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Celebrating the work of Sylvia Vatuk, this volume highlights the intimate relationship between anthropology and history. The nine essays in this volume are authored by a range of scholars – anthropologists, historians, and folklorists – who have been inspired and influence by Sylvia Vatuk’s extensive corpus of work on these disciplinary intersections as explored through her research on kinship and family history, gender, aging and the life ...
From the turbulent military campaigns of the eighteenth century to the bureaucratic modernisation of the twentieth, the Kayasths saved the rulers of Hyderabad state in a variety of ways, and they employed diverse strategies to conserve family resources. Dr. Leonard traces the structural relationships over time, combining genealogical reconstructions with extensive research in private and official archives.
This book is a comparative study of Hyderabadi emigrants settling in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada, Kuwait, and the United Arab Emirates at the end of the twentieth century. Based on ten years of fieldwork and extensive interviews, it traces Hyderabadi culture and institutions in these places of settlement, looking at the different versions of Hyderabadi history transmitted and the personal networks and collective bodies ...