Gambling with Violence

Yelena Biberman

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• In Gambling with Violence , Yelena Biberman tackles a global problem that is particularly consequential for Pakistan and India: state outsourcing of v... Lees meer

Cultivating Democracy

Mukulika Banerjee

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the ... Lees meer

Dispossession Without Development

Michael Levien

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World... Lees meer

Capable Women, Incapable States

Poulami Roychowdhury

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel continue to be bi... Lees meer

Farewell to Arms

Rumela Sen

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• How, in the absence of institutional mechanisms, do Maoist rebels in India quit an ongoing insurgency without getting killed? How do rebels give up ar... Lees meer

Patching Development

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work. How... Lees meer

Business and Politics in India

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Over the last few decades, politics in India has moved steadily in a pro-business direction. This shift has important implications for both government... Lees meer

Cultivating Democracy

Mukulika Banerjee

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• An ethnographic study of Indian democracy that shows how agrarian life creates values of citizenship and active engagement that are essential for the ... Lees meer

Access to Power

Ijlal Naqvi

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and... Lees meer

Mobilizing the Marginalized

Amit Ahuja

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• India's over 200 million Dalits , once called "untouchables," have been mobilized by social movements and political parties, but the outcomes of this ... Lees meer

Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism

Karen Barkey, Sudipta Kaviraj, Vatsal Naresh

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• A collection of essays that situates and furthers contemporary debates around the prospects of democracy in diverse societies within and beyond the We... Lees meer

When Nehru Looked East

Francine Frankel

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister and Minister of External Affairs from 1947 to 1964, set the framework of foreign policy which has remai... Lees meer

The Migration-Development Regime

Rina Agarwala

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• A sweeping history of how India has used its poor and elite emigrants to further Indian development and how Indian emigrants have reacted, resisted, a... Lees meer

Marginalized, Mobilized, Incorporated

Rina Verma Williams

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• How has the participation of women in Hindu nationalist politics in India changed over time? More broadly, what has their changing participation meant... Lees meer

Patching Development

Rajesh Veeraraghavan

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Diving into an original and unusually positive case study from India, Patching Development shows how development programs can be designed to work. How... Lees meer

Making Meritocracy

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leade... Lees meer

Negotiating Democracy and Religious Pluralism

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• A collection of essays that situates and furthers contemporary debates around the prospects of democracy in diverse societies within and beyond the We... Lees meer

Clients and Constituents

Jennifer Bussell

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents ... Lees meer

Capable Women, Incapable States

Poulami Roychowdhury

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• In recent decades, the issue of gender-based violence has become heavily politicized in India. Yet, Indian law enforcement personnel continue to be bi... Lees meer

Dispossession Without Development

Michael Levien

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Winner of the 2019 Global and Transnational Sociology Best Book Award, American Sociological Association Winner of the 2019 Political Economy of World... Lees meer

Making Meritocracy

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• How do societies identify and promote merit? Enabling all people to fulfill their potential, and ensuring the selection of competent and capable leade... Lees meer

Clients and Constituents

Jennifer Bussell

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Scholars of distributive politics often emphasize partisanship and clientelism. However, as Jennifer Bussell demonstrates in Clients and Constituents ... Lees meer

The Absent Dialogue

Anit Mukherjee

• Hardcover | Engels | Modern South Asia
• Civilian control over the military is widely hailed as one of the major successes of India's democracy. Because it is so rare, especially among post-c... Lees meer

The Difficult Politics of Peace

Christopher Clary

• Paperback | Engels | Modern South Asia
• A sweeping and theoretically original analysis of the India-Pakistan rivalry from 1947 to the present. Since their mutual independence in 1947, India ... Lees meer