Oup India: 245 books
Talking Architecture
Raj Rewal in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Talking Architecture is a part of the series of Ramin Jahanbegloo’s conversations with prominent Indian intellectuals. This revised edition presents additional visuals and an extended dialogue between Jahanbegloo and Raj Rewal, one of India’s leading architects. The conversation flows effortlessly...
Enduring Colonialism
Classical Presences and Modern Absences in Indian Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2009
This volume explores three significant issues—absence, the consciousness of the contemporary, and new philosophical episteme—relevant to thought systems in the Indian subcontinent. The author discusses the present lack of original philosophical discourse in the context of South Asia, especially...
Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’
Andrews, Tagore, and Gandhi: An Epistolary Account, 1912-1940
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
Friendships of ‘Largeness and Freedom’ presents the story of three remarkable individuals—Rabindranath Tagore, Mahatma Gandhi, and the Anglican missionary Charles Freer Andrews. Brought together for the first time, the letters in this volume not only bear witness to their friendship but also...
Global Nepalis
Religion, Culture, and Community in a New and Old Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2018
Migration has been a basic fact of Nepali life for centuries. Over the last thirty years, migration from Nepal has increased diaspora communities across the world. In these diverse contexts, to what extent do Nepalis reproduce their culture and pass it on to subsequent generations? How much of diaspora...
by Rudrangshu Mukherjee
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2018
After more than seven decades of Independence, Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) is still an overarching presence in India’s collective memory. One of the central figures in the country’s freedom struggle, he was also an eminent writer. This short introduction to Nehru traces his personal–political...
Desire and Liberation
Biography of a Text by Vaddera Chandidas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
In Desire and Liberation, Vaddera Chandidas creates a new metaphysical system. He bases this new system on earlier Indian traditions of sutra literature. The author rejects major convergences in philosophy from both India and the West, especially on the ontological primacy of non-being that results...
J. Krishnamurti and Educational Practice
Social and Moral Vision for Inclusive Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2018
First in the series on Education and Society in South Asia, this volume focuses on the educational thought of a world-renowned teacher, thinker, and writer—Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986). This edited volume examines Krishnamurti’s work and explores his contemporary relevance in educational endeavours...
Evolution of Economic Ideas
Adam Smith to Amartya Sen and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The history of economic thought can be traced to the Industrial Revolution and the 19th-century Great Divergence until which it remained an integral part of philosophy. This book deals with different thinkers and theories to explore ideas that later became the foundation of modern economics. Through...
War and Society in Afghanistan
From the Mughals to the Americans, 1500–2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This monograph analyses the rhythms of war and the geopolitical significance of Afghanistan with a focus on the interrelated concepts of weak/rentier state, great power rivalry, and counter-insurgency. It analyses why the Mughals, the British, the Soviets, and the Americans won the conventional wars...
The Bhagats of the Guru Granth Sahib
Sikh Self-Definition and the Bhagat Bani
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2002
This book offers an analysis of key issues concerning the phenomenon of scriptural adaptation. It offers a new understanding of religious pluralism, stressing the need to enter into dialogue with an 'open attitude' by honoring the individual commitments and maintaining differences in mutual respect and dignity.
The Guru Granth Sahib
Canon, Meaning and Authority
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2003
This book examines three closely related questions in the process of canon formation in the Sikh tradition: how the text of the Adi Granth came into being, the meaning of gurbani, and how the Adi Granth became the Guru Granth Sahib. The censure of scholarly research on the Adi Granth was closely related...
Africa Reset
A New Way Forward
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Africa faces both big opportunities and worrisome threats. The Africa that emerges over the next 40 years—whether it becomes a dynamic continent with a growing influence in the world or an economic backwater that exports its people and capital—depends on what African countries do now. The continent...
by Bina Agarwal
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
An internationally acclaimed economist, Bina Agarwal is known for her path-breaking writings on agriculture, property rights, and the environment. Her three-volume compendium brings together a selection of her essays, written over three decades. Combining diverse disciplines, methodologies, and cross-country...
Literary Activism
Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Literary Activism revisits and interrogates, and looks to renew, the force of the literary. It's a movement that emerges from a radically altered landscape for both publishing and academia, where what Amit Chaudhuri calls ‘market activism’ has effected changes – on language, on the measuring...