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Author:   Pushpendra (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Patna)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.650kg
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9781041146155

ISBN 10:   1041146159
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   21 April 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. 1. Intersecting Contests: The Frayed Edges of Indian Society Section I Rhythms of Resistance: Gender, Ritual, and the Critique of Modernity 2. The Unwanted Aspect: Normative Fetish and Epistemological Deceit 3. Mythical Love and Conjugality in Everyday Life: Gender and Politics in India 4. Doing Compensatory Masculinity: Rural Men Negotiating Cross-region Marriages in Haryana 5. Temporal Rhythms in Village Life: Stories of Abundance and Lack in Purulia, West Bengal 6. Harparauri: Echoes of an Extinct Women’s Folk Ritual in the Bhojpuri World Section II Contested Belongings: Identity, Language, and Diaspora in Contemporary India 7. Neither Rural, Nor Urban: Incomplete Migration in Dalit Life-narratives 8. Bengali Muslims in Assam and ‘Miyah’ Poetry: Walking on the Shifting Terrains of ‘Na-Asamiya’ and ‘Infiltrator’ 9. Negotiating Community: Narratives around Locating the ‘Professed’ Rangrez Identity 10. Away from Hindi’s Shadow: Census and Bhojpuri in Bihar 11. Indian Diaspora’s Journey into Neo-Conservatism Section III Tribute to Hetukar Jha 12. Professor Hetukar Jha’s Contributions to the Study of Historical Sociology 13. Indian Sociology, Village Structures, and Regional Imagination: Reflections on Hetukar Jha’s Critical Works 14. Hetukar Jha: A Biographical Note and Select Bibliography

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Pushpendra, formerly Professor and Chairperson of the Patna Centre of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), India. His recent publications include Home, Belonging and Memory: Leaving and Living (Routledge 2022); Beyond Consumption: India’s New Middle Class in the Neo-Liberal Times (Routledge 2022); and Migrants on the Move: Precarity in Times of the Pandemic (Aakar 2022). He is the former editor of the Journal of Migration Affairs. His research interests include migration, agrarian relations, rural labour, human rights, and social policy.

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