Table of contents:

1. The state as an ethnographic object
2. The folk and the making of an indian aesthetic
3. Religious violence: A sociological perspective
4. Contemporary religiosities
5. Artful living: new religious movements in and of south asia
6. Villages and villagers in contemporary india
7. Fields, markets and agricultural commodities
8. The nation, de-duplicated
9. Internet cultures
10. Schooling and culture: bringing schools into sociology
11. Cultures of work in india's 'new economy'
12. The sociology of labour in india
13. Hierarchy without system? why civility matters
14. Caste and the anthropology of democracy
15. 'The middle class' and the middle classes
16. Tribal, egalitarian values, autonomy and the state
17. Gendering sociology, a sociology of gender or studying
18. Contemporary intimacies
19. Conjugality and martial dissolution in historical perspective
20. Gender and law
21. Masculinities and culture
22. The sociology of disability: conceptual ethnography of an analytical category in India
23. Alternating sexualities: sociology and queer critiques in India
24. Ageing, ambivalet modernities and the pursuit of value in india
25. New cultures of food studies
26. Cinematic cultures
27. The sociology of consumption in India towards a new agenda
28. The challenge of urban space
29. Feet on the ground, eyes on the horizon: the anthropology of environment and climate change
30. Beyond medical pluralism: medicine, power and social legitimacy in India