Oup India: 245 books
Supreme Court of India
The Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
A leading expert on Indian judiciary, George Gadbois offers a compelling biography of the Supreme Court of India, a powerful institution. Written and researched when he was a graduate student in the 1960s, this book provides the first comprehensive account of the Court’s foundation and early years....
by Anupama Roy
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2010
Contributing to the ongoing debates on citizenship, this book traces the Citizenship Act of India, 1955 from its inception, through the various amendments in 1986, 2003, and 2005. It includes detailed studies of other significant laws and judgments including the Abducted Persons (Recovery and Rehabilitation)...
India–China Boundary Problem 1846–1947
History and Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2010
Boundary issues have always occupied a central focus in the relations between India and China. Highlighting the role of history, policy, and diplomacy, this book traces the origins and development of the India–China boundary problem during the British Raj. A.G. Noorani shows how British efforts...
by A. Raghuramaraju
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
Unlike the West, India presents a fascinating example of a society where the pre-modern continues to co-exist with the modern. Modernity in Indian Social Theory explores the social variance between India and the West to show how it impacted their respective trajectories of modernity. A. Raghuramaraju...
India Analysed
Sudhir Kakar in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Based on interviews of Sudhir Kakar by Iranian philosopher Ramin Jahanbegloo, India Analysed is a journey into Kakar’s mind—his fertile and unpredictable ways of thinking, and the essential humanism which all his writings signify—recounting the life and ideas of Kakar in his own words. In the...
by Harsh V. Pant, Yogesh Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking. This book provides a historical...
Shaping Policy in India
Alliance, Advocacy, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
How effective is the Indian polity in making laws and policies to address changing ground realities? How do its gears work? Which stakeholder groups are more successful in bringing about policy change, through what methods, and in what contexts? Seeking to answer these questions, Shaping Policy in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2018
Early modern India—a period extending from the fifteenth to the late eighteenth century—saw dramatic cultural, religious, and political changes as it went from Sultanate to Mughal to early colonial rule. Witness to the rise of multiple literary and devotional traditions, this period was characterized...
A Multilingual Nation
Translation and Language Dynamic in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
How does India live through the oddity of being both a nation and multilingual? Is multilingualism in India to be understood as a neatly laid set of discrete languages or a criss-crossing of languages that runs through every source language and text? The questions take us to reviewing what is meant...
The Nehrus
Motilal and Jawaharlal
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru are both prominent Indian men in their own right. Motilal is known as a widely successful civil lawyer and a popular political figure, while Jawaharlal made his mark as a firm nationalist leader and possible heir of the Mahatma. This book serves as a discussion of...
A Frayed History
The Journey of Cotton in India
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Once the envy of the world for its quality and variety, Indian cotton today is mired in uncertainty and despair. Though India is the largest producer of cotton, its farmers are trapped in debt, and thousands choose to kill themselves than face an ignominious fate. Handloom weavers, once proud standard-bearers...
The US–India Nuclear Pact
Policy, Process, and Great Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
The signing of the US–India civilian nuclear agreement in 2008 is a milestone in the geopolitics of the twenty-first century—one that has virtually rewritten the rules of the global nuclear order. It has also transformed the relationship between the world's oldest and largest democracies. Harsh...
India: An Archaeological History
Palaeolithic Beginnings to Early Historic Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
This book charts the flow of India's grass-roots archaeological history in all its continuities and diversities from its Palaeolithic beginnings to AD 300. The second edition includes a new afterword which discusses all new ideas and discoveries in Indian archaeology in the past one decade.
Doing Sociology in India
Genealogies, Locations, and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
This important volume on the history of sociology in India locates scholars, scholarship, theories, perspectives, and practices of the discipline in different cities and regions of the country over a century. It argues that this history is enmeshed in political projects of constructing a ‘society’,...