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This cluster of papers explores the complex and multifaceted issues surrounding the Kashmir conflict, including its historical roots, ethnic and religious dimensions, human rights implications, and the impact on Indian federalism. The papers also delve into related topics such as insurgency, colonialism, militarization, and tribal dynamics in Northeast India.

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Kashmir; Conflict; Federalism; Ethnicity; Insurgency; Human Rights; Colonialism; Northeast India; Militarization; Tribal

When languages die: the extinction of the world's languages and the erosion of human knowledge

2007-09-01

K. David Harrison

A World of Many (Fewer) VoicesYou've come too late to learn our language, you should have come earlier.Nowadays we are a numbered people.-Marta Kongarayeva (born 1930), Tofa speaker T he … A World of Many (Fewer) VoicesYou've come too late to learn our language, you should have come earlier.Nowadays we are a numbered people.-Marta Kongarayeva (born 1930), Tofa speaker T he last speakers of probably half of the world's languages are alive to- day. 1 As they grow old and die, their voices will fall silent.Their children and grandchildren-by overwhelming majority-will either choose not to learn or will be deprived of the opportunity to learn the ancestral language.Most of the world's languages have never been written down anywhere or scientifically described.We do not even know what exactly we stand to lose-for science, for humanity, for posterity-when languages die.An immense edifice of human knowledge, painstakingly assembled over millennia by countless minds, is eroding, vanishing into oblivion.In the year 2001, as the second millennium came to a close, at least 6,912 distinct human languages were spoken worldwide. 2Many linguists now predict that by the end of our current twenty-first century-the year 2101-only about half of these languages may still be spoken.How do we know this?It follows from unrelenting demographic facts and the passage of time.The problem also has a very human face, and in this book we will take a closer look at the lives, experiences, and opinions of last speakers.

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This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

1993-10-01

Sharad Chari , Madhav Gadgil , Ramachandra Guha

In the first part of the book, the authors present a general theory of ecological history which attempts a paradigm shift from Weberian and Marxian theories of human society. Here … In the first part of the book, the authors present a general theory of ecological history which attempts a paradigm shift from Weberian and Marxian theories of human society. Here they ask under what conditions humans exercise prudence in their use of natural resources; they examine infrastructures, property systems, political ideologies, religions, social idioms and the belief structures that characterize human interactions with resource bases; they analyse the varieties of social conflict that appear over the exploitation of natural resources; and, finally, they explore the impact of changing patterns of resource use upon human societies. In the second part the authors provide a fresh interpretive history of pre-modern India. They also provide, in this section, an ecological interpretation of the caste system which adds a significant dimension to existing ideas on caste. In the third part the authors draw on a huge wealth of source material to offer a socioecological analysis of the modes of resources use which were introduced by the British, and which continued, with modifications, after Independence in 1947. (This is a paperback edition of the HB issued in 1992.)

India's silent revolution : the rise of the lower castes in North India

2003-03-01

Christophe Jaffrelot

Contents: I: Congress Domination and Conservative Democracy - The Ideological Roots of Indian Democracy's Social Deficit - Discourses and Practices - Congress: Party of the Intelligentsia or of the Notables? … Contents: I: Congress Domination and Conservative Democracy - The Ideological Roots of Indian Democracy's Social Deficit - Discourses and Practices - Congress: Party of the Intelligentsia or of the Notables? -The Co-option of Scheduled Caste Leaders and the 'Coalition of Extremes' - Indira Gandhi and the Aborted Reform of Congress - II: The Second Age of Indian Democracy - From Reluctant to Compelling Caste-Based Affirmative Action - Two Strategies: Quota Politics and Kisan Politics - The Janata Dal and the Empowerment of the Low Castes - The BSP: Not Just a Dalit Party - The Upper Castes' Political Resilience: Congress and the BJP Coping with the Mandal Commission.

