Persistence of Poverty in India edited by Nandini Gooptu and Jonathan Parry
ISBN: 978-93-83166-04-6 | Hardback | 446 pp | Date: September 2014 | Price: Rs 745

“This book, edited by Jonathan Parry and Nandini Gooptu, is unique in several respects.  What distinguishes it from the existing literature on persistence of poverty in India, despite high growth, is the multi-disciplinary and “bottom-up” approach in devising solutions to this problem.  Fifteen essays, written by political analysts, anthropologists, sociologists, economists and others offer valuable insights on the realities of poverty at the ground level and unequal distribution of powers among different classes in the society.  This book is an essential reading for academic researchers across different disciplines as well as political leaders and policy makers in India and abroad.”

                                                                                                     Bimal Jalan

Former Governor, Reserve Bank of India

“There is a vast literature on poverty in India, but much of it reflects an obsession with measurement. And for all the emphasis on poverty reduction in public policy, neither the ways in which poverty is reproduced through power relationships nor the practical politics of poverty alleviation have received the attention they deserve. This remarkable and innovative collection brings together a range of disciplinary perspectives to provide illuminating answers to these vitally important questions.”

John Harriss
Simon Fraser University

What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem.

 In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume  points out that in order to understand poverty one must take into account the wider system of class and power relations in which it is rooted. Macro statistics alone are not able to provide us with a satisfactory understanding of the problem.

Fifteen candid and perceptive essays written by eminent social scientists coming from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds argue that the problem of poverty cannot be reduced to individual attributes and capacities of the poor. While it is widely held that democratic politics will in the long run lead to significant redistribution, mitigate the stark inequalities that currently exist and ‘solve’ the scandal of absolute poverty, this volume suggests that ’democracy in India may be as big a part of the problem as it is of the solution.’   

About the Authors:

NANDINI GOOPTU is Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and currently Head of the Department of International Development at Oxford University. 

She is the author of The Politics of the Urban Poor in Early-Twentieth Century India (Cambridge University Press, 2001) and several highly acclaimed edited volumes.

JONATHAN PARRY is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science .

He is the author of  Caste and Kinship in Kangra (Routledge 1979), Death in Banaras (Cambridge University Press, 1994), and several distinguished edited volumes.

Contents

Preface

1. Jonathan Parry, Introduction: On the Persistence of Poverty in India

Part I: Identifying the poor

2. Nandini Gooptu, The Construction of Poverty and the Poor in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: An Overview            

3. Himanshu and Kunal Sen, Poverty in India: Measurement, patterns and determinants

4. Penny Vera- Sanso, Reconceiving the Impact of Population Change: A Class- and Gender-based Analysis of Ageing in Poverty in Urban South India 

Part II: Targeting the poor

5. Dipankar Gupta, From Poverty to Poverty: Policies for Translating Growth into Development

in India

6. Jos Mooij, Redressing Poverty and Enhancing Social Development: Trends in India’s Welfare

Regime

Part III: Empowering the poor

7. Peggy Froerer, Poverty and Education in Rural Chhattisgarh 

8. Arild Ruud, Notions of Rights and State Benefits in Village West Bengal  

9. Indrajit Roy, Flaunted Transcripts: Shaming Elites and Interrogating Domination in Bihar

Part IV: Controlling the poor

10. David Picherit, Neither a Dog, nor a Beggar: Seasonal Labour Migration, Development, and

Poverty in Andhra Pradesh

11. Julia Eckert, Preventive Laws and the Policing of the Urban Poor

Part V: The improving lot of the poor?

12. Surinder S. Jodhka, What’s Happening to the Rural? Revisiting ‘marginalities’ and

‘dominance’ in North-West India

13. Staffan Lindberg, Venkatesh B. Athreya, Göran Djurfeldt, A. Rajagopal, and R. Vidyasagar,

Progress over the Long Haul: Dynamics of Agrarian Change in the Kaveri Delta

14.  Barbara Harriss-White, The Dynamic Political Economy of Persistent South Asian Poverty

15. Dwaipayan Bhattacharyya, How to Govern the Poor:  The Role of Social Policies in

Economic Transformation

Tocqueville in India by Jean Alphonse Bernard

                                ISBN: 978-93-83166-02-2

Hardback 260 pp ; Pub date: August 2014 ;Tentative Pub Price: Rs 625

FRENCH WRITINGS ON INDIA AND SOUTH ASIA

"Tocqueville was, of course, a famous world traveler. Though, like Marx, he never visited India, also like Marx this did not deter him from writing about it with remarkable insight. Jean Alphonse Bernard has, of course, visited India and imagined what Tocqueville would have perceived had he done so. He has, in this innovative way, cast a fresh light on both the fantasies about and the realities of contemporary Indian political life."

