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Bringing together original papers by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, this volume represents a response to the relative neglect in recent sociological research of the social processes and consequences of industrialization in India. It point to the continued disjunction between the study of industrial labour and the ‘traditional’ concerns of Indian sociology, which tend to emphasise the cultural particularity of India, and advocates a ...
This timely volume brings together the work of some of India’s leading feminist economists, historians, political scientists, journalists and anthropologists to investigate the contemporary situation of women in India. It focuses on four broad domains: the cultural, the social, the political and the economic. The writers argue that despite apparently positive indicators of progress in education and paid employment, women’s status has not improved. They point ...
This volume is about the emerging development trajectories of rural labour in India, based on studies from its regions and states. Its overarching theme is rural class conflict and the result of such conflict; and the intimate link between this and the nature and impact of state intervention is considered. Vigorous emancipatory processes are identified, and the limitations of contra-dictions inherent in such processes are examined. Both powerful general trends ...