Malayalees, The Inhabitants Of Kerala, Who Could Make A Name For Themselves Since They Started To Stir Out Of Their Village Moorings From The Closing Decades Of Nineteenth Century, Can In A Sense Be Called A Globalised Community By Virtue Of Their Presence In Almost All Parts Of The World.;;The Book, A Pioneering Study On The Migratory Movements Of Keralites, Gives A Vivid Account Of The Process Of Migration Of Keralites From The Very Beginning With An Array Of Facts And Figures Collected From Divergent Sources. The Presentation Of Outward Migration Of Keralites Within The Framework Of Migration In India Makes The Book All The More Attractive.;;The Book Will Be A Valuable Source Of Information Not Only To The Hundreds Of Thousands Of Malayalees But Also To The Academics And The Readers Alike From Far And Wide.;

Once celebrated as a model development for its progressive social indicators, the southern Indian state of Kerala has earned the new distinction as the nation’s suicide capital, with suicide rates soaring to triple the national average since 1990. Rather than an aberration on the path to development and modernity, Keralites understand this crisis to be the bitter fruit borne of these historical struggles and the aspirational dilemmas they have produced in everyday life. Suicide, therefore, offers a powerful lens onto the experiential and affective dimensions of development and global change in the postcolonial world. In the long shadow of fear and uncertainty that suicide casts in Kerala, living acquires new meaning and contours. In this powerful ethnography, Jocelyn Chua draws on years of fieldwork to broaden the field of vision beyond suicide as the termination of life, considering how suicide generates new ways of living in these anxious times.

Caste, Knowledge, and Power investigates the transformations of caste practices in twentieth century India and the role of knowledge in this transformation and in the continuing of these oppressive practices. The author situates the domination and subordination in the domain of knowledge production in India not just in the emergence of colonial modernity but in the formation of colonial–Brahminical modernity. It engages less with the marginalization of the oppressed castes in the modern institutions of knowledge production which has already been discussed widely in the scholarship. Rather, the author focuses on how the modern colonial–Brahminical concept of knowledge invalidated many other forms of knowing practices and how historically caste domination transformed from the claims of superiority in acharam (ritual hierarchy) to the claims of superiority in possession of knowledge.

India Migration Report 2016 discusses migration to the Persian Gulf region. This volume: looks at contemporary labour recruitment and policy, both in India and in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries; explores gender issues in migration to Gulf countries; and brings together the latest field data on migrants across states in India. Part of the prestigious annual series, this volume will interest scholars and researchers of economics, development studies, migration and diaspora studies, labour studies, and sociology. It will also be useful to policymakers and government institutions working in the area.

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.

This is a simple life story with a critical explanation and evaluation of each of its aspects in depth. Most of us would certainly have thought about this question, 'what is the meaning and purpose of our life at some part of our life. Those were highly subjective without an answer. This would give a track for us to think about the solution to some unanswered questions around us. A gateway to explore those through some common lives.