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This reader brings together a selection of writings on peasant and labour movements, women and students youth movements, and ecological and environmental movements. It discusses contemporary social movements in India from the perspective of equity and security.

This volume brings together a selection of readings on movements related to religion and caste, as well as regionalism, and linguistic and tribal movements in India, examining them with respect to the construction and perception of identity.

This volume identifies three persisting areas of tension in sociology: sociology's ambiguous identity vis-à-vis social anthropology, its claim for scientificity, and the appropriateness of the units of its analyses, namely society, nation-state, and civilization.

Indian society is often described as one with 'unity in diversity' and as a composite culture. Since independence, India has also been termed 'democratic' and 'secular'. However, the discernible cracks that have appeared in recent years in these conceptualisations have led to contentious debates about the very nature of Indian society. Focusing on different facets of this exacerbating crisis, this book analyses the various issues confrontin...