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ART & ARCHITECTURE

The Chawls of
Mumbai
Galleries of Life
Neera Adarkar
In the 15 chapters of this book, a diverse group

of writers explore the unique structure of the
chawl, all the while considering a complicated
and interwoven set of themes and questions.
While many of these questions remain
unanswered, we struggle with them because, at
their heart, they are the questions of Mumbai
itself. With vacant land being non-existent, the
demolition of the chawls is going to redefine the
skyline of south and central Mumbai. The chawls
make up around 16,000 structures, located in
the heart of Mumbai. Yet, for many of us these
structures are unfamiliar, as the city of extremes
is often understood through only its slums and
its mansions. In this book we have tried to trace
the past, present and future of the city, as told
through and within the chawl. These
conversations are meandering and circular, at
times overlapping and repetitive. Like a walk
through the chawl neighbourhoods themselves,
each chapter leaves the impression. Havent I
walked down this lane before? This is both
intentional and unavoidable. How is the chawl
defined? What makes it unique among the
various building typologies located throughout
the city? How have cultural formations emerged
through the constraints imposed by such limited
living space? These are not easy questions to
answer, but this multi-genre book, with the help
of an assemblage of visuals from floor plans,
photographs and drawings attempts to
consider the ways in which the chawl emerges
as a distinct symbol of the city of Mumbai,
holding not only the history of the citys
transformation but also its unique social identity.
Over 200 illustrations

9789380403007 248pp
PB
Barefoot Across
the Nation
Maqbool Fida Husain
and the Idea of India
Sumathi Ramaswamy
(ed)
175pp
PB
This book is the first inter-disciplinary

engagement with the work of Maqbool Fida
Husain, arguably Indias most iconic
contemporary artist today, whose life and work
are intimately entangled with the career of
independent India as a democratic, secular and
multi-ethnic nation. For more than half a century,
and across thousands of canvases, Husain has
painted individuals and objects, events and
incidents that offer an astonishing visual
chronicle of India through the ages.
The 13 articles in this volume - written by
distinguished artists, curators, anthropologists,
historians, art historians and critics, sociologists
and scholars of post-colonial literature and
religion - critically examine the artistic statement
that Husain has presented on the self,
community and nation through his oeuvre. It
engages with the controversies that have
erupted around and about Husains work, and
situates them in debates around the freedom of
the artist versus sentiments of the community,
between virtue and obscenity, between an
elite of intellectuals and the common man, and
between a work of art and a religious icon.
Correspondingly it considers how India has
responded to Husain: with affection, admiration
and adulation on the one hand, and hostility and
rejection on the other.
Neera Adarkar is an architect, urban researcher

and activist, and a visiting faculty member of
architecture, and planning, Academy of
Architecture, Mumbai.
9788188861149
` 450.00
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Sumathi Ramaswamy is Professor of History,

Duke University, USA.
9789380403113
290pp
PB
` 1950.00
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` 800.00
IMPRINTONE
Whitewash, Red
Stone
A History of Church
Architecture in Goa
Paulo Varela Gomes
Whitewash, Red Stone tells the intriguing story

of the evolution of church architecture in Goa
from the 16th to the 20th centuries. In doing so,
it answers questions which have been raised by
students and scholars of architectural history for
long: What is a Goan church? When and how
did the characteristically Goan church appear?
How can one explain the fact that an original
type of Catholic church appeared in a territory as
small as Goa?
Architecture and
Art of Southern
India
George Michell
Even as the 17th century initiated a particular

transition in the stylistics of church building in the
region, the full development of Goan church
architecture was completed in the 18th century
when local communities (comunidades) or
powerful local hierarchs (gaunkars) often took
over the reconstruction of the churches founded
by the Jesuits of the Franciscans and
transformed them into buildings of a new type.
The whole of Goa (Ilhas, Bardez and Salcete)
was covered by a white mantle of churches.
George Michell provides a pioneering and richly

illustrated introduction to the architecture,
sculpture and painting of the Vijayanagar empire
and the successor states. The period,
encompassing some four hundred years, was
endowed with an abundance of religious and
royal monuments, which remain as testimonies
to the history and ideology behind their
evolution.
George Michell is an architect, archaeologist
and art historian.
182 half-tones 5 maps

9780521441100 250pp HB
` 895.00
THE NEW CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF INDIA

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imperial
Conversations
Indo-Britons and
the Architecture
of South India
Shanti JayewardenePillai
detailed and thoroughly documented new book,

Angelo Silveira takes us on a journey through
the form of the Goan courtyard house, and the
traditional techniques and materials which
contributed to the construction of this unique
dwelling.
The eighteenth century was a time of profound

upheaval when economic and political control of
southern India passed from native kings to the
East India Company. Hand-in-hand with the
resultant conflicts and skirmishes, a process of
cultural sharing was gaining ground which went
on to manifest itself in the form of a flourishing
imperial culture in the nineteenth century. The
development of an imperial architecture in the
Indian subcontinent forms one strand of this
saga of intercultural exchange. In this valuable
new book, Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai tells the
story of the Indians and British whom she refers
to as the Indo-Britons, as they developed a
mutual exchange of architectural, construction
and design knowledge from the seventeenth
century onwards, which ultimately led to the
creation of a distinctive architecture in southern
India in the nineteenth century.
Angelo Costa Silveira is a conservation

architect of Goan origin based in Lisbon,
Portugal.
more than 100 colour and B&W photographs
9788190363471 152pp
PB
` 495.00
YODA PRESS
A Walk in the
Woods
Moving away from the received view that Indian

architecture was in decline during the
nineteenth century, the book unveils a complex
and exciting design interface between
indigenous engineers and architects and
European soldier-engineers, responsive to the
demands of Indo-British patrons. Supplemented
by more than 100 illustrations, photographs and
maps, the book brings into view an entirely new
perspective about an architecture which was as
much richly indigenous as it was splendidly
hybrid.
Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai trained as an
architect in Sri Lanka and the UK. She has
practiced as an architect in both countries and
taught history at the Bartlett School of
Architecture, University of London.
The Art of Paramjit

Singh
Ella Datta
In this present volume, noted art critic Ella Datta,

familiarizes the reader and art lover with details
of the veteran artists life, the influences which
shaped his art, and the streams of thought which
gave substance to the mystical landscapes that
he is renowned for.
more than 100 illustrations, photographs & maps

9788190363426 348pp HB
` 895.00
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Lived Heritage,
Shared Space
The Courtyard House
of Goa
Angelo Costa Silveira
Translated from the
Portuguese by
Maria Flavia Ribeiro
In Paramjit Singhs resplendent landscapes

there is always an air of mystery which haunts
and beckons, making the viewers experience
spiritual and full of magic at the same time. The
artists own journey through such magical
pathways began in the 1950s when he first
started painting. With time, landscape elements
which had made an appearance very early on
began to dominate his art, till the ideal
landscape seen with the minds eye was evoked
to perfection in canvas after canvas. With titles
like Monsoon Light, Red in the Woods, Evening
Light and Lakes, these canvases throw open to
the viewer and collector an exquisite mlange of
colour, light, and the fragrance of the vibrant
countryside.
Based on extensive interviews with the artist, the

book showcases some of his best-known work,
which includes landscapes, as well as the more
rarely seen black and white drawings and
pastels. Ella Dattas eminently readable account
of the artists life and work is supplemented by
valuable photographs from the Singh family
archive.
The courtyard house of Goa harks back to a

long tradition of dwellings with a central space
open to the skies circumscribed by rooms on all
sides, a model as much functional in keeping the
house cool in the hot climate, as of sacred
inspiration. Along the famed Konkan coast, we
find references to courtyard houses from the late
medieval period onwards. Indeed, in order to
find a suitable precedent to the patio house of
Goa we need to look no further than the
domestic and monumental architecture of
Vijayanagar. While the churches and sacred
buildings of Goa have been the focus of a
majority of studies on the built heritage of Goa,
in more recent times, there has been increasing
awareness that the resplendent houses of Goa
are as deserving of careful attention. For visitors
returning from Goa, images of the houses with
colourful facades and romantic porches are as
evocative of their Goan sojourn as those of the
magnificent, whitewashed churches.
Ella Datta is a well-known art critic contributing

articles on contemporaray Indian art to national
dailies such as The Hindustan Times and
The Telegraph.
9788190227285
126pp
HB
YODA PRESS
However, today this distinct domestic

architecture of historical Goa faces a deep
threat. Once the symbol of prosperity, many
have today fallen into disrepair. In this lovingly
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Representing
Calcutta
Modernity,
nationalism, and the
colonial uncanny
Swati Chattopadhyay
Economic Reform
in India
Representing Calcutta: Modernity, nationalism,

and the colonial uncanny is a spatial history of
the colonial city, and addresses the question of
modernity that haunts our perception of Calcutta.
The book responds to two inter-related concerns
about the city. First is the image of Calcutta as
the worst case scenario of a Third World city the proverbial city of dreadful nights. Second is
the changing nature of the citys public spaces the demise of certain forms of urban sociality
that has been mourned in recent literature as the
passing of Bengali modernity. By examining
architecture, city plans, paintings, literature, and
official reports through the lens of postcolonial,
feminist, and spatial theory, the book explores
the conditions of colonialism and anti-colonial
nationalism that produced the city as a modern
artifact. At the center of this exploration resides
the problem of representing the city,
representation understood as description and
narration, as well as political representation. In
doing so, Chattopadhyay questions the very idea
of colonial cities as creations of the colonizers,
and the model of colonial cities as dual cities,
split in black and white areas, in favour of a
more complicated view of the topography.
Challenges,
Prospects, and
Lessons
Nicholas C. Hope, Anjini
Kochar, Roger Noll &
T. N. Srinivasan (eds)
NEW
Nicholas C. Hope, Stanford Center for

International Development.
Anjini Kochar, Stanford Center for International
Development.
Swati Chattopadhyay is an associate professor

in the Department of History of Art and
Architecture at the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
9780415343596
330pp
HB
The essays in this volume are written by leading

economists working on the Indian economy.
They collectively emphasize the importance of
policies and institutions for sustained growth and
poverty reduction, stressing that the success of
sector-specific policies is vitally dependent on
the nature of markets and the functioning of
institutions such as those charged with
regulating and overseeing critical sectors.
Individual contributions assess the role of Indian
government policy in key sectors and emphasize
the policies required to ensure improvements in
these sectors. The first section discusses
aspects of the macro economy; the second
deals with agriculture and social sectors; the
third with jobs and how labor markets function in
agriculture, industry and services; and the fourth
with infrastructure services, specifically
electricity, telecommunications and transport.
The essays are drawn from the most influential
papers presented in recent years on Indian
economic policy at the Stanford Center for
International Development.
Roger Noll, Stanford University.

T. N. Srinivasan, Yale University and National
University of Singapore.
` 895.00
ROUTLEDGE
40 B&W illustrations 120 tables

9781107046047 543pp HB
` 1295.00
ECONOMICS
Market Menagerie
Health and
Development in Late
Industrial States
Smita Srinivas
NEW
Inclusive Growth,
Full Employment,
and Structural
Change
Market Menagerie examines technological

advance and market regulation in the health
industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South
Africa, Nigeria, and China. Pharmaceutical and
life science industries can reinforce economic
development and industry growth, but not
necessarily positive health outcomes. Yet wellcrafted industrial and health policies can
strengthen each other and reconcile economic
and social goals. This book advocates moving
beyond traditional market failure to bring
together three uncommonly paired themes: the
growth of industrial capabilities, the politics of
health access, and the geography of production
and redistribution.
Implications and
Policies for
Developing Asia
Jesus Felipe
Jesus Felipe, Principal Economist, Central &

West Asia Department of the Asian Development
Bank, Manila, Philippines.
Smita Srinivas is Assistant Professor in the

Urban Planning program and the Director of the
Technological Change Lab at Columbia
University in New York City. She has advised
and consulted with the UN and other
international agencies, and with grassroots
organizations, for over a decade.
9789382993056
344pp
PB
'Inclusive Growth, Full Employment, and

Structural Change: Implications and Policies for
Developing Asia' discusses policies to achieve
inclusive growth in developing Asia, including
those relating to agriculture, investment, certain
state interventions, monetary, fiscal, and the role
of the state as employer of last resort. Felipe
argues that in order to deliver inclusive growth,
Asian leaders must commit to the goal of full
employment.
NEW
` 595.00
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100+ color tables & figures

9789380601007 362pp
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ANTHEM PRESS
Towards
BIMSTEC-Japan
Comprehensive
Economic
Cooperation
The Benefits of
Moving Together
Crispin Bates (ed.)
The Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral

Technical and Economic Cooperation
(BIMSTEC) is a sub-regional association
combining some geographically contiguous
South and South East Asian countries located
around the Bay of Bengal. By focusing on trade
and investment, this book analyzes the current
state of affairs of BIMSTEC-Japan economic
relations and also provides a preliminary
proposal for establishing closer economic ties
between the two. Moreover, this book will
particularly be useful to theAsian policymakers,
researchers and business professionals seeking
better understanding of the dynamics of
BIMSTEC-Japan relations and its future
prospects.
Special Economic
Zones in India
Myths and Realities
Amitendu Palit &
Subhomoy
Bhattacharjee;
Foreword by Bibek
Debroy
Amitendu Palit, Visiting Fellow, Indian Council

for Research on International Economic
Relations (ICRIER), Delhi.
Subhomoy Bhattacharjee, Resident Editor,
Financial Express, Delhi.
Crispin Bates, Reader, School of History,

Classics & Archaeology, University of
Cambridge.
NEW
India's External
Relations in a
Globalized World
Economy
Radharaman
Chakrabarti
NEW
9781843317203
539pp
PB
Special Economic Zones (SEZs), introduced in

February 2006, are one of the stiffest challenges
for India's economic policy reforms. The
emotionally charged debate on SEZs has often
produced inflexible positions on either side. The
unusually strong public reaction has also forced
policymakers to revisit several aspects of the
policy in recent months. As the first book on
India's SEZs, this volume examines different
popular perceptions - both good and bad surrounding these zones.
30+ figures, tables & boxes

9788190583534 216pp HB
` 550.00
NEW
` 895.00
ANTHEM PRESS
ANTHEM PRESS
Dream of
Globalization
'India's External Relations in a Globalized World

Economy' seeks to relate India's current foreign
relations to the ongoing transformations in the
domestic economy that are a response to
globalization. Critically reviewing economic
reforms in the context of globalization, the study
notes the emergence of a broad national
consensus of both the political establishment
and the major conglomerates. Three significant
strands of economic liberalization - privatization,
FDI and foreign trade under the WTO regime are examined to reveal the nexus between
domestic political economy and foreign
policymaking. The underlying premise is that
India ought to be responsive and proactive to the
opportunities of globalization.
The Reality of
Millennium
Development Goals
Paritosh Banerjee
Radharaman Chakrabarti, Project Director,

UNESCO-approved Advanced Course on
International Underestanding of Human Unity,
Ramakrishan Mission Institute of Culture,
Calcutta.
9781843317265
124pp
PB
NEW
Here, in his final work, the late Paritosh Banerjee

explores both the benefits and potential costs of
the continuing prevalence of globalization, and
constructs a framework to review the basic
tenets of the confrontation between pro- and
anti-globalizing forces. Globalization is, he
argues, here to stay - but it will require the right
reforms sooner rather than later to ensure that
all nations involved benefit from its progress. In
a concise, timely manner, Banerjee surveys the
history of the globalizing phenomenon to provide
an indication of the now necessary changes to
its 'nature and extent' - changes that will help
foster the reality of a twenty-first century dream
of global economic health.
Paritosh Banerjee, writer on topical issues in
economics and social affairs, he is the author
of From Somnath to Babri.
5+ figures, tables & map
9789380601380 110pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
` 395.00
ANTHEM PRESS
` 495.00
India and the

World Bank
The Politics of Aid and
Influence
Jason A. Kirk
Capital Without
Borders
'The World Bank needs India more than India

needs it.' So goes an emerging consensus on
both sides of the relationship between the Bank
and its largest borrower. This book analyzes the
politics of aid and influence. The Bank,
struggling to remain relevant amid India's recent
rapid growth and expanding access to private
capital, has been caught up in a complex federal
politics of reform and development. India's
central government - far from being in retreat has been the main driver of dramatic changes in
the Bank's assistance strategy, leading toward a
focus at the sub-national state level.
Challenges to
Development
Ashwini Deshpande
(ed)
Ashwini Deshpande, Professor, Department of

Economics, Delhi School of Economics.
Jason A. Kirk, Assistant Professor, Political

Science, Elon University, North Carolina.
NEW
Independence to
Globalization
An Indian Manager's
Journey
Arabinda Ray
9789380601472
304pp
PB
` 595.00
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NEW
Indias Late, Late
Industrial
Revolution
From the mid-1980s, the career path and

lifestyle of the professional manager in India has
changed profoundly. Today's managers may
need to know the route through which they
arrived. Cutting across all age groups,
'Independence to Globalization: An Indian
Manager's Journey' emerges as an interesting
and informative read.
Democratizing
Entrepreneurship
Sumit K. Majumdar
Arabinda Ray, was custodian, Indian Iron &

Steel Company (IISCO) & on the first Board of
the Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL).
NEW
How Rich
Countries Got
Richand Why
Poor Countries
Stay Poor
Erik S. Reinert
9788190583541
222pp
PB
` 450.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Erik S. Reinert's strongly revisionist history

reveals how economic theory has long been torn
between the continental Renaissance tradition
and the free market ideas of English and later
American economics. Our economies were
founded on protectionism and state activism and
could only later afford the luxury of free trade, so
when our leaders come to lecture poor countries
on the right road to riches, they do so in almost
perfect ignorance of the real history of mass
affluence. This book mounts a strong challenge
and opens up the debate on why free trade is
not the best possible answer for our hopes of
worldwide prosperity.
9781843313335
400pp
PB
65 + figures & tables

9789380601564 250pp
PB
` 495.00
ANTHEM PRESS
There is a paradox at the heart of the Indian

economy. Indian businessmen and traders are
highly industrious and ingenious people, yet for
many years Indian industry was sluggish and
slow to develop. One of the major factors in this
sluggish development was the command and
control regime known as the License Raj. This
regime has gradually been removed and, after
two decades of reform, India is now awakening
from its slumber and is experiencing a late, late
industrial revolution. This important new book
catalogues and explains this revolution through
a combination of rigorous analysis and
entertaining anecdotes about Indias
entrepreneurs, Indian firms strategies and the
changing role of government in Indian industry.
This analysis shows that there is a strong case
for a manufacturing focus so that India can
replicate the success stories of Asian countries
such as Japan, South Korea and China.
Sumit K. Majumdar is Professor of Technology
Strategy in the School of Management,
University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson.
9781107032996 452pp HB
` 895.00
Erik S. Reinert, Chairman, The Other Canon

Foundation, Norway & Professor, Tallinn
University of Technology.
NEW
This volume examines a plethora of issues

related to international capital flows, including
the inevitable crisis that arises from the
absorption of large volumes of capital inflow; the
vast difference between foreign portfolio
investment and foreign direct investment (FDI)
from the point-of-view of the recipient country;
the impact of different regulatory mechanisms;
and various policy options for developing
countries in the face of fluid international capital
movements.
` 495.00
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The Service
Sector in Indias
Development
Gaurav Nayyar
A striking aspect of Indias recent growth has

been the dynamism of its services sector. In
2010, it accounted for 57 percent of the
countrys GDP and 25 percent of its total
employment. The results do not conform to the
growth experience of currently industrialized
countries or other developing economies. Is the
increasing share of the service sector in Indias
total output simply notional, as several activities
that were earlier classified in the industrial sector
are now subsumed in services value added, or
because the relative price of services has
increased over time? No. The sectors growth is
real it is linked to household final demand,
policy reforms and increased service exports. Is
this service-led growth process sustainable?
That remains an open question because the
service sector is highly heterogeneous, ranging
from software services and business process
outsourcing to wholesale and retail trade and
personal services. These subsectors vary
considerably in the context of different economic
characteristics that are important for
development.
Development
Disparities in
Northeast India
Rakhee Bhattacharya
Indias recent reform measures have

transformed the socioeconomic landscape of
many states; however, it has left a few others
behind. Development Disparities in Northeast
India attempts to determine Northeast Indias
place in the countrys economic growth map. It
examines whether Indias liberalization has
infused any hope into the Northeastern states of
India. This book objectively analyses Northeast
Indias intra-regional variations and relates these
to a pan-regional analytic grid thereby
connecting it to the rest of India.
The book opens a debate by examining critical
issues like the colossal gap between supply
steered policies of the central government and
demands of the people in this region. It also
addresses the issues of rampant corruption,
dismal failure of governance and an insurgent
economy that drives a sinister parallel economy
within the region.
Rakhee Bhattacarya, a fellow with the Maulana
Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata is
engaged in research on the issues of security
and development in Northeast India.
Gaurav Nayyar is an economist in the

Economic Research Division of the WTO
Appellate Body, Geneva.
9788175967984
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192pp HB
` 795.00
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9781107035324 312pp HB
` 895.00
The World under

Pressure
How China and India
are Influencing
the Global Economy
and Environment
Carl J. Dahlman
The Financial
Inclusion
Imperative and
Sustainable
Approaches
The rapid rise of China and India is reshaping

our global economic and environmental
systems, raising major issues of stability,
governance, and sustainability. This book
develops a framework that shows the
interdependence between economic size, trade,
finance, technology, environment, security, and
global governance. The author uses this
framework to provide data on the speed of
global power shifts and to trace the implications
for nations worldwide.
Deepali Pant Joshi
Specifically, as the book shows, China and

Indias unchecked growth has the potential to
ignite trade, resource, cold, and conventional
wars. Moreover, these nations could set in
motion monumental challenges related to
climate change. The author argues that the
current international governance system is not
actively trying to defuse the challenges of these
frictions. The major powers, including China and
India, must do more to address the gathering
storm. Developing sustainable economic and
social relationships will be a most difficult
charge, but the cost of putting off reforms will be
lower global welfare. The author discusses the
starting points for initiating these changes.
Deepali Pant Joshi is presently Chief General

Manager with the Reserve Bank of India based
at Mumbai
9788175968004
326pp
HB
292pp
HB
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Carl J. Dahlman is the Luce Professor of

International Relations and Information
Technology at the Edmund A. Walsh School of
Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA.
9789382264644
The need for Financial Inclusion is fast emerging

as an international policy issue at the macro
level. The Financial Inclusion Imperative and
Sustainable Approaches is a comprehensive
account of various components of the Financial
Inclusion. It presents a blueprint to combat
poverty and highlights the critical role of banks
and the microfinance sector. This book is
comprehensive and gives a contemporary
treatment of major issues facing the Indian
Economy today. It combines academic rigor and
objectivity with clear presentation. In this incisive
book, the author asks searching questions and
offers carefully thought out answers.
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` 695.00
Policy Options to
Achieve Food
Security in South
Asia
Surabhi Mittal &
Deepti Sethi (eds)
Agriculture in South Asia and many other parts

of the world is apparently caught in a low
equilibrium trap. The features of this trap are low
productivity of staples, supply shortfalls, higher
prices, low returns to farmers, product
diversification, causing further shortage of staple
food. The question of food security has a
number of dimensions that go beyond
production, availability and demand for food.
Food availability does not ensure food security.
Thus, distribution and access of population to
food is equally important for food security. Food
availability can be achieved through better
distribution mechanisms and alternatively
through imports to ensure food security.
Bangladesh
Politics, Economy and
Civil Society
David Lewis
This book identifies major issues of food security

in the South Asian countries. Each chapter of the
book throws light on issues such as initiatives
and policies taken up in a particular country to
achieve the goal of food security, and also
critically evaluates the effectiveness of these
policies. Discussing the SAARC food bank to
ensure food security in South Asia, the book also
suggests measures to overcome the identified
current constraints and make the policies more
effective.
David Lewis, London School of Economics and

Political Science
9781107678460
Indias Financial
Sector
An Assessment
Committee on Financial
Sector Assessment
Deepti Sethi is a Research Assistant at the

Indian Council for Research on International
Economic Relations.
242pp
HB
` 695.00
V. Nityananda Sarma
Banks are the most significant players in the

Indian financial market. The Indian banking
system has played a crucial role in the
socioeconomic development of the country. After
1990, the Government of India formulated
policies supporting liberalisation, privatisation
and globalisation. The book keeps pace with
these changes and captures the central themes
and concerns of corporate financial
management. The topics covered in the book
are discussed in a fairly self-contained manner.
It addresses contemporary financial components
such as capital market, money market, banker
and customer relationship, cooperative banks,
regional rural banks, RBI, SBI, development
banking and banking technology. Besides, it
explains the assessment of working capital and
the appraisal of term loans from a practitioners
point of view.
V. Nityananda Sarma was a Reader at the
Government College for Women, Begumpet,
Hyderabad.
9788175966376
552pp
PB
` 395.00
The Government of India and the Reserve Bank

constituted a Committee on Financial Sector
Assessment (CFSA) in September 2006 to
undertake a comprehensive assessment of
Indias financial sector. The aim of this review
was to evaluate financial sector stability and
development, identify the gaps in compliance
with various international financial standards and
codes, and suggest corrective policy measures.
To assist the Committee, four Advisory Panels
provided independent reports on:
Financial Stability Assessment and Stress
Testing, covering macro-prudential analysis
and stress-testing of the financial sector
(Volume III).
A key analytical component is a
comprehensive assessment of financial
stability and stress testing of Indias financial
sector. The Advisory Panel conducted a
macro-prudential surveillance (including
system-level stress testing) to assess the
soundness and stability of Indias financial
system and suggest measures for
strengthening the financial system.
Financial Regulation and Supervision,
covering banking regulation and supervision,
securities market regulation and insurance
regulation standards (Volume IV).
The Advisory Panel evaluated the adherence
to the relevant standards and codes for
financial regulation and supervision,
pertaining mainly to the banking sector,
securities market and insurance sector. The
evaluation extends to non-banking and rural
financial institutions and money and foreign
exchange markets, as relevant and
applicable.
Institutions and Market Structure, covering
standards regarding accounting and auditing,
corporate governance, payment and
settlement systems and effective insolvency
and creditor rights systems (Volume V).
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Banking and
Financial Systems
3 maps
248pp
PB
Surabhi Mittal is a Senior Scientist at the

International Maize and Wheat Improvement
Center (CIMMYT). She served as a Senior
Fellow at the Indian Council for Research on
International Economic Relations (ICRIER).
9788175968097
Since its hard-won independence from Pakistan,

Bangladesh has been ravaged by economic and
environmental disasters. Only recently has the
country begun to emerge as a fragile, but
functioning, parliamentary democracy. The story
of Bangladesh, told through the pages of this
concise and readable book, is a truly remarkable
one. By delving into its past, and through an
analysis of the economic, political and social
changes that have taken place over the last
twenty years, the book explains how Bangladesh
is becoming of increasing interest to the
international community as a portal into some of
the key issues of our age. In this way the book
offers an important corrective to the view of
Bangladesh as a failed state.
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The Advisory Panel evaluated the observance

of the current standards and codes for
accounting, auditing, corporate governance,
payment and settlement systems and
effective insolvency and creditor rights
systems.
Transparency Standards, covering
standards regarding monetary and financial
policies, fiscal transparency and data
dissemination (Volume VI).
The Advisory Panel on Transparency
Standards evaluated the adherence to the
current standards and codes for transparency
in monetary and financial policies, fiscal
transparency and data dissemination.
Globalisation,
Labor Markets
and Inequality in
India
Dipak Majumdar &
Sandip Sarkar
As part of the assessments, the Advisory Panels

evaluated the current standards and codes,
identified gaps in adherence and suggested
possible policy actions and measures, taking a
medium-term perspective.
The Reports were finalized after peer review by
external experts of international repute. The peer
reviews of the Advisory Panel Reports, along
with the Panels response, have been included
in respective volumes.
The CFSA, drawing on the assessments and
recommendation of the Advisory Panel Reports,
has presented its Overview Report (Volume II).
Volume I is an Executive Summary of the
assessments and recommendations by the
CFSA.
Dipak Majumdar is currently a Visiting

Professor at the Institute for Human
Development, New Delhi and a Senior
Researcher associated with the Munk Centre for
International Studies at the University of Toronto.
6 Volume Set (Volumes I VI)

9788175966710
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2 Volume Set (Volumes I & II)
9788175966758
` 500.00
Federalism,
Nationalism and
Development
India and the Punjab
Economy
Pritam Singh
Sandip Sarkar, a Senior Fellow at the Institute

for Human Development, New Delhi, has worked
extensively for over two decades on the subject
of labor, employment and poverty.
This book throws new light on the study of

Indias development through an exploration of
the triangular relationship between federalism,
nationalism and the development process. It
focuses on one of the seemingly paradoxical
cases of impressive development and sharp
federal conflicts that have been witnessed in the
state of Punjab. The book concentrates on the
federal structure of the Indian polity and it
examines the evolution of the relationship
between the centre and the state of Punjab,
taking into account the emergence of Punjabi
Sikh nationalism and its conflict with Indian
nationalism.
9780415436113
Pritam Singh is Senior Lecturer in Economics,

Oxford Brookes University Business School, UK.
246pp
PB
377pp
PB
ROUTLEDGE
Provides a template to analyse regional

imbalances and tensions in national economies
with federal structures and competing
nationalisms.
9780415456661
The economic reforms in India which were

initiated in the mid-1980s, albeit mildly, but
gained momentum since the early 1990s, have
undoubtedly accelerated the GDP growth rate,
but their impact on poverty, inequality and
employment have been controversial. This book
examines in detail these aspects of post-reform
India, and traces the changes and trends which
these new developments have created.
Providing an original analysis of unit-level data
available from the quinquennial National Sample
Survey, the Annual Survey of Industries and
other basic data sources, the authors analyse
and compare the results with other works written
on the matter. While describing the overall
situation for India, the book highlights regional
differences, and studies the major sectors of
agriculture, manufacturing and services. The
important issue of labor market institutions, both
in the organised and the unorganised sector, is
considered as well as the possible adverse
effects on employment growth. Since any reform
of this framework must go hand in hand with
more proactive state intervention in the informal
sector in order to have any chance of political
acceptance, some of the major initiatives in this
area are critically explored. This book is based
on the results of a collaborative research project
undertaken at the Institute for Human
Development (IHD), New Delhi, with support
from the International Development Research
Centre, Ottawa.
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` 795.00
Food for Policy

Reforming Agriculture
Surabhi Mittal &
Arpita Mukherjee (eds)
Food for Policy: Reforming Agriculture is the first

book of its kind to highlight the reforms needed
to achieve a second Green Revolution which
will then make way for an evergreen revolution
in India. Although there has been much
discussion on reforming the Indian agriculture
sector and making it globally competitive, it
continues to be plagued by various constraints
and the reform process has been extremely
slow. This book is a compilation of articles by
experts who provide comprehensive solutions
for the Indian agriculture sector. A unique feature
of this book is that it builds on the existing work
on reforms and trade in agriculture while
focusing on the gaps in the current literature.
There are very few books today that try to
address issues such as agri-business and nonfarm employment. Food for Policy: Reforming
Agriculture fills this lacuna by covering a wide
range of areas including agriculture trade policy,
price policy, infrastructure development and
supply chain efficiency.
Social Banking
Promise, Performance
and Potential
Dr Deepali Pant Joshi
The author argues the case for large-scale

Social Banking and microfinance for the
alleviation of poverty. She also provides an
extensive analysis of the remarkable traits that
have made Social Banking a success in India
and enabled the Indian banking system to reach
millions of low-income savers and borrowers. It
clearly demonstrates the tremendous potential
embedded in well-designed institutional
interventions.
Through this book, Dr Deepali Pant Joshi has
made an important contribution to the
understanding of the performance of Social
Banking in India and its potential for uplifting the
weaker sections through viable enterprises. The
author combines the professional expertise of a
senior banker with the social commitment and
analytical rigour of an economist.
Surabhi Mittal and Arpita Mukherjee are

Senior Fellows at the Indian Council for
Research on International Economic Relations
(ICRIER).
9788175966215
274pp
HB
` 795.00
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Asian Informal
Workers
Global risks, local
protection
Santosh Mehrotra &
Mario Biggeri (eds)
Dr Deepali Pant Joshi is presently the Chief

General Manager of Reserve Bank of India,
Hyderabad.
This book is a wide-ranging survey of the nature

and extent of home work in Asia. When
industrialization increased pace in the region
after decolonization, there was an expectation
that the process would result in most of the
labour force being employed in formal sector
industrial jobs. The reality, after over a halfcentury of development, is that even in the fastgrowing economies in Asia, formal employment
has grown rather slowly and that most nonagricultural employment growth has occurred in
the informal economy. At the same time, there
has been a feminization of informal workers and
growth in subcontracted homework. This book
draws on surveys carried out in five Asian
countries two low-income (India and Pakistan)
and three middle-income (Indonesia, Thailand
and the Philippines) where subcontracted
production, usually by women and children
working out of home, is now widespread. Homebased work is the source of income
diversification for poor families, but is also the
source of exploitation of vulnerable workers and
child labour as firms attempt to contain costs.
This book examines the social protection needs
of these workers, and argues for public action to
promote such work and protect such workers as
a possible new labour-intensive growth strategy
in developing countries.
9788175962811
A Field of Ones
Own
Gender and Land
Rights in South Asia
Bina Agarwal
HB
HB
` 395.00
This is the first major study of gender and

property in South Asia. Bina Agarwal argues that
the single most important economic factor
affecting womens situation is the gender gap in
command over property. In rural South Asia, the
most significant form of property is arable land, a
critical determinant of economic well-being,
social status, and empowerment. But few
women own land; fewer control it. The author
investigates the complex barriers to womens
land ownership and control, and how they might
be overcome. The book makes significant and
original contributions to theory and policy
concerning land reforms, bargaining and
gender relations, womens status, and the nature
of resistance.
Bina Agarwal, Institute of Economic Growth,
Delhi.
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9788185618647 572pp
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9788185618630 572pp HB
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Mario Biggeri is Associate Professor in

Development Economics at the University of
Florence, Italy.
510pp
200pp
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Santosh Mehrotra is a Senior Advisor to the

Planning Commission, Government of India.
9780415382755
Social Banking: Promise, Performance and

Potential provides an overview of the Indian
banking scenario from both a historical and a
theoretical perspective. It discusses the
development of Social Banking, its working and
its relevance for the present and the future. The
book presents the contribution of banking
institutions in promoting savings and
investments and extending the reach of banking
services.
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India Working
Essays on Society and
Economy
Barbara Harriss-White
Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of

the Indian economy through its most important
social structures of accumulation. Successive
chapters explore a range of topics including
labour, capital, the state, gender, religious
plurality, caste and space. The authors
conclusion challenges the prevailing notion that
liberalisation releases the economy from political
interference.
corporate governance are important constraints

on the privatization process in India. He also
shows that revenue-raising considerations have
weighed more heavily with the government than
efficiency objectives. Broad based shareholding
of public-sector firms, not sale to private groups,
should, therefore, be the preferred route to
enhancing efficiency at public-sector firms.
T.T. Ram Mohan, Professor, Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad.
Barbara Hariss-White is Professor of

Development Studies at Queen Elizabeth
House, and Fellow of Wolfson College,
University of Oxford.
9788175962309
335pp
PB
9780415331913
236pp
HB
` 695.00
ROUTLEDGE
` 395.00
International
Competitiveness,
Investment and
Finance
A Case Study of India
A. Ganesh-Kumar,
Kunal Sen &
Rajendra R. Vaidya
The Reserve Bank

of India
Using India as a case study, this well-written,

concise book covers everything one needs to
know to understand how a country becomes
internationally competitive. Showing that reforms
that pertain to the real sector alone, such as
industrial deregulation and trade reforms, are not
enough to enhance a countrys competitiveness,
this book makes a compelling case for
complimentary financial sector reforms.
This volume narrates in detail how the RBI

coped with the changes that it was required to
manage. It is a fascinating story of how policy
was actually made during a very trying period in
the countrys history. The chapters dealing with
the management of the external sector are
especially revealing since not much has been
written about that aspect so far.
A. Ganesh Kumar is Associate Professor at the

Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research, Mumbai.
Kunal Sen is Senior Lecturer in Economics at
the School of Development Studies, the
University of East Anglia in the UK.
Rajendra R. Vaidya is Associate Professor at
the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research, Mumbai.
9780415312325
159pp
HB
Volume 3
9788175962996 1129pp HB
Set (Vols. 1, 2 & 3)
9788175962989
` 695.00
ROUTLEDGE
Privatisation in
India
Challenging Economic
Orthodoxy
T.T. Ram Mohan
The Reserve Bank of India was set up in 1935,

under private ownership. Its charter was to
maintain the monetary stability of India. In 1949,
it was nationalized. The RBI monitors Indias
monetary and exchange rate policies, and the
borrowings of the central and state
governments. Regulation of commercial banking
is another key responsibility.
Over the past decade India has been

undertaking a programme of economic reform,
and at the same time the economy has been
growing at a high rate. As part of the reform
programme, and in line with prevailing economic
thinking, India has been privatizing its large,
ungainly public sector. One assumption
underlying this programme is the dogma that
public-sector enterprises are doomed to
inefficiency, and that only through privatization
can their efficiency be improved. But is this really
true? Combining rigorous data analysis with
case studies to provide a balanced evaluation of
the process of deregulation and privatization
within the overall context of economic reforms,
the author demonstrates, remarkably, that,
contrary to the prevailing view, private-sector
firms do not outperform public-sector firms
across all sectors. He argues that the
dominance of family businesses, rather than
professionally managed firms, and the level of
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Gyanendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences

Distinguished Professor of History and Director
of the Interdiciplinary Workshop in Colonial and
Postcolonial Studies at Emory University.
HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

Expanding
Frontiers in South
Asian
and World History
Essays in Honour of
John F. Richards
Richard M. Eaton,
Munis D. Faruqui, David
Gilmartin &
Sunil Kumar (eds)
This volume celebrates the work of Professor

John F. Richards (d. 2007), a historian who
significantly changed our understanding of the
Mughals, medieval Deccan and environmental
history. Expanding Frontiers in South Asian and
World History has brought together eminent
scholars of South Asian and Global History, who
were colleagues and associates of Professor
John F. Richards to discuss themes that marked
his work as a historian in an academic career
spanning almost forty years. It encapsulates
discussions under the rubric of frontiers in
multiple contexts frontiers and state building;
frontiers and environmental change; cultural
frontiers; frontiers, trade and drugs; and frontiers
and world history. It reflects at once, in the spirit
of Professor Richards own work, a concern for
large-scale global processes as well as for the
detailed specificities of each historical case.
9 B & W illustrations
9781107685376 255pp
PB
Community
Warriors
State, Peasants and
Caste Armies in Bihar
Ashwani Kumar
'Community Warriors' features a lucid narrative

style which facilitates a seamless passage
through the sociocultural history of postindependence Bihar and unravels the disturbing
aspects of the march of democracy in the
enigmatic 'heart of India'.
Ashwani Kumar, Associate Professor, Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai &
associated with Global Governance Research
Network, German Development Institute (DIE),
Bonn.
Richard M. Eaton is Professor, Department of

History, University of Arizona, USA.
NEW
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Munis D. Faruqui is Associate Professor,

Department of South and Southeast Asian
Studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
David Gilmartin is Professor, Department of
History, North Carolina State University, USA.
NEW
9781843317098
240pp
PB
` 525.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Sunil Kumar is Professor, Department of

History, University of Delhi, India.
9781107034280
380pp
HB
` 795.00
A History of
Prejudice
Race, Caste, and
Difference in India and
the United States
Gyanendra Pandey
NEW
Science,
Spirituality and
the Modernization
of India
This is a book about prejudice and democracy,

and the prejudice of democracy. In comparing
the historical struggles of two geographically
disparate populations - Indian Dalits (once
known as Untouchables) and African Americans
- Gyanendra Pandey, the leading subaltern
historian, examines the multiple dimensions of
prejudice in two of the worlds leading
democracies. The juxtaposition of two very
different locations and histories, and within each
of them of varying public and private narratives
of struggle, allows for an uncommon analysis of
the limits of citizenship in modern societies and
states. Pandey, with his characteristic delicacy,
probes the histories of his protagonists to
uncover a shadowy world where intolerance and
discrimination are part of both public and private
lives. This unusual and sobering book is
revelatory in its exploration of the contradictory
history of promise and denial that is common to
the official narratives of nations such as India
and the United States and the ideologies of
many opposition movements.
Makarand R. Paranjape
(ed)
Foreword by His
Holiness the Dalai
Lama
'Science, Spirituality and the Modernisation of

India' explores the lively transaction between
science and spirituality in India over the last 150
years. The book addresses the tension between
science and spirituality; how some key figures in
India explored the relationship between the two
in the very process of trying to reform their
society; significant areas of research in which
both are both deeply implicated; and their
relationship with gender and social justice.
Makarand R. Paranjape, Professor, English,
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
NEW
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9781843317487 296pp HB
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` 795.00
The Changing
Identity of Rural
India
A Sociohistoric
Analysis
Elisabetta Basile &
Ishita Mukhopadhyay
(eds)
NEW
Indian Democracy
Problems and
Prospects
M. Manisha &
Sharmila Mitra Deb
(eds)
The book explores the pattern of rural

development in contemporary India from a
multidisciplinary and historical perspective. The
general issue raised in the book refers to the
assessment of the nature and working of
contemporary Indian rural economy.
India in the World

Economy
From Antiquity to the
Present
Tirthankar Roy
Elisabetta Basile, Professor, Development

Studies, University of Rome, La Sapienza.
Ishita Mukhopadhyay, Faculty, Department of
Economics, University of Calcutta.
9788190757027
332pp
HB
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'Indian Democracy' is an attempt to understand

the development of democratic polity in India. It
covers a wide range of issues - theoretical
concepts, political institutions, federalism,
electoral process, individual and group rights
and mass media - drawing attention to the
significant broadening of Indian democracy.
Tirthankar Roy is Reader in the Economic

History Department at the London School of
Economics and Political Science.
23 B&W illustrations 6 maps 7 tables
9781107036390 298pp HB
` 695.00
M. Manisha, Senior Lecturer, Department of

Political Science, Loreto College, Kolkata.
Sharmila Mitra Deb, Senior Lecturer,

Department of Political Science, Loreto College,
Kolkata.
Confluences
Forgotten Histories
from East and West
9788190757096
NEW
Govind Narayan's
Mumbai
An Urban Biography
from 1863
Translated by Murali
Ranganathan (ed);
Foreword by Gyan
Prakash
252pp
PB
Ranjit Hoskote &

Ilija Trojanow
` 595.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Reflecting on various societies, religious

traditions and cultural blocs, Hoskote and
Trojanow uncover many forgotten histories of the
Other within the Self. Following the journeys of
stories, ideas, people and songs, they trace the
umbilical connections between Europe and Asia,
Zoroastrianism and Christianity, Western
revolutionary thought and the annihilatory
politics of Jihad and Hindutva. Based on ten
years of research and travel, Confluences
employs a sophisticated assemblage of
approaches, ranging from the essayistic to the
poetic, from rigorous historical analysis to the
playfulness of fiction.
Murali Ranganathan, lives & works in Mumbai.

After having worked in various jobs, Murali
turned to research. Govind Narayans Mumbai
is his first publication.
16+ photographs
9789380601519 407pp
PB
Defying the tide of national and cultural

neo-tribalism sweeping the world from North
America and Europe to India and the Arab
countries, Ranjit Hoskote and Ilija Trojanow
argue that the lifeblood of culture is confluence,
the mingling of dissimilar and even contrary
elements. No culture has ever been pure, no
tradition self-enclosed, no identity monolithic.
This condition is organic to a planet knit together
by transcontinental pilgrimages and
transoceanic trade routes, by the motives of war,
love, restlessness and inventive curiosity. Since
all cultures grow from the constant merging of
the familiar and the strange, the authors argue,
any attempt to isolate a culture within itself will
only damage that culture.
Guiding the reader on a tour of the sights and

sounds of an emerging city struggling to shake
off colonialism and wrestling with the formation
of its own budding identity, Narayan's beguiling
book offers descriptions of Mumbai's daily life, its
people and its institutions: the parts of the whole
that come together to create this diverse and
vivacious place. This valuable text is a rare and
enthralling glimpse into a fascinating period and
place otherwise lost to time.
Govind Narayan, was one of the leading
authors of his age, producing a series of original
books that were principally designed to
strengthen the moral fibre.
NEW
Cross-cultural exchange has characterized the

economic life of India since antiquity. Its long
coastline has afforded India convenient access
to Asia and Africa as well as trading partnerships
formed in the exchange of commodities ranging
from textiles to military techonology and from
opium to indigo. In a journey across two
thousand years, this enthralling book, written by
a leading South Asian historian, describes the
ties of trade, migration, and investment between
India and the rest of the world and shows how
changing patterns of globalization have
reverberated in economic policy, politics, and
political ideology within India. Along the way, the
book asks three major questions: Is this a
particularly Indian story? When did the big
turning points happen? And is it possible to
distinguish the modern from the premodern
pattern of exchange? These questions invite a
new approach to the study of Indian history by
placing the region at the center of the narrative.
This is global history written on Indias terms,
and, as such, the book invites Indian, South
Asian, and global historians to rethink both their
history and their methodologies.
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Exhilarating in its historical scope and depth of

insight, Confluences is a primer for all who are
committed to leading lives enriched by diversity.
This book also carries urgent political
significance in an era shaped by ideologues of
difference, who divide the world between an Us
to be protected and a Them to be destroyed. It is
a salutary guide to those perplexed by Jihadist
violence, the US-led coalitions misadventures in
the Arab world, the contest between Islam and
Eurocentrism, the turbulent face-off between
reformist and conservative movements in North
Africa, and the confrontation between Hindutva
and liberalism in India.
Migration and
Diaspora in
Modern Asia
Sunil S. Amrith
Ranjit Hoskote is an award-winning Indian poet,

cultural theorist, curator and author.
Ilija Trojanow is an award-winning German
novelist, essayist, critic and author.
9788190618670
224pp
PB
Migration is at the heart of Asian history. For

centuries migrants have tracked the routes and
seas of their ancestors - merchants, pilgrims,
soldiers and sailors - along the Silk Road and
across the Indian Ocean and the China Sea.
Over the last 150 years, however, migration
within Asia and beyond has been greater than at
any other time in history. Sunil S. Amriths
engaging and deeply informative book crosses a
vast terrain, from the Middle East to India and
China, tracing the history of modern migration.
Animated by the voices of Asian migrants, it tells
the stories of those forced to flee from war and
revolution, and those who left their homes and
their families in search of a better life. These
stories of Asian diasporas can be joyful or
poignant, but they all speak of an engagement
with new landscapes and new peoples.
Sunil S. Amrith is Senior Lecturer in History at
Birkbeck College, University of London
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Recovering
Liberties
Indian Thought in the
Age of Liberalism and
Empire
C. A. Bayly
Knowing India
One of the worlds leading historians examines

the great Indian liberal tradition, stretching from
Rammohan Roy in the 1820s, through Dadabhai
Naoroji in the 1880s to G. K. Gokhale in the
1900s. This powerful new study shows how the
ideas of constitutional, and later communitarian
liberals influenced, but were also rejected by
their opponents and successors, including
Nehru, Gandhi, Indian socialists, radical
democrats and proponents of Hindu nationalism.
Equally, Recovering Liberties contributes to the
rapidly developing field of global intellectual
history, demonstrating that the ideas we
associate with major Western thinkers Mills,
Comte, Spencer and Marx were received and
transformed by Indian intellectuals in the light of
their own traditions to demand justice, racial
equality and political representation. In doing so,
Christopher Bayly throws fresh light on the
nature and limitations of European political
thought and re-examines the origins of Indian
democracy.
Colonial and Modern

Constructions of the
Past
Cynthia Talbot (ed)
C. A. Bayly, University of Cambridge.

9781107025097
404pp
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Knowing India honors the contributions of

Thomas R. Trautmann to the fields of
anthropology and history by presenting research
from leading scholars who are his
contemporaries, colleagues, and former
students. Divided into four sections, the 17
essays in this volume look at modes of
conceptualizing and classifying traditional South
Asian society, perceptions of the precolonial past
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and
aspects of precolonial Indias historical
development and writing. Contributors include
reputed contemporaries of Trautmann such as
Madhav Deshpande, David Lorenzen, Romila
Thapar, and Sylvia Vatuk, as well as former
students like Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Bhavani
Raman, and Parna Sengupta who engage with
and take off from questions raised by
Trautmann. Also containing essays by Michael
Dodson, Kenneth Hall, Anne Hardgrove, Judith
Irvine, Carla Sinopoli, and Cynthia Talbot, the
book ends with three tributes to Trautmann by
Tom Fricke, Richard H. Davis and Rama
Mantena.
Cynthia Talbot is Associate Professor of History
and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at
Austin, USA.
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The Malabar
Muslims
A Different
Perspective
LRS Lakshmi
The Clash of
Chronologies
The Muslims of Kerala, primarily in the northern

region of the state called Malabar, are referred to
as Mappillas. This book is a study of the social
and institutional changes of the Malabar Muslims
during the colonial period. It presents the
Mappilla community in a wider Indian context
and analyses its social, economic, religious,
theological, political and educational aspects in
detail. Particular emphasis has been laid on their
women who are socially more powerful than
their counterparts in the rest of the subcontinent.
Ancient India in the

Modern World
Thomas R. Trautmann
The Mappilla tharavaadus, which are matrilineal

joint families, and kaarnotis, the female
matrilineal heads of these families, are central to
the understanding of the social history of this
community. The British colonial system disrupted
this traditional social order. The book argues that
Mappillas do not per se represent a monolithic
community, but show inter- and intra-regional
variations and social hierarchies. The position
and status of the Mappilla community in the
twenty-first century has been compared with its
Muslim counterparts in the other regions of the
country.
LRS Lakshmi teaches history at Lakshmibai
College, University of Delhi.
9788175969155
230pp
HB
The Clash of Chronologies shows the crucial

value of the ancient period of Indian history for
understanding Indias deep history. In this
valuable volume, Thomas Trautmann makes this
connection with great acuity through a series of
studies, on topics ranging from the contrasting
theories of time and history in India and Europe,
persistent codes of kinship and marriage
between north and south India, the conjuncture
of ancient Indian and European traditions of
language analysis in the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries, legacies of European
scholars of Indias deep history such as
Sir William Jones and A.L. Basham, and
structures of the ancient Indian state. At a time
when ancient history is being dismissed by some
as a projection of colonial rule or hypermagnified by others as the charter of the modern
state, this book finds a middle way that restores
the true weight and value of ancient history,
namely as an essential component of the long
view, a way of finding our place and a tool for
making a future.
Thomas R. Trautmann is Professor of History
and Anthropology at the University of Michigan.
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Armies, Wars
and their Food
D. Vijaya Rao
Global South
Asians
In the history of mankind, armies fought at the

behest of a ruler to conquer and expand
territories. In due course, war crafts were
devised and war logistics were developed.
However, armies food remained much the same
as ever for a very long time. Eventually science
and technology played a crucial role in bringing
army foods and nourishment to the expected
level of modernity, commensurate with
advancements in other features of the war craft.
Armies, Wars and their Food traces the evolution
of military rations and provides insights into the
concept of nutrition for military from the point of
a food scientist.
Introducing the
Modern Diaspora
Judith M. Brown
The principal theme of the book is the historical

development of armies and the supply and
delivery systems prevalent at different periods of
time. Providing a ready source of historical
perspectives on the armies, it discusses the role
of science and technology in instigating
improvements in military ration.
By the end of the twentieth century some nine

million people of South Asian descent had left
India, Bangladesh or Pakistan and settled in
different parts of the world, forming a diverse
and significant modern diaspora. In the early
nineteenth century, many left reluctantly to seek
economic opportunities which were lacking at
home. This is the story of their often painful
experiences in the diaspora, how they
constructed new social communities overseas
and how they maintained connections with the
countries and the families they had left behind. It
is a story compellingly told by one of the premier
historians of modern South Asia, Judith Brown,
whose particular knowledge of the diaspora in
Britain and South Africa gives her insight as a
commentator.
Judith M. Brown is Beit Professor of
Commonwealth History, University of Oxford and
Professorial Fellow of Balliol College.
D. Vijaya Rao is a Fellow of the Association of

Food Scientists and Technologists, India.
9788175963832
9788175963849
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9788175969186 554pp HB
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The South Asian

Diaspora
Transnational
networks and
changing identities
Rajesh Rai &
Peter Reeves (eds)
Ancient History
The South Asian Diaspora numbers just under

30 million people worldwide, and it is recognized
as the most widely dispersed diaspora. It is,
moreover, one which of late has seen
phenomenal growth, both due to natural
increase and the result of a continued movement
of professionals and labourers in the late
twentieth and early twenty first century from the
subcontinent to countries such as the United
States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia
and Singapore.
Class and
Religion in
Ancient India
Jayantanuja
Bandyopadhyaya
This book uses the concept of transnational

networks as a means to understand the South
Asian diaspora. Taking into account diverse
aspects of formation and development, the
concept breaks down the artificial boundaries
that have been dominating the literature
between the 'old' and the 'new' era of migration.
Thereby the continued connectedness of most
historic South Asian settlements is shown, and
the fluid nature of South Asian identities is
explored.
Jayantanuja Bandyopadhyaya, Professor

Emeritus, International Relations, Jadavpur
University, Kolkata, India.
NEW
Rajesh Rai is Assistant Professor at the South

Asian Studies Programme, National University of
Singapore.
Peter Reeves, Emeritus Professor of South
Asian History at Curtin University (Perth,
Western Australia), was Visiting Professor and
Head of the South Asian Studies Programme
(SASP) at the National University of Singapore
from 1999 to 2006.
9780415456913
224pp
HB
India and China

Interactions through
Buddhism and
Diplomacy
A Collection of Essays
by Professor Prabodh
Chandra Bagchi
` 895.00
ROUTLEDGE
Compiled by Bangwei
Wang & Tansen Sen
Strange Riches
Bengal in the
Mercantile Map of
South Asia
Rila Mukherjee
This book attempts to understand the

commercial and social history of erstwhile
Bengal in terms of its links with its neighbouring
countries in the northern region of the Bay of
Bengal. It touches upon the key issues in both
maritime and territorial history such as the early
medieval trade revolution and its impact on the
borders of Bengal. The discussion focuses on
Southeast Bengal - the most economically
developed area of Bengal in terms of transport
networks, agriculture, artisan products and
trade. Most of this area underwent two major
transformations in the twentieth century: once as
a result of the formation of East Pakistan in 1947
and a second time after the formation of
Bangladesh in 1971. The volume concludes with
certain major issues of concern between India
and Bangladesh at the turn of the twenty-first
century.
452pp
HB
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Underscoring the unique and multifaceted

interactions between ancient India and ancient
China, 'India and China: Interactions through
Buddhism and Diplomacy' collates the classic
works of the preeminent Indian scholar of
Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor
Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898-1956). The
volume's essays provide a wide-ranging and
thorough investigation of both Sino-Indian
Buddhism and cultural relations between the two
ancient nations, and are accompanied by a
variety of Bagchi's short articles, English
translations of a number of his Bengali essays,
and contemporary articles analyzing his
contribution to the wider field of Sino-Indian
study.
Bangwei Wang, Professor, Institute of Oriental
Studies, Research Centre of Eastern Literature
& Centre for India Studies, Peking University
NEW
Tansen Sen, Associate Professor, Asian history

& Religions, Baruch College, City University of
New York & visiting senior research fellow,
Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast
Asian Studies, Singapore
9789380601373
272pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
Rila Mukherjee teaches History at Jadavpur

University, Kolkata.
9788175963245
A fascinating read for scholars and general

readers alike, 'Class and Religion in Ancient
India' highlights the interdependence between
the class structure and the Vedic and
Brahmanical forms of religion in ancient India. It
seeks to demolish the myth that religiosity and
spirituality were the distinctive characteristics of
ancient Indian civilization. The author
demonstrates that religion was a superstructure
of class relations used primarily by the ruling
class and the state to perpetuate a predatory
class structure based on exploitation and
oppression.
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The Making of
Roman India
Grant Parker
Medieval History
Latin and especially Greek texts of the imperial

period contain a wealth of references to India.
Professor Parker offers a survey of such texts,
read against a wide range of other sources, both
archaeological and documentary. He
emphasises the social processes whereby the
notion of India gained its exotic features,
including the role of the Persian empire and of
Alexanders expedition. Three kinds of social
context receive special attention: the trade in
luxury commodities; the political discourse of
empire and its limits; and Indias status as a
place of special knowledge, embodied in naked
philosophers. Roman ideas about India ranged
from the specific and concrete to the wildly
fantastic and the book attempts to account for
such variety. It ends by considering the afterlife
of such ideas into late antiquity and beyond.
Science,
Technology and
Social Formation
in Medieval
Assam
Sanjeeb Kakoty
The author proposes a new categorisation of the

Ahom state, which he calls the paik mode of
production. This involves examination of the
specific tools and technologies used in rice
cultivation, varieties of rice cultivated, techniques
of gunpowder manufacture, different kinds of
guns and canons manufactured, system of
guerrilla warfare and extent of civil construction.
Overall the book presents a rich account of a
lesser known region in India and opens up a
new area of historical examination.
Grant Parker is Assistant Professor of Classics

at Stanford University.
11 halftones 3 maps
9780521193962 376pp HB
The beginning of the Ahom dynasty in eastern

Assam dates back to AD 1228. This kingdom,
which was one of the longest reigning dynasties
in India, continued till the beginning of
nineteenth century. This book discusses the
reasons behind the durability of this state. It
analyses the factors that contributed both to
development of Ahom and its eventual downfall
through an examination of technology,
production and system of governance.
` 895.00
Sanjeeb Kakoty teaches sustainability and

communications at Indian Institute of
Management, Shillong, Meghalaya.
Deciphering the
Indus Script
Asko Parpola
9789382264118
Of the writing systems of the ancient world which

still await deciphering, the Indus script is the
most important. It developed in the Indus or
Harappan Civilization, which flourished
c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern
Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical
records of South Asia were composed. Nearly
4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on
stamp seals and amulets, but no translations.
Professor Parpolas ideas about the script, the
linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and
the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a
remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and
Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials,
and linguistic methodology. He outlines what is
known about the Harappan culture and its script,
presents a decipherment of a small number of
interlocking Indus signs, and proposes a method
which will permit further progress in decipherment.
His fascinating study confirms that the Indus
script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus
language belonged to the Dravidian family.
The Political
Economy of
Commerce
Southern India
15001650
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
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` 795.00
This book is based on extensive and previously

unused Portuguese and Dutch archival sources.
Its secondary theme is to explore the
relationship between the documentation used
and the context within which it was generated,
thus illuminating how Europeans and Asians
reacted to one another.
This is Sanjay Subrahmanyams first book, long
out of print, now reprinted.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi
Chair of Indian History at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
Asko Parpola, University of Helsinki.

