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...Juan R. I. Cole Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2003 The Provincial Politics of Heresy and Reform in Qajar Iran: Shaykh al-Rais in Shiraz, 1895-1902 Juan R. I. Cole Abu al-Hasan Mirza, known as Shaykh al-Rais (1848- see the Bahai leader Abdul-Baha...

...Rebecca Gruskin Abstract In the 1920s and 1930s, the French colonial phosphate mining company in Gafsa, Tunisia, used X-ray images to decide which of its workers’ injuries were fake and which were real. Through an analysis of X-ray photography in Gafsa, this article argues that a capacious history...

...Sarah Gandee This article explores the postcolonial criminalization of a so-called criminal tribe in the borderlands of East Punjab in the years following independence and Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947. A small proportion of the Rai Sikhs had been notified by the colonial government...

...) was the first of the Indo-Islamic kings of northern In- Malikzadah, Bhupat Rai, Khushhal Chand, Anand Ram dia formally to declare Persian the language of admini- “Mukhlis,” Bindraban “Khwushgu,” and a number of stration at all levels, which had not been the case under others who made substantive contributions...

... Bengal tigers, crocodiles, sharks, several thousands of birds and fish, a tiger-demon named Dakshin Ray, 15 and the protectress of the forest, a deity Bonbibi. In the history of the delta, power—both economic and social—has been concentrated in religious figures or holy men, such as pirs and faqirs...

... week and stretched out of the ward, around the waiting area, past the chaiwallah, beyond the hospital gate. In the distance, he could make out the narial-pani vendor's tower of green coconuts. Ramesh slipped into his cramped X-ray cabin, out of the busy ward. Do not leave the line , he heard...

... Ray in the 1930s. Ray, considered the father of whether colonial Indian males saw the sport- Bengali sports journalism, tried to promote the ing activities of women as a conscious challenge...

... the song Phire Chal Apan Craft in partnership with friends Amar Mallick and P N Ghare. Many ustads from Bhagalpur would invariably Ray, who had been associated with the making of sing the songs Chunyeona bandhu and Shatek Baras Pare Himanshu Rai’s16 A Throw of Dice (1929). The concern at the end of each...

.... In Climate Change and the Art of Devotion , Sugata Ray maps such connections among climatic variability, historical eventfulness, theology, and aesthetic practice. He persuasively reads changes in the Vaishnava liturgy of early modern Braj as a response to the global climatic upheavals of the Little Ice Age...

... s recep­tion in late seve­ nt­eenth-cent­ury Punjab is pert­i­nent here. The tenth Sikh guru, Gobind Singh, who incor­po­rated seve­ral Islamicate fea­tures in his own court, comm­ is­sioned the litt­er­at­eur Prahlad Rai to trans­late the Upan­ i­shads into Hindavi or bhasha. The Sirr-i akbar...

... Founder’s Day North India including Kashmir. celebration in London, Arya educational leader Lala Lajpat The introduction of Western-style education into colo- Rai’s recounting of the founding of the college included ref- nial settings often laid the groundwork for long-term com- erence to an “unwritten...

... patronized by Emperor Muhammad Shah (r. 1719–48) and his court, particularly related to music and khyal songs, see Pauwels, Cultural Exchange , 38–42 . 32. “Sagar, unchevale Vajpeyi” (1786–1823), patronized by Tikait Rai, wrote a Bama-manoranjan (Women's entertainment); Beni from Rai Bareilli...

... is that the tiger who encounters the boy Dukhey—Ghosh's starting point for his analysis of human-nonhuman relating—is actually a half-man/half-tiger demon , Dokkhin Rai. The demon had already made an appearance in Ghosh's earlier novel The Hungry Tide , also set in the Sundarbans. There, Dokkhin Rai is mentioned...

...), and Mathnawi-­i Ray Chandar Bhan light symbolism rather than a technical engagement the Library of the India Office, 2 vols. (Oxford: Printed Barahman (The Couplets of Ray Chandar Bhan Barah- with Illuminationism that was characteristic of the for the India Office, 1903 – 37; London: India Office man...

... . ‘Gujarat: Collapse of Government,’ Economic and Political Weekly 20 , No. 17 (April 27): 749 –750. Ray , Aswini K. 1986 . ‘Civil Rights Movement and Social Struggle in India,’ Economic and Political Weekly 21 , No. 28 (July 12): 1202 –1205. Rubin , Barnett R. 1987 . ‘The Civil...

... such as the interrogation center. 13 Provisioning of livelihoods and infrastructure by the military to border populations renders invisible structural violence “enacted at the very scene of care” in everyday life. 14 Puar and Rai make a valuable, evocative distinction between two forms of power that further help...

... Classes . London: Oxford University Press. Mitra , Ashok , 1953 . Census 1951: West Bengal, Land and Land Revenue Department, The Tribes and Castes of Bengal . Calcutta: Bengal Government Press. Ray , Suprakash , 1972 . Bharater Krishak Bidroho O Ganatantrik Sangram . 2nd Edition...

... duction,” in Women and Law in India: An Omnibus (New Delhi:   Benford and David Snow, “Framing Processes and Social Move- Oxford University Press, 2006); Aparna Basu and Bharati Ray, ments: An Overview and Assessment...

... : Stanford University Press , 1999 . Latour Bruno . We Have Never Been Modern . Translated by Porter Catherine . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 1993 . Mazzarella William . “ Internet X-Ray: E-Governance, Transparency, and the Politics of Immediation in India...

... that together made for an absence of in- creasing attack from a new generation of proto- digenous capital from the commercial sector of eastern nationalist critics. When early nineteenth-century re- India’s economy in the second half of the nineteenth formists like Rammohun Ray had appealed to the ra...