...Roanne L. Kantor Kantor's article examines the way that two distinct communities—rural villagers and the writers who represent them in fiction—marshal filth as an ethical term in the discussion of the same problem: dysfunction and socioeconomic stagnation in rural South Asia. Shrilal Shukla's Raag...

... about practices of government performed through differentially ordering spaces and disciplining residents via the burdens of dirt, microbes, and abjection associated with laboring in filth. Social and bodily technologies are thus revealed to be key elements within a wider gamut of techniques...

... . Kaul Shonaleeka . Imagining the Urban: Sanskrit and the City in Early India . London : Seagull Books , 2011 . Kaviraj Sudipta . “ Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta .” Public Culture 10 , no. 1 ( 1997 ): 83 – 113 . Khare R. S...

... of European political philosophy. Roanne Kantor’s essay, which explores literary representa- tions of filth as these impact ideas of caste and sociality, adds yet another dimension to our focus on the Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 1 Vol. 36...

... Asia: Cultural Regulation from Sedition to Seduction . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 2009 . Kaviraj Sudipta . “ Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta .” Public Culture 10 , no. 1 ( 1997 ): 83 – 113 . Klassen Pamela...

... in the early modern period was the product of to be seen primarily as noise polluters, competi- centuries of ideas about dogs in Muslim societies. tors for urban space, potential disease vectors, Much of the classical religious and legal literature and useless sources of filth. They were therefore about...

... the onant materiality of what is meant to be dealt with system of supply, but the very knowledge of that silently and invisibly, “discard labor” transforms a system that would allow orderly adjustments and system of filth and disposal into claims for a more management...

..., filthy-mouthed sheikh Is a bigger ass than them all Who call the filth of your mouth poetry In fact he is a stable-full of asses . . . O louse-eating sheikh in torn-off rags Sheikh, police...

..., CA : Stanford University Press , 2013 . Hirschkind Charles . The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counterpublics . New York : Columbia University Press , 2006 . Kaviraj Sudipta . “ Filth and the Public Sphere: Concepts and Practices about Space in Calcutta...

... in the nine• follow their caste calling worked teenth and twentieth centuries 2 large numbers of Chambars, par• complain about doesn't approach ticularly from Ratnagiri and the filth of Bombay slums. In Kolaba...

... James G. “ Introduction .” In Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain: A Critical Overview , 3 – 20 . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2007 . Pearce William . General View of the County of Berkshire . London : W. Bulmer , 1794 . Perren Richard . “ Filth and Profit...

... of public health directly targeted urban filth and perceived sources of contamination, physical and moral alike. In particular, they aimed at cleaning, paving, and removing waste from the streets, moving slaughterhouses, tanneries, and other businesses that produced foul smells outside of city walls...

... sanitation and members of the Municipal Society to assume leader- public endorsement. Claiming that filth and squalor ship of the commission, declined to do so, fearing the are “the cause of hatred for the human soul,” not to commission’s inability to execute its orders without mention of “great...

... of history - and the Duttugamunu saga in particular - birds who prey on the crocodile's back. That is the were clear in the speeches made by politicians as well as fate of those who eat the filth on the back of letters and articles to newspapers.[6] These recent reinter...

..., or so it would one’s time writing poetry. seem. In the poem below, the beloved is quite Do you know what poetry is? sad to be left behind: It is the filth of some official, discharged when...

...   A. pearing in the programs of various prestigious by the ‘verbal filth’ in these extremely anti- Ipek   modern remarks by the women.” Despite...

... by the larger social system and childhood fig- warning: “Dog, filth, the Africans will eat you to ures of authority, as when the white director death” (45); her white, biological mother’s plain- of her orphanage informs her: “We have a full tive call: “Do...

... in the evening] I feel as though I am slipping out of the town, discarding its burden, casting its sins behind me, and purifying my body and soul from its filth and dirt.” 80 Around the last third of the twentieth century, though, such prerevolutionary “effendi” ideals were rehabilitated, pointing to a new...

... to the vulnerable populace of the neighborhood, that is, women and children. The main body of the Qajariyyah petition warned about the spread of prostitution: “The filth of their [the prostitutes] being is about to reach the women and children of this neighborhood.” 59 Blurring the line between culture...

.... Your the seemingly shrinking distinction between peoples’ enemies surround you in a sea of decay the real and the imagined in the virtual realm and filth that they have brought to your once of war and terror.35 There is also concern about clean and White nation.”31 There are also games...