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9780521795661 396pp
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India Before
Europe
Catherine B. Asher &
Cynthia Talbot
India is a land of enormous diversity.

Cross-cultural influences are everywhere in
evidence, in the food people eat, the clothes
they wear, and in the places they worship. This
was especially the case in the India that existed
from 1200 to 1750, before the European
intervention. The book takes the reader on a
journey across the political, economic, religious
and cultural landscapes of medieval India, from
the Ghurid conquests and the Delhi Sultanate to
the great court of the Mughals. This was a time
of conquest and consolidation, when Muslims
and Hindus came together to create a unique
culture which still resonates in todays India. As
the first survey of its kind in over a decade, the
book is a tour de force. It is beautifully illustrated
and fluently composed, with a cast of characters
which will educate students and general readers
alike.
Vijayanagara
Burton Stein
Burton Stein is Professorial Reseach Associate

at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London.
9788185618463
The Marathas
Cynthia Talbot is Professor of History and Asian

Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
1600-1800
Stewart Gordon
` 595.00
Indo-Persian
Travels in the Age
of Discoveries
1400-1800
Muzaffar Alam &
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
This is a path-breaking work based on detailed

and sensitive readings of travel-accounts in
Persian, dealing with India, Iran and Central Asia
between 1400 and 1800. It is the first
comprehensive treatment of this neglected
genre of literature (safar nama) that links the
Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial
period of the transformation and cultural contact.
The authors close reading of these travel
accounts helps us to enter the mental and moral
worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who
produced these valuable narratives. These
accounts are presented in a comparative
framework, which sets them side by side with
other Asian accounts, as well as early modern
European travel-narratives, and opens up a rich
and unsuspected vista of cultural and material
history. This book can be read for a better
understanding of the nature of early modern
encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of
entering a new world.
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In this book, Dr. Stewart Gordon presents the

first comprehensive history of the Maratha polity,
which was an important regional kingdom in the
seventeenth century and the largest political
entity of eighteenth-century India. He focusses
on the origins of the elite families, problems of
legitimacy and loyalty, military organization and
change, and the development of administration,
tax collection, and religious patronage. Through
the use of a vast array of documents, the author
also gives a picture of everyday life in the
Maratha polity.
Stewart Gordon, University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor.
9788175960398
10 maps
224pp
PB
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The Anglo-Maratha
Campaigns and the
Contest for India
The Struggle for
Control of the South
Asian Military
Economy
Randolf G.S. Cooper
Muzaffar Alam is Professor, in the Department

of South Asian Languages and Civilizations,
University of Chicago.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Professor and Doshi
Chair of Indian History at the University of
California at Los Angeles.
9780521898522 416pp HB
170pp

Catherine B. Asher is Associate Professor in

the Department of Art History at the University of
Minnesota.
73 halftones 11 maps
9780521517508 336pp HB
The Vijayanagara kingdom ruled a substantial

part of the southern peninsula of India for over
three hundred years, beginning in the mid
fourteenth century, and during this epoch the
region was transformed from its medieval past
towards a modern colonial future. Concentrating
on the later sixteenth- and seventeenth-century
history of Vijayanagara, Burton Stein details the
pattern of rule established in this important and
long-lived Hindu kingdom, which was followed
by other, often smaller kingdoms of peninsular
India until the onset of colonialism.
This is a cross-cultural study of the political

economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S.
Cooper combines an overview of Maratha
military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of
the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on
that foundation he challenges ethnocentric
assumptions about British superiority in
discipline, drill and technology. He argues that
these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley
served with distinction, represent the military
high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the
last serious opposition to the formation of the
British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real
contest for India was never a single decisive
battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a
complex social and political struggle for control
of the South Asian military economy.
Randolf G.S. Cooper, Visiting Fellow at Wolfson
College, University of Cambridge.
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The Mughal
Empire
John F. Richards
Farhat Hasan is Reader in History at the Centre

for Advanced Study, Department of History,
Aligarh Muslim University.
The Mughal empire was one of the largest

centralised states in the pre-modern world and
this new volume traces the history of this
magnificent empire from its creation in 1526 to
its breakup in 1720. He stresses the dynamic
quality of Mughal territorial expansion, their
institutional innovation in land revenue, coinage
and military organisation, ideological change and
the relationship between the emperors and
Islam. Professor Richards also analyses
institutions particular to the Mughal empire, such
as the jagir system, and explores Mughal Indias
links with the early modern world.
Domesticity and
Power in the Early
Mughal World
John F. Richards, Duke University, North Carolina.
Ruby Lal
9788185618494
6 tables
344pp
PB
9788175963313
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The Mughals of
India
Harbans Mukhia
The Mughals of India explores the grandest and

longest lasting empire in Indian history. This
innovative book examines the Mughal presence
in India from 1526 to the mideighteenth century
through four new entry points: the source of the
Mughal states legitimacy; the evolution and
meaning of court etiquette; the world of the
imperial Mughal family; and the interaction
between folklore and court culture.
9788126518777
Marco della Tomba in

Hindustan
Power Relations in
Western India,
c. 1572-1730
Farhat Hasan
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BLACKWELL
State and Locality

in Mughal India
` 495.00
In a fascinating and innovative study, Ruby Lal

explores domestic life and the place of women in
the Mughal court of the sixteenth century.
Challenging traditional, orientalist interpretations
of the haram that have portrayed a domestic
world of seclusion and sexual exploitation, the
author reveals a complex society where noble
men and women negotiated their everyday life
and public-political affairs in the 'inner' chambers
as well as the 'outer' courts. Using Ottoman and
Safavid histories as a counterpoint, she
demonstrates the richness, ambiguity and
particularity of the Mughal haram, which was
pivotal in the transition to institutionalisation and
imperial excellence.
6 B&W illustrations
9780521145541 260pp
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The Scourge of
The Mission
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Ruby Lal is Assistant Professor in the

Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian
Studies at Emory University, Atlanta. Her
research and writing have focused on issues of
gender relations in Islamic societies in the precolonial world.
Based upon a wide range of sources - court

chronicles, official documents, poetry, paintings,
travellers accounts, bazaar gossip and folktales the book takes account of both the tensions and
harmonies within the court and the durability of
the empires structures, together with the
transient moments of the Mughal world and its
lasting legacy in todays India.
223pp
160pp
David N. Lorenzen
This book presents an exploratory study of the

Mughal state and its negotiation with local power
relations. By studying the state from the
perspective of the localities and not from that of
the Mughal Court, it shifts the focus from the
imperial grid to the local arenas, and more
significantly, from form to process. As a result,
the book offers a new interpretation of the
system of rule based on an appreciation of the
local experience of imperial sovereignty, and the
inter-connections between the state and the
local power relations. The book knits together
the systems- and action-theoretic approaches to
power, and presents the Mughal state as a
dynamic structure in constant change and
conflict. The study, based on hitherto
unexamined local evidence, highlights the extent
to which the interactions between state and
society helped to shape the rule structure, the
normative system and the moral economy of the
state.
Marco, a friar and missionary of the TibetHindustan Mission arrived in Bengal from his
native Italy in 1757, just as the forces of the
English East India Company were wresting
control of the region from Nawab Siraj-udDaulah. An eyewitness to the first serious
political and cultural encounter between India and
Europe, he recorded and commented on a
number of critical events in this period of transition and upheaval in the subcontinents history.
A biography and autobiography of his life, this
fascinating account is told in first person since
more than half the book is translated directly from
essays and letters written in Italian by Padre
Marco, while the remaining parts have been
written by David Lorenzen mostly on the basis of
Marcos letters and essays and those of some of
his colleagues in the Mission. The lively narrative
of Marcos life is interspersed with samples of his
attempts to understand Hindu religion, along with
some of its heterodox sects, making him one of
the earliest European scholars to have engaged
with their practices and beliefs.
David N. Lorenzen is Professor of South Asian
History at the Center for Asian and African
Studies, El Colegio de Mexico.
9788190666886
300pp
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The Sikhs of the

Punjab
J.S. Grewal
Modern History
In a revised edition of his original book,

J. S. Grewal traces the history of the Sikhs from
the time of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism,
to the present. Against the background of the
Punjab, the book explores the life and beliefs of
Guru Nanak and the growth of his following.
A Concise History
of Modern India
3rd Edition
J.S. Grewal is Director of the Institute of Punjab

Studies in Chandigarh.
1 half-tone 9 maps
9788175960701 302pp
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Barbara D. Metcalf &

Thomas R. Metcalf
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Indias Labouring
Poor
Historical Studies
c. 1600c.2000
Rana P. Behal &
Marcel van der Linden
(eds)
NEW
Recent years have witnessed a renewed interest

in the historical studies of labour in India and
other parts of the world. Apart from the study of
the industrial workforce, labour history has been
enriched by the scholarly attention to migratory,
mobile labour, lives of artisans, women and
peasant immigrants to plantations within India
and overseas. Earlier the major emphasis of
labour history research was on the core
countries such as US, Canada, Europe and
Japan. Now research on the labour history of the
capitalist peripheries is growing and is
increasingly attracting international scholarship.
Barbara D. Metcalf is Professor of History

Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.
Thomas R. Metcalf is Professor of History
Emeritus at the University of California,
Berkeley.
52 B&W illustrations 4 maps
9781107619128 360pp
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An urgent need is felt for reconstituting the

older frameworks which had revolved around
fixed binaries of space, time and social
relations. Labour historians have to increasingly
contend with the existing notions of premodern and modern, free/unfree, formal/
informal forms of labour relations and traditional
spatial divisions such as the factory and the
field, urban and rural etc.
The Economy of
Modern India
From 1860 to the
Twenty-First Century
2nd Edition
Rana P. Behal, Department of History,

Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, Delhi.
B. R. Tomlinson
Marcel van der Linden, Research Director,

International Institute of Social History,
Amsterdam and Professor, Social Movement
History, University of Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
9788175964969
292pp
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A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D.

Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a
classic in the field since it was first published in
2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history
from the Mughals to the present, it has informed
students across the world. In the third edition of
the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic
developments of the last twenty years, from
1990 through the Congress electoral victory of
2009, to the rise of the Indian high-tech industry
in a country still troubled by poverty and political
unrest. The narrative focuses on the
fundamentally political theme of the imaginative
and institutional structures that have
successively sustained and transformed India,
first under British colonial rule and then, after
1947, as an independent country. Woven into
the larger political narrative is an account of
Indias social and economic development and its
rich cultural life.
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Rapid economic growth has put India at the

centre of current debates about the future of the
global economy. In this fully revised and updated
text, B. R. Tomlinson provides a comprehensive
and wide-ranging account of the Indian economy
over the last 150 years. He sets arguments
about growth, development and
underdevelopment, and the impact of
imperialism, against a detailed history of
agriculture, trade and manufacture, and the
relations between business, the economy and
the state. The new edition extends the coverage
right up to the present day, and explains how
one of the largest countries in the world has
sought to achieve economic progress and
lasting development, despite institutional
weaknesses, rigid structures of political and
social hierarchy, and the legacy of colonialism.
B.R. Tomlinson, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London.
9781107660304 266pp
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19
A Gentlemans
Word
The Legacy of Subhas
Chandra Bose in
Southeast Asia
Nilanjana Sengupta
NEW
Manuscripts,
Memory and
History
The great Indian nationalist leader Subhas

Chandra Bose arrived in Singapore in 1943 to
revitalize the Indian National Army (INA). Taking
the opportunity of the Japanese occupation of
parts of Southeast Asia, he launched armed
struggle against British colonial rule in India. Two
years later, that attempt failed at the eastern
gates of India. Yet, it was a temporary failure
because the INA helped set in motion a series of
developments within India. These would
culminate in its freedom in a further two years.
Classical Tamil
Literature in Colonial
India
V. Rajesh
Bose is a household name in India. He is

remembered in Southeast Asia as well,
particularly among Indians. However, while his
contributions to Indias independence movement
have been recorded exhaustively, less is known
about the legacy that he left behind in Southeast
Asia. This book seeks to fill that gap in the
international understanding of a great Indian
nationalist and pan-Asianist. It records how
participation in the nationalist struggle invested
Southeast Asian Indians with a rare sense of
dignity and helped foster a mushrooming of
militant trade unions, making it difficult for the
returning British planters to perpetuate their
control over what had been a docile workforce.
The INAs Rani of Jhansi movement proved to
be a pioneering effort at drawing Southeast
Asian Indian women out of their traditional roles
and expectations. It inspired some of them to
take up mainstream roles for the cause of
equality and emancipation.
NEW
The earliest stratum of Tamil literature

Ettuthogai, Pathuppattu and grammar
Tolkappiyam is dated to the early centuries of
the Common Era. Widely commented upon
during the medieval period the classical corpus
was known among the commentators as Canror
Ceyyul (poetry of the noble ones). This book
traces the history of classics during the modern
period when print technology started to
proliferate in Tamil society during the nineteenth
and early twentieth century.
Tracing the manuscript copies of classical Tamil
literature during the pre-colonial period the book
investigates the social history of print-publication
of this literature during the nineteenth and early
twentieth century. The publication of classical
Tamil literature created conditions for the
reappraisal of Tamil literary history, a task taken
up by the indigenous Tamil scholars. The
process involved contesting the histories of and
commentaries on Tamil literature by missionaryorientalists and colonial administrators. The
book reconstructs the debate on Tamil literature
among indigenous Tamil intellectuals,
missionary-orientalists and colonial
administrators. Classics also provided
resources for modern nationalism and the book
locates the place of classical corpus in the
organized politics of colonial Madras.
V. Rajesh is Assistant Professor in History at
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta.
Nilanjana Sengupta is currently a visiting

scholar at Asia Research Institute, National
University of Singapore.
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Coming of Age in
NineteenthCentury India
The Girl-Child and the
Art of Playfulness
Ruby Lal
NEW
This Side, That

Side
In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal

traces the becoming of nineteenth-century
Indian women through a critique of narratives of
linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In
the north Indian patriarchal environment,
womens lives were dominated by the
expectations of the male universal, articulated
most clearly in household chores and domestic
duties. The author argues that girls and women
in the early nineteenth century experienced
freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and
playfulness, even within restrictive
circumstances. Although women in the colonial
world of the later nineteenth century remained
agential figures, their activities came to be
constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic
norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and
complex alterations in the multifaceted female
subject in a variety of nineteenth-century
discourses, elaborated in four different sites
forest, school, household, and rooftops.
Restorying Partition
An Anthology of
Graphic Narratives
Vishwajyoti Ghosh
NEW
Ruby Lal is Associate Professor in the

Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian
Studies at Emory University.
The most decisive formative moment in modern

South Asian history, Partition has remained a
site of constant engagement, investigation and
memory-making for over three generations. Over
the years, Partition discourse has been shaped
by prevalent politics, the use of faith for political
reasons, a passive nod to nostalgia, a cocktail of
facts and rumours laced with speculation, and
the scholarly exchange of memories. Marking a
watershed, generational moment of change in
this discourse, This Side, That Side brings
together graphic narratives on this epochal
moment by comic artists, writers, artists,
illustrators, filmmakers, theatre artists and
storytellers from across South Asia.
This anthology explores a dominant theme in
contemporary South Asia an enduring curiosity
about the other side. Poignant, contemplative,
and often even playful, these narratives are
creative explorations by those who may not have
witnessed Partition, but who continue, till date, to
negotiate its legacy.
Many of the stories in This Side, That Side grew
out of conversations in several cases, across
borders between graphic artists and
storytellers. This anthology itself is the result of a
unique collaborative process between the

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South Asian
Media Cultures
publisher Yoda Press, in proposing the idea and

nurturing its results; Goethe Institut Delhi, in
providing processual and conceptual partnership
to the project; and Vishwajyoti Ghosh, in mining,
selecting and structuring the stories within the
framework of a graphic narrative, mentoring the
contributors, and designing the book.
Audiences,
Representations,
Contexts
Shakuntala Banaji (ed)
Vishwajyoti Ghosh is the author of Delhi Calm

and a member of the Pao Collective.
9789382579014
366pp
PB
Shakuntala Banaji, Lecturer, Media &

Communication, London School of Economics,
UK.
` 595.00
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1857 Uprising
A Tale of an Indian
Warrior
Kaushik Roy
Most of the sources regarding the 1857 Uprising

were written by British officials and civilians.
From the Indian side we have more or less
nothing as regards their experiences of the
'event'. The only exception is the memoir of
Durgadas Bandopadhyay, which was published
in Bengali in the 1920s. The first-ever translation
of this memoir ensures a wide readership of a
unique and valuable resource.
9789380601465
Citizenship and
Statelessness in
Sri Lanka
The Case of the Tamil
Estate Workers
Valli Kanapathipillai
From Improvement to
Development
Carey A. Watt & Michael
Mann (eds)
PB
` 495.00
ANTHEM PRESS
NEW
Civilizing
Missions in
Colonial and
Postcolonial
South Asia
210pp
NEW
Mad Tales from

the Raj
Colonial Psychiatry in
South Asia, 1800-58
Carey A. Watt, Associate Professor, History

(South Asia/World), St. Thomas University in
Canada.
Waltraud Ernst
Michael Mann, Professor, South Asian History &

Culture, Humboldt University, Berlin.
NEW
344pp
PB
` 495.00
'Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka'

analyses the context of the agreement between
the Sri Lankan and Indian government that led to
the loss of citizenship of Indian Tamil estate
workers in Sri Lanka. Kanapathipillai broadens
the focus of scholarship in this area by
examining the economic, political and ideological
issues that had a bearing on policy decisions.
Valli Kanapathipillai, worked as consultant &
researcher, International Centre for Ethnic
Studies, Colombo.
'Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial

South Asia' offers a series of analyses that
highlights the complexities of British and Indian
civilizing missions in original ways and through
various historiographical approaches. The book
applies the concept of the civilizing mission to a
number of issues in the colonial and postcolonial
eras in South Asia: economic development,
state-building, pacification, nationalism, cultural
improvement, gender and generational relations,
caste and untouchability, religion and
missionaries, class relations, urbanization,
NGOs, and civil society.
9789380601397
7+ images
276pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
NEW
Kaushik Roy, Associate Researcher, Centre for

the Study of Civil War (CSCW), International
Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) &
teaches history, Presidency College, Kolkata.
9788190583527
'South Asian Media Cultures' examines a wide

range of media cultures and practices from
across South Asia, using a common set of
historical, political and theoretical engagements.
In the context of such pressing issues as peace,
conflict, democracy, politics, religion, class,
ethnicity and gender, these essays explore the
ways different groups of South Asians produce,
understand and critique the media available to
them.
` 595.00
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9789380601496
1+ map
244pp
PB
` 495.00
ANTHEM PRESS
'Mad Tales from the Raj' is an authoritative

assessment of western psychiatry within the
context of British colonialism. This revised
version provides a comprehensive study of
official attitudes and practices in relation to both
Indian and European patients during the
dominance of the British East India Company. It
is fascinating reading not only to students of
colonial history, medical sociology and related
disciplines, but to all those with a general
interest in life in the colonies.
Waltraud Ernst, Professor, History of Medicine,
Oxford Brookes University.
9789380601489
NEW
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8+ images
174pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
` 495.00
Nationalizing the
Body
The Medical Market,
Print and Daktari
Medicine
Projit B. Mukharji
Calcutta Mosaic
This book seeks to move emphasis away from

the over-riding importance given to the state in
existing studies of 'western' medicine in India,
and locates medical practice within its cultural,
social and professional milieus. Based on
Bengali doctors writings this book examines how
various medical problems, challenges and
debates were understood and interpreted within
overlapping contexts of social identities and
politics on the one hand, and their function within
a largely unregulated medical market on the
other.
Essays and Interviews

on the Minority
Communities of
Calcutta
Himadri Banerjee,
Nilanjana Gupta &
Sipra Mukherjee (eds)
'Calcutta Mosiac' explores the history of the

diverse immigrant communities of this great city.
Himadri Banerjee, Guru Nanak Professor,
History, Jadavpur University, India.
Nilanjana Gupta, Professor, English & Director,
School of Media, Communication & Culture,
Jadavpur University, India.
Sipra Mukherjee, Reader, English, Bhairab
Ganguly College, India.
Projit B. Mukharji, Wellcome Fellow, Oxford

Brookes University.
NEW
The Indian
Uprising of 1857-8
Prisons, Prisoners
and Rebellion
Clare Anderson
NEW
15+ figures & tables

9789380601502 368pp
PB
` 595.00
ANTHEM PRESS
NEW
This fascinating book, based on extensive

archival research in Britain and India, examines
why mutineer-rebels chose to attack prisons and
release prisoners, discusses the impact of the
destruction of the jails on British penal policy in
mainland India, considers the relationship
between India and its penal settlements in
Southeast Asia, re-examines Britain's decision to
settle the Andaman Islands as a penal colony in
1858 and re-evaluates the experiences of
mutineer-rebel convicts there. This book makes
an important contribution to histories of the
mutiny-rebellion, British colonial South Asia,
British expansion in the Indian Ocean and
incarceration and transportation.
Aboard the
Democracy Train
A Journey through
Pakistan's Last
Decade of Democracy
Nafisa Hoodbhoy
Tales of Time in
Eastern India,
1860-2000
Ishita Banerjee-Dube
4+ figures & tables

9789380601526 220pp
PB
` 495.00
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This book constructs an anthropological history

of a subaltern religious formation, Mahima
Dharma of Orissa, a large province in eastern
India. Tracking the contingent making of a critical
community over a hundred and forty year period,
'Religion, Law and Power' explores the interplay
of distinct expressions of time and history,
innovative reformulations of caste and Hinduism
and distinct engagements with state and nation.
This serves to unravel the wider entanglements
of religion, history, law, modernity and power.
Ishita Banerjee-Dube, Professor, History,
Centre for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio
de Mxico.
50+ tables & figures
9789380601533 243pp
PB
NEW
504pp
PB
` 595.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Aboard the Democracy Train is a gripping frontline account of Pakistan's decade of turbulent
democracy (1988-1999), as told through the
eyes of the only woman reporter working during
the Zia era for the nation's leading English
language newspaper.
Nafisa Hoodbhoy, researches, writes and
teaches about the Pak-Afghan region.
Clare Anderson, Professor, History, University

of Leicester.
ANTHEM PRESS
Religion, Law and

Power
9789380601618
` 495.00
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16+ images & maps

9789380601991 268pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
` 495.00
Religion and
Conflict in Modern
South Asia
William Gould
Small Town
Capitalism in
Western India
This is one of the first single-author comparisons

of different South Asian states around the theme
of religious conflict. Based on new research and
syntheses of the literature on communalism, it
argues that religious conflict in this region in the
modern period was never simply based on
sectarian or theological differences or the clash
of civilizations. Instead, the book proposes that
the connection between religious radicalism and
everyday violence relates to the actual (and
perceived) weaknesses of political and state
structures. For some, religious and ethnic
mobilisation has provided a means of protest,
where representative institutions failed. For
others, it became a method of dealing with an
uncertain political and economic future. For
many it has no concrete or deliberate function,
but has effectively upheld social stability,
paternalism and local power, in the face of
globalisation and the growing aspirations of the
regions most underprivileged citizens.
Artisans, Merchants
and the Making of the
Informal Economy,
18701960
Douglas E. Haynes
William Gould is senior lecturer in Indian history

at the University of Leeds.
9781107029217
6 maps
368pp HB
This book charts the history of artisan production

and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from
1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western
Indias biggest cities have been the subject of
many rich studies, the role of artisan producers
located in the regions small towns have been
virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival
research as well as numerous interviews with
participants in the handloom and powerloom
industries, this book explores the role of
weavers, merchants, consumers, and laborers in
the making of what the author calls small-town
capitalism. By focusing on the politics of
negotiation and resistance in local workshops,
the book challenges conventional narratives of
industrial change. The book provides the first indepth work on the origins of powerloom
manufacture in South Asia. It affords unique
insights into the social and economic experience
of small-town artisans as well as the informal
economy of late colonial and early postindependence India.
Douglas E. Haynes, Dartmouth College, New
Hampshire.
9781107031296 362pp HB
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` 995.00
Subaltern Lives
Biographies of
Colonialism in the
Indian Ocean World,
17901920
Clare Anderson
Subaltern Lives uses biographical fragments of

the lives of convicts, captives, sailors, slaves,
indentured labourers and indigenous peoples to
build a fascinating new picture of colonial life in
the nineteenth-century Indian Ocean. Moving
between India, Africa, Mauritius, Burma,
Singapore, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands and
the Australian colonies, Clare Anderson offers
fresh readings of the nature and significance of
networked Empire. She reveals the importance
of penal transportation for colonial expansion
and sheds new light on convict experiences of
penal settlements and colonies, as well as the
relationship between convictism, punishment
and colonial labour regimes. The book also
explores the nature of colonial society during this
period and embeds subaltern biographies into
key events like the abolition of slavery, the
Anglo-Sikh Wars and the Indian Revolt of 1857.
This is an important new perspective on British
colonialism which also opens up new
possibilities for the writing of history itself.
Indigo Plantations
and Science in
Colonial India
Prakash Kumar
Clare Anderson is Professor of History at the

University of Leicester.
Prakash Kumar documents the history of

agricultural indigo, exploring the effects of
nineteenth-century globalisation on this colonial
industry. Charting the indigo culture from the
early modern period to the twentieth century,
Kumar discusses how knowledge of indigo
culture thrived among peasant traditions on the
Indian subcontinent in the early modern period
and was then developed by Caribbean planters
and French naturalists who codified this
knowledge into widely disseminated texts.
European planters who settled in Bengal with
the establishment of British rule in the late
eighteenth century drew on this information.
From the nineteenth century, indigo culture
became more modern, science-based and
expert driven, and with the advent of a cheaper,
purer synthetic indigo in 1897, indigo science
crossed paths with the colonial states effort to
develop a science for agricultural development.
Only at the end of the First World War, when the
industrial use of synthetic indigo for textile
dyeing and printing became almost universal,
did the indigo industrys optimism fade away.
Prakash Kumar is Assistant Professor of South
Asian History at Colorado State University
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9781107032989 232pp HB
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9781107038004 254pp HB
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The Political
Philosophy of
Muhammad Iqbal
Islam and Nationalism
in Late Colonial India
Iqbal Singh Sevea
Political Thought
in Action
This book reflects upon the political philosophy

of Muhammad Iqbal, a towering intellectual
figure in South Asian history, revered by many
for his poetry and his thought. He lived in India in
the twilight years of the British Empire and, apart
from a short but significant period studying in the
West, he remained in Punjab until his death in
1938. The book studies Iqbals critique of
nationalist ideology, and his attempts to chart a
path for the development of the nation by
liberating it from the centralizing and
homogenizing tendencies of the modern state
structure. These were highly relevant and often
controversial issues during the years leading up
to independence, and Iqbal frequently clashed
with his contemporaries over his view of
nationalism as the greatest enemy of Islam. In
rejecting post-Enlightenment conceptions of
religion, he constructed his own particular
interpretation of Islam that would provide
solutions to all political, social, and economic ills.
In many ways, his vision of Islam forged
through an interaction with Muslim thinkers and
Western intellectual traditions was ahead of its
time, and since his death both modernists and
Islamists have continued to champion his legacy.
The Bhagavad Gita

and Modern India
Shruti Kapila &
Faisal Devji (eds)
This set of essays seeks to intervene in current

debates within political thought and intellectual
history and to offer new perspectives on both.
They do so with the presumption that the place
of India and its political thought is instructive for
and foundational in the making of the national
and post-national global order.
Iqbal Singh Sevea is Assistant Professor of

History at the University of North Carolina.
9781107038189
1 map
250pp HB
Shruti Kapila is University Lecturer of History at

Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge.
Faisal Devji is University Reader in Modern
South Asian History at St Antonys College,
University of Oxford.
` 595.00
The Government
of Social Life in
Colonial India
Liberalism, Religious
Law, and Womens
Rights
Rachel Sturman
9781107033955
From the early days of colonial rule in India, the

British established a two-tier system of legal
administration. Matters deemed secular were
subject to British legal norms, while suits relating
to the family were adjudicated according to
British understanding of Hindu or Muslim law,
known as personal law. This important new
study analyses the system of personal law in
colonial India through a reexamination of its
emphasis on womens rights. Focusing on Hindu
law in western India, it challenges existing
scholarship, showing how far from being a
system based on traditional values, or a system
that operated in isolation from secular law
Hindu law was developed around ideas of
liberalism, and this framework encouraged
questions about equality, womens rights, the
significance of bodily difference, and more
broadly the relationship between state and
society. Rich in archival sources, wide-ranging
and theoretically informed, the book illuminates
how social life, emblematized by the systems of
personal law, came to function as an organizing
principle of colonial governance and of
nationalist political imaginations.
220pp
HB
` 595.00
The Cambridge
Companion to
Gandhi
Judith Brown
& Anthony Parel (eds)
Even today, six decades after his assassination

in January 1948, Mahatma Gandhi is still
revered as the father of the Indian nation. His
intellectual and moral legacy, and the example of
his life and politics, serve as an inspiration to
human rights and peace movements, political
activists and students. This book, comprised of
essays by renowned experts in the fields of
Indian history and philosophy, traces Gandhis
extraordinary story. The first part of the book
explores his transformation from a small-town
lawyer during his early life in South Africa into a
skilled political activist and leader of civil
resistance in India. The second part is devoted
to Gandhis key writings and his thinking on a
broad range of topics, including religion, conflict,
politics and social relations. The final part
reflects on Gandhis image and on his legacy in
India, the West, and beyond.
Judith M. Brown is Beit Professor of
Commonwealth History at the University of
Oxford.
Rachel Sturman is Associate Professor of

History and Asian Studies at Bowdoin College.
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9781107038196 310pp HB
This volume brings together a group of

intellectual and social historians to discuss the
way in which modern interpretations of the Gita
have focused on war and violence, rather than
peace and stability, as a site for thinking about
politics. The essays gathered here look at the
Gita as a philosophical and ethical text both
within South Asia and also on its outward
journey into western political debate. Though
part of an ancient epic tradition, the Gita did not
achieve its current eminence until very recently.
Its resurgence and reinterpretation, in short, is
coterminous with the formation of modern life
and politics. But if modern commentaries on the
Bhagavad Gita cannot be described simply as
participating in some ancient and continuing
tradition, neither should they be seen merely as
the epiphenomena of an abstraction like
capitalism that supposedly constitutes the true
reality of Indian society.
Anthony Parel is Professor Emeritus of Political

Science at the University of Calgary.
` 695.00
9781107602205
294pp
PB
` 395.00
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Gandhi in the
West
The Mahatma and the
Rise of Radical
Protest
Sean Scalmer
Indigenous and
Western Medicine
in Colonial India
The non-violent protests of civil rights activists

and anti-nuclear campaigners during the 1960s
helped to redefine Western politics. But where
did they come from? Sean Scalmer uncovers
their history in an earlier generations intense
struggles to understand and emulate the
activities of Mahatma Gandhi. He shows how
Gandhis non-violent protests were the subject of
widespread discussion and debate in the USA
and UK for several decades. Though at first
misrepresented by Western newspapers, they
were patiently described and clarified by a
devoted group of cosmopolitan advocates. Small
groups of Westerners experimented with
Gandhian techniques in virtual anonymity and
then, on the cusp of the 1960s, brought these
methods to a wider audience. The swelling
protests of later years increasingly abandoned
the spirit of non-violence, and the central
significance of Gandhi and his supporters has
therefore been forgotten. This book recovers this
tradition, charts its transformation, and ponders
its abiding significance.
Madhuri Sharma
Emphasizing upon the question of class, gender

and racial discriminations, the book also
examines the interest generated by modern
medical equipment such as the stethoscope and
the thermometer, and the way in which these
were used to reinforce the norms of social
hierarchy and purdah system. This work also
focuses on several debated issues such as birth
control, sexuality, and the principles of
brahmacharya.
Sean Scalmer is a Senior Lecturer in the School

of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne.
9781107014114
254pp
HB
This book delves into the social history of

medicine and reflects on the complexity of social
interaction, between indigenous and western
medicine in colonial India. The book draws upon
a host of authentic sources such as tracts,
pamphlets, brochures, booklets of various
medicine shops and drug manufacturing
companies functioning in the colonial era. This
work analyses the medical market and
entrepreneurship in medicine in colonial India. It
deconstructs the then prevalent
advertisements, treating them both as a
reflection on the contemporaneous values and
lifestyles and as a medium for the creation of
medical consumers.
Madhuri Sharma is a Fellow at Nehru Memorial

Museum and Library, Teen Murti Bhavan, New
Delhi.
` 795.00
9788175968899
192pp
HB
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Why Europe
Grew Rich and
Asia Did Not
Global Economic
Divergence,
16001850
Prasannan
Parthasarathi
Bombay Islam
Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not

provides a striking new answer to the classic
question of why Europe industrialised from the
late eighteenth century and Asia did not.
Drawing significantly from the case of India,
Prasannan Parthasarathi shows that in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the
advanced regions of Europe and Asia were more
alike than different, both characterized by
sophisticated and growing economies. Their
subsequent divergence can be attributed to
different competitive and ecological pressures
that in turn produced varied state policies and
economic outcomes. This account breaks with
conventional views, which hold that divergence
occurred because Europe possessed superior
markets, rationality, science or institutions. It
offers instead a groundbreaking rereading of
global economic development that ranges from
India, Japan and China to Britain, France and
the Ottoman Empire and from the textile and
coal industries to the roles of science,
technology and the state.
The Religious
Economy of the West
Indian Ocean,
18401915
Nile Green
As a thriving port city, nineteenth-century

Bombay attracted migrants from across India
and beyond. Nile Greens Bombay Islam traces
the ties between industrialization, imperialism
and the production of religion to show how
Muslim migration fueled demand for a wide
range of religious suppliers, as Christian
missionaries competed with Muslim religious
entrepreneurs for a stake in the new market.
Enabled by a colonial policy of non-intervention
in religious affairs, and powered by steam travel
and vernacular printing, Bombays Islamic
productions were exported as far as South Africa
and Iran. Connecting histories of religion, labour
and globalization, the book examines the role of
ordinary people mill hands and merchants in
shaping the demand that drove the market. By
drawing on hagiographies, travelogues, doctrinal
works, and poems in Persian, Urdu and Arabic,
Bombay Islam unravels a vernacular modernity
that saw people from across the Indian Ocean
drawn into Bombays industrial economy of
enchantment.
Prasannan Parthasarathi is Associate

Professor in the Department of History at Boston
College.
Nile Green is Professor of South Asian and

Islamic History at the University of California,
Los Angeles.

9781107023901 384pp HB
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9781107020764 344pp HB
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Playing the Nation

Game
The Ambiguities of
Nationalism in India
Benjamin Zachariah
Justin Jones, University of Cambridge.
In his significant new work, Playing the Nation

Game, Benjamin Zachariah examines the
tension between the nation idea as a necessary
language of legitimacy with which to claim
liberation, and its role in disciplining people and
their identities in India in the name of national
liberation. Focusing on the anti-colonial struggle
and the subsequent Nehruvian period, and
necessarily on histories of interconnected and
travelling ideas, it seeks to show the ambiguities
and, exclusions and consequent dangers of
nationalism, and the ways in which scholarship
and politics conspires to reify nationalist
frameworks. It explodes spurious claims to
indigenous traditions, and argues for a
consistent separation of the categories state
and nation.
9781107026971
Race, Religion
and Law in
Colonial India
Trials of an Interracial
Family
Chandra Mallampalli
In doing so, it examines the historiography of

India and of anti-colonial nationalism, looks at
Bengali enagagements with progress and
British rule, at the invention of Hinduism as a
category available for national use, and at
Nehruvian nationalism, with which its broad
definition of national belonging, fails to delineate
nationals from non-nationals, in the process, it
provides ways of rethinking the standard
narratives of Indian history. Interconnected
narratives emerge with a common thread, a
concern with writing histories of India that cannot
be subsumed within a bland and obligatory
history of Indian nationalism.
PB
Religion, Community
and Sectarianism
Justin Jones
How did British rule in India transform persons

from lower social classes? Could Indians from
such classes rise in the world by marrying
Europeans and embracing their religion and
customs? This book explores such questions by
examining the intriguing story of an interracial
family who lived in southern India in the midnineteenth century. The family, which consisted
of two untouchable brothers, both of whom
married Eurasian women, became wealthy as
distillers in the local community. A family dispute
resulted in a landmark court case, Abraham v.
Abraham. Chandra Mallampalli uses this case to
examine the lives of those involved, and shows
that far from being products of a civilizing
mission who embraced the ways of Englishmen,
the Abrahams were ultimately when faced with
the strictures of the colonial legal system
obliged to contend with hierarchy and racial
difference.
Purifying Empire
Obscenity and the
Politics of Moral
Regulation in Britain,
India and Australia
` 495.00
YODA PRESS
Shia Islam in
Colonial India
` 895.00

9781107026988 280pp HB
` 995.00
Benjamin Zachariah is Reader in South Asian

History at the University of Sheffield, and a
senior research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner
Orient in Berlin.
336pp
HB
Chandra Mallampalli, Westmont College.
The book attempts to open up new lines of

thinking, possible research agendas and ways of
reading and teaching Indian history.
9788190618649
304pp
Deana Heath
Interest in Shia Islam has increased greatly in

recent years, although Shiism in the Indian
subcontinent has remained largely
underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shia
minority of Lucknow and the United Provinces, a
region that was largely under Shia rule until
1856, this book traces the history of Indian
Shiism through the colonial period toward
independence in 1947. Drawing on a range of
new sources, including religious writing,
polemical literature and clerical biography, it
assesses seminal developments including the
growth of Shia religious activism, madrasa
education, missionary activity, ritual innovation
and the politicization of the Shia community. As
a consequence of these significant religious and
social transformations, a Shia sectarian identity
developed that existed in separation from rather
than in interaction with its Sunni counterparts. In
this way the painful birth of modern sectarianism
was initiated, the consequences of which are
very much alive in South Asia today.
Purifying Empire explores the material, cultural

and moral fragmentation of the boundaries of
imperial and colonial rule in the British Empire in
the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
It charts how a particular bio-political project,
namely the drive to regulate the obscene in late
nineteenth-century Britain, was transformed from
a national into a global and imperial venture and
then re-localized in two different colonial
contexts, India and Australia, to serve decidedly
different ends. While a considerable body of
work has demonstrated both the role of empire
in shaping moral regulatory projects in Britain
and their adaptation, transformation and, at
times, rejection in colonial contexts, this book
illustrates that it is in fact only through a
comparative and transnational framework that it
is possible to elucidate both the temporalist
nature of colonialism and the political, racial and
moral contradictions that sustained imperial and
colonial regimes.
Deana Heath is a lecturer in South Asian History
at Trinity College Dublin.
9780521189200
244pp
HB
` 995.00
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An Intellectual
History for India
Shruti Kapila (ed)
with an Afterword by
C.A. Bayly
The Inordinately
Strange Life Of
Dyce Sombre
This volume addresses the power of ideas in the

making of Indian political modernity. As an
intermediate history of connections between
South Asia and the global arena the volume
raises new issues in intellectual history. It
reviews the period from the emergence of
constitutional liberalism in the1830s, through the
swadeshi era to the writings of Tilak, Azad and
Gandhi in the twentieth century. While several
contributions reflect on the ideologies of
nationalism, the volume seeks to rescue
intellectual history from being simply a narration
of the nation-state. It does not seek to create a
canon of political thought so much as to show
how Indian concepts of state and society were
redrawn in the context of emergent globalized
debates about freedom, the constitution of the
self and the good society in the late colonial era.
In so doing the contributions here resituate an
Indian intellectual history that has long been
eclipsed by social and political history.
Victorian Anglo-Indian
MP and Chancery
'Lunatic'
Michael H. Fisher
Michael H. Fisher is Robert S. Danforth

Professor of History at Oberlin College in Ohio.
9781849040006
These essays were originally published in a

Special issue of the journal Modern Intellectual
History (CUP, April 2007).
164pp
HB
The Partition of
India
` 495.00
Colonial Justice
in British India
White Violence and
the Rule of Law
Elizabeth Kolsky
416pp
HB
` 695.00
HURST
Shruti Kapila is University Lecturer at the

Faculty of History and Fellow of Corpus Christi
College, University of Cambridge.
9780521199759
The descendent of European mercenaries and

their Indian concubines, raised by a stepmother
who began as a courtesan and became the
Catholic ruler of a cosmopolitan kingdom, David
Ochterlony Dyce Sombre (1808-1851) defies all
classification. Sombre took advantage of the
sensual pleasures of privilege but lost his
kingdom to the British. Exiled in London, he
married the daughter of a Protestant viscount
and bought himself election as an MP, only to be
expelled for corruption. His treatment of his wife
led to his arrest as a Chancery 'lunatic'. Sombre
then spent years trying to reclaim his sanity and
fortune. In this captivating biography, Michael H.
Fisher recovers Sombre's unconventional life
and its implications for modern conceptions of
race, privilege and empire.
Ian Talbot &

Gurharpal Singh
Colonial Justice in British India describes and

examines the lesser-known history of white
violence in colonial India. By foregrounding
crimes committed by a mostly forgotten cast of
European characters planters, paupers,
soldiers and sailors Elizabeth Kolsky argues
that violence was not an exceptional but an
ordinary part of British rule in the subcontinent.
Despite the pledge of equality, colonial
legislation and the practices of white judges,
juries and police placed most Europeans above
the law, literally allowing them to get away with
murder. The failure to control these unruly whites
revealed how the weight of race and the
imperatives of command imbalanced the scales
of colonial justice. In a powerful account of this
period, Kolsky reveals a new perspective on the
British Empire in India, highlighting the
disquieting violence that invariably accompanied
imperial forms of power.
The British divided and quit India in 1947. The

partition of India and the creation of Pakistan
uprooted entire communities and left
unspeakable violence in its trail. This volume tells
the story of partition through the events that led
up to it, the terrors that accompanied it, to
migration and resettlement. In a new shift in the
understanding of this seminal moment, the book
also explores the legacies of partition which
continue to resonate today in the fractured lives
of individuals and communities, and more
broadly in the relationship between India and
Pakistan and the ongoing conflict over contested
sites. In conclusion, the book reflects on the
general implications of partition as a political
solution to ethnic and religious conflict. The book
is accompanied by photographs, maps and a
chronology of major events.
Ian Talbot is Professor of History at the
University of Southampton
Gurharpal Singh is Nadir Dinshaw Professor of
Inter-Religious Relations in the Department of
Theology and Religion at the University of
Birmingham.
9781107633476 224pp
PB
` 395.00
9780521761772 224pp HB
` 795.00
Elizabeth Kolsky is an assistant professor of

History at Villanova University.

9780521190787 266pp HB
` 895.00
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A History of
Bangladesh
Willem van Schendel
Journeys to
Empire
Bangladesh is a new name for an old land whose

history is little known to the wider world. A country
chiefly famous in the West for media images of
poverty, underdevelopment, and natural
disasters, Bangladesh did not exist as an
independent state until 1971. Willem van
Schendels history reveals the countrys vibrant,
colourful past and its diverse culture as it
navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that
have created modern Bangladesh. The story
begins with the early geological history of the
delta which has decisively shaped Bangladesh
society. The narrative then moves chronologically
through the era of colonial rule, the partition of
Bengal, the war with Pakistan and the birth of
Bangladesh as an independent state. In so
doing, it reveals the forces that have made
Bangladesh what it is today. This is an eloquent
introduction to a fascinating country and its
resilient and inventive people.
Enlightenment,
Imperialism, and the
British Encounter with
Tibet, 1774-1904
Gordon T. Stewart
Willem van Schendel is Professor of Modern

Asian History at the University of Amsterdam and
Head of the Asia Department of the International
Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
9780521121903
372pp
PB
Gordon T. Stewart is the Jack and Margaret

Sweet Professor of History at Michigan State
University.
9780521761338 296pp HB
` 895.00
` 595.00
Islam and the

Army in Colonial
India
Sepoy Religion in the
Service of Empire
Nile Green
This fascinating study of two British missions to

Tibet in 1774 and 1904 provides a unique
perspective on the relationship between the
Enlightenment and European colonialism.
Gordon Stewart compares and contrasts the
Enlightenment era mission led by George Bogle
and the Edwardian mission of Francis
Younghusband as they crossed the Himalayas
into Tibet. Through the British agents diaries,
reports, and letters and by exploring their
relationships with Indians, Bhutanese and
Tibetans, Stewart is able to trace the shifting
ideologies, economic interests and political
agendas that lay behind British empire-building
from the late eighteenth century to the early
twentieth century. This compelling account
sheds new light on the changing nature of British
imperialism, on power and intimacy in the
encounter between East and West, and on the
relationship of history and memory.
History, Culture
and the Indian
City
A ground-breaking study of the cultural world of

the Muslim soldiers of colonial India. Set in
Hyderabad in the mid-nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, the book focuses on the
soldiers relationships with the faqir holy men who
protected them and the British officers they
served. Drawing on Urdu as well as European
sources, the book uses the biographies of
Muslim holy men and their military followers to
recreate the extraordinary encounter between a
barracks culture of miracle stories, carnivals,
drug-use and madness with a colonial culture of
mutiny memoirs, Evangelicalism, magistrates
and the asylum. It explores the ways in which the
colonial army helped promote this sepoy religion
while at the same time attempting to control and
suppress certain aspects of it. The book brings to
light the existence of a distinct barracks Islam
and shows its importance to the cultural no less
than the military history of colonial India.
Rajnarayan
Chandavarkar
Raj Chandavarkar was one of the finest Indian

historians of the twentieth century. He died sadly
young in 2006, leaving behind a very substantial
collection of unpublished lectures, papers and
articles. These have now been assembled and
edited by Jennifer Davis, Gordon Johnson and
David Washbrook, and their appearance will be
widely welcomed by large numbers of scholars
of Indian history, politics and society. The essays
centre around three major themes: the city of
Bombay, Indian politics and society, and Indian
historiography. Each manifests
Dr Chandavarkars hallmark historical powers of
imaginative empirical richness, analytic acuity
and expository elegance, and the collection as a
whole will make both a major contribution to the
historiography of modern India, and a worthy
memorial to a major scholar.
Rajnarayan Chandavarkar was a Reader in
South Asian History at the University of
Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge.
Nile Green is Associate Professor in the

Department of History at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
9780521767477
B&W illustrations 1 map
9780521762717 236pp HB
282pp
HB
` 795.00
` 795.00
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Orientalism,
Empire, and
National Culture
India 1770-1880
Michael S. Dodson
Foreword by
C.A. Bayly
Empire and
Information
Orientalism is most often understood as a set of

strategies to extend a European will-to-power
over the Asian world. Orientalism, Empire, and
National Culture seeks to revise this view, and
suggests that it was instead composed of a set
of double practices in India, by virtue of the
British reliance upon Hindu scholarly
intermediaries, the Sanskrit pandits. It is thus
argued that orientalism was ultimately a much
more ambiguous, and potentially subversive,
enterprise, as Indian Sanskirt scholars also
adapted the institutional and social
underpinnings of colonial rule to produce newlyinflected, and often overtly anti-colonial, Hindu,
identities.
Intelligence Gathering
and Social
Communication in
India, 17801870
C.A. Bayly
Michael S. Dodson is Associate Professor of

South Asian and British Imperial History at
Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
9788175967168
284pp
PB
C.A. Bayly, University of Cambridge.
` 395.00
9788175960657
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Pakistan
A Modern History
3rd Edition
Ian Talbot
The Spoils of
Partition
Bengal and India,
1947-1967
Joya Chatterji
Talbots approach breaks down stereotypes and

assists in answering the vexed question of why
democracy has succeeded in India, while
Pakistan has been subject to long periods of
authoritarianism during its five decades of
existence. He brings the story of Pakistan right
up to date and discusses the rise of jihadi
militancy, the assassination of Benazir Bhutto
and the resilience of its people in the face of
military dictatorship and economic hardship.
Ian Talbot is Professor of History at the
University of Southampton.
544pp
PB
3 maps
426pp
PB
` 395.00
This book fills the need for a broad, historically

sophisticated understanding of Pakistan, a
country which is understood by many in the
West only in terms of stereotypes the
fanatical, authoritarian and reactionary other
which is unfavourably compared to a tolerant,
democratic and progressive India. Pakistan is in
reality a complex plural society which although
greatly shaped by the colonial inheritance and
circumstances of its birth, is also experiencing
rapid change.
9781850659891
In a penetrating account of the evolution of

British intelligence gathering in India, C. A. Bayly
shows how networks of Indian spies were
recruited by the British to secure military, political
and social information about their subjects. He
also examines the social and intellectual origins
of these native informants, and considers how
the colonial authorities interpreted and often
misinterpreted the information they supplied. It
was such misunderstandings which ultimately
contributed to the failure of the British to
anticipate the rebellions of 1857. The author
argues, however, that even before this, complex
systems of debate and communication were
challenging the political and intellectual
dominance of the European rulers.
The partition of India in 1947 was a seminal

event of the twentieth century. Much has been
written about the Punjab and the creation of
West Pakistan; by contrast, little is known about
the partition of Bengal. This remarkable book by
an acknowledged expert on the subject
assesses the social, economic and political
consequences of partition. Using new and
previously unexplored sources, the book shows
how and why the borders were redrawn, how the
creation of new nation states led to
unprecedented upheavals, massive shifts in
population and wholly unexpected
transformations of the political landscape in both
Bengal and India. The book also reveals how the
spoils of partition, which the Congress in Bengal
had expected from the new boundaries, were
squandered over the twenty years which
followed. This is an original and challenging
work whose findings change our understanding
and its consequences for the history of the
subcontinent.
Joya Chatterji is Lecturer in the History of
Modern South Asia at Cambridge, Fellow of
Trinity College, and Visiting Fellow at the LSE.
` 450.00
HURST
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9780521515276 360pp HB
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The Limits of
British Colonial
Control in South
Asia
Spaces of Disorder in
the Indian Ocean
Region
Ashwini Tambe &
Harald Fischer Tin
(eds)
Many people assume, largely because of

Warrior Ascetics
Gandhis legacy, that Hinduism is a religion of
and Indian Empires non-violence. William R. Pinch shows just how
This book assesses British colonialism in South

Asia in a transnational light, with the Indian
Ocean region as its ambit, and with a focus on
'subaltern' groups and actors. It breaks new
ground by combining new strands of research on
colonial history. Thinking about colonialism in
dynamic terms, the book focuses on the
movement of various underclasses in the
context of imperial ventures.
William R. Pinch
Challenging the assumed stability of colonial

rule, the social spaces featured are those that
threatened the racial, class and moral order
instituted by British colonial states. By
elaborating on the colonial state's strategies to
control perceived 'disorder' and the modes of
resistance and subversion that subaltern
subjects used to challenge state control, the
book presents a picture of the British Empire as
an ultimately precarious, shifting and unruly
formation , which is quite distinct from its selfprojected image as an orderly entity.
William R. Pinch is Professor of History at

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut.
9788175963672
The Indian
Princes and Their
States
Harald Fischer Tin is Professor of History at

Jacobs University, Bremen.
232pp
HB
Barbara N. Ramusack
` 895.00
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Becoming India
Western Himalayas
Under British Rule
Aniket Alam
11 half-tones
300pp HB
` 350.00
Ashwini Tambe is Assistant Professor of

Women's Studies at the University of Toronto,
Canada.
9780415452571
wrong this assumption is. Using the life of

Anupgiri Gosain, a Hindu ascetic who lived at
the end of the eighteenth century, he
demonstrates that Hindu warrior ascetics were
an important component of the South Asian
military labor market in the medieval and early
modern Indian past, and crucial to the rise of
British imperialism. Today, they occupy a
prominent place in modern Indian imaginations,
ironically as romantic defenders of a Hindu India
against foreign invasion, even though they are
almost totally absent from Indian history.
Becoming India demonstrates that the Western

Himalayas were politically, economically and
socially distant from the civilizations and empires
of the North during pre-colonial times. It helps in
better understanding of the present
developmental success of Himachal Pradesh as
well as the politics of the demand for separate
statehood by Uttarakhand. It studies how the
Western Himalayas became a part of the Indian
nation during colonial times.
Although the princes of India have been

caricatured as oriental despots and British
stooges, Barbara Ramusacks study argues that
the British did not create the princes. On the
contrary, many were consummate politicians
who exercised considerable degrees of
autonomy until the disintegration of the princely
states after independence. Ramusacks
synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the
evolution of the Indian kings from their precolonial origins to their roles as clients in the
British colonial system. The book breaks new
ground in its integration of political and economic
developments in the major princely states with
the shifting relationships between the princes
and the British.
Barbara N. Ramusack, University of Cincinnati.
9780521670470
324pp
PB
` 495.00

It examines in detail the peasant rebellions, clan

and caste, polyandry, establishment of hill
stations, land and forest settlements, education,
folklore and mythology, begar and monetisation.
It also focuses on the British policy and
nationalist politics, to make its central point that
the colonial encounter in the Western Himalayas
was qualitatively different from the neighbouring
parts of North India and its history cannot be
subsumed into the general history of India.
Traditional
Industry in the
Economy of
Colonial India
Aniket Alam was a journalist with The Hindu

and also worked for the Swiss Agency for
Development and Cooperation, a donor agency.
Earlier historians of Indias economic history

have argued that traditional manufacturing in
India was destroyed or devitalized during the
colonial period, and that modern industry is
substantially different. Exploring new material
from research into five traditional industries,
Tirthankar Roys book contests these notions,
demonstrating that while traditional industry did
evolve during the Industrial Revolution, these
transformations had a galvanizing rather than
negative effect on manufacturing generally.
9788175965645
Tirthankar Roy, Indira Gandhi Institute of

Development Research, Bombay.
354pp
HB
Tirthankar Roy
` 795.00
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9780521650120 264pp HB
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Sex and the Family

in Colonial India
The Making of Empire
Durba Ghosh
Women in
Modern India
In the early years of the British empire,

cohabitation between Indian women and British
men was commonplace and to some degree
tolerated. However, as Durba Ghosh argues in a
challenge to the existing historiography,
anxieties about social status, appropriate
sexuality, and the question of who could be
counted as British or Indian were constant
concerns of the colonial government even at this
time. By following the stories of a number of
mixed-race families, at all levels of the social
scale, from high-ranking officials and
noblewomen to rank-and-file soldiers and camp
followers, and also the activities of indigenous
female concubines, mistresses and wives, the
author offers a fascinating account of how
gender, class and race affected the cultural,
social and even political mores of the period.
Geraldine Forbes
The author traces the history of Indian women

from the nineteenth century under colonial rule
to the twentieth century after Independence. She
begins with the reform movement, established
by men to educate women, and demonstrates
how education changed womens lives, enabling
them to take part in public life. Through their own
accounts, the author has compiled an accessible
and immediate record of their achievements
over the last two centuries.
Geraldine Forbes, State University College,
Oswego, New York.
9780521612401
17 half-tones
312pp
PB
` 375.00

Durba Ghosh is Assistant Professor in History

at Cornell University.
9780521898799
8 half-tones
292pp HB
The Politics of
India Since
Independence
` 695.00
2nd Edition
Paul R. Brass
Women and
Labour in Late
Colonial India
The Bengal Jute
Industry
Samita Sen
Samita Sens history of labouring women in

Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries considers how social
constructions of gender shaped their lives. The
author demonstrates how the long-term trends in
the Indian economy devalued womens labour,
establishing patterns of urban migration and
changing gender equations within the family.
She relates these trends to the spread of dowry,
enforced widowhood and child marriage. The
study will make a significant contribution to the
understanding of the social and economic
history of colonial India and to notions of gender
construction.
Paul R. Brass, Professor of Political Science

and South Asian Studies, University of
Washington.
9780521543057
12 tables 1 map
286pp HB
424pp
PB
` 345.00

Samita Sen, University of Calcutta.
9780521453639
The first edition of The Politics of India Since

Independence argued that the Indian state,
society, and economy were in the midst of a
systematic crisis produced by the centralizing
drives of a national leadership determined to
transform the country into a modern,
industrialized, military strong state. In the three
years since this edition was published, this crisis
has intensified, revealing itself in secessionist
movements and in increased inter caste
conflicts. The country has witnessed the rise of
Hindu nationalism and the worst communal
massacres since Independence following the
destruction of the mosque in Ayodhya.
` 595.00
Caste, Society and

Politics in India
From The Eighteenth

Century to the Modern
Age
Susan Bayly
Adopting an historical and anthropological

approach, the book seeks to account for the
development and persistence of Indias caste
system over 350 years. Unlike many studies of
the subject which are highly polemical or too
technical for non-specialists, this volume is
intended for a student and general market.
Susan Bayly is a Lecturer at the Department of
Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.
9780521678612 440pp
PB
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Remembering
Partition
Violence, Nationalism
and History in India
Gyanendra Pandey
Gyan Pandeys book is a compelling and, at

times, harrowing examination of the violence
that marked the Partition of India in 1947, and
how the preceding events have been
documented. In the process, the author provides
a critique of history-writing and nationalist mythmaking. He also investigates how local forms of
community are constituted by the way in which
violent events are remembered and written
about.
Foundations of
Modern Society
Rajiva Wijesinha
This book introduces students to ideas, events

and personalities that have created the presentday world. This book thus attempts to set them
out in a way that challenges young-adult minds.
It is hoped that this book will enthuse them to
explore the reasons for and the results of
important historical developments.
Rajiva Wijesinha is Professor of Languages at
Sabaramaguwa University.
Gyanendra Pandey is Professor of

Anthropology and History at John Hopkins
University.
9788175962446
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` 145.00
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9788175961098
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Telangana
Peoples Struggle
and its Lessons
P. Sundarayya
Changing India
Bourgeois Revolution
on the Subcontinent
2nd Edition
Robert W. Stern
The revised edition of Robert Sterns book

brings Indias story up-to-date. Since its original
publication in 1993, much has altered and yet
central to the authors argument remains his
belief in the remarkable continuity and vitality of
Indias social systems and its resilience in the
face of change. This is a colourful, readable and
comprehensive introduction to modern India.
While paradoxes abound in an India which is
constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates
how and why it remains the largest and most
enduring democracy in the developing world.
Given his intimate association with the

Communist Party and the Telangana Struggle,
Sundarayya is able to provide a detailed
description of the intricacies both of decisionmaking and the execution of plans by various
guerilla squads. The book provides a ringside
view of the movement of squads, the network of
communications and the police terror as if a
camera were following the course of events. The
fact that this edition of the book arrives more
than five decades after the movement has done
little to dim the electric that surrounded the years
in the forest fighting the Nizams forces and later
the Indian army.
Robert W. Stern has written extensively on

South Asia. His publications include Democracy
and Dictatorship in South Asia: Dominant
Classes and Political Outcomes in India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh (2000).
9780521540810
320pp
PB
P. Sundarayya served as the General Secretary

of CPI (M) for more than a decade.
` 295.00
9788175963160
John Whelpton
Thomas R. Trautmann
In this book, Thomas R. Trautmann continues

the examination he began in Aryans and British
India (1997). The current volume examines
these developments from the vantage of
Madras, focusing on Ellis, Collector of Madras,
and the Indian scholars with whom he worked at
the College of Fort St. George.
Thomas R. Trautmann is Marshall D. Sahlins
Collegiate Professor of History and Anthropology
at the University of Michigan, USA.
9788190363402
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472pp
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A History of Nepal
Languages and
Nations
Beginning with an account of the feudal

oppression in the Nizams fiefdom and the
organization of the masses against the backdrop
of the national movement, Sundarayya recounts
the shaping of an alternate nationalism that gave
particular emphasis to the struggles of the
depressed classes. It was this decided focus
under the leadership of the Communist Party
which spurred the uprising.
Nepal emerged as a unified state over 200 years

ago, centred on the Kathmandu Valley with its
2000 years of urban civilisation. While John
Whelptons history focuses on the period since
the overthrow of the Rana family autocracy in
1950-1, the early chapters are devoted to the
origins of the kingdom and the evolving relations
of its diverse peoples. By drawing on recent
research on Nepals environment, society and
political institutions from the earliest times, the
author portrays a country of extraordinary
contrasts, which has been constantly buffeted
through history by its neighbours, the two Asian
giants, China and India. Economic and political
turmoil over the last fifty years came to a climax
in the massacre of the royal family in 2001,
when the country erupted into civil war.
John Whelpton, Hong Kong.
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Archaeology
The Archaeology
of Hindu Ritual
Temples and the
Establishment of the
Gods
Michael Willis
LITERATURE
In this groundbreaking study, Michael Willis
examines how the gods of early Hinduism came
to be established in temples, how their cults
were organized, and how the ruling elite
supported their worship. Examining the
emergence of these key historical developments
in the fourth and fifth centuries, Willis combines
Sanskrit textual evidence with archaeological
data from inscriptions, sculptures, temples, and
sacred sites. The centrepiece of this study is
Udayagiri in central India, the only surviving
imperial site of the Gupta dynasty. Through a
judicious use of landscape archaeology and
archaeo-astronomy, Willis reconstructs how
Udayagiri was connected to the Festival of the
Rainy Season and the Royal Consecration.
Through his meticulous study of the site, its
sculptures and its inscriptions, Willis shows how
the Guptas presented themselves as universal
sovereigns and how they advanced new
systems of religious patronage that shaped the
world of medieval India.
The Performance
of Nationalism
India, Pakistan, and
the Memory of
Partition
Jisha Menon
NEW
Michael Willis, British Museum, London.

