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The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India Space Class and Distinction

The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India Space Class and Distinction

This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and changing socio-spatial dynamics in urban areas in the country. It looks at class as a socio-spatial category where class distinction is tied to and manifests itself through the space of the city. With a detailed ethnographic study of the national capital region of Delhi especially Gurugram it explores themes such as class subjectivity morality and social beliefs; life inside gated enclaves; family and everyday practices of class reproduction; and the process of othering and exclusivity among others. Class identity vulnerability and hierarchy influence the actions and motivations of the middle class. The author studies the nuances and socio-political fractures stemming from the complex dynamic of class caste religion and gender that manifest in these neo-urban spaces and how these shape the city and community. Rich in empirical resources this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology political sociology ethnography urban sociology urban studies and South Asian studies. | The Middle Class in Neo-Urban India Space Class and Distinction

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Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

This volume explores the emergence evolution and definition of the middle class in India. As a class created as the interpreters between the colonial rulers and the millions whom they governed in the pre-Independence era the Indian middle class has existed in congruence with the state occupying vital positions in state administration. Since Independence this middle class underwent major sociological change as they live independent of the state which affected their social economic and political position reaping benefits of liberalisation and globalisation through education and employment. An otherwise internally differentiated and heterogeneous group the new Indian middle class often unifies itself to shape socio-political discourse that affects politics and policymaking from domestic to international affairs. This volume analyses this class phenomenon through a close study of a new metropolitan middle class in India – the software professionals emblematic of the 'new India’. It discusses this emerging class as a political category and their engagements with the state democracy political parties issues of gender basic necessities and social justice. Further it discusses their social action and ‘middle class activism’ for issues such as environment cleanliness and corruption particularly highlighting its presence in the private sector and electronic media. A fresh perspective on India’s political milieu this volume will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology modern Indian history political science economics and South Asia studies. | Liberalised India Politicised Middle Class and Software Professionals

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Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

This book is a historical study of the development of agrarian class relations among the tribal population in Tripura. Tracing the evolution of Tripura and its agrarian relations from monarchy in the nineteenth century to democracy in the twentieth century the book discusses the nature of the erstwhile princely state of Tripura analyses the emergence of differentiation within tribes and documents the emergence of the tribal movement in the state. It specifically focuses on the tribal movement led by the Ganamukti Parishad beginning with the historic revolt of 1948-51 against state repression on the tribal people followed by the mass movements in the 1950s and 1960s which were founded on a recognition of class relations and the slogan of unity across the tribal and non-tribal (Bengali) peasantry. The first of its kind the book will be indispensable for students and researchers of tribal studies agrarian studies exclusion studies tribe-class relationships minority studies sociology development studies history political science north-east India studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for activists and policymakers working in the area. | Tribe-Class Linkages The History and Politics of the Agrarian Movement in Tripura

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Kala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora Indian Perspectives

Kala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora Indian Perspectives

This volume explores the intersections of diaspora and gender within the diasporic and Indian imagination. It investigates the ways in which race class caste gender and sexuality intersect with concepts of home belonging displacement and the reinvention of the nation and of self. Positioning itself as a companion to Kala Pani Crossings: Revisiting 19th century Migrations from India’s Perspective (Routledge 2021) the present book examines whether indentureship and diasporic locations marginalised women and men or empowered them; how negotiations or resistances have been determined by race class caste or ethnicity; how traditional standards of Indianness and gender relations have been reshaped; how ideas of home self and the nation have been impacted in the diaspora and in India after the 19th and early 20th century indentureship migration; and what 21st century Indians stand to gain by theorizing the legacy of 19th century indenture through a gender framework. To understand how fiction and non-fiction writers have negotiated the legacy of indentureship to create spaces where normative practices can be interrogated and challenged the book gives pride of place to interviews with writers such as Cyril Dabydeen Ananda Devi Ramabai Espinet Davina Ittoo Brij Lal Peggy Mohan Shani Mootoo and Khal Torabully. Thus rooted in critical analyses but also in subjective and creative perspectives this volume is a major intervention in understanding Indian indenture and its legacy in the diaspora and in India. It will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature history Indian Ocean studies migration and South Asian studies. | Kala Pani Crossings Gender and Diaspora Indian Perspectives

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Tracking the Media Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan

Tracking the Media Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan

This book is about media content analysis in the English language print media in South Asia with reference to certain contemporary issues. It is written from the perspective of the need to analyze media discourses and the ways in which their circulation creates a ‘common sense’ view of the world. The focus is on English language papers and news magazines; additionally some Hindi Urdu and Sindhi newspapers are examined. The highlight is on the ways in which English language publications contribute to and function within middle class matrices of modernity consumption conflict and conservatism in India. The book will interest those in media and communication studies journalism language and literature sociology and culture studies. | Tracking the Media Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan

