Oup India: 245 books
Talking Back
The Idea of Civilization in the India Nationalist Discourse
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
British histories in the nineteenth century were by and large monologues. From the turn of the century Indians began to 'talk back', questioning colonial assumptions and narratives of India's past. What was the point of this endeavour? What was said when the Indians began to talk back? What was the...
Exploring the West
Three Travel Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Inverting the conventional imagery of Europeans' travel narratives about South Asia, this omnibus brings together three fascinating accounts of Indian interaction with the West. It raises interesting questions about cross-cultural encounters. Is the West objectively perceived and represented? Do observers...
Universalist Hopes in India and Europe
The Worlds of Rabindranath Tagore and Srečko Kosovel
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
In 1913, Rabindranath Tagore received the Nobel Prize in Literature. World famous overnight, he was translated into numerous languages. Meanwhile, in Slovenia, a young, still anonymous poet felt strongly drawn to the newly available works of the Indian bard. This young man was Srečko Kosovel, who...
Images and Contexts
The Historiography of Science and Modernity in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This volume situates the historiography of science in India within a social theory of science. It deals with paradigm shift within science studies, the move away from a West-centric theory of science, and future trends and possibilities. The book takes up several strands from the corpus of writing...
Forging Power
Coalition Politics in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2005
This volume looks at the evolution of coalition politics in India, both at the national and provincial levels. It investigates the processes that led to coalition governments. It explores the formation of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the Janata Party...
Talking India
Ashis Nundy in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2006
This book is a series of comprehensive interviews conducted by Ramin Jahanbegloo at Tehran and organized over six sessions. The interviewer questions Nundy within the context of his own 'Indian-ness' as also his affinity (and criticisms) for things Indian: whether it be thought, religion, or pluralistic...
The Fall of Gods
Memory, Kinship, and Middle Classes in South India
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Interrogating the cultural roots of contemporary Malayali middle classes, especially the upper caste Nambudiri community, The Fall of Gods is based on a decade-long ethnography and historico-sociological analyses of the interconnections between colonial history, family memories, and class mobility...
by R. V. Vaidyanatha Ayyar
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017
This book comprehensively chronicles the history of the education policymaking in India from 1947 to 2016 with a focus on the developments after 1964 when the Kothari Commission was constituted. The book is informed by the rare insights acquired by the author while making policy at the state, national,...
The Future of Indian Universities
Comparative and International Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
At a time of social, political, and economic shifts across the world, India is faced with the pivotal challenge of addressing the state of its universities. In a region that was home to the leading higher learning institutions during ancient times, the descent in the quality of higher education offered...
Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere
Periodical Literature in Colonial North India
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
The emergence of periodicals in Hindi for women and girls in early-twentieth-century India helped shape the nationalist-feminist thought in the country. Analysing the format and structure of periodical literature, Shobna Nijhawan shows how it became a medium for elite and middle-class women to think...
Patrons of the Poor
Caste Politics and Policymaking in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Why has there not been more progress with reducing poverty in India? Patrons of the Poor offers a rich and contemporary account of politics and policymaking in India, as it seeks to provide an answer to this vital question. Despite unprecedented economic growth, the last twenty years have witnessed...
by Aradhna Aggarwal
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
This book provides a comprehensive review of the evolution and performance of SEZs from a historical and comparative perspective by tracing the experiences of SEZs in 23 developing countries, including Korea, Taiwan, and China. Using a framework that integrates the basic tenets of the industrial cluster...
Articles of Faith
Religion, Secularism, and the Indian Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
Examining the constitutional and legal foundations of the place of religion in India, Articles of Faith studies the relationship between religion and state. It closely analyses the decisions of the Supreme Court from the 1950s on Articles 25–30 of the Indian Constitution, as well as other relevant...
Triple Talaq
Examining Faith
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Triple talaq, or talaq-e-bidat, is one of the most debated issues in the Muslim world. From antiquity, the Muslim faith has been plagued by the portrayal of Muslim men regularly misusing this perceived “right” to divorce their wives instantly by simply uttering “talaq” thrice. The Supreme...