Hakutulokset: Sarja Contemporary South Asia
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The Untouchables
In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables …
India in the World Order
Two highly regarded scholars come together to examine India's relationship with the world's major powers and its own search for a significant role in the international system. …
India in the World Order
Two highly regarded scholars come together to examine India’s relationship with the world’s major powers and its own search for a significant role in the international system. …
The Success of India's Democracy
How has democracy taken root in India in the face of a low-income economy, widespread poverty, illiteracy, and immense ethnic diversity? Atul Kohli brings together some of the …
Population, Gender and Politics
Roger and Patricia Jeffery are well known for their work on religion and gender in South Asia. In their latest book, a study of the demographic processes of two castes in rural …
India Working
By drawing on her extensive fieldwork in India and on the adjacent theoretical literature, Barbara Harriss-White describes the working of the Indian economy through its most …
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to …
Remembering Partition
Through an investigation of the violence that marked the partition of British India in 1947, this book analyses questions of history and memory, the nationalisation of populations …
Democratic Politics and Economic Reform in India
Successive Indian governments, from right and left, have remained committed to market-oriented reform since its introduction in 1991. In a well-argued, accessible and sometimes …
Seeing the State
Poor people confront the state on an everyday basis all over the world. But how do they see the state, and how are these engagements conducted? This book considers the Indian case …
Footloose Labour
In a penetrating anthropological study of the working poor in India, Jan Breman examines the lives of those who, pushed out of the agrarian labour market, depend on casual work. …