Citizen of New Confucianism by Chengzhi Xu (2023): A Review by George Hong Jiang
It is never difficult to imagine a good society, but it is never easy to provide a comprehensive program to…
It is never difficult to imagine a good society, but it is never easy to provide a comprehensive program to…
“We need to recognise that India is a collection of minorities, not a ‘Hindu majority’ country.”[i] My daily night walk…
When one attempts to examine the lives lived on the peripheries of society, the perspective largely oscillates between investigating the…
There are some books we read for pleasure. Some, we read to advance our knowledge of the world, others to…
The sociology curriculum of most universities legitimizes, institutionalizes, and reproduces not just the fact that the origin of sociology as…
Swargajyoti Gohain is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Ashoka University, Sonepat, Haryana. Her monograph Imagined Geographies in…
Caste has been a persistent and defining principle of inequality and discrimination in India. In recent decades this has become…
Saswati Bhattacharya’s book Potters without a Wheel: Ethnography of the Mritshilpis in Kolkata, published by Routledge in 2022, takes the…
Right at the start of Animal Farm, George Orwell establishes that it is a fable in which animals exhibit human-like…
Ravi Nandan’s Dead in Benaras: Ethnography of Funeral Travelling, published by Oxford University Press in 2022, is a compelling ethnographical…