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Self and Sovereigntyby Ayesha Jalal
Routledge 2000; US$ 49.95A survey of the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period. It is an important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia. more...
Culture and Economy in the Indian Diasporaby Bhikhu Parekh; Gurharpal Singh; Steven Vertovec
Routledge 2003; US$ 160.00Examines the Indian diaspora in Mauritius, South Africa, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Trinidad, Australia, the US, Canada and the UK and the core issues of demography, economy, culture and future development. more...
Christians and Public Life in Colonial South India,by Chandra Mallampalli
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 188.00This book tells the story of how Catholic and Protestant Indians have attempted to locate themselves within the evolving Indian nation. more...
Ethnic Conflict in Indiaby Dr Gurharpal Singh
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 147.00This important new book critically evaluates the conventional reading of ethnicity and ethnic conflict in contemporary Indian politics. By focusing on India's nation and state-building in the peripheral regions since 1947, in particular Punjab, it argues that there is a case for considering India as an ethnic democracy. The long-term development of ethno-nationalist separatist movements and the future character of Indian democracy is assessed in light of the challenge posed by the rise of Hindutva forces, the demise of the Nehruvian state, and the internal political and economic pressures towards regionalization. more...
No One Cries for the Deadby Isabelle Clark-Decès
University of California Press 2005; US$ 26.95At South Indian village funerals, women cry and lament, men drink and laugh, and untouchables sing and joke to the beat of their drums. No One Cries for the Dead offers an original interpretation of these behaviors, which seem almost unrelated to the dead and to the funeral event. Isabelle Clark-Decès demonstrates that rather than mourn the dead, these Tamil funeral songs first and foremost give meaning to the caste, gender, and personal experiences of the performers. more...
Bittersweetby Brij Lal
Pandanus Books 2004; US$ 36.00A collection of essays, fiction and memoir commemorating the Indo-Fijian experience more...
Domicile and Diasporaby Alison Blunt
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2008; US$ 92.95Domicile and Diaspora investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. The first book to study the Anglo-Indian community past and present, in India, Britain and Australia. The first book by a geographer to focus on a community of mixed descent. Investigates geographies of home and identity for Anglo-Indian women in the 50 years before and after Indian independence in 1947. Draws on interviews and focus groups with over 150 Anglo-Indians, as well as archival research. Makes a distinctive contribution to debates about home, identity, hybridity, migration and diaspora. more...
The Sikh Diasporaby Singh Tatla Darshan
Routledge 1998; US$ 59.95Explores the relationship between home and host states and between migrant and indigenous Sikh communities, considering the implications of the history and politics of the Sikh diaspora for nationality, citizenship and sovereignity. more...
Representations of Indian Muslims in Colonial Discourseby Alex Padamsee
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2005; US$ 95.00This study questions current views that Muslims represented a secure point of reference for the British understanding of colonial Indian society. Through revisionary readings of a wide range of texts, it re-examines the basis of the British misperception of Muslim 'conspiracy' during the 'Mutiny'. Arguing that this belief stemmed from conflicts inherent to the secular ideology of the colonial state, it shows how in the ensuing years it produced representations ridden with paradox and requiring a form of descriptive segregation. more...
Peasant Pastsby Vinayak Chaturvedi
University of California Press 2007; US$ 17.56Provides an intervention in the social and cultural history of India by examining the nature of peasant discourses and practices during the 19th and 20th centuries. This book shows that peasants in Gujarat were active in production and circulation of political ideas. It argues that nationalists in Gujarat established power through use of coercion. more...









