Everywhere, as the author states, ‘capitalism is triumphant and Marxism seems irrelevant'. Yet, not that long ago, many had thought that capitalism...

In writing about the times of the Buddha, Bani Basu composes a new Jataka, the traditional format in which the tales of the different births of the...

Writing with passion and wit on contemporary India, this selection from the author's columns in the Hindu, the Deccan Chronicle and the Hindustan T...

Elaborating new theoretical perspectives on visual cultures, the book addresses the political processes of the photographic image. Srivatsan uses g...

Bridging theoretical discussions with fieldwork, these contributions consider social change in various gendered sites: orphan girls, middle class a...

This translation provides access to the major works of a leading Marathi writer. Kamal Desai's fiction is focused on the micro levels of inner life...

Focusing on the many hegemonies that confront women and men today, the authors present fresh insights on the linkages among gender, culture and pol...

Both are based on the Mahabharata. The first one narrates the story of Draupadi. She was married to the five royal Pandava brothers and her humilia...

Gender intersects with other factors such as race, ethnicity, economic, social and political aspects and geographical locations. Divided into four ...

This book offer new insights into the problems and realities of personal law in Bangladesh. Looking at the ways in which religious jurisprudence ha...

Geetha points out that 'gender is everywhere', and when we allocate to the male and female sexes, specific and distinctive attributes and roles, we...

This book breaks new ground in perceiving the interrelations among class, caste, religious and gender identities to grasp the complex notion of ide...

Examining the crucial linkages between caste and gender, undertaken, perhaps, for the first time, Uma Chakravarti unmasks the mystique of consensus...

Ilaiah demystifies Buddha whom he sees as a man and not a god and as India's first social revolutionary. Critical of the caste system, Buddha induc...

This epic panorama of rural Bengal, is set in the time of the Tebhaga movement of the 1940s, the peasants' uprising against unjust 'taxes' by landl...

Written in the 1930s, the stories and novella take a remorselessly radical stance against society's hypocritical mores, with women across classes f...

Reflecting contemporary conflicts in India, this novel, translated from the Marathi into English for the first time, is set in a village in Maharas...

Sarmistha Dutta Gupta explores the interface between women's writing and politics and studies gender identities in their shifting interrelations wi...

In his life-long mission to make the world a better place, Jolly Kaul takes us to the heart of what concerns India and, indeed, any nation: its val...

While there have been many studies on HIV-positive people, this pioneering book studies the impact on affected families, highlighting changing fami...

A committed activist who has watched, participated in and analysed the momentous changes that have affected the lives of countless women, Ashoka Gu...

Many women have found the relationship with their fathers to be the key one in helping them to step outside tradition, which often remained identif...

Although the challenge to the hegemonic status of the institution of marriage in India is grabbing the limelight in popular media, it has received ...