Diane P. Mines is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Appalachian State University. She is author of Fierce Gods: Inequality, Ritual, and the Politics of Dignity in a South Indian Village (IUP, 2005).

Sarah Lamb is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is author of White Saris and Sweet Mangoes: Aging, Gender and Body in North India and Aging and the Indian Diaspora: Cosmopolitan Families in India and Abroad (IUP, 2009).

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I. The Family and the Life Course

Introduction

1. One Straw from a Broom Cannot Sweep: The Ideology and Practice of the Joint Family in Rural North IndiaSusan S. Wadley

2. Allah Gives Both Boys and GirlsPatricia Jeffery and Roger Jeffery

3. "Out Here in Kathmandu": Youth and the Contradictions of Modernity in Urban NepalMark Liechty

4. Rethinking Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in an Indian Call Center Cari Costanzo Kapur

5. Love and Aging in Bengali Families Sarah Lamb

II. Genders

Introduction

6. New Light in the House: Schooling Girls in Rural North IndiaAnn Grodzins Gold

7. Offstage with Special Drama Actresses in Tamilnadu, South India: RoadworkSusan Seizer

8. Breadwinners No More: Identities in Flux Michele Ruth Gamburd

9. Life on the Margins: A Hijra's Story Serena Nanda

10. Crossing "Lines" of Difference: Transnational Movements and Sexual Subjectivities in Hyderabad, India Gayatri Reddy

III. Caste, Class and Community

Introduction

11. Seven Prevalent Misconceptions about India's Caste System

12. God-Chariots in a Garden of Castes: Hierarchy and Festival in a Hindu CitySteven M. Parish

13. High and Low Castes in KaraniViramma, with Josiane Racine and Jean Luc Racine

14. Weakness, Worry Illness, and Poverty in the Slums of DhakaSabina Faiz Rashid

15. Anjali's Alliance: Class Mobility in Urban IndiaSara Dickey

16. Recasting the Secular: Religion and Education in Kerala, IndiaRitty Lukose

IV. Practicing Religion

Introduction

17. The Hindu Gods in a South Indian VillageDiane P. Mines

18. The Feast of LoveMcKim Marriott

19. The Delusion of Gender and Renunciation in Buddhist KashmirKim Gutschow

20. Muslim Village Intellectuals: The Life of the Mind in Northern PakistanMagnus Marsden

21. In Friendship: A Father, a Daughter and a JinnNaveeda Khan

22. Vernacular Islam at a Healing Crossroads in HyderabadJoyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

V. Nation-making

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23. Voices from the PartitionUrvashi Butalia

24. A Day in the LifeLaura Ring

25. Living and Dying for Mother India: Hindu Nationalist Female Renouncers and Sacred DutyKalyani Devaki Menon

26. Political Praise in Tamil Newspapers: The Poetry and Iconography of Democratic PowerBernard Bate

27. Mala's Dream: Economic Policies, National Debates, and Sri Lankan Garment WorkersCaitrin Lynch

28. Interviews with High School Students in Eastern Sri LankaMargaret Trawick

VI. Globalization, Public Culture and the South Asian Diaspora

Introduction

29. Cinema in the Countryside: Popular Tamil Film and the Remaking of Rural LifeAnand Pandian

30. Dangerous Desires: Erotics, Public Culture, and Identity in Late-Twentieth-Century IndiaPurnima Mankekar

31. A Diaspora Ramayana in SouthallPaula Richman

32. British Sikh Lives, Lived in TranslationKathleen Hall

33. Examining the "Global" Indian Middle Class: Gender and Culture in the Silicon Valley/Bangalore CircuitSmitha Radhakrishnan

34. Placing Lives through Stories: Second Generation South Asian AmericansKirin Narayan

35. Unexpected DestinationsE. Valentine Daniel

References

Contributors

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