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New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy
State, Class and Social Change
Av Matthew McCartney, S. Akbar Zaidi
Inbunden, 2019
1351 kr
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This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class …
The Odds Revisited
Political Economy of the Development of Bangladesh
Inbunden, 2022
1291 kr
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This book looks at Bangladesh at and beyond its fifty years since its formation in 1971. A comprehensive, holistic narrative is constructed to track key development dynamics at the sectoral, sub-sectoral and macro levels. This much-needed exercise dispels the notion that the 'Bangladesh surprise' …
An Uneasy Hegemony
Politics of State-building and Struggles for Justice in Sri Lanka
Inbunden, 2022
1378 kr
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Sri Lanka has been regarded as a model democracy among former British colonies. It was lauded for its impressive achievement in terms of human development indicators. However, Sri Lanka's modern history can also be read as a tragic story of inter-ethnic inequalities and tensions, resulting in years …
Freedom in Captivity
Negotiations of Belonging along Kashmir's Frontier
Inbunden, 2023
1434 kr
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How do borderland dwellers living along militarised frontiers negotiate regimes of state security and their geopolitical location in everyday life? What might 'freedom' mean to those who do not resist captivity engendered by borders? Focusing on the predicaments of a double-minority, Freedom in …
Memories in the Service of the Hindu Nation
The Afterlife of the Partition of India
Av Pranav Kohli
Inbunden, 2023
1689 kr
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This book is based on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork with Partition survivors from west Punjab and the North-West Frontier Province, in Delhi and its surroundings between 2017-18. It locates the global rise of far-right nationalism within globalisation and memories of victimhood. …
When Ideas Matter
Democracy and Corruption in India
Häftad, 2023
484 kr
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Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping political behaviour. These logics tend to explicate elite decision-making around elections and pork barrel politics but fall short in explaining political …
Counting Caste
Census Politics, Bureaucratic Deflection, and Brahmanical Power in India
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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States periodically agree to social justice reforms in response to organized demands for change. Counting Caste examines how and why governments make such concessions but then fail to implement them. Vithayathil unlocks the secrets of bureaucratic deflection-a process whereby political leaders and …
After the Exodus
Gender and Belonging in Bangladesh's Rohingya Refugee Camps
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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After the Exodus examines how forced migration of the Rohingya from Myanmar to Bangladesh has affected the gendered subjectivities and lived experiences of Rohingya refugee women, and transformed gender relations and roles in displacement. Based on 14 months of feminist ethnographic fieldwork in …
Sovereign Atonement
Citizenship, Territory, and the State at the Bangladesh-India Border
Inbunden, 2024
1526 kr
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The former border enclaves of Bangladesh and India existed as extra-territorial spaces since 1947. They were finally exchanged and merged as host state territories in 2015. Sovereign Atonement focuses on the protracted territorial exchange and experiences of the newly accepted Bangladeshi citizens. …
The Backstage of Democracy
India's Election Campaigns and the People Who Manage Them
Av Amogh Sharma
Inbunden, 2025
1609 kr
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Over the last decade, election campaigns in India have undergone a dramatic shift. Political parties increasingly rely on political consulting firms, social media volunteers, pollsters, data-driven insights, and hashtag wars to mobilize voters. What is driving these changes in the landscape of …
Syndicates and Societies
Criminal Politics in Dhaka
Inbunden, 2025
1481 kr
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When you work on the streets of Dhaka, crime is part of everyday life. Rackets are ubiquitous, political muscle widespread, and territory often fought over. Locals refer to the syndicate that lie behind the façade of the city, controlling who works where, how services are delivered and who profits. …
Performing Sovereign Aspirations
Tamil Insurgency and Postwar Transition in Sri Lanka
Av Bart Klem
Inbunden, 2024
1493 kr
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In a society that experiences secessionist conflict, many things are not what they seem. This book adopts a performative perspective to understand the peculiar institutional landscape the ensued around the Tamil separatist conflict in Sri Lanka, both during and after the civil war. It draws on two …
Questioning Migrants
Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan
Inbunden, 2025
1450 kr
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The Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), propelled by ethnic violence and led by university students with lower-middle-class backgrounds, transformed the cities of the southern Pakistani province of Sindh into an ethnic majoritarian stronghold at the unlikely height of a military dictatorship. The more …
Legalizing the Revolution
India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
Häftad, 2024
527 kr
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Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, challenges, …
Woman's Job
Making Middle Lives in New India
Av Asiya Islam
Häftad, 2025
504 kr
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Against the backdrop of rapid socio-economic change in post-1990 India, scholars and policy makers have expressed surprise at the low rate of women's participation in the workforce, particularly in urban areas. A Woman's Job presents a unique urban ethnography of young lower middle class women's …
