In September 2018, the Supreme Court of India overruled a ban preventing women and girls
of menstruating age (between ten and 50) from entering the Sabarimala Temple in Kerala …

Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies
while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question …

In 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-
foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but …

Received wisdom has it that Buddhism disappeared from India, the land of its birth, between
the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, long forgotten until British colonial scholars re …

In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in
contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and …

A state's accountability to its citizens for public service delivery constitutes a central
component of the democratic polity. But how to assure this accountability? The answer lies …

The problem of caste has undergone many mutations since precolonial times and promises
to be a challenge in the foreseeable future. The question that animates this study is whether …

Names: Ferrari, Silvio, editor.| Hill, Mark, 1965-editor.| Jamal, Arif A., editor.| Bottoni,
Rossella, editor. Title: Routledge handbook of freedom of religion or belief/edited by Silvio …

Contrary to the popular imagination of Kerala as a secular, rational left bastion, the state is
witnessing Sangh Parivar's active presence in the domain of temples and everyday culture …

Does colonialism have long-term effects on political stability? This question is addressed in
a study of India's Naxalite insurgency, a Maoist rebellion characterized by its left-wing …