What happens when untouchables decide they are not Hindus and refuse to subscribe to the concepts undergirding caste? They form…

The cover features S. Anvar’s photograph of a 12th century statue of the Buddha at the Paravai bus stop, Perambalur,…

In this book, historian Dwijendra Narayan Jha argues that the ‘holiness’ of the cow is a myth and its flesh…

The System of Objects ranks as one of the most important books of poststructuralist cultural criticism. Pressing Freudian and Saussurean…

The bhakti radical Ravidas (c 1450–1520), calling himself a ‘tanner now set free’, was the first to envision an Indian…

Who discovered the first detergent soap in India? Who created scripts as they crafted pots? Who selected and standardised most…

As we walk into another night of the newest phase of imperialism, this book asks: What is the Marxists’ quarrel…

Is communalism a deflection of the violence and inegalitarianism within Hindu society? How has the deployment of violence against an internal…