Filippo and Caroline Osella, anthropologists who spent three years in rural Kerala, south India, write about the modern search for upward social mobility: the p

The Oxford Handbook of Caste brings together a wide range of essays encompassing various academic disciplines to lay the foundations for a new understanding of

This is one of the earliest books to present a collection of writings on the effects of globalization on India and Indian society. The editors have assembled a

Most of the papers presented at a workshop held at Sussex in January 2001 and some contributed articles; previously published.