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  • Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar

    “We Achieved Great Feats!”

    by Indulata Prasad ...
    Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar examines the long-term social, spatial, and material impacts of the Bodhgaya Land Movement (BGLM) of the 1970s and 1980s on its participants and beneficiaries. This book presents an ethnography and oral history of radical feminist and anti-caste activism based on interviews with the urban, educated Vahini activists who ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

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    Class, Caste and Cultural Revolution

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    India's Power Elite is a study of the nature of power and elitism in postcolonial India. Its point of departure is the political transition under way in twenty-first-century India, with the marginalization of the Congress Party and the staging of a cultural revolution symbolized by the rise of Hindu majoritarianism. Baru deconstructs the morphology of the Indian power elite-comprising remnants of ... Read more

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  • Tamil Brahmans

    The Making of a Middle-Class Caste

    by C. J. Fuller, Haripriya Narasimhan ...
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  • Caste and Democratic Politics in India

    by GHANSHYAM SHAH ...
    The Indian constitution seeks to prevent the perpetuation of caste and build a casteless social system. But this has not happened over the fifty-odd years since Indian independence, and shows little sign of happening in the near future. Therefore no understanding of Indian politics is possible without a thorough understanding of the complexities of caste. The aim of this book is to bring about ... Read more

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  • Democracy against Development

    Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

    by Jeffrey Witsoe ...
    Series series South Asia Across the Disciplines
    Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy against Development, Jeffrey Witsoe investigates this counter-narrative, uncovering an antagonistic ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Adivasi or Vanvasi

    Tribal India and the Politics of Hindutva

    by Kamal Nayan Choubey ...
    ‘An extremely important and timely book’ --- Nandini Sundar, Professor Department of Sociology, Delhi University.Akhil Bhartiya Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram, popularly known as Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram or VKA is the tribal wing of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). As the largest tribal organization in the country, it works in many areas of Kerala, Jharkhand and the North-east of India. Till the late 1970s, ... Read more

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  • Caste and nature

    Dalits and Indian Environmental Policies

    by Mukul Sharma ...
    Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental ... Read more

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  • Rabindranath Tagore, Amartya Sen, and the Early Indian Classical Period

    The Obligations of Power

    by Neal Leavitt ...
    Rabindrinath Tagore (1861–1941) and Amartya Sen (1933–) defend a distinctive form of foreign policy internationalism in their writings. Instead of increasing the economic and military power of democratic states relative to their authoritarian competitors, Tagore and Sen focus on the need to diminish the capacity for violence in all states, regardless of regime type. In Sen’s view, a program of ... Read more

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  • Religion and Politics in Contemporary Japan

    Soka Gakkai Youth and Komeito

    by Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen ...
    Series series Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
    Presenting a study of politics at grassroots level among young Japanese, this book examines the alliance between the religious movement Soka Gakkai (the ‘Value-creation Society’) and Komeito (the ‘Clean Government Party’), which shared power with the Liberal Democratic Party from 1999 to 2009. Drawing on primary research carried out among Komeito supporters, the book focuses on the lives of ... Read more

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  • Dna of Dalit Movement

    by Ojha Jai Prakash ...
    The book is a collection of essays woven around the contours of the growth of the dalit movement, the crusade undertaken by the dalit icons for the cause of dalit emancipation and the burning issues that have cropped up before the dalits. These issues are at the crux of very lively debates that are taking place in contemporary India. Politics of exclusion and identity have restricted the ... Read more

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  • Nepal's Dalits in Transition

    by David N. Gellner, Krishna P. Adhikari ...
    For too long Nepal’s Dalits have been marginalized, not just socially, economically, and politically, but from academic accounts of Nepalese society as well. This volume forms part of a welcome new trend, the emergence of Dalit Studies in Nepal, led by a new generation of Dalit scholars. It covers a wide range of issues concerning Nepal’s Dalits and offers a snapshot of the advances that they have ... Read more

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  • Caste in Contemporary India

    by Surinder S. Jodhka ...
    Caste is a contested terrain in India’s society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. It examines questions of untouchability, citizenship, social mobility, democratic politics, corporate hiring and Dalit activism. Using rich empirical evidence from the field across Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi and other parts of north India, this volume presents ... Read more

    $90.68 CAD