Mumbai. Majlis. 2014. Sixth Edition. 99pp, paperback in very good condition. 19 x 13cm. The true, unfiltered experience of the author fighting for herself, her children, and her independence in Indian middle-class traditions, customs, and social norms while trapped in domestic violence. She emphasises that "routine and mundane violence in..... More
Massachusetts. Bergin & Garvey Publishers. 1989. Black and white photographic illustrations, viii + 168pp, appendices, endnotes, bibliography, index, covers fairly worn with lightly sunned spine, a sound secondhand hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179306. More
New Delhi. Sage Publications. 1988. 310pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket slightly worn with sunned spine, contents sound and clean, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178170. More
New York. Oxford University Press. 1995. Black and white illustrations, xii + 250, index, bibliography, glossary, a very good paperback copy. "Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus..... More
Oxford. Oxford University Press. 2003. Black and white photographic illustrations, xiv + 258pp, index, glossary, some pencilling throughout, paperback. "The Rajputs ruled the vast majority of the kingdoms that were joined together after Indian independence to form the state of Rajasthan, "Land of Kings." An important part of Rajput religion..... More
United States: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994. Map, 214pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to..... More
New York. Routledge. 1998. xi + 276pp, index, bibliography, editor inscription half title page, a very good paperback copy. "Appropriating Gender is a comprehensive collection of essays that examines the roles of women in fundamentalist movements, as well as the gender policies of these movements and of the South Asian..... More
Chicago. University of Chicago Press. 1989. 161pp, notes, index, few neat pencilled notes in text, dustjacket little shelf worn and a little faded on spine, a sound secondhand hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179287. More
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1993. Black and white photographic plates, xv + 227pp, bibliography, index, covers fairly shelf worn and creased, a sound secondhand paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179310. More
Belmont, CA. Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Inc, 2010. 153pp, index, very good paperback copy. "In an intimate and revealing ethnographic study, Sunil K. Khanna, Ph.D., reflects on his role during fieldwork in India as a 'native' anthropologist, examines the historical and cultural underpinnings of son preference, and considers why this preference..... More
United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2007. First Edition. Black and white plans, viii + 345pp, index, bibliography, dustjacket edges slightly bent, pencil markings throughout text, prior owner's name front free endpapers, overall a very good copy. This volume deals with multiple sites of production of education including the homes and..... More
New Delhi. Oxford University Press. 2000. xiii + 309pp, dustjacket spine sunned, otherwise a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179307. More
Durham. Duke University Press, 2009. xiii + 284, index, bibliography, notes. Very good paperback copy. "Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between 'midnight's children', who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian developmentalism..... More
New Delhi. Penguin. 2003. xii + 260pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. Stories of 17 Indian mothers, women who are rearing their children outside the structure of marriage, whether divorced, widowed, separted or unmarried. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179162... More
New York. Oxford University Press. 1993. Map, black and white photographic illustrations, xiii + 371pp, indices, bibliography, glossaries, appendices. Spine trifle sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178504. More
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1994. Black and white photographic illustrated plates, xvii + 269pp, bibliography, index, glossary, appendix, footnotes, shelf worn dustjacket with closed tear at tail of spine, some chipping at the head of spine, good hardback copy. "Mirabai, the legendary princess of Mewar, is revered as a saint..... More
Minneapolis. University of Minnesota Press. 2006. xlvii + 181pp, notes, glossary, bibliography, a very good paperback copy. Seven voices contribute to this rare glimpse of the work being done on the front lines of the fight for social change in India. Playing with Fire is written in the collective voice..... More
United States: Cengage Learning, Inc, 1998. Second edition. Map, colour photographic illustrations, xxi + 186pp, index, references, notes, glossary, lightly sunned spine, a very good paperback copy. This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It..... More
Belmont. Wadsworth. (circa 2000). Reprint of Second Edition. Map, colour photographic illustrations, xxi + 186pp, index, references, notes, glossary, lightly worn paperback, good copy. This ethnography is a cultural study of the Hijras of India, a religious community of men who dress and act like women. It focuses on how..... More
Delhi. Oxford University Press. 1994. 147pp, index, bibliography, notes, glossary, dustjacket little creased and trifle sunned spine, a very good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 178086. More
New Delhi. SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2012. Map, xxxi + 182pp, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Even as they produce food for society and its people, lives dependent on agriculture are barely able to make ends meet. The cost of food production far outweighs the..... More
Columbia. South Asia Books. 1982. Black and white photographic plates, xiv + 317pp, index, prior owner's inscription front free endpaper, dustjacket little shelf worn, spine trifle sunned, a good hardback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179291. More
Albany. State University of New York Press. 2006. Map, 151pp, index, boards a little faded in places, good hardback copy. Indian women scholars present and discuss tales about women, bringing new insights about gender and the moral universe of the folk narrative. When referring to this item please quote stockid..... More
New York. Berg. 2010. xvii + 142pp, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy with light rubbing on extremities. "The preference for male children transcends many societies and cultures, making it an issue of local and global dimensions. While son preference is not a new phenomenon and has existed historically in..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1994. Reprint. Map, black and white photographic plates, xxxvii + 234pp, appendix, bibliography, glossary, index, spine little sunned, a very good paperback copy. When referring to this item please quote stockid 179224. More