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The volume critiques the casteist, communal, class- and gender-biased social culture inherent in Ayurvedic discourse of the period under discussion, and notes how the constant blaming of the 'Other' for spreading diseases detrimental to the 'Hindu' male.

In Book 2, Author's Note, Kathamuthu's daughter Gowri, traces the circumstances and events of her novel. The result is a fascinating exploration of the disjunctures between what happens in the author's family and community, and her fictional interpretations of those happenings.

Considered the first modern Dalit autobiography in Tamil, The Scar is an important book calling for Dalit assertion and emancipation.

In Book 2, Author's Note, Kathamuthu's daughter Gowri, traces the circumstances and events of her novel. The result is a fascinating exploration of the disjunctures between what happens in the author's family and community, and her fictional interpretations of those happenings.

Considered the first modern Dalit autobiography in Tamil, The Scar is an important book calling for Dalit assertion and emancipation.

Since he was dealing with a patriarchal society, his feminine portrayals are overlaid with a sense of what is socially desirable for a democratic independent nation, while his men are entirely products of his detached yet incisive observation.

Both historical and contemporary developments in the related issues of women's work, marriage and widowhood are traced using an inter-regional comparative framework, which includes other major rice-cultivating states of India.

The themes dealt with here include the role of the left within the Indian independence movement, the Second World War as a conflict between rival imperialisms, and the need for Hindu-Muslim unity and Congress-Muslim League understanding.

The authors signal that aesthetics is to be treated less as a body of knowledge and more as an approach or a method that is both ahistorical and comparatist.

Though Gujarati is spoken by the majority, there are a number of languages that make up the linguistic matrix. This volume of the People's Linguistic Survey of India,

The struggles and emotional turmoil of a close-knit people who live close to nature and their transition from a traditional way of life towards modernity are chronicled using the motif of the kurinji, which symbolises the passage of time.

The author describes the ecological movements in Udaipur during the 1980s-90s and his engagement with fellow social workers, Gandhian activists and civil society groups.

The volume also underscores the vital contribution of the Tamil people to the Indian freedom struggle, and draws our attention to the many Tamilian heirs to the Gandhian legacy who continued his work well after him.

The volume also underscores the vital contribution of the Tamil people to the Indian freedom struggle, and draws our attention to the many Tamilian heirs to the Gandhian legacy who continued his work well after him.

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It analyses a range of literary texts and issues from contemporary culture, to model literary praxis of postsecular theory.

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The book examines how educational policy and discourse have: 1. defined talent, pedagogy, curricular reforms, and the construction of gender in education, 2.

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