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Critical events : an anthropological perspective on contemporary India

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 1995.Description: viii, 235 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780199485291
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.40954 DAS
Summary: 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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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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