This book addresses pertinent issues around the role and status of caste in the new private occupational IT sector that boasts of merit as the ultimate equalize

After a clerical sanction prohibited them from fishing for a week, a group of Catholic fishers from a village on India's southwestern coast took their church to

During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered because of British rule: the Parsis. The Zoroastrian people adopted the manners, dress, and aspirations

Caste is a contested terrain in India's society and polity. This book explores contemporary realities of caste in rural and urban India. Presenting rich empiric

The poems in this collection transform the author's hometown into a poetic