The other side of silence: voices from the partition of India

2001-03-01

Urvashi Butalia

partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve … partition of India into two countries, India and Pakistan, caused one of the most massive human convulsions in history. Within the space of two months in 1947 more than twelve million people were displaced. A million died. More than seventy-five thousand women were abducted and raped. Countless children disappeared. Homes, villages, communities, families, and relationships were destroyed. Yet, more than half a century later, little is known of the human dimensions of this event. In The Other Side of Silence, Urvashi Butalia fills this gap by placing people--their individual experiences, their private pain--at the center of this epochal event. Through interviews conducted over a ten-year period and an examination of diaries, letters, memoirs, and parliamentary documents, Butalia asks how people on the margins of history--children, women, ordinary people, the lower castes, the untouchables--have been affected by this upheaval. To understand how and why certain events become shrouded in silence, she traces facets of her own poignant and partition-scarred family history before investigating the stories of other people and their experiences of the effects of this violent disruption. Those whom she interviews reveal that, at least in private, the voices of partition have not been stilled and the bitterness remains. Throughout, Butalia reflects on difficult questions: what did community, caste, and gender have to do with the violence that accompanied partition? What was partition meant to achieve and what did it actually achieve? How, through unspeakable horrors, did the survivors go on? Believing that only by remembering and telling their stories can those affected begin the process of healing and forgetting, Butalia presents a sensitive and moving account of her quest to hear the painful truth behind the silence.

Mirrors of violence : communities, riots and survivors in South Asia

1992-01-01

Veena Das

There are three sorts of essays in this volume. The first looks in general at the nature of violence during riots and contextualizes this within social systems that comprise, for … There are three sorts of essays in this volume. The first looks in general at the nature of violence during riots and contextualizes this within social systems that comprise, for instance, religion, politics and the individual unconscious. The second examines more specifically at particular riots - such as riots against Tamils in Colombo, Sikhs in Delhi and Muhajirs in Karachi - and seeks to understand the event in its distinctive peculiarity and concreteness, so that general arguments about communal or ethnic violence can be given body and form. The third kind of essay describes the experience of various survivors, their emotional states and the processes of strategies by which they have come to terms with, or slowly reconstructed, their shattered worlds.

The everyday state and society in modern India

2001-01-01

C. J. Fuller , Véronique Bénéï

This work focuses on how the large, amorphous and impersonal Indian State affects the everyday lives of its citizens. It argues that state and society merge in the daily lives … This work focuses on how the large, amorphous and impersonal Indian State affects the everyday lives of its citizens. It argues that state and society merge in the daily lives of most Indians, and the boundary between them is blurred and negotiable according to social context and position. The contibutors adopt the postion, contary to that of many others, that most Indians are able actively to comprehend and use the institutions of the state for their own purposes, rather than being merely its passive victims. Each chapter is based on empirical research and collectively they cover a wide range of anthropological and sociological material on modern India, from Delhi and Uttar Pradesh in the north, Maharashtra in the west, West Bengal in the esat, and Tamil Nadu and Kerala in the south. The book examines issues such as riot control, the Emergency, corruption irrigation, rural activism and education.

Castes and Tribes of Southern India

1910-01-01

Edgar Thurston , K. Rangachari

The great partition: the making of India and Pakistan

2008-02-01

Yasmin Khan

partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom - through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of … partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political and religious freedom - through the liberation of India from British rule, and the creation of the Muslim state of Pakistan. In reality the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the expense of the very many, exposing huge numbers of the population to desperate and devastating consequences. Thousands of women were raped, at least one million people were killed, and ten- to fifteen-times that number were forced to leave their homes as refugees. It was one of the first, the most bloody, and remains one of the most significant, events of decolonisation in the twentieth century. In The Great Partition, Yasmin Khan examines the context, execution and aftermath of partition, integrating an incisive knowledge of political manoeuvres with a deeply-felt understanding of their fundamental social and cultural consequences. She exposes the obliviousness of the small elite driving division, as well as the majority of activists on both sides, to what partition would entail in practice and its effects on the populace. Its repercussions still resound today. Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of partition, Yasmin Khan's personal account draws together a fresh and considerable body of research, including many new interviews, newspaper extracts and archival sources, to reappraise independence and division and reinforce its catastrophic human cost. Intelligent, terrifying, wise and timely, The Great Partition is a testament to a country and people who were brutally and recklessly ripped apart.