Becoming Allies
Civil Liberties Activism in India
Inbunden, 2026
1529 kr
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What motivates individuals to stand up against injustices that don't personally affect them? Becoming Allies explores a vital but often overlooked dimension of social movements: the role of those who support a cause without being directly affected by its injustices. While most scholarship centres …
Becoming Allies
Civil Liberties Activism in India
Häftad, 2026
529 kr
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What motivates individuals to stand up against injustices that don't personally affect them? Becoming Allies explores a vital but often overlooked dimension of social movements: the role of those who support a cause without being directly affected by its injustices. While most scholarship centres …
Democracy against Equality
Caste, Institutions and Power in Postcolonial Punjab
Häftad, 2026
527 kr
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This book traces the shifting contours of caste and agrarian inequality, revealing how older hierarchies are being reconfigured in new forms and how they impact democracy. It offers a compelling ethnographic account of how democratic mechanisms-including political participation, elections, and …
Democracy against Equality
Caste, Institutions and Power in Postcolonial Punjab
Inbunden, 2026
1458 kr
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This book traces the shifting contours of caste and agrarian inequality, revealing how older hierarchies are being reconfigured in new forms and how they impact democracy. It offers a compelling ethnographic account of how democratic mechanisms-including political participation, elections, and …
Making Sense of the University
A Manifesto for our Times
Inbunden, 2026
1769 kr
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Debating the 'publicness' of the public university provokes the following questions: what lies in common between the university and the communities it excludes? What is the place of non-secular knowledges within the secular-modern instance of the university? How does the university solidarise with …
Making Sense of the University
A Manifesto for our Times
Häftad, 2026
645 kr
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Debating the 'publicness' of the public university provokes the following questions: what lies in common between the university and the communities it excludes? What is the place of non-secular knowledges within the secular-modern instance of the university? How does the university solidarise with …
Politics of the Poor
Negotiating Democracy in Contemporary India
Av Indrajit Roy
Inbunden, 2018
1970 kr
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This book challenges the ongoing scholarly debates on poor people's negotiations with democracy. It demonstrates the varied ways in which the poor engage with their elected representatives, political mediators and dominant classes in order to advance their claims. Roy explains the variations by …
Development after Statism
Industrial Firms and the Political Economy of South Asia
Inbunden, 2016
1559 kr
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How can industrial production be managed without the guidance of the state? Adnan Naseemullah discusses industrial development in a new era of drastically constricted state capacity, from the perspective of the manufacturing firm. India's manufacturing economy has been growing after state promotion …
South Asian Governmentalities
Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings
Inbunden, 2018
1101 kr
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This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive …
South Asian Governmentalities
Michel Foucault and the Question of Postcolonial Orderings
Häftad, 2018
464 kr
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This volume analyses the ways in which the works of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Michel Foucault, have been received and re-worked by scholars of South Asia. South Asian Governmentalities surveys the past, present, and future lives of the mutually constitutive …
Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters
Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan
Inbunden, 2019
1482 kr
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How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. …
Dynamics of Caste and Law
Dalits, Oppression and Constitutional Democracy in India
Inbunden, 2020
1482 kr
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Dynamics of Caste and Law breaks new ground in understanding how caste and law relate in India's democratic order. Caste has become a visible phenomenon often associated with discrimination, inequality and politics in India and globally. India's constitutional democracy has had a remarkable goal of …
Simultaneous Identities
Language, Education, and the Nepali Nation
Av Uma Pradhan
Inbunden, 2020
1143 kr
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The recent socio-political changes in Nepal have brought assimilationist notions of Nepali nationalism under a tight scrutiny and drawn attention to more plural, inclusive, and diverse notions of Nepaliness. However, both assimilationist and pluralist visions continue to remain normative in their …
Legalizing the Revolution
India and the Constitution of the Postcolony
Inbunden, 2024
1588 kr
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Anticolonial movements of the twentieth century generated ambitious ideas of freedom. Following decolonization, the challenge was to give an institutional form to those ideas. Through an original account of India's constitution making, Legalizing the Revolution explores the promises, challenges, …
Maoist People's War and the Revolution of Everyday Life in Nepal
Inbunden, 2019
1593 kr
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By providing a rich ethnography of wartime social processes in the former Maoist heartland of Nepal, this book explores how the Maoist People's War (1996-2006) transformed Nepali society. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with people who were located at the epicentre of the conflict, including both …
