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Sociology & Anthropology Textbooks
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SOCIOLOGY
CONTENTSSociology ......................................................................................................................... 1Anthropology ................................................................................................................ 14
Gender, Conflict andPeace in KashmirInvisible Stakeholders
Seema Shekhawat
This book demonstrates that gender is a key component of conflict andpeace discourse. The marginalization of women in conflict and peace isall pervasive. Kashmir is a mirror image of this global scenario.Kashmiri women aided the militant movement in significant waysthough they did not take part in direct combat. They played key roles tosustain and nourish the movement - as protestors, protectors andmotivators, and facilitators. Their experiences of participation in theconflict, however, remain subdued by the dominant masculinistdiscourse. Kashmiri women are excluded from the militancy discourseas contributors as well as from peacemaking discourse asstakeholders. The study interrogates theory and practice of women'sparticipation in conflict and argues that changed gender-roles duringconflict do not necessarily revolutionize socially ascribed norms. Thebook also examines the experiences of women in sustaining conflict tomake a case for their due place in negotiating formal peace.
ISBN: 9781107041875 196pp ` 595.00NEW
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Witches, TeaPlantations, and Livesof Migrant Laborers inIndiaSoma Chaudhuri
Bringing together a holistic theoretical perspective drawing fromsociology, anthropology, and postcolonial history, the author argues thatwitchcraft accusations among the adivasi worker communities in thetea plantations of West Bengal are a protest against the plantationmanagement. Thus the witchcraft accusations are not as 'exotic andprimitive rituals of a backward' adivasi community during times ofstress, but rather as a powerful protest organized by a marginalizedcommunity against its oppressors. The book also illuminates howwitchcraft accusations should be interpreted within the backdrop oflabor-planters relationship, characterized by rigidity of power,patronage, and social distance.
ISBN: 9789382993452 214pp ` 695.00
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Mapping SocialExclusion in IndiaCaste, Religion andBorderlands
Paramjit S. Judge
Mapping Social Exclusion in India assesses the problem of definingexclusion, the need for its contextualization and establishes arelationship between social exclusion, deprivation and discrimination. Itstudies the distinctive character of Indian society and system markedwith the existence of exclusionary practices and structures on the basisof caste. The usage of the concept of exclusion is more inclusive thanany other competing concepts of discrimination or deprivation, thoughthese concepts are interchangeably used to denote it. It is, therefore,important to conceptualize exclusion and, in the process, come acrossdifferent shades of its interpretations.
The social phenomenon of exclusion that mars societies globally isstudied by various scholars who put together their diverse research,studies, perceptions and ideas and, most importantly, their years ofexpertise to focus on a central theme of social exclusion in Indiansociety. This cohesive volume highlights the causal link betweendiscrimination and exploitation. The contributors study the role of thestate as an interventionist force and look into the mobilization strategyas a reaction to exclusion. They take a critical look at the reservationpolicy and argue that state intervention creates certain new forms ofexclusion.
ISBN: 9781107056091 298pp ` 745.00
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People and Life on theChars of South AsiaDancing with the River
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt &Gopa Samanta
With this book, Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimateglimpse into the microcosmic world of ‘hybrid environments’. Focusingon chars – the part-land, part-water, low-lying sandy masses that existwithin the riverbeds in the floodplains of lower Bengal – the authorsshow how, both as real-life examples and as metaphors, chars straddlethe conventional categories of land and water, and how people who liveon them fluctuate between legitimacy and illegitimacy. The result, astudy of human habitation in the nebulous space between land andwater, charts a new way of thinking about land, people, and people’sways of life.
ISBN: 9789382993780 294pp ` 795.00
Subalternity,Exclusion and SocialChange in IndiaAshok K. Pankaj& Ajit K. Pandey (editors)
This book emphasizes the need for adopting an integrated approach tounderstand the concepts of subalternity, exclusion and social change inIndia. It also explores the dynamic relations between these threeconcepts, instead of treating them as unconnected and discrete socialfacts. The contributors address some important questions of politicaleconomy: Why are subalterns, subalterns, and how does a societyproduce and reproduce them? Are subalterns a historical construction,and, if so, what are those historical forces and how have they producedsubalterns? Also, are there any contemporary forces of subalternreproduction? What are those forces and how do they operate? How dowe place the differentially positioned social groups within the largersubaltern category?
The essays in this volume capture ideology, knowledge and power asforces of subaltern reproduction in Indian society, and map thedominant trajectories of emancipation and assertion adopted bydifferent subaltern social groups. Contributors show how subalterns arenegotiating emancipation amidst continued oppression, subjugationand atrocities.
