4-Volume Set

Modern IndianCulture andSocietyCRITICAL CONCEPTS IN ASIAN STUDIES

Edited and with a new introduction by Knut A. Jacobsen, Universityof Bergen, Norway

Research on Indian culture and society has been conducted from a dizzyingrange of perspectives. However, in recent decades it has been particularlycharacterized by a change in focus from the past to the present; from theworldview of the élites to that of the subalterns; from philosophy to everydaylife; and from hierarchy to the critiques of hierarchy and the sources ofequality in Indian culture.

More dramatic than the changes in the focus of research are the changes inIndian society itself. Urbanization, the liberalization and globalization of theeconomy, the IT revolution, the success of the global Indian diaspora, theaffirmation of religious identities and reaffirmation of ancient world views,reinterpretations of history, new medias and transnational megagurus, andnew political landscapes denote some of these processes.

This new title from Routledge makes sense of these changes by bringingtogether the very best scholarly work on India’s contemporarytransformation. As the world’s largest democracy emerges as an economicand cultural superpower, there is a pressing need for a more sophisticatedand nuanced understanding of Indian culture and society. This four-volumecollection answers that need and will be welcomed as a vital one-stopresearch resource.

Routledge Major Works

RoutledgeJune 2009234x156: 1,760Set Hb: 978-415-45219-9

Part 1. Freedom, Partition, and Aftermath

A. Freedom

1. Jim Masselos, ‘‘’The Magic Touch of Being Free”: The Rituals ofIndependence on August 15’, in Jim Masselos (ed.), India: Creating a ModernNation (Sterling Publishers, 1990), pp. 37–53.

B. Partition and Aftermath

2. H. V. Brasted and Carl Bridge, ‘The Transfer of Power in South Asia: AnHistoriographical Review’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1994,17, 1, 93–114.

3. Ian Talbot, ‘Literature and the Human Drama of the 1947 Partition’, SouthAsia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1995, 18, 37–56.

4. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, ‘Gender, Memory, Trauma: Women’s Novels on thePartition of India’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the MiddleEast, 2005, 25, 1, 177–90.

Part 2. The Past in the Present

5. Amartya Sen, ‘On Interpreting India’s Past’, in Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal(eds.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India(Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 10–35.

6. Dipesh Chakravarty, ‘Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaksfor “Indian” Pasts?’, Representations, 1992, 37, Winter, 1–26.

7. Richard M. Eaton, ‘(Re)imag(in)ing Otherness: A Postmortem for thePostmodern in India’, Journal of World History, 2000, 11, 1, 57–78.

8. Ramachandra Guha, ‘The Challenge of Contemporary History’, Economicand Political Weekly, 28 June 2008, 192–200.

Part 3. Democracy and Development

9. Bhikhu Parekh, ‘Jawaharlal Nehru and the Crisis of Modernization’, inUpendra and Bhikhu Parekh (eds.), Crisis and Change in Contemporary India(Sage Publications, 1995), pp. 21–56.

10. Ashutosh Varshney, ‘Why Democracy Survives’, Journal of Democracy, 1998,9, 3, 36–50.

11. Pranab Bardhan, ‘Democracy and Distributive Politics in India’, in IanShapiro, Peter A. Swenson, and Daniela Donno (eds.), The Politics ofDistribution in Democracies (New York University Press, 2008), pp. 80–97.

12. Atul Kohli, ‘Can Democracies Accommodate Ethnic Nationalism? Rise andDecline of Self-Determination Movements in India’, The Journal of AsianStudies, 1997, 56, 2, 325–44.

13. Gurharpal Singh, ‘The Punjab Crisis Since 1984: A Reassessment’, in SubrataK. Mitra and R. Alison Lewis (eds.), Subnational Movements in South Asia(Westview Press, 1996), pp. 104–23.

Part 4. Violence

14. Amitav Ghosh, ‘The Ghost of Indira Gandhi’, The New Yorker, 17 July 1995.

15. Robert G. Wirsing, ‘Unholy Alliance: Religion and Political Violence inSouth Asia’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2007, 30, 1, 25–42.

16. Dipak K. Gupta, ‘The Naxalites and the Maoist Movement in India: Birth,Demise, and Reincarnation’, Democracy and Security, 2007, 3, 2, 157–88.

17. Sumit Ganguly and R. Harrison Wagner, ‘India and Pakistan: Bargaining inthe Shadow of Nuclear War’, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2004, 27, 1,479–507.

Part 5. Social Movements

18. David Hardiman, ‘Gandhian Activism in India After Independence’, Gandhiin His Times and Ours (Permanent Black, 2003), pp. 198–237.

19. Gail Omvedt, ‘Ambedkar and After: The Dalit Movement in India’, inGhanshyam Shah (ed.), Dalit Identity and Politics (Sage Publications, 2001),pp. 143–59.

