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Banaras Reconstructed
Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Inbunden, 2017
1859 kr
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Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats …
Displaying Time
The Many Temporalities of the Festival of India
Av Rebecca M. Brown, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
594 kr
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From the fluttering fabric of a tent, to the blurred motion of the potter’s wheel, to the rhythm of a horse puppet’s wooden hooves—these scenes make up a set of mid-1980s art exhibitions as part of the U.S. Festival of India. The festival was conceived at a meeting between Indira Gandhi and Ronald …
Banaras Reconstructed
Architecture and Sacred Space in a Hindu Holy City
Häftad, 2017
532 kr
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Between the late sixteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banaras, the iconic Hindu center in northern India that is often described as the oldest living city in the world, was reconstructed materially as well as imaginatively, and embellished with temples, monasteries, mansions, and ghats …
Mobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Av Heidi Pauwels, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
564 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
1859 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
532 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.
Inbunden, 2018
2159 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 …
Making New Nepal
From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics
Av Amanda Thérèse Snellinger, Anand A. Yang m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
547 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
Inbunden, 2018
1914 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
547 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
Inbunden, 2018
1859 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 …
Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Av Sonja Thomas, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
532 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 …
Creating the Universe
Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
Av Eric Huntington, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1438 kr
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Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the …
Gender of Caste
Representing Dalits in Print
Av Charu Gupta, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
594 kr
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Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”) and a presumptive upper-casteness in many feminist studies. In this study of the representations of …
Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Av Jason Cons, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
547 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
1313 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
564 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
1275 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
547 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 …
Marrying for a Future
Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
Av Sidharthan Maunaguru, K. Sivaramakrishnan
Inbunden, 2019
2159 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 …
Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Av John Stratton Hawley, Christian Lee Novetzke m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
611 kr
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Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of …
Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Av John Stratton Hawley, Christian Lee Novetzke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2410 kr
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Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of …
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 …
History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
Inbunden, 2019
1761 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
547 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
1914 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
1313 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
Inbunden, 2020
1859 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 …
Secular Need
Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India
Av Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
532 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
1914 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 …