ISBN: 9789382993247 387pp ` 895.00
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Population Ageingin IndiaG. Giridhar,K. M. Sathyanarayana,Sanjay Kumar,K. S. James &Moneer Alam (editors)
While living longer represents progress in many ways, can the elderlytruly lead a comfortable and fruitful life? How do the deep rooteddiscriminatory practices affect elderly women who tend to live longerthan men? What will happen to the very large proportion of self-employed workers who have neither retirement age nor any pensionbenefits?
Population Ageing in India tries to effectively deal with all thesepertinent questions. It builds a knowledge base on population ageing tobetter understand the implications of the changing population agestructure in India. The research focuses on the social, economic, healthand psychological aspects of the elderly, and comments on how thiscan significantly impact policy changes.
ISBN: 9781107073326 252pp ` 795.00
Mountainous SoundSpacesListening to Historyand Music in theUttarakhand Himalayas
Andrew Alter
This book provides a perspective on cultural practice in the Himalayasthat engages directly with the sonic world of musical production, thusemphasizing how the invisible world of sound is critical to shapingimagined histories, creating mythologized heroes and amplifying thestories of mountains and people.
Together, Garhwal and Kumaun comprise the present-day Indian stateof Uttarakhand, a state with unique histories associated with Hindumythology, immigrant communities from western India, Gorkhaconquest, British colonialism and modern-day India. The book situatesthe reader within the history and geography of Garhwal and providesgeneral information on a selection of instruments and sound structures.The reader is introduced to Garhwal’s aristocratic and colonial past aswell as to the region’s folklore. The music of bagpipes echoes a colonialpast by blending British regimental histories with contemporary folktraditions. Drum and trumpet ensembles echo the martial traditions ofRajputs and Mughals and confirm migratory histories between themountains and the plains. Flutes echo the supernatural world of spritesand gods and become a potent symbol of dangerous love.
The book also uses a variety of theoretical models to explore the waysin which music is described and explained in academic literature andmystic traditions. The nature of sound as well as its relationship tolanguage is re-examined in the context of the Himalayas. It providesthe reader with a framework for understanding how music is createdand how repertoire is organized. It moves the reader between theworlds of epic performance and contemporary practice giving a sensefor disparate sites of musical production and performance.
ISBN: 9789382993322 180pp ` 595.00
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Rural Politicsin IndiaPolitical Stratification andGovernance in West Bengal
Dayabati Roy
This book discusses the forms and dynamics of political processes inrural India with a special emphasis on West Bengal, the nation’s fourth-most populous state. West Bengal’s political distinction stems from itslong legacy of a Left-led coalition government for more than thirty yearsand its land reform initiatives. The book closely looks at how peoplefrom different castes, religions, and genders represent themselves inlocal governments, political parties, and in the social movements inWest Bengal. At the same time it addresses some important questions:Is there any new pattern of politics emerging at the margins? How doesthis pattern of politics correspond with the current discourse ofgovernance? Using ethnographic techniques, it claims to chart newterritories by not only examining how rural people see the state, butalso conceiving the context by comparing the available theoreticalframeworks put forward to explain the political dynamics of rural India.
ISBN: 9781107042353 289pp ` 695.00NEW
Empire CallingAdministering ColonialAustralasia and India
Anna Johnston, Ralph Crane& C. Vijayasree (editors)
The essays gathered together in this book explore the roles of the menand women who served the British Empire in Australasia and India, andthose who were subject to their administration. As these essaysdemonstrate, administrative arrangements involve complex cross-cultural relationships in colonial spaces, often through radically unequaland racially based power relations. Colonial administration involvesdiverse domains of practice - the Civil Service, schools and universities,missions, domestic realms, justice systems - and many forms ofactivities, including managing and organising; financing andaccounting; monitoring and measuring; ordering and supplying; writingand implementing policies. In the two parts of this book, the authors -from India, Australia, New Zealand, and Britain - examine the wayscolonial administrations accumulated and managed information andknowledge about the places and peoples under their jurisdiction. Theadministration of colonial spaces was neither a simple nor a unilinearproject, and the essays in this book will contribute to key debates aboutimperial history.
ISBN: 9789382264767 192pp ` 595.00
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The EmergingDimensions ofSAARCS.D. Muni (editor)
With the dawn of the twenty-first century, South Asian region hasundergone radical transformation. It has witnessed a strong democraticsweep. Most of the South Asian economies have registered impressivegrowth trajectories. Some of its countries have also emerged as thehub of global terrorism. The international community has become farmore involved in South Asian affairs due to the nuclearisation of theregion. SAARC cannot but keep pace with the changing regionaldynamics. It has moved ahead on its economic agenda and expandedits reach not only by adding new members (Afghanistan) but also byopening itself to the participation of many other countries, includingChina, Iran and the US, as Observers.
The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC is an attempt to look at thechanging dynamics of South Asia and to learn whether SAARC will takeregional cooperation and integration in their various dimensions closerto reality. S.D.Muni, the editor of this volume has compiled essayscontributed by eminent academics and analysts, not only from most ofthe SAARC countries, but also from those joined as Observers.Besides looking at the trade and economic dimension of SAARC, theseessays discuss the security, political and cultural aspects of regionalcooperation among the South Asian countries.
