Sociology

Is literature of political use, and if yes, how might this use be defined?

This book investigates the critical phenomenon of reverse migration during the COVID-19 pandemic in India, revealing the lived experiences of reverse migrant workers amid unprecedented social and economic upheaval.

Au coeur de Palerme, entre ruelles etroites, palais, appartements, et places vibrantes, se jouent des trajectoires de vie ou se construisent, s'affrontent et se transforment les masculinites.

Klausurtagungen oder Strategie-Workshops sind für Unternehmen bewährte Formate, um strategisch wichtige Themen abseits des Tagesgeschäfts zu erarbeiten.

Die moderne Arbeitswelt bietet zahlreiche Chancen für individuelle Karrieren – sei es im White- oder Blue-Collar-Bereich.

Este libro es una guía imprescindible para quien esté considerando adoptar a una niña, un niño o un/a adolescente, para quien transite el proceso de una guarda con fines adoptivos y para quien ya sea mamá o papá a través de la adopción o esté anotada/o en el Registro de Adoptantes.

The All India Women's Conference completed ninety years in 2017.

The book contains the record of the events concerning the emergence of the French in south India from 1736 to 1760 compiled by Ananda Ranga Pillai.

Hunting and gathering constitute the oldest human mode of subsistence and the only one for which there is an uninterrupted record from the human origins to the present.

The Sentinel Islanders, also called the Sentinelese, are one of the five Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups (PVTGs) of the Andaman and Nicobar islands.

The prehistoric phase forms the longest period in human history covering a few millennia whereas the knowledge of writing which could be used for the reconstruction of history, was acquired by man only five thousand years ago.

The Indian federal system has been dynamic in accommodating political and societal changes since its constitutional blueprint was drawn in 1949-50.

Indians have been drinking some form of wine for the past four thousand years.

The entire set of sixteen essays in Jews and India explore a particular interaction and mutual influence between Jews and India over the past two millennia.

Buddhism originated as an antinomial system, facing the opposition of both vaidika and theistic Brahmans, who socially identified themselves with the agrarian world.

The Great Depression affected the whole world, but most studies of this crucial phenomenon have only dealt with the industrialized countries and have neglected the peasants of Asia, Africa and Latin America.

This volume by Forsyth covers the topography, indigenous population, natural ecology, and activities around the Central Highland region, i.

Based on papers written for seminar on 'decolonization' and 'contem por ary history' of the Punjab, organized by the Institute of Punjab Studies which aims at promoting inter-disciplinary study of the political, economic, social and cultural life of the peoples of the north-west of India, this book should be of great interest to administrators, politicians and journalists as well as to social scientists and general readers.

This seminal volume by V.

South East Asian history is one of the most unique histories, as it was marked by the influences of Indic, Chinese, and local cultures.

Traditionally, Indian architecture is divided into sacred and royal structures.

In a country as vast and varied as India and that too with an extraordinary long and continuous history spanning over several millennia, historical processes of its development just cannot be unilinear.

Two prominent names, Khema and Uppalavanna, were popular bhikkunis appointed by Buddha in his fold.

Traffic in light benefits donor and recipient, without the ambiguities that always cling to the traffic in goods.

The chapters in this volume contribute to the current scholarship on historical and contemporary migrations by providing new interdisciplinary approaches to historical and contemporary global migratory issues, while simultaneously analyzing ethnicization, identity formation, racialization, citizenship, nationalism, and Tansnationalism.

This book has four parts.

This groundbreaking volume explores a revelatory Andharan style relief recently discovered in Sri Lanka.

In recent times, Food Studies has emerged as an important interdisciplinary field of enquiry, situated at the convergence point of many disciplines.

Amid the glorious and rich history of Indian culture, the artifacts that have most affected the majority of people, and their everyday lives have been largely overlooked.

This book is about implementation of poverty alleviation policy in recent times.

The Partition of India in 1947 was a horrendous human tragedy on a gargantuan scale not seen before or since.

An Account of the Kingdom of Nepaul is the description of the Kingdom of Nepal in the late eighteenth century.

Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem?

This is the second book in our series of publications on the Coins of India.

Dravidian art is one of the visible features which defines the South Indian form of architecture.

From the 1860s, substantial ruins in the Indian state of Bihar identified as Nalanda Mahavihara, were of scholarly interest because the monastery was mentioned in the travel accounts of seventh century Chinese monks.

Indian architecture is diverse and rich in its nature.

Aiyangar's celebrated work Evolution of Hindu Administrative Institutions in South India examines the administration and political frame works adopted by different South Indian kingdoms.

The Portuguese mariners under Vasco da Gama in search of spices landed on the Malabar Coast at the fag end of the fifteenth century.

The history of art in the Indian subcontinent, indeed, is highly rich in its content, aesthetical value, and ornated in nature.

Coin-Collecting in Northern India is a numismatic study covering the entire Northern India.

This seminal work by the founder of Annales School, Marc Bloch discusses history writing from many perspectives, rather than a singular method and what comprises history.

This book is a follow up to the author's Coinage of Akbar: The Connoisseur's Choice (2005), and Coins of Jahangir: Creations of a Numismatist (2013).

Among the various communities of South India, the Nadars have perhaps most clearly evidenced the impact of change over the past 200 years.