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Researching Geography: The Indian context by Gopal Krishan
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This book is a one-stop comprehensive guide to geographical inquiry. A step-by-step account of the hows and the whys of research methodology. Introduces students to the complexities of geographical... -
Contested Coastlines: Fisherfolk, Nations and Borders in South Asia by Charu Gupta 9780367176105
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This book is about the tragic journeys and livelihood insecurities of coastal fisherfolk jailed by India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh for having entered each other`s territorial waters. While... -
India in the G20: Rule-taker to Rule-maker by Manjeet Kripalani 9780367608422
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book analyses the importance of the G20 to India, its role so far, and how it can leverage its presidency year to be an influential author of new global rules. In 2023, India will be the... -
Digital India and the Poor: Policy, Technology and Society by Suman Gupta 9780367496203
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Digital India and The Poor examines how the poor are evoked in contemporary Indian political discourse. It studies the ways in which the disadvantaged are accounted for in the increasingly digitised... -
Adolescence in India: An Interdisciplinary Perspective by Gomathi Jatin Shah 9780367515485
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08Adolescence in India: An Interdisciplinary Perspective highlights the need and importance of studying adolescence in the domain of education. Using an interdisciplinary approach, it discusses... -
Pope Francis: Journeys of a Peacemaker by Mario I. Aguilar 9780367756994
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39This volume is about Pope Francis, the diplomat. In his eight years of pontificate, Pope Francis as a peacemaker has propagated the ideas of human and divine cooperation to build a global human... -
Infrastructure of Injustice: State and Politics in Manipur and Northeast India by Raile Rocky Ziipao 9780367493585
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the dynamics of infrastructure development in Northeast India, especially Manipur, from a socio-anthropological perspective. It looks at the pattern and distribution of... -
Affective World-Making: Routing Planetary Thought by Simi Malhotra 9781032610238
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08This volume fosters a re-imagination of the planet where it is seen not only as a resource, but also as an entity that must not be excluded from the political imperative of care and kinship. The... -
The Dynamics of Human Development: A Partial Mobility Perspective by Atanu Sengupta 9780367673512
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book studies the dynamic aspects of the Human Development Index (HDI) through a partial mobility perspective. It offers a new axiomatic structure and a set of mobility indices to discuss partial... -
The Social Sciences in a Global Age: Decoding Knowledge Politics by Dipankar Sinha 9780367626921
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94The book focuses on the status and role of the social sciences in the current millennium. Drawing inspiration from a range of theorists, it critically examines the key debates on the social science... -
Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: Reason, Religion and Nation by Shafey Kidwai 9780367678869
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book presents a nuanced narrative on Sir Syed Ahmad Khan’s (1817–1898) life and his invaluable contribution to the democratic consciousness in India. Based on extensive archival research and a... -
Total Quality Management in Higher Education: Study of Engineering Institutions by Sayeda Begum 9780367693954
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book offers a conceptual, theoretical, and empirical overview of the role of total quality management (TQM) in Indian higher education from the perspectives of the engineering faculty, students,... -
Chaste Wives and Prostitute Sisters: Patriarchy and Prostitution among the Bedias of India by Anuja Agrawal 9781138376786
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This book is an anthropological study of the unusual coincidence of prostitution and patriarchy among an extremely marginalized group in north India, the Bedias, who are also a de-notified community... -
Tracking the Media: Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan by Subarno Chattarji 9781138380318
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34This book is about media content analysis in the English language print media in South Asia, with reference to certain contemporary issues. It is written from the perspective of the need to analyze... -
Conflict, Power, and the Landscape of Constitutionalism by Gilles Tarabout 9781138384170
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54The book seeks to critically examine the implication of a constitution of law for a political society. It presents a collection of essays that seek to investigate how power acts on power, how limits... -
Re-reading Hind Swaraj: Modernity and Subalterns by Ghanshyam Shah 9781138659834
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest global icons of all times, is known as much for his successful leadership of India's non-violent anti-colonial freedom movement as for his virtue and simplicity... -
Justice, Democracy and State in India: Reflections on Structure, Dynamics and Ambivalence by Amarnath Mohanty 9781138659940
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This book explores how the liberal conception of justice with all its ideological underpinnings is reflected in the framing and working of the Constitution of India, in the adoption of broader... -
An Alternative Idea of India: Tagore and Vivekananda by Gangeya Mukherji 9781138659896
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18This book attempts to unravel the worldview of two prominent Indians of recent Indian history - Tagore and Vivekananda. Both suggested emancipation through political struggles but without... -
Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas: Experiments and Experiences by Vibha Arora 9781138664005
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Historically treated as an amorphous borderland and marginal to the understanding of democratic politics and governance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Asia, the Himalayan region, in the... -
History of Development Thought: A Critical Anthology by R. Srivatsan 9781138664838
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Development thought emerged as the governing principle of First World global hegemony in the new world order marked by the end of the Second World War and decolonization. Six decades later, at yet... -
India's National Security: Annual Review 2011 by Satish Kumar 9781138664852