ISBN: 9788175967458 322pp ` 495.00
Changing IndiaBourgeois Revolutionon the SubcontinentSecond Edition
Robert W. Stern
The revised edition of Robert Stern’s book brings India’s story up-to-date. Since its original publication in 1993, much has altered and yetcentral to the author’s argument remains his belief in the remarkablecontinuity and vitality of India’s social systems and its resilience in theface of change. This is a colourful, readable and comprehensiveintroduction to modern India. While paradoxes abound in an Indiawhich is constantly transforming, Stern demonstrates how and why itremains the largest and most enduring democracy in the developingworld.
ISBN: 9780521540810 320pp ` 295.00
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Foundations ofModern SocietyRajiva Wijesinha
This book introduces students to ideas, events and personalities thathave created the present-day world. This book thus attempts to setthem out in a way that challenges young-adult minds. It is hoped thatthis book will enthuse them to explore the reasons for and the results ofimportant historical developments.
ISBN: 9788175962446 75pp ` 145.00
The Court Chronicle ofthe Kings of ManipurThe Cheitharon Kumpapa
Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt
The Cheitharon Kumpapa is a court account of the state, which claimsto record events from the founding of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE. Thisdynasty continued until the abolition of the monarchy after the mergerof the state with India in 1949. The document is thus probably theoldest chronicle in the region, written on handmade Meetei (Manipuri)paper made from tree bark in locally made ink with a quill or bamboopen. All in all it comprises more than 1,000 leaves. This volumecontains a copy of the original text of the Cheitharon Kumpapa,authorized by the Palace, and the English translation from the originalcomposed in archaic Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatory notesand a glossary complement this interesting source of information.
ISBN: 9780415344302 238pp ` 950.00ROUTLEDGE
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The Court Chronicle ofthe Kings of ManipurThe Cheitharon KumpapaVol. 2, 1764-1843 CE
Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt
The Cheitharon Kumpapa is the court chronicle of the kings of the stateof Manipur, a small, formerly independent state situated on the north-eastern border of India with Myanmar. The Cheitharon Kumpaparecords events from the founding of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE untilthe abolition of the monarchy and subsequent merger of the state withIndia in 1949. The document is probably the oldest chronicle of theregion, written on handmade Meetei (Manipuri) paper made from barkof trees, in locally made ink, with a quill or a bamboo pen. All in all itcomprises more than a thousand leaves.
The Cheitharon Kumpapa Volume 1 (2005, ISBN 978-04-1534-430-5)covered the period between 33–1763 CE. This volume continues thetranslation of the chronicle up until 1843 CE. It also includes a facsimileof the original text in Meetei Mayek, the archaic Manipuri script, with aglossary for Manipuri and other loan words. Researchers on East andSouth Asia in the fields of social anthropology, history, archaeology,human geography and linguistics will find this volume interesting.
ISBN: 9788175966383 297pp ` 795.00
The Court Chronicle ofthe Kings of ManipurThe Cheitharon KumpapaVol. 3, 1843–1892 CE
Saroj Nalini Arambam Parratt
The Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur is a three-volume serieson the court history of the Manipur state. It records events from thefoundation of the ruling dynasty in 33 CE. This dynasty continued untilthe abolition of the monarchy and subsequent merger of the state withIndia in 1949. The Cheitharon Kumpapa Vol. 1 chronicles the history ofManipur from 33 to 1763 CE, and Vol. 2 from 1764 to 1843 CE. Thisthird and final volume continues the discussion until 1891 when thelegitimate kingship came to an end as a result of conflict with theBritish.
The three volumes contain an English translation of the work along witha copy of the original Manipuri script (Meetei Mayek). Explanatorynotes and a glossary of frequently-used Manipuri terms complementthe text.
The book will be of interest to researchers on East and South Asia inthe fields of history, social anthropology and linguistics.
ISBN: 9789382264552 668pp ` 995.00
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Collaborative Learningin PracticeExamples from NaturalResource Managementin Asia
Ronnie Vernooy (editor)
This book presents novel approaches to collaborative learning bydrawing on research and practical experiences from China, South Asia,and Southeast Asia. The case studies show how local communitieslearn from challenges in managing natural resources through jointefforts with researchers and other actors. They demonstrate the meritsof learning strategies that use a variety of methods that are grounded inthe local context that involves facilitators monitored from the outset. Itcreates a strong environment of collaboration and dynamic processmanagement. The book shows that learning strategies that are bothinnovative and collaborative can lead to sounder rural development.
