Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1177/02627280241241512
Punsara Amarasinghe
Nadeera Rupesinghe, Law Making in Dutch Sri Lanka: Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2023), 301 pp.
Nadeera Rupesinghe, Law Making in Dutch Sri Lanka：Navigating Pluralities in a Colonial Society（莱顿：莱顿大学出版社，2023 年），301 页。
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Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1177/02627280241240008
Jerene Sarah George
Existing studies, highlighting that dining out forms an important part of public cultures in India, have focused on the growing influence of consumer cultures on India’s middle classes and their identity formation. However, insufficient scholarly attention has been paid to the distinctly different ways in which middle-class experiences with modernity and cosmopolitanism unfold across different cities in India and in the worldwide South Asian diaspora. This article argues that in the major Gujarati city of Ahmedabad, middle-class engagement with new and global culinary practices is couched within dominant, regionally coloured vegetarian cultures, redefining vegetarianism as integral to the project of modern middle-class identity among certain upwardly mobile social groups. This ethnographic study of popular pizzerias sheds light on the transformative capacity and significance of vegetarian food. From being a symbol of exclusionary bourgeois hegemonic cultures, it has turned into a consumer item regarded as accessible and desirable for supporting middle-class aspirations to experience ‘global’ forms of consumption. The concluding analysis suggests that, since there are many diverse, cosmopolitan urban spaces like Ahmedabad, more research is needed especially on how global Gujarati food culture has been developing.
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Pub Date : 2024-04-11DOI: 10.1177/02627280241241511
B. Mohan Nikhil Teja
Amit Ranjan and Diotima Chattoraj (Eds), Migration, Regional Autonomy, and Conflicts in Eastern South Asia. Searching for a Home(land) (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), xxiii + 337 pp.
Amit Ranjan 和 Diotima Chattoraj（编），《南亚东部的移民、区域自治和冲突》。寻找家园（土地）》（新加坡：Palgrave Macmillan，2023 年），xxiii + 337 页。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1177/02627280231218342
Nasir Iqbal
Sara Rizvi Jafree, Social Policy for Women in Pakistan (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), xxv + 382 pp.
Sara Rizvi Jafree，《巴基斯坦妇女社会政策》（Cham：Palgrave Macmillan，2023 年），xxv + 382 页。
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{"title":"Book review: Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India","authors":"Vani Krishnan","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218348","url":null,"abstract":"Akshya Saxena, Vernacular English: Reading the Anglophone in Postcolonial India (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022), xiii + 206 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139447169","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: Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and its Discontents","authors":"S. Narayana","doi":"10.1177/02627280231218307","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280231218307","url":null,"abstract":"Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and its Discontents (London: Profile Books, 2022), xiv + 178 pp.","PeriodicalId":44525,"journal":{"name":"South Asia Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2024-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139444988","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 : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1177/02627280231218308
W. Bhat
Simi Mehta, Vibhuti Patel and Satyam Tripathi, Advocating a Feminist Foreign Policy for India (New Delhi: Impact and Policy Research Institute, 2023), 72 pp.
Simi Mehta、Vibhuti Patel 和 Satyam Tripathi，《倡导印度的女权主义外交政策》（新德里：影响与政策研究所，2023 年），72 页。
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Pub Date : 2024-01-08DOI: 10.1177/02627280231218349
Sheetala Bhat
Nikhil Govind, The Moral Imagination of the Mahabharata (New Delhi: Bloomsbury, 2023), 161 pp.
尼基尔-戈文德，《摩诃婆罗多的道德想象》（新德里：布鲁姆斯伯里，2023 年），161 页。
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1177/02627280231215472
Weronika Rokicka
This article examines the discourse on India in Bengali travelogues on Russia/the USSR. In the first half of the twentieth century, Russia attracted a particular type of Indian travellers, politically engaged individuals interested in the ongoing transformations in Russia, to learn potential lessons for India. Later, during the Cold War era, many members of India’s intellectual elite travelled to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet institutions and some wrote their accounts after these visits. A distinctive feature of these travelogues is the strong focus on providing readers with information regarding Soviet social and economic developments, together with frequent comments on the contrasts between the USSR and India. The article demonstrates how Bengali travel narratives on Russia are constructed around similarities and differences between the two countries, but ultimately concentrate on the challenges for India in fields such as education, poverty, agriculture, gender equality and housing. Seven travelogues were selected for this analysis. The earliest, on Revolutionary Russia, is Soumyendranath Tagore’s Biplabð Rå›iy˙å (Tagore, 1930), while the most recent sample is Sunil Gangopadhyay’s Rå›iy˙å Bhramaµ (Gangopadhyay, 2012 [1985]).
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