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....” ing around the Academy of Social Sciences I stum- bled on the “conference room,” which still had the Johan Elverskog dust-covered shrine to the fiftieth anniversary of the Southern Methodist University founding of the PRC. Perusing...

...), The New York Review of Books , XXXIII : 21 & 22 pp. 16 –19. Dharmadasa , K.N.O. 1972 . “Language and Sinhala Nationalism: The Career of Munidasa Cumaratunga”, Modern Ceylon Studies , 3 : 2 , pp. 125 –43. Ethnicity and Social Change in Sri Lanka. (Second printing, 1985). Colombo...

... Scenario; the forced relocation caused by the Bank-financed SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF power plant and coal mine, as well as the appalling human LARGESCALE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS environmental and public health conditions to which...

...Gail Omvedt Copyright 1987: South Asia Bulletin 1987 SOUTH ASIA BULLETIN Vol. 7 (1987) Dalit Literature in Maharashtra: Literature of Social Protest and Revolt in Western India GailOmvedt...

...Bettina Dennerlein Duke University Press 2007 South-South Linkages and Social Change: Moroccan Perspectives on Army Reform in the Muslim Mediterranean in the Nineteenth Century...

... Organizations in South India , New Delhi: Indian Social Institute. Athreya , Venkatesh B. , 1984 . Vadamalaipuram: A Resurvey , Madras: Madras Institute of Development Studies, mimeo. Athreya , Venkatesh B. , 1985 . Gangaikondan 1916–1984: Change and Stability , Madras: Madras Institute...

...Mohammad Ishaq Khan © 1996: Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa & the Middle East 1996 Kashmiri Muslims: Social and Identity Consciousness Mohammad lshaq Khan The Muslim community of Kashmir is one of the grant sufis tried to give...

...Raphael Chijioke Njoku Holger Weiss ed. Stockholm: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2002. Pp. 189. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 2004 Book Reviews Holger Weiss ed. Social Welfare in Muslim Societies in Af- view of this nature cannot do justice to all...

... fMhna adii Arampur in Gandhi Mohandas of Memories Social The Militants: and Mourners for Mahatma...

...Paul Sedra The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt Omnia El Shakry Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xiii + 328 pp., $55.00 (cloth) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...

...Forough Jahanbakhsh Making Islam Democratic: Social Movements and the Post-Islamist Turn Asef Bayat Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007 xxi + 291 pp., $55.00 (cloth), $21.95 (paper) Duke University Press 2010 The Crypto-Jewish Mashhadis: allow the small...

...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...

... has conditioned the democratic relationship between the Sri Lankan state and the domain of the social. The article introduces the political rationality that governs this relationship with the moment of its apotheosis, namely the enactment of Sri Lanka’s first Republican Constitution and the apogee...

...Norma Claire Moruzzi © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Trying to Look Different: Hijab as the Self-Presentation of Social Distinctions Norma Claire Moruzzi Context ne of the fundamental problems of modern society is the question not of women’s public...

...Kwee Hui Kian © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Pockets of Empire: Integrating the Studies on Social Organizations in Southeast China and Southeast Asia...

...Behrooz Moazami Duke University Press 2009 The Islamization of the Social Movements and the Revolution, 1963 –  1979 Behrooz Moazami My religion is my politics, and my politics is my religion. —Ruholla Khomeini his essay ponders the Islamization...

...Shanna Dietz Surendra The striking ethnic and linguistic diversity within Pakistan's highly centralized state makes it a prime target for social mobilization, especially in the form of secessionist movements. However, Pakistan's various states and territories have experienced extreme variation...

...Sohrab Behdad; Farhad Nomani Duke University Press 2009 What a Revolution! Thirty Years of Social Class Reshuffling in Iran Sohrab Behdad and Farhad Nomani...

...Leo Spitzer Naming a person makes him or her a part of the social world—a name gives the person a social identity. At the same time, a name stands for the person, it symbolizes personal identity. It indicates to members of society who the named one is and, to the named one, who he or she...