Collaborative Learning in Practice: Examples from Natural ResourceManagement in Asia will be of interest to academics, researchers, andpostgraduate students in development studies, practitioners anddevelopment professionals, particularly in the fields of capacity buildingand participatory action methodologies; as well as programmemanagers and decision-makers in donor organizations anddevelopment agencies worldwide.
ISBN: 9788175967120 193pp ` 595.00
Human Developmentand Social PowerPerspectives from South Asia
Ananya Mukherjee Reed
Since it emerged as a major policy paradigm almost two decades ago,the human development approach has gained increasing degrees oflegitimacy within national and international policy circles. However,severe challenges continue to hinder the progress of humandevelopment - challenges that appear to render the standard repertoireof policy instruments rather ineffective.
This book focuses on one such challenge: that of the pervasiveunevenness of human development across categories such as ethnicityand religion. While human development inequalities across class (andto some extent, gender) are well recognised, the other dimensions areless so. How significant are they? How can they be addressed? Toexplore this question, the book proposes a reformulation of the conceptof human development using three key notions: structural inequality;difference and agency. This framework is then used to explore humandevelopment and post-colonial South Asia, which, with its plethora ofcomplex social cleavages, offers an important context for theproblematic. The explorations suggest that human developmentdifferentials 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 thesestructures? How should we understand the relationship betweenhuman development and social power?
ISBN: 9780415775526 192pp ` 795.00ROUTLEDGE
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Women in PrisonAn Insight into Captivityand Crime
Suvarna Cherukuri
Women in Prison takes a look at the multiple specificities that bringwomen into the prison system. Drawing on empirical sources andoriginal research, and relying primarily on interviews of women inmates,this book explores the contexts of female crime and punishment inIndia and looks at gendered disciplinary mechanisms that are used tocontrol women inmates. The work invokes not only a sense of history inunderstanding women’s crimes and imprisonment, but also engages ina critical dialogue in terms of gender, caste, culture and sexuality.Unique in its analysis of the lives of women prisoners within social andlegal contexts, the book is a major contribution to international literatureon women’s offences and their experience of imprisonment.
ISBN: 9788175965478 157pp ` 295.00
Fragments ofInequalitySocial, Spatial andEvolutionary Analyses ofIncome Distribution
Sanjoy Chakravorty
Fragments of Inequality uses an interdisciplinary framework to answerthe most fundamental questions on inequality and income distribution:What explains the level of income inequality in a given nation? Why doincome inequality levels vary so greatly worldwide? What causes thelevel of income inequality to change? What explains the diversity oftrends in income inequality change?
In this novel work, Sanjoy Chakravorty argues that social fragmentationand spatial fragmentation are the principal sources of income inequalityand shows how these factors change and thereby effect changes indistributional patterns. But as Chakravorty demonstrates, intellectualapproaches to the analysis of inequality are also quite fragmented -economists, sociologists, geographers and other social scientists tendto operate within their disciplinary boundaries and therefore provideincomplete explanations for this critically important, multidimensionalissue.
ISBN: 9780415952965 276pp ` 695.00ROUTLEDGE
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The UntouchablesSubordination, Poverty andthe State in Modern India
Oliver Mendelsohn &Marika Vicziany
In a compelling account of the lives of those at the bottom of Indiansociety, the authors explore the construction of the Untouchables as asocial and political category, the historical background which led tosuch a definition, and their position in India today. The authors arguethat, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition, a considerable edificeof discrimination persists. The book promises to make a majorcontribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while itswide-ranging perspectives will ensure a readership from across thedisciplines.
ISBN: 9788175960749 307pp ` 495.00
Empowering SocietyAn Analysis of Business,Government and SocialDevelopment Approaches toEmpowerment
Usha Jumani
Empowerment is an integral element of a democratic system. Thematurity of a democracy is directly related to the level of empowermentits citizens and institutions experience. The term ‘empowerment’ isused in different contexts and this book addresses this problem througha comparative analysis of three major organisational systems -business, government and social development. The book presents anew conceptual framework for understanding the process ofempowerment. It combines case studies specially for this volume, withsecondary data and the author’s first hand experience of working withdevelopment organisations.
ISBN: 9788175963177 263pp ` 395.00
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India MigrationReport 2009Past, Present andthe Future Outlook
Binod Khadria (editor)
India has the distinction of being recognized as an important country oforigin of migrants in many receiving countries of the world. India alsoreceives a large number of immigrants, mostly originating from itsneighboring countries in Asia and some from other countires as well.However, despite having significant stakes in international migration ofhuman resources the issue of mobility has largely remained aneglected area in the academic and policy circles in India. Hardly anyregular and comprehensive institutional mechanism for collecting,maintaining and disseminating systematic information on internationalmigration exists in India excepting a few individual initiatives here andthere. It is only in the closing decades of the 20th century that migrationhas started drawing greater attention of stakeholders in policy sphere,in academia and the civil society in India. In this context, publication ofthis first India Migration Report aims to make a small beginning towardsbridging a vital gap. The 2009 Report provides an overview of migrationfrom India to the major destination countries as well as immigration toIndia. The focus of the report is to put together issues and concerns ofsignificance in the contemporary contexts of migration – bothcontinuing and emerging - and bring out a systematic, regular andfuturistic source of information and analysis on international mobility ofpeople involving India.
