Browsing South Asia Studies by Subject "South Asian studies"
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Hindutva Feminism: Gender, Desire, and Politics in an Urban Indian Community
This thesis is an ethnographic study of the life-worlds of middle-class Rajput Hindu women and their families living and working in a middle-class neighbor in Jaipur, Rajasthan’s urban capital. I trace the development of ... -
The HMEC: An American Hindutva
(2013-04-17)Over the past 20 years the Hindutva movement, both in the United States and India, has grown increasingly assertive. Often the American Hindutva movement is dismissed as insignificant or treated as simple extension of its ... -
Politics of ports: China’s investments in Pakistan, Sri Lanka & Bangladesh
Over the last decade China has heavily invested in deep-water ports in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Many scholars explain these investments in light of China’s economic expansion and long-term strategic goals. ... -
Refracted Images: India’s Self-Image and the Influence of China on Indian foreign policy (1950-1975)
While visiting India from Lhasa in 1956—57, the Dalai Lama indicated that he would consider not returning to China-occupied Tibet should India offer him political asylum. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was not enthusiastic ... -
Theurgy and the Snake: The Yoga Kalandar and Bengali Sufism
A radically alternative vision of the fakir is given in surviving medieval (Bng. madhya-ẏug, “Middle Age”) and pre-modern textual sources that predate and coincide with the colonial period in Bengal, such as the widely ...