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Perspectives on Modern South Asia

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Visweswaran, Kamala [Hrsg.]:
Perspectives on modern South Asia : a reader in culture, history, and representation / ed. and introduced by Kamala Visweswaran. - Malden : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. - ca. 400 S.
ISBN 978-1-4051-0062-5
£ 60,00 / EUR 72,00 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-4051-0063-2
£ 24,99 / EUR 30,00 (Paperback)
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-- Angekündigt für April 2011 --

Beschreibung
Perspectives on Modern South Asia presents an exciting core collection of essays drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, economics, and political science to reveal the complexities of a region that is home to a fifth of humanity.

  • Presents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins and development of the eight nations comprising modern South Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka
  • Explores South Asia’s common cultures, languages and religions and their relationship to its ethnic and national differences
  • Features essays that provide understandings of the central dynamics of South Asia as an important cultural, political, and economic region of the world

Inhalt
Acknowledgments. viii
Acknowledgment of Sources. ix
Kamala Visweswaran:
Introduction: Reconceptualizing Nation and Region in Modern South Asia. 1
PART I: DEBATES ABOUT ORIGINS: PRE/MODERN RELIGIOUS PLURALITIES IN SOUTH ASIA
Introduction. 1
1. Shail Mayaram:
Beyond Ethnicity? Being Hindu and Muslim in South Asia. 16
2. Syed Akbar Hyder:
Towards a Composite Reading of South Asian Religious Cultures: The Case of Islam. 23
3. Vasudha Narayanan:
Tolerant Hinduism: Shared Ritual Spaces – Hindus and Muslims at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid. 33
4. Kancha Iliah:
Hindu Gods and Us: Our Goddesses and the Hindus. 35
PART II: THE STUDY OF SOUTH ASIAN SOCIETY AND THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN FORMS OF SOCIAL CLASSIFICATION
Introduction. 49
5. Bernard Cohn:
Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culture. 52
6. M. N. Srinivas:
A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization. 69
7. Arjun Guneratne:
What’s in a Name? Aryans and Dravidians in the Making of Sri Lankan Identities. 78
8. Hamza Alavi:
Politics of Ethnicity in India and Pakistan. 87
9. Rajendra Pradhan:
Ethnicity, Caste and a Pluralist Society. 100
PART III: PARTITION, NATIONALISM, AND THE FORMATION OF SOUTH ASIAN NATIONAL STATES
Introduction. 115
10. Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin:
Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India. 119
11. Nighat Said Khan:
Identity, Violence and Women: A Reflection on the Partition of India 1947. 134
12. Naila Kabeer:
The Quest for National Identity: Women, Islam and the State in Bangladesh. 139
13. Valentine M. Moghadam:
Nationalist Agendas and Women’s Rights: Conflicts in Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century. 154
14. Rizwan A. Ahmad:
The State and National Foundation in the Maldives. 163
PART IV STATES AND COMMUNAL CONFLICT IN SOUTH ASIA
Introduction. 175
15. Stanley J. Tambiah:
Reflections on Communal Violence in South Asia. 177
16. Pankaj Mishra:
Ayodhya: The Modernity of Hinduism. 187
17. Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake:
Identity on the Borderline: Modernity, New Ethnicities, and the Unmaking of Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka. 199
18. Nazif M. Shahrani:
War, Factionalism, and the State in Afghanistan. 209
PART V: DEVELOPMENT AND LIBERALIZATION
Introduction. 221
19. David Ludden:
Development Regimes in South Asia: History and the Governance Conundrum. 224
20. Amartya Sen:
Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms. 238
21. Gopal Guru and Anuradha Chakravarty:
Who Are the Country’s Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty. 254
22. Lamia Karim:
Politics of the Poor? NGOs and Grass-roots Political Mobilization in Bangladesh. 269
23. Seira Tamang:
The Politics of 'Developing Nepali Women'. 280
24. Sandya Hewamanne:
"City of Whores": Nationalism, Development, and Global Garment Workers in Sri Lanka. 289
25. Tashi Choden:
Indo-Bhutan Relations Recent Trends. 298
PART VI: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
Introduction. 305
26. Radha Kumar:
From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women’s Movement. 307
27. Shahnaz Rouse>
Women’s Movement in Pakistan: State, Class, Gender. 321
28. Chittaroopa Palit:
Monsoon Risings: Mega-Dam Resistance in the Narmada Valley. 328
29. Shobha Gautam, Amrita Banskota and Rita Manchanda:
Where There Are No Men: Women in the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal. 340
30. Achin Vanaik:
Developing the Anti-Nuclear Movement. 349
31. Zia Mian:
Pakistan’s Fateful Nuclear Option. 352
Index. 359

Herausgeberin
KAMALA VISWESWARAN is Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (1994), Uncommon Cultures (2010), and the forthcoming A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the Modern Imaginary of Violence. Profile page.

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