Remembering Partition: Violence, Nationalism and History in India

2004-01-01

Paramjit S. Judge , Gyanendra Pandey

Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. By way of introduction 2. The three partitions of 1947 3. Historians' history 4. The evidence of the historian 5. Folding the local into the … Acknowledgements List of abbreviations 1. By way of introduction 2. The three partitions of 1947 3. Historians' history 4. The evidence of the historian 5. Folding the local into the national: Garhmukhteshwar, November 1946 6. Folding the national into the local: Delhi, 1947-8 7. Disciplining difference 8. Constructing community Select bibliography Index.

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The long partition and the making of modern South Asia: refugees, boundaries, histories

2008-08-01

Vazira Zamindar

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Translations / Transliterations Introduction: The Place of Partition The Making of Refuges, 1947 1. Muslim Exodus from Delhi2. Hindu Exodus from Karachi Moving People, Immovable Property 3. … List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Translations / Transliterations Introduction: The Place of Partition The Making of Refuges, 1947 1. Muslim Exodus from Delhi2. Hindu Exodus from Karachi Moving People, Immovable Property 3. Refugees, Boundaries, Citizens4. Economies of Displacement Imagined Limits, Unimaginable Nations 5. Passports and Boundaries6. The Phantasm of Passports In Conclusion 7. Moving Boundaries Abbreviations in NotesNotesSelected GlossaryBibliographyIndex

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The concept of race in South Asia

1995-01-01

Peter Robb

South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have … South Asia has always played a part in the European imagining of race, but has not been much considered in the scholarly literature of the present generation; nor, recently, have concepts of race figured very prominently in South Asian studies. This volume constitutes one of the first attempts to raise the question comparatively and over a long time-span with regard to South Asia.

Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh

1991-01-01

Samuel Y. Johnson , ABU MD. NUR ALAM

Research Article| November 01, 1991 Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON; SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON 1U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, … Research Article| November 01, 1991 Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON; SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON 1U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar ABU MD. NUR ALAM ABU MD. NUR ALAM 2Geological Survey of Bangladesh, Segun Bagicha, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Search for other works by this author on: GSW Google Scholar Author and Article Information SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON 1U.S. Geological Survey, M.S. 939, Box 25046, Denver Federal Center, Denver, Colorado 80225 ABU MD. NUR ALAM 2Geological Survey of Bangladesh, Segun Bagicha, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh Publisher: Geological Society of America First Online: 01 Jun 2017 Online ISSN: 1943-2674 Print ISSN: 0016-7606 Geological Society of America GSA Bulletin (1991) 103 (11): 1513–1527. https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1991)103<1513:SATOTS>2.3.CO;2 Article history First Online: 01 Jun 2017 Cite View This Citation Add to Citation Manager Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation SAMUEL Y. JOHNSON, ABU MD. NUR ALAM; Sedimentation and tectonics of the Sylhet trough, Bangladesh. GSA Bulletin 1991;; 103 (11): 1513–1527. doi: https://doi.org/10.1130/0016-7606(1991)103<1513:SATOTS>2.3.CO;2 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Refmanager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentBy SocietyGSA Bulletin Search Advanced Search Abstract The Sylhet trough, a sub-basin of the Bengal Basin in northeastern Bangladesh, contains a thick fill (12 to 16 km) of late Mesozoic and Cenozoic strata that record its tectonic evolution. Stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and petrographic data collected from outcrops, cores, well logs, and seismic lines are here used to reconstruct the history of this trough.The Sylhet trough occupied a slope/basinal setting on a passive continental margin from late Mesozoic through Eocene time. Subsidence may have increased slightly in Oligocene time when the trough was located in the distal part of a foreland basin paired to the Indo-Burman ranges. Oligocene fluvial-deltaic strata (Barail Formation) were derived from incipient uplifts in the eastern Himalayas. Subsidence increased markedly in the Miocene epoch in response to western encroachment of the Indo-Burman ranges. Miocene to earliest Pliocene sediments of the Surma Group were deposited in a large, mud-rich delta system that may have drained a significant proportion of the eastern Himalayas.Subsidence rates in the Sylhet trough increased dramatically (3-8 times) from Miocene to Pliocene-Pleistocene time when the fluvial Tipam Sandstone and Dupi Tila Formation were deposited. This dramatic subsidence change is attributed to south-directed overthrusting of the Shillong Plateau on the Dauki fault for the following reasons. (1) Pliocene and Pleistocene strata thin markedly away from the Shillong Plateau, consistent with a crustal load emplaced on the northern basin margin. (2) The Shillong Plateau is draped by Mesozoic to Miocene rocks, but Pliocene and younger strata are not represented, suggesting that the massif was an uplifted block at this time. (3) South-directed overthrusting of the Shillong Plateau is consistent with gravity data and with recent seismotectonic observations. Sandstone in the Tioam has a marked increase in sedimentary lithic fragments compared to older rocks, reflecting uplift and erosion of the sedimentary cover of the Shillong Plateau. If the Dauki fault has a dip similar to that of other Himalayan overthrusts, then a few tens of kilometers of horizontal tectonic transport would be required to carry the Shillong Plateau to its present elevation. Uplift of the Shillong Plateau probably generated a major (∼300 km) westward shift in the course of the Brahmaputra River. This content is PDF only. Please click on the PDF icon to access. First Page Preview Close Modal You do not have access to this content, please speak to your institutional administrator if you feel you should have access.

Leveling crowds: ethnonationalist conflicts and collective violence in South Asia

1997-05-01

S. J. Tambiah

Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world … Ethno-nationalist conflicts are rampant today, causing immense human loss. Stanley J. Tambiah is concerned with the nature of the ethno-nationalist explosions that have disfigured so many regions of the world in recent years. He focuses primarily on collective violence in the form of civilian in South Asia, using selected instances in Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India. He situates these riots in the larger political, economic, and religious contexts in which they took place and also examines the strategic actions and motivations of their principal agents. In applying a wide range of social theory to the problems of ethnic and religious violence, Tambiah pays close attention to the history and culture of the region. On one level this provocative book is a scrupulously detailed anthropological and historical study, but on another it is an attempt to understand the social and political changes needed for a more humane order, not just in South Asia, but throughout the world.

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Language, Religion and Politics in North India.

1976-08-01

Theodore P. Wright , Paul R. Brass

Ethnicity and Nationalism: Theory and Comparison.

