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MODELS OF POLITICAL ECONOMY
₨ 1,478“Foundations of Political Economy” will introduce students to the basic methodology of political economics. It covers all core theories as well as new developments including: decision theory; game theory; mechanism design; and, games of asymmetric information. Hannu Nurmi’s text will prove to be invaluable to all students who wish to understand this increasingly technical field.
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CONTEMPORARY ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
₨ 1,478This text examines critical and contemporary issues in the sociology of economic life. Bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives, it examines major shifts in the organization of economy and society–from the politics of globalization to the cultural economy, social exclusion and the “end” of class.
The book is organized around three core themes: globalization, work and inequality. Key changes in each of these domains raise new challenges for analyzing social and economic relations, power, agency and identity. This book examines how these issues are being re-shaped in contemporary societies, and explores competing frameworks for understanding such changes. Drawing on arguments from economic sociology, politics and political economy, the text focuses on both conceptual approaches to the social study of the economy, and trans-national processes of social and economic restructuring. The arguments provide a critical overview of current concerns for economic sociology, and extend the boundaries of the discipline to a new set of questions.
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SCIENCE AND THE INDIAN TRADITION
₨ 2,226During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, India experienced an intellectual renaissance that owed as much to the influx of new ideas from the West as to traditional religious and cultural insights. This book examines the effects of the introduction of Western science in India, and the relationship between Indian traditions of thought and Western science. It charts the early development of science in India, its role in the secularization of Indian society, and the subsequent reassertion, adaptation and rejection of traditional modes of thought. Ii looks at the detailed beliefs of Indian scientists, including Jagadish Chandra Bose, SN. Bose and P.C. Roy, and reflects upon how individual scientists could accept particular religious beliefs such as reincarnation, cosmology, miracles and prayer. It discusses some of the adaptations of traditional Indian beliefs with insights from Western science, in particular the place of science within the philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore and the 1930 discussions between Einstein and Tagore on the nature of reality. It is argued that the Hindu, Muslim and Christian philosophical and religious traditions have nothing to fear from scientific theories such as evolution and a unified field theory; indeed they may be mutually compatible.
Overall, this book provides a detailed assessment of the results of the introduction of Western science into India, and will be of interest to scholars of Indian history and philosophy, historians of science and those interested in the interactions between Western and Indian traditions of intellectual thought.
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ETHNOGRAPHIC METHODS
₨ 1,478Ethnography isn’t a prescribed set of methods – it’s a methodology that acknowledges the complexity of human experience and the need to research it by close and sustained observation of human behaviour. In this comprehensive yet highly compact introduction, Karen O’Reilly introduces the reader to the technical, practical and philosophical issues that arise when employing traditional and innovative research methods in relation to human agents. It invites the reader to engage in reflexive and creative research that draws critically and creatively from the full range of qualitative methods.
Using case studies of students’ work to illustrate the dilemmas and resolutions that an ethnographic researcher may encounter, this textbook guides the reader from the initial design and planning stages through to the analysis and writing-up. It explores the historical and philosophical foundations of ethnographic research and goes on to cover a range of relevant topics such as participant observation, qualitative interviews, (focus) group interviews and visual data collection and analysis.
Designed primarily for undergraduates, this book incorporates complex methodological debates which will also engage more experienced researchers, perhaps coming to ethnography for the first time.
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ETHNOGRAPHY
₨ 1,851Thoroughly updated and substantially rewritten, this edition of this popular textbook is now even more relevant and useful for students and researchers. The new material includes: chapters on the use of visual research methods, recent advances in feminist theory, new regimes of research regulation and a new conclusion. “Ethnography” provides a systematic and coherent account of ethnographic principles and practice. Rejecting the over-simplified contrast between ‘positivism’ and ‘naturalism’, but also questioning more recent critiques of these positions, the authors argue that ethnography is best understood as a reflexive process. Above all, what this means is that we must recognize that social research is part of the world that it studies. From an outline of the principle of reflexivity in chapter one, the authors go on to discuss and exemplify the main features of ethnographic work: the selection and sampling of cases; the problems of access; observation and interviewing; recording and filing data; the process of data analysis; and writing research reports. There is also consideration of the ethical issues surrounding ethnographic research.
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NATURE AND SOCIOLOGY
₨ 1,478Nature has become increasingly central to social thinking. From the social implications of environmental degradation to the plethora of issues raised by biotechnology; genomics, neuroscience and health, the ‘natural’ world is increasingly difficult to ignore for sociologists and social scientists. In addition to a wide-ranging treatment of this field, this ground-breaking text presents fresh perspectives that challenge the way we think about the relationship between ‘time’, ‘nature’ and ‘society’.
Although the natural and social are inevitably intertwined, Tim Newton argues that we should be open to the possibility of difference between our perception of the natural and social world. In so doing, he contests accepted tenets, such as an overriding need for anti-dualism, and underscores the limitations of current approaches such as social constructionism and realism. In addition, he engages with the burgeoning debates on new genetics and neuroscience, takes the material world and human biology seriously, and addresses the issues of interdisciplinary that are likely to arise in any longer term attempt to work across the social and natural world.
Nature and Sociology will be of great interest to students of a variety of disciplines including Sociology and Social Science, Human Geography, Social and Biological Anthropology; and the Natural Sciences.
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CRITICAL THEORY AND WORLD POLITICS
₨ 1,590Andrew Linklater has been one of the most innovative thinkers in international relations, introducing critical and ethical elements into the discipline which has forced it to rethink many of it basic assumptions. This book builds on this body of work to develop a radical new theory that calls for a cosmopolitan approach to international relations. Key subjects covered in the book include: citizenship and humanity; critical theory and political community; the problem of harm; and, the sociology of states-systems. “Critical International Relations Theory” is essential reading for students and scholars of international relations, politics and international relations theory.
