{"product_id":"perspectives-on-modern-south-asia-9781405100625","title":"Perspectives on Modern South Asia","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments.  \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","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407834882391,"sku":"9781405100625","price":84.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405100625.jpg?v=1730500684","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/perspectives-on-modern-south-asia-9781405100625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}