Oup India: 245 books
by Anindita Majumdar
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
As commercial surrogacy in India dominates public conversations around reproduction, new kinds of families, and changing trends in globalization, its lived realities become an important aspect of emerging research. This book maps the way in which in vitro fertilization (IVF) specialists, surrogacy...
Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence
The Haj from the Indian Subcontinent, 1860–1920
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2010
The epicentre of the Muslim universe, Mecca attracts hundreds of thousands of believers every year. Pilgrimage, Politics, and Pestilence studies the organization and meanings of the Haj from India during colonial times and analyses it from political, commercial, and medical perspectives between 1860,...
by Jagannath Prasad Misra
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2016
At the time when the national movement was still in its early stages, Madan Mohan Malaviya emerged as an enigmatic but commanding figure in the political landscape of India. This work reconstructs Malaviya’s ideal of nationalism, which was composite, constructive and creative and offers a fresh...
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab
Ruchi Ram Sahni, 1863–1948
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
A Memoir of Pre-Partition Punjab is a richly annotated autobiography of Ruchi Ram Sahni (1863–1948)—social reformer, scientist, science educator, and, later, active participant in political affairs. A riveting account of life in nineteenth-century colonial Punjab, it covers Sahni’s growing up...
The Rays before Satyajit
Creativity and Modernity in Colonial India
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
In the history of Indian cinema, the name of Satyajit Ray needs no introduction. However, what remains unvoiced is the contribution of his forebears and their tryst with Indian modernity. Be it in art, advertising, and printing technology or in nationalism, feminism, and cultural reform, the earlier...
Public Office, Private Interest
Bureaucracy and Corruption in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2000
This volume is about political corruption and the use of public office for private gain in India. A merit-based bureaucracy was launched in the nineteenth century to control corruption. This system with its pay structure that rewarded civil servants for honest effort was seen as the best solution...
by Surinder S. Jodhka, Aseem Prakash
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
Who exactly are the middle classes in India? What role do they play in contemporary Indian politics and society, and what are their historical and cultural moorings? The authors of this volume argue that the middle class has largely been understood as an ‘income/ economic category’, but the term...
Note-Bandi
Demonetisation and India’s Elusive Chase for Black Money
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
The demonetisation of November 2016 will go down in history as one of the most intensely debated economic policy interventions of the Indian state. With the abolition of the legal tender status of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes, about 86 per cent of the currency in circulation stood withdrawn from circulation...
Seduced by the Familiar
Narration and Meaning in Indian Popular Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
Hindi popular cinema has played a key role as a national cinema because it assisted in the imagining of a unified India by addressing a public across the nation-to-be even before 1947. Examining the diverse elements that constitute the 'popular' in Indian cinema, M.K. Raghavendra undertakes, in this...
The T.N. Madan Omnibus
The Hindu Householder
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
For more than half a century, T.N. Madan has been a towering influence on the sociological and anthropological studies of family and kinship, cultural dimensions of development, religion, secularism, and Hindu society and tradition. This Omnibus brings together his seminal writings on marriage, kinship,...
Schooling the National Imagination
Education, English, and the Indian Modern
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2009
What is the nature of textbooks produced by a postcolonial society and how do they shape the national citizen? How do they define social roles in society, and influence the way people look at themselves and others? In what way do textbooks reflect the framing visions about societal change? By exploring...
Building Legitimacy
Exploring State–Society Relations in Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2008
This book compares two states in the Northeast with different socio-political trajectories—a relatively orderly Mizoram and a troubled Manipur—in order to understand the sources of political turmoil in the region. Taking the region as a case study, it examines the larger debates on success and...
by T.N. Srinivasan
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2000
The book comprises eight lectures delivered by T.N. Srinivasan at ISEC Bangalore in 1998. The short lectures succinctly describe the reform process since the early 1990s, covering the famework and process of reform in each sector of the economy.
Burden of History
Assam and the Partition—Unresolved Issues
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly,...