anthem press india catalogue fall 2014

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Economics and Social SciencesFEATURED

Two Decades of Market Reform in India: Some Dissenting ViewsEdited by Sudipta Bhattacharyya

An edited collection of essays that demolishes the accepted myths surrounding the perceived benefits of India’s neoliberal governmental policies concerning growth, agriculture, industry and poverty.Economics and Social Sciences 276 pages • H • 9789380601847 • Nov-2014 • `795

Inclusive Growth, Full Employment, and Structural Change: Implications and Policies for Developing AsiaJesus Felipe

Discusses policies to achieve inclusive growth in developing Asia.

‘Jesus Felipe provides a masterful analysis of growth in Asia by highlighting the role played by structural transformation... The road ahead for developing Asia is difficult, but this magnificent book will make the task more manageable for policy makers and analysts.’ —Ricardo Hausmann, Center for International Development at Harvard UniversityEconomics and Social Sciences 362 pages • P • 9789380601007 • Aug-2010 • `795

How Rich Countries Got Rich…and Why Poor Countries Stay PoorErik S. Reinert

Winner of the prestigious Myrdal Prize 2008, this is an illuminating narrative history of economic development in the modern world.

‘Reinert asks the most fundamental questions about economic development, and proceeds to answer them with clear logic, a sweeping grasp of history and an immensely readable style.’ —‘Frontline (The Hindu)’Economics and Social Sciences 400 pages • P • 9781843313335 • Jan-2008 • `495

Power Shifts and Global Governance: Challenges from South and NorthEdited by Ashwani Kumar and Dirk Messner, with a Foreword by Günther Taube

An original and timely collection on emerging architectures and challenges of global governance.

‘This book goes beyond simple claims that globalization is about westernizing the world to show how countries that have not been international powerhouses nonetheless are able to use globalization to define a larger international role for themselves.’ —Robert Henry Cox, Professor, School of International and Area Studies at the University of Oklahoma, and co-editor of the journal ‘Governance’Economics and Social Sciences 378 pages • P • 9789380601038 • Aug-2011 • `395

A Guide to Marx’s ‘Capital’ Vols I–IIIP • 9789380601960 • `395

Applied Ethics and Human Rights: Conceptual Analysis and Contextual ApplicationsP • 9789380601359 • `350

Capital Without Borders: Challenges to DevelopmentP • 9789380601564 • `495

Complex Numbers and the Theory of EquationsP • 9789380601311 • `295

Discourse on Applied Sociology: Volume 1: Theoretical PerspectivesP • 9781843317234 • `525

Discourse on Applied Sociology: Volume 2: Practising PerspectivesP • 9781843317241 • `525

Dream of Globalization: The Reality of Millennium Development GoalsP • 9789380601380 • `495

Institutional Provisions and Care for the AgedH • 9788190583565 • `695

Knowledge and Human Liberation: Towards Planetary RealizationsH • 9789380601878 • `695

Liberalization, Financial Instability and Economic DevelopmentH • 9789380601861 • `795

Locating the Anglo-Indian Self in Ruskin Bond: A Postcolonial ReviewP • 9789380601557 • `495

Marxism in Dark Times: Select Essays for the New CenturyP • 9789380601977 • `245

Taiwan TodayP • 9781843317463 • `595

The Materiality of Politics: Volume 1: The Technologies of RuleP • 9781843317210 • `525

The Materiality of Politics: Volume 2: Subject Positions in PoliticsP • 9781843317227 • `525

Toward a Politics of the (Im)Possible: The Body in Third World FeminismsP • 9789380601540 • `495

Towards BIMSTEC-Japan Comprehensive Economic Cooperation: The Benefits of Moving TogetherP • 9781843317203 • `895


South Asian StudiesFEATURED

The Politics of Time and Youth in Brand India: Bargaining with CapitalJyotsna Kapur