1995-01-01

Proshanta K. Nandi , Paul R. Brass

[This book] It is provocative and bold. Brass bases his theories on his rather extensive study of the historical and political processes in multi-ethnic societies, especially There is much truth … [This book] It is provocative and bold. Brass bases his theories on his rather extensive study of the historical and political processes in multi-ethnic societies, especially There is much truth in his identification of the problem in the state of Punjab and elsewhere in India, in relentless centralization and, often, some questionable interventionist policies of the central government. --International Migration Review and Nationalism is most timely and relevant. . . . book offers many positives. It is provocative and bold. Paul Brass bases his theories on his rather extensive study of the historical and political processes in multiethnic societies, especially in There is much truth in his identification of the problem in the state of Punjab and elsewhere in India. --International Migration Review present volume is a very important contribution toward the study of ethnicity and The book would be of interest to a wide range of scholars, particularly those with a South Asian focus. --Asian and Pacific Migration Journal This volume is a very important contribution toward the study of ethnicity and The book would be of interest to a wide range of scholars, particularly those with a South Asian focus. --Asia and Pacific Mirgration Journal Ethnicity and nationalism, interethnic conflicts, and secessionist movements have been major forces shaping the modern world and the structure and stability of contemporary states. In the closing decades of the twentieth century, such forces and movements have emerged with new intensity. Drawing his examples in this major study from a wide variety of multiethnic situations around the world, with special emphasis on South Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Soviet Union, Paul Brass presents a distinctive theory concerning the origins of ethnic identity and modern The author bases his theory on two focal arguments: one, that ethnicity and nationalism are not givens, but are social and political constructions. The second is that ethnicity and nationalism are modern phenomena inseparably connected with the activities of the modern centralizing state. Examples and case studies from India comprise the heart of this volume. Three chapters focus specifically on two minority groups in India: north India Muslims and the Sikhs of Punjab. A second and substantial source of illustrations, which substantiate the theoretical arguments, is Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The author also presents a direct comparison of language-based ethnic problems in India and the Soviet Union. An original perspective on the major themes and arguments concerning ethnicity and nationalism, this book is essential reading for scholars and academics in the fields of ethnic studies, comparative politics, development studies, and anthropology. Brass's work is a significant contribution to the study of ethnicity and His work draws our attention to the complexity of the politics of identity. Students of Indian politics will find the book extremely useful and the people who in recent years are trying to invent a primordial basis for the Indian nation will find it disconcerting. --The Indian Economic and Social History Review This timely volume....will be of considerable interest to students of South Asian politics for its clarity and commitment. --International Journal of Punjab Studies When a major writer shifts the focus on his inquiry, it becomes the cause of a certain excitement within the discipline as a whole. Such is the case with Ethnicity and Nationalism where Paul Brass, long a familiar name for students of Indian politics, questions the applicability of the consociational model as an effective method of achieving democratic political order in multi-ethnic societies. --Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics This is a useful book for it brings together Paul Brass' writings on the subject of ethnicity and politics between 1978 and 1990. --Contributions to Indian Sociology By virtue of the theoretical and empirical assertions it makes and the political controversy it is bound to give rise to, Ethnicity and Nationalism is an important addition to Indian and comparative politics. The book can be read with profit. --Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics This is a valuable addition to the literature on ethnicity and But more than just an addition, it illumines the multi-layered social grid in multi-ethnic societies consisting of majorities and minorities, conflicts of interests, and the key role played by both the State and various elites in the formation of ethnicity and nationalism. --Media Development

Idioms of distress: Alternatives in the expression of psychosocial distress: A case study from South India

1981-12-01

Mark Nichter

India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality

2000-01-01

Maya Chadda

The politics of India since independence

1990-07-01

Paul R. Brass

List of figures and tables Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: continuities and discontinuities between pre- and post-Independence India Part I. Political Change: Introduction 2. Political change, political structure and … List of figures and tables Preface List of abbreviations 1. Introduction: continuities and discontinuities between pre- and post-Independence India Part I. Political Change: Introduction 2. Political change, political structure and the functioning of government 3. Parties and politics 4. State and local politics Part II. Pluralism and National Integration: Introduction 5. Language problems 6. Crises of national unity: Punjab, the northeast and Kashmir 7. Communal and caste conflict: secularism, Hindu nationalism and the Indian state Part III. Political Economy: Introduction 8. Politics, economic development and social change 9. Political aspects of agricultural change 10. Conclusion: problems and prospects Bibliography Index.

Sons of the Soil, Migrants, and Civil War

2010-11-21

James D. Fearon , David D. Laitin

Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts?

