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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 107–117.
Published: 01 May 2022
... the maritime—a process of active economic thinking that went into the making of global capitalism in a corner of the Indian Ocean world. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Persian Gulf pearl diving circulation trading manuals commodification maritime...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 77–79.
Published: 01 May 2022
... place in the objectification of the sea itself. Some are concerned with turning abstract value into exchange value, such as the merchant users of the Chau manual in the Persian Gulf pearl trade (Bishara, this issue). Others are invested in developing strategic notions of sovereignty at sea...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... to early nineteenth centuries. Both equines and equestrianism were enmeshed in the fabric of the Mughal empire and its successor states: in foreign trade, in its military practices, in the organization of the hierarchy of the nobility, and in the ritual practices, language, and visual culture of the court...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 80–85.
Published: 01 May 2020
... access to capital, but little by way of training. Yet what constitutes skill, and how is it acquired? Skilled labor is a term of trade—or indeed, of trades: within the construction industry, crane operating, formwork, masonry, bar-work, carpentry, welding, plumbing, electrical work, and the like...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 57–65.
Published: 01 May 2020
...” as a name for one of the principal problems that it could solve and/or capitalize on. The status of “blight” as a mysterious affliction and metaphorical figure was both traded on and transformed; blight became a problem eliciting the technical solutions of urban planning and opening up challenges...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 5–22.
Published: 01 August 1993
... an aversion to manual work as a result of essential to build human capital. By implication, education. So what good is their education if it education could salvage the abikasi mind. But edu- meant depriving the family of much needed family cation had to be “modern” emphasizing science, labor...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 104–107.
Published: 01 August 1992
... have been initiated at the and Research (Karachi) and the Forum for Workers behest of the IMFWB/GATI' to comply with condi- Solidarity (New Delhi). Trade Unions from multina- tionalities laid out by them are not only an attack on tional companies which included Lever, Lipton, Parke our...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2016) 36 (3): 500–502.
Published: 01 December 2016
... at a shibir, or camp, in the tehsil town of Shahada, orga- T nized by the Shramik Sanghatna, an organization of landless laborers belonging to the tribal Bhil community. This association, which was partly a trade union and partly something else (in a time before...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (1): 86–103.
Published: 01 May 2024
... Gulf of Kutch in western India is one of India's largest port projects today. Advocates of the megaport present it not simply as a vehicle of trade but as an engine that orchestrates extraction, production, and consumption across India and the Indian Ocean. 1 Such are the political and economic...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (1): 80–90.
Published: 01 May 2022
... and Shahrazad. In so doing, the novel form and the likes of Robinson metonymically unseated Arabic narrative merchant capital. When Marx succumbs to the Robinsonade, he eclipses the novel's history of slave trading to wrest Robinson out of a mercantilist seventeenth-century Atlantic and render him...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1990) 10 (1): 33–43.
Published: 01 May 1990
... , Of Common Cloth: Women in the Global Textile Industry , TNI, Amsterdam/Washington DC. Christian Conference of Asia (URM), 1982 , “ The Plight of Asian Workers in Electronics ,” Hong Kong. Committee for Asian Women (CAW), Journals, Newsletters, etc ., Hong Kong. Dabindu: Free Trade Zone Newspaper...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 557–572.
Published: 01 December 2018
... F. D. , eds. From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947 – 1970 . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . Singh Tarlok . Land Resettlement Manual for Displaced Persons in Punjab and PEPSU . Simla : Government of Punjab Press , 1952...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1993) 13 (1_and_2): 1–4.
Published: 01 August 1993
... pirical or historical study of localities, regions and in South Asia-whether it is development, envi- indeed the connections between the former and the ronment, the crises of agriculture, liberalization, the larger world of trade, migration, and cultural con- human rights situation, women’s...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 434–448.
Published: 01 December 2010
... to the Chinese people's assiduous adherence to law and system, or qanun . This account of China reflects the importance of cross-border trade, the military, and Muslim Chinese communities as sites of encounter between the Islamic world and the Chinese state. The text's rhetorical strategy of emphasizing...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1992) 12 (2): 112–116.
Published: 01 August 1992
... Indian ethnic identity, over the subcontinent has served as a recruiting ground for la- span of three or four generations. This process has bor since the seventeenth century. There was some been facilitated by the loss of many ethnic languages trade in slaves from South Asia between the seven...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 3–6.
Published: 01 May 2020
... regulation in producing stigmatized space, and then to the work of objects, materials, and manual labor in animating space and bringing it (back) to life. The section “Climate Catastrophe” explores a set of terms—prediction, uncertainty, and air—at the junctures of climate, urbanization...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2010) 30 (3): 401–409.
Published: 01 December 2010
...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...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2024) 44 (2): 317–326.
Published: 01 August 2024
... wounds to the eyes, face, and abdomen, the company summarized each year's injuries in terms of “incapacity,” that is, the extent to which each worker could no longer earn a wage through manual labor. 10 CPCFG doctors and administrators imagined “capacity” and “incapacity” in temporal and quantitative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 334–340.
Published: 01 August 2022
... primers, a collection of how-to manuals addressing different targeted audiences. Examples of these are seen in works such as the Pandrah Tithi ( Fifteen Days of the Lunar Calendar ) and Saptavar ( Seven Days of the Week ), which provide details to avadhuts on the procedures to follow during...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (2): 62–80.
Published: 01 August 1996
... for em- of men and women, of traders and laborers, or of ployment in government service, crafts, construction, people from different religious, caste, linguistic, or commerce, and wholesale and retail trade.9 By this regional backgrounds. The story of the “Asian in East time, Asians dominated...