This volume looks at the ways in which governance in the exercise of its strategies also acts as a process of production of subjects. It argues that governance is not a one-sided affair starting and e
In India, girls are aborted on a massive scale merely because they are girls. Underlying this widespread problem is the puzzling fact that daughters have become vulnerable in a time of general improve
This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts. Staggering
The Revolt of 1857 in India has so far largely been viewed as an event that was of interest to British and Indian scholars investigating the various consequences of British colonial rule in India. Wha
This book explores experiences, issues and challenges which have emerged since Constitutional status was granted to the local bodies at grassroots level in India in the early 1990s. Among other issues
This book explores the making of colonial Northeast India and offers a new perspective to the study of the Assamese identity in the nineteenth century as a distinctly nineteenth-century cultural pheno
Neo-liberal Strategies of Governing India and its companion volume Ideas and Frameworks of Governing India tell the story of governance in independent India and address the critical question: how is a
Folktales in India have been told, heard, read and celebrated for many centuries. In breaking new ground, Indian folktales have been reread and examined in the light of the Mother Earth discourse as i
This book deals with true crime writings of the late 1800s published by ‘lowbrow publishing houses’ which had an avid genteel readership. It focuses on select translations of true crime wr
This book presents one of the first accounts of Christianity in colonial India by a nun. Set in Goa in the early 18th century, this translation of Soror Magdalena’s account from Portuguese bring
This book analyses the policy idea termed Productive Diversity, introduced by the Australian government as a way of conceptualising the belief that migrants would bring business acumen and a global ou
This book identifies and describes the first stage in the advent and growth of English education in India. It examines the influence of the ‘half-caste’ or mixed race community and the missionari
This volume examines the notion of criticality in language studies. Drawing on the work of the Frankfurt School ― Adorno and Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas, among others ― the essays in the volume exam
This handbook examines the issues of exclusion, inequality, gender discrimination, health and disability, and assault and violence in India. It discusses caste and social exclusion in rural and urban
This book analyses the policy idea termed Productive Diversity, introduced by the Australian government as a way of conceptualising the belief that migrants would bring business acumen and a global ou
