The present book is an attempt to bring to light the indispensible role of women in the rural hill economy of the Darjeeling hills of West Bengal by portrayal of their involvement in diverse range of activities essential to the sustenance and well being of their households.

Becoming young men in a new India: masculinities, gender relations and violence in the postcolony

Philip, Shannon

ISBN: 9781009158718, 1009158716

This book tells the gendered story of a changing India through the lives of its young middle-class men. Through time spent ethnographically 'hanging out' with young men in gyms, bars, clubs, trains and gay cruising grounds in India, the author critically reveals Indian men's violence towards women in various city spaces and also shows the many classed and masculine entitlements and anxieties th...

The Indian renaissance and Raja Rammohan Roy

Das, Hari Hara and Sasmita Mahapatra

ISBN: 9788171321018, 8171321011

Contents: (i) Socio-religious decadenca in India and the dawn of new awakening (ii) Raja Rammohan Roy and the Brahmo Samaj movement (iii) Raja Rammohan: a study of his socio-religious concepts (iv) Rammohan's ideas on education and politics (v) Rammohan's ideas on economic and judicial reforms (vi) Arya Samajist revivalism: a study of the challange to Brahmo reformism (vii) The impacts of the B...

Indian women and the crisis of identity down the ages

Praharaj, Piyali

It deals with the identity crisis of Indian women down the ages to trace the history of women's progress towards empowerment with special reference to smrti literature.;

Indian women in the smritis

Jalali, Ramnika

ISBN: 9788185599359, 8185599351

Contents: (i) Concept of morality (ii) Moral code prescribed for an unmarried girl (iii) Moral codes prescribed for a married women (iv) Moral codes prescribed for a widow (v) Moral codes prescribed for women in the Smriti literature of modern period.;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

Indian women novelists: an anthology of critical essays, 18 vols

Dhawan, RK (ed.)

Vols.1-5 (ISBN 8185218382) Rs.2000/- (5 vols.);Vols.6-11 (ISBN 8185218390) Rs.2500/- (6 vols.);Vols.12-18 (ISBN 8185218404)Rs.3000/- (7 vols.)

Industrialisation and human resources development

Thakur, Devendra (1939- ) (ed.)

ISBN: 9788171004485, 8171004482

Social security in developing countries

Sankaran, TS et al (ed.)

ISBN: 9788124101865, 8124101868

Interpreting Islam, modernity, and women's rights in Pakistan

Weiss, Anita M

ISBN: 9788125057734, 8125057730

This book analyzes various efforts in Pakistan to conduct ijtihad-interpretation-as different groups reinterpret women's rights, seeking to reconcile the exigencies of modernity, local and global pressures to ensure women's rights with prevailing Islamic and cultural views, and feminist analyses of power and control of women and their rights.

Intersections: socio-cultural trends in Maharashtra

Kosambi, Meera (ed.)

ISBN: 9788125018780, 8125018786

The jews of India

Isreal, Benjamin J (1906-1987)

ISBN: 9788185399430, 8185399433

Contents: (i) Introduction (ii) Indian Jewish Communities (iii) The Bene Israel (iv) The Cochin Jews (v) The Baghadadis (vi) Concluding Remarks (vii) The Jewish contribution to India

Jharkhand movement: ethnicity and culture of silence

Basu, Sajal

ISBN: 9788185952154, 8185952159

Contents: (i) The people and the movement (ii) Language and culture of silence (iii) Ethnicity and nationality (iv) Ethnocide and ethnic identity (v) Politics without policy (vi) Epilogue: for the leaders.;;;;

Karnataka, with a Video compact disc.

Bhatt, Mahesh and U.R.Ananthamurthy

A pictorial book on Karnataka, a state in South India, on its various aspects; physical, social and spiritual illustrated through photographs.;

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