the MANOEUVRE?
nature and historical roots of
the insurgency in Kashmir. It Empire in the Age of Contributors: Samir Amin, Andrew Arato, Amy
delves into the erosion of Bartholomew, Nehal Bhuta, Doris E. Buss, David
the basis for secular and
Globalisation Coates, Sam Gindin, Jrgen Habermas, Denis
US Hegemony and Neoliberal Order Halliday, Fuyuki Kurasawa, Jayan Nayar, Leo Panitch,
democratic politics in the
state by narrating the history Ray Kiely, Senior Lecturer, Development Studies, Ulrich K. Preuss, Trevor Purvis, Hans von Sponeck,
of its alienation from the rest School of Oriental and African Studies, University Peter Swan, Reg Whitaker, Haifa Zangama
of the country. The author of London 2007 978-81-250-3247-2 ` 545 391pp Paperback
argues that the politics of Rights: Restricted
secession and the militancy This book is a
of the Kashmiri urge for freedom and democracy comprehensive critical
can be best contained by an unhindered extension introduction to the New Cosmopolitanisms
of the processes of Indian democracy to the state. relationship between US South Asians in the US
hegemony and contemporary
2008 978-81-250-3451-3 ` 375 168pp Paperback globalisation. Kiely argues Gita Rajan, Visiting Professor, Womens
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5317-0 that we can only gain a Studies, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York,
proper understanding of the and Associate Professor, Fairfield University,
Connecticut, and Shailja Sharma, Associate
Language, Ideology and Power contemporary world order
Professor, Department of English, De Paul
Language-learning among the Muslims of by linking globalisation to
debates on capitalism, University, Chicago
Pakistan and North India
imperialism and universal human rights. He This book offers an in-depth look at the ways in
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor explores US hegemony in this light, showing how which technology, travel and globalisation have
of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National liberal internationalism cannot be separated from altered traditional patterns of immigration for
Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University, capitalism, neo-liberalism and US empire building. South Asians who live and work in the United
Islamabad States and also explains how their popular cultural
Contents: 1. Introduction 2. Globalisation
This is the first book-length study of the history of Theory or Capitalist Globalisation? 3. Globalisation practices and aesthetic desires are changing. They
language teaching and learning among South Asian and Politics I: State Sovereignty, Imperialism and are presented as the twenty-first centurys new
Muslims. It traces the history of language-teaching Cosmopolitanism 4. Globalisation and Politics II: cosmopolitanisms: flexible enough to adjust to
among the Muslims of north India and present-day International Relations and the Post-9/11 World globalisations economic, political and cultural

imperatives, yet maintaining if religion might give people a chance to lead experience, this collection
elements of their distinct better lives. brings together a set of
identity. analyses for understanding a
2007 978-81-87358-36-7 ` 795 360pp Hardback
major global problem.
Selected Contents:
Politics of Nature Introduction: Terror, the
How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy
Imagination, and Cosmology
Bruno Latour, Professor, Institut detudes 1. Terror against Terror:
Politiques de Paris 9/11 or Kano War in
the Nigerian Electronic
Latour suggests that science Press? 2. Unspeakable
2007 978-81-250-3163-5 ` 490 184pp Paperback and technology need not be Crimes: Athenian Greek Perceptions of Local and
Rights: Restricted unrelated to general society. International Terrorism 3. The Indian State, its
He feels that such an idea, Sikh Citizens, and Terror 4. Between Victims and
assumed to be
Policy Matters commonsensical, is not so
Assailants, Victims and Friends: Sociality and the
Economic and Social Policies to Sustain Imagination in Indo-Fijian Narratives of Rural Violence
and says that there is a need during the May 2000 Fiji Coup 5. Narratives of
Equitable Development to look beyond assumptions Violence and Perils of Peace-Making in NorthSouth
Edited by Jos Antonio Ocampo, Professor, about the gap between Cross-Border Contexts, Ireland 6. The Sign of
Professional Practice of International and Public society and science. In the Kanaim, the Space of Guayana, and Demonology of
Affairs, Columbia University, New York, process, he presents a Development 7. Imaginary Violence and the Terrible
K. S. Jomo, Assistant Secretary General conceptual context for political ecology. Mother: The Imagery of Balinese Witchcraft Afterword:
for Economic Development, Department of 2007 978-81-250-3081-2 ` 785 320pp Paperback The Taste of Death
Economics and Social Affairs (DESA), UN, and Rights: Restricted
Sarbuland Khan, former Director, Economic Contributors: Misty L. Bastian, Elizabeth
and Social Council Support and Coordination, Kirtsoglou, Joyce Pettigrew, Michele Stephen,
DESA, UN Reinventing Public Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern, Susanna
In 2000, UN member states

Administration Trnka, Neil L. Whitehead
pledged to halve world

The Indian Experience 2007 978-81-250-3243-4 ` 490 260pp Paperback
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poverty by 2015, among Bidyut Chakrabarty, Professor, Department of
other Millennium Political Science, University of Delhi
Development Goals. But Yuganta
progress has been elusive. This book outlines the The End of an Epoch (Reissue)
The contributions in this historical processes
volume address disparate associated with the growth Irawati Karve, renowned sociologist and writer,
problems in achieving the of public administration as a who wrote in both English and Marathi
UN Development Agenda. discipline and discusses
Yuganta studies the
The unifying theme is one of contemporary perspectives
principal, mythical-heroic
economic and social on administration theory.
figures of the Mahabharata
integration, and an emphasis on long-term The book considers the
from historical,
investments in education, health and infrastructure. history of Indian
anthropological and secular
administration from the
2007 978-81-250-3064-5 ` 840 368pp Paperback perspectives. The usually
colonial period to the
Rights: Restricted venerated characters of this
present and also focuses on changes brought about
ancient Indian epic are here
by globalisation, privatisation and structural
subjected to a rational
Political Theologies adjustment on governance. This is an up-to-date
enquiry that places them in
Public Religions in a Post-Secular World book on public administration theory.
context, unravels their
[With Social Science Press] 2007 978-81-250-3160-4 ` 595 376pp Paperback hopes and fears, and imbues them with wholly
Edited by Hent de Vries, Professor of human motives, thereby making their stories
relevant and revelatory to contemporary readers.
Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Terror and Violence
USA, and University of Amsterdam, and Imagination and the Unimaginable 2007 978-81-250-3228-1 ` 375 224pp Paperback
Lawrence E. Sullivan, Professor of World
Religions, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA Edited by Andrew Strathern and Pamela J.
Stewart, Department of Anthropology, University Kerala
This book opens an inquiry of Pittsburgh, USA, and Neil L. Whitehead, The Paradoxes of Public Action and
concerning the engagement Professor of Anthropology and Religious Studies, Development
of religion with politics. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
seventeen papers examine Edited by Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor,
interrelationships between This volume offers anthropological insights into Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
the political, economic and the ways in which acts of terror impact on the Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada
cultural characteristics of lives of virtually everyone in the world today. Such
acts have assumed many different forms and Keralas prolonged economic stagnation, mounting
the age of globalization and
provoked varied responses. By stressing the fiscal deficits, high unemployment and social and
the vision of society and
imagination, and its role in amplifying the effects of political atrophy stood in contradiction to its high
structures of governance
literacy levels and low infant mortality and birth
developed by religious traditions while considering

