In 1956 Susanne Rudolph and I arrived in India for the first of many research years there. We were among the second … used political ethnography to explore India's associational life. Our research led us to understand that caste in the form … of caste associations played a vital role in making the introduction of political democracy in India a success. Studying …

Coal mining in modern India expanded during the British raj and proved to be one area where indigenous women took up … Indian society in eastern India adopted and resisted modernity under colonialism have stressed the active roles of urban men … research in the collieries of eastern India region using interdisciplinary methodologies reveal a more complex gendered …

there, in a fixed manner. However, in an experiment with almost 600 boys in India, cues to one's place in the traditional …

resulted in confining the arena of activity of the scheduled caste to a limit. As this environment continued even after India …