Part 6. Work, Economy, and Globalization

20. Jan Breman, ‘The Expulsion of Labour from the Formal Sector of theEconomy’, in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen (eds.), Workers inthe Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History, 1800–2000 (Macmillan, 2005).

21. Leela Fernandes, ‘Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India’,Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2000, 20, 1,88–104.

22. Andrew Wyatt, ‘Building the Temples of Postmodern India: EconomicConstruction of National Identity’, Contemporary South Asia, 2005, 14, 4,465–80.

23. Meghnad Desai, ‘Will India Ever Catch Up With China?’, South Asia: Journalof South Asian Studies, 2005, 37, 2, 321–36.

24. B. B. Mohanty, ‘We are Like the Living Dead: Farmer Suicides inMaharashtra, Western India’, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2005, 32, 2,243–76.

25. Craig Jeffrey, ‘Caste, Class, and Clientilism: A Political Economy of EverydayCorruption in Rural North India’, Economic Geography, 2002, 78, 1, 21–41.

26. Ali Mir, Matthew Biju, and Raza Mir, ‘The Codes of Migration: Contours ofthe Global Software Labor Market’, Cultural Dynamics, 2000, 12, 1, 5–33.

27. Sandhya Shukla, ‘Locations for South Asian Diasporas’, Annual Review ofAnthropology, 2001, 30, 551–72.

Part 7. Caste

28. André Béteille, ‘Caste in Contemporary India’, in C. J. Fuller (ed.), CasteToday (Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 150–79.

29. Dipankar Gupta, ‘Caste and Politics: Identity Over System’, Annual Review ofAnthropology, 2005, 34, 409–27.

30. Susie Tharu et al., ‘Reservations and the Return to Politics’, Economic andPolitical Weekly, 8 Dec. 2007, 42, 49, 39–45.

31. Robert Deliége, ‘The Myths of Origins of the Indian Untouchables’, Man,1993, 28, 533–49.

32. C. J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan, ‘From Landlords to SoftwareEngineers: Migration and Urbanization Among Tamil Brahmans,Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2008, 50, 1, 170–96.

33. Syed Ali, ‘Collective and Elective Ethnicity: Caste Among Urban Muslims inIndia’, Sociological Forum, 2002, 17, 4, 593–620.

Part 8. Gender

34. Ravinder Kaur, ‘Dispensable Daughters and Bachelor Sons: SexDiscrimination in North India’, Economic and Political Weekly, 26 July 2008,109–14.

35. Jonathan Parry, ‘Ankalu’s Errant Wife: Sex, Marriage and Industry inContemporary Chhattisgarh’, Modern Asian Studies, 2001, 35, 4, 783–820.

36. Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella, ‘Migration, Money and Masculinity inKerala’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2000, 6, 1, 117–33.

37. Gayatri Reddy, ‘‘’Men” Who Would be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and theReproduction of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics—Gender Identity,Social Stigma, and Political Corruption’, Social Research, 2003, 70, 1.

VOLUME I: Identity VOLUME II: Society

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Part 9. Secularism

38. T. N. Madan, ‘The Crisis of Indian Secularism’, Modern Myths: Locked Minds(Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 233–65.

39. Harold A. Gould, ‘The Babri Masjid and the Secular Contract’, in Veena Das,Dipankar Gupta, and Patricia Uberoi (eds.), Tradition, Pluralism and Identity:In Honour of T. N. Madan (Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1999), pp.381–400.

40. Ashis Nandy, ‘The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of ReligiousTolerance’, in Veena Das (ed.), Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots andSurvivors in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 69–93.

41. Barbara D. Metcalf, ‘Hindu Ethnonationalism, Muslim Jihad, andSecularism: Muslims in the Political Life of the Republic of India’, in RafiqDossani and Henry S. Rowen (eds.), Prospects for Peace in South Asia(Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 215–38.

Part 10. Religious Traditions

A. Rituals

42. Jonathan P. Parry, ‘The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-Built Steel Townin Central India’, in Frances Pine and João Pina-Cabral (eds.), On theMargins of Religion (Berghahn Books, 2007), pp. 233–62.

43. Philip Lutgendorf, ‘Monkey in the Middle: The Status of Hanuman inPopular Hinduism’, Religion, 1997, 27, 311–32.

44. John Harriss, ‘‘’The Great Tradition” Globalizes: Reflections on Two Studiesof “The Industrial Leaders” of Madras’, Modern Asian Studies, 2003, 37, 2,327–62.

45. James G. Lochtefeld, ‘The Construction of the Kumbha Mela’, South AsianPopular Culture, 2004, 2, 2, 103–26.

B. What is Hinduism?

46. Romila Thapar, ‘Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and theModern Search for a Hindu Identity’, Modern Asian Studies, 1989, 23, 2,209–31.

47. Will Sweetman, ‘‘’Hinduism” and the History of “Religions”: ProtestantPresuppositions in the Critique of the Concept of Hinduism’, Method andTheory in the Study of Religion, 2003, 15, 329–53.