rates. The essays examine Pakistani Politics 5. Pakistans Relations with Azad International Relations in India
the two-faced nature of Kashmir and the Impact on Indo-Pakistani Relations Theorising the Region and Nation
Keralas public actionits PART II. INDIA: POLITICS AND KASHMIR Edited by Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth
enabling outcome in 6. Who Speaks for India? The Role of Civil Society Mallavarapu
enhancing social outcome in Defining Indian Nationalism 7. Hindu Nationalism
2004 978-81-250-2640-2 ` 675 414pp Paperback
and capability, and its and the BJP: Transforming Religion and Politics
paradoxically negative in India 8. Hindu Ethnonationalism, Muslim Jihad, Community, Empire and Migration
social, political and and Secularism: Muslims in the Political Life of South Asians in Diaspora
economic impacts. the Republic of India 9. Jammu and Kashmir in
Edited by Crispin Bates
the Indian Union: The Politics of Autonomy
PART III. INDIA AND PAKISTANS NUCLEAR 2003 978-81-250-2482-8 ` 660 334pp Paperback
DOCTRINES AND U.S. CONCERNS 10. The Rights: Restricted
2006 978-81-250-3048-5 ` 765 404pp Hardback
Stability-Instability Paradox, Misperception, and
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5316-3 Fanon for Beginners
Escalation-Control in South Asia 11. Pakistans
Nuclear Doctrine 12. Coercive Diplomacy in a Deborah Wyrick
Language and Politics in Nuclear Environment: The December 13 Crisis Illustrated by Deborah Wyrick
Pakistan 13. U.S. Interests in South Asia 2003 978-81-250-2474-3 ` 260 184pp Paperback
Rights: Restricted
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor Contributors: Rajesh M. Basrur, Chandrashekhar
of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National Dasgupta, Rafiq Dossani, Ainslie T. Embree, Global Political Economy
Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University, C. Christine Fair, Robert L. Hardgrave, Jr., Rifaat Understanding the International Economic
Islamabad Hussain, Charles H. Kennedy, Michael Krepon, Order
Peter R. Lavoy, Barbara D. Metcalf, Vali Nasr, Henry Robert Gilpin
This book is a study of the
S. Rowen, Howard B. Schaffer, Kartik Vaidyanathan 2003 978-81-250-2306-7 ` 730 435pp Paperback
links between language,
politics and ethnicity in 2006 978-81-250-2995-3 ` 895 436pp Paperback
Pakistan. Rahman reviews Rights: Restricted Gujarat Carnage, The
the history of all the major Asghar Ali Engineer
ethnic and language
Living in the Nuclear Shadow
2003 978-81-250-2496-5 ` 730 476pp Paperback
Movement in India for Nuclear Disarmament
movements that have E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5390-3
(MIND)
occurred and still continue
in Pakistan, such as the 2005 978-81-250-2847-5 ` 125 56pp Paperback India at the Polls
Bengali, Sindhi, Pashto and Parliamentary Elections in the Federal Phase
Punjabi movements, to
Politics and Poetics of Water, The M. P. Singh and Rekha Saxena
The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western India
name a few. 2003 978-81-250-2328-9 ` 575 324pp Hardback
Lyla Mehta
2006 978-81-250-3077-5 ` 675 340pp Paperback
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Rethinking Democracy Ravindra K. Jain
Prospects for Peace in South
Rajni Kothari 2002 978-81-250-2194-0 ` 550 166pp Hardback
Asia
2005 978-81-250-2894-9 ` 435 176pp Paperback Competing Nationalisms in South
Edited by Rafiq Dossani, Senior Research E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4773-5
Scholar, Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC),
Asia
Stanford University, USA, and Henry S. Rowen, Decentralisation and Local Essays for Asghar Ali Engineer
Director Emeritus, APARC Governance Edited by Paul R. Brass and Achin Vanaik,
Edited by L. C. Jain 2002 978-81-250-2221-3 ` 715 312pp Hardback
This book is a collection of
thirteen essays by historians 2004 978-81-250-2707-2 ` 1005 568pp Hardback
Jihad
and scholars in India and the The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia
Gender, Politics and Islam
USA grouped into three
Therese Saliba, Carolyn Allen and Judith Ahmed Rashid
parts: Pakistans politics and
the Kashmir issue; Indias Howard 2002 978-81-250-2228-2 ` 425 304pp Paperback
politics and the Kashmir 2004 978-81-250-2742-3 ` 545 360pp Paperback
issue; and India and
Space, Territory and the State
Indian Administration New Readings in International Politics
Pakistans nuclear policies Textbook
and US concerns. It analyses (Sixth Edition) Ranabir Samaddar
the forces of national S. R. Maheshwari 2002 978-81-250-2209-1 ` 500 296pp Paperback
identity, religion and nuclearisation and its impact 2004 978-81-250-1988-6 ` 445 666pp Paperback
on relations between both countries, and a role Hindi Nationalism
that USA might play in resolving disputes. International Relations in India Alok Rai
Bringing Theory Back Home
Contents: 1. Introduction PART I. PAKISTAN: 2001 978-81-250-1979-4 ` 275 152pp Paperback
POLITICS AND KASHMIR 2. Islamic Extremism Edited by Kanti Bajpai and Siddharth
Mallavarapu
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History of Indian Textbook PERMANENT BLACK Common Cause, The
Administration, A Postcolonial Ethics and the Practice of
Democracy
S. R. Maheshwari, National Fellow, ICSSR
1971
2001 978-81-250-1927-5 ` 390 416pp Paperback A Global History of the Creation of Leela Gandhi, Professor of English and
Bangladesh Humanities at Brown University. She is the
Impact of War on Children, The [With Harvard University Press] founding co-editor of the journal Postcolonial
Studies
Graca Machel Srinath Raghavan,Senior Fellow, Centre for
2001 978-81-250-2077-6 ` 395 264pp Paperback Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in Europeans and Americans
Rights: Restricted Defence Studies, Kings College, London tend to hold the opinion
that democracy is a uniquely
Jharkhand Western inheritance. In The
Politics of Development and Identity Raghavan brilliantly
provides the definitive Common Cause, Leela
Amit Prakash
account of how high-level Gandhi recovers stories of
2001 978-81-250-1899-5 ` 595 400pp Hardback diplomacy involving the an alternative version. Using
superpowers, India, ethics as a lens, she
Nation and National Identity in Pakistan, and China shaped describes a transnational
South Asia its outcome. history of democracy in the
first half of the twentieth
S. L. Sharma and T. K. Oommen
Stephen P. Cohen, author century. She identifies a
2001 978-81-250-1924-4 ` 395 248pp Paperback of The Future of Pakistan shared culture of perfectionism across imperialism,
fascism, and liberalisman ethic that excluded the
From Autocracy to Integration The author contends that,
ordinary and unexceptional. But she also illuminates
Political Developments in Hyderabad State, far from being a predestined event, the creation
an ethic of moral imperfectionism, a set of
19381948 of Bangladesh was the product of conjuncture
anticolonial and antifascist practices devoted to
Lucien D. Benichou and contingency, choice and chance. The breakup
ordinariness and abnegation that ranged from
of Pakistan and the emergence of Bangladesh
2000 978-81-250-1847-6 ` 550 324pp Hardback doomed mutinies in the Indian military to Mahatma
can be understood only in a wider international
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5469-6 Gandhis spiritual discipline.
context of the period: decolonisation, the Cold
Intersections War, and incipient globalisation.This strikingly 2015 978-81-7824-457-0 ` 495 252pp Paperback
Socio-Cultural Trends in Maharashtra original history uses the example of 1971 to
open a window to the nature of international
Meera Kosambi
humanitarian crises, their management, and their
Indian Ideology , The
2000 978-81-250-1878-0 ` 475 228pp Hardback unintended outcomes.
Three Responses to Perry Anderson
Power Play 2015 978-81-7824-451-8 ` 595 368pp Paperback Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology
A Study of the Enron Project 2014 978-81-7824-380-1 ` 795 368pp Hardback and South Asian Studies, Columbia University,
New York, and Honorary Professor, Centre
Abhay Mehta
for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, Sudipta
2000 978-81-250-1745-5 ` 325 242pp Paperback Army and Nation Kaviraj, Professor of Indian Politics and Intellectual
The Military and Indian Democracy since History at Columbia University, Nivedita Menon,
Crossing the Sacred Line Independence Professor, Centre for Comparative Politics and
Womens Search for Political Power
Political Theory, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
Abhilasha Kumari and Sabina Kidwai Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India
New Delhi, Sanjay Ruparelia, Assistant Professor
and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political
1998 978-81-250-1434-8 ` 330 240pp Paperback of Politics at the New School for Social Research,
Science and International Affairs at Yale University
New York
Selections from the Prison Army and Nation draws on
Within the large array of
Notebooks of Antonio Gramsci uniquely comprehensive
responses to Marxist
Quintin Hoare and Geoffrey Nowell Smith data to explore how and
historian Perry Anderson
why India has succeeded in
1996 978-81-250-0969-6 ` 620 580pp Paperback that appeared, three stand
keeping the military out of
out for the care and
In Pursuit of Lakshmi politics, when so many
comprehensiveness with
The Political Economy of the Indian State other countries have failed.
which they show the levels
It uncovers the command
Lloyd I. Rudolph and S. Hoeber Rudolph of ignorance, arrogance,
and control strategies, the
1987 978-81-250-1551-2 ` 450 546pp Paperback
and misconstruction on
careful ethnic balancing, and
which the Andersonian
the political, foreign policy,
Modernity of Tradition, The and strategic decisions that
variety of political analysis is
Political Development in India based. Collectively, these
have made the army safe for Indian democracy.
Lloyd I. Rudolph and S. Hoeber Rudolph three ripostes represent a systematic critique of
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Confronting Andersons claim to originality,
current national conflicts over caste and regional
Nivedita Menon exposes his failure to engage with
representation in New Delhi, as well as Indias
feminist, Marxist, and Dalit scholarship, arguing
external and strategic challenges.
that a British colonial ideology is at work in such
2015 978-81-7824-456-3 ` 795 304pp Hardback analyses. Partha Chatterjee studies key historical
episodes to counter the Great Men view of

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Western intellectual history can obfuscate political Chamars and Dalit History in North India languagesincluding Dutch,
understanding. Tracing their origins to the Portuguese, English, Persian,
nineteenth-century worldview of Hegel and James Ramnarayan S. Rawat, Assistant Professor of Urdu, and Tamilthey
Mill, Sudipta Kaviraj contends that reductive History, University of Delaware show how this Indo-Islamic
Orientalist tropes such as those deployed by dynasty developed a
Rawat undertakes a
Anderson frequently mar European analyses of sophisticated system of
comprehensive
non-European contexts. government and facilitated
reconsideration of the
an era of profound artistic
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and architectural
of this important Dalit
achievement, setting the
group. Using Dalit vernacular
Invention of Private Life, literature, local-level archival
groundwork for South Asias future trajectory.
The sources, and interviews in
Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, this work adds
rich dimensions to research on the Mughal state,
Literature and Ideas Dalit neighbourhoods, he
early modern South Asia, and the comparative
reveals a previously
Sudipta Kaviraj, professor of Indian politics and history of the Mughal, Ottoman, Safavid, and other
unrecognised Dalit
intellectual history at Columbia University early modern empires.
movement which has flourished in North India from
In The Invention of Private the earliest decades of the twentieth century and 2014 978-81-7824-386-3 ` 595 536pp Paperback
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their experiential interior.
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intersection of three An Indian History
disciplines: the study of
literature, social theory, and
Secularism, Identity, and Niraja Gopal Jayal Professor at the Centre for
the Study of Law and Governance at JNU, New
intellectual history. Kaviraj Enchantment Delhi
argues that serious reflections [With Harvard University Press]
on modernitys predicaments and bafflements lie in Unlike the mature
Akeel Bilgrami, Sidney Morgenbesser Professor democracies of the West,
literature, proving that he is one of the most insightful
of Philosophy, and Director, South Asian Institute, India began as a true
writers on the correlation of literature with politics.
Columbia University republic of equals with a
Modernity introduced new literary formssuch as
the novel and the autobiographyto Indian writers. complex architecture of
These became reflections on the nature of modernity. The essays in this volume show him intervening citizenship rights that was
Some of the questions central to modern European with great analytical skill as well as sagacity in the sensitive to the many
social theory also grew into significant themes within debates over secularism and identity politics. Of hierarchies of Indian society.
Indian literary reflection. particular interest is his recent interpretation of In this provocative
Gandhis moral philosophy. Bilgramis brilliant biography of the defining
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disenchanted world in the light of a reassessment Jayal shows how the progressive civic ideals
Green and Saffron of the seventeenth-century Radical Enlightenment embodied in the constitution have been challenged
Hindu Nationalism and Indian and the tradition of Romanticism will certainly by exclusions based on social and economic
Environmental Politics draw the attention of serious readers around the inequality, and sometimes also, paradoxically,
world. undermined by its own policies of inclusion.
Mukul Sharma
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This book examines Rights: Restricted
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contemporary environmental
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hand, and the development of Writing the Mughal World Mukul Kesavan
Hindu conservative ideology Studies in Political Culture
Homeless in the title of
and politics on the other. It
Muzaffar Alam, George V. Bobrinskoy Professor this book means
includes the first thorough
in South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the cosmopolitan. Mukul
investigation of Anna Hazares
University of Chicago, and Sanjay Subramanyam, Kesavan, considered by
movement in Maharashtra. By
Professor and holder of the Navin and Pratima many to be Indias most
pinpointing the communal and
Doshi Chair of Indian History at the University of articulate and sophisticated
authoritarian discourses within some of the new
California, Los Angeles scholar-journalist in English,
social movements, his book alters the way in which
covers a huge range of
we look at everyday life in the subcontinent. In this book, two leading historians of early political and cultural
2014 978-81-7824-393-1 ` 495 328pp Paperback modern South Asia present nine jointly authored subjects, local and
2011 978-81-7824-340-5 ` 795 328pp Hardback essays on the Mughal empire, framed by a long international, in this
Introduction which reflects on the imperial, collection of opinion pieces. These include
nationalist, and other conflicted trajectories of Hollywood and Bollywood, Salman Rushdie and
history-writing on the Mughals. Using materials