ISBN: 9788190978002 160pp ` 995.00
India Migration Report2010-2011The Americas
Binod Khadria (editor)
India Migration Report 2010–2011: The Americas discusses historicaland contemporary migration between India and the Americancontinents. For more than half-a-century, India has been one of thelargest source countries of migrants to the US and Canada. A majorityof Indian diaspora population in the US and Canada is highly educatedand affluent. They hold important positions in the economic and socio-political set-up of these two countries. In contrast, the Indians in SouthAmerica and the Caribbean are not so highly-skilled, educated oraffluent. A significant proportion of them had migrated much earlier aslow-skilled workers for plantations in the colonies.
This report is an attempt to examine Indian migration to the twoAmerican continents following diverse trajectories. Besides providingan overview of migration from India, the report also traces immigrationof foreigners and return migration of Indians from the Americancontinents to India. The focus of India Migration Report 2010–2011 ison putting together available information on issues involving variousmigration patterns and analyzing the major factors and policies thatshape them.
ISBN: 9781107681033 166pp ` 995.00
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ANTHROPOLOGY
Gender in South AsiaSocial Imagination andConstructed Realities
Subhadra Mitra Channa
This book is an examination of gender in South Asia and its intersectionwith other social variables like caste and class. It spans a wide canvasin terms of different social classes, ranging from elite to Dalit women ofIndia, 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 theoriessuch as nature/ culture, public/ private and gender seen asperformative and fluid rather than essentialized and fixed. There is alsoan appraisal of what feminism means in the Indian context and thecross-cultural construction of patriarchy that varies in its manifestationsacross time and space. The readers are taken on a journey that showshow gender can only be understood in its social and historical contextand as a dynamic and performative concept that emerges out of bothcollective imaginations and social realities. The use of descriptive andnarrative style makes the book readable and enjoyable to bothacademic and non-academic readers.
The book would be of interest to academics, researchers and graduatestudents of South Asian History, Anthropology and Sociology
ISBN: 9781107043619 238pp ` 795.00
A New Anthropologyof IslamJohn Bowen
In this powerful, but accessible new study, John Bowen draws on a fullrange of work in social anthropology to present Islam in ways thatemphasise its constitutive practices, from praying and learning tojudging and political organising. Starting at the heart of Islam -revelation and learning in Arabic lands - Bowen shows how Muslimshave adapted Islamic texts and traditions to ideas and conditions in thesocieties in which they live. Returning to key case studies in Asia, Africaand Western Europe, to explore each major domain of Islamic religiousand social life, Bowen also considers the theoretical advances in socialanthropology that have come out of the study of Islam. A NewAnthropology of Islam is essential reading for all those interested in thestudy of Islam and for those following new developments in thediscipline of anthropology.
ISBN: 9781107615755 230pp ` 395.00
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Fighting EvictionKatkari Land Rights andResearch-in Action
Daniel Buckles, RajeevKhedkar, with Bansi Ghevde& Dnyaneshwar Patil
The book engages readers in a process of reflection on what it meansto do research ‘with’ people rather than ‘on’ people, by recounting acollaborative inquiry with the Katkari, formerly called ‘Criminal Tribe’and so-called ‘Primitive Tribal Group’ in Maharashtra, India.
The book is designed to help readers learn about participatory actionresearch progressively and with a strong narrative grounded in issuesfacing Adivasi populations in South Asia and the real-life dilemmas ofengaged research. As such it is accessible to both graduate andundergraduate students in many disciplines. This includes all of thestandard social science departments teaching methods and promotingfield-based research.
ISBN: 9789382264538 258pp ` 595.00
Disquieting GiftsHumanitarianismin New Delhi
Erica Bornstein
This book takes a close look at people working on humanitarianprojects in New Delhi and addresses several issues - why they engagein philanthropic work, what 'humanitarianism' means to them, and theethical and political tangles they encounter.
There are many studies focusing on the outcomes of humanitarianwork, but the impulses that inspire people to engage in the first placereceive less attention. In this book, the author investigates specificcases of people engaged in humanitarian work to reveal differentperceptions of assistance to strangers versus assistance to kin, howthe impulse to give to others in distress is tempered by its regulation,suspicions about recipient suitability, and why the figure of the orphanis so valuable in humanitarian discourse. The book would be of interestto students and academics in Sociology, Anthropology, DevelopmentStudies and Human Rights.
