Rajni Kothari
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Rajni Kothari
Rajni Kothari is one of the most remarkable intellectuals independent India has produced. An academic who always insisted on living a life of the mind, Kothari’s story is the story of Indian political science coming of age. He is the founder of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (CSDS)—a premier institute in the sphere of social sciences, and Lokayan. Kothari is now past eighty and he lives in Delhi.
- Caste in Indian PoliticsINR 825
Rejecting the prevailing dichotomy between traditional society and modern polity, Caste in Indian Politics examines their interaction in given community and territori...
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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm (1917 – 2012) was a British Marxist historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism. His best-known works include his trilogy about what he called the
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Kumari Jayawardena
Kumari Jayawardena is the author of The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon; Ethnic and Class Conflict in Sri Lanka; Feminism and Nationalism in the Third World; The White Woman’s Other Bur
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Henry Veltmeyer
Henry Veltmeyer is Professor of International Development Studies at Universidad Autónoma de Zacatecas and at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.
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Deepti Misri
Deepti Misri is Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She is the author of Beyond Partition: Gender, Violence and Representation in Postcolonial I
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Alice Thorner
Alice Thorner (1917-2005) was an American-born social scientist and statistician.
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Benjamin Jowett
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Maurice Dobb
Maurice Dobb (1900-76) was one of the most important Marxian economists of the 20th century.
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Ruth Vanita
Ruth Vanita co-edited Manushi from 1978 to 1990. She is the author of several books, including Same-Sex Love in India: A Literary History (with Saleem Kidwai); Gandhi’s Tiger and Sita’s Smile: