OUP India - Böcker

This is the standard and well established book on its subject, accessible to a general non scholarly audience, while being based on scholarly archival research. Singh exhaustively covers the genesis and development of Sikhism and the Sikh communit...

Läs mer »

Man-Eaters of Kumaon, The Man-Eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, and The Temple Tiger and More Man-Eaters of Kumaon, the three classic collections of Corbett's hunting stories, which vividly bring to life the drama and beauty of the jungle and its wil...

Läs mer »

This is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya during the early years of this century.

Läs mer »

Jim Corbett is world famous for his classic man-eater stories. However, the three volumes collected here show a very different side to this remarkable man. In My India, he describes the villages of the Kumaon Hills, and the customs and lifestyles ...

Läs mer »

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the glo...

Läs mer »

The book synthesizes material and textual evidence to chronicle the passage of three mega mammals-the rhinoceros, tiger, and elephant across millennia in early north India. The approach goes beyond treating them as mere cultural icons to one that ...

Läs mer »

History of English Literature and Philology: A Guide is an introductory guide catering to Core Course 1: History of Literature and Philology of the undergraduate English (Hons.) programme of the University of Calcutta, and follows the latest sylla...

Läs mer »

The book is an ethnographic study of Christian groups in contemporary Goan society that come under the umbrella of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Most studies on Pentecostalism in India are from a theological perspective. This work is an at...

Läs mer »

An Economist's Miscellany: From the Groves of Academe to the Slopes of Raisina Hill brings together an eclectic collection of writings on the world of academe, politics, policy, travel, and more. This book offers unique glimpses of the author's en...

Läs mer »

This book is a compilation, the complete works of Ashis Nandy. As Nandy himself writes in his Prologue, it is an attempt to scan his scattered lectures, interviews and writings, including essays, columns and papers for newspapers and journals, thr...

Läs mer »

The book tells the hitherto untold story of evolution of employment conditions in India over a period of six decades beginning in the mid-1950s. It reviews, in a sharp and concise manner, the conditions of employment existing at the start of India...

Läs mer »

This book critically examines the role and accountability of the police in India and lays emphasis on the human rights of citizens referring to international instruments and the guidelines of the National Human Rights Commission for the prevention...

Läs mer »

Conceptualized outside the theoretical framing of both liberal as well as critical approaches, this book re-imagines the law by exploring the contradictions and polarities of in terms of its relationship with violence. It encompasses and interweav...

Läs mer »

Though India was among the first countries in the world to have passed legislation granting farmers' rights in the form of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001, yet more comprehensive and interdisciplinary efforts are re...

Läs mer »

This book engages with the question of Muslim rootedness in India. It uses various Muslim 'voices' in North India to explore imaginings of the local, regional and transnational at a time when the Indian nation-state did not exist. Using poetry as ...

Läs mer »

An insightful exploration of how the boundaries of the modern South Asian states were created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, based on a careful examination of original materials in archives in England and India. This was the final proj...

Läs mer »

Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. In this Very Short Introduction to Gandhi's life and thought, Bhikhu Parekh outlines both Gandhi's ...

Läs mer »

Internet of Things is a textbook designed for students of computer science, information technology and electronics & communication engineering to understand the interconnection and integration of the physical world with the cyber space and begin d...

Läs mer »

The book narrates how opportunities and challenges of rapid urbanization in Dhaka are translated into realizing dreams of better lives and livelihoods, and prospects for a shared future for city dwellers - poor-non-poor, men-women, young-old, migr...

Läs mer »

This book, starting from the idea that in contemporary societies many cultures exist, tries to work out a solution that can ensure the peaceful coexistence of different, and potentially conflicting, cultural and religious groups.

Läs mer »

In mankind's relentless quest for prosperity, Nature has suffered great damage. The indefinite scale of global expansion has put the earth's very survival under threat. But against this exploitation of nature, there is a concept of Entropy that pl...

Läs mer »

Health crises plague most economies irrespective of their average per capita income levels, and this is largely due to chronic and repeated illnesses. Contextualizing this paradigm in India, the India Public Finance and Policy Report: Health Matte...

Läs mer »

The work explains how the Naga population perceived their meeting point with the institutions of the Indian state in the midst of a conflict zone, especially the army, the paramilitary forces, and documents what it feels like to live in a conflict...

Läs mer »

The overseas Indian population has formed a range of migrant organizations, whose activities include mobilizing resources and connections and engaging with numerous development initiatives in India. This book looks into Indian local and transnatio...

Läs mer »

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authorative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. The documents included in each volume will be an interesting read for the lay readers also.

Läs mer »

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authorative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. The documents included in each volume are also fascinating to the lay reader.

Läs mer »

What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintings? How do fictional tales, imaginative biographies, basic lexicons, or accounts of Sufi masters code intellectual worlds and reveal cultural and...

Läs mer »

Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been written on his fascination with Tagore's poetry and symbolic plays. In Language, Limits, and Beyond, Priyambada Sa...

Läs mer »

Narrative Pasts reconstructs the literary, social and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants in Gujarat from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century. This book departs from the narrow state-centered visions of the Muslim ...

Läs mer »

Principles of Macroeconomics is a lucid and concise introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of macroeconomics. This revised and updated third edition covers key macroeconomic issues such as national income, investment, inflation, bal...

Läs mer »