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Whence karma? by Bronkhorst, Johannes

“…How did the belief in rebirth and karmic retribution come into existence? W. D. Whitney called it ‘one of the most difficult questions in the religious history…”
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The mohol: The hidden power structure of Bangladesh local politics by Ruud, Arild Engelsen

“…It is a common view that power in Bangladesh is exercised through patron–client forms of exchange. These patron–client relationships are held together by moral…”
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‘Most Backward Castes’, State Neglect and Rage: Violence in Rural North India by Jassal, Smita Tewari

“…Complaints filed in Indian police stations offer a unique lens on the marginality and violence experienced by a range of castes recognised as Other Backward…”
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A Tale of Many Battles: Arguing Legal Personhood for Animals in the United States and India by Berti, Daniela

“…In this article, I focus on how the issue of considering animals as legal persons has been argued in court by the Nonhuman Rights Project led by Steven Wise in…”
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A Word from the Editor by Brara, Rita

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The Land of Gods: Exploring Converging Agencies in the Deity Institution of Kullu, India by Mahajan, Ishita

“…What does it mean to have a deity as a ruler in the contemporary Indian sociopolitical context? How does a divine entity act as a governing authority in modern…”
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Dubai Letter Songs: Emotions and Migration in Kerala, India (1970s–1990s) by Kalarivayil, Rajesh

“…In the wake of the oil boom of the 1970s, there was a large flow of migrant labour to countries in West Asia, particularly around the Persian Gulf. ‘Gulf…”
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Dispossession by Mining and Differentiation Among Young Men by Chalaki in Eastern India by Dash, Minati

“…Utkal Alumina started the first private bauxite mining project in India in the mid‑1990s in the Baphlimali hills of Kashipur (a town in the Rayagada district…”
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Precarity, aspiration and neoliberal development: Women empowerment workers in West Bengal by Roy, Srila

“…While there is a long tradition of interpellating poor rural women to carry out the state’s development and modernising goals in local communities, neoliberal…”
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The world renouncer and man-in-the-world: Revisiting an old paradigm by Olivelle, Patrick

“…This article is a critical re-evaluation of Louis Dumont’s theory of the opposition between the man-in-the-world and the world renouncer within traditional…”
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Lawrence A. Babb (2 May 1941–21 November 2023): The anthropological study of religion in India by Cort, John E.

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Scholarly worlds and popular texts: The Bhagavad Gðtå’s vernacular communities in early modern India by Ravishankar, Akshara

“…The Bhagavad Gītā is often thought of as the popular religious text par excellence in modern Hinduism. A substantial amount of scholarship has argued that its…”
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Demeaned subjects, fragmented objects and the state in Hindi crime-porn magazines by Parciack, Ronie

“…This article addresses Hindi crime-porn magazines that are mostly distributed in makeshift stalls in cities and railway stations in Central and Northern India…”
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Illustrations and text in Bðr Singh’s Rāmāyaṇa by Brockington, John

“…This note focuses on the value of looking into the visual culture embodied in India’s epic manuscripts during the medieval period—which combined Persian,…”
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Beyond the Post Normal by Visvanathan, Shiv, Parmar, Chandrika

“…The essay argues for an exploration of alternative worldviews and a search for a different set of categories. It proposes that the classic ‘for a Sociology of…”
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The Jharkhand Andolan: A silencing of Muslim voice(s) by Bhattacharya, Abhik

“…The subaltern turn in historiography has changed the way we read history/histories. The omissions and silence(s) that happen at the stage of ‘fact creation’…”
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Rethinking and transforming Area Studies and Indian Studies: A new cosmopolitanism and the challenges of planetary realisations by Giri, Ananta Kumar

“…Area Studies was an important way of studying different parts of the world after the Second World War that was promoted by US-European academic establishments…”
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Professional identities and servile realities: Aspirational labour in Delhi malls by Bardalai, Keya

“…The article explores how retail workers envision and pursue aspirations for social mobility through employment in Delhi malls. Based on 14 months of…”
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The chronopolitics of the Anthropocene: The pandemic and our sense of time by Chakrabarty, Dipesh

“…By drawing on the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change and the pandemic as two examples of the geologists’ idea of the Anthropocene, this article seeks to…”
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The Mother’s children: The making of memory and intimacy at the Gurus’ Samadhi by Ganguly, Tuhina

“…Tombs of gurus and religious leaders are central to the consolidation of religious communities through memorialisation and the public performance of rituals…”
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