Everyday life in South Asia / edited by Diane P. Mines and Sarah Lamb.

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Book
Language
English
Εdition
Second edition, New edition.
Published/​Created
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2010.
Description
1 online resource (581 pages) : illustrations, maps

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This anthology provides a lively and stimulating view of the lives of ordinary citizens in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. For the second edition of this popular textbook, readings have been updated and new essays added. The result is a timely collection that explores key themes in understanding the region, including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, economic liberalization, nationalism, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on the experiences of the middle classes, migrant workers, and IT professionals, and on media, consumerism, and youth c
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Description based upon print version of record.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages [503]-543) and index.
Source of description
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 12, 2013).
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English
Contents
  • One straw from a broom cannot sweep : the ideology and practice of the joint family in rural North India / Susan S. Wadley
  • Allah gives both boys and girls / Patricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
  • "Out here in Kathmandu" : youth and the contradictions of modernity in urban Nepal / Mark Liechty
  • Rethinking courtship, marriage, and divorce in an Indian call center / Cari Costanzo Kapur
  • Love and aging in Bengali families / Sarah Lamb
  • New light in the house : schooling girls in rural North India / Ann Grodzins Gold
  • Roadwork : offstage with Special Drama actresses in Tamil Nadu, South India / Susan Seizer
  • Breadwinners no more : identities in flux / Michele Ruth Gamburd
  • Life on the margins : a hijra's story / Serena Nanda
  • Crossing "lines" of difference : transnational movements and sexual subjectivities in Hyderabad, India / Gayatri Reddy
  • Seven prevalent misconceptions about India's caste system
  • God-chariots in a garden of castes : hierarchy and festival in a Hindu city / Steven M. Parish
  • High and low castes in Karani / Viramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine
  • Weakness, worry illness, and poverty in the slums of Dhaka / Sabina Faiz Rashid
  • Anjali's alliance : class mobility in urban India / Sara Dickey
  • Recasting the secular : religion and education in Kerala, India / Ritty Lukose
  • The Hindu gods in a South Indian village / Diane P. Mines
  • The Feast of Love / McKim Marriott
  • The delusion of gender and renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir / Kim Gutschow
  • Muslim village intellectuals : the life of the mind in northern Pakistan / Magnus Marsden
  • In friendship : a father, a daughter, and a jinn / Naveeda Khan
  • Vernacular Islam at a healing crossroads in Hyderabad / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
  • Voices from the partition / Urvashi Butalia
  • A day in the life / Laura Ring
  • Living and dying for Mother India : Hindu nationalist female renouncers and sacred duty / Kalyani Devaki Menon
  • Political praise in Tamil newspapers : the poetry and iconography of democratic power / Bernard Bate
  • Mala's dream : economic policies, national debates, and Sri Lankan garment workers / Caitrin Lynch
  • Interviews with high school students in eastern Sri Lanka / Margaret Trawick
  • Cinema in the countryside : popular Tamil film and the remaking of rural life / Anand Pandian
  • Dangerous desires : erotics, public culture, and identity in late-twentieth-century India / Purnima Mankekar
  • A diaspora Ramayana in Southall / Paula Richman
  • British Sikh lives, lived in translation / Kathleen Hall
  • Examining the "global" Indian middle class : gender and culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit / Smitha Radhakrishnan
  • Placing lives through stories : second-generation South Asian Americans / Kirin Narayan
  • Unexpected destinations / E. Valentine Daniel.
ISBN
  • 9780253013576 (electronic book)
  • 0-253-22194-3
  • 0-253-01357-7
OCLC
  • 858764961
  • 858975751
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