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Contesting Identity
Sanjeev Kumar H.M. - In: International Studies 49 (2012) 3-4, pp. 423-436
The interface between religion and politics has become strong in the wake of expansion of modernity in its contemporary …
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Human Development and the Transformation of the Academy
Richards, Howard - In: Journal of Developing Societies 27 (2011) 2, pp. 201-206
intractable problems of modernity by mobilizing non-modern cultural resources. It is claimed that many indigenous peoples know …
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Inaugurating a (Feminine) Public: Women’s Romances in Kannada, 1950s–1960s
Radhika P. - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 21 (2014) 1, pp. 85-110
This article examines a set of Kannada romances written by women during the 1950s–1960s that became hugely popular during that time. It investigates the formation of subjectivity in these novels vis-à-vis subjectivity constituted in the state’s developmental-modern language soon after...
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Examining The End of Revolution
Horesh, Niv; Sullivan, Jonathan - In: China Report 50 (2014) 2, pp. 151-160
critical overview of Wang’s positions on neoliberalism, the tension between Western articulations of modernity and China⠅
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Hu Shih and ‘The Indianisation of China’
Sheel, Kamal - In: China Report 50 (2014) 3, pp. 177-188
the famous May Fourth Movement of 1919, he was among the first contributors for radical ideological change and modernity …€˜failed’ state or incapable role model for the agenda of modernity. Yet, he did not overlook affinities, mutual respect and … admiration for those in India searching for ‘indigenous roots’ to modernity. His famous observation that ‘India conquered …
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Land and Territory: Meanings of Land between Modernity and Tradition
Sauer, Sérgio - In: Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy 1 (2012) 1, pp. 85-107
The recent ‘land rush’ reinforces the historical struggles for land and territory in the fight for a place to dwell and work, beyond the questions of land exchange value and price. The resistance of peasants and traditional communities against processes of expropriation give rise to...
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‘Pet ke waaste’: Rights, resistance and the East Indian Railway Strike, 1922
Webb, Silas - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 51 (2014) 1, pp. 71-94
At its peak, the East Indian Railway strike of 1922 affected more than 1500 kilometres of rail and involved tens of thousands of workers. The strike was an exemplary moment in Indian worker politics. It advanced an idiom of citizenship, distinct from Gandhian non-cooperation and Congress...
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Associational culture and civic engagement in colonial Lucknow
Stark, Ulrike - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 48 (2011) 1, pp. 1-33
Despite their importance in forging notions of civility, civic engagement and political participation, nineteenth century voluntary associations have received little attention in the growing body of literature on the rise and nature of civil society in India. This article explores the mutually...
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Author of one’s fate: Fatalism and agency in Indo-Persian histories
Anooshahr, Ali - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 49 (2012) 2, pp. 197-224
A shift of worldviews can be observed in the historical writings of three Indo-Persian authors ‘Abd al-Malik ‘Isami, Rizq Allah Mushtaqi and Nizam al-Din Ahmad. Whereas ‘Isami viewed history as the unfolding of events predetermined by divine fate; Nizam al-Din considered human...
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Something like rights? Faith, law and widow immolation debates in colonial Bengal
Sarkar, Tanika - In: The Indian Economic & Social History Review 49 (2012) 3, pp. 295-320
The article straddles two separate but intertwined registers. One is the interface between faith and law under early colonial rule. I explore this through the lens of colonial governance of immolations of Hindu widows. The other is the gradual transmutation of an idea or a word: consent, the...
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