Amman Madan's Anthropology and Sociology of India Home Page

AMMAN MADAN'S ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY OF INDIA HOMEPAGE

Here is a list of links that I hope researchers will find useful:

The National Informatics Centre which hosts home pages of Indian ministries and various govt. departments.
The GISTNIC site The general information site of the National Information Centre. Includes census data, district profiles, etc.
Institute for Rural Management, Anand
Tata Energy Research Institute Plenty of information on the environment and sustainable development. Don't miss their "State of India's Environment" report!
The Economic and Political Weekly home page Excellent journal - and you can get the full content of this week's and the last week's issues. Somehow their archives never seem to work for me, though ...
Sangat Electronic Journal on South Asian Affairs
Data from the census of India
The Official Census of India homepage
The Writings of Hamza Alavi
The British Library Check out the catalogue of the India Office Library
Indian Archaeology home page Lots of interesting articles
InflibnetCommon access to search catalogues of many Indian libraries
ISID index to Indian journalsSimply magnificent index of many Indian periodicals and journals. Slow server, though ...

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Other India Bookstore For books you won't find anywhere else.
Rediff on the Net Great site.
Indian Internet Book Fair Huge, searchable collection of books.
Vedams Books International Large annotated bibliography of Indian books on anthropology and sociology. But somehow they seem to quote prices only in dollars!
FirstAndSecond.com Probably the largest online bookstore. But they no longer offer discounts the way they used to, sigh ...
GoBookShopping.com Pretty large collection. And low shipping costs!
Manohar Publishers and Distributors Good collection on anthropology and sociology.
Rawat Publications Good collection on anthropology and sociology.
Oxford University Press, India Locate the books you want here and try the other sites to buy them online.
Sage India Locate the books you want here and try the other sites to buy them online.

One of these days I have to upload more articles here. Meanwhile here is the older collection ...

In praise of prohibition - sort of ! by Amman Madan. A funny, but rather truthful article on how prohibition is putting money in the pockets of the poor of Haryana.
On textbooks and controversies by Amman Madan An article on the recent controversy on school textbooks prepared by the MP SCERT and Eklavya.
The Sociology of Agricultural, Veterinary and Forestry Education in Colonial India by Sureshchandra Shukla. Perhaps the best such history you can find. And it has never been published before! (74kb)
Education as human right by Amman Madan. A CRITICAL look at the idea.
Pokhran to Ayodhya by Avijit Pathak. Argues that Pokhran asserts technology as domination over science as liberation, and Ayodhya asserts religion as aggression over religion as love.
Hierarchy and Difference by Dipankar Gupta. Looks carefully at the concepts.
Cinema and Terrorism in India: 1990s by Rakesh Gupta. Discusses the films Maachis, Drohkaal and Roja.

ONLINE BOOKS

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