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The Ends of Kinship

Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York

de Sienna R. Craig, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
What sustains and remakes family and community through migration?For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet, more recently, permanent migrations to New York City, where many have settled, are ... Leer más

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What sustains and remakes family and community through migration?For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet, more recently, permanent migrations to New York City, where many have settled, are
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A Volatile Picture

War and the Political Work of Photography in Sri Lanka

de Vindhya Buthpitiya, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
Photography as witness and weapon amid civil warThis groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound to the Tamil political imagination. From state-commissioned images meant to surveil and rebel documentation of armed resistance, to the fragile memorials created from identity photographs of the ... Leer más

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Photography as witness and weapon amid civil warThis groundbreaking ethnography explores how, in the context of Sri Lanka’s protracted civil war and its turbulent aftermath, photography has become bound to the Tamil political imagination. From state-commissioned images meant to surveil and rebel documentation of armed resistance, to the fragile memorials created from identity photographs of the
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A Secular Need

Islamic Law and State Governance in Contemporary India

de Jeffrey A. Redding, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...

Series series Global South Asia
Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of ... Leer más

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Whether from the perspective of Islamic law’s advocates, secularism’s partisans, or communities caught in their crossfire, many people see the relationship between Islamic law and secularism as antagonistic and increasingly discordant. In the United States there are calls for “sharia bans” in the courts, in western Europe legal limitations have been imposed on mosques and the wearing of
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Mumbai Taximen

Autobiographies and Automobilities in India

de Tarini Bedi, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
**Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyBrings to life the smells, sounds, vibrations, discomforts, and joys of taxi travel in India’s largest city**In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the ... Leer más

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**Best Read for the General Public: IBP 2023 Accolades in the Humanities by the International Institute for Asian Studies2nd Prize Winner of the 2022 Victor Turner Prize sponsored by the Society for Humanistic AnthropologyBrings to life the smells, sounds, vibrations, discomforts, and joys of taxi travel in India’s largest city**In this first book-length study of Mumbai’s taxi industry and of the
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Adivasi Art and Activism

Curation in a Nationalist Age

de Alice Tilche, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than 100 million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowledged by the ... Leer más

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As India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to be overrepresented among the country’s poor. Adivasis make up more than eight hundred communities in India, with a total population of more than 100 million people who speak more than three hundred different languages. Although their historical presence is acknowledged by the
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Asia Inside Out

Changing Times

de Eric Tagliacozzo, Helen F. Siu, Peter C. Perdue, Heidi Walcher, Victor Lieberman, Nancy Um, Charles J. Wheeler, Kerry Ward0, Robert I. Hellyer1, Anand A. Yang2, Andrew Willford3, Naomi Hosoda4 ...

Series Libro 1 - Asia Inside Out
The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries.Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi ... Leer más

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The first of three volumes surveying the historical, spatial, and human dimensions of inter-Asian connections, Asia Inside Out: Changing Times brings into focus the diverse networks and dynamic developments that have linked peoples from Japan to Yemen over the past five centuries.Each author examines an unnoticed moment—a single year or decade—that redefined Asia in some important way. Heidi
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Outcaste Bombay

City Making and the Politics of the Poor

de Juned Shaikh, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class, ... Leer más

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Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly industrialized and cosmopolitan. Yet beneath a veneer of modernity, old prejudices endured, including the treatment of the Dalits. Even as Indians engaged with aspects of modern life, including the Marxist discourse of class,
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Making Kantha, Making Home

Women at Work in Colonial Bengal

de Pika Ghosh, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats.Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early ... Leer más

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In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled fabric strengthened with running stitches and use them as shawls, covers, and seating mats.Making Kantha, Making Home explores the social worlds shaped by the Bengali kantha that survive from the nineteenth and early
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Creating the Universe

Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism

de Eric Huntington, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...

Series series Global South Asia
Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice.In Creating the Universe, Eric Huntington presents ... Leer más

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Winner, 2018 Edward Cameron Dimock, Jr. Prize in the Indian HumanitiesBuddhist representations of the cosmos across nearly two thousand years of history in Tibet, Nepal, and India show that cosmology is a rich language for the expression of diverse religious ideas, with cosmological thinking at the center of Buddhist thought, art, and practice.In Creating the Universe, Eric Huntington presents
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Making the Modern Slum

The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay

de Sheetal Chhabria, Padma Kaimal, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and ... Leer más

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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Bombay was beset by crises such as famine and plague. Yet, rather than halting the flow of capital, these crises served to secure it. In colonial Bombay, capitalists and governors, Indian and British alike, used moments of crisis to justify interventions that delimited the city as a distinct object and progressively excluded laborers and
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Bhakti and Power

Debating India's Religion of the Heart

de K. Sivaramakrishnan, Padma Kaimal, Anand A. Yang ...

Series series Global South Asia
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn ... Leer más

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Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,” bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn
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Marrying for a Future

Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War

de Sidharthan Maunaguru, K. Sivaramakrishnan, Anand A. Yang, Padma Kaimal ...

Series series Global South Asia
The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has emerged as a critical means of building alliances between dispersed segments of Tamil communities, ... Leer más

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The civil war between the Sri Lankan state and Tamil militants, which ended in 2009, lasted more than three decades and led to mass migration, mainly to India, Canada, England, and continental Europe. In Marrying for a Future, Sidharthan Maunaguru argues that the social institution of marriage has emerged as a critical means of building alliances between dispersed segments of Tamil communities,
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