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Product Description: This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India. Amrita Basu asks why the incidence and severity of violence differs significantly across Indian states, within states, and through time...read more
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9781107089631 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2015, cover price $94.99 | About this edition: This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India.
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9781107461321 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2015, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: This book is a pioneering study of when and why Hindu Nationalists have engaged in discrimination and violence against minorities in contemporary India.
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9780813344447 | 1 edition (Westview Pr, February 23, 2010), cover price $52.00
Product Description: Violence and Democracy in India examines the relationship between the extreme violence of riots, pogroms, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing and the ordinary, everyday, often invisible structures and practices of violence in India...read more
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9781905422302 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 6, 2007, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Violence and Democracy in India examines the relationship between the extreme violence of riots, pogroms, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing and the ordinary, everyday, often invisible structures and practices of violence in India.
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9781905422319 | 1 edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 6, 2007), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Violence and Democracy in India examines the relationship between the extreme violence of riots, pogroms, acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing and the ordinary, everyday, often invisible structures and practices of violence in India.
These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure area-based knowledge to respond to social sciences and globalization. The essays in this collection address the current crisis in area studies, a crisis that differs from its perennial struggle with the established academic disciplines. This crisis stems from the confluence of three related circumstances: the end of the Cold War; greater economic and cultural fluidity across political borders; and contradictory intellectual trends in the academy, which include on the one hand a renaissance of universalizing thinking in the social sciences and on the other hand, the rise of post-colonial studies and debates about modernity, postmodernity, and cultural hybridization. Although the essays differ markedly in their focus and strategies, the authors all demonstrate that local knowledge, including serious study of individual cultures and proficiency in foreign languages, which are vital to understanding rapidly changing global patterns and to countering universal claims by the social sciences. While the authors also agree that area studies must reject their enthnocentric heritages and adopt inventive new contours, they pr (view table of contents)
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9780815629634 | 1 edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $45.00
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9780815629825 | 1 edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, March 1, 2003), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: These works entertain the question of how scholars may reconfigure area-based knowledge to respond to social sciences and globalization.
Product Description: This book focuses on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context and explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9788186706091 | Kali for Women, January 1, 1999, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: This book focuses on women's agency and activism within the South Asian context and explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Papers presented at a conference at Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1995.
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9780195642360 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Papers presented at a conference at Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1995.
Product Description: Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. Contrary to the hopes of feminists, many women have responded to religious nationalist appeals; contrary to the hopes of religious nationalists, they have also asserted their gender, class, caste, and religious identities; contrary to the hopes of nation states, they have often challenged state policies and practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415918657 | Routledge, September 1, 1997, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Appropriating Gender explores the paradoxical relationship of women to religious politics in India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh.
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9780415918664 | Routledge, September 1, 1997, cover price $53.95
Product Description: This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of womenâs movements worldwide. Unlike most of the literature, which focuses on the industrialized Western world, this volume devotes greater attention to the postcolonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America...read more
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9780813326276 | Westview Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of womenâs movements worldwide.
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9780813326283 | Westview Pr, July 18, 1995, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This pathbreaking book provides for the first time an overview of the genesis, growth, gains, and dilemmas of womenâs movements worldwide.
Product Description: Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional change at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women...read more
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9780520089198 | Reprint edition (Univ of California Pr, October 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian women's political activism.
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9780520065062 | Univ of California Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $40.00
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