Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

Nandini Gooptu's magisterial 2001 history of the labouring poor in India represents a tour-de-force.

Nandini Gooptu's history of the Indian urban poor represents a tour-de-force. It focuses on themes ranging from the social construction of poverty, religious an

Twenty years ago India was still generally thought of as an archetypal developing country, home to the largest number of poor people of any country in the world

From Hierarchy to Ethnicity discusses the origins of politicized caste identities in twentieth-century India, and how they evolved over time.

Urbanisation is rapidly changing the geographic and social landscape of India, and indeed Asia as a whole. Issues of collective violence, urban poverty and disc