Political and social transformations in north India and Nepal

Political and social transformations in north India and Nepal / edited by Hiroshi Ishii, David N. Gellner, Katsuo Nawa.

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ishii, Hiroshi, 1943-, Gellner, David N., Nawa, Katsuo
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Manohar, 2007.
Series:Social dynamics in northern South Asia ; vol. 2
Japanese studies on South Asia ; no. 7
Subjects:
Politics > India, North.
Social change > India, North.
Politics > Nepal.
Social change > Nepal.
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. Local political and social change
  • 1. Local politics and alternatives in development in North Bengal / Abhijit Dasgupta
  • 2. Behond culture and agriculture : agrarian change and case-conflict in rural Punjab / Surinder Singh Jodhka
  • 3. Social change and leadership: a case study of Bhaktapur City . Krishna Hachhethu
  • 4. The transformation of caste relationships in Nepal: rethinking substantialization / Hiroshi Ishii
  • 5. Understanding the ethical basis of local democracy: towards post-postcolonial transformation in rural Orissa / Akio Tanabe
  • pt. Transformations of religious identities and practices
  • 6. Hindus and Muslims after the 2002 Gujarat Riots: imagining as binary opposites / Lancy Lobo and Biswaroop Das7. The spread of Vihar Buddhism amon rural Newars in the Kathnamdu Valley / Keshav Lall Maharhjan
  • 8. Publi space , voluntary associations and Hindu nationalism: changing urban fesivals in Udaipur, Rahasthan / Minoru Mio
  • 9. Some uninteded consequences of ritual change: the case of funerals in Changru, Byans, Far Western Nepal / Katsuo Nawa
  • pt. 3. forms of secualr activism: resistance, negotiation, and violence
  • 10. Bengalis iytsude b=Bebgal: The 1947 partition of India and the formation of a bengali displaced persons' colony in South Delhi, India / Tetsuya Nakatani
  • 11. The bonded Agricultural Labourers' Freedom Movement / Tatsuro Fujikura
  • 12. The sociology of activiam in Nepal: some preliminary considerations / David N. Gellner and Mrigendra Bahadur Karki
  • 13. Challenging Goliath: people, dams, and the paradoxes of transnational critical moveents / Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka
  • 14. Maoists, people , and the state as seen from Rolpa and Rukum / Kiyoko Ogura 15. A note on the substantialization of caste and its hegemony / Jonathan Parry.

Similar Items