Has the Indian economy realized its oft-stated goal of inclusive growth? Did the rapid progress made after liberalization help improve income levels of the most vulnerable …
Electricity is critical to enabling India's economic growth and providing a better future for its citizens. In spite of several decades of reform, the Indian electricity sector is …
While handing over the first set of 12-digit unique identification numbers to ten tribal families of Tembhli, a dusty village tucked away in a far corner of Maharashtra, the then …
How can inequalities between groups be addressed, while at the same time sustaining common citizenship? Debating Difference offers a new approach to this key question for liberal …
Policymaking in India evokes an image of rational decision-making and technical optimality. However, the arena of policymaking is characterized by conflict and contestation …
Sports Studies in India, as a part of The Oxford India Studies in Contemporary Society, emerges from a sociological curiosity about sporting experience in terms of participation in …
In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and …
Is modernity new to India, involving the transformation only in recent decades of an apparently timeless traditional society through global networks of banking and industry, …
In most globalizing economies, workers engaged in the informal sector occupy the lowest rungs of society. This book examines one such group-stone quarry workers located beyond the …
In a conversation about youth agency, the most common discourses that come up are of acts of liberation, resistance, and deviance. However, this perspective is fairly narrow and …