A contemporary interpretation of neoliberalism’s effect on life in India, the politics of time and the preoccupation with youth, and relations between generations.South Asian Studies 158 pages • H • 9789380601809 • Nov-2014 • `495

Signless Signification in Ancient India and BeyondEdited by Tiziana Pontillo and Maria Piera Candotti

An innovative study bringing fresh significance to the concept of Pāṇini’s zero in traditional Indian grammar by exploring the relationships between different meaning systems.South Asian Studies 288 pages • H • 9789380601830 • Nov-2014 • `795

A New India?: Critical Reflections in the Long Twentieth CenturyEdited by Anthony P. D’Costa, with a Foreword by Deepak Nayyar

Critically examines the notion of a ‘new’ India by exposing the many economic, social, and political contradictions that are integral to contemporary India.

‘Highly readable, thoroughly rigorous and anchored in serious historical scholarship... A brilliantly nuanced narrative of the two Indias, their interactions and consequences.’ —Ajit Singh, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of CambridgeSouth Asian Studies 224 pages • P • 9789380601434 • Oct-2012 • `495

South Asian Media Cultures: Audiences, Representations, ContextsEdited by Shakuntala Banaji

A collection of original, well researched and intelligible essays examining a broad range of media cultures and practices from across South Asia.

‘An astute, engaging, and sophisticated volume for anyone interested in popular culture, globalization, and shifting social and political landscapes in South Asia.’ —Sunaina Maira, Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California, DavisSouth Asian Studies 276 pages • P • 9789380601465 • Oct-2012 • `495


South Asian Studies

India and the World Bank: The Politics of Aid and InfluenceJason A. Kirk

This book analyzes the politics of aid and influence between the Bank and its largest borrower.

‘This timely and empathetic but not uncritical policy analysis forcefully argues for an urgent debate within India over the continued need for concessional IDA funding - even as India graduates to middle-income status - to serve the interests of India, particularly of its poor in the lagging states.’ —Baldev Raj Nayar, Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science, McGill University, and author of ‘The Myth of the Shrinking State: Globalization and the State in India’South Asian Studies 304 pages • P • 9789380601472 • Oct-2012 • `595

Govind Narayan’s Mumbai: An Urban Biography from 1863Edited and Translated by Murali Ranganathan, with a Foreword by Gyan Prakash

The first ever book on Mumbai written in the Marathi language, this is a historically fascinating and revealing urban biography of nineteenth-century India.

‘Etched in this portrait of death and ruin are the outlines of a remembered city. Its shape peers through the images of the creaking infrastructure, eroded institutions… As a record of Mumbai’s nineteenth century history, as a text of urban consciousness, Mumbaiche Varnan is superb.’ —from the Foreword by Gyan Prakash, Professor of History at Princeton UniversitySouth Asian Studies 407 pages • P • 9789380601519 • Oct-2012 • `595

The Anti-Politics Machine in India: State, Decentralization and Participatory Watershed DevelopmentVasudha Chhotray

An innovative assessment of the validity of ‘anti-politics’ critiques of development in the peculiar context of India.

‘Vasudha Chhotray has written an intelligent, incisive and sometimes witty account of the politics of anti-politics in contemporary India. Her important book shows us that bureaucratic development is never anti-political, however anodyne many of its formulations have become; rather, is political in particular ways and with important social consequences.’ —Stuart Corbridge, Professor of Development Studies, London School of Economics and Political ScienceSouth Asian Studies 280 pages • P • 9789380601410 • Oct-2012 • `495

Aboard the Democracy Train: A Journey through Pakistan’s Last Decade of DemocracyNafisa Hoodbhoy

A gripping front-line account of Pakistan’s decade of turbulent democracy (1988–1999), as told through the eyes of the only woman reporter for the nation’s leading newspaper.

