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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 319–324.
Published: 01 December 2021
... value as an instrument for historical analysis that is restricted neither solely to minority-majority relations nor to debates about (political) representation. Instead, the authors propose a global intellectual history of “minority” as a concept and experience, which is explored in the essays compiled...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 291–294.
Published: 01 August 2020
... and, specifically, in Berlin, while also tracing the prehistory and afterlives in the colony and newly independent nations in South Asia. At the same time, our articles locate Indo-German histories within a wider global context as well. Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 minor cosmopolitanisms...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 413–421.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the focus of sociological, anthropological, as well as political discourse, especially in the wake of the 2005 urban riots. Considering their case can help us to understand the history and the present-day predicament of “minority” in order to reimagine it beyond restrictive and racist frames. Copyright ©...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (2): 487–497.
Published: 01 August 2011
..., geographical location, these narratives reverse the one-way motion of migration and assimilation, undermine the model-minority stereotype, and contradict the subtext of dominant Western discourses around Iran—that it is a place every sensible Iranian would leave behind if given the opportunity. Tara...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 451–456.
Published: 01 August 2018
... . Mahmood Saba . Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2016 . Mehrez Samia . Egyptian Writers between History and Fiction: Essays on Naguib Mahfouz, Sonallah Ibrahim, and Gamal al-Ghitani . Cairo : The American...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2011) 31 (3): 569–587.
Published: 01 December 2011
... squarely within Turkish national man history, the Mevlevi order maintained close culture as a minority religious leader support- ties to the court in Istanbul and, as the brother- ing the new republic but also, despite his own hood of the ruling classes, became influential Hebrew- only compositions...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 455–468.
Published: 01 December 2021
... Pant and the history of Indian engagement with Rhodesia has not, until now, been explored. This article argues that the central role of India in the colonial world ensured that London reined in the white settler Rhodesian government from enacting discriminatory legislation against its minority Indian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (2): 243–259.
Published: 01 August 2014
...Thushara Hewage Hewage’s essay examines the history of emergency rule, which has defined the greater part of Sri Lanka’s postcolonial experience. It suggests that we rethink the conventional constitutional provision of emergency’s necessity in relation to the broader temporality of necessity, which...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2017) 37 (3): 463–469.
Published: 01 December 2017
... in Delhi since the 1990s: An Appraisal. Economic and Political Weekly 43, no. 28 (2008): 79 87. Gidwani, Vinay, and Rajyashree N. Reddy. The Afterlives of Waste : Notes from India for a Minor History of Capitalist Surplus. Antipode 43, no. 5 (2011): 1625 58. Government of Delhi. Delhi Economic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (2): 295–308.
Published: 01 August 2020
... of the minor cosmopolitanism forged by secular South Asian Muslims, which is significant for the study of minority issues and nationalism in colonial and postcolonial India. Kris Manjapra highlights an important archival question for writing entangled histories of the encounters of South Asian...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 66–75.
Published: 01 May 2015
... University Press , 2010 . Chakrabarty Dipesh . “ The Climate of History: Four Theses .” Critical Inquiry 35 ( 2009 ): 197 – 222 . ———. “ Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts .” Economic and Political Weekly 33 , no. 9 ( 1998 ): 473 – 78 . ———. “ Postcolonial Studies...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 332–339.
Published: 01 December 2021
... the jurisdiction of the newly constructed League of Nations based in Geneva. These two systems, despite their closely intertwined histories and origins, are rarely considered together. Indeed, they are usually presented in quite different lights, with the minority regimes appearing as a weak but well-intentioned...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 325–331.
Published: 01 December 2021
... There are good reasons for the absence of the term minority in tsarist Russia. The country was an empire rather than a nation-state; it had subjects rather than citizens; over most of its history the monarchy and dynasty rather than the nation represented the principal object of loyalty. More generally, empire...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 340–346.
Published: 01 December 2021
... revolution's launching. 17 Because the Human Rights Commission did not grant recognition to minorities in the declaration, the notion of minority rights became detached from the burgeoning human rights system early in its history. Relegated to a subsidiary commission in 1947, minority rights traveled...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2014) 34 (3): 532–548.
Published: 01 December 2014
... of Urbanism in India: Metropolitan Civility and Sustainability , edited by Rademacher Anne Sivaramakrishnan K. , 169 – 200 . Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press , 2013 . Gidwani Vinay Reddy Rajyashree N. . “ The Afterlives of ‘Waste’: Notes from India for a Minor History...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2021) 41 (3): 355–361.
Published: 01 December 2021
...: Oulémas Ibadites et Société du Mzab (c. 1880–c. 1970) ” (“Islamic Reform in Colonial Algeria: Ibadi Ulama and Society in the Mzab”). PhD diss., l'Université du Maine le Mans-Laval , 2015 . Klein Janet . “ The Minority Question: A View from History and the Kurdish Periphery...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2003) 23 (1-2): 351–352.
Published: 01 August 2003
... acknowledges in the After- most important ones are the Israeli authorities’ policies word that the “reader who comes to the book expecting toward the Palestinian minority, which were guided by “thick descriptions” of the lifeways and customs of the three major considerations of “security” (viewing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2019) 39 (2): 249–263.
Published: 01 August 2019
..., this history is difficult to read as anything other than a minor moment in the history of the nation-state. For instance, the 1922 pamphlet published by SETA might with good reason be interpreted simply as a minority's strategic, and perhaps desperate, effort to establish good relations with the Turkish...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (3): 407–420.
Published: 01 December 2020
... described above examine erstwhile minor (so-called princely) states, whose histories provide evidence of postimperial visions, political rituals, and institutional practice instructive for moving beyond colonial conceptual frameworks to conceive new histories of sovereignty. One looks at a Raj frontier...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2005) 25 (2): 488–500.
Published: 01 August 2005
..., not inside Israel. To- of the national history of Israeli Arabs and a re- day, Palestinian citizens of Israel are referred vival of their national pride,” according to Tel to as “non-Jews,” “the minorities,” “Arabs and Aviv researcher Eli Reches.53...