"Christian Lee Novetzke considers the way social memory coheres around the figure of Namdev from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the practices that situate Namdev's memory in multiple historical publics. Focusing primarily on Maharashtra and drawing on ethnograph…
In this detailed and comprehensive study of the relationship between peasants and Baniya usurers in western India, David Hardiman examines how and why usurers have, over the centuries, managed to exert their power over the peasantry. An explanation purely in terms of the economi…
In this detailed and comprehensive study of the relationship between peasants and Baniya usurers in western India, David Hardiman examines how and why usurers have, over the centuries, managed to exert their power over the peasantry. An explanation purely in terms of the economi…
"The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerg…
"The Deccan sultans left a grand architectural and artistic legacy. They commissioned palaces, mosques, gardens and tombs as well as decorative paintings and coins. Of these sultanates, the Nizam Shahs (r. 1490-1636) were particularly significant, being one of the first to emerg…
1. Two Hundred and Fifty Miles East of Bombay -- 2. The Endemic Problem of Caste and Gender Inequality -- 3. Health is What Women Do: Transitions and Transformations -- : 4. "Why Are You Sitting at Home Being Oppressed?": Becoming a Village Health Worker -- 5. Women and Child He…
"For the Public Good: Women Health and Equity in Rural India gives a first hand account of how local solutions can solve global health problems changing the lives of thousands of rural villagers"--
"For the Public Good: Women Health and Equity in Rural India gives a first hand account of how local solutions can solve global health problems changing the lives of thousands of rural villagers"--