9780521765459 390pp HB
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Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day

parades. How crucial is performance for the
sustenance of the nation? The Performance of
Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian
and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most
violent chapter of its history: the partition of the
subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers
a fresh analysis of nationalism from the
perspective of performance. Menon recuperates
the manifold valences of mimesis as aesthetic
representation, as the constitution of a
community of witnesses, and as the mimetic
relationality that underlies the encounter between
India and Pakistan. The particular performances
considered here range from Wagah border
ceremonies, to the partition theatre of Asghar
Wajahat, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, and the cinema
of Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to
the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgangers
that suffuse these performances, this study
troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous
nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the
process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of
thinking that unsettle the reified categories of
identity politics.
Jisha Menon is Assistant Professor of Theatre
and Performance Studies at Stanford University.
13 B&W illustrations
9781107051867 272pp HB
` 795.00
The Rise of
Civilization in
India and Pakistan
Bridget Allchin &
Raymond Allchin
In The Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan

the authors have completely revised and
rewritten their earlier work, The Birth of Indian
Civilization to present an integrated and dynamic
account of human culture in South Asia.
The Mirror of
Wonders and
Other Tales
Syed Rafiq Hussain,
Saleem Kidwai
(translator)
The authors have made every attempt to

incorporate the results of the most recent
research and their book is illustrated throughout
with photographs, maps and line diagrams.
Offering an original and stimulating perspective
on the archaeology of the subcontinent, The
Rise of Civilization in India and Pakistan will be
invaluable to students of South Asian culture and
early history.
Bridget Allchin, Wolfson College, Cambridge.
Raymond Allchin, University of Cambridge.
96 half-tones 5 tables
9788185618722 302pp
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NEW
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The plight of a hungry tigress and her cubs; a

dogs undying love for his friend; a domesticated
nilgai lost in the woods; the wide ambit of a cows
maternity; the pangs of separation felt by a
monkey mother and her child: such emotions are
explored in this unusual collection of short stories
peopled by a variety of animals. Originally written
in Urdu by an important but little-known early
twentieth-century writer, Syed Rafiq Hussain, the
stories use satire to highlight the ignominy of
human conduct from the vantage point of the
animals. Hussain combines keen observation of
animal behaviour with deep empathy, even as he
brings the Terai region of the Himalayan foothills
alive in these quiet yet profound tales. Kidwais
deft and nuanced translation in English retains
the liveliness of Hussains idiomatic Urdu and
introduces a new generation of readers to a
gifted and deeply philosophical writer.
Saleem Kidwai taught history at Delhi University
for many years and is now an independent
scholar based in Lucknow. He has written and
translated many books and co-edited Same-Sex
Love in India: Readings from Literature and
History (2000).
9789380403090 196pp
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Martyr as
Bridegroom
A Folk Representation
of Bhagat Singh
Ishwar Dayal Gaur
The Cambridge
Companion to
Modern Indian
Culture
'Martyr As Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of

Bhagat Singh' is written from the viewpoint of
vernacular Punjabi culture and tries to tread on
the marginalized path of vernacular culture as a
methodology of a historian's craft. The book
seeks to understand the manner in which
Punjabis constructed the image of Bhagat Singh
in their literature.
Vasudha Dalmia &

Rashmi Sadana (eds)
Ishwar Dayal Gaur, teaches History, Panjab

University, Chandigarh.
NEW
Another Canon
Indian Texts and
Traditions in English
9788190583503
7+ photographs
224pp HB
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Vasudha Dalmia is Professor of Hindi and

Modern South Asian Studies at the University of
California, Berkeley.
Rashmi Sadana is a writer and researcher
based in Delhi.
'Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions' in

English traces the development of Indian English
literary and textual practice over a period of
seven decades, focussing on classic texts which
have fallen beyond the scope of the established
canon.

9781107641037 326pp
PB
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Makarand Paranjpe, Professor, English,

Quest of a
Discipline
New Academic
Directions for
Comparative
Literature
NEW
Locating the
Anglo-Indian Self
in Ruskin Bond
A Postcolonial Review
Debashis
Bandyopadhyay
9789380601014
193pp
PB
` 595.00
Rizio Yohannan Raj

(ed)
ANTHEM PRESS
9789380601557
168pp
PB
From the days of Ren Welleks Crisis of

Comparative Literature (1959) through the
beginning of the twenty-first century that saw
Gayatri Spivaks provocative Death of a
Discipline (2003), Comparative Literature as an
academic discipline has endured like no other.
This pioneering volume, Quest of a Discipline,
offers challenging new directions to this field
urging the readers to see the practice of
Comparative Literature as a quest. It showcases
the multicultural, multilingual India as the most
potential site of quest today for the discipline of
Comparative Literature.
The deliberations are divided into sections that
deal with traditions, manifestoes of survival, the
latest methodologies, and perspectives that
comparatists from India, China, the Near West,
Europe and America have brought into the
discipline. Each section is prefaced with a short
introduction that locates the interdisciplinary
articles within the paradoxical wholeness of
Comparative Literature. Challenging and
unsettling many basic premises of comparative
studies, the essays explore the possibility of
redefining the scope of Comparative Literature by
forging meaningful interfaces between the
following fields:
Translation Studies Performance studies
Film Studies Media Studies Dalit Studies
Womens Writing Comparative Poetics
Cartoon Art Folklore
Rizio Yohaman Raj is an educationist, bilingual
creative writer, translator and editor.
Ruskin Bond's life - and, for that matter, his semiautobiographical works - are allegories of the
colonial aftermath. His is an odd but exemplary
attempt at absorption as a member of the AngloIndian ethnic minority, a community whose role in
the shaping of the postcolonial Indian psyche has
yet to be systematically analysed. This study
explores the dialogue between the biographical
and authorial selves of Ruskin Bond, whose
subjectivity is informed by the fantasies of space
and time.
Debashis Bandyopadhyay, Associate
Professor, English, Presidency University,
Kolkata.
NEW
India is changing at a rapid pace as it continues

to move from its colonial past to its globalised
future. This Companion offers a framework for
understanding that change, and how modern
cultural forms have emerged out of very different
histories and traditions. The book provides
accounts of literature, theatre, film, modern and
popular art, music, television and food; it also
explores in detail social divisions, customs,
communications and daily life. In a series of
engaging, erudite and occasionally moving
essays the contributors, drawn from a variety of
disciplines, examine not merely what constitutes
modern Indian culture, but just how wide-ranging
are the cultures that persist in the regions of
India. This volume will help the reader
understand the continuities and fissures within
Indian culture and some of the conflicts arising
from them. Throughout, what comes to the fore is
the extraordinary richness and diversity of
modern Indian culture.
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9788175969339
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The Metaphysics
of Text
Sukanta Chaudhuri
Indian Women in
the House of
Fiction
The advances of book history and editorial theory

remind us that it is vital to look behind the text we
read. Sukanta Chaudhuri explores, at a very
fundamental level, how texts are constituted and
how they work. He applies insights from many
lines of study not brought together so closely
before: theories of language, signification and
reception alongside bibliography, textual criticism,
editorial theory and book history. Blending case
studies with general observation and theory, he
considers the implications of the physical form of
the text; the relation between oral and written
language, and between language and other
media; the new territory opened up by electronic
texts; and special categories like play-books and
translations. Drawing on an exceptionally wide
range of material, both Western literature and
Indian works from Sanskrit aesthetics to the
poetry of Rabindranath Tagore, Chaudhuri sets a
new agenda for the study of texts.
Geetanjali Singh
Chanda
Sukanta Chaudhuri is Professor of English and

Director of the School of Cultural Texts and
Records at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
9781107400337 238pp HB
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Indian Women in the House of Fiction explores

the quiet negotiation of women and the kinds of
homes they wish to inhabit. The house is not
merely a backdrop in Indian womens fiction but
almost a character that bears witness to the
changes taking place in the protagonists lives.
The architectural and social spaces of havelis,
bungalows and apartments impose their own
unique patterns of womens relationships inside
and outside the domestic space. In these
fictional homes, women find ways to transform
restrictive segregated spaces like the zenana
or a haveli into a potentially empowering
womenspace that is carried over both into
bungalows and apartments. The current
popularity of Indo-English literature
notwithstanding, the anxiety of conveying an
authentic Indianness in what is sometimes still
regarded as an auntie tongue shadows some
authors and their work. Notions of Indianness
are preserved, taught and performed in the
home and it is also the site upon which concerns
about identity, language, nationalism, family or
community values and gender roles are played
out. In this book, Geetanjali Singh Chanda maps
Indian English womens literature in India and
the diaspora while situating it in the larger
framework of world literatures.
Geetanjali Singh Chanda is a Senior Lecturer
in the Womens, Gender & Sexuality Studies
Program at Yale University.
Gay Writers in
Search of the
Divine
Hinduism and
Homosexuality in the
Lives and Writings of
Edward Carpenter,
E.M. Forster and
Christopher
Isherwood
Antony Copley
Gay Writers in Search of the Divine is an

exploration of how three English writers
Edward Carpenter, E.M. Forster, and
Christopher Isherwood all three of whom
shared a similar sexuality, sought in Hindu
spirituality one way of achieving personal
autonomy and fulfillment. Antony Copley reveals
how these writers reconciled their inner conflicts
and were led in the direction of Hinduism either
by friendship or the influence of gurus. Tackling
the themes of the guru-disciple relationship, their
quarrel with Christianity, relationships with their
mothers and the problematic feminine, the
tensions between sexuality, and the attraction of
Hindu mysticism, this fascinating work seeks to
reveal whether Hinduism offered the answers
and fulfillment these writers ultimately sought.
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336pp
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21 Under 40
New Stories for a New
Generation
Anita Roy (ed)
This exciting new anthology show-cases 21 of

the best short stories by South Asian women
under the age of 40.
Ranging from the lyrical to the humourous to the
darkly disturbing, this collection highlights the
desires, concerns and obsessions of young
women from the subcontinent. A new generation
of writers is emerging who are boldly tackling
new forms and styles, including historical
detective fiction, graphic short stories, stories
intercut with email and sms messages.
The stories are as varied as the women
themselves, and celebrate the diversity and
range of womens literature for the twenty-first
century.
Antony Copley is Honorary Reader at the

University of Kent.
9788190666824
360pp
Anita Roy is a freelance critic and writer.
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9788189884034
239pp
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Civility, Literature
& Culture in
British India
1822-1922
Anindyo Roy
This study examines the manner in which

civility emerged as the ethos of the British
colonial state in the Indian subcontinent and
emerged as a key discursive idea around which
questions about citizenship, education, gender,
race, labor and bureaucratic or civil authority
were negotiated. This discourse of civility,
Anindyo Roy argues, provided the basis for
disciplinary mechanisms essential to managing
the historical exigencies confronting the British
Empire in India. He traces the genealogy of
civility in nineteenth and early twentieth-century
literature and culture, covering a wide array of
texts by authors such as Scott, Trelawny, Mull,
Kipling, E.M. Forster and Leonard Woolf, late
Victorian Anglo-Indian poetry as well as colonial
archives relating to parliamentary debates,
cadetship in East India Company and politics on
education, industry and commerce.
Vikram Seth
An Introduction
(Contemporary Indian
Writers in English)
Rohini Mokashi-Punekar
Vikram Seth is one of the most celebrated

authors in Indian Writing in English today. With
the complexity and depth of his work and his
significant achievements in prose as well as
verse, Seth has proved the master of the English
language. Seths many themes and concerns,
from land ceiling in post-Independence India to
Western classical music to relationships, all cast
in formally perfect prose or poetry, have gained
him a formidable reputation as a stylist and a
perfectionist. Rohini Mokashi-Punekars
thorough study works its way through the many
forms, themes and styles of Seths verse and
prose. It pays attention to both form and content,
and presents a comprehensive study of Seths
oeuvre by linking plot, characterization and
theme in a densely textured analysis and close
reading.
Anindyo Roy is Associate Professor in English

at Colby College, Maine, USA, where he
teaches critical and postcolonial theory, and
postcolonial and modern British literature.
9780415304351
224pp
HB
Contemporary Indian Writers in English (CIWE)

is a series that presents critical commentaries on
some of the best-known names in the genre.
With the high visibility of Indian Writing in
English in academic, critical, pedagogic and
reader circles, there is a perceivable demand for
lucid yet rigorous introductions to several of its
authors and genres.
` 895.00
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Rohini Mokashi-Punekar teaches at the

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati,
India.
Raja Rao
An Introduction
Writers in English)
Letizia Alterno
Contemporay indian Writers in English (CIWE) is

a series that presents critical commentaries on
With the high visibility of Indian writing in English
in academic, critical, pedagogic and reader
circles, there is a perceivable demand for lucid
yet rigorous introductions to several of its
authors and genres.
Raja Rao, along with RK Narayan and Mulk Raj
Anand, defined Indian writing in English in early
twentieth century. His works exhibit a deep
engagement with psychology, mysticism,
spiritualism and philosophy. His narratives
become cultural as well as individual chronicles,
and very often draw implicitly or explicitly upon
various aspects the freedom movement to
Gandhi to myths of an Indian ethos. Letizia
Alternos detailed, incisive and eminently
readable introduction is a rigorous examination
of the diverse, and complex, Raja Rao canon,
including some of his lesser known short-fiction.
Letizia Alterno, the director of Raja Raos
official website, has been the Editor-in-Chief,
since 2006, of the Raja Rao Publication Project.
9788175966277
232pp
PB
9788175965898
230pp
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Rohinton Mistry
An Introduction
Writers in English)
Nandini BhautooDewnarain

authors and genres.
Mistrys fiction covers many themes, from
politics to Parsi community life and economic
inequality to national events such as wars,
rigorously examining the impact of historical
forces and social events on small lives. Nandini
Bhautoo-Dewnarains study, a schematic
introduction to Mistrys works, looks at the
process of marginalization or Othering in his
fiction. Exploring Mistrys themes of tradition,
ageing and families, Bhautoo-Dewnarain
demonstrates how his fiction moves from the
local to the universal.
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Nandini Bhautoo-Dewnarain teaches at the

Department of English, University of Mauritius.
9788175963115
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Amitav Ghosh
Writers in English)
John C. Hawley

authors and genres.
LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

South Asian
Languages
A Syntactic Typology
Karumuri V. Subbarao
Amitav Ghosh, a novelist with an extraordinary

sense of history and place, is indisputably one of
the most important novelists and essayists of our
times. In this volume, John Hawley provides a
lucid, friendly and thorough introduction to the
fiction and essays of Ghosh.
John C. Hawley is Professor in the Department
of English at Santa Clara University in Santa
Clara, California.
9788175962590
223pp
PB
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South Asian languages are rich in linguistic

diversity and number. This book explores the
similarities and differences of about forty
languages from the four different language
families (Austro-Asiatic, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan
(Indo-European) and Tibeto-Burman (SinoTibetan)). It focuses on the syntactic typology of
these languages and the high degree of syntactic
convergence, with special reference to the notion
of India as a linguistic area. Several areas of
current theoretical interest such as anaphora,
control theory, case and agreement, relative
clauses and the significance of thematic roles in
grammar are discussed. The analysis presented
has significant implications for current theories of
syntax, verbal semantics, first and second
language acquisition, structural language
typology and historical linguistics.
Karumuri V. Subbarao is Radhakrishnan Chair
Professor in Humanities at the University of
Hyderabad, India.
Mahesh Dattani
Writers in English)
Asha Kuthari-Chaudhuri

authors and genres.
9781107035331
Language in
South Asia
Mahesh Dattani is perhaps one of Indias most

daring, innovative and important playwrights in
English today. He blends conventional themes
with some startingly new ones in his work. His
plays combine the intimate with the social, the
personal and the public, often exploring the
boundaries between these realms. In this
volume, Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri, explores
Dattanis central themes - the family, alternate
sexualities, other genders, morality and identity while also examining the dramaturgical
innovations in his work.
Braj K. Kachru,
Yamuna Kachru &
S. N. Sridhar (eds)
Asha Kuthari Chaudhuri is a Lecturer at

Gauhati University.
9788175962606
155pp
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400pp
HB
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South Asia is a rich and fascinating linguistic

area, its many hundreds of languages from four
major language families representing the
distinctions of caste, class, profession, religion,
and region. This comprehensive new volume
presents an overview of the language situation in
this vast subcontinent in a linguistic, historical
and sociolinguistic context. An invaluable
resource, it comprises authoritative contributions
from leading international scholars within the
fields of South Asian language and linguistics,
historical linguistics, cultural studies and area
studies. Topics covered include the ongoing
linguistic processes, controversies, and
implications of language modernization; the
functions of South Asian languages within the
legal system, media, cinema, and religion;
language conflicts and politics, and Sanskrit and
its long traditions of study and teaching.
Braj K. Kachru is Centre for Advanced Study
Professor of Linguistics and Jubilee Professor of
Liberal Arts and Sciences Emeritus at the
University of Illinois, Chicago.
Yamuna Kachru is Professor Emerita of
Linguistics at the University of Illinois, Chicago.
S. N. Sridhar is Professor and Chair at the
Department of Asian and Asian American
Studies, State University of New York, Stony
Brook.
9781107602212 632pp
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Language History
of the Kamta and
Cooch Behar
Region
Matthew Toulmin
Udaya Narayana Singh is Tagore Professor,

Rabindra Bhavan, and Director, Indira Gandhi
Centre for National Integration (IGCNI), VisvaBharati, Santinketan.
The IndoAryan languages and dialects

constitute a dialect continuum, characterised by
variable, nondiscrete boundaries between
speech communities. In order to reconstruct
linguistic history it is necessary to take stock of
this sociolinguistic context and adjust the
methods of reconstruction accordingly. This study
presents a theoretically robust, sociolinguistic
framework for historical reconstruction which
supplements a traditional comparative
reconstruction of phonology and morphology.
Ram Ashish Giri is Reader in the Faculty of

Education, Tribhuvan University, Nepal.
Presently, he is involved in the EIL programme
of Monash University, Melbourne.
9788175967809
The language varieties examined in this book are

known by a number of names including Kamta,
Rajbanshi, or simply the deshi bhasha of north
Bengal and west Assam. This study provides
evidence for a protolanguage, termed proto
Kamta (c. AD 1316 century), which was the
point of common origin for these lects, and
defines them as a subgroup within IndoAryan.
North East Indian

Linguistics
Stephen Morey &
Mark Post (eds)
Matthew Toulmin is a visiting research fellow at

Serampore College, West Bengal, India, and
member of SIL International.
9788175968974
274pp
PB
From Policy to
Pedagogy
Lesley Farrell,
Udaya Narayana Singh
& Ram Ashish Giri (eds)
HB
` 795.00
The North East of India is one of the most rich

and diverse cultural-linguistic regions of Asia.
However, awareness of this is not widespread
and as a result, the linguistic abundance of the
region has not been sufficiently appreciated.
Students and scholars from different parts of
India and the world are now making efforts to
turn around this scenario.
North East Indian Linguistics is a result of such
concerted attempts. This book is the first
published collection of selected articles on North
East Indian linguistics. The articles represent the
current state of research in the field.
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English Language
Education in
South Asia
312pp
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The authors have adopted a variety of

approaches to the study of the multifarious North
East Indian languages Ao (Naga), Assamese,
Atong (Bodo-Garo), Bishnupriya, Garo, Khamti
(Tai), Khasi, Kurtoep, Singpho, and the Tani
languages, Apatani, Galo and Mising. The areas
addressed in this book include descriptive
phonology, lexicon, morphosyntax and
semantics. The book also discusses general
topics regarding fieldwork and orthography
development.
In South Asia, English is the major link language

for people from diverse linguistic backgrounds.
With globalisation and the subsequent rise in the
demand of English, almost all South Asian
countries are in the process of introducing
English at the early school level. This widens the
scope of investigating into the national policies
regarding English and probing the status of
English language in relation to pedagogy in the
countries of the South Asian region.
Stephen Morey is an Australian Research

Council Future Fellow at the Centre for
Research on Language Diversity, La Trobe
University.
English Language Education in South Asia

provides a strong foundation for scholarly work
on ELE in South Asia. The volume contains
compilation of scholarly and investigative
essays, esecially written for this volume, by
some of the most prominent and emerging
scholars of English language education in South
Asia. The chapters provide up-to-date
information on the politics, policy, theory and
practice of ELE in seven countries of South Asia
- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal,
Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The volume, divided
into three sections - Policy, Pedagogy and
Politics of Pedagogy - investigates how the
socio-economic, local and global language
politics shape the ELE in South Asia. It also
addresses the theoretical as well as practical
issues of classroom procedures, teacher
preparation programmes, resource
management, examinations, educational
contraints and limitations.
Mark W. Post is Oberassistent in Historical

Linguistics at the Institut fur Sprachwissenschaft,
University of Bern, Switzerland.
9788175966000
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Lesley Farrell is Professor and Associate Dean

(Research and Development) in the Faculty of
Arts and Social Sciences at the University of
Technology, Sydney.
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North East Indian

Linguistics
Volume 2
Stephen Morey &
Mark Post (eds)

University.
This volume is the second in a series of selected

papers presented at the International
Conferences of the North East Indian Linguistics
Society (NEILS), a forum for the study of the
languages of North East India. The North East
Indian languages are the richest and most
diverse, yet also one of the least-well-known
regions of the linguistics world. NEILS brings
together local scholars, students, and wellknown researchers from India and across the
world to present the latest in research on North
East Indian languages and cultures.

9788175967939
The book essentially discusses tonology and

phonology in the Assam floodplain. They bring
together extensive information on tone in Bodo
and Dimasa, studies of Tai Phake songs, the
Ahom Bar Amra manuscripts, and the Barpetia
dialect of Assamese. A special section on
numerals also presents a comparative study of
Tibeto-Burman numeral systems and more
detailed accounts of Khasi, Karbi, Kom and
Aimol.
North East Indian

Linguistics
Volume 4
Gwendolyn Hyslop,
Stephen Morey &
Mark W. Post (eds)

University.
268pp
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North East Indian

Linguistics
Volume 3
Gwendolyn Hyslop,
Stephen Morey
& Mark W. Post (eds)
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North East India is one of the most linguistically

diverse regions of the world, with over 100, and
perhaps as many as 200, different languages
spoken. This book aims to produce a volume
reflective of both the linguistic diversity of the
region as well as the high quality of current
research on North East Indian Linguistics.
The articles in this volume cover four of the
language families represented in North East
India: Tai-Kadai, Indo-Aryan, Tibeto-Burman,
and Austroasiatic. Divided into seven sections,
the book presents the description and analysis
of a wide variety of phonological, syntactic,
morphological, socio-linguistic and historical
topics in the study of several languages of the
region origin of the Boro-Garo language family,
Boro-Garo grammar, serial verbs in a hitherto
undescribed variety of Boro, information about
Dimasa dialects, phonology of Hajong, a
language of Assam and Meghalaya, and
analysis of copula constructions in Assam Sadri.
The volume also contains an analysis of
pronouns in Madhav Kandalis Ramayana, a
version of the Ramayana written in colloquial
Assamese of the fourteenth century. The final
section in this volume discusses serial verb
constructions in the Austroasiatic language War,
the most detailed discussion of War syntax and
semantics to date.
The book presents new information on North

East Indian languages from well-developed
linguistic perspectives, and yet including much
information on topics of broader interest such as
numeral systems, medieval manuscripts, poetry
and songs.
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North East Indian Linguistics Volume 3 presents

the latest in descriptive and anthropological
linguistic research on the languages of the North
East Indian region. Long acknowledged to be
among the culturally and linguistically richest
and most diverse regions of all Asia, North East
India also remains to this day one of the least
well-studied and well-understood. The collection
of papers in this volume directly address this
problem by presenting description and analysis
of a wide variety of phonological, syntactic,
morphological, sociolinguistic and historical
topics in the study of several languages of the
region.
Contributions in this volume range from

renowned scholars of Tibeto-Burman linguistics
to students from the North East making their first
impact in the field of Linguistics.
Gwendolyn Hyslop is a Research Fellow in
Linguistics at the Australian National University.
University.
This volume reflects the current state of

research in North East Indian Linguistics on the
parts of local, national and international scholars
alike and will be of interest to linguists,
anthropologists, and other social scientists and
general readers with an interest in the study,
preservation and appreciation of North East
Indian cultural and linguistic diversity.
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North East Indian

Linguistics
Volume 5
Gwendolyn Hyslop,
Stephen Morey &
Mark W. Post (eds)
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Translating India
North East Indian Linguistics Volume 5 presents

the latest in descriptive and anthropological
linguistic research into the languages of the
North East Indian region. Long acknowledged to
be among the culturally and linguistically richest
and most diverse regions of all Asia, North East
India needs to be well-studied and wellunderstood to underscore its potential.
Rita Kothari
This volume advances the understanding of

North East Indian languages and cultures
through analyses of a wide variety of topics in a
range of regional languages. The themes
discussed in this volume include language
contact and genetic linguistics in the languages
of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam and neighbouring
Bhutan, historical grammar within the Bodo-Garo
and Mizo-Kuki-Chin branches of Tibeto-Burman,
nominalization and the relational marking of
noun phrases in North East Indian languages,
and new advances in the study of Bodo-Garo
phonology - in addition to contributions to the
analysis of Eastern Indo-Aryan grammar and the
song language of the Pangwa Tangsa.
9788175963054
The Challenge of
Democracy

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Citizenship, Rights,
and Ethnic Conflicts
in India and Israel
Ayelet Harel-Shalev
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Shreesh Chaudhary
Indias natural wealth, knowledge, arts and crafts

have attracted foreigners throughout its long
history. It has had continuous cultural contact
and trade with other countries and, in all this,
India has been exposed to many foreign
languages such as Arabic, Bactrian, Chinese,
Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Latin,
Persian, Portuguese, Turkish and in a certain
sense, Sanskrit. Each of these languages went
through a cycle, rising to the position of power
and prestige, and eventually declining
and yielding place to yet another language. In
this process, all these languages interacted with
the native languages of India
and exchanged sounds, words, sentences,
idioms and expressions, sometimes even giving
birth to new languages. Foreigners and Foreign
Languages in India: A Sociolinguistic History tells
the story of this long and continuous history of
the advent, learning, use, demise and debris of
some foreign languages in India.
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This book analyzes public policy and

governmental features in procedurally
democratic states that govern deeply divided
societies. It traces the political formula that
enables such states to survive while sustaining a
democratic process in the face of religious,
ethnic, and national conflicts. It investigates
citizenship discourses, analyzes the
mechanisms political regimes use to give rights
to minorities while simultaneously limiting their
power, and illustrates how this unique political
formula can be applied in two case studies of
vastly different countries Israel and India. The
analogous conflicts in India and Israel that
threaten the survival of democracy the ethnoreligious conflict between Hindus and Muslims in
India and the ethno-national conflict between
Jews and Arab-Palestinians in Israel are
analyzed in depth. In addition, the core cases of
India and Israel, states in which democracy has
survived for over sixty years, are compared with
two additional countries where democracy was
short-lived.
Ayelet Harel-Shalev is Assistant Professor in
the Conflict Management and Resolution
Program, and the Department of Politics and
Government at Ben-Gurion University of the
Negev, Israel.
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Shreesh Chaudhary is a professor of English

and Linguistics at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Madras.
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POLITICS

University.
A Sociolinguistic
History
138pp
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Foreigners and
Foreign Languages
in India
Post nineteen eighties, what made English

translation from Indian languages a culturally
desirable activity? This question leads Kothari to
examine the changing cultural universe of urban,
English-speaking middle class in India. She
examines in detail readership patterns, attitudes
to English and the course of translation studies
in general. The comfort with which English is
used with an Indian language as in Yeh Dil
Maange More or Hungry Kya reflects a sense
of familiarity that has been made with English.
From this broader context of bilingualism in the
first part of the book, Kothari moves on to the
state of Gujarat. Taking up the case of Gujarati,
she demonstrates the micro issues involved in
translation and politics of language.
Rita Kothari, teaches English at St. Xaviers
College, Ahmedabad, where she runs a
translation research centre on behalf of Katha.
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Afghan Endgames
Strategy and Policy
Choices for Americas
Longest War
Hy Rothstein &
John Arquilla (eds)
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is an adjunct professor of electricity economics

at Johns Hopkins Nitze School and is one of the
Nuclear Energy Institutes Nuclear Energy
The United States and its allies have been

fighting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan
for a decade in a war that either side could still
win. While a gradual drawdown has begun,
significant numbers of US combat troops will
remain in Afghanistan until at least 2014,
perhaps longer, depending on the situation on
the ground. Given the realities of the Talibans
persistence and the desire of US policymakers
and the public to find a way out, what can
and should be the goals of the US and its allies
in Afghanistan?
Experts.
9789382993018
The Promise of
Power
Afghan Endgames boldly pursues several

strands of thought suggesting that a strong,
legitimate central government is far from likely to
emerge in Kabul; that fewer coalition forces,
used in creative ways, may have better effects
on the ground than a larger, more conventional
presence; and that, even though Pakistan
should not be pushed too hard, so as to avoid
sparking social chaos there, Afghanistans other
neighbors can and should be encouraged to
become more actively involved. The volumes
editors conclude that while there may never be
complete peace in Afghanistan, a self-sustaining
security system able to restore order swiftly in
the wake of violence is attainable.
The Origins of
Democracy in India
and Autocracy in
Pakistan
Maya Tudor
Hy Rothstein served in the US Army as a

Special Forces officer for more than 26 years,
spending much of his time training and advising
governments threatened by active insurgencies.
He is currently a senior lecturer in the
Department of Defense Analysis at the US Naval
Postgraduate School.
NEW
John Arquilla is Professor of Defense Analysis

at the US Naval Postgraduate School and is the
author of Insurgents, Raiders, and Bandits: How
Masters of Irregular Warfare Have Shaped Our
World.
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Under what conditions are some developing

countries able to create stable democracies
while others have slid into instability and
authoritarianism? To address this classic
question at the center of policy and academic
debates, The Promise of Power investigates a
striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of
British India, was India able to establish a stable
democracy while Pakistan created an unstable
autocracy? Drawing on interviews, colonial
correspondence, and early government records
to document the genesis of two of the twentieth
centurys most celebrated independence
movements, Maya Tudor refutes the prevailing
notion that a countrys democratization
prospects can be directly attributed to its levels
of economic development or inequality. Instead,
she demonstrates that the differential strengths
of Indias and Pakistans independence
movements directly account for their divergent
democratization trajectories. She also
establishes that these movements were initially
constructed to pursue historically conditioned
class interests. By illuminating the source of this
enduring contrast.
Maya Tudor is a Fellow in Politics at St Johns
College, Oxford University.
8 B&W illustrations 3 maps 1 table
9781107046061 254pp HB
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Energy and
Security in South
Asia
Cooperation or
Conflict?
Charles K. Ebinger
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Nepal Votes for

Peace
Economic growth and burgeoning populations

have put South Asias energy security in a
perilous state. Already, energy and power
shortages are stunting development in some of
the regions least developed locations, spurring
political insurgences and social dislocation.
Should this trend continue, the subcontinent will
face dire economic, social and political crises. In
Energy and Security in South Asia, Brookings
ESI Director Charles Ebinger, a long-time
adviser to South Asian governments, lays out
the current regional energy picture arguing that
the only way to achieve sustainable energy
security is through regional collaboration both
within the subcontinent as well as with regional
neighbors in the Middle East and Central and
Southeast Asia.
Bhojraj Pokharel &

Shrishti Rana
NEW
Charles K. Ebinger is Director of the Energy

Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution,
where he is a senior fellow in foreign policy. He
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Nepal has a long history of political struggle and

popular uprisings have often threatened the
existing regimes of this landlocked,
predominantly Hindu state. In 1996, radical
Maoists launched what would become the
protracted armed struggle, known as The
Peoples War, with the aim of replacing the
parliamentary system and the constitutional
monarchy with a peoples republic. Thousands of
people died and even more were injured over
the next ten years in bitter fighting which
ravaged the country and shocked the world. The
gruesome murder of King Birendra, his wife and
seven other royal family members in 2001
prompted more international concern about the
future of Nepal. The violence eventually came to
an end in 20052006 when the demand for a
Constituent Assembly election was agreed upon.
The election was finally held on 10 April 2008,
marking one of the most significant events in
Nepals political history because it abolished the
countrys 239-year-old monarchy and
established a multiparty democratic republic.
Deep Currents
and Rising Tides
This book, penned by the former Chief Election

Commissioner of Nepal, narrates the countrys
transformation from a kingdom to a multiparty
democratic republic holding Constituent Assembly
election. It also discusses the roles of national
and international organizations, including the
United Nations, in the ongoing peace process of
Nepal.
The Indian Ocean and

International Security
John Garofano &
Andrea J. Dew (eds)
Bhojraj Pokharel was the Chief Election

Commissioner of Nepal during 20062009. He
held various senior government posts in Nepal,
including Secretary of the Ministries of Home
Affairs, Information and Communication, Health
and Supplies. Mr Pokharel was Mason Fellow
(20092010) at Harvard Kennedy School and he
was a member of the UN Secretary Generals
Panel on the Referenda in Sudan (20102011).
Shrishti Rana, a peace researcher, was a
Chevening Scholar in the United Kingdom. She
has conducted research on the underlying causes
of the Maoists armed struggle in Nepal and has
written for several national and international
publications.
9789382993032
280pp
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Breakdown in
Pakistan
How Aid Is Eroding
Institutions for
Collective Action
Masooda Bano
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Andrea J. Dew is the Codirector of the Center

on Irregular Warfare & Armed Groups, and an
Associate Professor in the Strategy and Policy
Department at the US Naval War College.
9789382993148
Fighting Back
What Governments
Can Do about
Terrorism
Paul Shemella (ed)
Masooda Bano holds a research fellowship in

the Department of International Development
and Wolfson College at the University of Oxford.
Her research has won awards from the
Economic and Social Research Council and the
Arts and Humanities Research Council. She has
collaborated with development agencies, such
as the United Kingdoms Department of
International Development and the United
Nations.
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Breakdown in Pakistan identifies concrete

measures to check the erosion of cooperation in
foreign aid scenarios. Pakistan is one of the
largest recipients of international development
aid, and therefore the empirical details
presented are particularly relevant for policy. The
books argument is equally applicable to a
number of other developing countries, and has
important implications for recent discussions
within the field of economics.
240pp
This volume, one of the first attempts to treat the

Indian Ocean region in a coherent fashion,
captures the spectrum of cooperation and
competition succinctly. Contributors discuss
points of cooperation and competition in a region
that stretches from East Africa, to Singapore, to
Australia, and assess the regional interests of
China, India, Pakistan, and the United States.
Chapters review possible red lines for Chinese
security in the region, Indias naval ambitions,
Pakistans maritime security, and threats from
non-state actors - terrorists, pirates, and criminal
groups - who challenge security on the ocean for
all states.
John Garofano is Dean of academic affairs, US
Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island.
Previously he held the Capt. Jerome Levy Chair
of Economic Geography in the Strategy and
Policy Department, US Naval War College.
Thirty per cent of foreign development aid is

channeled through NGOs or community-based
organizations to improve service delivery to the
poor, build social capital, and establish
democracy in developing nations. However,
growing evidence suggests that aid often
erodes, rather than promotes, cooperation within
developing nations. This book presents a rare,
micro-level account of the complex decisionmaking processes that bring individuals together
to form collective-action platforms. It then
examines why aid often breaks down the very
institutions for collective action that it aims to
promote.
9789382993162
The Indian Ocean region has rapidly emerged

as a hinge point in the changing global balance
of power, and the geographic nexus of economic
and security issues with vital global
consequences. The security of energy supplies,
persistent poverty and its contribution to political
extremism, piracy and related threats to
seaborne trade, competing nuclear powers, and
possibly the scene of future clashes between
rising great powers India and China - all are
dangers in the waters or in the littoral states of
the Indian Ocean region.
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Since terrorism became a global national

security issue in the new millennium, all
governments have wrestled with its effects. Yet
strong measures against terrorism have often
made the root causes of the problem worse,
while weak responses have invited further
attack. In response, this book explains how
governments can construct and execute the
most effective strategies to combat terrorism
and how they can manage the consequences of
those acts of terrorism they cannot prevent.
It provides an overview of the complex problem
of terrorism and offers a guide to shaping
solutions to fit the unique structures and
processes of governments. These issues and
their solutions are demonstrated in six case
studies. The books value lies in its holistic
treatment of what governments can do to protect
their societies, with the ultimate goal of reducing
terrorism from the global security threat it is
today to a national-level criminal problem.
Written by a team of experts, the book offers a
concise but complete course on the most
important national security challenge of our time.
Paul Shemella retired from the Navy at the rank

of Captain after a career in Special Operations,
and is currently the Program Manager for the
Combating Terrorism Fellowship program at the
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey.
Rural Politics in
India
9789382993070
Dayabati Roy
416pp
HB
Political Stratification
and Governance in
West Bengal
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Informal Labor,
Formal Politics
and Dignified
Discontent in
India
Rina Agarwala
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Since the 1980s, the worlds governments have

decreased state welfare and thus increased the
number of unprotected informal or precarious
workers. As a result, more and more workers do
not receive secure wages or benefits from either
employers or the state. This book offers a fresh
and provocative look into the alternative social
movements informal workers in India are
launching. It also offers a unique analysis of the
conditions under which these movements
succeed or fail. Drawing from 300 interviews
with informal workers, government officials and
union leaders, Rina Agarwala argues that Indian
informal workers are using their power as voters
to demand welfare benefits from the state, rather
than demanding traditional work benefits from
employers. In addition, they are organizing at the
neighborhood level, rather than the shop floor,
and appealing to citizenship, rather than labor
rights.
NEW
This book discusses the forms and dynamics of

political processes in rural India with a special
emphasis on West Bengal, the nations fourthmost populous state. West Bengals political
distinction stems from its long legacy of a Leftled coalition government for more than thirty
years and its land reform initiatives. The book
closely looks at how people from different
castes, religions, and genders represent
themselves in local governments, political
parties, and in the social movements in West
Bengal. At the same time it addresses some
important questions: Is there any new pattern of
politics emerging at the margins? How does this
pattern of politics correspond with the current
discourse of governance? Using ethnographic
techniques, it claims to chart new territories by
not only examining how rural people see the
state, but also conceiving the context by
comparing the available theoretical frameworks
put forward to explain the political dynamics of
rural India.
Dayabati Roy is an independent researcher.
She completed her postdoctoral study from the
Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional
Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Her research interests include rural politics,
postcolonial theories, social movements and
governmentality.
Rina Agarwala is an assistant professor of

sociology at John Hopkins University.
9781107042353
289pp
HB
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9781107059733 264pp HB
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Pakistans
Experience with
Formal Law
An Alien Justice
Osama Siddique
NEW
When
Counterinsurgency
Wins
Law reform in Pakistan attracts such disparate

champions as the Chief Justice of Pakistan, the
USAID and the Taliban. Common to their equally
obsessive pursuit of speedy justice is a
remarkable obliviousness to the historical,
institutional and sociological factors that alienate
Pakistanis from their formal legal system. This
pioneering book highlights vital and widely
neglected linkages between the narratives of
colonial displacement resonant in the literature
on South Asias encounter with colonial law and
the regions postcolonial official law reform
discourses. Against this backdrop, it presents a
typology of Pakistani approaches to law reform
and critically evaluates the IFI-funded singleminded pursuit of efficiency during the last
decade. Employing diverse methodologies, it
proceeds to provide empirical support for a
widening chasm between popular, at times
violently expressed, aspirations for justice and
democratically deficient reform designed in
distant IFI headquarters that is entrusted to the
exclusive and unaccountable Pakistani reform
club.
Sri Lankas Defeat of

the Tamil Tigers
Ahmed S. Hashim
The tactics of the Tamil Tigers have been

emulated by militant groups in Palestine, Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Somalia. Whether or not the
Sri Lankan counterinsurgency campaign can or
should be emulated in kind, the comprehensive,
insightful coverage of When Counterinsurgency
Wins holds vital lessons for strategists and
students of security and defense.
NEW
Ahmed S. Hashim is Associate Professor in

Security Studies at the Rajaratnam School of
International Studies at Nanyang Technological
University in Singapore.
9789382993476
Osama Siddique is Associate Professor at

Lahore University of Management Sciences.
9781107636279 485pp
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When Counterinsurgency Wins traces the

development of the counterinsurgency campaign
in Sri Lanka, from the early stages of the war to
the later adaptations of the Sri Lankan
government, leading up to the final campaign.
The campaign itself is analyzed in terms of
military strategy but is also given political and
historical context critical to comprehending
the conditions that give rise to insurgent
violence.
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India's Security
Dilemmas
Pakistan and
Bangladesh
Sashanka S. Banerjee
Power Shifts and

Global
Governance
'India's Security Dilemmas' investigates the rise

of militant Islam in India's two neighbouring
countries, and its implications for India and the
Asian subcontinent. The book traces the origins
of militant Islam, its several manifestations, and
its virulent spread across the Subcontinent. The
author draws both on his knowledge of Islamic
literature and history, and his extensive fieldbased experience and empirical knowledge of
the Islamic world.
Challenges from
South and North
Ashwani Kumar &
Dirk Messner (eds)
Foreword by Gunther
Taube
Sashanka S. Banerjee, former member, Indian

diplomatic service, was assigned to Pakistan,
Bangladesh and the Middle East, among other
countries.
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Taiwan Today
Anita Sharma &
Sreemati Chakrabarti
(eds)
NEW
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299pp
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'Power Shifts and Global Governance:

Challenges from South and North' presents an
eclectic theoretical framework for emerging
architectures of global governance through
examining country and regional case studies
from the perspective of 'great power shifts' in the
twenty-first century. The book analytically and
empirically explores the role of global civil
society, discusses the implications of the rise of
India and China, analyses regional security
issues in Latin America and the Middle East and
develops proposals for possible summit and UN
reforms.
Ashwani Kumar, Associate Professor, Tata
Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.
Dirk Messner, Director, German Development
Institute (DIE), Bonn & Professor, Political
Science, University Duisburg-Essen.
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The 1980s economic boom in East Asia drew

the world's attention towards Taiwan. IndiaTaiwan economic relations have been growing
and the setting up of economic and cultural
centres has promoted people-to-people
contacts. Cultural and educational ties between
the two nations are also increasing. This book is
inspired by a conference titled 'Taiwan Today'
organized by the Department of East Asian
Studies, University of Delhi. The Department of
East Asian Studies is one of the few academic
centres where all the entities in the East Asian
region are studied and researched.
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The Fleeing People
of South Asia
Selections from
Refugee Watch
Sibaji Pratim Basu (ed)
45+ figures & tables

9789380601038 378pp
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This definitive collection of essays from 'Refugee

Watch' is a comprehensive study of human
displacement, covering many regions,
addressing differing causes of refugee crises,
and providing analysis on guiding principles,
human rights and women's rights.
Sibaji Pratim Basu, Political Science teacher,
Sree Chaitanya College, Calcutta University.
Anita Sharma, Reader, History, Buddhism &

Chinese Language & Associate Professor,
Chinese Language & History, Department of
East Asian Studies, University of Delhi, India.
Sreemati Chakrabarti, Professor, Chinese
Studies, Department of East Asian Studies,
University of Delhi & Honorary Fellow, Institute
of Chinese Studies CSDS, Delhi.
9781843317463
264pp
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464pp
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Rise of the Asian

Giants
The Dragon-Elephant
Tango
Tan Chung; Patricia
Uberoi (ed)
An Insider's
Experience of
Insurgency in
India's North-East
This comparative study by Chinese social

scientists of the Chinese and Indian
development experiences over six decades of
independent nationhood is witness to the fact
that China and India are now looking at each
other directly in search of a win-win partnership
as both countries transform themselves into
economic powerhouses.
Lt. General J. R.
Mukherjee, PVSM,
AVSM, VSM (Retd)
Tan Chung, Emeritus Fellow, Institute of

Chinese Studies.
Written with empathy and lucidity, Mukherjee's

book combines hard fact with sensitive insight in
his approach to the region's landscape, people
and history. The author analyses problems
intrinsic to this enigmatic area, offering viable
solutions where possible.
Lt. General J.R. Mukherjee, commissioned into
the Assam Regiment (Infantry), the Indian Army
in 1964 & retired in 2005 as Chief of Staff,
Eastern Command, Indian Army.
Patricia Uberoi, Honorary Fellow & present

Director, Institute of Chinese Studies &
Professor, Social Change & Development,
Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi.
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9781843317005
158pp
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The Materiality of
Politics
Ranabir Samaddar
Breaking Free of
Nehru
'The Materiality of Politics' uses a series of

historical illustrations to reveal the physicality
and underlying 'materiality' of political processes.
Volume 1, subtitled 'The Technologies of Rule'
discusses the techniques of modern rule which
form the basis of the post-colonial Indian state.
Beginning with the rule of law, the volume
analyses the nature and manifestations of
constitutional rule, the relation between law and
terror and the construction of 'extraordinary'
sovereign power. The author also investigates
the methods of care, protection, segregation and
stabilization by which rule proceeds. In the
processes, the material core of the 'cultural' and
the 'aesthetic' is exposed.
Let's Unleash India

Sanjeev Sabhlok
Sanjeev Sabhlok, Former Commissioner &

Secretary, Meghalaya Government.
Volume 2, subtitled Subject Positions in Politics

focuses on the political subject emerging from
post-colonial politics. The 1940s are closely
examined in order to trace the genesis of the
modern Indian political subject, his/her dreams
of liberty and recognition of freedoms
qualifications. Contentious politics illuminates
the dual tendency of the political subject to
demand justice in court, and engage in
rebellious street politics, clamouring for justice
and equality. As the author demonstrates, the
subjects desire for the autonomy of politics
manifests itself in various ways.
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Altered
Destinations
Self, Society, and
Nation in India
Ranabir Samaddar, Director, Calcutta Research

Group.
9781843317210
9781843317227
Volume I
272pp
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Volume II
200pp
PB
'Breaking Free of Nehru: Let's Unleash India' is

an energetic and visionary study of freedom in
contemporary India. Sanjeev Sabhlok analyses
the factors that are constricting India's freedom
and causing rampant corruption and blatant
inefficiency in Indian governments. Sabhlok
ultimately recommends that India should break
free of Nehru's legacy of socialism, and at the
same time should significantly strengthen
Nehru's legacy of democracy.
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'Altered Destinations' addresses the complex

interrelations of state, nation and identity in India
through the medium of culture, and compellingly
reframes the debate in the context of the
Gandhian concept of swaraj. Engaging with
Gandhi's classic text 'Hind Swaraj', which
envisioned an entirely new form of identity and
governance in India in opposition with its colonial
past, Paranjape extends the discussion by
exlporing how ideas of autonomy, selfhood, and
cultural independence have been expressed,
depicted and studied.
Makarand R. Paranjpe, Professor, English,
` 525.00
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Institutional
Provisions and
Care for the Aged
S. Irudaya Rajan, Carla
Risseeuw & Myrtle
Perera (eds)
NEW
'Institutional Provisions and Care for the Aged'

provides a detailed comparative study of social
and economic issues facing the elderly in India,
Sri Lanka and the Netherlands. All three
countries offer interesting insights, and this book
addresses a wide spectrum of issues faced by
the elderly, and an understanding of the
processes at work in the broader social and
economic context.
Trysts with
Democracy
Political Practice in
South Asia
Stig Toft Madsen,
Kenneth Bo Nielsen &
Uwe Skoda (eds)
S. Irudaya Rajan, Chair Professor, Research

Unit on International Migration, Centre for
Development Studies (CDS),
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Carla Risseeuw, Professor, Intercultural Gender
Studies, Department of Anthropology &
Development Sociology, University of Leiden,
Netherlands.
NEW
214pp
PB
` 595.00
ANTHEM PRESS
This volume offers a collection of lucid,

theoretically stimulating articles that explore and
analyse the institutions and values which are
salient in understanding political practices in
South Asia. Combining a wide range of
theoretical and empirical approaches, and
blending the work of experts long established in
their respective fields with refreshing and
innovative approaches by younger scholars, this
collaborative and cross-disciplinary endeavour
facilitates a deeper understanding of the
subcontinent's diverse and complex political and
democratic practices in the 21st century.
Stig Toft Madsen, taught & researched in
Universities in Denmark and Sweden.
Myrtle Perera, Vice Chairperson, Marga

Institute, Colombo.
100+ tables & figures
9788190583565 288pp HB
9788190757058
Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Research Fellow, Centre

for Development & Environment, University of
Oslo, Norway.
NEW
` 695.00
Uwe Skoda, Assistant Professor, South Asian

Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark.
ANTHEM PRESS
9789380601403
4+ tables
324pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
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` 595.00
The Anti-Politics
Machine in India
State, Decentralization
and Participatory
Watershed
Development
Vasudha Chhotray
Imagined Mobility
This book assesses the validity of 'anti-politics'

critiques of development, first popularised by
James Ferguson, in the peculiar context of India.
It examines the new context provided by
decentralization of state functioning where
keeping politics out of development
(development as the anti-politics machine) can
no longer be taken for granted. The case of a
highly technocratic state watershed development
programme that also seeks to be participatory is
used to illustrate the tensions between
prescriptive development policy and a growing
political democracy.
Migration and
Transnationalism
among Indian
Students in Australia
Michiel Baas
With its close analysis of the phenomenon of the

migration of Indian students to Australia, this
book critically approaches the entanglement of
the education industry with migration
opportunities, and looks into the goals and
aspirations of the Indian middle class. It
discusses the overlaps of studies on migration
and transnationalism, and raises questions on
skilled migration.
Michiel Baas, Researcher, Amsterdam School
for Social Science Research, University of
Amsterdam.
Vasudha Chhotray, Lecturer, Development

Studies, University of East Anglia, UK.
NEW
Liberal Peace In
Question
Politics of State and
Market Reform in Sri
Lanka
Kristian Stokke &
Jayadeva Uyangoda
(eds)
8+ maps & tables

9789380601410 280pp
PB
NEW
` 495.00
The present book uses Sri Lanka's failed attempt

at negotiating peace with the Liberation Tigers of
Tamil Eelam, to examine the politics of state and
market reforms towards liberal peace. Sri Lanka
is seen as a critical case that demonstrates key
characteristics and shortcomings of liberal
peace, vividly demonstrated by internationally
facilitated elite negotiations and donor-funded
neoliberal development.
Re-framing
Democracy and
Agency in India
Interrogating Political
Society
Ajay Gudavarthy (ed)
Jayadeva Uyangoda, Professor, political

science, University of Colombo (Sri Lanka)
7+ figures & tables

9789380601427 216pp
PB
A New India?
Critical Reflections in
the Long Twentieth
Century
Anthony P. D'Costa (ed)
Foreword by Deepak
Nayyar
` 495.00
NEW
ANTHEM PRESS
This volume critically examines the notion of a

'new' India by acknowledging that India is
changing remarkably and by indicating that in
the overzealous enthusiasm about the new
India, there is collective amnesia about the
other, older India. The book argues that the
increasing consolidation of capitalist markets of
commodity production and consumption has
unleashed not only economic growth and social
change, but has also introduced new
contradictions associated with market dynamics
in the material and social as well as intellectual
spheres.
PB
` 495.00
Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India:

Interrogating Political Society critically unpacks
the concept of political society, which was
formulated as a response to the idea of civil
society in the postcolonial context. The volumes
case studies, drawn from across India and
combined with a sharp focus on the concept of
political society, provide those interested in
Indian democracy and its changing patterns with
an indispensable collection of works, brought
together in their common pursuit of highlighting
the limitations of different core concepts as
formulated by Chatterjee. Centred around five
themes the relation between the civil and the
political; the role of middlemen and their impact
on the mobility of subaltern groups; elites and
leadership; the fragmentation and intra-subaltern
conflicts and their implications for subaltern
agency; and the idea of moral claims and moral
community this volume re-frames issues of
democracy and agency in India within a wider
scope than has ever been published before, and
gathers ideas from some of the foremost
scholars in the field. The volume concludes with
a rejoinder from Partha Chatterjee.
Ajay Gudavarthy, Assistant Professor, Centre
for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, New Delhi.
9789380601625
336pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
Anthony P. DCosta, Professor, Indian Studies

and Research, Director, Asia Research Centre,
Copenhagen Business School.
NEW
276pp
ANTHEM PRESS
ANTHEM PRESS
Kristian Stokke, Professor, human geography,

University of Oslo (Norway).
NEW
9789380601441
35+ figures, tabels & graphs

9789380601434 224pp
PB
` 495.00
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46
` 595.00
The International
Ambitions of Mao
and Nehru
National Efficacy
Beliefs and the
Making of Foreign
Policy
Andrew Bingham
Kennedy
Nepal in Transition
Why do leaders sometimes challenge, rather

than accept, the international structures that
surround their states? In The International
Ambitions of Mao and Nehru, Andrew Kennedy
answers this question through in-depth studies
of Chinese foreign policy under Mao Zedong and
Indian foreign policy under Jawaharlal Nehru.
Drawing on international relations theory and
psychological research, Kennedy offers a new
theoretical explanation for bold leadership in
foreign policy, one that stresses the beliefs that
leaders develop about the national efficacy of
their states. He shows how this approach
illuminates several of Mao and Nehrus most
important military and diplomatic decisions,
drawing on archival evidence and primary
source materials from China, India, the United
States and the United Kingdom. A rare blend of
theoretical innovation and historical scholarship,
The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru is
a fascinating portrait of how foreign policy
decisions are made.
From People's War to

Fragile Peace
Sebastian von Einsiedel,
David M. Malone &
Suman Pradhan (eds)
Andrew Bingham Kennedy teaches

international politics at the Crawford School of
Economics and Government at the Australian
National University.
Sebastian von Einsiedel works in the policy

planning unit of the UNs Department of Political
Affairs.
David M. Malone was appointed as President of
the International Development Research Center,
Canada in July 2008 for a term of five years.
Suman Pradhan is a former Nepali journalist
who has written extensively on the struggle to
institutionalize democracy in Nepal, as well as
on the Maoist conflict.

