Pub Date : 2024-08-30DOI: 10.1177/02627280241264375
Noel Dassanayake
This study, based partly on archival research, tackles a number of interrelated issues regarding the sociolinguistic dynamics of language politics in Sri Lanka from the colonial era to the present. In colonial Ceylon, such politics initially manifested as resistance against foreign elements, but later evolved into internal conflicts when majoritarian Sinhala-focused linguistic purism movements appropriated Sinhala as a national identity marker. The resulting civil war until 2009 indicated that misguided prospects of linguistic purism in the name of ethnic nationalism have been a costly mistake for this small state, threatening to tear the nation apart. Regarding more recent issues of language planning and policy reforms, which also concern the place of English, the focus turns specifically to the rapid digitalisation of communication and related impacts of global virtual language environments. These substantially reduce the significance of any specific language or local vernacular, while individual and group identity is strengthened through inclusive use of linguistic registers within multilingual digital spaces.
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{"title":"Book review: Saumya Saxena, Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India","authors":"Mustaf Zul Shafiq","doi":"10.1177/02627280241276726","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241276726","url":null,"abstract":"Saumya Saxena, Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal Law in Post-Independence India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022), xv + 366 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183012","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1177/02627280241276725
Gaurav Pathania
Rahul Sagar, To Raise a Fallen People: The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Indian Views on International Politics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022), xviii + 289 pp.
Rahul Sagar, To Raise a Fallen People：十九世纪印度国际政治观点的起源》（纽约：哥伦比亚大学出版社，2022 年），xviii + 289 页。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02627280241264397
Parag D. Parobo
In a much-publicised event in 1928, a section of the Goan Catholics of tribal origin reconverted to Hinduism. In this highly charged political context, the act of shuddhi framed the event as a straightforward homecoming, masking conflicting underlying interests. Analysing the palpable tensions around this event allows better understanding of how shuddhi was made possible and perceived at the local level, appreciating specifically the vulnerability of the Christian Gauda tribal population. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, this article rethinks shuddhi in Goa through the changing dynamics of politics, in which new definitions of Hindu identity were being worked out by the Hindu elite. Examining the relationships between the Portuguese colonial state, the local Hindu elite, the reconverts and multiple trans-local connections, the article identifies the formation of a new identity of the reconverts within the broader context of caste and community relations.
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Pub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02627280241264377
Sweta Ghosh
Domestic workers used to be treated virtually as members of the family in South Asian contexts, with much evidence of various forms of exploitation. Presently, the increasing prevalence of formal patron–client dynamics among part-time domestic labourers in urban India takes specific hybrid forms that require further research. The article examines to what extent efforts to establish purely commercial arrangements in the domestic service sector may avoid traditional forms of exploitation. Or do more formal professional relationships still tend to benefit employers more, allowing them to assign additional tasks without offering corresponding extra benefits? The findings identify that establishing and maintaining purely professional relationships remains challenging in India due to deep-rooted ethical and cultural considerations and adaptability issues. Employers often unwittingly perpetuate traditional personalised domestic work settings. The article shows how both sides in this complex relationship struggle to identify and practice new modalities of fair interaction.
