A Companion to the Anthropology of India

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Cover; Contents; Halftitle page; Series page; Title page; Copyright; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Caste and Class in Liberal India; Chapter 1: Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes; Chapter 2: Caste, Class, and Untouchability; Chapter 3: Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India; Chapter 4: The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans; Chapter 5: Caste and Collective Memory in South India; Part II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics.;A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India's globalization in the twenty-first century. Provides readers with an important new introduction to the anthropology of IndiaExplores the larger global issues that have transformed India since the end of colonization, including demographic, economic, social, cultural, political, and religious issuesContributions by leading experts present up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of key topics such as population and life expectancy, civ. Cover Contents Halftitle page Series page Title page Copyright Notes on Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Caste and Class in Liberal India Chapter 1: Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes Chapter 2: Caste, Class, and Untouchability Chapter 3: Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India Chapter 4: The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans Chapter 5: Caste and Collective Memory in South India Part II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics. Chapter 6: "How to Sit, How to Stand": Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle ClassChapter 7: Global Dancing in Kolkata Chapter 8: Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire Chapter 9: Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras Chapter 10: Crafts, Artisans, and the Nation-State in India Chapter 11: Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City Part III Cultures and Religion in the Making Chapter 12: Optic-Clash: Modes of Visuality in India Chapter 13: Hindu-Muslim Relations and the "War on Terror." Chapter 14: Religious Synthesis at a Muslim ShrineChapter 15: Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency Part IV Communalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism Chapter 16: The Politics of Communalism and Caste Chapter 17: Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Reexamining Gender, and Nonliberal Politics Chapter 18: India Burning: The Maoist Revolution Part V Law, Governance, and Civil Society Chapter 19: Courts of Law and Legal Practice Chapter 20: Law and Order: Police Encounter Killings and Routinized Political Violence Chapter 21: Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective. Chapter 22: Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green DelhiChapter 23: Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai's Settlements Part VI From Global India to the Ethnography of Change Chapter 24: Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia Chapter 25: India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives Chapter 26: Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness Chapter 27: Ways of Aging Chapter 28: The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives Index.