9781107029200 272pp HB
` 795.00
Corruption and
Reform in India
Public Services in the
Digital Age
Jennifer Bussell
Since emerging in 2006 from a ten-year Maoist

insurgency, the 'People's War', Nepal has
struggled with the difficult transition from war to
peace, from autocracy to democracy, and from
an exclusionary and centralized state to a more
inclusive and federal one. The present volume,
drawing on both international and Nepali
scholars and leading practitioners, analyzes the
context, dynamics and key players shaping
Nepal's ongoing peace process. While the peace
process is largely domestically driven, it has
been accompanied by wide-ranging international
involvement, including initiatives in peacemaking
by NGOs, the United Nations and India, which,
throughout the process, wielded considerable
political influence; significant investments by
international donors; and the deployment of a
Security Council-mandated UN field mission.
This book shines a light on the limits,
opportunities and challenges of international
efforts to assist Nepal in its quest for peace and
stability and offers valuable lessons for similar
endeavors elsewhere.
This book asks why some governments improve

public services more effectively than others.
Through the investigation of a new era of
administrative reform, in which digital
technologies may be used to facilitate citizens
access to the state, Jennifer Bussells analysis
provides unanticipated insights into this
fundamental question. In contrast to factors such
as economic development or electoral
competition, this study highlights the importance
of access to rents, which can dramatically shape
the opportunities and threats of reform to
political elites. Drawing on a sub-national
analysis of twenty Indian states, a field
experiment, statistical modeling, case studies,
interviews of citizens, bureaucrats and
politicians, and comparative data from South
Africa and Brazil, Bussell shows that the extent
to which politicians rely on income from petty
and grand corruption is closely linked to variation
in the timing, management and
comprehensiveness of reforms.

9781107659711 416pp
PB
` 395.00
Chinese and
Indian Strategic
Behavior
Growing Power and
Alarm
George J. Gilboy &
Eric Heginbotham
Jennifer Bussell is an Assistant Professor of

Public Affairs in the Lyndon B. Johnson School
of Public Affairs at the University of Texas,
Austin.
This book offers an empirical comparison of

Chinese and Indian international strategic
behavior. It is the first study of its kind, filling an
important gap in the literature on rising Indian
and Chinese power and American interests in
Asia. The book creates a framework for the
systematic and objective assessment of Chinese
and Indian strategic behavior in four areas: (1)
strategic culture; (2) foreign policy and use of
force; (3) military modernization (including
defense spending, military doctrine and force
modernization); and (4) economic strategies
(including international trade and energy
competition). The utility of democratic peace
theory in predicting Chinese and Indian behavior
is also examined. The findings challenge many
assumptions underpinning Western expectations
of China and India.
George J. Gilboy is the chief representative of
an international energy firm in China.
Eric Heginbotham is a Senior Political Scientist
at the RAND Corporation and specializes in East
Asian political and security affairs.

9781107030343 346pp HB
` 795.00

9781107031982 376pp HB
` 795.00
47
Fates of Political
Liberalism
in the British
Post-Colony
The Politics of the
Legal Complex
Terence C. Halliday,
Lucien Karpik &
Malcolm M. Feeley
Alice Lyman Miller is a research fellow at the

Hoover Institution and teaches at Stanford
University and the United States Naval
Postgraduate School.
What explains divergences in political liberalism

among new nations that shared the same
colonial heritage? This book assembles exciting
original essays on former colonies of the British
Empire in South Asia, Africa and Southeast Asia
that gained independence after World War II.
The interdisciplinary country specialists reveal
how inherent contradictions within British
colonial rule were resolved after independence
in contrasting liberal-legal, despotic and volatile
political orders. Through studies of the longue
dure and particular events, this book presents a
theory of political liberalism in the post-colony
and develops rich hypotheses on the conditions
under which the legal complex, civil society and
the state shape alternative postcolonial
trajectories around political freedom. This
provocative volume presents new perspectives
for scholars and students of postcolonialism,
political development and the politics of the legal
complex, as well as for policy makers and
publics who struggle to construct and defend
basic legal freedoms.
Richard Wich is a visiting scholar at John

Hopkins Universitys School of Advanced
International Studies.
9789382264101
Mobilizing
Restraint
Democracy and
Industrial Conflict in
Post-Reform South
Asia
Emmanuel Teitelbaum
Terence C. Halliday is a research professor at

the American Bar Foundation and the co-director
of the Centre on Law and Globalization,
American Bar Foundation and University of
Illinois College of Law.
Lucien Karpik is Professor at the Ecole des
Mines de Paris and at the Ecole des Hautes
Etudes en Sciences Sociales (CESPRA).

9781107031975 570pp HB
` 1495.00
Alice Lyman Miller &

Richard Wich
` 695.00
Based on the recent history of industrial conflict

and industrial peace in South Asia, Emmanuel
Teitelbaum argues that the political exclusion
and repression of organized labor commonly
witnessed in authoritarian and hybrid regimes
has extremely deleterious effects on labor
relations and ultimately economic growth. To test
his arguments, Teitelbaum draws on an array of
data, including his original qualitative interviews
and survey evidence from Sri Lanka and three
Indian states Kerala, Maharashtra, and West
Bengal. He also analyzes panel data from fifteen
Indian states to evaluate the relationship
between political competition and worker protest
and to study the effects of protective labor
legislation on economic performance.
Emmanuel Teitelbaum is Assistant Professor of

Political Science and International Affairs at
George Washington University
Change and
Continuity in Asian
International
Relations Since World
War II
HB
In Teitelbaums view, countries must undergo

further political liberalization before they are able
to replicate the success of the sophisticated
types of growth-enhancing management of
industrial protest seen throughout many parts of
South Asia.
Malcolm M. Feeley is a Clair Clements Dean

Professor of Jurisprudence in the Social Policy
Program at the University of California, Berkeley.
Becoming Asia
330pp
FOUNDATION BOOKS
At the conclusion of World War II, Asia was

hardly more than a geographic expression. Yet
today we recognize Asia as a vibrant and
assertive region, fully transformed from the
vulnerable nation-states that emerged following
the Second World War. The transformation was
by no means an inevitable one, but the product
of two key themes that have dominated Asias
international relations since 1945 the
competition between the United States and the
Soviet Union to enlist the regions states as
assets in the Cold War, and the struggle of
nationalistic Asian leaders to develop the
domestic support to maintain power and
independence in a dangerous international
context.
9789382264088
244pp
HB
` 795.00
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Poverty Amid
Plenty in the New
India
Atul Kohli
Becoming Asia provides a comprehensive,

systemic account of how these themes played
out in Asian affairs during the postwar years,
covering not only East Asia, but South and
Central Asia as well. In addition to exploring the
interplay between nationalism and Cold War
bipolarity during the first postwar decades,
authors Alice Lyman Miller and Richard Wich
chart the rise of largely export-led economies
that are increasingly making the region the
global center of gravity, and document efforts in
the ongoing search for regional integration.
48
India has one of the fastest growing economies

on earth. Over the past three decades, socialism
has been replaced by pro-business policies as
the way forward. And yet, in this new India,
grinding poverty is still a feature of everyday life.
Some 450 million people subsist on less than
$1.25 per day and nearly half of Indias children
are malnourished. In his latest book, Atul Kohli, a
seasoned scholar of Indian politics and
economics, blames this discrepancy on the
narrow nature of the ruling alliance in India that,
in its new-found relationship with business, has
prioritized economic growth above all other
social and political considerations. In fact,
according to Kohli, the resulting inequality has
limited the impact of growth on poverty
alleviation and the exclusion of such a significant
proportion of Indians from the fruits of rapid
economic growth is in turn creating an array of
new political problems. This thoughtful and
challenging book affords an alternative vision of
Indias rise in the world that democratic rulers
will be forced to come to grips with in the years
ahead.
Atul Kohli is the David K. E. Bruce Professor of

International Affairs and a Professor of Politics at
Princeton University.
William R. Thompson is Distinguished

Professor and Donald A. Rogers Professor of
Political Science at Indiana University in
Bloomington.

9781107644441 260pp
PB
` 395.00
9789382264095
Eating Grass
The Making of the
Pakistani Bomb
Feroz Hassan Khan
India Since 1980
This book tells the compelling story of how and

why Pakistan's government, scientists, and
military, persevered in the face of a wide array
of obstacles to acquire nuclear weapons. It lays
out the conditions that sparked the shift from a
peaceful quest to acquire nuclear energy into a
full-fledged weapons program, details how the
nuclear program was organized, reveals the
role played by outside powers in nuclear
decisions, and explains how Pakistani scientists
overcome the many technical hurdles they
encountered. Furthermore, the book reveals how
international opposition to the program only
made it an even more significant issue of
national resolve.
Sumit Ganguly &

Rahul Mukherji
Brigadier (retired) Feroz Hassan Khan

teaches in the Department of National Security
Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School,
Monterey. He served with the Pakistani Army for
30 years, where his last assignment was
Director, Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs
in the Strategic Plans Division.
9789382264620
552pp
HB
Conflict, Escalation,
and Limitations on
Two-level Games
Sumit Ganguly &
William R. Thompson
(eds)
HB
` 495.00
This book considers the remarkable

transformations that have taken place in India
since 1980, a period that began with the
assassination of the formidable Prime Minister
Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son
Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the
Nehru-Gandhi era. Although the country remains
one of the few democracies in the developing
world, many of the policies instigated by these
earlier regimes have been swept away to make
room for dramatic alterations in the political,
economic and social landscape. Sumit Ganguly
and Rahul Mukherji, two leading political
scientists of South Asia, chart these
developments with particular reference to social
and political mobilization, the rise of the BJP and
its challenge to Nehruvian secularism and the
changes to foreign policy that, in combination
with its meteoric economic development, have
ensured India a significant place on the world
stage.
Sumit Ganguly is Professor of Political Science
and the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in Indian
Cultures and Civilizations at Indiana University,
Bloomington.
` 895.00
Rahul Mukherji is Associate Professor of South

Asian studies at the National University of
Singapore.
FOUNDATION BOOKS
Asian Rivalries
268pp
FOUNDATION BOOKS
9781107020276
The most typical treatment of international

relations is to conceive it as a battle between
two antagonistic states volleying back and forth.
In reality, interstate relations are often at least
two-level games in which decision-makers
operate not only in an international environment
but also in a competitive domestic
context. Given that interstate rivalries are
responsible for a disproportionate share of
discord in world politics, this book sets out to
explain just how these two-level rivalries really
work.
200pp
HB
` 395.00
India Since 1950

Society, Politics,
Economy and Culture
Christophe Jaffrelot (ed)
India Since 1950 tracks the dynamic trajectory of

contemporary India as much on the political,
diplomatic, economic, as on the social and
artistic front. The non-alignment of the 1950s
brought it close to USSR, but the 21st century
ushered in an Indo-American convergence. The
New Economic Policy of 1991 saw the states of
federal India asserting themselves, while
liberalization gave rise to a new middle class.
It is impossible to understand India as a
separate entity from its cultural diversity. Hence,
cultural overtures underpin all aspects discussed
in the book. The glory of the Indian subcontinent
is marred by intense communal tensions,
particularly between the Hindus and the
Muslims. This was a result of partition and the
contentious Indo-Pakistan hostility that caused
three conflicts in a span of fifty years.
By reference to specific cases, specialists on

Asian rivalries examine three related questions:
what is the mix of internal (domestic politics) and
external (interstate politics) stimuli in the
dynamics of their rivalries; in what types of
circumstances do domestic politics become the
predominant influence on rivalry dynamics; when
domestic politics become predominant, is their
effect more likely to lead to the escalation or deescalation of rivalry hostility? By pulling together
the threads laid out by each contributor, the
editors create a grounded theory for interstate
rivalries that breaks new ground in international
relations theory.
This invaluable book gives readers an insight on

India in all its complexity.
Christophe Jaffrelot is a French political
scientist, specializing in the political and regional
issues of South Asia, particularly India and
Pakistan.
Sumit Ganguly holds the Rabindranath Tagore

Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations at
Indiana University in Bloomington.
9788190651011
934pp
HB
` 995.00
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Vortex of Conflict
U.S. Policy Toward
Afghanistan, Pakistan,
and Iraq
Dan Caldwell
Vortex of Conflict: U.S. Policy Toward

Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq is the first,
accessible, one-volume resource for anyone
who wishes to understand why and how the U.S.
became involved in the two wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan and in the affairs of Pakistan
concurrently. Beginning with a description of the
history of the two conflicts within the context of
U.S. policies toward Afghanistan, Iraq, and
Pakistan because American policy toward
terrorism and Afghanistan cannot be understood
without some consideration of Pakistan the
author outlines and analyzes the major issues of
the two wars. These include intelligence quality,
war plans, postwar reconstruction, inter-agency
policymaking, U.S. relations with allies, and the
shift from a conventional to counterinsurgency
strategy. He concludes by capturing the lessons
learned from these two conflicts and points to
their application in future conflict.
South Asia
Beyond the Global
Financial Crisis
Amitendu Palit (ed)
Key features:
Distinguished contributors
(Mr. K Shanmugam, Minister for Law and
Second Minister of Home Affairs, Singapore;
Mr. Mani Shankar Aiyar, Former Cabinet
Minister for Petroleum, India; Mr. Sartaj Aziz,
Former Finance Minister for Finance,
Planning and Economic Affairs, Pakistan;
Dr. Iftekhar Ahmed Chowdhury, Senior
Research Fellow ISAS & Former Foreign
Minister, Bangladesh; and several other
distinguished academics and public policy
experts)
Wide coverage of issues such as socioeconomic development, conflict resolution,
terrorism, political developments,
environmental challenges, governance etc.
Regional perspectives as well as individual
country analysis (India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Sri Lanka etc.)
Dan Caldwell is Distinguished Professor of

Political Science at Pepperdine University. He is
a member of the Council on Foreign Relations
and Chair of the Councils Academic Outreach
Initiative.
9788175969278
404pp
HB
` 825.00
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Timepass
Youth, Class, and the
Politics of Waiting in
India
Craig Jeffrey
Amitendu Palit is Head (Development &

Programmes) and Visiting Senior Research
Fellow at the Institute of South Asian Studies
(ISAS), National University of Singapore (NUS).
Social and economic changes around the globe

have propelled increasing numbers of people
into situations of chronic waiting, where
promised access to political freedoms, social
goods, or economic resources is delayed, often
indefinitely. But there have been few efforts to
reflect on the significance of waiting in the
contemporary world.
9788175968936
Adjudication in
Religious Family
Laws
Cultural
Accommodation,
Legal Pluralism, and
Gender Equality
in India
Gopika Solanki
Craig Jeffrey is a Fellow, Tutor, and University

Lecturer in Geography at Oxford University.
232pp
HB
192pp
HB
` 495.00
WORLD SCIENTIFIC
Timepass fills this gap by offering a captivating

ethnography of the student politics and youth
activism that lower middle class young men in
India have undertaken in response to pervasive
underemployment. It highlights the importance of
waiting as a social experience and basis for
political mobilization, the micro-politics of class
power in north India, and the socio-economic
strategies of lower middle classes. The book
also explores how this north Indian story relates
to practices of waiting occurring in multiple other
contexts.
9788175969261
The book is an edited volume of different

perspectives on the South Asian region and
captures the political, social and economic
challenges facing the region following the
financial crisis and the regions responses to
these challenges.
` 795.00
FOUNDATION BOOKS
This book argues that the shared adjudication

model in which the state splits its adjudicative
authority with religious groups and other societal
sources in the regulation of marriage can
potentially balance cultural rights and gender
equality. In this model the civic and religious
sources of legal authority construct, transmit and
communicate heterogeneous notions of the
conjugal family, gender relations and religious
membership within the interstices of state and
society. In so doing, they fracture the
homogenized religious identities grounded in
hierarchical gender relations within the conjugal
family. The shared adjudication model facilitates
diversity as it allows the construction of hybrid
religious identities, creates fissures in ossified
group boundaries and provides institutional
spaces for ongoing intersocietal dialogue. This
pluralized legal sphere, governed by
ideologically diverse legal actors, can thus
increase gender equality and individual and
collective legal mobilization by women effects
institutional change.
Gopika Solanki is assistant professor of political
science at Carleton University in Canada.
9781107023895 438pp HB
` 1495.00
50
The Rise of China

Implications for India
Harsh V. Pant (ed)
Tensions in Rural
Bengal
The rise of China as an emerging power and as

the most likely challenger to the global
preponderance of the US is already having a
significant impact across the globe. This
phenomenon is being debated and analysed at
various levels. In India too, it is generating a lot
of excitement. On the one hand, it is considered
to be an opportunity and on the other, a
challenge.
Landlords, Planters
and Colonial Rule
Chittabrata Palit
This book is an attempt at exploring the multidimensional nature of the rise of China and its
implications for India. The contributors in this
volume have examined various aspects of
Chinas rise such as domestic developments,
foreign policy agenda, and its position on issues
related to India from an Indian perspective.
Harsh V. Pant is a Reader in the Department of
Defence Studies at Kings College London.
9788175968950
272pp
HB
` 495.00
The book delves into the confrontation between

two alien political economies since the advent of
colonial rule and its aftermath of tension,
resistance and revolt. It illustrates how the
contrived policy of converting a petite economy
into the capitalist mode of production ultimately
died down to a semi-feudal, semi-capitalist
equilibrium. Since then it has been caught in the
throes of an unfinished transformation. In the
process several experiments were attempted by
the British rule permanent settlement of
revenue with a landlord class, resumption of
rent-free tenures, introduction of indigo planters
into the hinterland, regulation of rent and
tenancy rights, but all these only led up to
agricultural contortions.
FOUNDATION BOOKS
Varieties of
Federal
Governance
Major Contemporary
Models
Rekha Saxena (ed)
Towards the end of the Second World War, there

were only four functioning federations in the
world the United States, Switzerland, Canada
and Australia. Today, twenty-four countries in the
world follow the federal form of government.
Varieties of Federal Governance presents a
global analytical survey of contemporary
federations. The book highlights distinctive
features and contemporary issues in the
typology of major federal systems in terms of
presidential federations (USA, Switzerland,
Brazil, Russia, Pakistan), Commonwealth
parliamentary federations (Canada, Australia,
India, Malaysia, South Africa), NonCommonwealth parliamentary federations in
Afro-Asia (Ethiopia, Nepal), and European
parliamentary federations (Germany, Belgium,
Spain). The book also includes analyses of prefederal devolutionary models in the UK and Sri
Lanka, and supranational federative tendencies
in the European Union.
Chittabrata Palit is a former Professor of

History, Jadavpur University, India. He is
presently the Director of Institute of Historical
Studies, Kolkata.
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Rekha Saxena is Associate Professor in the

Department of Political Science, University of
Delhi.
9788175967991
This book is a comprehensive study of the

period of agrarian changes in colonial Bengal. It
deals with an era which witnessed the first
conflict between two alien systems of political
economy. The British rule wanted to monetise
and commercialise the more or less subsistence
economy by various agencies of improvement
and by linking it to the international market. But
its revenue system, administrative policies, the
introduction of indigo planters and tenancy laws
failed to transform the agrarian economy through
the agency of landlords, planters and rich
peasants. This was because of the colonial
policy of maximising profits with minimum
administration, leaving feudal forces to prevail
upon meager experiments in commercial
agriculture. It only agitated the economy,
creating tension and spurring revolt which finally
led to the decline of the zamindari, and resulted
in famine and depeasantisation, without any
visible improvement.
Inside Nuclear
South Asia
Scott D. Sagan (ed)
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The relentlessness of the confrontations

between India and Pakistan, and the fact that
they have more than once escalated into armed
conflict, makes Inside Nuclear South Asia a must
read for anyone - legislator, policy-maker,
analyst, intelligence or military professional,
student, or researcher - who wishes to gain a
thorough understanding of the spread of nuclear
weapons in South Asia and the potential
consequences of nuclear proliferation on the
subcontinent.
Beginning with an examination of the origins of
the nuclear weapons programs in India and
Pakistan, it goes on to analyze the
consequences of nuclear proliferation on the
subcontinent - and provides clear evidence that
the presence of nuclear weapons in South Asia
has increased the frequency and propensity of
low-level violence, further destabilizing the
region. Specifically, it demonstrates that nuclear
weapons in India and Pakistan have led to
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serious political changes that challenge the

ability of the two states to produce stable and
lasting nuclear peace. Thus, this book provides
new insights into the domestic politics and
organizational interests behind specific nuclear
policy choices in South Asia, a critique of narrow
realist views of nuclear proliferation, and clear
signposting of the dangers of nuclear
proliferation in South Asia.
Complex
Deterrence
Strategy in the Global
Age
T. V. Paul,
Patrick M. Morgan &
James J. Wirtz (eds)
Scott D. Sagan is Professor of Political Science

at Stanford University and Co-Director of
Stanford's Center for International Security and
Cooperation.
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The Tradition of
Non-Use of
Nuclear Weapons
T.V. Paul
Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no

state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What
explains this? According to the author, the
answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the
tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation
that has been adhered to by all nuclear states thanks to a consensus view that use would have
a catastrophic impact on humankind, the
environment, and the reputation of the user.
9788175967816
The book offers an in-depth analysis of the

nuclear policies of the U.S., Russia, China, the
UK, France, India, Israel, and Pakistan and
assesses the contributions of these states to the
rise and persistence of the tradition of nuclear
non-use. It examines the influence of the
tradition on the behavior of nuclear and nonnuclear states in crises and wars, and explores
the tradition's implications for nuclear nonproliferation regimes, deterrence theory, and
policy. And it concludes by discussing the future
of the tradition in the current global security
environment.
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Understanding
Bangladesh
S. Mahmud Ali
T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of

International Relations, McGill University and
Director, University of Montreal-McGill Research
Group in International Security.
9788175967724
Moving beyond the precepts of traditional

deterrence theory, this ground-breaking volume
offers insights for the use of deterrence in the
modern world, where policy makers may
encounter irrational actors, failed states,
religious zeal, ambiguous power relationships,
and other situations where long-established
rules of statecraft do not apply. A distinguished
group of contributors here examines issues such
as deterrence among the great powers; the
problems of regional and nonstate actors; and
actors armed with chemical, biological, and
nuclear weapons. Complex deterrence will be a
valuable resource for anyone facing the
considerable challenge of fostering security and
peace in the twenty-first century.
T. V. Paul is James McGill Professor of
International Relations, McGill University and
Director, University of Montreal-McGill Research
Group in International Security.
Patrick M. Morgan is Professor of Political
Science and the Tierney Chair in Peace and
Conflict Studies at the University of California,
Irvine.
James J. Wirtz is Dean at the School of
International Graduate Studies and Professor of
National Security Studies at the Naval
Postgraduate School, Monterey.
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Bangladesh, a Muslim majority nation with a

population of some 154 million people, receives
little notice in the West, other than when political
upheaval or natural disasters bring it to our
attention. In Understanding Bangladesh, an
account of the political and economic
experiences of the Bangladeshi state and its
people, S. Mahmud Ali seeks to redress that
imbalance. His book identifies the key players
among Bangladesh's tiny military, political and
business elite, explores the attempts to establish
their authority in a crowded field, and considers
the relative merits of their attempts at nationbuilding. Ali concludes by outlining both the
remarkable achievements recorded by this land
of unusual narratives, and the elemental
challenges its burgeoning populace faces in the
years ahead, among which is a resurgent and
highly politicized form of militant Islamism.
S. Mahmud Ali was a researcher at the Royal
United Services Institute for Defence Studies,
and at King's College, University of London, and
has spent over twenty years as a journalist at
the BBC World Service.
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China and India in

the Age of
Globalization
Shalendra D . Sharma
The rise of China and India is the story of our

times. The unprecedented expansion of their
economic and power capabilities raises profound
questions for scholars and policymakers. What
forces propelled these two Asian giants into
global pacesetters, and what does their
emergence mean for the United States and the
world? With intimate detail, Shalendra D.
Sharmas China and India in the Age of
Globalization explores how the interplay of
socio-historical, political, and economic forces
has transformed these once poor agrarian
societies into economic powerhouses. Yet,
globalization is hardly a seamless process, as
the vagaries and uncertainties of globalization
also present risks and challenges. This book
examines the challenges both countries face
and what each must do to strike the balance
between reaping the opportunities and mitigating
the risks. For the United States, assisting a
rising China to become a responsible global
stakeholder and fostering peace and stability in
the volatile subcontinent will be paramount in the
coming years.
Dr Syama Prasad
Mookerjee and
Indian Politics
An Account of an
Outstanding Political
Leader
Prashanto Kumar
Chatterji
Shalendra D. Sharma is a Professor in the

Department of Politics at the University of San
Francisco where he has taught since 1993.
4 maps 26 tables
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There is hardly any scholarly work on this

remarkable political figure and statesman. This
book, which fills in substantial gaps in one's
knowledge of this highly momentous and
complicated period of modern Indian history,
should prove to be a seminal contribution to the
burgeoning body of literature on the subject.
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Asymmetric
Warfare in South
Asia
The Causes and
Consequences of the
Kargil Conflict
Peter R. Lavoy (ed)
Dr. Prashanto Kumar Chatterji was Assistant

Professor at Presidency College, Calcutta and
Professor and Head of the Department of
History at Burdwan University, Burdwan.
The 1999 conflict between India and Pakistan

near the town of Kargil in contested Kashmir
was the first military clash between two nucleararmed powers since the 1969 Sino-Soviet war.
Kargil was a landmark event not because of its
duration or casualties, but because it contained
a very real risk of nuclear escalation. Until the
Kargil conflict, academic and policy debates over
nuclear deterrence and proliferation occurred
largely on the theoretical level. This deep
analysis of the conflict offers scholars and
policymakers a rare account of how nucleararmed states interact during military crisis.
Written by analysts from India, Pakistan, and the
United States, this unique book draws
extensively on primary sources, including
unprecedented access to Indian, Pakistani, and
U.S. government officials and military officers
who were actively involved in the conflict. This is
the first rigorous and objective account of the
causes, conduct, and consequences of the
Kargil conflict.
9788175967267
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Indias Foreign
Policy
The Democracy
Dimension
S. D. Muni
Indias Foreign Policy: the Democracy

Dimension is a study of Indias responses to the
challenge of democracy in other countries before
and after its participation in the global
democratic initiatives. Indias similar responses
in the past have been dictated and defined by its
perceived vital strategic and political interests,
and this continues to be so. The newly acquired
obligations for promoting democracy may have
tempered its foreign policy rhetoric and style on
the democracy question but it has not, and will
not, override Indias critical strategic concerns
and interests.
Professor S.D. Muni, Senior Fellow at the
Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore,
taught at the Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi, India for 33 years.
Peter R. Lavoy is the Deputy Director of

National Intelligence for Analysis.
9780521193856
Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Indian Politics:

An Account of an Outstanding Political Leader is
a pioneering work on the multi-faceted
contributions of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee to
the country. Dr Mookerjee helped to oust the
League ministry in Bengal (1941) and install the
Progressive Coalition ministry of which he was
the Finance Minister. He resigned in 1942 to
protest against the Governor's policy of
repression against the Quit India movement. As
the Working President of the Hindu Mahasabha,
he was responsible for its ascendancy in Indian
politics from 1940 to 1944. As the Central
Industries and Supplies Minister (1947-1950), he
framed free India's industrial policy but resigned
due to acute differences with Prime Minister
Nehru's appeasement policy towards Pakistan.
He, together with M.S. Golwalkar of the
Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, formed a new
political party, the Bharatiya Jan Sangh. Despite
Dr Mookerjee's tragic death in 1953, the party
drew adherents from all parts of India, and
eventually was renamed the Bharatiya Janata
Party.
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Making Sense of
Pakistan
Farzana Shaikh
New Talibans insurgency in Afghanistan.

Decoding the New Taliban includes a number of
detailed studies of specific regions or provinces,
which for different reasons are especially
significant for the Taliban and for understanding
their expansion. Alongside these regional
studies, the volume includes thematic analyses
of negotiating with the Taliban, the Talibans
propaganda effort and its strategic vision.
Pakistans transformation from a country once

projected as a model of Muslim enlightenment to
a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover
dominates the headlines. Many account for the
change by pointing to Pakistans controversial
partnership with the United States since 9/11;
others see it as a consequence of Pakistans
long history of authoritarian rule, which has
marginalized liberal opinion and left the field
open for inroads by the religious right.
Antonio Giustozzi is based at the Crisis States

Research Centre at the LSE, where he focuses
on the political aspects of insurgency and
warlordism.
Farzana Shaikh argues that while external

influences and domestic politics have
unquestionably shaped the direction of change,
the countrys social and political decline is rooted
primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of
Pakistan and the significance of being
Pakistani. She shows how this pre-empted a
consensus on the role of Islam in the public
sphere, which has encouraged the spread of
political Islam. The gap between personal piety
and public morality has also widened, corrupting
the countrys economic foundations and tearing
apart its social fabric. More ominously still has
been the rise of a new and dangerous symbiosis
between the countrys powerful armed forces
and Muslim extremists. They have been rival
contenders in the struggle to redefine the
meaning of Pakistan but their convergence,
enhanced by internal and foreign conflicts, has
led to the militarization of society and the
Islamization of the military.
9781850659617 332pp
Armed Militias of
South Asia
Fundamentalists,
Maoists and
Separatists
Laurent Gayer &
Christophe Jaffrelot
(eds)
Drawing on her earlier work on the origins of

Pakistan, Shaikh demonstrates how the culture
and ideology that constrained Indo-Muslim
politics in the years leading to Partition in 1947
have left their mark on the country. In this broad
yet discriminating study, these insights from
history are skilfully deployed to better
understand Pakistans troubled present.
Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow at the
Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham
House) in London.
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Decoding the New

Taliban
Insights from the
Afghan Field
Antonio Giustozzi (ed)
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While the New Taliban looms large in the global

media, little is known about how it functions as
an organization. How united is it? Are its
structures relatively strong, or surprisingly
brittle? Are the personal relations and
networking that are based on traditional ties of
kin and ethnicity the sum total of its
organizational capabilities, or are efforts
underway to build more institutionalized chains
of command?
There seems to be no end to the growing

number of victims of civil war, terrorism, guerilla
warfare and military repression on the Indian
subcontinent, despite the absence of interstate
wars over the past twenty years. These conflicts
often involve paramilitary militias or insurgents of
one sort or other, and it is their ideology,
sociology and strategies that contributors to this
book investigate. Whether based on ideological
motives - such as the Maoists and Naxalites in
Nepal and India - or invested with a
fundamentalist religious mission - the Hindu
nationalist Bajrang Dal in India, the Sunni SSP in
Pakistan, or Islamist militias in Bangladesh - all
these movements use violence to exercise
social control, challenge the authority of the
state and impose their own particular worldview.
Although they seek also to undermine the state,
depriving it of the monopoly on legitimate
violence that it supposedly holds, governments
are equally adept at exploiting them to make
them serve their own ends. For the authorities,
these movements can be useful tools for their
pursuit of both moral and social order. However
delegating power to such groups for short-term
political gains can be an extremely risky
enterprise, as demonstrated by Indira Gandhis
patronage of the Sikh militant group that later
assassinated her.
Laurent Gayer is a Researcher in political
sociology at the CNRS.
Christophe Jaffrelot is Senior Research Fellow
at the CNRS and teaches South Asian politics
and history at Sciences Po.
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How united is the New Taliban, and how does it

maintain whatever degree of unity it has, given
the attrition it has suffered in the field? And to
what extent is its leadership able to impose
switches in strategy among the rank-and-file,
given Afghanistans difficult geography and poor
communications?
These are some of the questions answered in
this book by a renowned cast of practitioners,
journalists and academics, all of whom have
long field experience of the latest phase of the
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Speaking Like a
State
Language and
Nationalism in
Pakistan
Alyssa Ayres
many of Tagore's views are easily translatable

into modern social theoretic concepts through
textual strategies and translations of hitherto
neglected works. The book shows how the poet
is sometimes blinkered by the prism of
colonialism, but generally transcends it, to echo
or anticipate the voices of greatest social
theorists on the most existential issues of our
times.
Alyssa Ayres fascinating study examines

Pakistans troubled history by exploring the
importance of culture to political legitimacy. Early
leaders selected Urdu as the natural symbol of
the nations great cultural past, but due to its
limited base great efforts would be required to
make it truly national. This paradox underscores
the importance of cultural policies for national
identity formation. By comparing Pakistans
experience with those of India and Indonesia,
the author analyzes how their national language
policies led to very different outcomes. The
lessons of these large multiethnic states offer
insights for the understanding of culture, identity,
and nationalism throughout the world.
Amartya Mukhopadhyay is Professor of

Political Science at the Calcutta University,
Kolkata, and formerly Professor, Political
Science and Dean, Arts Faculty, Kalyani
University.
Alyssa Ayres is Director for India and South

Asia at McLarty Associates, Washington DC.
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Civil Society
History and
Possibilities
Sudipta Kaviraj &
Sunil Khilnani (eds)
The Politics of
Extremism in
South Asia
Fifteen scholars clarify the concept of civil

society, considering its use in different historical
contexts. The volume first analyses the meaning
of civil society in Western theoretical traditions,
and then considers the theoretical and practical
contexts in which it has been invoked in Asia,
Africa and Latin America.
Deepa M. Ollapally
Suditpa Kaviraj is Reader in the Department of

Political Studies, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London.
Sunil Khilnani is Professor of Politics in the
School of Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College,
9788175961081
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Politics, Society
and Colonialism
An Alternative
Understanding of
Tagores Responses
Amartya Mukhopadhyay
South Asia is home to a range of extremist

groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil
Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind,
extremism and terrorism are invariably linked to
ethnic and religious factors. Yet the dominant
history of South Asia is notable for tolerance and
co-existence, despite highly plural societies.
Deepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in
Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh
perspective on the causes of extremism. What
accounts for its rise in societies not historically
predisposed to extremism? What determines the
winners and losers in the identity struggles in
South Asia? What tips the balance between
more moderate versus extremist outcomes? The
book argues that politics, inter-state, and
international relations often play a more
important role in the rise of extremism in South
Asia than religious identity, poverty, and state
repression.
Deepa M. Ollapally is Professorial Lecturer, and
the Associate Director of the Sigur Center for
Asian Studies at the Eliott School of International
Affairs at the George Washington University,
Washington DC.
This well-researched book brings forth Tagore's

views on a wide range of aspects of Indian life:
civil-social sphere, nation and nationalism,
intercommunity relations, gender, industry, and
ecology. The relevance of Tagore's work cuts
across disciplines and the power of his ideas
transcends time.
9780521749077
His views on many aspects of politics, society

and culture in India are eminently relevant in
modern India.
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However, Nirad C. Chaudhuri once predicted

that the difficulty in translating Tagore's work
would ascertain that in future his work will lie 'like
a buried city in the past'. The difficulty of
translating him in any of the European or
modern Indian languages and his position as a
cult figure in India contributed to this gap
between adulation and understanding.
Amartya Mukhopadhyay probes deep into
Tagore's entire oeuvre to bring out critically
important ideas and their underpinnings in
colonial politics. The author also argues that
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The Terrorist in
Search of
Humanity
Militant Islam and
Global Politics
Faisal Devji
Faisal Devji argues that new forms of militancy,

such as the actions of al-Qaeda, are informed by
the same desire for agency and equality
animating humanitarian interventions, such as
environmentalism and pacifism. To the militant,
victimised Muslims are more than just symbols
of ethnic and religious persecution they
represent humanitys centuries long struggle for
legitimacy and agency.
Koran, Kalashnikov Announcements of an impending victory over

the Taliban have been repeated ad nauseaum
and Laptop
The Neo-Taliban
Insurgency in
Afghanistan
Antonio Giustozzi
In this way Islam is defined more in humanitarian

than theological terms. Acts of terror, therefore,
are fuelled by the militants desire for humanity
to become an historical actor on the global
stage. Though they have yet to build concrete
political institutions, militant movements have
formed a kind of global society, and as Devji
makes clear, this society pursues the same
humanitarian objectives that drive more
benevolent groups.
Faisal Devji is Associate Professor of History at
New School University, New York.
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Nation-Building
and Foreign Policy
in India
An Identity-Strategy
Conflict
Tobias Engelmeier
Antonio Giustozzi is based at the Crisis States

Research Centre at the LSE, where he focuses
on the political aspects of insurgency and
warlordism.
Nation-Building and Foreign Policy in India: An

IdentityStrategy Conflict presents an evaluation
of Indian foreign policy. It analyses the unusual
concern of Indian strategic thinking about
political values. The book argues that in Indian
foreign policy, there has been a shift from a strict
concern for national interest towards idealist
considerations. Thus creating what the author
calls an idealist inflection. This inflection does
not have its roots in cultural aspects or grand
strategy. Instead, it is best understood with
reference to the political process of nationbuilding, characterised by the specific choices
and decisions taken by the two leading
protagonists of the Indian National Movement
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Jawaharlal
Nehru. The values they chose to place at the
heart of Indias national identity have spilt into
the countrys foreign policy. The book then goes
on to study the changes in Indias foreign policy
and national identity since Nehrus time until
today.
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Organizations
at War
In Afghanistan and
Beyond
Abdulkader H. Sinno
Tobias F. Engelmeier is the founder and

director of the environmental consulting
company, Bridge to India.
9788175966352
since the Allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2002,

particularly after the Presidential elections of
2004, which were said to have marked the
moral and psychological defeat of the Taliban.
In moments of triumphalism, some
commentators claimed that reconstruction and
development had won over the population
despite much criticism of the meager distribution
of aid, the lack of nation-building and corruption
among Kabuls elite. In March 2006, both Afghan
and American officials were still claiming, just
before a series of ferocious clashes, that the
Taliban are no longer able to fight large battles.
Later that year, the mood in the mass media had
turned to one of defeatism, even of impending
catastrophe. In reality, as early as 2003-5, there
was a growing body of evidence that cast doubt
on the official interpretation of the conflict.
Rather than there having been a 2006 surprise,
Giustozzi argues that the Neo-Taliban
insurgency had put down strong roots in
Afghanistan as early as 2003, a phenomenon he
investigates in this timely and thought-provoking
book.
While popular accounts of warfare, particularly of

nontraditional conflicts such as guerilla wars and
insurgencies, favor the role of leaders or
ideology, social-scientific analyses of these wars
focus on aggregate categories such as ethnic
groups, religious affiliations, socioeconomic
classes, or civilizations. Challenging these
constructions, Abdulkader H. Sinno closely
examines the fortunes of the various factions in
Afghanistan, including the mujahideen and the
Taliban, that have been fighting each other and
foreign armies since the 1979 Soviet invasion.
Focusing on the organization of the combatants,
Sinno offers a new understanding of the course
and outcome of such conflicts.
Employing a wide range of sources, including his
own fieldwork in Afghanistan and statistical data
on conflicts across the region, Sinno contends
that in Afghanistan, the groups that have
outperformed and outlasted their opponents
have done so because of their successful
organization. Each organizations ability to
mobilize effectively, execute strategy, coordinate
efforts, manage disunity, and process
information depends on how well its structure
matches its ability to keep its rivals at bay.
Centralised organizations, Sinno finds, are
generally more effective than noncentralized
ones, but noncentralized ones are more resilient
absent a safe haven. Sinnos organizational
theory explains otherwise puzzling behavior
found in group conflicts: the longevity of
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unpopular regimes, the demise of popular

movements, and efforts of those who share a
common cause to undermine their ideological or
ethnic kin. The author argues that the
organizational theory applies not only to
Afghanistan - where he doubts the effectiveness
of American state-building efforts - but also to
other ethnic, revolutionary, independence, and
secessionist conflicts in North Africa, The Middle
East and beyond.
contextualising the dynamics of the Second

Nuclear Age, the countrys nuclear capabilities,
management style, evolving nuclear posture,
and implications of its nuclear weapons. Indeed,
numerous unanswered questions surround the
Pakistani nuclear weapons: What is the size of
the Pakistani nuclear arsenal? How is Pakistan,
as a small and new nuclear power, coping with
the challenges and dilemmas of constructing a
nuclear posture? Has Pakistan developed a
nuclear-use doctrine? How safe and secure are
the Pakistani nuclear assets? Has it put in place
a robust command and control structure? What
are the implications of a nuclear-armed Pakistan
for the global non-proliferation regime? Can
nuclear technology and materials spread, given
the experience of the A.Q. Khan proliferation
network, from Pakistani sources? How likely are
Pakistani nuclear assets to fall into the hands of
terrorists? And, above all, what is the future of
nuclear Pakistan? This book, organised in eight
chapters, addresses these questions.
Abdulkader H. Sinno is Assistant Professor of

Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies at
Indiana University.
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South Asia's
Cold War
Nuclear Weapons and
Conflict in Comparative
Perspective
Rajesh M. Basrur
This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the

India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of
'cold war' - that is, a hostile relationship between
nuclear rivals.
Bhumitra Chakma lectures in War and Security

Studies in the Department of Politics and
International Studies at the University of Hull.
Drawing on nuclear rivalries between similar

pairs (United States-Soviet Union, United
States-China, Soviet Union-China, and United
States-North Korea), the work examines the rise,
process and potential end of the cold war
between India and Pakistan. It identifies the
three factors driving the India-Pakistan rivalry:
ideational factors stemming from partition;
oppositional roles created by the distribution of
power in South Asia; and the particular kind of
relationship created by nuclear weapons. The
volume assesses why India and Pakistan
continue in non-crisis times to think about power
and military force in outmoded ways embedded
in pre-nuclear times, and draws lessons
applicable to them as well as to other
contemporary nuclear powers and states that
might be engaged in future cold wars.
9780415408714
Nuclear Weapons
and Conflict
Transformation
The Case of
India-Pakistan
Saira Khan
Rajesh M. Basrur is Associate Professor,

S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
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Pakistans Nuclear
Weapons
Bhumitra Chakma
190pp
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This new volume explores what the acquisition

of nuclear weapons means for the life of a
protracted conflict.
The book argues that the significance of the
possession of nuclear weapons in conflict
resolution has been previously overlooked. Saira
Khan argues that the acquisition of nuclear
weapons by states keeps conflicts alive
indefinitely, as they are maintained by frequent
crises and low-to-medium intensity violence,
rather than escalating to full-scale wars. This
theory therefore emphasises the importance of
nuclear weapons in both war-avoidance and
peace-avoidance. The book opens with a
section explaining its theory of conflict
transformation with nuclear weapons, before
testing this against the case study of the India-Pakistan protracted conflict in South Asia.
Saira Khan is at the University of British
Columbia, Canada.
Pakistan is a critical country in the structure of

contemporary global security. It is a de facto
nuclear weapon state, but politically unstable
and structurally inherently weak. It is a key
player in the global fight against terrorism, but
ironically is also a producer of jihadi (religious
warrior) terrorists in its Madrassas (religious
schools). Structural weakness of the state,
political volatility, rising religious extremism, and
deep-rooted sectarian violence occasionally
raise international concerns about the safety of
the countrys nuclear assets. The question,
therefore, which arises is - what type of nuclear
power is Pakistan?
9780415375078
216pp
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This book is a comprehensive study of

Pakistans nuclear weapons. It analyses,
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Nuclear
Proliferation in
South Asia
Crisis Behaviour and
the Bomb
Sumit Ganguly &
S. Paul Kapur (eds)
This edited volume explores competing

perspectives on the impact of nuclear weapons
proliferation on the South Asian security
environment.
an examination of the exile Tibetan

community and government from the early
years
an analysis of crucial CTA policies.
The spread of nuclear weapons is one of the

world's foremost security concerns. The effect of
nuclear weapons on the behaviour of newly
nuclear states, and the potential for future
international crises, are of particular concern. As
a region of burgeoning economic and political
importance, South Asia offers a crucial test of
proliferation's effects on the crisis behaviour of
newly nuclear states. This volume creates a
dialogue between scholars who believe that
nuclear weapons have stabilized the
subcontinent, and those who believe that
nuclear weapons have made South Asia more
conflict prone. It does so by pairing competing
analyses of four major regional crises: the 1987
"Brasstacks" crisis, the Indo-Pakistani crisis of
1990, the 1999 Kargil war, which occurred after
the nuclear tests; and the 2001-2 Indo-Pakistani
militarized standoff. In addition, the volume
explores the implications of the South Asian
nuclear experience for potential new nuclear
states such as North Korea and Iran.
Innovative and unique, this book combines a

political science approach with Tibetan studies to
analyse exile-Tibetan politics in particular, and
exile governments in general.
Stephanie Roemers research interests are
political developments in contemporary South
Asia with a special emphasis on migration and
refugee studies.
9780415451710
Regionalism in
South Asia
Negotiating
Cooperation,
Institutional
Structures
Kishore C. Dash
Sumit Ganguly is a professor of political

science, holds the Rabindranath Tagore Chair in
Indian Cultures and Civilizations, and is director
of research of the Center on American and
Global Security at Indiana University,
Bloomington.
S. Paul Kapur is associate professor in the
Department of Strategic Research, U.S. Naval
War College, and visiting professor at Stanford
University's Center for International Security and
Cooperation.
9780415440493 264pp
HB
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ROUTLEDGE
The Tibetan
Government-inExile
Politics at Large
Stephanie Roemer
240pp
HB
` 895.00
ROUTLEDGE
This book provides a detailed account of the

structure and political strategies of the Tibetan
government-in-exile, the Central Tibetan
Administration (CTA), in northern India. Since its
founding in 1959, it has been led by the
14th Dalai Lama who struggles to regain the
Tibetan homeland. Based on a theoretical
approach on exile organizations - and extensive
empirical studies in Asia - this book discusses
CTA's political strategies to gain national loyalty,
and international support, in order to secure its
own organizational survival and the ultimate
goal: the return to Tibet.
The dramatic surge in regional integration

schemes over the past two decades has been
one of the most important developments in world
politics. Virtually all countries are now members
of at least one regional grouping. South Asia is
no exception to this trend. In December 1985,
seven South Asian countries came together to
establish South Asian Association for Regional
Cooperation (SAARC) to address issues of
peace and development in the region. This book
examines regionalism in South Asia, exploring
the linkages between institutional structures,
government capabilities, and domestic actors'
preferences to explain the dynamics of regional
cooperation. It considers the formation and
evolution of SAARC, explaining why its growth in
terms of institutional developments and program
implementation has remained modest and slow
over the past two decades. It also addresses the
impact of important issues such as the
acquisition of nuclear capabilities by India and
Pakistan, the unending conflicts in Kashmir, the
war against global terror in Afghanistan, and
India's growing economy. Drawing on a wealth of
empirical research, including elite interviews and
trade transaction data, this book sheds new light
on the main cooperation issues in South Asia
today and provides important information on the
trends and prospects for regional cooperation in
future years.
Kishore C. Dash is Associate Professor of
Global Studies at Thunderbird School of Global
Management.
9780415431170
272pp
HB
ROUTLEDGE
The book is organized around the two

fundamental questions: firstly, how the CTA
fosters its claims to be the sole representative of
all Tibetans over the last decades in exile; and,
secondly, which policies have been carried out in
order to regain the homeland. The book is
divided into four substantial chapters:
the historical background, providing a review
of pre-1959 political Tibet
a theoretical section which covers the critical
position of exile organizations
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Liberal
Perspectives for
South Asia
Rajiva Wijesinha (ed)
Liberal Perspectives for South Asia discusses

the essentials of the liberal philosophy, while
also indicating how appropriate it is in the South
Asian context. In the past, the subcontinent was
renowned for the skill with which it took up the
dominant ideologies of the west and articulated
them for the Asian context. In the post-colonial
period, the only dominant ideology that was
sidetracked by all political parties was liberalism,
the ideology that promoted freedom of the
individual. The idea of a book about the need for
liberalism in the subcontinent was the brainchild
of Chanaka Amaratunga, who set up the first
avowedly Liberal Party in Sri Lanka.
Partitions
Reshaping States and
Minds
Stefano Bianchini,
Sanjay Chaturvedi,
Rada Ivekovic &
Ranabir Samaddar
Many political parties have implemented liberal

policies on an ad hoc basis and without a proper
framework to guide them. Not all parties would
accept all aspects of a liberal programme,
however, in a context in which many parties are
seeking an ideology that accords both with the
present times and trends, and also with some of
the goals they accepted in the past. It is hoped
that this volume will provide food for thought and
ideas for adoption and incorporation within the
party programme. Ranging from erudite
expositions of classic liberal thinkers to lively
discussions of liberal economic principles put
into practice by imaginative entrepreneurs, this
volume is essential reading for a region making
a swift transition into the contemporary,
globalized world.
The partition of the Indian subcontinent, the

collapse of the Soviet Union and the erstwhile
Yugoslavia, the reunification of Germany, the
continuing feud between the two Koreas, the
Irish peace process, the case of Israel/ Palestine
and the lingering division of Cyprus have
together fuelled new thinking on the strategy and
acts of partitioning countries, states, nations and
continuities. They have also given rise to a huge
body of literature. However, studies of partitions
have usually focused on individual cases. This
innovative volume uses comparative analysis to
fill the gap in partition studies and examines
cross-cutting issues such as: violence, regional
politics, peace politics, geopolitics, state
formation and state building, union and regional
unification, transitional strategies, historical
experiences of decolonization and transition.
Stefano Bianchini is Director of the Institute for
Eastern and Central Europe at the University of
Bologna, Italy.
Dr Sanjay Chaturvedi, a Leverhume Fellow of
the University of Cambridge, is Reader and
Chairman in Political Science at the Punjab
University, India.
Rada Ivekovic is Professor of Philosophy at
University of Saint Etienne, France.
Dr Ranabir Samaddar, described by a reviewer
as Indias Boswell, is Director of the Peace
Studies Programme at the South Asia Forum for
Human Rights, Kathmandu.
Rajiva Wijesinha is Senior Professor of

Languages at Sabaragamuwa University.
9780415348027
9788175966628
255pp
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188pp
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Short on
Democracy
Issues Facing Indian
Political Parties
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan
(ed)
Declining Sri
Lanka
In this collection, ten analysts, including

academics and senior journalists, examine
selected Indian political parties and related
phenomena, providing explanations from a
range of perspectives as well as offering
possible directions which could help transform
Indias formal democracy into a substantive one.
The aim has been to provide accessible texts
which nevertheless address difficult issues
where they arise.
Terrorism and Ethnic

Conflict: the Legacy of
J R Jayewardene
(1906-1996)
Rajiva Wijesinha
Arvind Sivaramakrishnan contributes centrepage articles and specialist book reviews to

The Hindu, and has recently published Through
a Glass Wall, a collection of his shorter writings.
9788188861040
270pp
HB
` 595.00
IMPRINTONE
Declining Sri Lanka is a political history of

Sri Lanka which focuses on the reasons for and
results of the ethnic violence that has plagued
the country over the last quarter century. After an
incisive study of the background, it explores in
depth the contribution of the J R Jayewardene
government (1977-1989), and in particular the
international dimension that led to tensions with
India. Having dealt with the Indian intervention of
1987 which led to Indian troops battling their
former protgs, the Liberation Tigers of Tamil
Eelam, it looks at further developments and the
failure of both the Kumaratunga and
Wickramesinghe governments to quell violence
or provide political solutions. The book ends with
a brief analysis of the current government in the
context of increasing international concern over
both terrorism (as exemplified by the LTTE) and
basic human rights (as exemplified by the
continuing suffering of Tamil people).
Sabaragamuwa University.
9788175965324
336pp
PB
FOUNDATION BOOKS
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Communalism,
Caste and Hindu
Nationalism
The Violence in
Gujarat
Ornit Shani
Belligerent Hindu nationalism, accompanied by

recurring communal violence between Hindus
and Muslims, has become a compelling force in
Indian politics over the last two decades. Ornit
Shanis book, which examines the rise of
communalism, asks why distinct groups of
Hindus, deeply divided by caste, mobilised on
the basis of unitary Hindu nationalism? And why
was the Hindu nationalist rhetoric about the
threat from the essentially impoverished Muslim
minority so persuasive to the Hindu majority?
Shani uses evidence from communal violence in
Ahmedabad, the largest and most prosperous
city in Gujarat, long considered the laboratory of
Hindu nationalism, as the basis of her
investigations. She argues that, contrary to the
currently perceived wisdom, the growth of
communalism did not lie in Hindu-Muslim
antagonisms alone. It was rather an expression
of intensifying tensions among Hindus, nurtured
by changes in the relations between castes and
associated state policies. The results for the
resulting uncertainties among Hindus were
frequently displaced onto Muslims, thus enabling
caste tensions to develop and deepen
communal rivalries.
India in the
World Order
Searching for
Major-Power Status
Baldev Raj Nayar &
T. V. Paul
Baldev Raj Nayar is Emeritus Professor of

Political Science at McGill University in Montreal.
T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International
Relations, McGill University, Montreal.
9788175962316
9780521727532
The Politics Book

A Lexicon of Political
Facts from Abu Ghraib
to Zippergate
Nicholas Comfort
` 395.00
The India-Pakistan
Conflict
An Enduring Rivalry
T.V. Paul (ed)
PB
In the twelve years since the publication of the

now legendary Brewers Politics, the political
lexicon has grown exponentially, as politics itself
appears to have entered a terrifying, global age.
Taking up where Brewers left off, The Politics
Book provides a snapshot of where the
language of politics finds itself today.
Nicholas Comfort is a government relations

consultant.
9788173141362
977pp
HB
` 795.00
RESEARCH PRESS
Shopping for
Bombs
Nuclear Proliferation,
Global Insecurity and
the Rise and Fall of
the A.Q. Khan Network
Gordon Corera
A.Q. Khan was the worlds leading black market

dealer in nuclear technology, described by a
former CIA Director as at least as dangerous as
Osama Bin Laden. A hero in Pakistan and
revered as the Father of the Bomb, Khan built a
global clandestine network that sold the most
closely guarded nuclear secrets to Iran, North
Korea and Libya.
Here for the first time is the riveting, inside story
of the rise and fall of A.Q. Khan and his role in
the devastating spread of nuclear technology
over the last thirty years. Drawing on exclusive
interviews with key players in Islamabad,
London and Washington, as well as with
members of Khans own network, BBC journalist
Gordon Corera paints a truly unsettling picture of
the ultimate arms bazaar. Corera reveals how
Khan operated within a world of shadowy deals
among rogue states and how his privileged
position in Pakistan provided him with the
protection to build his unique and deadly
business empire. It explains why and how he
T.V. Paul, James McGill Professor of International

Relations, McGill University, Montreal.
290pp
` 395.00
A unique blend of hard facts, political insight and

searing wit, The Politics Book navigates the
soundbites, the put-down and half-truths politicians
use to express themselves, and explores the
meaning of terms, phrases and concepts that have
become part of our daily vocabulary.
The India-Pakistan rivalry remains one of the

most enduring and unresolved conflicts of our
times. It began with the birth of the two states in
1947, and it has continued ever since, with the
periodic resumption of wars and crises. The
conflict has affected every dimension of
interstate and societal relations between the two
countries and, despite occasional peace
initiatives, shows no signs of abating. This
volume brings together leading experts in
international relations theory and comparative
politics to explain the persistence of this rivalry.
Together they examine a range of topics
including regional power distribution, great
power politics, territorial divisions, the nuclear
weapons factor, and incompatible national
identities. Based on their analyses, they offer
possible conditions under which the rivalry could
be terminated.
9788175963641
2 tables
300pp
PB
Ornit Shani is Lecturer in Asian Studies at Haifa

University.
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230pp
PB
Two highly regarded scholars come together to

examine Indias relationship with the worlds
major powers and its own search for a significant
role in the international system. Central to the
argument is Indias belief that the acquisition of
an independent nuclear capability is key to
obtaining such status. The book details the
major constraints at the international, domestic
and perceptual levels that India has faced in this
endeavor. It concludes, through a detailed
comparison of Indias power capabilities, that
India is indeed a rising power, but that significant
systemic and domestic changes will be
necessary before it can achieve its goal.
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Indias Nuclear
Bomb and
National Security
was able to operate so freely for so many years.

