1st Edition
India's Social Landscape Contestations, Resistance, and Transformation
1. Intersecting Contests: The Frayed Edges of Indian Society
Pushpendra
Part I
Rhythms of Resistance: Gender, Ritual, and the Critique of Modernity
2. The Unwanted Aspect of Modernity: Normative Fetish and Epistemological Deceit
Savyasaachi
3. Mythical Love and Conjugality in Everyday Life: Gender and Politics in India
Parul Bhandari
4. Doing Compensatory Masculinity: Rural Men Negotiating Cross-Region Marriages in Haryana
Paro Mishra
5. Temporal Rhythms in Village Life: Stories of Abundance and Lack in Purulia, West Bengal
Roma Chatterji
6. Harparauri: Echoes of an Extinct Women’s Ceremony in the Bhojpuri World
Dhananjay Singh
Part II
Contested Belongings: Identity, Language, and Diaspora in Contemporary India
7. Neither Rural, nor Urban: Incomplete Migration in Dalit Life-Narratives
Sruti Manjula Devaprakash
8. Bengali Muslims in Assam and "Miyah" Poetry: Walking on the Shifting Terrains of "Na-Asamiya" and "Infiltrator"
Jabeen Yasmeen
9. Negotiating Community: Narratives Around Locating the "Professed" Rangrez Identity
Swati Mantri
10. Away from Hindi’s Shadow: Census and Bhojpuri in Bihar
Asha Singh
11. The Indian Diaspora and the Enchantments of Neo-conservatism
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
Part III
Tribute to Hetukar Jha
12. Professor Hetukar Jha’s Contributions to the Study of Historical Sociology
Vishwa Mohan Jha
13. Indian Sociology, Village Structures, and Regional Imagination: Reflections on Hetukar Jha’s Critical Works
Mithilesh Kumar Jha
14. Hetukar Jha (5 March 1944–19 August 2017): A Biographical Note and Select Bibliography
Tejakar Jha
Biography
Pushpendra, formerly Professor and Chairperson of the Patna Centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India. His recent publications include Home, Belonging and Memory: Leaving and Living (Routledge 2022); Beyond Consumption: India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times (Routledge 2022); and Migrants on the Move: Precarity in Times of the Pandemic (Aakar 2022). He is the former editor of the Journal of Migration Affairs. His research interests include migration, agrarian relations, rural labour, human rights, and social policy.
