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Colonizing Kashmir
State-building Under Indian Occupation
Häftad, 2023
352 kr
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The Indian government, touted as the world's largest democracy, often repeats that Jammu and Kashmir—its only Muslim-majority state—is "an integral part of India." The region, which is disputed between India and Pakistan, and is considered the world's most militarized zone, has been occupied by …
Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Inbunden, 2015
1472 kr
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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and …
South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Inbunden, 2015
1251 kr
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In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South …
Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
Häftad, 2015
345 kr
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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and …
Demands of Recognition
State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
E-bok, 2015
428 kr
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Since the British colonial period anthropology has been central to policy in India. But today, while the Indian state continues to use ethnography to govern, those who were the "objects" of study are harnessing disciplinary knowledge to redefine their communities, achieve greater prosperity, and …
South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South …
Slow Boil
Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Inbunden, 2016
1235 kr
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Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains …
Slow Boil
Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
Häftad, 2016
300 kr
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Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains …
Slow Boil
Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
E-bok, 2016
375 kr
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Street food vendors are both a symbol and a scourge of Mumbai: cheap roadside snacks are enjoyed by all, but the people who make them dance on a razor's edge of legality. While neighborhood associations want the vendors off cluttered sidewalks, many Mumbaikers appreciate the convenient bargains …
Uprising of the Fools
Pilgrimage As Moral Protest in Contemporary India
Av Vikash Singh
Inbunden, 2017
1346 kr
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The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly …
Uprising of the Fools
Pilgrimage As Moral Protest in Contemporary India
Av Vikash Singh
Häftad, 2017
328 kr
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The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly …
Uprising of the Fools
Pilgrimage As Moral Protest in Contemporary India
Av Vikash Singh
E-bok, 2017
399 kr
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The Kanwar is India's largest annual religious pilgrimage. Millions of participants gather sacred water from the Ganga and carry it across hundreds of miles to dispense as offerings in Śiva shrines. These devotees—called bhola, gullible or fools, and seen as miscreants by many Indians—are mostly …
Jinnealogy
Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
Inbunden, 2017
1458 kr
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In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government …
Jinnealogy
Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government …
Jinnealogy
Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
E-bok, 2017
404 kr
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In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government …
Nobody's People
Hierarchy As Hope in a Society of Thieves
Inbunden, 2020
1616 kr
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What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social hope? Taking us into a "caste of thieves" in northern India, Nobody's People depicts hierarchy as a normative idiom through which people imagine better lives and pursue social ambitions. Failing to find a place inside …
Elusive Lives
Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
Inbunden, 2018
1501 kr
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Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new …
Financializing Poverty
Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance
Av Sohini Kar
Inbunden, 2018
1346 kr
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Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially …
Financializing Poverty
Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance
Av Sohini Kar
Häftad, 2018
328 kr
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Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially …
Financializing Poverty
Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance
Av Sohini Kar
E-bok, 2018
399 kr
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Microfinance is the business of giving small, collateral-free loans to poor borrowers that are paid back in frequent intervals with interest. While these for-profit microfinance institutions (MFIs) promise social and economic empowerment, they have mainly succeeded at enfolding the poor—especially …
Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
Av Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
1501 kr
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"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, …
Elusive Lives
Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
Häftad, 2018
352 kr
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Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new …
Elusive Lives
Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
E-bok, 2018
428 kr
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Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled and their voices silenced. Challenging these perceptions, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley highlights an elusive strand of autobiographical writing dating back several centuries that offers a new …
Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
Av Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
352 kr
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"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, …
Mafia Raj
The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
Av Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque m. fl.
E-bok, 2018
227 kr
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"Mafia" has become an indigenous South Asian term. Like Italian mobsters, the South Asian "gangster politicians" are known for inflicting brutal violence while simultaneously upholding vigilante justice—inspiring fear and fantasy. But the term also refers to the diffuse spheres of crime, business, …
Ethics of Staying
Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
Inbunden, 2019
1272 kr
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The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption. In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming. Ostensibly …
Ethics of Staying
Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
Häftad, 2019
309 kr
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The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption. In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming. Ostensibly …
Ethics of Staying
Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
E-bok, 2019
364 kr
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The military coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf to power as Pakistan's tenth president resulted in the abolition of a century-old sharecropping system that was rife with corruption. In its place the military regime implemented a market reform policy of cash contract farming. Ostensibly …
Paradoxes of the Popular
Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
Inbunden, 2019
1386 kr
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Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated …
Paradoxes of the Popular
Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
Häftad, 2019
338 kr
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Few places are as politically precarious as Bangladesh, even fewer as crowded. Its 57,000 or so square miles are some of the world's most inhabited. Often described as a definitive case of the bankruptcy of postcolonial governance, it is also one of the poorest among the most densely populated …
