Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720947540
Shailendra Kumar Singh
This article examines the nuanced and open-ended representations of women in the fictional works of Premchand, one of the most versatile and popular Urdu-Hindi writers of the 1920s and 1930s. By looking into a wide range of his writings, it argues that Premchand’s literary engagement with the women’s question cannot be summarily understood through such binaries as ‘conservative’ or ‘liberal/radical’. While the virtuous and compliant woman is valorised as an ideal within the domestic sphere in certain stories, Premchand’s narratives in the nationalist mode foreground an alternative set of ideals for the urban, educated and middle-class Hindu woman. Far from being formulaic, Premchand’s portrayals of womanhood seem to be shifting, tentative and thematically contingent.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720942919
Yasmeen Arif
Haley Duschinski, Mona Bhan, Ather Zia, and Cynthia Mahmood, eds. 2018. Resisting Occupation in Kashmir. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, vi + 302 pp. Maps, Figures, Notes, References, Index. $79.95(hardback).
Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720942921
Ujithra Ponniah
Parul Bhandari. 2020. Matchmaking in Middle Class India: Beyond Arranged and Love Marriage. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. xii + 188 pp. References, Index. €67.40 (eBook).
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720944136
I. Duncan
During the 1920s and 1930s, Ram Charana, of the Mallah caste and a resident of Lucknow, led the campaign for his caste to secure a place in the plans for constitutional and electoral reform being drawn up by the colonial authorities. His objective was to ensure the inclusion of the caste within the administrative category of the Depressed Classes and subsequently as a Scheduled Caste even though it was labelled and stigmatised as a caste defined primarily by its criminality. Ram Charana was appointed to the United Provinces Legislative Council as the sole nominee to represent the Depressed Class population, and he participated in all of the investigations of the time into constitutional reform. Although he personally achieved a leading role in the reform proceedings, he was unable to secure any recognition for the Mallah. This article examines the criminalisation of the Mallah particularly in the light of police sources not consulted previously. It describes Ram Charana’s role and analyses the reasons for his failure, despite his personal prominence and official promotion, to gain a more advantageous position for the Mallah.
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720942918
A. Burra
Malvika Maheshwari. 2019. Art Attacks: Violence and Offence-Taking in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xii + 373 pp. Notes, Bibliography, References, Index. ₹1195 (hardback).
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720942920
Fariya Yesmin
Rahela Khorakiwala. 2020. From the Colonial to the Contemporary: Images, Iconography, Memories, and Performances of Law in India’s High Courts. New Delhi: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt. Ltd (Hart Imprint). xvi + 277 pp. Figures, Appendix, Bibliography, Index. ₹889 (hardback).
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Pub Date : 2020-10-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720945513
A. Michaels
In this article, I aim to show how Louis Dumont’s famous claim that ‘the condition for a sound development of Sociology of India is found in the establishment of the proper relation between it and classical Indology’ has become obsolete and was from the beginning a problematic postulate. I first develop the historical background of the denigration of anthropological approaches in India against the rise of an idealising Indology as a philological discipline. Then I discuss the structural, methodological and ideological problems that made it difficult to follow Dumont’s advice to search for the point of confluence of sociology and Indology. Finally, I place Dumont’s holistic approach in relation to the holistic structure of academic disciplines that emerged in the 19th century on the basis of the nation-state model and argue that it is misleading and reductive to think that ‘the construction of an Indian Sociology rests in part upon the existence of Indology’.
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720914054
S. Mantri
Surinder S. Jodhka and Jules Naudet, eds. 2019. Mapping the Elite: Power, Privilege, and Inequality. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xvi + 304 pp. ₹1495 (hardback).
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720910945
Mascha Schulz, Julian Kuttig
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Pub Date : 2020-06-01DOI: 10.1177/0069966720916335
Zarin Ahmad
Salah Punathil. 2019. Interrogating Communalism: Violence, Citizenship and Minorities in South India. London and New York: Routledge. xiv + 161 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. ₹995 (hardback).
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