{"title":"Employer–Domestic Worker Dynamic in Kolkata: From Maternalism to Transactionalism","authors":"Sweta Ghosh","doi":"10.1177/02627280241264377","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241264377","url":null,"abstract":"Domestic workers used to be treated virtually as members of the family in South Asian contexts, with much evidence of various forms of exploitation. Presently, the increasing prevalence of formal patron–client dynamics among part-time domestic labourers in urban India takes specific hybrid forms that require further research. The article examines to what extent efforts to establish purely commercial arrangements in the domestic service sector may avoid traditional forms of exploitation. Or do more formal professional relationships still tend to benefit employers more, allowing them to assign additional tasks without offering corresponding extra benefits? The findings identify that establishing and maintaining purely professional relationships remains challenging in India due to deep-rooted ethical and cultural considerations and adaptability issues. Employers often unwittingly perpetuate traditional personalised domestic work settings. The article shows how both sides in this complex relationship struggle to identify and practice new modalities of fair interaction.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-26DOI: 10.1177/02627280241272444
Anubhav Pradhan
This article analyses the manner in which bourgeois environmentalism and aspirational urban planning have brought about a recalibration of justice for agrarian communities along the Yamuna in Delhi. Bela Estate, the research site, is one such agrarian community in the urban segment of the Yamuna. Following a ban on the farming of edible crops in this region, pronounced by India’s apex environmental court in 2015, the Delhi Development Authority has conducted multiple demolition drives for nearly a decade now to evict farmers and clear their land for redevelopment. Utilising archival sources and based on a close reading of planning documents and court judgements, this article contributes to discourses of public interest in the wider context of development and law. More specifically, it decodes the ongoing contentions involving farmers, planning agencies and the judiciary in this region as symptomatic of the larger erosion of social justice in an urbanising, aspirational India that undervalues the role of nature-based livelihoods in Indian cities.
本文分析了资产阶级环保主义和令人向往的城市规划如何为德里亚穆纳河沿岸的农业社区带来正义的重新调整。研究地点 Bela Estate 就是亚穆纳河城市段的一个农业社区。2015 年，印度最高环境法院宣布禁止在这一地区种植食用作物，此后近十年来，德里发展局开展了多次拆迁行动，驱逐农民并清理他们的土地，以便重新开发。本文利用档案资料，在仔细阅读规划文件和法院判决的基础上，在更广泛的发展和法律背景下对公共利益的论述做出了贡献。更具体地说，这篇文章解读了该地区农民、规划机构和司法部门之间正在进行的争论，这些争论表明，在一个城市化的、充满抱负的印度，社会正义受到了更大程度的侵蚀，印度城市低估了以自然为基础的生计的作用。
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Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/02627280241272442
Raja Aaqib Javaid
Amya Agrawal, Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), xi + 161 pp.
Amya Agrawal, Contesting Masculinities and Women's Agency in Kashmir (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), xi + 161 pp.
{"title":"Book review: Amya Agrawal, Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir","authors":"Raja Aaqib Javaid","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272442","url":null,"abstract":"Amya Agrawal, Contesting Masculinities and Women’s Agency in Kashmir (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2022), xi + 161 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183052","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book review: Anjali Singh, Voices and Silences: Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean","authors":"Anirban Banerjee","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272443","url":null,"abstract":"Anjali Singh, Voices and Silences: Narratives of Girmitiyas and Jahajis from Fiji and the Caribbean (London: Routledge, 2023), 215 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183054","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-08-22DOI: 10.1177/02627280241272349
Jagriti Gangopadhyay, Komal Arcot
Postnatal experience is one of the most under-researched areas within medical sociology and anthropology scholarship in India. Using a qualitative lens, this study examines the postnatal experiences of a particular class of working mothers in Bengaluru, one of India’s fastest-growing cities. Through in-depth interviews, the study demonstrates that the postnatal experience of working mothers is layered with social and cultural factors. The findings also revealed that after the delivery, the child is prioritised over the mother, who hardly receives any mental support from her spouse, family members or external network ties. Additionally, these working mothers are often criticised for neglecting motherhood responsibilities and instead focusing on their careers. Expanding the scholarship on postnatal experience, this article highlights the mental agonies and issues faced by working mothers in urban India, as well as in privileged classes.
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{"title":"Book review: Ranjana Saha, Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta","authors":"Swapnil Chaudhary","doi":"10.1177/02627280241272428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280241272428","url":null,"abstract":"Ranjana Saha, Modern Maternities: Medical Advice about Breastfeeding in Colonial Calcutta (London and New York: Routledge, 2024), xvi + 274 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142183053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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