Annotation This book melds rich ethnography with an understanding of recent history to
understand the issues surrounding upward social mobility, modernity and changing …

Co-Winner of the 2003 American Sociological Association's Asia/Asian American book
award. Based on ethnographic research in three communities (Ezhava Hindu, Mappila …

This article explores how members of an ex‐untouchable,'backward'community of South
India–the Izhavas of Kerala–represent and make sense of their entanglements within …

For more than a decade, the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir has been the scene of
large-scale violence. A plethora of groups combats the army and the paramilitary forces sent …

Nation-states often shape the boundaries of historical enquiry, and thus silence the very
histories that have sutured nations to territorial states." India" and" Pakistan" were drawn …

During the early twentieth century, the religious beliefs and practices of the Zeme people of
southern Assam in the northeast corner of India evolved and changed in complex ways …

In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings
of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture …