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Regional Diversities and the Conflict -- Caste, Everyday Life and Conflict Politics -- Border Realities: Contesting Hegemonic Paradigms of Nationalism and Conflict -- Contesting the Homogenised Discourse of Religious Identities. "Rethinking Conflict at the Margins departs from …
"How can religious freedom be granted to people who do not have a religion? While Indian indentured workers in colonial Trinidad practiced cherished rituals, "Hinduism" was not a widespread category in India at the time. On this Caribbean island, people of South Asian descent an…
Schooling Passions explores an important yet often overlooked dimension of nationalism--its embodied and emotional components. It does so by focusing on another oft-neglected area, that of elementary education in the modern state. Through an ethnographic study of schools in west…
Drawing on ethnographic research spanning ten years, Antoinette Elizabeth DeNapoli offers a new perspective on the practice of asceticism in India today. Her work brings to light the little known and often marginalized lives of female Hindu ascetics (sadhus) in the North Indian …
Whereas previous studies of the end of British rule in India have concentrated on the negotiations of the transfer of power at the all-India level or have considered the emergence of separatist politics amongst India's Muslim minorities, this study provides a re-evaluation of th…