Paul Brass, 

Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Relations, University of Washington, Seattle

India has always been a land of contrasts and marvels. Today it contrives to be a functioning democracy in the midst of a society that remains inherently hierarchical. In order to grasp this paradox in all its dimensions, Jean Alphonse Bernard resolved to revisit the realities of India now in the company of Alexis de Tocqueville ( 1805-59). Tocqueville in India explores the enduring dialogue between the State and Society. Following neither Fukuyama nor Huntingdon, this book should attract the attention of those concerned by Indian issues as well as every reader interested in political philosophy or world affairs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Jean Alphonse Bernard’s career in the French Treasury Department took him to New York, Copenhagen, Moscow, New Delhi (1960-64) and Kuwait. He returned to India after retirement and has since devoted many years to a study of politics in the subcontinent and political philosophy in general. The author of a number of books and articles in India in French, he wrote Tocqueville in India in English in order to present it directly to the broadest possible audience.

                                                List of Contents

List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; Introduction

PART ONE

1.Tocqueville in India; 2. Society v. State; 3. Society as Caste, Caste as Society; 4.The Unassuming Revolution; 5.The State as an Autonomous Actor

PART TWO THE FOUR CORNERS OF INDIA

6. Tocqueville Travels to Bihar; 7.Turmoil In A Forward State; 8.Tamil Nadu- A Nation in the Making; 9. Kerala, A Society That is “Civil”

10. A Mid-Journey Session

PART THREE POLITICS, POWER AND POLITY

11. Yet They Vote; 12. Is India a Nation? 13. The Empire of Democracy; 14. Democracy and Discrimination; 15. Religions and Secularism

16. The Highest Good

GLOSSARY; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

                                                

‘Everywhere is becoming the same’?  Regulating IT-work between India and Germany by Nicole Mayer-Ahuja

                                                ISBN: 978-93-83166-01-5

Hardback 565pp; Pub date: 2014; Pub Price: Rs 725

"This book, an outstanding piece of scholarship comparing the two varied political and social contexts of Germany and India, challenges the dominant notion of the convergence of corporate practices unleashed by globalisation. Presenting a pioneering inquiry, it makes a seminal and significant contribution to the substantive area."

 Ernesto Noronha

Professor Ernesto Noronha, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

‘The world is flat’ – this popular account of current developments celebrates transnationally operating companies as great ‘equalisers’. Such tendencies of homogenisation come up against limits, however. Focussing on Indo-German project work in software programming, this study analyses the complex interrelations between the business models of transnationally operating companies and localised standards of regulating reproduction. They result in marked differences between the ways in which labour power is utilised in the companies’ Indian and German subsidiaries. The world is not ‘flat’ – instead, transnational corporate activities draw upon the combined and uneven development of world regions and reinforce difference rather than reducing it.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Nicole Mayer-Ahuja is Professor of Sociology at University of Hamburg and was Director of the Sociological Research Institute (SOFI) at University of Goettingen, Germany. Her research addresses work and labour, social policy and labour market policy from a historical and transnational perspective. She has published several books and articles on the history of precarious work in late 20^th century Germany, on control practices in small and medium internet companies, and on transnational IT work.

List of Contents

1. Introduction
2. The Concepts - Regulating Scenarios and Pathways of Transnationalisation
3. The Spatial Binding of Labour Power
4. The Contractual Binding of Labour Power
5. Remuneration
6. WorkingTime
7. Qualifications - Requirements and Profiles
8. In Lieu of a Summary - Corporate Utilisation of Labour Power and Capitalist Development
9. Appendix
10. Bibliography

Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India

Edited by Crispin Bates and Alpa Shah

ISBN 978-81-87358-69-5

Hardback 306pp

Pub date: March 2014

Pub Price: Rs 725

"This important book explores the ways that Indian adivasis or ‘tribal’ people have been understood over the past two centuries. There are a series of thoughtful and challenging chapters that examine the way in which these definitions have to be situated within a changing politics of, on the one hand, state control, and on the other, an internal politics of rebellion as against integration. The supposed homogeneity of adivasi communities is scrutinized and questioned, leading into discussions of the internal politics of these groups. In all, an excellent collection that challenges many firmly-held notions about Indian adivasis."

