Oxford India Studies In Contemporary Society

OXFORD INDIA STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY (now titled OXFORD STUDIES IN CONTEMPORARY INDIAN 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 was initiated at an opportune time, when the boundaries of social science disciplines were being redefined, and theories and perspectives were 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.

Sujata Patel is Retired Professor, University of Hyderabad