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Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

This book is an original systematic and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia Africa the Arab world and South America the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking through words to generate a conceptual vocabulary that will allow for a global conversation on social theory which will be necessarily multilingual. With essays by scholars across generations and from a variety of disciplines – history anthropology and philosophy to literature and political theory – this book will be essential reading for scholars researchers and students of critical theory and the social sciences. | Changing Theory Concepts from the Global South

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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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Social Justice Interdisciplinary Inquiries from India

Social Justice Interdisciplinary Inquiries from India

This book explores the political and philosophical underpinnings of exclusion and social injustice in India. It examines social movements anti-caste uprisings reformers like Ambedkar and Narayana Guru and writers like Foucault and Serres to establish a link between the political and social milieu of the idea of nationhood. Going beyond the legal framework of justice the essays in the volume reassemble the social from popular perception and the margins and challenge Rawlsian and Eurocentric paradigms which have dominated discourse on social injustice. The volume also draws on instances of history as well as contemporary issues as well as locating them in the context of social and post-colonial theory. An intellectually stimulating yet subaltern engagement with the idea of justice the volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of social theory law modern South Asian history and social exclusion and discrimination studies. | Social Justice Interdisciplinary Inquiries from India

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Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

The field of humanities generates a discourse that traditionally addressed the questions of what is proper to man rights of man crimes against humanity human creativity and action human reflection and performance human utterance and artefact. The university as a philosophical-political institution transmits this humanist account. This European humanistic legacy which is little more than Christian anthropology barely received any questioning from cultures that faced colonialism. In such a context this volume attempts to unravel the ‘barely secularized heritage’ of Europe (Derrida’s phrase) and its fatal consequences in other cultures. The task of Critical Humanities is to explore the ways in which the question of being human (along with non-human others) today from heterogeneous cultural ‘backgrounds’ can be undertaken. The future of the humanities teaching and research is contingent upon the risky task of configuring cultural difference from non-European locations. Such a task is inescapable and urgently needed when tectonic cultural upheavals have begun to show devastating effect on planetary coexistence today. It is precisely in such a context that this collection of essays on critical humanities affirms ‘without alibi’ the urgency of collective reflection and innovative research across the traditional disciplinary and institutional borders and communication systems on the one hand and Asian African and European cultural formations on the other. Critical Humanities are at one level little more than communities on the verge (critical) but whose centuries long survival and resilient creations of cultural (and /as natural) habitats are of deeply enduring significance to affirm the biocultural diversities of living that compose the planet. Topical and timely this book will be useful to scholars researchers and teachers of cultural theory literary studies philosophy cultural geography legal studies sociology history performance studies environmental studies caste and communalism studies postcolonial theory India studies and education. | Critical Humanities from India Contexts Issues Futures

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Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

Retelling Time challenges the hegemony of colonial modernity over academic disciplines and over ways in which we think about something as fundamental as time. It reclaims a bouquet of alternative practices of time from premodern South Asia which stem from worldviews that have been marginalized. These practices relate to a range of classical and vernacular genres including alaṃkāra theravāda yoga rāmakathā tasawwuf āyāraṃga purāṇa trikā-tantra navya-nyāya pratyabhijñā carita kūṭīyāṭṭam and maṅgala kāvya. These represent multiple languages such as Sanskrit Persian Pali Prakrit Awadhi Malayalam Kannada and Bengali as well as diverse streams from Hinduism Jainism Buddhism and Sufi Islam to logic yoga tantra theatre and poetics. Retelling Time questions the modern Eurocentric belief in an empty homogenous abbreviated secular and irreversible time. It proposes instead that that premodern South Asia invested time with cultural function and value which ranged from the contingent to the transcendent the quotidian to the cosmic the fleeting to the eternal and the social to the spiritual. Accordingly time was reworked - stretched melded collapsed recursed rolled over and even extinguished. Sacred social aesthetic scientific fictional historical and performative South Asian traditions are seen here in conversation with one other mediated by an ethical paradigm. Their collective challenge is to decolonize our ways of knowing and being. This book will be of interest to scholars of South Asian history philosophy of history anthropology literature Sanskrit post colonial studies cultural studies studies of temporality and of the Global South. | Retelling Time Alternative Temporalities from Premodern South Asia

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Literatures from Northeast India Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

Literatures from Northeast India Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

