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... 2019 caste democracy India meritocracy In the lead-up to independence, Indian statesmen grappled with how to address persistent social inequalities within an emerging democratic polity. The end of colonial rule promised equal citizenship in place of subject-hood. At the same time...

...Rajeev Bhargava Duke University Press 2006 D O X A AT L A R G E Indian Democracy and Well-Being: Employment as a Right Rajeev Bhargava Large projects, like...

...Amitav Ghosh, Novelist Copyright © 1989-90 by Duke University Press 1989 The Diaspora in Indian Culture Amitav Ghosh Novelist The modem Indian diaspora - the huge migration from the subcontinent that began in the mid-nineteenth century - is not merely one of the most im- portant...

...Vinay Dhanvadker Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Six Contemporary Indian Poems Translated from the Hindi and Marathi by hayDhanvadker TRANSLATOR'SNOTE The six writers I have presented in this small...

...., 12 Happy nations are all alike; every unhappy nation is unhappy in its own way. So it is that the unhappiness represented by the Indian Muslim is pe- culiar in that it constitutes a historical burden which is as heavy as the nation itself. The ghost of Pakistan is not simply the spirit...

... M. , ed. 1992 “National Federation of Indian American Associations,” Encyclopedia of Associations in the United States , 26th ed. Vol. 1, Part 2, Section 10. Detroit: Gale Research. Chakrabarty , Dipesh . 1992 “Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks for the ‘Indian...

...Caitrin Lynch Copyright © 1994 by The University of Chicago 1994 Literature Cited Bhattacharjee , Anannya . 1992. “The Habit of Ex-nomination: Nation, Woman, and the Indian Immigrant Bourgeoisie.” Public Culture 5 ( 1 ): 19 -44. Levinsohn , Florence Hamlish . 1991...

...Partha Chatterjee Copyright © 1995 by The University of Chicago 1995 Religious Minorities and the Secular State: Reflections on an Indian Impasse Partha Chatterjee There has...

...Tejaswini Niranjana Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 “Left to the Imagination”: Indian Nationalisms and Female Sexuality in Trinidad Tejaswini Niranjana...

...Shobana Shankar Abstract For African-Indian relationships, the idealism of Afro-Asian solidarity did not often match realities on the ground, which were volatile and rapidly changing from the 1940s. This essay explores how Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians was embedded in a racial calculus that had...

...Yusuf K. Serunkuma Abstract Despite more than a hundred years in Uganda, ethnic Indian Ugandans have struggled to integrate into a space historically renowned for naturalizing visitors. As the Mabira Forest Protests of 2007 demonstrated, Indian Ugandans have sustained the image of a “loathed...

... argues that the Reader is an Indian extremist who wants to oppose colonial rule by force, a position of which Gandhi disapproved. However, in early prefaces of the book, which have now largely disappeared from contemporary editions, Gandhi identifies “the Reader” as the reader of Indian Opinion...

...Jonathan Hyslop This article argues that Gandhi's book Hind Swaraj was centrally concerned with undermining the influence of the violent “terrorist” wing of nationalism on Indian political militants. In particular he sought to question the inspiration that Japan's military defeat of Russia in 1905...

... relationship within a mode of consumer citizenship that revalorizes Indian middle classes. I argue that the men who drive are members of a lower class with an ambivalent position in liberalized Indian economies, simultaneously excluded from protections of government and relied on to do the dangerous job...

...Deepti Misri This article examines the shape of time for those living in Indian-occupied Kashmir, focusing particularly on two calendars that became embroiled in a “calendar war” in Indian-occupied Kashmir in the year 2017. The first was the annual calendar of the Jammu and Kashmir Bank, which...

...Pamila Gupta Gandhi's Hind Swaraj is analyzed as a statement of transnational politics and circulation, its ideas enabled by the Indian Ocean and applicable to Goa's independence from Portuguese colonial rule. Copyright 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 This article is written very much...

... Gandhi was an early and influential advocate of the technologies of control, including compulsory fingerprinting for Indians in South Africa, that he would later resist very energetically. The essay suggests that Gandhi's disavowel of the goals and principles of western modernity was an unacknowledged...