Books published by OUP India

Delving into the social location of middle classes in India, this work explores what it means to be middle class in the south Indian city of Hyderabad. Taking into account aspects such as education, marriage, community values, and contemporary trends, the book highlights the centrality of moral discourses in the co-production of class and gender in urban India. Through the lens of moral respectability, the author discusses how middle class sensibilities are embracedand reproduced by the Hyderabadis.

This book, making a departure from the conventional way of writing law books, comprehensively analyses the principles of law of sale of goods with emphasis on Indian and British case laws.

This collection provides an overview of India's growth experience from Independence to the recent global financial crisis from the perspective of financial economics. With a focus on growth drivers and financial stability, the volume analyses both macroeconomic and microeconomic policy reforms and suggests strategies for the future.

This book is a detailed analysis of the law on trafficking of children for sexual exploitation covering the developmental phases of public international law from 1864 to 1950.

In twelve incisive essays covering a wide range of issues, this volume undertakes an interdisciplinary and multi-level analysis and provides comprehensive and critical insights into the dynamics of the development process in these two countries.

This monograph discusses issues of sustainability, ecology, and environment in the Himalayas, particularly among the Tamang people of Nepal. It provides a comparative framework for analysing human-environment relations. The author addresses new approaches to environmental protection, examining the case of Langtang National Park.

This reader brings together essays on various aspects of ancient Indian history. It discusses historiography; society and economy; changing political formations; religion, philosophy and society; and the changes which paved way for new socio-economic and political formations.

This book analyses the many facets-psychological, epistemological, metaphysical-of the repeated philosophical adventures over centuries to explore and explain the indubitability of I-consciousness. While the major focus is on the Upanisadic and the Buddhist traditions, this volume also examines Western philosophical traditions in a cross-cultural philosophical context.

The first novel by the first tribal novelist of south India, Kocharethi maps the story of the Malayarayar tribe in Kerala. Melding history with culture, the work portrays their many struggles: from possession and dispossession of land to the challenges of preserving myths, rituals, social customs, and belief systems.

This book upholds the idea of learning and education as a means to individual development and social empowerment. Presenting a holistic picture, it looks at learning as an integral part of one's social and physical life.

Part of the 'Debates in Indian History and Society' series, this volume identifies the major issues within the history of socio-religious reform among Hindus in modern times and places the various points of debate in context, followed by readings from contemporary journals.This paperback edition also carries a small note by the volume editor addressing various criticisms of the reviewers, and critics.

Part of the Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru series, this volume includes lectures, writings, letters, speeches, and other literary works of Nehru, covering three months of his Prime Ministership, from 1 January to 31 March 1958.

One of the most comprehensive works in the vast area of human development in the North-Eastern region of India, this volume brings new thinking on the approach to poverty, measurement of poverty, relationship between economic growth and human development, socio-political transition, politics of growth and growth trends, and development attainment. The status of HD across and within the eight North-Eastern states (the study also includes Orissa), have been provided with large empirical data. Academicians from within and outside the region contributing to this volume broadly divide the literature into three sections: (i) concept and measurement of growth and human development; (ii) the issue at the national level; and (iii) the issue in the North-East region. Meaningful for formulating development policies that will have larger implications for the country as a whole, the volume is enriched with HD indices of each major state, and comparative HD analysis at all-India level.

This book describes the lived experience of Kashmiris who came of age between 2007 and 2017. It shows that Kashmiris generally had high hopes for peace and stability when the militancy that began in 1988 ended around 2006. It explores the reasons why there was so much angst and rage, which exploded in agitations and stone-pelting in 2008, 2010, and 2016 and why a new militancy is on the rise. It traces the decilne of hope among the Kashmirirs as the situationworsened from a perceived threat to their identity in 2008 to rage over the killing of innocents in 2010. The anger has finally resulted in support for militancy in 2016.

Presenting a unique analysis of Indian activist thought through literature, photography, dance drama, television, choreography, and cinema, this book argues for a feminist critique of postcolonial thought by looking at the rise of humanism under colonization and the current influx of neoliberal capitalism.

Project Management and Appraisal is a comprehensive textbook designed to meet the requirements of the post graduate management students specializing in Finance and/or in Operations areas.

This volume explores different aspects of religion in the context of identity formation and articulation of power. It deals with critical issues like literature, religious practitioners, internal differentiation in the various religious traditions (with emphasis on rebel traditions), caste, class customs, interpretations.

In the light of the drive to universalize elementary education in India, this book explores meaningful and equitable access to basic education. By identifying vulnerable learners and outlining policy and legislation, it explains the patterns of access and exclusion and provides areas for further research.