This book showcases the diverse literary traditions from India’s Northeast and their shared connections and lineages. It critically analyses a selection of literary works from authors and poets from this region and the hegemonies of language ethnicity and politics that have framed these voices. As a region with rich cultural and ethnolinguistic diversity Northeast India’s literature is representative of varied histories languages socio-cultural and religious practices. The book highlights the distinct use of language forms cultural symbols and metaphors which articulates the unique experiences of conflict beauty and culture in this area. Focussing on the translingual and transcultural aspects of these literary works it examines the dynamics between literature language and their socio-cultural influences. The book pays attention to themes of representation identity and power to showcase voices and perspectives of dissent criticism and introspection. It explores contemporary critical approaches to literature from the Northeast by re-examining the idea of the centre and the periphery and the position of subaltern literary voices. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of literature language cultural studies postcolonial studies and South Asian studies. | Literatures from Northeast India Beyond the Centre–Periphery Debate

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Engendering Climate Change Learnings from South Asia

Engendering Climate Change Learnings from South Asia

This book focuses on the gendered experiences of environmental change across different geographies and social contexts in South Asia and on diverse strategies of adapting to climate variability. The book analyzes how changes in rainfall patterns floods droughts heatwaves and landslides affect those who are directly dependent on the agrarian economy. It examines the socio-economic pressures including the increase in women’s work burdens both in production and reproduction on gender relations. It also examines coping mechanisms such as male migration and the formation of women’s collectives which create space for agency and change in rigid social relations. The volume looks at perspectives from India Pakistan Bangladesh and Nepal to present the nuances of gender relations across borders along with similarities and differences across geographical socio-cultural and policy contexts. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of sociology development gender economics environmental studies and South Asian studies. It will also be useful for policymakers NGOs and think tanks working in the areas of gender climate change and development. | Engendering Climate Change Learnings from South Asia

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Claiming India from Below Activism and democratic transformation

Claiming India from Below Activism and democratic transformation

Going beyond electoral politics and government this volume broadens the scope of the functioning of democracy in India and explores citizens’ role in the implementation of public policy. It looks at the ways in which extra-parliamentary power monitoring devices such as public institutions citizens’ associations or assemblies and the mainstream and emerging forms of the media permeate through the political order. The volume: • brings participation and communication in governance and policy making to the centrestage; • examines case studies of state and citizen engagement from across India; and • presents perspectives of practitioners activists and scholars to provide a comprehensive view of the debates surrounding the idea of Indian democracy. This book will be useful to scholars and researchers in politics political science media studies public administration sociology and social anthropology as well as the interested general reader. | Claiming India from Below Activism and democratic transformation

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Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

Anil Gharai is arguably one of the most significant authors of Bangla Dalit literature. His works deal with the stark everyday realities of people on the margins and the complex interplay of domination and subjugation in these spaces. This volume of English translations of some of his most celebrated works seeks to introduce his writings to a new readership in India and abroad. In his works Gharai explored caste-based and gender-based oppression in the rural areas of coastal Bengal. His protagonists are from remote spaces from the Dalit community or the indigenous communities—men and women who work and live in extremely exploitative circumstances and whose lives are depicted by Gharai with great care and detail. His novels short stories and poems translated in this volume give voice to the unrepresented and offer a critique of the oppressive caste and class hierarchies and traditions in eastern India. He also focuses on the replication of patriarchal mores within Dalit society and culture. This volume includes critical essays on Anil Gharai and his long interview to reflect on his position in the alternative literary canon of Bangla Dalit literature. Part of the Voices from the Margins series this critical edition seeks to visibilise the less visible literary texts and traditions. It will be of interest to those scholars engaged in contemporary Indian/South Asian literary cultures comparative literature modern Indian literature minority studies Dalit studies and gender studies. It will also be useful to students and researchers of social sciences and humanities. | Selected Writings of Anil Gharai Dalit Literature from Bangla

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Gender Environment and Sustainable Development Challenges and Responses from India

Gender Environment and Sustainable Development Challenges and Responses from India

This book studies environment and sustainable development from the perspective of gender. It focuses on three major themes including sustainability of development practices policy perspectives on environmental management and climate change and its gendered impact. It includes contributions from academicians working across disciplines and practitioners working at the grassroots levels. The book addresses issues facing India amid a growing global environmental crisis and suggests policy measures for environmental protection and to improve the quality of life of its inhabitants. Lucid and topical the volume will be an indispensable resource for students researchers of gender environment and sustainable development sociology and public policy. It will also be a great resource for advocacy groups non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and policymakers working in the area. | Gender Environment and Sustainable Development Challenges and Responses from India

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Marginality in India Perspectives of Marginalisation from the Northeast

