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Index
Cover
Half-Title
Series
Title
Contents
Advisory board members
Acknowledgements
Diacritic character table
Introduction by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
1 Classical heritages: Databases of memory
Atma (ātmā) by TRS Sharma
Ahimsa (ahinsā/hinsā/satya/asatya/śānti) by Gangeya Mukherji
Artha (artha) by Mohini Mullick
Aryan (āryan)/Dravidian by Lakshmi Subramaniam
Asmita (asmitā) by Sanjay Palshikar
Bhava (bhāva) by TRS Sharma
Bhakti (bhakti) by TRS Sharma
Caste by Surinder S. Jodhka
Colonialism/postcolonialism by Ulka Anjaria
Darshana (darśana) by Sanjit Chakraborty
Dharma (dharma) by Bijoy Boruah
Dhyana (Dhyāna) by Bijoy Boruah
Golden Temple by Ronki Ram
Guru (guru) by Sanjit Chakraborty
Haj by Maidul Islam
Heritage sites by A. G. K. Menon
Hinduism by Shashi Tharoor
Indian Ocean by Sanjay Chaturvedi
Itihasa (itihāsa) by Sibesh Bhattacharya
Janmapatri (janmapatrī) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Kama and Kamasutra (kāma and kāmasūtra) by Gurcharan Das
Mahabharata (mahābhārata) by Sibaji Bandyopadhyay
Mantra, Tantra, Yantra (mantra, tantra, yantra) by Ranjit Nair
Manuvadi (manuvādī) by Sasheej Hegde
Maya (māyā) by Mohini Mullick
Moksha/Nirvana (mōkṣa/nirvāṇa) by Ranjit Nair
Mussalman (musalmān) by Taslima Nasrin
Orientalism by Ulka Anjaria
Parsi (pārsī) by Keki Daruwala
Pir/Murid (pīr/murīd) by S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Masood Ali Beg
Purana (purāṇa) by B. N. Patnaik
Kismat/Takdir (qismat/takadīr) by Shivangini Tandon and S. Imtiaz Hasnain
Ramayana (rāmāyaṇa) by Paula Richman
Sati/Jauhar (satī/jauhar) by Malashri Lal
Sufi (sūfī) by S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Masood Ali Beg
Zero by Iwan Pranoto and Ranjit Nair
2 Contemporary aesthetic modes: Reimaginings
Alankara (alaṅkāra) by Harsha V. Dehejia
Beauty parlour by Katyayani Dalmia
Bharatnatyam (bharatanāṭyam) by Leela Samson
Bhoot (bhūta) by Brahma Prakash
Bollywood by Ravi Vasudevan
Foto (phōṭō) by B. N. Goswamy
Gana (gānā) by Antony Arul Valan
Gorapan (gōrāpan) by Katyayani Dalmia
Gym by Santosh Desai
Hero/Heroine by Irwin Allan Sealy
Ishq/Pyar (iśq/pyār) by Shivangini Tandon
Jatra (jātrā) by Roma Chatterji
Leela (līlā) by Leela Samson
Naach (nāc) by Brahma Prakash
Nakhra (nakhrā) by Brahma Prakash
Padma Awards by Vibha Puri Das
Qawwālī (qavvālī) by Yousuf Saeed
Raga (rāga) by Tista Bagchi
Ramlila (rāmlīlā) by Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Rangoli (raṅgōlī) by Sudha Gopalakrishnan
Rasa (rasa) by Hemachandran Karah
Sahitya (sāhitya) by B. N. Patnaik
Saree (sāṛī) by Gopika Nath
Saundarya (saundarya) by Harsha V. Dehejia
Selfie by Seema Khanwalkar
Shamiyana (śāmiyānā) by Ira Pande
South Indian films by Uma Vangal
Taj Mahal by Timeri N. Murari
Tamasha (tamāśā) by Arjun Ghosh
Vaastu (vāstu) by Rajat Subhra Banerjee
Yoga (yōga) by Ranjit Nair
3 Economic mantras, media and technological change
Aadhaar (ādhār) by Vijayanka Nair
Aspatre/Haspatal (aspatre/haspatāl) by Kavery Nambisan
Benami by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta
Black economy by Arun Kumar
Breaking news by Pamela Philipose
Climate change by Navroz K. Dubash
Computer/laptop/mobile by Souvik Mukherjee
Corporate social responsibility by Arun M. Kumar
Cyberbhakt by Thomas Abraham
Demonetization by C. Rammanohar Reddy
Development by Pulapre Balakrishnan
Digital India by Sandeep Mertia
Green Revolution by Aditya Dasgupta
Human development by A. K. Shiva Kumar
Indian Railways by Vijaya Singh
Inflation by Dipak Dasgupta
Inheritance systems by Bina Agarwal
Jhuggi, Jhopri, Slum, Chawl (jhuggī, jhōpd.i, Slum, cāl) by Darryl D’monte
