A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India s globalization in the twenty-first century. * Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of India * Explores the larger global issues that have transformed India since the end of colonization, including demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and religious issues * Contributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics such as population and life expectancy, civil society, social-moral relationships, caste and communalism, youth and consumerism, the new urban middle class, environment and health, tourism, public and religious cultures, politics and law * Represents an authoritative guide for professional social and cultural anthropologists, and South Asian specialists, and an accessible reference work for students engaged in the analysis of India s modern transformation