Marginality in India Perspectives of Marginalisation from the Northeast

The book takes a close look into the definitions and categorizations of marginality inequality agency and location in society. It examines the systems of marginalization and othering by exploring perspectives of socially excluded people and communities in Northeast India. The context of Northeast India provides unique perspectives on the debates around marginality due to the existence of multi-ethnic cultures in the region and since its prolonged colonial historical experience alienated it from the rest of India. This volume focuses on the issues pertaining to tribe caste gender identity religion and physical disability in the region. It also looks at the roles which institutions education and the media play in the creation and perpetuation of social exclusion and the centre—periphery binary. With essays from eminent scholars and social scientists the book discusses themes such as citizenship and borders national and tribal identity the role of the law government and policies for countering exclusion and the challenges which socially excluded groups and communities face to gain agency autonomy and the right to equality. This book will be useful for scholars and researchers of sociology Northeast India studies political sociology development studies political science gender studies and social anthropology. | Marginality in India Perspectives of Marginalisation from the Northeast

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The Journey of Caste in India Voices from Margins

The Journey of Caste in India Voices from Margins

This book provides a comprehensive overview of caste in contemporary India. With contributions from scholars like Valerian Rodrigues B. B. Mohanty Surinder Jodhka and Anand Teltumbde it discusses wide-ranging themes like the trajectory of caste in post-independence India; Dalits and cultural identity; the paradox of being a Dalit woman; caste violence and social mobility; Ambedkar’s quest for the right of social equality; social security for the inclusive development of Dalits; discrimination and exclusion of Dalits in education; and Dalit merit and institutional injustice and presents an overview of the struggles for distributive justice in India. This volume will be of importance to scholars and researchers of Dalit studies social justice exclusion studies caste studies affirmative action political studies sociology social anthropology and South Asian politics. | The Journey of Caste in India Voices from Margins

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Female Narratives of Protest Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

Female Narratives of Protest Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics citizenship ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation violence and protest. The book traces the origins varied historiographies and socio-political consequences of women’s protests and feminist discourses. Bringing together narratives of the Landais from Afghanistan voices from Pakistan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka Miya women poets writing from Assam and stories of Dalit and queer women across the region it analyses the diverse modes of women’s protests and their ethical and humanitarian cartographies. The volume highlights the reconfiguration of female voices of protest in contemporary literature and popular culture in South Asia and the formation of closely-knit female communities of solidarity cooperation and collective political action. The book will be of interest to students and researchers of gender studies literature cultural studies sociology minority and indigenous studies and South Asian studies. | Female Narratives of Protest Literary and Cultural Representations from South Asia

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Revisiting Suicide From a Socio-Psychological Lens

Revisiting Suicide From a Socio-Psychological Lens

This book provides a socio-psychological enquiry of the phenomenon of suicide in the Indian context. It addresses the rising trend of suicides across the world and through case studies explores its primary reasons the after-effects on survivors and families and measures to prevent them. The volume focuses on deciphering the social and psychological meanings associated with suicide. Through an examination of psycho-social autopsies of numerous cases it highlights the patterns and trends which emerge around mental well-being suicide and bereavement. It examines the primary roadblocks for robust suicide prevention measures and provides great insights into behavioral and personality categories and their relationship with suicide. Offering theoretical and empirical perspectives on the issue of suicide and self-harm this book will be of interest to students researchers and faculty of behavioral sciences psychology social anthropology demography criminology social work and sociology. It will also be an essential read for psychologists and counselors policy makers NGOs CSOs legal experts and media personnel working in the area of suicide prevention and research. | Revisiting Suicide From a Socio-Psychological Lens

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English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

This volume brings together an unusual collection of British captivity writings – composed during and after imprisonment and in conditions of siege. Writings from the ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 are well known but there exists a vast body of texts from Afghanistan Sri Lanka and Burma and the Indian subcontinent that have rarely been compiled or examined. Written in anxiety and distress or recalled with poignancy and anger these siege narratives depict a very different Briton. A far cry from the triumphant conqueror explorer or ruler these texts give us the vulnerable injured and frightened Englishman and woman who seek in the most adverse of conditions to retain a measure of stoicism and identity. From Robert Knox’s 17th-century account of imprisonment in Sri Lanka through J. Z. Holwell’s famous account of the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta through Florentia Sale’s Afghan memoir and Lady Inglis’s ‘Mutiny’ diary from Lucknow the book opens up a dark and revealing corner of the colonial archive. Lucid and intriguing this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of modern South Asia colonial history literary and culture studies. | English Siege and Prison Writings From the ‘Black Hole’ to the ‘Mutiny’

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Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

