Why are some places in the world characterized by better social service provision and
welfare outcomes than others? In a world in which millions of people, particularly in …

Involving Indigenous peoples and traditional knowledge into natural resource management
produces more equitable and successful outcomes. Unfortunately, argue Anne Ross and co …

The book is an ethnographic exploration of how 'democracy'takes social and cultural roots in
India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics. It centres on a historically …

State, Society, and Tribes revisits the concepts of'tribe'and'tribal society', situating the
existing body of knowledge in the context of state policy and socio-cultural developments …

Seasonal casual labour migration in India has conventionally been understood as the result
of extreme poverty whereby villagers are forced to become migrants for the dry six months to …

In India, caste groups ensure their durability in an era of multiculturalism by officially
representing caste as cultural difference or ethnicity rather than as unequal descent-based …

(Indian Dalit Literary Academy, BDSA) publicly burned multiple copies of iconic nationalist-
era Hindi author Munshi Premchand's celebrated novel Rangbhūmi (1924). 1 The raucous …

In this paper, I analyze the connections made between women and water in a Rajasthani
drinking water supply project as a significant part of drinking water's commodification. For …

This book argues that the shared adjudication model in which the state splits its adjudicative
authority with religious groups and other societal sources in the regulation of marriage can …

The Man with the Brief-caseI once met a man with a brief case on a train... I forget between
where and where. If you have travelled by train in India you may have met him too. He is …