Over the last two decades India has witnessed a rapid rise in the number of private
universities. Various state governments have encouraged and justified this growth in order …

The ways in which three doctoral scholars engaged in ethnographic research in differing
social worlds are explored here. Accounting for the ethical–political dilemmas engendered …

The paper rekindles a three-decade-old debate in the annals of Indian anthropology/
sociology which became dormant after no significant headway was made. The debate which …