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Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

This volume looks at the challenges faced by the economy and society in Punjab India. It probes into the economic issues institutional development and resources imbalance faced by the Punjab economy. It discusses regional research problems and futuristic approaches for a developing economy. The chapters in this volume: focus on comprehending economic challenges agrarian structure and development; markets R&D and public policy; manufacturing sector; opportunities and possibilities; examine labour caste and gender trajectories exploring the question of freedom and livelihood; human social and financial resources development; hunger diet and disease; challenges for development paradigm; present the macro and micro facets of development processes in the region and offer a way forward for long-run growth sustainability and inclusiveness amidst the dynamic fast-changing economies across the globe. Comprehensive and analytical in its approach this volume will be of interest to young researchers scholars practitioners and policymakers working in the fields of Development Economics Regional Economics Evolutionary Economics Sustainable Economics Agrarian Development Manufacturing and Labour. | Challenges to Punjab Economy A Regional Perspective from India

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Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media

Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media

This book investigates the Internet as a site of political contestation in the Indian context. It widens the scope of the public sphere to social media and explores its role in shaping the resistance and protest movements on the ground. The volume also explores the role of the Internet a global technology in framing debates on the idea of the nation state especially India as well as diplomacy and international relations. It also discusses the possibility of whether Internet can be used as a tool for social justice and change particularly by the underprivileged to go beyond caste class gender and other oppressive social structures. A tract for our times this book will interest scholars and researchers of politics media studies popular culture sociology international relations as well as the general reader. | Political Internet State and Politics in the Age of Social Media

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Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

This original conceptualization provides insights into the role of inequality in the processes of change in rural India. It presents in-depth analyses and understanding of the nature and form of inequality and its causes and consequences. The volume examines interpersonal intergroup and intrapersonal inequalities in the country’s rural transformation. Through research based on ethnographic primary survey and secondary data methods this multidimensional study discusses key themes such as normative and descriptive inequalities; class caste and other identities; economic poverty; educational poverty; poverty in health; gendered poverty; inequality and power; the impact of migration; ethical issues and vulnerabilities; and suicidal consequences of inequality. It builds cohesive arguments based on the development of several new indicators to examine rural inequality. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of political economy economics development studies development economics sociology public policy political science political sociology and rural sociology. | Dynamics of Difference Inequality and Transformation in Rural India

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Making the 'Woman' Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th century India

Making the 'Woman' Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th century India

The book examines the representation of women their agency and subjectivity and gender relations in 18th- and 19th-century India. The chapters in the volume interrogate notions and discourses of ‘women’ and ‘gender’ during the period historically shaped by multiple and even competing actors practices and institutions. They highlight the ‘making of the woman’ across a wide spectrum of subject areas regions and roles and attempt to understand the contradictions and differences in social experiences and identity formations of women. The volume also deals with prevalent notions of masculinity and femininity normative and non-conformist expressions of gender and sexual identity and epistemological concerns of gender especially in its intersectional interplay with other axes of caste class race region and empire. Presenting unique understandings of our gendered pasts this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of history gender studies and South Asian studies. | Making the 'Woman' Discourses of Gender in 18th-19th century India

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Hindu–Muslim Relations What Europe Might Learn from India

Hindu–Muslim Relations What Europe Might Learn from India

This book reconstructs Hindu–Muslim relations from a European standpoint. Drawing from the Indian context the author explores options for Western Europe – a region grappling with the refugee crisis and populist reactions to the growth of Muslim minorities. The author shows how India can serve not only as a model but also as a warning for Europe. For example European liberals may learn not only from the achievements of Indian secularism but also from its crisis. Based on extensive interviews with Indians from diverse backgrounds from politicians to social activists and from the middle class to slum dwellers the volume investigates a wide range of perspectives: Hindu and Muslim religious and secular moderate and militant. Relevant engaging and accessible this book speaks to a broad audience of concerned citizens and policy makers. Scholars of political science sociology modern history cultural studies and South Asian studies will be particularly interested. | Hindu–Muslim Relations What Europe Might Learn from India

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Democracy and Social Cleavage in India Ethnography of Riots Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal c. 2012–2021

Democracy and Social Cleavage in India Ethnography of Riots Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal c. 2012–2021

