Keywords for Modern India

Craig Jeffrey is Director of the International Graduate School at the University of Oxford. He has conducted academic research on youth, politics, and education in India. His recent books include Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India (2010) and India Today: Economy, Society, Politics (2012 with Stuart Corbridge and John Harriss). He is Professor of Development Geography at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor of Geography at St. John's College.John Harriss was previously Professor and Director of the Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics; and sometime Dean of the School of Development Studies at the University of East Anglia. He is a social anthropologist with long standing interests in the politics and political economy of India, where he has lived and conducted research on many occasions. He is Professor, and founding Director of the School for International Studies, Simon Fraser University; Visiting Research Professor, National University of Singapore.

This book is not a dictionary or a glossary per se, but a cultural studies enterprise that examines words, their meanings, histories, and how they have changed in different contexts ... The volume's combined "References and Further Reading" section, organized by keyword but separate from the entries, points to resources in a lengthy, scholarly bibliography.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. Keywords for Modern India ; 3. References and Further Reading ; Bibliography