Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns

An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Farhana Ibrahim, India) Ibrahim, Farhana (Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai

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This book is an anthropological study located along India’s western border with Pakistan. The core arguments are situated within the context of contemporary religious nationalism, communal strife, and border politics in the Indian state of Gujarat. It seeks to understand how, within these contexts, a region becomes a meaningful place for its inhabitants and how different peoples relate to locality through time. Theoretically, the book builds on available anthropological literatures on state formation and border politics to interrogate the presumed impermeability of nationalist discourse and territorial boundaries.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-12-31
Mått138 x 216 x 23 mm
Vikt630 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCritical Asian Studies
Antal sidor252
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9780415445566

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Farhana Ibrahim is Assistant Professor at the Centre for Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences. She holds a PhD in socio-cultural anthropology from Cornell University. Her current research project engages with maritime histories and merchant networks in western India, and she has published articles in journals such as Nomadic Peoples, Economic and Political Weekly and Himal South Asian.