1992-01-01

Dipesh Chakrabarty

Research Article| January 01 1992 Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts? Dipesh Chakrabarty Dipesh Chakrabarty Search for other works by this author on: This Site … Research Article| January 01 1992 Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts? Dipesh Chakrabarty Dipesh Chakrabarty Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1992) 37: 1–26. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928652 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Dipesh Chakrabarty; Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for "Indian" Pasts?. Representations 1 January 1992; 37 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/2928652 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentRepresentations Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1992 The Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Listen to the Heron's Words: Reimagining Gender and Kinship in North India

1996-01-01

Rachel Meyer , Gloria Goodwin Raheja , Ann Grodzins Gold

This book examines the expressive genres used by women living in rural communities in north India to resist and criticize pervasive ideologies of gender and kinship that subordinate women. Translations … This book examines the expressive genres used by women living in rural communities in north India to resist and criticize pervasive ideologies of gender and kinship that subordinate women. Translations of songs and of personal narratives reveal the profound cultural dissent embedded in womens speech genres. The ethnographic analyses 1) comment on current attempts to redefine use of the term culture by the social sciences 2) explore the hidden transcripts implicit in womens expressions 3) spark a reconsideration of standard anthropological conceptualizations of marriage and patrilineality in South Asia and 4) relate this consideration of womens speech genres to the broader relationship between language and gender. The book opens with a preface that describes the field work the degree and type of social acceptance offered to the women and the challenges posed to American women attempting to describe and analyze the lives of women from an alien culture. The introductory chapter considers gender representation and the problem of language and resistance in India. Chapter 2 looks at sexuality fertility and erotic imagery in the songs of Rajasthani women. The third chapter examines the uses of irony and ambiguity to shift perspectives on patriliny and ties to natal kin. Chapter 4 analyzes songs that challenge the devaluation of women as wives and present different perspectives on conjugal kinship relations. The fifth chapter discusses how the story of a jungle queen provides insights into how female identity can be perceived of as split (from her natal family for example) and yet remain whole throughout her life. Chapter 6 provides a narrative about a storytellers life to reexamine womens perceptions of purdah and power. The concluding chapter reflects on the potency of narrative and on the politics of womens expressive traditions.

Law, State and Agrarian Society in Colonial India

1981-07-01

David Washbrook

Perhaps the most intransigent problem in the recent history of Indian society remains an adequate understanding of the processes of social change which took place under colonialism. As the continunig … Perhaps the most intransigent problem in the recent history of Indian society remains an adequate understanding of the processes of social change which took place under colonialism. As the continunig controversies within, as much as between, the traditions of modernization theory, Marxism, and the underdevelopment theory make plain, the Indian historical record is peculiarly difficult to grasp with conventional sociological concepts. In the study of Western European society, a focus on the evolution of legal ideas and institutions has proved a useful entry point to social history.The law may be seen to represent a set of general principles through which political authority and the state (however constituted) attempt to legitimize the social institutions and norms of conduct which they find valuable. As such, its history reflects the struggle in society to assume, control or resist this authority. Its study should help to reveal the nature of the forces involved in the struggle and to suggest the implications for social development of the way in which, at any one time, their struggle was resolved. The condition of the law may be seen to crystallize the condition of society. This, of course, could be said of any governing institution. But where the law becomes uniquely valuable is in that, because of its social function, the struggle around it is necessarily expressed in terms of general statements of principle rather than particular statements of private and discrete interest. At the most fundamental level, these principles demarcate the rules on which the contending parties seek to build their versions of society and provide useful clues to their wider, often undisclosed, positions.

