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  • - Hindutva and the Northeast
    av Arkotong Longkumer
    394 - 1 412,-

  • av Uday Chandra
    814,-

    ""Tribes" appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states. Acts of resistance and rebellion by groups designated as "tribal" have fascinated as well as perplexed administrators and scholars in South Asia and beyond. Tribal resistance and rebellion are held to be tragic yet heroic political acts by "subaltern" groups confronting omnipotent states. By contrast, this book draws on fifteen years of archival and ethnographic research to argue that statemaking is intertwined inextricably with the politics of tribal resistance in the margins of modern India. Uday Chandra demonstrates how the modern Indian state and its tribal or adivasi subjects have made and remade each other throughout the colonial and postcolonial eras, historical processes of modern statemaking shaping and being shaped by myriad forms of resistance by tribal subjects. Accordingly, tribal resistance, whether peaceful or violent, is better understood vis-áa-vis negotiations with the modern state, rather than its negation, over the past two centuries. How certain people and places came to be seen as "tribal" in modern India is, therefore, tied intimately to how "tribal" subjects remade their customs and community in the course of negotiations with colonial and postcolonial states. Ultimately, the empirical material unearthed in this book requires rethinking and rewriting the political history of modern India from its "tribal" margins"--

  • - Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia
    av Bernard Bate
    266,-

    This book explains how modern political oratory in Tamil emerged out of Protestant missionary forms of speech.

  • - Student Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences
    av Anna Ruddock
    318 - 1 294,-

    The first ethnographic study of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Special Treatment follows a group of students and explores how the institution's prestige is reproduced by powerful norms attached to ambition, aspiration, caste, class, and the role of medicine in society.

  • - Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India
    av Ravinder Kaur
    318 - 1 294,-

    The first book that examines India's mega-publicity campaigns to theorize the global transformation of the nation-state into an attractive investment destination.The early twenty-first century was an optimistic moment of global futures-making. The chief narrative was the emergence of the BRICS nations-leading stars in the great spectacle of capitalist growth stories, branded afresh as resource-rich hubs of untapped talent and potential, and newly opened up for foreign investments. The old third-world nations were rapidly embracing the script of unbridled capitalism in the hope of arriving on the world stage. If the tantalizing promise of economic growth invited entrepreneurs to invest in the nation's exciting futures, it offered utopian visions of "e;good times,"e; and even restoration of lost national glory, to the nation's citizens. Brand New Nation reaches into the past and, inevitably, the future of this phenomenon as well as the fundamental shifts it has wrought in our understanding of the nation-state. It reveals the on-the-ground experience of the relentless transformation of the nation-state into an "e;attractive investment destination"e; for global capital.As Ravinder Kaur provocatively argues, the brand new nation is not a mere nineteenth century re-run. It has come alive as a unified enclosure of capitalist growth and nationalist desire in the twenty-first century. Today, to be deemed an attractive nation-brand in the global economy is to be affirmed as a proper nation. The infusion of capital not only rejuvenates the nation; it also produces investment-fueled nationalism, a populist energy that can be turned into a powerful instrument of coercion. Grounded in the history of modern India, the book reveals the close kinship among identity economy and identity politics, publicity and populism, and violence and economic growth rapidly rearranging the liberal political order the world over.

  • - Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
    av Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury
    318 - 1 294,-

    This is an anthropological study of protest and popular sovereignty in Bangladesh.

  • - Hierarchy as Hope in a Society of Thieves
    av Anastasia Piliavsky
    370 - 1 517,-

    A radical rethinking of hierarchy as a moral idiom through an ethnography of professional thieves in northern India.

  • - Sovereignty, Violence, and Democracy in India
    av Sunil Purushotham
    370 - 1 517,-

  • - Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army
    av Maria Rashid
    318 - 1 294,-

    Dying to Serve is a study of the affective relationships at the heart of war and violence.

  • - Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan
    av Mubbashir A. Rizvi
    292 - 1 194,-

  • - Labor and Risk in Indian Microfinance
    av Sohini Kar
    318 - 1 294,-

  • - Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia
    av Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
    331 - 1 412,-

  • - Time, Islam, and Ecological Thought in the Medieval Ruins of Delhi
    av Anand Vivek Taneja
    331 - 1 412,-

  • - Pilgrimage as Moral Protest in Contemporary India
    av Vikash Singh
    318 - 1 294,-

  • - Street Food, Rights and Public Space in Mumbai
    av Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria
    292 - 967,-

  • - India and Its Northeast
    av Sanjib Baruah
    318 - 1 294,-

    In the Name of the Nation offers a much-needed contemporary history of India's troubled Northeastern region.

  • - Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
    av Ashwin Desai & Goolem Vahed
    279 - 1 137,-

  • - State Anthropology and Ethnopolitics in Darjeeling
    av Townsend Middleton
    331 - 1 412,-

  • - The Rule of Bosses in South Asia
    av Nicolas Martin, Lucia Michelutti, Paul Rollier, m.fl.
    331 - 1 412,-

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