Oxford Studies in Contemporary Indian Society

OXFORD STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN SOCIETY (originally titled OXFORD INDIA STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY) is a series of interdisciplinary compilations on issues and problems shaping lives in twenty-first-century India. The Series aims to introduce to a wider audience the central importance of interdisciplinarity in contemporary social sciences. It is initiated at an opportune time, when the boundaries of social science disciplines are being redefined, and theories and perspectives are being critically interrogated globally. Using the frameworks developed by social science interdisciplinarity, this Series captures, assesses, and situates social trends in contemporary India in order to aid ways of doing global social science research. It affirms the necessity of analysing issues and themes that have a direct bearing on our daily lives, and in doing so, brings fresh perspectives into play, integrating knowledge from a variety of unexplored sources in conventional social science practices in India. It presents novel themes of investigation and builds a fresh approach towards the longstanding debates on methodologies and methods within global scholarship. With its emphasis on the debates on and about society rather than social sciences, this Series should find an audience not only among the students and scholars of conventional social sciences, but also among the students, researchers, and practitioners of fields such as law, media, environment, medicine, policy studies, and business studies.

Series Editor: Sujata Patel, Retired Professor, University of Hyderabad