Historical Evaluation India has a long tradition of studying health care. Early modern efforts began with the setting up of…
Introduction: Revisiting the Village, Rethinking the Toilet Over the past few years, I have had the opportunity to visit my…
Nidhi Gaur’s Gender and Craftwork in Rural Society: The Role of Education (published by Routledge in 2024) is a significant…
Introduction Growing up in a small village in Uttar Pradesh, I witnessed many rituals and traditions that perplexed and at…
25 years ago, Nirmala Banerjee wrote the piece “How Real is the Bogey of Feminization?” in which she stated that…
When one attempts to examine the lives lived on the peripheries of society, the perspective largely oscillates between investigating the…
Surinder Singh Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems (CSSS), Jawaharlal Nehru…
I started reading this book with my own (mis)understanding of the “rural” and with the whole bag of myths and…
Jan Breman is a Professor Emeritus at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam. He has conducted…
Debal K. SinghaRoy is a Professor of Sociology in Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. His books include…