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4-Volume Set

Modern Indian
Culture and
Society
CRITICAL CONCEPTS IN ASIAN STUDIES
Edited and with a new introduction by Knut A. Jacobsen, University
of Bergen, Norway

Research on Indian culture and society has been conducted from a dizzying
range of perspectives. However, in recent decades it has been particularly
characterized by a change in focus from the past to the present; from the
worldview of the élites to that of the subalterns; from philosophy to everyday
life; and from hierarchy to the critiques of hierarchy and the sources of
equality in Indian culture.
More dramatic than the changes in the focus of research are the changes in
Indian society itself. Urbanization, the liberalization and globalization of the
economy, the IT revolution, the success of the global Indian diaspora, the
affirmation of religious identities and reaffirmation of ancient world views,
reinterpretations of history, new medias and transnational megagurus, and
new political landscapes denote some of these processes.
This new title from Routledge makes sense of these changes by bringing
together the very best scholarly work on India’s contemporary
transformation. As the world’s largest democracy emerges as an economic
and cultural superpower, there is a pressing need for a more sophisticated
and nuanced understanding of Indian culture and society. This four-volume
collection answers that need and will be welcomed as a vital one-stop
research resource.

Routledge
June 2009
234x156: 1,760
Set Hb: 978-415-45219-9

Routledge Major Works


Modern Indian Culture and Society CRITICAL C
VOLUME I: Identity VOLUME II: Society
Part 1. Freedom, Partition, and Aftermath Part 6. Work, Economy, and Globalization
A. Freedom 20. Jan Breman, ‘The Expulsion of Labour from the Formal Sector of the
Economy’, in Sabyasachi Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen (eds.), Workers in
1. Jim Masselos, ‘‘’The Magic Touch of Being Free”: The Rituals of
the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History, 1800–2000 (Macmillan, 2005).
Independence on August 15’, in Jim Masselos (ed.), India: Creating a Modern
Nation (Sterling Publishers, 1990), pp. 37–53. 21. Leela Fernandes, ‘Restructuring the New Middle Class in Liberalizing India’,
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 2000, 20, 1,
B. Partition and Aftermath 88–104.
2. H. V. Brasted and Carl Bridge, ‘The Transfer of Power in South Asia: An 22. Andrew Wyatt, ‘Building the Temples of Postmodern India: Economic
Historiographical Review’, South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1994, Construction of National Identity’, Contemporary South Asia, 2005, 14, 4,
17, 1, 93–114. 465–80.
3. Ian Talbot, ‘Literature and the Human Drama of the 1947 Partition’, South 23. Meghnad Desai, ‘Will India Ever Catch Up With China?’, South Asia: Journal
Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, 1995, 18, 37–56. of South Asian Studies, 2005, 37, 2, 321–36.
4. Ananya Jahanara Kabir, ‘Gender, Memory, Trauma: Women’s Novels on the 24. B. B. Mohanty, ‘We are Like the Living Dead: Farmer Suicides in
Partition of India’, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle Maharashtra, Western India’, The Journal of Peasant Studies, 2005, 32, 2,
East, 2005, 25, 1, 177–90. 243–76.
Part 2. The Past in the Present 25. Craig Jeffrey, ‘Caste, Class, and Clientilism: A Political Economy of Everyday
Corruption in Rural North India’, Economic Geography, 2002, 78, 1, 21–41.
5. Amartya Sen, ‘On Interpreting India’s Past’, in Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal
(eds.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India 26. Ali Mir, Matthew Biju, and Raza Mir, ‘The Codes of Migration: Contours of
(Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 10–35. the Global Software Labor Market’, Cultural Dynamics, 2000, 12, 1, 5–33.
6. Dipesh Chakravarty, ‘Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History: Who Speaks 27. Sandhya Shukla, ‘Locations for South Asian Diasporas’, Annual Review of
for “Indian” Pasts?’, Representations, 1992, 37, Winter, 1–26. Anthropology, 2001, 30, 551–72.
7. Richard M. Eaton, ‘(Re)imag(in)ing Otherness: A Postmortem for the Part 7. Caste
Postmodern in India’, Journal of World History, 2000, 11, 1, 57–78.
28. André Béteille, ‘Caste in Contemporary India’, in C. J. Fuller (ed.), Caste
8. Ramachandra Guha, ‘The Challenge of Contemporary History’, Economic Today (Oxford University Press, 1996), pp. 150–79.
and Political Weekly, 28 June 2008, 192–200.
29. Dipankar Gupta, ‘Caste and Politics: Identity Over System’, Annual Review of
Part 3. Democracy and Development Anthropology, 2005, 34, 409–27.
9. Bhikhu Parekh, ‘Jawaharlal Nehru and the Crisis of Modernization’, in 30. Susie Tharu et al., ‘Reservations and the Return to Politics’, Economic and
Upendra and Bhikhu Parekh (eds.), Crisis and Change in Contemporary India Political Weekly, 8 Dec. 2007, 42, 49, 39–45.
(Sage Publications, 1995), pp. 21–56.
31. Robert Deliége, ‘The Myths of Origins of the Indian Untouchables’, Man,
10. Ashutosh Varshney, ‘Why Democracy Survives’, Journal of Democracy, 1998, 1993, 28, 533–49.
9, 3, 36–50.
32. C. J. Fuller and Haripriya Narasimhan, ‘From Landlords to Software
11. Pranab Bardhan, ‘Democracy and Distributive Politics in India’, in Ian Engineers: Migration and Urbanization Among Tamil Brahmans,
Shapiro, Peter A. Swenson, and Daniela Donno (eds.), The Politics of Comparative Studies in Society and History, 2008, 50, 1, 170–96.
Distribution in Democracies (New York University Press, 2008), pp. 80–97.
33. Syed Ali, ‘Collective and Elective Ethnicity: Caste Among Urban Muslims in
12. Atul Kohli, ‘Can Democracies Accommodate Ethnic Nationalism? Rise and India’, Sociological Forum, 2002, 17, 4, 593–620.
Decline of Self-Determination Movements in India’, The Journal of Asian
Studies, 1997, 56, 2, 325–44. Part 8. Gender
13. Gurharpal Singh, ‘The Punjab Crisis Since 1984: A Reassessment’, in Subrata 34. Ravinder Kaur, ‘Dispensable Daughters and Bachelor Sons: Sex
K. Mitra and R. Alison Lewis (eds.), Subnational Movements in South Asia Discrimination in North India’, Economic and Political Weekly, 26 July 2008,
(Westview Press, 1996), pp. 104–23. 109–14.

