Oup India: 245 books
Moderate or Militant
Images of India’s Muslims
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2008
In this book Mushirul Hasan articulates a vision of Islam or rather the many different kinds of Islam, instead of the frightening monolith of popular perception, living in harmony with other faiths, and of Indian Muslims, inheritors of the great Indian civilization, living in a plural society. Engaging...
An Independent, Colonial Judiciary
A History of the Bombay High Court during the British Raj, 1862–1947
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2015
In 2012, the Bombay High Court celebrated the 150th year of its existence. As one of three high courts first set up in colonial India in 1862, it functioned as a court of original and appellate jurisdiction during the British Raj for over 80 years, occupying the topmost rung of the judicial hierarchy...
Religion, Community, and Education
The Case of Rural Bihar
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2012
Religion-based educational disparities, especially relative educational backwardness amongst the Muslims in India, are the focus of serious debate. The 2006 Sachar Committee Report rekindled public interest and attention in this important issue. Yet, considerable gaps exist in our understanding of...
The Empire of Disgust
Prejudice, Discrimination, and Policy in India and the US
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
All known societies exclude one or more minority groups, frequently employing a rhetoric of disgust to justify stigmatization. For instance, in European anti-Semitism, Jews were considered hyper-physical and crafty; some upper-caste Hindus find the lower castes dirty and untouchable; and people with...
Talking Sociology
Dipankar Gupta in Conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
A well-known name in contemporary sociology, Dipankar Gupta’s wide range of scholarship and popular columns have justly earned him the reputation of being one of India’s leading public intellectuals. Talking Sociology provides a complete panorama of Gupta’s life and works and his contribution...
Dancing to the State
Ethnic Compulsions of the Tangsa in Assam
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
Can small indigenous communities survive as distinct cultural entities in northeast India, an area characterized by mind-boggling ethnic, linguistic, and cultural diversity? What are the choices that such minority groups have, and how do they resist further marginalization? Diversity in northeast...
Merchants and Colonialism
Freedom, Resistance, and Statelessness in Upland Northeast India
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Amiya Kumar Bagchi’s Merchants and Colonialism is a landmark work in economic history and sociology. The author shows us how colonial rule put traders and manufacturers under immense pressure, forcing them to look for survival strategies in a changed economic environment. This resulted in long-term...
Democracy and Constitutionalism in India
A Study of the Basic Structure Doctrine
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2010
The basic strucure doctrine articulated by the Indian Supreme Court in 1973 made it amply clear that the basic features of the Constitution must remain inviolable. The doctrine has generatd serious debates ever since as it placed substantive and procedural limits on the amending powers of the Execuive....
Arrest, Detention, and Criminal Justice System
A Study in the Context of the Constitution of India
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2012
A just, fair, reasonable, and purposeful exercise of arrest and detention powers by the State is both in the interest of the individual and the society at large. However, very often individual rights are impinged by arbitrary and illegal exercise of State power to arrest and detain. The book studies...
Of Poverty and Plastic
Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India’s Urban Informal Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2009
Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by those working in the informal waste...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
This volume provides a comprehensive analysis of the macro- and micro-level issues associated with agrarian distress. It analyses structural, institutional, and policy changes, highlighting the failure of public support system in agriculture. The crisis manifests itself in the form of deceleration...
Pieces of Earth
The Politics of Land-Grabbing in Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Resource exploitation in the form of land-grabbing has become a major debate worldwide. Based on extensive field research conducted at the India-Pakistan border, using Kishanganga Hydroelectric Project as a case study, this book on corporate land-grabbing in Kashmir explains how capital is at play...
by Anindita Majumdar
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Although estimated as a multi-billion dollar industry, surrogacy has still not found prominence in legislation in India, neither does it feature in the nation’s public discourse. This short introduction explores how surrogacy is practiced and understood in India and across the world. Why is a surrogate...
by Arupjyoti Saikia
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
This book presents a comprehensive account of the transformation of Assam's forests and ecology from early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It locates present-day ecological conflicts in the colonial era when contest over forest, land, and resource began to take new shape. Arupjyoti...