David Hardiman, Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick, Uk    

Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India, edited by Crispin Bates and Alpa Shah

In Savage Attack: Tribal Insurgency in India the authors ask whether there is anything particularly adivasi about the forms of resistance that have been labelled as adivasi movements. What does it mean to speak about adivasi as opposed to peasant resistance? Can one differentiate adivasi resistance from that of other lower castes such as the dalits? In this volume the authors move beyond stereotypes of tribal rebellion to argue that it is important to explore how and why particular forms of resistance are depicted as adivasi issues at particular points in time. Interpretations that have depicted adivasis as a united and highly politicised group of people have romanticised and demonized tribal society and history, thus denying the individuals and communities involved any real agency. Both the interpretations of the state and of left-wing supporters of tribal insurgencies have continued to ignore the complex realities of tribal life and the variety in the expressions of political activism that have resulted across the length and breadth of the Indian subcontinent.

Contents:

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction

Savage Attack: Adivasis and Insurgency in India. Crispin Bates and Alpa Shah

1. We Shall Fight Them on the Beach: Counterinsurgency, Colonisation and the Andaman Islanders, 1771–1863

Satadru Sen

2. ‘Natural Boundaries’: Negotiating Land Rights and  Establishing Rule on the East India Company’s North-Eastern Frontier 1790s–1820s . Gunnel Cederlöf

3. From ‘Natural Philosophy’ to ‘Political Ritual’: An Ethno-Historical Reading of the Colonial Sources on the Konds’ Religion (Orissa) .Raphaël Rousseleau

4. Locating Adivasi Identity in Colonial India: The Oraons and the Tana Bhagats in Chhotanagpur, 1914–1919

Sangeeta Dasgupta

5. Tribal Armed Rebellion of 1922–1924 in the Madras Presidency: a Study of Causation as Colonial Legitimation

Atlury Murali

6. Events, Incidents and Accidents: Re-Thinking Indigenous Resistance in the Andaman Islands. Vishvajit Pandya

7. The Making and Unmaking of an Adivasi Working Class in Western Orissa. Christian Strümpell

8. Adivasis and Communists in Post-Reform Kerala:  Neoliberalism, Political Disillusionment, and the Indigenist Challenge .Luisa Steur

9. Thoughts on Religious Experience and ‘Politics’ in Adivasi India: an Anthropologist Attempts a Rereading of History . Amit Desai

10. Alcoholics Anonymous: The Maoist Movement in  Jharkhand, India .Alpa Shah

About the Authors:

Crispin Bates is Professor of Modern and South Asian History in the

School of History, Classics and Archaeology and Director of the

Centre for South Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh. His

research interests focus on labour migration and peasant and tribal

history in central India, on which he has published numerous articles.

His publications include Subalterns and Raj: South Asia since 1600

(London: Routledge, 2007); Beyond Representation: constructions of

identity in colonial and postcolonial India (Oxford, New Delhi: Oxford

University Press, 2005), and (with Subho Basu) Rethinking Indian

Political Institutions (London: Anthem Press, 2005). Between 2006-

2008 he was Principal Investigator in an AHRC-funded research

project concerning the Great Indian Uprising and is the editor

and key contributor to Mutiny at the Margins (New Delhi: Sage,

2013-2014), a seven volume series exploring new perspectives

on the 1857 rebellion

Alpa Shah is Reader in the Department of Anthropology at the

London School of Economics and Political Science. This book

was prepared while she was Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at

Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of In the

Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism and

Insurgency in Jharkhand, India (Duke University Press and Oxford

University Press, India: 2010). She has co-edited several volumes including

(with Judith Pettigrew) Windows into a Revolution: Ethnographies

of Maoism in India and Nepal (Social Science Press, Delhi: 2012),

(with Sara Schneiderman)  An Anthropology of Affirmative Action

:The Practices, Politics and Policies of Transforming Inequality

in South Asia (Focaal, 2013), and  (with Tobias Kelly)

A Double Edged Sword: Protection and State

Violence (Critique of Anthropology, 2013).

THE YEAR OF BLOOD. ESSAYS ON THE REVOLT OF 1857


RUDRANGSHU MUKHERJEE


HARDBACK. 174 PP


ISBN NO. 978-93-83166-00-8


PUB DATE: DECEMBER 2013


TENTATIVE PRICE: RS. 550


'An engrossing collection of essays by one of the foremost historians of the events of 1857 . Rudrangshu Mukherjee writes about the world of the purabiya sipahis (including the famous Mangal Pandey), the popular upsurge and the violence of the Ghadar with a sureness of touch that is rare among professional writers of history. A popular academic book with an assured shelf life'


Shahid Amin


Professor, Department of History, University of Delhi


‘Rudrangshu Mukherjee has firmly established his reputation as a historian of the 1857 Revolt. Now, his essays will surely enhance our understanding of the turbulent phase in our history. They merit serious attention.