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.

Part 5. Social Movements


18. David Hardiman, ‘Gandhian Activism in India After Independence’, Gandhi
in His Times and Ours (Permanent Black, 2003), pp. 198–237.
19. Gail Omvedt, ‘Ambedkar and After: The Dalit Movement in India’, in
Ghanshyam Shah (ed.), Dalit Identity and Politics (Sage Publications, 2001),
pp. 143–59.

Routledge Major Works


CONCEPTS IN ASIAN STUDIES

VOLUME III: Religion VOLUME IV: Culture


Part 9. Secularism Part 11. Food
38. T. N. Madan, ‘The Crisis of Indian Secularism’, Modern Myths: Locked Minds 56. Arjun Appadurai, ‘How to Make a National Cuisine: Cookbooks in
(Oxford University Press, 1997), pp. 233–65. Contemporary India’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, 1988, 30, 1,
3–24.
39. Harold A. Gould, ‘The Babri Masjid and the Secular Contract’, in Veena Das,
Dipankar Gupta, and Patricia Uberoi (eds.), Tradition, Pluralism and Identity: 57. Paul Robbins, ‘Meat Matters: Cultural Politics Along the Commodity Chain
In Honour of T. N. Madan (Contributions to Indian Sociology, 1999), pp. in India’, Cultural Geographies, 1999, 6, 4, 399–423.
381–400.
58. Amartya Sen, ‘Hunger: Old Torments and New Blunders’, The Little
40. Ashis Nandy, ‘The Politics of Secularism and the Recovery of Religious Magazine, 2, 6.
Tolerance’, in Veena Das (ed.), Mirrors of Violence: Communities, Riots and
Survivors in South Asia (Oxford University Press, 1990), pp. 69–93. Part 12. Urban and Natural Environment

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.

Part 17. Cricket and Sports


76. Boria Majumdar, ‘Cricket in India: Representative Playing Field to Restrictive
Preserve’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 2006, 23, 6,
927–59.
77. Ian McDonald, ‘Hindu Nationalism, Cultural Spaces, and Bodily Practices
in India’, American Behavioral Scientist, 2003, 46, 11, 1563–76.

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