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" Critical events : "
Veena Das.
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102809
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b60052
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Das, Veena.
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Critical events : : an anthropological perspective on contemporary India /\ Veena Das.
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Delhi ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1996.
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viii, 230 p. ;; 22 cm.
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019563540X
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: 0195640527
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"Chapter five of this book was first published in Contributions to Indian sociology (n.s.), 1992, 26 (2). An earlier version of chapter two appeared in Assessing cultural anthropology, edited by Robert Borofsky (McGraw Hill Inc., 1994)"--Acknowledgements.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-222) and indexes.
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I. Introduction -- II. The Anthropological Discourse on India: Reason and its Other -- III. National Honour and Practical Kinship: Of Unwanted Women and Children -- IV. Communities as Political Actors: The Question of Cultural Rights -- V. Time, Self, and Community: Features of the Sikh Militant Discourse -- VI. Suffering, Legitimacy and Healing: The Bhopal Case -- VII. The Anthropology of Pain.
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This book identifies certain critical moments in the history of contemporary India. These events concern Partition, sati, minority rights, the Bhopal industrial disaster, the nature of the Indian state, and various socio-legal issues. Veena Das redescribes these events and their implications within the framework of anthropological knowledge. Her methodologically innovative attempt here is to produce an ethnography of modern India which is sensitive to both world historical processes as well as the inner life of individuals. She shows the various social transformations that have resulted in new configurations of relations between the local and the global within India.
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Religion and sociology-- India.
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Anthropology.
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Victims of crimes.
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Victims of crimes-- India.
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India, Sociological aspects.
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India, History, 1947-
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HV6250.25.D37 1996
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HV6250.25.D37 1996
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HV6250.25.D37 1996
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HV6250.25.D37 1996
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Anthropological perspective on contemporary India.
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