Jobless growth by Montek S. Ahluwalia
Land grabbing by Varsha Bhagat-Ganguly
LPG by Pulapre Balakrishnan
Mai Baap Sarkaar (maiṁ bāp sarkār) by Parikshit Ghosh and Debraj Ray
Mall by C. Ramachandraiah
Mandi/E-chaupal (maṇḍī/E-caupāl) by Jeemol Unni
Microfinance by H. S. Shylendra
Middle class by Pavan K. Varma
Nasbandi (nasbandī) by Poonam Muttreja
NREGA (naregā) by Reetika Khera
Outsourcing by Souvik Mukherjee
Policy paralysis by Vipul Mudgal
Pollution by Shahzad Gani and Pallavi Pant
Public private partnership by Bibek Debroy
Public health by Poonam Muttreja
Refugee by Paula Banerjee
Reserve Bank of India by Raghavendra Lal Das
Sensex by Hoshang Netarwala
Social media by P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan
Start-up by Souvik Mukherjee
Tax by Saba Sharma
4 Intimacies: Culture and material culture
Azan (azān) by Hilal Ahmed
Badh (baḍh) by Punam Tripathi
Balti and Lota (bālṭī and lota) by Shivani Chopra
Behenji (bahanjī) by Ajoy Bose
Bhadralok (bhadralōk) by Supriya Chaudhuri
Bhailo/Bhaiya/Ghanti/Paklo by Rochelle Pinto
Bhukamp (bhūkamp) by Punam Tripathi
Chappal (cappal) by Gopika Nath
Choolah (cūl’hā) by Shahzad Gani and Pallavi Pant
Coolie by Harish Trivedi
Cricket by Boria Majumdar
Cycle-wala (sā’ikilwālā) by Jean Drèze
Danda/Lathi/Lathi Charge (ḍaṇḍā/lāṭhī/lāṭhī Charge) by Manindra Thakur
Female foeticide by Ravinder Kaur
Food by Jasmine Anand
Godmen by Akshaya Mukul
Godrej almirah (godrej ālmirah) by Dipti Kulkarni
Haram/Halal (harām/halāl) by Amir Ali
Izzat/Sharam/Honour Killing (izzat/śaram) by Shivangini Tandon
Jagannath/Juggernaut (jagannāth/juggernaut) by Jatindra Kumar Nayak
Jagran/Kirtan/Bhajan (jāgaraṇ/kīrtan/bhajan) by Jaskiran K. Mathur
Jharoo/Teel Jharoo/Eerkali Chool (jhāḍū/teel jhāḍū/eerkali chool) by Susan Visvanathan
Jootha (jūṭhā) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Kabbadi, Gili Danda, Jallikatta (kabaḍḍī, gillī ḍaṇḍā, jallīkaṭṭū) by Souvik Naha
Kai (kāī) by Vanamala Viswanatha
Kayaka (kayaka) by N. Manu Chakravarthy
Khadi (khādī) by Tridip Suhrud
Lakshman Rekha (lakṣmaṇ rēkhā) by Rukmini Bhaya Nair
Mada, Nall (mād, nāl) by Alito Siqueira and Asawari Nayak
Mela (mēlā) by Chandan Gowda
Missed call by Satish Padmanabhan
Prakriti/Sanskriti (prakr̥ti/sanskr̥ti) by Ranjeeta Dutta
Ramzan (ramzān) by Hilal Ahmed
Shamshan (śamśāna) by Ipshita Chanda
Sogadu (sogāṛū) by N. Manu Chakravarthy
Susegad (sussegād) by Alito Siqueira and Asawari Nayak
Stamp paper by Ramanjit Kaur Johal
Street children by Harsh Mander
Street vendors by Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay
Temple entry by Dipti Kulkarni
Tribal customary law by Melvil Pereira
Zanana (zanānā) by Nazima Parveen
5 Emancipatory imaginaries
Adivasi (ādivāsī) by Virginius Xaxa
Ambedkarite by V. Geetha
Amir Gharib (amīr/gharīb) by S. Imtiaz Hasnain and Masood Ali Beg
Anganwadi (āṅganavāḍī) by Sarojini Ganju Thakur
AYUSH (āyūṣ) by Madhulika Banerjee
Bhaichara (bhā’īcārā) by Satish Aikant
Chandrayaan (candrayāṇ) by Gopal N. Raj
Dalit (dalit) by Gopal Guru
Democracy by Peter Ronald deSouza
Disability by Annie Koshi
Dowry (dahēj) by N. Jayaram
Gandhian by Sudarsan Padmanabhan
Gaon (gānv) by Jitender Parsad
Hijra (hijḍā)/LGBT by Ashley Tellis
Janta (jantā)/public by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Love marriage by Rajni Palriwala
Maa (māṁ) by Geetanjali Shree
Madrasa (madrasā) by Mohd. Sanjeer Alam
Modernity by Kavita Panjabi
Mohalla (mōhallā) by Nazima Parveen
Nehruvian by Madhavan Palat
Parivar/Samaj/Biradri (parivār/samāj/birādarī) by Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay
Patriarchy by Uma Chakravarti
Police reforms by Prakash Singh
