OUP India - Böcker

This book is a multidisciplinary, clinical, highly illustrated, handy reference for medical practitioners and family physicians, usually the first consult for common proctological disorders like haemorrhoids, anal fissure, anal abscess, fistula, p...

Läs mer »

Economics is changing. In the last few years it has generated a number of new approaches. One of the most promising - complexity economics - was pioneered in the 1980s and 1990s by a small team at the Santa Fe Institute. Economist and complexity t...

Läs mer »

Why has India's astonishing economic growth not reached the people at the bottom of its social and economic hierarchy? Travelling the length and breadth of the subcontinent, this book shows how India's 'untouchables' and 'tribals' fit into the glo...

Läs mer »

The book synthesizes material and textual evidence to chronicle the passage of three mega mammals-the rhinoceros, tiger, and elephant across millennia in early north India. The approach goes beyond treating them as mere cultural icons to one that ...

Läs mer »

History of English Literature and Philology: A Guide is an introductory guide catering to Core Course 1: History of Literature and Philology of the undergraduate English (Hons.) programme of the University of Calcutta, and follows the latest sylla...

Läs mer »

The book is an ethnographic study of Christian groups in contemporary Goan society that come under the umbrella of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Most studies on Pentecostalism in India are from a theological perspective. This work is an at...

Läs mer »

An Economist's Miscellany: From the Groves of Academe to the Slopes of Raisina Hill brings together an eclectic collection of writings on the world of academe, politics, policy, travel, and more. This book offers unique glimpses of the author's en...

Läs mer »

This book is a compilation, the complete works of Ashis Nandy. As Nandy himself writes in his Prologue, it is an attempt to scan his scattered lectures, interviews and writings, including essays, columns and papers for newspapers and journals, thr...

Läs mer »

The book tells the hitherto untold story of evolution of employment conditions in India over a period of six decades beginning in the mid-1950s. It reviews, in a sharp and concise manner, the conditions of employment existing at the start of India...

Läs mer »

This book critically examines the role and accountability of the police in India and lays emphasis on the human rights of citizens referring to international instruments and the guidelines of the National Human Rights Commission for the prevention...

Läs mer »

Conceptualized outside the theoretical framing of both liberal as well as critical approaches, this book re-imagines the law by exploring the contradictions and polarities of in terms of its relationship with violence. It encompasses and interweav...

Läs mer »

Though India was among the first countries in the world to have passed legislation granting farmers' rights in the form of the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act, 2001, yet more comprehensive and interdisciplinary efforts are re...

Läs mer »

This book engages with the question of Muslim rootedness in India. It uses various Muslim 'voices' in North India to explore imaginings of the local, regional and transnational at a time when the Indian nation-state did not exist. Using poetry as ...

Läs mer »

An insightful exploration of how the boundaries of the modern South Asian states were created in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, based on a careful examination of original materials in archives in England and India. This was the final proj...

Läs mer »

Gandhi (1869-1948) was one of the few men in history to fight simultaneously on moral, religious, political, social, economic, and cultural fronts. In this Very Short Introduction to Gandhi's life and thought, Bhikhu Parekh outlines both Gandhi's ...

Läs mer »

The book narrates how opportunities and challenges of rapid urbanization in Dhaka are translated into realizing dreams of better lives and livelihoods, and prospects for a shared future for city dwellers - poor-non-poor, men-women, young-old, migr...

Läs mer »

In mankind's relentless quest for prosperity, Nature has suffered great damage. The indefinite scale of global expansion has put the earth's very survival under threat. But against this exploitation of nature, there is a concept of Entropy that pl...

Läs mer »

Health crises plague most economies irrespective of their average per capita income levels, and this is largely due to chronic and repeated illnesses. Contextualizing this paradigm in India, the India Public Finance and Policy Report: Health Matte...

Läs mer »

The work explains how the Naga population perceived their meeting point with the institutions of the Indian state in the midst of a conflict zone, especially the army, the paramilitary forces, and documents what it feels like to live in a conflict...

Läs mer »

The overseas Indian population has formed a range of migrant organizations, whose activities include mobilizing resources and connections and engaging with numerous development initiatives in India. This book looks into Indian local and transnatio...

Läs mer »

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authorative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. The documents included in each volume will be an interesting read for the lay readers also.

Läs mer »

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru is the most important and authorative source on Nehru's life, work and thought. The documents included in each volume are also fascinating to the lay reader.

Läs mer »

Law, Justice, Society: Selected Works of Upendra Baxi documents and critically engages with Baxi's thoughts centred on the major themes of his writings: human rights, constitutionalism, law and society, and legal education.

Läs mer »

What histories do objects like coins or gems help us to trace? How can we read photographs and paintings? How do fictional tales, imaginative biographies, basic lexicons, or accounts of Sufi masters code intellectual worlds and reveal cultural and...

Läs mer »

Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among scholars worldwide though little has been written on his fascination with Tagore's poetry and symbolic plays. In Language, Limits, and Beyond, Priyambada Sa...

Läs mer »

Many call Vrindavan the spiritual capital of India-it's Krishna's eternal playground-but the world is gobbling it up. Delhi's vast sprawl is engulfing the town, the waters of the Yamuna are too polluted to drink or even bathe in, and temples are f...

Läs mer »

Principles of Macroeconomics is a lucid and concise introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of macroeconomics. This revised and updated third edition covers key macroeconomic issues such as national income, investment, inflation, bal...

Läs mer »

Data Structures using Python provides an introduction to design, analysis, and implementation of data structures using the powerful programming language, Python. This book is designed for a first course on the subject. It is written for the underg...

Läs mer »

The Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru has established its position as the single most important, authoritative, and reliable source on Nehru's life, work, and thought. It is indispensable to the scholar, fascinating to the layperson, and at times...

Läs mer »

By the end of the eighteenth century, war-making and the East India Company's violent conquest of South Asia created an 'early colonial order'. This distinctive early colonial order comprised of a political economy of conquest marked by repeated f...

Läs mer »