This book examines the complexities of lifestyles of the upwardly mobile middle classes in
India in the context of economic liberalisation in the new millennium, by analysing new …

Throughout the 20th century, electricity was considered to be the primary vehicle of
modernity, as well as its quintessential symbol. In India, electrification was central to how …

Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are
enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While …

In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has
contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in …

Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste.
Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a …

Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development
shows how development programs can be designed to work. How can development …

This essay explores the possibility of a new field of research called adivasi/tribal studies. It
reflects on how adivasi history and adivasi subjectivity have evolved both in the domain of …

Early twentieth-century Indian novels often depict the harsh material conditions of life under
British colonial rule. Even so, these'realist'novels are profoundly imaginative. In this study …

Despite becoming a global economic force, why does India win so few Olympic medals and
have so many people living in poverty? Why have opportunities not become available more …

During his campaign against racism in South Africa, and his involvement in the Congress-
led nationalist struggle against British colonial rule in India, Mahatma Gandhi developed a …