Following independence, the Nehruvian approach to socialism in India rested on three pillars: secularism and democracy in the political domain, state interventi

The book is an ethnographic exploration of how ‘democracy’ takes social and cultural roots in India and in the process shapes the nature of popular politics

Once known as "Pariahs," Dalits are primarily descendants of unfree agrarian laborers. They belong to India's most subordinated castes, face overwhelming povert

A wide-ranging and truly interdisciplinary guide to understanding the relationship between India's colonial past and globalized present.

This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjāvūr district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author i