A Brahman ‘mega convention’ in contemporary Pune reasserts faith in endogamy for ‘national interest’, and imposes new codes on Brahman…
This is a classic monograph on the Mahar movement in western India. It documents the social and political forces that…
Slavoj Žižek’s first book is a provocative and original work looking at the question of human agency in a postmodern…
Why do adivasi societies defend themselves so desperately against the state? What is it that sparks so much protest and…
Gogu Shyamala’s stories dissolve borders as they work their magic on orthodox forms of realism, psychic allegory and political fable….
The sea swallowed the sun splitting open, spraying crimson blood over the clouds. A Second Sunrise showcases the best poems…
Jotirao Govindrao Phule wrote Slavery (Gulamgiri)—a scathing and witty attack on brahmanism and the slavery of India’s ‘lower’ castes that it engendered….
In this magisterial study of the social élan of early Buddhism, Nalin Swaris argues that the radical thrust of the…
Balagopal’s writings, from the early 1980s till he died in 2009, offer us a rare insight into the making of…
The burakumin, Japan’s largest minority group, have been the focus of an extensive yet strikingly homogeneous body of Japanese language…
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