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Index
Cover
Contents
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Caste and Class in Liberal India
Chapter 1: Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes
Chapter 2: Caste, Class, and Untouchability
Chapter 3: Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India
Chapter 4: The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans
Chapter 5: Caste and Collective Memory in South India
Part II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics
Chapter 6: “How to Sit, How to Stand”: Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class
Chapter 7: Global Dancing in Kolkata
Chapter 8: Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire
Chapter 9: Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras
Chapter 10: Crafts, Artisans, and the Nation-State in India
Chapter 11: Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City
Part III Cultures and Religion in the Making
Chapter 12: Optic-Clash: Modes of Visuality in India
Chapter 13: Hindu–Muslim Relations and the “War on Terror”
Chapter 14: Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine
Chapter 15: Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency
Part IV Communalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism
Chapter 16: The Politics of Communalism and Caste
Chapter 17: Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Reexamining Gender, and Nonliberal Politics
Chapter 18: India Burning: The Maoist Revolution
Part V Law, Governance, and Civil Society
Chapter 19: Courts of Law and Legal Practice
Chapter 20: Law and Order: Police Encounter Killings and Routinized Political Violence
Chapter 21: Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective
Chapter 22: Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi
Chapter 23: Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai’s Settlements
Part VI From Global India to the Ethnography of Change
Chapter 24: Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia
Chapter 25: India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives
Chapter 26: Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness
Chapter 27: Ways of Aging
Chapter 28: The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives
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