ISBN: 9789382264637 232pp ` 795.00
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The Rational BelieverChoices and Decisions in theMadrasas of Pakistan
Masooda Bano
Islamic schools, or madrasas, have been accused of radicalizingMuslims and participating, either actively or passively, in terroristnetworks since the events of 9/11. In Pakistan, the 2007 siege bygovernment forces of Islamabad's Red Mosque and its madrasacomplex, whose Imam and students staged an armed resistanceagainst the state for its support of the 'war on terror', reinforcedconcerns about madrasas' role in regional and global jihad. By 2006madrasas registered with Pakistan's five regulatory boards for religiousschools 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 inmadrasas throughout the country to explore the network of Pakistanimadrasas. She maps the choices and decisions confronted bystudents, teachers, parents, and clerics and explains why availablechoices make participation in jihad appear at times a viable course ofaction.
Bano's work shows that beliefs are rational and that religious believerslook to maximize utility in ways not captured by classical rationalchoice. She applies analytical tools from the New InstitutionalEconomics to explain apparent contradictions in the madrasa system -for example, how thousands of young Pakistani women demand thenational adoption of traditional sharia law, despite its highly restrictivelimits on female agency, and do so from their location in Islamic schoolsfor girls that were founded only a generation ago.
ISBN: 9789382264880 272pp ` 795.00
Life on the GangaBoatmen and the RitualEconomy of Banaras
Assa Doron
This intriguing anthropological study investigates how the boatmen ofBanaras have repositioned themselves within the traditional socialorganization and used their privileged position on the river to contestupper-caste and state domination. The author examines the evolutionof the boatmen community, drawing on a variety of sources toilluminate the cultural politics of social and economic inequality incontemporary India. Life on the Ganga: Boatmen and the RitualEconomy of Banaras offers insight into recent debates about thecultural and historical forms of social practice and resistance at thejuncture between tradition and the global economy, and will thereforeappeal not only to anthropologists, but to anyone working in the field ofdevelopment studies, globalization, religion, politics and culturalstudies.
ISBN: 9789382264545 262pp ` 695.00
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Patrons of WomenLiteracy Projects and GenderDevelopment in Rural Nepal
Esther Hertzog
Assuming that women's empowerment would accelerate the pace ofsocial change in rural Nepal, the World Bank urged the Nepaligovernment to undertake a Gender Activities Project within an ongoinglong-term water-engineering scheme. The author, an anthropologistspecializing in bureaucratic organizations and gender studies, washired to monitor the project. Analyzing her own experience as apracticing development expert, she shows how the project intended tobenefit women, through teaching them literary and agricultural skills,fails to provide them with any of the promised resources. Going beyondthe conventional analysis that positions aid givers vis-à-vis powerlessvictimized recipients, she draws attention to the complexity of theprocess and the active role played by the Nepalese rural women whopursue their own interests and aspirations within this unequal world.
It will appeal to practicing development experts, policy-makers,researchers and graduate students of development studies, genderstudies, social anthropology and social work. Anybody interested inwomen's education and empowerment in South Asia will find thisuseful.
ISBN: 9789382264613 278pp ` 625.00
My FavouriteLevi-StraussDipankar Gupta (editor)
‘A Hero of Our Time’Susan Sontag
‘Claude Lévi-Strauss was one of the dominating postwar influences inFrench intellectual life and the leading exponent of Structuralism in thesocial sciences; his work inspired a school of academic followers in the1960s and 1970s in disciplines ranging from music to literary criticism.’The Telegraph
‘Claude Lévi-Strauss' revolutionary studies of what was once called'primitive man' transformed Western understanding of the nature ofculture, custom and civilization. His legacy is imposing. Mythologiques,his four-volume work about the structure of native mythology in theAmericas, attempts nothing less than an interpretation of the world ofculture and custom, shaped by analysis of several hundred myths oflittle-known tribes and traditions. The volumes, The Raw and theCooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Origin of Table Manners and TheNaked Man, published from 1964 to 1971, challenge the reader withtheir complex interweaving of theme and detail.’ New York Times
‘...one of the preeminent anthropologists of the 20th century whoseerudite, often mind-bendingly labored studies of indigenous Braziliantribes led to influential theories about human behavior and culture...’The Washington Post
ISBN: 9789380403137 172pp ` 295.00YODA PRESS
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Asian Voices in aPostcolonial AgeVietnam, India and Beyond
Susan Bayly
This study of intellectuals and their cosmopolitan life trajectories isbased 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 socialistworld system. Building on the author’s long-standing researchexperience in India and on remarkable family narratives collectedduring fieldwork in northern Vietnam, the book deals with epic eventsand complex social transformations from a perspective thatemphasizes the personal and the familial. Its central theme is theextraordinary mobility of intelligentsia lives. The author explores therole of the intellectual in the economic, social and culturaltransformation of the post-colonial world through in-depth ethnographicfieldwork methods. In identifying parallels and contrasts betweenHanoi’s ‘socialist moderns’ and the family and career experiences oftheir Indian counterparts, the book makes a distinctive contribution tothe study of colonial, socialist and post-socialist Asia.
