{"product_id":"perspectives-on-modern-south-asia-isbn-9781405100625","title":"Perspectives on Modern South Asia","description":"\u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Modern South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e 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.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ePresents an interdisciplinary overview of the origins and development of the eight nations comprising modern South Asia: Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores South Asia’s common cultures, languages and religions and their relationship to its ethnic and national differences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures essays that provide understandings of the central dynamics of South Asia as an important cultural, political, and economic region of the world\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgment of Sources.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Reconceptualizing Nation and Region in Modern South Asia (\u003ci\u003eKamala Visweswaran\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Debates about Origins: Pre\/Modern Religious Pluralities in South Asia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Beyond Ethnicity? Being Hindu \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e Muslim in South Asia (\u003ci\u003eShail Mayaram\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Towards a Composite Reading of South Asian Religious Cultures: The Case of Islam (\u003ci\u003eSyed Akbar Hyder\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Tolerant Hinduism: Shared Ritual Spaces – Hindus and Muslims at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid (\u003ci\u003eVasudha Narayanan\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Hindu Gods and Us: Our Goddesses and the Hindus (\u003ci\u003eKancha Iliah\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Study of South Asian Society and the Emergence of Modern Forms of Social Classification.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culture (\u003ci\u003eBernard Cohn\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization (\u003ci\u003eM. N. Srinivas\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 What’s in a Name? Aryans and Dravidians in the Making of Sri Lankan Identities (\u003ci\u003eArjun Guneratne\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Politics of Ethnicity in India and Pakistan (\u003ci\u003eHamza Alavi\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Ethnicity, Caste and a Pluralist Society (\u003ci\u003eRajendra Pradhan\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Partition, Nationalism, and the Formation of South Asian National States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Abducted Women, the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India (\u003ci\u003eRitu Menon and Kamla Bhasin\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Identity, Violence and Women: A Reflection on the Partition of India 1947 (\u003ci\u003eNighat Said Khan\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 The Quest for National Identity: Women, Islam and the State in Bangladesh (\u003ci\u003eNaila Kabeer\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Nationalist Agendas and Women's Rights: Conflicts in Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century (\u003ci\u003eValentine M. Moghadam\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The State and National Foundation in the Maldives (\u003ci\u003eRizwan A. Ahmad\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV States and Communal Conflict in South Asia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Reflections on Communal Violence in South Asia (\u003ci\u003eStanley J. Tambiah\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Ayodhya: The Modernity of Hinduism (\u003ci\u003ePankaj Mishra\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Identity on the Borderline: Modernity, New Ethnicities, and the Unmaking of Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka (\u003ci\u003eDarini Rajasingham-Senanayake\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 War, Factionalism, and the State in Afghanistan (\u003ci\u003eNazif M. Shahrani\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Development and Liberalization.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Development Regimes in South Asia: History and the Governance Conundrum (\u003ci\u003eDavid Ludden\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Radical Needs and Moderate Reforms (\u003ci\u003eAmartya Sen\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Who Are the Country’s Poor? Social Movement Politics and Dalit Poverty (\u003ci\u003eGopal Guru and Anuradha Chakravarty\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Politics of the Poor? NGOs and Grass-roots Political Mobilization in Bangladesh (\u003ci\u003eLamia Karim\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 The Politics of 'Developing Nepali Women' (\u003ci\u003eSeira Tamang\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 \"ity of Whores\": Nationalism, Development, and Global Garment Workers in Sri Lanka (\u003ci\u003eSandya Hewamanne\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Indo-Bhutan Relations Recent Trends (\u003ci\u003eTashi Choden\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart VI Social Movements.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 From Chipko to Sati: The Contemporary Indian Women's Movement (\u003ci\u003eRadha Kumar\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Women's Movement in Pakistan: State, Class, Gender (\u003ci\u003eShahnaz Rouse\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Monsoon Risings: Mega-Dam Resistance in the Narmada Valley (\u003ci\u003eChittaroopa Palit\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 Where There Are No Men: Women in the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal (\u003ci\u003eShobha Gautam, Amrita Banskota and Rita Manchanda\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 Developing the Anti-Nuclear Movement (\u003ci\u003eAchin Vanaik\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 Pakistan's Fateful Nuclear Option (\u003ci\u003eZia Mian\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Dense with information and thoughtfully organized and presented, this reader provides students with a thorough overview of the study of the region, as well as in-depth examples of its culture, society, economics, and daily life.\" (\u003ci\u003eBook News\u003c\/i\u003e, 1 August 2011)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eKamala Visweswaran\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eFictions of Feminist Ethnography\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), \u003ci\u003eUncommon Cultures\u003c\/i\u003e (2010), and the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the Modern Imaginary of Violence\u003c\/i\u003e. While the eight South Asian countries of Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka continue to be divided by deep national differences, they also share common cultures, languages, and religions. \u003ci\u003ePerspectives on Modern South Asia\u003c\/i\u003e is an interdisciplinary collection of readings drawn from anthropology, literary and cultural studies, history, sociology, economics, and political science that will shape a fuller understanding of the complexities of contemporary South Asia. Featuring selections from an international group of experts, this volume explores the tension between the lived experience of cultural or religious tolerance and the deployment of culture or religion for nationalist purposes. Visweswaran offers a wealth of thought-provoking insights into the origins and development of the shifting politics, cultures, economies, and national identities of a region of the world that is home to a fifth of humanity. \u003cp\u003e\"This anthology is a boon to all teachers of South Asian Studies. It maps a varied and vast critical terrain. The volume testifies to the vitality and revisionist power of contemporary South Asian Studies, and the intellectual and methodological debates on view here will challenge theorists of culture, politics, and society in other fields.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSuvir Kaul, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The thematic organization of this excellent collection supports the persuasive analytic thrust of the volume. There are many welcome surprises. Particularly notable is the inclusion of articles about less studied communities and countries within the region.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eBarbara D. Metcalf, University of California, Davis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An original blend of gems from the past and newer writings; this volume will inspire students to learn more about one of the most fascinating regions of the world.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eK. Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This splendid collection provides an excellent introduction to the region, its history and the political challenges it faces, while raising exciting new questions for the future.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJonathan Spencer, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an invaluable collection of classic and new essays drawn from different disciplines that seamlessly brings together scholarship on ancient, colonial and contemporary South Asia. A book that teachers and students alike will be glad to have within reach at all times.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eMukulika Banerjee, London School of Economics\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is an outstanding collection of essays that offers entry into some of the most foundational and influential debates in the study of modern South Asia. Its far-reaching comparative approach to the region cuts across national boundaries, and will no doubt be of great value to students and scholars of South Asian society.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSaloni Mathur, UCLA\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989769830629,"sku":"NP9781405100625","price":89.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405100625.jpg?v=1761785410","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/perspectives-on-modern-south-asia-isbn-9781405100625","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}