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  • City, Marginality and Education

    Tribal Migrants in Kolkata

    by Ruchira Das ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines the socially segregated Santals, a tribal community that migrated from various parts of Bengal and its neighbouring states of Bihar, Orissa, and Jharkhand to Kolkata, a city currently driven by capitalist-consumerist forces that pose a challenge in terms of the community’s inclusion and accommodation. As residents of Kolkata for more than four decades, the Santal migrants have ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD

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  • Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams

    Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs

    by Nicola Mooney ...
    Renowned as the predominant farmers and landlords of Punjab, and long possessed of an autocthonous agricultural identity, Jat Sikhs today often live urban and diasporiclives. Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.Nicola Mooney describes a number of Jat Sikh social practices and narratives through which ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Selling Spirituality

    The Silent Takeover of Religion

    by Jeremy Carrette, Richard King ...
    From Feng Shui to holistic medicine, from aromatherapy candles to yoga weekends, spirituality is big business. It promises to soothe away the angst of modern living and to offer an antidote to shallow materialism.Selling Spirituality is a short, sharp, attack on this fallacy. It shows how spirituality has in fact become a powerful commodity in the global marketplace - a cultural addiction that ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Culturalization of Caste in India

    Identity and Inequality in a Multicultural Age

    by Balmurli Natrajan ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
    In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based relations. Challenging dominant social theories of caste, this book addresses questions of how caste survives the system that gave rise to it and adapts to new demands of capitalism and democracy.Based on original ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Dalit Feminist Theory

    A Reader

    Edited by Sunaina Arya, Aakash Singh Rathore ...
    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 ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Daughters of the Tharu

    Gender, Ethnicity, Religion, and the Education of Nepali Girls

    by Mary Ann Maslak ...
    Series series Reference Books In International Education
    This book explores the complex structural institutions in society, individual attitudes towards, beliefs about and values of those institutions, and the process by which the relationship between the social structure and individual agency conditions and governs girls' educational participation in Nepal. ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • 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

    $93.99 CAD

  • Civility in Crisis

    Democracy, Equality and the Majoritarian Challenge in India

    Edited by Suryakant Waghmore, Hugo Gorringe ...
    This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high democracy and low civility that plagues India. This concept helps analyse why democratic consolidation translates into limited justice and minimal equality, along with increased exclusion and ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Human Rights of the Third Gender in India

    Beyond the Binary

    by Lopamudra Sengupta ...
    This book engages with the discourses on human rights as they apply to the transgender or the hijra community in India, capturing not only their larger struggle for legal rights and dignity but also their personal hardships. It situates the issues and concerns of the Indian transgender community within a global context to explore the extent of social justice in independent India.By narrating ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Politics of Social Exclusion in India

    Democracy at the Crossroads

    Edited by Harihar Bhattacharyya, Partha Sarkar, Angshuman Kar ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
    Social exclusion and inclusion remain issues of fundamental importance to democracy. Both exclusion and inclusion relate to the access to participation in the public realm, public goods and services for certain groups of people who are minorities, marginalized and deprived. Democratization has led to the inclusion of the previously excluded in the political process. While the problems of exclusion ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Women in 'New Nepal'

    Through the Lens of Classed, Ethnic, and Gendered Peripheries

    by Seika Sato ...
    Series series Nepal and Himalayan Studies
    This book brings rarely voiced lives and experiences of women in Nepal to light and combines rich ethnography with discourse analysis. Multifaceted and critical, the volume situates its narrative in the profoundly transformative period after the turn of the century when ‘New Nepal’ was rising on the horizon and sheds light on Nepali women’s experiences in multiple sites, crossing class and ethnic ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • 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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