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Rebirth of Bodh Gaya
Buddhism and the Making of a World Heritage Site
Av David Geary, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1866 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
534 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 …
High-Tech Housewives
Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration
Inbunden, 2018
1922 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 …
High-Tech Housewives
Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration
Av Amy Bhatt, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
550 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
534 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
550 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
1319 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
567 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
1281 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
550 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 …
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
Häftad, 2019
477 kr
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In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result of both remembering and forgetting and of the preservation, recovery, and decay of records. By …
Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
Av Sheetal Chhabria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
550 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
1922 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
1319 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
534 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
Inbunden, 2020
1922 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 …
Ends of Kinship
Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York
Av Sienna R. Craig, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
550 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 …
Opening Kailasanatha
The Temple in Kanchipuram Revealed in Time and Space
Av Padma Kaimal
Inbunden, 2021
1281 kr
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The footsteps and sensory experience of devotees linger in an Indian templeStone figures hardened by ascetic discipline and heroic effort face north in deep shadow. There they meet the gazes of the same gods and goddesses but with gentler bodies enacting grace, warmth, seduction, and marriage, …
Outcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Inbunden, 2021
1922 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 …
Outcaste Bombay
City Making and the Politics of the Poor
Av Juned Shaikh, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
550 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 …
New Lives in Anand
Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
Av Sanderien Verstappen, Padma Kaimal
Inbunden, 2022
1767 kr
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In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such dramatic displacement, the town emerged as a site of opportunity and hope. …
New Lives in Anand
Building a Muslim Hub in Western India
Av Sanderien Verstappen, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
463 kr
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In 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts of Gujarat, India. In the aftermath, many Muslims living in Hindu-majority villages sought safety in the small town of Anand. Following such dramatic displacement, the town emerged as a site of opportunity and hope. …
Adivasi Art and Activism
Curation in a Nationalist Age
Av Alice Tilche, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
550 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
Inbunden, 2022
1922 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 …
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
1922 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, …
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Av Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
534 kr
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Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for allMumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and what biking …
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility
Av Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1767 kr
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Cyclists from India reimagine transportation infrastructure for allMumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle communities. Exploring how people bike and what biking …
Volatile Picture
War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka
Av Vindhya Buthpitiya, Padma Kaimal
Inbunden, 2026
1922 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 …
Volatile Picture
War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka
Av Vindhya Buthpitiya, Padma Kaimal m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
550 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 …
