Product Description: India's capitalist transformation has been spatially uneven. Combining several analytical approaches, the contributors identify socio-spatial regularities some contiguous with state boundaries, some transcending states and some contained within them - while providing evidence about the spatial unevenness of India's capitalist development...read more

Product Description: From the poisoned rivers, barren wells, and clear-cut forests, to the hundreds of thousands of farmers who have committed suicide to escape punishing debt, to the hundreds of millions of people who live on less than two dollars a day, there are ghosts nearly everywhere you look in India...read more

Product Description: Combining historical and ethnographic analysis, this book deals with the making of the heterosexual imagination from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present in the Indian context. This unique book uses methods from anthropology, cultural studies and history to explore the making of modern cultures of sexuality in India...read more

Product Description: The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century.  Taking its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function, it has been developed further by scholars such as Oliver Williamson, Douglas North and their followers, leading to the rich and growing field of the new institutional economics...read more

Product Description: Central to the dynamics of India's post-interventionist era has been the performance of its corporate sector. A lot of hope has been placed on its ability to deliver increased growth rates and levels of 'development'. In the light of this view, the author here examines critically the nature of the Indian corporate sector as a specific socio-historical and political-economic formation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: India is undergoing numerous transformations in the social, political and economic spheres. Berberoglu explores the origins and developments of the present trends. The processes of change that have evolved during various stages - the precolonial era, British rule, independence and the present - are examined...read more

Product Description: This book analyzes India's social crisis from the perspective of a number of disciplines and schools of thought. Drawing particularly on the theories of Manu, Kautilya, Adam Smith, John S. Mill, Ricardo, Marx, and more contemporary social and political activists, Bose focuses on the resistance of Indian civilization toward being forced into the melting-pot of Western world-scale capitalism...read more