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.... REVOLUTION IN TELENGANA 1946-1951 ( Part One ) Akhil Gupta Visnuru Ramachandra Reddy, the much feared and hated landlord of Jangaon taluka (sub-district or county) was angry. He had been prevented from seizing the lands...

... or the Taliban's destruction of statues. But I would argue that they are equally, if not more, powerful. 15 Naming them risks having the scope of one's argument questioned; in Sara Ahmed's words, sexism is a problem with a name, but to name the problem is to become a problem. 16 As a male colleague recently...

...” was witnessed. After this lengthy retreat, we now observe the reemergence of religions in different forms. Religion has proved to have “nine lives,” and each time, the death of God turned into the resurrection of God. But the resurrected God and reemerged religions are not one and the same as before. They have...

...Benoît Challand Abstract The article argues that the social life of racialization in Tunisia can be traced back to colonial norms and that one cannot speak of racialization in isolation of class differentials, elements that arose historically with the spread of the tandem colonialism-capitalism...

... not always affect, let alone silence, cultural actors, but it did introduce a language ideology that associated one language to one community, and vice versa. Comparing the precolonial and the colonial period entails looking at multilingual systems, whose internal hierarchies and regional/transnational power...

... refusal/acceptance works, following Isabelle Stenger, in “making sense in common,” which figures here as a prerequisite for the ethnographic encounter. It presents two ethnographic vignettes, drawing on work with Muslims in Belgium, that reflect two moments of refusal/acceptance: one wherein refusal...

... suggested that a critical account of the ways in which fabricated symbolic devices produce a dramatic loss of one’s grasp on the given world was a necessary precondition for the inculcation of satyashodh (truth seeking), which named a deliberate practice of inquisitive self-making without determinate end...

...Maya Mikdashi In this essay Mikdashi examines the legal practice of strategic conversion, or religious conversion undertaken in order to make use of different aspects of the Lebanese legal system. Mikdashi illustrates the process of strategic conversion by comparing it to that of correcting one’s...

...Ken Seigneurie When the Lebanese civil war officially broke out in 1975, the conflict looked a lot like one of the numerous proxy wars that hitched local animosities to the East-West ideological struggle. Within a year, however, the cart began pulling the horse as ethnic-sectarian struggle...

... article uncovers the emergence of a housing and rent market in Calcutta predicated on notions of housing rights as an outgrowth of worker protest and militancy, on the one hand, and market speculation in land and housing on the other. This tension opened up a space for colonial intervention, one that drew...

... many debates and controversies revolve. By focusing on the “special” nature not only of sexual crime but also of suffering as a result of it, I argue that genuine compensation for the victims of structural and catastrophic violence can be sought only when 1) one steps outside the framework of modesty...

... by religious ones and vice versa. Engaging with scholarship on property relations on the one hand (within and beyond the Middle East) and Christianity on the other, the introduction proposes an approach to church property that holds the economic and religious aspects of property in productive tension...

...Scott Kugle Shi`i devotion and Urdu poetry both flourished in unique ways in the Deccan region, but did these cultural phenomena allow new creativity for women? This question can be addressed by examining the courtesan Mah Laqa Bai (AH 1181–1240/1768–1824), one of the most powerful figures...

...Touraj Daryaee This essay discusses the formation of an economy in late antiquity with the coming of the Sassanian Empire in 224 CE. Local, imperial, regional, and international trade and the role of the state and traders and their relation with one another are previewed. Based on surviving...