South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies, Volume 38, Issue 3 (2015)

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Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia. Guest Editors: Brannon D. Ingram, J. Barton Scott and SherAli Tareen

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Introduction
What is a Public? Notes from South Asia
J. Barton Scott & Brannon D. Ingram
Pages: 357-370
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Rethinking the Public through the Lens of Sovereignty
David Gilmartin
Pages: 371-386
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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How to Defame a God: Public Selfhood in the Maharaj Libel Case
J. Barton Scott
Pages: 387-402
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Crises of the Public in Muslim India: Critiquing ‘Custom’ at Aligarh and Deoband
Brannon D. Ingram
Pages: 403-418
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Contesting Friendship in Colonial Muslim India
SherAli Tareen
Pages: 419-434
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Booklets and Sants: Religious Publics and Literary History
Francesca Orsini
Pages: 435-449
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Ambedkar, Marx and the Buddhist Question
Ajay Skaria
Pages: 450-465
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Jurisprudence of Emergence: Neo-Liberalism and the Public as Market in India
Ritu Birla
Pages: 466-480
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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A Different Kind of Flesh: Public Obscenity, Globalisation and the Mumbai Dance Bar Ban
William Mazzarella
Pages: 481-494
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Commissioning Representation: The Misra Report, Deliberation and the Government of the People in Modern India
Rupa Viswanath
Pages: 495-511
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Postscript: Exploring Aspects of ‘the Public’ from 1991 to 2014
Sandria B. Freitag
Pages: 512-523
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Obituary

Obituary
Peter Reeves (1935–2015)
Robin Jeffrey
Pages: 524-525
Published online: 11 Jun 2015
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Ayya's Accounts: A Ledger of Hope in Modern India, by Anand Pandian and M.P. Mariappan
with an Afterword by Veena Das (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-253-01250-0, xii + 216 pp., US$24.00, pbk.
Sarah Lamb
Pages: 526-527
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Daughters of Parvati. Women and Madness in Contemporary India, by Sarah Pinto
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-8122-4583-7, 283 pp., US$59.95, hdbk.
Emilija Zabiliūtė
Pages: 528-529
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Street Corner Secrets: Sex Work and Migration in the City of Mumbai, by Svati P. Shah
(Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-8223-5698-1, 280 pp., US$24.95, pbk.
Lucinda Ramberg
Pages: 529-531
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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The Durable Slum: Dharavi and the Right to Stay Put in Globalizing Mumbai, by Liza Weinstein
(Minneapolis/London: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-8166-8310-9, 216 pp., US$25.00, pbk.
Anne Waldrop
Pages: 531-532
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Mountainous Sound Spaces: Listening to History and Music in the Uttarakhand Himalayas, by Andrew Alter
(New Delhi: Foundation Books/Cambridge University Press, India, 2014), ISBN 9789382993322, 198 pp., Rs536/US$48.00, hdbk.
John Napier
Pages: 532-534
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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People Trees: Worship of Trees in Northern India, by David L. Haberman
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), ISBN 978-0-19-992916-0, 240 pp.,US$35.00, pbk.
Ujjwal Jana
Pages: 534-536
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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Indians in Singapore, 1819–1945: Diaspora in the Colonial Port City, by Rajesh Rai
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-19-809929-1, xxix + 325 pp., £31.99, hdbk.
John Solomon
Pages: 536-538
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World, by T.V. Paul
(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), ISBN 978-0-19-932223-7, xii + 253 pp., US$27.95, hdbk.
Bibek Chand
Pages: 538-539
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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The Politics of Ethnicity in India, Nepal and China, edited by Marine Carrin, Pralay Kanungo and Gérard Toffin
(New Delhi: Primus Books, 2014), ISBN 9789380607870, 343 pp., Rs1,350, hdbk.
Markus Schleiter
Pages: 539-541
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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The Coal Nation. Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India, edited by Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt
(Farnham: Ashgate, 2014), ISBN 978 1 4724 2470 9, 318 pp., £70.00, hdbk.
Katja Müller
Pages: 541-542
Published online: 18 Aug 2015
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