Basketry in India

Singh, KS et al

Contents: (i) Typology (ii) Form, shape, design and raw material (iii) Manufacturing technique (iv) Social aspects.;;;;;;;

Between femininity and femininism: colonial and postcolonial perspectives on care

Mahadevan, Kanchana

ISBN: 9788124607305, 8124607303

This book delves into the contribution of feminist thinkers to examine their transformation of the activity of philosophy itself in the course of its contact with the feminine.

Bazaar India: markets society and the colonial state in Gangetic Bihar

Yang, Anand A

ISBN: 9788121509268, 8121509262

In this richly textured book, the author offers a social, cultural and economic history of markets in India's north-eastern state of Bihar during the period of 1765-1947.

The way ahead: violation of human rights and related social stigma against LGBT in Indian society,

ISBN: 9789392038563, 9392038569

Bhil sub-groups in caste milieu

Soni, Lok Nath (1948- )

Bhutan: ethnic identity and national dilemma, 2nd rev. ed.

Sinha, Awadhesh Coomar

ISBN: 9788175100596, 8175100591

The book portrays the transition of the Bhutanese frontier community from a theocratic to a feudal one. It examines the ecological, ethnic and historical processes through which the Bruqpa theocracy was established in the 17th century A.D.

Woman servitude

Barman, Rajit Deb (b.1955)

ISBN: 9788190333023, 819033302X

Revolution within: Nampudiri women as agents of social reform in Kerala

Anandi, T.K.

ISBN: 9788195839483, 8195839487

This book portrays an important phase in the social reform movement of Kerala, during which a major transformation took place in upper-caste, patriarchal Nampudiri brahmana households, initiated by women and the youth, that challenged pre-modern brahmanical moral codes, the gendering process, and modes of reproduction and inheritance.

Bio-social dimensions of ageing

Bali, Arun (ed.)

ISBN: 9788185952857, 818595285X

Bodymaps: stories by South Asian women

Chakravarty, Radha (ed.)

ISBN: 9788189884024, 8189884026

The stories in this anthrology present a range of ways in which women writers of South Asia have remapped the female body as a site for oppression as well as resistance. These connect the traditional female areas of experience such as marriage motherhood, family dynamics, women's education and work, with broader issues of class, caste, sexuality, religion etc.

Bonded histories: genealogies of labour servitude in colonial India

Gyan Prakash

ISBN: 9780521362788, 0521362784

A sophisticated theoretical analysis with evidence from archival records, village documents and oral testimonies to present an original and compelling view of the changing relationship of bondage.;

Women and the romance of the word: 19th-century contexts in Bengal

Mukherjee, Sreemati

ISBN: 9789356406018, 9356406014

Leading with resilience: stories of the challenges and triumphs of women in local governance

Wadhwaniya, Sunny

ISBN: 9789360958381, 9360958387

This book is a vital exploration of women's roles in local governance, highlighting their often-overlooked contributions and struggles.

Buddhist women across culture-realizations

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe (ed.)

ISBN: 9788170306603, 8170306604

Occupational mobility in an exile community: a social-economic study of Tibetan women in Dharamshala and Dehradun

Rajput, Madhu

ISBN: 9789387023796, 9387023796

The book is an empirical research done by author on socio-economic status of Tibetan women in exile. In early 1960s during conflict, migration and resettlement, it were the Tibetan women and children who suffered the most, as out of their sheltered existence, they became vulnerable to various forms of gender based exploitation.

Emergence of the new women: the novels of Shobha De and Bharati Mukherjee

Saleema, P.

ISBN: 9789382186892, 9382186891

The striking quality of this book is its brilliant psychoanalysis of the behavioural patterns of women protagonists painted on a single canvas of universal womanhood by two different authors, cutting across continental boundaries. The selected authors Shobhaa De and Bharati Mukherjee are writers from diverse backgrounds. The former is a well-known socialite and a contemporary Indian writer whil...

Other voices: missionary women's writing and Assam

Phukan, Sudipta

ISBN: 9789355293411, 9355293410

The book deals with the Christian missionary women's writing during the colonial Assam. The women missionaries who accompanied their male counterparts as well as single women missionaries stayed in Assam throughout their lives or for a considerable period of time.

A Carnival of parting: the tales of king Bharthari and king Gopi Chand as sung and told by Madhu Natisar Nath of Ghatiyali, Rajasthan, tr. with an introd. and afterwords by ...

ISBN: 9788121506229, 8121506220

...Grodzins Gold.;

Caste, Class and education, politics of the capitation fee phenomenon in Karnataka

Kaul, Rekha

ISBN: 9788170363316, 8170363314

Explores the extent to which the structure of education depends upon the nature of the society and the state. Focusing on the capitation fee phenomenon in Karnataka, the authority views the phenomenon as a manifestation of the interface between caste, class and power which combine to treat education as an enterprise.;

Caste, class and politics : emerging, horizons of political sociology

Akinchan, S

ISBN: 9788121204866, 8121204860

contents: (i) Nature of political sociology (ii) Scope and approaches of political sociology (iii) Political socialization and political participation (iv) Structural-functional appproach to political phenomena (v) Systems analysis and politics (vi) Social structure and polity (vii) Political modernization (viii) Social dimensions of nation-building (ix) Caste, class and politics (xi) Sociology...