Martin Amis, Steve Jobs and Julian Assange, Sri India. Sovereigns, wild animals, and environments culture in Independent
Lanka and Israel, wildlife at the Kruger National were interactive participants in the construction of India; the construction of
Park and beachlife in Goa. territory, identity, and history. colonial power; the
relationship between state,
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scrupulously rational to extravagantly funny.
India; the structure of
Regardless of the tone he adopts, his observations
nationalist discourse;
are acute, his analysis of what he notices Empire and Nation language and identity
Orwellian. The perspective and worldview that Essential Writings, 19852005 formation in Indian contexts;
emerges is that of a truly global intellectual who
the relation of development
is both admirably idiosyncratic and secular to the Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Political Science,
with democracy and
point of being hidebound, a combination which Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
democratic functioning; and the interface of
makes this essay collection quite exceptional.
This book brings together religion, politics, and modernity in South Asia.
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Partha Chatterjee. It includes
Lineages of Political Society his pathbreaking
Islam in South Asia
interventions in the
Studies in Postcolonial Democracy In Practice
theoretical analysis of
Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, nationalism, as well as
Barbara D. Metcalf, Professor Emeritus of
Columbia University, and honorary professor, several of his pieces on the
History, University of California, Davis
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta political, intellectual, and
(Kolkata) cultural history of The thirty-four selections
nationalism. The volume also translated from Arabic,
In this book, Partha
contains Chatterjees provocative and theoretically Persian, Urdu, Bengali,
Chatterjee reveals the
innovative essays analysing the phenomenon of Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi,
emergence of a new theory
democracy in a post-colonial country like India. Dakhani, and other
of postcolonial democracy.
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the nature of democracy
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which grew predominantly
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out of notions and practices
from oral narratives to elite
in the WestChatterjee
powerfully argues that the Enchantment of Democracy guidance manuals, from
devotional songs to secular judicial decisions
theory now in evidence is and India, The arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters
not merely a record of the Politics and Ideas to a discussion among college women affiliated
imperfections and immaturity of democracy in the
with an Islamist organisation.
non-Western world. On the contrary, it has Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia
devised concepts and analytical tools to understand University 2012 978-81-7824-360-3 ` 545 504pp Paperback
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so, it has also shown up histories of modern
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political institutions which are not part of the
democracy from different
genealogy of Western democracy.
angles. Kaviraj argues that it
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2011 978-81-7824-317-7 ` 750 316pp Hardback with the rise of modernity, Essays on Literature, Politics and Violence
human societies suffer D.R. Nagaraj, profound political commentator
complete disenchantment:
Animal Kingdoms modernity creates new
and cultural critic
Hunting, the Environment, and Power in forms of enchantment, and Edited by Prithvi Datta Chandra Shobhi, social
the Indian Princely States democracy is, in fact, part of historian
Julie E. Hughes, Assistant Professor of History, the political enchantment of modernity.
This book provides Nagarajs
Vassar College, USA 2012 978-81-7824-359-7 ` 395 352pp Paperback most important writings on
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This book is about the
hunting of tigers and violence. Some of the
thirteen pieces here are
leopards, wild boar and Imaginary Institution of translated from Kannada
game birds by Indian princes
a hundred years ago.
India, The into English for the first time,
Informed by the analytical
Politics and Ideas while others long unavailable
approaches of have been hunted out from
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia
environmental historians, scattered sources. In the
University
animal geographers, art present volume, Nagarajs
historians, and ecological The writings collected here range over a wide ear for the sound and sense of things
anthropologists, this book terrain, including studies of the peculiar nature of quintessentially Indian is everywhere apparent.
demonstrates that no strict divisions existed Indian democracy; the specificities of the regimes
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Politics as Performance Phule. It shows him as its first Empires Garden
A Social History of the Telugu Cinema ideologist, working out a Assam and the Making of India
unique brand of radical
S.V. Srinivas is Senior Fellow at the Centre humanism. It analyses his Jayeeta Sharma, Assistant Professor of History,
for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore, contribution to one of the University of Toronto
and co-ordinator of the Culture: Industries and most important and neglected
In the mid-nineteenth
Diversity in Asia (CIDASIA) research programme social developments in
century, the British created
there. western India in this
a landscape of tea
periodthe formation of a
This book provides a plantations in the north-
new regional identity.
picture of the Telugu eastern Indian region of
cinema, as both industry Assam. Claiming that local
and cultural form, over fifty 2011 978-81-7824-313-9 ` 495 346pp Paperback peasants were indolent, the
formative years. It argues Rights: Restricted British soon began
that films are directly importing indentured labour
related both to the Caste Question, The from central India. In the
prominence of an elite twentieth century, these
Dalits and the Politics of Modern India
which dominates Andhra migrants were joined by others who came
Pradesh and other parts of Anupama Rao, Associate Professor of History, voluntarily to seek their livelihoods. In Empires
India, and to the emergence Barnard College, USA Garden, Jayeeta Sharma explains how the
of a new idiom of mass politics. Looking in settlement of more than one million migrants in
Focusing on western India in
particular at the career of Andhra Pradeshs Assam irrevocably changed the regions social
the colonial and postcolonial
best-known film star Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao landscape.
periods, this innovative
(NTR), S.V. Srinivas reveals how the Telugu
work shines a light on South
cinema redefined ideas of linguistic identity and
Asian historiography and on 2011 978-81-7824-343-6 ` 750 348pp Hardback
community feeling within a non-literate public in
ongoing caste discrimina-
South India.
tion, to show how persons
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Grassroots of Democracy, The
possess them and how
Field Studies of Indian Elections
Trajectories of the Indian Dalit struggles led to the Edited by A. M. Shah, former Professor of
transformation of such Sociology, University of Delhi
State, The terms of colonial liberalism
Politics and Ideas as rights, equality, and personhood. Originally conceived by
Indias most influential
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia 2011 978-81-7824-321-4 ` 495 414pp Paperback modern anthropologist
University, New York, USA Rights: Restricted
M.N. Srinivas and his
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The author reveals the Rights: Restricted
eminent colleague A.M.
variety of historical Shah, this book contains
nineteen essays based on
trajectories taken by Indian Changing Homelands field studies of two national
democracy. Indian political
Hindu Politics and the Partition of India elections in Indias rural,
structures, says Kaviraj, are
comparable to the Neeti Nair, Assistant Professor of History, tribal, and urban
pre-modern empire-states University of Virginia, Charlottesville communities, within ten
of Indian and Islamic history. Indian states. Demonstrating the importance of
Changing Homelands offers a fieldwork for studying elections (as compared to
He shows that there is no
startling new perspective on the questionnaire and interview method), this
way to examine present-day
what was and was not book provides an entirely novel perspective on the
politics except through
politically possible in late study of electionsvery different from the one
painstaking reconnections with the vernacular facts
colonial India. In this highly usually projected through the interpretation of
of Indian political history.
readable account of Partition statistics. This sociologists micro-view contrasts
2012 978-81-7824-352-8 ` 395 290pp Paperback in Punjab, Neeti Nair rejects with the more standard macro-view provided by
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2011 978-81-7824-319-1 ` 425 406pp Paperback
Hindu and Muslim
Caste, Conflict, and Ideology communities made political
Indian Secularism
Mahatma Jotirao Phule and Low Caste settlement impossible. Far
from being an inevitable solution, the idea of A Social and Intellectual History, 18901950
Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India
Partition came as a very late and stunning surprise Shabnum Tejani, Lecturer in History, School of
Rosalind OHanlon, Professor of Indian History to the majority of Hindus in the region. Oriental and African Studies, University of London
and Culture in the Faculty of Oriental Studies,
2011 978-81-7824-324-5 ` 750 356pp Hardback Shabnum Tejani shows that the study of secularism
University of Oxford Rights: Restricted
in India has been circumscribed by the opposition in
This is the first Indian reprint, with a new preface by which it exists with communalism. Scholars have
the author, of a classic work which was first published treated these categories as reified wholes.
in 1985. This study concentrates on the first leader of Consequently, analyses of secularism have obscured
the movement against untouchability, Mahatma Jotirao more than they have revealed. The book examines

how secularism came to be Partitions of Memory, The individual attention to every
bound up with what it meant The Afterlife of the Division of India conflict and shows how
to legitimately call oneself strategic decisions for each
Indian and shows why this Edited by Suvir Kaul, Department of English, crisis came to be defined in
concepts genealogy is so University of Pennsylvania, USA the light of the preceding
imbued with the language of ones. The book follows
The essays in this book
religion. It argues that the Nehru as he wrestles with a
suggest ways in which the
emergence of the category string of major conflicts
tangled skein of Partition
of secularism in India had assessing the utility of force,
might be unravelled. Two of
less to do with creating an weighing risks of war,
them deal with culture and
ethics of tolerance than with exploring diplomatic options
history in what is now a
a formulation of nationalism that provided a for peace, and forming strategic judgements that
part of Pakistan. Other
counterpoint to challenges posed by Muslim and would define his reputation, both within his lifetime
contributors discuss issues
Untouchable communities. and after.
as diverse as literary
2011 978-81-7824-312-2 ` 395 320pp Paperback reactions to Partition; the 2011 978-81-7824-320-7 ` 495 386pp Paperback
relief and rehabilitation
Languages of Belonging measures provided to Partition refugees; and the
Islamism and Democracy in
Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of Dalit claim, at the prospect of Partition, to a
Kashmir political community differentiating them from India
Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor of History, caste-Hindus. The power of national monuments
Irfan Ahmad is an anthropologist and assistant
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA to evoke a historical past, and the power of letters
professor of politics in the School of Political and
to evoke more immediately poignant pasts, are
Social Inquiry at Monash University in Australia
themes in some of the other essays.
This is an outstanding book.
2011 978-81-7824-322-1 ` 350 328pp Paperback
Jamaat-e-Islami Hind is the
Based on massive archival
most influential Islamist
research in Delhi, Jammu and
organization in India today.
Srinagar and the unearthing of Secularizing Islamists? Islamism and Democracy in
rare Kashmiri literary Jamaat-e-Islami and Jamaat-ud-dawa in India is the first in-depth
sources, it skilfully uncovers Urban Pakistan examination of Indias
the religious sensibilities that
Humeira Iqtidar, lecturer in politics, Kings Jamaat-e-Islami and its
underlay the formation of
College, London offshoot, the Student Islamic
Kashmirs regional identity in
Movement of India (SIMI). It
the late-nineteenth and
This book provides a explores political Islams
early-twentieth century.
thorough analysis of two complex relationship with
Languages of Belonging will
Islamist parties in Pakistan, democracy and gives us a rare window into one
light up new ways of understanding the formation of
the highly influential immensely significant Islamic trajectory in a
identities in South Asias regions.
Jamaat-e-Islami and the Muslim-minority context. Irfan Ahmad deftly traces
Sugata Bose, Harvard University more militant Jamaat-ud- Jamaat-e-Islamis changing position towards Indias
Dawa, widely blamed for secular democracy and the groups gradual
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the November 2008 ideological shift in the direction of religious
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Hinduism two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar says that
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Past and Present Imaginings of India these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating
Chandrima Chakraborty, Assistant Professor,
secularization within Muslim societies, even as they Nationalism in the
Department of English and Cultural Studies,
vehemently oppose secularism. Vernacular
McMaster University, Canada 2011 978-81-7824-332-0 ` 595 234pp Hardback Hindi, Urdu, and the Literature of Indian
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This book analyses the links
between religion, Edited by Shobna Nijhawan, Assistant Professor,
masculinity, and asceticism War and Peace in Modern Department of Languages, Literatures and
in Indian political and India Linguistics, York University, Canada
cultural history. Through an A Strategic History of the Nehru Years
examination of nationalist This anthology comprises a
discourse in the writings Srinath Raghavan, Senior Fellow, Centre for selection of formative
of Bankimchandra Policy Research, New Delhi, and Lecturer in literary writings in Hindi and
Chattopadhyay, Defence Studies at Kings College London Urdu from the second half
Rabindranath Tagore, of the nineteenth century,
Srinath Raghavan draws on a rich vein of untapped leading up to Indian
Mahatma Gandhi, Raja Rao,
documents to illuminate Nehrus approach to war Independence and the
V. D. Savarkar, M.S. Golwalkar, and many others,
and his efforts for peace. Vividly recreating the creation of Pakistan. It
Chakraborty reveals how ideas about masculinity
intellectual and political milieu of the Indian foreign provides a picture of how
and Hindu asceticism came to be reworked for
policy establishment, he explains the response of nationalismas a cultural
cultural and political purposes.
Nehru and his top advisors to the tensions with ideology and political
2011 978-81-7824-298-9 ` 695 276pp Hardback Junagadh, Hyderabad, Pakistan, and China. He gives

