Significance of folk-practices A. L. Basham described India, as in truth, a land of contrasts and diversities, a great mosaic...

Colonialism in India was made possible, sustained, and strengthened by cultural technologies of rule as by the more obvious and...

In Nicholas B. Dirks’s words, Colonial conquest was not just the result of the power of superior arms, military organisation,...

Over the past decades the field of ‘animal studies’ has emerged, running in parallel with other counter-hegemonic disciplines such as...

In today’s world, kinship remains a cornerstone of social organization, defining roles and relationships within families based on established rules...

Sanskritization is a specific term used in the context of Indian society, akin to that of acculturation. First appeared in...