Mushirul Hassan


Nehru Fellow and former Vice Chancellor, Jamia Millia Islamia


The Year of Blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857


Rudrangshu Mukherjee


Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s essays on the Revolt of 1857 have been brought under one cover in The Year of Blood: Essays on the Revolt of 1857. The book traces the eminent historian’s changing perception of the idea of the Revolt, from his undergraduate days to the present.


The Revolt of 1857 was a passionate phase in Indian history and the quality of writing in this book reflects this intensity. Violence has rarely been described with so much realism and subtlety. The imaginative use of primary source materials add clarity to accounts such as the massacre in Satichaura Ghat and the trial of Mangal Pandey.


Rudrangshu Mukherjee places the ‘soldier-peasant’ at the forefront of the Revolt. In lucid prose, he is able to unravel the motives, strategies and organization skills of the mutineers, while exposing the layers of complexity that defined the relationship between the rulers and the subjugated.


The horrific killings described in depth in this book cover specific parts of Uttar Pradesh; however, the mood of the wider holocaust is captured through the detailed captions which describe several illustrations, most of which are from private collections.


Contents:
List of Illustrations
Introduction: In Pursuit of a Revolt
The Azimgarh Proclamation and Some Questions on the Revolt of 1857 in the Northwestern Provinces
‘Satan Let loose Upon Earth’: the Kanpur Massacres in India in the Revolt of 1857
The Sipahi and the Sepoy Mutinies
Two Intellectual Traditions of the Revolt of 1857: A study of Popular Resistance
Responses to 1857 in the Centenary Year

MANGAL PANDEY : BRAVE MARTYR OR ACCIDENTAL HERO?
29 March 1857
Life of a Sepoy
The Greased Cartridge
Chapati, Rumours and Prophesy
The Trial
Epilogue
Appendix
Bibliography

About the Author: Rudrangshu Mukherjee is the Editor, Editorial Pages, The Telegraph. He taught in the department of history, University of Calcutta and held visiting appointments at Princeton University, Manchester University and the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author and editor of a number of books that include Spectre of Violence: The Massacres in Kanpur in 1857, Delhi, 2007 (1998), New Delhi: The Making of a Capital (co-authored) Delhi, 2009, The Penguin Gandhi Reader (edited), Delhi, 1993, Awadh in Revolt, 1857-58: A Study of Popular Resistance (Delhi, 1984; repr. Delhi and London, 2001), and Dateline, 1857: Revolt Against the Raj ,Delhi, 2008 among others.

Recent Release- Sabotage by Anita Agnihotri

NEW FROM AURUM BOOKS
(AURUM BOOKS IS AN IMPRINT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE PRESS)

SABOTAGE
By Anita Agnihotri
Translated by Arunava Sinha
ISBN 978-81-87358-73-2
140 pp. Paperback
Modified price: Rs. 355.00

Anita Agnihotri has a keen eye for the injustices, both gross and subtle, perpetrated on the rural poor. She describes the various scenarios of poverty with a clinical eye, without lament and pathos, but in minute, breathless detail. The woman prisoners, the exploited weaver girl, the overworked policeman in a district infested with militants – these and many other characters come to life in their abused humanity. The facts alone are an accusation. This is the protest literature of our age, spoken in a frosty matter-of-fact style which makes the blood curdle.

Martin Kämpchen is a German writer and scholar, based in India.

New Release: Heike Liebau

German Writings on India and South Asia

This Series brings together a body of work on India and South Asia from Germany. The books in this series will reflect Gerrnan scholarship in the social sciences, and literature, made available to the English speaking world often for the first time.

CULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN INDIA
The Local Co-workers of the Tranquebar Mission, 18th to 19th Centuries
Heike Liebau
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566pp | 215x140 mm | Hardback
Tentative Pub price: 750
ISBN 978-81-87358-72-5
Tentative pub date: March 2013

‘This appearance of Heike Liebau’s magisterial work in English is a welcome event. Profound in originality, fresh findings and perceptions, thoroughness and tight analysis, this represents a significant contribution to historical understandings of India. Beyond her grasp of Eurocentric historiographies lies her remarkably astute command of Indocentric perspectives. Sharply etched micro-historical features of conflicting cultural influences on local societies in South India are neatly fitted into wider contexts under the rising imperium of the (British) East India Company.’