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £50.69The eleventh volume in the series India's National Security Annual Review 2011 concludes from a detailed analysis of India's security environment that there are some major security threats, but not... -
Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata by Saswati Bhattacharya 9781032282732
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book is an ethnographic study of clay idol-makers of Kumartuli in Kolkata, India. Much of the visibility and identity of Kolkata’s creative culture has been dependent upon the clay artists of... -
New Great Game in the Indo-Pacific: Rediscovering India’s Pragmatism and Paradoxes by Bawa Singh 9781032285016
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book looks at the emerging power dynamics in the Indo-Pacific region and locates India and its interests within the overarching geostrategic framework. With US and China emerging as leading... -
Kant and the Problem of Morality: Rethinking the Contemporary World by Luigi Caranti 9781032289502
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book examines the significance of Kant’s moral philosophy in contemporary philosophical debates. It argues that Kant’s philosophy can still serve as a guide to navigate the turbulence of a... -
Religion and Secularism in France Today by Rajeev Bhargava 9781032014586
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume explores the dynamic life of religion and politics in France.The separation of church and state and the autonomy of school education from religion are the two fundamental pillars of... -
Democratic Despotism: Politics of Primitive Accumulation in India by Swagato Sarkar 9781032310657
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24• The book explores the politics and history of the Fifth Schedule areas in India, which are home to the adivasis or indigenous people • It analyses the theories of primitive accumulation and its... -
Armed Conflicts in South Asia 2011: The Promise and Threat of Transformation by D. Suba Chandran 9781138110618
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.93Fourth in the annual series, this volume reviews the transformative changes which have emerged in the armed conflicts in South Asia in 2010, several of these with long and convoluted histories,... -
Private Property, Freedom, and Order: Social Contract Theories from Hobbes To Rawls by Mehmet Kanatli 9780367747459
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book looks at how the ideas of freedom, property, and order are expressed in modern social contract theories (SCTs). Drawing on the theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Rawls, it studies how... -
Re-Interrogating Civil Society in South Asia: Critical Perspectives from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh by Peter B. Andersen 9780367754396
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54This book offers an overview of the history and development of civil society in three major nations of South Asia – Pakistan, India and Bangladesh – from colonial times to the present. It examines... -
Thinking Past ‘Post-9/11’: Home, Nation and Transnational Desires in Pakistani English Novels and Hindi Films by Jayana Jain 9781032000213
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book offers new ways of constellating the literary and cinematic delineations of Indian and Pakistani Muslim diasporic and migrant trajectories narrated in the two decades after the 9/11 attacks... -
Dynamics of Difference: Inequality and Transformation in Rural India by Narendar Pani 9780367547868
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.241) This volume presents a conceptual understanding of inequality in the Indian context. 2) It is rich in empirical data from rural India. 3) The book will be of interest to departments of political... -
Caste, State and Society: Degrees of Democracy in North India by Jagpal Singh 9780367559748
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £44.24This book examines the politics of social, cultural and political recognition of caste groups in North India. It explores the factors that make some castes politically influential, while others... -
What Is Critical in Language Studies: Disclosing Social Inequalities and Injustice by Solange Maria de Barros 9780367553265
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies.Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School – Adorno, Habermas, Horkheimer, and Marcuse, among others – the chapters in the volume... -
Toying with Childhood: Tracing the Child-Toy Bond from Britain and America to India by Usha Mudiganti 9780367553890
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book studies the dialectic relationship between the image of the child and the toy in literary depictions of childhood in 19th- and 20th- century Anglo-American fiction. Drawing from the... -
Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives by Deepti Ganapathy 9781032149257
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Media and Climate Change: • Explores how climate change is represented in Indian media • Draws on personal interviews, case studies and a close reading of over 500 newspaper reports • Will be of... -
Rethinking the Local in Indian History: Perspectives from Southern Bengal by Kaustubh Mani Sengupta 9781032055336
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This volume looks at the concept of the ‘local’ in Indian history. Through a case study of Bengal, it studies how worldwide currents—be it colonial governance, pedagogic practices or intellectual... -
Bengalis in Burma: A Colonial Encounter (1886–1948) by Parthasarathi Bhaumik 9781032148694
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Bengalis in Burma looks at Bengali migrations and settlements in Burma from 1886 until the end of the British rule in Burma in 1948. As a result of British colonial policies, thousands of Bengalis... -
The Textile Industry and Exports in Post-Liberalization India by Rahul Dhiman 9780367504823
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24This book is a comprehensive examination of the Indian textile industry and the various determinants affecting its export performance, trends in labour, and capital productivity in the... -
To Serve God in Holy Freedom: The Brief Rebellion of the Nuns of the Royal Convent of Santa Mónica, Goa, India, 1731–1734 by Daniel Michon 9780367540838
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This book presents one of the first accounts of Christianity in colonial India by a nun. Set in Goa in the early eighteenth century, this translation of Soror Magdalena’s account from Portuguese... -
India Higher Education Report 2020: Employment and Employability of Higher Education Graduates in India by N.V. Varghese 9780367745301
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.54India Higher Education Report 2020 critically analyzes the role played by the state, industries, and higher education institutions in the employment and employability of educated youth in India. The...