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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): 64–93.
Published: 01 March 2008
... figure of the Hindu-Muslim union that is visible, and, in fact, audible throughout. Two of the songs in Fire come from Bombay (1995) and reference that film's allegory of an inclusive, secular India. In contrast to other critics who focus only on Fire's reception, I read scenes such as the ones featuring...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): 130–152.
Published: 01 March 2009
... into India and Pakistan. I explore the ways in which state-sponsored Islam in Pakistan impacts the protagonist Ayesha and her son Salim. Further, I explore how the violence of Partition as well as continued violence between Hindus and Muslims is remembered cinematically by Bombay cinema, the dominant...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 176–179.
Published: 01 March 2005
.... In this last area Persaud provides a compelling account of the special coming-of-age experience of the East Indian Trinidadian woman, with an accent on the challenges she faces in walking the "tightrope" of Hindu tradition and soon to be modern Trinidadian creole society. While Persaud's novel shares...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2023
..., made aware of your worth and your place. Over the past decade, I have seen many in my middle-caste/class family who were leftist, progressive, or secular becoming Islamophobic and supporting the Hindu right wing in India. This has led to heated arguments and conflicts within the family. When my...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 188–212.
Published: 01 March 2002
... an instantaneous site for multiple intersections-solidarity of a former British colony with the current "jewel" in the British imperial crown, Anglo-American rivalry for leadership of social reform in India, "enlightened" liberal Christian intervention in Hindu India's social matters. Ata personal levelthe...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 137–167.
Published: 01 March 2004
...-Muslim rhetoric by many Hindus in India reached fever pitch, as I heard it in the summer of 2002 in Kolkata, even among highly educated, middle-class professionals. Rhetoric so often expresses high emotion, and an unthinking reaction to a perception of events. It can be inclusive rather than particular...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 168–194.
Published: 01 March 2004
... of the Palestinian intifada and the Israeli invasion and occupation of Palestinian territories; and in February 2002 the attacks by Hindu fundamentalists on Muslims in Gujarat that resulted in the murder of some 2000 Muslims, the displacement of a further 100,000 people, and the destruction of 20,000 homes...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 September 2005
...) passes behind them. The camera often zooms in on television screens and monitors to emphasize the power of the new media, and it presents a TV talk show on film censorship, where guests debate the erosion oflndian morality and Hindu tradition. The heroine, Aditi (Vasundhara Das), represents a new...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 297–322.
Published: 01 October 2023
...: Social Dominance in Colonial Bengal . New Delhi : Sage . Beteille Andre . 2001 . “ Race and Caste .” Hindu , March 10 . Bhattacharya Tithi . 2005 . The Sentinels of Culture: Class, Education, and the Colonial Intellectual in Bengal . Delhi : Oxford University Press...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 144–179.
Published: 01 September 2008
... for Muslim characters is evidence of the "incomplete" and uneven process ofHinduization of public culture in India. While I agree with Srivastava's larger point about the continuing struggle over cultural representations, I lay more emphasis on the power of aurality-ofLata Mangeshkar's "good" Hindu voice...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (2): v–vii.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of 1998. Reacting to its depiction of same-sex desire between two Hindu sisters-in-law who lived in the same household in New Delhi, Hindu fundamentalists stormed sites where the picture was shown, burned posters, and threatened theatergoers across India. In "Fire'sQueer Anti-Communalism," Alexandra Lynn...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 151–173.
Published: 01 April 2021
... as inferior to the Punjabis of the west. This divestment is traced back to the cruel politics of dividing Bengal, most emphatically in 1947, when an arbitrary line was carved through the region separating the Muslim majority east from the Hindu majority west despite shared culture, language, and history ( fig...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 95–127.
Published: 01 March 2001
... Hindu woman to study medicine in America (she received her degree in medicine in 1886) was coerced into "schooling" by her authoritarian husband, who later denounced university education for women (Chakravarty 1998, 211-15). The introduction of English education in India gradually gave rise to new...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 1–10.
Published: 01 April 2021
... (Chabria 2020 ). I first learned of Diwali when I was an undergraduate at Smith and several of my closest friends and sisters-in-the-struggle, including Natasha Jafri and Asha Kilaru, who were a Pakistani Muslim international student and an NRI Hindu, respectively, were happily anticipating. Natasha...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 39–52.
Published: 01 April 2021
....” The private school was run by Hindus, not Catholic nuns. It cost a lot, while Tulsi’s school was absolutely free because Rani has had Tulsi registered as Roman Catholic, of our church of Infant Jesus. Kumar had been confused and scared at first, but Rani had convinced him that no one asks about such things...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 68–84.
Published: 01 September 2000
... the exploitation of Hindu landowners; the Self-Employed Women's Association in Gujarat, which organized women who worked in different trades to protest low wages, poor working conditions, and lack of access to credit; and what became known as the Chipko movement in northern India, which opposed deforestation...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 127–150.
Published: 01 April 2021
... lines, in India, feminists have highlighted how “this difference was affirmed by constituting women as the spiritual bearer of the national self in the uncolonised domestic space. This spiritual quality of the ideal Indian woman was modelled on the canons of upper caste Hindu patriarchy and she...
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Meridians (2002) 2 (2): 128–145.
Published: 01 March 2002
... and widowed at an early age, Jyotirmoyee's life was largely structured by the cultural demands made on women by Hindu nationalist patriarchy in Bengal. Her access to economic privileges, as the granddaughter of the Dewan(Prime Minister) and to the Prince ofJaipur averted the crises affecting the lives...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (2): v–vi.
Published: 01 March 2009
... further interrogates how the film frames continuing violence between Hindus and Muslims and speculates how it may influence the social constructions of Muslims in South Asia and elsewhere. "Never Innocent: Feminist Trouble with SexOffender Registries and Protection in a Prison Nation" by Erica Meiners...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 204–249.
Published: 01 March 2003
...,"as Des Chene calls it, followed the military unification of the nation by Prithvi Narayan Shah in the eighteenth century, and the promotion of the valor of the Nepali language and the idea of the nation as Hindu in the early twentieth century through the figure ofBhanubhakta Acharya, who first translated...
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