‘A powerful and courageous voice that represents the best of Pakistan’s emerging journalism… The first insider view of developments in Pakistan on the road to democracy.’ —Shuja Nawaz, Director, South Asia Center, The Atlantic Council of the United States, and author of ‘Crossed Swords: Pakistan, its Army, and the Wars Within’South Asian Studies 268 pages • P • 9789380601991 • Oct-2012 • `495


South Asian Studies

India and China: Interactions through Buddhism and Diplomacy: A Collection of Essays by Professor Prabodh Chandra BagchiCompiled by Bangwei Wang and Tansen Sen

Collates the classic works of the preeminent Indian scholar of Chinese history and Buddhism, Professor Prabodh Chandra Bagchi (1898–1956).

‘Prabodh Chandra Bagchi was an outstanding Indian scholar of Sino-Indian cultural relations, and his approach to the history of contact and exchange between these two great civilizations covered a broad range of fields and disciplines: philology, philosophy, history of religions, Buddhist studies, lexicography, diplomacy and trade, numismatics, and so forth. We are fortunate that Bangwei Wang and Tansen Sen have gathered together nearly two dozen of Bagchi’s best and most representative pieces, and should be particularly grateful that they have taken such care to reproduce Bagchi’s papers so accurately, down to the last demanding diacritical.’ — Professor Victor H. Mair, University of PennsylvaniaSouth Asian Studies 272 pages • P • 9789380601373 • Oct-2011 • `495

Bollywood and Globalization: Indian Popular Cinema, Nation, and DiasporaEdited by Rini Bhattacharya Mehta and Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande

A significant contribution to the current debate on Indian cinema, nationhood and Global Culture.South Asian Studies 210 pages • P • 9789380601342 • Aug-2011 • `495

1857 Uprising: A Tale of an Indian WarriorP • 9788190583527 • `495

Altered Destinations: Self, Society, and Nation in IndiaP • 9788190757058 • `595

An Insider’s Experience of Insurgency in India’s North-EastH • 9781843317005 • `495

An Introduction to Changing India: Culture, Politics and DevelopmentP • 9789380601915 • `595

Another Canon: Indian Texts and Traditions in EnglishP • 9789380601014 • `595

Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and InstitutionsP • 9789380601632 • `595

Basics of Nonlinearities in Mathematical SciencesH • 9781843317029 • `595

Boundaries, Dynamics and Construction of Traditions in South AsiaP • 9789380601649 • `795

Breaking Free of Nehru: Let’s Unleash IndiaP • 9788190583589 • `550

Britain in India, 1858–1947P • 9789380601922 • `495

Calcutta Mosaic: Essays and Interviews on the Minority Communities of CalcuttaP • 9789380601618 • `595

Citizenship and Statelessness in Sri Lanka: The Case of the Tamil Estate WorkersP • 9789380601496 • `495

Civilizing Missions in Colonial and Postcolonial South Asia: From Improvement to DevelopmentP • 9789380601397 • `595

Class and Religion in Ancient IndiaH • 9781843317272 • `525

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880sP • 9789380601946 • `595

Community Warriors: State, Peasants and Caste Armies in BiharP • 9781843317098 • `525

Fortified Cities of Ancient India: A Comparative StudyP • 9789380601854 • `295

Imagined Mobility: Migration and Transnationalism among Indian Students in AustraliaP • 9789380601441 • `495

Independence to Globalization: An Indian Manager’s JourneyP • 9788190583541 • `450

India’s External Relations in a Globalized World EconomyP • 9781843317265 • `395

Indian Democracy: Problems and ProspectsP • 9788190757096 • `595

India’s Security Dilemmas: Pakistan and BangladeshP • 9781843317104 • `525

Language, Texts, and Society: Explorations in Ancient Indian Culture and ReligionP • 9789380601656 • `595

Liberal Peace In Question: Politics of State and Market Reform in Sri LankaP • 9789380601427 • `495

Mad Tales from the Raj: Colonial Psychiatry in South Asia, 1800–58P • 9789380601489 • `495

