Sujata Patel
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This book deals with the legacies of the Indian experiences of migration and diaspora in South Africa. It highlights the social imaginaries of the migrants and citizens as they negotiate between a reconstructed notion of ‘India’ and their real present and future in the country of citizenship.
Both South Africa and India have had a long history of group-based identity movements against exploitation around caste and race, intersecting with class, ...
This volume debates the different ways in which ideas, practices, and traditions of sociology grew, were organized, and institutionalized in India from the mid-nineteenth century till present times. It facilitates, in a small way, an understanding of the histories of the discipline, while critically examining their origin and growth, their impact, and their limitations. The interplay of three themes- time, space, and power-structures the arguments in this book. ...
This volume, third in the series on Bombay, or Mumbai brings together essays that treat the renaming of the city as a point of departure in visiting enduring themes in Bombay's life. As Bombay explodes into the Megapolis of Mumbai, the volume examines whether the transition is merely in the name or if it has larger implications for the city's growth - in terms of an enormous expansion in size, diversity, population and function. The essays collected here offer ...
Conceived as a festschrift in honour of Alice Thorner, this collection of original essays by prominent scholars from around the globe has a vast canvass. What binds the volume together is that all the contributors reflect on diverse issues which are seminal to the thinking of social science in India. Specific themes range from discussions of peasantry and the formation of new classes to climate and famine; from nationalism and shifting identities to modernity, ...
India's urban growth experience has been phenomenal. It is increasing defining the life of the country's population, whether or not they live in cities. This volume explores the many dimensions of this experience, and presents an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the urban phenomenon. A comprehensive introduction enables the reader to understand and assess the complex pattern of the urban process in modern and contemporary India. It underscores the need ...