Between violence and desire: space, power, and identity in the making of metropolitan Delhi

2003-03-01

Amita Baviskar

Why India Cannot Plan Its Cities: Informality, Insurgence and the Idiom of Urbanization

2009-01-12

Ananya Roy

The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as … The fast-paced growth of the Indian economy and particularly its cities has produced an urban crisis, one that is marked by the lack of adequate infrastructure and growth management as well as by sharp social divisions that are starkly etched in a landscape of bourgeois enclaves and slums. In this context, there are numerous calls for a more decisive and vigorous type of planning that can `future-proof' Indian cities. Yet, such efforts are often unsuccessful and many are fiercely challenged by social movements and forms of insurgence. This article explains this urban crisis by analyzing the structure of urban informality in India. While informality is often seen to be synonymous with poverty, this article makes the case that India's planning regime is itself an informalized entity, one that is a state of deregulation, ambiguity, and exception. This idiom of urbanization makes possible new frontiers of development but also creates the territorial impossibility of governance, justice, and development.

Red tape: bureaucracy, structural violence, and poverty in India

2013-02-01

Akhil Gupta

Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth … Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, especially women and girls, and lower-caste and indigenous peoples. Yet India's poor are not disenfranchised; they actively participate in the democratic project. Nor is the state indifferent to the plight of the poor; it sponsors many poverty amelioration programs. Gupta conducted ethnographic research among officials charged with coordinating development programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Drawing on that research, he offers insightful analyses of corruption; the significance of writing and written records; and governmentality, or the expansion of bureaucracies. Those analyses underlie his argument that care is arbitrary in its consequences, and that arbitrariness is systematically produced by the very mechanisms that are meant to ameliorate social suffering. What must be explained is not only why government programs aimed at providing nutrition, employment, housing, healthcare, and education to poor people do not succeed in their objectives, but also why, when they do succeed, they do so unevenly and erratically.

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War in the Tribal Zone: Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare

1993-01-01

William B. Griffen , R. Brian Ferguson , Neil L. Whitehead

War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence … War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and violence in the decade since the idea of the 'tribal zone' originally was formulated. Finding the book's analysis tragically prophetic in identifying the key dynamics that have produced the kinds of conflicts recently witnessed globally-as in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Somalia-the editors consider the political origins and cultural meanings of 'ethnic' violence in our postcolonial world.

The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom

1989-01-01

David Ludden , Nicholas B. Dirks

List of illustrations List of maps List of tables Preface Glossary of terms Map of the Madras Presidency, 1900 Map of Pudukkottai State The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai Part I. … List of illustrations List of maps List of tables Preface Glossary of terms Map of the Madras Presidency, 1900 Map of Pudukkottai State The Tondaiman line of Pudukkottai Part I. Introduction: 1. The study of state and society in India Part II. History and Ethnohistory: 2. The historical context of the old regime 3. The discourse of kingship: representations of authority in the old regime Part III. A Little Kingdom in the Old Regime: 4. Pudukkottai and the old regime: gift, order, and authority in a south Indian little kingdom 5. The early history of the Pudukkottai region 6. Tondaiman Raj: 1686-1801 Part IV. Social Relations of a Little Kingdom: 7. Royal Kallars 8. Political hegemony and social relations: caste in Pudukkottai 9. Temples and society Part V. Colonial Mediations: Contradictions Under the Raj: 10. Agrarian rebellion? Last gasp of the old regime 11. The colonization of the political order: land settlements, political intervention and structural change 12. Temples and conflict: the changing context of worship 13. The theatre state: princely politics in colonial south India Part VI. Conclusion: 14. Ethnohistory and the Indian state Appendix: land and privilege: inams in Pudukkottai References List of records and abbreviations List of archives and record offices Index.

Prosperity and Misery in Modern Bengal: The Famine of 1943-1944

1983-10-01

Leonard A. Gordon , Paul R. Greenough

Rethinking Ethnicity: Arguments and Explorations

1999-01-01

Kevin D. Haggerty , Richard Jenkins

ARGUMENTS Anthropology, Ethnicity From Tribes to Ethnic Groups Myths of Pluralism Ethnicity Etcetera Categorisation and Power Ideologies of Identification EXPLORATIONS Majority Ethnicity The Cultural Stuff Violence, Language and Politics Nations, … ARGUMENTS Anthropology, Ethnicity From Tribes to Ethnic Groups Myths of Pluralism Ethnicity Etcetera Categorisation and Power Ideologies of Identification EXPLORATIONS Majority Ethnicity The Cultural Stuff Violence, Language and Politics Nations, Nationalisms RETHINKING ETHNICITY