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ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY
₨ 1,851This insightful key resource presents the clearest, most comprehensive and wide-ranging account of economic sociology to date. Hass presents a critical and sophisticated yet approachable analysis of economic behaviour and phenomena. Making the insights, claims and logic of economic sociology interactive and accessible to students while exposing the realities of today’s complex economic world and the challenges of studying economies and societies.
This introductory text: provides a sophisticated yet approachable analysis of economic behaviour and phenomena; explores economic structures and change from a global perspective – by using comparisons and data from the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and post-socialist countries to show how domestic and international economic forces work over time to shape modern economies; takes a critical perspective of both economic sociology and economics to establish useful insights; presents historical narratives showing the development of today’s economic structures and institutions; and, addresses important economic issues directly impacting on students’ lives – from the more visible (economic inequality and organizations) to the less visible (international economic trends, public policy, post-socialism). Incorporating illustrations, case studies, a glossary, chapter notes, a comprehensive bibliography and a companion website, this student-friendly text also puts forward suggestions for further project work by showing the reader areas that require further investigation.
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PUNJAB POLITICS, 1 JUNE 1947-14 AUGUST 1947: TRAGEDY
₨ 2,526This is the fifth and final volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the Punjab to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governor or his Secretary are also included. There are 153 items in total. The volume opens with the announcement of the Mountbatten Plan on 3 June 1947 which provided for the partition of the Punjab. A major theme, therefore, of this volume is the making of arrangements for the division of the Province, this was far from straightforward and the Governor’s relations with both Mountbatten and the political leaders became strained. These final administrative moves took place against a deteriorating communal situation with continual bombings, murders and stabbings. The daily situation telegrams which are included show how the coming of partition brought tragedy to the lives of ordinary people.
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INDIAN DIASPORA IN WEST ASIA
₨ 3,178Modern Indian Diaspora in West Asia has a long and checkered history dating back to at least the sixteenth century. A number of small communities of Indian traders called banyans existed in present-day Iraq, Oman, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. When the region came under British influence in the nineteenth century, Indian merchant communities flourished in a number of towns of the Gulf countries. The Indians served as bankers, importers and exporters, customs farmers, agents for local merchants; government contractors, pearl-financiers, etc. and as such their contribution to the overall development of the gulf countries has been significant.
The emergence of Gulf countries as oil-producing and exporting economies and the consequent demand for labour changed the size and complexion of the Indian and other expatriate communities in the region.
The significance of the Gulf-based Indian Diaspora is better understood by the quantum of remittances sent by the workers to their relations and dependents in India which is currently estimated at about ten billion US dollars.
Outside the Gulf region Israel is the only country in West Asia that hosts a sizeable Indian community of Indian origin is estimated at around 60, 000 – all Israely citizens.
The book is perhaps the first ever attempt of its kind on the subject and will certainly fill a major gap in our understanding of the Indian Diaspora in West Asia in general and that of the Gulf region in particular.
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THE IMPACT OF ARMED CONFLICTS ON WOMEN IN SOUTH ASIA
₨ 2,150This book exposes the different ways in which violent conflicts increase patriarchal controls on women and the impact of militarization on women and men, on masculinities and femininities. In all the societies and communities under discussion in the five countries, the authors point to the different ways in which women react and respond to the conflict. They become victims of various acts of repression and abuse. The book exposes that even armed militant women choose to respond to violence with violence. On the other side militants mothers respond to violence with non-violent means of political agitation. The authors articulate a general position on the need to redefine democracy within the South Asian context, in a way which recognizes minority rights and acknowledges the nature of all South Asian states as multicultural and multinational. Within this overarching framework, the authors see women’s involvement in militancy and in peace building as enabling a new construction of democracy, human rights and citizenship. The need for a reconceptualization of security to mean human security and peace with justice, rights and equality is both advocated and emphasized. In this process, the authors address the need to begin to deconstruct the exercise of masculinity power in its different forms, especially as played out in war and conflict.
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PUNJAB POLITICS 1 JANUARY 1944-3 MARCH 1947
₨ 3,553This volume provides the texts of 126 fortnightly reports and other documents sent to the Viceroy by the Governors of the Punjab or their secretaries between January 1944 and early March 1947. The years covered were crucial in the run-up to partition and the volume documents the growing strength of the Muslim League in the Punjab which was most clearly demonstrated by its resounding victory in the 1946 elections. Corresponding activity on the part of the Congress and the Sikhs is also recorded.
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PUNJAB POLITICS, 3 MARCH-31 MAY 1947
₨ 3,086This is the fourth volume in a series which provides the texts of the Fortnightly Reports sent by the Governors of the Punjab to the Viceroy. Other key documents sent by the Governor or his Secretary are also included. There are 154 items in total. The volume covers the period which followed the fall of the Khizar Ministry and during which discussions on India’s constitutional future were taking place. Initial attempts to form a new Ministry centring on the Muslim League came to an end after serious rioting broke out in Lahore and Amritsar and at least 3,500 people were killed in communal violence in the Western Punjab. There was particular concern as to how the Sikhs would react to these events. Partition now began to look almost certain. As the volume closes further disturbances and killings were again occurring in the main cities of the Punjab.
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LIVING WITH SECULARISM
₨ 2,806The present volume tries to map the tensions and predicaments of Indian Muslims arising as a result of that threat. The papers included here study the ways in which Hindu Right forces such as the RSS and the Bajrang Dal view the Muslims and in a certain sense construct them. Does the rise of Hindutva necessarily force the Muslims towards alienation or is there a section, which looks at the BJP differently? How does the stress on Indian pluralism translate in terms of Muslims’ relationship with the State? What has been the response of the state to such demands?