Hakutulokset: Hakutulos
yhteensä 25 hakutulosta
Making New Nepal
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 …
The Gender of Caste
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 …
High-Tech Housewives
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 …
Mumbai on Two Wheels
Mumbai is not commonly seen as a bike-friendly city because of its dense traffic and the absence of bicycle lanes. Yet the city supports rapidly expanding and eclectic bicycle …
Making Kantha, Making Home
In Bengal, mothers swaddle their infants and cover their beds in colorful textiles that are passed down through generations. They create these kantha from layers of soft, recycled …
Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet
Mahatma Gandhi redefined nutrition as fundamental to building a more just world. What he chose to eat was intimately tied to his beliefs, and his key values of nonviolence, …
The Ends of Kinship
What sustains and remakes family and community through migration?For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. …
Adivasi Art and Activism
The uneasy alliance of tribal art and the museum movementAs India consolidates an aggressive model of economic development, indigenous tribal people known as adivasis continue to …
Privileged Minorities
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, …
Outcaste Bombay
Caste, class, and development converge in a booming metropolisOver the course of the twentieth century, Bombay’s population grew twentyfold as the city became increasingly …
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 …
New Lives in Anand
Investigates how a rural town became a site of community-making, mobility, and identity formationIn 2002 widespread communal violence tore apart towns and villages in rural parts …