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This book analyses the complexity of local governance, both rural and urban, in contemporary India. It argues that there is more to local governance today than a focus on decentralization. It looks at some of the lesser-known aspects of the interface between panchayats and other institutes of local governance.

This book chronicles how the concept of organizing people to serve economic ends emerged in early modern and colonial India. It examines rules of cooperation, why people decided to join forces, how disputes were settled, and how cooperative communities became increasingly unstable in more modern times. It focuses on five dimensions: actor, agent, time, purpose, and region.

This book examines how the Supreme Court of India has interpreted the right to freedom of religion and how its interpretation has influenced the discourse on secularism and nationhood. The study is based primarily on Supreme Court judgments, from the earliest post-Independence rulings to the most significant recent ones.

This is the best known of Corbett's books, and contains ten fascinating stories of tracking and shooting man-eaters in the Indian Himalaya during the early years of this century.

The author, in this book, underlines the importance of Bahudha as an instrument of public policy for harmony and also discusses the global imperatives of following such an approach. It highlights the central role of education and religion in the building of a harmonious society and advocates the strengthening of the United Nations to become an effective global conflict resolution mechanism.

Anyone who has seen a wedding procession in northern India would have heard and seen the band of professional musicians accompanying the procession. This book is a detailed and colourful study of India's wedding bands.

This book provides an insight into the functioning of formal, legal, and political institutions in the Indian democracy. It discusses the role and the importance of the rule of law, constitutional morality, and the opposition in its functioning.

Poet, translator, folklorist, A.K. Ramanujan has been recognized as the world's most profound scholar of South Asian language and culture. This book brings together 30 essays on literature and culture written by him over a period of four decades. The volume also contains notes on each essay as well as a chronology of Ramanujan's books and essays.