Brimming with revelations, the book provides
new insight into Irans nuclear ambitions and
how close Tehran may be to the bomb. In
addition, the book contains information on how
the CIA and MI6 penetrated Khans network,
how the US and UK ultimately broke Khans ring,
and how they persuaded President Musharraf to
arrest a national hero. The book also provides
the first detailed account of the high-wire
dealings with Muammar Gadaffi which led to
Libyas renunciation of nuclear weapons and
which played a key role in Khans downfall. The
spread of nuclear weapons technology around
the globe presents the greatest security
challenge of our time. Shopping for Bombs
presents a unique window into the challenges of
stopping a new nuclear arms race, a race which
A.Q. Khan himself did more than any other
individual to promote.
Karsten Frey
Gordon Corera has been a Security

Correspondent for BBC News since June 2004.
9781850658269
India, Pakistan
and the Secret
Jihad
The Covert War in
Kashmir, 1947-2004
Praveen Swami
304pp
HB
` 895.00
This book explores the history of jihadist groups

in Jammu and Kashmir, documenting the course
of their activities and their changing character
from 1947 to 2004. Drawing on new material,
including classified Indian intelligence dossiers
and records, Praveen Swami shows that jihadist
violence was not, as is widely assumed, a
phenomenon that manifested itself in Indianadministered Jammu and Kashmir only after
1988. Rather, a welter of jihadist groups waged
a sustained campaign against Indian rule in
Jammu and Kashmir from the outset, after the
Partition of India.
Karsten Frey is Research Fellow at the Institut

Barcelona d Estudis Internationals, IBEI.
9780415401326
Why Ethnic
Parties Succeed
Patronage and Ethnic
Head Counts in India
Kanchan Chandra
As such, the book argues, the violent conflict

which exploded in these two regions after 1990
was not a historical discontinuity: it was, instead,
an escalated form of what was by then a fivedecade old secret war.
Praveen Swami is New Delhi Chief of Bureau
for Frontline Magazine, and writes on security
and intelligence-related issues.
258pp
PB
232pp
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ROUTLEDGE
This book first analyses the ideology and

practice of Islamist terrorism as it changed and
evolved from 1947-1948 onwards. It
subsequently discusses the impact of the secret
jihad on Indian policy making of Jammu and
Kashmir, as well as its influence on political life
within the state. Finally, looking at some of the
reasons why the jihad in Jammu and Kashmir
acquired such intensity in 1990, the author
suggests that the answers lie in the
transfiguration of the strategic environment in
South Asia by the nuclear weapons programmes
of India and Pakistan.
9780415404594
This book gives an analytic account of the

dynamics of Indias nuclear build-up. In contrast
to conventional studies on the issue, the author
puts forward a new model, which goes beyond
the classic strategic concept of accepting
security related motives of arming behaviour.
According to this, the structural conditions of
Indias regional security environment were
permissive to Indias nuclear development but
not sufficient to make Indias nuclearization
imperative for maintaining its national security. At
the core of the argument lies the question about
Indias security considerations and their impact
on Indias nuclear policy development. The
author explores this analytic model by including
explanatory variables on the unit-level, where
interests are generally related to symbolic, less
strategic, values attributed to nuclear weapons.
These play a significant role within Indias
domestic political party competition and among
certain pressure groups. They have also
influenced Indias relationship with other
countries on non-proliferation matters. This book
identifies the role of the strategic elite in
determining Indias nuclear course. Furthermore,
it argues that one of the pivotal driving forces
behind Indias quest for the nuclear bomb is
Indias struggle for international recognition and
the strong, often obsessive sensitivities of Indias
elite regarding perceived acts of discrimination
or ignorance by the West towards India.
Why do some ethnic parties succeed in

attracting the support of their target ethnic
groups while others fail? In a world in which
ethnic parties flourish in established and
emerging democracies alike, understanding the
conditions under which such parties succeed or
fail is of critical importance to both political
scientists and policy makers. Drawing on a study
of variation in the performance of ethnic parties
in India, this book builds a theory of ethnic party
performance in patronage-democracies.
Chandra shows why voters in such democracies
choose between parties by conducting ethnic
head counts rather than by comparing policy
platforms or ideological positions. Building on
these individual microfoundations, she argues
that an ethnic party is likely to succeed when it
has competitive rules for intraparty advancement
and when the size of the group it seeks to
mobilize exceeds the threshold of winning or
leverage imposed by the electoral system.
Kanchan Chandra is an assistant professor in
the department of Political Science at MIT.
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Western Realism
and International
Relations
A Non-Western View
Aswini K. Ray
This book provides an alternative perspective of

International Relations from Hiroshima to 9/11.
Both its diplomacy and mainstream scholarship
are linked by realpolitik, in a vicious circle of
retrogressive symbiosis. It simultaneously
undermined the UN system of collective security
from its origin and the scientific credential of its
scholarship. The Cold War that it spawned
restricted economic prosperity, political stability,
and democratic freedom within its narrow corearea of the United States and Europe at the cost
of its vast periphery in the Third World. Its
unpredicted collapse extended insecurity across
the entire globalised system, including its corearea, as events since 9/11 forcefully
underscores. While the new hegemonic system
has become globally more insecure for all its
citizens, its scholarship is still clueless about the
collapse of the bipolar system it created in the
midst of the massive confidence-building
exercise to stabilize it; it is even less able to
creatively respond to its orderly transition.
Power,
Postcolonialism
and International
Relations
Reading Race, Gender
and Class
Geeta Chowdhry &
Sheila Nair (eds)
Geeta Chowdhry is Professor of Political

Science at Northern Arizona University where
she was also the Director of Womens Studies.
Shiela Nair is Associate Professor of Political
Science at Northern Arizona University.
9780415329361
243pp
HB
Political Theory
and Power
` 695.00
2nd Edition
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Democracy and
Decentralisation
in South Asia and
West Africa
Participation,
Accountability and
Performance
Richard C. Crook &
James Manor
324pp
PB
` 795.00
ROUTLEDGE
Professor Aswini K. Ray, was Professor of

International Relations and Comparative Politics
at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, since
1974 till his retirement in 2003.
9788175962187
Power, Postcolonialism and International

Relations uses postcolonial theory to examine
the implications of race, class and gender
relations for the structuring of world politics. It
addresses further themes central to postcolonial
theory, such as the impact of representation on
power relations, the relationship between global
capital and power and the space for resistance
and agency in the context of global power
asymmetries. The implications of these themes
are discussed using a wide range of postcolonial
readings and critiques of contemporary issues.
Sarah Joseph
This book examines whether setting up

democratic local councils in four developing
countries (Ghana, Cote dIvoire, Bangladesh and
India) enhances the popularity, responsiveness
and effectiveness of administration. The authors
make an important contribution to current
debates about good governance, asking
whether the poor and disadvantaged benefit
from decentralisation.
This book draws attention to certain significant

changes in the way in which power has been
defined and it also examines some of the critical
responses which those changes have evoked.
The objective is not to try and evolve a
universally acceptable and comprehensive
definition of power, and of related terms like
authority, and influence. The argument of the
book is that, that would be an impossible project
since social and political theories themselves
constitute an intervention into political discourse
of a society and they may implicity or explicitly,
embody a political perspective. The basic
assumptions about society embodied in a theory
may be expressed through certain ordering
concepts and a particular mode of theorizing.
Sarah Joseph formerly taught Political Science
at Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University.
Richard C. Crook, University of Glasgow.

James Manor, University of Sussex.
9788175962033
173pp
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Rescuing
Afghanistan
95 tables 4 maps
9780521636476 348pp
PB
William Maley
` 650.00
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Although many Afghans have contributed

courageously to rescuing their country, and
some key benchmarks have been achieved,
Afghanistan continues to face severe difficulties.
Elite political competition is fierce, and able
ministers have been removed when deemed to
be occupying too much of the limelight.
President Hamid Karzai, while articulate and
incorruptible, remains wedded to a politics of
bargaining and networking that has seen
unappetising figures promoted to positions they
have then abused. This has created space for
the resurgence of the Taliban in the south, with
Pakistani backing. The new Afghan National
Army is proving too expensive to be locally
sustainable, and the police force offers only a
pale shadow of what is needed. The
predominance of opium in the economy poses
Architect of
Global Jihad
the risk that Afghanistan could become a narcostate, and on a range of human development
indicators it remains one of the worlds poorest
countries, with popular frustration rising. While
foreign governments have contributed large
sums to reconstruction, too much money has
gone to Western contractors, at the expense of
local capacity.
The Life of Al-Qaida

Strategist Abu Musab
al-Suri
Brynjar Lia
It is not too late to turn things around, but time is

running short. Only if the Afghan government refocuses on the delivery of competent, clean and
inclusive governance, and the wider world
ensures that its commitments match its rhetoric,
is it at all likely that disaster can be avoided.
William Maley is Director of the Asia-Pacific
College of Diplomacy at ANU, Canberra, and
taught for many years in the School of Politics,
Australian Defence Force Academy.
9781850658467
176pp
HB
In Architect of Global Jihad, Brynjar Lia

translates two key chapters from al-Suris Global
Islamic Resistance Call and exposes his
methods for maximising the political impact of
jihadi violence and building successful,
autonomous cells for individualized terrorism.
Al-Suris words have inspired many of todays
militants.
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HURST
The Partition of
Bengal and Assam
1932-1947
Bidyut Chakrabarty
Brynjar Lia is a research professor at the

Norwegian Defence Research Establishment
(FFI). He was a visiting Fulbright Scholar at
Harvard University in 2001-2 and is the author of
several books on Islamism and terrorism.
The fragmentation of Bengal and Assam in 1947

was a crucial moment in Indias socio-political
history as nation state. Both British Indian
provinces were divided as much through the
actions of the Muslim League as through those
of Congress and the British colonial power.
Attributing partition largely to Hindu
communalists is, therefore, historically
inaccurate and factually misleading.
9781850658566
Landscapes of the
Jihad
Militancy Morality
Modernity
Faisal Devji
Bidyut Chakrabarty is Professor and Chair of

Political Science at the University of Delhi, India.
288pp
HB
525pp
HB
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The Partition of Bengal and Assam, 1932-1947

provides a review of constitutional and party
politics as well as of popular attitudes and
perceptions. The primary aim of this book is to
unravel the intricate socio-economic and political
processes that led up to partition, as Hindus and
Muslims competed ferociously for the new power
and privileges to be conferred on them with
independence.
9780415328890
Despite his alleged capture in Pakistan in late

2005, Abu Musab al-Suri, a Syrian originally
known as Mustafa Sethmarian Nasar, remains a
potent political and ideological figure. Al-Suri
trained a generation of young jihadis at alQaidas Afghan camps and helped establish the
organisations European networks. Having
gained extensive military experience fighting in
the Syrian Islamist insurgency of the early
1980s, he helped to shape al-Qaidas global
strategy in a series of writings, including his
influential Global Islamic Resistance Call. In this
1,600 page book, al-Suri outlines a broad
strategy for al-Qaidas younger generation to
follow and describes practical ways to implement
the theories and tactics of jihadi guerrilla
warfare.
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ROUTLEDGE
Landscapes of the Jihad explores the features

that Al-Qaeda and other strands of militant Islam
share in common with global movements such
as environmentalists and anti-globalisation
protestors. These include a decentralized
organization and an emphasis on ethical rather
than properly political action. Devji brings these
and other characteristics of Al-Qaeda together in
an analysis of the jihad that locates it squarely
within the transformation of political thought after
the Cold War. The jihad emerges from the
breakdown of traditional as well as modern
forms of authority in the Muslim world. It is
neither dogmatic in an old-fashioned way nor
ideological in the modern sense, and concerned
neither with correct doctrinal practice in the
present nor with some revolutionary utopia of the
future. Instead it is fragmented, dispersed and
highly individualistic.
Faisal Devji, Lecturer, Department of History,
Yale University.
9781850657750
200pp
HURST
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Affirmative Action
in the United
States and India
A comparative
perspective
Thomas E. Weisskopf
Affirmative action in the US and reservation

policies in India are arguably the two most
important national instances of positive
discrimination in favor of historically
disadvantaged racial/ethnic minority groups.
Inclusive
Citizenship
Meanings &
Expressions
Naila Kabeer (ed)
This impressive book utilizes a cost-benefit

framework to develop a general model for the
comparative analysis of positive discrimination
policies and reviews systematically the available
empirical evidence on the consequences of
those policies in admissions to higher education
institutions in both the US and India.
Thomas E. Weisskopf is Professor of
Economics and Director of the Residential
College, University of Michigan, USA.
9780415700023
304pp
HB
Inclusive Citizenship seeks to go beyond the

intellectual debates of recent years on
democratization and participation to explore a
related set of issues around changing
conceptions of citizenship. Peoples
understandings of what it means to be a citizen
go to the heart of the various meanings of
identity, including national identity; political and
electoral participation; and rights. The
researchers in this volume come from a wide
variety of societies, including the industrial
countries in the North, and they seek to explore
these difficult questions from different angles.
Themes include: Citizenship and Rights;
Citizenship and Identity; Citizenship and Political
Struggle and the policy implications of
substantive notions of citizenship.
Naila Kabeer is Professorial Fellow at the
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex.
` 895.00
ROUTLEDGE
9788189013165
288pp
HB
` 350.00
ZUBAAN
Political Principles
and their Practice
in Sri Lanka
Rajiva Wijesinha
Votes and
Violence
This accessible book introduces students to the

basic concepts in political science. The first part
of the book provides a historical overview of the
manner in which various political structures
emerged. The second part deals with successive
constitutions in Sri Lanka, and their failure to
uphold political principles in response to
changing political situations.
Electoral Competition
and Communal Riots
in India
Steven I. Wilkinson

Sabaragamuwa University.
9788175962798
106pp
PB
` 145.00
In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses newly

collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socioeconomic factors and competitive politics in
India to test his theory that riots are fomented in
order to win elections and that governments
decide whether to stop them or not based on the
likely electoral cost of doing so. He finds that
electoral factors account for most of the statelevel variation in Hindu-Muslim riots: explaining
for example why riots took place in Gujarat in
2002 but not in many other states where
militants tried to foment violence. The general
electoral theory he develops for India is
extended to Ireland, Malaysia and Romania as
Wilkinson shows that similar political factors
motivate ethnic violence in many different
countries.
Steven I. Wilkinson is Assistant Professor of
Political Science at Duke University.
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9780521672818
Are Other Worlds

Possible?
Talking New Politics
Jai Sen &
Mayuri Saini (eds)
In the run-up to the fourth World Social Forum

held in Mumbai, India in January 2004, civil
activists and students organised a major series
of seminars in Delhi University to discuss the
Forum and its politics. The Open Space
seminar series, as it came to be called, picked
up on the idea of the Forum as a relatively free
space, where all kinds of ideas could meet and
be discussed.
State-Directed
Development
Political Power and
Industrialization in the
Global Periphery
Atul Kohli
These books explore the new ideas generated

by the discussions. Can the World Social Forum,
the authors ask, help us to conceptualise and
actualise a new politics? Can this new politics be
free from violence? Can the experience and
knowledge of great movements such as the
movement for the environment, and the womens
movement, contribute to the creation of a new
politics? How can such a politics be sustained?
Jai Sen is an architect, urban designer and a
civil campaigner on dwelling, labour, planning
and rights related issues.
230pp
PB
PB
` 495.00
Why have some developing country states been

more successful at facilitating industrialization
than others? An answer to this question is
developed by focusing both on patterns of state
construction and intervention aimed at promoting
industrialization. Four countries are analyzed in
detail - South Korea, Brazil, India, and Nigeria over the twentieth century. The states in these
countries varied from cohesive-capitalist (mainly
in Korea), through fragmented-multiclass (mainly
in India), to neo-patrimonial (mainly in Nigeria). It
is argued that cohesive-capitalist states have
been most effective at promoting
industrialization and neo-patrimonial states the
least. The performance of fragmented-multiclass
states falls somewhere in the middle.
Atul Kohli is the David K.E. Bruce Professor of
International Affairs at Princeton University.
Mayuri Sen is a development editor.

9788189013271
310pp
9780521672825
` 195.00
478pp
PB
` 595.00
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Coalition Politics
and Hindu
Nationalism
Katherine Adeney &
Lawrence Saez (eds)
Thomas Weber teaches politics and peace

studies at La Trobe University.
This book examines the emergence of the BJP

and the ways in which its Hindu nationalist
agenda has been affected by the constraints of
being a dominant member of a coalition
government. The collected authors take stock of
the partys first full term in power, presiding over
the diverse forces of the governing NDA
coalition, and the 2004 elections. They assess
the BJPs performance in relation to its stated
goals, and more specifically how it has fared in a
range of policy fields centre-state relations,
foreign policy, defence policies, the second
generation of economic reforms, initiatives to
curb corruption and the fate of minorities.
9788175964327
The Success of
Indias Democracy
Atul Kohli (ed)
Katherine Adeney is a Lecturer in Politics at the

University of Sheffield.
Lawrence Saez, Visiting Fellow, Asian Research
Centre, London School of Economics.
9780415359818
310pp
PB
Centenary Edition
Anthony J. Parel (ed)
` 495.00
9788175961074
PB
Thomas Weber
` 395.00
RELIGION & PHILOSOPHY

The Rational
Believer
Choices and
Decisions in the
Madrasas of Pakistan
Masooda Bano
` 295.00
Gandhi as
Disciple and
Mentor
5 tables
312pp
PB
Anthony J. Parel is Emeritus Professor of

Political Science at the University of Calgary.
294pp
` 350.00
Atul Kohli is Professor of Politics and

International Affairs at Princeton University.
Hind Swaraj is Mahatma Gandhis fundamental

work. Not only is it key to understanding his life
and thoughts, but also the politics of South Asia
in the first half of the twentieth century.
Celebrating 100 years since Hind Swaraj was
first published in a newspaper, this centenary
edition includes a new Preface and Editors
Introduction, as well as a new chapter on
Gandhi and the Four Canonical Aims of Life.
The volume presents a critical edition of the
1910 text of Hind Swaraj, fully annotated and
including Gandhis own Preface and Foreword
(not found in other editions). Anthony J. Parel
sets the work in its historical and political
contexts and analyses the significance of
Gandhis experiences in England and South
Africa. The second part of the volume contains
some of Gandhis other writings, including his
correspondence with Tolstoy and Nehru.
9780521149143
PB
How has democracy taken root in India in the

face of a low-income economy, poverty, illiteracy
and ethnic diversity? Leading scholars explore
this intriguing anomaly. Themes addressed
include politics, ethnicity, federalism, caste,
poverty, and Hindu nationalism. This is a tightly
conceived volume on a controversial topic for
students and generalists.
ROUTLEDGE
Gandhi: Hind
Swaraj and Other
Writings
294pp
Thomas Webers book comprises a series of

biographical reflections about people who
influenced Gandhi, and those who were, in turn,
influenced by him. While the previous literature
has tended to focus on Gandhis political legacy,
Webers book explores the spiritual, social and
philosophical resonances of these relationships,
and it is with these aspects of the Mahatmas life
in mind, that the author selects his central
protagonists. These include friends such as
Henry Polak and Hermann Kallenbach, who are
not as well known as those usually cited, but
who left a deep impression nevertheless, and
motivated some of Gandhis major life changes.
Conversely, the work of luminaries such as
E.F. Schumacher and Gene Sharp reveal the
Mahatmas influence in arenas which are not
traditionally associated with his thinking.
Webers book offers new and intriguing insights
into the life and thought of one of the most
significant figures of the twentieth century.
NEW
Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been

accused of radicalizing Muslims and
participating, either actively or passively, in
terrorist networks since the events of 9/11. In
Pakistan, the 2007 siege by government forces
of Islamabad's Red Mosque and its madrasa
complex, whose imam and students staged an
armed resistance against the state for its support
of the "war on terror," reinforced concerns about
madrasas' role in regional and global jihad. By
2006 madrasas registered with Pakistan's five
regulatory boards for religious schools enrolled
over one million male and 200,000 female
students.
In The Rational Believer, Masooda Bano draws
on rich interview, ethnographic, and survey data,
as well as fieldwork conducted in madrasas
throughout the country to explore the network of
Pakistani madrasas. She maps the choices and
decisions confronted by students, teachers,
parents, and clerics and explains why available
choices make participation in jihad appear at
times a viable course of action.
Masooda Bano is University Lecturer at Oxford
Department of International Development and
Research Fellow at Wolfson College, University
of Oxford.
28 B & W illustrations 27 maps
9789382264880 272pp HB
` 795.00
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Hinduism and the

Ethics of Warfare
in South Asia
From Antiquity to the
Present
Kaushik Roy
NEW
Islamic Reform in
South Asia
This book challenges the view, common among

Western scholars, that precolonial India lacked a
tradition of military philosophy. It traces the
evolution of theories of warfare in India from the
dawn of civilization, focusing on the debate
between Dharmayuddha (Just War) and
Kutayuddha (Unjust War) within Hindu
philosophy. This debate centers around four
questions: What is war? What justifies it? How
should it be waged? And what are its potential
repercussions? This body of literature provides
evidence of the historical evolution of strategic
thought in the Indian subcontinent that has
heretofore been neglected by modern historians.
Further, it provides a counterpoint to scholarship
in political science that engages solely with
Western theories in its analysis of independent
Indias philosophy of warfare. Ultimately, a better
understanding of the legacy of ancient Indias
strategic theorizing will enable more accurate
analysis of modern Indias military and nuclear
policies.
Filippo Osella &

Caroline Osella (eds)
NEW
Kaushik Roy is a Reader in History at Jadavpur

University in Kolkata, India, and Senior
Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Civil
War at the Peace Research Institute, Oslo,
Norway.
Filippo Osella is Reader in Social Anthropology

at University of Sussex.
9781107043855
9781107031753
240pp
HB
Caroline Osella is Reader in Anthropology with

reference to South Asia at School of Oriental
and African Studies, University of London.
` 995.00
Modern Islamic
Thought in a
Radical Age
Religious Authority
and Internal Criticism
Muhammad
Qasim Zaman
NEW
The authors in this volume discuss

contemporary Islamic reformism in South Asia in
some of its diverse historical orientations and
geographical expressions. Reformism is
particularly troublesome as a term, in that it
covers broad trends stretching back for more
than two hundred years. Still, reformism can be
useful as a term in helping contributors to insist
upon recognition of the differences between
projects of revival and renewal and such
contemporary obsessions as political Islam,
Islamic fundamentalism and so on. Urging a
more nuanced examination of all forms of
reformism and their reception in practice, the
contributions here powerfully demonstrate the
historical and geographical specificities of reform
projects. In doing so, they challenge prevailing
perspectives in which substantially different
traditions of reform are lumped together into one
reified category (often carelessly shorthanded as
wahhabism) and branded as extremist if not
altogether demonised as terrorist.
Among traditionally educated scholars in the

Islamic world there is much disagreement on the
crises that afflict modern Muslim societies and
how best to deal with them, and the debates
have grown more urgent since 9/11. Through an
analysis of the work of Muhammad Rashid Rida
and Yusuf al-Qaradawi in the Arab Middle East
and a number of scholars belonging to the
Deobandi orientation in colonial and
contemporary South Asia, this book examines
some of the most important issues facing the
Muslim world since the late nineteenth century.
These include the challenges to the binding
claims of a long-established scholarly
consensus, evolving conceptions of the common
good, and discourses on religious education, the
legal rights of women, social and economic
justice and violence and terrorism. This wideranging study by a leading scholar provides the
depth and the comparative perspective
necessary for an understanding of the ferment
that characterizes contemporary Islam.
Islamic Societies
to the Nineteenth
Century
A Global History
Ira M. Lapidus
NEW
Muhammad Qasim Zaman is Robert H.

Niehaus77 Professor of Near Eastern Studies
and Religion at Princeton University.
9781107619180
1 map
372pp
PB
538pp
HB ` 995.00
First published in 1988, Ira Lapidus A History of

Islamic Societies has become a classic in the
field, enlightening students, scholars, and others
with a thirst for knowledge about one of the
worlds great civilizations. This book, based on
fully revised and updated parts one and two of
this monumental work, describes the
transformations of Islamic societies from their
beginning in the seventh century, through their
diffusion across the globe, into the challenges of
the nineteenth century. The story focuses on the
organization of families and tribes, religious
groups and states, showing how they were
transformed by their interactions with other
religious and political communities. The book
concludes with the European commercial and
imperial interventions that initiated a new set of
transformations in the Islamic world, and the
onset of the modern era. Organized in narrative
sections for the history of each major region,
with innovative, analytic summary introductions
and conclusions, this book is a unique
endeavour.
Ira M. Lapidus is Professor Emeritus of History
at the University of California, Berkeley.
9781107619135 788pp
PB
` 995.00
` 795.00
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Elements of
Tibetan Buddhism
Richard E. Farkas
Language, Texts
and Society
The mysteries of Tibetan Buddhism have

fascinated people for centuries. This book is
aimed at those who have an interest in the
rituals, traditions, practices, and little-known
facts and culture of Tibetan Buddhism.
Explorations in
Ancient Indian Culture
and Religion
Among the many elements one will find in this

book are: what makes up a persons practice;
what the eight auspicious symbols mean; what
etiquette should be followed while in a shrine
room or temple setting; who are the major
Tibetan Buddhist deities; what do Tibetan names
mean; what are the major Tibetan holidays; what
are some good movies to watch about Tibetan
Buddhism.
NEW
Patrick Olivelle
Richard E. Farkas is a practising Tibetan

Buddhist and a student of the culture of Tibet.
9789382993445
296pp
PB
` 495.00
NEW
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Applied Ethics
and Human
Rights
Conceptual Analysis
and Contextual
Applications
Shashi Motilal (ed)
This collection of papers offers a philosophical

perspective - including the all-important and
significant perspective from the point of view of
'dharma' - to a host of intricate ethical problems
in personal, professional and social life, by
providing an understanding of the concepts of
human rights and responsibilities which are
central to those problems.
This collection brings together a series of Patrick

Olivelles research papers, published over a
period of about ten years, whose unifying theme
is the search for hidden historical context and
developments within words and texts. Words
(and cultural histories represented by words)
that scholars often take for granted as having a
continuous and long history are often new
sometimes even being neologisms. They can
thus provide important indications of cultural and
religious innovations. Olivelles book on the
asramas, as well as the short pieces included in
this volume, such as those on ananda and
dharma, seek to see cultural innovation and
historical changes within the changing semantic
fields of key terms. Closer examination of
numerous Sanskrit terms taken for granted as
central to Hinduism provide similar results.
Indian texts have often been studied in the past
as disincarnate realities providing information on
an ahistorical and unchanging culture.
Language, Texts, and Society is a small
contribution towards correcting this method of
textual study.
Patrick Olivelle, Professor, Sanskrit & Indian
Religions, University of Texas, Austin.
14+ figures, tables & charts
9789380601656 420pp
PB
` 595.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Shashi Motilal, Associate Professor,

Department of Philosophy, University of Delhi.
Boundaries,
Dynamics and
Construction of
Traditions in
South Asia
NEW
Ascetics and
Brahmins
Studies in Ideologies
and Institutions
Patrick Olivelle
9789380601359
PB
Federico Squarcini (ed)
` 350.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Federico Squarcini, Associate Professor,

Department of History, University of Florence.
This volume brings together papers on Indian

ascetical institutions and ideologies published by
Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
Patrick Olivelle, Professor, Sanskrit & Indian
Religions, University of Texas, Austin.
NEW
9789380601632
NEW
372pp
'Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of

Traditions in South Asia' explores the dynamic
constructions and applications of the concept of
'tradition' that occurred within the South Asian
context during the ancient and pre-colonial
periods. This collection of essays features a
significant selection of the specialized fields of
knowledge that have shaped classical South
Asian intellectual history, and the aim of this
volume is to offer a stimulating anthology of
papers on the different and complex processes
employed during the 'invention', construction,
preservation and renewal of a given tradition.
2+ figures
328pp
PB
` 595.00
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9789380601649
618pp
PB
ANTHEM PRESS
` 795.00
Studies on the
Carvaka/Lokayata
Ramkrishna
Bhattacharya
Muslim Voices
This volume is the first attempt at a scientific

study of the Carvaka/Lokayata, the materialist
system of philosophy that flourished in ancient
India between the eighth and the twelfth century
CE.
Community and the

Self in South Asia
Usha Sanyal, David
Gilmartin & Sandria B.
Freitag (eds)
Ramkrishna Bhattacharya, Emeritus Fellow,

English, University Grants Commission, New
Delhi.
NEW
9789380601663
252pp
PB
` 495.00
ANTHEM PRESS
NEW
The
Anthropologist
and the Native
Essays for Gananath
Obeyesekere
H. L. Seneviratne (ed)
'The Anthropologist and the Native' is a

multidisciplinary volume of twenty essays by
internationally known scholars of different
persuasions, honouring the distinguished
anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere.
Muslim Voices brings together original

scholarship that examines the changing
contexts, concepts of community, and notions of
the self shaping South Asian Muslims some 40
percent of Muslims in the contemporary world
in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
essays in this volume recognize that identities
are constantly being negotiated in changing
historical circumstances, a negotiation which
involves addressing tensions and conflicts
around issues of authority, gender, social justice
and public versus private space. They further
our understanding of the worldviews of specific
Muslim voices and by placing them in their
context, they also illustrate processes of change,
contestation and ultimately of political
engagement.
Drawing inspiration from the work of the eminent
Islamist Barbara Metcalf, and using a variety of
sources ranging from the literary to the visual,
the essays in this volume have been contributed
by both senior historians as well as young voices
in the field.
Usha Sanyal is an independent scholar affiliated
with Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte,
North Carolina.
H. L. Seneviratne, Professor, Anthropology,

University of Virginia.
David Gilmartin is Professor of History at North

Carolina State University.
Sandria B. Freitag teaches visual culture and
modern South Asian history in the History
Department of North Carolina State University.
9789382579045
332pp
PB
` 695.00
YODA PRESS
NEW
9789380601670
3+ figures
494pp
PB
The Good Muslim
` 595.00
Reflections on
Classical Islamic Law
and Theology
ANTHEM PRESS
Mona Siddiqui
Dialogics of Self,
the Mahabharata
and Culture
The History of
Understanding and
Understanding of
History
Lakshmi Bandlamudi
'Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture:

The History of Understanding and
Understanding of History' explores the
interrelationships between individual and cultural
historical dynamics in interpreting texts, using
key concepts from Bakhtin's theory of dialogics.
This ambitious volume discusses the limits of
fixed monologic discourses and the benefits of
fluid dialogic discourses, and provides a cultural
and psychological analysis of the epic Indian text
the Mahabharata.
Lakshmi Bandlamudi, Professor, Psychology
LaGuardia Community College, City University
of New York.
NEW
9789380601458
13+ tables
316pp
PB
` 595.00
ANTHEM PRESS
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In this unusual, thought-provoking, and

beautifully written book, Mona Siddiqui reflects
upon key themes in Islamic law or theology. She
has selected these topics, which range through
discussions about friendship, divorce,
drunkenness, love, slavery, and ritual slaughter,
in part because they are of particular interest to
her, and in part because they reveal fascinating
insights into Islamic ethics and the way in which
arguments developed in medieval scholarly
discourse. These pre-modern religious works
contained a richness of thought, hesitation, and
speculation on a wide range of topics, which are
socially relevant but also presented intellectual
challenges to the scholars for whom Gods
revelation could be understood in diverse ways.
These subjects of course remain very relevant
today, both for practicing Muslims and for
scholars of Islamic law and religious studies, and
the book shows just how these debates resonate
in contemporary Islamic thought. Mona Siddiqui
is an astute and articulate interpreter who relays
complex ideas about the Islamic tradition with
great clarity. These are important attributes for a
book which, as the author acknowledges, charts
her own journey through the classical texts and
reflects upon how the principles expounded
there have guided her own thinking and
impacted on her teaching and research.
Mona Siddiqui is Professor of Islamic and

Interreligious Studies at the Divinity School,
University of Edinburgh.
leadership within todays religious rituals, or

uncovering the fascinating development of a
women-only shrine, this book provides a richer,
more complete understanding of Shia Islam.
9781107610699
Diane DSouza is a scholar of Islamic and

Gender Studies and a specialist in Conflict
Transformation and Peacebuilding.
240pp
PB
` 495.00
Community and
Consensus
in Islam
Muslim
Representation in
Colonial India,
1860-1947
Farzana Shaikh
97888189884741 445pp
Community and Consensus in Islam, first

published in 1989, represented a bold attempt to
introduce the role of ideas in the interpretation of
Indo-Muslim politics between 1860 and the
Partition of India in 1947. It questioned the
widely held view at the time that Indian Muslim
politics of the period could be explained by
reference to pragmatic interests alone. Instead,
Farzana Shaikh argued that the influence of
ideas rooted in Islamic tradition must form a
crucial dimension of any wellgrounded
explanation of the determinants of Indo-Muslim
political practice.
Azadis Daughter
Journey of a Liberal
Muslim
Seema Mustafa
HB
9788188861156
Muslim Faith and

Practice
Diane DSouza
199pp
PB
` 395.00
IMPRINTONE
Hinduism and Law

An Introduction
` 750.00
Timothy Lubin,
Donald R. Davis, Jr. &
Jayanth K. Krishnan
(eds)
IMPRINTONE
Shia Women
Azadis Daughter is both a fascinating account of

an intrepid liberal Muslim womans personal
journey and a political commentary on a secular
way of life. Even as it highlights the dominant
concerns of Indian Muslims - Security,
Employment, Education, Housing - it also
underlines their abiding faith in Indian
democracy and its pluralistic ethos.
Seema Mustafa is a senior journalist and

commentator. She lives in New Delhi.
Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow of the

Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham
House) in London.
288pp
` 695.00
The book should set at rest the lazy

assumptions about Indian Muslim women in
particular. As Zoya Hasan notes in her foreword:
The reader must be prepared to have old
assumptions defied and prejudices turned on its
head.
In this masterful study, the configurations of

colonial politics in India are set against the
backdrop of tensions between two contrasting
intellectual traditions the Islamic and the
liberal-democratic to show how their different
assumptions about the proper ends of political
action sharpened the opposition between
diverse constitutional positions that led to
Partition. Today it stands as a vital contribution
to the debate about this momentous event.
9788188861132
HB
ZUBAAN
This book sets out to examine the gendered

expressions of Shia Muslim faith. How do
contemporary women construct and experience
their religious lives? How does gender impact
Shia piety? In this intriguing study, the author
critically analyses the world of womens religious
expression, helping us to better understand not
only the ritual lives of Shia women, but Muslim
faith and practice in general.
The author argues that most research and
writing on Shia Islam reflects male expressions
and beliefs. Men have dominated the formation
of knowledge within the Shia religious hierarchy,
as well as the study of Shia Islam within the
fields of Religious Studies and Islamic Studies.
In contrast, the author takes womens lives and
beliefs as her starting point, and uncovers
powerful female expressions which dynamically
shape Shia Muslim religious life.
Covering the earliest Sanskrit rulebooks through

to the codification of Hindu law in modern times,
this interdisciplinary volume examines the
interactions between Hinduism and the law. The
authors present the major transformations to
Indias legal system in both the colonial and post
colonial periods and their relation to recent
changes in Hinduism. Thematic studies show
how law and Hinduism relate and interact in
areas such as ritual, logic, politics, and literature,
offering a broad coverage of South Asias
contributions to religion and law at the
intersection of society, politics and culture. In
doing so, the authors build on previous
treatments of Hindu law as a purely text-based
tradition, and in the process, provide a
fascinating account of an often neglected social
and political history.
Timothy Lubin is Professor in the Department
of Religion, and Lecturer in Law and Religion in
the School of Law at Washington and Lee
University.
Donald R. Davis, Jr., is Associate Professor in
the Department of Languages and Cultures in
Asia at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Jayanth K. Krishnan is Professor of Law and
the Charles L. Whistler Faculty Fellow at Indiana
University, Bloomington, Maurer School of Law.
Diane DSouza helps us discover a vibrant

women-centred narrative underpinning Shia
faith. Whether by bringing to life female
personalities which profoundly shaped religious
history, illuminating the dynamic female
9781107012493
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320pp HB
` 895.00
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The Spirit of
Hindu Law
Donald R. Davis, Jr.
it reawakens passionate affirmations of identity

that often verges on withdrawal and selfexclusion? These questions can still arouse
interest in our colleges and universities," he
writes.This book is an important contribution to
the debate on modern Islam and attempts to
answer the all-important question: where does it
go from here?
Law is too often perceived solely as state-based

rules and institutions that provide a rational
alternative to religious rites and ancestral
customs. The Spirit of Hindu Law uses the Hindu
legal tradition as a heuristic tool to question this
view and reveal the close linkage between law
and religion. Emphasizing the household, the
family, and everyday relationships as additional
social locations of law, it contends that law itself
can be understood as a theology of ordinary life.
An introduction to traditional Hindu law and
jurisprudence, this book is structured around key
legal concepts such as the sources of law and
authority, the laws of persons and things,
procedure, punishment and legal practice. It
combines investigation of key themes from
Sanskrit legal texts with discussion of Hindu
theology and ethics, as well as thorough
examination of broader comparative issues in law
and religion.
Mushirul Hasan is an ICSSR National Fellow

and Professor at the Council for Social
Development, New Delhi.
9788188861088
The Origins of
Yoga and Tantra
Indic Religions to the
Thirteenth Century
Donald R. Davis, Jr. is Associate Professor in

the Department of Languages and Cultures of
Asia, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
9781107005617
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206pp HB
Geoffrey Samuel
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Islam in a
Globalised World
Negotiating Faultlines
Mushirul Hasan (ed)
480pp
HB
` 850.00
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Islam is the world's fastest growing religion and

the second largest after Christianity. There are an
estimated 1.57 billion followers of Islam spread
across the globe accounting for one out of every
four persons and representing diverse social and
cultural traditions.
Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation

are practised in modernized forms throughout
the world today, but most introductions to
Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story
of how they developed. This book is an
interpretation of the history of Indic religions up
to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the
development of yogic and tantric traditions. It
assesses how much we really know about this
period, and asks what sense we can make of the
evolution of yogic and tantric practices, which
were to become such central and important
features of the Indic religious scene. Its
originality lies in seeking to understand these
traditions in terms of the total social and religious
context of South Asian society during this period,
including the religious practices of the general
population with their close engagement with
family, gender, economic life and other
pragmatic concerns.
Geoffrey Samuel is Professorial Fellow at the
School of Religious and Theological Studies at
Cardiff University.
Yet, surprisingly, little is known about them and

their contribution to the communities they live in
either as native citizens or immigrants. This lack
of awareness, partly a result of paucity of writing
on the subject, has created an image of Islam
and Muslims that is often grossly distorted.
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This volume, edited by Mushirul Hasan - one of

India's most distinguished historians and
commentators - seeks to fill this gap by bringing
together a range of scholarly views on Islam in
the context of a rapidly globalizing world.
432pp
432pp
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HB
` 495.00
` 995.00
Sikhism
New Edition
What is the impact of globalization on Islam and

Muslim identity? How Muslims, especially Muslim
minority communities in different parts of the
world, are responding to globalization? And how
it is changing their perceptions of their own
identity and their worldview? In his introduction
Professor Hasan argues that these are
"important questions that touch deep-seated
chords of feelings". "Today, more and more social
scientists are engaged in 'understanding' Islam
and 'observing' Muslim societies within
historically informed social contexts. With onethird of the world's Muslims now living as
members of a minority, they are busy exploring
their responses to globalization, westernization,
and the impact of living in a minority. To what
extent does globalization cause the old traditional
points of reference to disappear? To what extent
Hew McLeod
'McLeod has done more for Sikh history than

anyone now alive. In fact, if there is a Father of
Sikh History, it is Hew Mcleod.'
Rukun Advani, The Hindu
'It is because of a few writers, and Hew McLeod
above all, that the world has any inkling of
Sikhism as an independent religion, with a
unique, universal and timeless world view. He
brought Sikhism to Western academia.'
Jaideep Sarin, Thaindian News
'Hew was renowned for his openness and his
readiness to answer any question and to read
any manuscript. This generosity, together with
his precocious embrace of email, placed him at
the centre of an international scholarly
community.'
Tony Ballantyne, The Guardian
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Hew McLeod has been called the Father of Sikh

History for the extensive work he has done on the
religion and its history. His writing has played an
enormous role in creating awareness about
Sikhism as an independent and unique religion
and way of life.
9788190666879
380pp
PB
iMuslims
Rewiring the House
of Islam
Gary R. Bunt
` 350.00
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Sharia
Theory, Practice,
Transformations
Wael B. Hallaq
I-Muslims explores how these transformations

and influences play out in diverse cyber Islamic
environments, and how they are responding to
shifts in technology and society. This book
discusses how, in some contexts, the application
of the internet has had an overarching
transformational effect on how Muslims practice
Islam, how forms of Islam are represented to the
wider world, and how Muslim societies perceive
themselves and their peers.
In recent years, Islamic law, or Sharia, has been

appropriated as a tool of modernity in the Muslim
world and in the West and has become highly
politicised in consequence. Wael Hallaqs
magisterial overview of Sharia sets the record
straight by examining the doctrines and
practices of Islamic law within the context of its
history, and by showing how it functioned within
pre-modern Islamic societies as a moral
imperative. In so doing, Hallaq takes the reader
on an epic journey tracing the history of Islamic
law from its beginnings in seventh-century
Arabia, through its development and
transformation under the Ottomans, and across
lands as diverse as India, Africa and South-East
Asia, to the present. In a remarkably fluent
narrative, the author unravels the complexities of
his subject to reveal a love and deep knowledge
of the law which will inform, engage and
challenge the reader.
Cyber Islamic environments have exposed

Muslims to radical and new influences beyond
the traditional spheres of knowledge and
authority, including through social networking
sites and the blogosphere. Gary Bunt also
explores how the internet has dramatically
influenced jihadi-oriented campaigns by
networks such as al-Qaeda, and how it has
revolutionized the propagation of new forms of
Islamic activism and radicalization. He
concludes by determining the way forward for
the articulation of diverse understandings of
Islam online, and how Muslim networks will be
further shaped through their relationships with
the internet.
Wael B. Hallaq is James McGill Professor in

Islamic Law in the Institute of Islamic Studies at
McGill University.
9780521180337
624pp
PB
Gary R. Bunt is Senior Lecturer in Islamic

Studies at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
` 695.00
9781850659518
An Introduction to
Islamic Law
Wael B. Hallaq
The Ismailis in the

Colonial Era
Modernity, Empire and
Islam, 1839-1969
Marc van Grondelle
Wael B. Hallaq is James McGill Professor in

Islamic Law in the Institute of Islamic Studies at
McGill University.
208pp
PB
374pp
HB
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The study of Islamic law can be a forbidding

prospect for those entering the field for the first
time. Wael Hallaq, a leading scholar and
practitioner of Islamic law, guides students
through the intricacies of the subject in this
absorbing introduction. The first half of the book
is devoted to a discussion of Islamic law in its
pre-modern natural habitat. The second part
explains how the law was transformed and
ultimately dismantled during the colonial period.
In the final chapters, the author charts recent
developments and the struggles of the Islamists
to negotiate changes which have seen the law
emerge as a primarily textual entity focused on
fixed punishments and ritual requirements. The
book, which includes a chronology, a glossary of
key terms, and lists of further reading, will be the
first stop for those who wish to understand the
fundamentals of Islamic law, its practices and
history.
9780521127943
The internet has profoundly shaped how

Muslims perceive Islam, and how Islamic
societies and networks are evolving and shifting
within the twenty-first century. While these
electronic interfaces appear new and innovative
in terms of how the media is applied, much of
their content has a basis in classical Islamic
concepts, with an historical resonance that can
be traced back to the time of Prophet
Muhammad.
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From the early nineteenth century onwards the

Nizari Ismailis were transformed from a minor
and obscure sect surrounded by ill-informed
historical legend, into a small but highly
organized temporal and religious movement with
global political and economic influence. Much of
this remarkable change in fortune can be traced
to the hitherto little-known diplomatic interaction
between the British Empire, and later the British
Commonwealth, and the Nizari Ismailis, from
1839 to 1969. Marc van Grondelles book, based
on painstaking archival research, examines the
processes and interactions which led to the
modernization and successful co-optation by the
British government of this comparatively small
branch of Shia Islam. The author poses several
key questions regarding the wider developing
relationship between movements in
contemporary Islam and The West. In these
increasingly polarized times, his discussion of
the effective co-optation of a Muslim group to the
mutual benefit of both the former and British
foreign and colonial policy is timely and
suggestive. He investigates the processes and
actions that shaped the Islamilis relationship
with London, and the social and political

conditions that shaped this realignment.
Global Salafism
Marc van Grondelle (PhD, Univeristy of

Utrecht) works for a major international oil
company.
Roel Meijer (ed)
9781850659822
156pp
HB
Islams New Religious

Movement
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The Borders
of Islam
Exploring Samuel
Huntingtons
Faultlines, from
Al-Andalus to the
Virtual Ummah
Stig Jarle Hansen,
Atle Mesoy &
Tuncay Kardas (eds)
In his seminal work The Clash of Civilisations,

Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington claimed
that conflict between cultural blocs, or
civilizations, will dominate the future. More
controversially he predicted that future conflicts
will occur on the borders between Western and
Islamic civilisations. The statements of Osama
Bin Laden seem to support his views: This
battle is not between al-Qaeda and the US, he
said in October 2001, This is a battle of Muslims
against the Global Crusaders.
Roel Meijer is an Arabist and senior lecturer in

the history of the Middle East at Radboud
University, Netherlands.
This specially commissioned set of essays sets

out to examine critically the border zones of
Islamic civilisation, be they geographical, cultural
or virtual. The contributors explore the local
dynamics in these zones to test whether they
support or contradict Huntingtons thesis of an
emerging global confrontation between Islamic
civilisation and its neighbours, be they Christian,
Hindu, Buddhist or godless. Among the borders
discussed are those where Muslims are the
majority (Afghanistan, Bosnia, Chechnya,
Ethiopia, Indonesia, Somalia, Pakistan, Turkey),
those with very large Muslim minorities
(Philippines, Nigeria, India) and those where
new faultlines have been created, either through
migration (France, the United Kingdom, the
United States, Spain) or technology (the
Internet). A common thread running through the
book is whether the rise of international Salafi
jihadism can be traced to countries on the
faultline between the Islamic and the non-Islamic
world.
9781850659792
Breaking the
Monolith
Essays, Articles and
Columns on Islam,
India, Terror and
Other Things That
Annoy Me
Ziauddin Sardar
` 795.00
Ziauddin Sardar is one of the worlds leading

Muslim intellectuals and author of more than
forty books on science, religion and
contemporary culture. Breaking the Monolith, a
collection of his essays and articles published in
western journals, involves issues of terrorism
and representation, the arrogance of American
power, the dumbing power of mass culture, and
of monolithic thought, in all its guises, from East
and West. And, inevitably, they deal with the loss
of innocence, with Islam and South Asia, and the
collective failure of imagination.
Why has Islam passed its sell-by date, Sardar

asks? Because it has been kept refrigerated
for too long. And I say this as a believer! It
seems to me that believers have become empty
vessels who accept anything that is poured into
them by religious scholars in the name of Islam,
without question and without criticism. If Islam is
out of sync with the contemporary world,
America rides roughshod because of its brutal
Atle Mesoy is a researcher in political Islam.

Tuncay Kardas teaches at Sakarya University
where he specializes in Turkish security, political
theory and Islam.
HB
HB
Part One, The Sphere of Islam sets the

parameters. We cannot ignore a brutal fact,
Sardar says: In the war on terror that shrouds
the globe, the terrorists are Muslim which gives
credence to that oft-repeated clich, all Muslims
are not terrorists, but all terrorists happen to be
Muslims. What is the picture of Islam in the
common mind? The spectre of al-Qaeda, its
savagery and declared intentions to world
domination; Taliban and their barbarity; suicide
bombers fighting a jihad; the mad Mullah hellbent on seizing power and using all means to
justify his ends; colonels and generals
legitimizing their illegitimate political authority to
create an Islamic state. The picture that
emerges is a creed knee-deep in obscurantism
and terrorism, decay and darkness, with
violence and extremism as its hallmarks.
Stig Jarle Hansen, a specialist in Islamic

philosophy and in political Islam in Somalia, is
currently a Senior Researcher at the NIBR
Institute in Oslo, Norway.
396pp
484pp
HURST
The contributors conclude by arguing that many

of the border regions of Islamic civilisation are
influenced by mechanisms far more complex
than those highlighted in The Clash of
Civilisations, suggesting that poverty and
institutional failure, both often the result of war,
tend to heighten religious awareness and
practice, but that the effects of these
phenomena differ from those suggested by
Huntington.
9781850659723
Salafism and jihadi Salafism have become

significant doctrinal trends in contemporary
Islamic thought yet the West has largely failed to
offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of
these movements. The contributors to Global
Salafism carefully outline not only the
differences in the Salafi schools but the broader
currents of Islamic thought that constitute this
trend as well. They examine both the regional
manifestations of the phenomenon and its
shared, essential doctrines. Their analyses
highlight Salafisms inherent ambivalence and
complexities - the out-antiquing the antique that
has brought Islamic thought into the modern age
while maintaining its relationship to an older,
purer authenticity. Emphasising the subtle
tensions between local and global aspirations
within the Salafi method, Global Salafism
investigates the movement like no other study
currently available.
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Gandhis
Philosophy and
the Quest for
Harmony
power, reinforced by neoliberal novelists and

writers who see American free liberalism as the
best of all possible worlds.
The world is now too complex, too
interconnected, too globalised to be divided into
black and white: the abode of Islam and the
abode of unbelief. The overall message is break
the monolith wherever it comes from.
Anthony J. Parel
Ziauddin Sardar, writer, broadcaster and

cultural critic, is Visiting Professor, the School of
Arts, City University, London.
9788188861057
464pp
HB
` 895.00
IMPRINTONE
The Blackwell
Companion to
Hinduism
Gavin D. Flood (ed)
This volume presents the most recent scholarly

thinking about Hinduism in an accessible way. It
provides a forum for the best scholars in the
world to make their views and research available
to a wider audience. While comprehensively
covering the textual tradition of Hinduism, the
volume also includes material on Hindu folk
religions and stresses the importance of region
in analyzing Hinduism. In doing so, it reflects the
current move away from essentialist
understandings of Hinduism and towards
traditionally and regionally specific studies. The
Companion as a whole spans the entire field of
Hindu studies and is divided into four coherent
sections: theoretical issues, textual traditions,
theologies, and Hindu society and politics.
Anthony J. Parel is Emeritus Professor of

Political Science at the University of Calgary.
9780521727488 244pp
616pp
PB
Remaking
Buddhism for
Medieval Nepal
The fifteenth-century
reformation of Newar
Buddhism
` 795.00
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
BLACKWELL
Islam and the

Ahmadiyya
Jamaat
History, Belief,
Practice
Simon Ross Valentine
This book is the first scholarly appraisal of the

teachings, beliefs and lifestyle of the Ahmadiyya
Jamaat, an Islamic reform group founded in
nineteenthcentury India that has millions of
followers worldwide. To the great annoyance of
mainstream Muslims the Ahmadi claim that there
can be prophecy after the prophet Muhammad,
albeit lesser prophets, a controversial belief that
has led to their fierce persecution, especially in
South Asia, where the government of Pakistan
has declared them to be non-Muslims.
The author also explores other major claims of
the Ahmadi, among them that Jesus, instead of
dying on the cross, as Christians believe, or
ascending in to heaven as mainstream Muslims
teach, escaped from the Romans and finally
settled and died in Srinagar, the capital of
Kashmir, where his alleged tomb is located.
HB
This book establishes the existence, character

and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the
fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of
Nepal. Using a particular Nepalese Sanskrit
Buddhist text, the Gundakarandavyuha (GKV)
as the main source, the author shows that there
is a distinctive genre of Buddhist Sanskrit texts
to which the GKV belongs the Garland texts
which dates to the middle of the fifteenth
century. The Garland texts are the most visible
evidence of a substantial and deliberative
reformation of Nepalese Buddhism. The author
establishes the historical background for this
renaissance, employing Nepalese chronicles
and Tibetan historical sources, and discusses its
implications for the history of the Nepalese
Buddhist tradition as distinct from the North
Indian and Tibetan traditions. Through a
thorough study of the relevant texts in the
classical Himalayan languages (Sanskrit,
Newari, Tibetan and Nepali), the author puts
forward a new thesis about how the tradition of
Nepalese Buddhism was legitimated and
reinvented by the devising of new concepts of
canonicity.
9780415359191
254pp
HB
ROUTLEDGE
Simon Ross Valentine is an Associate Lecturer

at Bradford University.
284pp
` 395.00
Will Tuladhar-Douglas lectures in the history

and anthropology of religion at the University of
Aberdeen, and is Director of the Scottish Centre
for Himalayan Research.
Following an account of the life of Mirza Ghulam

Ahmad, the movements founder, Valentine
discusses the history of the Ahmadi, their
proselytisation strategies, the role of mosques
and madrasas, the position of women and the
Ahmadi doctrine of peaceful jihad.
9781850659167
PB
Gavin D. Flood, University of Stirling.

