Download or read book The Jan Breman Omnibus written by Jan Breman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 1391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Omnibus edition, with an Introduction by Sujata Patel, brings together three classic works of Jan Breman-Of Peasants, Migrants and Paupers: Rural Labour Circulation and Capitalist Production in West India; Wage Hunters and Gatherers. Search for Work in the Urban and Rural Economy of South Gujarat; The Labouring Poor in India: Patterns of Exploitation, Subordination and Exclusion. The idea is to present one significant work in each decade of the 1970s, 1980s, and 2000. The introduction is divided into four sections. The first locates Bremans work in terms of the seventies debate on the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The second analyses his research on the nature of capitalism in Gujarat and the growth of new classes, the displacement of agrarian labour, and the introduction of labour in the migratory circulation. The third examines the debate on the theory of the informal sector on which Breman has made a singular contribution. The final section discusses how Bremans intellectual eclecticism and use of interdisciplinary methods of fieldwork and historical perspective has opened up a new perspective in the area of sociology of development, labour and migration studies. The book also carries an interview of the author by Yolanda van Ede of the University of Amsterdam. In this candid interview, Breman talks, among other things, about his family background, his academic life, and his fieldwork.
Download or read book An Introduction to Changing India written by Sirpa Tenhunen and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An Introduction to Changing India” provides a comprehensive view of the rapid changes occurring in India, particularly in the fields of culture, politics, economics and technology, population, environmental issues and gender. Having carried out anthropological research on kinship, gender issues, politics, class and caste, population issues and the appropriation of information technology in India since the 1990s, the authors draw from their own fieldwork and extensive reading of research reports in order to provide a comprehensive picture of Indian life.
Download or read book Walking to Dandi written by Harmony Siganporia and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2019, Harmony Siganporia walked from Dandi to Ahmedabad, retracing the route of Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March, in reverse. She walked this route of just under four hundred kilometres under twenty-five days much as Gandhi and the original band of marchers had done in 1930. The 'Dandi Path' is the setting under which she explores the story of modern Gujarat, tracing the contours of the state's seismic shift towards espousing the narrative of vikas, abandoning in the process even the possibility of a quest for swaraj. Hindutva, and this book is an effort to explore this theme, even as it attempts to unearth whether there remain any competing epistemes to it: memories of the region's prior avatar as the setting against which Gandhi puts into practice his 'experiments' with truth, non-violent civil disobedience, satyagraha, and mass political communication. This project investigates what, if anything, remains of the Salt March in modern Gujarat's cultural memory even as it attempts to outline the State's current lived reality, filling out the contours of the 'single story' of vikas with which it has come to be so closely associated.
Download or read book Anthropologies of Class written by James G. Carrier and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rising social, political and economic inequality in many countries, and rising protest against it, has seen the restoration of the concept of 'class' to a prominent place in contemporary anthropological debates. A timely intervention in these discussions, this book explores the concept of class and its importance for understanding the key sources of that inequality and of people's attempts to deal with it. Highly topical, it situates class within the context of the current economic crisis, integrating elements from today into the discussion of an earlier agenda. Using cases from North and South America, Western Europe and South Asia, it shows the - sometimes surprising - forms that class can take, as well as the various effects it has on people's lives and societies.
Download or read book Conference Proceedings written by Dr Sheetal Sharma & Dr Shruti Singh and published by Sankalp Publication. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The International Conference on Emerging Socio-cultural and Political Issues: India and Europe is organised by Amity Institute of Social Sciences, Amity University, Noida, Uttar Pradesh in collaboration with Jean Monnet Module and Centre for European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University on May 24-25, 2021.The aim of the conference is to develop an understanding of the dynamics of social change and Development taking place in European and Indian society. Both India and Europe are taking firm strides towards cooperation and development specially in the post- pandemic era. In this context the conference aims in developing on working new path for structuring and building new vision and ideas for strong partnership between the two. The main objective of the Conference is to deliver new understanding of various issues ranging from society, culture, politics and environment. It shall look into these issues from a different prism in the post pandemic era.
Download or read book Interrogating Inclusive Growth written by K. P. Kannan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The high growth performance of the Indian economy since the launch of economic reforms in the early 1990s has been much lauded. But how much of this growth has made its way to the poor? In a radical assessment of ‘inclusive growth’, this book probes the impact of neo-liberal policies on employment, poverty and inequality. It critiques the claim that market-friendly economic reform policies ‘trickle down’ to the poor and reduce poverty and deprivation. The author uses exhaustive data — from the formal and informal sectors — to create a profile of the aam aadmi. He advocates the need for a broad-based growth and development strategy that alone will address the many-sided social and economic inequalities in India. The volume will be useful to scholars and students of economics, development studies, labour studies, and sociology.