This book explores the finer nuances of community engagement in Indian higher education ranging from theory to practice. It contextualizes the concept and practice of community engagement in the contemporary context capturing global experiences insights and varied standpoints. The volume also identifies gaps present in the system and recommends solutions for the successful implementation and scaling up of the practice of community engagement not only in India but also at the global level. It also brings to the forefront; opinions perspectives and experiences of stellar women and their valuable scholarship with the aim of addressing the gender gap in the field of knowledge production on community engagement. The book will be of interest to scholars teachers and researchers of education higher education and sociology of education. It will also be useful for academicians think tanks higher education administration policymakers civil society organizations higher education institutions and those interested in the study of community engagement. | Community Engagement in Higher Education From Theory to Practice

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Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa Travelling for Safety

Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa Travelling for Safety

This book presents experiences of women refugees in a variety of contexts across Asia and Africa and builds a framework to ensure robust and effective mechanisms to safeguard refugees’ rights. It highlights the structural challenges that women who are forcibly displaced face and the inadequacies of the response of governments and other stakeholders irrespective of the country of origin ethnicity and religion of the refugee community. This volume: ● Focuses on contemporary issues such as the Rohingya and the Syrian crisis. ● Brings first-person accounts of women refugees from Asia and Africa. ● Draws on an interdisciplinary approach to analyse a host of issues including public policy cultural norms and economics of forced migration. Bringing together first-hand accounts from women refugees and interventions by activists academics journalists filmmakers humanitarian workers and international law experts this book will be a must read for scholars and researchers of migration and diaspora studies development studies sociology and social anthropology and politics and public policy. It will be of special interest to NGOs policymakers and think tanks. | Women Refugee Voices from Asia and Africa Travelling for Safety

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Passages of Fortune? Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab

Passages of Fortune? Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab

This book examines international out-migration from North India focusing on the state of Punjab. It is the first-ever empirical exploration of the causes processes patterns and consequences of international out-migration based on a robust sample of 10 000 households drawn from both rural and urban areas. The volume explores a range of issues such as current migration return migration remittances reverse remittances diaspora philanthropy migration consultancy services international marriages campaigns for safe migration abroad and plans for emigration in future. It also addresses questions surrounding the use of paid labour by households to replace the work done by the emigrants and studies villages as the migration setting. Additionally the book organically links to a well-spread-out and vibrant Punjabi diaspora as well as providing viable baseline data on a range of indicators. A key text on migration studies this volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of development studies economics demography sociology social anthropology and diaspora studies. | Passages of Fortune? Exploring Dynamics of International Migration from Punjab

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Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

Shyamal Kumar Pramanik is one of the most powerful writers of the Bangla Dalit literary movement. His evocative fictional world throws into relief the lives of the downtrodden in in contemporary India. This volume brings his fiction to a new readership by presenting English translations of a selection of his most powerful stories. This book is part of the Voices from the Margins series which seeks to enhance the visibility of literary texts and traditions from various Indian languages and also to bring Dalit literature to the center stage. Pramanik focuses extensively on lives and lifestyles of the people in the Sundarbans the largest mangrove forest in the world and an ecologically fragile zone. Drawn from personal experience many of these stories paint in vivid colors the deprivations that define life in this part of the world. His fiction highlights the workings of caste. . The translations in this anthology are buttressed by an interview with the writer which includes his reflections on his life society and his writings opening up new possibilities of understanding his work in its larger social context. The book also creates an academic framework within which Pramanik’s fiction can be read and critically analyzed. This critical edition will be of interest to students and researchers of comparative literature South Asian literature and culture modern Indian literature Dalit studies culture history and sociology. | Selected Writings of Shyamal Kumar Pramanik Dalit Literature from Bangla

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Inclusive Leadership Perspectives from Tradition and Modernity

Inclusive Leadership Perspectives from Tradition and Modernity

This book reflects on the models of leadership espoused by ancient Indic traditions in particular the Advaita Vedanta tradition. Focusing primarily on the Rajarshi – ‘the philosopher king’ – the essays in this volume showcase how using these models in contemporary society could lead to the creation of self-aware and empathic leaders and an inclusive society. The book explores examples of the Brahmarshi or the wise scholar; Rajarshi or the wise ruler; and Devarshi or the visionary to bring together all the ideal virtues of inclusive leadership in the current cultural and political space. The essays in the volume adopt a critical sociological philosophical and management lens to analyse Indic traditions and dharmic concepts. The volume uses concepts such as dharma karma and yoga along with organisational psychology technology and management to arrive at the concept of transcendental leadership. It theorises new definitions of the Rajarshi ideal which can be used towards public service social transformation and self-discovery. The volume will be useful for scholars and academics interested in Indic philosophies of leadership and governance sociology and social and political inclusivity. It will also be useful for readers in public administration business and management. | Inclusive Leadership Perspectives from Tradition and Modernity

