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Gellner, David N., Schendel, Willem van

This book provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one instance, along borders within India. Whether discussing Shi'i Muslims str...

1. Introduction Paul R. Brass Part 1 Colonialism, Nationalism, and Independence in South Asia: India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka 1. India and Pakistan Ian Talbot 2. Sri Lanka's Independence: Shadows Over a Colonial Graft Nira Wickramasinghe Part 2 Political Change, Political Parties, and the Issue of U...

Katharine Adeney, Marie Lall

Abstract Katharine Adeney is Lecturer in Politics in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield.Marie Lall is a principal researcher at the Institute of Education and a visiting lecturer at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Marie Lall is a Lecturer in E...

David N. Gellner

This book examines in rich detail the lives, struggles, and strategies of South Asian activists seeking to advance various political, social, and environmental causes. Through a series of case studies from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka on activists' efforts, it elucidates how they mediate ...

David N. Gellner, Krishna Hachhethu

Preface Introduction David N Gellner and Krishna Hachhethu NEPAL: Obstacles to Local Leadership and Democracy in Nepal Dhruba Kumar Local Democracy and Political Parties in Nepal: A Case Study of Dhanusha District Krishna Hachhethu Distributional Coalitions in Nepal: An Essay on Democratization, Cap...

Cons, Jason, Evans, Rosalind, Farrelly, Nicholas, Gellner, David N. et al.

This volumes presents assays on the peoples living along India's borders with Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burma/Myanmar, China, and Nepal reveal Northern South Asia as a region encompassing radically different ways of life and relationships to the state.

Jacobsen, Knut A. 1956-

Historical and Contemporary South Asian Religions Knut A. Jacobsen Part I Historical South Asian Religions: Formative developments 1 The Veda Carlos A. Lopez 2 The rise of Classical Brahmanism Johannes Bronkhorst 3 Identity in Early Indian Religion Nathan McGovern 4 Dharma in Classical Hinduism Davi...

Gellner, David

Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world. The collected essays portray existence at different points across India's northern frontiers and, in one instance, along borders within India. Whethe...

Willem Van Schendel

Making the Most of 'Sensitive' BordersIt is past midnight.The village is quiet, except for frogs croaking in the rice fields.But listen!Do you hear the faint clinking of metal?That's the smugglers on their way to the border.Their bicycles are laden with huge bundles and they try to be as unobtrusive...

Ivana Ljuština, Nihal Raj, Alèxia Rué, Dafina Gashi et al.

Ghosh, Sahana. 2023. A Thousand Tiny Cuts: Mobility and Security across the Bangladesh–India Borderlands . Oakland, CA: University of California Press. 296 pp. Pb.: US$29.95, ISBN: 9780520395732. Bell, Kirsten. 2022. Silent but Deadly: The Underlying Cultural Patterns of Everyday Behaviour . London:...

Akhavan, Niki. 2013. Electronic Iran: The Cultural Politics of an Online Evolution. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.Allison, Anne. 2013. Precarious Japan. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.Amar, Paul, and Vijay Prashad, eds. 2013. Dispatches from the Arab Spring: Understanding the New Mi...

André Gunder Frank, I. M. Lewis, Philip B. Daniel, Stephen Biggs et al.

Dynamics of World Development. Political Economy of the World System Annuals, Volume 4. Edited by Richard Rubison, London: SAGE. 1981. 264pp. £6.50. Studies of the Modern World‐System. Edited by Albert Bergesen, London: Academic Press. 1980. 277pp. np. World System Structure: continuity and change. ...