Download or read book Facing An Unequal World written by Raquel Sosa Elizaga and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2018-02-26 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Raquel Sosa Elízaga has assembled an incredibly complete set of analyses of inequality written by a range of scholars about a wide range of issues. Incomparable essential reading." - Immanuel Wallerstein, Senior Research Scientist, Sociology, Yale University Over recent decades, living conditions in poorer countries have deteriorated, leaving us faced with the present phenomenon of global inequality. Arguably the biggest challenge of the 21st Century is the confrontation and eventual elimination of the processes of structural inequality that affect these millions of human beings today. Facing an Unequal World tackles and critically examines key issues and challenges for global sociology across these interrelated themes: The dimensions of inequality and the configurations of structural inequalities and structures of power Conceptions of justice in different historical and cultural traditions Conflicts on environmental justice and sustainable futures The social injuries of inequality, and overcoming inequalities Written by a selection of international key sociologists and academics, this is a valuable resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and researchers in sociology alike.
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics written by Paul R. Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics examines key issues in politics of the five independent states of the South Asian region: India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal. Written by experts in their respective areas, this Handbook introduces the reader to the politics of South Asia by presenting the prevailing agreements and disagreements in the literature. In the first two sections, the Handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the modern political history of the states of the region and an overview of the independence movements in the former colonial states. The other sections focus on the political changes that have occurred in the postcolonial states since independence, as well as the successive political changes in Nepal during the same period, and the structure and functioning of the main governmental and non-governmental institutions, including the structure of the state itself (unitary or federal), political parties, the judiciary, and the military. Further, the contributors explore several aspects of the political process and political and economic change, especially issues of pluralism and national integration, political economy, corruption and criminalization of politics, radical and violent political movements, and the international politics of the region as a whole. This unique reference work provides a comprehensive survey of the state of the field and is an invaluable resource for students and academics interested in South Asian Studies, South Asian Politics, Comparative Politics and International Relations.
Download or read book Doing Sociology in India written by Sujata Patel and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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’, which took place as a result of colonialism and dominant nationalism. The book affirms the existence of both strong and weak traditions of scholarship in India and underscores three processes that have aided this development at various points of time: reflexive interrogation of received scholarship; probing ideal types of theories within classrooms; and questioning existing debates on society and its language by the public.
Download or read book Indian Capitalism in Development written by Barbara Harriss-White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognising the different ways that capitalism is theorised, this book explores various aspects of contemporary capitalism in India. Using field research at a local level to engage with larger issues, it raises questions about the varieties and processes of capitalism, and about the different roles played by the state. With its focus on India, the book demonstrates the continuing relevance of the comparative political economy of development for the analysis of contemporary capitalism. Beginning with an exploration of capitalism in agriculture and rural development, it goes on to discuss rural labour, small town entrepreneurs, and technical change and competition in rural and urban manufacturing, highlighting the relationships between agricultural and non-agricultural firms and employment. An analysis of processes of commodification and their interaction with uncommodified areas of the economy makes use of the ‘knowledge economy’ as a case study. Other chapters look at the political economy of energy as a driver of accumulation in contradiction with both capital and labour, and at how the political economy of policy processes regulating energy highlights the fragmentary nature of the Indian state. Finally, a chapter on the processes and agencies involved in the export of wealth argues that this plays a crucial role in concealing the exploitation of labour in India. Bringing together scholars who have engaged with classical political economy to advance the understanding of contemporary capitalism in South Asia, and distinctive in its use of an interdisciplinary political economy approach, the book will be of interest to students and scholars of South Asian Politics, Political Economy and Development Studies.
Download or read book Revolution and Its Alternatives written by Tom Brass and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political mobilization, there is – but in the absence of a radical leftist project, this subject has in the past transferred, and in many instances is still transferring, his/her support to the radical politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum. The combination of on the one hand a globally expanding industrial reserve army, generating ever more intense competition in the labour markets of capitalism, and on the other the endorsement by many on the left not of class but rather of non-class identities espoused by the ‘new’ populist postmodernism, has fuelled what can only be described as a perfect storm, politically speaking.
Download or read book The Indian National Bibliography written by B. S. Kesavan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indian National Bibliography written by B. S. Kesavan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Of Peasants Migrants and Paupers written by Jan Breman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1985 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the triangular relationship between migrants, local landless, and dominant landowners; shows how colonization of the tribal hinterland created mass poverty and how large farmers use culture, politics to sustain their hegemony and the tense triangular conflict.
Download or read book Militant Publics in India written by A. Valiani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers readers a telling glimpse of the social world in which militants are made, explaining how group physical training and technico-ethical experiments with it have created a powerful religious nationalist movement in Gujarat that has been held responsible for carrying out spectacular episodes of ethnic cleansing against Indian minorities.
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Download or read book Communalism in Postcolonial India written by Mujibur Rehman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-11-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconceptualises the idea of communalism in independent India. It locates the changing contours of politics and religion in the country from the colonial times to the present day, and makes an important intervention in understanding the relationship between communalism and communal violence. It evaluates the role of state, media, civil societies, political parties, and other actors in the process as well as ideas such as secularism, nationalism, minority rights and democracy. Using new conceptual tools and an interdisciplinary approach, the work challenges the conventional understanding of communalism as time and context independent. This second edition includes a Foreword by Romila Thapar and an Afterword by Dipesh Chakrabarty, along with a new Introduction which revaluate the trajectory of communal politics in contemporary India, and question how secularism has come to be understood today. This topical volume will be useful to scholars and researchers in South Asian politics, political science, history, sociology and social anthropology, as well as the interested general reader.
