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in book: 10.
“Colonial Anthropology, Law, and Adivasi Struggles:
The Cases of Jharkhand” by Carol Upadhya p. 266-289
in Doing sociology in India : genealogies, locations, and practices ed by Sujat Patel. 328 p. New
Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN:
019807011X Biblio: 2011 Sp/Oc contents: http://www.biblio-india.org/tocSO11.asp? Including
reviews of
Seminar: The Nation and its poet
(Rabindranath Tagore) http://www.india-seminar.com/2011/623.htm Delhi Meri
Jaan http://www.india-seminar.com/2011/628.htm EPW 2011: Estranged Siblings: Urdu and Hindi
From Hindi to Urdu: A Social and Political History by Tariq Rahman
(Hyderabad: Orient Blackswan), 2011; pp 456, Rs 695. --Ather Farouqui--
17-09-2011 [BOOK REVIEWS] Issue :
VOL 46 No. 38 September 17 - September 23, 2011 Financial Burden of Transient
Morbidity: A Case Study of Slums in Delhi Morbidity and its treatment
can be potentially burdensome or even catastrophic for poor households. While
public policy has shown some response to this phenomenon, there is scope for
improvement of the coverage of the programmes. Health
insurance schemes like the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana
cover only conditional hospitalisation expenses. This
paper argues that treatment cost incurred on ailments not requiring hospitalisation is also a substantial burden on the urban
poor. Based on a case study of 150 slum households in south Delhi with a
history of treated ailments within a specific recall period, the study
estimates the degree and distribution of this burden across socio-economic and
disease characteristics in the sample. The paper argues for a more holistic
approach in social safety nets like the RSBY, and for explicitly including
uncovered healthcare payments in measurement of the poverty lines for a more
accurate estimation of the marginalised. --Samik Chowdhury--
13-08-2011 [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Issue :
VOL 46 No. 33 August 13 - August 19, 2011 The Domination of Strangers: Time,
Emotion and the Making of the Modern State in Colonial India Historians
and anthropologists have recently stressed the decentralised
and fragmented nature of the power of the colonial and postcolonial state. Such
perspectives, most recently articulated by Akhil
Gupta, forget that state power often operates through precisely such a critique
of the chaotic nature of government in the present, which it contrasts with the
unified, coherent institution it attempts to create in the future. The language
of fragmentation is a product of modern governance. This article traces the
origins of modern state practices in India to the anxious efforts of colonial
officials to govern a society they had little emotional connection with. The
estranged relationship of colonial officials with Indian social practices
allowed them to produce a “progressive” form of rule that lived in the future,
and abandoned any attempt to meaningfully engage with India’s present day. --Jon
E Wilson-- 23-07-2011 [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Issue : VOL 46 No. 30 July 23 - July 29, 2011 Puppetry: Re-establishing the Folk
Art A little tradition and subaltern craft, the wooden puppets or kathputalis were common to Gujarat, Rajasthan and the
northern parts of India. After Independence, however, puppetry became a tool
for development communication, reaching every nook and corner of rural and
poor, urban Gujarat. With the 1990s, and the advent of globalisation,
these innovations have found little encouragement and puppeteers have
increasingly become workers of an entertainment heritage industry, leading to
new forms of neo-brahminical and neo-mercantile
exploitation. --Hiren Gandhi ,
Saroop Dhruv--
23-07-2011 [FROM THE STATES] Issue : VOL 46 No. 30 July
23 - July 29, 2011 ‘Prophecies’ in South Asian Muslim
Political Discourse: The Poems of Shah Ni’matullah Wali Three “prophetic” Persian poems ascribed to a
Shah Ni’matullah Wali have
been a fascinating feature in the popular political discourse of the Muslims of
south Asia. For nearly two centuries these poems have circulated whenever there
has been a major crisis in, what may be called, the psychic world of south
Asian Muslims. The first recorded appearance was in
1850, after the “Jihad” movement of Syed Ahmad had failed in the north-west,
followed by serial appearances after the debacle of 1857, the dissolution of
the Ottoman Caliphate and the failure of the Khilafat
and Hijrat movements in 1924, the Partition of the
country and community in 1947, and the Indo-Pak war of 1971-72. Curiously,
these poems have re-emerged in Pakistan in 2010, and have found wider
circulation on the internet. This paper traces the evolution of these poems
since 1850, contextualises their appearances and
offers some explanation for their hold on the minds of the Urdu-knowing Muslims
of south Asia.49 --C M Naim--
09-07-2011 [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Issue : VOL 46 No. 28 July
09 - July 15, 2011 Farmers’ Suicides and Statehood
Demand in Bundelkhand Farmers’ suicides in Bundelkhand are a result of several years of neglect of the
agricultural sector and industrial backwardness. Neither the Uttar Pradesh nor
the Madhya Pradesh government has made efforts to address the basic issues of
ecological degradation, agricultural modernisation
and rural indebtedness. The demand for a separate state only serves to satisfy
political ends and is no solution for the multiple problems of Bundelkhand’s farmers. --A K Verma--
09-07-2011 [FROM THE STATES] Issue :
VOL 46 No. 28 July 09 - July 15, 2011 Fifteenth Assembly Elections in
West Bengal --Lokniti network--