movementwas formed in literature. Unlike Hindu Nationalism historians work are masterfully unravelled in this
other anthologies, this one focuses on writings in A Reader book.
two North Indian vernaculars with a contested
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relationship: Hindi and Urdu. Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, Centre dEtudes et E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-441-9
de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris
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In India and beyond, Hindu Scandal of the State
nationalism came into the
Nationalization of Hindu headlines in the 1990s, when
Women, Law and Citizenship in
Traditions, The Postcolonial India
the Ayodhya movement
Bharatendu Harischandra and Nineteenth- gained momentum. The first Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan, Reader in English and
Century Banaras part of this reader shows Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, UK
that some of the nineteenth-
Vasudha Dalmia, Professor of Hindi and Modern century Hindu socio- Scandal of the State is an
South Asian Studies, University of California, religious reformers, such as examination of the
Berkeley, USA Dayananda (founder of the relationship between the
Arya Samaj), prepared the postcolonial democratic
This book studies how a
ground for Hindu Indian nation-state and
dominant strand of
nationalism by positing a Vedic Golden Age. The Indian womens needs and
Hinduism in North
second part of the reader outlines every major lives. The author combines
Indiathe tradition which
political issue on which the Hindu nationalist feminist theory and
uses and misuses the slogan
movement has taken a distinct position. postcolonial studies to show
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Bharatendu Harischandra Languages of Political Islam role and function.
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point for an analysis of some of the vital cultural c. 12001800 Rights: Restricted
processes through which modern North India, as Muzaffar Alam, Professor, departments of South
we experience it today, came to be formed. Asian Languages and Civilizations, and History, Azad Hind
With a Foreword by Francesca Orsini. University of Chicago Writings and Speeches, 19411943
2010 978-81-7824-304-7 ` 495 530pp Paperback This book shows the ways in The letters in this volume
which political Islam, from its cover perhaps the most
Crisis of Secularism in India, establishment in medieval difficult, daring and
north India, adapted itself to a controversial phase in the
The variety of Indian contexts and life of Indias foremost
Edited by Anuradha D. Needham, Donald became deeply Indianised. anti-colonial revolutionary.
R. Longman Professor of English at Oberlin Through a close reading of a His writings of this period
College, Ohio, USA, and Rajeswari Sunder variety of textsranging from cover a broad range of
Rajan, Distinguished Visiting Global Professor, normative treatises and Sufi topics, including the nature
Department of English, New York University biographies to Persian court and course of the Second
poetryMuzaffar Alam shows World War, the need to
that the vocabularies in use went through certain distinguish between Indias internal and external
This very rich collection
changes so fundamental that the language of Indian policy in the context of the international war crisis,
of essays from a stellar line
Islam became quite different from what was in vogue plans for a final armed assault against British rule in
of contributors is
in contexts outside. India, dismay at and criticism of Germanys invasion
remarkable not only
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of the Soviet Union, and reflections on the future
because it updates Indian
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4 problems of reconstruction in free India.
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Sciences Sociales, Marseille, France
of the anti-Muslim violence
in Gujarat in 2002. Philosophical, historical, and The long and difficult Last Liberal and Other
contemporary at the same time, these essays add a elaboration of the Indian Essays, The
new dimension to global discussions of liberalism national flag, the diverse and Ramachandra Guha, eminent writer and
and the politics of the religious Right. sometimes contrary biographer
Dipesh Chakrabarty expectations that built up
around this object during This book is on how a large area of contemporary
2009 978-81-7824-256-9 ` 595 424pp Paperback half a century with their Indias cultural and intellectual life has been
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stakes profoundly rooted in fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, in
the social world: these diverse ways, imbibed the spirit of liberalism,
essential aspects of the secularism, personal integrity and social

commitment. The authors Prophets Facing Backward Subaltern Studies XI
heroes and heroines include Postmodernism, Science, and Hindu Community, Gender and Violence
environmentalists and social
Nationalism Edited by Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep
activists, teachers and Jeganathan
scholars, scientists and Meera Nanda, independent scholar in the USA
2003 978-81-7824-033-6 ` 495 360pp Paperback
writers, politicians and
This book argues that the secularisation of cultural
bureaucrats. Time Warps
common sense is the best answer to bigotry in
contemporary India. It The Insistent Politics of Silent and Evasive Pasts
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Yasmin Saikia, Assistant Professor of History, Vedic sciences. PRESS
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
Yasmin Saikia opens a

