基本説明
Explores key themes including gender, caste, class, religion, globalization, and emerging modernities. New readings focus attention on migrant workers, IT professionals, media, consumerism, and youth culture.
Full Description
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 culture. Clear and engaged writing makes this text particularly valuable for general and student readers, while the range of new and classic scholarship provides a useful resource for specialists.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Introduction
Map
I. The Family and the Life Course
Introduction
1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley
2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery
3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban NepalMark Liechty
4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari Costanzo Kapur
5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb
II. Genders
Introduction
6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins Gold
7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India: RoadworkSusan Seizer
8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd
9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda
10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy
III. Caste, Class and Community
Introduction
11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System
12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu CitySteven M. Parish
13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine
14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz Rashid
15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey
16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty Lukose
IV. Practicing Religion
Introduction
17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines
18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott
19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow
20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern PakistanMagnus Marsden
21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan
22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger
V. Nation-making
Introduction
23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia
24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring
25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon
26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic PowerBernard Bate
27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch
28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret Trawick
VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural LifeAnand Pandian
30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century IndiaPurnima Mankekar
31. A Diaspora Ramayana in SouthallPaula Richman
32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in TranslationKathleen Hall
33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore CircuitSmitha Radhakrishnan
34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian AmericansKirin Narayan
35. Unexpected DestinationsE. Valentine Daniel
References
Contributors
Index
