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Rule by Numbers examines aspects of the production of statistical knowledge as part of colonial governance in India using Foucault’s ideas of 'governmentality.' The modern state is distinctive for its bureaucratic organization, official procedures, and accountability that in the colonial context of governing at a distance instituted a vast system of recordation bearing semblance to and yet differing markedly from the Victorian administrative state.
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This collection of essays is a contribution in the emering field of medical anthropology in India. It deals with issues of ethics, health and medicine from an anthropological perspective. The contributors are mostly anthropologists who have presented their fieldwork-based research. Ethical issues arising in the context of medical pluralism in India, ethno-medicine, globalization and its impact and consequences on health and their ethical issues, the health ...
The book deals with the contemporary concerns of women in India. The essays that have previously been published in a special issue of Nivedini are drawn from different social science disciplines which converge in the interdisciplinary terrain of women's studies in its analysis of womens experiences. The essays examine the ways in which women have negotiated and challenged structures of power through the women's movement which is also undergoing shifts in ...
Issues of rural development and women’s empowerment received critical attention in various debates. Trends and patterns of agricultural development in recent years have not always been favourable to women, especially rural women, who face marginalisation. Some of the essays make us rethink the relationship between employment and empowerment in a more nuanced way. An attempt has, therefore, been made in this book, to take stock of the contemporary challenges in ...
The book highlights the commonalities and differences in rural women's experiences across the countries and communities of the South Asian region. It argues that the low status and weak empowerment of rural women is on account of the structural conditions of poverty and inequality in the region, the social and cultural shaping of gender ideologies and the multiple patriarchies and caste and class dominance through which poor women experience power relations. ...
