Structure and Transformation

Theory and Society in India
Herausgeber: Visvanathan, Susan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines some of the key theoretical and empirical debates in the fields of urbanization, industrialization and stratification in India. It also engages with the problems of typologies - tribal, peasant and industrial- to understand modernity and tradition in India.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 137mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780198062783
• ISBN-10: 0198062788
• Artikelnr.: 28022189

Autorenporträt

Susan Visvanathan is Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Systems in the School of Social Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1: Structure and Culture: The Debates
2: Framework in Change: Colonial Indian Society
3: On Understanding Caste and Class
4: Forest Dwellers and Tribals in India
5: Anomie, Alienation, and Involvement
6: Gender and Work in Industrial Society
7: Women and Migration
8: Interpretations of the City
9: PLantation Labour in South and South-East Asia
10: Religion and the Geddesian Theory of the City