ISBN: 9780521516808 294pp ` 795.00
Struggling with HistoryIslam and Cosmopolitanism inthe Western Indian Ocean
Kai Kresse &Edward Simpson (editors)
This volume compares and contrasts anthropological and historicalapproaches to the study of the Indian Ocean by focusing on the vexednature of ‘cosmopolitanism’. The chapters contribute to current debateson the nature of cosmopolitanism, the comparative study of Muslimsocieties, and the study of colonial and post-colonial contexts. Thereare few books on the market that combine serious interdisciplinaryscholarship and regional ethnographic expertise with comparableambition.
ISBN: 9781850658795 399pp ` 895.00HURST
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Monk, Householder,and Tantric PriestNewar Buddhism and itsHierarchy of Ritual
David N. Gellner
Many misconceptions circulate in the West about Tantric religion,whether Buddhist or Hindu, mainly because scholars have reliedexclusively on textual sources. Here, for the first time, is an account ofhow Tantric Buddhism works in practice. Monk, Householder andTantric Priest is a detailed ethnography of the Mahayana and vajrayana(Tantric) Buddhism of the Newars of the Kathmandu valley, Nepal. Itdescribes the way of life of and social organization of the Hindu-Buddhist city of Lalitpur, the relationship of Buddhism to Hinduism, andthe place of religion and ritual in the life of Newar Buddhists. The studyof the Newars has wider implications for it allows us to grasp howBuddhism works and worked in its original context of caste and Hindukingship.
ISBN: 9788185618135 456pp ` 445.00
Muslim PortraitsEveryday Lives in India
Mukulika Banerjee (editor)
In this captivating new volume, 13 anthropologists present a set of vividportraits of Muslims in India today. Each of the contributors has had along-term research interest in Muslim societies in India, but in theseessays they profile one single individual whom they have met in thecourse of their research and whose story they found compelling. Thesubjects of this volume live in different parts of India, like Bhuj, themountains of Kashmir, Hyderabad, Androth Island, and Lucknow, theyspeak different languages, eat different foods, are engaged in variouskinds of work, but are all Muslim. Zooming in on individuals who havenormally stood cheek-by-jowl with hundreds of others in a large canvas,these portraits focus attention on them in a separate frame, revealingtheir stories, predicaments, and realities, the aspirations they nurtureand the impediments they overcome to attempt to achieve these. Indoing so, they highlight the sheer diversity which lies hidden under theseemingly homogenous category of the Indian Muslim, and shatterstereotypes. Intimately told and stripped of jargon, yet nuanced andincisive, this is a valuable addition to the corpus of books on the Muslimcommunity in contemporary India.
ISBN: 9788190618625 164pp ` 250.00YODA PRESS
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Anthropology, Politicsand the StateDemocracy andViolence in South Asia
Jonathan Spencer
In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics.Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way ofanalysing the relationship between culture and politics, with specialattention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election campaign inSri Lanka, it covers issues from rural policing in north India to slumhousing in Delhi, presenting arguments about secularism and pluralism,and the ambiguous energies released by electoral democracy acrossthe subcontinent. It ends by discussing feminist peace activists inSri Lanka, struggling to sustain a window of shared humanity after twodecades of war. Bringing together and linking the themes of democracy,identity and conflict, this important new study shows how anthropologycan take a central role in understanding other people’s politics,especially the issues that seem to have divided the world since 9/11.
ISBN: 9780521722124 218pp ` 395.00
Hindu Kingship andPolity in PrecolonialIndiaNorbert Peabody
Through the analysis of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century textson the Hindu Kingdom of Kota in Rajasthan, Norbert Peabody exploresthe ways in which historical consciousness, or memory, is culturallyconstructed and how this consciousness informs social experience. Bybuilding on the premise that no society receives the past in atransparent, universal and objective way, he unravels how the past inKota has been fashioned. In this way, he suggests that differentsocieties not only establish different co-ordinates of value in theirconstructions of the past, but also that the very processes of social andpolitical transformation differ from society to society.
ISBN: 9788175963665 206pp ` 595.00
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Seeking Bauls ofBengalJeanne Openshaw
Bauls are known as wandering minstrels and mystics in India andBangladesh. Jeanne Openshaw uses her fieldwork, and oral andmanuscript texts, to chart the rise of their present iconic status. Hers isa challenging and comprehensive approach to a spiritual and creativepeople.
