Companion to the Anthropology of India

The Editor Isabelle Clark-Decès is Professor of Anthropology and the Director of the Program in South Asian Studies at Princeton University. Her books include The Encounter Never Ends: Return to the Field of Tamil Rituals (2007).

• Notes on Contributors viiiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Isabelle Clark-DecèsPart I Caste and Class in Liberal India 231 Demography for Anthropologists: Populations, Castes, and Classes 25Christophe Z. Guilmoto2 Caste, Class, and Untouchability 45Robert Deliège3 Great Expectations: Youth in Contemporary India 62Craig Jeffrey4 The Modern Transformation of an Old Elite: The Case of the Tamil Brahmans 80C. J. Fuller5 Caste and Collective Memory in South India 98Zoé E. HeadleyPart II Cities, Cosmopolitan Styles, and Urban Critics 1156 “How to Sit, How to Stand”: Bodily Practice and the New Urban Middle Class 117Meredith Lindsay McGuire7 Global Dancing in Kolkata 137Pallabi Chakravorty8 Yoga, Modernity, and the Middle Class: Locating the Body in a World of Desire 154Joseph S. Alter9 Tourism in India: The Moral Economy of Gender in Banaras 169Jenny Huberman10 Crafts, Artisans, and the Nation-State in India 186Mira Mohsini11 Crowds, Congestion, Conviviality: The Enduring Life of the Old City 202Ajay GandhiPart III Cultures and Religion in the Making 22312 Optic-Clash: Modes of Visuality in India 225Shaila Bhatti and Christopher Pinney13 Hindu–Muslim Relations and the “War on Terror” 241Philippa Williams14 Religious Synthesis at a Muslim Shrine 260Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi15 Christianity: Culture, Identity, and Agency 277Mathew N. SchmalzPart IV Communalism, Nationalism, and Terrorism 29516 The Politics of Communalism and Caste 297Ornit Shani17 Violence, Aggression, and Militancy: Reexamining Gender, and Nonliberal Politics 313Tarini Bedi18 India Burning: The Maoist Revolution 332Alpa ShahPart V Law, Governance, and Civil Society 35319 Courts of Law and Legal Practice 355Daniela Berti20 Law and Order: Police Encounter Killings and Routinized Political Violence 371Beatrice Jauregui21 Civil Society and Politics: An Anthropological Perspective 389John Harriss22 Discourses of Citizenship and Criminality in Clean, Green Delhi 407Yaffa Truelove and Emma Mawdsley23 Toward an Anthropology of Water in Mumbai’s Settlements 426Nikhil AnandPart VI From Global India to the Ethnography of Change 44324 Transnational India: Diaspora and Migration in the Anthropology of South Asia 445Leo Coleman25 India Responds to the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: Unintended Consequences of Global Health Initiatives 464Cecilia Van Hollen26 Cultures of the Psyche, Politics of Illness 482Sarah Pinto27 Ways of Aging 500Sarah Lamb28 The Decline of Dravidian Kinship in Local Perspectives 517Isabelle Clark-Decès Index 536

"This volume provides a useful framework for and discussion of the complexity and range of recently published research on the anthropologies of the Indian subcontinent in the era of globalization . . . Summing up: Essential. All libraries supporting graduate and undergraduate programs in anthropology, sociology, and history." (Choice, 1July 2011)