... influenced by well as in contemporary Bihar. But first, a preliminary Magadhi and Bhojpuri, with scores of authors being mapping of the community. based in villages and qmbm.‘ Bihar did not form a single political entity in the Even today, most Bihari Muslims speak...

...David Boyk At the turn of the twentieth century, the north Indian city of Patna was widely seen as a provincial town in decline. Together with the surrounding region of Bihar, Patna had lost much of its once considerable prominence and prosperity. Nonetheless, it supported a lively and confident...

.... In these novels, filth is characterized by its ability to cling and to spread, such that the only solution seems to be the creation of physical distance between the novel's protagonists and the rural sphere. Ethnographic fieldwork in rural Bihar, however, complicates this view. Villagers express ambivalence about...

...Figure 4. Xuanzang Memorial, Nalanda, Bihar, India. Photograph by David Geary. ...

...Elizabeth LoGiudice Copyright 1988: South Asia Bulletin 1989 BIBLIOGRAPHY Chaudhry , Praveen , “Agrarian Unrest in Bihar A Case Study of Patna District 1960-1984”, Economic and Political Weekly , January 2–9, 1988 . Das , Arvind , “Revolutionary Movement in Bihar”, Economic...

... from the states of Bihar, Orissa and Rajasthan. This in turn leads to many political and social tensions in the country, often taking a communal form. Ever since Independence the state has pompously pronounced lofty goals to improve their working and living conditions through...

...”—a man the as know villagers ways: these do of how variety But sympathizer. Muslim a or leader, Hindu of hero, por- any be in may for trayed struggle he the Nevertheless, with independence. synonymous is name many,his For narratives. their contro- in if characters prominent, versial, most the of Bihar...

.... 82. The aim of the motion was “that instruc- tions be issued forth with to the authorities Ornit Shani • Making India’s Democracy 95 istrators. They designed voter lists and registration Assam, and Bihar and Orissa...

..., Bombay and Central can probably be safely extrapolated to other drought- Province), and 1873-74 (affecting Bengal, Bihar, Oudh, and prone regions' (McAlpin, 1983: 44, n.29). In this way, N.W.P.) field laborers, village artisans and weavers suffered McAlpin draws upon...

...-anwar Bihar al-athar wa al-khitat dhikr o.1 d AiAbra-hfr Tha:Mkaa al- Maktabat (Tehran: al-Ghifari Akbar ‘Ali ed. 1, vol...

... of inquiry along those lines. Some of the more absorbing parts of Vaishnav's book consist of individualized portraits he sketches of various notable criminal politicians (especially from Bihar and Andhra Pradesh, the primary sites of his fieldwork). A near-constant theme in these descriptions is how almost...

... the law, those who implement the law, and those who police the law are historically drawn from upper-caste and dominant-caste groups. For example, Witsoe's analysis of Bihar examines the continued reelection of Lalu Yadav over several election cycles in the 1990s and early 2000s despite widespread...

... Baroda, Gujarat, decade) were asked to leave India as the Indian government Samanvya Ashram at Bodhgaya, Bihar, Agrindus at Mirzapur, felt that their methods were too drastic and unsuitable to the V.P., and Gandhigram in Madurai, Tamilnadu. The second conditions of Indian...

... been in neighboring Bihar, and only flect reality. 5. For a parallel study focusing on the figuration of vani prakrtasamucitarasa balenaiva samskr- 8. These excursions, of course, beg the question of the King Laksmanasena, see Jesse R. Knutson, “The Po- tam nita exact audience...

... of less For the Indian political leaders, the than six months of import. Green Revolution was the perfect solution: In 1966 the summer crops failed again it accelerated the rate of growth of in Bihar, eastern Uttar Pradesh, parts...

... western Indian town of Bhiwandi, to work in the textile powerloom sweatshops with a group of other young men from his village. To get there, Ehsaan first went to Patna, the capital of Bihar state, and when he saw the city he thought, “The world stretches till here”; then he caught a train to Bhiwandi...

... philosophy, on a local and practical level populism is number had shot up to 787 by 1941.11 In terms of news- another component of Indian official nationalism. paper stability, numbers from the Central Provinces and There are at least three different ways in which this no- Bihar show a pattern found...

... . Edited by Gros Frédéric and translated by Burchell Graham . Basingstoke, UK : Palgrave Macmillan , 2011 . ———. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences . London : Routledge , 2001 . Gandhi Ramachandra . “ Earthquake in Bihar: The Transfiguration of Karma...

...,A comparative study done by Tata (x) Caste/classes where the sources of drinking water is Institute of Social Sciences, Bombay regarding reactions more than one-half kilometer from their dwelling for in four states - Uttar Pradesh, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, more than 50 per cent of the households; and Bihar...