Table of Contents

Volume 51 Issue 4, December 2021

Durgabai Deshmukh Memorial Lecture

The Janus Face of Agricultural Policies, Kisans and Sethias: Local and Global
Yoginder K. Alagh


Symposium—The Impact of COVID –19

The Impact of COVID-19: Democracy in the Time of a Pandemic
Zoya Hasan

COVID’s Effect on India’s Health Services: A Commentary
Imrana Qadeer

COVID-19 and Education in India: A New Education Crisis in the Making
Jandhyala B. G. Tilak

COVID-19 and Social Science Research— Beyond Disruption and Digital Divide, a Digital Turn
Ghazala Jamil


Articles

Making (Ab)sense of Women’s Agency and Belonging in Citizenship Debates in India: Analysing the Shaheen Bagh Protests as ‘Act(s) of Citizenship’
Papia Sengupta

Social Identity of an Ancestral Religious Group: A Study of the Hamai People in Northeast India
Kamei Samson

Assessing Issues of Caste and Selfhood in Rural Society: Some Reflections
Devi Prasad, Anand Akundy

Empowering the Fish Processor Community in West Java Province
Yaya Hudaya, Aida Vitayala S. Hubeis, Basita G. Sugihen, Anna Fatchiya

Social Change Indicators

Social Displacement of Rural Labour in Pandemic Times: Data from Indian States
Surajit Deb


Review Essay

Exclusion and Representation in the Media Discourse
Sadhna Arya


Book Reviews

K. OOMMEN, Trials, Tribulations and Triumphs: Life and Times of a Sociologist
Ajit Kumar Pandey

Sanjeev Kumar (Ed.), Gandhi and the Contemporary World
Dhananjay Rai

Petar Stankov, Political Economy of Populism: An Introduction
Prateek P. Khobragade

Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, Federalism and Local Government in India and Anil Kumar Vaddiraju, Satyanarayana Sangita and Kala Seetharam Sridhar (Ed.), Urban Governance in Karnataka and Bengaluru: Global Changes and Local Impacts
Ashok Pankaj, Urba Malik

Remembering Gail Omvedt (1941–2021)

Insurgent, Passional Chronicles of Revolutionary Praxis: Reading Gail Omvedt
Kalpana Kannabiran

In Search of Begumpura
Uma Chakravarti

A Sociologist, Academician and an Influential Public Intellectual
Vivek Kumar

A Social Scientist Who Strived for Social Transformation
Vibhuti Patel

An Indophile Scholar in Xenophobic Times
Bhupender Yadav