Martyr as Bridegroom: A Folk Representation of Bhagat SinghH • 9788190583503 • `450

Nationalizing the Body: The Medical Market, Print and Daktari MedicineP • 9789380601502 • `595

Navigating Social Exclusion and Inclusion in Contemporary India and Beyond: Structures, Agents, PracticesH • 9789380601885 • `595

Re-framing Democracy and Agency in India: Interrogating Political SocietyP • 9789380601625 • `595

Religion, Law and Power: Tales of Time in Eastern India, 1860–2000P • 9789380601533 • `495

Renaissance Themes: Essays Presented to Arun Kumar Das GuptaH • 9788190757010 • `550


South Asian Studies

Rise of the Asian Giants: The Dragon-Elephant TangoH • 9788190583596 • `795

Science, Spirituality and the Modernization of IndiaH • 9781843317487 • `795

South Asia 2060: Envisioning Regional FuturesP • 9789380601908 • `795

Special Economic Zones in India: Myths and RealitiesH • 9788190583534 • `550

Studies in Hindu Law and DharmaśāstraH • 9789380601939 • `995

Studies on the Carvaka/LokayataP • 9789380601663 • `495

The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath ObeyesekereP • 9789380601670 • `595

The Changing Identity of Rural India: A Sociohistoric AnalysisH • 9788190757027 • `695

The Fleeing People of South Asia: Selections from Refugee WatchP • 9788190583572 • `695

The Indian Uprising of 1857–8: Prisons, Prisoners and RebellionP • 9789380601526 • `495

The Mahatma Misunderstood: The Politics and Forms of Literary Nationalism in IndiaH • 9789380601816 • `695

The “Slumdog” Phenomenon: A Critical AnthologyH • 9789380601823 • `695

Trysts with Democracy: Political Practice in South AsiaP • 9789380601403 • `595

Women Building Peace Between India and Pakistan: P • 9781843317326 • `450


LiteratureFEATURED

The Anthem Glossary of Literary Terms and TheoryPeter Auger, with a Foreword by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

A guide to the literary terms most relevant to students and readers of English literature today.Literature 404 pages • P • 9789380601335 • Aug-2011 • `395

Literary Theory: An Introductory ReaderEdited by Saugata Bhaduri and Simi Malhotra

This essential reader provides a thorough grounding in the basics of literary theory.Literature 325 pages • P • 9789380601052 • May-2010 • `395

Perspectives on Comparative Literature and Culture in the Age of GlobalizationEdited by Saugata Bhaduri and Amar Basu

Provides a fresh look at the field of comparative literature and culture studies from a historical and political perspective.Literature 200 pages • P • 9788190757089 • Feb-2010 • `395

Ambivalence in Hardy: A Study of his Attitude to WomenShanta Dutta

Hardy’s complex attitude to women is explored through close textual analysis, feminist reading and a biographical approach.Literature 256 pages • P • 9781843317296 • Jan-2007 • `495

Dialogics of Self, the Mahabharata and Culture: The History of Understanding and Understanding of HistoryP • 9789380601458 • `595

Language, Discourse and Culture: Contemporary Philosophical PerspectivesP • 9781843317500 • `450

Mapping the Nation: An Anthology of Indian Poetry in English, 1870–1920P • 9789380601953 • `595

Negotiating Glocalization: Views from Language, Literature and Culture StudiesP • 9788190583510 • `395


EducationFEATURED

300 Creative Physics Problems with SolutionsLászló Holics

This collection of exercises, compiled for talented high school students, encourages creativity and a deeper understanding of ideas when solving physics problems.Education 538 pages • P • 9789380601366 • Jul-2011 • `595

International Mathematical Olympiad Volume 1: 1959–1975István Reiman

A fantastic compilation of mathematical puzzles featuring every question set from 1959–1975, along with comprehensive solutions and multiple answers where applicable.Education 217 pages • P • 9781843311980 • Jan-2005 • `495





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