This is first-rate. . . . It is quite unique in the Tocqueville in India
way it combines valuable criticisms of postmodern
new door to margins of SERIES: FRENCH WRITINGS ON INDIA AND SOUTH-
science with a close study of how these ideas
national power, memory, ASIA
influence actual political developments in a
and history, where most
developing country. Jean Alphonse Bernard, French writer, retired
people live today. Her fresh
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weave together high theory, 2006 978-81-7824-153-1 ` 350 325pp Paperback India has always been a land
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expertise, ethnographic
Today it contrives to be a
detail, personal experience,
Subaltern Studies XII functioning democracy in
and a sweeping command of
Muslims, Dalits and the Fabrications of History the midst of a society that
history in South Asia from medieval times to the
Edited by Shail Mayaram, M. S. S. Pandian and remains inherently
present. [Her book] is an erudite evocation of
Ajay Skaria hierarchical. In order to
the multiple pasts of Tai-Ahom people struggling
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Revolution in Bihar
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Persistence of Poverty from George J. Kunnath, Research Fellow, Limerick, Ireland
most other poverty studies is Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths College,
Windows into a Revolution
the way in which it University of London
offers glimpses into the
conceptualises the problem.
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This volume offers a variety
examines Dalit mobilization and Nepal by tracing some
of alternative analytical
and the transformation of of its effects on the lives of
perspectives and fresh
rural power relations in the ordinary people living
insights into poverty that are
context of intense agrarian amidst the revolutions in
key to addressing the
violence involving Maoist Bengal, Bihar and Nepal.
problem. In looking at the day
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to day lived realities of the
militias backed by state windows into different
poor, the volume points out that in order to
forces in Bihar in the 1980s. stages of mobilization and
understand poverty one must take into account the
transformation into what
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is rooted. It suggests that democracy in India may be
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IV CONTROLLING THE POOR Part V THE enemies, do because it is so much better informed
IMPROVING LOT OF THE POOR? Gopal Guru, Professor, Centre for Political Studies,
and never loses its loyalty to the local people.
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
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Peggy Froerer, Nandini Gooptu, Dipankar Gupta,
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This important collection brings together
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David Picherit, A. Rajagopal, Indrajit Roy, Arild
Ruud, Kunal Sen, Penny Vera-Sanso, R. Vidyasagar
Conflict field sites all the way from Pashupati to Tirupati.
The Emergence of Hindu Nationalism It is essential reading for anyone who wants to
2014 978-93-83166-04-6 ` 745 46 pp Hardback in Rural India know about Maoism in South Asia.
(Second Impression) David N. Gellner, University of Oxford
Politics of the Peggy Froerer, Lecturer in Anthropology, School 2012 978-81-87358-49-7 ` 695 352pp Hardback
Pharmaceutical Industry of Social Sciences, Brunel University, London, UK
and Access to Medicines, This is an ethnographic Lived Islam in South Asia
The account of the emergence Adaptation, Accommodation and Conflict
of Hindu nationalism in a
World Pharmacy and India Edited by Imtiaz Ahmad, former Professor of
tribal community in
Edited by Hans Lfgren, Associate Professor Chhattisgarh, central India, Political Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
in Politics and Policy Studies, Deakin University, attributed to the New Delhi, and Helmut Reifeld, India
Melbourne, Australia involvement of the representative, Konrad Adenauer Foundation,
Rashtriya Swayamsevak New Delhi
Indias pharmaceutical Sangh (RSS), a militant Lived Islam in South Asia
industry is a success story Hindu nationalist explores the everyday
of economic expansion and organisation, in local affairs. religious lives of Muslims in
improvements in public South Asia. The book
health. Indian firms have ... It deserves a wide audience since it cautions argues that Islam cannot be
been supplying affordable against the facile assumption that the Hindutva understood through the
and quality medicines to movement is merely an urban phenomenon and works of theologians alone,
developing countries and that it will soon disappear due to its electoral for whom it is a formal,
exporting to highly defeat. uniform and rigid system of
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Ideology
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LIVED ISLAM AND ITS HISTORICAL CONTEXT
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August 1948. This account
many parts of India, literary
of Indo-Swiss cooperation in
histories play an important
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Nature and Nation in Indias Northeast programme traces fifty years
ethos. They are closely
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Bengt G. Karlsson, Associate Professor in Social general and various regional
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demands for indigenous
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Globalisation, The Resistance and the State uses
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extractions of limestone, controversies over Edited by Hans Lfgren, Director, Master of healthcare programmes,
uranium deposits, and the Supreme Court ban on Politics and Policy Program, Deakin University, forestry, political parties
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Contents: Introduction 1. Nature and Nation description of conflicts over
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the interpretation of
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India and China in the The book brings together between a modernising state, and the people it
Colonial World Indian and Australian professes to represent and benefit.
experts in the fields of
Edited by Madhavi Thampi, faculty of Chinese
political science, . . an excellent contribution to our
History, Department of East Asian Studies,
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University of Delhi
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This volume casts new light globalisation. Edited by Hent de Vries, Professor of
on some of the problems Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore,
that have confronted the Subrata K. Mitra, University of Heidelberg, Germany
USA, and University of Amsterdam, and
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Gendered Citizenship Nehru University, New Delhi, Avinash Kumar, lawyers of the Indian National Army, Gandhis
Historical and Conceptual Explorations Assistant Professor of Political Studies, Centre philosophy of non-violence and the significance
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The Indian Parliament examines the credibility,
This revised edition of Gendered Citizenship (first legitimacy and functioning of the Indian parliament.
published in 2005) examines the gendering of The introduction provides a thorough analysis Industry and the Region
citizenship. In the context of resistance against of the relationship between the functioning of Theories, Techniques and Applications
the colonial rule, the language of citizenship that parliamentary institutions and the rapid changes
emerged in late colonial India was based on a T. Ravi Kumar, Assistant Professor, Department
witnessed in Indian society, particularly the onset
gendered notion of the communityboth national of Economics, Kirori Mal College, University of
of coalition politics and economic reforms. The
and political. Delhi
first part examines the institutional standards
This book will be valuable for advanced students, of parliamentary performance. The second part Industry and the Region introduces readers to the
researchers and scholars of political science, focuses on different forms of parliamentary basic theories, issues and problems of regional
history, sociology and gender studies. It would control, as well as the evolving relationship analysis as well as the analytical and empirical
also be helpful to those studying social exclusion between the legislature and the executive in a methods that may be utilised within a regional
and the general reader interested in debates over period of unstable coalition formations. The third framework of study. The book analyses policies
gender and citizenship. part analyses the external factors which affect and that may be applied to resolve critical regional
determine the internal functioning of Parliament. issues and identifies the different strategies that
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Integration of the Indian Kashmir Lenin and Imperialism
States Insurgency and After An Appraisal of Theories and
Contemporary Reality
V. P. Menon, last Constitutional Advisor to the Balraj Puri, noted journalist, writer, human rights
Governor-General of British India activist and Padma Bhushan awardee Prabhat Patnaik
This book relates the extremely interesting This book explains the nature and historical roots There are two distinct levels at which Lenin
and important story of how the political and of the insurgency in Kashmir. It delves into the theorised about imperialism. At one level he
administrative consolidation of India was brought erosion of the basis for secular and democratic outlined certain tendencies in the phase of
about swiftly and peacefully. politics in the state by narrating the history of its monopoly capital which generated situations of
alienation from the rest of the country. actual or potential armed conflict and made for
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4290-7 global instability of the international capitalist state
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5317-0
system. At another level he explored with this
International Relations in theoretical apparatus, the specific, conjuncture
Kerala which prevailed on the eve of the First World War
India The Paradoxes of Public Action and as a means of explaining it. The sixteen papers
Bringing Theory Back Home Development in this volume constitute an effort to correctly
Siddharth Mallavarapu and Kanti Bajpai understand and apply Lenins theory and provide
Edited by Joseph Tharamangalam, Professor, useful material on the significance and interpretation
This reader is a collection of first-rate theoretical Department of Sociology and Anthropology, of Lenins theory of imperialism and on aspects of
engagements relating to International Relations Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax, Canada the capitalist crisis using empirical data to support
from across India. The class character of The essays examine the two-faced nature of theoretical assumptions. The volume also contains
contemporary international law, reassessing Keralas public actionits enabling outcome in papers critically appraising recent theoretical
the conceptual foundations of imperialism, enhancing social outcome and capability, and writings on the theory of imperialism.
mapping human security, evaluating the gaze of its paradoxically negative social, political and E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5014-8
Orientalism and defending the analytical relevance economic impacts.
of gender as a lens to examine national security
are issues covered in the theoretical ambit of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5316-3 Living Faith, A
this volume. The book also addresses two other My Quest for Peace, Harmony and
core issues: contesting the Delhi-centricity of Language, Ideology and Social Change
the discipline and acknowledging the relevance of An Autobiography of Asghar Ali Engineer
theory to policy. Power
Language-learning among the Muslims of With a Foreword by Mushirul Hasan
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4774-2
Pakistan and North India
Asghar Ali Engineer was Chairperson, Centre
Tariq Rahman, National Distinguished Professor for Study of Society and Secularism, Mumbai, and
Inter-state River Water of Linguistics and South Asian Studies, National Director, Institute of Islamic Studies, Mumbai
Disputes in India Institute of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam University,
Islamabad This is an extensive autobiographical account of
M. V. V. Raman, a practising lawyer with a Asghar Ali Engineers commitment to building an
keen desire to bring law as close to the people as This is the first book-length study of the history of inclusive society and his interpretation of Islam as
possible language teaching and learning among South Asian a modernist. It chronicles the personal, social and
Muslims. It traces the history of language-teaching political events that shaped his life and views, his
Inter-state river water disputes in India have
among the Muslims of north India and present-day struggle against the orthodox Bohra priesthood
become an inflammatory issue in the last few
Pakistan, and then relates language-learning (the and his rise as a leader of social and religious
years. They have become tools for political
demand) and teaching (the supply) to ideology (or reform.
one-upmanship and have engendered numerous
worldview) and power.
senseless acts of violence. This book offers a E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5314-9
balanced survey of the history of inter-state river E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5315-6
water disputes in India. It examines the legal
approaches through which river water disputes
M. K. Gandhis Hind Swaraj
have been tackled and suggests concrete steps
Lee Jong-wook A Critical Edition
to deal with such disputes in future. A notable
A Life in Health and Politics
Annotated, translated and edited by
feature of the book is an up-to-date analysis of the Desmond Avery, the former editor of the Suresh Sharma, historian and anthropologist,
Cauvery waters dispute. Bulletin of the World Health Organization and Tridip Suhrud, Professor, Dhirubhai Ambani
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4624-0 Institute of Information and Communication
This book is a biography of the sixth Director-
Technology, Ahmedabad
General of the World Health Organization, the
first Korean to hold this post. It charts the course On board the Kildonan Castle, on his return from
of his life from a newly qualified doctor who England to South Africa, M. K. Gandhi wrote Hind
volunteers to work with leprosy patients in the Swarajya in Gujarati between 13 and 22 November
suburbs of his home town, Seoul, in the Republic 1909. This centenary edition of Gandhis Hind
of Korea, to the headquarters of WHO in Geneva, Swaraj is both a celebration of the text as also
Switzerland. Desmond Averys account not only its biography. This critical edition restores the
makes for compelling reading about an eventful sanctity of the 1910 first edition and brings it in
life, it also gives insights into public health and conversation with the subsequent editions of 1921
policy making. and 1939. It also compares the Gujarati original
with the English rendering. For the first time, this
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edition brings together three texts (Gujarati, Hindi interwoven with stories and anecdotes to create is portrayed as natural rather than human induced
and English) and also includes the original Preface an authoritative and unforgettable portrait of Salar and this naturalisation of scarcity is beneficial to
and Foreword of Gandhi. This is the only bilingual Jung. What emerges is a revealing casestudy of those who are powerful.
edition of Hind Swaraj. British colonial administration with themes that
This is a significant book in the light of the growing
are relevant for today also.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5312-5 water crisis in India, and the world.
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Mahatma, TheA Novel
Mukunda Rao Nationalism and Colonialism Politics in India
(Second Edition)
The Mahatma is an account of Mohandas in Modern India
Karamchand Gandhis days in riot-hit Noakhali
Bipan Chandra Rajni Kothari, a noted intellectual and political
(now in Bangladesh). It explores the Mahatmas
scientist who radically changed the contours of the
struggle to reconcile his ideals of truth and The author discusses in detail the twin phenomena
discipline of political science in India
non-violence with ugly realities of communalism, of colonialism and nationalism that has loomed
partition and political opportunism. The narrative large over the historical canvas of modern India. This pioneering study first published in 1970
is brought alive with well-rounded cameos of The nature of British colonialism, colonial policies has looked at India as a vibrant and politically
personalities from those turbulent pre-partition and strategies of economic growth have been sustainable polity. From the theoretical, historical,
years. Set in rural East Bengal, the novel uses examined within the parameters of the colonial socio-cultural, and comparative matrices of
simple imagery and a fresh idiom to convey its structure. A unique feature of the book is the Indian polity, this book ranges through strategies,
essence of Gandhian simplicity. description of the Pressure-Compromise- concerns, and issues that strengthen and support
Pressure Strategy employed by the British to
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4683-7 Indias tried and tested political institutions and
consolidate power. Probable reasons for the
failure of the nationalist movement to counter the agencies that promote the countrys national
Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru, disruptive colonial forces have been suggested. integration.
In effect, Colonialism has been studied as a
The distinct structure through its different stages.
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5037-7
Sarvepalli Gopal Reinterpreting this period that spanned 150 years,