ISBN: 9788175962057 304pp ` 495.00
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Patronage as Politicsin South AsiaAnastasia Piliavsky (Editior)
This book studies patronage in South Asia to get a betterunderstanding of the vernacular workings of this potent political form inthe region. Since patronage is intertwined with social, political, historicaland economic moorings it can be best studied with a multidisciplinarylens. The book handles patronage as a historically emergent andculturally embedded institution, the logic of which must be worked outfrom the socio-historical ground up. In India patronage thrives notdespite, alongside, or in place of—but through and as a conduit for—state governance, not as a vestigial survival of pre-modern politics, butas a vital political form in itself. Studies in the book focus on thepersistent norms of conduct and communication, forms of economicand ritual exchange, and mutual expectations, which distinguishpatronage patterns in South Asian countries from those observedanywhere else.
With South Asian states rapidly rising as major, but often ostensiblytroubled, players on the global political arena, this volume will offercrucial insights to academic and lay readers looking for a betterunderstanding of vernacular politics in the region, as well as in manyother parts of the world.
ISBN: 9781107056084 486pp ` 895.00
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INDEX
AA New Anthropology of Islam ............................ 14
Alam, Moneer ...................................................... 5
Alter, Andrew ....................................................... 5
Anthropology, Politics and the State ................. 20
Asian Voices in a Postcolonial Age ................... 18
BBanerjee, Mukulika ........................................... 19
Bano, Masooda ................................................. 16
Bayly, Susan ..................................................... 18
Bornstein, Erica ................................................. 15
Bowen, John ..................................................... 14
Buckles, Daniel ................................................. 15
CChakravorty, Sanjoy .......................................... 11
Changing India .................................................... 7
Channa, Subhadra Mitra ................................... 14
Chaudhuri, Soma ................................................ 3
Cherukuri, Suvarna ........................................... 11
Collaborative Learning in Practice .................... 10
Crane, Ralph ....................................................... 6
DDisquieting Gifts ................................................ 15
Doron, Assa ...................................................... 16
EEmpire Calling ..................................................... 6
Empowering Society ......................................... 12
FFighting Eviction ................................................ 15
Foundations of Modern Society .......................... 8
Fragments of Inequality .................................... 11
GGellner, David N. ............................................... 19
Gender, Conflict and Peace in Kashmir .............. 2
Gender in South Asia ........................................ 14
Ghevde, Bansi .................................................. 15
Giridhar, G. .......................................................... 5
Gupta, Dipankar ................................................ 17
HHertzog, Esther ................................................. 17
Hindu Kingship and Polityin Precolonial India ............................................ 20
Human Development and Social Power ........... 10
IIndia Migration Report 2009 .............................. 13
India Migration Report 2010-2011 ..................... 13
JJames, K.S. ......................................................... 5
Johnston, Anna ................................................... 6
Judge, Paramjit S. ............................................... 3
Jumani, Usha .................................................... 12
KKhadria, Binod .................................................. 13
Khedkar, Rajeev ................................................ 15
Kresse, Kai ........................................................ 18
Kumar, Sanjay ..................................................... 5
LLahiri-Dutt, Kuntala ............................................. 4
Life on the Ganga ............................................. 16
MMapping Social Exclusion in India ...................... 3
Mendelsohn, Oliver ........................................... 12
Monk, Householder and Tantric Priest .............. 19
Mountainous Sound Spaces ............................... 5
Muni, S.D. ........................................................... 7
Muslim Portraits ................................................ 19
My Favourite Levi-Strauss ................................ 17
OOpenshaw, Jeanne ........................................... 21
PPandey, Ajit K. ..................................................... 4
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Pankaj , Ashok K. ................................................ 4
Parratt, Saroj Nalini Arambam ........................ 8, 9
Patil, Dnyaneshwar ........................................... 15
Patronage as Politics in South Asia .................. 21
Patrons of Women ............................................ 17
Peabody, Norbert .............................................. 20
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia ....... 4
Piliavsky, Anastasia ........................................... 21
Population Ageing in India .................................. 5
RReed, Ananya Mukherjee .................................. 10
Roy, Dayabati ...................................................... 6
Rural Politics in India .......................................... 6
SSamanta, Gopa ................................................... 4
Sathyanarayana, K.M ......................................... 5
Seeking Bauls of Bengal ................................... 21
Shekhawat, Seema ............................................. 2
Simpson, Edward .............................................. 18
Spencer, Jonathan ............................................ 20
Stern, Robert W. ................................................. 7
Struggling with History ...................................... 18
Subalternity, Exclusion and SocialChange in India ................................................... 4
TThe Court Chronicle of the Kings of Manipur .. 8, 9
The Emerging Dimensions of SAARC ................ 7
The Rational Believer ........................................ 16
The Untouchables ............................................. 12
VVernooy, Ronnie ................................................ 10
Vicziany, Marika ................................................ 12
Vijayasree, C. ...................................................... 6
WWijesinha, Rajiva ................................................ 8
Witches, Tea Plantations, and Lives of MigrantLaborers in India ................................................. 3
Women in Prison ............................................... 11
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