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Index
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration
Map
Introduction
Part One The Family and the Life Course
Introduction
1 One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North India
2 Allah Gives Both Boys and Girls
3 “Out Here in Kathmandu”: Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban Nepal
4 Rethinking Courtship, Marriage, and Divorce in an Indian Call Center
5 Love and Aging in Bengali Families
Part Two Genders
Introduction
6 New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rura lNorth India
7 Roadwork: Offstage with Special Drama Actresses inTamil Nadu, South India
8 Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux
9 Life on the Margins: A Hijra’s Story
10 Crossing “Lines” of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India
Part Three Caste, Class, and Community
Introduction
11 Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India’s Caste System
12 God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu City
13 High and Low Castes in Karani
14 Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of Dhaka
15 Anjali’s Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban India
16 Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, India
Part Four Practicing Religion
Introduction
17 The Hindu Gods in a South Indian Village
18 The Feast of Love
19 The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist Kashmir
20 Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern Pakistan
21 In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter, and a Jinn
22 Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in Hyderabad
Part Five Nation-Making
Introduction
23 Voices from the Partition
24 A Day in the Life
25 Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred Duty
26 Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic Power
27 Mala’s Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment Workers
28 Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri Lanka
Part Six Globalization, Public Culture,and the South Asian Diaspora
Introduction
29 Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural Life
30 Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century India
31 A Diaspora Ramayana in Southall
32 British Sikh Lives, Lived in Translation
33 Examining the “Global” Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore Circuit
34 Placing Lives through Stories: Second-Generation South Asian Americans
35 Unexpected Destinations
list of References
List of Contributors
Index
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