the book provides an alternative framework for Politics of Sanitation in
This is the text of the Heras Memorial Lectures
delivered in Mumbai in December 1977.
the study of modern Indian history. India, The
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5038-4 Cities, Services and the State
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4994-4
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
My Days with Gandhi Polio Eradication and Its Susan E. Chaplin, Researcher in Melbourne,
Discontents Australia
N. K. Bose, former Director, Anthropological A Historians Journey Through an
Survey of India This book examines how the environmental
International Public Health (Un)civil War problems confronting Indian cities have arisen and
This book deals with the last phase of Gandhis life. subsequently forced millions of people to live in
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY
The author was Gandhis secretary and companion illegal settlements that lack adequate sanitation,
during those crucial last years. He has drawn on William Muraskin, Professor, Department of and other basic urban services.
his close relationship with the Mahatma, and on Urban Studies, Queens College, City University of
a wealth of documentary evidence to show how New York These issues are explored by studying the
Gandhi dealt with the crises he experienced both history of colonial and post-independence urban
at the personal and political level. An honest and This book attempts to investigate and explain why development and management in Ahmedabad,
searching study that throws light on Gandhis a global campaign against a crippling infectious Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai, and analysing
personality and attitudes, many aspects of which disease, which one would expect to be universally why these cities have failed to provide equitable
were controversial in nature. hailed as a great humanitarian effort, has generated access to sanitation services for all residents.
so much criticism, controversy and at times
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My Dear Nawab Sahib Prisoners of the Nuclear
Ronken Lynton Politics and Poetics of Dream
Water, The Edited by M. V. Ramana and
A reconstruction of the life and times of Salar C. Rammanohar Reddy
The Naturalisation of Scarcity in Western
Jung, the Regent of Mahbub Ali Pasha and the
Dewan of Hyderabad for thirty years. Based
India In this book some of South Asias best minds
on the Salar Jungs correspondence, and book Lyla Mehta, Institute of Development Studies, address questions on the political, scientific,
explores the richly layered and developing Sussex strategic, economic and environmental aspects
relations between the British and the Hyderabadi of Indias decision to proceed with the nuclear
cultures, the misunderstandings, the tussle for The book studies the relationship between large weapons programme. The contributors include
power and the conflict of interests. It attempts to dams and water scarcity in Kutch. It argues Kanti Bajpai, Admiral L. Ramdas, Amartya Sen,
present the truth as Salar jung saw it, evaluated it, that water scarcity is not merely natural, but Amulya Reddy and Jean Dreze. While much has
reacted to it, as it shaped his inner self. Archival is embedded in the social and power relations been said in India, in defense of the nuclear tests
source material and historical fact are sensitively shaping water access, use and practices. Scarcity of 1998, there is also a strong body of opinion
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nuclear weapon state. The essays in this book are Taking Traditional Village Society
representative of this critique.
Knowledge to the Market SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5040-7 The Modern Image of the Ayurvedic and SOCIETY
Unani Industry, 19802000
Public Administration in the Surinder S. Jodhka, Professor, Centre for
SERIES: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN SOUTH ASIAN HISTORY the Study of Social Systems, Jawaharlal Nehru
Globalisation Era University, New Delhi
The New Public Management Perspective Maarten Bode, Researcher, Department of
Medical Anthropology and Sociology, Faculty of This volume presents a set of readings which
Uma Medury, Professor of Public Social Sciences, University of Amsterdam primarily focus on the social, political and
Administration, School of Social Sciences, IGNOU, cultural aspects of village life. A comprehensive
New Delhi The author explores the paradox at the heart of
introduction provides a detailed historical analysis
the ayurvedic and unani medicine manufacturing
of the study of rural India, changes in rural social
This book explores the transformative effect of industryto present itself as modern and
life, and the forces shaping life in villages today.
globalisation on the theory and practice of public traditional, common and professional at the same
The articles, drawn from writings over four
administration in the twenty-first century. time.
decades (1972 to 2010), cover various features
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4674-5 E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5343-9 of village society like caste and community, land
and labour, migration, discrimination and use of
common property resources.
Rethinking Democracy Transfer of Power in India,
Rajni Kothari, professor, scholar and activist The See SOCIOLOGY
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5170-1
In this work, Rajni Kothari revisits the core V. P. Menon, last Constitutional Adviser to the
arguments he has laid down in his various writings Governor-General of British India
in the past four decades. While revisiting his
The author recounts in detail the events that
Vishva Hindu Parishad and
writings, Kothari reflects, interrogates and even
contests some of his earlier formulations on
occurred from September 1939 to August 1947, Indian Politics
during the final stages of Indias bid for freedom,
democracy, state and civil society, developing Manjari Katju, Reader, Department of Political
and how power was actually transferred.
a new paradigm on the basis of his intellectual Science, University of Hyderabad
experience and activist experience. E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4289-1
This book provides a detailed historical account
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4773-5 of the Vishva Hindu Parishad (VHP), one of the
Understanding Biodiversity leading organisations in the Hindutva movement.
Life Sustainability and Equity It focuses on the VHPs transformation from a
Selections from Nehru loosely knit body of Hindus aimed at preserving
Ashish Kothari
Edited by Ganeswar Mishra and Sarat and promoting Hindu dharma, into a mass
Chandra Satapathy This tract is an impassioned plea to development organisation actively involved in mobilising the
planners to overhaul wildlife, agricultural and urban middle classes, service professionals and
The book presents excerpts from Nehrus major
environmental strategies to achieve greater religious leaders for the creation and promotion of
works such as An Autobiography, The Discovery of
biodiversity and sustain the planet. It looks at the a strong Hindu nation.
India, Glimpses of World History as well as from his
conservation of wildlife habitats in the context of E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5043-8
important speeches and statements. The purpose
the commercial-industrial forces.
is to acquaint the reader with the many-faceted
personalities of Nehru: the private man, the
historian, the philosopher, the statesman, the lover
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5257-9
Women and Work
of wildlife and adventure etc. SERIES: READINGS ON THE ECONOMY, POLITY AND
Understanding SOCIETY
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4995-1
Contemporary India
Critical Perspectives Edited by Padmini Swaminathan, Professor
Subjugated Nomads Edited by Achin Vanaik, Professor, Department
of Sociology, Tata Institute of Social Sciences,
The Lambadas Under the Rule of the Mumbai
of Political Science, University of Delhi, and Rajeev
Nizams Bhargava, Director, Centre for the Study of The volume analyses issues surrounding womens
Developing Societies, New Delhi rights to gainful employment when they did not
Bhangya Bhukya, Associate Professor,
have it; to recognition of their substantial and even
Department of History, Osmania University,
This reader examines the peculiarities of Indian massive contribution to the national economy and
Hyderabad
democracythe character of its political families survival which has been denied to them so
This book traces the historical transition of the institutions and patterns of governanceand the long; to adequate rewards for their labour which
Lambada community of Hyderabad State under remarkable paradoxes that co-exist in what is they do not enjoy; and, to a share of resources,
the Nizams during colonial rule. The study arguably the most diverse society in the world. benefits and decisions regarding development to
spans nearly two centuriesfrom the early E-ISBN: 978-81-250-4272-3 which they are entitled as citizens of a country
eighteenth to about the middle of the twentieth which guarantees to them equality in all spheres
century. The author shows how this community, of life.
originally caravan traders, confronted the colonial
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or modern state power which had adversely
transformed their lives.
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Writings of Pamela Price, Caste and Democratic Gandhis influence on new social movementsby
environmentalists, anti-war campaigners, feminists,
The Politics in India human rights activistsare also examined to
State, Politics, and Cultures in Modern assess his legacy.
Edited by Ghanshyam Shah
South India Honour, Authority, and
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Morality The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the
perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social
Pamela Gwynne Price, Professor Emerita,
Department of South Asian History, University of
system. But this has not happened over the Gandhis Conscience Keeper
sixty-odd years since Indian independence, and C. Rajagopalachari and Indian Politics
Oslo, Norway shows little sign of happening in the near future.
Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is Vasanthi Srinivasan, Reader in Political Science,
In the ten essays in the volume, the author
possible without a thorough understanding of the University of Hyderabad
discusses political activities and ideas in Tamil
Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. There are complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to Hailed by Mahatma Gandhi as his conscience
studies on non-Brahmanism, Tamil nationalism, bring about such an understanding. This volume keeper, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari (18781972;
authority in village society, and conflicts over offers state-of-the-art essays on the subject of better known as Rajaji) epitomised the practical
status and representations of morality. The caste and politics in contemporary India. It covers wisdom, religious tolerance and statesmanship
writings focus on conceptions, symbols, and values all the important grounds that students and that Gandhi brought to the nationalist movement.
which express south Indian understandings of scholars need in order to get to grips with the Vasanthi Srinivasan presents Rajajis vision as that
honour, authority, and self-respect. idea, ideology, and ground realities of Indias caste of a theocentric liberal. Examining his political
system. ideas and actions alongside his literary works, as
E-ISBN: 978-81-250-5507-5
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-419-8 well as in relation to Nehru and Periyar, she shows
how Rajaji steered clear of ideological dogma and
charted an ethic of responsibility.
Enchantment of Democracy
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and India, The
PERMANENT BLACK Sudipta Kaviraj, professor of Indian politics and Hindu Nationalism
intellectual history at Columbia University
A Reader
Beyond Nationalist Frames The essays try to approach Indian democracy from
Christophe Jaffrelot, Director, Centre dEtudes
Relocating Postmodernism, Hindutva, different angles. Sudipta Kaviraj argues that it is
et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), Paris
History wrong to believe that with the rise of modernity
human societies suffer complete disenchantment: In India and beyond, Hindu nationalism came into
Sumit Sarkar modernity creates new forms of enchantment, the headlines in the 1990s, when the Ayodhya
The political context in which the historian of and democracy is, in fact, part of the political movement gained momentum. The first part of this
India finds himself today, says Sumit Sarkar, is enchantment of modernity. Focusing on Indian reader shows that some of the nineteenth century
dominated by the advance of the Hindu Right and democracy, Kaviraj shows the limits of Marxist Hindu socio-religious reformers, such as Dayananda
globalised forms of capitalism. Simultaneously, the and liberal political analyses. This volume defies (founder of the Arya Samaj), prepared the ground
historians intellectual context is now dominated all the preconditions that theory lays down for for Hindu nationalism by positing a Vedic Golden
by the marginalisation of all varieties of Marxism the success of democratic governmentnamely, Age. The second part of the reader outlines every
and an academic shift to cultural studies and a strong bureaucratic state, capitalist production, major political issue on which the Hindu nationalist
postmodern critiques. In this scenario, how may industrialization, the secularisation of society, and movement has taken a distinct position.
a thinking historian who retains an unfashionable relative economic prosperity. These and many
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commitment to socialist-feminist values, alongside other fascinating issues of democracys relationship
a democratic political vision formulated within with religion, identity, development, inequality, and
Indian conditions of skewed social development, culture comprise the themes that link the essays in Homeless on Google Earth
practice the craft of history? This excellent set this brilliant and insightful collection.
Mukul Kesavan
of essays collectively constitutes Sumit Sarkars E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-444-0
answer to this central question. The Hindu Bomb, Homeless in the title of this book means
the history of relations between communities, cosmopolitan. Mukul Kesavan, considered
the issue of religious propagation and conversion, Gandhi: In His Time and by many to be Indias most articulate and
ideas of nation and woman in Tagores fiction, Ours sophisticated scholar-journalist in English, covers a
and the relationship of left-wing historiography huge range of political and cultural subjects, local
to postmodern ideas are some of the themes David Hardiman and international, in this collection of opinion
critically analysed in this major collection. This book examines Gandhi as the creator of a pieces. These include Hollywood and Bollywood,
radical style of politics. It argues that whereas Salman Rushdie and Martin Amis, Steve Jobs and
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-418-1
politicians garner support by demonising those Julian Assange, Sri Lanka and Israel, wildlife at the
they oppose, Gandhi resisted such a politics. Kruger National Park and beachlife in Goa.
He asserted that there are always grounds for Kesavans viewpoints can veer from being
a fruitful dialogue between opponents. How did scrupulously rational to extravagantly funny.
Gandhi create this new form of politics? Hardiman Regardless of the tone he adopts, his observations
shows its basis within Gandhis larger vision of are acute, his analysis of what he notices
an alternative society based on respect, non- Orwellian. The perspective and worldview that
violence, and ecological harmony. His politics in emerges is that of a truly global intellectual who
turn constituted one of the many directions by is both admirably idiosyncratic and secular to the
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point of being hidebound, a combination which Lost Worlds Trajectories of the Indian
makes this essay collection quite exceptional. Indian Labour and its Forgotten Histories State, The
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-431-0 Politics and Ideas
Chitra Joshi, Professor, Department of History,
Indraprastha College, University of Delhi
Sudipta Kaviraj, Professor of Politics, Columbia
Languages of Political Islam This book takes the present context of globalisation University, New York, USA
in India, The and the decline of large-scale industry as its
The author reveals the variety of historical
c. 12001800 entry point into the worlds of labour in the late
trajectories taken by Indian democracy. Indian
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a
Muzaffar Alam, Professor, Departments of political structures, says Kaviraj, are comparable to
wide range of oral and archival sources as well as
South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the pre-modern empire-states of Indian and Islamic
popular literature, the author reconstructs working-
History, University of Chicago history. He shows that there is no way to examine
class lives, exploring their everyday worlds at the
present-day politics except through painstaking
This book shows the ways in which political workplace and within community life outside, as
reconnections with the vernacular facts of Indian
Islam, from its establishment in medieval north well as their moments of conflict and struggle.
political history.
India, adapted itself to a variety of Indian contexts E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-430-3
and became deeply Indianised. Through a close E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-414-3
reading of a variety of textsranging from
normative treatises and Sufi biographies to Persian Merchants, Traders, Worlds First Anti-Dam
court poetryMuzaffar Alam shows that the Entrepreneurs Movement, The
vocabularies in use went through certain changes Indian Business in the Colonial Era
so fundamental that the language of Indian Islam The Mulshi Satyagraha 19201924
became quite different from what was in vogue in Claude Markovits
Rajendra Vora
contexts outside.
This book brings together a number of issues
Back in the 1920s, the peasants of Mulshi Peta,
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-417-4 which deal with the Indian mercantile world in
near Pune, had protested against the construction
colonial India, and its relationship with politics
of a dam being built with government support by
and society. Three major themes are taken up:
Languages of Belonging the relationship between the business world and
the industrial house of the Tatas. The struggle
Islam, Regional Identity, and the Making of was led by Pandurang Mahadev (Senapati) Bapat,
the world of politics, in the late colonial era, with
Kashmir a socialist and nationalist who had been educated
special emphasis on the links between business
in England. In 1995, Rajendra Voras book on the
Chitralekha Zutshi, Associate Professor interests and political nationalism; the position
Mulshi Satyagraha won the prestigious
of History, College of William and Mary, of merchants and big businessmen in relation
G.H. Deshmukh award of the Pune Sahitya
Williamsburg, VA, USA to society and the economy; and merchant
Parishad. Vora was then persuaded to write an
circulations, the way in which specific trading
Based on massive archival research in Delhi, Jammu English version. This is that version, and it includes
networks extended the range of their operations
and Srinagar and the unearthing of rare Kashmiri a chapter which links contemporary anti-dam
during the colonial period, across the entire
literary sources, it skilfully uncovers the religious protests with ideas and activities first expressed in
subcontinent as well as the wider world.
sensibilities that underlay the formation of Kashmirs the 1920s.
regional identity in the late-nineteenth and early- E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-400-6
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twentieth century. Languages of Belonging will light
up new ways of understanding the formation of National Flag for India, A
identities in South Asias regions.
Arundhati Virmani, Reader in History at Delhi
Sugata Bose, Harvard University University until 1992, she teaches at the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales Marseille.
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-402-0 SANGAM BOOKS
Unearthing the complex history of the making
Last Liberal and Other of the Indian national flag, Arundhati Virmani
Outside the Archives
reveals cultural processes that imposed a set of
Essays, The values and sentiments on an incredibly diverse and Y. D. Gundevia
Ramachandra Guha, eminent writer and scattered body of people in her book, A National
Flag for India. She shows that the Indian Flag was The book presents a wealth of revealing
biographer
a major resource for the nationalist movement, information about Jawaharlal Nehru and his
This book is on how a large area of contemporary a tool that allowed large social diversities to policies, but also frankly discusses other world
Indias cultural and intellectual life has been assert the compelling necessity for a new political figures such as Lord Mountbatten, Stalin, and
fashioned by exceptional individuals who have, culture with secular nationalism as the unifying Krishna Menon. The truth about Indias efforts to
in diverse ways, imbibed the spirit of liberalism, pole. This viewpoint was contested by the Muslim settle the Kashmir question with Pakistan (even
secularism, personal integrity and social League, the Sikhs, the Indian princes, and Hindu to the point of a proposed transfer of territory) is
commitment. The authors heroes and heroines nationalists. So how, in the end, did the Indian flag told in full for the first time.
include environmentalists and social activists, come to fly as it does today? And how, in contrast, E-ISBN: 978-81-7370-377-5
teachers and scholars, scientists and writers, was the flag of Pakistan created? These are some
politicians and bureaucrats. of the historically important questions answered in
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-423-5 A National Flag for India.
E-ISBN: 978-81-7824-441-9

