Search Results - "Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud (ARAS)"

Reena Kukreja. Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India by Mishra, Paro

“…Why Would I Be Married Here? Marriage, Migration and Dispossession in Neoliberal India is a welcome addition to the small but steadily growing literature on…”
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Srila Roy. Changing the Subject: Feminist and Queer Politics in Neoliberal India by Dutoya, Virginie

“…The institutionalization and professionalization of feminism have been hot issues in feminist debates over the last three decades. In particular, anxieties…”
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Jessica Namakkal. Unsettling Utopia: The Making and Unmaking of French India by Gurkaya, Cansu

“…In her debut book, historian Jessica Namakkal proposes a counter-metanarrative that challenges the notion of “decolonization as a completed event” (p. 5),…”
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Subho Basu. Intimation of Revolution: Global Sixties and the Making of Bangladesh by Ruud, Arild Engelsen

“…Outside of Bangladesh and of the circles of South Asian studies, the details of the struggle leading up to the war of independence in 1971 are known only in…”
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Neeti Nair. Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia by Kachwala, Shahin

“…In Hurt Sentiments: Secularism and Belonging in South Asia, Neeti Nair unravels the historically shifting meanings of secularism, religious statehood,…”
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Malini Sur. Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border by Chennur, Satish

“…The book under review is comprised of six chapters, with an introduction and a short afterword that give the reader a tour-de-France experience of the…”
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Maya Sharma. Footprints of a Queer History: Life Stories from Gujarat by Gandhi, Nanjani

“…Literature often explores a wide range of lives that escape monolithic categorizations. It helps in understanding social systems and can also often serve as a…”
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Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy, George Jose. MUMBAI/BOMBAY: Majoritarian Neoliberalassism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing by Tang, Min

“…In MUMBAI/BOMBAY: Majoritarian Neoliberalism, Informality, Resistance, and Wellbeing, Sujata Patel, D. Parthasarathy, and George Jose offer a comprehensive,…”
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Nienke Boer. The Briny South: Displacement and Sentiment in the Indian Ocean World by Varghese, Jonathan Koshy

“…“Regimes of official documentation […] are inert remnants, iconic roadmaps to regimes of domination that warp the integrity of the best of men. Such…”
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