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Informationen zum Autor Kamala Visweswaran is Associate Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Texas! Austin. She is the author of Fictions of Feminist Ethnography (1994)! Uncommon Cultures (2010)! and the forthcoming A Thousand Genocides Now: Gujarat in the Modern Imaginary of Violence. Klappentext 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. Perspectives on Modern South Asia 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. Zusammenfassung Perspectives on Modern South Asia 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments. Acknowledgment of Sources. Introduction: Reconceptualizing Nation and Region in Modern South Asia ( Kamala Visweswaran ). Part I Debates about Origins: Pre/Modern Religious Pluralities in South Asia. Introduction. 1 Beyond Ethnicity? Being Hindu and Muslim in South Asia ( Shail Mayaram ). 2 Towards a Composite Reading of South Asian Religious Cultures: The Case of Islam ( Syed Akbar Hyder ). 3 Tolerant Hinduism: Shared Ritual Spaces - Hindus and Muslims at the Shrine of Shahul Hamid ( Vasudha Narayanan ). 4 Hindu Gods and Us: Our Goddesses and the Hindus ( Kancha Iliah ). Part II The Study of South Asian Society and the Emergence of Modern Forms of Social Classification. Introduction. 5 Notes on the History of the Study of Indian Society and Culture ( Bernard Cohn ). 6 A Note on Sanskritization and Westernization ( M. N. Srinivas ). 7 What's in a Name? Aryans and Dravidians in the Making of Sri Lankan Identities ( Arjun Guneratne ). 8 Politics of Ethnicity in India and Pakistan ( Hamza Alavi ). 9 Ethnicity! Caste and a Pluralist Society ( Rajendra Pradhan ). Part III Partition! Nationalism! and the Formation of South Asian National States. Introduction. 10 Abducted Women! the State and Questions of Honour: Three Perspectives on the Recovery Operation in Post-Partition India ( Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin ). 11 Identity! Violence and Women: A Reflection on the Partition of India 1947 ( Nighat Said Khan ). 12 The Quest for National Identity: Women! Islam and the State in Bangladesh ( Naila Kabeer ). 13 Nationalist Agendas and Women's Rights: Conflicts in Afghanistan in the Twentieth Century ( Valentine M. Moghadam ). 14 The State and National Foundation in the Maldives ( Rizwan A. Ahmad ). Part IV States and Communal Conflict in South Asia. Introduction. 15 Reflections on Communal Violence in South Asia ( Stanley J. Tambiah ). 16 Ayodhya: The Modernity of Hinduism ( Pankaj Mishra ). 17 Identity on the Borderline: Modernity! New Ethnicities! and the Unmaking of Multiculturalism in Sri Lanka ( Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake ). 18 War! Factionalism! and the State in Afghanistan ( Nazif M. Shahrani ). Part V Development and Liberalization. Introduction. 19 Development Regimes in South Asia: History and the Governance Conundrum ( David Ludden ). 20 Radical Needs a...