This book explores the emergence of identity politics and violence at the forefront of political life in an Indian state. Through a close reading of everyday politics in West Bengal India which until recently boasted of the longest-serving elected communist government in the world the volume presents unique observations on Indian politics and its trajectories. One of the first ethnographic studies of religious polarisation and its interface with politics in West Bengal this book: Offers a fresh perspective both theoretically and empirically by using longitudinal multi-site ethnography to explain the mechanisms by which identity issues have re-emerged; Studies key policy changes political practices and series of invented traditions during periods of political transition; Examines intricate details of the micro-dynamics of the formulation and expansion of Hindu and Islamic fundamentalism and their political counterparts which carry a capacity to push away secular democratic forces from the existing political spectrum; Sheds light on the mechanisms of riots its design organisational bases and mechanisms of spread; Includes key observations from the 2021 elections in the state. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of political science social and cultural anthropology sociology and South Asian studies. | Democracy and Social Cleavage in India Ethnography of Riots Everyday Politics and Communalism in West Bengal c. 2012–2021

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Psychology and Gender An Advanced Reader

Psychology and Gender An Advanced Reader

This book provides an understanding of how psychology and gender are closely interrelated. It examines critiques and debunks some of the theoretical premises from mainstream psychology while remaining mindful and respectful of their utilities. The book brings together psychological concepts theories and paradigms and examines how they interplay with gender studies going beyond the typical understanding of gender as merely demographic variable. The volume discusses important concepts such as gender role development and interpersonal relationships across caste class genders sexualities race and region. It also studies the significant link between psychology and gender and with feminism women’s studies the women’s movement the queer movement queer studies as well as other social movements. It uses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach all through. This book will appeal to students researchers and teachers of psychology applied psychology gender and women studies sociology practitioners activists those working in not-for-profit organizations and those working specifically on engendering psychology. The book will also be valuable reading for those interested in South Asian studies and other interdisciplinary courses in social sciences. | Psychology and Gender An Advanced Reader

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Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India. It examines how contaminated environments and political–economic changes render urban middle-class women in India vulnerable to PCOS a condition which has the potential to disrupt conventional normative feminine biographies of marriage and childbearing. The volume revolves around two main themes: how toxic landscapes the endocrine disrupting chemicals suffusing them and the political–economic environments related to them are linked to endocrine disorders such as PCOS; and how the biosocial disruptions caused by PCOS are both affecting women and reflective of changes in contemporary urban India. The author draws on anthropological fieldwork to investigate these connections through a fresh approach combining a political ecological framework with perspectives from the anthropology of toxic exposures and health–environment systems. The first of its kind this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of anthropology particularly medical anthropology medical sociology human geography science and technology studies medical humanities health–environment systems endocrine disorders public health and South Asian studies. | Toxic Disruptions Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Urban India

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Populism and Power Farmers’ movement in western India 1980-2014

Populism and Power Farmers’ movement in western India 1980-2014

This book traces the entire trajectory of the farmers’ movement in Western India especially Maharashtra from the 1980s to the present day. It reveals the fundamental contradictions between populism as an ideology and as political power within the democratic state structure. The volume highlights the ideologies of the movement; its emergence in the wake of a perceived agrarian crisis; how it conflates economics and populism; the role of leadership; stages of development from grassroots agitations rooted in civil society to the attempts to create space within structures of democratic politics; the eventual formation of a separate political party and consequent implications. It maps the linkages between populist ideology and mass participation and their contested successes and failures in the domain of electoral politics. Further the author underlines the effectiveness of the movement in addressing class and gender equations in the region. Rich in primary archival sources and informed field studies this book will interest scholars and researchers of agrarian economy rural sociology and politics particularly those concerned with social movements in India. | Populism and Power Farmers’ movement in western India 1980-2014

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Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

This book analyzes the role of laws and the judiciary in the process of censorship in India. It examines the rationales and observations produced by the judiciary when demands for censorship are directed against publications that allegedly offend religious sentiments. Focusing on a micro-level analysis of censorship of publications it presents a hard case to understand the limitations of freedom of expression and the role played by the judiciary in defining its boundaries. The volume traces the evolution of laws governing freedom of expression since the colonial period and the context in which these laws were amended after Independence. It also explicates how the legal process – the structural and functional aspects of working of judiciary – affects the fate of freedom of expression in India. Employing comparative legal analysis it tries to understand and situate the Indian case within the larger discourse of censorship and freedom of expression around the world thereby marking its similarities and differences. In unravelling the politics of censorship the author also examines the interaction among different stakeholders like government non-state actors and the judiciary. A tract for our times this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law especially constitutional law and fundamental rights politics especially political theory and Indian politics modern India and South Asian studies. | Religious Offence and Censorship of Publications An Enquiry through the Prism of Indian Laws and the Judiciary

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Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

