Understanding Society

A recurring theme in Understanding Society for the past several years is the occurrence of unfathomable atrocity in the twentieth century. ...

The entrenched rule of the BJP and its leader, Narendra Modi, has led to a truly alarming degradation in India's democratic institutions...

The Indian state of Kerala has taken an especially active approach to responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kerala, a state of more than 33 m...

The occurrence of anti-Muslim violence, arson, and murder in New Delhi last month is sometimes looked at a simply an unpredictable epis...

[V. K. Ramachandran was a Professor of Economics at the Indian Statistical Institute, and is at present vice chairman of the State Plan...

Agriculture remains the primary source of income for India's population, and the majority of India's farmers subsist on sma...

Paul Brass provides a wealth of ethnographic and historical evidence on the causes of Hindu-Muslim violence in India in  The Production ...

A few days in Bangalore, Kerala, and Mumbai have been very interesting, from a social-change point of view. There is an election cycle...

Sociologists are often interested in making sense of processes of change that radiate along the axes of the great tectonics of social l...