The Tectonic Framework of Assam

1964-06-01

Paul D. Evans

Language, Religion and Politics in North India

1975-04-01

John Rosselli

Language, Religion and Politics in North India Get access Language, Religion and Politics in North India. By Paul R. Brass. London, New York: Cambridge University Press. 1974. 467 pp. Map. … Language, Religion and Politics in North India Get access Language, Religion and Politics in North India. By Paul R. Brass. London, New York: Cambridge University Press. 1974. 467 pp. Map. Bibliog. Index. £1050. $27.50. John Rosselli John Rosselli Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 51, Issue 2, April 1975, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/2617279 Published: 01 April 1975

Critical Events: An Anthropological Perspective on Contemporary India.

1996-09-01

Sylvia Vatuk , Veena Das

South Asian Archaeology 1981.

1985-06-01

Hasmukhlal Dhirajlal Sankalia , Bridget Allchin

Partition as a Solution to Ethnic War: An Empirical Critique of the Theoretical Literature

2000-07-01

Nicholas Sambanis

Theorists of ethnic conflict have argued that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. They argue that without territorial partition and, … Theorists of ethnic conflict have argued that the physical separation of warring ethnic groups may be the only possible solution to civil war. They argue that without territorial partition and, if necessary, forced population movements the war cannot end and genocide is likely. Other scholars have counterargued that partition only replaces internal war with international war, that it creates undemocratic successor states, and that it generates tremendous human suffering. This debate has so far been informed by very few important case studies. This article uses a new data set on civil wars to identify the main determinants of war-related partitions and estimate their impact on democratization, on the probability that war will recur, and on low-level ethnic violence. This is the first large-N quantitative analysis of this topic, testing the propositions of partition theory and weighing heavily on the side of its critics. Most assertions of partition theorists fail to pass rigorous empirical tests. The article also identifies some determinants of democratization after civil war, as well as the determinants of recurring ethnic violence. These empirical findings are used to formulate an alternative proposal for ending ethnic violence.

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Political parties and party systems

1996-05-01

Ajay Mehra , D. D. Khanna , Gert W. Kueck

Introduction - Ajay K Mehra Historical Development of the Party System in India - Ajay K Mehra Federalisation of India's Party System - Balveer Arora The Party System in Germany … Introduction - Ajay K Mehra Historical Development of the Party System in India - Ajay K Mehra Federalisation of India's Party System - Balveer Arora The Party System in Germany and Party Fragmentation in the European Union - Karl-Rudolf Korte Social, Cultural and Economic Dimensions of the Party System - Amit Prakash How Many Parties Are Too Many? - Pran Chopra The Electoral Framework, Process and Political Parties - Madhav Godbole Parties, Civil Society and the State in India - S K Chaube The Congress and the BJP - Partha S Ghosh Struggle for the Heartland The Third Front or the Third Force - Bidyut Chakrabarty A Political Maze or an Ideological Oasis? The Third Force - Muchkund Dubey As an Ideology and as a Reality The National Parties and the Regional Allies - Pradeep Kumar A Study in the Social-Political Dynamics The Regional Parties and Democracy - Suhas Palshikar Romantic Rendezvous or Localised Legitimation? The Contest for the Marginal Space - Sajal Nag Parties and Politics in Small Indian States Mediating Economic Reforms - Harish Khare Party Politics From Bangalore to Chennai Local Democracy and Political Parties in India - Sandeep Shastri

The Bengal borderland: beyond state and nation in South Asia

2006-04-01

Willem van Schendel

Sustainability of Handloom Industry for North East India: A Perspective from Tripura

2025-06-25

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