Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221125854
S. Philip
Gowri Vijayakumar. 2021. At Risk: Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Crisis. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 280 pp. Appendix, Notes, bibliography, index. $85 (hardback)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221130096
Asima Jena
By the end of March 2021, 10 districts of western Odisha, bordering Chhattisgarh and Jharkhand, were badly hit by the second wave of COVID-19. Stock-taking of the public health infrastructure in the adivasi pockets of Odisha is pivotal as the state is duty-bound to improve public health. The NGOs fighting for rights of adivasis find it contradictory that Odisha state boasts of exporting oxygen from western Odisha to 10 other states while maintaining the position that it has surplus oxygen, whereas on the ground, commoners in the hospitals were dying due to a lack of oxygen. The silent deaths of adivasis are not due to the deadliness of the virus but a consequence of systemic neglect by the state. If poverty and low standards of living imperilled their lives slowly, lack of public provisioning of COVID-19 treatment triggered mass deaths, did not find media coverage, and officially these are not esven counted as ‘data’ to be mourned.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221125874
Sushmita Pati
Rashmi Sadana. 2022. The Moving City: Scenes from the Delhi Metro and the Social Life of Infrastructure. Oakland, CA: University of California Press. x + 252 pp. Figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (eBook)
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221120375
C. Jeffrey
{"title":"Obituary: Paul Brass: A political life in India (08 November 1936–31 May 2022)","authors":"C. Jeffrey","doi":"10.1177/00699667221120375","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00699667221120375","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45175,"journal":{"name":"Contributions To Indian Sociology","volume":"56 1","pages":"126 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46298956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-15eCollection Date: 2022-01-01DOI: 10.3389/fopht.2022.848710
Alison Gibbons, Amanda D Henderson
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00195561221092889
D. Davis
It is well known that the legal texts of the Hindu tradition known as Dharmaśāstra vigorously defend caste and social hierarchy. Studies of the nature of caste in this textual tradition, however, have overlooked the important argument that legal texts and categories define and determine caste status. This article examines two major commentaries of the Dharmaśāstra tradition from medieval India and shows how they fit into a wider philosophical debate about the nature of caste as a social institution. With comparisons to studies of race in America, I emphasise the instability of sight or vision as the determinate factor in the social construction of caste. Rather, following medieval Hindu law authors, I argue that caste, like race, is produced and sustained through the cultivation and promulgation of legal rules and categories. The constitutive role of the law in the reproduction of caste thus has a deeper history that merits further attention to understand the sociology of caste.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667211073492
Sreeparna Chattopadhyay
Durba Mitra. 2020. Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press. 296 pp. Figures, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95 (paperback).
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221112129
Frank F. Conlon
Harold Alton ‘Hal’ Gould Jr., a distinguished scholar who made many contributions to the anthropological and political study of India, died at his home in Delray Beach, Florida, on 2 July 2021 after a long illness. I first met Harold ‘Hal’ Gould in June, 1965, at the large gathering of anthropologists convened at the University of Chicago to share papers that ultimately would be published as Structure and change in Indian society (New York: Aldine, 1968). As will be displayed in the bibliography below, Hal contributed an essay to that volume on ‘Time-dimension and structural change in an Indian kinship system: a problem of conceptual refinement’. That essay resembled most of the other papers delivered by the gathered cohort of the leading anthropologists working in India. But Hal’s presentation at the time had been somewhat different. He offered a wide-ranging and suggestive interpretation of social stratification in Indian Civilisation that invoked not just anthropology but also history and literature. Perhaps because I was a graduate student in history, I was fascinated by the ambitious range of his exploratory views. From that first encounter, I perceived Hal as perhaps marching to a slightly different drummer than the other distinguished scholars present. Later, as I read more widely in the anthropological literature of India, I realised that Hal was very much ‘at home’ in the conventions of his field, as he published numerous pieces on the religion, society and politics of North India, particularly focusing on the Faizabad region. I came to appreciate his curiosity and engagement when we both participated in a symposium on Urban India organised by Richard Fox at Duke University in 1969. Hal, once described himself as a ‘Rhode Island swamp Yankee’, born in Boston, MA, on 18 February 1926 to Harold A. Gould and Mabel LeBlanc Gould and raised in South Kingston, RI.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/00699667221103609
Devika Bordia
In this article, I examine the ways in which ideas of martyrdom are employed by Gujjars in Rajasthan to describe their experiences of participating in the 2006 and 2007 Gujjar Andolan (protest), serving in the army, and in their telling of the Devnarayan epic. I take as a starting point the manner in which the bodies of Gujjars killed in police firing during the andolan were laid out for 17 days at the site of the andolan while Gujjar men and women recited the Devnarayan epic. The laying out of the martyred bodies then becomes a site for the production of caste belonging and caste love.
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