This book proposes a radical shift in the way the world thinks about itself by highlighting the significance of Cross-Cultural Conversations. Moving beyond conventional boundaries it examines the language in which histories are written; analyzes how scientific technology is changing the idea of identity; and highlights the need for a larger identity across nationality race religion gender ethnicity and class. It asks for a concerted effort to engage each other in open conversational forums on a range of contemporary global issues alter our attitudes toward self and the other and unlearn prejudices that perpetuate the practice of divisive identities. The book also explores critical themes such as political actions solidarity-in-diversity clash of social identities tensions between nationalism and globalism the quest for global peace and authentic meeting of world religions. Further it discusses the evolving connection between science and religion focusing on key philosophical ideas that have permeated the Indian cultural soil. The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy religious studies science and technology studies and cultural studies. | Cross-Cultural Conversation A New Way of Learning

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Modern Maternities Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta

Modern Maternities Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta

Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta brings to light rare textual and visual materials on medical opinions about breastfeeding by memsahibs (European women) dais (indigenous midwives and/or wet nurses) and the bhadramahila (here the focus is on ‘respectable’ Bengali-Hindu women). With the help of archival resources the author discusses themes like: modernity maternities and medicine intersections of ‘race’ gender class caste community and age in diet artificial foods versus wet nursing ‘cleanliness’ corporeality and culture ‘clean midwifery’ versus ‘dirty midwifery’ customary breastfeeding practices child-mothers and childcare breastfeeding mothercraft and modern clocks exhibitions baby shows and baby weeks colonialism and anti-colonial nation-building The book offers critical insights into social histories of medicine motherhood and childcare in nineteenth and early twentieth century colonial Calcutta. It is intended for anyone interested in the book’s interdisciplinary focus on the regional national and global resonances of childrearing advice. In particular it will interest scholars and researchers from modern Indian history global history health history medical anthropology gender studies and South Asian studies. | Modern Maternities Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta

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The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

The book presents a new interpretation of the Santal Rebellion the Hul 1855–1856 drawing on the colonial sources as well as Santal memories. It offers a critique of postcolonial approaches that overlook specifically tribal perspectives and see the Hul as a class-based peasant rebellion. The author analyses the Hul and its participants—the Santals and their opponents both the colonial administration and the Bengalis. He also looks at the attempts of the Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu to reform the Santal religion. Offering a new respectful reading of the Hul’s religious legitimation the book argues that changes in Santal religion and ethics were responses to the colonial regime’s new and aggressive economic order. The Hul’s leaders Sido and Kạnhu demanded the introduction of just laws based on the universal principle of equality. This historical approach leads to a call for the inclusion of the voice of tribal and Adivasi minorities when formulating politics for their development in the 21st century. The book is relevant for researchers and students of social history social reform tribal and indigenous studies postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | The Santal Rebellion 1855–1856 The Call of Thakur

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Farmers’ Suicides in India A Policy Malignancy

Farmers’ Suicides in India A Policy Malignancy

This book locates the malignant causes behind the factors leading to farmers’ suicides in India. It argues that not only a combination of innovative managerial and economic policies is required to make farming profitable but also food production within the carrying capacity of soil water forests and economic and social resources must still be maintained. It brings together diverse themes such as farming development and suicide statistics as well as the developmental inertia evident in farmers’ welfare policy history. The book stresses the need to go beyond the narrow crop economics of minimum support price utility and towards recognizing the farm household economic nature of farming reinventing the uniqueness of farmers as a productive class engaged in converting cosmic elements into food and adopting the budgetary support approach to bail out the farmers from the suicidal debt-multiplying production support approach. Lucid and topical this book will be useful to scholars and researchers of political studies political sociology agricultural economics political economy public policy sociology agrarian and rural development studies as also to policy analysts governmental bodies and civil society activists. | Farmers’ Suicides in India A Policy Malignancy

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Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

This book examines the impact of British education policies on the Muslims of Colonial Bengal. It evaluates the student composition and curriculum of various educational institutions for Muslims in Calcutta and Dacca to show how they produced the educated Muslim middle class. The author studies the role of Muslim leaders such as Abdul Latif and Fazlul Huq in the spread of education among Muslims and looks at how segregation in education supported by the British fueled Muslim anxiety and separatism. The book analyzes the conflict of interest between Hindus and Muslims over education and employment which strengthened growing Muslim solidarity and anti- Hindu feeling eventually leading to the demand for a separate nation. It also discusses the experiences of Muslim women at Sakhawat Memorial School Lady Brabourne College Eden College Calcutta and Dacca Universities at a time when several Brahmo and Hindu schools did not admit them. An important contribution to the study of colonial education in India the book highlights the role of discriminatory colonial education policies and pedagogy in amplifying religious separatism. It will be useful for scholars and researchers of modern Indian history religion education Partition studies minority studies imperialism colonialism and South Asian history. | Bengal Muslims and Colonial Education 1854–1947 A Study of Curriculum Educational Institutions and Communal Politics

