Books written by Craig Jeffrey

India Today: Economy, Politics and Society

This theme of the reassertion of hierarchy within subaltern civil society is also prominent in Martin Webb's (2010) study of public activism in Delhi. Webb worked with 'citizen activists' involved in campaigns around social justice and ...
Timepass: Youth, Class, and the Politics of Waiting in India

Savage, Mike. 2003. “A New Class Paradigm?” British Journal of Sociology of Education, 24, 4, pp. 535–41. Savage, Mike, and Tim Butler. 1992. “Assets and the Middle Classes in Contemporary Britain,” in Property, Bureaucracy and Culture: ...
India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

Micklethwait, J. and A. Wooldridge (2009), God Is Back: How the Global Revival of Faith Is Changing the World (New York: Penguin Press). Miles, R. (2002), 'Employment and unemployment in Jordan: The importance of the gender system', ...
Modern India: A Very Short Introduction

Indira Gandhi speaking to supporters 63 © Everett Collection Historical/ Alamy Stock Photo. Narendra Modi 72 © Photoshot/Topfoto. Dharavi slum 79 (C) ullsteinbild/Topfoto. Children studying on tablets in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 87 ...
Keywords for Modern India

As Raymond Williams argues in his book Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, 'some important social and ... A 'keyword' is a word that is both important and provides a window on processes of social and political change.
Degrees Without Freedom?: Education, Masculinities, and Unemployment in North India

The book draws especially on research conducted in the villages of Nangal [Bijnor District] and Qaziwala ... a Muslim-dominated village closer to Bijnor town - Provided by publisher
Keywords for Modern India

Why is the idea of 'faction' so significant in modern India? Why has the idea of 'empowerment' come to be used so extensively? These are the sorts of questions that are addressed in this book.
Telling Young Lives: Portraits of Global Youth

The group met once a week and discussed a range of issues centred on globalization, identity, and youth culture. We explored how important friends, family, and locality were in the young people's lives, how their leisure interests ...
India: Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First Century

In this book, research leaders John Harriss, Craig Jeffrey and Trent Brown explore in depth the economic, social, and political changes occurring in India today, and their implications for the people of India and the world.