Enchantments of Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernit... Lees meer

The Intimate State

Perveez Mody

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense... Lees meer

Enchantments of Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This volume eschews programmatic solutions, focusing instead in new ways on subjects of slavery and memory, global transformations and vernacular and ... Lees meer

Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns

Farhana Ibrahim

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book is an anthropological study located along India's western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contem... Lees meer

Shared Histories of Modernity

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to tr... Lees meer

Enchantments of Modernity

Saurabh Dube

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernit... Lees meer

Enchantments of Modernity

Saurabh Dube

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• The notion of modernity hinges on a break with the past, such as superstitions, medieval worlds, and hierarchical traditions. It follows that modernit... Lees meer

Shared Histories of Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• While pre-modernity is often considered to be the 'time' of non-European regions and modernity is seen as belonging to the West, this book seeks to tr... Lees meer

Beyond Crisis

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct... Lees meer

Living with Violence

Roma Chatterji

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book gives a detailed account of the 'communal riots' between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the ... Lees meer

Speaking with Pictures

Roma Chatterji

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book explores visual narratives in folk art, particularly the scroll painting tradition of the patuas of West Bengal and the Pardhan-Gond style o... Lees meer

Speaking with Pictures

Roma Chatterji

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• Speaking with Pictures offers a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. It foregrounds folk art's engagement with modernity by re-... Lees meer

The Intimate State

Perveez Mody

• Hardcover | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book provides an ethnography of love-marriages in the late 1990s in Delhi, identifying the ways in which marriage is ever more a pitch of intense... Lees meer

Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns

Farhana Ibrahim

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book is an anthropological study located along India's western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contem... Lees meer

Living with Violence

Roma Chatterji

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• This book gives a detailed account of thecommunal riots between Hindus and Muslims in Mumbai in 1992-93. It departs from the historiography of the rio... Lees meer

Beyond Crisis

• Paperback | Engels | Critical Asian Studies
• Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct... Lees meer