9788126516292
Anthony Parel affords an entirely new

perspective on the philosophy of Mahatma
Gandhi. He explores how Gandhi connected the
spiritual with the temporal. As Parel points out
being more things than one is a good
description of Gandhi and, with these words in
mind, he shows how Gandhi, drawing on the
Indian time-honoured theory of the purusharthas
or the aims of life, fitted his ethical, political,
aesthetic and religious ideas together. In this
way Gandhi challenged the notion which
prevailed in Indian society that a rift existed
between the secular and the spiritual, the
political and the contemplative life. Parels
revealing and insightful book shows how farreaching were the effects of Gandhis practical
philosophy on Indian thought generally and how
these have survived into the present.
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Religion in India
A Historical
Introduction
Fred Clothey
Interpreting the
Quran
Religion in India is an ideal first introduction to

Indias fascinating and varied religious history.
Fred Clothey surveys the religions of India from
prehistory and Indo-European migration through
to the modern period. Exploring the interactions
between different religious movements over
time, and engaging with some of the liveliest
debates in religious studies, he examines the
rituals, mythologies, arts, ethics and social and
cultural contexts of religion as lived in the past
and present on the subcontinent.
Towards a
contemporary
approach
Abdullah Saeed
Saeed explores the current debates surrounding

the interpretation of the Quran, and their impact
on contemporary understanding of this sacred
text. As he attempts to determine the texts
relevance to modern issues without
compromising the overall framework of the
Quran and its core beliefs and practices, he
proposes a fresh approach, which takes into
account the historical and contemporary
contexts of interpretation.
Key topics discussed include:

Hinduism, its origins and development over
time
minority religions, such as Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism,
Jainism and Buddhism
the influences of colonialism on Indian religion
the spread of Indian religions in the rest of the
world
the practice of religion in everyday life,
including case studies of pilgrimages,
festivals, temples and rituals, and the role of
women
Abdullah Saeed is the Sultan of Oman

Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies and the
Director of the Centre for the Study of
Contemporary Islam at the University of
Melbourne, Australia.
9780415365383
Fred W. Clothey is Professor Emeritus of

Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
9780415940238
296pp
HB
How is the Quran - central to all Muslim

societies - to be understood today in order to
meet the needs of these societies? Abdullah
Saeed, a distinguished Muslim scholar, explores
the interpretation of the ethico-legal content of
the Quran, whilst taking into consideration the
changing nature of the modern world.
192pp
PB
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ROUTLEDGE
` 895.00
ROUTLEDGE
Mystical
Dimensions
of Islam
Annemarie Schimmel
Intellectuals
in the Modern
Islamic World
Mystical Dimensions of Islam presents, for the

first time, a balanced historical treatment of the
transnational phenomenon of Sufism Islamic
mysticism from its beginnings through the
nineteenth century. Through her sensitivity and
deep understanding of the subject, Annemarie
Schimmel, an eminent scholar of Eastern
religions, draws the reader into the mood, the
vision, and the way of the Sufi in a manner that
adds an essential ingredient to her analysis of
the history of Sufism.
Transmission,
transformation,
communication
Stephane A. Dudoignon,
Komatsu Hisao &
Kosugi Yasushi (eds)
Besides exploring the origins of the mystical

movement and its development through different
stages, the author also examines the various
aspects of mystical poetry in Arabic, Persian,
Turkish, Sindhi, Panjabi, and Pashto. The author
skillfully demonstrates how Sufi ideals
permeated the whole fabric of Muslim life,
providing the average Muslim villager or
intellectual with the virtues of perfect trust in
God and the loving surrender to Gods will.
540pp
PB
Intellectuals in the Modern Islamic World

distinguishes itself from other major studies on
modern thought in Islam by examining this topic
beyond the context of the Arabic world. The first
section of this book concentrates on a journal,
al-Manar, published between 1898 and 1935,
and read by a wide range of audiences of local
intellectuals in the first half of the twentieth
century. The second part concentrates on the
formation, transmission, and transformation of
learning and authority, from the Middle East to
Central and South Asia, through the twentieth
century.
Stephane A. Dudoignon is a research fellow at
the National Center for Scientific Research
(Paris).
Komatsu Hisao is a professor at the Graduate
School of Humanities and Sociology, the
University of Tokyo.
Annemarie Schimmel (1922-2003) was a

renowned German scholar of Islam and author
of eighty books.
9788190363495
This book reconsiders the typology and history

of intellectuals in the Islamic world in the modern
and contemporary periods from the late
nineteenth century to the present day.
Kosugi Yasushi is a professor at the Graduate

School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto
University.
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375pp
HB
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Indian Buddhist
Theories of
Persons
James Duerlinger
In this book, Vasubandhus classic work

Refutation of the Theory of a Self is translated
and provided with an introduction and
commentary. The translation, the first into a
modern Western language from the Sanskrit
text, is intended for use by those who wish to
begin a careful philosophical study of Indian
Buddhist theories of persons. Special features of
the introduction and commentary are their
extensive explanations of the arguments for the
theories of persons of Vasubandhu and the
Pudgalavadins, the Buddhist philosophers
whose theory is the central target of
Vasubandhus refutation of the theory of a self.
An Introduction to
Islam
2nd Edition
David Waines
David Waines is Professor of Islamic Studies,

Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster
University.
James Duerlinger is Professor of Philosophy at

the University of Iowa.
9780415318358
320pp
HB
For this revised and updated Second Edition,

David Waines has added a long section tackling
head-on the issues arising from Islams place in
the changing world order at the turn of the new
millennium. This new section offers thoughtprovoking reflections on the place of religion in
the current conflicts.
9788175961890
368pp
PB
` 395.00
` 895.00
ROUTLEDGE
Following
Muhammad
Rethinking Islam in
the Contemporary
World
Carl W. Ernst
An Introduction to
Buddhism
Renowned Islamicist Carl Ernst offers in this

book a sympathetic yet reasoned and analytical
view of the Islamic religious tradition and the
contemporary issues that Muslims face. He
introduces the reader to the profound spiritual
and intellectual resources of Islam while
clarifying debate and diversity within the
tradition. Writing from within the framework of
religious studies and the historical context he
describes how Protestant definitions of religion
and anti-Muslim prejudice have affected views of
Islam in Europe and America. He also discusses
the contemporary importance of Islam in both its
traditional settings and its new locations and
provides a context for understanding extremist
movements like fundamentalism. Ernst
concludes with an overview of critical debates
on gender and veiling, state politics, and science
and religion.
Teachings, History
and Practices
2nd Edition
Peter Harvey
NEW
Carl W. Ernst is W.R. Kenan Professor of

Religious Studies at the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
9789380403120
269pp
PB
Gavin D. Flood
Peter Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Buddhist

Studies at the University of Sunderland.
9781107669703 548pp
PB
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` 350.00
YODA PRESS
An Introduction to
Hinduism
In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction

to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a
comprehensive introduction to the development
of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the
West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this
new edition draws on recent scholarship in the
field, exploring the tensions and continuities
between the different forms of Buddhism. Harvey
critiques and corrects some common
misconceptions and mistranslations, and
discusses key concepts that have often been
over-simplified and over-generalised. The
volume includes detailed references to
scriptures and secondary literature, an updated
bibliography and a section on web resources.
Key terms are given in Pali and Sanskrit, and
Tibetan words are transliterated in the most
easily pronounceable form, making this is a truly
accessible account.
This book provides a much-needed thematic and

historical introduction to Hinduism, the religion of
the majority of people in India. Dr. Flood traces
the development of Hindu traditions from ancient
origins and the major deities to the modern
world. Hinduism is discussed as both a global
religion and a form of nationalism. Emphasis is
given to the tantric traditions, which have been
so influential; to Hindu ritual, more fundamental
than belief or doctrine; and to Dravidian
influences. Some debates within contemporary
scholarship are introduced.
Hinduism and
Modernity
David Smith
This innovative book offers a dynamic analysis

of Hinduism in the perspective of Western
notions of modernity. After reviewing definitions
of modernity and Hinduism and looking at
modernity in India, the author considers
Hinduism in relation to Islam and the West. The
second half of the book presents key aspects of
Hinduism, ancient and modern, in the light of
their contrast with modernity.
Gavin D. Flood, University of Stirling.
David Smith is Reader in Indian Religions at

Lancaster University.
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262pp
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BLACKWELL
75
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Hindu Selves in a
Modern World
Guru Faith in the Mata
Amritanandamayi
Mission
Maya Warrier
often invisible assumptions that structure the

perception of Tibetan Buddhism, as well as the
practices and narratives through which Tibetan
and Western Buddhist subjects are produced.
This book explores devotional Hinduism in a

modern context of high consumerism and
revolutionised communications. It focuses on a
fast-growing and high-profile contemporary
Hindu guru faith originating in India and
attracting a transnational following. The
organization is led by an extremely popular
female guru, Mata Amritanandamayi, whom
devotees worship as an avatar and a healer of
the ills of the contemporary world. By drawing
upon multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork among
the Matas primarily urban, educated middle
class Indian devotees, the author provides
crucial insights into new trends in popular
Hinduism in a post-colonial setting and rapidly
modernizing Indian setting.
Peter Moran is Director of academic programs

in Kathmandu for both Trinity College, USA and
the International Honors Program, Boston
University, USA. He is also the academic
director at the Centre for Buddhist Studies at
Kathmandu University.
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Maya Warrier teaches Indian Religion and the

Anthropology of Religion at the University of
Wales, Lampeter.
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Administering Colonial
Australasia and India
Ralph Crane,
Anna Johnston &
C. Vijayasree (eds)
In this controversial and ground-breaking book,

Irshad Manji journalist, iconoclast, rebel and
self-proclaimed Muslim refusenik exposes the
disturbing cornerstones of Islam as it is widely
practiced today: tribal insularity, repression of
women, and an uncritical acceptance of the
Quran. But The Trouble with Islam goes deeper,
offering a practical vision of an Islamic
reformation that empowers women, promotes
respect for religious minorities, and fosters a
competition of ideas. Manjis vision revives
ijtihad, Islams lost tradition of independent
thinking.
Irshad Manji has established Project Ijtihad, a
foundation that will help young Muslims lead the
liberal Islamic reformation.
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Western Travellers,
Tibetan Exiles and the
Culture of Dharma in
Kathmandu
Peter Moran
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The essays gathered together in this book

explore the roles of the men and women who
served the British Empire in Australasia and
India, and those who were subject to their
administration. As these essays demonstrate,
administrative arrangements involve complex
cross-cultural relationships in colonial spaces,
often through radically unequal and racially
based power relations. Colonial administration
involves diverse domains of practice the Civil
Service, schools and universities, missions,
domestic realms, justice systems and many
forms of activities, including managing and
organising; financing and accounting; monitoring
and measuring; ordering and supplying; writing
and implementing policies. In the two parts of
this book, the authors from India, Australia,
New Zealand, and Britain examine the ways
colonial administrations accumulated and
managed information and knowledge about the
places and peoples under their jurisdiction. The
administration of colonial spaces was neither a
simple nor a unilinear project, and the essays in
this book will contribute to key debates about
imperial history.
Ralph Crane is Professor of English at the
University of Tasmania, Australia. He has
published widely on colonial and postcolonial
fictions, including scholarly editions of four
Anglo-Indian novels.
How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans

understand not only what it means to be
Buddhist, but what it means to be hailed as
one from the West or from Tibet? This
anthropological study examines the encounter
between Western travelers and Tibetan exiles in
Bodhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu,
Nepal and analyses the importance of Buddhism
in discussions of political, cultural and religious
identity. Moran examines how Tibetans and
Tibetan Buddhism are created in the
encounters taking place in Bodhanath and how
Western Buddhists come to terms with their
imagined, then reified culture and religion.
Anna Johnston is ARC Queen Elizabeth II

Fellow in English at the University of Tasmania.
She is the author of books and articles on
missionary writing and empire, and colonial and
postcolonial travel writing.
C. Vijayasree was Professor of English at
Osmania University.
Tibetan Buddhism has become Bodhanaths

cultural product par excellence, it is not only a
spectacle for foreign tourists to see, but a
reminder of national-culture for displaced
Tibetans. Special focus is given here to the ways
in which Tibetan Buddhism has been presented
as an object to be observed, reflected upon, and
internalized by Western travellers, often at the
feet of Tibetan lamas. This study examines the
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Life on the Ganga
Phone Clones
In Phone Clones, Kiran Mirchandani explores

Authenticity Work in the the experiences of the men and women who
work in Indian call centers through one hundred
Transnational Service
interviews with workers in Bangalore, Delhi, and
Economy
Pune. As capital crosses national borders,
Kiran Mirchandani
colonial histories and racial hierarchies become
inextricably intertwined. As a result, call center
workers in India need to imagine themselves in
the eyes of their Western clients to represent
themselves both as foreign workers who do not
threaten Western jobs and as being just like
their customers in the West. In conversation with
Western clients, Indian customer service agents
proclaim their legitimacy, an effort Mirchandani
calls authenticity work, which involves
establishing familiarity in light of expectations of
difference. In their daily interactions with
customers, managers and trainers, Indian call
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colonial histories, gender practices, class
relations, and national interests.
Boatmen and the Ritual

Economy of Banaras
Assa Doron
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Gender in South
Asia
Subhadra Mitra Channa
Disquieting Gifts
This book takes a close look at people working

Humanitarianism in New on humanitarian projects in New Delhi and
addresses several issues why they engage in
Delhi
philanthropic work, what humanitarianism
Erica Bornstein
means to them, and the ethical and political
tangles they encounter.
There are many studies focusing on the
outcomes of humanitarian work, but the
impulses that inspire people to engage in the
first place receive less attention. In this book, the
author investigates specific cases of people
engaged in humanitarian work to reveal different
perceptions of assistance to strangers versus
assistance to kin, how the impulse to give to
others in distress is tempered by its regulation,
suspicions about recipient suitability, and why
the figure of the orphan is so valuable in
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA.
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Anthropology and Director of the South Asia
Research Institute at Australian National
University.
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Kiran Mirchandani is Associate Professor at

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education,
University of Toronto.
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This intriguing anthropological study investigates

how the boatmen of Banaras have repositioned
themselves within the traditional social
organization and used their privileged position
on the river to contest upper-caste and state
domination. The author examines the evolution
of the boatmen community, drawing on a variety
of sources to illuminate the cultural politics of
social and economic inequality in contemporary
India. Life on the Ganga: Boatmen and the
Ritual Economy of Banaras offers insight into
recent debates about the cultural and historical
forms of social practice and resistance at the
juncture between tradition and the global
economy.
This book is an examination of gender in South

Asia and its intersection with other social
variables like caste and class. It spans a wide
canvas in terms of different social classes,
ranging from elite to Dalit women of India, and
takes material from ancient texts and modern
media, literature and ethnographic materials
forming a historical discourse.
The author critically looks at several pervasive
and popular theories such as nature/ culture,
public/ private and gender seen as performative
and fluid rather than essentialized and fixed.
There is also an appraisal of what feminism
means in the Indian context and the crosscultural construction of patriarchy that varies in
its manifestations across time and space. The
readers are taken on a journey that shows how
gender can only be understood in its social and
historical context and as a dynamic and
performative concept that emerges out of both
collective imaginations and social realities. The
use of descriptive and narrative style makes the
book readable and enjoyable to both academic
and non-academic readers.
Subhadra Mitra Channa is a Professor at
Department of Anthropology, University of Delhi.
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The Practice of War More needs to be understood about the ways of

Production,
Reproduction and
Communication of
Armed Violence
Aparna Rao,
Michael Bollig &
Monika Bock (eds)
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Violent Belongings The 1947 Partition of India resulted in the death
war and its effects. What implications does war

have for people, their lived-in communities and
larger political systems; how do they cope and
adjust in war situations and how do they deal
with the changed world that they inhabit once
peace is declared? Through a series of essays
that move from looking at the nature of violence
to the peace processes that follow it, this
important book provides some answers to these
questions. It discusses and examines social,
economic and cultural practices connected to
and generated by violent combat through a
cross-cultural perspective. The book also
analyses new dimensions of social interaction,
such as the internet, which now provide a bridge
between local concerns and global networks and
are fundamentally altering the practices of war.
The editors present new empirical material and
open theoretical dimensions on the intricate
relation between war, society and culture.
Partition, Gender, and

National Culture in
Postcolonial India
Kavita Daiya
NEW
The late Aparna Rao spent many years doing

ethnographic fieldwork among numerous rural
and semi-rural communities in Afghanistan,
Kashmir and in western India, and published
several books and papers based on her
research.
Michael Bollig is Professor of Social and
Cultural Anthropology at the University of
Cologne.
of two million people and the displacement of

sixteen million more. It continues to haunt
popular consciousness and memory, and makes
its presence felt in South Asian literature and
cinema. Its legacy is palpable not only in
discourses about the place of religion in India,
but also in the historical interpretation of justice
and minority belongings, and in the tensionridden struggle over the production of secular
national culture in the subcontinent. In Violent
Belongings, Kavita Daiya examines South Asian
ethnic violence and related mass migration in
and after 1947 through its representation in
postcolonial Indian and, more broadly, global
South Asian literature and culture. In doing so
she makes a nuanced study of the relation
between culture and violence, and the questions
about belonging that trouble nations and
nationalisms today. By investigating such texts
as Khushwant Singhs Train to Pakistan, Salman
Rushdies Shalimar the Clown and Jhumpa
Lahiris The Interpreter of Maladies, alongside
the writings of Mahatma Gandhi, Bollywood
cinema and diasporic films like Deepa Mehtas
Earth, Daiya illuminates the cultural and political
negotiation of postcolonial migration, nationality
and violence in transnational public negotiation
of postcolonial migration, nationality and
violence in transnational public spheres.
Monika Bck is a Social Anthropologist,

affiliated with the University of Cologne.
Kavita Daiya is Associate Professor of English

at the George Washington University in
Washington, DC.
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Abortion in Asia
Local Dilemmas, Global
Politics
Andrea Whittaker (ed)
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Gender, Conflict
and Peace in
Kashmir
The issue of abortion forces a confrontation with

the effects of poverty and economic inequalities,
local moral worlds, and the cultural and social
perceptions of the female body, gender, and
reproduction. Based on extensive original field
research, this provocative collection presents
case studies from India, Thailand, Cambodia,
Burma, Vietnam, Bangladesh and Indonesia. It
includes powerful insight into the conditions and
hard choices faced by women and the
circumstances surrounding unplanned
pregnancies. It explores the connections among
poverty, violence, barriers to access, and the
politics and strategies involved in abortion law
reform. The contributors analyze these issues
within the broader conflicts surrounding womens
status, gender roles, religion, nationalism and
modernity, as well as the global politics of
reproductive health.
Invisible Stakeholders
Seema Shekhawat
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Andrea Whittaker is Associate Professor in the

School of Population Health, University of
Queensland, Australia.
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This book demonstrates that gender is a key

component of conflict and peace discourse. The
marginalization of women in conflict and peace
is all pervasive. Kashmir is a mirror image of this
global scenario. Kashmiri women aided the
militant movement in significant ways though
they did not take part in direct combat. They
played key roles to sustain and nourish the
movement - as protestors, protectors and
motivators, and facilitators. Their experiences of
participation in the conflict, however, remain
subdued by the dominant masculinist discourse.
Kashmiri women are excluded from the militancy
discourse as contributors as well as from
peacemaking discourse as stakeholders. The
study interrogates theory and practice of
women's participation in conflict and argues that
changed gender-roles during conflict do not
necessarily revolutionize socially ascribed
norms. The book also examines the experiences
of women in sustaining conflict to make a case
for their due place in negotiating formal peace.
Seema Shekhawat is senior research fellow at
Peace and Conflict Studies Centre, Kathmandu,
Nepal. She worked at the University of Mumbai
and University of Jammu, India as a research
faculty.
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Shorelines
Space and Rights in
South India
Ajantha Subramanian
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In 1997, after a clerical sanction prohibited them

from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic
fishers from a village on Indias southwestern
coast took their church to court. They called on
the state to recognize them as custodians of the
local sea, protect their right to regulate trawling,
and reject the churchs intermediary role.
Toward a Politics of This book works at the intersection of two

related yet different fields. One is the
the (Im)Possible
heterogeneous feminist effort to question

The Body in Third World
universal forms of knowing. The second field
Feminisms
follows from this conundrum: how does one think
Anirban Das
of the body when s/he speaks of embodiment?
'Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible' engages
the forefront of contemporary thought on the
body, while remaining mindful of the
requirements of a feminist approach.
In Shorelines, Ajantha Subramanian argues that

the fishers struggle requires a rethinking of
Indian democracy, citizenship, and
environmentalism. Rather than see these fishers
as nonmoderns inhabiting a bounded cultural
world or as moderns wholly captured by the logic
of state power, she illustrates how they
constitute themselves as political subjects. In
particular, she shows how they produced new
geographies of regionalism, common
property, alternative technology, and fisher
citizenship that underpinned claims to rights,
thus using space as an instrument of justice.
Moving beyond the romantic myth of selfcontained, natural-resource-dependent
populations, this work reveals the charged
political maneuvers between subalterns and
sovereigns in South Asia.
Anirban Das, Fellow, Cultural Studies, Centre

for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India.
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Rajeev Khedkar served as the Director of the

Academy of Development Science (ADS), a
non-governmental organisation working with
Adivasi and Dalit communities in western
Maharashtra.
Bansi Ghevde is a committed land rights
activist with Lok Dhara and specialist on the
legal rights of the Adivasis in India.
Dnyaneshwar Patil is the Director of SOBTI, a
community-based organization in Pali,
Maharashtra founded in 1992, to engage Katkari
youth and enhance organizational capacities.
Shree Mulay, Director, McGill Centre for

Research and Teaching on Women (MCRTW) &
Professor, McGill Universitys Department of
Medicine.
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Jackie Kirk is an advisor to the International

Rescue Committee.
245pp
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Daniel Buckles is an Adjunct Research

Professor at Carleton University, Ottawa,
Canada.
The contributions to this volume emerged from

an intense dialogue on 'Women's Roles in
Building Peace between India and Pakistan' in
Montreal in 2004. The wide range of responses
to that dialogue - enthusiastic, optimistic, and a
few cynical and dismissive - demonstrated that a
great deal of work remains to be done to build
meaningful linkages between civil society
organizations, governments and academics of
the two countries to make peace a reality.
Exchanges and mutual support have to be
promoted across countries and continents to link
those working towards lasting peace in the
region with those working outside.
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The book engages readers in a process of

Katkari Land Rights and reflection on what it means to do research with
people rather than on people, by recounting a
Research-in Action
collaborative inquiry with the Katkari, formerly
Daniel Buckles,
called Criminal Tribe and so-called Primitive
Rajeev Khedkar, with
Tribal Group in Maharashtra, India.
Bansi Ghevde &
The book is designed to help readers learn
Dnyaneshwar Patil
about participatory action research progressively
and with a strong narrative grounded in issues
facing Adivasi populations in South Asia and the
real-life dilemmas of engaged research. As such
it is accessible to both graduate and
undergraduate students in many disciplines.
This includes all of the standard social science
departments teaching methods and promoting
field-based research.
Ajantha Subramanian is Associate Professor of

Anthropology and of Social Studies at Harvard
University.
Shree Mulay &

Jackie Kirk (eds)
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Fighting Eviction
In rich historical and ethnographic detail,

Shorelines illuminates postcolonial rights politics
as the product of particular histories of caste,
religion, and development, allowing us to see
how democracy is always provincial.
Women Building
Peace Between
India and Pakistan
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A New
Anthropology
of Islam
John Bowen
In this powerful, but accessible new study, John

Bowen draws on a full range of work in social
anthropology to present Islam in ways that
emphasise its constitutive practices, from
praying and learning to judging and political
organising. Starting at the heart of Islam revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen
shows how Muslims have adapted Islamic texts
and traditions to ideas and conditions in the
societies in which they live. Returning to key
case studies in Asia, Africa and Western Europe,
to explore each major domain of Islamic
religious and social life, Bowen also considers
the theoretical advances in social anthropology
that have come out of the study of Islam.
The Emerging
Dimensions of
SAARC
S.D. Muni (ed)
John R. Bowen is the Dunbar-Van Cleve

Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington
University in St. Louis.
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The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC is an

attempt to look at the changing dynamics of
South Asia and to learn whether SAARC will
take regional cooperation and integration in their
various dimensions closer to reality. S.D.Muni,
the editor of this volume has compiled essays
contributed by eminent academics and analysts,
not only from most of the SAARC countries, but
also from those joined as Observers. Besides
looking at the trade and economic dimension of
SAARC, these essays discuss the security,
political and cultural aspects of regional
cooperation among the South Asian countries.
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Wandering
with Sadhus
Ascetics in the Hindu
Himalayas
Sondra L. Hausner
In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu

renouncers sadhus or ascetics in northern
India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a
paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly
defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the
stripping away of social commitments, and their
break with family and community, renouncers in
fact regularly interact with each other and with
householder society. They form a distinctive,
alternative community with its own internal
structure, one that is not located in any single
space. Highly mobile and dispersed across the
subcontinent, its members are regularly brought
together through pilgrimage circuits on festival
cycles. Drawing on many years of fieldwork,
Hausner presents intimate portraits of individual
sadhus as she examines the shared views of
space, time, and the body that create the ground
of everyday experience. It is written with an
extraordinary blend of empathy, compassion,
and anthropological insight.
S.D.Muni, a Visiting Research Professor at the

Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore,
taught for over thirty years at the Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.
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India Migration
Report 2009
Past, Present and The
Future Outlook
Binod Khadria (ed)
Sondra L. Hausner is University Lecturer in the

Study of Religion at Oxford University.
9788175968929
With the dawn of the twenty-first century, South

Asian region has undergone radical
transformation. It has witnessed a strong
democratic sweep. Most of the South Asian
economies have registered impressive growth
trajectories. Some of its countries have also
emerged as the hub of global terrorism. The
international community has become far more
involved in South Asian affairs due to the
nuclearisation of the region. SAARC cannot but
keep pace with the changing regional dynamics.
It has moved ahead on its economic agenda and
expanded its reach not only by adding new
members (Afghanistan) but also by opening
itself to the participation of many other countries,
including China, Iran and the US, as Observers.
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India has the distinction of being recognized as

an important country of origin of migrants in
many receiving countries of the world. India also
receives a large number of immigrants, mostly
originating from its neighbouring countries in
Asia and some from other countries as well.
However, despite having significant stakes in
international migration of human resources the
issue of mobility has largely remained a
neglected area in the academic and policy
circles in India. Hardly any regular and
comprehensive institutional mechanism for
collecting, maintaining and disseminating
systematic information on international migration
exists in India excepting a few individual
initiatives here and there. It is only in the closing
decades of the 20th century that migration has
started drawing greater attention of stakeholders
in policy sphere, in academia and the civil
society in India. In this context, publication of this
first India Migration Report aims to make a small
beginning towards bridging a vital gap. The 2009
Report provides an overview of migration from
India to the major destination countries as well
as immigration to India. The focus of the report
is to put together issues and concerns of
My Favourite
Levi-Strauss
significance in the contemporary contexts of

migration - both continuing and emerging - and
bring out a systematic, regular and futuristic
source of information and analysis on
international mobility of people involving India. A
modest attempt today, it is hoped that the Report
will help us build upon the available data
sources, and also identify and generate new
avenues.
Dipankar Gupta (ed)
Binod Khadria is Professor of Economics at the

Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru
University.
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The Americas
Binod Khadria (ed)
Claude Lvi-Strauss was one of the dominating

postwar influences in French intellectual life and
the leading exponent of Structuralism in the
social sciences; his work inspired a school of
academic followers in the 1960s and 1970s in
disciplines ranging from music to literary
criticism. The Telegraph
Claude Lvi-Strauss' revolutionary studies of
what was once called 'primitive man'
transformed Western understanding of the
nature of culture, custom and civilization. His
legacy is imposing. Mythologiques, his fourvolume work about the structure of native
mythology in the Americas, attempts nothing
less than an interpretation of the world of culture
and custom, shaped by analysis of several
hundred myths of little-known tribes and
traditions. The volumes, The Raw and the
Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Origin of
Table Manners and The Naked Man, published
from 1964 to 1971, challenge the reader with
their complex interweaving of theme and detail.
New York Times
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India Migration
Report 2010-2011
A Hero of Our Time

Susan Sontag
India Migration Report 20102011: The

Americas discusses historical and contemporary
migration between India and the American
continents. For more than half-a-century, India
has been one of the largest source countries of
migrants to the US and Canada. A majority of
Indian diaspora population in the US and
Canada is highly educated and affluent. They
hold important positions in the economic and
socio-political set-up of these two countries. In
contrast, the Indians in South America and the
Caribbean are not so highly-skilled, educated or
affluent. A significant proportion of them had
migrated much earlier as low-skilled workers for
plantations in the colonies.
...one of the preeminent anthropologists of the

20th century whose erudite, often mindbendingly labored studies of indigenous
Brazilian tribes led to influential theories about
human behavior and culture... The Washington
Post
Dipankar Gupta taught sociology and social
anthropology at Jawaharlal Nehru University for
about 30 years, from January 1980 to July 2009
when he took early retirement.
This report is an attempt to examine Indian

migration to the two American continents
following diverse trajectories. Besides providing
an overview of migration from India, the report
also traces immigration of foreigners and return
migration of Indians from the American
continents to India. The focus of India Migration
Report 20102011 is on putting together
available information on issues involving various
migration patterns and analyzing the major
factors and policies that shape them.
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The Court
Chronicle of the
Kings of Manipur
The Cheitharon
Kumpapa
Binod Khadria is professor of Economics at the

Zakir Husain Centre for Educational Studies,
School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru
University, Delhi.
Saroj Nalini Arambam

Parratt

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The Cheitharon Kumpapa is a court account of

the state, which claims to record events from the
founding of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE. This
dynasty continued until the abolition of the
monarchy after the merger of the state with India
in 1949. The document is thus probably the
oldest chronicle in the region, written on
handmade Meetei (Manipuri) paper made from
tree bark in locally made ink with a quill or
bamboo pen. All in all it comprises more than
1,000 leaves. This volume contains a copy of the
original text of the Cheitharon Kumpapa,
authorized by the Palace, and the English
translation from the original composed in archaic
Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatory
notes and a glossary complement this
interesting source of information.
Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt was Honorary
Professor at the University of Manipur, and
Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for
Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing,
University of Birmingham, UK.
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The Court
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Kings of Manipur
The Cheitharon
Kumpapa Vol. 2,
1764-1843 CE
Parratt
Collaborative
Learning in
Practice
The Cheitharon Kumpapa is the court chronicle

of the kings of the state of Manipur, a small,
formerly independent state situated on the northeastern border of India with Myanmar. The
Cheitharon Kumpapa records events from the
founding of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE until the
abolition of the monarchy and subsequent
merger of the state with India in 1949. The
document is probably the oldest chronicle of the
region, written on handmade Meetei (Manipuri)
paper made from bark of trees, in locally made
ink, with a quill or a bamboo pen. All in all it
comprises more than a thousand leaves.
Examples from Natural

Resource Management
in Asia
Ronnie Vernooy (ed)
The Cheitharon Kumpapa Volume 1 (2005,

ISBN 978-04-1534-430-5) covered the period
between 331763 CE. This volume continues
the translation of the chronicle up until 1843 CE.
It also includes a facsimile of the original text in
Meetei Mayek, the archaic Manipuri script, with a
glossary for Manipuri and other loan words.
Ronnie Vernooy is Senior Programme

Specialist at the International Development
Research Centre in Ottawa, Canada, and
Adjunct Professor at the College of Humanities
and Development of China Agricultural
University in Beijing.

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Asian Voices in a
Postcolonial Age
The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur is a

three-volume series on the court history of the
Manipur state. It records events from the
foundation of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE. This
dynasty continued until the abolition of the
monarchy and subsequent merger of the state
with India in 1949. The Cheitharon Kumpapa
Vol. 1 chronicles the history of Manipur from 33
to 1763 CE, and Vol. 2 from 1764 to 1843 CE.
This third and final volume continues the
discussion until 1891 when the legitimate
kingship came to an end as a result of conflict
with the British.
Susan Bayly
The three volumes contain an English translation

of the work along with a copy of the original
Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatory
notes and a glossary of frequently-used Manipuri
terms complement the text.
9789382264552
462pp
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Vietnam, India and

Beyond
The Cheitharon
Kumpapa Vol. 3,
1843-1892 CE
193pp
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The Court
Chronicle of the
Kings of Manipur
This book presents novel approaches to

collaborative learning by drawing on research
and practical experiences from China, South
Asia, and Southeast Asia. The case studies
show how local communities learn from
challenges in managing natural resources
through joint efforts with researchers and other
actors. They demonstrate the merits of learning
strategies that use a variety of methods that are
grounded in the local context that involves
facilitators monitored from the outset. It creates
a strong environment of collaboration and
dynamic process management. The book shows
that learning strategies that are both innovative
and collaborative can lead to sounder rural
development.
This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan

life trajectories is based on anthropological and
historical research in Vietnam and India, two
great Asian societies with contrasting
experiences of empire, decolonisation and the
rise and fall of the twentieth-century socialist
world system. Building on the authors longstanding research experience in India and on
remarkable family narratives collected during
fieldwork in northern Vietnam, the book deals
with epic events and complex social
transformations from a perspective that
emphasizes the personal and the familial. Its
central theme is the extraordinary mobility of
intelligentsia lives. The author explores the role
of the intellectual in the economic, social and
cultural transformation of the post-colonial world
through in-depth ethnographic fieldwork
methods. In identifying parallels and contrasts
between Hanois socialist moderns and the
family and career experiences of their Indian
counterparts, the book makes a distinctive
contribution to the study of colonial, socialist and
post-socialist Asia.
Susan Bayly is Reader in Historical
Anthropology in the Department of Social
Anthropology, Cambridge University, and a
Fellow of Christs College, Cambridge.
9780521516808
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Struggling
with History
Islam and
Cosmopolitanism
in the Western
Indian Ocean
Kai Kresse &
Edward Simpson (eds)
This volume compares and contrasts

anthropological and historical approaches to the
study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the
vexed nature of cosmopolitanism. The chapters
contribute to current debates on the nature of
cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of
Muslim societies, and the study of colonial and
post-colonial contexts. There are few books in
the market that combine serious interdisciplinary
scholarship and regional ethnographic expertise
with comparable ambition.
nurture and the impediments they overcome to

attempt to achieve these. In doing so, they
highlight the sheer diversity which lies hidden
under the seemingly homogenous category of
the Indian Muslim, and shatter stereotypes.
Intimately told and stripped of jargon, yet
nuanced and incisive, this is a valuable addition
to the corpus of books on the Muslim community
in contemporary India.
Mukulika Banerjee is Reader in Social
Anthropology, University College London.
Kai Kresse is Lecturer in Anthropology at the

University of St Andrews and Research Fellow at
the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin.
9788190618625
Edward Simpson is Lecturer in Anthropology at

Goldsmith College and ESRC Research Fellow.
9781850658795
399pp
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Human
Development and
Social Power
` 895.00
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Perspectives from
South Asia
Monk,
Householder, and
Tantric Priest
Newar Buddhism and
its Hierarchy of Ritual
David N. Gellner
Ananya Mukherjee
Reed
Many misconceptions circulate in the West

about Tantric religion, whether Buddhist or
Hindu, mainly because scholars have relied
exclusively on textual sources. Here, for the first
time, is an account of how Tantric Buddhism
works in practice. Monk, Householder and
Tantric Priest is a detailed ethnography of the
Mahayana and vajrayana (Tantric) Buddhism of
the Newars of the Kathmandu valley, Nepal. It
describes the way of life of and social
organization of the Hindu-Buddhist city of
Lalitpur, the relationship of Buddhism to
Hinduism, and the place of religion and ritual in
the life of Newar Buddhists. The study of the
Newars has wider implications for it allows us to
grasp how Buddhism works and worked in its
original context of caste and Hindu kingship.
456pp
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Muslim Portraits
Everyday Lives in
India
Mukulika Banerjee (ed)
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Since it emerged as a major policy paradigm

almost two decades ago, the human
development approach has gained increasing
degrees of legitimacy within national and
international policy circles. However, severe
challenges continue to hinder the progress of
human development - challenges that appear to
render the standard repertoire of policy
instruments rather ineffective.
This book focuses on one such challenge: that
of the pervasive unevenness of human
development across categories such as ethnicity
and religion. While human development
inequalities across class (and to some extent,
gender) are well recognised, the other
dimensions are less so. How significant are
they? How can they be addressed? To explore
this question, the book proposes a reformulation
of the concept of human development using
three key notions: structural inequality;
difference and agency. This framework is then
used to explore human development and postcolonial South Asia, which, with its plethora of
complex social cleavages, offers an important
context for the problematic. The explorations
suggest that human development differentials
emanate from larger patterns of politicisation of
difference, embedded in historically engendered
structures of social power. If so, then who are
likely to be the most critical agents for
transforming these structures? How should we
understand the relationship between human
development and social power?
David N. Gellner, University of Oxford.

9788185618135
164pp
YODA PRESS
In this captivating new volume, 13

anthropologists present a set of vivid portraits of
Muslims in India today. Each of the contributors
has had a long-term research interest in Muslim
societies in India, but in these essays they
profile one single individual whom they have met
in the course of their research and whose story
they found compelling. The subjects of this
volume live in different parts of India, like Bhuj,
the mountains of Kashmir, Hyderabad, Androth
Island, and Lucknow, they speak different
languages, eat different foods, are engaged in
various kinds of work, but are all Muslim.
Zooming in on individuals who have normally
stood cheek-by-jowl with hundreds of others in a
large canvas, these portraits focus attention on
them in a separate frame, revealing their stories,
predicaments, and realities, the aspirations they
Ananya Mukherjee Reed is a political economist

based at York University, Toronto, Canada.
9780415775526
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Women in Prison
An Insight into
Captivity and Crime
Suvarna Cherukuri
Women in Prison takes a look at the multiple

specificities that bring women into the prison
system. Drawing on empirical sources and
original research, and relying primarily on
interviews of women inmates, this book explores
the contexts of female crime and punishment in
India and looks at gendered disciplinary
mechanisms that are used to control women
inmates. The work invokes not only a sense of
history in understanding womens crimes and
imprisonment, but also engages in a critical
dialogue in terms of gender, caste, culture and
sexuality. Unique in its analysis of the lives of
women prisoners within social and legal
contexts, the book is a major contribution to
international literature on womens offences and
their experience of imprisonment.
Fragments of
Inequality
Social, Spatial and
Evolutionary Analyses
of Income Distribution
Sanjoy Chakravorty
In this novel work, Sanjoy Chakravorty argues

that social fragmentation and spatial
fragmentation are the principal sources of
income inequality and shows how these factors
change and thereby effect changes in
distributional patterns. But as Chakravorty
demonstrates, intellectual approaches to the
analysis of inequality are also quite fragmented economists, sociologists, geographers and other
social scientists tend to operate within their
disciplinary boundaries and therefore provide
incomplete explanations for this critically
important, multidimensional issue.
Suvarna Cherukuri is Assistant Professor of

Sociology at Siena College, New York.
9788175965478
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State
Democracy and
Violence in South Asia
Jonathan Spencer
Fragments of Inequality uses an interdisciplinary

framework to answer the most fundamental
questions on inequality and income distribution:
What explains the level of income inequality in a
given nation? Why do income inequality levels
vary so greatly worldwide? What causes the
level of income inequality to change? What
explains the diversity of trends in income
inequality change?
Sanjoy Chakravorty is Associate Professor and

Chair of Geography and Urban Studies at
Temple University.
In recent years anthropology has rediscovered

its interest in politics. Building on the findings of
this research, this book offers a new way of
analysing the relationship between culture and
politics, with special attention to democracy,
nationalism, the state and political violence.
Beginning with scenes from an unruly early
1980s election campaign in Sri Lanka, it covers
issues from rural policing in north India to slum
housing in Delhi, presenting arguments about
secularism and pluralism, and the ambiguous
energies released by electoral democracy
across the subcontinent. It ends by discussing
feminist peace activists in Sri Lanka, struggling
to sustain a window of shared humanity after two
decades of war. Bringing together and linking the
themes of democracy, identity and conflict, this
important new study shows how anthropology
can take a central role in understanding other
peoples politics, especially the issues that seem
to have divided the world since 9/11.
9780415952965
The Untouchables
Subordination,
Poverty and the State
in Modern India
Oliver Mendelsohn &
Marika Vicziany
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Oliver Mendelsohn, La Trobe University,

Victoria.
Marika Vicziany, Monash University, Victoria.
9788175960749
218pp
PB
In a compelling account of the lives of those at

the bottom of Indian society, the authors explore
the construction of the Untouchables as a social
and political category, the historical background
which led to such a definition, and their position
in India today. The authors argue that, despite
efforts to ameliorate their condition, a
considerable edifice of discrimination persists.
The book promises to make a major contribution
to the social and economic debates on poverty,
while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure a
readership from across the disciplines.
Jonathan Spencer is Professor of Anthropology

of South Asia at the University of Edinburgh.
9780521722124
276pp
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Empowering
Society
An Analysis of
Business, Government
and Social
Development
Approaches to
Empowerment
Usha Jumani
Empowerment is an integral element of a

democratic system. The maturity of a democracy
is directly related to the level of empowerment its
citizens and institutions experience. The term
empowerment is used in different contexts and
this book addresses this problem through a
comparative analysis of three major
organisational systems - business, government
and social development. The book presents a
new conceptual framework for understanding the
process of empowerment. It combines case
studies specially for this volume, with secondary
data and the authors first hand experience of
working with development organisations.
PSYCHOLOGY
Development of
Geocentric Spatial
Language and
Cognition
An Eco-cultural
Perspective
Pierre R. Dasen &
Ramesh C.Mishra
Usha Jumani is a Fellow of the Indian Institute

of Management, Ahmedabad with specialization
in Organisation Development.
9788175963177
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Hindu Kingship
and Polity in
Precolonial India
Norbert Peabody
Pierre R. Dasen is Professor Emeritus in the

Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences
at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Through the analysis of eighteenth- and early

nineteenth-century texts on the Hindu Kingdom
of Kota in Rajasthan, Norbert Peabody explores
the ways in which historical consciousness, or
memory, is culturally constructed and how this
consciousness informs social experience. By
building on the premise that no society receives
the past in a transparent, universal and objective
way, he unravels how the past in Kota has been
fashioned. In this way, he suggests that different
societies not only establish different co-ordinates
of value in their constructions of the past, but
also that the very processes of social and
political transformation differ from society to
society.
Handbook of
Indian Psychology
Norbert Peabody is the Graduate Officer in

Research at the Centre of South Asian Studies,
University of Cambridge.
K. Ramakrishna Rao,
Anand C. Paranjpe &
Ajit K. Dalal (eds)
Ramesh C. Mishra is Professor in the

Department of Psychology at the Banaras Hindu
University, Varanasi, India.
9781107008335
Jeanne Openshaw
Bauls are known as wandering minstrels and

mystics in India and Bangladesh. Jeanne
Openshaw uses her fieldwork, and oral and
manuscript texts, to chart the rise of their
present iconic status. Hers is a challenging and
comprehensive approach to a spiritual and
creative people.
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Indian psychology is a distinct psychological

tradition rooted in the native Indian ethos. It
manifests in the multitude of practices prevailing
in the Indian subcontinent for centuries. Unlike
the mainstream psychology, Indian psychology
is not overwhelmingly materialist-reductionist in
character. It goes beyond the conventional thirdperson forms of observation to include the study
of first-person phenomena such as subjective
experience in its various manifestations and
associated cognitive phenomena. It does not
exclude the investigation of extraordinary states
of consciousness and exceptional human
abilities. The quintessence of Indian nature is its
synthetic stance that results in a magical
bridging of dichotomies such as natural and
supernatural, secular and sacred, and
transactional and transcendental. The result is a
psychology that is practical, positive, holistic and
inclusive.
The Handbook of Indian Psychology is an
attempt to explore the concepts, methods and
models of psychology systematically from the
above perspective. The Handbook is the result
of the collective efforts of more than thirty
leading international scholars with
interdisciplinary backgrounds. In thirty-one
Jeanne Openshaw is Lecturer in Religious

Studies at the University of Edinburgh.
9788175962057
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Seeking Bauls of
Bengal
Egocentric spatial language uses coordinates in

relation to our body to talk about small-scale
space (put the knife on the right of the plate and
the fork on the left), while geocentric spatial
language uses geographic coordinates (put the
knife to the east, and the fork to the west). How
do children learn to use geocentric language?
And why do geocentric spatial references sound
strange in English when they are standard
practice in other languages? This book studies
child development in Bali, India, Nepal, and
Switzerland and explores how children learn to
use a geocentric frame both when speaking and
performing non-verbal cognitive tasks (such as
remembering locations and directions). The
authors examine how these skills develop with
age, look at the socio-cultural context in which
the learning takes place, and explore the
ecological, cultural, social, and linguistic
conditions that favor the use of a geocentric
frame of reference.
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Gods in Chains
chapters, the authors depict the nuances of

classical Indian thought, discuss their relevance
to contemporary concerns, and draw out the
implications and applications for teaching,
research and practice of psychology.
Rhea Ghosh
K. Ramakrishna Rao is currently Chairman of

the Indian Council of Philosophical Research
and President of the Institute for Human Science
and Service, Vishakhapatnam.
Anand C. Paranjpe is the Emeritus Professor of
Psychology at the Simon Fraser University in
Canada.
Ajit K. Dalal is the Professor of Psychology at
the University of Allahabad.
9788175966024
668pp
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The book hopes to highlight the conditions of

captive elephants, as they are currently used
and kept in India. Initially started as an informal
documentation, Gods in Chains later expanded
to become a handbook of sorts, for anyone
wanting to know more of the reality behind the
veil of glamour and majesty of the captive
pachyderm, especially in temple rituals and
festival processions. The often troubled and
complex relationship with their only companion,
the mahout, is also a story of pathos and
heartbreak for a deeply social and communityminded animal.
Rhea Ghosh has travelled extensively in India
and Africa visiting animal sanctuaries and
welfare organisations.
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EDUCATION
WILDLIFE
The Asian
Elephant in
Captivity
A Field Study
Fred Kurt &
Marion E. Garai
Leadership for
World-Class
Universities
Today, one out of three Asian elephants lives in

captivity. Although captive elephants have
existed since 3,500 years, they have never been
domesticated. During the last few decades the
life of the captive elephants brought to temples,
cities and tourist resorts have become more
miserable than it was while they lived in jungle
camps. In order to improve the situation, the
living conditions of captive elephants must be
changed fundamentally, i.e. they should lead a
life under more natural conditions. The lack of
fundamental knowledge about wild elephants
induces anthropocentric actions and
argumentation, but is of little help to the captive
elephants.
Challenges for
Developing Countries
Philip G. Altbach
Key themes include:

strategic planning
governance of academic institutions
the role of the academic profession
fundraising
student access and equity
the impact of globalization
This book provides data on ecology and

behaviour of captive elephants in relation to their
wild conspecifics. They stem from a recent
research project of the authors and their coworkers in Sri Lanka and also from a number of
their studies on wild and captive elephants in Sri
Lanka, South India, Myanmar and South Africa
as well as in several European zoos and
circuses. Aspects of social behaviour,
reproduction and musth as well as stereotypical
behaviour, sleep and tool-use of wild and captive
elephants are described. Finally,
recommendations on how to improve the living
conditions of captive elephants are also added.
Leadership for World-Class Universities is a

valuable resource for senior university
administrators. At the heart of this volume is a
focus on how academic leaders can work
towards resolving the complex issues facing
universities today.
Philip G. Altbach is J. Donald Monan, S. J.
University Professor and Director of the Center
for International Higher Education in the Lynch
School of Education at Boston College.
Dr. Fred Kurt is involved in the First European

Elephant Management School and the European
Elephant Group.
Dr. Marion E. Garai is the founder of the
Elephant Management & Owners AssociationEMOA - in South Africa and has been its
Chairperson for the past 12 years. She is also
the Chairperson of the Space for Elephants
Foundation (SEF) since 2005.
9788175963580
360pp
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Leadership for World-Class Universities reveals

how world-class thinking and policy can help
university leaders employ modern solutions to
the challenges facing higher education today.
Readers will benefit from best practice advice
offered by distinguished international
contributors who have excelled by thinking
globally without losing sight of their respective
national and local environments. Their essays
are grounded in empirical research and written
to engage the reader, stimulate reflection and
enhance performance. This book focuses
especially on developing and middle-income
countries, which face special problems where
higher education is expanding most rapidly.
9780415800280
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The Journey for

Inclusive Education
in the Indian
Sub-continent
Mithu Alur &
Michael Bach
Despite national and international commitments

to Education for All, and the Millennium
Development Goals to assure universal primary
education by 2015, over 90% of children with
disabilities remain excluded from regular
education in countries of the south. This book
describes a three decade-long change initiative
in India to enable children with disabilities to
move from segregation and exclusion to
inclusive education, and draws lessons for
confronting global exclusion. It examines the
barriers to inclusion of children with disabilities in
the Indian sub-continent, estimated at 4% of the
population, or 40-50 million children, and
implications of the systemic failure within a
human rights framework.
9780415988766
338pp
HB
GENDER STUDIES
Cartographies of
Empowerment
The Mahila Samakhya
Story
Vimala Ramachandran &
Kameshwari Jandhyala
(eds)
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Politics of Minority
Educational
Institutions
Law and Reality in the
Subcontinent
Tahir Mahmood (ed)
NEW
The right of the minorities to establish and
administer educational institutions of their choice
guaranteed by the Constitution of India has from
the very beginning been entangled in a labyrinth
of political vicissitudes and changing judicial
attitudes. The resulting uncertainties in this
matter have had the effect of perpetuating
tremendous inequalities in respect of literacy
and education between various sections of the
Indian citizenry. This anthology examines in
depth the constantly changing rulebook and the
persisting realities relating to the educational
rights and institutions of the minorities. Having
its focus on India, with a view to providing a
comparative perspective it includes some
articles and inputs on trends in Pakistan,
Bangladesh, UK and USA.
Mahila Samakhya is as much a story of a

government programme for womens education
and empowerment, as it is of the celebration of
the struggles of poor women for their rights.
Spread across eight states and more than 150
districts in India, the Mahila Samakhya
programme grew out of a unique partnership
between the womens movement and the
government. In this collection of essays,
concerned scholars from different parts of India
chart Mahila Samakhyas fascinating journey of
setting up poor womens collectives and
womens agency in establishing an equal space
and voice in the public domain a radical
departure from the more common approaches of
organizing women around economic concerns.
The writers explore broad gender issues
grounded within the field experience of Mahila
Samakhya, providing insights into the workings
of the programme at different levels, its
conceptual challenges, strategic choices, the
opportunities and pitfalls of partnership with
government and above all the willingness of
poor women to come together voluntarily to
address and overcome gender barriers.
Vimala Ramachandran is currently National
Fellow at the National University for Educational
Planning and Administration (NUEPA), New
Delhi.
Kameshwari Jandhyala, Director with ERU
Consultants Pvt. Ltd., has had a long association
with Mahila Samakhya as Director in Andhra
Pradesh, member of the national team and
subsequently as member of the National
Resource Group.
9789381017210
9788188861033
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520pp
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Tahir Mahmood is a reputed legal scholar.
Negotiating
Adolescence in
Rural Bangladesh
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A Journey through
School, Love and
Marriage
Nicoletta Del Franco
NEW
Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh

interrogates the experience of being young and
becoming adult in rural Bangladesh, in a context
of profound processes of socio economic
change. Throughout South Asia, new
educational opportunities and an increase in the
age at which girls and boys get married are
opening new spaces for young people to live the
passage to adulthood. This book documents and
describes the everyday reality of this changing
gendered transition for young people in a rural
area of South West Bangladesh. It focuses on
three main areas that are central to young
peoples experience: those of college and
student life, friendships and relationships with
those of the same sex and across sexes, and
marriage and the issues involved in the choice of
a marriage partner.
Nicoletta Del Franco is a researcher with a
long-term engagement in Bangladesh where she
has worked with NGOs since 1994.
9789381017173
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Transgressing
Boundaries
The Songs of
Shenkottai Avudai
Akkal
Kanchana Nataranjan
NEW
Shenkottai Sri Avudai Akkal, a remarkable

eighteenth-century woman saint from Tamil
Nadu, was a self-realised advaitin who sang
passionately about the ecstasy of spiritual union
with the Absolute.
Neelam Kumar is a Scientist at the National

Institute of Science, Technology and Development
Studies.
A desolate and stigmatized Brahmin child-widow,

she was initiated into Vedanta by the great
master Tiruvisainallur Shridhara Venkatesa
Ayyawal. Her songs, a radical elision of the
metaphysical sublime and personal devotion,
are narrated through existential tropes sourced
from daily life, and also offer a powerful critique
of the oppressive orthodox socio-religious
practices of that period.
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Composed in simple, colloquial Tamil, and

bringing hope and solace to women in general
and widows in particular for almost three
centuries, these songs by Avudai Akkal were
preserved within the oral tradition by Brahmin
women of Tirunellveli district who sang them on
all occasions. The songs were documented in
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and have
appeared in many Tamil publications. They
appear in English translation for the first time in
this book. Each song is accompanied by
annotations and themed essays.
Esther Hertzog
Kanchana Natarajan teaches Indian Philosophy

at the Department of Philosophy, University of
Delhi.
9789381017166
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Studies across
Cultures
Neelam Kumar (ed)
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Assuming that women's empowerment would

accelerate the pace of social change in rural
Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepali
government to undertake a Gender Activities
Project within an ongoing long-term waterengineering scheme. The author, an
anthropologist specializing in bureaucratic
organizations and gender studies, was hired to
monitor the project. Analyzing her own
experience as a practicing development expert,
she shows how the project intended to benefit
women, through teaching them literary and
agricultural skills, fails to provide them with any
of the promised resources. Going beyond the
conventional analysis that positions aid givers
vis--vis powerless victimized recipients, she
draws attention to the complexity of the process
and the active role played by the Nepalese rural
women who pursue their own interests and
aspirations within this unequal world.
Esther Hertzog is a Social Anthropologist at
Beit Berl Academic College, Israel. Her research
focuses on bureaucracy and gender relations.
She has been involved in feminist activities for
more than twenty years and founded a women's
NGO, two women's parties, and the Women's
Parliament.
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Gender and
Science
354pp
Science has been gender biased for centuries

across cultural contexts. Different ideological
constructions of gender through different eras
have restricted womens access to science. The
twentieth century, especially its second half,
witnessed certain important changes in terms of
womens status in society. Gender and Science:
Studies across Cultures includes essays by
leading academics and researchers from
different parts of the world, who discuss gender
and science in their society and explore the
relevance of gender theories. The book is
divided into two broad sections. The first section
provides conceptual reflections on gendered
science and the second section examines the
gender-science relationship using examples
from various cultural contexts.
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New Lamps for

Old?
Gender Paradoxes
of Political
Decentralisation
in Kerala
J. Devika &
Binitha V. Thampi
This unique volume tries to answer several

important questions such as these:
Could science become free from gender
biases?
Could gender and science issues go beyond
race, class, colonization and social and
geographical distinctions?
Are gender and science relations universal as
assumed by the ethos of science or vary with
the culture?
Based on large number of interviews with

women politicians of many generations and
women who have entered the three-tier
Panchyati Raj institutions since the mid1990s
in Kerala, this book tries to initiate fresh debate
on the impact of the large-scale induction of
women into the institutions of local selfgovernment in India.
The state of Kerala has been hailed as a
success story in accommodating gender
concerns in local level planning and political
decentralization; this conclusion has been based
on relatively simple evaluative exercises that ask
whether women of diverse backgrounds have
gained entry into formal institutions of
governance or not.
This book seeks to place political
decentralization and its possibilities for women
within its historical and contemporary contexts.
Against the popular assumption that the liberal
feminist promise made by the State will be
delivered, say, once the noxious influence of
male relatives is removed, the book points to the
The book also tries to strike a balance between

analyses of the gender dimension of science
itself and the role of the wider social, economic
and cultural factors.
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multiple social forces that shape possibilities and

hindrances for women, and reshape gender
divisions in the political field. The book thus pays
attention to women in both local governance and
politics. Secondly, it examines how women have
utilized, extended, and survived within or
subverted these spaces.
Contesting Nation
Gendered Violence in
South Asia: Notes on
the Postcolonial
Present
Angana P. Chatterji &
Lubna Nazir Chaudhry
(eds)
At a time when there is a move to reserve fifty

per cent of the seats at the local level for women
and there is, simultaneously, considerable
skepticism about reservations for women in
Parliament, this book offers reflections on both
local governance and high politics.
J. Devika teaches and researches at the Centre
for Development Studies, Thiruvanathapuram,
Kerla.
Binitha V. Thampi is Assistant Professor at IIT
Chennai.
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The Fear That