18-06-2011 [SPECIAL STATISTICS: 2011 STATE ELECTIONS] Issue : VOL 46 No. 25 June 18 - June 24, 2011 Local Perceptions of Conservation
Intervention in Kanha National Park Forests
and national park areas have become increasingly significant because they
contain various biological resources. Recent conservation interventions by the
State with the creation of national parks governed by rules and regulations
entailed a loss of use and access rights to forest areas and produce for the
local people. This also led to a change in the perceptions of the local people
in the context of conservation of forests and wildlife as it created
socio-economic and cultural vulnerabilities. This paper examines the causal
factors which influence the changing perceptions of the local people towards
state-created national park areas. The main aim of the study is to identify the
significance of non-wood forest products for forest dependent people living in
rural ecosystem spaces. The case study here is of Kanha
National Park in Madhya Pradesh. --Ananya
Mukherjee-- 18-06-2011 [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Issue : VOL 46 No. 25 June 18 - June 24, 2011 Silence on Killings in Bihar
Nitish Kumar is able to brazen out the police
killings in Forbesganj, thanks to the silence of the
media. 25-06-2011 [EDITORIALS] Issue :
VOL 46 No. 26 and 27 June 25 - July 08, 2011 Political Traditions in the Making
of India Makers of Modern India edited and introduced by Ramachandra Guha (India:
Penguin/Viking), 2010; pp x + 549, Rs 799. --Ananya Vajpeyi-- 18-06-2011 [BOOK
REVIEWS] Issue : VOL 46 No. 25 June 18 - June 24, 2011 Inclusive
Development? Migration, Governance and Social Change in Rural
Bihar Migration has been a trigger of change in rural Bihar, but
despite some social progress, economic transformation remains slow. This paper
examines the pattern of change over the last decade, and considers whether
prospects for faster or more equitable development have improved and whether a
model of development based on migration and consumption out of income transfers
and remittances is sustainable. --Gerry Rodgers ,
Janine Rodgers-- 04-06-2011 [SPECIAL ARTICLES] Issue
: VOL 46 No. 23 June 04 - June 10, 2011 Hostage Taking in Bastar On 25 January, the CPI(Maoist) abducted five policemen of the Chhattisgarh
police force. A team of human rights activists worked for their unconditional
release which took place on 11 February inside Chhattisgarh’s dense Abujhmad forest. These activists spoke to the
tribal-villagers and the CPI(Maoist) members. What
follows is their assessment of the situation at ground zero and how the tribals have been affected by the security operations. --Sarva Dharma Sansad ,
People's Union for Civil Liberties , People's Union For Democratic Rights--
04-06-2011 [COMMENTARY] Issue : VOL 46 No. 23 June 04 -
June 10, 2011 Two Roads to Decolonisation:
Tagore and Gandhi Postcolonial societies have suffered the consequences
of half-understood and incomplete decolonisation in a
modern world where the resurrection of a past culture is no longer an option. An exploration of Jose Marti, Tagore, Gandhi and Fanon. --Hiren Gohain--
30-07-2011 [COMMENTARY] Issue :
VOL 46 No. 31 July 30 - August 05, 2011 Cities in IESHR – Lucknow,
Delhi, Calcutta, Madurai.
Ulrike Stark
– “Associational culture and civic
engagement in colonial Lucknow: The Jalsah-e Tahzib”
Indian Economic & Social History
Review January/March 2011 48: 1-33, doi:10.1177/001946461004800101
C.M. Naim
– “Individualism within conformity: A brief history of Waz’dārī in Delhi
and Lucknow” Indian Economic & Social History
Review January/March 2011 48: 35-53, doi:10.1177/00194646100480010
Kapil Raj – “The historical anatomy of a
contact zone: Calcutta in
the eighteenth century” Indian Economic
& Social History Review January/March 2011 48: 55-82, doi:10.1177/001946461004800103
Anne Viguier
– “An improbable reconstruction: The transformation of Madurai,
1837–47 “ Indian
Economic & Social History Review April 2011 48: 215-239, doi:10.1177/001946461104800203
Nilanjan Sarkar – “An urban imaginaire, ca 1350: The capital city in Ziya’ Barani’s Fatawa-i Jahandari” Indian
Economic & Social History Review July/September 2011 48: 407-424, doi:10.1177/001946461104800304
Awadhendra Sharan – “From source to sink: ‘Official’ and ‘improved’ water in Delhi, 1868–1956”
Indian Economic & Social History
Review July/September 2011 48: 425-462, doi:10.1177/001946461104800305
EPW 2011
Ap 2 p. 9 Lelyveld Book The Lelyveld
Book There is a need to read and discuss the Lelyveld
book on Gandhi with a great deal of composure.
02-04-2011 [EDITORIALS] Issue :
VOL 46 No. 14 April 02 - April 08, 2011 2011
March 26. Morris David Morris Roy Morris David Morris (1921-2011)
A tribute to Morris David Morris, the American
economic historian of India, who died earlier this month. --Tirthankar Roy-- 26-03-2011 [COMMENTARY]
Issue : VOL 46 No. 13 March 26 - April 01, 2011 IHR
“Revaluation of Tradition in the Ideology of the
Radical Adivasi
Resistance in Colonial Easter India, 1855-1932 – Part II” by Binay Bhushan
Chaudhuri. In Indian Historical Review,
v. 37 #1, June 2010, p. 39-62. EPW Documenting the Colonial Archives
on the Freedom Movement
Towards Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India –
1939, Part 1 and Part 2 edited by Mushirul Hasan (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008; pp xxii +
980, Rs 3,950 and pp xxvii +1978, Rs 3,950, respectively. Towards
Freedom: Documents on the Movement for Independence in India – 1945 edited by Bimal Prasad (New Delhi: Oxford University Press), 2008; pp
xxvii + 1082, Rs 3,950. --Biswamoy
Pati-- 23-10-2010 [BOOK
REVIEWS] Issue : VOL 45 No. 43 October 23 - October
29, 2010 End of
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