Robert Eric Frykenberg

Professor Emeritus of History & South Asian Studies

‘…….Liebau’s greatest achievement lies in her penetrating and sensitive treatment of Tamil leaders…..Several of Tamil men and women introduced here were fully competent in working with Sanskrit, Greek, and Hebrew texts, in addition to several European and Indian languages……’

Paul Grant
Department of History, University of Wisconsin - Madison
International Bulletin, Vol. 33, No.4, October 2009

This is an award winning book
Cultural Encounters in India : The Local Co-workers of the Tranquebar Mission, 18th to 19th Centuries is an English translation of a German book which has won the Geisteswissenschaften International award for excellence in scholarship. It is now available for the first time to the English speaking world.

The history of social and religious encounter in 18th century South India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of Indian workers who worked in thefirst organised Protestant mission enterprise in India, the Tranquebar Mission (1706-1845). The Mission was originally initiated by the Danish King Friedrich IV, but sustained by religious authorities and mission organisations and supporters in Germany and Britain.

The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed from the outside. It also questions the approaches to mission history concentrating exclusively on European mission societies. Liebau maintains that the social history of 18th century South India cannot be understood without considering the contributions of the local converts and mission co-workers who played an important role from the very beginning in the context of Tranquebar Mission.

CONTENTS
Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction:
Approaches to an Intermediary Group
Chapter 1
History of the Tranquebar Mission
Chapter 2
Local Mission Workers
Chapter 3
The Hierarchical Structure of the Mission Organization
Chapter 4
Dialogue and Conflict
Chapter 5
The Role of Local Mission Employees in Education
Chapter 6
Women in the Tranquebar Mission
Concluding Observations:
Indian Mission Employees and European-Indian Cultural Contact
Biographies of South Indian country pastors
Abbreviations
Illustrations and Maps
Note on the spelling of Indian terms
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Heike Liebau is Senior Research Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) in Berlin. Her research interest lies in the history of cultural encounters, biographical studies and questions of knowledge production. She is the co-editor of Halle and the Beginning of Protestant Christianity in India (with Y. Vincent Kumaradoss and Andreas Gross), Halle 2006; and of The World in World Wars: Experiences, Perceptions and Perspectives from Africa and Asia (with Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah, Ravi Ahuja), Leiden, Boston 2010.

SCHOLARS AND PROPHETS
Sociology of India from France 19th – 20thcenturies
Roland Lardinois
"… Scholars and Prophets is a work of immense erudition guided by a strong sense of purpose (...) The study is a targeted attempt to uncover the origins of Dumont's analysis of the caste system in his Homo hierarchicus."

Rosane Rocher, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
Journal of the American Oriental Society

“This book, which deals with the representations of India in France, serves as a landmark model of historical sociology of human and social sciences"

Gisèle Sapiro, Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, Transeo Review

French Writings on India and South Asia
This Series brings together a body of work from France on India and South Asia. These books will reflect the social sciences and literature, made available to the English speaking world often for the first

This is the first book in the Series.

Scholars and Prophets: Sociology of India from France 19th – 20th centuries is being translated from L’invention de I’ Inde. Entre ésotérisme et science, and deals with the historical genesis of the long and rich scholarship on India in France since the beginning of 19thcentury, with particular reference to the work of Louis Dumont. It considers the works of scholars and the essayists, poets, or esotericists who published on India and shows that Dumont has been influenced by both groups. This understanding illuminates the main criticism that is still addressed to Homo hierarchicus, that in this book Dumont mistook the internal Brahminical view point on the caste system for a sociological view.

In the last chapter, the book contrasts Dumont’s work with issues raised by McKim Marriott’s project and the Subaltern Studies from India. It defends that the core issue dealt with by all scholars is the epistemic status given to scientific knowledge of Indian society.

In the course of explaining the French intellectual tradition, the author relates many fascinating interactions and little known anecdotes of famous men and women which capture the intellectually vibrant climate of the time. Both scholars and students of the social sciences will find this book very useful.

