...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...

..., and the split between Hindi and Urdu that rocked North India in the 1870s and 1880s. While we observe some notable shifts—modern Hindi, English, and the colonial office—there are also many continuities: Brajbhasha and Avadhi devotional poetry and poetic circles, Persian. Born in 1850 and raised first by his...

...Richard David Williams Abstract In early modern North India, knowledge systems developed simultaneously in multiple “classical” and “vernacular” languages. This article examines the processes of multilingual knowledge transmission through an analysis of a Brajbhasha (classical Hindi) music treatise...

...Siarhei Bohdan Abstract This article investigates Iranian–North Korean cooperation after the 1979 revolution in Iran as a case of sustained efforts effectively aimed at implementing Third Worldist ideas. Both Iranian revolutionaries and North Korean Communist officials referred to Third Worldism...

...Anne-Marie McManus; Nancy Y. Reynolds Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) today is an epicenter for the theorization of absence. Scholars, in efforts to counter the politics that have erased and continue to erase humans and places from the region, frequently assert the microdynamics...

...M.S. Prabhakara © 1994: South Asia Bulletin 1994 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XIV No. 1 (1994) BJP and the North-East M.S. Prabhakara The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), for long dis- with factions of the establishment, including those missed as a “cowbelt” party with which...

...Leela Prasad Raja Nal and the Goddess: The North Indian Epic Dhola in Performance Susan Snow Wadley Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004 216 pp., $22.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2006...

...C. S. Adcock Proponents of cow protection in colonial north India around the turn of the twentieth century made abundant use of “economic” arguments for a legislative ban on cow slaughter. Drawing on recent critical reflections on secular history, this essay explores what it might mean to take...

...Paul Kingston Social Movements, Mobilization, and Contestation in the Middle East and North Africa Beinin Joel Vairel Frederic ., eds. Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 xiv + 308 pp., $80.00 (cloth) , $24.95 (paper) © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...David Gutman Gutman’s article examines the attempts by the Ottoman state under Sultan Abdulhamid II to prevent large-scale Armenian migration to North America. It reveals how these efforts were hampered in practice by contradictions inherent within the state’s attempts to control and surveil...

... Landscapes of North India Anand Vivek Taneja hen I stared anthropological fieldwork in Delhi in 2010, my concerns were overwhelmingly anthropocentric. I was primarily concerned with how new ideas of sacrality and sainthood...

...Christophe Jaffrelot © 1998: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1998 The Bahujan Samaj Party in North India: No Longer Just a Dalit Party?l Christophe Jaffielot From the 1930s to the 1950s, Dr. Ambedkar evolved From “Assertiveness...

...-Davis , Nira . 1997 . Gender and Nation (Thousand Oaks: Sage). Yuval-Davis , Nira , and Floya Anthias (eds.), 1989 . Woman-Nation-State (London: Macmillan). Gender, National Identity and Citizenship: Reflections on the Middle East and North Mkica...

... , November 27. Singh, Jane. 1998 . South Asians in North America: An Annotated and Selected Bibliography . Berkeley: University of California Press. Steinberg, Stephen. 1995 . Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy . Boston:Beacon Press. Ungar, Sheldon...

...Julia Clancy-Smith Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Collaboration and Empire in the Middle East and North Africa: Introduction and Response1 Julia Clancy-Smith In 1801, a great rumpus erupted over the unto- cerned British families and officials...

...Zakia Salime Abstract This essay discusses the discourse of race and racism as a “new zone” of theory grounded in orientalist claims about discovery and saving. It shows how this discourse centers slavery as an ultimate lens through which to understand the race question in the North Africa...

...Martin Slama The article compares Hadhrami communities located in two different parts of Indonesia: Java, Indonesia’s central island, and rather peripheral Central and North Sulawesi. The comparisons generated the following results: in Sulawesi, regulations implemented by the Dutch colonial...

... in North Africa. From a direct form of racialized violence leaving Muslim Tunisians on the low end of the colonial social ladder of worth, salaries, and the right to life, one moved to a more symbolic form of violence, with the south of the country quasi-racialized as less valuable than the urban coastal...

... process that fundamentally shaped the South African terrain well before 1948. The South African Republic's mid-nineteenth-century assertion of ownership of all land north of the Vaal River and south of the Limpopo marked the start of a long process of racialized dispossession that rendered black people's...

...Supriya Gandhi Abstract Around 1867, North Indian religious reformer Kanhaiyalal Alakhdhari completed a translation into Urdu of fifty-two Upanishads. Alakhdhari, who later played a key role in establishing the Arya Samaj in the Punjab, wished for Hindus to emulate Christians and Muslims in giving...