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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Unifying Hinduism

av Andrew Nicholson, Andrew Nicholson

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-12-31

525

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Some postcolonial theorists argue that the idea of a single system of belief known as "Hinduism" is a creation of nineteenth-century British imperialists. Andrew J. Nicholson introduces another perspective: although a unified Hindu identity is not...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Democracy against Development

av Jeffrey Witsoe

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-11-05

259

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Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, a...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Secularizing Islamists?

av Humeira Iqtidar

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-02-22

259

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Secularizing Islamists? provides an indepth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

We Were Adivasis

av Megan Moodie

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015-08-20

1129

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In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis-historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions...

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We Were Adivasis

av Megan Moodie

Häftad, Engelska, 2015-08-20

243

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In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state's relationship to "Scheduled Tribes," or adivasis - historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutio...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Building Histories

av Mrinalini Rajagopalan

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017-03-01

653

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Building Histories offers innovative accounts of five medieval monuments in Delhi the Red Fort, Rasul Numa dargah, Jama Masjid, Purana Qila, and Qutb complex tracing their modern lives from the nineteenth century into the twentieth. ?Mrinalini Raj...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Conjugations

av Sangita Gopal

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-01-20

1196

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Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed rad...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Conjugations

av Sangita Gopal

Häftad, Engelska, 2012-01-26

275

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Bollywood movies have been long known for their colorful song-and-dance numbers and knack for combining drama, comedy, action-adventure, and music. But when India entered the global marketplace in the early 1990s, its film industry transformed rad...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Spiritual Despots

av J Barton Scott

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016-07-19

385

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Historians of religion have examined at length the Protestant Reformation and the liberal idea of the self-governing individual that arose from it. In Spiritual Despots, J. Barton Scott reveals an unexamined piece of this story: how Protestant tec...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Islam Translated

av Ronit Ricci

Häftad, Engelska, 2016-04-01

266

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The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorpor...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Secularizing Islamists?

av Humeira Iqtidar

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-04-01

786

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"Secularizing Islamists?" provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist political parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama'at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama'at-ud-Da'wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, ...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Landscapes of Accumulation

av Llerena Guiu Searle

Häftad, Engelska, 2016-09-20

243

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Over the past few decades, India has experienced a sudden and spectacular urban transformation. Gleaming business complexes encroach on fields and villages. Giant condominium communities offer gated security, indoor gyms, and pristine pools. Spaci...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Neighborhood of Gods

av William Elison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018-12-10

1129

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There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination-as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia.¿Yet for many, if not most, people who...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Neighborhood of Gods

av William Elison

Häftad, Engelska, 2018-12-10

306

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There are many holy cities in India, but Mumbai is not usually considered one of them. More popular images of the city capture the world's collective imagination-as a Bollywood fantasia or a slumland dystopia.¿Yet for many, if not most, people who...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Document Raj

av Bhavani Raman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-11-07

657

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Historians of British colonial rule in India have noted both the place of military might and the imposition of new cultural categories in the making of Empire, but Bhavani Raman, in "Document Raj", uncovers a lesser-known story of power: the power...

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Islam Translated

av Ronit Ricci

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-05-15

809

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The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorpor...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Unfinished Gestures

av Davesh Soneji

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-01-15

1160

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"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundr...

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Unfinished Gestures

av Davesh Soneji

Häftad, Engelska, 2012-01-15

283

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"Unfinished Gestures" presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India who are generally called devadasis, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following a hundr...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Extreme Poetry

av Michael Bronner, Michael Bronner

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010-03-30

1393

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Beginning in the sixth century C.E. and continuing for more than a thousand years, an extraordinary poetic practice was the trademark of a major literary movement in South Asia. Authors invented a special language to depict both the apparent and h...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Millennial Sovereign

av A Azfar Moin

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-10-16

1108

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At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himsel...

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Millennial Sovereign

av A Azfar Moin

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-04-29

290

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At the end of the sixteenth century and the turn of the first Islamic millennium, the powerful Mughal emperor Akbar declared himself the most sacred being on earth. The holiest of all saints and above the distinctions of religion, he styled himsel...

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism

av Christian K Wedemeyer, Christian Wedemeyer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012-12-04

1042

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead-both...

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism

av Christian K Wedemeyer, Christian Wedemeyer

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-06-10

259

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Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism fundamentally rethinks the nature of the transgressive theories and practices of the Buddhist Tantric traditions, challenging the notion that the Tantras were "marginal" or primitive and situating them instead-both...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Cut-Pieces

av Lotte Hoek

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-11-19

1077

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Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously...

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Cut-Pieces

av Lotte Hoek

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-11-19

267

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Imagine watching an action film in a small-town cinema hall in Bangladesh, and in between the gun battles and fistfights a short pornographic clip appears. This is known as a cut-piece, a strip of locally made celluloid pornography surreptitiously...

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Yogin and the Madman

av Andrew Quintman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013-11-05

982

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Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052-1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Q...

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Yogin and the Madman

av Andrew Quintman

Häftad, Engelska, 2013-11-05

306

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Tibetan biographers began writing Jetsun Milarepa's (1052-1135) life story shortly after his death, initiating a literary tradition that turned the poet and saint into a model of virtuosic Buddhist practice throughout the Himalayan world. Andrew Q...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Writing Resistance

av Laura R Brueck, Laura Brueck

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014-05-27

1274

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Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic re...

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Writing Resistance

av Laura R Brueck, Laura Brueck

Häftad, Engelska, 2014-05-27

316

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Writing Resistance is the first close study of the growing body of contemporary Hindi-language Dalit (low caste) literature in India. The Dalit literary movement has had an immense sociopolitical and literary impact on various Indian linguistic re...

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South Asia Across the Disciplines:

Text to Tradition

av Deven M Patel, Deven Patel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014-01-07

596

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Written in the twelfth century, the Naisadhiyacarita (The Adventures of Nala, King of Nisadha) is a seminal Sanskrit poem beloved by South Asian literary communities for nearly a millennium. This volume introduces readers to the poem's author, his...

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