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Durbar, India, 1903
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 125.
Published: 01 September 2011
... © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Durbar, India, 1903. The carriage of H. H. the Maharaja of Rewah (center) is parked at a festival
in honor of the coronation of Edward VII. Bain News Services, digital print from glass negative,
5 x 7 inches, Bain Collection, Library of Congress...
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Women between Community and State: SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA
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Social Text (2000) 18 (4 (65)): 55–82.
Published: 01 December 2000
...Rajeswari Sunder Rajan ST 65.03 Rajan 11/8/00 2:24 PM Page 55
Women between Community and State
SOME IMPLICATIONS OF THE UNIFORM CIVIL CODE DEBATES IN INDIA
This essay is an attempt to think through...
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The Security State and Securitizing Patriarchies in Postcolonial India
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 83–104.
Published: 01 September 2022
... and worked with all over India, and who now began to see him as a threat to the country and began to harass him at work. He felt that there was a religious divide between the rest of India and the Sikhs that had not been present in the secular past of postindependence India: Earlier, I never thought of my...
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Short Cuts: Metabolic Surgery and Gut Attachments in India
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 69–86.
Published: 01 September 2014
...Harris Solomon This article addresses the phenomenon of metabolic surgery in urban India, an intervention designed to address the metabolic diseases of obesity and diabetes. While consumptive willpower grounds prescriptions for changes in lifestyle, such as diet and exercise, metabolic surgery...
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Archaic Modernities: SCIENCE, SECULARISM, AND RELIGION IN MODERN INDIA
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 67–86.
Published: 01 September 2000
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Archaic Modernities
SCIENCE, SECULARISM, AND RELIGION IN MODERN INDIA...
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Domestic Affairs: National Security and the Politics of Protest at India's “Friendly” Borderlands
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Social Text (2022) 40 (3 (152)): 61–82.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of such dissent to reinforce its legitimacy as a liberal democracy. Border residents in eastern India, predominantly Muslim or depressed caste, are minority citizens. By closely reading the terms through which they articulate their claims and humiliations and how they are rendered suspect, subordinated...
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2011
... stories on the 1947 partition of British India by Sa'adat Hasan Manto. By concentrating on Manto's writings, this essay revisits Pakistan's early history to demonstrate how, after the country's creation, there was continued debate among intellectuals about what would constitute a national culture...
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Archives of Empire: Seher Shah's Geometric Landscapes and the Spectacle of Force
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Social Text (2011) 29 (3 (108)): 127–138.
Published: 01 September 2011
... such nationalist interpretations by delineating the expansive qualities of empire in the United States and in South Asia. By historicizing the Delhi Durbar as an aesthetic spectacle of empire, this essay highlights how geometric motifs of colonial India are linked to the architectural landscape of post-9/11...
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Something, Everything, Nothing; Or, Cows, Dogs, and Maggots
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 37–57.
Published: 01 March 2017
...Naisargi N. Dave This article tries to locate the missing something that enables radical social projects to persevere, in this case, the social project of animal activism in India. The author argues that we will find the missing something buried in and by the tyranny of consistency...
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Lost Daughters and Sunken Ships: Salvaging the Archive
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Social Text (2023) 41 (4 (157)): 37–60.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Indian father's unpublished memoirs as he journeyed from India to Pretoria, stresses the role of misremembering and the tangibility of an archive contained in pillowcases and written in fading ink. 27. The official in charge of all that the sea unearths is called “Receiver of Wreck” or “Coroner...
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Cartographic Irresolution and the Line of Control
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Social Text (2009) 27 (4 (101)): 45–66.
Published: 01 December 2009
...Ananya Jahanara Kabir This essay examines the “Line of Control” (LOC) dividing the region of Jammu and Kashmir into two parts controlled by India and Pakistan, respectively. It does so to establish the LOC as a symptom and marker of what I term “cartographic irresolution.” Through theoretical...
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When Home Is a Camp: Global Sovereignty, Biopolitics, and Internally Displaced Persons
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 29–58.
Published: 01 March 2008
... and the emptiness of humanitarian law, the displaced person, who is a complex political actor, is entirely depoliticized and rendered unintelligible. The largely ignored program of ethnic cleansing in Gujarat, India, in 2000 provides an example of this now routine process of sovereignty. © 2008 Duke University...
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Homo on the Range: MOBILE AND GLOBAL SEXUALITIES
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Social Text (2002) 20 (4 (73)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2002
... or, alternately,
exposed.
—David Eng
Exposing many discrepancies, Deepa Mehta’s film Fire provoked conflict
in India in 1998 as Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena members not only attacked
and closed theaters but also repeatedly condemned and attempted to com-
munalize the film for its “deviancy...
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Nuclearism: THE CONTOURS OF A POLITICAL ECOLOGY
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Social Text (2001) 19 (1 (66)): 1–18.
Published: 01 March 2001
... accepts the technology as the final arbitrator of power and prestige.
As countries attempt to respond to this global order by actively partici-
pating in nuclearism, as India and Pakistan have done, they inescapably
incur...
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Where Is West Asia in Asian America?: “Asia” and The Politics of Space in Asian America
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2006
... themselves the
Social Text 86, Vol. 24, No. 1, Spring 2006. © 2006 by Duke University Press.
Whereas India “dot-busters,” neo-Nazi youth had attacked South Asian immigrants and
their stores. The irony of Tripathi’s suggestion was of course lost on the
and West Asia...
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Andolan Imaginaries
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Social Text (2021) 39 (4 (149)): 103–119.
Published: 01 December 2021
..., refusal, resistance, movement, agitation, and much more. To speak of India today is to speak of a state of constant andolan . Large-scale resistance movements are once again sweeping India, driven by the very collectivities that the Hindutva India state wants to make disappear. Even as activists...
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Ghostly Appearances: TIME TALES TALLIED UP
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Social Text (2000) 18 (3 (64)): 47–66.
Published: 01 September 2000
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nium bug: “Failures in one country could have significant effects on many
other nations.”2 Banks—from India to Hong Kong—are reportedly talking
to one another across national “borders” about systemic infections...
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Trial by Fire: GENDER, POWER, AND CITIZENSHIP IN NARRATIVES OF THE NATION
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Social Text (2001) 19 (4 (69)): 29–51.
Published: 01 December 2001
... shorts and saffron flags: A critique of the Hindu Right . New Delhi: Orient Longman. Bhattacharya, N. 1990 . Myth, history and the politics of Ramjanmabhumi. In Anatomy of a confrontation: The Babri Masjid Ram Janmabhumi issue , edited by S. Gopal et al. New Delhi:Penguin India. Bhushan, B. 1987...
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The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: HAWKERS, DEMOLITION RAIDS, AND A NEW REGIME OF CONSUMPTION
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 91–113.
Published: 01 September 2001
... as the aestheticization of
politics so that participation in—not pacification through—the image was
central to mass-mediated society. Here, we can think of the moment of
market liberalization in India through Benjamin’s notion of the relation-
ship between the cultural...
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Provincializing the Global City: FROM BOMBAY TO MUMBAI
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Social Text (2004) 22 (4 (81)): 65–89.
Published: 01 December 2004
... who is the protagonist of the 1955 hit Hindi
fi lm Shri 420 (Mr. 420) dreamed of when he fi rst sang this song in the
fi lm’s opening shots. Raju was on his journey from the north Indian town
of Allahabad, once an important cultural nerve center of India’s national
modernity (the home of India’s...
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