Stalks
Gender-Based
Violence in Public
Spaces
Sarah Pilot &
Lora Prabhu (eds)
Angana P. Chatterji is the Co-founder of the

International Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights
and Justice, Kashmir
This book is an attempt to understand the

causes, nature and consequences of genderbased violence in public spaces. It provides a
framework that locates gender based violence
within the politics and dynamics of public space,
and helps us to understand the commonality
between these diverse forms of violence,
ranging from sexual harassment, sexual assault,
moral policing, honour killing, acid throwing,
witch hunting, parading naked, tonsuring, rape
and homicide. The writers unpack and examine
the idea of a public space: although by and
large a notional space, they begin by identifying
it as the geographical space between the home
and the workplace and then, go beyond this to
look at the violation faced by homeless women
and girls who live on the streets, as well as
those who work in public spaces in the
unorganised sector.
Lubna Nazir Chaudhry is Associate Professor,

Womens Studies and Human Development at
State University of New York, Binghamton
9788189013370
South Asian
Feminisms
Ania Loomba &
Ritty A. Lukose (eds)
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During the past forty years, South Asia has been

the location and the focus of dynamic, important
feminist scholarship and activism. In this
collection of essays, prominent feminist scholars
and activists build on that work to confront
pressing new challenges for feminist theorising
and practice.
Examining recent feminist interventions in India,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh, they
address feminist responses to religious
fundamentalism and secularism; globalisation,
labour, and migration; militarisation and state
repression; public representations of sexuality;
and the politics of sex work.
Lora Prabhu is the Director & Co-founder of

CEQUIN
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Sarah Pilot is the Chairperson & Co-founder of

the Centre for Equity and Inclusion (CEQUIN)
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An innovative collection of essays on events and

dynamics across South Asia, this volume
addresses how violence marks the present in
wars of direct and indirect conquest. Anticolonial struggles that achieved independence to
form postcolonial nation-states have
consolidated themselves through prodigious
violence that defines and disfigures communities
and futures. This book examines the very
borders such brutality enshrines and its intimate
inscriptions upon bodies and memories,
examining the performance of gendered
violence through the spectacular and in
everyday life, through wars, nationalisms and
displacements. Women in and of South Asia
offer inspired, gendered and contested histories
of the discontinuous present, excavating nationmaking and its intersections with projects of
militarisation and cultural assertion,
modernisation and globalisation, noting how
Gujarat, post-9/11 mobilisations, and the war on
Afghanistan and Iraq by Empire, signify the
rapidity with which brutal events continue to
encompass lives and cultures globally.
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specificity of South Asian locations and feminist
concerns, while also demonstrating how feminist
engagements in the region can enrich and
advance feminist theorising globally.
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Ania Loomba is the Catherine Bryson

Professor of English at the University of
Pennsylvania.
Ritty A. Lukose is Associate Professor at the
Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New
York University.
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An Indian Portia
Selected Writings of
Cornelia Sorabji
1866 to 1954
Kusoom Vadgama (ed)
Cornelia Sorabji was a social reformer, an author

and the first woman to practise law in India and
Britain. By the time poor sight ended her work in
India she had helped many hundreds of wives,
widows and orphans. She also successfully
organized a League for Infant Welfare, Maternity
and District Nursing.
Law like Love

Queer Perspectives
on Law
Arvind Narrain &
Alok Gupta (eds)
Her writings provide a priceless and fascinating

documentation of one of Indias most
outstanding women in nineteenth and twentieth
century India and Britain. Her noble career and
valuable archives have left behind a heritage to
the people of India and their causes. Her really
extraordinary life of dedication to public service,
evident from her writing and ceaseless hard
work, deserves to be acknowledged and
publicized. This book achieves both.
Kusoom Vadgama is a trustee of the ASHA
Centre an international centre working for
peace and understanding.
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Nine Degrees of
Justice
New Perspectives on
Violence Against
Women in India
Bishakha Datta (ed)
With the landmark Delhi High Court victory in

July 2009, sexuality and the law entered
mainstream, legal and public discourse in India
inviting both celebration and resistance. While
the July judgement effectively decriminalizes
consensual sex among homosexuals, it is more
fundamentally an affirmation of the right to love.
It challenges both legal and queer histories and
begins new conversations on the intersections
between bodies, politics, activism, sexuality,
identity and law. What does the judgement
signify? Does it achieve an integration and
mainstreaming or can it enable a wider
engagement with social structures? What are
the tasks and limits confronting queer politics
today? Where do same-sex marriages stand in
this scenario? What about extra-legal issues like
love, vulnerability, family and ones own sense of
dignity? Critical and reflective, and sometimes
even playful and irreverent, this unique and
comprehensive collection of essays brings the
structures and institutions of law alive, making
them shine with relevance in the contemporary
moment.
Arvind Narrain and Alok Gupta are members
of Alternative Law Forum, a collective of lawyers
who believe in a political practice of law.
From an early focus on rape, dowry and sati,

feminist struggles against violence on women in
India have traversed a wide terrain to include
issues that were invisible in the1980s. In Nine
Degrees of Justice, second- and third-generation
feminists share their perceptions on violence
against women through a series of thoughtprovoking essays that establish that justice for
women has not even reached double digit
figures (hence nine degrees).
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Our Lives, Our

Words
Telling Aravani
Lifestories
Has using the law led to justice for women who

face violence? What does justice mean for an
individual survivor? How can we address
violence in public spaces and cyberspace
without demonizing either? How do women in
armed conflict move from being victims to
actors? How can we start to speak about lesbian
suicides and violence among women loving
women? How do we ensure that women have a
right to choose when love is seen as a crime?
Is prostitution a form of violence against
women? What is the violence of stigma? And
who is a woman deserving representation from
the womens movement?
A Revathi
Bishakha Datta is a non-fiction writer and

documentary filmmaker.
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Aravanis or hijras have long been the invisible

yet hyper-visible subjects of a societal gaze that
reduces them to stereotype. Imagined as often
as looked at or talked about, simultaneously
revered and cursed, they have, in the process,
been refused individual histories, lives and
identities, even selves. Yet the community
continues to challenge and subvert this view,
persistently refusing to allow itself to be shamed
or victimized. Some of the greatest recent
victories in this ongoing battle for rights have
been won in Tamil Nadu, where the government
first began to recognise many of the rights of the
hijra community. The stories in this volume
chronicle, in their own words, the lives of many
of the aravanis who were part of this
groundbreaking change. These landmark
narratives - chronicles of pain and courage, of
despair and triumph - are amongst the first
accounts of hijra lives to be produced entirely by
the members of the community themselves.
A. Revathi is an activist and spokesperson for
the rights of the aravani community in India.
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Dalit Women
Speak Out
Caste, Class and
Gender Violence in
India
Aloysius Irudayam S. J.,
Jayshree P. Mangubhai
& Joel G. Lee
The right to equality regardless of gender and

caste is a fundamental right in India. However,
the Indian government has acknowledged that
institutional forces arraigned against the right are
powerful and shape peoples mindsets to accept
pervasive gender and caste inequality. This is no
more apparent then when one visits Dalit women
living in their caste-segregated localities.
Vulnerably positioned at the bottom of Indias
gender, caste and class hierarchies, Dalit
women experience the outcome of severely
imbalanced social, economic and political power
equations in terms of endemic caste-classgender discrimination and violence.
The study presents an analytical overview of the
complexities of systemic violence that Dalit
women face through an analysis of 500 Dalit
Womens narratives across four states. Excerpts
of these narratives are utilized to illustrate the
wider trends and patterns of different
manifestations of violence against Dalit women.
The study calls for the implementation of
comprehensive preventive and punishment
measures to eradicate caste-class-gender
discrimination and violence against Dalit women
in both public and private life, in conjunction with
measures to fulfill their human rights.
Aloysius Irudayam S. J. is the Programme
Director of the Research, Advocacy and Human
Rights Education Department in the Institute of
Development, Education, Action and Studies
(IDEAS).
Jayshree P. Mangubhai has been working as
Research and Human Rights Associate in the
Institute of Development, Education, Action and
Studies (IDEAS).
Joel G. Lee was a researcher in the Indian
Institute of Dalit Studies, and is currently
pursuing graduate studies at Columbia
University, New York.
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What I Am Today,
I Won't Remain
Tomorrow
Conversations With
Survivors of Abuse
Nighat M. Gandhi
Nighat M. Gandhi is the author of Ghalib at

Dusk (2009). She is a Mental Health Counsellor
based in Allahabad.
9788190666831
Essays on Women
and Media
K. Durga Bhavani &
C. Vijayasree (eds)
Making Babies
Birth Markets and
Assisted Reproductive
Technologies in India
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Sandhya Srinivasan (ed)
Woman as Spectator and Spectacle: Essays on

Women and Media brings together several
critical readings on the correlations between
media and womens issues. Based on the
papers presented at a National Seminar on
Women in/ and Media conducted at Osmania
University, Hyderabad, this volume deals with
issues ranging from the portrayal of women in
media to the need for a definitive gender policy
for the media.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ARTs) are

usually publicised as 'miracle cure for infertility.'
However, the social and economic context in
which these technologies are developed and
promoted have a strong bearing on their use or
misuse.
Sandhya Srinivasan is a freelance journalist

and consultant.
Prof. C. Vijaysree is a Professor in the

Department of English, Osmania University,
Hyderabad.
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This book is an attempt to look into various

aspects of ARTs - their social, medical, legal and
economic implications on women in particular,
and society at large. The book comprises seven
essays by eminent activists and academics,
each exploring a specific aspect of ART.
Prof. K. Durga Bhavani is a Professor in the

Department of English, Osmania University,
Hyderabad.
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Carefully packaged in the garb of 'modernity'

and 'choice,' the efficacy of these technologies is
difficult to challenge. On a deeper analysis, their
costs seem to heavily outweigh the benefits. A
chain of adverse effects on women's and
children's health, commodification of their
bodies, commercialisation of the reproductive
process, unabashed encouragement to sex
selection, obsession about biological progeny
and eugenics are only some of the concerns that
ARTs bring to the fore.
The volume explores the role of women both as

objects of media representation as well as the
producers and consumers of it. The articles
interweave the regional and linguistic readings of
media texts with global feminist media criticism.
Through this, the ramifications of media
globalization on womens issues are analyzed,
thus giving voice to specific local developments
and their impact on women and media.
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Woman as
Spectator and
Spectacle
In conversation with eight women who survived

lives of abuse, Nighat M. Gandhi draws attention
to the unexpected fact that despite years of
suffering, many abuse survivors can and do live
enhanced lives and experience personal growth.
Once these eight women find the sources of
help which enable them to leave the abusive
situations they are in, there are significant
changes in the women's thoughts, beliefs, and
behaviour with respect to gender-based
violence. Refreshingly, these eight women are
unanimous in their refusal to return to their
previously abusive families. They value their
newfound independence much more than their
previously socially-approved, limiting roles and
duties as wives, daughters-in-law and
daughters. Most of them report a greater degree
of satisfaction and well-being with the new lives
they have built. Nighat reflects upon her own
'privileged' status as an educated middle-class
woman living in a small town in North India as
she records these poignant and empowering
encounters with valiant women who confirm that
women are thriving and discovering the joys of
building new lives when old ones have let them
down.
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Missing:
Half the Story
Journalism as if
Gender Matters
Kalpana Sharma (ed)
Is gender in politics only about how many

women get elected to Parliament?
intensely personal responses to what is

happening in the Northeast, to the changes and
faultlines that are causing enormous rifts in the
region. The essays, first person accounts and
interviews presents a picture of what it means to
live in the 'Northeast'.
Is osteoporosis a women's disease?
Preeti Gill is an editor with Zubaan.
Toilets, trees and gender? Can there be a

connection?
Is there a gender angle to a business story?
Why do more women die in natural disasters?

These are not the questions journalists usually
ask when they set out to do their jobs as
reporters, sub-editors, photographers or editors.
Yet, by not asking, are they missing out on
something, perhaps half the story? This is the
question this book, edited and written by
journalists, for journalists and the lay public
interested in media, raises. Through examples
from the media, and from their own experience,
the contributors explain the concept of gendersensitive journalism and look at a series of
subjects that journalists have to cover - sexual
assault, environment, development, business,
politics, health, disasters, conflict - and set out a
simple way of integrating a gendered lens into
day-to-day journalism. Written in a nonacademic, accessible style, this book is possibly
the first of its kind in India - one that attempts to
inject a gender perspective into journalism.
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Paradoxes of
Empowerment
Development, Gender
and Governance in
Neoliberal India
Aradhana Sharma
Voices from India's

Northeast
Preeti Gill (ed)
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Celebratory news features about India's thriving

middle-class tells only part of the story of the
country's recent economic rise, frequently
glossing over the 300 million Indians who live on
the margins and struggle to survive under
economic liberalization. How do these, cast out
of their country's successes, perceive and
respond to their position and mobilize against
disempowerment?
Aradhana Sharma takes up these questions,
focusing on the work of an innovative women's
programme called Mahila Samakhya, that is part
governmental and part non-governmental and
strives to empower those rural Indian women
who have been pushed aside. Detailing the
awkward ideological articulations and
paradoxical outcomes of this unique activistcum-government organisation, Paradoxes of
Empowerment fosters a deeper understanding
of development and politics in contemporary
India.
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The Peripheral
Centre
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Kalpana Sharma is an independent journalist,

columnist and media consultant based in
Mumbai.
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Aradhana Sharma is assistant professor of

anthropology and feminist studies at Wesleyan
University.
When Thangjam Manorama was arrested and

killed by the Assam Rifles in July 2004 in
Manipur, it unleashed a protest the likes of which
no one had witnessed before. In some ways, this
was one of the triggers for this collection - to
provide a space to women and men from the
Northeast to tell us about the issues that
confronted them daily, to talk about the
pressures, the insecurities, the uncertainties
confronting them in an area that has been facing
low intensity warfare for decades. It is now many
years since that incident but it is an image that
has stayed in the mind, transformed into an icon
of protest in the popular imagination.
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Wish You
Were Here
Memories of a
Gay Life
Sunil Gupta
The anger and the frustrations of the Manipuri

women who staged that dramatic protest have in
many ways been vindicated. In fact, each essay
in this book brings to mind that troubling image,
each contributor points to the Manipuri women,
holding them up as a flag of rebellion, of protest.
Each essay questions issues of nation, identity,
of what makes the people of the Northeast so
alienated from the 'mainstream.' Many of the
contributors are writers, academics or activists
from the Northeast but there are many who are,
like the editor, 'outsiders.'
Part of the first rank of a creative migrant

generation which became increasingly visible on
the global visual art scene in the 1980s, Sunil
Gupta welds together a new language of
aesthetics, art, and politics in his work. Wish You
Were Here is more than just a memoir of a life, it
is a journey through the creation of a new visual
vocabulary that transformed words like diaspora,
sexuality, sex, migration, home, AIDS, and
disease into images that revealed and provoked
other ways of seeing and understanding.
Documenting how the intimate and the personal
became political in places as different and as
similar as Delhi, London, San Francisco and
Tilonia, it is a fiercely contemporary work which
will define new directions in Indian visual art as
well as in ongoing debates about difference and
sexuality.
Sunil Gupta, renowned contemporary
photographer of Indian origin and Canadian
citizenship, divides his time between London
and Delhi.
This anthology seeks to address the issues and

concerns that have emerged as a result of the
last three decades (and more) of conflict and
violence that has besieged the seven states of
India's Northeast. These conflicts have been
intense and protracted and have had
devastating and long-term effects on local
communities. All the articles in this volume are
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Because I Have
a Voice
Queer Politics in India
Arvind Narrain &
Gautam Bhan (eds)
States of Trauma
To speak of sexuality, and of same-sex love in

particular, in India today is simultaneously an act
of political assertion, celebration, defiance and
fear. Indeed, in times when the issue of queer
sexuality is beginning to find more space in
popular representation, as seen in recent
Bollywood films and the mainstream media, this
groundbreaking collection of writings states
boldly and clearly that queer lives and politics
are inextricably linked with each other. The
words of this anthology are those of the queer
community itself, spoken in their own voice, as
one and yet as individuals, each of whom has a
story to tell, and a view to share.
Gender and Violence in

South Asia
Piya Chatterjee,
Manali Desai &
Parama Roy (eds)
States of Trauma seeks to examine this terrain

by staging a set of questions. How are we to
think about the moral charge that accrues to
violence? What is the relationship between
violence and non-violence? In considering the
moral and affective economy of violence, how
may we speak of the seductions of the idioms
and practices of militarism and sexualized
violence for women? How are these seductions/
pleasures distinct from those proffered to men, if
indeed they are distinct?
Arvind Narain, Alternative Legal Forum.

Gautam Bhan is an activist for queer and
gender rights, and is based in Delhi.
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A Little Book
on Men
Rahul Roy
Fully illustrated by
Anupama Chatterjee &
Sherna Dastur
Over the last few years there has been an

increasing interest in studying masculinities in
the south Asian region. Masculinities, the gender
system that makes men, remains the least
researched pool of darkness of the south Asian
reality. We certainly know the obvious the
visible, hegemonic masculinity that bristles and
valorously displays its wares but what about
various other masculinities, those that remain
silent, pushed under and unrecognised. What is
the story of these masculinities? How do these
masculinities relate with each other? Are they
locked in some form of permanent conflict? Why
are some forms of masculinity more assertive
and more public? How do these masculinities
impact on gender relations? Are various forms of
masculinities definite, unbreakable, permanent
or do they evolve, decay, change and transform
with time? This graphic book, a mixed-media
production comprising drawings, photographs,
text and video frames attempts to frame these
questions in a creative and reader-friendly
mode.
These are some of the many questions that the

essays here that range from addressing the
gendered violence of 1947 to the
subalternization of the bandit queen Phoolan
Devi seek to address.
Piya Chatterjee is Associate Professor of
Womens Studies at the University of California,
Riverside.
Manali Desai is Lecturer in Sociology at the
London School of Economics.
Parama Roy is Associate Professor of English
at the University of California, Davis.
9788189884116
Codes of
Misconduct
Regulating Prostitution
in Late Colonial
Bombay
Ashwini Tambe
Rahul Roy is an independent documentary film

maker.
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Drawing on popular culture, socialisation charts

used in schools, poetry, personal stories and
documentary footage, the book brings together
main theories, key concepts and empirical
research on masculinities.
9788190363488
In the last couple of decades, violence as an

analytic category has loomed large in the
historical, literary, and anthropological
scholarship of South Asia. The challenge of
thinking violence in its gendered incarnations
fully and in all its complexity is not only
theoretical or critical but also irreducibly ethical
and political, given the proliferation of civil wars,
pogroms and riots, fundamentalist movements,
insurgencies and counterinsurgencies, and new
technologies of violence and injury. All of these
simultaneously feature and help constitute
gendered actors and gendered scripts of
violence.
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This remarkable study focuses on the

relationship between forms of prostitution,
discourses on law making, and law enforcement
practices.
Across the 19th and early 20th centuries, the
colonial government in Bombay city formulated
laws on prostitution that were enormously
repetitive. Activities such as soliciting men,
pimping and procuring women and girls for
prostitution were banned in identical ways in
multiple eras. Across the same hundred years,
commercial sex grew vast in scale, and Bombay
became a node in a transnational sex trade
circuit.
This book argues that while the expansion of
Bombays sex trade over the past century might
suggest that laws were simply ineffectual, law
making was instead a productive process that
sustained particular forms of prostitution. In
examining this dimension of colonial
governance, Tambe evaluates the uses and
limits of Foucaults approach to law and
sexuality.
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The book contains insightful essays by some of

the best translation scholars in India with an indepth Introduction and an essay by the wellknown writer Ambai on her experience of being
translated.
Ashwini Tambe is Assistant Professor of

Womens Studies and History at the University of
Toronto.
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N Kamala is Professor of French at Jawaharlal

Nehru University, New Delhi and specializes in
translation studies.
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Genderscapes
Revisioning Natural
Resource Management
Sumi Krishna
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Why does gender bias persist in natural

resource management policies and
programmes, despite increasing recognition of
rural and tribal womens contribution to
conservation and sustainability?
Examining this question from the perspective of
an academic and a practitioner, Sumi Krishna
looks at diverse areas including the socialization
of attitudes, the shaping of community
ideologies, and the construction of disciplines
and research methodologies.
Macroeconomics
and Gender
Ritu Dewan &
K. Seeta Prabhu (eds)
The author advances the novel concept of

genderscapes to reflect the totality of womens
lifeworlds to revision natural resource
management in complex landscapes. Rich case
studies unravel the caring practices of forestdwellers, womens knowledge of biodiversity,
their responsibility for farming and food
production.
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Translating Women While womens language, womens writings, and

Indian Interventions
N Kamala (ed)
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It is now widely recognized that gender analysis

has both challenged and enriched many of the
standard assumptions and concepts that inform
economic analysis of different kinds, whether to
do with paid work or unpaid work, peasant
studies, care labour and many other areas.
Despite this, changes in economic policies have
been few and far between, and most do not
translate into women-friendly economic policies.
Nor have the important contributions of womens
studies research to the field of economics
standardly seen as a male discipline been
given its due importance or recognition.
This collection of essays by some of the best
known academics and practitioners in the fields
of economics, womens studies and
development, examine a wide range of areas in
which womens studies has made crucial
contributions. They look at the market, the
money economy, at development policies, at
water rights and at macroeconomic
methodologies, in order to address the question
of why gender matters. Together they bring new
insights and new approaches to the question of
how a gender analysis of macroeconomic
policies needs to be given wider acceptance and
to be integrated into policy and planning.
Sumi Krishna has been President of the Indian

Association for Womens Studies.
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womens views about the world we live in have

all been the focus of much debate and study,
this book explores the translation of these
experiences and these writings in the context of
India, with its multifaceted, multilingual
character. If womens language is different from
the patriarchal language that forms the basis of
communication in most language communities,
what has been the impact of writings from the
womens perspective and how have these
writings been translated?
Ritu Dewan heads the Centre for Womens

Studies, Department of Economics at the
University of Mumbai.
K. Seeta Prabhu works with United Nations
Development Programme, India.
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Indian women writers have been translated into

English in the Indian context as well as into other
western languages. What are the linguistic and
cultural specificities of these literary
productions? What is foregrounded and what is
erased in these translations? What are the
politics that inform the choices of the authors to
be translated? What is the agency of the
translators, and of the archivist, in these cultural
productions? What is the role of women
translators? These are some of the questions
that this book explores.
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Democratization
and Womens
Grassroots
Movements
Jill M. Bystydzienski &
Joti Sekhon (eds)
Individuals,
Householders,
Citizens
The fall of communist regimes in Eastern Europe

and of dictatorships in Latin America brought
new attention to democratic movements
worldwide. Most interest focused on national
activities, electoral politics and the expansion of
capitalist markets, and though much has been
written about social movements, the connections
between womens grassroots organizations and
democratization have been neglected. This book
explores how these movements contribute to the
expansion of public and private spaces and
democratic processes. The sixteen case studies
highlight womens grassroots movements in
India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Eritrea, South
Africa, Syria, Egypt, El Salvador, Honduras,
Poland, Russia, Belgium, Ireland, Canada, the
United States (Appalachia), and Australia. They
reveal the connections between local political
and social action and the growth of democratic
processes at state, regional and global levels.
The book illustrates how community-based
actions, programmes and organizations that
empower women contribute to the creation of a
civil society and thus enhance democracy.
Family Planning in
Kerala
J. Devika
The creation of widespread public consent for

family planning in Kerala, which ensured the
non-coercive implementation of birth control in
Malayali society, has been regarded as no less a
jewel in the crown of the Kerala Model of social
development.
Individuals, Householders, Citizens reconstructs
the history of the generation of such assent to
produce a critical examination of this crucial
aspect of social development in Kerala. It
participates in the ongoing feminist critique of
the Kerala Model, seeking to unravel the
particular ways in which people were
interpellated into the discourse of Family
Planning.
Devikas study adds to the new interdisciplinary
work on questions traditionally considered native
to demography. It employs some of the insights
of economists and demographers on Keralas
demographic transition as entry points for critical
historical inquiry into questions of gender and
power in contemporary Kerala.
J. Devika teaches and researches at the Centre
for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram,
Kerala.
Jill M. Bystydzienski is Director of Womens

Studies and Professor of Sociology at Iowa
State University.
9788189884475
Joti Sekhon is Professor of Sociology at

Greensboro College, where she is also the
coordinator of the International Studies
Programme.
9788186706541
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Waves in the
Hinterland
the journey of a
newspaper
The Khasis of
North-East India
Tiplut Nongbri
Farah Naqvi
This book focuses on the economic activities of

Khasi women, a matrilineal tribe in North-East
India. Like most women in tribal societies, Khasi
women contribute significantly to the sustenance
of the family. However, womens contribution to
the economy remains a largely neglected area
both in research as well as in policy, not only in
North-East India but also nationally and
internationally. What accounts for this general
indifference to the economic role of women is
one of the issues addressed in this book. The
central issue however revolves around the
question of why despite the substantial time and
energy Khasi women invest in their business,
many continue to stagnate, and why others, after
acquiring some measure of success, slide into
oblivion.
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Khabar Lahariya, an eight-page newspaper

published every fortnight since 2002 from Uttar
Pradeshs Chitrakoot district, covers the news
that mainstream media forgot. It is brought out
by an all-women team. Most of them are Dalit.
Some of them, barely literate. Before Khabar
Lahariya these women had also published
Mahila Dakiya, a single-page broadsheet from
1993 to 2000.
Waves in the Hinterland takes you on a journey
through womens lives in feudal Bundelkhand,
on dusty pot-holed roads, through caste
prejudice, water shortages, police stations,
polling booths, and the world of small-town
journalism to tell the story of these two unusual
newspapers and the women who made them
happen.
In 1996, Mahila Dakiya won the Chameli Devi
Jain Award for excellence in journalism. Khabar
Lahariya won the Chameli Devi Jain Award in
2004.
Farah Naqvi is a writer, activist and consultant
based in Delhi, working on gender rights,
minority rights and media-related issues.
Tiplut Nongbri teaches Sociology at the Centre

for the Study of Social Systems, School of Social
Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University,
New Delhi.
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Visible Histories
Disappearing
Women
Producing Muslim
Womanhood in Late
Colonial Bengal
Mahua Sarkar
Shadow Lives
Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women in

colonial Bengal came to be more marginalized in
nationalist discourse than their Hindu
counterparts. She considers how their nearinvisibility, except as victims, underpins the
construction of the ideal citizen-subject in late
colonial India. She argues that the nationcentredness of history as a discipline, and the
intellectual politics of liberal feminism, have
together contributed to the production of Muslim
women as the oppressed, mute, and invisible
other of the normative modern Indian subject.
Writings on
Widowhood
Uma Chakravarti &
Preeti Gill (eds)
Drawing on extensive archival research and oral

histories, Sarkar traces Muslim women as they
surface and disappear in colonial, Hindu,
nationalist and liberal Muslim writings. This
compelling study concludes by tracing the
complex links between past constructions of
Muslim women, current representations, and the
violence against them in contemporary India.
Mahua Sarkar is Associate Professor of
Sociology, Womens Studies and Asian and
Asian American Studies at Binghampton
University, USA.
9788189884437
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This volume documents the focus on the widow,

regarded as the dark half of womankind in
tradition, the structural counterpart of the
sumangali or the auspicious married woman,
and to provide an archive on widowhood. The
archive comprises prescriptions, injunctions,
laws and other accounts dating back to the
5th century BC from Sanskrit texts as well as
extracts from official documents, pamphlets and
essays in many languages, published in the
19th and 20th centuries. The material is arranged
in three parts: documents, personal narratives
and creative writing in an attempt to capture the
complexities of the experience of widowhood, its
diversity and range across India. With the
emergence of the womens movement in the last
quarter of the 20th century, the terms of analysis
have changed and feminist inspired scholarship
has raised new questions. In the anthology the
widow comes across not just as a passive
pitiable object, oppressed, victimized and
patronized but as an active resisting survivor it
is this last image that stays with the reader.
Uma Chakravarti has taught History for many
years at Miranda House, Delhi University.
Preeti Gill is an editor with Zubaan and has
researched and scripted three documentaries on
Indias North-East.
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Women, Quotas
and Politics
Drude Dahlerup (ed)
Women, Quotas and Politics offers the first

global comparative analysis of the new trend to
introduce gender quotas in public elections
written by researchers from all major regions in
the world. This book presents cutting-edge
research about the discursive controversies and
actual implementation processes in countries
with quota provisions. Providing a quantitative
and qualitative assessment of these quotas in a
variety of political systems, from developing
nations and new democracies to established
democracies, the contributors evaluate how they
have been implemented; where these quotas
have succeeded and failed; and how they can
contribute to the political empowerment of
women.
Nuns, Yoginis,
Saints and Singers
Womens Renunciation
in South Asia
Meena Khandelwal,
Sondra L. Hausner &
Ann Grodzins Gold (eds)
Drude Dahlerup is Professor of Political

Science at Stockholm University, Sweden.
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Vividly showcasing new ethnographic research

on extraordinary South Asian women who have
abandoned worldly life for spiritual pursuits, the
contributors to this collection offer feminist
insights into Jain, Buddhist, Hindu, Baud and
Bon ascetic traditions. With intimate narratives
documenting contemporary womens
experiences, contributors explore the lives of
women who have renounced involvements such
as sex, financial security, kin, and the pursuit of
beauty, in favour of higher religious and spiritual
ideals. The authors consider the hardships
endured by women committed to religious paths
more commonly taken by men and warn against
any easy romanticization of these womens lives.
At the same time, the book offers a refreshing
antidote to the relentless image of South Asian
women as dependent on male kin and defined
by their sexual and procreative roles.
Meena Khandelwal is Assistant Professor of
Anthropology and Womens Studies at the
University of Iowa.
ROUTLEDGE
Sondra L. Hausner is a Lecturer in

Anthropology at Oxford.
Ann Grodzins Gold is Professor of Religion and
Anthropology and Director of the South Asian
Centre at Syracuse University.
9788189884345
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With Respect to
Sex
Negotiating Hijra
Identity in South India
Gayatri Reddy
Organising
Empire
In an important, intimate, rich and eminently

readable ethnography, Gayatri Reddy creates a
portrait of a community of hijras in Hyderabad
that suggests that one cannot see hijras simply
through the lens of gender and sexual difference
because that is not how hijras understand
themselves. Tracing their presence from an era
of Hyderabadi royal patronage to the shifting
social and cultural landscapes of modernity and
nationalism and finally to contemporary neoliberalism, Reddy shows the ever-changing,
complicated and multi-faceted matrix of class,
caste, religion, and regional identities and
practices that underlie hijra understandings of
both their identity and their difference. At stake,
she says, are questions of nationalism,
citizenship, identity, religion, class, sex, and
economics.
Individualism,
Collective Agency &
India
Purnima Bose
Gayatri Reddy is assistant professor of

anthropology and gender and womens studies
at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
9788190363464
328pp
PB
From a historically grounded, feminist

perspective, Bose offers four case studies, each
of which illuminates a distinct individualizing
rhetorical strategy. She looks at the
parliamentary debates on the Amritsar Massacre
of 1919, in which several hundred unarmed
Indian protestors were killed; Margaret Cousins
firsthand account of feminist organizing in
Ireland and India; Kalpana Dutts memoir of the
Bengali terrorist movement of the 1930s, which
was modeled in part on Irish anti-colonial
activity; and the popular histories generated by
ex-colonial officials and their wives.
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Deconstructing
Mental Illness
An Ethnography of
Psychiatry, Women and
the Family
Renu Addlakha
Drawing from feminist, post modern, cultural and

sociological and medical anthropological
literature, this work shows the complex inter
twining of illness and culture in the context of
mental disorder.
Purnima Bose is Associate Professor of English

at Indiana University.
The ethnographic context of the study is the

interface between mental health professionals,
patients and their families in a local psychiatric
hospital in New Delhi. The book anchors the
discussion around feminist thinking and praxis in
the mental health realm, along with the traditions
of cultural psychiatry and medical anthropology.
9788189884017
Specters of
Mother India
The Global
Restructuring of an
Empire
Mrinalini Sinha
Renu Addlakha is senior fellow at the Centre for

Womens Development Studies, New Delhi.
340pp
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Deconstructing Mental Illness is relevant and

contemporary, and makes an important
contribution to the field of mental health and
women. This important new work extends the
frontiers of social science research and offers
alternative perspectives on women, health and
disability.
9788189884093
Organizing Empire critically examines how

concepts of individualism functioned to support
and resist British imperialism in India. Through
readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist
narratives that emerged in parliamentary
debates, popular colonial histories, newsletters,
memoirs, biographies, and novels, Purnima
Bose investigates the ramifications of reducing
collective activism to individual intentions.
Paying particular attention to the construction of
gender, she shows that ideas of individualism
rhetorically and theoretically bind colonials,
feminists, nationalists, and neocolonials to one
another. She demonstrates how reliance on
ideas of the individual - as scapegoat or hero enabled colonial and neocolonial powers to deny
the violence that they perpetrated. At the same
time, she shows how analyses of the role of the
individual provide a window into the dynamics
and limitations of state formations and feminist
and nationalist resistance movements.
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A huge international controversy followed the

1927 publication of Mother India, an expose
written by American journalist Katherine Mayo.
Mother India provided graphic details of a variety
of social ills in India, especially those related to
the status of women and to the particular plight
of the countrys child wives. The book was
translated into more than a dozen languages,
and it was reviewed in virtually every major
publication on five continents. Mrinalini Sinha
traces the controversy surrounding Mother India,
explaining how the uproar became a catalyst for
far-reaching changes, including a reconfiguration
of the relationship between the political and
social spheres in colonial India.
Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of
History and Womens Studies at Penn State
University.
9788189884000
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Marketing
Reproduction
Political Rhetoric and
Gender Policy in India
Rachel Simon-Kumar
Knowing Our
Rights
At one level, Marketing Reproduction

deconstructs the Reproductive and Child Health
policy (RCH) revealing the layers of meaning
embedded in the states gender rhetoric. But
Simon-Kumars analysis grapples with wider
contemporary issues the construction of
women, citizenship and reproduction in neoliberal India, and the de-politicisation of feminism
as gender is mainstreamed into the state.
Women, Family, Laws

and Customs in the
Muslim World
Women Living Under
Muslim Laws
Rachel Simon-Kumar is a policy researcher in

the New Zealand public sector and lectures at
the School of Government, Victoria University,
Wellington, New Zealand.
9788189013028
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Knowing Our Rights is designed as a tool for

activists engaged in lobbying and advocacy
related to Muslim womens rights within the
family, at the policy level and in communities. It
covers twenty-six topics relevant to marriage
and divorce, including the status of children
(paternity and adoption) and child custody and
guardianship. It is unique in providing a userfriendly, cross-comparative analysis of the
diversities and commonalities of laws and
customs across the Muslim world.
Women Living Under Muslim Laws (WLUML)
is an international support network, formed in
1984, in response to situations that required
urgent action, related to Islam, laws and women.
9788186706695
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Empowering Women
Through Water
Management
Initiatives in India
Sara Ahmad (ed)
The History of
Doing
The case studies illustrate that the process of

negotiating change of flowing upstream is
indeed messy, complicated and complex.
Emerging insights while located in a specific
socio-economic, political and cultural context
provide a menu of essential but not necessarily
sufficient, ingredients towards a strategy for
mainstreaming gender and equity rights in water
management. Together, the cases raise
important questions on the social construction of
water policy in India, the gendered structure of
facilitating organizations, networking and the role
of learning in developing accountable and
socially inclusive governance mechanisms for
managing our natural resources.
An Illustrated Account
of Movements for
Womens Rights and
Feminism in India,
1800-1990
Radha Kumar
Sara Ahmad is presently based in Ahmedabad

where she works closely with a number of NGOs
on gender-inclusive, rights-based approaches to
livelihood security.
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360pp
A thematic history of the womens movement in

India both before and after independence, this
book covers the period from the nineteenth
century to the present day. It looks at how
womens issues were raised, initially by men and
as part of the movements for social reform, and
then with the involvement of women in the
nationalist movement, by women themselves.
Using photographs, old and new documents,
excerpts from letters, books and informal
writings, the author documents the growing
involvement of women and the formation of the
early womens organizations; she examines the
foregrounding of the womens issue during the
reform and nationalist movements and its
subsequent disappearance from the agenda of
public debate until the post independence period
of the Sixties and Seventies when it surfaces
again.
Radha Kumar is Senior Fellow and Director of
the project on Ethnic Conflict, Partition and PostConflict Reconstruction at the Council on
Foreign Relations, New York.
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The Unheard
Scream
Reproductive Health
and Womens Lives in
India
Mohan Rao (ed)
This revelatory collection of essays by journalists

explores a range of issues - from the quinacrine
sterilization scandal, to the rip-off that is the
assisted reproduction industry, to the declining
age of marriage among Muslim girls in Malabar.
Winners of the Panos Reproductive Health
Media Fellowship, these journalists reveal how
issues in womens health are deeply imbricated
in the lives of Indian women.
Poster Women
A Visual History of the
Womens Movement in
India
Mohan Rao teaches at the Centre of Social

Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi.
9788189884536
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Poster Women is an archive of over 1500

posters from the Indian Womens Movement,
collected over an 18 month period from all over
India. Put together by Zubaan, this unique
archive demonstrates the dynamism, richness
and variety of this important movement.
Spanning the period from the 70s to the present
day, the collection is divided into a number of
key campaigns that cover areas such as
violence, health, political participation, the
environment, religion and communalism, literacy,
rights and marginalization. Also included are
posters on different themes such as the use of
the goddess metaphor, or the marking of
particular days that are important to the
movement. The collection has been sourced
from over 200 groups all over the country.
9788189013813
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Speech and
Silence
Literary Journeys by
Gujarati Women
Rita Kothari (ed)
This anthology is not only about what Gujarati

women speak, but also what they dont. In a
state that registers increasing cases of violence
against women, what kind of truths does its
literature embody?
Matrilineal
Communities,
Patriarchal
Realities
If malestream writing in Gujarat seldom mirrors

its everyday truths, do the women risk
unpleasantness? Kotharis introduction builds
upon such premises and leads the reader to a
trajectory of women writers from the beginning of
the twentieth century to the present day, starting
with the journal entries of a dancer at the end of
the nineteenth century, to the journal entries of
an academic woman at the end of the twentieth
century. The wide range of stories and fictional
excerpts show how Gujarati women inhabit their
fictional worlds.
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Rita Kothari teaches at St. Xaviers College,

Ahmedabad.
9788186706985
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Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, is an Assistant

Professor at Hobart & William Smith Colleges,
USA and will soon be taking up an appointment
as Lecturer at the School of Geography,
University of Southampton, England.
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Atlas of Women
and Men in India
Saraswati Raju,
Peter J. Atkins,
Naresh Kumar &
Janet G. Townsend (eds)
9788189013042
This compilation of almost 100 maps is put

together using data from the 1991 Census of
India. The Atlas maps a regional geography of
women and men, using indicators as diverse as
literacy, education, voting patterns, cultural
groupings, fertility rates, workforce participation
etc. The aim is to provide information based on
Census data which can help demonstrate the
diversity of womens lives in India, and to
provide it in such a way that readers/users can
link one set of facts with another, to look at what
kinds of patterns emerge.
Playing with Fire

Feminist Thought and
Activism Through
Seven Lives in India
Sangtin Writers:
Anupamlata,
Ramsheela, Reshma
Ansari, Richa Nagar,
Richa Singh, Shashi
Vaish, Shashibala,
Surbala & Vibha
Bajpayee
Saraswati Raju is Associate Professor of Social

Geography based at Jawaharlal Nehru
Peter Atkins is a geographer based at Durham
University.
Naresh Kumar is an expert in computer
cartography based at Jawaharlal Nehru
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Playing with Fire is a chorus where nine voices

from varied socio-political locations selfreflexively merge themselves to articulate the
nuanced intersections of caste, class, gender,
religion and socio-spacial location, and their
centrality in understanding womens
empowerment, NGO activism, and the politics of
knowledge production.
Seven of these voices belong to Anupamlata,
Ramsheela, Reshma Ansari, Shashibala, Shashi
Vaish, Surbala and Vibha Bajpayee village
level NGO activists from diverse caste and
religious backgrounds, who have worked as
mobilizers in seventy villages of Sitapur district
in India. These women form an alliance with
each other; with Richa Singh, a district-level
NGO activist; and with Richa Nagar, a teacher at
the University of Minnesota to highlight key
moments of a collective intellectual and political
journey.
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Janet Townsend is a geographer based at

Durham University.
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In foregrounding women, the Atlas poses

implicitly some key questions: how are
knowledge and information constructed and
communicated? Why has geography, for
example, been so silent on the contribution of
women to society? What kind of layers of
knowledge and information do we need to
unpeel before we arrive at some information
about the silent contributors - women.
9788185107943
In rejecting falsely homogenizing accounts of

womens lives, feminist economists have, in
recent years, unlocked the multiple ways in
which gendered relations of dominance and
subordination are maintained. One of the key
differences they have turned their attention to is
ethnicity. This study of Muslim, Sinhala and
Tamil households, in Sri Lanka examines both
the commonality of patriarchal structures and
economic problems in such households, as well
as the differences created by the ethnicities that
divide them. The author looks at the nature and
reliability of kinship support for female heads
and the reciprocal obligations in terms of female
propriety and conventional conduct extracted
from female heads. She questions development
policies premised on the patriarchal household
and argues for a recognition of diversity and
complexity.
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The Classic
Popular
CULTURE STUDIES
Amar Chitra Katha,

1967-2007
The Sexual Life of

English
In The Sexual Life of English, Shefali Chandra

examines how English became an Indian
language. She rejects the idea that English was
Languages of Caste and fully formed before its life in India or that it was
Desire in Colonial India imposed from without. Rather, by drawing
attention to sexuality and power, Chandra
Shefali Chandra
argues that the English language was produced
through conflicts over caste, religion, and class.
Sentiments and experiences of desire,
respectability, status, consumption and fashion,
came together to create the Indian history of
English. The language was shaped by the
sexual experiences of Indians and by native
attempts to discipline the normative sexual
subject. Focusing on the years between 1850
and 1930, Chandra scrutinizes the Englisheducation project as Indians gained the power to
direct it themselves. She delves into the history
of schools, the composition of the student
W
bodies, and disagreements about curricula, the
NE
way that English-educated subjects wrote about
English and debates in English and Marathi
popular culture. Chandra shows how concerns
over linguistic change were popularly voiced in a
sexual idiom, how English and the vernacular
were separated through the vocabulary of sexual
difference, and how the demand for matrimony
naturalized the social location of the English
language.
Nandini Chandra
During her research the author found that the

creators of ACK amalgamated both local art
traditions as well as a realist aesthetic borrowed
from the calendar art derivative style of Ravi
Varma to produce an evocative yet sober style,
appropriate for a largely middle-class, child
audience. This was supposedly distant from the
vulgar Hindi film posters, yet in practice it was
completely immersed in the techniques of largerthan-life hyper-representation characteristic of
the commercial Hindi film aesthetic. This
technique succeeded in furnishing the reader
with a visual imaginary of a mythological Hindu
past that could at once blend into a real
historical continuum, stretching from the ancient
past to modern India, rendering myth historical
and history mythological.
Shefali Chandra is Associate Professor in the

Department of History, the International and Area
Studies Program, and the Women, Gender, and
Sexuality Studies Program at Washington
University in St Louis.
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286pp
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For all those who grew up in seventies and

eighties middle-class India, Amar Chitra Katha,
or ACK as it was popularly referred to among
friends, was an important influence if not an
iconic cultural artefact. Published at a time when
ACK appears to be on the verge of a second
lease of life, this compelling new book draws our
attention to the stimulating and troubling
potentials of Amar Chitra Katha as a force in
modern Indian history. Based on a reading of
visual practices and the complicated art history
informing the comics, the book delves into core
issues of communalism, history writing and the
ways in which middle-class India negotiates the
consumption of products of popular culture to
suit its ideological moorings.
Nandini Chandra teaches English at Hansraj

College, New Delhi.
8pp colour section
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Reception of
English
Cultural Responses in
Telugu Documents
M. Sridhar
In Those Days
There Was No
Coffee
Reception of English: Cultural Responses in

Telugu Documents is a collection of various text
types written in English by Telugu writers along
with English translations of Telugu texts. The
documents included in this collection span over
two hundred years of the Telugu-English
interface with the earliest dating back to 1825
and the most recent to 2006 and cover a wide
range of selections from autobiography,
personal/ historical essays, official reports,
creative writing and criticism. This study
attempts to record the responses of the Telugu
people to the British their rule, the introduction
of the study of English, English manners,
English culture, etc. Unlike most academic
enterprises that study the interface between
Indian languages and English that tend to focus
on the influence of English on Indian languages,
the documents compiled here represent different
degrees of accommodation, incorporation and
rejection of colonial culture.
Writings in Cultural
History
A.R. Venkatachalapathy
A.R. Venkatachalapathy, Associate Professor,

Madras Institute of Development Studies, Chennai.
M. Sridhar teaches English at the University of

Hyderabad.
9788175965928
142pp
HB
The essays fall into two distinct sections. The

essays in the first section contribute to an as yet
unwritten history of consumption in colonial
India. Taking up both material (coffee, tea and
tobacco) and cultural (the cartoon, the city and
modern literature) artifacts, the first five chapters
explore how these were consumed in colonial
Tamil society. The chapters in the second part,
broadly concerned with the politics of language,
literature and identity in colonial Tamilnadu,
make an important contribution to the cultural
history of the Dravidian movement. A historical
exploration of how the Tamil literary canon was
constructed leads to chapters on ways in which
this canon was used to construct identity. The
author draws from sources as varied as poetry,
fiction, essays, reviews, comment,
advertisement, and notices to bring to life a rich
and vibrant cultural history.
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Indias Rise as a
Space Power
U. R. Rao
NEW
With the successful launch of indigenous

satellites and spacecrafts including
Chandryaan-1, India has achieved its stature as
a space power. This book describes the journey
of space research in India and its evolution from
a nascent republic to a respectable name in the
field of space science. It documents in detail the
development of Indias first spacecraft Aryabhata
and the subsequent remote sensing and
communications satellites. It also provides an
account of the development of Satellite Launch
Vehicles (SLVs) and associated technologies,
namely propulsion, material sciences, rocket
launching stations and cryogenics technology.
Written with great lucidity by one of the premier
space scientists of India, it is an ideal read for
those interested in the history of Indias
emergence as a space power.
9789382264743
Petroleum
Pipelines
A Handbook for
Onshore Oil and Gas
Pipelines
Sanjoy Chanda
U. R. Rao is Chairman, Governing Council of the

Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad.
9789382993483
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CSIR NISTADS
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In the modern globalized world, the economic

development of a country is premised on its
ability to develop, adapt and harness its potential
to innovate. Most of the governments in
developing and emerging economies, including
India, are proactive in initiating policies that
would promote a culture of innovation. India:
Science & Technology, Volume 2 intends to
identify the nature and extent of innovative
activities in the country and the lacunae in the
innovation support mechanism. It also suggests
suitable S&T interventions in the policy matrix in
order that India could come to the forefront in
innovation activities. The book discusses
following themes: S&T and Human Resources
Innovation Support System S&T and Industry
S&T Outputs and Patents Rural Development
and S&T Strategies
NEW
Petroleum pipelines ensure the sustained

availability of petroleum products all across the
country. Pipelines transport petroleum products
in a safe and efficient manner from refineries to
demand areas. They also transport crude oil
from import terminals as well as domestic
sources to the inland refineries. India, being a
developing nation, has a large network of
petroleum pipelines. Economic growth and
expansion of infrastructure in this country offer
opportunities to better utilize the existing pipeline
network. The construction of new pipelines
extends this network further.
This book introduces readers to the field of
petroleum pipelines, describes the salient
features of a pipeline and discusses how this
system is superior to other modes of petroleum
transportation. It provides a brief account on
different types of fluids transported through
pipelines and highlights their properties that
affect pipeline design. The book details the
actual design of a pipeline from route
selection, hydraulic, mechanical and other
aspects of design and engineering. It also
describes the operation and maintenance
procedures required in the pipeline system to
run at a level of efficiency equivalent to its
design efficiency.
Key features
Covers design and engineering of pipelines
Discusses deployment of personnel and
construction equipment
Deals with pre-commissioning and
commissioning of pipelines
Examines corrosion of steel pipelines running
underground
Describes in detail the operation and
maintenance procedures
While the content and approach of these themes

differs, innovation occupies the centre stage in
each of these themes.
Sanjoy Chanda is an independent consultant in

the field of pipeline engineering. His professional
career spans over 45 years.
Salient features Analysis of scenario of S&T

education in India Analysis of organizational
arrangement for promotion of technological
innovation Facets of innovation activities in the
realm of manufacturing and service sector
Nature of innovation activities in MSME sector
Intensity of knowledge creation and utilization
S&T strategy for poverty alleviation S&T
strategies for agri/farm-based livelihoods S&T
strategies for non-farm/rural industrial
development
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CSIRNISTADS was set up by CSIR in 1981 to

undertake research on policy, policy advisory
and provide research support to national S&T
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Environmental
Valuation
in South Asia
A. K. Enamul Haque,
M. N. Murty &
Priya Shyamsundar
(eds)
The volume includes chapters that address the

tsunamis geo-environmental impact on coastal
ecosystems and groundwater systems. There
are also other chapters that offer socio-cultural
perspectives on religious power relations in
South India and suggest ways to improve the
government agencies response systems for
natural disasters.
Environmental Valuation in South Asia is about

understanding the value of environmental
services in South Asia. The book provides an
overview of different environmental problems in
South Asia and examines how economic
valuation techniques can be used to assess
these problems. It offers robust evidence of the
economic benefits of resource conservation and
identifies costs associated with a decline in
environmental quality as South Asian economies
grow. It brings together multiple case studies on
valuation undertaken by economists and
environmental scientists from Bangladesh, India,
Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka under the aegis
of the South Asian Network for Development and
Environmental Economics (SANDEE).
Pradyumna P. Karan is the University Research

Professor in the Department of Geography,
University of Kentucky.
S Subbiah is the Professor Emeritus of
Geography and Director of the Centre for
Japanese Studies and Research at the
University of Madras, India.
A unique feature of the book is its exposition of

the use of environmental and economic data and
analytical techniques under circumstances
where data are difficult to obtain. This book
addresses the challenges of valuing
environmental changes that are unique to
developing countries. Each chapter starts with a
description of an environmental problem and the
valuation strategy used, followed by a discussion
of estimation methods and results.
9788175968998
Crustal Evolution
and Metallogeny
in India
Sanjib Chandra Sarkar
& Anupendu Gupta
A. K. Enamul Haque is Professor of Economics

at United International University, Dhaka,
Bangladesh.
Priya Shyamsundar is Program Director for the

South Asian Network for Environment and
Development Economics, Kathmandu, Nepal.
505pp
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The Global Response

to a Natural Disaster
Pradyumna P. Karan &
Shanmugam P. Subbiah
(eds)
` 795.00
Crustal Evolution means the changes that the

Earths crust has gone through the geologic past
as the effects of changes in the mantle-crust
system, the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and
the biosphere. Metallogeny is the genesis of
metallic mineral deposits. Both the terms are
used in the book in their conventional sense, but
in the context of India.
The book synthesises crustal evolution in India,

and discusses metallogeny in that context. The
exhaustive chapters carry numerous and
detailed case studies describing the distribution
and occurrence of ores and provides an up-todate review of all these, keeping in view the
world scenario. Throughout the book, the text is
supported by a large number of photographs,
figures, maps and tables.
The Indian Ocean

Tsunami
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The book is the first of its kind to document in

detail the nature, origin and evolution of Indian
mineral deposits in the context of local and
regional geology. The latter incorporates an
evolutionary history of the mantle-crust system,
the atmosphere, the hydrosphere and the
biosphere and interactions thereof. The
uniqueness of the book lies in that it combines
both metallogeny and crustal evolution that were
otherwise treated as stand-alone topics.
M. N. Murty specializes in Public Economics

and Environmental and Resource Economics.
He is a retired Professor from the Institute of
Economic Growth, New Delhi, India.
9781107007147
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On December 26, 2004, a massive tsunami

triggered by an underwater earthquake struck
the coasts of Thailand, Indonesia, Sri Lanka,
and certain other countries along the Indian
Ocean. With casualties as far away as Africa,
the aftermath was overwhelming: ships could be
spotted miles inland; cars floated in the ocean;
legions of the unidentified dead an estimated
225,000 were buried in mass graves; relief
organizations struggled to reach rural areas and
provide adequate aid for survivors.
Sanjib Chandra Sarkar retired as Head,

Department of Geological Sciences, Jadavpur
University, India.
Anupendu Gupta retired as Deputy Director
General of Geological Survey of India, a premier
geological body.
Shortly after this disaster, researchers from

around the world travelled to the regions most
devastated areas, observing and documenting
the impact of the tsunami. The Indian Ocean
Tsunami: The Global Response to a Natural
Disaster offers the first analysis of the response
and recovery effort. Editors Pradyumna P. Karan
and S. Subbiah, employing an interdisciplinary
approach, have assembled an international team
of top geographers, geologists, anthropologists,
and political scientists to study the
environmental, economic, and political effects of
the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
375 illustrations/ graphs/half-tones

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Water Governance Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially

and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws
in Motion
focuses on the work undertaken by International
Towards Socially and
Environmentally
Sustainable
Water Laws
Dr Philippe Cullet,
Dr Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri,
Roopa Madhav &
Dr Usha Ramanathan
(eds)
Syed Liyakhat has a background in

environmental sciences and specializes in
sustainable tourism research and advocacy.
Environmental Law Research Centre IELRC on

water law reforms in India. It seeks to provide a
broader understanding of the conceptual
framework informing existing water law and
ongoing reforms.
9788175965980
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The book is divided into two parts. The first part

critically analyses the context of international law
for water reforms and the second part discusses
the multifaceted aspects of water sector reforms
in India. It assembles in one volume the
contributions made by a broad range of scholars
working on various law and policy issues arising
in the context of water sector reforms in India.
The contributions have been specifically
selected in order to address the wide range of
issues including water distribution to
households, irrigation, industrial use and
wastewater treatment. These questions are dealt
with from a range of perspectives including
human rights, environment, agriculture,
development and trade.
On Disasters
in India
Anu Kapur
On Disasters in India is a comprehensive

compilation of extensive research on disasters in
India. It unfolds the pitfalls in research so far and
insists on a fresh paradigm in the methodology
for accessing research on disasters. The book
reconstructs a researchscape and examines the
three time periods of study of disasters, namely,
the phase of awareness, indifference and
recognition. The narrative is built across the
colonial, independence and post-globalisation
years.
The 4004 references, located, classified and
collated figuratively and categorically in the
book, form the groundwork for any research
pertaining to disasters in India.
Dr Phillippe Cullet is a Reader in Law at the

School of Oriental and African Studies,
Anu Kapur is Associate Professor of Geography,

Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi.
Dr Alix Gowlland-Gualtieri is a Research

Fellow at IELRC.
9788175966222
Roopa Madhav worked on the Indo-Swiss water

law research partnership from 2006 to 2008.
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Dr Usha Ramanathan is an internationally

recognized expert on law and poverty.
9788175966345
570pp
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Himalayan
Degradation
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Ecotourism
Development in
India
Communities, Capital
and Conservation
Seema Bhatt &
Syed Liyakhat
Colonial Forestry and

Environmental Change
in India
Ecotourism is a term debated upon by

practitioners all over the world. The initiatives
carried out in the name of ecotourism have
adversely affected people and the environment.
The indigenous and local communities have
raised voices against such steps at local,
national and international levels. However,
sustainable ecotourism tourism carried out
within certain defined norms, can lead to the
development of the people. Ecotourism
Development in India attempts to present a
comprehensive and analytical perspective on the
development of ecotourism in India. This book
showcases the key policies and legal
frameworks linked to ecotourism development at
national and international levels. The
consequences of large-scale models of
ecotourism in terms of responses and impacts,
both negative and positive, are presented
through select case studies. It is intended to
facilitate effective formulation and
implementation of conservation and
development policies and practices.
Dhirendra Datt Dangwal
Himalayan Degradation: Colonial Forestry and