CONTENTS
Introduction: Genesis of the sociology of India
Prologue: René Daumal and the autofiction of the cultural field
Part One
The Genesis of a Savant Milieu (1795-1927)
Chapter 1. The struggle for academic legitimacy
Chapter 2. Orientalist knowledge and prophetic discourses
Chapter 3. The Struggle for institutional autonomy
Part Two
Scholars and Prophets (The interwar period)
Chapter 4. The field of scholarship on India in the 1930s
Chapter 5. Scholarly practices
Chapter 6. Prophetic strategies
Chapter 7. Hinduism as a disciplinary issue
Part Three
Social Science and Indigenous Science     (Second half of the 20th century)
Chapter 8. Louis Dumont and the indigenous science
Chapter 9. Louis Dumont and the cunning of reason
Chapter 10. The Avatara of scholarship on India
Conclusion. Sociology put to the test of India
Postscript. Note on the construction of a research subject
Appendix: Multi Correspondence Analysis
Postface to the English-language edition
List of documents, tables, figures
Sources and bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments

Roland Lardinois is a sociologist, Director of Research at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris (France). He is Fellow at the Centre d’études de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris.He has published works on the history of family in India, historical demography of South India, history of French scholarship on India, and edited a volume of correspondence exchanged between Sylvain Lévi and Russian Orientalist scholars.
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576 pp | 215x140 mm | Hardback
Tentative Published price: Rs 795
ISBN 978-81-87358-70-1
SOCIOLOGY, HISTORY
Pub date: Jan 2013
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THE POLITICS OF THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES
World Pharmacy and India

Edited by Hans Löfgren

“… this extremely well written and edited book deals with the threats and challenges related to access to pharmaceuticals at national and global level eg TRIPS plus agendas, ACTA , FTAs in the time to come . It is a must read for those dealing with public policies , public health, access to medicines, equity in health in India and in developing countries "

Dr Mira Shiva, M.D.

Health Action International ( Asia Pacific ) and 

Peoples Health Movement

"…. The authors are well informed, and several are themselves personally engaged in the litigation or policy debates they describe. The Book provides a useful report on many different initiatives and controversies, presenting relevant facts and a number of shrewd insights. The strongest parts of the book are the detailed reports on counties or regions, several of which focus on India -- the most important country as regards the global supply of generic medicines. I learned a great deal from each chapter of the book."

James Love

Director, Knowledge Ecology International

Washington 

The pharmaceutical industry presents one of India’s most successful stories of economic expansion and improvements in public health. Indian firms have made access to quality medicines possible and affordable in many developing countries. Indian pharmaceuticals are also exported on a large scale to the United States and other highly regulated markets. A wave of mergers, acquisitions and tie-ups point to growing integration between Indian firms and global pharma multinationals.

The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines: World Pharmacy and India examines this important industry from different economic, social and political perspectives. Topics covered include the implications of TRIPS-compliant intellectual property rights, the role of flexibilities under TRIPS, the market regulation system, the role of Indian firms in exporting HIV/AIDS medications to Africa, the issue of free trade agreements, the power and reach of foreign pharmaceutical multinationals in India’s domestic market, and the sustainability of India as a major generics supplier.

Hans Lofgren is Associate Professor in Politics and Policy Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. His publications include, with P. Sarangi (eds) The Politics and Culture of Globalisation: India and Australia (Social Science Press, New Delhi, 2009); with M. Leahy & E. de Leeuw (eds) Democratising Health: Consumer Groups in the Policy Process (Edward Elgar, 2011).

CONTENTS:
1. The Politics of the Pharmaceutical Industry and Access to Medicines - Hans Löfgren
2. Challenges of Regulation of Medicines in India - S. Srinivasan & Anant Phadke
3. CIPLA: Patients before Patents - Neelam Raaj
4. Systemic Failure of Regulation: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical and Bulk Drug Manufacturing - G. Vijay
5. TRIPS Flexibilities and Access to Patented Medicines in India - Narayanan Lalitha
6. India’s Free Trade Agreements : Implications for Access to Medicines in India and the Global South - Kajal Bhardwaj
7. At any price? Boehringer Ingelheim, Bayer HealthCare and Baxter in India - Christiane Fischer and Claudia Jenkes
8. Trends and Prospects for India as a Global Generic Player - Deepak Kumar Jena & Poduri Balaram
9. The Indian Patent Law and Access to Antiretroviral Drugs in Sub-Saharan Africa - Christiane Fischer
10. Accessing Medicines in Developing Economies - Tu Thanh Nguyen
11. The Politics of AIDS Treatment in Brazil - André de Mello e Souza
12. Financing Pharmaceutical Research and Development: Alternatives to the Patent System - Philip Soos and Hans Lofgren
13. Post-script - Hans Löfgren

368pp | 215x140 mm | Hardback
Pub price: Rs 725
ISBN 978-81-87358-66-4
MEDICINE, ECONOMICS
Pub date: Nov 2012

ECONOMICS AND ITS STORIES
Amal Sanyal
"Amal Sanyal is an economist with enormous academic and policy experience. His telling of economics and its stories is sure to educate and entertain, and so draw more young people to the subject."

