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From Dasarajna to Kuruksetra
Is it true that the ancient Indians had no sense of History? The book begins with this question, and points out how the ways of perceiving the past could be culture-specific and …
Sports Studies in India
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 …
Neoliberalism, Urbanization and Aspirations in Contemporary India
This volume brings together scholarship from different disciplines on the theme of neoliberalism. Contemporary neoliberal economic policy, it argues has increased inequalities and …
Mathematics and Society
This book studies the regional tradition of mathematics in the Tamil-speaking areas of Southern India. It questions the established nature of Indian history of mathematics, which …
Reordering Adivasi Worlds
Recounting the story of the Oraons and Tana Bhagats of Chhotanagpur in the present-day state of Jharkhand, this book questions postcolonial understandings of the category of …
The Boundary of Laughter
Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, The Boundary of Laughter explores how spaces of popular performance have changed with the emergence of national borders in …
Across the Black Water
The British Empire transported thousands of Indian convicts to form a penal colony in the Andaman Islands. The formation of the penal colony involved a wide range of documentation. …
Regional Economic Diversity
What is more conducive to economic development of a nation-specialisation or diversification? Are regions within a developing economy experiencing divergence or convergence as they …
Indian Media Giants
Indian Media Giants is an analytical chronicle of six Indian mega media conglomerates' individual odyssey from their beginnings in the pre-independence era to their transformation …
The Silence That Speaks
This ground-breaking anthology brings together 38 short stories culled from over a century of writing by Muslim women from colonial and postcolonial India. Selected from different …
Reworking Culture
Reworking Culture: Relatedness, Rites, and Resources in Garo Hills, North-East India provides intimate insights into the lives of hill farmers and the challenges they face in …
Minority Pasts
Minority Pasts explores the diversity of the histories and identities of Muslims in Rampur-the last Muslim-ruled princely state in colonial United Provinces and a city that is …