Sage Publications Pvt Ltd imprint: 873 books
Gay Bombay
Globalization, Love and (Be)longing in Contemporary India
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Through a multi-sited ethnography in an online-offline community, Parmesh Shahani examines how Internet technologies, the media industry, audiences and broader socio-historical contexts shape gay identity in contemporary urban India. He realizes that the identity of a gay man in the community is negotiated...
The Second Homeland
Polish Refugees in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2012
The Second World War presents the backdrop for this riveting account of displacement, migration and resettlement. Once the Soviet forces marched into Poland, thousands of Polish citizens were deported to slave-labour camps in the USSR. As news of their inhuman condition and ordeal spread, Jam Saheb...
The Sikh Separatist Insurgency in India
Political Leadership and Ethnonationalist Movements
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
The "Punjab crisis," a two-decade long armed insurgency that emerged as a violent ethnonationalist movement in the 1980s and gradually transformed into a secessionist struggle, resulted in an estimated 25,000 casualties in Punjab. This ethnonationalist movement, on one hand, ended the perceived...
by Peter Gonsalves
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
Khadi: Gandhi`s Mega Symbol of Subversion investigates the power of a symbol to qualitatively transform society by studying Mahatma Gandhi’s use of clothing as a metaphor for unity, empowerment and liberation from imperial subjugation.
The book brings together historical evidence of Gandhi’s...
RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi
The Hindu Communal Project
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
RSS, School Texts and the Murder of Mahatma Gandhi undertakes the novel experiment of juxtaposing three apparently quite different issues, the nature of the RSS school textbooks, the murder of the Mahatma and the basic ideology of Savarkar and Golwalkar. While deeply delving into all three aspects,...
The Southasian Sensibility
A Himal Reader
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The Southasian Sensibility: A Himal Reader is a collection of representative, seminal articles published over the past 25 years in Himal Southasian, Southasia's first and foremost regional news and analysis magazine. The essays are fine examples of long-form journalism, a format that Himal has pioneered...
Interrogating My Chandal Life
An Autobiography of a Dalit
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2017
Winner of The Hindu Prize 2018 (Non-fiction)
Shortlisted for the 3rd JIO MAMI Word to Screen Award 2018
If you insist that you do not know me, let me explain myself … you will feel, why, yes, I do know this person. I’ve seen this man.
With these words, Manoranjan Byapari points to...
Mutiny at the Margins: New Perspectives on the Indian Uprising of 1857
Volume II: Britain and the Indian Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
The Mutiny at the Margins series takes a fresh look at the Revolt of 1857 from a variety of original and unusual perspectives, focusing in particular on neglected socially marginal groups and geographic areas which have hitherto tended to be unrepresented in studies of this cataclysmic event in British...
Patel, Prasad and Rajaji
Myth of the Indian Right
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
**This book traces the debates around the concept of ‘Right and Right-wing Politics’ in the Indian political context. **
Delineating the differing ideological positions held by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, Dr Rajendra Prasad and C. Rajagopalachari on the one hand and of their leftist/socialist...
The Bose Brothers and Indian Independence
An Insider’s Account
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This book chronicles the roles of Sarat and Subhas Chandra Bose in the Indian freedom struggle. It draws from first-hand accounts of Amiya Nath Bose who was close to them as family, political ally and also was a confidant and trusted envoy.
The book takes us through the turbulent political...
The First Naxal
An Authorised Biography of Kanu Sanyal
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
It seldom happens that the story of an individual becomes so intertwined with the cause she or he stands for that it becomes impossible to separate the one from the other. Kanu Sanyal’s is one such rare story: to read it is to relive the history of the Naxalite Movement, which the Indian establishments...
by D N Gupta
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Communism and Nationalism in Colonial India, 1939-45 is an incisive and original contribution to our understanding of the Communist Party of India`s approach towards the Indian national movement and British colonialism from 1939 to 1945.
Based on extensive use of archival material, private...
Winning the Mandate
The Indian Experience
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2016
This book captures how electioneering has changed over the years and how media and marketing have assumed more significance than party manifestos.
On 16th May 2014, India witnessed the result of an intense political campaign. Those who were vanquished felt that this was due to the success of...
We are All Revolutionaries Here
Militarism, Political Islam and Gender in Pakistan
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
What might link a group of middle-class Pakistani women sipping coffee demurely in a living room, with the fiery young women in black burqas threatening shopkeepers in Islamabad?
When and how do an adolescent girl’s aspirations translate into the maturing of a social and political revolution...