48. Vasudha Narayanan, ‘Diglossic Hinduism: Liberation and Lentils’, Journal ofthe American Academy of Religion, 2000, 68, 4, 761–79.

C. Islam

49. Steven I. Wilkinson, ‘Muslims in Post-Independence India’, in John L.Esposito, John O. Voll, and Osman Bakar (eds.), Asian Islam in the 21stCentury (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 178–96.

50. Yoginder Sikand, ‘Stoking the Flames: Intra-Muslim Rivalries in India andthe Saudi Connection’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and theMiddle East, 2007, 27, 1, 95–108.

51. Francis Robinson, ‘Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia’, ModernAsian Studies, 2008, 42, 2/3, 259–81.

D. Dalit Religious Traditions

52. David N. Lorenzen, ‘Tradition of Non-Caste Hinduism: Kabir Panth’,Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1987, 21, 2, 263–83.

53. George Oommon, ‘The Emerging Dalit Theology: A Historical Appraisal’,Indian Church History Review, 2000, XXXXIV, 1, 19–37.

54. Johannes Beltz, ‘Contesting Caste, Hierarchy, and Hinduism: BuddhistDiscursive Practices in Maharashtra’, in Surendra Jondhale and JohannesBeltz (eds.), Reconstructing the World: B. R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India(Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 245–66.

E. Hinduism Goes West

55. Prema Kurien, ‘Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and DiasporicNationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism’, Social Problems,51, 3, 362–85.

Part 11. Food

56. Arjun Appadurai, ‘How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks inContemporary India’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1988, 30, 1,3–24.

57. Paul Robbins, ‘Meat Matters: Cultural Politics Along the Commodity Chainin India’, Cultural Geographies, 1999, 6, 4, 399–423.

58. Amartya Sen, ‘Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders’, The LittleMagazine, 2, 6.

Part 12. Urban and Natural Environment

59. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Open Space/Public Space: Garbage, Modernity andIndia’, South Asia, 1991, 14, 1, 15–31.

60. Susan E. Chaplin, ‘Cities, Sewers and Poverty: India’s Politics of Sanitation’,Environment and Urbanization, 1999, 11, 1, 145–58.

61. Amita Baviskar, ‘Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: TheIndian Experience’, Review of Development and Change, 2006, 9, 1, 1–14.

62. Glyn Williams and Emma Mawdsley, ‘Postcolonial Environmental Justice:Government and Governance in India’, Geoforum, 2006, 37, 5, 660–70.

Part 13. Literature

63. Beth, Sarah, ‘Hindi Dalit Biography: An Exploration of Identity’, ModernAsian Studies, 2007, 41, 3, 545–74.

64. Pramod K. Nayar, ‘Bama’s Karukku: Dalit Autobiography as Testimonio’,Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2006, 41, 2, 83–100.

65. Salman Rushdie, ‘Damme, This is the Oriental Scene for You’, The NewYorker, 23 June 1997, 50–61.

66. Rashmi Sadana, ‘A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience: Questions ofAuthenticity and the Politics of Translation’, Public Culture, 2007, 19, 2,307–28.

Part 14. Cinema

67. Sara Dickey, ‘The Politics of Adulation: Cinema and the Production ofPoliticians in South India’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1993, 52, 2, 340–72.

68. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, ‘The “Bollywoodization” of the Indian Cinema:Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2003, 4,1, 25–39.

69. Harish Trivedi, ‘From Bollywood to Hollywood: The Globalization of HindiCinema’, in Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley (eds.), ThePostcolonial and the Global (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp.200–10.

Part 15. Television

70. Nalin Mehta, ‘Modi and the Camera: The Politics of Television in the 2002Gujarat Riots’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2006, 29, 3,395–414.

71. Purnima Mankekar, ‘Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in LateTwentieth-Century India’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2004, 63, 2, 403–31.

72. Arvind Rajagopal, ‘Advertising, Politics, and the Sentimental Education ofthe Indian Consumer’, Visual Anthropology Review, 1998, 14, 2, 14–31.

Part 16. Music, Folklore, and Beauty Pageants

73. Peter Manuel, ‘Music, the Media, and Communal Relations in North India,Past and Present’, in David Ludden (ed.), Making India Hindu: Religion,Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (Oxford University Press,2005), pp. 119–39.

74. Kirin Narayan, ‘Banana Republics and V. I. Degrees: Rethinking IndianFolklore in a Postcolonial World’, Asian Folklore Studies, 1993, 52, 1,177–204.

75. Rupal Oza, ‘Showcasing India: Gender, Geography, and Globalization’,Signs, 2001, 26, 4, 1067–97.

Part 17. Cricket and Sports

76. Boria Majumdar, ‘Cricket in India: Representative Playing Field to RestrictivePreserve’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2006, 23, 6,927–59.

77. Ian McDonald, ‘Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practicesin India’, American Behavioral Scientist, 2003, 46, 11, 1563–76.

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