Environmental Change in India questions the
recent trend of treating environmental and
agrarian concerns as two separate domains. In
this aspect, the book goes beyond the existing
framework of environmental history that focuses
only on the study of state policies and debates
over redefining rights and examining protests.
The author makes a careful study of the larger
rural economy, emphasising the changing
significance of pastoralism, trade and foraging in
the life of the common people. He links forest
degradation and environmental change to
socioeconomic transformation.
The introduction of scientific forestry in the late
nineteenth century transformed forests into a
profitable resource for commercial purposes.
Forests were overexploited, which resulted in
wider ecological changes in the Himalaya.
Underlining the centrality of forests and
mountain resources to the livelihood and culture
of the people of Uttarakhand, the book subjects
the notion of sustainable management of forests
to close scrutiny.
Dhirendra Datt Dangwal is currently an
Assistant Professor in the Department of History,
Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla.
9788175966314
Seema Bhatt is an independent consultant

working on issues related to biodiversity.
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Forest Policy and

Ecological Change
Hyderabad State in
Colonial India
S. Abdul Thaha
Forest Policy and Ecological Change:

Hyderabad State in Colonial India is an attempt
to highlight the history of forestry in colonial India
in the context of the Nizams Dominions,
popularly called the Hyderabad State. The
ownership of forests by the State through
administrative authority and its monopoly over
the commercial exploitation of forest resources
were central to the history of state forestry in the
Hyderabad State. Since the government
categorized forests into reserved, protected and
open forests, the main objective for the forest
administration was to conserve the existing
forests and exploit them systematically.
Climate Change
An Indian Perspective
Sushil Kumar Dash
The issue of climate change due to human

activities can be analysed under two broad
categories: emissions of Greenhouse Gases
(GHGs) and the nearly irreversible damage to
the environment. Reducing emissions of GHGs
is intimately connected with economic issues
and hence a matter of global politics. It needs to
be handled through global negotiations and,
ultimately, through the use of alternate sources
of energy and clean technology. The second
category is more dangerous, since the recovery
process will be extremely slow and the
corrective measures more complicated than
those for the GHG abatement.
As in other parts of colonial India, state

management of forest resources marked a
watershed in the Hyderabad State as well. It was
from the second half of the nineteenth century,
under the influence of the British, that the State
evolved a sustained policy of regulation and
exploitation of forest tracts. This new policy of
forest management came in the way of peoples
access to the forest and its natural resources.
This book explains how the State managed the
pressures between the conservation of forests
on the one hand and commercial exploitation on
the other due to agrarian expansion and
introduction of railways.
Sushil Kumar Dash has about 34 years of

experience in teaching and research. Currently,
a Professor at the Centre for Atmospheric
Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Delhi, he is actively involved in sponsored R&D
activities besides teaching.
S. Abdul Thaha is one of the founding directors

of Glocal Research and Consultancy Services, a
Hyderabad based research and service
company that specializes in the study of social
development issues. He teaches at the Centre
for the Study of Social Exclusion and Inclusive
Policy at Maulana Azad National Urdu
University, Hyderabad.
9788175966321
174pp
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Ignoring the Past

Joseph H. Hulse
278pp
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Sustainable
Development
at Risk
The disturbing changes occurring in the global

climate and environment has been a matter of
concern for the current generation. The
exploration and exploitation of nature by human
beings have placed tremendous and undue
stress on the natural resources. Some of the
recent signals of global change warrant
reconsideration of the whole concept of
industrial growth that has been adopted so far.
Knowledge
Systems and
Natural Resources
Over the past half century, the idea of

sustainable development has evolved and
rooted itself in the lexicon on international
development. But what is it, really? Are
development agencies truly committed to longterm sustainable solutions to development
issues? Are we learning from our past
successes and failures? This book takes an
historical perspective on these questions.
Management, Policy
and Institutions in
Nepal
Hemant R. Ojha,
Netra P. Timsina,
Ram B. Chhetri &
Krishna P. Paudel (eds)
The analysis begins with the Atlantic Charter, the

creation of the United Nations; its family of
agencies, and the international development
banks. It reviews recommendations from
international commissions and conferences,
from World Bank and UNDP development
reports. It comments on governmental policies,
human and industrial actions detrimental to the
planets environment and natural resources. It
studies the patterns by which biotechnologies
essential to human survival and health have
progressed over the past 6,000 years, and the
consequences of uncontrolled urban growth on
food and health security.
Knowledge Systems and Natural Resources is a

unique collection of case studies from Nepal. It
provides rich and incisive insights into critical
social processes and deliberative governance.
The book challenges the dichotomy between
traditional and scientific knowledge. It proposes
to differentiate among systems of knowledge on
the basis of political standing of social actors
engaged in natural resource governance. It
further proposes that change in governance
hinges on how the diverse systems of
knowledge come into deliberative interface and
to what extent the unequal distribution of power
and knowledge resources in society constrain
the process of deliberation.
Hemant R. Ojha, founding member of Forest
Action Nepal, an NGO governed by Nepali
citizens and Founding Editor of Journal of Forest
and Livelihood.
Netra P. Timsina, Coordinator of Transformative
Learning, Forest Action Nepal.
Ram B. Chhetri, Associate Professor, Tribhuvan
University, Nepal.
Professor Joseph H. Hulse is currently Visiting

Professor at the University of Manchester, the
Central Food Technological Research Institute in
Mysore, India and the M. S. Swaminathan
Research Foundation in Tamil Nadu, India.
Krishna P. Paudel, founding member of Forest

Action Nepal and Environmental Resources
Institute (ERI).
9788175965218
9788175965638
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Forest Ecology
in India
Colonial Maharashtra
1850-1950
Neena Ambre Rao
Forest Ecology in India: Colonial Maharashtra

18501950 takes a look at the human
interactions that have shaped up the ecosystem
specifically of Maharashtra, under the British
colonial rule.
Indigenous
Knowledge of
Farming in North
Malabar
This work is a culmination of extensive analysis

of secondary sources and numerous archival
primary sources including vernacular material
hitherto unexamined from the perspective of
Environmental History. It traces the evolution of
political, socio-cultural and religious attitudes
and administrative policies that had an impact on
the forest ecology of Maharashtra.
Dr. K.M. Sreekumar,

Dr. C. Thamban &
Dr. M. Govindan
Dr. K.M. Sreekumar, Kerala Agriculture

University, Trissur, Kerala.
The study goes beyond a chronological narrative

of events and it adopts a fresh approach where it
examines the impact of the forest policies and
subsequent responses from the tribals, peasants
and artisans. It looks at landmark events and
struggles that shaped the resistance to the new
environmental and forest laws as well as the
spillover of these developments into the anticolonial struggles of the early twentieth century.
Dr. C. Thamban, Senior Scientist, Central

Plantation Crops Research Institute, Kasargod,
Kerala.
Dr. M. Govindan, is Associate Professor
(Microbiology), College of Agriculture,
Padannakkad, Kasargod, Kerala.
9788175963481
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Non-Chemical
Methods of Pest
Control
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K. Vijayalakshmi
Dew Harvest
Girja Sharan
Kutch region is arid and chronically short of

drinking water and due to its closeness to the
Arabian Sea coast, dewfall occurs here
frequently. Dew is atmospheric water vapour
condensing on a surface cooled by radiative
cooling at night. Dew water is potable. Dew
harvest offers an opportunity to supplement
drinking water supply and with that in view we
launched R&D work to develop harvesting
mechanisms. This monograph describes the
outcome and the experience.
107pp
PB
PB
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This concise booklet is intended to create public

awareness about aspects of pesticide use in
India. Ignorance about pesticides in India is
widespread and administrative and legislative
lacunae have aggravated the situation. This
booklet is a small step in the long and arduous
process of helping to make our society and
environment pesticide free.
Dr. K. Vijayalakshmi is Research Director,
Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems, Chennai.
9788175963634
72pp
PB
` 145.00

Girja Sharan Ph.D (Cornell) Cummins

Foundation IIMA Laboratory for Environmental
Technology in Arid Areas, Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad.
9788175963269
175pp

Neena Ambre Rao has taught at various

colleges in India and has held faculty position in
the Environmental Studies Department, Naropa
University Boulder, Colorado, USA.
9788175965492
It is now widely recognized that agriculture can

benefit when indigenous technical knowledge of
farmers or ITK is reclaimed and integrated with
modern farming practices. ITK is derived from
local culture, traditions and long-term human
interaction with the environment. It needs both
documentation and conscious promotion for a
more sustainability oriented perspective in
agriculture. This book aims to document ITK in
agriculture by detailing rituals and practices
followed in the cultivation of the main crops in
the North Malabar region of Kerala.
Organic Farming
G.K. Veeresh
` 195.00

Green Revolution Technologies have made India

self-sufficient in food production but unable to
sustain soil productivity. A quantum leap in
production of over 100 million tonnes was
achieved in just two decades (1960-1970). But
during the 1980s and 1990s it was a struggle to
add on another 10 million tonnes despite good
monsoons and the increasing supply of inputs of
fertilizers, high yielding seeds, pesticides as well
as water through irrigation. High costs of inputs
have turned farming into a loss-making
enterprise while leading to severe environmental
degradation.
Professor G.K. Veeresh, former Vice
Chancellor, University of Agricultural Science,
Bangalore and Founder President of the
Association for the Promotion of Organic
Farming.
9788175963450
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Perils of Pesticides
Mukund Joshi
This concise book is intended to create public

awareness about aspects of pesticide use in
India. Ignorance about pesticides in India is
widespread and administrative and legislative
lacunae have aggravated the situation. This
book is a small step in the long and arduous
process of helping to make our society and
environment pesticide free.
9788175962637
105pp
PB
Challenging The
Indian Medical
Heritage
Darshan Shankar &
P.M. Unnikrishnan
` 125.00
Darshan Shankar has been the Director of the

Foundation for Revitilisation of Local Health
Traditions (FRLHT), Bangalore, since 1993.

Preventive
Environmental
Management
An Indian Perspective
Shyam R. Asolekar &
R. Gopichandran
P.M. Unnikrishnan founded the Centre for

Ayurvedic Research and Development (CARI),
Kerala.
This book highlights the need for incorporating

Preventive Environmental Management (PEM)
approaches, characterized by community action
at all levels of implementation. At the company
level, PEM means adopting a holistic approach
that includes diagnosing processes and systems
for pollution hot-spots, interventions to reduce
wastes at source, improving product quality and
yield, enhancing waste treatment and value
addition and integrating economic and
environmental concerns of the stakeholders. It
also discusses the significance of appropriate
tools and techniques that enable transition
across the continuum of production,
consumption, and environmental protection, as
well as, the preparedness of communities to
monitor improved environmental quality. An
expansive framework for resolving some prevailing
dilemmas has also been proposed in this book.
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The Other Global

City
Shail Mayaram (ed)
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Livestock and
Livelihoods
The Indian Context
Nitya S. Ghotge
Livestock and Livelihoods: The Indian Context

discusses livestock rearing in India, in relation to
changes in the economy and policies of the
government. The issues range from traditional
practices in animal rearing, effect of colonial and
post-colonial practices to the current policies. It
also discusses methods to promote sustainable
biodiversity and alternative systems of veterinary
care.
138pp
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Global cities are generally exclusively defined

by flows of global capital. This narrow
conception of global urbanity invalidates cities
such as Byzantium-Constantinople-Istanbul
which has been a global city for over fifteen
centuries, Abbasid Baghdad that once was a
global city for science, and Bombay which has
long claimed to be a global city for cinema and
the arts.
The present volume attempts to redress the
balance. It contends that thinking about the city
in the longue duree and as part of a network of
regions, contests both imperial and nationalist
ways of reading cities. In doing so, it looks at
what recent literature overlooks, presents
neglected counter-cartographies and
foregrounds subaltern cosmopolitanisms.
Chapters on Istanbul, Cairo and Beirut present
counter-cartographies of cities that were as
much Asiatic and African as European, while
those on Bukhara, Lhasa, Delhi, Singapore,
Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo highlight an alternative
cosmopolitanism in Asian cities amid conflict and
violence. In addition to the famous question, who
has the right to the city, The Other Global City
asks, do cities have rights?
Shail Mayaram is a senior fellow with the
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
(CSDS), New Delhi.
Nitya S. Ghotge holds a masters in Veterinary

Surgery (1989) from Bombay Veterinary College,
India.
9788175961838
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Dr. R. Gopichandran serves as a Scientist at

the Centre for Environment Education.
656pp
241pp

Dr. Shyam R. Asolekar teaches at the Centre

for Environmental Science and Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.
9788175963139
There are two schematically distinguished

traditions of health in India. One refers to the
written traditions of the great classical systems
of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and the other one is
orally transmitted folk practices, which lack
proper documentation. These traditional
practices deal with a number of basic health
techniques like treatment of common ailments
and home remedies. In some communities there
also exist special traditions like bone setting,
visha chikitsa, treatment for certain chronic
ailments, diagnostic methods such as naadi
pareeksha.
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Urbanisation in
South Asia
Focus on Mega Cities
R. P. Misra (ed)
South Asia is urbanising at a rapid pace and the

problems arising due to urbanisation are serious
indeed. The mega cities are the engines of
economic growth; but, at the same time, they
also lead to inequality, poverty and global
warming. This book discusses the urban
landscape of South Asia, with an emphasis on
the role of mega cities in furthering socioeconomic development in the region. It analyses
the urban growth processes in the region in the
context of regional geography, population
growth, economic development and
technological environment. Deliberating on the
current urbanisation process, it tries to initiate a
dialogue on how South Asian countries can learn
from each other to resolve the problems specific
to their region. Furthermore, the authors
underline the policies that the national
governments may follow in order to ensure
organic development of the cities. The pragmatic
suggestions made in the book would open new
avenues for solving the problems associated
with urbanisation.
R. P. Misra is an urban and regional
development specialist and a Gandhian scholar
of international repute.
9788175966369
530pp
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Gautam Bhan is a writer and researcher on

urban systems based in New Delhi.
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Shadow Cities
A Billion Squatters, A
New Urban World
Robert Neuwirth
Robert Neuwirths teeming narrative of

squatters and their struggles on four continents
brings the reader face-to-face with lived
experience. Amidst the color, the violence, the
creation of living space from the slenderest of
means, the vibrancy of the informal sector, and
the battle for autonomy and property he vividly
recreates, he reminds us that squatters are, like
the poor, always with us. They have made and
continue to make cities, and to improve them if
given half a chance by the authorities and the
legal system. If you want to understand the lived
city of squatters, Neuwirth offers the sights, the
smells, and the voices of cinema verite.
James C. Scott, Sterling Professor of Political
Science and Anthropology, Yale University.
Robert Neuwirth is a writer who spent two years
living in squatter communities on four continents.
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Swept off the Map

Surviving Eviction and
Resettlement in Delhi
Kalyani Menon-Sen &
Gautam Bhan
In January 2004, the Tourism Ministry of the

Government of India announced its plan of
developing a 100-acre strip of land on the banks
of the Yamuna into a riverside promenade, to be
marketed as a major tourist attraction in the
lead-up to the Commonwealth Games. In
February and April 2004, homes and community
buildings in this area were razed to the ground
leaving thousands of people homeless. This
book, the outcome of a two year long research
study, tracks the lives of nearly 3,000 of these
evicted households who were relocated to
Bawana on the margins of the city, and
describes their struggle to live with dignity in the
face of assaults on their identities, homes, rights
and lives. The book presents data and evidence
on a wide range of social and economic
indicators to show how eviction and resettlement
have eroded the rights and undermined the
livelihoods of resettled families, leaving them in
a state of permanent poverty from which escape
seems unlikely if not impossible. A critical
expose of the human consequences of the push
to make Delhi a world-class city, Swept off the
Map raises uncomfortable questions about
present trends in urban development and makes
a powerful case for bringing the voices and
views of all citizens, and not just the elite (or
aspiring-to-be-elite) classes, into debates on the
future of the city.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES/ REMINISCENCES/
MEMOIRS/ BIOGRAPHIES
Joan in India
Suzanne Falkiner
Alone in his study, the Viceroy Lord Mountbatten

sits musing to himself on his last moments as
one of the most powerful men on earth what
Mountbatten chooses to do with those same
moments is to confer on the former Joan
Falkiner the Begum of Palanpore the title
of Highness, until now withheld by the British to
underline their disapproval of the match.
In 1939, young Joan Falkiners spirited flight
from South Yarra, a suburb of Melbourne, to
princely India and her marriage to the Nawab of
Palanpur, a small state in Gujarat, sent
shockwaves through Melbourne society, and the
British administration both in Delhi and back
home in England. Political reverberations were
felt throughout the Raj and as the kingdoms
were about to disappear forever in the
maelstrom of Indian Independence as high as
the British throne. How did it all come about?
Travelling through Melbourne, London, Mumbai,
Palanpur, Mt Abu, and the South of France,
Joans cousin and writer Suzanne Falkiner
traces the life of a charming and determined
young woman.
Kalyani Menon-Sen is a feminist activist,

researcher and writer who is associated with
Jagori, a womens resource centre in Delhi.
Suzanne Falkiner is a reputed Australian author

with many books and awards to her credit.
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Bina Das
A Memoir
Bina Das
Dhira Dhar (translator)
Reminiscences
Best known as a young revolutionary who took

up arms against the British establishment, Bina
Das numbers among the heroes of Indian history
- alongside Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Preetilata
Wadedar - who took up arms against the
colonisers.
The Memoirs of
Shardaben Mehta
Compiled and
Translated by
Purnima Mehta Bhatt
This short memoir movingly recounts the story of

her involvement in the shooting of the British
Governor of Bengal, Stanley Jackson, at the
Annual Convocation Meeting of Calcutta
University in 1932, her subsequent
incarceration, and her growing involvement in
politics.
Introduction by
Svati Joshi
Despite her importance in Indian history, Bina

Das disappeared from public view in later life
and is rumoured to have passed away in
Rishikesh in early 1997. This account captures
the early years of her life and gives insights into
the context and history of the times that inspired
Bina to take the path that she chose.
This book, made up of short pieces that she

wrote at regular intervals for publication, tells the
story of Shardabens life and times, giving us
insights into Indian history, viewed from the point
of view of a participant in the freedom
movement, and provides rich insight into the
area of womens education and the many
campaigns in which they were involved. As well,
it documents a life of intellectual companionship
and action, one committed to womens freedom
and independence.
Dhira Dhar, former professor of English

literature and a social worker.
9788189013646
144pp
HB
` 350.00
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Memories of a
Rolling Stone
Vina Mazumdar
This endearing, witty, self-deprecating memoir

documents the life of one of the leading
feminists of the contemporary Indian women's
movement. Vina Mazumdar, one of the key
researchers and writers of the landmark report of
the Committee on the Status of Women in India,
Towards Equality, here documents her early life,
her gradual politicization in a household of
liberal, educated Bengalis, and her involvement
in women's issues and the women's movement.
Purnima Mehta Bhatt is a Professor of History,

Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Studies at
Hood College in U.S.A.
Svati Joshi teaches English at Miranda House,
Delhi University.
9788189013653
Fragments
of a Life
A Family Archive
Mythili Sivaraman
` 595.00
This is the life story of Subbalakshmi married

at 11 years of age and a mother at 14 in the
early 20th century. Hers is yet another instance
in the long annals of women whose aspirations,
abilities, selfhood, the right to dream and to rebel
have been snuffed out by patriarchy.
9788189013110
200pp
ZUBAAN
Vina Mazumdar was the founder of the Centre

for Women's Development Studies, New Delhi.
PB
HB
Mythili Sivaraman, a political and social activist

of thirty years standing is currently the National
Vice-President of the All India Democratic
Womens Association.
An activist and institution builder, Vinadi set up

the Centre for Women's Development Studies in
Delhi, one of the leading research and outreach
institutions for women in the country. In this rare
memoir, Vinadi provides a rich history of the
contemporary women's movement in India.
192pp
332pp
ZUBAAN
Brought up to be outspoken and frank, Vinadi,

as she is affectionately known, began by
becoming involved in university-led politics in
Calcutta. Marriage and a young family did not
prevent her from pursuing her studies and her
career, in the teeth of considerable opposition
from relatives but with constant support from her
mother. On her return to India, Vinadi first moved
into the field of education, and then, with her
involvement in the research and writing of
Towards Equality, was catapulted into the
women's movement.
9788189884529
In the affluent and confident capitalist society of

nineteenth century Gujarat, debates on social
reform, including womens reform, were
conducted entirely by men, and were largely of
academic interest since the historical transition
to British rule had brought about little change in
the existing social structure. In this context, the
interventions of Shardaben Mehta, a progressive
educationist and social worker, represented a
pioneering attempt by a woman in the early
twentieth century at questioning, analyzing and
changing the conditions of womens lives. The
story of her life, as told by her in this memoir, is
not that of an individual woman struggling to
realize her personal aspirations, rather it is the
story of an educated woman, equipped with
independent views and fearless convictions,
determined to open up a space for other women
to enable them to experience the freedom and
joy denied to them in their daily lives in a
patriarchal society.
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` 395.00
Song Sung True

A Memoir
Malka Pukhraj
Saleem Kidwai
(ed & translator)
Murder Without
Borders
In this remarkable, witty and candid account,

Malka Pukhraj recalls her rich and eventful life,
My birth, she begins, was nothing short of a
miracle. Then, in her simple and inimitable style,
she takes us through her childhood as a court
singer, her absorption in her music, and her
gradual understanding of the intrigues of court
life. From singing and dancing, to acting, from
childhood to adolescence and romance, and
finally to marriage and family, the author brings
the reader close to her sorrows and joys, her
dilemmas and concerns, and ends with a moving
and poignant account of the acceptance of old
age, and all that it brings with it.
Dying for the Story in

the Worlds Most
Dangerous Places
Terry Gould
Saleem Kidwai is a historian who taught at

Delhi University.
9788186706602
378pp
PB
` 295.00
ZUBAAN
MEDIA STUDIES
Bollywood and
Globalization
Indian Popular
Cinema, Nation, and
Diaspora
Rini Bhattacharya
Mehta & Rajeshwari V.
Pandharipande (eds)
NEW
9788188861118
News as Culture
Journalistic Practices
and the Remaking of
Indian Leadership
Traditions
Ursula Rao
Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande, Professor,

Linguistics, Religion & Comparative Literature,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
PB
400pp
PB
` 395.00
IMPRINTONE
Rini Bhattacharya Mehta, Visiting Assistant

Professor, Comparative & World Literature,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
210pp
Organizations such as the Committee to Protect

Journalists and Reporters sans frontiers bring us
the death toll from around the world, and that
number is truly daunting: since 1992 more than
835 journalists have been killed - nearly threequarters of them targeted and assassinated.
Over 90 percent of the fallen have been local
journalists trying to unveil violence and
corruption in their own backyards. Worse, 95
percent of the people who ordered their murders
remain unpunished. These shocking numbers,
however, do not help us to know the journalists
who have sacrificed literally everything for the
story. And so, for four years, investigative
reporter Terry Gould has given himself over to
that quest, traveling to the five countries in which
it is most dangerous to be a journalist - Iraq, the
Philippines, Russia, Columbia and Bangladesh
in order to bring us back unforgettable portraits
of seven murdered journalists who carried on
despite death threats from terrorists, corrupt
politicians, gangsters and paramilitary leaders.
Terry Gould is a Brooklyn-born investigative
journalist who focuses on organized crime and
social issues.
Commercial cinema has always been one of the

biggest indigenous industries in India, and
remains so in the post-globalization era, when
Indian economy has entered a new phase of
global participation, liberalization and expansion.
Issues of community, gender, society, social and
economic justice, bourgeois-liberal individualism,
secular nationhood and ethnic identity are
nowhere more explored in the Indian cultural
mainstream than in commercial cinema. As
Indian economy and policy have gone through a
sea-change after the end of the Cold War and
the commencement of the Global Capital, the
largest cultural industry has followed suit. This
book is a significant addition to the study of postGlobal Indian culture. The articles represent a
variety of theoretical and pedagogical
approaches, and the collection will be
appreciated by beginners and scholars alike.
9789380601342
Where do journalists find the guts to keep telling

the truth?
At the turn of the millennium, Indian journalism

has undergone significant changes. The rapid
commercialization of the press, together with an
increase in literacy and political consciousness,
has led to swift growth in the newspaper market
but also changed the way news makers mediate
politics. Positioned at a historical junction where
India is clearly feeling the effects of market
liberalization, News as Culture demonstrates
how journalists and informants interactively
create new forms of political action and
consciousness. The book explores English and
Hindi news making and investigates the creation
of news relations during the production process
and how they affect political images and
leadership traditions. It moves beyond the newsroom to outline the role of journalists in urban
society, the social lives of news texts and the
way citizens bring their ideas and desires to bear
on the news discourse.
This important volume contributes to an
emerging debate about the impact of the media
on Indian society. Furthermore, it convincingly
demonstrates the inseparable link between
media related practices and dynamic cultural
repertoires.
` 495.00
ANTHEM PRESS
Ursula Rao is Senior Lecturer of Anthropology

and Sociology at the University of New South
Wales in Sydney, Australia. She has worked in
the fields of Media Anthropology, Religious
Anthropology and Ritual Studies.
9788175967861
236pp
HB
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My
BrotherNikhil
The Screenplay
Onir
Leave Disco
Dancer Alone
Set in Goa between 1987 and 1994, the film

traces the life of Nikhil Kapoor: the state allround swimming champion. A committed
sportsman, Nikhils life changes radically when
he finds out that he is HIV-positive. Even as he
faces harassment from authorities and
heartbreaking rejection from his parents, the
only two people who stand by him in his fight for
justice, life, love and dignity are his sister
Anamika and his boyfriend Nigel. Published for
the first time, the screenplay of this powerful yet
poignant film, brings Nikhils story back for its
fans with the same intensity as the motion
picture. The text of the film is supported by stills
from the film, as well as short pieces by the
director Onir and actor Sanjay Suri about how
this pathbreaking film, the first mainstream Hindi
film about a homosexual individual, was made
and how it changed their lives for ever.
Indian Cinema and

Soviet Movie-Going
After Stalin
Sudha Rajagopalan
A rare film that breaks from the safe path of ofttold stories and instead dares to touch you and
to move you...Shabana Azmi
...one of the most sensitively handled Hindi films
in recent memory.Rajeev Masand
9789380403014
136pp
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` 350.00
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Television in India
Satellites, Politics and
Cultural Change
Nalin Mehta (ed)
Sudha Rajagopalan is an independent scholar

and writer, currently based in the Netherlands.
This book examines the development of

television in India since the early 1990s, and its
implications for Indian society more widely. Until
1991, India possessed only a single state-owned
television channel, but since then there has
been a rapid expansion in independent satellite
channels which came as a complete break from
the statist control of the past. This book explores
this transformation, explaining how television, a
medium that developed in the industrial West,
was adapted to suit Indian conditions, and in
turn has altered Indian social practices, making
possible new ways of imagining identities,
conducting politics and engaging with the state.
In particular, satellite television initially came to
India as the representative of global capitalism
but it was appropriated by Indian entrepreneurs
and producers who Indianized it. Considering
the full gamut of Indian television - from
"national" networks in English and Hindi to the
state of regional language networks - this book
elucidates the transformative impact of television
on a range of important social practices,
including politics and democracy, sport and
identity formation, cinema and popular culture.
Overall, it shows how the story of television in
India is also the story of India's encounter with
the forces of globalisation.
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9788190618601 292pp
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Filming the Gods

Religion and Indian
Cinema
Rachel Dwyer
184pp
HB
Filming the Gods examines the role and

depiction of religion in Indian cinema, showing
that the relationship between the modern and
the traditional in contemporary India is not
exotic, but part of everyday life. Concentrating
mainly on the Hindi cinema of Mumbai,
Bollywood, it also discusses Indias other
cinemas.
Rachel Dwyers lively discussion encompasses
the mythological genre which continues Indias
long tradition of retelling Hindu myths and
legends, and draws on sources such as the
national epics of the Mahabharata and the
Ramayana; the devotional genre, which
flourished at the height of the nationalist
movement in the 1930s and 1940s; and the films
made in Bombay that depict Indias Islamicate
culture, including the historical, the courtesan
film and the Muslim social genre. Filming the
Gods also examines the presence of the
religious across other genres and how cinema
represents religious communities and their
beliefs and practices.
Nalin Mehta, a former DFID Commonwealth

scholar has over 10 years of experience as a
broadcast journalist, most recently as Deputy
News Editor and news presenter at Times Now,
one of India's most popular 24-hour English
news networks.
9780415447591
In this important new book, Sudha Rajagopalan

explores the consumption of Indian popular
cinema in post-Stalinist Soviet society. In doing
so, she highlights the enthusiastic response
Indian popular films and their stars received from
the Soviet audience as well as the discursive
and institutional context in which this
consumption occurred from the mid-fifties till the
end of the Soviet era in 1991. The death of
Stalin in 1953 was followed by the introduction of
important changes in government policy in the
Soviet Union, including a relative liberalization of
leisure and culture which revealed the states
resurgent interest in addressing popular tastes.
The renewed import and screening of foreign
entertainment films in the Soviet Union was one
of the most visible outcomes of this change.
Drawing on oral history methodology and
archival research in Russia, the author analyses
the ways in which Soviet movie-goers, policy
makers, critics and sociologists responded to,
interpreted and debated Indian cinema in the
Soviet Union between 1954 and the end of the
eighties. The book includes contemporary press
and archival photos which capture the rapturous
reception given to actors like Raj Kapoor, Nargis,
Shashi Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan and Mithun
Chakraborty as well as Soviet film posters
announcing films like Awara, Betaab and
Chandni.
Rachel Dwyer is a Reader in Indian Studies and

Cinema at the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS), University of London.
` 795.00
ROUTLEDGE
9780415314251
208pp
PB
ROUTLEDGE
110
` 445.00
Stephen Wagg is Reader in Sport and Society

at Roehampton University, UK.
SPORTS
The Cambridge
Companion to
Cricket
Anthony Bateman &
Jeffrey Hill (eds)
9780203014608
Few other team sports can equal the global
reach of cricket. Rich in history and tradition, it is
both quintessentially English and expansively
international, a game that has evolved and
changed dramatically in recent times.
Demonstrating how the history of cricket and its
international popularity is entwined with British
imperial expansion, this book examines the
social and political impact of the game in a
variety of cultural sites: the West Indies, India,
Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia and
New Zealand. An international team of
contributors explores the enduring influence of
cricket on English identity, examines why cricket
has seized the imagination of so many literary
figures and provides profiles of iconic players
including Bradman, Lara and Tendulkar.
Presenting a global panoramic view of crickets
complicated development, its unique adaptability
and its political and sporting controversies, the
book provides a rich insight into a unique
sporting and cultural heritage.
Sport in South
Asian Society
Past and Present
Boria Majumdar &
J.A. Mangan (eds)
` 895.00
This book explores the role of sport within the

context of South Asian society. Academics have
largely overlooked this fascinating discussion
and this collection of essays seeks to remedy
this oversight. It reveals that sport can not only
be used in many instances as a barometer of the
political dynamics of society and a reflection of
South Asian culture, it has also influenced these
structures. For example, in many instances
traditional notions of class divides and gender
roles are challenged and subverted in sport,
making its role and contribution to the fabric of
South Asian Society extremely valuable.
J.A. Mangan is a Fellow of the Royal Historical

Society and the founding editor of the journals,
International Journal of the History of Sport,
Culture, Sport and Society and Soccer and
Society.
Jeffrey Hill is Emeritus Professor of Historical

and Cultural Studies at De Montfort University,
Leicester, UK.
9780415359535
355pp
PB
` 495.00
ROUTLEDGE
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9781107601949 308pp
PB
` 395.00
GENERAL
Stephen Wagg (ed)
HB
Boria Majumdar, a Rhodes Scholar, recently

completed his doctorate on the social history of
Indian Cricket at St. Johns College, Oxford
University.
Anthony Bateman is a freelance writer and

editor and an Honorary Visiting Research Fellow
at the International Centre for Sports History and
Culture at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK.
Cricket & National

Identity in the
Postcolonial Age
292pp
ROUTLEDGE
Mukhwas
Mention cricket and some still think of the gentle

game played on a village green in England,
where leather thuds against willow, slumbering
spectators mutter Good shot, sir and church
bells toll in the middle distanceBut this cricket
- and that England - is as outdated as the idea of
Empire, and the game today is as much about
cable television, huge crowds at one-day
internationals in Mumbai or Islamabad, or floodlit
Twenty20 games timed to maximise broadcast
advertising revenue. Bringing together leading
writers on cricket and society, this important new
book places cricket in the postcolonial life of the
major Test-playing countries, exploring the
culture, politics, governance and economics of
cricket in the twenty-first century. It covers Cricket in the new Commonwealth: in Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, the Caribbean and India - The cricket
cultures of Australia, New Zealand and postapartheid South Africa - Cricket in England since
the 1950s. Cricket and National Identity in the
Postcolonial Age is an original political and
historical study of the games development in a
range of countries. It provides accessible and
stimulating discussion of the major issues,
including race, migration, globalisation,
neoliberal economics, religion and sectarianism
and the media.
Indian Food Through

the Ages
Alka Pande
NEW
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Food in India has a long and glorious tradition,

having been influenced by climate and
geography, history and politics, religion and
ritual, social customs and relationships.
Mukhwas is a singular and personal attempt at
untangling the various strands of this rich food
culture and exploring the current state of Indian
cuisine. While keeping in mind that the best food
in India is most likely to be had in someones
home, Mukhwas also delves into the theory that
food is one of the great unifying topics in India.
Despite its diversity, we Indians are remarkably
intermingled when it comes to what we eat.
Rich with anecdotes, literary quotes and recipes,
Mukhwas will kindle in the reader a romance
with food and an appreciation of its flavor or
rasa. The book also serves as a warning that
we are as much in danger of becoming a
puritanical nation obsessed with diet and with
becoming the perfect Size Zero, as of falling
prey to the lure and convenience of junk food.
Simultaneously, however, a welcome process of
rediscovery of indigenous food wisdom and
wealth is underway in India, and this book will be
a major contribution in that direction. As the
interest in traditional recipes and ethnic foods
increases, the time is ripe for an appreciation of
the dynamic and multilayered marvel that is
Indian food.
Vandana Wadhwa is Lecturer in the Department

of Geography and Environment at Boston
University, Boston, Massachusetts.
Dr Alka Pande is a prolific writer on Indology

and art history and the author of several wellacclaimed books, some of which have been
translated into foreign languages.
9788188861163
162pp
PB
Baleshwar Thakur is the former Head of the

Department of Geography, Delhi School of
Economics, University of Delhi, and former ViceChancellor of Lalit Narain Mithila University,
Darbhanga.
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Ragi-Ragini
Chronicles from Ajis
Kitchen
Anjali Purohit
Frank J. Costa is Professor Emeritus in

Geography, Planning, Urban Studies and Public
Administration at the University of Akron, USA.
Ragi, which is known by many names - Nachani,

Nagli, Kelvaragu, Mutthari, Coracano, or finger
millet - is a much neglected wonder food and an
indigenous grain that has been grown and
consumed in Indias rural areas for centuries.
Ragi-Ragini is a collection of ragi recipestraditional ones, variations of the traditional as
well as entirely new innovations. The author
believes that Ragi has the potential to take a
weak and ailing body and lead it towards health,
wisdom and self-realisation, and she infuses her
recipes with this faith. The recipes are
accompanied by a sparkling little tale about a
little girl called Ragini, her life with her genius
grandmother Aji and fiesty Masi in a small,
coastal Konkan village, and the transcendental
ragi grain. Adorning the narrative and recipes
are ovis or verses composed by the renowned
Maharashtrian poet Bahinabai which have been
sung by generations of women while going
about their daily chores, and which talk about
the life, work and concerns of women in the
region. This unusual little book by Anjali Purohit
not only offers simple tips to include ragi in your
daily diet, but is also a delight to read!
9788175968011
Interleaves
Ruminations on
Illness and Spiritual
Life
Lata Mani
108pp
PB
International and
Indian Perspectives
Ashok K. Dutt,
Vandana Wadhwa,
Baleshwar Thakur &
Frank J. Costa (eds)
` 1480.00
Interleaves is a paean to the transformative

potential of catastrophic life changes. It records
the twin journeys in Lata Manis life in the wake
of a head injury she sustained in 1993: her
baptism of fire into disability and her
spontaneous awakening to Devi, the Divine
Mother, in context of this crisis. Through
contemplative writing, poetry and cultural
criticism of the way society perceives illness, it
invites the reader to join her as she witnesses,
honors, grieves and celebrates her experience,
and in the process radically revises her prior
sense of the very meaning, purpose and
promise of life.
9789380403182
148pp
PB
` 195.00
YODA PRESS
` 150.00
Human Rights
and Law
YODA PRESS
Facets of Social
Geography
HB
Lata Mani is a historian, poet and cultural critic.
Anjali Purohit is a Mumbai-based artist who

also writes fiction and poetry.
9789380403045
666pp
FOUNDATION BOOKS
Bonded Labour
in India
Facets of Social Geography: International and

Indian Perspectives provides a breadth of
information on the nature, scope, history and
evolution of social geography along with a good
representation of approaches and techniques
used in this field. It discusses both conceptual
and empirical approaches, and traditional and
emergent social geography themes including art
and culture, urbanism and crime, social
institutions of caste, class and religion, gender,
disability, activism, feminism, social planning,
enterprise zones, social and economic
inequities, post-colonialism, post-modernism and
development of quantitative, qualitative and
mixed methods. Indias social structure based on
centuries-old Karma principles and a four-level
caste system are dealt with in this book to help
unravel the countrys social geography.
Ramesh Kumar Tiwari
Human Rights and Law: Bonded Labour in India

deals with the problem of debt bondage and the
way it has been treated during the British as well
as in the post-independence period. Analysis
has been made of the motivations for carrying
out the reform; the processes involved in
formulating the legislation, contributions by
different agencies, discussion in the parliament,
etc. The two legislations: the Indian Slavery Act,
1843 and bonded labour system (Abolition) Act,
1976 provide a comparative perspective in the
making of social legislation in two different
historical settings and different political systems.
The statute on debt and its enforcement has
been carried out by four distinct political
authorities. India under the Company, India
under the Crown; Provincial Governments
(19371939); and Independent India. The
problems in the enforcement of the statutes
have been analyzed drawing evidence from
modern Indian history, state-society relationship,
motivations of the officials and the political
context of administration.
This book is a felicitation volume in honour of

Allen G. Noble, Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Geography and Planning at the
University of Akron, Ohio, USA. A result of the
collective effort of 40 leading national and
international scholars, it is an excellent addition
to the current stock of knowledge.
Ramesh Kumar Tiwari, formerly Professor of

Public Administration, Indian Institute of Public
Administration.
Ashok K. Dutt is Professor Emeritus in

Geography, Planning and Urban Studies at the
University of Akron, USA.
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The Rajah of
Darjeeling
Organic Tea
Makaibari
Rajah Banerjee
Our Indian
Railway
The Rajah of Darjeeling Organic Tea is about

Makaibari the first tea garden in the Himalayan
Highlands. This book captures the magic of
Makaibari and provides a rare glimpse of one of
Darjeelings greatest characters the
Thunderbolt Rajah.
Themes in Indias
Railway History
Roopa Srinivasan,
Manish Tiwari &
Sandeep Silas (eds)
Rajah Banerjee is a living legend in Darjeeling.

As an environmental investigator, he has studied
the huge and magnificent model, Makaibari, for
years. He is a follower of Rudolf Steiner the
Austrian philosopher who founded the
biodynamic agriculture movement, the
predecessor to organic farming. Based on
Steiners biodynamic principles, Rajah converted
Makaibari to an organic tea estate in 1988,
abjuring the accepted practice of maximising
yields through artificial fertilisers and pesticides.
Rajah moves on foot and horseback, interacting
and learning from everyone who crosses his
path the lone traveller, the tea estate residents,
social activists, visiting scholars and
agronomists, to name a few.
Roopa Srinivasan is an officer of the Indian

Railway Accounts Service and is presently
Deputy Chief Accounts Officer with Northern
Railways.
The Rajah of Darjeeling Organic Tea chronicles

the evolution of Makaibari, a homestead which,
by merely addressing and redressing its
problems on the ground and from the ground,
has become an ideal, a panchavati, where the
home and the forest are merged in identity. It is
an outstanding archetype of human beings in
nature, producing peace, not just tea leaves of
extraordinary quality. Makaibari is a vedic village
of which ayurvedic tea is a mere by-product, and
not its singular identity.
Manish Tiwari, an Indian Railway Traffic Service

Officer, presently works as Joint Director,
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Sandeep Silas, an IRTS officer of the 1983
exam, has evolved as a travel writer, poet,
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Rajah Banerjee is a champion of the organic

tea movement, a social activist for tea labourers
and small organic farmers, an anthropologist
who works tirelessly to preserve the cultural
heritage of the Himalayan region and an
environmentalist who fights to conserve its rich
biodiversity.
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This book commemorates 150 years of railways

in India. Introduced under colonial rule in the
second half of the nineteenth century, the
railways soon embraced the length and breadth
of India bringing with it rapid political, economic,
ecological and cultural changes. The articles in
this book explore the impact of this technological
phenomenon from a range of interdisciplinary
perspectives. From early railway thinking in
renaissance Bengal, to railway policing in Uttar
Pradesh and issues of management to railway
themes in literature, the writers in this volume
reveal the world of the railways in all its exciting
facets. The photo essay invokes the nostalgic
world of steam with a series of evocative
images. In the twenty-first century, the ever
expanding horizon of the railways continues to
draw in people and goods in the third largest
railway network in the world.
Namita Gokhale (ed)
We live in a heroic age, where fashion models,

television stars, politicians, sportspersons and
other mythic figures straddle the mediascape to
enact their public and private dramas before us.
Their larger-than lives belong to the public
domain and have become a part of the reservoir
of subliminal consciousness. Lost in the aureate
haze of their own fame, they inhabit a
stratosphere accessible only to other rarefied
beings, often ending up tragically believing their
own hype.
Living in the age of celebrity, we seem to know
everything about these maharathis who
overshadow our everyday lives with theirs, and
yet, paradoxically, on examination we know very
little.
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anthology seeks to view them outside the
trivialization of the Page Three phenomenon and
the commodification of the PR firms, beyond the
narrow perspectives of ideological prejudice and
political correctness.
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Love in South
Asia
A Cultural History
Francesca Orsini (ed)
Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and

language play a crucial role in defining it. Idioms
of love have a long history, and within every
society there is always more than one discourse,
be it prescriptive, religious, or gender-specific,
available at any given time. This book explores
the idioms of love that have developed in South
Asia, those words, conceptual clusters, images
and stories which have interlocked and grown
into repertoires. Including essays by literary
scholars, historians, anthropologists, film
historians and political theorists, the collection
unravels the interconnecting strands in the
history of the concept (shringara, ishq, prem
and love) and maps their significance in
literary, oral and visual traditions. Each essay
examines a particular configuration and meaning
of love on the basis of genre, tellers and
audiences, and the substantial introduction sets
out the main repertoires.
The Origins of
Himalayan Studies
Brian Houghton
Hodgson in Nepal and
Darjeeling 1820-1858
David M. Waterhouse
Francesca Orsini is Lecturer in Hindi at the

University of Cambridge.
9788175964334
380pp
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Brian Houghton Hodgson was a nineteenthcentury administrator and scholar who lived in
Nepal, where he was the British Resident from
1820 until 1843. After this he worked as an
independent scholar in Darjeeling until 1858.
During his time in the Himalayas, Hodgson, with
extraordinary dedication, laid the foundations for
the study of the eastern Himalayan region,
writing about many aspects of life and culture.
He was among the first westerners to take an
interest in Buddhism, both writing about it and
collecting manuscripts. He is perhaps best
known for his work as an ornithologist and
zoologist, writing around 130 papers and
commissioning from Nepalese artists a unique
series of drawings of birds and mammals. He
also wrote about and recorded details of the
buildings and architecture of the Kathmandu
valley and wrote a series of ethnographic and
linguistic papers on Nepal and the Himalayan
region. Hodgson donated his collection of
writings, specimens and drawings to libraries
and museums in Europe, much of which still
needs detailed examination.
David M. Waterhouse is a Vice-President of the
Royal Asiatic Society.
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Tramjatra
Imagining Melbourne
and Kolkata by
Tramways
Mick Douglas (ed)
Tramjatra undertakes a journey between Kolkata

(India) and Melbourne (Australia) through the
medium of tramways. This new form of creative
globalization from below, built on friendship and
dialogue, shows a way forward.
A Dictionary of
Muslim Names
Salahuddin Ahmed
Mick Douglas is an artist and senior lecturer in

the School of Architecture & Design at RMIT in
Melbourne.
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Story of the Delhi

Iron Pillar
R. Balasubramaniam
Story of The Delhi Iron Pillar traces the history of

the pillar located in the Qutab Complex and
describes its structure in detail. It unravels the
mystery behind the resistance of the pillar to
corrosion for more than sixteen centuries. It also
discusses the amazing processes by which the
pillar was manufactured using the technical
know-how available at the time.
R. Balasubramaniam has been teaching and
conducting research at the Indian Institute of
Technology, Kanpur since 1990.
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304pp
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ROUTLEDGE
Throughout the world Muslims share similar

names, be they in the Middle East, the Indian
subcontinent, South-East Asia or new migrants
in the West. And it should not be forgotten that
the first thing Allah taught Adam was names.
The predominant language in Muslim names is
Arabic, followed by Persian (Farsi), the two
major languages which transmitted Muslim
culture in its early stages and later expansion.
An important source of Muslim names consists
of the ninety-nine attributes of Allah mentioned in
the Quran and the hadith. According to Islamic
belief, the relationship between man and his
Creator is that of servant and master, and
therefore a Muslim feels gratified to be named
as a servant of one of the attributes of Allah. The
purpose of this dictionary is to give the meaning
or bearing on Islamic heritage of the words,
Arabic or Persian, which form parts of Muslim
names. By way of illustration, it gives references
to Muslims who left their mark on history in
different ages, in different fields, and in various
parts of the world. Where appropriate, The
Quran is cited. Therefore it is not merely a
compilation of Muslim names but a reference
work pertaining to the broad field of Islam. For
most people, a name appears more significant
when it is identified as having been borne by an
Imam, a Khalifa, a Mujahid (fighter for the cause
of Islam), a Sultan, a saint, an author or a jurist
who shaped the history of Islam.
Salahuddin Ahmed, born in East Pakistan (now
Bangladesh), is a barrister of Lincolns Inn and
the Australian Supreme Court.
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A Struggle for Identity
the radical doctrine of Virasaivism, Madavayya, a Brahmin and

Haralayya, a Dalit, got their son and daughter married. This defiant
act led to the massacre of Virasaivites at Kalyana, the capital of the
Western Chalukya kingdom. The poetry of Basava, the founder of
the Virasaivite movement, represents the total erosion of caste
norms within this radical movement. This anthology looks at radical
movements like Virasaivism which provided alternative space for the
oppressed to tell their own story.
Muslim Women in United Province

Firdous Azmat Siddiqui
This book is an attempt to understand
the social and economic profile of Muslim
Women in India and to shed light on the
conditions of Indian Muslim women in the
United Province, particularly after 1857.
This period is significant for the Muslim
society as it was undergoing social and
economic transition especially with the
Mughal dynasty reaching its end.
Vijaya Ramaswamy is professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru

University. Currently she is a Senior Fellow at Nehru Memorial
Museum and Library, New Delhi.
9789382993193
The issues that have been explored in the book are:

Educational status of Muslim women and to what extent Western
thought influenced the curriculum of women education system
Perceptions of the Western writers towards Indian Muslim women
How and why is 1857 a turning point for the gender debates on
Muslim women in India
Locating different shades of Muslim women's lives in the
emerging hierarchal social order
How does caste system influence their mobility? The purpose
here is to break established stereotypes about Muslim women
and society.
From Subjects to Citizens

Society and the Everyday State in
India and Pakistan, 1947-1970
Taylor C. Sherman, William Gould
and Sarah Ansari
This book explores the shift from colonial
rule to independence in India and
Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the
explicit meaning and relevance of
'independence' for the new citizens of
India and Pakistan during the two
decades post 1947. While the study of
postcolonial South Asia has blossomed in recent years, this volume
addresses a number of imbalances in this dynamic and highly
popular field. Firstly, the histories of India and Pakistan after 1947
have been conceived separately, with many scholars assuming that
the two states developed along divergent paths after independence.
Thus, the dominant historical paradigm has been to examine either
India or Pakistan in relative isolation from one another. While a
handful of very recent books on the partition of the subcontinent
have begun to study the two states simultaneously, very few of these
new histories reach beyond the immediate concerns of partition. Of
course, both countries developed out of much the same set of
historical experiences. Viewing the two states in the same frame not
only allows the contributors of this issue to explore common themes,
but also facilitates an exploration of the powerful continuities
between the pre- and post-independence periods.
Firdous Azmat Siddiqui teaches at Sarojini Naidu Centre for

Women's Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.
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Besides the book critically looks at the influence of how the new
colonial judicial system weakened traditional customs and questions
whether this legal system was beneficial to Muslim women or
whether it enhanced its complexities.
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Devotion and Dissent

in Indian History
Vijaya Ramaswamy
This book is an attempt to break stereotypical notions about religion and its
influence on social change. Since
religious conformity, sometimes
amounting to fundamentalism, is an
over-worked theme, this collection of
articles focuses exclusively on the
radical face of dissent. Devotion and
dissent have gone hand in hand within
many of the religious movements in India such as the Bhagavata
Movement of the Tamil country, the Virasaivite, Lingayat movement
of Karnataka and the Warkari movement of Maharashtra.
Taylor C. Sherman is lecturer at Department of International History,

London School of Economics.
William Gould is professor of Indian History at School of History,
University of Leeds.
Sarah Ansari is reader at Department of History, Royal Holloway,
The spiritual realm has provided unexpected spaces for the

marginalized voices in our collective social past. The voices of the
'Dalit' saints are clearly audible in the Virasaivite or Lingayat
movement in twelfth century Karnataka. Many of the Shiv Sharanas
and Shiv Sharanes (male and female Lingayat saints respectively)
came from the working class and quite a few of them belonged to
the untouchable castes like the Medara and Madivala (basketmakers and washermen). The movement reached its climax during
the reign of King Bijjala (twelfth century) when under the influence of
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at various strategies by social movement actors to combat domestic
violence in India.
Mapping Social
Exclusion in India
Caste, Religion and Borderlands
9789382993452
Paramjit S. Judge
Mapping Social Exclusion in India
assesses the problem of defining
exclusion, the need for its
contextualization and establishes a
relationship between social exclusion,
deprivation and discrimination. It studies
the distinctive character of Indian
society and system marked with the
existence of exclusionary practices and structures on the basis of
caste. The usage of the concept of exclusion is more inclusive than
any other competing concepts of discrimination or deprivation,
though these concepts are interchangeably used to denote it. It is,
therefore, important to conceptualize exclusion and, in the process,
come across different shades of its interpretations.
210pp
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Monetary Policy, Sovereign

Debt and Financial Stability
The New Trilemma
Deepak Mohanty (ed)
This volume brings together the papers
presented at the second international
research conference of the Reserve
Bank of India. The global financial crisis
and the following Euro-zone sovereign
debt crisis have since changed the art
and science of central banking in a
fundamental way. It challenged the
stereotypical view that price stability and financial stability
complement each other as the global financial sector came to the
brink of collapse in the midst of a period of extraordinary price
stability. Post crisis, central banks across the globe continue to
grapple with the new trilemma of pursuing with the objectives of
monetary policy, sovereign debt and financial stability in a coordinated fashion.
The social phenomenon of exclusion that mars societies globally is

studied by various scholars who put together their diverse research,
studies, perceptions and ideas and, most importantly, their years of
expertise to focus on a central theme of social exclusion in Indian
society. This cohesive volume highlights the causal link between
discrimination and exploitation. The contributors study the role of the
state as an interventionist force and look into the mobilization
strategy as a reaction to exclusion. They take a critical look at the
reservation policy and argue that state intervention creates certain
new forms of exclusion.
The authors address several issues raised in this volume: Is this

trilemma a new impossible trinity or a holy trinity? What are the
implication of this expanded mandate for the effectiveness and
autonomy of central banks? Does it indicate the return of fiscal
dominance on monetary policy? Is fiscal responsibility more than a
question of monetary policy independence? Is the interaction
between sovereign debt management and monetary policy an
important determinant of market confidence? Is co-ordination among
central banks to assess the implications of their policies on global
liquidity and spillovers relevant for global financial stability?
Paramjit S. Judge is Professor, Department of Sociology, Guru

Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India.
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Witches, Tea Plantations, and

Lives of Migrant Laborers in
India
Deepak Mohanty is Executive Director at the head office of Reserve

Bank of India in Mumbai. He is one of the premier economists of the
nation. Dr Mohanty has also served in the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) as senior adviser and worked in various positions in
economic research and monetary policy departments of the RBI.
Soma Chaudhuri
Bringing together a holistic theoretical
perspective drawing from sociology,
anthropology, and postcolonial history,
the author argues that witchcraft
accusations among the adivasi worker
communities in the tea plantations of
West Bengal are a protest against the
plantation management. Thus the witchcraft accusations are not as
'exotic and primitive rituals of a backward' adivasi community during
times of stress, but rather as a powerful protest organized by a
marginalized community against its oppressors. The book also
illuminates how witchcraft accusations should be interpreted within
the backdrop of labor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity
of power, patronage, and social distance.
9789382993209
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Soma Chaudhuri is assistant professor in the Department of

Sociology and School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State
University. Her research focuses on violence social movements,
gender and witch hunts. Some of her current projects include looking
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Two Decades of ASEAN-India
Relations
India's Healthcare Industry

Innovation in Healthcare Delivery,
Financing, and Manufacturing
Prospects and Challenges for

Mekong-India Cooperation
Lawton Robert Burns (ed)
Prabir De (ed)
This book analyzes the historical

development and current state of India's
healthcare industry. It describes three
sets of institutions that deliver healthcare
services, finance these services, and
manufacture products used in these
services. These institutions provide
healthcare (hospitals, physicians,
pharmacies, and diagnostic laboratories), pay for healthcare
(individuals who pay out-of-pocket, insurance companies,
community insurance schemes, government ministries), and
produce the technology used in healthcare delivery
(pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and medical devices). The volume
also discusses innovative efforts to raise capital for the development
of these sectors. Finally, it includes three interesting case studies of
innovative models of healthcare delivery (L V Prasad, Aravind, and
Vaatsalya), as well as analyses of other innovative organizations like
Narayana Hrudayalaya and the hospital chains.
Twenty years of the India-ASEAN

Dialogue Partnership is commemorated
in 2012. The relationship has come a
long way, from a sectoral dialogue
partnership in 1992 to full dialogue
status in 1995. This book discusses the
economic integration, economic
challenges, the emerging regional cooperation architecture in the
Asia-Pacific region and ways of overcoming the challenges. This
edited volume has several research papers dealing with crosscutting issues of ASEAN-India relations and prescribes a roadmap
for strengthening the relations.
Prabir De is Associate Professor at Research and Information
System for Developing Countries (RIS), India Habitat Centre, New
Delhi.
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The contributors to the volume include Wharton faculty members,

graduates of Wharton's healthcare MBA program, and executives
and consultants from India. They collaborated to develop and deliver
the core course on India's healthcare industry at the Indian School of
Business.
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R. K. Narayan
An Introduction (Contemporary Indian Writers in English)
Lawton Robert Burns is James Joo-Jin Kim Professor and Chair of

the Health Care Management Department at the Wharton School,
University of Pennsylvania. He is Director at the Wharton Center for
Health Management and Economics and Co-Director of the Roy and
Diana Vagelos Program in Life Sciences and Management at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Mohan G. Ramanan
This book presents multifarious critical perspectives on R. K.
Narayan, and attempts to evaluate Narayan in the light of
contemporary concerns, without ignoring his essential, rootedness in
his Indian inheritance. R. K. Narayan: An Introduction, seeks to
explore the central motifs of Narayan works, such as
his relation to Reality and his engagement with it
his recurring themes of myth-making and mythological
parallelisms
the political and social angles which inform his work
the religious and spiritual dimensions which act as a broad
framework
his examination of the eternal transcendental principle, shaping
and directing life
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The book evaluates Narayans narratives in Bakhtinian terms and

presents a post-colonial/ post-modern outlook to Narayans works
which would appeal both to the critic as well as the informed reader.
Professor Mohan G. Ramanan teaches at the Department of
English, University of Hyderabad, India.
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