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Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian Sociology. Spanning over five decades of disciplinary evolution, this volume interrogates how gender, caste, sexuality, class, and digitalization intersect in shaping contemporary social life. With essays by a new generation of scholars, it critically engages with foundational debates in kinship, marriage, labour, media, nationalism, and pedagogy, while foregrounding neglected areas such as femtech, queer infrastructures, and digital precarity. The volume not only reanimates classic concerns of Indian feminist sociology but also aims to intervene in global conversations on intersectionality, decolonial knowledge, and the sociology of everyday life. At once reflective and forward-looking, this book strives to be a necessary contribution for students, teachers, and researchers invested in the sociology of gender and its transformative possibilities in contemporary India.

Sociology of Gender in India brings together feminist and queer scholarship to chart the changing landscape of gender debates in Indian Sociology. Spanning over five decades of disciplinary evolution, this volume interrogates how gender, caste, sexuality, class, and digitalization intersect in shaping contemporary social life. With essays by a new generation of scholars, it critically engages with foundational debates in kinship, marriage, labour, media, nationalism, and pedagogy, while foregrounding neglected areas such as femtech, queer infrastructures, and digital precarity. The volume not only reanimates classic concerns of Indian feminist sociology but also aims to intervene in global conversations on intersectionality, decolonial knowledge, and the sociology of everyday life. At once reflective and forward-looking, this book strives to be a necessary contribution for students, teachers, and researchers invested in the sociology of gender and its transformative possibilities in contemporary India.

This book seeks to foreground mobile theatre as an integral part of the modern Assamese public sphere and public culture. Mobile theatre groups in Assam perform their plays by travelling across the state, and are often seen as an assertion of Assamese identity in the face of increasing globalisation.The book interrogates whether mobile theatre can be read as a counter-public, articulating in some sense a non-elite culture, where members of subordinated social groups are dominant. It also highlights mobile theatre’s unique position as a counter-public that is mediated and commercial. The intersection between the two forms of public - the counter-public and public culture - underscores this volume. It is not just a 'rational-critical' public but also one that 'consumes' and is 'mediatised'. The book suggests that mobile theatre occupies features of a counter-public but is a part of the larger Assamese public culture.Drawing on fieldwork-based methods, this book highlights the larger structural relationship between theatre, society and technology. It will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of sociology, social anthropology, cultural studies, theatre studies, performance studies and media studies.