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Unifying Hinduism
Philosophy and Identity in Indian Intellectual History
Häftad, 2013
281 kr
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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 as ancient as some Hindus claim, it has its roots …
The Yogin and the Madman
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Häftad, 2013
332 kr
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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 Quintman traces this history and its innovations in …
Democracy against Development
Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Häftad, 2013
282 kr
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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, and often violent, political movements. In Democracy …
Secularizing Islamists?
Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
Häftad, 2014
282 kr
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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 her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic …
We Were Adivasis
Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
Av Megan Moodie
Häftad, 2015
265 kr
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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. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in …
Building Histories
The Archival and Affective Lives of Five Monuments in Modern Delhi
Inbunden, 2017
527 kr
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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 Rajagopalan argues that the modern construction of the …
Conjugations
Marriage and Form in New Bollywood Cinema
Häftad, 2012
299 kr
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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 radically. Production and distribution of films became …
Spiritual Despots
Modern Hinduism and the Genealogies of Self-Rule
Inbunden, 2016
419 kr
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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 technologies of asceticism became entangled with Hindu …
Islam Translated
Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
Av Ronit Ricci
Häftad, 2016
289 kr
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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, incorporating them into a diverse global community that …
Secularizing Islamists?
Jama'at-e-Islami and Jama'at-ud-Da'wa in Urban Pakistan
Inbunden, 2011
854 kr
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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, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of …
Landscapes of Accumulation
Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
Inbunden, 2016
854 kr
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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. Spacious, air-conditioned malls have sprung up alongside …
Landscapes of Accumulation
Real Estate and the Neoliberal Imagination in Contemporary India
Häftad, 2016
265 kr
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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. Spacious, air-conditioned malls have sprung up alongside …
Neighborhood of Gods
The Sacred and the Visible at the Margins of Mumbai
Häftad, 2018
332 kr
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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 live in the city, the neighborhood streets are …
Document Raj
Writing and Scribes in Early Colonial South India
Inbunden, 2012
500 kr
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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 of bureaucracy. Drawing on extensive archival …
Islam Translated
Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia
Av Ronit Ricci
Inbunden, 2011
879 kr
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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, incorporating them into a diverse global community that …
Unfinished Gestures
Devadasis, Memory, and Modernity in South India
Häftad, 2012
351 kr
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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 hundred years of vociferous social reform, including a …
Extreme Poetry
The South Asian Movement of Simultaneous Narration
Inbunden, 2010
1503 kr
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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 hidden sides of disguised or dual characters, and …
The Millennial Sovereign
Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
Inbunden, 2012
1204 kr
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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 himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was …
The Millennial Sovereign
Sacred Kingship and Sainthood in Islam
Häftad, 2014
632 kr
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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 himself as the messiah reborn. Yet the Mughal emperor was …
Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism
History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions
Häftad, 2014
571 kr
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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 ideologically and institutionally-within larger …
Cut-Pieces
Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Av Lotte Hoek
Inbunden, 2013
1170 kr
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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 spliced into the reels of action films in …
Cut-Pieces
Celluloid Obscenity and Popular Cinema in Bangladesh
Av Lotte Hoek
Häftad, 2013
289 kr
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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 spliced into the reels of action films in …
The Yogin and the Madman
Reading the Biographical Corpus of Tibet's Great Saint Milarepa
Inbunden, 2013
2380 kr
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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 Quintman traces this history and its innovations in …
Writing Resistance
The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature
Inbunden, 2014
1385 kr
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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 regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate …
Writing Resistance
The Rhetorical Imagination of Hindi Dalit Literature
Häftad, 2014
342 kr
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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 regions, yet few scholars have attempted to situate …
Text to Tradition
The Naisadhiyacarita and Literary Community in South Asia
Inbunden, 2014
647 kr
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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 reading communities, the modes through which the …
Wombs in Labor
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
Av Amrita Pande
Inbunden, 2014
1152 kr
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Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita …
Wombs in Labor
Transnational Commercial Surrogacy in India
Av Amrita Pande
Häftad, 2014
588 kr
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Surrogacy is India's new form of outsourcing, as couples from all over the world hire Indian women to bear their children for a fraction of the cost of surrogacy elsewhere with little to no government oversight or regulation. In the first detailed ethnography of India's surrogacy industry, Amrita …
Reading the Mahāvamsa
The Literary Aims of a Theravada Buddhist History
Inbunden, 2016
563 kr
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Vamsa is a dynamic genre of Buddhist history filled with otherworldly characters and the exploits of real-life heroes. These narratives collapse the temporal distance between Buddha and the reader, building an emotionally resonant connection with an outsized religious figure and a longed-for past. …
Culture of Encounters
Sanskrit at the Mughal Court
Inbunden, 2016
2561 kr
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Culture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain …
