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This edition is a revision of the classic, which has become the standard work on the subject. Five chapters covering the 1990s have been added with an updated chronlogy. These discuss a number of more recent poets, along with one chapter on the late Agha Shadid Ali.

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.

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 offers a much-needed alternative perspective (coming from Persian sources) on European constructions of India. It throws significant light on Indo-Persian culture and on the complex interaction between Europeans and Indians in the eighteenth century.

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.

In the aftermath of Indira Gandhi's assassination, the Congress party swept the polls in 1984. It reached its zenith with Rajiv Gandhi at the helm. However, due to shifts in Indian polity, economy, and society, this period marked the end of the Congress epoch. It was only a couple of decades later that the Congress was able to emerge as a dominant party again.