..., and pursuit of individual self-interest. The question of what happens to popular power in the age of electoral competition and majority rule and how it is thwarted but also reshaped is particularly central to this discussion. I suggest that violence is not just the “smoke that calls” out to realize...

...Shaswati Mazumdar Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture Mufti Aamir R. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2007 344 pp. , $25.95 (paper) © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011...

... the social and economic hardships experienced by Dalit communities in Bangladesh. This article demonstrates that there is a longer history of engagements with the caste question among social scientists in East Pakistan and Bangladesh; however, the endemic practice of identifying caste inequity exclusively...

...Bernard Hourcade; Afshin Matin-Asgari © 1993: South Asia Bulletin 1993 South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI11 Nos. 1 & 2 (1993). The Land Question and Islamic Revolution in Iran Bernard Hourcade (Translated from the French by Afshin Matin-Asgari) Land reform...

... article titled “What Is Islam?” in Chinese Culture ( Zhongguo Wenhua ), a journal published out of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) base area in Yan'an, Shaanxi Province. The author of the article was Liu Chun (1912–2002), the newly appointed director of the Party's National Question Research...

... and the emergence of South Asian Muslims as a minority community? It engages this question through the example of intra-Muslim debates and contestations on the boundaries of friendship between Muslims and non-Muslims in modern South Asia, with a focus on the thought of certain prominent traditionalist ‘ulama...

... ). The History of Famines 1858–1918 . (Agra: Sri Ram Mehra and Company). Thorner , D. , ( 1962 ). Land and Labour in India . (Asia Publishing House). SOUTH ASIA BULLEIIN, Vol. V No.2, Spring 1985 THE QUESTION OF FAMINES: A Critical Analysis of the McAlpin Thesis...

...Murad Idris Abstract This essay analyzes the role of politics and power in Shahab Ahmed's What Is Islam? It is framed around three questions: (1) What kind of question is “What is Islam?”—or rather, for whom is this a question, and from which spaces and out of which times does it arise? (2) Who...

...Allison Drew South Asia Bulletin, Vol. XI1 NO. 2, Fall, 1992. Political Representation and the Indian Question in South African Politics Allison Drew representing all South Africans and their opposition to Introduction...

...Kumari Jayawardena REFERENCES David , Horace B. (ed.), The National Question, Selected Writings of Rosa Luxemburg . Monthly Review Press, New York, 1976 . Jayawardena , Kumari The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon . Duke University Press, N.C. 1972 . Jayawardena...

...) The Peopling of Sri Lanka: The National Question and Some Problems of History and Ethnicity Senake Bandaranayake Questions of history and "ethnicity" have played, almost the struggle against foreign conquest...

... World, 1780–1914 . Oxford : Blackwell , 2004 . Bose Sugata . A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2006 . Cooper Frederick . Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History . Berkeley : University...

...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...

... “hot spot” in the region. The question of who or what constitutes the police force is as important as the question of what it does . The categories of police or law enforcer and those who are policed are malleable and contingent. Networks of secrecy, transparency, and trust are produced through...

...Hassan Yusefi-Eshkevari This essay's purpose is twofold: to problematize the question of the urfi (secular) system versus the religious system and to examine the question of faithful life in a modern and urfi world. As for the first part, the Islamic state is defined by “divine legitimacy of power...

... these theoretical questions has emerged: one moving from dissatisfaction with individual primary concepts—like secularity, the state, citizenship, industrialization, labor—to a more generalized discontent regarding the nature of theorizing itself. Gopal Guru and Sunder Sarukkai’s book The Cracked Mirror contributes...

... a site of embodied philosophical engagement with questions regarding the bounds of self and community and our ethics toward others. We turn to these rich traditions, both textual and embodied, to confound and erase the sharp boundaries between the human, the animal, and the environment that have been...

..., cruelties and forms of indifference expressed by our ethnographic interlocutors while witnessing or executing the death of animals. Rather than indicting such acts and emotions, we emphasize a different question within the anthropology of ethics. Instead of asking (only) how one ought to live, we suggest...

...Rabab El-Mahdi Abstract This article argues that the interplay between a limited disciplinary research agenda in political science and an overemphasis on quantitative methods has left a whole range of important untapped questions regarding the Middle East and North Africa. This is most obvious...

...Sarah Ghabrial Abstract This essay addresses the question of how colonial histories might be “written back” into genealogies of exception. Its central premise is that exception insinuates itself into and finally supplants the norm from margins (symbolic, racial, and cartographic) to centers, and so...