RTI by The MKSS Collective
Shakti (śakti) by Vrinda Dalmiya
Scientific temper by Ranjit Nair
Self-respect by V. Geetha
Seva (sēvā) by Tridip Suhrud
Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan (sarva śikṣā abhiyān) by Vimala Ramachandran
Sudhar (sudhār) by Tridip Suhrud
Sukh-dukh (sukh-dukh) by Aditi Mukherjee
Swaraj (svarāj) by Dunu Roy
Virangana (vīrāṅgaṇā) by Usha Mudiganti
Visva-Bharati (viśva-bhāratī) by Partha Ghose
Vote bank by Manisha Madhava
Yojana (yōjanā)/Planning by Nalini Nayak and Pulin B. Nayak
6 Language and self-reflection
Adda (aḍḍā) by Manas Ray
Adjust by Santosh Desai
Akshara (akṣara) by Aditi Mukherjee
Baat-cheet (bātcīt) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Bhasha (bhāṣā) by Karthika Sathyanathan and Rajesh Kumar
Eighth Schedule by Om Prakash
Endangered languages by Jatindra Kumar Nayak
English by K. Narayana Chandran
File by Shiv Visvanathan
Firangi/Angrez (phiraṅgī/aṅgrēz) by Gilian Wright
Gaali (gālī) by Praveen Singh
Hello-ji (hēlō jī) by Maidul Islam
Indian writing in English (IWE) by G. J. V. Prasad
Jugaad (jugāḍ) by Lallan Baghel
Karpu by Antony Arul Valan
Katha, Kahani, Qissa, Dastaan (kathā, kahānī, kis’sā, dāstān) by Mahmood Farooqui
Khari Boli (khaḍī bōlī) by Abhay Kumar Dubey
Kolaveri (kōlāverī) by Fahima Ayub Khan
Languages and linguistic states by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Matlabi (matlabī) by Shiv Visvanathan
Nara (nārā) by Navprit Kaur
Neta (nētā) by Manish Thakur
Pravachan (pravacan) by Rama Kant Agnihotri
Settled by Shiv Visvanathan
Shruti and Smriti (śruti and smr̥ti) by Praveen Singh
Thalaivar (talaivar) by Sudarsan Padmanabhan
Tension by Anushka Rajesh Patel and Merdijana Kovacevic
Three language formula by Jatindra Kumar Nayak
Time-pass by Vanamala Viswanatha
Translation by Rita Kothari
VIP by Shiv Visvanathan
7 Politics and the political
AFSPA and other draconian laws by Ujjwal Kumar Singh
Atrocity by Chandraiah Gopani
Ayodhya (ayōdhyā) by A. K. Verma
Babu/Sarkar/Revenue Officer (bābū/sarkār/revenue officer) by Tabish Khair
Border by Yogesh Snehi
Bureaucracy by Aakar Patel
Chunav (cunāv)/election by Mona Mehta
Coalition dharma by E. Sridharan
Communal violence by Harsh Mander
Corruption by C. Rammanohar Reddy
Desivad (dēsīvād) by Bhalchandra Nemade
Dharna/Rail Roko/Bandh/Hartal/Gherao (dharnā/rēl rōkō/bandh/haṛtāl/ghērāv) by Samir Kumar Das
DM/BDO by Ashok Thakur
Dominant caste by Ghanshyam Shah
Emergency by Suhas Palshikar
Fatwa (fatvā) by Irfanullah Farooqi
Ghar Wapsi (ghar vāpsī) by Rudolf C. Heredia
Hindu Rashtra (hindū rāṣṭra) by Pralay Kanungo
Human rights by Savita Bhakhry
IAS, IFS by Yogendra Kumar
Insurgency/terrorist/jihādī/militant by Sanjoy Hazarika
Jumla (jumlā) by Mona Mehta
Lal Batti (lāl battī) by Manish Thakur
Lok Adalat (lōk adālat) by Siddharth Peter De Souza
Minorities by Peter Ronald deSouza
Nagar Palika (nagar pālikā) by George Mathew
National, anti-national by Kaisser Rana
Naxalite (nakslā’iṭ) by Bela Bhatia
Northeast India by Pradip Phanjoubam
Panchayati Raj (pan̄cāyatī rāj) by George Mathew
Partition by Salil Misra
Patwari (paṭvārī) by Ramana Murthy V. Rupakula
Peasant movements by Muzaffar Assadi
Political parties by Ashutosh Kumar
Rajya Sabha, Lok Sabha (rājya sabhā, lōk sabhā) by Valerian Rodrigues
Rape by Mary E. John
SAARC by Rahul Tripathi
Sarkar (sarkār) by Chandan Sinha and Neilabh Sinha
Schedule by Justice Suhrud Dave
Secular by Rajeev Bhargava
Subaltern by Shail Mayaram
Thana (thānā) by Santana Khanikar
UPSC by Maruthi Prasad Tangirala
Violence by Neera Chandhoke
Epilogue by Peter Ronald deSouza
Notes on contributors
Index
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