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Climate Change and the Art of Devotion
Geoaesthetics in the Land of Krishna, 1550-1850
In the enchanted world of Braj, the primary pilgrimage center in north India for worshippers of Krishna, each stone, river, and tree is considered sacred. In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion,...
ISBN: 9780295745374
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History and Collective Memory in South Asia, 1200–2000
In this far-ranging and erudite exploration of the South Asian past, Sumit Guha discusses the shaping of social and historical memory in world-historical context. He presents memory as the result...
ISBN: 9780295746210
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Unruly Figures
Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that...
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Holy Science
The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism
Behind the euphoric narrative of India as an emerging world power lies a complex and evolving relationship between science and religion. Evoking the rich mythology of comingled worlds where humans,...
ISBN: 9780295745596
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Resisting Disappearance
Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir
In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son. Every month in a public park in Srinagar, a child remembers her father as she joins her...
ISBN: 9780295744988
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Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
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,”...
ISBN: 9780295745503
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Mountain Temples and Temple Mountains
Architecture, Religion, and Nature in the Central Himalayas
From approximately the third century BCE through the thirteenth century CE, the remote mountainous landscape around the glacial sources of the Ganga (Ganges) River in the Central Himalayas in northern...
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Living with Oil and Coal
Resource Politics and Militarization in Northeast India
The nineteenth-century discovery of oil in the eastern Himalayan foothills, together with the establishment of tea plantations and other extractive industries, continues to have a profound impact...
ISBN: 9780295743950
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Marrying for a Future
Transnational Sri Lankan Tamil Marriages in the Shadow of War
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....
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Creating the Universe
Depictions of the Cosmos in Himalayan Buddhism
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...
ISBN: 9780295744063
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Sensitive Space
Fragmented Territory at the India-Bangladesh Border
Enclaves along the India-Bangladesh border have posed conceptual and pragmatic challenges to both states since Partition in 1947. These pieces of India inside of Bangladesh, and vice versa, are spaces...
ISBN: 9780295744247
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Caring for Glaciers
Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas
Regional geopolitical processes have turned the Himalayan region of Ladakh, in northwest India, into a strategic border area with an increasing military presence that has decentered the traditional...
ISBN: 9780295744001
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Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Eating with the World in Mind
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as a holistic approach to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs. His key values of nonviolence, religious tolerance,...
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Unmooring the Komagata Maru
Charting Colonial Trajectories
In 1914, the SS Komagata Maru arrived in Vancouver Harbour and was detained for two months. Most of its 376 passengers were then forcibly returned to India. Unmooring the Komagata Maru...
ISBN: 9780774860659
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The Gender of Caste
Representing Dalits in Print
Caste and gender are complex markers of difference that have traditionally been addressed in isolation from each other, with a presumptive maleness present in most studies of Dalits (“untouchables”)...
ISBN: 9780295744223
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The Afterlife of Sai Baba
Competing Visions of a Global Saint
Nearly a century after his death, the image of Sai Baba, the serene old man with the white beard from Shirdi village in Maharashtra, India, is instantly recognizable to most South Asians (and many...
ISBN: 9780295744339
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Privileged Minorities
Syrian Christianity, Gender, and Minority Rights in Postcolonial India
Although demographically a minority in Kerala, India, Syrian Christians are not a subordinated community. They are caste-, race-, and class-privileged, and have long benefitted, both economically...
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High-Tech Housewives
Indian IT Workers, Gendered Labor, and Transmigration
Tech companies such as Google, Amazon, and Microsoft promote the free flow of data worldwide, while relying on foreign temporary IT workers to build, deliver, and support their products. However,...
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Making New Nepal
From Student Activism to Mainstream Politics
One of the most important political transitions to occur in South Asia in recent decades was the ouster of Nepal’s monarchy in 2006 and the institution of a democratic secular republic in 2008....
ISBN: 9780295743080
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Making the Modern Slum
The Power of Capital in Colonial Bombay
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...
ISBN: 9780295746272
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