Debraj Ray Silver Professor, Faculty of Arts and Science, and

Professor of Economics, New York University, New York.

"This book introduces the basic ideas of economics along with their historical context; and narrates how the subject has grown and acquired its present shape. The author has succeeded in presenting the ideas and issues in a highly accessible manner; as well as in providing the reader with the multiplicity of viewpoints which exist regarding them. This highly readable book should prove to be useful not only to Economics students but to anyone interested in knowing about the core ideas of economics and their historical development"

Satish JainProfessor, Reserve Bank of India Chair in Economic Theory,Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Economics and its Stories demystifies technical terminology and goes to the heart of the matter.

The narrative of the book starts with the birth of economics from societal anxieties of pre-industrial Europe. It then follows up its growth into a self-conscious and assertive discipline. Along with the account, Amal Sanyal, with his characteristic lucidity of style, is able to breathe life into the colourful 18th, 19th and 20th century gurus such as Smith, Ricardo, Marx, Walras, Keynes. The narrative strings together the events and traditions of the era of these mentors with the economics they developed and controversies around them. In the process the book explains the concepts that are indispensable for understanding our economic world today.

Economics and its Stories has chapters on the theory of markets; market failure and the role of the government; the labour market and unemployment; money and finance; international economics and globalisation; and economic development.

The book should appeal to the interested reader as well as students of economics.

CONTENTS
Acknowledgements ix
1. Introduction 1
2. Markets, Efficiency, and Adam Smith 23
3. Many Forms of Market: Sellers Big and Small 53
4. Markets Often Fail and So Do Governments 90
5. Unemployment and J.M. Keynes 116
6. After Keynes 148
7. Money, Banks, and Finance 175
8. Trade, Foreign Investment and Migration 217
9. Economic Growth and Development 262
10. Conclusion 316
Index 323

Amal Sanyal teaches economics at Lincoln University, New Zealand. He has taught and interacted with many other universities, including Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, where he has worked for many years. He held the State Bank of India Chair on public policy for some time and was an economic advisor to the government of Mauritius for a number of years. Sanyal has very wide research interests and has published a large number of research articles and a few books. His current research includes issues of governance, corruption and public policy.
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332pp | 215x140 mm | Hardback
Published price: Rs 650
ISBN 978-81-87358-55-8
ECONOMICS, BUSINESS STUDIES
Pub date 16 July 2012

EVERYDAY NATIONALISM

Women of the Hindu Right in India

  Kalyani Devaki Menon

 "Menon argues that central to the popularity and success of Hindu nationalism is its willingness to accommodate groups whose beliefs and practices may be incongruous with the movement's mainstream. . . . An excellent study of a timely issue."
—Choice


"Everyday Nationalism is an important book for understanding the dynamics and rationale of hindutva ideology. Kalyani Menon's brilliant reconstruction reveals women as the key to the Hindu nationalist goal to establish India as a Hindu nation."
—Missiology: An International Review


"Menon provides a vivid portrait of the everyday lives of Hindu nationalist women. A witty, candid, unassuming ethnographer, she combines critical self-reflection with critical insights into the women she studies. Everyday Nationalism is an important contribution to scholarship in women's studies, South Asian studies, and anthropology."
—Amrita Basu, Amherst College

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272pp  215x140 mm  Hardback   4 illustrations

Published  price Rs 650

ISBN 978-81-87358-68-8

  Pub date May 2012
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To understand the expansionary power of Hindu nationalism, Kalyani Menon argues, it is critical to examine the everyday constructions of politics and ideology through which activists garner support at the grassroots level. Based on fieldwork with women in several Hindu nationalist organizations, Menon explores how these activists use gendered constructions of religion, history, national insecurity, and social responsibility to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds. As Hindu nationalism extends its reach to appeal to increasingly diverse groups, she explains, it is forced to acknowledge a multiplicity of positions within the movement. She argues that Hindu nationalism's willingness to accommodate dissonance is central to understanding the popularity of the movement.
Everyday Nationalism contends that the Hindu nationalist movement's power to attract and maintain constituencies with incongruous beliefs and practices is key to its growth. The book reveals that the movement's success is facilitated by its ability to become meaningful in people's daily lives, resonating with their constructions of the past, appealing to their fears in the present, presenting itself as the protector of the country's citizens, and inventing traditions through the use of Hindu texts, symbols, and rituals to unite people in a sense of belonging to a nation.


