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En-Gendering Individuals: The Language of Re-Forming in Twentieth Century Keralam
04 Apr 2007-
About: The article was published on 2007-04-04 and is currently open access. It has received 25 citations till now.
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16 Oct 2014
TL;DR: Piliavsky as discussed by the authors discusses the political economy of patronage, pre-eminence and the state in South Asia and discusses the paradox of patronage and the People's sovereignty.
Abstract: List of illustrations Foreword John Dunn Acknowledgements Introduction Anastasia Piliavsky Part I. The Idea of Patronage in South Asia: 1. The political economy of patronage, pre-eminence and the State in Chennai Mattison Mines 2. The temporal and the spiritual, and the so-called patron-client relation in the governance of Inner Asia and Tibet D. Seyfort Ruegg 3. Remnants of patronage and the making of Tamil Valaiyar pasts Diane Mines 4. Patronage and State-making in early modern empires in India and Britain Sumit Guha Part II. Democracy as Patronage: 5. The paradox of patronage and the People's sovereignty David Gilmartin 6. India's demotic democracy and its 'depravities' in the ethnographic longue duree Anastasia Piliavsky 7. 'Vote banking' as politics in Mumbai Lisa Bjorkman 8. Political fixers in India's patronage democracy Ward Berenschot 9. Patronage and autonomy in India's deepening democracy Pamela Price, with Dusi Srinivas 10. Police and legal patronage in northern India Beatrice Jauregui 11. Patronage politics in post-Independence India Steven I. Wilkinson Part III. Prospects and Disappointments: 12. Kingship without kings in northern India Lucia Michelutti 13. The political bully in Bangladesh Arild Engelsen Ruud 14. The dark side of patronage in the Pakistani Punjab Nicolas Martin 15. Patronage and printing innovation in fifteenth-century Tibet Hildegard Diemberger 16. The im(morality) of mediation and patronage in South India and the Gulf Filippo Osella Contributors Bibliography Index.
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14 Jan 2013
TL;DR: In this article, an analysis of how the socio-political context shapes citizens' perceptions of multiple variables such as their sense of political efficacy, agency, conception of citizenship rights and belief in democracy is undertaken.
Abstract: This thesis deals with the question of how Indian Muslims make use of the spaces and channels granted by the democratic framework to accommodate their Islamic identity with the secular one, and to what extent their Islamic identity is conceived (or perceived) as either conducive or conflicting with the political setting they live in. By comparing between a majority and minority setting, an analysis of how the socio-political context shapes citizens’ perceptions of multiple variables such as their sense of political efficacy, agency, conception of citizenship rights and belief in democracy is undertaken.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on transformations in forms of male sociality and same-sex intimacy among Muslim men from Kozhikode (formerly known as Calicut) in Kerala, South India, focusing in particular on the way in which the globalisation of capital and labour markets, a predominantly male affair, has produced novel forms and spaces of homosociality.
Abstract: This article is concerned with transformations in forms of male sociality and same-sex intimacy among Muslim men from Kozhikode (formerly known as Calicut) in Kerala, South India. I focus in particular on the way in which the globalisation of capital and labour markets – in particular, long-term migration to the Gulf countries of West Asia, a predominantly male affair – has produced novel forms and spaces of homosociality. By highlighting long-term religious and trade connections between Kozhikode and the Arabian Peninsula, the article problematises hegemonic representations of masculinities and same-sex relations in India as an expression of a specifically “Indian culture” and provides a more nuanced understanding of the effects of the disciplining power of heteronormativity associated with Indian modernity.
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...Email: f.osella@sussex.ac.uk ISSN 1035-7823 print/ISSN 1467-8403 online/12/040531-19 2012 Asian Studies Association of Australia http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2012.739996 Devika, 2007; Srivastava, 2007; Donner, 2008; cf. Chatterjee, 1993)....
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TL;DR: According to the 2014 World Giving Index, Sri Lanka is ranked ninth in the world for the charitable efforts of its citizens, while other South Asian countries figure in the top 75 out of 135 countries surveyed.
Abstract: There are no reliable figures to help us measure the volume of charitable donations in South Asia but, according to the 2014 World Giving Index, Sri Lanka is ranked ninth in the world for the charitable efforts of its citizens, while other South Asian countries figure in the top 75 out of 135 countries surveyed. According to the same index, India comes first in the world for the overall number of people donating money to charities and volunteering for social causes; Pakistan is ranked sixth for the number of charitable donations; India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh are within the top ten countries for the number of people who have ‘helped a stranger’ in the 12 months prior to the survey. According to a 2001 survey by the Sampradaan Centre for Indian Philanthropy, among members of the A–C socio-economic classes, 96 per cent of respondents donated annually an average of Rs 1,420. The total amount donated was Rs 16.16 billion. Two surveys conducted in West Bengal and Sri Lanka suggest that South Asians across the social spectrum contribute readily to charity.
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01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, an ethnography of aspirational mobilities emergent under contexts of profound material and social change is presented, where the authors explore the unprecedented expansion of educational aspirations in post market reform India, specifically surging parental desires for English-medium schooling, conducted fieldwork at a low-fee private English medium school and a neighboring statefunded Malayalam-medium school in the southern Indian state of Kerala.
Abstract: This dissertation is an ethnography of aspirational mobilities emergent under contexts of profound material and social change. To explore the unprecedented expansion of educational aspirations in post market reform India, specifically surging parental desires for English-medium schooling, I conducted fieldwork at a low-fee private English-medium school and a neighboring state-funded Malayalam-medium school in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Further, to record state responses to non-elite educational aspirations, my fieldwork was distributed along diverse agencies that supported and regulated English learning in Kerala and across the country. This dissertation makes two key arguments. Firstly, transitions from a previously austere socialist economy to a consumption saturated society has radically altered gendered everyday lives and unsettled entrenched social hierarchies. Negotiating these changes, non-elite mothers are reimagining possible futures for their children. Since social recognition and economic security was and continues to be entangled with higher education and English proficiencies, this has intensified desires for English-medium schooling from the earliest grades. Secondly, intensifying non-elite desires for English learning reveals how educational systems in India are geared towards meeting the aspirations of privileged citizens. Analyzing the provision of English language learning in state-funded and private school systems, I argue that emergent emphases on conversational skills defines “knowing” English as predicated on the ability to socialize in English. While this shift benefits internationally mobile elite Indians, it marginalizes non-elite learning communities whose pedagogic resources are skewed towards literacy rather than orality skills. To conclude, aspirational mobilities in contemporary India are diverse and even oppositional, and dependent on aspirational locations as well as the resources that groups are able to mobilize. Degree Type Dissertation Degree Name Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Graduate Group Education First Advisor Kathleen D. Hall
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...Paradoxically enough, liberalization in Kerala and the erosion of the Left has opened up spaces for oppositional politics and a renewed commitment to the production of more just and desirable futures (Devika, 2007b)....
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