Sociological Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic in India: Redefining the Normal

Acknowledgements
Prologue
Contents
About the Editors
Introduction: The New Normal—Home and the World Through the Looking Glass
	1 Elements of a Crisis
	2 Seeing the Extraordinary in the Everyday
	3 The Pandemic: Event and the Crisis
	4 The Predicament
	References
Gendering the Pandemic: Revisiting the Domestic Space in Times of Covid-19
	1 Methodology
	2 Homemakers, Homemaking and Housework: Theoretical Considerations
	3 Housework and Homemaking: Perceptions from the Field
	4 Space–Time Dis-rupture: Home and Domestic Space During Covid-19
	5 Concluding Remarks
	References
Home, the Vulnerable and the Pandemic
	1 The World of the Children Living with Families During the Pandemic
	2 Older People and the Pandemic
	3 People with Disabilities, Certain Concerns Regarding Their Vulnerability
	4 Concluding Comment
	References
Bringing the World Inside Home: Media, Advertisements and Changing Forms of Consumerism
	1 Outline of the Chapter
	2 Methodology
	3 Internet, Entertainment and Social Media: Its Growth and Changes
	4 Advertisements and the New Marketing Strategies
		4.1 Advertisements and Change in Content
		4.2 Advertisements and Ethnic Branding
	5 The Middle Class and the Changing Forms of Consumerism
	6 Conclusion
	References
Education and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences and Implications
	1 Outline of the Chapter
	2 Exclusion from Technology: The Digital Divide
		2.1 Internet Connectivity Is Distant: Electricity Supply in the Villages
		2.2 Technology Skills of Stakeholders
	3 Social Aspects of Exclusion
		3.1 The Class Factor: Exclusion of the Underprivileged
		3.2 The Exclusion Faced by Girls and Women
	4 Disability and Exclusion: The Invisible Children
	5 The Measures Taken by the State and Education Institutions
		5.1 The New Education Policy 2020 and Online Education: Long-Term Plans
	6 Conclusion
	References
Dealing with the Fear and Social Stigma of the Pandemic: Medley of Preventive Healthcare Practices in India
	1 Disease, Illness and Health
	2 Indigenous Systems and Ethnomedicine
	3 Hegemony of Modern Medicine
	4 Medical Pluralism in the Indian Context
	5 The Pandemic Vocabulary, Fear and Stigma
	6 Pandemic Logic: The Medley of Preventive Healthcare Remedies
	7 Healthcare and Inequitable Resources
	8 Limitations of the Healthcare System
	9 Conclusion
	References
Locking Down the Wage Labourers in Informal Sector
	1 Working Class and Informal—Formal Sector
	2 Class Inequality in India
		2.1 Colonial Era 1858–1947
		2.2 After Independence
	3 Covid-19 and Informal Sector Workers
	4 Conclusion
	References
The Pandemic and Relief Work: Experiences from the Field
	1 Effects of the Pandemic on the Vulnerable Sections of the Society
	2 Domestic Workers: A Struggle to Make Ends Meet
	3 Migrants: On Foot, On the Move
	4 Role of the State: Efforts and Failures of the Indian Government
	5 Relief Work: Role of Civil Society, NGOs and Citizen’s Collectives
	Reference
Epilogue: Living with Crisis
1. Bearing Witness
2. The State and Crisis
3. The human face of the pandemic
Death and immortality
The logic of crisis
Contours of crisis
References