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...Ray Hutchison Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp . By Lynellyn D. Long . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . 242 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 284 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES resources especially employment not available to the residents...

...David Hardiman The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India . By Vinay Lal . New Delhi : Oxford University Press , 2003 . xi , 309 pp. Rs 1040 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 228 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D I E S...

... construction of a refugee identity by the international community and camp inhabitants is an ideological convenience" (p. 193). Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp is really two books in one. The first is an analysis of the contemporary refugee crisis, the response of modern nation states to this crisis...

...Nikhil Menon In the conclusion, Karoline Postel-Vinay uses the Russian invasion of Ukraine as a lens through which to understand the legacy of a once dominant liberal internationalist narrative, now contesting globally with non-Western, resentment-fueled civilizational narratives. Debating...

...Bodhisattva Kar Dissenting Knowledges, Open Futures: The Multiple Selves and Strange Destination of Ashis Nandy . Edited by Vinay Lal . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 352 pp. $35.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Sagaree Sengupta The Oxford Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry . Edited by Vinay Dharwadker and A. K. Ramanujan . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1995 . xx, 265 pp. $18.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996 1996 496 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... of Heidelberg The History of History: Politics and Scholarship in Modern India. By VINAY LAL. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2003. xi, 309 pp. Rs 1040 (cloth). In recent years, history has become a battleground in India, with people of widely varying political opinions appealing to their own understandings...

... to read. DONALD M. NONINI University of North Carolina Ban Vinai: The Refugee Camp. By LYNELLYN D . L O N G . New York: Columbia University Press, 1993- 242 pp. Lynellyn Long's book on the Ban Vinai refugee camp in northern Thailand is a welcome contribution to the literature on refugee groups...

...Vinay Lal India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War . By Yasmin Khan . New York : Oxford University Press , 2015 . xvi, 416 pp. ISBN: 9780199753499 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Two years ago, Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk...

... . 2 Vinay Gidwani , “ Six Theses on Waste, Value, and Commons ,” Social & Cultural Geography 14 , no. 7 ( 2013 ): 773 –83 . Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey's Waste of a Nation begins with a question that has plagued colonial administrators and Nationalist reformers alike: “Why...

...Vinay Lal The Colonial State: Theory and Practice . By Sabyasachi Bhattacharya . Delhi : Primus Books , 2016 . 228 pp. ISBN: 9789384092016 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2018  2018 Sabyasachi Bhattacharya is animated by the question “what makes...

... Publishers , 1977 ) ; A. K. Ramanujan , “ Is There an Indian Way of Thinking? An Informal Essay ,” in The Collected Essays of A. K. Ramanujan , ed. Vinay Dharwadker ( Oxford...

...Vinay Dharwadker Himalayan Voices: An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature . Translated and edited by Michael James Hutt . Berkeley : University of Calfornia Press , 1991 . xvii, 333 pp. $45.00 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993...

... to romanticism, Parry's "Two Cheers for Reservation" deals a blow to Beteille's pessimism regarding reservations. The chapters by Vinay Kumar Srivastava and Mattison Mines focus on individual agency. Srivastava's is a fine description of the seamless relation between Raika renouncers and the "renounced community...

.... The fourth (Vinay Lai) introduces a philosophical discussion of the idea of the outsider/other in the modern Hindi studio film. Anjali Monteiro departs from the descriptive mode and uses social-scientific methods to research and analyze the slum dweller's experience of television in the fifth essay...

...Vinay Dharwadker Pālkhī: An Indian Pilgrimage . By D. B. Mokashi . Translated from the Marathi by Philip C. Engblom . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1987 . vii, 291 pp. $34.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA...

... Ntshav: Keeb Kwm Hmoob Nyob Suav Teb (Following the trail of blood: Hmong history in China). 2000 . VHS. Directed by Yuepheng Xiong. St. Paul, Minn.: Hmong ABC Publications. Vib Nais: Cov Qub Yeej Thoj Nam (Vinai: Old Refugee camp). 1998 . VHS. Directed by Vaj Hawj. Yuav Tos Txog Hnub Twg...

..." (p. 69) and that Thai officials, particularly those at the Ban Vinai center, were villainous beyond belief. Testimonials of rape by some Thai policemen are incontestable, as are the many horrific tales of the violent raping of young girls and women and the gratuitous and gruesome killing of entire...

... out how both the Hindu Right and the secularists in India are trapped in the same modernist game of gaining historical legitimacy. Along with the two short autobiographical pieces, Nandy's discussion with Vinay Lai also provides a comprehensive overview of his various exciting and contentious ideas...

... of the film maker Raj Kapoor, including detailed synopses of his films. The third essay by Fareedudin Kazmi discusses a particular actor/star (Amitabh Bhachchan) and the genre that he as a single actor has produced. The fourth (Vinay Lai) introduces a philosophical discussion of the idea of the outsider/other...