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AUTHOR INDEX
Agnihotri, Anita, 33 Kesavan, Mukul, 25, 40

Ahmad, Imtiaz, 31 Engineer, Asghar Ali, 16, 23, 33, 36, 37 Khanna, Vinod C., 1
Ahmad, Irfan, 28 Khan, Sarbuland, 22
Alam, Javeed, 13 Falk, Richard, 14 Kidwai, Sabina, 24
Alam, Muzaffar, 25, 29, 41 Froerer, Peggy, 31 Kiely, Ray, 21
Ali, Shanti Sadiq, 34 Kirpalani, S. K., 35
Allen, Carolyn, 23 Gandhi, Leela, 24 Kjllerstrm, Monica, 21
Alvarado, Benjamn Maldonado, 16 Ganguly, Debjani, 20 Knudsen, Are, 17
Ashokamitran, 35 Gardin, Jean-Pierre, 36 Kosambi, Meera, 24
Atal, Yogesh, 6, 34 Gellner, David N., 32 Kothari, Ashish, 39
Avery, Desmond, 12, 37 Gerster, Richard, 32 Kothari, Rajni, 12, 18, 20, 23, 38, 39
Azad, M. A. K., 36 Ghosh, Durba, 34 Kothari, Smitu, 17, 34
Gilpin, Robert, 23 Kumar, Anup, 16
Bajpai, Kanti, 23, 37 Gooptu, Nandini, 31 Kumar, Avinash, 8, 36
Bakker, Karen, 16 Gopal, Sarvepalli, 38 Kumari, Abhilasha, 24
Balakrishnan, Pulapre, 4 Gourgey, Percy S., 36 Kumar, Krishna, 35
Bannerji, Himani, 15 Guha, Arun Chandra, 35 Kumar, Raj, 14
Bartholomew, Amy, 21 Guha, Ramachandra, 29, 41 Kumar, T. Ravi, 36
Basu, T., 33 Gundevia, Y. D., 41 Kunnath, George J., 31
Bates, Crispin, 23 Guneratne, Arjun, 7 Kurian, Rachel, 3
Benichou, Lucien D., 24, 36 Gupta, Akhil, 13
Berman, Eli, 17 Gupta, Monobina, 18 Larson, Gerald James, 33
Bernard, Jean Alphonse, 30 Gupta, Narayani, 36 Latour, Bruno, 22
Bhargava, Rajeev, 19 Gupta, Sonika, 33 Lfgren, Hans, 31, 32
Bhasin, Kamla, 17, 34 Lokaneeta, Jinee, 13
Bhattacharya, Sabyasachi, 35 Hansen, Thomas Blom, 30 Lukose, Ritty A., 18
Bhukya, Bhangya, 39 Harder, Hans, 32 Lynton, Ronken, 38
Bidwai, Praful, 11 Hardiman, David, 40
Bilgrami, Akeel, 25 Harshe, Rajen, 20, 35 Machel, Graca, 24
Bird, Tim, 11 Herdegen, Matthias, 33 Maheshwari, S. R., 20, 23, 24
Bista, Dor Bahadur, 20 Hoare, Quintin, 24 Mallavarapu, Siddharth, 23, 37
Bjrkman, Lisa, 2 Hoodbhoy, Pervez, 1 Manor, James, 18
Bode, Maarten, 39 Howard, Judith, 23 Markovits, Claude, 41
Bose, N. K., 38 Hughes, Julie E., 26 Marshall, Alex, 11
Bose, Satheese Chandra, 2 Mathew, George, 3
Bose, Sisir Kumar, 30 Iqtidar, Humeira, 28 Mayaram, Shail, 30
Bose, Sugata, 30 Ishay, Micheline R., 20 Medury, Uma, 19, 39
Brass, Paul R., 23 Mehta, Abhay, 24
Jaffrelot, Christophe, 29, 30, 40 Mehta, Lyla, 23, 38
Chakrabarty, Bidyut, 22 Jain, L. C., 23 Menon, Nivedita, 7, 8
Chakraborty, Chandrima, 28 Jain, Ravindra K., 23 Menon, V. P., 37, 39
Chandra, Bipan, 14, 38 Jayal, Niraja Gopal, 25 Metcalf, Barbara D., 26
Chaplin, Susan E., 16, 38 Jayawardena, Kumari, 3 Meyer, Lois, 16
Chari, P. R., 33 Jeganathan, Pradeep, 30 Mian, Zia, 17, 34
Chatterjee, Partha, 24, 26, 30 Jha, Manish K., 7 Mishra, Ganeswar, 39
Chaube, S. K., 12 Jodhka, Surinder S., 13, 39 Mohanty, Manoranjan, 1
Choudhary, Sunil K., 6 Jomo, K. S., 22 Mukherjee, Tilottama, 8
Joseph, George Gheverghese, 36 Munshi, Indra, 11
Dalmia, Vasudha, 29 Joshi, Chitra, 30, 41 Muraskin, William, 12, 38
Datta, S., 33
Day, Richard J. F., 20 Kalpagam, U., 5 Nagaraj, D. R., 26
Deshpande, Satish, 9 Kapadia, Aparna, 18 Nair, Neeti, 27
de Vries, Hent, 22, 32 Karlsson, Bengt G., 17, 32 Nanda, Meera, 30
Dhar, Biswajit, 1 Karve, Irawati, 22 Nandy, Ashis, 30
Docker, John, 20 Katju, Manjari, 19, 39 Narayanan, Gomathi, 35
Dolzer, Rudolf, 33 Kaul, Suvir, 28 Narrain, Siddharth, 10
Dossani, Rafiq, 23 Kaviraj, Sudipta, 25, 26, 27, 40, 41 Nayyar, A. H., 17, 34