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COVID-19 Assemblages Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia

COVID-19 Assemblages Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia

This book documents and analyzes the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic through queer and feminist perspectives. A testament of dispossessions as well as a celebration of various forms of resilience community building and critical responses it chronicles the social history of queer and trans persons and women in South Asia and the diasporas. Through a creative and collaborative form of ethnographic writing the book enters in conversation with the worlds of domestic helps caregivers cultural workers students sex workers and other precariously employed people. It examines the confining effects of the pandemic on the lived realities of many queer and trans individuals the caste-oppressed and women across socio-economic backgrounds. The chapters in the volume piece together narratives of prejudice hardship self-expression and resistance from interviews personal accounts as well as poems and stories from activists artists and other collaborators. The book pays particular attention to issues of power and asymmetrical relationships amidst COVID-19 and offers critiques to deepen the understanding of the uneven fault lines within which historically oppressed persons reside in South Asia. Exploring themes of migration disability and sexual politics this book is an essential reading for scholars and researchers of gender and sexuality studies cultural studies South Asian studies sociology and social anthropology. | COVID-19 Assemblages Queer and Feminist Ethnographies from South Asia

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Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

This volume studies the ways in which modernity has been conceived practiced and performed in Indian literatures from the eighteenth to the twentieth century. It brings together essays on writings in Hindi Urdu Punjabi Bengali Odia Gujarati Marathi Tamil Telugu Kannada Malayalam and languages from Northeast India which form a dialogical relationship with each other in this volume. The concurrence and contradictions emerging through these studies problematize the idea of modernity afresh. The book challenges the dominance of colonial modernity through sociohistorical and cultural analysis of how modernity surfaces as a multifaceted phenomenon when contextualized in the multilingual ethos of India. It further tracks the complex ways in which modernism in India is tied to the harvests of modernity. It argues for the need to shift focus on the specific conditions that gave shape to multiple modernities within literatures produced from India. A versatile collection the book incorporates engagements with not just long prose fiction but also lesser-known essays research works and short stories published in popular magazines. This unique work will be of interest to students and teachers of Indian writing in English Indian literatures and comparative literatures. It will be indispensable to scholars of South Asian studies literary historians linguists and scholars of cultural studies across the globe. | Indian Modernities Literary Cultures from the 18th to the 20th Century

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Witchcraft Accusations from Central India The Fragmented Urn

Witchcraft Accusations from Central India The Fragmented Urn

This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together ‘fragments’ of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft and how they connect with social relations gender notions of agency law media and the state. The volume uses the metaphor of the shattered urn to tell the story of the accusations punishment rescue and the aftermath of the events of the trial of women accused of being witches. It situates the ṭonhī or witch as a key elaborating symbol that orders behaviour to determine who the socially included and excluded are in communities. Through the personal interviews and other ethnographic methods conducted over the course of many years the author delves into the stories and practices related to witchcraft its relations with modernity and the relationship between violence and ideological norms in society. Insightful and detailed this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers of anthropology development studies sociology history violence gender studies tribal studies and psychology. It will also be useful for readers in both historic and contemporary witchcraft practices as well as policy makers. | Witchcraft Accusations from Central India The Fragmented Urn

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Coronasphere Narratives on COVID 19 from India and its Neighbours

Coronasphere Narratives on COVID 19 from India and its Neighbours

This book presents a broad overview of the challenges posed by COVID-19 in India and its neighboring countries. It studies the differing responses to COVID-19 infections across South Asia the variegated impact of the pandemic on its societies communities and economies and emerging challenges which require an interdisciplinary understanding and analysis. With a range of case studies from India Bangladesh Myanmar Pakistan Nepal Bhutan and Sri Lanka this book Analyses the socio-economic impact of the pandemic including the structural challenges faced by farmers in the agricultural production and migrant workers in the informal sectors; Examines the shifting trends in migration and displacement during the pandemic; Explores the precarity faced by LGBTQ+ transgender Dalit tribal senior citizens and other marginalized communities during the pandemic; Discusses the gendered impact of the pandemic on women and girls combining with multiple and intersecting inequalities like race ethnicity socio-economic status age geographical location and sexual orientation; Sheds light on the position of health infrastructure and healthcare services across different countries and the transitions experienced in their education sectors as well in response to COVID-19. A holistic read on the pandemic this book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology medical anthropology sociology of health pandemic and health studies political studies social anthropology public policy and South Asian studies. | Coronasphere Narratives on COVID 19 from India and its Neighbours

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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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