Vinay Kumar Srivastava
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For all of India’s myths, stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a curiously unpeopled place. In Incarnations, Sunil Khilnani fills that space, recapturing the human dimension of how the world’s largest democracy came to be. His trenchant portraits of emperors, warriors, philosophers, film stars and corporate titans-some famous, some unjustly forgotten-bring feeling, wry humour and uncommon insight to dilemmas that extend from ancient times ...
Anthropology and fieldwork we Siamese twins. The method of fieldwork boil its genesis in anthropology. With the passages (time its importance was realised by the other disciplines of social sciences and humanities. In the beginning, fieldwork was largely conducted with the so-called `primitive' communities, but later it came to be carried out in all locations, including the modern urban society and its various institutions. This edited volume, divided in two ...
B.N. Borthakur, b. 1948, Indian sociologist; contributed articles.
The Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology comprise a set of volumes, each on an important theme or sub-area within these disciplines. Along with authoritative introductions and sectional prefaces, each book brings together key essays that apprise readers of the current debates and developments within that area, with specific reference to India. The volumes act both as introductions to sociology and social anthropology and as essential ...
The keyword Series is based on a simple yet unique idea. It brigs together scholars from six regions of the world representing different disciplines, each of whom explores the meanings and nuances of certain universal concepts writing from their own socio-cultural specificities and historical settings. These books, therefore, present the diversity of cultural traditions in an era characterized by the homogenizing effects of globalization. The Series currently ...
This book deals with the issues of development among Scheduled Tribes in India. The President of India by his special power declared some communities in various pockets of our country as Scheduled Tribes on 26 January 1950 under Article 342 of the Constitution of India. According to the recently circulated Draft of the National Policy on Tribals, there are 67.8 million Scheduled Tribe people, Comprising 8.08 per cent of India’s population. There are 698 ...