Critical events : an anthropological perspective on contemporary India
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: viii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780199485291
- 303.40954 DAS
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Books | Prof. Ram Dayal Munda Central Library | Sociology | 303.40954 DAS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 58771 |
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
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