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Part 4. Violence 35. Jonathan Parry, ‘Ankalu’s Errant Wife: Sex, Marriage and Industry in
Contemporary Chhattisgarh’, Modern Asian Studies, 2001, 35, 4, 783–820.
14. Amitav Ghosh, ‘The Ghost of Indira Gandhi’, The New Yorker, 17 July 1995.
36. Filippo Osella and Caroline Osella, ‘Migration, Money and Masculinity in
15. Robert G. Wirsing, ‘Unholy Alliance: Religion and Political Violence in Kerala’, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2000, 6, 1, 117–33.
South Asia’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2007, 30, 1, 25–42.
37. Gayatri Reddy, ‘‘’Men” Who Would be Kings: Celibacy, Emasculation, and the
16. Dipak K. Gupta, ‘The Naxalites and the Maoist Movement in India: Birth, Reproduction of Hijras in Contemporary Indian Politics—Gender Identity,
Demise, and Reincarnation’, Democracy and Security, 2007, 3, 2, 157–88. Social Stigma, and Political Corruption’, Social Research, 2003, 70, 1.
17. Sumit Ganguly and R. Harrison Wagner, ‘India and Pakistan: Bargaining in
the Shadow of Nuclear War’, The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2004, 27, 1,
479–507.
41. Barbara D. Metcalf, ‘Hindu Ethnonationalism, Muslim Jihad, and 59. Dipesh Chakrabarty, ‘Open Space/Public Space: Garbage, Modernity and
Secularism: Muslims in the Political Life of the Republic of India’, in Rafiq India’, South Asia, 1991, 14, 1, 15–31.
Dossani and Henry S. Rowen (eds.), Prospects for Peace in South Asia 60. Susan E. Chaplin, ‘Cities, Sewers and Poverty: India’s Politics of Sanitation’,
(Stanford University Press, 2005), pp. 215–38. Environment and Urbanization, 1999, 11, 1, 145–58.
Part 10. Religious Traditions 61. Amita Baviskar, ‘Cultural Politics of Environment and Development: The
Indian Experience’, Review of Development and Change, 2006, 9, 1, 1–14.
A. Rituals
62. Glyn Williams and Emma Mawdsley, ‘Postcolonial Environmental Justice:
42. Jonathan P. Parry, ‘The Sacrifices of Modernity in a Soviet-Built Steel Town
Government and Governance in India’, Geoforum, 2006, 37, 5, 660–70.
in Central India’, in Frances Pine and João Pina-Cabral (eds.), On the
Margins of Religion (Berghahn Books, 2007), pp. 233–62. Part 13. Literature
43. Philip Lutgendorf, ‘Monkey in the Middle: The Status of Hanuman in 63. Beth, Sarah, ‘Hindi Dalit Biography: An Exploration of Identity’, Modern
Popular Hinduism’, Religion, 1997, 27, 311–32. Asian Studies, 2007, 41, 3, 545–74.
44. John Harriss, ‘‘’The Great Tradition” Globalizes: Reflections on Two Studies 64. Pramod K. Nayar, ‘Bama’s Karukku: Dalit Autobiography as Testimonio’,
of “The Industrial Leaders” of Madras’, Modern Asian Studies, 2003, 37, 2, Journal of Commonwealth Literature, 2006, 41, 2, 83–100.
327–62.
65. Salman Rushdie, ‘Damme, This is the Oriental Scene for You’, The New
45. James G. Lochtefeld, ‘The Construction of the Kumbha Mela’, South Asian Yorker, 23 June 1997, 50–61.
Popular Culture, 2004, 2, 2, 103–26.
66. Rashmi Sadana, ‘A Suitable Text for a Vegetarian Audience: Questions of
B. What is Hinduism? Authenticity and the Politics of Translation’, Public Culture, 2007, 19, 2,
46. Romila Thapar, ‘Imagined Religious Communities? Ancient History and the 307–28.
Modern Search for a Hindu Identity’, Modern Asian Studies, 1989, 23, 2,
209–31. Part 14. Cinema
47. Will Sweetman, ‘‘’Hinduism” and the History of “Religions”: Protestant 67. Sara Dickey, ‘The Politics of Adulation: Cinema and the Production of
Presuppositions in the Critique of the Concept of Hinduism’, Method and Politicians in South India’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 1993, 52, 2, 340–72.
Theory in the Study of Religion, 2003, 15, 329–53. 68. Ashish Rajadhyaksha, ‘The “Bollywoodization” of the Indian Cinema:
48. Vasudha Narayanan, ‘Diglossic Hinduism: Liberation and Lentils’, Journal of Cultural Nationalism in a Global Arena’, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, 2003, 4,
the American Academy of Religion, 2000, 68, 4, 761–79. 1, 25–39.
C. Islam 69. Harish Trivedi, ‘From Bollywood to Hollywood: The Globalization of Hindi
Cinema’, in Revathi Krishnaswamy and John C. Hawley (eds.), The
49. Steven I. Wilkinson, ‘Muslims in Post-Independence India’, in John L. Postcolonial and the Global (University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp.
Esposito, John O. Voll, and Osman Bakar (eds.), Asian Islam in the 21st 200–10.
Century (Oxford University Press, 2008), pp. 178–96.
Part 15. Television
50. Yoginder Sikand, ‘Stoking the Flames: Intra-Muslim Rivalries in India and
the Saudi Connection’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the 70. Nalin Mehta, ‘Modi and the Camera: The Politics of Television in the 2002
Middle East, 2007, 27, 1, 95–108. Gujarat Riots’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 2006, 29, 3,
395–414.
51. Francis Robinson, ‘Islamic Reform and Modernities in South Asia’, Modern
Asian Studies, 2008, 42, 2/3, 259–81. 71. Purnima Mankekar, ‘Dangerous Desires: Television and Erotics in Late
Twentieth-Century India’, The Journal of Asian Studies, 2004, 63, 2, 403–31.
D. Dalit Religious Traditions
72. Arvind Rajagopal, ‘Advertising, Politics, and the Sentimental Education of
52. David N. Lorenzen, ‘Tradition of Non-Caste Hinduism: Kabir Panth’,
the Indian Consumer’, Visual Anthropology Review, 1998, 14, 2, 14–31.
Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1987, 21, 2, 263–83.
53. George Oommon, ‘The Emerging Dalit Theology: A Historical Appraisal’, Part 16. Music, Folklore, and Beauty Pageants
Indian Church History Review, 2000, XXXXIV, 1, 19–37. 73. Peter Manuel, ‘Music, the Media, and Communal Relations in North India,
54. Johannes Beltz, ‘Contesting Caste, Hierarchy, and Hinduism: Buddhist Past and Present’, in David Ludden (ed.), Making India Hindu: Religion,
Discursive Practices in Maharashtra’, in Surendra Jondhale and Johannes Community, and the Politics of Democracy in India (Oxford University Press,
Beltz (eds.), Reconstructing the World: B. R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India 2005), pp. 119–39.
(Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 245–66. 74. Kirin Narayan, ‘Banana Republics and V. I. Degrees: Rethinking Indian
E. Hinduism Goes West Folklore in a Postcolonial World’, Asian Folklore Studies, 1993, 52, 1,
177–204.
55. Prema Kurien, ‘Multiculturalism, Immigrant Religion, and Diasporic
Nationalism: The Development of an American Hinduism’, Social Problems, 75. Rupal Oza, ‘Showcasing India: Gender, Geography, and Globalization’,
51, 3, 362–85. Signs, 2001, 26, 4, 1067–97.
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