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Sudden Appearances
The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
Av Roxann Prazniak, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
339 kr
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An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received …
Mobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Av Heidi Pauwels, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
565 kr
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Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the nom de plume Nagaridas. After his throne was usurped by his younger brother, while Savant Singh was on …
Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Av David Geary, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1862 kr
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This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town …
Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Av David Geary, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
533 kr
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This multilayered historical ethnography of Bodh Gaya — the place of Buddha’s enlightenment in the north Indian state of Bihar — explores the spatial politics surrounding the transformation of the Mahabodhi Temple Complex into a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2002. The rapid change from a small town …
Making New Nepal
From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics
Av Amanda Thérèse Snellinger, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
549 kr
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One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal’s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008. Based on extensive ethnographic research between 2003 and 2015, Making New Nepal provides a snapshot of …
High-Tech Housewives
Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration
Av Amy Bhatt, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
549 kr
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Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However, even as IT companies use technology and commerce to transcend national barriers, their transnational …
Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Av Sonja Thomas, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
533 kr
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Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically and socially, from their privileged position. Focusing on Syrian Christian women, Sonja Thomas explores …
Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Av Jason Cons, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces in which national security, belonging, and control are shown in sharp relief. Through ethnographic …
Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
Av Nachiket Chanchani, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1316 kr
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From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern India was transformed into a region encoded with deep meaning, one approached by millions of …
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Av Nico Slate, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
565 kr
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Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance, and rural sustainability developed in tandem with his dietary experiments. His repudiation of sugar, …
Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850
Av Sugata Ray, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1278 kr
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In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, Sugata Ray shows how this place-centered theology emerged in the wake of the Little Ice Age (ca. …
Marrying for a Future
Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
Av Sidharthan Maunaguru, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has …
Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Av Sheetal Chhabria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify …
Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Av Sheetal Chhabria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1918 kr
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify …
Making Kantha, Making Home
Women at Work in Colonial Bengal
Av Pika Ghosh, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1316 kr
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In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats.Making Kantha, Making Home …
Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Av Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
533 kr
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Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the …
Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
Av Sienna R. Craig, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
549 kr
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What sustains and remakes family and community through migration?For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences …
Outcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Av Juned Shaikh, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
549 kr
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Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the …
Adivasi Art and Activism
Curation in a Nationalist Age
Av Alice Tilche, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
549 kr
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The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movementAs India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total …
Mumbai Taximen
Autobiographies and Automobilities in India
Av Tarini Bedi, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
477 kr
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Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies 2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyBrings to life the smells, sounds, vibrations, discomforts, and joys of taxi …
Lahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
Av Iftikhar Dadi, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1918 kr
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A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore, Pakistan, …
Lahore Cinema
Between Realism and Fable
Av Iftikhar Dadi, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
549 kr
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A pioneering analysis of exemplary feature filmsCommercial cinema has been among the most powerful vectors of social and aesthetic modernization in South Asia. So argues Iftikhar Dadi in his provocative examination of cinema produced between 1956 and 1969—the long sixties—in Lahore, Pakistan, …
Volatile Picture
War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka
Av Vindhya Buthpitiya, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
549 kr
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Photography as witness and weapon amid civil warThis groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound to the Tamil political imagination. From state-commissioned images meant to surveil and rebel …
Bazaar India
Markets, Society, and the Colonial State in Bihar
Häftad, 1999
331 kr
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The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study. Yang uses bazaars in the northeast Indian state of Bihar during the colonial period as the site of his …
Empire of Convicts
Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia
Inbunden, 2021
445 kr
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Empire of Convicts focuses on male and female Indians incarcerated in Southeast Asia for criminal and political offenses committed in colonial South Asia. From the seventeenth century onward, penal transportation was a key strategy of British imperial rule, exemplified by deportations first to the …
Limited Raj
Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920
Häftad, 1989
515 kr
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The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793–1920 offers a detailed exploration of the interplay between colonial governance and local power structures in rural Bihar. Focusing on Saran District, the book examines the British administration's reliance on informal …
Limited Raj
Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793-1920
Inbunden, 1989
1190 kr
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The Limited Raj: Agrarian Relations in Colonial India, Saran District, 1793–1920 offers a detailed exploration of the interplay between colonial governance and local power structures in rural Bihar. Focusing on Saran District, the book examines the British administration's reliance on informal …
Liminality of the Japanese Empire
Border Crossings from Okinawa to Colonial Taiwan
Av Hiroko Matsuda, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
310 kr
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Okinawa, one of the smallest prefectures of Japan, has drawn much international attention because of the long-standing presence of US bases and the people's resistance against them. In recent years, alternative discourses on Okinawa have emerged due to the territorial disputes over the Senkaku …
Sudden Appearances
The Mongol Turn in Commerce, Belief, and Art
Av Roxann Prazniak, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
947 kr
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An era rich in artistic creations and political transformations, the Mongol period across Eurasia brought forth a new historical consciousness visible in the artistic legacy of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Historicity of the present, cultivation of the secular within received …
Transcending Patterns
Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions Through Central Asian Textile Images
Av Mariachiara Gasparini, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1003 kr
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In Transcending Patterns: Silk Road Cultural and Artistic Interactions through Central Asian Textiles, Mariachiara Gasparini investigates the origin and effects of a textile-mediated visual culture that developed at the heart of the Silk Road between the seventh and fourteenth centuries. Through …