Contents


Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Chapter One: Everyday Histories
Chapter Two: National Insecurities
Chapter Three: Violent Dharma
Chapter Four: Benevolent Hindus
Chapter Five: Fun, Games, and Deadly Politics
Chapter Six: Acceptable Transgressions
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments


Kalyani Devaki Menon teaches religious studies at DePaul University.

REISSUED

‘WHEN THE WAR BEGAN WE HEARD OF SEVERAL KINGS’

South Asian Prisoners in World War I Germany

282 pages 215x140 mm Hardback with illustrations CD-ROM included

Published price Rs 695

ISBN 978-81-87358-43-5

HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY, POLITICS, GERMAN STUDIES, WAR STUDIES

Pub Date January 2012

‘Soldiers don’t speak; they are spoken to. In this fascinating collection of disturbing essays Indian soldiers who survived the killing fields of World War I (serving a colonial King and Country) are made to speak to us directly as POWs from German camps. … A stunning achievement of empathetic modern German scholarship. Going to India Gate in New Delhi (built to commemorate the Indian soldiers of the Great War) will never be the same again.’

Shahid Amin
Delhi University

‘This is a valuable collection of articles that gives access to a rich archive in the German language, which had remained largely inaccessible to an Anglophone readership . The use of that archive can help broaden the approach to the problem of the participation of Indian soldiers in the First World War on the Western front, a topic which has not yet attracted sufficient scholarly attention.’

Claude Markovits
Centre d'Etudes de l'Inde et de l'Asie du Sud
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales

The age of catastrophe devoured lives from many parts of the globe. Yet the ‘Great War’ also occasioned new encounters and experiences. Never before had ten thousands of non-elite South Asians moved across Europe. About two thousand of them, mostly sailors and soldiers who hailed from villages in Bengal, Nepal, the Northwest Frontier and Punjab, were held for years in German prison camps. They attracted the close attention of army officers, diplomats and secret agents, of emigrant revolutionaries like Har Dayal and Virendranath Chattopadhyaya, of German artists, academics and industrialists. The captives made sense of these unusual encounters in their own ways. This volume approaches their difficult engagements from various angles. It introduces and makes available rich German archives as yet unknown to the non-German speaking world.

The CD Rom attached to this book goes beyond the written word. It includes the Hindi and Urdu editions of the propagandistic camp journal Hindostan, transcripts of sound recordings in which the sailors and soldiers speak in their native tongues about their experiences as they are taken from place to place, perhaps in the hope that these might reach their families. There is nostalgia in their voices as they sing songs about their homes, while acutely critical comments on their lives in ‘vilayat’ give the lie to the notion of the apolitical peasant-soldier.

The CD Rom also includes pictorial documents of paintings by the soldiers, and some powerful photographs of war camps in Zossen and Wünsdorf. The CD Rom also carries the Bibliography which is a special feature of this book. It is both extensive and rich, covering rare books which will be of enormous value to scholars and interested readers.

Contents
Introduction: Franziska Roy, Heike Liebau

Part I: Histories of the Prisoners
Lost Engagements? Traces of South Asian Soldiers in German Captivity, 1915 -1918: Ravi Ahuja
South Asian Civilian Prisoners of War in First World War Germany : Franziska Roy
The German Foreign Office, Indian Emigrants and Propaganda Efforts Among the ‘Sepoys’ : Heike Liebau
German Perceptions of Enemy Colonial Troops, 1914–1918 : Christian Koller
South Asian Soldiers and German Academics: Anthropological, Linguistic and Musicological Field Studies in Prison Camps: Britta Lange

Part II: Histories of the Sources
Recordings of South Asian Languages and Music in the Lautarchiv of the Humboldt University Berlin : Jürgen Mahrenholz
Indian Prisoners of War in World War One – Photographs as Source Material: Margot Kahleyss
Hindostan - A Camp Newspaper for South-Asian Prisoners of World War One in Germany: Heike Liebau

Short Biographies
Archival Collections
Abbreviations
Index of Persons
Index of Places

CD ROM
Introduction
The Camp newspaper Hindostan Hindi edition
The Camp newspaper Hindostan Urdu edition
Voices of the Prisoners: Files and Recordings from the Lautararchiv, Berlin
List of Recordings and Personal Details of South Asian Prisoners in the Lautarchiv, Berlin
Photos from the Prisoner of War Camps in Zossen and Wünsdorf
Bibliography

Franziska Roy is doctoral candidate at the Department of History of the University of Warwick.
Heike Liebau is Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Modern Oriental Studies (Berlin).
Ravi Ahuja is professor of modern Indian history and the director of the Centre for Modern Indian Studies at the University of Göttingen.