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Needham, Anuradha D., 29 Rao, Anupama, 27 Sinha, Arunava, 33
Nigam, Aditya, 7, 8 Rao, Mukunda, 38 Sinha, Dipankar, 6, 10
Nijhawan, Shobna, 28 Rao, Parimala V., 15 Skaria, Ajay, 30
Rashid, Ahmed, 23 Smith, Geoffrey Nowell, 24
Ocampo, Jos Antonio, 22 Ravi, Jayanti S., 9 Som, Reba, 34
OConnor, David, 21 Rawat, Ramnarayan S., 25 Spear, Margaret, 36
Oesterheld, Joachim, 35 Reddy, C. Rammanohar, 38 Spear, Percival, 36
OHanlon, Rosalind, 27 Reifeld, Helmut, 31 Sridharan, E., 30
Omvedt, Gail, 13 Rowen, Henry S., 23 Srimanjari, 19
Oommen, T. K., 24 Roy, Anupama, 10, 36 Srinivasan, Vasanthi, 40
Roy, Ash Narain, 3 Srinivas, S. V., 27
Pai, Sudha, 8, 36 Rudolph, Lloyd I., 24 Stewart, Pamela J., 22
Palshikar, Sanjay, 7 Rudolph, S. Hoeber, 24 Strathern, Andrew, 22
Pandian, M. S. S., 30 Sudarshan, R., 30, 33
Patel, Hitendra, 14 Sahay, Anjali, 15 Suhrud, Tridip, 18, 37
Patnaik, Prabhat, 37 Sahu, Geetanjoy, 9, 35 Sullivan, Lawrence E., 22, 32
Perez, Rosa Maria, 33 Saikia, Yasmin, 30 Suresh, Mayur, 10
Pettigrew, Judith, 31 Saliba, Therese, 23 Swaminathan, Padmini, 14, 39
Pingle, Gautam, 6, 35 Samaddar, Ranabir, 11, 23
Prabhu, K. S., 33 Sarangi, Prakash, 32 Tahseen, Mohammad, 17, 34
Pradhan, Rajesh, 9 Sarkar, S., 33 Tejani, Shabnum, 27
Prakash, Amit, 24 Sarkar, Sumit, 40 Thampi, Madhavi, 32
Prasad, M. Madhava, 6 Sarkar, T., 33 Tharamangalam, Joseph, 22, 37
Price, Pamela Gwynne, 40 Satapathy, Sarat Chandra, 39 Thorner, Alice, 33
Puri, Balraj, 21, 37 Saxena, Rekha, 23 Thorner, Daniel, 33
Pushpendra, 7 Scott, James C., 17
Seethi, K. M., 20, 35 Vanaik, Achin, 1, 19, 23, 39
Raghavan, Srinath, 24, 28 Sen, S., 33 Varughese, Shiju Sam, 2
Raghunandan, T. R., 11, 34 Shaban, Abdul, 19 Virmani, Arundhati, 29, 41
Rahman, Tariq, 15, 21, 23, 37 Shah, Alpa, 31 Vogel, Bernhard, 33
Rai, Alok, 23 Shah, A. M., 27 Vora, Rajendra, 41
Rajan, Gita, 21 Shah, Ghanshyam, 40
Rajan, Nalini, 6 Sharma, Jayeeta, 27 Weiss, Anita M., 5, 7
Rajan, Rajeshwari Sundar, 29 Sharma, Mukul, 25 Whitehead, Neil L., 22
Raj, Mulkh, 36 Sharma, Shailja, 21 Wilkinson, Steven I., 24
Rajya Sabha Secretariat, 15 Sharma, S. L., 24 Wilson, Amrit, 21
Ramagundam, Rahul, 20 Sharma, Suresh, 18, 37 Wyrick, Deborah, 23
Ramana, M. V., 38 Shobhi, Prithvi Datta Chandra, 26
Raman, M. V. V., 37 Simpson, Edward, 18 Zutshi, Chitralekha, 28, 41
Ramaswami, N. S., 35 Singh, M. P., 23
1971, 24 Empires Law, 21 In Pursuit of Lakshmi, 24
TITLE INDEX
Enchantment of Democracy and India, The, 26, 40 Integration of the Indian States, 37
Adivasi Question, The, 11 Engaging with the World, 20, 35 International Relations in India, 23, 37
Afghanistan, 11 Environmental Jurisprudence and the Supreme Interpreting Islam, Modernity, and Womens Rights
African Dispersal in the Deccan, The, 34 Court, 9, 35 in Pakistan, 5
After the Bomb, 1 Intersections, 24
After the Iraq War, 33 Fall and Rise of Telangana, The, 67, 35 Inter-state River Water Disputes in India, 37
Animal Kingdoms, 26 Fanon for Beginners, 23 Invention of Private Life, The, 25
Army and Nation, 24 Fatalism and Development, 20 Islam in South Asia, 26
Art of Not Being Governed, The, 17 Fifty Years with the British, 35 Islamism and Democracy in India, 28
Assam and India, 30 Financial Foundations of the British Raj, The, 35
Azad Hind, 29 First Spark of Revolution, 35 Jharkhand, 24
Foundations of Tilaks Nationalism, 15 Jihad, 23
Between History and Legend, 23 Founding of Madras, The, 35
Beyond Nationalist Frames, 40 French Studies in Urban Policy, 36 Kashmir, 21, 37
Bridging Partition, 1718, 34 From Autocracy to Integration, 24, 36 Kerala, 2223, 37
Building a Just World, 1 From Hindi to Urdu, 15 Kerala Modernity, 2
Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags, 33
Caste and Democratic Politics in India, 40 Gandhi: In His Time and Ours, 40 Kings and Untouchables, 33
Caste, Conflict, and Ideology, 27 Gandhis Conscience Keeper, 40
Caste in Indian Politics, 18 Gandhis Khadi, 20 Land and Labour in India, 33
Caste Question, The, 27 Gendered Citizenship, 10, 36 Language and Politics in Pakistan, 23
Changing Homelands, 27 Gender, Politics and Islam, 23 Language, Ideology and Power, 21, 37
Cine-politics, 6 George Joseph, 36 Languages of Belonging, 28, 41
Citizenship and Its Discontents, 25 Global Political Economy, 23 Languages of Political Islam in India, The, 29, 41
Class, Patriarchy and Ethnicity on Sri Lankan Gramsci is Dead, 20 Last Liberal and Other Essays, The, 2930, 41
Plantations, 3 Grassroots of Democracy, The, 27 Lee Jong-wook, 12, 37
Combating Corruption, 6, 34 Green and Saffron, 25 Left Politics in Bengal, 18
Common Cause, The, 24 Gujarat Carnage, The, 23, 36 Legislature and the Judiciary, The, 15
Communalism and the Intelligentsia in Bihar, Lenin and Imperialism, 37
18701930, 14 Hill Politics in Northeast India, 12 Liberalizations Children, 18
Community, Empire and Migration, 23 Hindi Nationalism, 23 Lifting the Veil, 33
Competing Nationalisms in South Asia, 23 Hindu Nationalism, 29, 40 Lineages of Political Society, 26
Congress President, 30 History of Human Rights, The, 2021 Listening to the Loom, 26
Covering and Explaining Conflict in Civil Society, 6 History of Indian Administration, A, 24 Literature and Nationalist Ideology, 32
Crisis of Secularism in India, The, 29 Homeless on Google Earth, 2526, 4041 Lived Islam in South Asia, 3132
Critical Studies in Politics, 7 Human Security in South Asia, 33 Living Faith, A, 16, 37
Crossing the Sacred Line, 24 Living in the Nuclear Shadow, 23
Idea of Gujarat, The, 18 Lost Worlds, 30, 41
Dalit Personal Narratives, 1415 Imaginary Institution of India, The, 26
Decentralisation and Local Governance, 23 Impact of War on Children, The, 24 Mahatma, TheA Novel, 38
Decentralisation and Local Governments, 1112, India and China in the Colonial World, 32 Making of a Small State, The, 16
34 India at the Polls, 23 Masculinity, Asceticism, Hinduism, 28
Decentring Empire, 34 Indian Administration, 23 Memory, Identity, Power, 11
Demography and Democracy, 15 Indian Diaspora in the United States, 15 Merchants, Traders, Entrepreneurs, 41
Development Communication, 10 Indian Ideology , The, 2425 MGNREGA Sameeksha, 12
Development, Decentralisation and Democracy, 3 Indian Naval Revolt of 1946, The, 36 Mind of Jawaharlal Nehru, The, 38
Development Narratives, 6 Indian Parliament, The, 8, 36 M. K. Gandhis Hind Swaraj, 18, 3738
Dictionary of Public Administration, A, 20 Indian Secularism, 2728 Modernity of Tradition, The, 24
Differences within Consensus, 34 India Remembered, 36 Mumbai, 19
Dreams, Questions, Struggle, 21 India Rural Development Report 201213, 11 My Days with Gandhi, 38
India Rural Development Report 2013|14, 4 My Dear Nawab Sahib, 38
Economic Growth and its Distribution in India, 4 Indias Living Constitution, 30
Education and Social Change in South Asia, 35 Indias Silent Revolution, 30 National Flag for India, A, 29, 41
Eighteenth Parallel, The, 35 India Wins Freedom, 36 Nationalism and Colonialism in Modern India, 38
Empire and Nation, 26 Industrial Development for the 21st Century, 21 Nationalism in the Vernacular, 2829
Empire in the Age of Globalisation, 21 Industry and the Region, 36 Nationalization of Hindu Traditions, The, 29
Empires Garden, 27 Nation and National Identity in South Asia, 24

TITLE INDEX 45
New Cosmopolitanisms, 2122 Radical, Religious, and Violent, 17 Time Warps, 30
New World of Indigenous Resistance, 16 Rebels from the Mud Houses, 31 Tocqueville in India, 30
Reconsidering Untouchability, 25 Trajectories of the Indian State, The, 27, 41
Outside the Archives, 41 Red Tape, 13 Transfer of Power in India, The, 39
Reforming Indias Social Sector, 33 Transnational Torture, 13
Partitions of Memory, The, 28 Re-imagining India and Other Essays, 17 Traversing Bihar, 7
Partners in Development, 32 Reinventing Public Administration, 22
Pathways to Power, 7 Religion and Personal Law in Secular India, 33 Understanding Biodiversity, 39
Persistence of Poverty in India, 31 Religious Division and Social Conflict, 31 Understanding Caste, 13
Pipe Politics, Contested Waters, 2 Resistance and the State, 32 Understanding Contemporary India, 19, 39
Policy Matters, 22 Rethinking Democracy, 23, 39 Unruly Hills, 17, 32
Polio Eradication and Its Discontents, 12, 38 Rethinking Gandhi and Nonviolent Relationality, 20
Political Culture and Economy in Eighteenth Revisiting 1956, 8 Village Society, 13, 39
Century Bengal, 8 Rule by Numbers, 5 Violence and Belonging, 17
Political Theologies, 22, 3233 Violence in Urban India, 30
Politics and Culture of Globalisation, The, 32 Sabotage, 33 Vishva Hindu Parishad and Indian Politics, 19, 39
Politics and Poetics of Water, The, 23, 38 Scandal of the State, 29
Politics as Performance, 27 Secularism, Identity, and Enchantment, 25 War and Peace in Modern India, 28
Politics in India, 12, 38 Secularizing Islamists?, 28 When the Saints Go Marching In, 910
Politics of Climate Change and the Global Crisis, Selections from Nehru, 39 Who Wants Democracy?, 13
The, 11 Selections from the Prison Notebooks of Antonio Windows into a Revolution, 31
Politics of Nature, 22 Gramsci, 24 Women and Work, 14, 39
Politics of Sanitation in India, The, 16, 38 Shifting Scales of Justice, The, 10 Worlds First Anti-Dam Movement, The, 41
Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access Silver Lining, 9 Writings of Bipan Chandra, The, 14
to Medicines, The, 31 South Asian Cultures of the Bomb, 19 Writings of Pamela Price, The, 40
Power and Contestation, 8 Space, Territory and the State, 23 Writings of Rajni Kothari, The, 20
Power Play, 24 Subaltern Studies XI, 30 Writings of Richard Falk, The, 14
Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream, 3839 Subaltern Studies XII, 30 Writing the Mughal World, 25
Privatizing Water, 16 Subjugated Nomads, 39
Problem of Caste, The, 9 Yuganta, 22
Prophets Facing Backward, 30 Taking Traditional Knowledge to the Market, 39
Prospects for Peace in South Asia, 23 Terror and Violence, 22
Public Administration in the Globalisation Era, 19, Through War and Famine, 19
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