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Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

This book examines for perhaps the first time singlehood at the intersections of race media language culture literature space health and life satisfaction. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach borrowing from sociology literary studies medical humanities race studies linguistics demographic studies and critical geography to understand singlehood in the world today. This collection of essays aims to establish the discipline of Singles Studies finding new ways of examining it from various disciplinary and cultural perspectives. It begins with laying the field and then moves on to critically look at how race has shaped the way we understand singlehood in the West and how class age gender privilege and the media play a role in shaping singlehood. It argues for a need for increased interdisciplinarity within the field for example analyzing singlehood from the perspective of medical humanities. The volume also explores the role workplace living arrangements financial status and gender play in single people’s life satisfaction. With an interdisciplinary and transnational approach this interdisciplinary volume seeks to establish Singles Studies as a truly global discipline. This pathbreaking volume would be of interest to students and researchers of sociology literature linguistics media studies and psychology. | Singular Selves An Introduction to Singles Studies

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Population and the Political Imagination Census Register and Citizenship in India

Population and the Political Imagination Census Register and Citizenship in India

This book identifies population as a central issue of polity and examines its links to ideas of state and citizenship. It explores the relationship between the state citizenship and polity by reexamining processes related to census enumeration population and citizen registers and the politics of classificatory governmentality. Religion ethnicity caste and political class play a key role in determining community identities and the relationship between an individual and the state. Contextualizing the arguments and controversies around the Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019 (CAA 2019) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) the book examines the processes of inclusion or exclusion of minorities and migrants as citizens in India. It focusses on the classification of irregular and refugee migration since independence in India especially in the state of Assam. The book highlights how political imagination as a theoretical framework shapes the processes and strategies for enumeration and classification and thereby the idea of citizenship. Underlining the relationship between instruments of government political mobilization and the resurgence of communal polarization it also offers suggestions for alternative constructions of citizenship and an inclusive state. This book will be useful for students and researchers of population studies population geography migration studies sociology political science social anthropology law and journalism. It will also be of interest to policy makers journalists as well as NGOs and CSOs. | Population and the Political Imagination Census Register and Citizenship in India

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Dalit Feminist Theory A Reader

Dalit Feminist Theory A Reader

Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader radically redefines feminism by introducing the category of Dalit into the core of feminist thought. It supplements feminism by adding caste to its study and praxis; it also re-examines and rethinks Indian feminism by replacing it with a new paradigm namely that caste-based feminist inquiry offers the only theoretical vantage point for comprehensively addressing gender-based injustices. Drawing on a variety of disciplines the chapters in the volume discuss key themes such as Indian feminism versus Dalit feminism; the emerging concept of Dalit patriarchy; the predecessors of Dalit feminism such as Phule and Ambedkar; the meaning and value of lived experience; the concept of Difference; the analogical relationship between Black feminism and Dalit feminism; the intersectionality debate; and the theory-versus-experience debate. They also provide a conceptual historical empirical and philosophical understanding of feminism in India today. Accessible essential and ingenious in its approach this book is for students teachers and specialist scholars as well as activists and the interested general reader. It will be indispensable for those engaged in gender studies women’s studies sociology of caste political science and political theory philosophy and feminism Ambedkar studies and for anyone working in the areas of caste class or gender-based discrimination exclusion and inequality. | Dalit Feminist Theory A Reader

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English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

This book looks at the figure of the English teacher in Indian classrooms and examines the practice and relevance of English and India’s colonial legacy many decades after independence. The book is an account of the varied experiences of teaching English in universities in different parts of the country. It highlights the changes in curriculum and teaching practices and how the discipline lent itself to a study of culture historical contexts the fashioning of identities or reform over the years. The volume presents the dramatic changes in the composition of the English classroom in terms of gender class caste and indigenous communities in recent decades as well as the shifts in teaching strategies and curriculum which the new diversity necessitated. The essays in the collection also examine the distinctiveness of English practice in India through classroom accounts which explore themes like post-coloniality feminism and human rights through the study of texts by Shakespeare Beckett Doris Lessing and poetry from the Northeast. This book will be of interest to academics researchers students and practitioners of English Studies education colonial studies cultural studies and South Asian studies as well as those concerned with the history of higher education and the establishment of disciplines and institutions. | English Teachers’ Accounts Essays on the Teacher the Text and the Indian Classroom

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