This book focuses on processes of governance in Odisha and provides an ethnographic account of the changing forms of governmental actions in Kalahandi by analysing the implementation of WORLP Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project a new generation watershed develop... Lees meer.

India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from global institutions such as UNAIDS the World Bank and USAID. In the midst o... Lees meer.

This book analyses the complex terrain of global health governance and local responses to new global forms of integration and fragmentation in India. Global health governance has been the subject of wide scholarship more recently brought to the fore by priorities... Lees meer.

Focusing on the British prohibition of sati in 1829 the author shows how the debates that preceded this legislation have effectively set the terms of post-colonial debates about sati as well as more generally defining the parameters of British involvement in Indian so... Lees meer.

The enactment of the national Right to Information RTI Act in 2005 has been produced consumed and celebrated as an important event of democratic deepening in India both in terms of the process that led to its enactment arising from a grassroots movement and its ou... Lees meer.

This book analyzes the social consequences of the transmission of migrant resources to provincial places in India. The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions about the networks that enab... Lees meer.

The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions about the networks that enable their mobility the aspirations that motivate them what they give back to their home regions and how their provinci... Lees meer.

The Kalahandi district in the state of Odisha in Eastern India is regarded as an iconic region of underdevelopment and is often perceived to be the Somalia of the country. It is also the site of a large number of governmental interventions. This book focuses on proce... Lees meer.

This book focuses on processes of governance in Odisha and provides an ethnographic account of the changing forms of governmental actions in Kalahandi by analysing the implementation of WORLP Western Orissa Rural Livelihoods Project a new generation watershed develop... Lees meer.

This book examines the social political and ideological dimensions of the encounter between the indigenous inhabitants of the Andaman islands British colonizers and Indian settlers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The British-Indian penal settlements in the... Lees meer.

This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in Nepal and analyses how the international migration of the first generation of professional female Nepali nurses has been a catalyst for social change. This book offers a fresh perspective on gender debates in... Lees meer.

This book analyzes the social consequences of the transmission of migrant resources to provincial places in India. The movement of people from small towns and villages of India to places outside the country raises a number of questions about the networks that enab... Lees meer.

The British prohibition of sati the funeral practice of widow immolation in 1829 has been considered an archetypal example of colonial social reform. It was not the end of the story however as between 1830 and 1860 British East India Company officials engaged in a... Lees meer.

During the period 2000 to 2010 tea plantations in India experienced a crisis and were at the threshold of transformation framed by conflict and turbulence. This book is an interdisciplinary and intersectional work examining the nature of victimhood and agency among wo... Lees meer.

West Bengal has often been perceived as somewhat of an aberration in the wider context of a rather chaotic Indian democracy as the Left Front spearheaded by the Communist Party of India-Marxist CPIM demonstrated a rare instance of political stability decisively win... Lees meer.